Is it possible to operate in this life using the simple system of “does this feel right yes or no?”
This doesn’t mean just operating through your pleasure drive only though and throwing all logic out the window.
It’s a culmination of knowing yourself so well that you can quickly filter what is good and what isn’t and trust yourself to make the correct decision without driving yourself crazy with thousands of words trying to justify your gut feeling.
There are times in my life that my body was telling me something was dangerous, but I had no idea why. I let my mind control what decision I made rather than give myself up to how it feels—
Does this feel good yes or no?
By not listening to my intuition, it led me down a path of unhappiness and a path of incredibly hard choices that were shrouded with words that didn’t make sense.
My logic led me into a place where logic wasn’t welcome.
When you can reach an understanding of how you operate fully, and you continue to be curious about WHY you do what you do- life gets easier.
You need to figure out a personal system of what is correct for YOURSELF without needing an explanation.
Now this system tows the line of impulsivity which could lead you down a path of bad decisions that may ultimately cause more harm than good.
Making a decision based off intuition is taking all the information you have collected about yourself and filtering it in a blink of an eye.
So what would be needed in order to mitigate the chance that swiftly saying yes or no would be a bad process for you?
When you can understand how your mind operates, what your habits are, what emotions you feel and WHY they all happen then you can start to understand your patterns.
Paying attention to your own patterns of behavior can allow you to make choices that will continue to lead you in the correct direction.
Continuously ask yourself why and how.
When you’ve figured out your own operating manual then you can begin to tailor it to suit you to live in a way that ultimately works best for you.
I think maybe what I’m trying to get at is the importance of paying attention to the way everything makes you feel and making sure that it is being taken in as important information that can be used to make decisions throughout your life.
And my personal goal is to get back to the basics and the simplicity of life- make everything easier.
The system of does this feel good yes or no is an easy way to simplify the hardships that we’ve created for ourselves, at least in my humble opinion.
I call this system simple, and honestly, I dislike calling it a system because I feel that it is based in your intuition and feelings which has room for chaos and randomness, but underneath it all it is so multifaceted that it actually ends up being complicated in order to get to the simplicity.
It always feels so unnecessary to overexplain or over justify actions. I find that I will spend days ruminating over a choice I’ve made and listing out every reason under the sun for why I felt or did something. And ultimately I always come back to the idea that it just was or wasn’t for me and that’s it.
I don’t want this idea to be used as an easy out but more so if you can get yourself to the point of being able to live with this simplicity then I believe you truly know yourself. You can take years of experience and simplify it into a yes or no rather than overusing logic to define your actions.
You’re essentially trusting yourself to be you and only you. Your mind isn’t filled with clutter or guilt about the choices you’ve made. You are confident in saying yes or no because that’s how well you know yourself.
I think there is a duality that we can all live within which encompasses using all of our knowledge and experience while also enjoying the chaos.
I believe there is a path through the randomness of life but it’s up to you to decide.
Everyone is given choices every single day- yes or no?
You can live for yourself in the way that you choose.
You don’t need to convince someone else and most importantly you don’t need to convince yourself.
XOXO
M