There Are 4 Types Of Intelligence: Here's How To Use Them To Make Better Decisions

When you have an important decision to make, how do you make it? Do you do your research, make pro/con lists, and battle it out in your smart mind? Do you scan for fear, excitement, sadness, anger, or any other emotions that may arise? Do you trust your gut, or do you wait for an intuitive hit to drop in?

Those who we might call "intuitives" or "psychics" often tend to have a more highly developed intuitive intelligence. This kind of intelligence might arise as direct knowing, hunches, precognitive dreams, and visionary breakthroughs. Many with highly developed intuitive intelligence can learn to ask binary yes/no questions and get a "hit" of intuitive knowing, which gives them one piece of information that can be married with other intelligences to make wise decisions. Those with highly developed intuitive intelligence often describe intuitive hits as having a neutral quality. They just "drop in" without any emotional content.

While intuition feels neutral when it drops in, you might have an emotional reaction to it, and that's a kind of intelligence too! They say the longest journey you'll ever make is the one from your head to your heart, and when you perceive emotions not as the whim of the "ego" but as guidance helping you navigate a complex world, you can get to know the gifts each emotion brings. By feeling the gifts of all emotions, without labeling them "positive" or "negative," we realize that even uncomfortable ones like anger, jealousy, terror, and even hatred are there to guide us toward protective action.

Let's say you're trying to make a decision and your mental intelligence says one thing but your intuitive intelligence contradicts it. What do we make of that common phenomenon? The healers I studied around the globe taught me that integrating all these intelligences requires developing a sort of conductor inside of you, one who orchestrates and governs the four types.

In an unbalanced psyche, we tend to fragment, and one intelligence might overpower and dominate the others, causing us to be psychologically lopsided in our decision-making. But when we're able to gather information from all of our intelligences, without neglecting any of them (especially the often-maligned and neglected intelligence of not just "positive" but also "negative" emotions), we can make healthy, balanced decisions.