How to Trust Your Gut: Building Confidence in Your Intuition

You may be at a point where you feel like you have it all, but you don’t feel as fulfilled as you’d like to feel. You continue with life feeling some kind of emptiness that is difficult to identify, and you ask people what they would do if they were in the same situation you are in. Funnily enough, a lot of those answers will describe a change ‘out there.' But if you feel your life is missing something and none of what people said has helped, maybe it’s time to start listening to someone else.

“Your inner world precedes the outer world.” It’s all that ‘as above, so below’ mumbo-jumbo you’ve probably heard about at some point in your life. But no matter at what point you are in your life, it doesn’t feel fulfilling enough. But why is that?

Most people I know approach life through their five senses. This is the obvious thing to do, but it’s probably also the most oblivious, which is funny because it is a contradiction within itself.

As creatures of focus (no, not of habit), we tend to become so focused on the things around us that we become oblivious to what is happening inside us. As I previously said: “Your inner world precedes the outer world.” So the inside is important too.

Trusting your gut, or listening to your intuition, does not begin by turning off the lights, lighting a few candles, and saying some affirmations — it could for some — no, for most of us, it begins by shifting the focus from the five senses to the sixth, to your seventh, to your eighth, and to your ninth.

I am not quite sure how many senses there are or if your imagination even counts as one, but I am just trying to illustrate a picture for you:

It all begins inside your imagination.

Because that is where your true power is, and it will bring you a shift in your focus.

Here I go again: “As above, so below.” “Signs do not follow, but they precede.” “Peaceful thoughts bring forth a peaceful world.”

Truthfully, the only genuine way to access your intuition is by cultivating familiarity with your inner experiences. It’s what the gurus like to call: “to awaken.” But it’s what I’d like to call: “to become aware of.” All you need is a shift in your focus. This also means that you have to become aware of where your current focus is.

Are you always imagining the worst possible outcome?

Then, you are not trusting your gut.

Are you always relying on other people to make choices for you?

Then, you are not tapping into your inner guidance.

Do you always feel you’re incapable of making life work for you?

Then, you are not listening to your intuition.

Yes, it is that simple. “The most complicated questions have the easiest answers.” This is a quote I always like to say to people. But what usually hits home is this one by Rabindranath Tagore: “It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.” Most things in life are free and easy, but we like to complicate them for… Sport? Maybe out of habit?

Even though I’ve just argued that we are not creatures of habit, we are creatures of focus who possess a habitual mind.

The subconscious mind is that habitual mind wherein the secret of: ‘as above, so below’ lies. As I mentioned before, the most complicated questions have the easiest answers. This is still very true because this is the answer: your subconscious mind, unlike your conscious mind, does not contain a filter. So, this might explain why you have unwanted habits in place.

Also, if you find you have a lot of unwanted things happening in your life, it’s because anything you overhear — anything — gets put in it and sometimes even pushed out into your outer world.

The term EIYPO (Everyone Is You Pushed Out) is something Law of Assumption discoverer Neville Goddard thought of. It means that what you assume about people forms the foundation for every interaction and experience you will have. But this principle doesn't just apply to people. It applies to everything else as well.

Have you ever seen in real life or watched someone on TV being hypnotized? This also happens through the subconscious mind. When the person is hypnotized, they are so relaxed that their brainwaves are in a state called theta. This state is known as the ‘suggestible state.’ And we all know the more suggestible you are, the easier you are to be hypnotized.

But your life is a little bit different.

We often don't realize our brain's current brainwave state.

While you don't need to be conscious of this most of the time, having this awareness can be beneficial. If you're unfamiliar with the different brainwave states, here's a quick overview, listed from the fastest to the slowest:

• GAMMA (above 30 HZ)

• BETA (above 12 HZ)

• ALPHA (8-12 HZ)

• THETA (4-8 HZ)

• DELTA (0.1-3.5 HZ)

Gamma brainwaves mean you have achieved deep concentration and are immersed in something that has you highly focused and alert. Gamma brainwaves are also preferred over the other states because they give individuals a sense of timelessness. This is why doing something fun gives you this feeling: your brain is in a different brainwave state.

Delta brainwaves mean you’re fast asleep. Theta, however, is an interesting one.

Have you ever experienced looking at something on your phone before sleeping and then dreaming about it? This is because before going to sleep, your brain is in the theta state. Your mind is wildly suggestible before going to sleep. This is why meditation is recommended in the mornings and the evenings: you are in theta.

Your brain is so suggestible that it bypasses all logic and reason.

But your life is different. Or is it? Because how do you control what gets pushed out and what doesn’t? By shifting your focus.

Go from doing to being, from doubting to knowing, and from overthinking to surrendering. Shifting your focus is immensely powerful because it stops you from looking at your life and what’s in front of you, and it gets you to start looking at what is inside of you: your intuition.

Something this incomprehensibly important gets pushed to the side ‘out of habit.’ And I didn’t make the rules to this thing called life either. I only know that if I put myself and my intuition on the back burner, something always goes wrong. Every single time I ignored what I truly wanted because of ‘logic’s sake,’ I would turn out to be the one unhappy. So, I stopped doing that and shifted my focus to my inner world and intuition.

There is so much to learn about life from the answers you have inside. And this is what builds or creates confidence in your intuition. But I know this could be hard because of what you’re used to. But it won’t just build confidence in your intuition; it will trickle down into every area of your life.

Your intuition is undeniably linked to who you are (you and your intuition are one, is basically what I mean). This not only creates confidence in trusting your gut or that voice in your mind, but it also creates confidence in yourself.

So, shifting your focus, the subconscious mind, ‘Everyone Is You Pushed Out,’ and ‘as above, so below,’ can all sound mysterious and spiritual. But the main thing you should take away from all of this is that you have all of the answers you were seeking already inside of you.

There is nothing you have to work on or need to have solved. You only need to shift your focus from the outside world to your inside world. That is how real change is made and how you can finally build confidence in your intuition.