Both your intuition and your instincts are how people have survived down through the centuries. However, often being trained to be a soldier (whether you are a man or a woman) trains you to deny your instincts and makes it more likely you will be killed or injured in a skirmish or battle or even during training.
If you are not trying to become a soldier or police man or woman then the following might be helpful to you.
Because Soldiers and police and firemen and women all tend to get PTSD from the terrible things that they witness in their jobs. The same with ambulance personnel.
I'm not telling you you cannot do anything dangerous BUT certain jobs are sure to give most people varying degrees of PTSD. It's a rare person who can sublimate healthily all the things that are going to happen to you in witnessing people die or be injured or that you might have to shoot and they might die.
So, what I'm recommending here is for people mostly not in these professions.
Learning to be alone in the wilderness is one way to develop your intuitive senses. Some people have trouble with this because they are so media driven. But, being without a Cell phone or TV or internet for awhile is one of the best ways to get more in touch with yourself.
If you say "This is boring!" Yes. you are right. Most people have been bored the last 200,000 years or more in their lives. But, boredom is one of the best teachers of getting to know yourself and your abilities and potential abilities too.
I was lucky because my family were very out of doors people to begin with. My grandfather was a hunter and owned up to 40 hound dogs at a time in around the turn of the century until around 1930. He hunted Grizzly bears in Washington and Deer and Elk and even hunted raccoons for their pelts as well.
So, I was taught to find my way wherever I was using line of sight. What this means is that you memorize landmarks so you are NOT dependent upon any maps. This way you tend to not get lost in the wilderness like many people do today.
However, you don't go into deep forests with no landmarks without other aids like people who know where they are because in deep forests there often are no landmarks to keep you safe.
So, any time someone who doesn't know an area wants to take you some place where everything looks the same I would recommend not going unless they have traveled this trail many many times before so they know literally ever tree.
So, I usually pick trails where I can see mountains and cliffs and rivers or streams or rocks or unique looking live or dead trees when I hike and I try to avoid any places where everything looks exactly the same where people can get lost and easily die within a few days without water or food.
Learning to be alone in a forest or the desert or at the ocean day and night can be very useful as long as you are prepared with food and water and sleeping bags and warm enough clothes so you don't get hypothermia and start hallucinating. But, it's also true you don't want to get to hot either. So, I usually won't hike anywhere over 100 degrees and humidity is also a factor as well. So, look at the heat index of where you are hiking.
All of these out of doors activities will help you tune into your intuitions and instincts more. Explore the wilderness areas in the U.S. especially to get to know yourself better.
You are going to be there the rest of. your life and if you don't like yourself then your life is going to be pretty miserable. People come and go in all our lives and if we don't like ourselves our lives will always be miserable. So, love yourself, respect yourself and get to know yourself because this is the beginning of understanding your intuition and instincts better too. If you like yourself you will do much better in life and make better choices in life too.
If everyone around you makes all your choices how are you going to stay alive in a serious situation if you are alone some time?
Understanding yourself better you make better choices and will likely be happier and healthier in life too.
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