Follow Your Gut: The real reason why you can trust a "gut feeling"

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“A gut feeling is instinctual.”
It is either good or bad.
That is often as deep as the explanation goes.
We are going to go further so you can trust yourself even more…


When you feel something in the pit of your stomach that is your bodies reaction to a stimuli that reminds you of everything you have come to know thus far in your life.
All in a fraction of a second…whew!
Everything that has ever happened to you has been stored in the Cortical Networks of your brain.
And your brain sends a message to your stomach.

The head makes decisions about a situation, and prompts you to pay attention.
But the head is smart (redundant I know)
The head is so smart it knows that it will out think itself I it doesn’t enlist help from the part of you incapable of doubt…
And with your best interest in mind, the brain sends a command out.
To your gut.

By sending the memory related information to your stomach.
Figuratively conceptualized as the “gut”.
But why does it send a signal there?
Because the gut is surprisingly similar to the brain.
Chemically anyway.
Your stomach makes the same chemicals as your brain when it is “thinking”.
But the real reason you can trust your gut…
It does not have the ability to doubt itself.
The gut does not have a central nervous system.
In other words, it does not have the ability to second-guess itself.
With out fail your gut instinct is the truth about how you feel.
It provides each of us with our concrete perception of a situation.
The gut may not be reliable for telling you what is ultimately right or wrong for all people in your situation…
But is it 100 percent reliable for telling you what is right or wrong for you.

So…
When a person doubts you.
And your head starts to talk you into believing what they said.
Ask yourself: “did my gut tell me I couldn’t do this?”
Think back.
Look at the facts.
Where are your feet?
If you are engaged in helping someone, your gut allowed you- and would have told you otherwise if it knew you couldn’t do it.
If you had a gut feeling the whole time that you were in a bad situation then you probably are.
But if you only began second guessing yourself after someone imposed on your doubt capable brain…
Do not confuse your brain’s ability to second-guess with your instinctual gut feeling that was there before the naysayer went after you.

Remember, the naysayer went after you with their opinion because when they analyzed the situation you were in their gut went into a panic.
They could not handle what you are attempting to handle.
This has literally nothing to do with if you have the stomach to accomplish the task as hand.


Odds are, if you are in a situation…
And yes it is a tough one…
But you haven’t given up…
It is because you can handle it.

You can handle it because you can trust the part of you that is biologically incapable of lying to you…

Your gut.







Comments

  1. joprojectdiariesJune 5, 2015 at 6:50 PM

    So true. Love this! It wasn't until about a year or two ago that a light bulb went off and I realized, had I listened to my gut all those times, I would've been in a different place.

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