Your subconscious thinking can be detected through your body.
For instance, in a study from the neuroscience department at the University of Iowa, two groups of people were asked to play a card game that could earn them money. There were four packs of cards they would use. The details of the game aren’t important.
What is important is that they didn’t know that the packs were rigged: two of them were advantageous to their making money and the other two lessened their chances.
The researchers monitored which packs the participants drew cards from, while also monitoring their skin temperature and conductance, which are markers of heightened arousal and stress. They also monitored the participants’ attitudes and awareness of their progress in the game.
Interestingly, after playing with all four packs, and before they became aware that two packs were disadvantageous, the participants’ skin conductance responses were higher when they were pondering making a choice from the bad packs. This showed that consciously they did not know they were about to pull a card from a bad pack, but their skin conductance responses showed that at the subconscious level they were skeptical of those two packs. Their skin conductance revealed this suspicion before they actually drew any cards, providing a subtle inner warning that pulling from one of these two packs was a bad idea.
If they had been able to listen to this inner voice or ‘gut feeling’, which often provides clues to its choices via the body, they would have increased their profit in the game!
See if you can increase your awareness to your gut feelings before your mind chatter kicks in, it maybe telling you the best move to make!
