How often do you follow you intuition? That intuitive [gut] feeling that says go straight home as opposed to stopping for a drink? Go back to sleep? Call your mother? Find a new job?
With the many distractions of every day life we can forget that we even have an intuitive voice. Sitting in a cubicle all day in front of a computer screen can leave you with a voice screaming inside your head, “find a window. Jump. Save yourself!” Unsure of whether or not that’s a gut feeling or just a crazy voice you stay put. Good choice (I think).
No longer worried with an imminent attack of wild animals, the need to make quick gut decisions that determine whether you eat this week and/or live are of days past. Instead the voices you hear tell you to buy those shoes, shirt, purse, video console or the latest generation of the iPhone because you need them, but is that really your intuitive voice? It’s doubtful, especially after you lose your six hundred dollar iPhone and a few days later you lose your job (didn’t see it coming) and the credit card collectors are now threatening to take you out, “I know where you live freak! Now sell your momma’s oxygen tank, or else!” You find out the hard way that the collection agencies are part of the mobster rehabilitation program.
Don’t believe you have an intuitive voice? Afraid you can’t tap into yours? It’s 2010 and time for a little risk taking in your life (within reason you crazy kids!).
Take the challenge and see what happens and how you feel. For the next one, three, five or ten days (any amount of days but don’t come back and say you lived free for three hours) listen to your gut feeling, your intuitive voice. Come back to this post or my Facebook page, or The Evening Dawns Facebook page and tell us (me and your fellow readers) what you did and how you felt.
There are no challenges without rules because there are too many simple minded folks out in the world and I’m not responsible for any cock-eyed foolishness other than my own. My intuitive voice is telling me is telling me to cover my arse, and so here we go:
The Rules
1.) No breaking the law. (I will not bail you out of jail. Your intuition did not tell you to steal that CD, shoot, maim or kidnap and torture your boss – that was your crazy voice.)
2.) No second or third guessing your intuitive voice. (Those are the voices of fear, lazy, crazy and delusional.)
3.) No inflicting pain on yourself or others. (Even if verbally abusing your boyfriend is not punishable by prison time – it’s just not cool.)
4.) Rid yourself of major distractions. Try tapping into your intuitive voice first thing in the morning when you wake up, usually a quiet time for most of us. (helpful tips – avoid McDonalds commercials, shopping binges, excessive alcohol, drugs, etc…decisions made under the influence are not intuition, those voices are coming from an entirely different place.)
5.) Have fun, live free.
Incredibly useful. I like the way you write. Do you currently have an RSS feed?
A refreshing point of view written in a compelling and interesting way. Nice.