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Does it feel right?
Here's the thing. Either someone or something feels right for us or not. No amount of thinking could ever make us feel otherwise. I know I've ignored my feeling on more occasions than I would like to recall.
For instance, I would watch a movie trailer and would book the tickets mostly because it was either made by a director or an actor whose earlier work I enjoyed. It didn't matter to me that I was not interested in the story from the trailer. Even though watching the trailer didn't quite do it for me, I'd ignore the feeling in that moment only to regret later.
It's for this reason, I regretted watching Glass Onion, the sequel to the original Knives Out, which I quite enjoyed. Having checked the box office numbers for both of them now, I'm not surprised why the sequel lost money, whereas the original made 8 times its budget.
How often do we let the thinking get in the way of our feeling?! We intuitively feel right about something, and then we talk ourselves into doing the exact opposite, even though we don't quite feel it. Our heart already knows what we truly want, but only if we listen.
Here's a couple more examples. I often wait a day or two before deciding what to share on the daily and weekly posts on social media, because I want to share what feels right in the moment. It doesn't matter if I have written something else. Feeling will take precedence over thinking, always.
When it comes to relationships, it's pointless trying to reconcile our value differences with others. Even if they changed themselves for us (or vice-versa), it wouldn't be worth it, because at that point, that's not really "them." The best thing to do would be to part ways amicably, because it would be unfair for either person to change for the other.
Follow your intuition. It will never let you down. It doesn't matter one bit if something makes total sense "logically," when the feeling is not there.
As Rumi said:
Your heart already knows the way. Run in that direction.
True growth lies in the feeling, and not in the thinking. Listening to your intuition will take you way beyond what you could possibly imagine. It's for everyone, and it applies to every thing. 🙂
Best,
Rishi Dass
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