Comments on: Listen To Yourself

By: Respectable Reviews

Respectable Reviews — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:57:54 +0000

Great Article Tim!
Sometimes we just somehow have to listen in to our intinct instead of our minds. Just how it goes listen with our hearts instead of our minds. Sometimes it can be very difficult, even though I find this hard you find there is a deeper feeling inside you that is worse when we try to analyse.

By: Raunnie

Raunnie — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:01:31 +0000

This article has been really helpful. Today I didn’t go to this temp job because I had a bad feeling about it, right from the moment it was assigned to me three days ago. I knew where it was, and how to get there (which are fears I have when I am going to a new place by transit) and yet something was nagging at me all weekend long and I could not put my finger on it. I was up all night worrying as well. I felt much calmer after I called in and told them I would not be able to make it.
This is a tough issue because you cannot let fear stop you from doing things and yet when there is a powerful feeling that it is not a good idea, it is hard to ignore those feelings.

By: Sharon Wilson

Sharon Wilson — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:51:25 +0000

Great advice. People need to listen to their inner voice more.

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By: Laurie

Laurie — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:02:49 +0000

I have all your books and they are all wonderful.

My inner voice talks to me all the time, although the drugs are helping. he he he.

I listened to my intuition when I started my business and it has gone really well. I try not to dismiss it. It has helped me more times than not.

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By: Melissa

Melissa — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:00:16 +0000

People laugh at me when I tell them I “just know” something, but 99% of the time, it’s right. The other 1% is paranoia trying to override my unconscious mind. lol

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By: Michael Panebianco

Michael Panebianco — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:55:11 +0000

I am forever fascinated by my intuition. It creates battles in my brain that force me to learn, investigate, contradict, and challenge. In the flying business I find myself getting a “feel” quite often without consciously knowing why. The “feel” forces me out of my comfort zone and into action to align my reality with a gut feeling, or put it to rest. In safety related operations we operate on this gut feeling all the time.

Daniel Goleman covers much of the science and social conversion of this discussion in his Emotional Intelligence series also.

Another great read Tim.

By: Tim Brownson

Tim Brownson — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:35:02 +0000

@ Stephen – I can definitely agree with the background vs. foreground analogy. I think that is a good way of describing it.

@ Tracy – This is where it can get tricky and this is where the practice comes in handy.

First and foremost, a fight or flight response is something different altogether. Not that I’m necessarily saying that is what you’re talking about, but I think we should separate the different states out.

An underlying anxiety will often mask our true feelings and that is maybe what is going on here. That is very common in my experience and it can be the thing that stops us pushing through on occasions.

IOW, we don’t set up our own business because we’re worried it will fail. Our ‘intuition’ may be saying “Go for it!” but it can’t be heard above the rest of your body screaming “Holy shit, I’m scared, let’s get outta here!”

Hope that wasn’t too technical for you ;-)

@ Alex – That’s interesting. Is this a case of listening to our hearts? Hm, I’d never thought of it that way, but I see what you mean.

@ Hilary – I’ve read it (or rather listened to the unabridged version) 3 times and it’s a great introduction to rapid cognition or as Gladwell calls it, thin slicing.

My favorite story was probably the Firefighter that thought he had ESP because he pulled his men out of a burning room just as the floor collapsed. Then on reconstructing they realized he’d just compiled about 5 different signals at an unconscious level and followed his intuition.

@ Cathy – I’m actually not sure that Society discourages us, although I have to admit I’d never thought of it before. I’ll tell you for why, because some of the really successful people are great at doing this. I bet you Donald Trump has a really strong sense of intuition. I’d love to hear if you disagree.

By: Cathy McCann

Cathy McCann — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:01:25 +0000

Great article! I think that our society discourages us from listening to our intuition. I agree with Tracy about recognizing intuition by the strength of the feeling. Intuition has an emotional response attached to it that helps us differentiate it from logical reasoning. For me, meditation helps to stop the chatter that can drown out my natural intuition.

Thanks for the awesome post!