The Feeling You Talked Yourself Out Of—It Was Right.

There's a particular kind of regret that comes from overriding what your body already knew. You felt it. Maybe it was that sense that something didn't feel alive when you imagined it — even though it looked right on paper. Maybe it was a persistent drain in a relationship you kept explaining away. Maybe it was a settled knowing about something that didn't make complete logical sense yet. And then you talked yourself out of it. Because you couldn't explain it. Because the logic said something different. Because you hadn't yet been given permission to trust what your body was already communicating.

Most of us were taught to lead with our thinking. To justify our feelings before we trust them. To override the signal if we can't back it up with evidence. But your nervous system is one of the most sophisticated information processing systems that exists. It reads your environment, your relationships, your situations — and it reports back through physical signals, through feelings, through a knowing that arrives before the words do. When we consistently dismiss that communication we cut ourselves off from some of our most accurate and useful information. This week I want to invite you into one practice.

Before you make a decision, enter a situation, commit to something — check in with your body first. Not your thoughts about it. Your body. Is the light on? What is it communicating before your mind takes over? That information is worth something. It has always been worth something. If this is resonating and you want to go deeper — my book What Your Body Knows is available on June 10th at ContextualLiteracy.com.Want to explore this further? Get the three free guided clearings and weekly Nervous System Journal reflections at this link: contextual-literacy-clearings.subscribepage.io