With Halloween
just finished, I have been contemplating fear and intuition. We know that
science has proven the existence of a neural network or brain associated with
our gut. Gut intuition is about perseverance. Our gut will warn us when it
needs to protect us. Our heart brain is all about love and compassion and our
head brain can be quite creative. So our intuition here is often clear, because
it has to do with love and acceptance or showing us some creative solutions to
problems. However, when you get that feeling in your gut, how do you tell the
difference between fear and intuition?
I have an example
of just this, when I made an appointment last week for my muscle activation
guru Josh Young. I set up an appointment earlier in the week and wasn’t
thinking about the date when I made it. I also had a healing done prior that
created a great deal of need to relax and re-energize for a few days. What day
did I make the appointment for, you ask? Mercury has been retrograde since Oct
3rd and we were in between 2 eclipses. Just as we were scheduled for
our solar eclipse on Oct 23rd and mercury was about to go direct on
the 25th, I booked an appointment for, yep you guessed it the 23rd!
Mercury is always worst right before and during when it goes retrograde and
when it goes direct, throw in the solar eclipse and… BOOM!
The day of the 22nd
I considered cancelling my appointment because I wasn’t feeling very energetic.
I wasn’t sure if it was my physical condition, my intuition or just apathy that
was having me reconsider. When the day arrived, I still felt quite awful and my
intuition was nudging me to cancel. However, I decided that my health was a
priority and I was going ahead. Also, my phone only had 28% battery charge,
even though this should last me half a day; I ignored my intuition again when I
kept getting I should charge it before I left.
I took the subway
there, as it was a pretty good route, but I planned to take advantage of my newly
acquired membership with a car share program (car2go), for the way home. I knew
after the treatment, I would just want to get home as quickly as I could to
relax and rejuvenate, so I reserved the car in my area. After my appointment
the car wasn’t where it was supposed to be. I spent 10-15 minutes trying to
locate it, I found one in a different spot 5 levels lower but I couldn’t
activate it (it was out of service). I called the company and spent a 15-20
minutes talking with them while trying to locate the car. As soon as I was back
at the entrance, my intuition did tell me where it was; there was a lot across
the street that although wasn’t a Green P parking lot, had a green sign and a
green P in the sign. I got cut off from the company while exploring where the
car was, as we were going further and further underground. I did finally locate
it, but I had to call back to have the car put in service, as I had been the 4th
person to try and locate it. This would have been an ideal time to walk away
and choose a new course of action, however I was invested in moving forward and
I just wanted to get home.
At this point, my
phone no longer had a battery charge and I got in the car, only to have my
intuition tell me once again there was something wrong. I continued, ignoring
my intuition for the 3rd time that day. I quickly discovered that
the radio wasn’t working (usually not a problem, except you need the radio to
use the inboard call center). Within a few minutes my intuition was going on
high alert, because the car just wasn’t feeling “right”. After about 10-12
minutes of driving, I unfortunately discovered why, I had a flat tire. So, now
I’m stranded, in an area that is not close to anything, my phone isn’t working
and neither is the inboard phone! So, I had to get out of the car, find a
convenience store and plead to use their phone. Of course I get a newbie and he
leaves me on the phone for over 25 minutes and I got kicked out of the store,
completely stranded. I was too angry to think and ended walking home which took
me 2 hours. All the great work of my treatment felt a waste as I was exhausted
and in a lot of pain by the time I got home.
OK, now for the
moral of the story! We have all had these kinds of crazy days that seem to just
snowball no matter how much we try to salvage the developing situation. It is
important to take the time to understand what was motivating our choices when
these situations arise. However, it is just as important to let yourself off
the hook! Judging yourself for the choices you make in life, especially when
things go horribly wrong, won’t help. Learning to strengthen your ability to
trust and honor your internal guidance systems can drastically improve the
quality of your day to day life.
When I reflect on
my crazy day I can see that I was trying to control this situation and not
honoring my gut! I wasn’t centered while I was searching for a way to get home
therefore ignoring my intuition because I was too attached to my original plan.
When we are in
good form and something is off it is relatively easy to shift our day. However,
when we aren’t feeling great and are in need of some TLC and our day takes a
turn for the worse, this is when it is most important to make sure we have lots
of tools at our disposal to turn things around. We need to come up with our own
rituals for understanding and honoring our intuition, which can even include
creating the space to just let things be until whatever is going on passes.
Learning to trust
my intuition and remembering that my gut is a fierce warrior that deserves to
be heard regardless of what it is saying is now important. I believe from now
on I will connect in with my three brains for guidance when I am getting
contradictory information. Taking the time to reflect on what was happening internally
has given me the insight I need to completely shift my day next time things go
wrong. What about you? What do you do when confronted with a crazy day?
See more at:
http://www.intuitivesoul.com/can-you-tell-the-difference-between-fear-and-your-gut-intuition
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