It’s a conditioned reaction…
Anything nebulous, intangible and “irrational” we want to fit into familiar tangible, rational and logical processes, usually in the form of paperwork or information on a screen. Then we can process the result, and we can share it with other people.
Or we think we can…
In fact, we might be working in the wrong channel, and looking in the wrong place.
Frequently, the answer we need lies in the intangible, hard-to-pin-down domain of the unconscious mind. To find that answer, we need to stay in that perhaps uncomfortable, not-really-knowing, not-really-in-control, but ultimately more powerful place. Eventually, we can set down what comes to us in the familiar tools of professional and business life, but only once we have the answer, not before.
We can’t map a circular unconscious process onto a linear conscious one and expect the same results. Our subject-verb-object language, among other things, isn’t up to the job.
So…
If we are to be looking in the right place, we need to trust our unconscious processes—our intuition, if you will—and not shift everything into the conscious domain too soon. For most of us, trusting our unconscious is counter to our conditioning and so likely to be a useful muscle to develop.