Our Three Brains
Last year, I was lucky enough to be at a lunch with my first coaching mentor, Julie Parker. We caught up on life and business, and I told her something I’d wanted to do for nearly six years.
“When you made your speech at the Coaching Inspiration Day in 2017, I had a very loud knowing from my intuition that something was going to happen. I didn’t act on it then, but I knew at that moment that it would happen. And it did.”
In her warm, lovely way, she held my hand and told me she hoped it had all turned out OK.
It did turn out OK (eventually), and it is an example that’s helped me come to accept the following:
Our intuition is always spot on.
Years later, I trained as an inner voice facilitator and started to use intuition to work with my clients.
My very rational planning brain wanted to know – How is intuition a thing? Am I just making these thoughts up? What part of us is really talking about in these situations?
And hooray, I worked to find the science to confirm it!
Here’s the breakdown:
Your brain and body are very closely connected. Interpersonal neurobiology has discovered that you have a version of your brain in your heart and gut, thus the feeling of intuition.
More messages are sent from your heart/gut to your brain than from your brain to your body, so those hunches are real thoughts being sent to your brain.
If you ignore hunches and gut feelings, it’s believed you are ignoring over 80% of the brain power / nervous system you’ve been given.
Credit: Natalie Bohin
Inside the Not Dead Yet coaching program, I’m talking to many clients who just have a “feeling” they should follow a goal.
And now you know why.
So this week, be aware of your own gut and heart and what it might want.
PS: We cover all of this in Module 2 of Not Dead Yet, including how to tap into your intuition whenever you need to. You can jump on the waitlist here to join us in March.
