Always Trust Your Gut Instinct
One of my most passionate beliefs is, “trust your gut.” Let your intuition (or as some of us call it, “our sixth sense”) guide you. If the thought of doing something does not feel right, don’t do it. As I grew older, it became more and more clear to me that the internal feeling I had about something seemed to always be right. This was not something I learned from any person of religious aspect in life. This is something I learned though experience (kicking myself when I felt something was not right but did not use that feeling to influence my decision). I have had many times in my life, especially with concerns of my children, that this has led me to where I needed to be or to what I needed to know. One time in particular, when my oldest son at the time was in his second year of high school, I just had a gut feeling he was smoking pot. He was young man with a 4.0 GPA …show more content…
His method begins with doubting everything. Everything that enters his mind must be deduced or reasoned and what is left over would be allowed to enter. He also believes that some ideas are innate. After a long period of doubting opinions that have been impressed upon him since birth he realized in order to come to a conclusion he must exist as a thinking thing if he is doubting because to doubt you must be thinking. He comes to the conclusion that the only things he can be sure of are those of which are in his own mind (solipsism). Only clear and distinct ideas are the only ones which may be relied upon. After showing that God does exist, Descartes was able to reason that he can in fact trust his own body and the world around shown to him by his senses, because to him, a good God would not be a deceiver. This is now known as the Cartesian circle (Descartes method of proving that his clear and distinct ideas and God both prove each other exist) (Mitchell, 2014, p.
One of my most passionate beliefs is, “trust your gut.” Let your intuition (or as some of us call it, “our sixth sense”) guide you. If the thought of doing something does not feel right, don’t do it. As I grew older, it became more and more clear to me that the internal feeling I had about something seemed to always be right. This was not something I learned from any person of religious aspect in life. This is something I learned though experience (kicking myself when I felt something was not right but did not use that feeling to influence my decision). I have had many times in my life, especially with concerns of my children, that this has led me to where I needed to be or to what I needed to know. One time in particular, when my oldest son at the time was in his second year of high school, I just had a gut feeling he was smoking pot. He was young man with a 4.0 GPA …show more content…
His method begins with doubting everything. Everything that enters his mind must be deduced or reasoned and what is left over would be allowed to enter. He also believes that some ideas are innate. After a long period of doubting opinions that have been impressed upon him since birth he realized in order to come to a conclusion he must exist as a thinking thing if he is doubting because to doubt you must be thinking. He comes to the conclusion that the only things he can be sure of are those of which are in his own mind (solipsism). Only clear and distinct ideas are the only ones which may be relied upon. After showing that God does exist, Descartes was able to reason that he can in fact trust his own body and the world around shown to him by his senses, because to him, a good God would not be a deceiver. This is now known as the Cartesian circle (Descartes method of proving that his clear and distinct ideas and God both prove each other exist) (Mitchell, 2014, p.