Stop Overthinking, Day 4: "Intuitive Intelligence: Hacking Your Gut-Brain Axis for Clarity" meditation series
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Today's session uses a Vagus Nerve breathing technique focused on deep, slow exhales to instantly calm your nervous system and reduce the "pit in the stomach" feeling. This practice clears the static on the gut-brain highway, allowing your intuitive signals to be transmitted clearly and immediately.
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 4 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 | Monday Sidekick, the AI agent that knows you and your business, thinks ahead and takes action. Ask it anything. Seriously, Monday Sidekick, AI you'll love to use. Start a free trial today on Monday.com. Welcome to episode 3,4005 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Megley and I welcome you to day four of this |
| 0:27.4 | week's series. You are on a journey to this week today. Stop overthinking to tune into your intuitive intelligence and this is a process |
| 0:42.5 | of hacking your gut brain axis for clarity so if you are overthinking decisions or you're feeling stuck or you're putting off making a decision, |
| 1:00.7 | this is a series for you to tune into your inner wisdom so that you know what the best decision |
| 1:09.1 | is for you to make. And in yesterday's episode, I shared with you as |
| 1:14.7 | your insight how most of the time, overwhelmingly most of the time, our initial gut instinct |
| 1:24.3 | is the right path. And what we often do is try to overthink how we're |
| 1:33.8 | feeling or our natural inclination to where we rationalize something and by |
| 1:40.3 | rationalizing it this has us going out there, outside of our own internal wisdom. |
| 1:51.0 | And taking a quick view of what's around us outside, we might notice that other people are feeling fine and they look like they're fine. |
| 2:03.1 | If you have this type of intuition that tells you that something's amiss, something's |
| 2:09.9 | not quite right in this scene or with this person, but everyone else seems to like them, |
| 2:16.3 | or you just can't pinpoint why, but you just don't feel good about something or someone. |
| 2:25.0 | Listen to your intuition. |
| 2:28.5 | It can be difficult to know how to tune into your intuition. |
| 2:33.5 | So today, you're going to discover how the mudras I share with you |
| 2:39.4 | every week in day four of a series. That's where we are today. You explore a hand mudra, a way |
| 2:49.0 | you position your hands that is considered to stimulate a corresponding |
| 2:54.6 | region of your brain and that actually is an anchor for your brain |
| 3:02.6 | for your brain gut axis so when you do a hand mudra, it's considered to ground you in the right |
| 3:16.1 | course of action. So in yesterday's episode, you discovered the importance of noticing your |
| 3:22.8 | gut reaction. |
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