Emotion

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noun
a natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one's circumstances, mood, or relationships with others:
• instinctive or intuitive feeling as distinguished from reasoning or knowledge:


ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (denoting a public disturbance or commotion): from French émotion, from émouvoir ‘excite,’ based on Latin emovere, from e- (variant of ex-)‘out’ + movere ‘move.’ The sense ‘mental agitation’ dates from the mid 17th cent., the current general sense from the early 19th cent.



Instinct

noun
an innate, typically fixed pattern of behavior in animals in response to certain stimuli:
• a natural or intuitive way of acting or thinking:
• a natural propensity or skill of a specified kind:
• the fact or quality of possessing innate behavior patterns:


ORIGIN late Middle English (also in the sense ‘instigation, impulse’): from Latin instinctus ‘impulse,’ from the verb instinguere, from in- ‘toward’ + stinguere ‘to prick.’

Intuition

noun
the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning:
• a thing that one knows or considers likely from instinctive feeling rather than conscious reasoning:


ORIGIN late Middle English (denoting spiritual insight or immediate spiritual communication): from late Latin intuitio(n-), from Latin intueri ‘consider’ (see intuit) .



Our body is always taking everything in. We respond to stimuli without conscious thought
That response is nothing to be ashamed of
Nothing to repress
We actually do ourselves harm by repression
Emotional response is your body telling you something important is happening that you new to pay attention to

Instinct isn't this metaphysical thing.
It's not the same as being psychic
It's just our first response.