Yesterday my son was reading a book on Zen, and he shared about trusting your gut, something we as a family believe in doing.

The Japanese advice is to think with your gut.
And so this morning I thought I'd share some thoughts sparked by that reminder..Ana
We are at a crossroads in our lived right now and it's time for us to choose to move forward or remain "feeling stuck". We already know that we must move forward and we have taken the first step by asking for guidance and being open to receive.
Remember
that we ARE spirit and we are being guided to create a space for new
experiences to come into our life. Hence the reason we are feeling like
something has left us.
What
we are experiencing leaving is all that we thought we were which many
are finding is based in Illusion. We are not losing anything, we are
finding out who we really are. Rest assured there is nothing to fear
AND we are not alone, we never were.
So
let us be encourage to begin sharing our beliefs, ideas, and
experiences with others. When we choose not to this leads to more
feelings of isolation.

Trust
our guts..the body has Wisdom, the other senses can take care of us too
and have been known to misunderstand and think the illusion was the
Reality.

Our "guts" know the difference.

Belly Laughs~~Belly Dance~~Belly Wise...Ana
Here's an example from a newsletter...

The
key is this word “gut.” This English word is kin to the Japanese word
hara. Hara literally means “belly”; it also refers to the body’s center
as the site of our soul-power, our connection to Source Energy.

  (stomach)
The
Japanese say hara de kangaenasai, literally “please think with your
belly.” We say “trust your gut.”Hara, gut, belly: Whether we’re
speaking English or Japanese, the body’s center is home to our center
of being.

It’s the oracle already situated inside us.

We’ve
all got the capacity for intuition. It’s wired into us, like the
capacity to breathe and the ability to digest food. So how do you
amplify the voice of your intuitive knowing? How do you clarify the
images and impressions it produces? How do you become more attentive to
your gut instincts?
If you want to enhance your intuition, your gut
knowing, then allow yourself to breathe all the way down and into your
belly. Wear clothes that allow you to breathe deeply. Rather than “suck
it up,” let your belly be soft and round. Let it be a vessel for the
breath, then honor your belly with compassionate awareness. Shift from
criticizing how your belly looks to noticing, and valuing, how it
feels. Rather than abandoning your body’s center, withdrawing your
awareness and making yourself numb, allow yourself to appreciate the
sensations taking place there. What impressions of temperature,
density, motion do you experience? What colors, shapes, images do you
sense?

As Dr. Christiane Northrup, author of Women’s Bodies,
Women’s Wisdom, declares: “You can’t tell what’s going on if your belly
is always hard as a rock and flat. You’ve got to have your belly
rounded a little bit to be in touch with your gut instincts.”

Experiment: Keeping your belly flat and rigid, enter a room full of people and
notice the quality of your intuition. Then enter a similar situation
with your belly resilient with your breath. What’s the scope of your
intuition now?
If you want to enhance your intuition, then
energize your belly with power-centering movement and breath. Doing so,
you’ll be activating your body’s center as the center of your magnetic
field. As you strengthen your magnetic field, you’ll increase your
sensitivity to changes in the fields all around you.
As Robert
Lawlor writes in Voices of the First Day, “Magnetic fields of influence
integrate the universe, earth, and every living creature so that each
communicates its rhythmic essence in resonance with all the others. In
[Australian] Aboriginal terms, magnetism is the voice of the earth’s
Dreaming, a voice to which the Aborigines listen with great care-a
voice to which our civilization has become completely deaf.”
Women
and men through time and across the globe have developed traditions of
dance and spiritual practice that cultivate direct connection to the
inner source of wisdom and guidance. Energizing your belly with
movement and breath, vitalizing your core life force, you join a
tradition that’s central to human experience.

Excerpt is from: https://www.newlifejournal.com/decjan05/sarasohn.shtml
Trust Your Gut: Enhancing Your Body’s Intuition
by Lisa Sarasohn
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https://www.kaleidosoul.com/intuition.html
excerpt:
Intuition and the Mind-Body Connection

You
may be more familiar with the phrase "gut feeling." This is exactly how
it feels when you are practicing intuition. It feels like you "know"
something right smack in the center of your being. It's hard to
describe but if you've ever felt it, you know what I'm talking about.
When
you "know" something on an intuitive level, sometimes your heart will
race, or just beat differently. Your breath rate might increase or it
might slow down considerably. You might feel dizzy or "high" or
breathless. You might feel a sinking sensation in your stomach, or your
legs, or both.
It's important to get to know your own personal
body responses to intuition. This way you are more tuned in to it, and
will be more likely to remember to make decisions that are wise for
your own being.