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From Overthinking to Inner Knowing: How to Trust Your Inner Guidance

If your mind has been busy lately, you’re not alone.

Overthinking often appears when we’re standing at an inner doorway. We sense a shift but do not yet trust what we feel. This gentle moment of moving from overthinking to inner knowing is where many of us get stuck. The mind asks for certainty while intuition quietly asks for space.

When you slow the mental spin, your inner knowing finally becomes audible.

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Why Overthinking Shows Up

Overthinking is a protective habit. It isn’t “bad”; it simply tries to keep you safe by planning every possible outcome.

But intuition doesn’t live in analysis.
It lives in your felt sense:

  • the quiet internal “yes”
  • the subtle pull toward something new
  • the softening in your body
  • the release that says, this way

When you give your mind even a moment of stillness, intuition comes forward with surprising clarity.

🌱 Practice for the Week: The One-Breath Reset

Try this whenever your thoughts begin looping:

  1. Place a hand on your chest.
  2. Take one slow breath – not three, not five… just one.
  3. Ask silently: “What is true right now?”
  4. Notice the first feeling, image, or sense that rises.

No story. No analysis. Just the first whisper.

Repeat a few times this week and watch what shifts.

Final Reflection

Your intuition is never lost.
It only waits for the moment you become quiet enough to hear it again.

More ideas needed? Try – Gentle Practice to Return to Presence or Mindful Walking: A Simple Path to Presence

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Alison Wem

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