You Are Using Your Intellect Wrong
Our intellectual faculty is meant to reason, to solve logical problems: mathematics, balance chemical equations, help us figure out how to re-wire our basements.
But we use it to try to figure out why our ex doesn’t call. This is a complete misuse of our intellect. This is too draining for our intellect. And time-consuming.
Figuring out why our lover or ex-lover is acting the way they are, is work for our instincts, for our intuition.
Your intellectual faculty will have you running in circles. It will have you scrutinizing and analyzing every move, opening windows of options of what the problem may be: maybe he is thinking this, maybe she is thinking that, maybe you said something…
Your instincts will tell you right away: She doesn’t like you. He met someone else. She is a liar. He is deceiving you. Your instincts and intuition are straight to the point.
As a result of this misuse, we find ourselves too drained when it comes to using our intellect. We don’t want to think. When it is time to try to figure out an intellectual problem, we procrastinate. We put off home improvements because they may involve calculating something.
We are particularly susceptible to misusing our intellect when we are lovesick. In my 20’s I squandered so much intellectual energy trying to figure out the misbehavior of the men I was dating. When I look back, my intuitive feelings were right.
And this misuse is not restricted to matters of the heart. We squander intellectual energy trying to figure out all sorts of problems that would better be solved by our intuition. Trying to figure out how to stop an alcoholic from drinking is a sure way to drain your thinking faculty until there is nothing left. You are better off asking your intuition what you should do. It will tell you to take care of yourself.
A friend tried to figure out why her boss is so mean to her and not to everyone else. He simply didn’t like her. There was nothing more to it. Trying to figure out why is also probably going to lead nowhere.
Your intuition may not always be able to tell you why someone is acting the way they are, but it will almost always inform you how to be.
Of course there is a problem when it comes to using our intuition. Many of us had our intuition suffocated in our childhoods. Emotions and intuitions were dismissed. “Don’t be silly, go give your uncle a hug.”
Many of us cannot tell the difference between an intuitive feeling and paranoia. As a result we defer to our intellect.
We need to learn to identify and trust our intuitive feelings.
Your mind will work a lot better once you use your intellect for what it is meant and your intuition for what it is meant.
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