Listen to your gut

In my last blog post, I suggested that you get to know yourself and I ended it with this statement:

I suggest you get quiet. Really, quiet and check in with yourself.

And maybe you are thinking, “But wait, Sarah, I’ve been following along with what you’ve been sharing and that’s what I have been doing, checking in with myself and asking, what I should be doing?”

My response would be: “But, did you get quiet first? Did you stop everything else, take 3 deep breaths, and connect to a deeper part of yourself?” Some people call this their part of themselves their gut, some call it their intuition, or inner voice, or inner knowing.

Even if this idea seems out there to you, I’m guessing you’ve had that “gut feeling” of just knowing something at some point in your life. I strongly believe that this is an important tool in our decision making process. I believe this is where the magic of decision making lives.

By finding a quiet place, both externally and internally, we can really sit with the different options of a decision and determine how we feel about them, emotionally and physically. As you think about each choice, notice your emotional feelings. Are you excited, scared, nervcited, something else? If the emotions are similar across the options, what is the intensity of each? Then think about the possible choices and see what you feel in your body. You might notice you feel different things in the same part of your body, for example your stomach, as you think about each option. Or, you may feel one in your chest and another one in your hands. Describe everything you can about the sensations. What is the intensity? The size? The shape? If it had a color, what would it be? If you touched it, what would the texture be?

Then, notice which of those feelings, both the emotional and the physical. Which feels the best? Which feel the worst?

Now, use this information to make your decision.

Go with you gut!