#309 Snippets of wisdom: How to calibrate your intuition.

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Agi Keramidas  0:00  
Hey. Welcome to personal development mastery podcast. And this is another snippets of wisdom episode where I select my favourite most insightful moments from previous episodes of the podcast. Today's snippet of wisdom comes from my conversation with the entrepreneur, Paul Shepard, who, over the years spent over half a million dollars on personal development courses. I chose for you three short snippets from that conversation. And they are all about becoming more aware of our inner knowing, tuning into our body's intelligence for our decision making, and about calibrating our intuition. I hope these snippets are as insightful for you as they were for me.

Paul Shepherd  0:57  
So if this conscious awareness, I started to become more consciously aware of how my body was responding to things, you know, I'd go to a certain event and I wouldn't be as all excited I was that I had this resistance, and I could feel it. But I never had that resistance explained to me, think of it like you're in a car or you're, you're in a guide, they're guiding you constantly. But we're so in our head, right. And here's the lesson, the younger brother told me and quite a few people in our life that you know, get out of your head and get into your heart. And I couldn't comprehend that right now. So in my head from an analytical perspective, and in business and structure, and that's just how I am. But I always had these feelings that I couldn't actually logically make sense of, until I started to test it. And the more I started to listen to that, and tune in, and that was predominately through meditation and contemplation, and having times myself off technology, more time in nature, so I was able to listen to this inner knowing a lot more. And I guess the realisation was that, stop looking for things outside myself. And stop looking for the answers through somebody else. Because all the answers are within. The problem is we can't listen to ourselves because we've been so programmed. And there's so much chatter going on up in the mind. So the minute I could kind of step out of the head, and more into the body, then observe this monkey mind. And the chatter that would go on, the more I started to observe things. So that was when things really changed when I could start to grasp what was taking place that there's okay, there's this identity, called Paul Shepherd, but that's just a note. There's this body, there's the spirit as a soul. And, you know, you look at people like Eckhart Tolle, talk about, you know, what's the thinker? And when you first hear that, you kind of scratch your head saying, what's the thinking? What's he talking about? Right? But when you start to embody that, and you start to have them serve the thoughts going on, you start to think, Okay, so my mind isn't me. All right. Okay. So, if my mind isn't me, then then who am I, and all these questions start to come up. And that's, that was kind of the beginning of a different era, from my personal realm journey. And I started looking within as opposed to looking outside myself for answers. So I asked myself the question, what that painful why there's so much struggle at certain periods of my life, and life's been a roller coaster, and never look back. I was not on my path. You know, I was I was doing something I wasn't supposed to be doing. And that's why I got the bricks over the back of the head. So the biggest thing we can all take away is learning our decision making strategy. What is our decision making? Strategy? How does our body communicate with us listening to our intuition, and that was my biggest takeaway was, get out of the head. Listen to the body, because it always knows best. It holds all the answers for us might not hold the answers on how to, you know, manage your team and, you know, manage your finances in a business perspective, or, you know, navigate a certain challenge and relationship, but it always knows what's best for us. And it's going to show up in ways that is an energetic response as opposed to words. And that's where we need to then learn what that feeling or that response is. So that was my biggest takeaway on that even even today, looking back, you know, there's different techniques, different things we can do to start to calibrate that intuition. You know, so you get this feeling that it happens again and again, but you don't know what it means because there's no translation manual. You can't go to Google Translate and type in this feeling and then get a response. Once it doesn't work like that, so you've got to have a few experiences and test and measure. And then all of a sudden, you've now got this feedback loop and you're like, Ah, right. That's the feeling you can Yeah. And now it's not good. All right? So do I have to give it a definition, not necessarily, just means that I need to avoid that particular situation, because it's not meant for me. So that's been my biggest learning out of all these things. And a body intelligence holds all the answers. If we learn how to tap into that. Stop chasing something outside yourself. Stop showing the next best thing, the next shiny object entrepreneurs, we've got that constantly. I think the biggest lesson for us all is to go within. And you can start that today by downloading meditation, for example, you can start practising some of the examples I mentioned around calibrating your intuition, right. So it could be when it comes to dating, it could be with your colleagues, it could be just watching people walk past the street, it could be walking into a restaurant or a cafe going from Milan, what that person is going through. And if you can have the conversation with them to get some sort of feedback, you can just set up really simple experiments. You know, I wonder, you know, is that person having a good day, based on their energy levels, and you can ask them, Hey, good morning, good evening, you have a good day. And it might jolt them at first. But that's a really simple thing you can do to start to listen to yourself, and trust that. And the more that you practice that, the more you will trust it. And then we trust it, the decisions you are or the better decisions you make, and the faster you'll get on your own path in life, and then you'll know which programmes are right for you.

Agi Keramidas  6:59  
Thank you for tuning in, you can listen to the full conversation in episodes 107 108. The link is in the show notes. And I also have a free and useful resource to share with you a curated catalogue of the 10 best episodes of the podcast in three main categories of life. So the top 10 episodes about money the top 10 about health and the top 10 about mastering your personal development. To get this free ebook, go to personal development mastery podcast.com/top 10 You will also find the link in the show notes until next time, stand out don't fit in

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