Do you suffer from "decision paralysis?" I have and it's painful. It's that horrible feeling of being stuck, unable to move, afraid to make a choice. It's taken some practice but I have learned how to make decisions in a way that makes me feel better about myself and the decision itself. In fact, I've done so much work around this area of my life I've actually experienced a decision making me! In this week's episode, I talk about the many spokes in the modern day wheel of decision making. They include intuition, the heart and a willingness to change your mind. (What? I'm allowed to do that?!!)
We all have intution. As the great philosopher, Dr. Ernest Holmes said, "Intuition is not a product of the intellect...it is a thing in itself. Instinct is intuition acting unconsciously; intuition is instinct elevated ot the point of self-awareness. They are identical." But like any muscle, intuition must be strengthened and it can only be strengthened when we acknowledge it, welcome it and consciously cultivate our relationship with it in our everyday living. How do we do that? We talk to it, we invite it into our problems, we ask it to show us the way when a decision has to be made. We ask it to help us when we can't "figure it out." Then we listen and trust that what follows is that inner intelligence that knows communicating directly to us.
In this historic moment when everything that we've built our life upon is crumbling, falling out from underneath us, it is important that we stop asking the past to inform us of the future. We've never been here before and the mind can only use what it knows which produces a very limited landscape. The heart however, along with our intuition are designed for such a moment as this. When you add the language and way of the heart and intuition to your mind as a process of knowing, you have a balanced and inclusive formula for decision making that produces a personal methodology that helps you move forward with greater confidence.
Come join me in the laboratory of life this week and let's take a deep dive into this wonderful topic!
A 2020 Winter Solstice Special
A New Big Beginning is Upon Us - Episode 30
The Deconstruction of the Old World Order - Episode 29
Dealing with Change: From Habits to Practices - Episode 28
What COVID is Teaching Us - Episode 27
Chaos, Change and COVID - Episode 26
Living with Uncertainty - Episode 24
Confusion as a Strategy - Episode 23
Confusion is a High State of Consciousness - Episode 22
Inter-generational Racial Healing with Kokayi Nosakhere - Episode 21
Have We Lost Our Minds? - Episode 20
The Findings - #18 Life can be easy.
The Findings - #17 The New Design for Living.
The Findings - #16 There's a new measurement of success.
The Findings - #15 Be willing to change.
The Findings - #14 We've got to do the turnaround.
The Findings - #13 We're afraid to feel.
The Findings - #12 We’ve trained to look outside of ourselves.
The Findings - #11 The mind has taken us collectively as far as we can go.
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