Hmmmm...how should I choose?

This is a question that we ask ourselves everyday. From choosing what to eat for breakfast, deciding what to wear, what to prioritize and even when to go to bed. We ask ourselves questions that always seem to task us. These decisions may seem trivial, but there are other decisions we need to make such as where to go on holiday, what school to go to or which school to send our children to. How to handle a disgruntled customer and smooth over a stressful situation. Then we have decisions like, do I get married this year, should we invite that unpredictable uncle to our wedding (we love him, but don't trust that he won’t keep away from the rum punch and pee his pants), which job to take, which city too move to.

Then we have the larger decisions like, who do I marry, do I leave my partner, do I take this drug, change careers, have a baby.

Those bigger decisions are usually (not always) contemplated on a deeper level to the others because the consequences of a larger decisions impact our lives in deeper ways, and the bigger the decision, the greater the impact the consequence will have.

So how do we make decisions? We are guided to make decisions by our senses, all five senses that we use daily and unconsciously, our cognitive mind and also by intuition which is unconscious. It is the intuition piece which is the most powerful and which we seldom listen to.

In fact we as humans are so cut off from ourselves that we don’t connect to our intuition. We even go so far as to actively ignore it when it is trying to tell us something, so we switch it off. When we are cut off from it, we are relying solely on our cognitive functioning. It is through intuition that we can make decisions, not based out of fear, but out of love and a grounded sense off knowing on an instinctual level, what is right for you and what is not. Have you ever made a decision not based on your own needs, but for someone else (these are fear based decisions) and at the time it felt ‘off’ and you don’t know why? It was because you were not connected to yourself and didn’t access your own power.

So when it comes to making decisions large or small, make them based on ALL senses, don’t ignore that (not so) ‘little’ voice. Open up access to your intuition, trust and become conscious of your ‘gut’ because it, you, are far smarter than you think you are. Then when you do this you will see that life will flow.

S xx