Comments on: Trusting Your Gut

By: Love

Love — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:13:40 +0000

Read “The Alchemist” for insight into following your heart and how tricky and rewarding this can be.

By: Justin

Justin — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 03:12:03 +0000

Or he?
haha sorry

By: Justin

Justin — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 03:11:34 +0000

Maybe she said the answer in her question

By: Kitty Johnson

Kitty Johnson — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:21:35 +0000

In reply to Clayton Bramlett. It occurs to me that the other people involved have to trust their gut(s) too. We are supposed to develop resources within ourselves that we can turn to when our gut wants unequivocally to be with someone or something that is moving away. I think.

By: Christine Matteson

Christine Matteson — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:55:49 +0000

In reply to Chetna.

“It’s not about mind, heart, body”.
yes, that’s what I was saying. The concept of wise mind is an integration of intellect, emotion, and intuition.
(just to clarify..)

By: Vidya

Vidya — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:27:43 +0000

If you feel that you experienced inner growth from this experience, what’s there to regret? Feeling upset at losing someone you love is only natural – it would not be appropriate for you to feel any other way. Do you think you can let yourself have that feeling? I totally get where you are. I’ve been going through a similar situation recently. I know for sure, I’m better from having had the experience in my life. I feel its better to have loved and surrendered to the love than not having loved that way before. This tells me I’m capable of having the same experience in my life again. Allow yourself to have the full 360 on your experience and I’m sure you will discover new things about yourself. I like to journal and meditate when I dont feel centered….perhaps this is something that will help you as well.

By: Mary Angela

Mary Angela — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:32:34 +0000

Deepak’s answer to this question can be found on http://www.Intent.com

By: julie

julie — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:49:22 +0000

I think our heart can ‘betray us’ because our heart goes towards those we are most comfortable with. Just as a woman who was abused as a child tends to find men who will abuse her as an adult…our hearts go toward what we learned was love as children, even when the love we learned was unhealthy or even dangerous.
In my case, I fell in love with a man (whom I was absolutely crazy about) who was identical to my mother in how he related to me, how he loved me. No wonder I was so taken with him, so comfortable with him. The problem was that my mom didn’t love me well at all. It took me years to understand this. every day of the past five years I’ve meditated on this topic! I don’t know where I’ll go with relationships from here but I do now understand my decisions from the past and have released those many issues, the issues given to me from my childhood.
One of the steps I took to release my heart so that I could make different decisions in the future was meditation. Meditating in many forms.
I’m sure Chopra made a mistake when he hit his enter key and will respond tomorrow or later on.

By: Chetna

Chetna — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:01:40 +0000

No one is perfect. No one is pain free. the difference is what you do with your pain. Whether you let it affect you or you affect it.Its not about mind heart body, its abt all of them. Start with syncing the mind body and soul. your pain is associated with fear. Think of all the things you are fearful of and write abt them, whatever comes you your mind for 15 min , download it on paper or computer.

Then from now one, do the same work for each event or person that triggers the pain/fear in you. Take responsibility of your pain. Look at it from 3rd person view. What do you see?

then accept and love yourself as you are. Listen to the way you talk to yourself and others. Improve your communication. Dont think much. Live and laugh every moment.

If you are not happy do something abt it. Chopra says, fear is like the fog, it wont clear in one shot, but you will cruise through it and find your way. Have faith.

By: eturk

eturk — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:49:23 +0000

I can appreciate their pain! Smooth-sailing & pain free only means we are on a path without pain, so far. Pain is an external condition, which is transient, and passing. Consider Jesus or Buddha. Both had pain, but did not suffer. The pain was part of their awakening. Consider Lance Armstrong, who realized that cancer helped him lose the weight he couldn’t lose so he could win the Tour, 7 times. Even that winning was simply for his path of awakening people about cancer. Wayne Dyer now has leukemia and sees it is part of his path as he has been talking most of his life about healing from illness.

If our purpose is to be comfortable, we’ll think we’re off that path when there is pain. If our purpose is to awaken, to learn about real love, then there will be challenge. Imagine a football game with no challenge. Easy going on both sides. Life expands because of challenge. Pain is natural. Suffering, mental clinging and aversion, is not natural.

It usually all makes sense at the end of the movie! All heroes have something happen to them that awakens who they really are. The beauty is the rest of the movie is hidden from us so we get to enjoy the discovery. Can we curious and open-hearted just like when we sit in the theater KNOWING the hero is being supported to win…?

By: Christine Matteson

Christine Matteson — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:43:51 +0000

I’ve gone with my heart, my gut, and my head and any configuration of these. I agree that results were both good and bad. I don’t think we can avoid pain, it helps us grow. Sometimes our unconscious leads us toward the pain for reasons unknown to us at that time only to later be an enlightening force leading us to higher consciousness.
I think the “gut” is different than the “head” in terms of “ways of knowing”. In dialectical behavioral therapy, there is rational mind, emotional mind, and wise mind. Wise mind is a combination of both rational and emotional mind as well as intuition (or what I think of as gut instinct).
I think learning to live from “wise mind” and act in accordance with wise mind is what yields the highest level of consciousness.
But…I could be wrong, I’m just “spit-balling” here. lol.
Chris

By: Debbie Bridge

Debbie Bridge — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:22:15 +0000

I have gone with and against my heart; with and against my gut instinct. The results-both good and bad. Life continues. No real answers here.

By: Felecia

Felecia — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:08:06 +0000

I believe in trusting your gut. I think the issue is not trusting your gut but knowing exactly what notions have been placed there to provide you with that response. I had to learn the hard way that no matter where you end up, you led yourself there through your intentions. Now you have to live with it or change it.

By: Clayton Bramlett

Clayton Bramlett — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:06:19 +0000

This was a great questions, however, the response was not addressed?