Trust your gut.
Do you?
Do you trust your gut and consider yourself intuitive? We all are, to some extent.
After all, neuroscientists estimate that in the time your Conscious Mind processes 50 bits of information your Subconscious Mind can process 50 million bits of information. And all that processing demands to be heard.
A fun research project that was exploring how well our Subconscious Mind’s reflect who we are was conducted a few years back. There were two phases to this research project.
The first was simply a set up for the second; as reward for working on the first phase the participants were ushered into a large room where the walls were covered with full-sized movie posters, some current, some classic, and the participants got to choose one to take home.
One half of the participant group was given a clip board with scoring sheets as they entered the room and were told to analyze each poster, to write down what they liked and what they didn’t like about each one. They were allowed to choose their favorite.
The other half of the group were simple told to enter the room and choose the poster they wanted.
Six months later the researchers called the participants and found that the group that analyzed each poster before choosing showed a high level of dissatisfaction with their choices while the group that relied on their Subconscious Minds were very satisfied with their choices.
Our Subconscious is constantly relating, looking for patterns, finding new juxtapositions, mining your full and tremendous storage of experiences and knowledge. And often it leads you to your true choice.
You can prompt your Subconscious Mind when you are stuck making a tough choice between two options. Flip a coin. Make one choice Heads, the other Tails, and if you are pleased with the coin flip your Subconscious Mind is in accord. If you aren’t, then it’s telling you to choose the other option.
Trust your gut!
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