Our minds are great collectors of stories about what’s right or wrong for us, good or bad. Most of those stories don’t come from our own experience, but from our cultures, our upbringing, the media.

And many of the stories are fear-inducing, to keep us from stepping out of line – all the things that could go wrong if we do. This is not generally useful to us. It’s the equivalent of saying to a young child, ‘Don’t wobble or you’ll fall off, when they want to walk along a garden wall – they inevitably wobble!

The more useful alternative is to listen to our inner knowing, our gut reaction. Gut reaction is not a myth. We have neuro-transmitters in our guts and in our hearts as well as in our brains, and these are more accurate at identifying what does or doesn’t work for us at this time. This happens before the message gets  sent to our mind and put through the filter of those stories.

You will have felt the bodily reaction when you have a spontaneous ‘yes’ to something, a felling of expansion and lightness. You will also have felt the bodily reaction when you say yes because you can’t put your finger on why not, a feeling of contraction and tightening.

We know our intuition is accurate, yet we let our heads rule, because we’ve been trained to.

So let’s listen more to our bodies instead of our minds, and trust our own intuition. It is so much more useful.