You Cannot Have a Checklist for Intuition
Recently, I’ve been writing a lot about how we fuck up intuition in the West.
In my emails, I spoke about a fascinating conversation I had with someone about a retreat they held a few weekends back.
The retreat had a focus on intuition, something people here in the West have a tough time with.
As we were discussing it, this person told me that outside of the defined "structure" of what was planned to happen, it seemed like everyone attending lacked the ability to be intuitive. They were confused about what to "do," and seemed to want to be "taught" more than anything.
They also found themselves unsettled by changes in the schedule, which had to happen because of weather, and things beyond anyone's control.
The person leading this retreat has a background in education and spent many years working in that field. To them, the behavior stemming from our standardized education system was as clear as day.
Students want to sit down and be taught by a teacher. They will only be taught by a teacher. And then they want a checklist of the 5-10 things they can do to be more intuitive (how oxymoronic,) and they want to merrily walk off on their way with a piece of paper saying they're qualified to be intuitive.
The systems that have made you this way ARE DESIGNED TO DO SO to make you into a product-producing, drone-like peg. And the reason for THAT is because there are macro-level forces working to make billions of dollars at the expense of your sovereignty. Nobody gives a fuck about you. It's about money.
You were trained to act standardized because of MONEY. They want every action you take to be of a design to keep SYSTEMS RUNNING.
Take the fallacy of THE FOOD GUIDE PYRAMID that somehow convinced us we should be eating more grains than ever should be consumed by a human body. It didn't differentiate carbohydrates. It also didn't differentiate between healthy and unhealthy fats. Fast track to obesity. But the government pushed the model in schools to justify serving up government subsidies. Obesity causes disease but it's fine. BIG PHARMA has to take their cut.
So, when you're looking to others to tell you what to do, that's because you were programmed like a rat to behave that way. Some macro-level system, somewhere, is depending on you to fall in line and ask an instructor "what's next?"
There is no checklist for intuition.
It can come through in various ways, and it’s different for every person.
In this podcast, I talk about the why behind us wanting one teacher with one message, and then I deep dive a little bit more into intuitive eating.
I talk about two examples of two fictitious people, and how each of them may have to approach something like intuitive eating differently when teaching the brain to interpret the communication from the cells of the body.
I talk fast, so there’s a lot of stuff to digest in this one.
I also talk about my new group coaching program for women: DAY 1.
The link to learn more about Day 1. is: day1.getthefuckoff.com
Enrollment will begin this week. Please, if anyone has any questions, reach out to me directly: andee@getthefuckoff.com
