(00:10): [inaudible]
(00:11): How do you keep fear-based thoughts from interfering
with what your intuition wants you to do?
So before I get to answering the question on the fear-based thoughts specifically, let's
just do a little bit of a review on what intuition is.
Okay.
So intuition is studied as a subconscious phenomenon in science, but I don't actually
see it as a subconscious phenomenon.
So intuition to me is a heart phenomenon.
So you can think of intuition as a signal or a ping that you're getting at the level
of your heart center, and then that ping or that download or that information that you
receive at the heart center is then zapped up into the brain and then for further processing.
Okay.
And then thoughts start to come up and you formulate plans and you get to action steps
and all of that.
And then you move on an intuition.
(01:03): Okay.
But initially intuition is very much a heart phenomenon.
So I wanted to get that out of the way.
Now let's get into the actual question, which is how do you, how do you kind of prevent
fear based thoughts from interfering with your intuition?
It's really hard to prevent fear-based thoughts from coming in, because the way that you can
think of this is think of your mind, just as constantly churning thoughts.
Sometimes those thoughts are negative or fear-based and sometimes those thoughts are positive.
Sometimes they're uplifting.
All right.
But the way that you think of your thoughts, think of them, like you would think of a heartbeat.
Okay.
So if I, if I came up to you and I said, you know, can you just stop your heart from beating?
Or can you stop your heart from beating just, uh, 10% of the, of the heartbeats instead
of the rest of the 90%, you wouldn't be able to do that, right?
(01:55): You can't consciously control that.
And so start looking at your mind kind of in the same way.
Uh, the reason that I'm saying this to you is because when you do this, when you start
to view, uh, thoughts with what Buddhists call equanimity, all right, when you start
to view negative thoughts or fear-based thoughts and positive thoughts as all the same, really
they're just thoughts.
It kind of helps you release control and be a little bit more in flow.
You're not controlling of the thoughts.
You're not getting stuck to them.
You're not getting attached to them.
You're just observing them.
And that's really important when it comes to fear-based thoughts.
Fear-based thoughts are nothing more than thoughts that are a little bit fearful and
negative in connotation.
Okay?
But they're still thoughts exactly like positive thoughts, right?
When you detached from them in this way, you start to feel less stressed about things and
you start to feel less controlling.
(02:50): You just let them come up.
And, and you know, one of my favorites, Buddhist teachers Tik, not hon.
Um, he talks about this a lot, um, about observing your thoughts as if they're clouds, just moving
through the sky.
Okay.
You're just observing the clouds pass by.
You're not doing anything about them.
You're just observing them and you're letting them go.
This is a great way to start thinking of a fear-based thoughts is just to not get stuck
on them, to not get stressed out.
When they come up, you just observe them like clouds going through the sky.
That's, that's a first great way to work with fear-based thoughts as you just don't pay
too much attention to them.
And the less attention you pay to them, the less, um, the less attached you're going to
be to them.
And the less attached you are, that means that then the fear and the negative emotions
around those thoughts are also going to start to decrease.
(03:40): Okay.
So that's one way, another way that I really, really love to work with fear-based thoughts,
especially when I first started to do this work was to, um, use a lot of just understanding
self-talk okay.
You have to understand and be very compassionate to the parts of you that generate those fear-based
thoughts.
Okay.
So the parts of you that generate fear-based thoughts are the parts of you that are very
immature.
They're the parts of you that are wounded.
There are the parts of you that are more childish.
Okay.
Those fear-based thoughts and you kind of scarcity thought or fear-based thought or
negative thought is coming more from that image who are part of you that doesn't really
know how big you are, how amazing you are, how multi-dimensional you are your soul.
Doesn't think that way.
Okay.
So it's only the human, more wounded, more immature part of you that thinks that way.
(04:35): And if you start to extend compassion to those
parts of you, you start to understand them a little bit more.
So the way that I like to do that is when I have a fear-based thought come up, I'll
just sit for a little bit.
I'll close my eyes.
Sometimes I like to put my hand on my heart and I'll just say, you know, where is this
thought coming from?
Where is this fear-based thought coming from?
Sometimes it may be coming from the inner child.
Sometimes it may be coming from trauma that I had in the past.
That that was kind of stuck in me and started to generate these fear-based thoughts that,
that are now coming in and hampering my intuition.
But I ask these really gentle questions with a lot of self love and a lot of compassion.
And when I do that, when I start to understand the parts of me that are wounded, that have
these, that generate these fear-based thoughts, my system starts to calm down.
(05:25): And there's a really cool thing that happens
when my emotions become more neutral.
When the fear starts to dissipate, when the stress starts to dissipate, the thoughts no
longer control me.
Okay.
That's a really, really cool pro tip that I'm going to leave you here.
Is that really what the problem is and what causes us issues when it has to do with intuition.
It's not the thoughts themselves.
It's that the thoughts generate emotions that are really uncomfortable.
So it's thought plus emotion that causes issue the, that you have this self-compassion the
moment that you release your attachment.
The moment that you just observe these thoughts without getting stuck to them, you're going
to notice that the emotion is going to unlink from the thought and the emotion is going
to start to dissipate without emotion.
A negative thought is not threatening at all.
And you'll notice that you have to practice this though, but you'll notice that, okay,
take a nice deep breath flow, observe the negative thoughts.
(06:24): Don't get stuck on them.
Just watch them, watch them like clouds going through the sky.
Take a nice deep breath, understand and be compassionate with the parts of you that are
afraid.
And then at the end of it all, if you have an intuition step and take action towards
that intuition take action towards that intuition, whatever the intuition is, take action toward
it.
The more you do that, the more you're going to challenge that fear.
And the more you step, even in the face of fear, the fear is going to start to dissipate.
All right.
So I hope this helps, uh, just kind of unlink yourself from these fear-based thoughts and
they will start to disintegrate in your life and your intuition is going to get stronger.
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