Call it gut instinct, intuition, feeling it ‘in your bones’, whatever name you give it, I am sure you have all experienced your body trying to tell you something. Or butterflies in your stomach when you’re nervous or your heart beating faster when you’re excited or a dryness in your mouth when you are feeling expectant.
But how often have you listened to it? And how often have you let your brain push the ‘over-ride’ button and pushed away any messages from anywhere from the neck down.
I heard at the weekend that our heads are 15% of our body mass. So why are we so quick to ignore the other 85%, to think that it is less use to us than what comes from our heads? My gut instinct is that the answer lies somewhere in our love of the rational and our desire to understand things and make decisions from a logical place. And I know from personal experience that my body has a lot to say - and is often much smarter and quicker than my head.
So how about having a little fun and spending a day listening to your body and not your head. There might be some interesting results.
And if there are, I’d love to hear about them so please feel free to jump in and add your comments.