[IndigoKim]

I've found that my intution has never let me down in that way, when I choose to pay attention to it. Which isn't to say that I don't assume that all people are good and have value, because I truly believe they do, even those who've harmed me in some way. Listening to your intuition and believing in the inherent goodness of people aren't mutually exclusive at all.

In fact, sometimes believing in that goodness has gotten me into more 'trouble.'

An example: One evening I was meeting a friend at a sporting event. I drove in to the arena parking lot and saw this man standing amongst the vehicles. My first thought was: "He's up to no good". I had no apparent reason to think that, he could've belonged to the car he was standing beside, but it just came to me. I got out of my car and started to walk into the building, with this nagging feeling that something wasn't right. I even paused for a minute, to see what he was doing...even took a few steps back toward him, with my intuition screaming at me "get inside... NOW!"

I went inside, and by the time I got inside the doors, my ego had convinced me that my intuition was wrong, and that there was nothing out of the ordinary happening there. So I told no one.

The man I saw in the parking lot broke into and vandalized six cars in the parking lot that evening.

The trick is to distinguish between the messages from your intuition and from your ego mind. Ego mind always reacts in fear. It's that little voice that says "no, you're wrong. You don't know. This is how it REALLY is." The intuition speaks in love. It doesn't need to convince, it just IS. It's a pure 'knowing'. And the more you trust it, the stronger it gets.