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How to Tap Into Our Intuition
We all recognize that feeling we get when in our gut we know that something is right for us, or maybe even wrong. There is no concrete reason for this, other than a deep feeling. This is our gut instinct or intuition.
“Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business- everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is the emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.” David Lynch
A while back I wrote about eating intuitively and I decided today to expand on this concept of intuition. Intuition is about acknowledging, listening to, and following those feelings we know as gut-feelings, inner knowing, or awareness.
I recognize that the more I listen to my intuition, the better my life turns out. In fact, I chide myself when I don’t follow my intuition, because it regularly comes back to bite me- in a sense.
I am not the only one focusing more on intuition. Researchers and scientists have labeled our gut as our second brain, acknowledging that over 100 million neurons are linked to our digestive tracts and thus are filled with information. These neurons have the capability to process so much of what happens to us (Wilding, 2018).
