Living purposely from the Gut.

Well, hello dear reader. It’s been a while. Today I thought I’d do some jotting about a topic that I’ve always felt shrouded in mystery. Intuition.

My dear friend Lindsay, founder of Peace with PDA has launched a new channel of teachings which invite the inquisitive person, to live from a place that listens to the language of our gut. In this post I am going to attempt to put into words, how I translate Lindsays messages and wisdoms and add a bit of my own thought stuff, questions and ponderings. Everything is connected.

Linsday teaches with her spoken words, visual body language, encouraging voice and tuned senses on screen. I love learning this way, but when I translate, I like to write, find the written word to convey with feelings and emotions which then embeds the information for me and helps me to share it with others. I’m hoping that in this piece, I can add another layer to the topic of gut intuition and tempt you guys to start a Gut Led Life. Living from the inside out rather than the outside in!

The most interesting discovery I made recently is that some people do not have an inner monologue going on in their heads, that chatty voice that sometimes never shuts up! Those that do not have that are reported to be shocked to learn that others do and vice versa.

I invite you, dear reader, to look up this amazing discovery called Anendophasia. It blows a lot of presumptions out of the water, and I’m very interested to know if both types, are still able to have a relationship with their gut intuition regardless of whether they can hear the chat or not. From a quick bit of reading, it is guessed that the split could be as close as 50%. I’m going to ask the next 10 people I speak to if they have an inner dialogue going on! I would love to know how the autistic person falls into these categories. Perhaps that is a study for the future..

I personally have a constant fellow chatting within myself and cannot imagine that voice not being there! Infact, sometimes it’s so bloody noisy that I have to ask it to stop over thinking and pestering me. On the extreme end of the spectrum, my daughters OCD is likely an inner thought machine that has gone rouge and can’t turn itself off or satisfy itself that there is no present danger. I’ve often had difficulty deciphering whether my inner voice is my higher self or is it a chatty thought machine splurging out anything and everything it can as I go about my day to days? I’m hoping that with some guidance from Lindsay, I can begin to differentiate between my gut feelings/ intuitive knowing and my thoughts, which can often come from a place of fear and anxiety. I know I am very intuitive and I’ve always been able to “Just know things” but there is a lot of noise in-between, so I’m keen to learn more.

The gut/ brain axis, on a physiological level, is a connection that runs between the two organs, and each is equally important in the running of our physical bodies, and minds, using a highway through our nervous system, the brain and the gut communicate to keep everything working as it should. On a nonphysical level, it is my belief, that the gut is an additional place where we can operate from. If our mind is tricking us, or information is too overwhelming, too much, if the facts don’t add up, our gut is where we can access a higher guidance, one that doesn’t need a fact check, it just knows. I’m already thinking that this could be a useful tool for OCD, ideas for another post perhaps.

Most of us have likely heard sayings such as, “Trust your Gut” “What does your gut tell you?” “I could feel it in my gut” ‘I had a gut feeling this would happen” “I just knew it” but what does that actually mean? And how can we become closer to those sayings when it comes to everyday choices, experiences and interactions?

What is the benefit of working with intuitive feelings and messages and how can we strengthen our innate messages with confidence?

Thoughts and reasoning are so very layered with our upbrings, social awareness, experiences, traumas, other people’s advice and especially, information overload. The layers and layers can cloud our judgements and drive our responses, handing important life choices over to others rather than trusting what we really want or need. So how about we tune in and just start with noticing and becoming aware of just how much we make a decision? What to eat, what to wear, where to go, how to do this and that. Are we living for ourselves or others?

Well, I’m going to begin to try and answer those questions with Lindsays tip for the day and then delve into her other teachings.

‘Lindsay invites us to -Ask yourself some yes or no questions and feel into how you physically feel the answer, as opposed to sensibly think. What sounds did your gut make when you asked?

Yes or No?

Instead of waiting for thought to answer, let’s see how the gut feels about it. Can you feel something? What sounds did you make when you felt it?

As an example, I decided to tune out of the normal radio station that I have on (golden oldies) I moved the frequency and on popped a totally new sound that I wouldn’t normally listen to, and I asked my gut, Hi gut, pleased to meet you, do you like this music?

YES! was the response, I smiled and my hands were tapping the steering wheel. My sound was hmmm, my gut felt a joyous wobble.

I re tuned and a new song came on. I asked the same question, Hello gut, what do you think?

I laughed out loud. NO! said my gut. The laugh came before the No, the no came from a knowing, not a thought. I’m going to spend the rest of my day asking my gut questions and making it my new trusty friend. I think noticing is the first step and hopefully I will get more of the hang of it the more I practice. I hope that with so much noise and confusion going on in the outside world, I can use these new techniques to find an inner peace and confidence. I’m looking forward to learning more about living a gut led life. I will hand you over to Lindsay for many more tips, teachings and examples of how this can be nurtured. See you again soon, I just know it! 😉

https://www.youtube.com/@mygutledlife

PS, I’d love to hear if you have an inner dialogue? !