Do you all agree, its good to go by your gut instinct and intuition?

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I have found this to be very helpful when i meet people for the first time. I never , when younger thought there was any credence in this kind of perception. Now i am older, with 2 of my 3 children grown up i use it a great deal to suss people out. I find when i have had a drink or two i am even more intuitive.
Have you any thoughts or experiences on this matter?

Yes my gut instinct is usually pretty good, although sometimes it trips me up!

I don't think alcohol would make me more intuitive.

But for you it may be easing your inhibitions and allowing your unconcious to whisper a bit more loudly.

I am fairly good at predicting within my own personal circumstances. I recently flet some predictions to do with some friends of dh's, I have told him and given him a rough timescale and we've bet a fiver each way!

felt obviously, not 'flet!'

Yip I agree. There have been times when I've ignored my instincts and it's all gone bad so since I have learned from this experience I never ever let anyone sway me, and I go with what I feel.
Sometimes I get a feeling about someone or I don't like the vibes they give me so I just be pleasant but don't let them too close!! All about safeguarding myself I suppose.

I wish I could single out the "intuition" whisperings in my head from all the rest. How do you learn to do that?

wukter that's called discernment, apparently tis is a skill that can be learnt, possibly by techniques such as meditating on the issue (I am shoite at meditation so far) or maybe asking for dreams about it (thinking about it before bed and then leaving it to your unconcious to thrash it out via dreams. Maybe you could ask guides for comfirmation also? Or is that lazy?

If I think I feel a spirit presence I ask for 'confirmation' via a physical feeling, hasn't let me down so far. If I'm imagining it, I get nothing - which is almost always when I was quite unsure anyway.

You know how people say 'gut feeling'? Well this is where our solar plexus chakra is, the powerhouse of our bodies related to self and self esteem, knowingness and personal power.
I very often get sensations there. When I am very relaxed and chilling out, if I hear a door bang or a loud noise it hits me right in the stomach. Also, when I go to the dentist I get the knots in my tummy feeling and this is where it hits too. Maybe see if you can feel anything in this area the next time you meet someone?

I'm very much a rationalist and don't believe in spirits or anything mystical, but yes I rely on gut instinct a lot. It tells me when not to get too entangled with someone and is almost always right.

I also get powerful gut feelings about everyday decisions eg once I had one telling me not to nip to the supermarket on the way home - I ignored it because I thought aah what can possibly go wrong. In the supermarket 4yo DS suddenly developed a violent stomach bug with sick and diarrhoea! It's something I must have absorbed the signs of without realising it (he had seemed fine) and my mind was trying to tell me to get him home asap.

Must have been awful MarineIguana.

'Clean up in aisle 3!'

Yes, I am a strong believer in intuition, both in the "feeling" and dreaming sense. Each of my 3 pregnancy disasters were preceded by warning dreams. I could do bugger all to change anything though. I have good dreams also. Before my PhD exam, I dreamt what my examiners would say (good things!) and in the actual exams, the exact same words were said. Dreams can make you paranoid also. Last week, I had 3 bad dreams - black snake (I fought it), being bitten by a viscious dog, and a nasty woman fighting me (I fought back pretty well). Suggests an enemy - so I am left wondering who??

Also, I can suss people out very quickly, which sometimes results in me finding it impossible to connect with someone who I don't feel positively about. My family don't take to my approach as I can come across as being cold/ignorant when I can't be bothered making small talk.

Thanks for the answers Nemofish and Indigobarbie.
Must try to listen more to myself, but I'm very much a hedger and fencesitter. ( Or to be charitable to myself, I take a balanced view on things )