How you can make “trusting your gut” a positive habit.
With COVID-19 bringing most of our lives to a virtual standstill, this might be the best time ever to explore why many of us — at times — don’t act on our human instincts or intuition, especially when it comes to making important decisions that affect both our personal and business lives.
We understand and recognize intuition as the gut feeling we get in response to outside stimulus. It’s a feeling that only we experience in our own bodies. It can be difficult to put into words, but it feels like we have this ‘built-in-human-sensing-mechanism’ that’s immediate, we don’t need to contemplate or ask for a second opinion, we just need to act, make a decision and execute on it. Unfortunately, it seems most of us don’t do this, we fail to move, respond in any way, and thus we stay stuck.
Our inability to act on our intuition can keep us perpetually frustrated and it could be worse. If there’s something that needs to be acted on immediately and we don’t make a critical decision, then we might even experience failure.
So, why do we have difficulty trusting our gut feelings? Why do we seem content at times on things staying status quo only to regret it later? Maybe, we don’t trust our intuition because we don’t even trust ourselves; trusting our intuition can be defined as the ultimate act of trusting in ourselves.
So again, why do we vacillate on using our intuition when our livelihoods (our lives) depend on it?
Perhaps, the most obvious reason for having ‘instinct-complacency’ is low self-esteem or the lack of believing in one’s self. This lack of self-belief leaves many people living in unfulfilled, unsatisfying lives. Improving self-esteem is a serious challenge; it requires diligence, perseverance, and a strong will. However, it’s the willingness to seek self-improvement that can create great benefits for so many of us.
Once we recognize we can improve our own feelings about ourselves, and that we can really accomplish our goals, we can become more optimistic about the future. This in turn will create a positive energy, which will attract even more positive energy, and bring to fruition our personal desires and goals.
Acting on our own intuition is not exercising blind faith, it is an act, an effective way to trust in ourselves. By trusting in ourselves, we create the lives we desire personally, professionally, and spiritually.
Recommended books on intuition:
“Intuition on Demand” (2017) by Lisa K.
“Decisive Intuition” (2019) by Rick Snyder
“The Healing Code” (2010) by Alexander Lloyd and Ben Johnson
“Trust Your Gut” (2006) by Lynn A. Robinson
“What’s Behind Your Belly Button? A Psychological Perspective of the Intelligence of Human Nature and Gut Instinct” (2011) by Martha Char Love and Robert W. Sterling
“The Gift of Fear” (1997) by Gavin de Becker
“Living Magically: A New Vision of Reality” (1991) by Gill Edwards