Making Better Decisions, Day 1: Intuitive Intelligence: Hacking Your Gut-Brain Axis for Clarity
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
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🗓️ 26 October 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to this week's new meditation series! Today, we use visualization to build a clear, internal map of alignment. This practice helps listeners access a state of deep clarity, making complex choices feel simple by pre-feeling the outcome and strengthening the mind's ability to focus on what truly matters.
WELCOME TO THIS WEEK'S SERIES:
Are you tired of leaving your big decisions to endless spreadsheets and overthinking? This week, we dive into Intuitive Intelligence, the powerful, science-backed way your body makes brilliant choices by listening to your Gut-Brain Axis—the direct highway between your enteric nervous system and your mind. Over seven days, you'll learn to cut through the analytical noise, bypass "analysis paralysis," and confidently trust the internal signals that lead to your best life.
This is day 1 of a 7-day meditation series, "Intuitive Intelligence: Hacking Your Gut-Brain Axis for Clarity," episodes 3402-3406.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 3,402 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you to a |
| 0:11.7 | unique series. This week, the theme you'll be following all week long is intuitive intelligence. You will be hacking your gut |
| 0:26.7 | brain axis for clarity. And in today's episode, you're going to be guided in a visualization |
| 0:35.6 | to help you make better decisions. So this week, I'm going to be guided in a visualization to help you make better decisions. |
| 0:40.1 | So this week, I invite you to consider a decision you've been wanting to make. |
| 0:47.3 | Maybe it's something you're excited about and you can't wait to start making this decision and living it out or maybe you're finding that you |
| 0:58.4 | feel stuck or you're procrastinating about making a decision. So this is a week for you to |
| 1:08.6 | tune into your intuitive intelligence to help you gain mental clarity. |
| 1:18.4 | And you're going to learn science and discover research about what is called your gut brain |
| 1:26.8 | axis. |
| 1:35.6 | This has to do with the notion that your gut is your second brain. |
| 1:42.1 | You might think about that when you're making a decision as you'll be guided in today's meditation. |
| 1:49.2 | You'll notice what your gut instinct is revealing to you. |
| 2:08.4 | You will be guided using visualization to mentally map the felt sense of a great choice versus a poor one. And this relies on your brain's neuroplasticity. This is your brain's ability to reorganize itself by forming new neural |
| 2:16.4 | connections. And when you vividly visualize an aligned outcome, you create a strong neurological memory that guide |
| 2:28.3 | you towards true clarity. |
| 2:31.3 | So this is your week to become clear about a decision. You're maybe in the |
| 2:40.9 | process of making or maybe it's a decision that soon you will have to make. You'll be using a |
| 2:49.1 | visualization to build a clear internal map of alignment. |
| 2:54.8 | And this is going to give you a state of deep clarity for when you're making complex choices. |
| 3:02.8 | You're going to be guided with a pre-feeling. |
| 3:08.5 | This is the outcome that you want, |
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