I'm afraid of my intution.

So basically if you concentrate hard enough you get to see the future in exchange for vomitting all over?

What are the winning numbers for powerball? I will make it worth your time spent vomitting, I promise.

 

I've never done what you have, but I can see how it could make you vomit.

 

So you should be, intuition is nuts.

 

I know EXACTLY what you mean and it's the only reason I don't meditate because it makes my intuition go CRAZY. You can run from it but you can't hide though. It'll find you. Don't feel bad about the fear... it's just a control thing, I think. I know if I can't explain something with logic or reason I get frustrated and hostile and try to rip it a part for confounding me. Don't throw away the things the universe gives you just because you don't understand them (yet).

Just think of it as something beyond yourself caring enough about you to give you glimpses of things outside of your rational perceptions. Its scary, but I take an odd comfort in that. For me, when my intuition gets crazy and there's a LOT of synchronicity going on... I know I'm on the path I'm suppose to be on. It's like they are little signposts telling me I'm going the right way.

 

I haven't gotten sick from my intuition before. However, it has stressed me out quite a few times. It causes constant insessive thinking, that is hard to turn off, most in the form of future forcasting. I just get overwhelmend, and have to take a breather.

For short-term things though, my intuition is extremely useful. Just like getting close time-frame hunches.

It can be a pain for me, but I use my intuition so much (too much) that I could never get rid of it. I have learned to trust it, even if I doubt it in the short-term.

 

Indeed I know it all to well.

 

Satya, I remember an old saying we have nothing to fear but fear itself. Reminds me of a dream my wife has had often. She sees an old friend and one of my aunts' swinging in the swing. Both of these people were dear to her, but they have both passed away. They start motioning for her to come over to the swing and sit with them in the swing. My wife is scared and wakes up each time. She stays nauseated and sick more than most people I know.
I had a dream recently and woke as I was having this amazing feeling like nothing ever imagined, but the feeling started by feeling like I was swinging. That doggone alarm clock! I could feel the feeling as I was reaching for the alarm clock, but had to focus to turn it off; that is when the feeling left me.
I have no fear of dying, but that should not be interpreted as wanting to die or not wanting to live; I do not fear death. My wife most likely feels differently. I would sit in the swing. I took the hands of a young lady the other night in my dreams and it was like she was showing me what true bliss felt like. I can see where that may make someone feel ill, but think and feel it is more caused from fear than from anything else.
Did the fear come along with this when all this started, or did it come after the ill feelings? Happy Birthday!

 

Yes Satya, not always but often enough I will get a sick and fearful feeling.

 

I'll disclaimer my post my saying that as I child I tried to be ISTJ instead of INFJ. This means I learned to ignore and bury my intuition, and it's pretty weak as a result.

Intuition has never made me sick or ill or anything. Just like IndigoSensor, my intuition on more than one occasion has provided me with extremely accurate time-frames. (Just saying I didn't manage to quite kill it.)

I wonder, and I think this is my intuition here, if you're getting scared because your rational side isn't used to being let go. Your rational side is trying to comprehend and process everything, and your intuition is just flashing all over the place in a horribly uncoordinated and random manner (that's how your rational mind would view it). Your rationality can't comprehend, can't control, can't do what it's used to doing. So it gets scared. If that's true, it might be useful to practice shutting off, slowing down, or ignoring your rational mind. That should help lessen the fear. Which would be a useful and beneficial outcome for you.

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That would also create a vicious cycle. If you only use your intuition minimally, and your logical mind the rest of the time, the logical mind will be more and more used to be dominant and in control. Any attempts to change this will cause it greater distress. The more you practice calming it and gradually introduce your intuition, the easier it should be to relax and allow your intuition work without your logic mind panicing.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY SATYA!

 

Sounds like the logic is in agreement. What's your intuition say? :lol:

 

Fun question - how do you use or activate your intuition? I ask because mine needs exercise. What does it feel like, what do you do? How does the experience present itself to you? (Feel free to split if this should be its own thread.)

 

You mean I'm not the only one who talks with trees? Actually I only did it once... I know a couple people who do so fairly often though.

 

This is Ne.

This is Ni.

My Ne is rather well developed, but it is a source of anxiety for me. Ne for me is a function of my focused emotion and selfishness. The stronger and more selfish my emotions are, the more I use my Ne. The "what ifs" that the Ne can come up with are powerful and run to all manner of places they don't need to go. The more bad things it creates as possibilities, the stronger my anxiety gets until I have no idea what is right, and cannot use my Ni.

My Ni on the other hand is a constant source of peace and knowing. The less I consciously think about something, the more accurate the information is. When I do use this function consciously, I tend to develop some wonderful insight and understanding by allowing it to go to the truth by calming myself and letting go of my selfish trappings. This function is also what I use to tap into what I believe is God. It seems like you're doing the same, whether intending to or not. The presence of God is a powerful thing, but you have nothing to fear but being temporarily overwhelmed.

For INFJs, Ni is our natural function while Ne is our opposing function. Our Ni is our natural state, and our Ne is generally going to trip us up badly. If anything in your Ni makes you anxious or emotional, it will likely trigger your Ne to take over, and the cascade effect can follow. Stay at peace, and if it feels like you're tapping into God, just focus on how much he loves you, which is unconditionally.