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Radio Headspace

Intuition and Fear

Radio Headspace

Headspace Studios

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Dora Kamau discusses balancing intuition and fear, emphasizing mindfulness practices from Headspace for making grounded decisions and nurturing intuitive wisdom in daily life. Try the Headspace app free for 30 days here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Head Space Studio.

0:07.0

Studio.

0:11.0

Hi, welcome to Friday and to Radio Headspace. It's Dora here, just in time for the weekend.

0:18.0

So recently, I've been thinking about a story my teacher shared with me in class and it's the story of the

0:24.9

two wolves. Maybe you've heard it before. It's about a Cherokee grandfather teaching his

0:30.5

grandson about life.

0:36.0

He shares that there's a fight within all of us, a terrible fight between two wolves.

0:39.0

One is evil and angry,

0:41.0

and the other is good and filled with joy, peace, hope and serenity.

0:46.1

So the grandson asks, well, which wolf wins? And the grandfather replies,

0:52.3

the one you feed.

0:54.0

It's a relevant story for me because lately

0:58.0

I've had a bit of an internal debate going on.

1:01.0

Except in this situation, the wolves are intuition. going on one

1:04.0

one side, intuition and fear. On one side, there's my intuition.

1:09.0

It drives me to try new things, go new places,

1:12.0

and push myself creatively.

1:15.0

And on the other end is fear nipping at every new thing my intuition is pushing me towards.

1:21.0

Telling me I shouldn't try that new thing, or I should go where I'm familiar with, and

1:27.5

that I should stay within the boundaries of my comfort zone creatively. But as the grandfather said to his grandson, winning an internal struggle

1:36.8

is about which sides you feed. And lately, I think I've been feeding my fear.

1:46.0

So today let's talk about intuition and fear. When to follow one, when to follow the other,

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