My Instinct is Wiser Than My Mind
Trust Your Guts!
In general, we’re stuck in our (monkey) minds — we think about every single detail of a matter, from several perspectives. Sometimes we even do it in on a repeat mode, as to be sure that we covered all rational fronts.
We like to calculate risks, to analyse the pros and cons, to produce potential consequences. To anticipate. We love to make our lives harder.
But besides our valuable mind -it’s trough though we make reasonable decisions-, we must trust in a fundamental element of our being: our instinct.
Cambridge Dictionary defines Instinct as:
A natural ability that helps you decide what to do or how to act without thinking.
Instinct is an intuitive and subjective reaction, not based on conscious thought or rational judgments.
Since I was a teenager, I’m aware that I have an unerring instinct. Even without understanding it, I’ve always trusted it and, along the years, it had proven me it’s trustworthy.
It’s my mind that second guesses and verifies all the possibilities, that gives me arguments, frequently opposite of what my guts are shouting at me.
It’s rare for me not to go with my instinct, even if it goes against “common sense”, or what evidences are showing me. My instinct always gives me reliable information; why wouldn’t I consider it?
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Throughout my life I’ve made some risky decisions, purely based on my instinct: I’ve quit jobs without having another one; I ended relationships apparently perfect trusting when my guts shouted something was wrong; I left my country, knowing that, even with the struggles I’d face, my happiness would be in that destiny.
My instinct never let me down; I can’t say the same thing about my mind.
Of course, my mind is an ally, I don’t act out on every feeling I have. But when it regards decision-making, I listen to what my gut is telling me. And I trust.
If you’re not listening to your guts, I suggest you do. You won’t regret it.
