The Daily Turn On! In the blink of an eye

Life is too short not to be fully "tuned in." The Daily Turn On! is designed to wake up your senses, all six of them: smell, taste, touch, hearing, sight and intuition! Everyday The Daily Turn On! with That's Fit Life Fit expert Laura Lewis will awaken your mind, your body and your life!

Did you know ... Your gut instinct or first reaction to a question or point-of-choice is more often than not correct. According to Malcolm Gladwell, author of Blink: The power of thinking without thinking, great decisions are not necessarily arrived at by processing reams of information and deliberating over an idea for long periods of time, but rather the result of filtering a few factors that matter from an overwhelming number of variables. In other words, decisions that are made "in the blink of an eye."

Gladwell calls this "thin-slicing," sometimes known as intuition, but it is more precisely described as rapid cognition. Our brain has a fascinating capacity for processing information at an amazing speed and within a blink providing accurate information. From an esoteric standpoint, I call this listening to your inner guide or communicating with your soul, but there is scientific evidence that supports the fact that what we think of as intuition is indeed mental processing. The problem is that we have been taught that careful deliberation, "sleeping on it," not acting out of passion are all actions that will help us to arrive at a more precise and accurate conclusion. Maybe so, maybe not. Gladwell presents a convincing case that when we trust our instinct and filter out the unnecessary data our instinct is correct.

What do you think? When are some times that you have acted in a blink of an eye and been grateful that you did so? Have you ever acted on something "without thinking" and saved someone's life? Won a contest? Created something you would have never thought possible? Fallen in love?

Or, how about the opposite? Have you ever acted in a blink of an eye only to find that you made a terrible mistake? What do you think went wrong?

Awaken your intuition and see what happens!

Turn On your senses ... Live a fit life!