Not only is it hard to hear, but its often hard to follow.
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Updated 6 years ago,January 29, 2019
Listen to your gut.
Weve all gotten that advice at some point.
Iwan Shimko
And its never for small, easy decisions either.
Oh no its reserved for the big ones… the scary ones… the ones with real consequences.
Theres no instruction manual for it.
It never starts with, This is your gut speaking.
Ive gotten this advice more times than I can count.
Well… that never happened.
To root it out with the hopes of giving it a louder voice.
I thought about it a lot trying to be logical and level-headed and not make a rash decision.
(Something I may or may not have a history of doing.)
And in my thinking, I would catch myself talking myself into one choice and out of the other.
Like I was arguing with myself.
And then it hit me what exactly am I arguing against?
Who am I trying to reason with?
When I realized my thinking things through was actually a debate.
Your gut is also referred to as intuition.
It is feeling rather than reasoning.
And thats what makes it so elusive.
It doesnt answer to pros/cons lists or play the what if game.
It doesnt speak the same language as logic or fall down to fear.
And while all the thinking in the world wont reach it… maybe reasoning will reveal it.
Maybe our internal arguments are arrows aimed at our intuition.
Maybe sometimes it is only through fighting our brain that our gut finds a voice.
Because it doesnt care about the consequences.
Its looking out for one person and one person only you.
It has the 30,000 ft view of your life and aims to keep you moving in the right direction.
Those arent your guts responsibility… those are matters of the heart and mind.
And I think thats why its so easy to miss or purposely ignore our gut.
Because the road it leads us down is often difficult.
How do you stand up for something that doesnt sit on solid ground?
Because it isnt logical.
Its deeper than that.
It is a quiet knowing… a silent trust.
It doesnt argue; it only whispers.
And the only thing you have on your side is time.
For only time will reveal the reasons that others will understand.
So yes, listening to your gut comes with consequences alright.
You may be judged.
You may be misunderstood.
You may be heading down a messy road.
