Listen To The Niggle

What is your niggling feeling trying to tell you?

We all have gut feelings - little niggles that we can spend years trying to ignore. We throw ourselves fully into stubbornly shoving these niggles aside or numbing out so we don't need to process them. We hope that if we turn away from them for a long enough time that they will simply disappear. But they persist and life keeps serving up bigger and more obvious situations to encourage us to face these feelings.

Until we acknowledge the niggle. it will never be resolved.

Until we tend to the niggle, it will always be like the pea under the mattress.

Our bodies often reveal the niggles first, even before our intuition has time to catch up. The inconvenient anxiety or strain or tension is a guidepost pointing us to what needs to be shifted - the conversation that needs to be had, the decision that needs to be made, the relationship that needs to be addressed.

So let's take the time to pause and scan the body - to breathe more deeply and to tend to these pebbles in our shoes before they become boulders.