omes that you experience a feeling of “rightness” in your chest, you will take the action that that feeling dictates.

When you “follow your gut,” you are responding to a feeling of knowingness having little to do with the analysis of a preponderance of information. When you are “tuned-in” to the moment, you are gathering in impressions and then allowing them

Picture yourself in nature and so long ago that nothing that looks like *man* as we know it has made its mark. Even you aren’t quite sure just how smart you are! Compared to the predators that hunt you, you suspect you’re even a little slow on the uptake. Your kind has not even developed the language to talk about the experience. You are one of the aboriginals, the first people, and you are of this land, indigenous to it.

Learning -- because your elders don’t quite have the words -- is based on observation. You live by your senses and your relationship with the moment. Sure, you think about things, but not much. The moment is much too important to your survival, and the more you think, the less time you have to act. In this world, action is survival.

“This is so out of step,” you may say, “With what life is about now.”

Okay, test something out. Go in to a forest or wilderness area far away from home and the road, to a place you’ve never been. Do it on a moonless night, alone, and do it without having anything but the clothes on your back. Walk deeper into the woods. You will will get in touch with an important part of who you are as a human being – the same core that lived inside your distant Grandparents lives inside you today.

You will immediately switch into a reliance on what you feel rather than what you know. You will take in cues from your external and internal environments and respond to them. As soon as the moment comes that you experience a feeling of “rightness” in your chest, you will take the action that that feeling dictates.

When you “follow your gut,” you are responding to a feeling of knowingness having little to do with the analysis of a preponderance of information. When you are “tuned-in” to the moment, you are gathering in impressions and then allowing them t

people, and you are of this land, indigenous to it.

Learning -- because your elders don’t quite have the words -- is based on observation. You live by your senses and your relationship with the moment. Sure, you think about things, but not much. The moment is much too important to your survival, and the more you think, the less time you have to act. In this world, action is survival.

“This is so out of step,” you may say, “With what life is about now.”

Okay, test something out. Go in to a forest or wilderness area far away from home and the road, to a place you’ve never been. Do it on a moonless night, alone, and do it without having anything but the clothes on your back. Walk deeper into the woods. You will will get in touch with an important part of who you are as a human being – the same core that lived inside your distant Grandparents lives inside you today.

You will immediately switch into a reliance on what you feel rather than what you know. You will take in cues from your external and internal environments and respond to them. As soon as the moment comes that you experience a feeling of “rightness” in your chest, you will take the action that that feeling dictates.

When you “follow your gut,” you are responding to a feeling of knowingness having little to do with the analysis of a preponderance of information. When you are “tuned-in” to the moment, you are gathering in impressions and then allowing them

, action is survival.

“This is so out of step,” you may say, “With what life is about now.”

Okay, test something out. Go in to a forest or wilderness area far away from home and the road, to a place you’ve never been. Do it on a moonless night, alone, and do it without having anything but the clothes on your back. Walk deeper into the woods. You will will get in touch with an important part of who you are as a human being – the same core that lived inside your distant Grandparents lives inside you today.

You will immediately switch into a reliance on what you feel rather than what you know. You will take in cues from your external and internal environments and respond to them. As soon as the moment comes that you experience a feeling of “rightness” in your chest, you will take the action that that feeling dictates.

When you “follow your gut,” you are responding to a feeling of knowingness having little to do with the analysis of a preponderance of information. When you are “tuned-in” to the moment, you are gathering in impressions and then allowing them

will will get in touch with an important part of who you are as a human being – the same core that lived inside your distant Grandparents lives inside you today.

You will immediately switch into a reliance on what you feel rather than what you know. You will take in cues from your external and internal environments and respond to them. As soon as the moment comes that you experience a feeling of “rightness” in your chest, you will take the action that that feeling dictates.

When you “follow your gut,” you are responding to a feeling of knowingness having little to do with the analysis of a preponderance of information. When you are “tuned-in” to the moment, you are gathering in impressions and then allowing them

omes that you experience a feeling of “rightness” in your chest, you will take the action that that feeling dictates.

When you “follow your gut,” you are responding to a feeling of knowingness having little to do with the analysis of a preponderance of information. When you are “tuned-in” to the moment, you are gathering in impressions and then allowing them to coalesce into a choice. Where do you literally “feel” this sensation of rightness? From what place do you move? Somewhere a lot closer to your heart than your head.

The reliance on information over sensation for survival is a relatively new development in our species. Even living within the “idea” that we are separate from our environment (as opposed to the experience of “being” an integral part of it and not perceiving a separation) is a “culture” that even today exists in only a relatively small part of the world.

Every person who relies on nature for his or her survival moves from a sensation-based (a heart-centered) way of being first. This is not to minimize the importance of the brain, it is meant to offer you perspective. You, who are reading this, are simply part of a culture that has forgotten how to do this.

If you have any doubts, take a look at the remaining indigenous cultures, like Lakota, Maori, or Inuit among others. They are the remnants of what had once been an unbroken line of a heart-centered way of being. Certain differences between them and us are evident, including their relationship with the environment, non-reliance on verbal communication, cosmologies that are nature-, rather than personality-based, a certain lack of guile, cultures of sharing, and perhaps most telling of all, relationship with time.

Our ancestors did not have enough information to know just how much the brain does. Somewhere within, they knew where the dec