How to tell the difference between intuition and fear✨ 

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I just want to say that Alexis is brilliant and that working with her has been a privilege and a blessing.

This is such a helpful insight! As you rightfully point out, fear comes from our head... and we shouldn't reduce the mind to the brain; our whole cellular memory encodes our experiences, and so there is an emotional response whenever we get triggered ; as one experts puts it, "the body keeps the score". So we need to be very mindful to prevent being engulfed by an overwhelming feeling and instead, detect where it emanates from. Popular psychology and spirituality tell us to "trust our gut feelings", but that can get really tricky, especially for people who deal with complex trauma, because their nervous system has been hijacked, so these alerts are not trustworthy most of the time. There is that pervasive feeling that indicates: "what if this dreadful realization is indeed a message from my unconscious mind, my innermost self?" It requires a a lot of self insight in order not be carried away by it and be able not to take these distressing, fleeting thoughts as facts. Yes, we can tell the difference between fear and intuition by examining where is it felt in our bodies: the first is this groin/gut response, the first three chakras, that releases adrenalin and cortisol (and which is obviously helpful in some cases) while the second is from the solar plexus - the heart chakra, as you mention, and may ascend to the upper ones, up to the crown center - and it feels like we "just know", which may be very relieving; that's how we know it's actually our Higher Self and guides whispering to our soul.

Great video! What you say is recognizable to me. Sudden insights always relate to myself or other people. I can look at someone and spontaneously gain some insight. I suddenly see series of abstract images, followed by intricate feelings. This often happens in just a few seconds. I think I use logic to differentiate between insights based on fear or based on intuition (or love, as you stated). Just like getting the sudden insights, analytical thinking follows and comes effortless. It just happens. You could say it reorders the images and feelings in a more logical way. Then it suddenly 'clicks'. Does this make sense? My personal rule of thumb for differentiating: If this logic leads to my personal fears and traumas from the past, I know it stems from fear. If my logic stays with the other person, I know it is love/intuition. In that case, I know I have to get out of my head and make contact. It's more complicated in reality but this is in a nutshell how my brain works. I know that I'm intuitive and sensitive but also very analytical. So I often feel deeply and think deeply at the same time.

Maybe I'm too personal or direct but I'm taking the risk: I wonder if you read fiction. Reason is that I believe you love the intricate details of feelings. One of my favorite authors is Virginia Woolf. She describes the complicated inner world of her characters and their interpersonal relationships in a rich, beautiful and poetic way. I really love reading it! Recently I realized that reading good written fiction (eg. Woolf, Dostoevsky) enriches my own inner world. It gives me a greater understanding of myself and other people. Maybe reading fiction does not resonate with you at all and that's fine! This reaction just stems from my intuition :-)