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This episode is called don't trust your gut. This is very contrarian advice because I'm sure everyone and your mother has told you to trust your gut. Today's episode is going to help us understand why instinct and intuition are not the same thing. But most importantly, how to spot the difference and notice when one is masquerading as the other as a potential for self sabotage or even to justify reckless behavior in your life. Because being in these spiritually adjacent communities for many years, I do see intuition often used as a justification for extremely chaotic and reckless behavior. Which, of course, intuition is not intended to be. So what is the problem with gut feelings? While gut feelings are definitely trendy advice, how can you really know for sure what you're following it's part of the intangible nature of intuition. So is a gut feeling a trauma response? Is it an instinctual reflex? Is it a true intuition? And can you actually tell the difference? In today's episode, I'll be breaking down the difference between an instinctive response and an intuitive response so that you can learn to truly spot the difference and the nuance. And for those who tend to struggle with fear based thinking, future fixation or control issues, I'll be giving you tools to help you move beyond hypervigilance into the state of presence that is ultimately required. Required to be able to access intuition because you can't have both at the same time. Let's take a look at the difference between instinct and intuition. Instinct is a automatic, reactive and innate response. Innate meaning born from within. Right? It's not something that you have to learn how to do. It's something that exists from the time that you're born and develops over time. These responses typically come in tandem with an emotional response. So think of the emotion as the feeling aspect of it and then the instinct is the doing aspect aspect of it. By contrast, intuition is slow moving, nonlinear, multidimensional, and functions much more like a meandering stream. These messages tend to confound our ingrained patterns and logic and often prompt us to go toward the fear instead of away from it. This is one of the key distinctions between the two, is that typically our instinct is to try to keep us away from fear. Right? It's a survival based mechanism. And often our intuition is calling us into the thing that may be unfamiliar or fear inducing. Instinct is, like I said, an innate, typically fixed pattern of behavior that exists in animals in response to certain stimuli. So it's triggered by physically occurring stimuli in your environment. It's fast, it's reactive, it's fear based and it's wired for survival, not for self realization. Right? So instinct is not a process where we start to understand ourselves on some deep level. Right? Instinct is literally, there's a tiger chasing me. I have to run quickly away from this tiger. The only problem is, in our modern world in 2025, our fears have become obviously a lot broader and a lot less obvious. Right? We're not being chased by a tiger. We're not having to survive by way of scrounging and scrapping for food. Right? We're no longer hunter gatherers. So the amount of fear stimuli that are around us in our environment re from very obvious to completely under the radar where someone would have no idea what was actually triggering them until they do work like break method or something similar. So instinct can be triggered by things that are really small in 2025. Right, because we're not being chased by tigers. But ultimately it's still hitting us in that survival mechanism aspect of ourselves. And instinct will operate through our nervous system. It's not a reflective cognitive process. Right. It's something that we are experiencing a stimuli and our body is reacting from the nervous. So some examples of instinct would be survival instincts. These are going to include the drive to obtain food and water, our fear response, our fight and flight response. These are all the things that people most often connect with instinct. We also many of us have reproductive instincts. Although lately I feel like this is being sociologically attacked or primed from an outside level. And now these are maybe being turned on. But nonetheless, this is our innate desire for reproduction, including sexual behavior and our instincts, instinct to nurture offspring. We also have social instincts. These are going to include the desire for social interaction, working together in collaboration, physical touch with one another. Again, this is another one that has been broken apart by a variety of mechanisms, I think some sociological and priming, but also there are possible environmental toxins that are partially responsible for this, which I know we covered a little bit in big academia. We'll certainly explore these topics more throughout season one. Learning instincts. Humans have a natural curiosity and a drive to learn and explore. And again, this is something that seems to have slightly devolved as our society has become wealthier, safer, life is easier. It's easier for kids to be lazy, especially now with the rapid onset of AI. Right? I mean, we didn't grow up with Google. When you wanted to research something, you had to really crack the books and go research it. Now you just type something in on your phone and you have this immediate McDonald's version of information. So I do think that as our world changes and it's easier to get information without having to put in the work, I do expect, as it has been, our learning instinct will go onto the decline, as it certainly has been. There's also a self preservation instinct, which in at least two out of the five brain pattern types is severely damaged from early childhood trauma, where self preservation is actually something that the brain is wired to believe is unsafe. Which of course you would think about that like that sounds like a total paradox. And ultimately it is. The person who might have had this childhood experience believes that it is more logical to suppress any self preservation instinct to do for the group so that the group can stay deescalated and in the group could Be mom, dad, brother, sister, and it's decided that I am safe only when other people are deescalated. Therefore, the person that we're talking about here would essentially be completely disconnected or detached from their self preservation instinct. This can be very common. It is something that can be rewired. It's certainly something that we work on. Rewiring and break method. Some other examples of instincts are laughing, crying, even some hygiene behavior. Example would be I don't know if you've ever been camping, but like on a certain day of your camping journey, which frankly I hate, I always tell people like, I'll go camping at the Four Seasons. That sounds good. At a certain point in camping, like you don't like the way you smell. And at that point you're probably like, this is ridiculous. I need a shower. Someone get me some good toothpaste. I want to get out of here. That's an instinct, right? An instinct where sure, some of us have been taught through discipline in childhood to practice hygiene and things like that, that is part of parenting. But there's also a more naturally occurring, again, instinctive response. Or like we shouldn't want to smell, we shouldn't want to be dirty. And at a certain point, parented or not, that's something a human being would naturally start to understand once they understand differentiation. Right. So I am separate of this person, I am smelly, they are not. Right. So these are all things that would be naturally occurring. Although again, these have been things that I think have been on the decline for reasons that we will continue to explore. So there are a variety of instincts, and some of these instincts do become altered or damaged through heavy metal toxicity. Whatever your opinion is on vaccinations, there's some correlation here with vaccine injury and some of these instincts being damaged. But they're also obviously sociological priming that takes place in our environment that starts to get us to think differently and essentially feel justified turning on our own instincts. Okay, Instinct is going to feel when it arrives in your body, more like a clenching, a bearing down, a heart racing, panic, cold sweat. That's how we know that instinct is upon us, right? Or we're, we're taking a more firm, hardened posture. It's not soft, we're not relaxed, we're not going with the flow. Right? That's, that's not how instinct's gonna feel. Instinct also is typically linked to past experiences of threat, even if the threat isn't present. Now this is something that we explore quite a bit in break method because the brain is going quickly Snapshot and say this is just enough like this childhood version of this formula that I built when I was five. So I'm now going to categorize it this way and act as if these two things are the same. This is obviously happening on a subconscious level. So while cognitively and logically you're like these things are nothing alike, your nervous system likely doesn't know that. That's the whole problem here is that many of the things that we are reacting to that are driving our emotional addiction cycles and our behavior cycles, they're not logical. And we can have two simultaneous beliefs. And I think this is one of the most confounding aspects of the human being is that on one hand, me, 40 year old busy, can logically know that these things aren't true. Okay, then subconsciously, all of the formulas that 5 year old busy wrote that are now intricately connected with my somatic experience in my nervous system actually feel more true than my logical conscious decision. Right. The subconscious is going to actually in these cases have more power to override my logic than the reverse. So this is also seen, for example, those of you that have studied the gut brain connection and the HPA axis. It is a loop, but the signals are stronger one way than another. So we've got signals coming from the brain down to the gut. Then we also have signals going from the gut back to the brain. Guess which one's stronger? Well, unfortunately for all the rest of us, it's your gut going back to your brain. Okay, so when we're thinking about these sort of things, yes, it's a cycle, yes, there's a two way conversation happening. But imagine here there's a part of the conversation that is louder and stronger and more predominating and able to override our conscious decisions. This is why you can learn something in a book, know how to do it better, and then what do you do? You default to the automatic way of doing it. So instinct is going to be linked to the gut into our automatic responses, which is ultimately linked to our subconscious. So honestly, it doesn't really matter what you consciously think at this age, if you haven't rewired how the subconscious is triggering this domino effect of instinct and gut reaction, you are very likely to justify fear based responses and pass them off as something else entirely. That's honestly probably why you've been stuck. So we do have to consider that there is this past element that is linked into instinct. Right? Because it is going to be built off of a previously occurring or built formula. This also is something that can be confused with a bad vibe. And I'm putting bad vibe here in air quotes because we've all met this reason. It's like, I don't know, I just got a bad vibe. It's like, is that a bad vibe or is there a person? Is there an aspect of this person that is possibly triggering you for a specific reason? Typically when we're quickly going to bad vibe, it's because there's some sort of pattern match here. Again, this person's just enough like this person that my brain subconsciously going to categorize these two people as the same and I will act as if and feel justified. So sometimes it's a bad vibe and sometimes it's really just your instinct being triggered. And that's something that we want to address very differently than an intuitive bad vibe. Let's dig into intuition. This is the ability to know something with without conscious reasoning or tangible evidence. So this is a higher order thinking skill that is not something that is taking place based on physically observable evidence. Right? Like it has nothing to do with like I see my coffee, I shake my coffee. This is something that's happening above dimensionally. The third dimension, intuition is going to arrive in a quiet, slow and sometimes completely logical way. It's going to come from self trust, embodiment and wisdom, not fear. So examples would be if you lack self trust and you are disconnected from your body and your fear guides you more than your innate wisdom, Intuition is probably not going to be a signal or a frequency that you can hear clearly. Or your instinct will try to present like intuition just to keep you looping in your own chaos. Because essentially the way our spiritual, cognitive, somatic listening works is that we're able to focus and really attune our frequency one way or another. So if fear is so strong, it's like it will drown out any of the other messages that are coming through. And then also if you've been able to effectively rewire all of your fear messaging, that volume goes down so low that now you can hear all the these intuitive messages. So there's this seesaw effect where if we're very tuned in to one and one is very loud, it's nearly impossible for us to connect with the other and vice versa. So obviously it behooves us to work on rewiring our instinctive fear patterns because ultimately I believe many of us want to be able to operate in more of a present flow state intuition. Yet that's completely hidden from us because of our childhood Wounding that has been left unresolved. Here are some examples of how intuition can show up in everyday life. If you have this accessible to you, this can bring insight into decision making that is taking in both gathered knowledge, life experience, but also perception that transcends the natural world. So this isn't just what you learned in a book. It's how what you learned in a book matched with your life experience, matched with this multidimensional intangible access all blends together. This is also something that can come through like creativity, like an improvised melody on the spot. If you start just kind of like humming a song that it doesn't exist already. A lot of people that are more musically inclined will literally just get a sudden inspiration where they'll hear a song in their mind and then they can go create it. Also, savant like knowledge comes from this place. So the things that you know and you get in a mass sort of download or quantity, but you didn't learn them in a physical book through physical means. This is intuition, problem solving skills that don't match with acquired knowledge. The people that, again, similar to the savant, like knowledge, they know how to do something though they have not been taught. There's instinct, which this can. Let's say that somebody is running away from somebody who's chasing them and you know, these skills turn on out of nowhere that allow them to get out of Dodge without dying. Cool. That's much more instinctive. What we're talking about here, in contrast, is, for example, if you've ever played with a lot of like logic games or puzz and things like that, there are some things that are extremely complex. There are certain people who can do things where other people would need to be taught to be able to execute. And they just are able to intuitively figure it out as they go along. So this is less about survival, of course, and more about problem solving in a way that makes us have to think in a very nonlinear way to accomplish one goal. An example of this actually, since we were just talking about instinct, is that instinct is very linear and very specific, right? There's a very specific input, output or starting point and end goal. Intuition isn't necessarily like this. Intuition often has this sort of splitting effect where you could be simultaneously thinking and processing on five things that seem unrelated, only as you keep pursuing those things to find out that they are ultimately related. And only intuition could have shown you their interconnectedness. Right? That's how intuition works, where it's this multi pronged nonlinear way of piecing things Together. Another example of intuition could be a medical intuitive hit that brings forth a diagnosis that others couldn't figure out. This happens with doctors all the time. When I was on Dave Asprey's show recently, he was talking about how it's been studied that doctors actually have reported. I think it was the approximate number was about 20% of doctors who were part of the study reported while they were in the operating room seeing a typewriter text essentially overlaid with their field of view, telling them what to do. I'll leave it to you to decide how this could be or what the mechanism of this could be. We'll certainly dip our toe in more spiritual waters later on in the season. But this is another example of intuition. They were open, right? They were focused, they were present. If you think about what a person would need to be able to embody to be a great surgeon, they can't be stressing out about the future, they can't be dwelling on their past mistakes as a surgeon. They have to be acutely in the present moment to be highly focused on what they're doing. That level of presence and focus may in fact be what allows these medical intuitive hits to come in and essentially find their access point. Because ultimately presence is one of the pathways to intuition. When intuition is felt, it's going to feel less visceral, so it's going to be less in the physical body and more subtle. So intuition, for example, doesn't necessarily feel like heart pounding heat sensations and it's not necessarily going to be matched with intense emotion and it often isn't. And this is one of the telltale signs that somebody is unfortunately conflating instinct and intuition. I've seen this a lot where they feel very justified and almost like hyper vigilant and intense or a level of urgency with how they're trying to speak. This intuitive hit. All of those signs are instinctive. When there's this feeling of urgency and like a dysregulation in how your body and your communication style are trying to bring this about. That to me is a telltale sign that it is in fact not intuition. This will often present like a hunch. A lot of people will get these in the form of imagery or even just a curiosity, just like, huh, I want to go, I want to go explore that. This happened to me with a 22 hour teaching I did back in 2022. I kept hearing this one name from the Bible over and over again and I'd never heard of this name, never thought of this name. And at a Certain point, I was like, okay, okay, okay, I will go look up this name and I will write it down. So I kept getting this little kind of gnawing feeling. I kept hearing this one person's name, and I was seeing how it was connected to a variety of issues that we're experiencing in our life today, sociologically, politically, and spiritually. So I eventually kind of do this mapping that I received through an intuitive hit. Once I go researching, I'm like, oh, my God, this. This is a treasure trove of information that all makes perfect sense. How did that name come to me? I have no idea. I've never, never seen that name before in my life. So that's an example of intuition where there's no need for in my daily life when I'm doing things, making a coffee, taking care of my kids, there's no, there's no logical reason that I should just be hearing like, very ever so slightly this name in the back of my mind that was, you know, obviously like a very Old Testament name that I still, if I said it right now, might not even pronounce it correctly. So that's an example of how intuition, it's like inconvenient. It's just this little, like, whisper while you're trying to do something else. That's typically when intuition comes in, when it's a full inconvenience to you. Okay. Not when you're trying to justify your own self sabotage or relationship patterns. It can lead you often toward discomfort or an unknown that typically you would prefer to avoid. So often intuition guides us toward our triggers rather than justifies moving away from them. Or on that topic of self sabotage, particularly in relationships, this, you know, when I'm sure we've all had this friend before, where they're like, just really feel like God brought them into my life. Or just all the signs are there. Yes. And maybe it's actually your instinct noticing that this is a person that has just the right level of toxicity to float your boat and bring them into your life so that eventually you can live out your symbiotic dysfunction for the rest of your days. Let's go to the reminder of what a nudge is versus a feeling of urgency. So feeling of urgency is more of a gut punch. Okay, so gut punch. We're like, I have to do this and this and this, where your brain is kind of scurrying to come up with a list of things that are late or overdue, or I need to immediately go deal with this, or I have to go tell Them right now, that's urgency, a nudge. Imagine that on a very intangible plane, someone's ever so slightly just kind of tapping on the shoulder, be like, don't forget or shouldn't you maybe think about this? It's a lot more subtle of a oncoming message. So think about the difference between a subtle nudge and that feeling of urgency that's going to immediately compel you to go take action right away. Intuition very rarely is going to require you to take immediate action. There is something here, though, where sometimes intuition and instinct can actually converge. I have an example of this from when I was in high school. When I was in high school, I was getting into. I went to boarding school and I was getting into a friend's car to go to a party. And as soon as I touched the door handle, I saw the car getting in a car accident. And I remember, like seeing this in a flash and not feeling panicked, not even feeling, like, scared or this feeling of urgency. I remember just taking my hand off the door handle and asking a very simple question. Should I get in this car right now? And I heard no. And I was like, okay. And I just really. I felt really calm. No part of me was in hyper vigilance. And I just looked at my friends and said, you know what, guys? I'm not really feeling it. What happened to the car? They got into a car accident. Now when I think back on this, I'm sure a lot of people would be like, you should have warned them. First of all, I was like 15 years old, maybe even 14, and I don't think I. At this point, I was just really starting to get acquainted with how my intuitive gifts work. And at that phase, you know, I remember asking myself this question, like, maybe if I don't get in the car, they wouldn't get into a car accident, right? Maybe. Maybe that was going to be my destiny. If intuition didn't kind of give me this flash so that I have the ability to potentially to avoid it. Should I have said something? Could I have said something? Shoulda, coulda, woulda. I try not to live in that phase of my life. But ultimately this is an example of where I got an intuitive hit, which then calmly now had a conversation with my instinct. And my instinct was, let's just not rock the boat. Let's just give it, like, do I really want to go out enough to see if this is really going to happen tonight? Do I really want to be that reckless and rock the boat? So at that point, there's like, this check and balance where I didn't panic and be like, nobody got in the car, right? Because I, I was just not in that head space at that time. And I also. Another example of being an intuition, I felt very calm and collected about it. I didn't feel hypervigilant. So in that moment I. It checks and balances with my instinct. And my instinct was, you know, let's just play it safe tonight. I don't really care enough about this party to potentially put my life at risk. Go back to my dorm, had a good early night's sleep, only to find out in the morning, of course, that this car actually did have an accident and everyone was fine. But ultimately, in a moment like this, we can have these two messages that do converge together, but we have to know what that physiologically feels like when it's true intuition. Because if I had just, you know, gone up to the car and I was like, oh my God, what if this, like what if, what if, what if? That, that is going to physiologically feel much more in line with instinct and not intuition. And honestly at that time of my life, and I think this is largely why I didn't say anything to my friends, is that for years prior I had really struggled with anxiety and I was afraid to do a lot of things. So I think at this point I'm like, okay, this feels like intuition could also be fear. So I'm not gonna go ruining all my friends lives tonight over something that potentially could be just fear based for me. So these are all little learning lessons that I've had along the, the years that obviously have turned into deeper wisdom on these topics. So I'm grateful for them. But ultimately, even in a situation where there is potential danger or death on the line, intuition still can present in this sort of calm, collected way. So keep that in mind. One thing that I find really interesting going back to instinct, is that instinct, like we talked about as their survival pattern, that has nothing to do with this higher order thinking like intuition. And intuition exists outside of time, right? Often when intuition is coming into your field, like using the example of the car accident, I was able to see a potential future reality to then inform my decision right now. So intuition takes you for a moment outside of our time boundedness that we experience as three dimensional beings. I like to use the example of animals here because sometimes I've seen people try to use this as an example to justify that instinct and intuition are the same thing. And I vehemently disagree. So using the example of animals, some of you may know that animals can anticipate earthquakes, tsunamis, so they typically know a disaster is coming long before we do. This has been observed in elephants, dogs, birds, they all change their behavior prior to earthquakes and tsunamis. For animals, this is absolutely an instinctive survival pattern because they are much more tuned to vibration, barometric shifts and infrasound. So they're able to hear sound and vibration and frequency that we can't hear. So for animals, it's been observed in study that this is not an intuitive pattern, this is an instinctive pattern. So it's not coming from a multi dimensional sort of incoming input and it's also not coming from higher order thinking. Because up to this point, and I'm sure this is a contested topic among some of you that are more spiritually minded, it's believed that animals do not have a narrative based mind and that they're not not arguing with their sensory inputs. Right. They're not, they don't have the fight between thought and body feelings that we do. Right. There's a bit more foundational simplicity there. So animals are able to in this way be much more attuned to these sort of physically manifesting sensations. Right. In our sensory system rather than kind of these extra sensory perceptions. So for animals, it absolutely is an actual biological sensory feedback that many of us actually do technically have, but we can't tap into it or access it because we're so bogged down with all these more emotional somatosensory inputs that we're experiencing that put us into more of that unfortunately nervous system instinct response. So human beings, another way of saying this is that we complicate the signal. So instead of it being this simple call and response that we're able to hear and listen to like animals and take action on, immediately we question ourselves more. We're going to have this internal dialogue. But what if even the example of me with the cock car accident, what if I'm wrong, What if it is just fear based thinking, right? Animals don't do that. They get the signal and they act on it. That's why you see, a whole herd will start to run at the same time. They don't question it. And frankly, going back to this hypothesis, which I believe, I believe fairly strongly that animals don't have a narrative based mind. I'm sure the animals can communicate at higher orders than we might be able to observe with our natural sciences sort of approach. But ultimately I do really believe that they don't have a narrative based mind like we do. Not to get spiritual Here. But I do think if you look at it for example from a biblical paradigm, part of what we experience as our narrative based mind and with that this kind of oppositional dialogue that we have that some may call negative self trust or even negative self talk, things that lead to body dysmorphia, questioning ourselves, etc, these are things that I believe are technically, they're a byproduct of something like the fall, right where we were meant to be something else. And instead now we're kind of bogged down with these more trauma based imprints of the world that unfortunately get us to stop seeing the world from our spiritual eyes and instead see things from a very densely human perspective only. Right. Where things can look and feel so harsh and complicated and we have a hard time seeing above that. Right. You know the term just rise above. I really think that the etiology of that term rise above is trying to get us to see from a more multidimensional perspective instead of be so bogged down with just the three dimensional inputs that are right in front of our face. So we do confuse this signal and we do unfortunately confuse trauma based responses as intuition. I've seen it time and time again. And our mind unfortunately adds narrative distortion to some of these signals. Right. It's always trying to pinball things back and forth. Something comes in and it's trying to pattern match it. Where do I put this? Where do I sort this? Our brain really likes to sort things as and sort things on similarity or differences. So think about in preschool where you're sorting shapes. These are all the circles, these are all the stars, these are all the squares. Our brain likes to do this and it's going to do this even with incoming again messages like intuition or instinct. So we want to remember that we have to be more aware of how our brain can mis, sort or miscategorize things to get us to justify our own demise. Demise. That's one of the things that I think drives most of my work in break method is trying to effectively answer this question which I believe I have. Why does our brain seek to justify our own destruction? And ultimately when our brain pattern is in full operation with all of the self deceptive tendencies that come in tandem with that, we can't see the breakdown in our own logic. We are completely cloaked or distorted into repeating these same cycles over and over again. And they feel at certain phases completely justified or rational, only to then fall into the trap or get slapped in the face and realize oops, that actually wasn't the right thing. To do. Why can't I stop this? So there is a way to stop it. That's exactly what we do in Break method. 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If you are serious about your health, recovery and longevity, go head over to Healing Saunas. Use my code BG Heal for a hundred dollars off. So similar but different to this idea that animals can sense through those different sensory experiences that are very physical when an earthquake or a tsunami are coming. There's also something that has been studied I.e. the random number generator effect, and this is also referred to as global intuition. So think about it like a collective consciousness version of intuition. It's been studied that before major world events like 9, 11, major earthquakes, the tsunami that happened in Thailand, random number generators that are placed all around the world suddenly stop behaving randomly and they start spitting out numerical patterns. So these random number generators are actually built now as a predictive tool because we sense in the intuitive space when something is going to happen to us. So this does suggest that the collective consciousness can actually feel something coming and that that is even able to impact these random number generators. This, I believe, is a contrast to the animal feeling something physically within their body. This is something that clearly, really, there's no reason that these random number generator machines should actually be able to be shifted by a sensory experience. Right? They are not beings, they are computers. So this shows that there is a higher order intuitive pattern resonance here that can actually make something that was once random become patterned. It's a way of communicating, a form of communicating from something that is above or beyond the scope of our third dimension tension. So we do all have this ability. To me, this is a sign that intuition is very real. And while these sensory systems that spit out random number generators all over the world can start to become patterned when we anticipate something major happening to us as a human collective, we also have this ability on the micro scale. But we are so bogged down by instinct and our trauma patterns that we unfortunately just drown it out. Though not everybody drowns it it out. So I've said this before, but I'll reiterate it. There is a certain level of healing that I believe you have to do for intuition, not just to become available, but to become both available and actionable. I know many people who have gotten to a place where the information's available, but that actually gives their brain pattern more room to use that as a weapon against themselves. So sometimes we can get access to knowledge that is out of time time, and out of time, meaning out of the order of time, we may not be ready for something that we've acquired. And therefore, if we acquire that knowledge ahead of the time, that we're prepared to use it wisely, then we use it against ourselves. And this is something that, I think, if you look at it from a spiritual perspective or even a developmental perspective, there are certain steps that we have to take so that we use something as a tool rather than a weapon. Because. Because I've said this on many podcasts before, this is a fork. I can use it to eat my food if I had to. I could also use it to stab somebody in the jugular vein if they were trying to attack me. So any tool can also be A weapon. And if you don't understand how to use said tool wisely and appropriately for the good of yourself and others, it can easily become a weapon. And intuition is certainly no different. I have seen many people completely blow up their labs lives by trying to act on intuition before they're healed enough to make it actionable and practical. So to demonstrate this, I want us to understand that the brain's. One of the brain's primary rules is that it generates language. I'm just going to look on my desk for a second. Right. I see this. It's a coffee cup. This is a fork. This is another coffee sauce. Because why not banana bone? Blingy brass knuckles. Okay, so everything I look at, my brain is going to want to define it. Let's say that you were to see something that was dangling off the edge of your table. Right? Let's say I looked at my coffee cup, and it's dangling off the edge. I might even hear the words, oh, no, right? Or grab it. Right. There's. Everything that we're experiencing has an element of language with it. For some people, that's very auditory. For others, it's very visual. And for some, it's a little bit more on the kinesthetic, somatic side. You, like, feel what you're supposed to do. Ultimately, I think we all experience all levels, but again, certain levels are more dull or. Or stamped out than others. But ultimately, the brain is going to generate language all the time. And the language is then used by the brain to keep us safe. So the language is then start to. It's going to start to organize. So those were all singular words of things that I observed, observed, observed. But as soon as I feel like I've observed something that now requires me to take action, my brain is going organize those words with a specific syntax into a operation or a formula. Like, you have to do this. Like, you have to do this right now, or else. So often these are going to pop up in a rule form, a justification, a rationalization, even an excuse. And these are something that I do spend a lot of time on in my book, your brain is a filthy liar, where you can actually start to get clear on how your brain weaponizes language, language in your own mind based on your brain pattern type. Because ultimately, we have to hack the language itself, because trying to change the behavior at the level of the behavior is so far removed from where we can actually change our lives. We have to change it at the level of initial perception, which, of course, like I'm saying here, is language. Based. So if our brain is observing and then generating language and then it's going to organize this language into a formula. This formula effectively is like, like do this so that you can X. And a lot of times these formulas or frameworks are safety based. What I need you to understand right now is that as I discussed, we're no longer being chased by wild animals. We're no longer having to go hunt and gather for our food. So what can make our brain feel unsafe are things that ultimately you and I would both sit here and say these are completely ridiculous. And yet somehow they may absolutely be triggers for your subconscious conscious. So these safety rules are going to be pervasive throughout our entire day. Even something as subtle as you share something with one of your co workers and a really subtle look that they give you could technically make you struggle with intrusive thoughts for the rest of the day if you don't really know what they meant. Like, are they judging me? Did they think I was lying? Something that simple could hypothetically make you spin off for the rest of the day. So I need you to know that safety to your brain, brain only means known cause and effect. So it doesn't actually mean that you are in fact safe. It doesn't mean that you are happy, successful. In fact, often safety to the brain means that you are essentially in struggle or chaos or heartbreak. Whatever pattern of chaos, heartbreak, or struggle with self identity or lacking of confidence in childhood that you experienced, our brain now knows, knows how to run that cycle. And unfortunately it will keep us running the cycle. And when we're running the cycle, we're much more likely to conflate or accidentally confuse. This is just enough like this to put it into this formula, therefore this formula is true. But this is all happening on the subconscious level. So we're not consciously thinking these things, but subconsciously something's starting to activate our nervous system and now we can't stop thinking about something. We don't know why. Our emotional wounds, wounds which are now triggered as soon as we allow this rule set or this formula to be present to keep us safe. Our emotional wounds are going to be interfacing with the language that our brain generates. And I need you to hear me loud and clear when I say this. It is nearly impossible to separate out or not contaminate intuition when you haven't addressed this language that's floating around in your thought bubble. So imagine when you haven't rewired, it's like having this gigantic thought bubble that's all around your head that Just has all this ticker tape of all this language all the time, all the time. How are you going to effectively seek out and separate intuitive hits when that is happening? You have to effectively rewire that language and get it to be quiet up there so that when something comes in, you're like, aha. This is different. For example, I don't have mental chatter anymore. Many of you may know that have followed my journey for a long time, that from age 9 to 19, I had panic attacks every single day. Like really bad, terrible panic attacks. I was even at a point, my freshman year of college when I was 17, that I had been to the hospital so many times thinking I was having a heart attack, that my dad was like, biz, if you go to the hospital one more time, I'm cutting you off my insurance. Like, they just didn't know what to do with me. So you know what I started to do? I started to sleep in my car outside the hospital just in case my panic attack was really hard to attack. So I've been there. I've been in that pit of despair where I'm not able to think rationally. And if you told me when I was 17 that I would live my life as a 40 year old with no mental chatter, no anxiety, no panic attacks, I would have never believed you. So it is possible. And when you don't have mental chatter, you don't have negative self talk and you don't have that freeze response that makes you question yourself and get stuck in a decision vision. Intuition comes through in a very methodical, very slow way that is distinctly different from how I think. That's another aspect of this that I think is important. A lot of people that blend the two or confuse the two, they think the intuition's going to sound like them or be aligned with them. Often when real intuition comes up, it's not even your way of organizing a thought. It's not your way of speaking. And it's typically very counter to how you would traditionally organize your thoughts or how you would choose. It's a great example of how intuition would show up. So when we think about how our emotional wounds in this language is going to impact us with being able to properly discern intuition. It really comes down to this language level. We have to clear out your thought bubble so that when something comes in, we can know that it's distinctly different from our negative self talk or mental chatter, therefore worthy of taking action on. And that is something that's absolutely possible. It happens to students all the time in break Method. It's very common that when people graduate and they get to the end of their work, I will get an email or a text from them in a group thread that's like, oh my God, it happened. And maybe a lot of these people maybe even came into break not even believing in anything spiritual. We're very atheistic. Eventually, once you actually rewire your emotional trauma and you. You gain back the sovereignty and calm in your mind, it's amazing what spiritual epiphanies people will have and how quickly it actually happens. Ultimately, this is why I've always been a firm believer. You have to do the emotional healing work first before you try to step into anything spiritual. And I see this damage so many people's lives that the spirituality feels like the thing that they want to reach to. The spirituality is going to save me. I don't the mental health thing that's so physical. I just want to go for the spiritual. That absolutely can be a way that you completely destroy your life. And I will talk about that in a moment. So another sort of analogy that I want to give you is that our body is both a transmitter and receiver. So a simple way of looking at this would be like, you can pray for something, right? Please God. You can also receive an intuitive message that is an answered prayer. So we can send things out. We can receive them them in. When we are activated in our emotional wounds and we have that ticker tape and that language is filling our thought bubble, it becomes nearly impossible for us to be able to hear or receive that incoming message or frequency, right? Our ability to receive gets completely diminished because there's so much static. So instead of it being the analogy of this thought bubble, I want you to imagine that there's so much static that it's like you can, you can't hear when that message is coming back to you. And very often people that are experiencing this, they're in desperations. Maybe you are praying, maybe you're like begging even. But until you actually deal with and reconcile the emotional trauma that's causing the static, you may not be able to actually receive that answered prayer, not because it's not coming to you, but because there's so much static that you can't hear, receive, or discern it. So that's one of the major reasons that we need to be able to clear out. That's static. Another major factor that will set the stage for whether you're going to be able to lean into intuition or not is the role of self trust. For intuition to be acted upon, you have to have a certain level of self trust. And unfortunately for many of us, this is something that's generated through childhood inputs or it's not. Typically when this process is disrupted, it's done through a conformity based discipline style that emphasizes compliance and looking to elders as an authority. Rather than building self efficacy. Instead of acting on your own knowledge, perception or intuition, you're accidentally trained to give away your agency and authority to an expert or someone that you perceive to be in a position of hierarchy. If you struggle with self trust, which I know many of you listening to this today are, it can be built. It is not easy, but it can happen and it won't be built by you continuing to give your power away and let other people make decisions. That has to be a process that is very intentionally curated through behavior strategy so that you can rewire that response. In my framework, we do teach that self trust can be either rated as positive or negative. Self trust positive is when you do not instinctively look outside of your own knowledge base or sensory experience to take action. So I do want to be clear here. Self trust is going to be both. Both our acquired knowledge and our life experience, but also our sensory experience experience. Many that struggle with self trust do not even trust their own sensory experience. Example would be someone feels something, they're like, did you feel that? Did you hear that? In other words, subtext. Am I crazy? Am I misreading this? Am I misreading this incoming signal to my body? So self trust is not just going to hit us in our acquired knowledge where we question, do I know this? Am I right? Once it's prevalent enough, it'll even make us question what we're physically sensing or hearing or seeing. This is the ultimate power giveaway. So self trust negative looks to outside sources of information. They look to mentorship hierarchy to make a decision for them. And this is typically more the people pleasing type. Or some will actually seek out others to tell them how to do it. Although subconsciously this is more of a fall guy or scapegoat scenario that exists for a conflict prone type. Because if you're asking somebody how to do do it, there's a part of you subconsciously that's either looking for it to be wrong or to then have somebody to blame if things don't go well. So there is a split there. And in brain pattern mapping with break path break method, we do split up and earmark the people pleasing types versus the conflict prone types. Because how to help you rewire is very different. Self trust, ultimately, when you have it available to you generates momentum because you're not waiting to get a second opinion or subconsciously find somebody else to be on the hook hook in the future to blame. You're just taking action. So you're much less likely to have that freeze response or indecision. You're just going to be able to move forward. Which as you can imagine, is a benefit for people that are trying to take action on intuition because it is calling you toward the fear. It is illogical, it doesn't necessarily make sense, and it won't fit into your paradigm of what's expected when we're thinking about what things create self trust. Because I know I kind of dropped a bomb there that for some people it's created and some people it's not. But again, try to be solutions focused. If it wasn't created in you, which hasn't been in many people, there is a pathway to build it from scratch as a 30, 40, 50, 60, 70 year old. But ultimately, if you are experiencing a lack of self trust, this is some of the way that this can come about. It is going to be a byproduct of early childhood upheaval leading to the child not trusting authority or leadership. So this one is self just positive. So I'm gonna do the self just positive first, just to make that super clear. So self trust positive is to happen when you actually don't trust your primary caregivers and the child has to trust themselves over adults as a whole. So ironically, self trust is created by trusting yourself more than your primary caregivers, which is confounding to think about. And it's, I think, something that I have found in my work time and time again. When parents are loving and nurturing and available and air quotes, do everything right, this actually is the most likely culprit for creating a scenario of self trust negative. When your parents are available to help. If you have a question on homework, they're always there for you. You unfortunately anchor in some level of learned helplessness or codependency and you enjoy working with another to answer your problem. The only problem is you're missing out on these years of opportunity to struggle a little bit and figure out how to do it on your own, which eventually is going to come back to bite you in the butt later. So here, the more you struggled as a kid and didn't have people to help you, the more likely you are to now have self trust positive. Some types will mimic self trust based on performance markers. So another option here is that maybe you feel like you can trust yourself as long as X, Y and Z are trust true. So a lot of this will be in the form of money, accolades, feedback. So as long as somebody gave you positive feedback or you beat the metric or you could measure it, then you feel self trust positive. The reality is that that's still not self trust positive because it's built on an external feedback system. So you won't trust yourself in certain facets of your life and then in others you will trust yourself highly. But the reality is you're actually not trusting yourself as much as you are trusting the feedback or the metric. So those are two different examples of how self trust positive that's truly self generated can be built. Or someone can learn to mimic self trust based on performance. But ultimately those who have parents that actually help them and unfortunately breed this enabled learn helplessness and the co regulation instead of self regulation, they likely are the ones that are going to struggle with a self trust negative presentation where they look to others. Let's talk about one of the most effective ways to make sure that you're not confusing instinct and intuition. Because we do, obviously most of us do this in our daily life because our brain pattern is going to be rooted to survival and our survival patterns are going to be tied to self deception tendencies which are then going to be linked in turn to our instinctive actions. Right. So we talked about how the emotion is the feeling side of it, the instinct is the doing side of it. We want to make sure that we understand this sort of chain reaction when we think about people in life who are more control oriented and they want to know what comes next. This is another way that people may struggle to follow intuitive messages versus somebody who's highly adaptable. Go with the flow. They might easily be able to link in with intuitive messages because they're not so concerned about knowing what comes next. So they're able to kind, kind of follow the breadcrumbs instead of really kind of dig their feet and been like I don't want to follow the breadcrumbs unless I know where this is going. So we want to make sure that we're clear on how our brain pattern sets us up either for this adaptability and go with the flow, natural positioning and fear that makes us follow the breadcrumbs. Because for some of you this is where I see the intuition actually being used as a justification to be reckless. Right? Because you're already kind of naturally a little bit more reckless. Some of you guys, and I'm, I'm this pattern as well. So this was something I certainly had to work on. But then on the flip side, we have the people that are naturally more control oriented that again don't want to follow the breadcrumbs unless they know where the breadcrumbs are taking them. This is going to make it really challenging to be able to lean into those intuitive messages because instinct is connected to survival and then in turn self deception instinct. This is why some people who present as spontaneous or adaptive may not feel unsafe in a situation that your control oriented peer may feel unsafe in. So an example would be I could be, I'm a very adaptable, go with the flow spontaneous person. So I might be in a situation where I'm kind of in flow state and I'm not reading any signals that I'm unsafe. So because I don't have that kind of safety wound activated intuition's able to come forward more quickly. But if my peer, who's much more control oriented, steps into the same situation, they might be scanning, that person feels unsafe. I don't like this neighborhood. Those messages are going to be so loud and predominating that they won't be able to catch that intuitive message. So one of the ways that we can effectively help a client rewire to be able to dampen or diminish those fear based control messages to actually allow this more spontaneous flow state to arrive is to actually address and rewire your initial fear state and how flexible or inflexible and rigid you are in those early states. So I will just remind you that my book, your Brain is a Filthy Liar, it's available on all major retailers. In that book I actually go through and categorize all of the self deceptive patterns that you would have and how to actually overcome them in your everyday life. So you would start with brain pattern mapping. Figure out what your brain pattern type is and then once you grab this book, you'll be able to address a lot of these things to hopefully rewire so that you can actually let intuition come forward. Now this is another thing that I think is important. The intuition doesn't always or even often lead to safety. We've talked about this a little bit. The intuition in many cases calls you into the danger or the instability. Instinct makes us avoid what feels dangerous and in general it seeks both protection and familiarity. Intuition often leads you toward risk, discomfort and uncertainty and it's aligned more with that universal truth. So if you are still using fear as a compass, you're going to call a lot of things danger, where intuition might guide you in a different direction. And sure it's disruptive to your flow and it's outside of your comfort zone, but that is going to be very different. It will lead you to a different place, a different location than when you allow your fear to be your compass. We talked a bit about spiritually bypassing and how some unfortunately, in my opinion, opinion prioritize spiritual seeking ahead of their mental health work and how dangerous that can be. I see this in particular with people who desire to access their intuition or are seeking some sort of spiritual gifts. This can be completely self destructive. I really don't recommend this. Similarly, I very much don't recommend leaning into medicine ceremonies until you've done a lot of this foundational rewiring work. There's a time and a place for everything and there are a variety of otherworldly healing methodologies that are awesome. However, there are certain underlying instinctive messages that I believe truly have to be rewired and understood for you to safely and in a very clean, organized way allow in some of these otherworldly messages or inputs or even things that are extra dimensional. We have to be very, very careful about that because I've seen it push people over the edge where the reality is. And this is. It's hard for some people to wrap their heads around. And I feel like it's something that I have thought about in depth throughout the majority of my life, which has probably made me me. The line between objective and subjective reality is razor thin. We often don't know that line. Is this something that we all experienced or is this something that is just enough of a pivot where this is really my experience and nobody else had that experience, it's so razor thin that once you start to introduce things that are extra dimensional, intangible, or things like medicine journeys where now you're dealing with like the spirit realm, it's so easy for people to completely lose the line that they already were struggling with. So I find it's very beneficial to help somebody reconcile that line and understand and feel sovereign and secure in who they are and how they see the world and remove that distorted perception of reality that comes from our childhood patterns before they then make that line intentionally blurry. So until your emotional wounds through your brain pattern are understood in great detail and rewired, oftentimes I see gifts used as a weapon. Obviously this is not something we want to be striving for. It's very common in today's world for people to seek out spiritual gifting instead of those practical mental health tools. And it just leads you down a dark path. So really highly encourage you not to do it. You'll those things will always be there waiting for you once you've effectively rewired. The spiritual realm is extremely confusing. It's nonlinear. It's a multi dimensional space that can easily push you over the edge if you haven't reconciled this line. So please do reconcile this line first. And more often than not, I have seen very naturally gifted people let their unresolved trauma and fear based patterns masquerade as intuition and psychic psychic gifts. This can quickly turn not just your life but others lives into a dumpster fire if you are not careful. I truly believe that spiritual seeking and expansion have to come after healing your constitutional patterns. And if this work is out of sequence, you may completely lose your tether to your real human life that deserves attention and needs to be prioritized to heal sustainably. I mentioned briefly how for some types intuition can actually be a self sabotage trap that's set by self deception. There are certain pattern types that look for subconscious ways to destabilize their life so that they can return to the familiar chaos of childhood. This instinct comes up to pendulum swing or justify a risky choice which can actually pretend to be intuition where it just feels. I just really feel like I'm just supposed to uproot my life right now and move again. Meanwhile all of your friends are like no, don't move again. No, you really don't need to quit this job again. So for this particular type of person person which naturally tends to be a little bit more go with the flow and spontaneous and actually seeks to destabilize in a variety of ways in their life. This person has to be very careful about how their intuition can really actually just be this instinct to self sabotage and pull them back into chaos. This is something that we do work very specifically on in break method. But for now let's just suffice it to say that if you have a pattern that tends to justify reckless decisions decisions using intuition, it might be time to focus on your discernment and to stop cyclically blowing up your life. Right? Even if you find it completely boring, it might be better to dig your heels in and keep yourself stuck on purpose. Wanna also address people that struggle with superstition. So there's a very specific brain pattern and behavior cycle that corresponds with people who become superstitious or have a tendency to over assign meaning to things. Right? Like like everything is a sign every did you see my numbers? All of this can actually very much I know it's not the easy thing to hear, but this can all absolutely be coming from that fear based pattern. And if you have in your markers a very specific timeline imbalance, you likely already were inclined towards superstitious behavior and over assigning meaning. So then once you actually experience the sort of spiritual messaging, then you can actually let this become the excuse or justification for giving instinct and fear based messages too much time at the wheel. So I encourage you to get that brain pattern type done because this is something that we can easily see in brain pattern mapping and this is something that you absolutely want to check yourself on. Because again, I've seen this be the reason that people completely make their lives turn into a dumpster fire because they think they're following the signs, when really it's their instinct masquerading that way. Instinct is going to keep you in the familiar case, right? Whatever that is. By contrast, intuition is going to often lead you into places that are challenging and confounding, right? The things that like these things don't make sense and then eventually if you keep pursuing it, boom, they all make sense. And I think for this reason it's why there is a certain level of emotional resilience and self regulation that is required to access these places safely. It's why I encourage people to prioritize a specific sequence in this work. That's ultimately why you need to start discernment so you know when a no is your instinct speaking and when a yes is your intuition pushing you past the limits of fear. Discernment will require presence and the ability to think critically, practically and spiritually all at the same time. That is a challenge to do if you are emotionally dysregulated. I would even argue it's impossible to do if you're emotionally dysregulated. So as you can imagine, discernment becomes easier to do when your emotional wounds are completely rewritten. Wired. Let's talk about how we practice observing the difference and prepare yourself to be in the present moment only because when we are actively in the present moment, it becomes very obvious, I think, when something's coming in as an intuitive message because we're no longer fixating on future fear based thinking or we're no longer replaying the past. So again, by way of rewiring those two reflexes, now our mental chatter should be gone. So when something comes in, it's pretty awkward, obvious. Out of the five brain pattern types that exist, there's really only two that are able to naturally be fully present in the moment. And ironically, if you watch the love bombing episode, one of these patterns is also going to be unfortunately mislabeled as the Love Bomber. This sort of tunnel vision presence is actually what gets them into trouble in other areas of their lives for the rest of humanity. We tend to be stuck in the past, projecting into the future, or even a combo of of both in any of these instances. It can be extremely difficult to discern the difference between instinct and intuition when these thought based mechanisms are not properly rewired. First, we teach a variety of these tools and techniques in break method. And these all actively support these mechanisms that allow you to actually be present instead of jumping into the future going into the past. Ultimately, when we're talking about what a healed state looks like, like a healed state does look like presence. Being emotionally regulated and learning. Learning how to self regulate rather than needing somebody else to help you co regulate. Before we wrap this episode, I want to make sure to leave you with three steps that you can use to tell the difference between instinct and intuition. The first one is relatively simple. I want you to check the speed and sensation. Remember the instance. Instinct hits fast, it's visceral, there's some sort of physical sensation, it feels like urgency. Intuition is slower, it's steady, and it's often more neutral and it's often very inconvenient. Okay, when intuition really comes up, you're like, really now why? I don't want to do that. Number two, I want you to scan for narrative. Instinct is going to be tied to memory and it's trying to protect you from what already happened. So it will very quickly tie you into memories or, or that sort of pinball effect where it's thinking about this and this and this and it's trying to say these things are like each other. Instinct is ultimately also rooted in fear. So even like the superstitious hyper spiritualized messages that we were just talking about with like seeing signs and everything and following the signs, these are all still technically part of that same pattern of narrative that can keep you stuck. Intuition does not come with detailed narrative. It just is and often is fragmented and doesn't totally makes sense. The other thing that I want you to do is to track the trajectory. Instinct is often pushing you away from the discomfort and toward the familiar. Right? So think about a spiritual message that's telling you to go back to your toxic ex because they really are the one. Probably not intuition, probably not spiritual, probably just your instinct trying to set another self deceptive trap to get you to go back to the Familiar pain of a toxic ex. Intuition might pull you into discomfort to challenge you, to get you to go your own way but build new skills. You have to be honest about whether you use the spiritual messages to justify uprooting or destabilizing your life. In this case, the best and most effective pattern opposition is to meet this message with a strong no and double down on every single aspect of your life that builds into consistency and stability. Even if you think that's boring, you think it's so mundane and you don't want to do it anymore, you have to be able to make meet the known message of intuition leading you to recklessness with a no, I'm not going to do this. I'm going to intentionally keep myself stuck and rooted in future episodes. I am going to discuss the traps that we set by spiritual seeking and how crucial it is to time this correctly. But for now, I just want you to remember that your gut is not a compass. It's actually a conflict zone. One voice says run. The other voice says lean in. And most of you do. You don't naturally know how to discern the difference. Instinct is fast, loud. It's rooted in the past and projecting out to the future. It is your body pulling you from survival based snapshots that are very much rooted into your trauma and your fear and your nervous system responses. Intuition is slower, inconvenient, and it often doesn't offer safety. But it does offer truth. And that truth is almost never wrapped in comfort. So the next time you have a gut feeling, I want you to ask yourself, is this a pattern screaming for safety? Or is this a quiet knowing pulling me towards something new, even if it's completely uncertain. If this episode made you pause and question all of your default reactions and start rethinking the inner signals that you may have just decided were gut feelings or intuition, don't just let this fade now. Please share this with somebody who needs to hear it now. With this uprising of spiritual communities everywhere and everyone wanting to be of conscious conscious, I just see that this happens so often and it's one of the things that if you can learn to properly discern it and rewire, we stop letting both spiritual bypassing be a reason we light our lives on fire or we start spiritually justifying our deeper emotional wounds that absolutely are chaotic and need to change. I've said this so many times before. When people just keep prioritizing awareness over action, eventually they just become a more aware act. We really don't need more aware assholes in the world. We need people who actually do things differently and are no longer so. That starts by rewiring these deeper emotional patterns before you dip your toe in the murky multi dimensional waters of spirituality. So if this episode spoke to you, please head over to the podcast on all the different platforms. If you could leave us a review rate it it's a brand new show. It helps us so much when you do that. And remember, you can't trust your gut until you've rewired what's feeding it. I'll see you guys next time. Your brain isn't broken, it's running. An old code break method is a system that maps your neurological patterns, decodes your emotional distortions, and rewires your behavior fast. No talk therapy spiral, no getting stuck in your feelings, just logic based rewiring. In 20 weeks or less. 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