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. But cultivating intuitive growth through processes previously mentioned, the subconscious obstacles can be reduced or eliminated. Studies have shown that physical environment can enhance or inhibit intuition. Also, music stimulates intuition by putting an individual in a relaxed state to produce pleasant memories, which causes the right and left hemispheres of the brain to work in greater unity.