trust your gut, intuition
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trust your gut, intuition
the most fruitful exercise seems to be when you’re able to rest your awareness in your torso (especially the gut and the heart) and simply stay there. Be with the gut. Be with the heart. Allow whatever wants to happen to happen.
River Kenna • What is Somatic Meditation?
As I spend more time practicing with the energy body, I’ve come to primally trust it as the compass of my deepest intuition and discernment, uncovering the path by following resonance . It allows me to be brave . By trusting in my body’s innate capacity for wisdom and well-being, it stretches my courage to intensify my compassion , building my stre... See more
Harmonizing the Body Electric
The numbness I felt was the result of continuously choosing to ride the gondola in the direction of someone else’s definition of success, moving further and further from my own intuition of a life well lived. When we feel internal turmoil, it’s a signal from our body to rethink our assumptions. While it’s natural to turn to everyone else — anyone e... See more
Cissy Hu • A lifetime of should-ing
If Apple was a democracy (aka customers don’t know what they want. or greatness requires a certain degree of dictatorship)
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 righ... See more
Nix • gut feelings
the sum total of all of a person’s nodal points could be some kind of proxy for a personal identity. At the very least, it’s an indication of an individual perspective. Since writing this essay, I’ve thought a lot about this kind of personal intuition towards things: the radar that any person has that leads them to different points in their life.
Here for the Wrong Reasons — Are.na
True art only occurs when you’re nobody-but-yourself. This requires you to fully feel your gut feelings. Whenever you forget this, you’re basically a mediocre LLM, assembling other people’s ideas by running simple scripts on biological hardware. Art isn’t assembly.
Daniel Kazandjian • Before building a second brain, build a connection with your gut.
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.