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i listen to my brain more but i wish i would listen to my gut feelings more often
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I have wondered a lot, lately, about the difference--or at least how we can be aware of the difference.
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I have wondered a lot, lately, about the difference--or at least how we can be aware of the difference.
Something I have been focusing on is rationale. Even when I don't follow my gut, I create elaborate stories in my head that explain how I am following it. My brain leads me indeed, and even knows how to trick me, when it is my heart I would rather follow.
It is scary to realize years later that the big choice I had made was really an excuse to not do something else.
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I listen to my heart. I act before I think. I don't really think at all, actually.
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Intestinal input, unless it requires deductive reasoning or flat - out logic. Then my brain says my gut's a moron & walks off in a huff. ;)
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99% of the time I go with my gut. No matter what decision I'm currently making. Even if the decision is towards what I don't like. Rarely has it steered me wrong and when it does, I believe it's a better outcome then the other option. Now, I'm not saying that I don't rationalize or I'm irrational, because after I make the decision I rationalize what the decision can effect and how. That 1% of the time I don't go with my gut is when I'm faced with an large or important decision that definitely needs thinking through. For example, if my best friends fight, I'm normally the person they come to too find out who's right. Then I rationalize both sides and say who has the better argument, if there is a better one.
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Intuition is what took me through, when my brain failed..My experiences have taught me,that a brain that is followed without the heart,creates more damage ..Balance between the two works best..In flesh,one does not exist without both.
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I think I rationalize and rationalize and rationalize when making a decision. Then, once I make a decision, I think about what I will feel like once that decision goes into play, ergo gut feeling. If I think I might regret that decision and I'm really not happy with it, but it makes sense, I go with the other option, or find a plan c.
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I think we're born listening to our intuition over our brains. As we mature we start relying more on our brains over our intuition. And then I seem to hear a lot of wise elders talking favourably about using one's intuition again. Though rarely do I hear them advocate abandoning one's brains!
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I think we're born listening to our intuition over our brains. As we mature we start relying more on our brains over our intuition. And then I seem to hear a lot of wise elders talking favourably about using one's intuition again. Though rarely do I hear them advocate abandoning one's brains!
I particularly like the Native teachings that have intuition as more of a spiritual connection to "all wisdom" that is wild and untamed in the youth, atrophies if not used as an adult, but increasingly useful if one endeavours to develop it.
I think from early adulthood to midlife I tended to rationalize almost to the exclusion of intuition. The "rules" of rationalization are seen to be very succinct and certain whereas intuition was seen as a much woolier (unreliable, even wishful) "discipline".
I'm learning though to value my intuition. It's taken me on paths I didn't wish to go on in the past . . . but of late has also given me enough close hits or bullseyes to start taking it a lot more seriously.
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I tend to rationalize but then run it through the "gut check" to see how it "feels". This answer required too many "quotation marks" in my view. :-)
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