AIBU: gut instinct

[ShakyMilk]

Thinking about what advice I would give my younger self and one of them would be: go with your gut.
Have you ever been really glad you trusted your gut instinct? AIBU to ask you to tell me about it?

That is pretty much what it is (with some added in un/sub-concious thought processes that you aren't properly aware of).

I agree Chardonnay.

No. Women should learn to and be allowed to stand up for themselves and not have to please others. E.g. say NO to a man who is making her feel uneasy.

Your brain may well respond to changes in your body but that doesn't mean your feelings are right.

I have extreme responses to certain environments but that is down to PTSD not because the Gut Instinct that a hospital is a dangerous place is correct.

No, this is my brain responding to changes in my environment, not to changes in my body.

It's my brain picking up clues I'm not consciously aware of in other people's behaviour and my body then reacting.

It's nothing to do with feelings or emotions. That's a completely different thing.

Not completely, obviously feelings and emotions are linked to it.

Maybe, but later, I think gut feeling comes before your emotions end feeling.

I do always trust my gut instinct, and I do think we should follow it.

I have heard that actually it isn't nearly as WOO as we think. We are actually picking up on subtle things in voice and body language which are not right and giving the wrong signal. Becauase we aren't consciously aware of these things we put them down to gut.

BUT and it really is a huge BUT for me, I think we can be completely wrong in believing the gut instinct in the other direction. In other words 'he is so nice/kind/generous/ sweet, I just KNEW he was OK' is a very very dangerous place to be. Some evil people are very good at playing their part, and it can lead us into all sorts of trouble.

I say this as I knew well a paedophile for 15 years. He was Mr Nice Guy, boy next door, gut instinct would have told you he was safe and lovely and a good person to look after your kids....