We live in a hostile world!
We live in an age where threats are not always visible and, in fact, they even come from online. The dangers of modern life come cloaked in ordinary moments – a crowded street, an unfamiliar meeting, a darkened park and your social community. Yet, the same human instinct that kept our ancestors alive still rests within us. Intuition, often dismissed as superstition or coincidence, is in truth one of the most profound survival faculties we possess. In reality, you use your intuition in daily life. In my years of martial training, security operations and spiritual work, I have witnessed how intuition, when trusted and trained, can mean the difference between safety and disaster. This sixth sense is not mystical fantasy; it is practical survival intelligence. It can literally save your life and even warn you of impending disasters. One reason I moved areas is that my intuition warned me of a natural disaster and, therefore, I moved prior to the strike.
Intuition as a natural faculty
Every person is born with intuition. It is as real as sight or hearing, though often ignored. Intuition is that inner signal that whispers before reason has time to explain. Your cognition comes later. You use it in daily life without even knowing; that’s how innate and natural it is. It shows itself as a sudden feeling in the gut, a fleeting image, or a subtle tension in the air. In protective work, I learned quickly that ignoring such signals could prove fatal. On one occasion, an operation nearly led me into a trap. My communications malfunctioned, my car refused to start and I felt a powerful unease. I trusted the sense I was feeling at that moment and made a life-saving decision. I changed my route and never turned up at the arranged meeting. Later, I learned that a kidnapping had been planned for that very meeting. The criminals I was meeting would take me away on a pretext and that would be it. This was no coincidence. It was my intuitive system warning me long before logic caught up.
This ability is innate. Animals survive by it. Children show it before adults train it out of them. As we grow comfortable with routines, technology and noise, we dull our inner radar. Yet intuition waits, patient, ready to be reawakened. It’s not about reading tarot or holding crystals and humming. Nor is it about communicating with those who have passed on. It is an innate guidance system.
The cost of ignoring intuition
Too many people pay the price of disregarding their inner voice. I recall a student who stood at the edge of a park late at night. She had taken that path before many times, but something inside told her to stop. She turned away and chose the longer route home. The next morning, news broke of a young woman assaulted in that very park at the same time the student would have walked through. My student’s decision to listen to her unease saved her life. Intuition will rarely shout; it will nudge. Ignoring it, convincing ourselves that ‘it’s nothing’, leaves us vulnerable. We need to learn how to hear its whispers and discern its energy.
The stories of missed signals are endless. People sense the wrongness of a situation yet step forward anyway, only to regret it later. We live in a culture that prizes logic and dismisses subtle knowing – and so we learn to silence the very voice designed to protect us.
Awakening intuition in daily life
To reclaim intuition, one must first slow down and pay attention. Awareness of your environment is the starting point. Most people today walk through life staring at screens or lost in thought, blind to the subtle warnings their senses provide. Begin by lifting your head, scanning your surroundings and listening to the quiet signals within.
Meditation is one of the simplest methods of awakening the sixth sense. By calming the mind, you sharpen awareness. Breathwork, used by warriors and monks for centuries, steadies fear and opens perception. A steady breath interrupts panic and restores clarity in a moment of crisis.
Practical exercises also build intuitive strength. Before entering a room, pause and notice how it feels. Is there a tension in the air? Does your body relax or resist? Trust the signal. Journaling your impressions can reveal patterns you did not notice before. In time, you learn to separate genuine intuition from fear or imagination. True intuition comes quietly, without drama. Fear shouts. Intuition whispers, steady and clear. Here are simple practices to begin:
- Morning scan: Before leaving your home, close your eyes and ask yourself how the day ‘feels’. Write the first impressions.
- Environmental pause: Whenever you enter a new environment, pause for five seconds. Notice any unease, calm, or alertness. Do you feel balanced somatically?
- Breath reset: In moments of stress, count your breaths to regain clarity and tune into subtle impressions.
- Intuitive journaling: Record moments when you had a feeling or inner nudge. Later compare with outcomes.
In my training courses, which I have given to global corporations in the past. I have watched ordinary people learn to sense a presence in the dark before an attacker moved, or to sense to change routines and to make immediate decisions in a crisis. Within weeks, they were reacting to danger from 15 feet away, or within the environment, guided by nothing more than their inner senses. This is not extraordinary; it is natural ability rediscovered.
Intuition as leadership and strategy
Intuition is not only for survival in dangerous streets. It is equally vital in leadership, business and decision-making. A leader who ignores intuition may miss the subtle undercurrents in a negotiation or fail to notice the hidden risks in a deal. In the financial industry, I once taught executives how to tune into their inner signals before meetings. Many later told me they avoided costly mistakes by listening to the uneasy feeling they had previously dismissed.
Deep strategic intuitive intelligence goes beyond simple instinct. It is the deliberate use of intuition as a tool in crisis decision-making. In high-pressure environments, data may be incomplete, options unclear and time limited. In such moments, intuition becomes the decisive edge. It draws on experience, subconscious pattern recognition and the body’s own warning systems to guide rapid choices that logic alone cannot provide.
Real-world crisis applications
Consider a CEO confronted with a sudden market collapse. Analysts scramble with conflicting data, shareholders demand answers and the board pressures for immediate action. Logic alone, built on outdated numbers, is insufficient. A leader trained in intuitive intelligence can sense the direction hidden beneath the noise, pulling back from a hasty acquisition or shifting strategy at the last possible moment. Those who act on that subtle knowing often find themselves ahead of competitors still trapped in analysis.
In another case, a high-net-worth individual travelling abroad may face risks unseen by conventional security. Intuition can act as an early-warning system. I have seen clients avoid ambushes, scams and unsafe environments simply because they trusted a sudden feeling to change direction, cancel a dinner, or delay a meeting. Security teams later confirmed the risks were real. Their survival hinged not on data, but on instinct.
Executives operating in volatile regions have also described how a single inner nudge – an urge to delay departure by minutes – kept them out of harm’s way when violence erupted on their planned route. These are not coincidences. They are the fruit of a trained inner compass.
A friend of mine, who was a special forces operator, told me about how one inner nudge saved him and his team-mates from an ambush in a hostile environment. He could not explain it and he had no label, but something was wrong. There was an inner uneasiness about the op and he was displaced and feeling emotions that were normally not right for him. He changed tactics and nothing happened. Later, intelligence confirmed they narrowly escaped an ambush that could have been disastrous.
Strategic intuitive intelligence is not recklessness. It is disciplined awareness, trained to filter genuine signals from fear. It is the ability to stand in the chaos of uncertainty and still discern the right direction. In today’s volatile world, this is not optional; it is essential. Use real world training and development of the inner intuitive intelligence – and things change for the better.
Look inside and contemplate
We live in a world that grows more hostile and unpredictable. Technology cannot protect us from every hidden danger. Laws and systems will not always stand between us and harm. The greatest protection is already within us. To ignore intuition is to discard the most natural form of security we have. To embrace it is to move through life alert, prepared and empowered.
Awakening your intuition does not mean living in fear. It means living with awareness. It is a return to the warrior’s path – moving through the world with clarity, strength and harmony. In these uncertain times, I urge you to listen to the whispers of your own sixth sense. Trust it, train it and let it guide you. For, in doing so, you awaken the power that can keep you and those you love, safe in a hostile world.
Jock Brocas is a bestselling author, an internationally recognised medium, and an award-winning business mentor. He is the author of Powers of the Sixth Sense and other explores spiritual intelligence, grief and intuitive development. Jock is the founder of Paranormal Daily News, 21 Virtues, the Help Lawyer network and several ventures dedicated to transformation and leadership. His work has been featured worldwide, and he continues to guide CEOs, NWIs, lawyers and those in positions of power in awakening their Deep Strategic Intuitive Intelligence for protection, purpose and transformation.
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