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[EP30] When should I trust my gut? · AWAKEN with Dylan Ayaloo: Inner Work, Healing, Yoga & Meditation

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  So the question is, when should I trust my gut?
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  How do I know if it's genuine gut feeling or just my doubts and fears coming out to play?
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  So my answer to that would be, it's a balance of trusting your gut or heart, you could say.
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  Trusting the intelligence of your mind, trusting the intelligence of your body,
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  and not ignoring your connection to higher intelligence.
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  So if you're around this body of work, then that shouldn't sound strange to you.
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  if you're listening to the recording or the podcast, then maybe if it's a new concept, then
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  I'd invite you to consider it, right? And what I've learned from my experience of doing this work
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  is that the body has its own intelligence. The mind has its own intelligence. You know,
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  what we call the gut or the heart has its own intelligence. And they all have a place,
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  a time and a place. And for certain situations, you know, if I'm doing something that requires
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  the intelligence of my mind or my brain, then that's what I should be using. And that's normally
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  when I need to solve a problem, right? Because this is a supercomputer built to solve problems.
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  It's really good at, you know, coming up with ideas and solutions to solve problems, right?
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  And then there's a mix of the intelligence of the heart or the gut, as you say, right? So,
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  you know, you could say an intuition and, you know, the intelligence of the body and the
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  our connection to higher intelligence, right?
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  Which is not outside,
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  even though I'm pointing out,
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  it's actually within us.
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  And it's a balance, right?
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  Of listening and consulting
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  all these faculties of intelligence
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  that is within us.
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  Minds, the heart, the gut,
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  the body,
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  and infinite intelligence.
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  I don't believe it's one or the other.
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  Generally, it's a good idea
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  our different faculties, right? And then sit and consider it and come to a decision,
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  not just sit with it and never make a decision. Because indecision, as I've said before,
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  it's also a decision. And the choices we make gives us the results that we get or have already
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  gotten. And if the results that we have gotten don't work, then you can go back and reverse
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  that you made or can make to give you a different set of results if that's what
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  you want how do I know if it's genuine gut feeling or just my doubts and fear
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  coming out to play this one so far what I've worked out my measure for it and I'm
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  just sharing my measure for it is that it's hard to kind of work it out in the
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  mind right because it's like I'm trying to get the mind to think feeling because
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  intuition element, you could say I'm not feeling. So thinking, feeling, I realize doesn't work.
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  So rather than trying to think feeling, how about I go into feeling the feeling? And a different
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  place for me to feel into things is my body. Because the body is far more tangible, you could
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  say, than me trying to connect my emotions through my mind, as in thinking, feeling.
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  So the body, because it's connected, like mind, the body, the heart is all connected.
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  You can't separate it.
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  One will reflect on the other.
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  So if I'm in fear, fear response tends to show up in sensations in the body.
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  So if I'm stuck in my head, right, or I'm stuck in some emotions, some difficult emotions, let's say, or let's say fear, then you want to switch to a different modality, you know, the body, the physical body.
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  And quite simply, like we do in our meditation, if you scan the body, you start to pick up sensations, right, as in like feel sensations in the body.
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  sensations of fear and doubt show up differently in the body to trust let's say which is kind of
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  what you're saying here like how do i know if it's a genuine gut feeling right a gut feeling
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  has a very different set of sensations in my physical body to fear like a fear response
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  Fear generally tends to show up for me as a tightness, as a restriction, a constriction, like muscles tensing up.
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  And obviously, I'm exaggerating here with this motion, like squeezing in shoulders and arms and gritting the teeth.
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  And like all the muscles are kind of tense, right? Face, shoulders, arms or wherever they are.
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  and trust tends to show up, you know, like openness in the body, meaning the muscle groups that were
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  maybe tense when I'm fearful, they're relaxed. Like my face, my jaws, my shoulders, my chest,
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  my heart, belly, you know, like things are relaxed and it tends to show up in the body.
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  This is why it's another reason why it's so powerful to work on awareness in the body.
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  Because the body is always speaking in sensation.
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  It is giving us clues.
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  It's showing because it's connected to the emotion.
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  It's connected to the heart.
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  It's connected to the mind.
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  If I'm thinking fearful thoughts, I'm going to feel emotions of fear.
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  and the body's going to reflect sensations of that or doubt, let's say, like you said.
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  So I tend to switch into, right, like, okay, I can't track it, so let me go to the body instead.
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  Switch modalities, I guess is what I'm saying.
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  And that has given me a clue.
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  And not only switch modalities to track it, but also if I'm too much in my head
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  or I'm too deep in some emotions and I can't get out of it,
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  example, I'll go to the body. So not only track it in sensation and go, okay, I'm in fear, I'm in
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  doubt, I'm in worry, right? Like I'm in anxiety right now. Use your breath and body connection
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  to move that energy through, to move that emotion through. So let's say if I'm feeling anxious about
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  something, right? It's like switch your breathing. Maybe the breathing would be anxious breath is
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  like shallow breath, short, sharp breath. So switch it to deep breathing. Or there's tightness
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  in the body and just kind of feel stuck. Okay, so maybe move through some postures,
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  like stretch out. Or just do one or two postures. You don't have to be on the mat.
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  Sometimes I'll just do, I'm in my house, I'm just like, do a forward fold and just release the
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  tension in my back, in the back of the legs. Switch into deep breathing. Or do a lunge.
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  hand on a counter, kitchen counter or something, right? Or a chair. And then just do a lunge.
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  Do it on both sides or do a twist. I just use whatever's around you. Do a little stretch to,
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  you know, do a bit of breathing. Or if you're in the office or at a meeting room, then I don't know,
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  go to the bathroom or something and do a stretch or go out for a walk, right? And just improvise.
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  But if you're in an environment where you can't and you have to, you know, keep it together,
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  then you can do it with breath and shifting the breath the depth of the breath by switching your
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  breath to deep breathing it'll switch you out of fear doubt worry you know all those kind of
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  high tension emotions to a much more open relaxed state open resourceful state where you can tap
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  into your resources internal resources and probably make better decisions because you're able to think
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  with more clarity.
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  So,
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  when should I trust my gut?
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  I'd say all the time.
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  But also don't ignore
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  the intelligence of your head
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  because there are times
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  when you need to
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  use the intelligence of your mind.
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  We are not here to fight
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  the intelligence of the mind.
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  It's not evil.
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  There is a time and place for it.
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  To use the intelligence of the mind,
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  to use the intelligence of the body,
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  And don't forget, it's more a reminder for me as well,
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  don't forget your connection to the divine,
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  to infinite intelligence.
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  We forget often when we're in our heads,
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  we're climbed into our heads,
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  we're going around and around in circles,
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  we're disconnected, we disconnect ourselves
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  from infinite intelligence.
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  You know, it's like I've said it in,
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  well, maybe not so recent programs,
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  but like the in-person awaken, I think in December and things like that, it started to talk about
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  the difference between artificial intelligence and higher intelligence. And it's kind of ironic
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  that we have created artificial intelligence so that we can just go and access it anytime and ask
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  it all sorts of questions. And yes, it's gotten clever and cleverer, but it's still not as clever
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  as infinite intelligence, the intelligence that creates all things and no things, hide the universe.
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  and that we have full access, free, high speed, instant connection
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  to this intelligence and it's available all the time.
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  Yet, when we're stuck in our heads and we're limited to thinking like,
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  you know, this is why I'm this object and I'm trying to make it
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  in this crazy thing called life.
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  Yeah, it's kind of cute that we create artificial intelligence.
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  Yeah, it's useful.
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  But, you know, don't forget like you're connected to infinite intelligence.
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  and you can consult that faculty of intelligence as well,
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  the highest intelligence.