Dr. Yvonne Oswald teaches two quick decision-making tools: a kinesiology finger test for yes/no answers and a 1-10 rating scale for bigger choices. She explains how to trust your gut and why parental voices can drown out your own instincts.
Hello, this is Dr. Yvonne Oswald Oswald Oswald, and I'm here to tell you today about how to make decisions quickly and easily. So we're going to use kinesiology. Kinesiology is great. It's a very simple way to get a yes or no answer. We're going to put our first and second fingers together like this and pull, and it's nice and tight. What I want you to do is put your thumb and first finger together like this and and say 'yes' and then pull, and you'll find it's pretty strong. And then say 'no' and it pulls apart. So anytime you need a decision-making, this is a very easy yes/no answer. How good is it for me to have vegetables today? Yes, it's really good. How good to have, um, uh, fruit today? Oh, Okay, so I obviously don't need the sugar. If you can get in touch with your unconscious mind daily, on a daily basis, and do those yes/no questions, you'll find it's really easy to follow through. A more complex method to do is my 1 to 10, uh, how to make a decision. So this is how it works. The question is, how good is it for me to— not do I want to, but how good is it for me to— and the question will be 'How good is it for me to go out today?' That's a 10. Okay, and 1 to 10 is the answer. 1 is low, 10 is high. 5 or below, the answer is no. So I want you to think of a friend's name. Go ahead and think of that friend. How good is that friend for you on a scale of 1 to 10? Okay, I got 7 for my friend. That's really good, so I'll keep her as a friend. I want you to think now of a relative or an old friend who you really don't want to hear from. You know, the kind of person when the phone rings you go, "Ugh, I don't really want to answer that." Or people you have to see, you know, holidays when you know you're not that interested. Think of that person's name. I've got one. On a scale of 1 to 10, how good is it for you to see that person? Mine was a 2, so I won't be doing anything in future to find that friend quickly. Very interestingly, what happens is when we're young, our parents override our intuition. So it's, you know, 'What do you want to do today, Johnny?' 'I'd like to go out to play, Mum.' 'Oh, it's pretty windy outside today, Johnny. What else would you like to do?' 'Can I have my friends around?' 'Oh, well, we'll have to call them, darling.' 'Okay then, can I go swimming?' 'I've just had my hair done,' you know. 'And why don't you just sit down and read a book or watch TV?' The biggest thing there is that we override our children's wishes, and it's giving them a false idea that they're having a choice, but they really have no choice. It's much easier to say, "Do you want to read or do you want to watch TV today?" and just then that they stay with their intuition. So we need to refine our intuition and realize that when we're aligned with our intuition, we can really make some fabulous decisions, and they'll have some really good consequences. And brilliant results. This is Dr. Yvonne Oswald Oswald Oswald. Follow these tips. Bye!
