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School of Self-Image

373: What Not Listening to My Body Has Cost Me

School of Self-Image

Tonya Leigh

Self-improvement, Fashion & Beauty, Education, Arts

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Finding Fulfillment Through Trusting Your Intuition

Do you struggles with not trusting intuition? Tonya Leigh knows exactly what that feels like and how it has impacted her  life. Throughout this episode, she emphasizes the benefits of following intuition. Listening to intuition can lead to a more fulfilling life and make decision-making easier. Intuition is described as an inner compass connected to one's true self and higher purpose. Tonya encourages listeners to pay attention to their bodies and not ignore the signals they receive. Ignoring intuition can lead to suffering and keep individuals in a state of scarcity. Being overly cognitive and overthinking things can override gut feelings and lead to decisions that are not in true service of oneself.

To reconnect with intuition, Tonya suggests asking oneself questions and tuning into the inner voice. "If my highest self could speak, what would she say?" and then imagining the wisest self advising. By removing outside opinions, societal expectations, and the influence of others, individuals can tap into their own inner knowing.

Tune in to discover how you can make decisions that align with your values and priorities and experience a greater sense of flow and fulfillment in life.

 


 

Episode Breakdown:

01:09 Overriding that gut knowing

06:32 When intuition is nudging you

09:35 Getting off track

14:09 Listen to your body

19:29 The power of intuition

23:21 Following your inner compass

26:36 Intuition versus fear

33:32 What do I know deep down?

36:04 Elevating the quality of mindset

Quotes:

"Albert Einstein said, the intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the reflective, rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."

"Showing up and sharing and helping and serving and offering value is the greatest way to sell anything."

"They can be saying all of the right things, they can be smiling in your face, on paper they can look like the perfect person for you, but your gut is saying run."

"Learning to listen and decode your intuition is going to lead to a greater, more fulfilling life."

"Sometimes it's pursuing a career path, even though you feel it does not genuinely align with your interests, your soul, or your strengths."

"Intuition usually isn't panicked. It's just this very calm, gentle, subtle voice."

"But what I do know is that you know, and that answer is found within your body, not your mind, but within your body."

"Listening to your intuition requires space. It requires time to just be with yourself."

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Albert Einstein said the

0:02.3

the intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the reflective rational mind is a faithful

0:07.8

servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. This episode is all about

0:15.9

listening to the gift and more specifically what not listening to this gift has

0:22.0

cost me.

0:22.8

So let's dive in.

0:24.4

Welcome to the school of self-image

0:30.2

where personal development meets style.

0:32.8

Here's your hostess master life coach, Tanya Lee.

0:38.0

Hello beautiful friends.

0:39.4

Welcome back to the podcast.

0:41.1

And if this is your first time listening, listening hi I'm so glad you're here

0:45.8

today is going to be for my over thinkers for those who hardly ever check in with their bodies,

0:55.0

for those who don't trust their intuition.

0:59.0

I'm recording this episode for you. I'm going to share what not listening to my body has

1:06.8

cost me and how I've learned to get back in touch with my intuition and the payoff of listening to your body,

1:17.2

how it can lead to such a more fulfilling life.

1:20.9

This is something that I coach around and it's something that I've personally

1:24.9

struggled with in my life not listening to my own intuition to that inner

1:32.1

guidance. I tend to be very cognitive, I can be in my head, I can

1:37.4

overthink things and I can override my gut with thoughts to help me do things that are not in true service of me.

1:49.1

And I was actually talking to a friend a few days ago because we were talking about intuition versus thought work and how they

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