Brianna Wiest - The Mountain Is You_ Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery (2020)

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runs from your gut to your head, acting as a communication
device to help your system regulate. 6
Your stomach and your mind are inherently connected,
which is why people allude to just knowing something
“deep down” or explain that when they’re upset, they’re
“sick to their stomach” or had a “gut reaction” to something.
What isn’t being addressed is the fact that listening to
your instinct is something that happens in the present
moment. You cannot have an instinct about a future event,
because it doesn’t exist yet. You can have a fear-based or
memory response that you are projecting into the future,
but you cannot instinctively know something about another
person or a future event until it is in front of you.
When you have a “gut instinct” about someone, it is after
interacting with them. When you know whether or not
a job is right for you, it is only after having done it for
a while.
The problem is that we are trying to use our instincts as
fortune-telling mechanisms, our brain’s creative way of
trying to manipulate our body to help us avoid pain and
increase pleasure in the future. But that’s not what happens.
We end up stuck because we are literally trusting
every single thing that we feel instead of discerning what’s
an actual reaction and what’s a projection.