✨ The Psychology of Trusting Your Gut ✨

"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level."

The old saying "follow your gut" refers to trusting your feelings or your intuition. These gut feelings occur when your brain makes a substantial match or mismatch between past experiences and current experiences. We notice patterns through past experiences, store these patterns and associated information into long-term memory, and then retrieve the information when we see these patterns again in our everyday experience. To use and trust our gut feelings, we need practice. Our gut feelings are only as good as the patterns we draw them from.

Do you think intuition is strictly based on a collection of experiences, or could it be something more? Share your ideas below. 👇

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