decisions

Your gut is smarter than your brain

| johnas9000

To be clear it might just be the “energy’. There are a lot of different names people use for different energies, like Zeus or Goddess energy. Suffice it to say. When you are at peace and calm you are 10,000% more likely to make a great decision. Other wonderful things happen as well, when you are at peace. You can listen, attentively, you can learn, you can come up with your own ideas, and novel concepts about pretty much anything. The whole universe is open to you when you are at peace.

I am talking about drop dead peace. No thoughts no mind. You dont have to meditate to get there. You merely have to operate as if you were meditating. So any “thought” that comes into your brain, simply let it pass, just like you do when you meditate. In this context I am using the word, thought, to describe the 50,000 BS thoughts you have every day. This way, you only leave room for space and the possibility for real ideation or creation to spring forth. Its kind of like me writing this.

I am not all wrapped up in my problems. I still have them and I actually will come up with even better solutions when I step away. I was just talking to a new friend and as we peacefully spoke it occurred to me, even we could collaborate since there is an intersection in what we both do. Actually there are a lot of intersections. But you dont get to have that experience, when your “conscious” brain is in charge. By the way all of our vocabulary sucks. Nobody did a fantastic voyage into your brain to determine where even thought comes from. Sure you can do an MRI and see what part of your brain lights up when you are doing math vs verbal exercises, but does anyone know where anything comes from? Who even came up with the concept of conscious and subconscious thinking? Yes I know that certain functions are controlled automatically. But where do true original ideas come from? Where does spirit, belief, religion come from?

For all we know all of the inventions of this world came from aliens, or God. You wouldnt know because you are rarely at peace. OK, maybe not you because you are reading this and you have a desire to learn, you are inquisitive. But most people are too busy regurgitating the 45,000 negative thoughts from yesterday. So there is literally no room for what I like to call thinking. The word thinking should be reserved for creating, ideating coming up with original ideas and thoughts. Simply vomiting the same thoughts you had yesterday in no way should be even called thinking. You are merely, actually hurting yourself.

Chew on that one for a moment. What you think is thinking is actually self harm. There is absolutely zero benefit to regurgitating and or worrying about the same thoughts you worried about yesterday. If you want to set aside time to brainstorm about a particular concern, Great! But in between now and then what is the purpose of general worrying other than self harm?

Want to read more? John Hopkins, about the ENS ( enteric nervous system) where 200 million nerve cells reside. Going with your gut? …”gone with your gut to make a decision or felt “butterflies in your stomach” when nervous, you’re likely getting signals from an unexpected source: your second brain.” Science is being revolutionized about the way we think. These are not just my ideas.

How about Harvard 2023 The bacteria in your gut will affect your mood and happiness. To quote “study that also found specific bacterial link to happiness”

Ok you can google gut feelings and get 94,500,000 results. So you are going to have to go with my thinking on the subject. Or let me know when you get done reading them all. Just like your subconscious has all of the information so does your gut. In fact we know that your brain is communicating with you gut so there is reason to believe that a gut feeling is not silly, it is rooted and comes from all of the information you have.

I go back to my original assertion. Even reading the complicated articles. It would make sense that at peace you are probably getting great information. If you are frenetic and unsettled, that is not a gut feeling. That is an all too familiar feeling to pretty much all of us. It is nervous excitement. It might even be knowing that there is an unacceptable risk involved. The energy feels very different from, the feeling of knowing. And knowing might not even come from the gut, but it certainly feels safe and certain and “knowing”

You know what I am talking about, Why dont you look back on your life and the biggest decisions you made, how they turned out and how you felt about them. I doubt there was rational certainty about bad decisions. I also noticed for me there was a nervous excitement about all of my bad decisions. How about you?

You Know! Even if no one else agrees with you.

| johnas9000

I bet you can even tell me stories when you knew something. No one else agreed with you. You went along to get along or assumed the majority was right. Yet you later found out you were right all along.

“Trusting ourselves is one of the most important things that we do.” said my dear friend David Ellzey. I was relating my experience with an extremely famous, website designing company that messed up my new website. I lost 90% of my traffic. I can spend an hour telling you all of their mistakes. They violated every rule and I am still losing a fortune, and they are not even moving to rectify the situation.

Yet they have almost 100, 5-star reviews, and everyone loves them. And people have dealt with them for years. My friend David Ellzey, (by the way fantastic coach Sedona Method), said let’s look at Mercedes as an example.

What if you had a bad salesman, a bad mechanic, the one lemon they had at that dealership? The possibilities are endless where in the chain of events you just got a lemon. Funny as I searched for an image, there were all too many ones of Mercedes and a lemon. Maybe “lemons” are more common than we think.

It doesn’t matter why my experience was awful. No one at that company cares and is fixing things. I had a few meetings where they were defensive. There are times in your life when you just “know” and you are right, and you have to do what you know is right. To me, it’s pretty clear that the company is simply too big. But you can’t change a company or a person. Well actually all of the time, not sometimes. You just can’t change things outside of you. Where have we heard that before?

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.” For whatever reason, they are not going to change. It has been months. Time to go. You know when you know, regardless of other people’s experiences. Trust your judgment. Of course study as much as possible. By the way, the number of things YOU CAN change is monumental. Heck, I don’t even need a website. Everyone I have spoken to understands our experience and integrity. When I ask them if they liked the website, they say “Never been there, I like and trusted you” LOL. Go figure.

So what am I trying to say, Trust yourself, trust your judgment, trust your intuition, if it’s calm and certain. There is a nervous excitement that should not be confused with certainty and intuition. That is when your friend calls you and gives you the greatest stock tip ever, if you just pony up $10,000 today, before 4 pm, and you get all nervous and excited. That is not intuition. Intuition is when you are as certain as the earth under your feet, you are doing the right thing and you will make it work. And ignore the experiences of others. Because sometimes you do get a lemon. It’s bitter. It’s obvious and you know it’s a lemon.

Because when you know you’re right, and follow what you know, no matter what happens, you were true to yourself. That’s worth everything.