Do you have "spidey" senses? Yep. You do...we all do.
Whether you call them "spidey" senses or more commonly...instincts, how are you when it comes to noticing them and following their guidance?
Do you trust your instincts?
I'd like to think I do and a recent experience had me questioning myself.
Keeping a long story short, my husband and I were out at a busy food court, and his wallet was pickpocketed right as we sat eating our food. You might be wondering...how the hell did that happen Ann?
How indeed.
Here's the thing, I was feeling off when I saw an interaction happening behind my husband. I don't know if this ever happens to you, but I get kind of jumpy, I knew something was weird, but I couldn't put my finger on it. My spidey senses were on high alert.
It wasn't until, maybe 15 minutes later when we were walking through the mall, my husband put his hand in his pocket and his wallet was missing...I knew right away...that's why I felt off. 20/20 hindsight, right?
So what happened?
There's so much that can happen in the periphery that we miss. But the body doesn't lie. It's a storehouse of information. It also has super keen senses that we don't even understand. For you...it might be a gut feeling, or a feeling in your heart.
*Neuroscience tells us that intuition is a very real process where the brain makes use of past experiences, along with internal signals and cues from the environment, to help us make a decision. This decision happens so quickly that it doesn't register with our conscious mind.
The enteric nervous system that regulates our gut is often called the body's “second brain". This extensive network uses the same chemicals and cells as the brain to help us digest and to alert the brain when something is amiss.*
Intuition is sensing something. It’s information.
Is your gut always right? Not necessarily, and still, the information is always worth considering.
If you're not tuning into those senses, you're missing out on a storehouse of information that's there for you to grab, and not all of it is "bad". It can serve as a guide for you. It's a "knowing" but you have to pay attention to it.
So let's check in with you. How are you with trusting your spidey senses?
Are you ready?
Let's get to it...
Your challenge...
Pay attention! What are you missing that's just beyond your grasp?
For this week, really start to notice when you get a hit of information just before you're about to make a decision. Apparently that's when your senses kick in...nano seconds before your brain does, and that's truly where the gold is.
That's what confident people are able to tap in to. Learning to question those feelings rather than ruling them out. Treating them as information that's worth considering.
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Cheers,
Ann
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3845678/
Do you have “spidey” senses? Yep. You do…we all do.