Intuition

[Tinadragonfly]

I have a question about intuition. If you have taken prescription drugs that are for any mind condition how do you know the difference between your intuition or the meds messing with your head? I am hoping to get weaned off all of them because I don't want to be dependent of anti anxiety meds.

Tina

[TimFellow]

Intuition will be accompanied by a gut feeling, a feeling that you think you should follow. It's a softer, more gentle voice. The voice from the drug will probably just be ramble.

[Tinadragonfly]

So it is a soft gentle feeling. Sometimes I get these feelings that are so strong but..they turn out to be paranoia. It drives me crazy.

[SL]

Hi Tina,

I know how overwhelming feelings can be.
The exercise that helped me the most, in learning to understand my feelings and where they came from, was to schedule a time where I forced myself to consciously sit quietly and forced myself to be an observer. I would allow myself to have whatever thought or feeling that came up, but for that scheduled time period I would role-play with myself, so to speak. I was 'the observer' and what I observed in myself was what I wanted to investigate. In other words, I hired myself to be a detective, a private investigator into my own mind, body and soul. I wanted to use this method so that I could create some distance between myself and my feelings and perceptions. This was important for me because at the time, it wasn't clear to me what was 'true' or not. It wasn't clear to me whether or not I was being smart when I was fearful, or stupid when I was fearless or... vice-versa and stupid when I was fearful and smart when I was fearless. The noise in my head drowned out the reality I was experiencing.

Using this approach, I found that I could actually think about whether or not my feelings even made sense. Many did not. Many were quite simply irrational fears. Making myself keep this appointment with myself to be the observer of myself, gave me a method that allowed me to determine for myself what made sense as well as what thought was actually helpful for me to be who I wanted to be, as well as how I wanted to become that person and what thought(s) did not help me.

Yes, therapy can help, talking with friends (if you have any you respect on this level) can help, using drugs theoretically can help (if your brain chemistry really is whacked out). But the only person who can truly be objective AND understand who you are and who you want to be is YOU. Everyone else you speak with, regardless of how smart or how well-trained or how much experience they may have, will be unable to be completely objective. Everyone else will be looking at you with their feelings, perceptions, opinions and attitudes.

When you use this method I am describing, you are the one, and your only agenda, attitude and opinion is the one you want to support. Your only objective for yourself is clarity... c-l-a-r-i-t-y.

This keeps things simple for you.

I hope this has been helpful and I will be thinking of you and sending you my support in your process.

Peace,
Steve