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Erin Gray (00:00):
If you are like how I
used to be, you might find
yourself second guessing a lotof financial decisions or just
decisions in your life ingeneral, and it might feel
exhausting.
And what I always say is thisreally keeps us in our head and
it keeps us in circles, andultimately what it does is it
erodes our self-trust and itcreates this habit of us not
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trusting ourselves and then usoutsourcing our power to other
people.
And so today, what I want to dois I want to share how I make
money decisions, or actuallyevery decision in my life, using
my intuition, and I want to saythat I'm not perfect at this
and I've gotten a lot betterthan what I used to be.
So this is a practice, it is askill set, and the more that you
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do it, the more that you willfine tune it and it will get
easier with time.
I wanted to offer that I dohave a free four part workshop
series that I will link in theshow notes about how each of us
are wired to make decisions.
You know, ultimately it reallyboils down to using your
intuition, tapping into yourbody and listening to that, and
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before I got there, what I hadto do was use some training
wheels, and I use that to reallystart to tap into my body and
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to get familiar with what itfelt like to make a decision
from my intuition versus my head.
And so if you are new tolistening to your intuition and
playing with this, I wouldrecommend that you start with
the workshop series.
That way you can understand,like how you're meant to make
decisions Kind of like I usehuman design very loosely, but
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that way it will give you anidea of like how you are meant
to make decisions and then youcan really start leaning on your
own intuition and playing withthis yourself.
I always say, you know, startsmall.
You know, at the beginning Ididn't make like life-changing
decisions.
I just made decisions likewhere I wanted to go for dinner
or what I wanted to dress orwear.
So start small, practice withthis and then the more that you
do it just like anything, thebetter you'll get Okay.
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So first and foremost, I alwaysstart with pausing and checking
in with my body.
You know, before any decision,not just financial I know this
podcast is about money, butreally it's about all areas of
our life I was talking to aclient the other day and he said
basically, money for you isjust the portal into helping
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people change every area oftheir life, and that's what I
believe to be true.
People come to me with moneyI'm air quoting money problems
but we talk about so much morethan money, right, because what
it's really about is developingyour self-trust, developing
unconditional or I should sayreturning to unconditional love
for yourself and really trustingyourself and your intuition.
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So what I do is I always tapinto my body, I stop, I notice
how am I feeling in my body?
Does my body feel expansive?
Does it feel relaxed?
Do I feel excited?
Or does it feel tight oranxious, or like almost like
FOMO, like I'm going to, like Ineed to hurry up and make this
decision.
And so your body, I believe, isour, our first signal.
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If I am in that energy of lackor scarcity, like that FOMO,
like having to hurry and rushand make a decision, I don't
make any decision.
I have made too many decisionsfrom rushed FOMO and I have such
a long evidence list of whatactually happened when I made it
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from that place, and so Ireally stop and I don't make a
decision, because no decisionthat we make from lack is going
to come out on the other side,abundant and expansive, like
it's the energy.
It just doesn't work like that.
So I first and foremost shiftmy energy and tap back into my
body.
So take a moment right now.
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If you want to, you can pausethe episode.
Take a breath Like how often dowe actually check in with our
bodies in the day?
How often are we actuallychecking in with our breath?
I mean, if you are like me, howI was, you know, several years
ago, I don't even know if I eventhought about my body during
the day.
So, first and foremost isreally tap back into your body,
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take a breath, notice what yourbody is feeling, notice when you
ask yourself do I want to dothis?
What does your body feel?
How does it feel when you thinkabout that financial choice
that you are wanting to make?
And then the second step that Ialways do is just notice the
difference of where my mind istrying to run the show and when.
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It's my intuition.
You know our minds.
They want to calculate, theywant to justify and rationalize.
You know my mind always wantsto, like, build a pros and cons
list or look at the numbers.
When I say possibilities, Idon't mean from an expansive
place, I mean the pros and cons,what would it look like, and
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looking at risks, things likethat.
But intuition, it is quiet, itis still, it is.
Go here, do that, check this,call this person, try this.
It's so subtle.
I hear my intuition through myright ear.
Other clients, they tell methat they feel it in their gut,
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or they just feel this urge orthis nudge, and so the only way
that you're going to know howyour intuition shows up for you
is if you actually play withthis and you practice it.
Like the more that you practice, the more you play with this,
the better that you will get atit.
So I'll give you an example.
When we were planning to move toHawaii you know, because there
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are no rabies on the island,it's this extensive process that
you have to go under to shipyour animal over, that you have
to go under to ship your animalover, and our dog had a
microchip which they requireevery dog or animal to have, and
so, after I had taken him tothe vet to verify everything,
I'd picked up the paperwork.
I got in the car and I lookedat the paperwork and I just felt
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this urge to go back in and toverify that the microchip number
that was on the piece of paperwas actually what they had in
their system.
Well, coming to find out itwasn't.
So that is just one simple way.
Like it wasn't this overarchinglike, go check this, do this.
It wasn't loud, it was justalmost like for me.
I was remember sitting in thefront seat and looking at the
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paperwork and being like I needto check this, and so I just
went and did it and the morethat I think you trust yourself,
the more you lean in and youjust act on that, which is so
simple.
It wasn't like go go check thisright now because this is, you
know, it wasn't this, this, thisis catastrophe.
Or you know, in my head it wasjust like go check this.
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It was so subtle and the morethat we tap in and we listen to
that, the more that we createevidence and see that, when we
listen to our intuition, whathappens?
So I always like to, you know,take a step back and ask
yourself like and myself, youknow, are we making this choice
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from a fear, from a habit, fromsome type of social expectation
or conditioning, or are wemaking this?
To me, intuition, heart'sdesire just feels like I want to
.
This just feels good.
There isn't a reason behind it,it's just I want this.
I would love that.
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That feels really good.
So really just check in and seelike, are you in your mind or
are you in your body?
Aka what I call your intuition.
So I do use human design looselyand to help clients tap back
into their intuition.
So if you're familiar withhuman design, great, you can,
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you know, dive in.
If you're not, that's okay too.
Like I, I don't.
I don't subscribe to anysomewhat system because I think
systems still keep us in the box.
But I do use it in a way toempower us to slow down and to
really tap into our bodies.
And I believe, the more that Ilean into my intuition, nothing
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needs to be decided right now.
I know we're taught, especiallyin business, we need to make
quick decisions.
But quick is so relative.
Quick can be within a week,quick can be within a couple of
hours, quick can be a day, quickcan be a month, like it's all
relative to what someone elsehas done or relative to what you
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have done.
So I would just be reallymindful of when people say you
know like we need to make quickdecisions.
It's like what does that evenmean?
You know, I just know that Itap into my body and I know that
I need to ride my wave and Ineed to get to a neutral point.
And I know that I need to ridemy wave and I need to get to a
neutral point and I know whatthat feels like in my body now.
And for most decisions I mean,unless they're pretty like
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really life changing ones formost decisions it's a week or
two, and I'm not talking aboutlike going out to eat, but like
hiring someone or making achange in my business it takes a
couple of weeks for me tosettle in and feel solid and
neutral about that.
So questions you can askyourself like does this feel
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expansive in my body?
Does this feel like a heart'sdesire, one that I always use to
tap in and like completelybypasses the mind, is if I had a
hundred million dollars, wouldI do this?
And that for me, is so easy tojust get a yes or a no answer.
Does this support my soul'swork?
You know, am I doing this toprove something?
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And then am I doing this ormaking this decision from a fear
of missing out.
And so you will know, when youask yourself these questions,
how you feel in your body, ifit's an intuitive place or if
it's more of a head.
You know, notice how your bodyresponds.
If there's tension, if there'sresistance, if there's
contraction, you know that's asignal for you to pause, to
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check in and to go deeper and toshift that energy.
Because if you are acting from afear-based place, it's
ultimately acting, you know,from a lack place.
So don't make a decision fromthat place.
Give yourself the time.
I don't think a lot of us havegiven ourselves enough time to
make decisions and recognizingthat no decision that we make
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from a place of fear or lackcomes out.
I haven't found it yet.
It comes out like oh, that wasamazing.
I can think of probably two orthree examples off the top of my
head where I was making it froma rush place.
It didn't end.
I always think everythinghappens for us and also didn't
end the way that I thought itwould.
So really just tap into yourbody.
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And I think that the way that wedevelop our intuition is we
actually have to practice right.
It is a skillset.
So many of us have turned offthat intuition because maybe
when we were younger we weretold like we wanted.
We were asked like, where's theevidence?
Or we were told that we werefor lack of a better word crazy.
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So it's really turning on,tuning back in and bringing that
part of us back online.
You know your nervous system.
It needs to feel safe beforeyou can I don't want to say
before you can hear yourintuition, before you can, I
don't want to say before you canhear your intuition.
But if we're in this constant go, go, fight, flight, rushing,
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survival mentality, it's hard totap into our intuition because
our bodies don't feel safe.
And when our bodies don't feelsafe, we are in survival.
We're not thinking aboutcreativeness.
We're not thinking about whatare all the possibilities.
We're not thinking about how to, like you know, expand and grow
our business.
We're just like in the day today.
So really start to practicethings, somatic techniques that
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can really tap into your bodyand create safety for your body
to trust that it is okay to.
You know, slow down.
You know if we're always on thego, if we're always consuming
all the time.
You know if you're alwayslistening to podcasts, if you're
always listening to me, ifyou're always, you know, on
YouTube or listening to music,you're not giving yourself the
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space to listen to you, and thatis the most important voice.
So I always recommend stillness, being bored, grounding, breath
work, journaling.
I talked about releasingemotions in the previous episode
with the Emotion Code book byDr Bradley Nelson sound bath
healings, walking outside, beingin nature what are the ways
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that your body feels relaxed andcalm and reconnected to
yourself and your soul Like?
That's the somatic practicesthat I would encourage you to
implement on a consistent basisso that you can really start to
tap into your body and yourintuition.
And then the final piece isreally just to act on it.
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Right is really just to act onit right.
It's to start seeing andbuilding up this list that we
have that when I act on myintuition, how does it turn out?
I had someone ask me on apodcast the other day well, how
often do I make decisions in mybusiness from intuition?
And I said all the time, andthe face that he gave me was
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quite interesting.
He was surprised.
But I think that there's adifference of intuition and
instinct.
Instinct, I think, can comefrom fear at times, but
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intuition it takes some trustand some courage in the
beginning to start makingdecisions from our intuition.
And the more that we do it, thebetter we get at it, the more
self-trust we will develop inourselves, right?
So you know, think about.
And I always say start small,right.
Start with just asking yourselfwhich way to go home, ask
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yourself which shirt you want towear that day, ask yourself
what do you want to make fordinner, or just something small,
so that you can see thatthere's not what I call high
stakes, right?
It's not like what change areyou going to make in your
business, or are you going tomove across the continent?
Or you know the country, youknow what are some smaller
things that you can do, so thatyou can kind of get some
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evidence in your back pocketthat you can refer to that when
the mind wants to take over.
You can see like, look, this iswhen I acted on my intuition
and look how well that workedout for me.
So really, just start topractice it and think about just
one money decision or onedecision in your life that you
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are thinking about or facing.
Pause and feel what you arefeeling in your body when you
think about one way or the otherway and really get connected to
how you feel in your body, askthose questions that I mentioned
above and notice what yourinitial response is.
Remember that money it just is.
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It's a tool for us to use.
Right.
We notice that money is a tool,it's something for us to use
and direct how we want tocirculate it right.
It's neutral, so it is meant toserve us, not control us.
And when we make decisions fromour intuition, I really believe
that we reclaim our power, oursovereignty, our confidence, our
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self-trust in ourselves, and Ithink we short circuit a lot of
heartache when we use ourintuition over our mind.
So if you are ready to learnhow to trust yourself more, to
trust your intuition, not justwith money, but just in every
area of your life, you know,feel more calm and confident in
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who you are and what you want,and you know to stop allowing
the mind to have all of the say.
I think sometimes we can be soin our heads that we overthink
and we get into this fear spiral.
Right, really start to tap backinto your intuition.
I would love to support you.
You can schedule a clarity callwith me just by clicking the
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link in the show notes and wecan see if we are a good fit for
each other.
Okay, as always, I'm rootingfor you, I am here for you and
I'll see you in the next episode.