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Trusting Your Vibes At Work
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[Sue] Do you follow your gut feelings? If not, it could be hindering your success. In fact, one of the tips in my book, “101 Tips For Graduates”, is to trust your instincts. How can you make your intuition work for you? Sonia Choquette , sixth-sensory and intuition guide and author of “Trusting your vibes at work” is here to teach us how to go with our guts.
[Sue] I’d kind of like to know how you would define intuition.
[Sonia] Well, intuition is a hard-wired fundamental part of human consciousness. Actually sciences discovered that there are neuropath ways in the brain and the heart and the gut that pick up energy pick up information other than the five senses and this faculty when engaged really improves the quality of your life because it makes you a better informed person.
[Sue] And so, the question that I have is how does a person begin to pay more attention and know the difference between what is the intuition and what their thoughts are?
[Sonia] I believe the physical alert comes first, thought comes second.
[Sonia] You might get, the first indication is a gut feeling, a little anxiety in the heart, a lump in the throat, hair on the back of your neck and arms stand up, so there’s definitely a physical alert to intuition
[Sonia] Feeling comes first, thought comes second.
[Sue]-okay
(Sonia) Then once the feeling nature responds, then the thought accepts, so my experience is that most people are very accurately intuitive but it’s what they choose to do with it that is the important thing . So you get the thought…for example, I had a client yesterday, a woman who is operating a very high-power interior design firm studio here in Chicago, she has 50 employees . And she was interviewing someone who came to be the office manager - high recommendation, couldn’t have been presented… but as she was speaking to her she had just a bad feeling in her gut. She ignored it. Because she was overridden by what everyone was saying and an urgency, so she hired the woman and it was a complete disaster. She was not competent in creating a good consensus and a cooperative feeling. Her management style caused many people to quit and all that was ! running beautifully, fell apart.
[Sue] So why do you think so many people don’t listen to that feeling, that intuition?
[Sonia] I think it’s because they’ve not been truly culturally encouraged to do so.
[Sue] Well, and that leads me to my next question, because most workplace environments don’t really culturally, really don’t have that culture either.
[Sonia] There was an interview with Harvard Business Review that I saw in a book, 100 Top CEOs were interviewed and asked what they attributed their success to. And all 100 said that it was their gut feeling , however all 100 said that they kept that secret. So, here’s the key - leaders in business definitely follow their vibes. Managers and worker bees tend not to to their detriment The decision makers, absolutely, the ones who are the entrepreneurs, the business leaders, the ones who are the top of their game are intuitively oriented.
[Sue]-so why do you think..
[Sonia] what we want to do is get the ones in the middle.
[Sue]- right. And why aren’t they? Why do you think theyre less willing and aren’t doing it as much?)
[Sonia] I think they’re afraid because with intuition comes more responsibility! . I think that, and what I recommend in “Trust Your Vibes at Work” is set an atmosphere that will invite your intuition in and then ease it into the workplace so it’s never an either or. So, you say, ‘well here’s what my research says, here’s what my business sense say and here’s what my gut says’. Let’s just take it all into consideration.
[Sue] You said the leaders are the ones who use it, the worker bees...
[Sonia] - comfortably
(Sue) more comfortably. But, is that because of the risk involved sometimes…
[Sonia] Perceived risk.
[Sue] - perceived risk
(Sonia) Yeah, so what I wrote in “Trust your Vibes at Work” is to take the perceived risk and lower it so that no matter what your job is, you run it like a leader. And when you run your job like a leader, you will succeed. No matter what your job. Not a bully, not a renegade, but like you’re really taking full pride and ownership that this is my job. Intuition doesn’t eliminate, um, the working steps you have to do; but you know what it does do? Eliminate waste. Following your gut feeling eliminates waste. Waste of time. And helps you be more efficient in making the best of your opportunities and really, you know. But it is a fire quality. In other words, you have to have a little courage.
[Sue] So, kind of bottom line advice for people who are just grasping this concept would be what?
[Sonia] I’d say pay attention to our vibes and voice them when you get them. Sound them out, in the car, write them down. Put ‘em out there.
[Sue] Why do you have to put it out there?
[Sonia] The reason you have to put it out there is because 90% of the human race are members of, what I call, the would’ve, should’ve, could’ve club. We get the vibe, but unless we express it, the tendency is to ignore it. Not act on it, not pay attention to it, not give it importance. The minute you put a vibe out there, you have a chance to have a different response. And it feels so right that you really have a much stronger possibility of integrating this information in a way that helps you.
Don’t set it up that your intuition competes with your mind; have it sit side by side and they can be complementary. So my head says fill in the blank. And now my vibes say, or your heart says, which is where your vibes originate, fill in the blanks. And then you just let them sit side by side and let yourself hear and review them together; often the case is a bit of both.
[Sue] You call yourself a sixth-sensory.
[Sonia]-yup
[Sue] So are you more advanced at this then the average person?
[Sonia] I - I -I; there’s a lot of us out here; I’m certainly not exclusive. I think we are all hard-wired to be sixth-sensory; we are biologically designed to be more sixth-sensory.
[Sue]- men and women alike?
[Sonia] Men and women alike.
[Sue]-so are there just as many men –
[Sonia] …it’s just a matter of focus, choice and practice to activate the sixth sense.
[Sue] So, I mean, it seems that women tend to talk more about intuition. Are men more..
[Sonia] Men tend to act more on it. I think women talk about it and get insecure; and I think men don’t talk about it a lot, but push to shove, they go with their gut more than not. I really see that as something very consistent.
[Sue] And do they know what they’re doing; are they getting those feelings?
[Sonia] They just call it my gut. You know, like a guy’s just gotta do what he’s gotta do. Put it out there and act on it is when it’ll start changing your life. If you do it in little ways first, and then it’ll grow your confidence in the bigger decisions.
[Sue]-right
(Sonia) You know, ease into this. Here’s the exciting thing - you get instant results because it is natural You don’t have to trust me. You actually will be able to come to trust your own vibes.
[Sue] Well, on that note,I thank you so much for your time - very interesting information.
[Sonia] Thank you.
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