Do you remember how when you were a child, you depended so much on your parents? In most instances, one or both parents were there to watch out for you. Parents told you what to do when you finally learned to comprehend.

Parents taught you what was bad, so you could avoid it. Most of the time, you were probably an obedient child who did as your parents told you, in order to avoid disappointing them or to avoid reprimand or punishment.

Our subconscious mind works the same way. It works like a parent who wants to see us happy and succeed, thinking that the only way to do so is to keep us in our safe comfort zones.

With the subconscious mind at work, it’s a lot like having a parent following us around telling us what to do, so we do things as we always have. The subconscious mind has good intentions about doing all of these. It assumes that how we were programmed as a young person was the best (or only) way, and keeping us tied to our comfort zones will make life more secure, safe, and easy. Continue reading →

In one study involving shogi (a Japanese board game), so-called shogi experts were tasked to recognize a checkmate move, and they were given just 1 second to do so. During the activity, their brains were scanned.

This revealed that the part of the brain that activated and managed to create a snap judgment was not the cortex (the part of the brain responsible for conscious thought), but the basal ganglia (the part of the brain which regulates automatic behaviors).

Additionally, the shogi experts who gave their snap judgments noticeably performed so much better than those who applied a conscious thought process. Those who listened to their intuition were also more satisfied with their snap choices.

Intuition Comes from Your Subconscious Mind

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