Intuition: Can You Trust Your Gut as an Enneagram 5?
Fives rely on analysis and clarity, but intuition offers something logic can't: a deeper wisdom that defies explanation.
In this episode, we explore what intuition is, why Fives struggle to trust it, and how embracing it can positively influence our lives. We share our personal experiences with intuition, examine how it's different from emotional decision-making, and discuss unconventional theories that stretch our understanding of time and consciousness.
We also dive into the tension between intuition and logic, the creative insights intuition can unlock, and practical ways Fives can learn to tune in and trust themselves more deeply.
IN THIS EPISODE:
๐น Struggling to Trust Intuition โ Why recognizing and trusting intuition is challenging for Fives who value logic and clarity.
๐น Intuition vs. Rationality โ How intuition often feels irrational, causing internal conflict and doubt about decisions.
๐น Fear of the Unexplainable โ How the inability to logically explain intuitive decisions can lead to shame and self-criticism.
๐น Creativity and Intuition โ How intuition fuels creativity, flow states, and spontaneous inspiration.
๐น Retrocausality & Intuition โ A mind-bending theory suggesting intuition might be insights sent from our future selves.
๐น Practical Intuition โ Examples of intuition guiding career decisions and creative endeavors, along with strategies to strengthen intuitive awareness.
๐น Learning to Listen โ Why practicing intuition in small, low-risk situations helps build trust and reduces anxiety over intuitive choices.
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00:00 - Introduction: Trusting Intuition
01:16 - Struggles with Intuition
01:50 - Intuition vs. Rationality
02:35 - Fear of Intuition
03:10 - Intuition in Decision Making
04:43 - Intuition and Emotions
05:27 - Understanding Intuition
07:26 - Flow State and Intuition
08:30 - Creative Intuition
12:40 - Theories on Intuition
13:15 - Retrocausality and Intuition
17:47 - Time and Intuition
32:16 - Practical Intuition
33:50 - Intuition in Career Decisions
49:05 - Conclusion: Embracing Intuition
[00:00:00] So, Cody.
[00:00:01] Yep.
[00:00:03] How often does your intuition tell you that I'm right?
[00:00:10] Almost never.
[00:00:46] So, I don't know about you, Cody, but for me, I took a while to kind of come to grips with my intuition. Yeah. And that I have intuition, and that it's the majority of my decision making process, and that I can trust it. There's a lot in there. Yeah, it's a lot. Yeah Okay, good, let's expand on that
[00:01:20] Yeah, that doesn't that kind of sounds like a little bit of a dream I think for most fives to be able to trust their intuition that much. I don't I don't I mean, I'm I'm getting there I definitely yeah, I have a long way to go. I think that I Was kind of afraid of it of my intuition, uh, for a long time. I think part of it is
[00:01:46] I, I, I sort of belittled myself or maybe shamed myself for making decisions intuitively. Because often they would seem irrational in the moment.
[00:02:05] And I, I, I think that I, I, I was afraid of it because I, when I, when I tried to listen to my intuition, I would often make decisions that didn't make sense like logically.
[00:02:25] Oh, okay. Sure. Which then meant if anyone ever asked me why I made the decision, I couldn't explain it. Okay. Right. So then I would feel like an idiot. Yeah. And, and so I would.
[00:02:40] Either try to ignore my intuition or try to hide the fact that I was making decisions based on my intuition Part of that was when you know when we were in the church Yeah, I just said it was it was it was God's will or God God spoke to me Sure.
[00:03:00] Yeah Definitely. I mean, that brings up a lot of, a lot of things for me, I guess. Yeah, because I kind of always assumed that's what people were meaning when they said that, you know, it's like intuition and God get like easily confused because it feels somehow magical that we're like pulling this, this certainty out of thin air.
[00:03:20] But yeah, I, I get that. And it's often, it's so often just in, in direct conflict with your, Your rationale if you if you think what you're doing doesn't make any sense right if you can't explain it. Yeah
[00:03:34] So do you, I'm curious, when you've made decisions like that, does it almost feel like, sacrilegious, or like, What do you mean? Uh, like, to being a five. Oh. Yeah. Because we were just talking about religion and I was like, wait, what?
[00:03:50] Yeah, for sure, I think that Like, it betrays your five ness? Yeah, like, I feel like, well, I can't make a decision based on feeling. Like, how does that work? Yeah, I don't, it does feel like I, it's almost like my logical side is telling me don't trust that. Like, you don't know where that's coming from.
[00:04:09] You don't know how to, not only can you not explain it, you don't know where the source of it is.
[00:04:13] Therefore, we can't trust that because it could just be, and like, I think also how how often do we as fives, I know that I have you judge other people for being too emotional and making decisions based on emotions, right?
[00:04:25] So it's like, that's what you think intuition is. At least I do. My brain like equates them the same when on an unconscious level, when I'm just thinking about it, I'll think like following intuition is the same as somebody who's making emotional decisions, which is not the same thing. So then how do you distinguish between making decisions based on your feelings and making decisions based on intuition? I mean, I don't know. Sometimes it's really hard to know the difference.
[00:04:57] I think that You can, for me, I can, if I'm making an emotional decision or I feel like maybe emotions that are actually like irrational, I'm just getting too, you know, worked up about a situation and maybe those emotions are affecting a decision, the way that I would find that out is kind of like, like reverse the process, you know, there's a point I think when, if you do it all the time and you're constantly self aware, that sounds a little bit woo woo I think, but like, if you're constantly, looking inward and trying to find ways to grow and it's kind of becomes a regular practice.
[00:05:36] I feel like for me, the longer I've done that and the older I get, the more it's easier for me to tie emotions to decisions or whatever situation that's happening. I could go, okay, well, you know, this thing is definitely causing me to want to go this way. And I can feel that, that, that connection to those emotions.
[00:05:52] And then we, okay, well, maybe we should just hold off for a second. But I mean, like, to explain it in a logical way, I have no idea how my brain does that. Like, I do know the difference, though, if that makes sense. Like, I think we do, if we really think about it. Like, intuition is like writing a song that just, you can write in 10 minutes and it just happens, and you're like, wow, I have no idea where that came from, but it's amazing and I love it, right?
[00:06:15] Like, that's, for me, that's the same type of feeling, where it's like this deeper, you know, deeper. Like I can see why they say you know why they call it a gut feeling it feels like it's way deeper It's like beyond your emotions. It's like inherited wisdom or something that's like informing a decision that feels like it was just you know, beam down to you from the heavens.
[00:06:37] And it just feels like a, and almost sometimes it feels like a holy moment. You know, it's just like, wow, this was, this was something special. And it was much heavier, this decision that I feel, or this certainty that I feel about something. And I feel like it's same, the same when like you're creating something and it just like comes to you all of a sudden, I feel like it's probably a similar process in the brain.
[00:06:56] So it's what you're saying then is it's basically a part of flow state. Yeah. Yeah. Do we all know what that is? I, I mean, you can explain what is flow state. Uh, I don't remember the biological part of it, but it's essentially the idea that that state that you get into when You are so present in the moment that stuff just sort of flows through you.
[00:07:29] And, and that whatever it is that you're doing or working on, it just comes out. That's what you were describing. Okay. And I don't know what's going on, you know, and the body and that, but the feeling of that is feeling almost connected both much more deeply within and also to something greater than yourself.
[00:07:53] Hmm. Kinda like taking shrooms. Uh, that's what I've heard. Yeah. Probably something similar.
[00:08:00] Yeah, I, you know, I think I, I've been reading, uh, Rick Rubin's book, The Creative Way lately. And it's, and it's, it talks a lot about like trying to figure out on a creative level, trying to get to that place all the time where you're just absorbing, you know, information as it passes through you and kind of taking what you can from it and, you know, sitting on the rest on it.
[00:08:18] And I think that, yeah, it feels a little like that. Like, yeah, intuition is something. Bigger, I guess, than, than self. It feels like it's a, a certainty or a Definitiveness that doesn't seem to come from the same place everything else comes from. Hmm.
[00:08:40] Maybe it comes from somewhere else. Like where? The intuition realm. That you're going to say the intuition room? Obviously. Hey, we're like creating a Pixar storyline right now.
[00:12:10] You want to hear my super crazy theory for what intuition could be? Sure. I can always cut it out later.
[00:12:26] Okay. So I'm not saying that I know or think that this is what intuition is. Okay. I'm just saying, let's entertain the thought. Okay. And maybe a sign in a non zero probability. Okay. Okay.
[00:12:45] What if intuition is temporally non local? Okay. What if intuition is part of retrocausality? You're just making up words.
[00:13:02] I'm not! What is retroquazality? Retroquazality? Retroquazality? That's what I thought you said. Retro No, I can't say it for real. Retro Retrocausality. What? Okay. So, causing things backwards through time. Okay. Like timid. Yeah, okay All right, okay Christopher Nolan moment here. I gotta like make sure my brain is like in that gear now Yeah, go ahead.
[00:13:42] So what if it is our future self sending? Messages back to our past self if that's the case and future self needs to get a life because some of the things I feel intuition about are kind of small and menial. So like, I don't know, I feel like I've, I've, I've got too much time on my hands in the future. So I have a hypothesis on that. Okay. Butterfly effect. I think that it's more about over time. We have to learn to essentially tap into that part of ourselves.
[00:14:29] Okay. And to more and more like amplitude, right? And, and so, because if you think about it, let's say this is, let's just say that it is this way. It would be to the benefit of our future selves for our past selves to be more receptive to the messages. Right? Okay. So what if the, the smaller ones are the opportunities to experience, Following through with your intuition and then taking the path that your future self wanted you to take in a small way that gives like a quick feedback loop as a means of starting to train, like build that muscle.
[00:15:12] I think, I think that you tell me which Streaming service that show is going to be on and I'm going to buy it.
[00:15:26] I've kind of, I've, I've started writing like a novel in my head. You should. Yeah. That's what I was going to say. You're like building a whole world right now. And I'm like, man, this should be a show. It should be a TV show. Yeah. I, it's, it's hard. So I will admit this now. I think I was, I actually, even though I was scared to do it, I did want us to do the high fives episode. Mm hmm. Because there was a part of me that just wanted to get all that stuff out of my head.
[00:16:00] But, but, uh, saying it out loud felt too ridiculous. And so by doing it in a high fives episode, I could use that. I could use that excuse of, Oh, I was high. I didn't really mean it. But you meant every word, every word.
[00:16:19] But I think about this. So it's, it's hard for me to explain. Since that first time I got high and the way that like my brain changed from that because I have these moments when I'm not high because I'm, I don't really get high hardly ever anymore. It's really just with you, which is why we don't, we never hang out.
[00:16:37] Oh, I'm such a bad influence. Right. No, I, I just get these like images in my head. Oh, that it's, it feels like an intuitive download. But it's, it's stuff that it's really hard for me to explain. Like I see certain geometries and things that I've tried to, I think I've tried to explain to you before it, but it doesn't really make any sense when it comes out.
[00:17:05] Yeah. But I'll see if I can, I'll see if I can explain, I'll see if I can make this make sense for out of my head for a second. We'll do this in real time and see how it goes.
[00:17:17] So if we think of time and, and anytime there's a, like a basic illustration of this, it's, It like in a movie or TV show or something it seems to always be this way like you've got a line And then you've got a dot in the middle of the line Yeah, right and the line is time and the dot is now right and the dot moves along this timeline Alright, and I think that all of that is wrong.
[00:17:48] Okay Or it is it's a 2d representation of like a 5d thing. Yeah, right for sure. Yeah, so And the way that this plays out in my head is like, we're not a dot, uh, it's a gradient. And it's, it's, it's a, it's a gradient that's shaped like a toroidal sphere. So, the everything bagel, right? And and so the, it's, it's almost like the, the ever present now.
[00:18:24] Uh, collapses in on itself all the way down. Right. And so we're somewhere in that gradient. Yeah. Like in our, in our present consciousness is is somewhere in that gradient. It's like a version of the multiverse theory, right? Uh, not exactly. Various timelines that are all adjacent to each other. No. No, it's not, it's not that.
[00:18:45] It's
[00:18:45] the. It's, it's, so it's almost like a Well, I should say that, that we're not, we're not moving across this line as if we're like moving through time on a line. It's, it's like we're still, uh, kind of, and time is flowing past us and through us. As time gets to, gets to this sphere, it's, it's almost like a black hole, right?
[00:19:16] And, and it starts, you know, separate, it starts stretching white, like at the top, but then as it goes down, it gets more and more. I guess stretched or compacted. And, and, and then you and I, like where we're at in this sort of consciousness level, we're somewhere along that gradient of like way down in, we're kind of more up here.
[00:19:43] And
[00:19:48] if we're also like multidimensional creatures where our consciousness is kind of at these higher levels as well, like octaves then we have someone that's kind of up farther on that gradient. That is the version of ourselves. Alright? Okay. Just meaning they can see the horizon better. So, it's, it's like, because, because we extend as, as this gradient we're not just like this one point.
[00:20:21] There's, there's like a, uh, going up that gradient. is, is part of us, but it's, it's far enough away from us that we feel that separation, but it's, it has a different vantage point. And so in time, if you're thinking about time is flowing at different rates through this gradient, okay, right, it's at a vantage point where it's like, if you're standing at street level, you can see 234 blocks, the, the person that like the hundredth floor can see all the way, you know, to the next state, instead of thinking about what they can see in terms of, of the, of like the distance and space.
[00:21:06] It's think about the distance in time instead and so being up at that level gives you it's it's like your your gradient spreads out more So that you're you're experiencing more of the past and the future in this moment It's just a widening of that aperture. And so therefore There's a part of you that can see ahead And there's a part of you that can extend back To, to the parts of you that are close enough on that gradient to touch it at the, at this level that you and I are at right now.
[00:21:45] Does that make sense? As much as it can? Yeah, I think so. And, and so, and, and we're actually, we do the same thing to our past, we think of it as our past because you're thinking about moving across the timeline, it looks like the past, but really, it's just a, it's just a lower sort of frequency at going down that gradient more.
[00:22:11] And so when, when you at this level that you're, you think back onto a moment in your life. It's almost like you can send that visual of what, how you're interpreting it now going back to the past and you can actually affect the past, but it's not, it's, it's kind of all happening at the same time, but it's, but it's, it's just a kind of further down that, That gradient.
[00:22:40] Does that make any sense? It's really hard for me. I can see it in my head, but it's trying to explain it out loud. Sure. I just, I guess my mind is kind of more latched onto like the the Russo Brothers MCU understanding of timelines. I think it's wrong. You don't think that, like, you think somebody can actually go back in time and change right now?
[00:23:03] That's what retrocausality is. Because now is not. It's not a fixed point. Yeah. It's where now is where your experience at this consciousness level is, is at in the gradient. But it's, but at, at what point is it now? And then at what point is it now? And, and in the future, like you can't actually define that.
[00:23:28] You see what I'm saying? So like, you can't, you can't measure, measure that. So like, how big is it? How big is now? Right. For some people now is really, really small and for some people now is really, really big. That's what I'm saying. It's, it's like a, it's a gradient that goes into the center of the toroidal sphere.
[00:23:48] And, and that's time passing through. And so when we think about if we're thinking about our, our past isn't actually our past. It's, it's the sort of lower level version of us. Experiencing those things.
[00:24:10] Is there any other person who's ever said any of these things? Are you just pulling this out of thin air? I don't know.
[00:24:20] Had to be the five in the room and ask that question. I don't know. Okay. I don't know. I don't know how else to explain it. Like this is, this is what I'm saying. My life has been very, very weird since that happened. Okay. Um, Well, that's what I'm saying. I get these visualizations that I can't explain.
[00:24:39] But it's just I have this like deep intuitive sense that there's, it feels more true than my, uh, my previous understanding of how the universe worked. Like, it's almost like I'm like trying to transitioning from like that, 2d to like a 5d and it's hard because if you think about like what 4 or 5d is, Hi, or like you kind of can't conceptualize it as sure, you know, we don't know right 3d is hard enough, right?
[00:25:08] Yeah, and but if you think about it, too, you can't actually conceptualize what it's like to be 2d No, right. So so you could have a version of you that is 2d and you you as a as a you you're connected It's all this one sort of strand But but you have no concept of what The 2d version of you is like yeah same with like the 5d you can't no concept of what the 5d version of you is Like right, but it's it's all kind of you connecting at these different dimensions Like different dimensions aren't different realms.
[00:25:41] They're kind of they're different measurements. That's what dimension means. They're different like Basically, you have different measurements different yardsticks. Yeah And so that's that's at least why I sense that like the the multiverse. I don't think Would work the way that it gets portrayed especially like in the MCU.
[00:26:03] Yeah Yeah And it's hard for us to wrap our brains around this idea of like everything is happening at the same time but it feels like the past and the future because of this gradient of when where our Like our 3d version of us is sitting in that gradient. Hmm.
[00:26:20] Have you ever seen the movie a beautiful mind Yes. I just want to say that I think doctors can help you with these voices and these images that you're, because what you're saying sounds a lot like schizophrenia. The things that I'm feeling are more true than the reality of self. You know, I have questioned myself and especially in the last few years.
[00:26:50] Uh, we'll keep an eye on that, but so back to the conversation. So anyway, when I think about intuition, think about time travel, but you didn't know you're going to listen to this kind of episode and go into this, did you? I guess what I'm getting at though is like, I think it's important to not put intuition in a box.
[00:31:46] Yeah, right across like all dimensions and all realms you can make it as magical as you want to but they're Just at a practical level there are many times in my life where I didn't listen meant to my intuition and I basically got out of alignment with myself is usually what ends up happening in someone.
[00:32:08] Yeah, I'm out of alignment out of integrity and then I end up going back and basically doing the thing anyway, but I had to learn the hard way. Yeah. And, and I started actually listening to those little signals as, and, and viewing them as opportunities to practice. Following my intuition in a low risk way.
[00:32:31] Mm hmm. And that's how I think about them now. And so, I will say though, like, It's such an underdeveloped muscle that it can be exhausting. Yeah. Like, it really can. Trying to, trying to stay out of my head, get into my body for prolonged periods of time where I can be aware enough when that, like, small voice says, actually, you should do this.
[00:32:56] Yeah. You know, and, and then, and then following through on it, because I think a lot of times too, what we do is we dismiss that voice because it's not coming from the analytical part of our brain. Yeah. And, and then we're, we're never actually training that muscle. Yeah. I
[00:33:15] Do you have an example of when you've listened to your intuition and it turned out really well?
[00:33:20] There's, Probably, I'm trying to think if there's any specific times that come to mind. I know that definitely definitely things with like Jobs, you know, like the last job that I had I just had this there was no talk of this at all but I just had this feeling in my gut that it was like So, I don't know why I felt that way, but I just like had this feeling.
[00:33:41] I mean, when I look back on it, I, I now know like I, my brain saw similar red flags to a different situation than I just had. So like all of a sudden my boxes were being checked in my subconscious that I didn't really realize. And there was just a day that I woke up and knew I had to leave. And so, I started putting out, you know, job applications and just like it, but I was doing it with haste and so I just started doing it.
[00:34:01] And within a couple of weeks I had of looking, I had a job somewhere else. So I put on my two weeks and then within about a month everybody got laid off. So I looked back and I was like, I knew it, I knew it was going to happen. But and I think a lot of times I can't, I wonder if that's also happened, you know, where It feels like intuition in the moment.
[00:34:22] But you look back on it after a while and you see that like, I definitely saw the signs. It just, I didn't see the big picture. I only saw the small part in the moment. My brain was focusing really hard on, you know, whatever was in front of me. But like, when I think back, I was, I had been checking boxes for a while on why that situation was going to happen.
[00:34:39] And so when, like, bigger things started to go on and I started to see similar patterns, I definitely Like I knew in my gut it like it was about to happen. So that was definitely one thing that sticks out.
[00:34:56] I wish I had like a really fun creative example because I feel like that would be like, you know mystical and nice My muse came to me. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know I think In some ways I did kind of do that with the, the, some of the songs that I released this year, actually, because I did them with somebody I'd wanted to do stuff with for a while.
[00:35:19] 12 years now and always wanted to work with him and I was always too afraid to. I didn't feel like I had the right songs or whatever. And then it was just a certain feeling where I was like, this is it. Like, it's time to do it now. Like, I think this will be the moment that is the most growth and the most help to me and most beneficial.
[00:35:34] And Yeah, I looked back on it and was like, don't regret that decision at all. So , that was exactly what I should have done. But to know, have that definitive, like, yes, this is like that certainty of it, it was something that doesn't come to me very naturally. So yeah, I have a working definition I've just thought of, of
[00:35:53] Okay. Of . Yeah. Intuition. I wanna see what you think of it. Okay. Uh, intuition is the voice you hear when. Your anxiety has finally quieted down. Hmm. Okay.
[00:36:11] Use some polishing, but yeah, well, I just thought of it right now. Cody, come on. Tell me some slack. Yeah, well, I mean, yeah, we, yeah. Turn down the noise. That's what's, that's, what's actually been there the whole time. It's like, maybe we, we feel it more when we are more in tune with ourselves and not. not feeling because I, I also equate out of control emotions with anxiety because that's really most of the time what it is for me.
[00:36:37] And so, you know, I think about if the opposite of that is being more in tune with self and more, it almost is like that becomes the more rational logical self is the intuition. And so, Does, does that mean intuition comes from the most logical place? It's like, that's where the, only the information feed is, and that's, that's where we get that actual intuition?
[00:37:03] Like, problem solved, fives, we could just be more logical, and there's intuition. I don't know if that's how it works. Maybe. You think my thing is more crazy than the shit you've been talking about? As soon as I said it, I was like, here we go. No, I don't think you're right. That's too crazy. Hahaha Oh man.
[00:37:34] There's another part about listening to intuition that makes me not want to do it. Okay. And I have to like fight that. Like, it's part of the fear or the just tension, uh, discomfort. And it's that, it's that moment or that period of time between after you've listened to your intuition and taken the action, and then trying to like figure out why.
[00:38:01] Like, why you did what you did. Like, there must be something that will come of this. And trying to do that, like, making that meaning in that space. And it's just this uncomfortable tension. And then, and then there's that analytical part. That's like, did you, was that really your intuition? Like, should you really have done that?
[00:38:18] Like, what was the point? Like, and just going down this whole rabbit trail and all these different possibilities, trying to find this explanation for why your intuition had you do what you did. And then, and then it, then you start to like, for me, I start to feel like I am not in control or I am, uh, like people are going to view me as not in control.
[00:38:46] and, and it can spiral , like in that anxiety. And so then I, so then I'm just driven to close the loop, right? Yeah. And, and then I can, I can create meaning around it that isn't there. Mm-Hmm. and. So then I have to sort through all of that and it's just this it can be if I get into that state I let myself go down that anxiety path.
[00:39:12] It can be really really draining and then I wonder if Like that's why I had to listen to my intuition so I could learn that lesson. Oh, wow I Was kind of thinking about like how maybe your logical side is the one trying to like work out If it doesn't have meaning, then it doesn't matter. So you're like, you like stretch for meaning for things.
[00:39:39] But that your, yeah, your logical side is always trying to disprove it. But like, that's probably just out of fear of what it could mean if, if you do have or decide it's almost like believing in intuition is like believing in God. You know, you want to, like, it makes you. Not nobody's equal, but no, no, no five is equal in that way.
[00:39:59] Like some people are more accepting of the mystical sides of things and not, I don't know, although I will say in the community that we have, you know, kind of built around this, this conversation that we're having here for the podcast, uh, I've a lot more people are. spiritual or like mystically Minded or leaning that I would have thought out of a group of fives.
[00:40:22] So maybe I'm just a little sourpuss over here there might be Like any agreement self might skew that mmm Just yeah, if you're interested standing if well, if you're if no if you're interested in the Enneagram Then you're probably more likely to be interested in the mystical spiritual stuff. Oh Mmm, that's true.
[00:40:44] Yeah, so it would be hard for us to have an Enneagram podcast that didn't attract those types of people. That's true
[00:40:52] So you know, we posted on Instagram and in the community, uh, asking do, like, do you, Lean on intuition in your in your decision making process. Hmm. And That was sort of Like the posts around intuition were some of our most engaged posts.
[00:41:13] Yeah And I was just really surprised how every single person was like, yeah, I Intuition is really important. I used to make decisions. I wish I could Tap into my intuition more. But when I do it, you know, it's great Like it's I was just I was really it like I shouldn't have been surprised because that's how I feel.
[00:41:31] Yeah but It was, it was just surprising to get that confirmation, especially from other fives. Yeah. And because then I, because I always thought I was the weird one because I was the five who you know, listen more to intuition, I think, and made decisions that way versus logic most of the time. Yeah, for sure.
[00:41:49] It is kind of, I mean, yeah, it's definitely a, maybe it's just something that we all are more curious about than we let on because we're all fives and we don't want to be trying to cover that up a little bit. But yeah, I mean, I definitely feel like there's, there's, there's definitely a lot of benefits to finding more space for intuition in your life and figuring out how to tap into it more.
[00:42:09] More often, more consistently. But, I, you know, I think for a lot of fives that are creative, I mean, we're all creative to some degree, but, you know, from my, from my personal experience, I feel like I did, I think I've talked, maybe talked about it before, but there's this thing that I do with a bunch of songwriters every February, where we try to write a song a day for a month.
[00:42:30] And obviously it's difficult to do, but the idea is to practice, you know, create, exercising those creative muscles, but also overcoming the the perceived illusion of writer's block that when writer's block is really just our excuse to not write, I believe in my own personal life and experience.
[00:42:50] I don't think there is anything, any such thing as writer's block. It's our ego telling us what's good enough. And so, you know, that's just, that's all it is. And so try, but when you remove that filter I think that is kind of also the filter that blocks intuition because we're always kind of analyzing what's good enough to enter our brains.
[00:43:07] What is good enough to, you know. To be the reason why I do something, you know, whatever the thing is and so I do that with songs I do with everything that I create and but I find that the best things that I'm the most proud of are the things that came out of those moments where I took that filter away and just decided I'm going to write this.
[00:43:23] It doesn't matter if it's for me. And maybe I give it to another artist, you know, whatever the case may be, maybe it goes nowhere. And that's also okay. And I think giving permission for all of those things and not trying to judge what comes out of it is actually what gets me the best work. And so and I find that in every area of my life.
[00:43:41] That tends to be true and I, I, I tend to stumble upon more creative moments, whether it's for my job or for making music or whatever I find I stumble into those creative moments more often when I am trusting the part of myself that is kind of always in tune with what is, you know, what is, what's like the core part of me, I guess.
[00:48:11] it goes back to what we were talking about earlier with those opportunities to kind of practice listening and following in your you know, in a low risk way in your day to day with those small things.
[00:48:24] And I think there's, there is a body component of this because when you, when you follow your intuition and you kind of get that confirmation there's a feeling in your body.
[00:48:35] Yeah, and your body remembers that and so the more that you do that the easier it is to get into that state on a more regular basis And so it can compound on itself The more that you practice it Yeah And also to you like the all those things that sound cheesy to do that Maybe we don't want to do them like maybe the the one thing that you can do is just Get out of your own way and a lot give like give permission to You Explore the idea of intuition and those steps will probably become more clear which ones you should take to get to that point I think it's probably the best way because I mean if if there's something that we probably all have in common, I would think it's that It our first step is usually just allowing ourselves to not look down on the idea of intuition and not discredit it Just because we don't know how to explain it or understand it and if you remove that element, you know, you're probably going in a better direction towards Being able to trust it more and hear it more.
[00:49:34] Yeah. Makes sense. Cool. Well, we'll see you next week. Goodbye, everybody. Okay, bye.