fake it til you make it? advice session
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What dilemmas are discussed in this advice session?
Hello, and welcome back to Advice Session, a series here on Anything Goes where you send in your current dilemmas or anything that you want advice on, and I give you my unprofessional advice. And then hopefully from there, you take the advice with a grain of salt. And today we have sort of a slew of topics all of which relating in one way or another to personal turmoil, doubting oneself, struggling with oneself, learning about oneself, personal turmoil. I feel like life is just one personal turmoil to the next, to be honest. I'm kind of always in some sort of personal turmoil, if I'm being honest. The second one ends, another one begins. I'm always... fucking solving some sort of internal issue, I feel like. I think most of us are. I think, unfortunately, that's just kind of what life is. Constantly bettering yourself, figuring out yourself, you know, like that's just kind of how it is. Without further ado, let's begin.
Somebody said, how does one learn to understand their intuition?
To be honest, I'm still learning how to trust my intuition. I'm a very anxious person. And I think trusting intuition is particularly challenging for those who have anxiety because I'll be really anxious about something and I'll convince myself that I'm having an intuitive moment. Like, I'll be flying on an airplane. Honestly, last night is a great example. I was on an airplane last night, okay? From Denver, Colorado to Los Angeles. Now, something about flying out of Denver is that there's a lot of winds and mountains. It's kind of a turbulent ride, at least in the beginning. Very bumpy. I really, really believed last night while in the Colorado airplane turbulence that I was going to die, that something was going to go wrong. Even though if you Google, is turbulence dangerous? It's not.
But I really had a hard time last night. I fully had a panic attack on the plane. I was really anxious. I felt like something was going to go wrong. And then the turbulence made it 10 times worse. And I fully had a panic attack and cried. My dad was sitting next to me on the plane. He's like, dude, all good. Everything's totally fine. I'm like crying. It was not good, okay? Why was I crying? Because I had convinced myself that... My fear, the fear that I was experiencing was intuition that something was going to go wrong. No, it was just anxiety because I recently within the last few years developed a fear of flying and because there was a lot of turbulence. Not even that much, to be honest. Like, there was turbulence, but it wasn't, like, that bad.
And because for one brief second, one of the flight attendants looked a little bit concerned. And I was like, are they concerned because the plane is crashing? Is crashing? What's happening? They were probably concerned because... I don't know, like they left their phone on like one of the little airplane countertops. You know what I mean? Like, anyway, trusting your intuition is particularly challenging when you're an anxious person because anxiety feels like a gut feeling. And that's exactly what intuition is. However, upon doing research about the difference between anxiety and intuition, I've learned that a lot of times intuition is far less panicked. It's often instinctual and like automatic and just it feels like the next best thing to do. You know what I mean? Like it just feels like this is what feels right. According to psychologytoday.com, anxiety tends to manifest as a physical discomfort, such as tightness in your chest, a racing heart, or a feeling of restlessness. Anxiety often feels urgent and overwhelming and not in a good way.
Intuition arises from a deeper inner knowing, often unexplainable but clear. And this is something I try to remember in moments when I'm trying to distinguish if I'm having anxiety or if I'm having an intuitive moment. Anxiety is chaotic, whereas intuition is a bit more, it's a bit more guided. You know what I mean? And I don't know. But once you sort of figure out the difference between anxiety and intuition, then you're left to deal with intuition itself, which is its own complicated sort of thing. Because we have a lot of things getting in the way of our intuitive voice, right? We have the opinions and actions of others. We have societal norms. We have our personal fears and weaknesses.
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