How do I know the difference between the difference between anxiety and intuition? A friend asked me this question, and I wrote so much I thought I would just post it here. These are my thoughts on the matter today! Well, immediately the first words that come to mind for Intuition are CALM and CLEAR and SUBTLE. Anxiety is none of these. When I am over-pondering an issue in my head, often the thoughts are cyclic, repetitive, and feel suffocating somehow, like being chased or rushing towards something. There is a felt sense of agitation, tightness in the chest, jaw.  Breath shallow, joints stiff and tight. Drowning, or the threat of drowning, perhaps. The feeling of leaning into the next moment, the next day, the time when “this” will be resolved, so I can be okay, and move on with life. This, to me, signals anxiety. When I can recognize this, I am often stunned: “Woah! I got lost there for a while!”. Or “Look at that anxiety, man!” It took me a long time to get here, but when I notice this, I am able to take it as my alarm signal to WAKE UP! I call it waking up because the spinning, obsessive mind feels like I am in some kind of [...]