No defensiveness or attempts to explain or justify our actions. We also learn to control our need to argue and be defensive when confronted with the consequences of our actions. Surveying the Emotional Landscape Part 2 Part 2 of Surveying the Emotional Landscape, Validating Intuition, is an exercise in which we develop our intuitive skills and learn to be emotionally honest. Validating Intuition, Empathic Perception or Paranoid Fantasy. Intuition is a powerful tool for the acquisition of knowledge.
Intuition can express itself as a hunch, an empathic perception or a paranoid fantasy.
Intuitive knowledge, to be properly used must be checked out. Validating intuition is a reciprocal exchange of information about the accuracy of our intuitive perceptions. With this transactional exchange we learn to become aware of our intuitive perceptions, to word them and to respectfully question others about their validity. When faced with another person's perceptions we learn to honestly validate, instead of discounting their accuracy. Taking Responsibility Taking Responsibility concerns the emotional damage we cause each other and how to take sincere, open-hearted liability, apologize and make amends.