October 9, 2025 • 12 mins
In the final episode of our three-part Q&A series, we explore the often-overlooked topic of men’s intuition—what it is, how it works, and why it matters.
Tim challenges the idea that intuition is gendered, reframing it as a universal human capacity rooted in embodied awareness. Together, we unpack how cultural conditioning teaches men to distrust their feelings, how gaslighting severs us from our body’s wisdom, and how embodiment practices help us rebuild that connection.
Eric asks how “trusting your gut” actually functions in daily life, and Tim shares how sensations in the body—tightness in the chest, warmth in the gut, openness in the heart—can become reliable signals of intuitive knowing. The conversation closes with an invitation to practice: to notice, to feel, and to trust the subtle intelligence within.
Short, honest, and grounded in lived experience, this episode invites you to see intuition not as magic—but as the language of the body learning to speak again.
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Eric Bomyea (00:00):
Welcome to our final episode in our q and a
series. In this one, we'reasking what is men's intuition
and what role does it play inembodying masculinity? Tim, are
you ready to go on? I'm ready.So we hear a lot about women's
intuition, but not so much aboutmen's.
So what do you mean when youtalk about men's intuition?
Thank you for that question.
Timothy Bish (00:20):
I never talk about men's intuition because I don't
think that's a thing. I thinkthere is intuition, and I think
there are people who are capableof tapping into their intuition.
And I think culturally, that hasbeen women because they have
been allowed to feel have asensational experience of their
(00:44):
own bodies and their ownexperience and and their
feelings and their emotions. Ido not think that intuition is
specific to a gender. And so Iknow that some people think
about, like, well, you know,men's intuition.
It's a good question, but I justdon't think that's I don't I
don't think it exists. I thinkthere is human intuition, and
(01:07):
humans have access to it. Maybesome have a natural aptitude.
But I would even argue that Idon't necessarily think that
women tend to have more naturalaptitude than men. I don't have
any research about this, but Ithink intuition is available to
all of us.
(01:27):
I think it's a thing we canpractice. I think that's partly
why we do embodiment because Ithink a lot of intuition is
actually understanding our feltsense and our and our physical
experience in a moment, like thewisdom of our heart. And there's
a lot of research about heartmath and and what what we can
sense with our hearts. Havesense organs that are not just
our eyes. Right?
(01:48):
Or our nose. I think men'sintuition is any man willing
enough to to do the work to feelinto his own experience. You
spoke a little
Eric Bomyea (02:00):
bit about embodiment, so I'm curious about
what the connection is for youbetween embodiment and
intuition.
Timothy Bish (02:06):
I think when people think of intuition, they
think of it like a premonition.I think they think of it like,
oh, there's this invisibleantenna on the top of my head.
And if I'm intuitive, I willrandomly get a download that,
like, plays like a movie on thebackside of my forehead, and
then I have a thing. That hasnever been my experience of it.
(02:28):
I think intuition is aculmination of lots of
information coming together.
And that's why embodiment is abig part of that because, oh,
when I feel this thing in my gutor when I feel and I'm just
speaking from personalexperience now. Like, sometimes
I feel it in my gut. Sometimes Ifeel it, like, in the midline of
(02:49):
my chest. Sometimes I feel it inmy throat. But there's I'll get
a sensation, and I'll think, oh,that's usually that's that's a
that's an alarm.
That's a flag. That's a that's asomething's drawing my
attention. And that is informingmy intuition. Is something is
(03:10):
something not quite right here?Something feels not quite right
in my body.
So what's not quite right in mycircumstance, in my environment,
in my situation? I think that isa big part of intuition. Now I
suspect some people have a morehead centric intuition. I
suspect I personally have a morebody felt sense kind of
(03:33):
intuition, but it's the abilityto recognize those signals and
then become curious about whatthey might mean. So, again, with
intuition, it isn't like, you'relying to me, and I know exactly
what the lie is.
You know, you you know, you saidthis, and it's not that. It's
this other thing. Like, no.Oftentimes, it's that something
(03:56):
doesn't feel right. Now I'mgonna, like, take a breath and,
like, kind of get out of theheightened emotional experience
of it and then bring curiosity.
Oh, what what about this feels alittle off? And then I think
that's the process. I wish itwere more like charmed, you
know, the witches. You you know?Like, oh my god.
(04:17):
I love I love charm so much, butI wish it was more like, yeah. I
just I just know exactly whathappened, and I don't think
that's how that works.
Eric Bomyea (04:25):
Cast the spell and reveal it all.
Timothy Bish (04:27):
Yeah. And
Eric Bomyea (04:29):
so one of the things I heard you say was
trusting gut. So understanding,is the old adage trust your gut,
trust your instinct? Does thatalign to intuition here? It
feels like it
Timothy Bish (04:43):
is to me. None of this is we don't have any
research on this. My gut hasbeen fairly accurate. And the
thing about the body that I havelearned is that it doesn't
really lie, in in the same waysthat our mind can lie. So if I'm
in a really heady experience, Icould work myself up into this
(05:07):
person is keeping this for me.
I could create stories, and ityou know, our minds are pretty
good at that. But if I justthink about the felt experience,
oh, I have a sinking feeling inmy abdomen right now. I don't
know precisely what that isfrom, but I know that it's worth
paying attention to because Iknow it wouldn't be there if it
(05:28):
didn't need to be. And that isso it's it's welcoming yourself
into a totally different kind ofconversation where once I
recognize that feeling, if I ifI have the ability to recognize
it, then can I bring curiosityto what's around me without
jumping to a conclusion aboutwhat it has to mean? Do you know
what I'm saying?
Because it would be easy to say,I feel the sinking feeling.
(05:51):
You're cheating on me. It'slike, I think intuition's more
like when having an experience.What's what's really happening?
And you start looking for otherbits of data.
Awareness is one of the biggesttools that we use in embodiment.
So I start placing my awarenessin a conscious way, and I think
(06:11):
that's also part of intuition.So why would might somebody
struggle to trust theirintuition or these bodily pings
that they're getting? Well, theymight not recognize them or have
been practiced in feeling them.They might also have been
gaslit.
You know, when I was young,getting the sensation and having
some of, like, not like, havingcaregivers or protectors or
(06:34):
whatever kind of lie to you. I'mnot gonna go into all the
reasons why that might be true,but, oh, you might have been
taught to not trust because thatperson that you needed to trust
or that you were reliant uponwas they were telling you that
what you were feeling wasn'treal. I mean, I remember one
(06:55):
time I think I've told this onthis podcast already, but one
time where something happenedand and I got hurt. And I
remember my grandfather saying,that doesn't hurt. And it's a
very weird experience to belike, what?
Feels like it does. Like, I feellike I'm experiencing pain, and
now you're telling me that I I'mnot or I shouldn't be. And so I
(07:15):
think and then also not beingencouraged to be open about your
experience. So theculturalization of men right now
is that we're supposed to bereally strong. Pain is a
weakness.
Right? And there's only, like, afew times when it's kind of
allowed. So we also entered intothis idea of I'm gonna suppress
(07:38):
it because it feels moreacceptable. You can't make me
cry. You can't upset me unlessit's in an anger way.
You're like, I'm not vulnerable.Like, all that sort of stuff.
And I think that lends us to,I'm gonna shut myself off from
the sources of wisdom that mightactually be tuning me into
(07:59):
what's happening. What'sinteresting is when people do
that, they shut themselves offfrom when they cut parts of
themselves off and don't makethem available to themselves or
to others, they're cuttingthemselves off from others too.
So how deeply can you connectwith your partner, with your
(08:20):
children, when you are denyingaspects of yourself even to
yourself?
And so that's one of the thingswhy men's work is so important.
Get in touch with your wholeself so you can offer your whole
self. With enough practice,offer it skillfully so that you
can have deep meaningfulconnections that matter way more
(08:40):
than most other things way more.They matter more than your
income.
Eric Bomyea (08:45):
Thank you. And so if somebody is wanting to go
down that path to strengthentheir intuition and strengthen
their felt sense of what theirbody is trying to tell them,
Timothy Bish (08:56):
they start. Do embodiment practice. Just asking
yourself, what am I feeling?Because, you know, it's
interesting if you ask peoplewhat they're feeling, you get
these answers like, good. Fine.
I'm in pain. You know, whateverthe thing is. And the the truth
(09:18):
is if you really look at whatyou're feeling, you're probably
feeling many thingssimultaneously. Right now, my
face feels a little hot becauseof the lights and whatever, but
my my calf feels very relaxed asan example. And if I went
through did more, I'm like, I'mprobably feeling eight, ten, 12
(09:42):
different things.
It doesn't have to just be one.And, you know, they talk about
this with chronic pain wheresometimes one of the ways to
approach chronic pain isn't topretend like the pain isn't
there, but it's to recognizethat the pain isn't the only
thing there. Like, oh, that partof you might be in chronic pain,
but this other part of youactually feels okay. And just
(10:05):
that awareness can start toshift. You know, chronic pain is
tricky and not you know, this isbut the awareness that there's
more than one thing present atone time is really powerful.
Eric Bomyea (10:16):
The mind isn't the only thing that's really smart
Or sure.
Timothy Bish (10:20):
Absolutely. The Heart Math Institute, they talk
about this sort ofunderstanding, this awareness
and sensing that we have. Whenwe think about auras and
energetic fields and all that,it can feel so in the clouds.
But we are we are electricity.We are we are hormones.
We are magnetic. We we are somany things. And embodiment is
(10:45):
really tapping into what can Isense with my heart? What can I
sense with my gut? What can Isense with my primal?
What and what can I sense withmy head, my thoughts, my
rationality? It isn't like wedon't want that. It's just that
that's the thing we have beendoing. I keep using, like, the
planeteers as the example, but,like, you want Captain Planet.
(11:06):
You need all five planeteers.
So bring it all online. Why not?
Eric Bomyea (11:13):
Thank you so much. Is there anything else on the
topic of intuition and how ithelps us to embody our fullness
that you'd like to mention?
Timothy Bish (11:21):
I just think people need to be willing to be
in a practice with their ownintuition because I've never
experienced it as infallible. Soyou might misfire, and you have
to let that be part of it. Like,I really thought this was
happening, and you might bewrong. I'm like, okay. That
doesn't mean that intuitiondoesn't work.
(11:42):
It just means that it's a honingof not just the recognition of
whatever you're feeling that'salerted you to it, but then the
curiosity around the situationonce you've been alerted to it.
It is a non exact science.
Eric Bomyea (11:58):
Well, thank you all for joining us for our three
part Q and A series. If you havemore questions, please send them
to us. We would love to hearfrom you. And besides that, if
you are on this journey or ifyou're new to it, if you're just
beginning to be in your embodiedexperience, if you're curious
about men's work or any of thethings that we talk about on
this podcast, head on over tomyembodiment.com where you can
(12:20):
join us in conversations andlive practices and a wealth of
information. So we hope to seeyou there.
Thank you. Thank you.
Welcome to our final episode in our q and a
series. In this one, we'reasking what is men's intuition
and what role does it play inembodying masculinity? Tim, are
you ready to go on? I'm ready.So we hear a lot about women's
intuition, but not so much aboutmen's.
So what do you mean when youtalk about men's intuition?
Thank you for that question.
Timothy Bish (00:20):
I never talk about men's intuition because I don't
think that's a thing. I thinkthere is intuition, and I think
there are people who are capableof tapping into their intuition.
And I think culturally, that hasbeen women because they have
been allowed to feel have asensational experience of their
(00:44):
own bodies and their ownexperience and and their
feelings and their emotions. Ido not think that intuition is
specific to a gender. And so Iknow that some people think
about, like, well, you know,men's intuition.
It's a good question, but I justdon't think that's I don't I
don't think it exists. I thinkthere is human intuition, and
(01:07):
humans have access to it. Maybesome have a natural aptitude.
But I would even argue that Idon't necessarily think that
women tend to have more naturalaptitude than men. I don't have
any research about this, but Ithink intuition is available to
all of us.
(01:27):
I think it's a thing we canpractice. I think that's partly
why we do embodiment because Ithink a lot of intuition is
actually understanding our feltsense and our and our physical
experience in a moment, like thewisdom of our heart. And there's
a lot of research about heartmath and and what what we can
sense with our hearts. Havesense organs that are not just
our eyes. Right?
(01:48):
Or our nose. I think men'sintuition is any man willing
enough to to do the work to feelinto his own experience. You
spoke a little
Eric Bomyea (02:00):
bit about embodiment, so I'm curious about
what the connection is for youbetween embodiment and
intuition.
Timothy Bish (02:06):
I think when people think of intuition, they
think of it like a premonition.I think they think of it like,
oh, there's this invisibleantenna on the top of my head.
And if I'm intuitive, I willrandomly get a download that,
like, plays like a movie on thebackside of my forehead, and
then I have a thing. That hasnever been my experience of it.
(02:28):
I think intuition is aculmination of lots of
information coming together.
And that's why embodiment is abig part of that because, oh,
when I feel this thing in my gutor when I feel and I'm just
speaking from personalexperience now. Like, sometimes
I feel it in my gut. Sometimes Ifeel it, like, in the midline of
(02:49):
my chest. Sometimes I feel it inmy throat. But there's I'll get
a sensation, and I'll think, oh,that's usually that's that's a
that's an alarm.
That's a flag. That's a that's asomething's drawing my
attention. And that is informingmy intuition. Is something is
(03:10):
something not quite right here?Something feels not quite right
in my body.
So what's not quite right in mycircumstance, in my environment,
in my situation? I think that isa big part of intuition. Now I
suspect some people have a morehead centric intuition. I
suspect I personally have a morebody felt sense kind of
(03:33):
intuition, but it's the abilityto recognize those signals and
then become curious about whatthey might mean. So, again, with
intuition, it isn't like, you'relying to me, and I know exactly
what the lie is.
You know, you you know, you saidthis, and it's not that. It's
this other thing. Like, no.Oftentimes, it's that something
(03:56):
doesn't feel right. Now I'mgonna, like, take a breath and,
like, kind of get out of theheightened emotional experience
of it and then bring curiosity.
Oh, what what about this feels alittle off? And then I think
that's the process. I wish itwere more like charmed, you
know, the witches. You you know?Like, oh my god.
(04:17):
I love I love charm so much, butI wish it was more like, yeah. I
just I just know exactly whathappened, and I don't think
that's how that works.
Eric Bomyea (04:25):
Cast the spell and reveal it all.
Timothy Bish (04:27):
Yeah. And
Eric Bomyea (04:29):
so one of the things I heard you say was
trusting gut. So understanding,is the old adage trust your gut,
trust your instinct? Does thatalign to intuition here? It
feels like it
Timothy Bish (04:43):
is to me. None of this is we don't have any
research on this. My gut hasbeen fairly accurate. And the
thing about the body that I havelearned is that it doesn't
really lie, in in the same waysthat our mind can lie. So if I'm
in a really heady experience, Icould work myself up into this
(05:07):
person is keeping this for me.
I could create stories, and ityou know, our minds are pretty
good at that. But if I justthink about the felt experience,
oh, I have a sinking feeling inmy abdomen right now. I don't
know precisely what that isfrom, but I know that it's worth
paying attention to because Iknow it wouldn't be there if it
(05:28):
didn't need to be. And that isso it's it's welcoming yourself
into a totally different kind ofconversation where once I
recognize that feeling, if I ifI have the ability to recognize
it, then can I bring curiosityto what's around me without
jumping to a conclusion aboutwhat it has to mean? Do you know
what I'm saying?
Because it would be easy to say,I feel the sinking feeling.
(05:51):
You're cheating on me. It'slike, I think intuition's more
like when having an experience.What's what's really happening?
And you start looking for otherbits of data.
Awareness is one of the biggesttools that we use in embodiment.
So I start placing my awarenessin a conscious way, and I think
(06:11):
that's also part of intuition.So why would might somebody
struggle to trust theirintuition or these bodily pings
that they're getting? Well, theymight not recognize them or have
been practiced in feeling them.They might also have been
gaslit.
You know, when I was young,getting the sensation and having
some of, like, not like, havingcaregivers or protectors or
(06:34):
whatever kind of lie to you. I'mnot gonna go into all the
reasons why that might be true,but, oh, you might have been
taught to not trust because thatperson that you needed to trust
or that you were reliant uponwas they were telling you that
what you were feeling wasn'treal. I mean, I remember one
(06:55):
time I think I've told this onthis podcast already, but one
time where something happenedand and I got hurt. And I
remember my grandfather saying,that doesn't hurt. And it's a
very weird experience to belike, what?
Feels like it does. Like, I feellike I'm experiencing pain, and
now you're telling me that I I'mnot or I shouldn't be. And so I
(07:15):
think and then also not beingencouraged to be open about your
experience. So theculturalization of men right now
is that we're supposed to bereally strong. Pain is a
weakness.
Right? And there's only, like, afew times when it's kind of
allowed. So we also entered intothis idea of I'm gonna suppress
(07:38):
it because it feels moreacceptable. You can't make me
cry. You can't upset me unlessit's in an anger way.
You're like, I'm not vulnerable.Like, all that sort of stuff.
And I think that lends us to,I'm gonna shut myself off from
the sources of wisdom that mightactually be tuning me into
(07:59):
what's happening. What'sinteresting is when people do
that, they shut themselves offfrom when they cut parts of
themselves off and don't makethem available to themselves or
to others, they're cuttingthemselves off from others too.
So how deeply can you connectwith your partner, with your
(08:20):
children, when you are denyingaspects of yourself even to
yourself?
And so that's one of the thingswhy men's work is so important.
Get in touch with your wholeself so you can offer your whole
self. With enough practice,offer it skillfully so that you
can have deep meaningfulconnections that matter way more
(08:40):
than most other things way more.They matter more than your
income.
Eric Bomyea (08:45):
Thank you. And so if somebody is wanting to go
down that path to strengthentheir intuition and strengthen
their felt sense of what theirbody is trying to tell them,
Timothy Bish (08:56):
they start. Do embodiment practice. Just asking
yourself, what am I feeling?Because, you know, it's
interesting if you ask peoplewhat they're feeling, you get
these answers like, good. Fine.
I'm in pain. You know, whateverthe thing is. And the the truth
(09:18):
is if you really look at whatyou're feeling, you're probably
feeling many thingssimultaneously. Right now, my
face feels a little hot becauseof the lights and whatever, but
my my calf feels very relaxed asan example. And if I went
through did more, I'm like, I'mprobably feeling eight, ten, 12
(09:42):
different things.
It doesn't have to just be one.And, you know, they talk about
this with chronic pain wheresometimes one of the ways to
approach chronic pain isn't topretend like the pain isn't
there, but it's to recognizethat the pain isn't the only
thing there. Like, oh, that partof you might be in chronic pain,
but this other part of youactually feels okay. And just
(10:05):
that awareness can start toshift. You know, chronic pain is
tricky and not you know, this isbut the awareness that there's
more than one thing present atone time is really powerful.
Eric Bomyea (10:16):
The mind isn't the only thing that's really smart
Or sure.
Timothy Bish (10:20):
Absolutely. The Heart Math Institute, they talk
about this sort ofunderstanding, this awareness
and sensing that we have. Whenwe think about auras and
energetic fields and all that,it can feel so in the clouds.
But we are we are electricity.We are we are hormones.
We are magnetic. We we are somany things. And embodiment is
(10:45):
really tapping into what can Isense with my heart? What can I
sense with my gut? What can Isense with my primal?
What and what can I sense withmy head, my thoughts, my
rationality? It isn't like wedon't want that. It's just that
that's the thing we have beendoing. I keep using, like, the
planeteers as the example, but,like, you want Captain Planet.
(11:06):
You need all five planeteers.
So bring it all online. Why not?
Eric Bomyea (11:13):
Thank you so much. Is there anything else on the
topic of intuition and how ithelps us to embody our fullness
that you'd like to mention?
Timothy Bish (11:21):
I just think people need to be willing to be
in a practice with their ownintuition because I've never
experienced it as infallible. Soyou might misfire, and you have
to let that be part of it. Like,I really thought this was
happening, and you might bewrong. I'm like, okay. That
doesn't mean that intuitiondoesn't work.
(11:42):
It just means that it's a honingof not just the recognition of
whatever you're feeling that'salerted you to it, but then the
curiosity around the situationonce you've been alerted to it.
It is a non exact science.
Eric Bomyea (11:58):
Well, thank you all for joining us for our three
part Q and A series. If you havemore questions, please send them
to us. We would love to hearfrom you. And besides that, if
you are on this journey or ifyou're new to it, if you're just
beginning to be in your embodiedexperience, if you're curious
about men's work or any of thethings that we talk about on
this podcast, head on over tomyembodiment.com where you can
(12:20):
join us in conversations andlive practices and a wealth of
information. So we hope to seeyou there.
Thank you. Thank you.
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