Everyday Intuition: What Psychology, Science, and Psychics Can Teach Us About Finding and Trusting Our Inner Voice [Hardcover]

A captivating and insightful deep dive into the world of human intuition, exploring the power of this elusive phenomenon and how it can be harnessed to better know and trust ourselves.

We rely on our intuition and gut feelings, even though we dont fully understand what it is, how it works, or if we can even trust it. In this fresh, mind-opening book, Elizabeth Greenwood takes us on a sweeping investigation into the subject, exploring how, in our data-driven world, we can harness intuition in our day-to-day lives.

Digging deep into her personal experience as well as insights from neuroscience, psychology, feminist texts, psychics, and everyday people with extraordinary intuitive ability, Greenwood explores what we know about intuitionhow to distinguish it from instinct, wishful thinking, anxiety, and denial; how it serves and sometimes fails us; how it impacts our dreams and our unconscious mind; and how it manifests in everything from romantic attraction to premonitions. Greenwood places a special emphasis on womens intuition, and how it has been denigrated throughout historybut can offer us a more hopeful, grounded way of experiencing the world in a time of so much uncertainty.

Everyday Intuitionprovides practical advice on tapping into our self-knowledge and learning to trust our body intelligence and instincts. It examines the science behind intuition, including how our brains process information, how psychedelic medicine and manifestation are opening new doors of consciousnessas well as how these helpful methods are being abused by charlatans, including some coaches, teachers, and social media influencers offering false promisesand how we can train ourselves to be more intuitive and ultimately enhance our daily lives.

Smart, funny, sincere, and profound, this helpful guide is a modern take on one of the oldest tools we possess. It shows us how embracing intuition and self-trust can lead us to our truest, most lc.