Do you trust yourself? Do you think you are capable of making the best decision for yourself? Whether you answer yes or no to my question, the correct answer to everyone would be yes. We are all capable of making the best decisions for ourselves because we all have what is called a gut feeling.
The term gut feeling is the instinct, the basic feeling we sometimes feel without a rationale. A lot of the times we tend to disregard our own feelings because there is no logical reasoning behind them. However, listening to your gut instinct is important because psychologists have determined that our unconscious minds can dictate decision making more that we think. When you try to base your decisions on logic, your subconscious mind nudges you with additional information.
A lot of the time, our gut feeling arises when we are afraid, when we are in danger our gut feeling sends nerves all over our body that something is wrong.
There is a story in the book, “The Gift of Fear” written by Gavin De Becker, is a New York Times bestseller that details how every individual should learn to trust the inherent "gift" of their gut instinct.
A young woman went grocery shopping and carried home bags of heavy groceries. As she was climbing up the stairs to her apartment, she …show more content…
I am from a rural southern part of China. There is nothing where I am from, my family was poor and the nearest school was hours away. Her gut feeling told her to leave and go to Canada so she can be somewhere that can actually provide opportunities to her daughters. Of course her family opposed, she knew no one in Canada. How can she get a job? None of us knew English why would we go to Canada. If we were poor in China then we would probably be poorer in Canada because my mom would have no support. It would have been easier to stay in China, but her gut instinct told her that life would be better in
The term gut feeling is the instinct, the basic feeling we sometimes feel without a rationale. A lot of the times we tend to disregard our own feelings because there is no logical reasoning behind them. However, listening to your gut instinct is important because psychologists have determined that our unconscious minds can dictate decision making more that we think. When you try to base your decisions on logic, your subconscious mind nudges you with additional information.
A lot of the time, our gut feeling arises when we are afraid, when we are in danger our gut feeling sends nerves all over our body that something is wrong.
There is a story in the book, “The Gift of Fear” written by Gavin De Becker, is a New York Times bestseller that details how every individual should learn to trust the inherent "gift" of their gut instinct.
A young woman went grocery shopping and carried home bags of heavy groceries. As she was climbing up the stairs to her apartment, she …show more content…
I am from a rural southern part of China. There is nothing where I am from, my family was poor and the nearest school was hours away. Her gut feeling told her to leave and go to Canada so she can be somewhere that can actually provide opportunities to her daughters. Of course her family opposed, she knew no one in Canada. How can she get a job? None of us knew English why would we go to Canada. If we were poor in China then we would probably be poorer in Canada because my mom would have no support. It would have been easier to stay in China, but her gut instinct told her that life would be better in