Intuition can be defined as the ability to sense or know immediately without reasoning or without knowing how we came about the conclusion.
Instinct can be defined as inherent disposition of a toward a behaviour, is not learned, but is inherited or inbreed.
Both are available to humans, but the vast majority do not know of their existence, or do not recognise the signals that they give thus allowing intuition and instinct to help us.
Animals use intuition and instinct to exist. Whales, fish, birds and other wild animals use their homing instincts to migrate to far off lands. They have no GPS system.
Intuition is knowing, sensing that is beyond the conscious understanding, it is a gut feeling.
Intuition is a learned process. As we experience actions, behaviors, happenings, these are stored away in our memory banks, and as we continue in our life, we may come across similar happenings, the brain goes on a Transderivational Search of the memory bank, asking “have I had this experience or similar before?“, if so what was the outcome, what happened last time.
The searching (Transderivational Search) takes a time about one third of a second, and all this takes place in our subconscious, we are not aware of the process.
This recovered information from the Transderivational Search is sent to our conscious knowing, but the majority of humans do not recognise this information or act upon it.
An instinct will be initiated by some form of stimuli to one or more of the sensory systems or modalities, defined in NLP as VAKog.
An instinct which is inherited, inbreed, already wired in to the brain, will be different to an action created by a response, in NLP terms an anchor. An action response is learned.
For example, instinct is when we get a smell or chemical reaction through the nasal, olfactory, sensory receptor cells, say pheromones, this may trigger a sexual response, while the hearing a load BANG through auditory sensory receptor cells may trigger a fight or flight response, we may jump, run away or fight.
Whereas, hearing a nice voice calling you, in my case my mother calling “Phillip“, creates a good reaction in me because I knew mother was baking a chocolate cake. Yet when my mother called me in a harsh loud voice, “Phillip John“, I knew I had done something wrong, I was in trouble. I had learned these reactions, my mothers voice had became an anchor, an action response, an intuition.
Is instinct the same as intuition? No, but we must learn to use them, become aware of their existence.
Become more aware like the members of the Stargate Project, et al, and Joe McMoneagle.
Use Phillip’s Sausage, for the peripheral awareness.