#168: How to Get Better at Trusting Your Gut Intuition

Dhru Purohit Show

Dhru Purohit

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.7 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to The Big Idea of the Week!

On today’s Broken Brain Podcast, our host, Dhru Purohit talks to us about how to trust our gut and get better at listening to our intuition.

He shares three big ideas on this topic:

(1) Practice listening - our intuition doesn’t just speak to us in life’s big events, it speaks to us in life’s small events too. Listening to our intuition in life’s little moments will help us get better at hearing our intuition in life’s bigger moments.

(2) Meditate - meditation is one of the ultimate life hacks. If you find yourself struggling to implement a regular meditation practice, try walking. It gets you into nature, and is great for giving you a change in perspective.

(3) Find the fear or allow - when people say, “I’m so confused, I don’t know what I want,” it typically means one of two things: (1) “I don’t know what I want, but I feel I should know,” or (2) “I do know what I want, but I’m afraid of the consequences of my decision.”

If you don’t know what you want, breathe and slow down. The answer always comes if you are willing to be silent long enough to hear it, and allow things to unfold. A lot of growth happens when we become comfortable being uncomfortable.

If you do know what you want, but are afraid of the consequences of your decision, address the fear. Write your fears down on paper—be clear about them, don’t hide from them. Give a name and a face to the monster that is holding you back. Monsters are never as scary as they seem when we can see what they really look like.

Most people who say they are confused actually do know what they want, but for some reason they are scared. Scared of making the wrong choice, scared of losing love, scared of failing. Being scared is a great thing, it shows you that you care. But when we stop because we’re scared, we don’t learn the lesson that we were meant to learn.

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0:00.0	How to trust your gut and get better at listening to your intuition.
0:04.5	That's today's topic for the big idea of the week episode.
0:09.1	Big idea of the week episodes are where I come to you with a thought, a distinction,
0:13.9	an idea that's radically transformed my life for the better.
0:18.1	And today we're talking about trusting your gut and getting better at listening to your intuition.
0:25.1	First, let's be clear about something.
0:28.3	Intuition is as real as rain as they say.
0:33.5	Not only have many of us felt it at numerous occasions inside of our life,
0:38.8	we know that feeling when our intuition is speaking to us, but, and here's the thing,
0:44.6	science has confirmed it.
0:46.6	There's a whole host of researchers and physicians and authors that have explored this concept.
0:54.8	One of the people that I've enjoyed her work, Dr. Judith Olowf, MD.
1:00.1	She's an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA.
1:04.4	And she talks about intuition being the right side of our brain, the brain's hippocampus,
1:09.7	and most importantly, the gut.
1:12.8	Our gut are actual whole intestinal system.
1:18.3	Our gut is our body's second brain.
1:21.6	There are a hundred million neurons in the small intestines alone and
1:26.6	500 million, 500 million neurons total in the intrinsic nervous system.
1:33.6	That's the second largest collection of neurons and glial cells outside of the brain.
1:40.4	So why this is so important is we often think of intuition and we often think about
1:46.8	listening to our intuition as just a mental thing, but it's not a mental thing.
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