The "Gut Feeling"

You're about to walk out the door on your way to work.  You grab your coat off of the hanger, and your shoes off the shelf.  Half-way out of the main entrance to your house you glance upwards... the clouds are looking a little menacing... but there is sun.  From somewhere inside of you, the thought to grab that travel-sized umbrella rikoshays through your subconscious.  Running a little late, you shake it off and continue on your way.

Speeding down the freeway towards your exit some time later, quarter-sized droplets start to hammer the roof of your car.  You turn your wipers on full-speed as little streams race down either side of your windshield.  It's not, however, until you whip into a spot in the back of the lot that you go to get out of your car and realize... it's raining.  That glimmer of sunshine that you'd caught a glimpse of this morning is MIA.  Dark clouds cover the sky above you and you get a sick feeling in the pit of your stomach.  That little polka-dotted shield that's hanging in the upper-left corner of the door frame in the closet comes to the front of your mind... you should have grabbed that stupid umbrella when you had thought of it earlier.  You now get to enter your presentation for the district manager late, drenched, and out of breath from running to the tarp over the front door to the building.

We all experience them, telling us to grab a pencil from the drawer on our way to school, only to get to class and find out there is a pop-quiz on scantron that takes only answers written in #2 ink.  What are these little so-called "gut feelings" that pop-up from time-to-time?  And why don't we take the time to listen to them?  

I personally can't recall a time that one of these little thoughts ever hurt me, they always seem to be there only to help.  A reminder, so to speak.  

The mind is a very complex tool and if you ever have a spare moment, look-into it.  

It's like looking down at your hands and becoming aware that you move them without even thinking about it.  Or that your feet just do what you tell them too without giving it a second thought.  That one organ controls everything we do, without even making us think to do it.  Like grabbing a pencil or an umbrella, turning left at the fork in the road when your not sure and ending up exactly where you needed to be.  

It's a cool object.  It allows us to have our own thoughts and personality, to be our own person.  It helps us to remember things now and recover older memories from long ago.  It helps us to base our feelings on our decisions, and vise-versa.  Be thankful for the one you've got and use it to the best of your ability.  Listening to your feelings and your heart means doing what you know to be right. The phrase "Gut Feeling" follows shortly after another well known saying,"Use your head."