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A Basic Form of Intuition · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  We frequently hear people say that they had a gut feeling that
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  something was not right when they went to a certain place.
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  In fact, most of us have had similar feelings from time to
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  time. We don't have any extremely
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  perceptible facts to base this feeling on.
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  It just is. The same thing happens when we
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  get into certain situations or interact with certain people.
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  We just know there is something there to take care about.
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  Of course, this feeling can also work in the positive direction
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  and give us a feeling of well-being in certain situations
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  or a sense that an individual we are interacting with is going to
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  be a positive force in our lives.
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  For the most part, we don't think any more about this, how
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  it happens, what the process is and what it means.
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  We simply experience the sense or feeling and acknowledge it to
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  ourselves. This is perhaps one of the most
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  basic primal forms of intuition, more or less an instinctive
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  response to some energy pattern that we feel.
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  There may be primeval trained responses embedded in the human
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  psyche, or we may be experiencing an intuitive
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  knowledge not based on the senses and the mind, but on some
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  other sensing organ in the being.
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  A disciple asks mother how can the faculty of intuition be
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  developed? The mother responds quote.
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  There are different kinds of intuition and we carry these
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  capacities within us. They are always active to some
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  extent, but we don't notice them because we don't pay enough
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  attention to what is going on in US.
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  Behind the emotions, deep within the being, in a consciousness
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  seated somewhere near the level of the solar plexus, there is a
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  sort of prescience, a kind of capacity for foresight, but not
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  in the form of ideas, rather in the form of feelings, almost a
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  perception of sensations. For instance, when 1 is going to
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  decide to do something, there is sometimes a kind of uneasiness
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  or inner refusal, and usually if one listens to this deeper
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  indication, one realized that it was justified.
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  In other cases there is something that urges, indicates,
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  insists. I am not Speaking of impulses.
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  You understand of all the movements which come from the
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  vital and much lower still indications which are behind the
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  feelings, which comes from the affective part of the being.
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  There too, one can receive a fairly sure indication of the
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  thing to be done. These are forms of intuition, or
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  of a higher instinct, which can be cultivated by observation and
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  also by studying the results. Naturally, it must be done very
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  sincerely, objectively, without prejudice.
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  If one wants to see things in a particular way and at the same
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  time practice this observation, it is all useless.
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  One must do it as if one were looking at what is happening
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  from outside oneself, in someone else.
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  It is one form of intuition and perhaps the first one that
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  usually manifests. End Quote.
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  Reference Srioro Bindu and the Mother Powers within, Chapter
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  21, Intuition, pages 1:58 to 1:59.