

It is what happens when you have an invasive thought. Panic is the emotion you experience when you don’t know what to do with a feeling.

Even if you experience sadness or disappointment, you don’t feel overwhelmingly anxious. Even when an intuitive thought doesn’t tell you something you like, it never makes you feel panicked. Invasive thoughts begin a whole spiral of ideas and fears, making it feel impossible to stop thinking about them. Intuitive thoughts don’t need to be grappled with-you have them and then you let them go. Intuitive thoughts usually come out of nowhere invasive thoughts are usually triggered by external stimuli. Intuitive thoughts often sound loving, while invasive thoughts sound scared. Intruding thoughts tend to be persistent and induce a feeling of panic. Intuitive thoughts usually come to you once, maybe twice, and they induce a feeling of understanding. Intuitive thoughts are “quiet” intruding thoughts are “loud,” which makes one harder to hear than the other. Intruding thoughts are often random and have nothing to do with what’s going on in the moment. They give you information that you need to make a better-informed decision. Intuitive thoughts help you in the present. Intruding thoughts are irrational and often stem from aggrandizing a situation or jumping to the worst conclusion possible. Intuitive thoughts are rational they make a degree of sense. Intruding thoughts are hectic and fear-inducing. “This is how to start telling the difference between thoughts that are informed by your intuition and thoughts that are informed by fear: Intuitive thoughts are calm.
