Some people, however, dispute such explanations. Many children and adolescents possess a high degree of intuition, but as they grow older their thought process become more analytical causing more activity within the left hemisphere of the brain. But, ESP studies show highly successful business executives rely more on intuition than do those who are less successful. Individuals in the creative arts, who give free rein to fantasies and imagination, tend to be highly intuitive. Intuition plays an integral part in all forms of Divination and psychic consultation.
All individuals possess intuition, though some are more highly developed than others.
In Western cultures women have been conditioned to use it more than men. Intuition can be increased, once a person recognizes it within him or herself and strives to improve it. Intuition also develops in close relationships. William Kautz, director of the Center for Applied Intuition of San Francisco, California, said in 1979 that intuition comes from the superconscious mind. To reach the conscious mind, it must travel through the subconscious, where it may be distorted by fears, memories, and impressions stored there.