Oprah talks about her gut feelings.<\/p>\n
Women are supposed to have intuition.<\/p>\n
But then, we are also ‘over-emotional.’ We are prone to burst into tears at certain times.<\/p>\n
So, the problem with ‘gut’ and intuition is that I don’t always know if I am over-reacting.<\/p>\n
How do you learn to listen to your gut? My gut doesn’t speak too often. Usually, there is enough ‘there’ there to hear what is being said.<\/p>\n
But this week my gut was speaking. I had an overwhelming sense that something was not right.<\/p>\n
I was travelling. I often feel a little apprehensive. I don’t mind flying, but I often feel like I might have forgotten somethng.<\/p>\n
The feeling persisted. I got to Atlanta, and I was tired. I thought, “Oh it must be jetlag.”<\/p>\n
And it was that time of the month.<\/p>\n
And it was humid…and this was wrong..and that other thing was not right…<\/p>\n
By the end of the second day there, I was trying to analyze myself. Thinking, “What is wrong? What is wrong with me<\/em>?”<\/p>\n I love travel. I love it. How could I suddenly not be loving this trip? What was wrong with me<\/em>?<\/p>\n I tried doing things that usually comfort me. I had a hot bath. I had a book. I watched Law & Order. I called Chris and vented.<\/p>\n Yes, I ate chocolate.<\/p>\n Chris was incredible, as he usually is. I had devolved into “I don’t know what’s wrong with me. Maybe I really do need to go to the doctor…or a chiropracter…I feel so tense! Something is wrong.”<\/p>\n “Yeah,” he said. “You’re really having a tough time. This isn’t like you.”<\/p>\n It took me the whole trip, a trip of several days…feeling very very uncomfortable…to realize that it wasn’t me. It wasn’t <\/em>me!<\/p>\n It was OUTSIDE of me. The situation I was in was kind of complicated, but in the long run it became utterly clear that the whole trip my gut was screaming RED ALERT and I just couldn’t hear it.<\/p>\n I know now exactly what the problem is.<\/p>\n I hope I have learned how to better interpret gut-ese.<\/p>\n Perhaps I will remind Chris that that is one of the possibilities. He can help me remember by asking, “Is this a message from your gut?”<\/p>\n I don’t know that I could have fully realized what was wrong before I had finished my trip. I knew something was wrong. But maybe I could have realized that it wasn’t me<\/em>. It would have been nice to know it wasn’t me<\/em> spinning out of control, it was the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oprah talks about her gut feelings. Women are supposed to have intuition. But then, we are also ‘over-emotional.’ We are prone to burst into tears at certain times. So, the problem with ‘gut’ and intuition is that I don’t always … Continue reading
\nI love learning new things? How could I not be paying attention during a class?<\/p>\n