16 Struggles Highly Intuitive People Deal With Everyday

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16 Struggles Highly Intuitive People Deal With Everyday

Do you know or understand the various and sometimes, innumerable everyday struggles that highly intuitive people deal with every day?

To be intuitive is to be self-aware. To be self-aware is to be able to grasp the immaterial parts of yourself that exist within the physical doing and being.
The benefits to this kind of understanding are obviously endless, but seldom discussed are all the challenges that come with being very attuned to your intuitive, inner ‘knowing.’

To speak to it and more, here, all the things highly intuitive people have to deal with every day:

1. You always know when someone is bullshitting you, even when you aren’t able to say anything about it. 

For the sake of maintaining your family structures or keeping your jobs, you can’t always call people out on their absolute lack of awareness, and that becomes really frustrating when you see them being tripped up by the lack of insight that they’re close to having.

2. It can be hard to tell the difference between an intuitive feeling and justโ€ฆ a feeling.

You know that if you treated every passing feeling like an intuitive nudge youโ€™d probably have lost your damn mind by now, so you have to be discerning about whatโ€™s a โ€˜gut feelingโ€™ and what isnโ€™t.
Want to know more about the everyday struggles of highly intuitive people? Read 10 Things Highly Intuitive People Do Differently

3. Itโ€™s hard to convince someone of something just because you โ€˜know,โ€™ and harder to not say โ€œI told you soโ€ when youโ€™re right.

Thereโ€™s nothing more frustrating than knowing a โ€˜feelingโ€™ isnโ€™t a compelling argumentโ€ฆ except after you were right about said โ€˜feelingโ€™ and the person you were trying to convince would have saved themselves some trouble had they just trusted you a little.

4. You only want to do whatโ€™s โ€˜right,โ€™ but figuring out whatโ€™s โ€˜rightโ€™ is basically your #1 life struggle.

You know what itโ€™s like to be able to discern whatโ€™s โ€œrightโ€ (most positive, most helpful, most beneficial, etc.) in any given moment, and the gratification you get from acting on that inherent knowing. Unfortunately, this can also leave you susceptible to only wanting to act on whatโ€™s best, when figuring that out is sometimes a process of trial and error.

5. Itโ€™s hard to play dumb when you know people are being dishonest or disingenuous with you.

And if youโ€™re being honest, sometimes it hurts to be able to tell someone finds you annoying or wishes you werenโ€™t around as much. Itโ€™s probably the biggest downside of being hyper-sensitive to whatโ€™s around you, but also probably saves you from spending time with the wrong people.

Interested to know why highly intuitive people are extra sensitive towards energy? Read 8 Signs Youโ€™re A Highly Intuitive Empath Sensitive To Energy

6. You can be very indecisive, as they say: the clearer the choice, the louder the cry to try and choose otherwise.

Intuitive people can be extremely indecisive and confused. Even if the perfect choice is right in front of them, they tend to overthink about it more. They might be following their intuition and gut instinct, but they will want more proof to actually go ahead with.

7. We live in a world that values thinking over sensing, yet our subconscious minds are much more powerful than our conscious ones.

And thatโ€™s exactly what youโ€™re tapping into when you have that โ€œintuitive feelingโ€ โ€“ your subconscious intelligence. A major reason people doubt themselves is because this typically isnโ€™t seen as valid as conscious choice-making, though we already know the opposite is true.

8. You rarely realize that not only can you intuit โ€˜truthsโ€™ but also โ€˜possibilitiesโ€™ (hence being prone to intense anxiety).

There are usually multiple potential outcomes to any given situation, and the more you are conscious of one, the more you are conscious of the (less likely, more unfortunate) others.

9. Sometimes, itโ€™s better not to be hyper-aware of (or sensitive to) everything thatโ€™s going on in the world, itโ€™s exhausting.

You can start to feel as though the worldโ€™s problems are your own, and that gets overwhelming when you realize that you alone cannot solve them. (Good news, theyโ€™re not โ€“ they only feel that way because thatโ€™s how you perceive them.)

Want to know more about how highly intuitive people can feel every emotion very acutely? Read 7 Tips To Deal With Emotional Flooding For Highly Sensitive People

10. You find joy in understanding things, so youโ€™re quicker to think about them than you are to enjoy them.

You sometimes have to remind yourself (or consciously re-teach yourself) to just sit back and enjoy life. Youโ€™re so busy putting the puzzle together, you forget to kick back and check out the bigger picture, which is pretty great, too.

11. Not everything requires an in-depth emotional analysis.

In fact, some things are best served by leaving them alone. Figuring out the difference between what is and isnโ€™t is a delicate dance that you have to learn to master.

12. Your hyper-sensitivity is something you have to protect.

Itโ€™s really easy for people to take advantage of you and your empathetic capacity (intuitive people are almost always very empathetic).

13. You wonโ€™t let yourself continue doing anything that doesnโ€™t feel โ€˜right,โ€™ even if thatโ€™s the easier (or more logical) choice.

Your life is totally subject to how you feel about it, even though in reality, you would be better off seeing with a touch of logic and objectivity now and again.

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14. You always find yourself asking people โ€˜whatโ€™s wrong,โ€™ because even the smallest micro-expressions can read to you as โ€˜off.โ€™

Alongside being hyper-aware of things like this, you have a hard time just letting them go. It feels like seeing a burning fire and just walking away.

15. You feel everything more acutely in general.

You take everything seriously, and seem to feel everything with more intensity than other people do (for better and for worse)

16. You take on other peopleโ€™s problems as your own.

You sometimes confuse โ€˜perceiving something being wrongโ€™ with it โ€˜being your responsibility to fix.โ€™ Your challenge is in letting yourself perceive a situation, yet also just letting it be what it is at the same time.

The everyday struggles of highly intuitive people are way different than people who are not intuitive. But that is what makes them different, and different in a good way.

If you want to know more about the everyday struggles highly intuitive people, then check out this video below:


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