5 Gut Instincts You Shouldn’t Ignore

5 Gut Instincts You Shouldn’t Ignore

You know that little feeling you get in your gut when you are about to make a purchase, or someone ask you to do something, or your about to make a business deal and there is something that just doesn’t feel right?

* A quirky feeling
* A little voice in your head
* A funny tingle
* A jump in your throat
* Even anxiety

That is your own wisdom speaking to you trying to get you to listen.

According to many researchers, intuition is far more material than it seems. Hope College social psychologist David Myers, PhD, explains that the intuitive right brain is almost always “reading” your surroundings, even when your conscious left brain is otherwise engaged. The body can register this information while the conscious mind remains blissfully unaware of what’s going on.

Another theory suggests you can “feel” approaching events specifically because of your dopamine neurons. “The jitters of dopamine help keep track of reality, alerting us to those subtle patterns that we can’t consciously detect,” Jonah Lehrer, author of How We Decide (Houghton Mifflin, 2009) notes.

So how do you choose which gut feelings to trust? Judith Orloff, PhD, a Los Angeles–based intuitive psychiatrist and author of Second Sight (Three Rivers Press, 2010), suggests that it’s a matter of “combining the linear mind and intuition,” and striking the right balance between gut instinct and rational thinking. Once you’ve noticed an intuitive hit, she says, you can engage your rational mind to weigh your choices and decide how best to act on them. Read more:

Listen to your body when you get those signals it is  highly in-tune to the unconscious things that surround us.

Have you had a person walk in the room – someone you work with make you feel drained in their presence? I worked with  a lady that absolutely sucked the life out of me. When I would go home in the afternoon I would have to lady down and sleep for an hour to two hours to recover for the afternoon. I felt exhausted. I also noticed that when I did not work with her I didn’t feel that way.

I also noticed walking into a building I would go from a bubbling good mood to slumped shoulders within the hour. I felt sad the entire time I was in he building.

I had to follow my gut and make a decision not to continue feeling like that every day, become depressed, anxious and or stuck. I was amazed the relief I felt as soon as I handed in the papers that I was leaving. Then once again how I felt the day I walked out of the building for the last time. Complete relief – that gut feeling was over.

When you are in business and your about to make a step into a program or a business adventure listen to more than the person talking to you about getting in. Your gut knows what you don’t see. Step back and take a few days to look over the whole picture. Take the time to listen to your gut and even if the program or the person is not bad or quiet what you have in mind. Know there is something there you should pay attention too.

Trust yourself – Trust your Gut