Do you trust your brain or your gut? The answer may be a little more complicated than we think. Everyone, including myself has gotten spoiled in today's age. We don't want to do anything that doesn't feel good. I almost didn't write this blog because I was tired and I just wasn't feeling it. We have all heard the conventional wisdom that we should listen to our feelings. When we feel something, especially an intense feeling, then it deserves to be seen as truth. Right? Not so fast. It turns out that it may not be so beneficial to stick with this train of thought. So, should we let our feelings control our behavior?

So how do we do the right thing despite how we are feeling? Enter, self reflection/ self awareness.

Being self aware of the emotions you are experiencing and respecting he emotions as a valuable signal that something important is happening. However, you do not need to give these emotions power. After you have identified the emotions you are having, do not respond or act immediately. Try and understand why you are experiencing them. DISCLAIMER: This part takes some guts and some honesty with yourself. You can easily come up with excuses and lie to yourself and keep following the path you have been going down or, you can decide if the emotion is keeping you from doing the right thing to get you to your goal. A lot of the time people will break away from a diet or miss a workout because they just aren't feeling it. A lot of the time if you can just take a step back, analyze the situation and understand why you don't want to do something you can step back and make the right choice!

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