How do you know?
There are questions that you can answer definitively. You can search for historical facts on the Internet. Solve math problems. Calculate with a computer program. Look up nutritional data. The list could go on….
But there are other quandaries that aren’t so easy.
Those that don’t have ONE right answer, and in explaining how you know, the words may not come so easily.
How do you know?
Know ~ (verb) to perceive or understand as fact or truth; to apprehend clearly and with certainty.
How do you know…
that you love him (or her)?
this partnership will rock?
you should say YES (or no) to the job, deal, project, proposal, date?
that this is THE house?
whether you should go this way, or that?
I’ve made enough wrong decisions to realize that what I thought I knew was really me wanting to know. Wanting to be sure, and missing all of the signs in the process (hindsight is 20/20, right?!). I’ve acted against my “knowing” enough to realize what it feels like in my body (tightness, whirring almost in the chest). To know how it plays out in my mind (obsession, anxiety and stress).
The place that knows is always quieter. Much more subtle. Clearer (and cleaner) with the truth. That doesn’t mean that my “knowing” keeps me from making mistakes, but those mistakes are ones that are easier to accept ~ and feel better in the process.
So tell me, how do you know?
Where does your knowing reside?
How do you know that it (whatever it may be) is right?
The challenge?
Trust that knowing. And act on it.
