Matt's Audio Letter of the Week

Hey there, and welcome to this edition of the FBL, the Feel Better Letter.

This is Matt.

Today, I want to talk about intuition and the mind — or maybe intuition versus the mind.

One of the things that keeps people stuck in the loop is that they constantly rely on the mind to keep them safe. But the mind simply projects your current emotional state onto the world. It justifies the presence of the emotion you're already feeling.

For example, instead of something in your environment causing fear and your mind detecting it, what’s actually happening is that you're already experiencing fear internally — and the mind then projects it outward and tries to explain it.

This is why using the mind to solve fear — through thinking, analyzing, ruminating, or mentally intervening — never works. The mind can only create more of the same emotion you're in. It can only produce what already exists. That’s why trying to fix fear cognitively is a flawed path.

As you begin to really understand this, you also see that what the mind says is, most of the time, just noise — a projection of your current state — and if you go into the mind for help, it will only offer thoughts coming from that same fearful state.

Intuition, however, is very different.

Intuition is that still, small voice you feel in the center of your body — a calm, clear nudge. In my experience, it’s always right. And if you want the best internal guidance system for living your life, intuition is far superior to the mind.

The problem is that most people are so disconnected from their body, so identified with their mind, that they can’t access or hear their intuition. They live entirely in the mental space and lose touch with that inner teacher — which, if you even break down the word “intuition,” makes perfect sense.

The difference between living from the mind and living from intuition is a completely different way of experiencing life. And that’s a huge part of the recovery process. When you learn how to confront and release emotion, and you gain mastery over your inner world, your consciousness expands into higher states of being. In those states, intuition naturally becomes the dominant mode of guidance.

One of the biggest mistakes I see is people mistaking the mind’s voice for intuition. They justify almost anything because they believe “my mind said it,” and they confuse that with intuitive guidance. Being able to discern between the two — and truly understand which one you're following — matters more than you can imagine.

That’s why this is so important. When you learn to trust your intuition and live from it, you don’t need to worry about the future or dwell on the past. You’re not constantly being dragged into chaos by the mind and its projections. You start living in a quiet, grounded, present-centered peace — trusting that intuition will guide you exactly where you need to go.

Hope this helps today.

Wishing you all a great weekend, and I’ll talk to you soon.