I know a woman who has a handful of\u00a0psychics at the ready. When she\u2019s trying to figure out what to do about\u00a0something, she consults with the first one. If she doesn\u2019t like what the woman has\u00a0to say, she goes on to the next one. And on and on until one of them says what
she wants to hear.<\/p>\n
A friend was telling me about a\u00a0psychic he had just seen. \u201cShe\u2019s amazing,\u201d he said. \u201cShe was right on about\u00a0everything. I asked her if I should stay in my relationship and she said No. I\u00a0feel so relieved. I was torn but now I know what to do. It was worth every\u00a0penny. You really should see her. She\u2019s pretty booked up but I can get you an
appointment. She and I had a powerful connection.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThanks so much,\u201d I said. \u201cI\u2019m glad\u00a0it worked for you but I don\u2019t turn to anyone else for answers any more. I keep\u00a0my own counsel.\u201d<\/p>\n
In my past, I\u2019ve gotten several\u00a0readings from psychics. Back in the early seventies, they\u00a0were all the rage and some of them came highly recommended. They could tell you\u00a0what had happened in your past and what was coming in the future, but none of\u00a0them ever read me correctly. Maybe I just didn\u2019t meet Mr. or Mrs. right. That
happens in romantic relationships so why wouldn\u2019t it happen in psychic ones?<\/p>\n
Whether or not a psychic is\u00a0accurate in seeing the future is not what this blog is about. It\u2019s about\u00a0trusting your gut, no matter what is going on. It\u2019s about turning to yourself\u00a0to see if you have a bad feeling or a good feeling about something or someone. Trying
to trust yourself might end in failure but how else will you learn?<\/p>\n
Decades ago, I was staying with a\u00a0friend who lived in a building on Fountain and Sweetzer Avenues. It was 10:30\u00a0PM and she was out of town. I parked my car and grabbed my keys out of my purse\u00a0when suddenly a bad feeling came over me. I didn\u2019t want to get out of the car.\u00a0I stopped a moment. I had just broken up with a boyfriend and I wasn\u2019t feeling\u00a0so great. That had to be what was behind this negative feeling. I decided to\u00a0ignore it. I refused to let fear run the show.<\/p>\n
The problem was that I was mixing\u00a0up fear and awareness of danger. I got out of the car, put my purse strap on my\u00a0shoulder and I was walking up the street to the building entrance when two men\u00a0came running down the street, heading straight for me. I felt danger and I\u00a0thought I recalled someone saying to look danger straight in the eye. I locked\u00a0eyes with one of them. I saw pure hatred coming off of him and he pulled back\u00a0his arm and punched me hard in the face. I felt my purse slipping off my\u00a0shoulder. I grabbed at my face with my hands as they fled.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t need to go into what\u00a0happened next. I got help. What matters here is that if I had trusted my gut and\u00a0stayed in the car for a few minutes, I might have avoided something that\u00a0created trauma in my life. I\u2019m not suggesting that we always know when\u00a0something bad is coming our way. But I am suggesting that if you\u2019re lucky\u00a0enough to get a warning in your gut, trust it. It\u2019s there for a reason.<\/p>\n
Trusting your gut is the same thing\u00a0as trusting your intuition. When you feel something in your gut, your chest,\u00a0your bones, it\u2019s real. It\u2019s not insecurity or fear like I thought it was when I\u00a0got mugged. It isn\u2019t overthinking. It\u2019s paying attention to your inner compass\u00a0that has led you through your life. You might want to use a wise friend as a
sounding board but you don\u2019t need to ask them what they think you should do.\u00a0Only you know that. It takes courage to remember that you are the authority here\u00a0but when you start trusting yourself, it\u2019ll get easier as you go along.<\/p>\n
When I look back, I see that I have\u00a0trusted people who were not worthy of my trust. The saying goes that you can\u2019t\u00a0know what you don\u2019t know. But you can learn what you don\u2019t know by paying
attention. You can shed light on your blind spots instead of looking to someone\u00a0else to tell you what to do. You can develop the ability to feel what is inside\u00a0you and find the courage to chart your own course. Mentors are wonderful but\u00a0only if they don\u2019t tell you what to do. Their job is to provide a sounding board\u00a0and bring you back to yourself. When I hear someone say, \u201cI know you better\u00a0than you know yourself,\u201d I walk away. No one knows you better than you know\u00a0yourself. You just have to believe what you feel and trust that feeling.<\/p>\n
Ralph Waldo Emerson said, \u201cWhatever\u00a0course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.\u00a0To map out a course of action and follow it to the end requires courage.\u201d<\/p>\n
When you don\u2019t know what to do, you\u00a0don\u2019t have to call a psychic. Take a break. It\u2019s like an incubation period where\u00a0your thoughts are forming and informing your conscience mind. Sometimes the understanding\u00a0comes quickly. Sometimes it comes so slowly, you\u2019re afraid it never will, but\u00a0if you have the patience to wait, you\u2019ll get your reward.<\/p>\n
Johann Goethe said, \u201cAs soon as you\u00a0trust your gut, you will know how to live.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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