On the whole, my hot take is that the gut instinct (good or bad) is something to be honored. Practice listening closely to it a lot more because it’ll tell you exactly what you need. If you’re pulled to do something, fascinated by something, you should probably follow your inclination toward it. Stop yanking yourself away from things that feel... See more
go deep enough w trusting your gut & heart, they’ll tell you when it’s time to use your intellect
go far enough w trusting your intellect, it’ll tell you it only works at peak capacity when you deepen into your gut & heart
the worst option is to not go far enough with either
I was thinking about all the time spent browsing with no real aim, and how even as a 12 year old, there was some small intuitive sense of the things I was drawn to.
The actionable claim of Focusing (again, according to me) is that this information expresses itself in “felt senses” in the body — think butterflies in the stomach, or your throat closing up, or the heat of embarrassment in your cheeks, or a heavy sense of doom that makes your arms feel leaden and numb, or whatever physiological sensation happens... See more
Maybe you don’t need direction, because, ultimately, you are already going the right way. Maybe, somewhere, your being/mind/heart/intuition already knows everything it needs to know about how to come home to itself. If you just look inwards, lovingly, perhaps you will come unbent, in some ways, or fully, eventually.