ExclusiveSituational awareness can improve your intuition when you engage in reality

When you’re walking through a parking lot, riding the subway, fueling up your car, or crossing a street, are you observing your surroundings or scrolling on your phone? It’s pretty obvious that having your gaze buried in your smartphone while you walk into the path of potential oncoming traffic is very dangerous, but not being fully engaged in the moment can be equally hazardous in any public place. Situational awareness is the practice of noticing everything and everyone around you. It doesn’t mean always been in a state of high alert, fear, and panic, but it does mean using all your senses to observe potential threats.
One of the most valuable senses for practicing situational awareness is the sixth sense, that inexplicable feeling that something is off. You might be tempted to write this gnawing feeling off, but intuition can help you make important decisions and even save your life when you learn to practice it. However, to nurture a reliable sense of intuition, make sure you aren’t overloading your mind with negativity and fear through doomscrolling. News sources and social media use fear tactics to keep you scrolling, but doomscrolling has a very negative effect on mental and physical health. Absorbing negative media can even cause second-hand stress. By turning off your devices and engaging in the real world, you can foster a healthy, reliable sense of intuition from situational awareness.