Intuition - Haiti Observer Blog

Ever had an intuition? Some people call that gut feeling

Have you ever sensed something you believe is true even without proving it? If yes, then what you had was gut feeling.

A gut feeling is an instinctive emotional reaction towards a certain person, object, or situation. A person who has a gut feeling over something couldn't point out the reason why he feels that way. He just does. Gut feelings are thoughts coming from the brain's insular cortex and are not generated by consciousness. They are described as reflections of intuition.

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There comes a time when you know and feel something is right but couldn't quite explain it. Isn't it Gut Feeling?

Those moments are your intuitive moments, when you just know what to do without rationalizing or overanalyzing things. That intuition or instinct is also called gut feelings. It's termed that way because people often feel something in their stomach when they feel that something is wrong or that they have to take a different action from what everyone is expecting. It is best to follow what your gut is telling you to do because it is right most of the time.

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Gut feelings are like intuition and instincts that you couldn't explain literary.

Something just feels right and true even if you couldn't prove it. Gut feelings can be useful in a lot of ways. As a matter of fact, many people follow what their gut is telling them when making a decision. But can you really trust your gut feelings? Is it best to go with them or just stick to what is rational and obvious?

There are studies showing that gut feelings are the result of brain's reception to subliminal signals. There are things that a person wouldn't consciously understand or pick up that the unconscious brain can. Subliminal signals are those that the conscious self can easily miss in certain situations. A neuroscientist at the Centre for Neuroimaging Research said that when people think that they are having an intuition, it just means that their brain learned an association between subliminal signals and the likely results of their action. Another scientist added that the unconscious brain, which produces the gut feelings, is wise because it always picks the best decision.

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