Trusting Your Inner Guidance (Even When You Want to Override It)

Episode 50

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the podcast that helps you activate your manifestation, superpower, and build the soul aligned life and business you're meant for. I'm your host, Melanie Micer, equal parts of woowoo neuroscience and Strategy, and each week I share proven tools in raw talk to help you step into your full potential life.

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Hello, love and welcome back. Today is actually the 50th episode of the podcast. I honestly, I can't believe how quickly time's gone by, 'cause I've been at this for a little over a year now. I. Coming to you weekly? Yes. I've missed some weeks because, well, life just keeps lifeing. But overall, I really love spending this time with you.

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Sixth through 13th, one of the things we were talking about was exploring the difference between masculine versus feminine manifesting. And what I mean by that is goal setting and hustling to reach what you want versus. Aligning your energy and your identity to magnetically attract it. And here's the truth, both paths will get you where you wanna go.

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It's not about doing more. It's not about. Taking more action. It's about really becoming more attuned and more aligned and more alive. So today I wanna talk about what it actually looks like to follow that path of lease resistance,

because I got a real life lesson on this last week and I thought it would be valuable to share with you.

There's this saying that a smart man learns from his lessons. A wise man learns from the lessons of others. And I think you can learn a lot from the pain points that I lived last week, honestly. So I. Anyway, I took a road trip from Northern California down to LA to visit my family, and I had planned this ahead of time, but what I didn't realize was that I had planned it over Easter weekend and where I live in this tiny little town in Northern California, we don't ever get any traffic.

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But of course, I ignored her because I knew where I was going. I've driven to my mom's house in Los Angeles a hundred times before I was on the right highway. I knew where I was going, and traffic was flowing. So I didn't see any reason why she was rerouting me. It didn't make sense to me, so I ignored her, and then of course she told me again.

And again, friend, three separate times she told me, get off the highway and three separate times I completely ignored her. In fact, I actually told her to shut up and I turned the audio off in my car so that I could no longer hear her. And a couple of seconds after I did that. I turned a corner and then hit complete gridlock.

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And I love this lesson because what I didn't remember at the time was that my GPS, she has a bird's eye view. She always knows where I am in relation to where I want to go, and she was trying to reroute me to the path of least resistance around the traffic, but to me it didn't look faster. It didn't make any logical sense, yet it was actually the most aligned path and love.

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Birds are the same way, right? They ride the wind instead of flapping against it.

And plants do the same thing. They push up through the dirt, through the path of least resistance. That's because nature, it doesn't hustle, it attunes, but we humans, man, we fight this law tooth and a nail. We will override it with control, with fear, ego, logic, because very often we think that resistance makes us strong, but often it just keeps us stuck.

And your inner guidance is kind of like that river, or it's like your GPS. It knows the most natural, effortless way forward. But here's the thing. It can only guide you if you're willing to listen. And our intuition will whisper?

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And here's what I always love about the GPS metaphor. Honestly, I think it's the best metaphor available for explaining our intuition and our inner guidance. So that's why you hear me talk about it all the time because what I love about the GPS is when I didn't listen to her three times and I ended up in that jam, she didn't judge me.

She didn't say, I told you so. She didn't shut down. She didn't say, well, you are not listening, so just find your own way. All she did is she just recalculated. She guid me. She rerouted me gently, quietly, without any fucking drama. She didn't create any drama around it. She just kept guiding me to my destination over and over again.

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I literally took out my phone and I started recording audio notes for this episode.

I got it on one level, but I didn't fully apply it because when I got home from that trip, I ignored my inner GPS yet again, here's what happened. If you've been following along, you probably know that Andy and I have a lot going on right now.

. We're in a really exciting, but a really intense season of our life because we're busy building the boutique Cabana resort in Belize. We're closing out one business. We're preparing to kind of flip flop our lives so that we're living more in Belize than in California, and there's just a lot on our plates right now.

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And the truth is. I could feel it before it was happening, and I could feel it as it was happening. I knew, I knew in my body. I knew in my senses that I was off center, but I didn't stop. I didn't pause. I didn't take a breath. I just kept charging forward, completely disconnected from that part of me that knew better.

And what happened was the next day I woke up in a full blown shame hangover. Have you ever had one of those? They, they fucking suck.

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Those weren't just emotions. They were my inner guidance. My inner GPS trying to guide me, trying to nudge me. It was letting me know that I was off course

that I was out of my power. I was out of my alignment, but I didn't listen. And instead of recalibrating, I doubled down and I tried to force things to happen until it all blew up in my face

and the truth is, I'm human. This shit happens. You are human. We all are. Being human means that sometimes we forget. Sometimes we override our instincts or , we push through when we should pause. And when this happens, it doesn't mean that we failed. Like the shame sandwich is totally unnecessary.

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But what does exist is the ability to notice it sooner, the ability to tune in and listen to our body signals, to listen to our inner guidance and the ability to come back faster, to build a life and business that's rooted in who you actually are, so that even when you wobble. Even when you feel off center or you feel like things aren't happening or the stress is high, you have the ability and you know how to realign yourself, and that includes when you have drifted from your vision.

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And then once we are attuned with it, then we call it towards us easily magnetically. So love if you have had a similar experience to me, if you have found yourself a spinning off in the weeds. Spinning in self-doubt. If you feel like things, maybe they're harder than they should be.

I want you to know this. You're not behind. It's not too late. You're definitely not broken, and you do not have to eat that shame sandwich.

Trust me, it tastes like shit and it doesn't do anything except for kind of keep us spiraling.

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Because no matter how stuck you get in traffic, no matter how off balance or how off center you are, it's always available there to you. It's always gonna be leading you right back to your center. All right, love. If this resonated with you at all, I would love for you to join me for my free masterclass. It's coming up this Sunday. It's called Aligned Identity Shift, and this is really where we're doing the deep work of reconnecting with your vision of centering into alignment, of stepping into that full potential version of yourself.

Because life isn't about hustling or overriding our guidance system. It's about becoming the kind of woman who naturally attracts what she wants because she's aligned and embodied and clear on who she is. It's about being able to recalibrate when we're in stress and we, when we feel disconnected.

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it knows how to get you there so that you can stop forcing and you can start flowing. All right, love. You can head over to manifest with melanie.com to register, grab a friend. It's gonna be really powerful. Two days,

there's an extra bonus day where I'm gonna be doing live coaching and questions and answers, and I would love to see you there.

Until next week, stay in your power and keep manifesting an epic life.