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Have you ever felt a sinking sensation in the pit of your stomach when walking into a job interview? Or experienced a flash of clarity about a difficult decision? Perhaps you’ve noticed that fluttery feeling of butterflies on a first date, before you’ve barely exchanged a few words. If those scenarios sound familiar, no, you don’t have an acute Spidey sense. These are all signs of your gut instinct at play.
So, what exactly are these sudden sparks of intuition? “When people say ‘gut intuition’, what it generally refers to is a primal response to subconscious information, both positive and negative,” says Katie O’Donoghue, the resident relationship coach at The Indigo Project. “In a way, it is another survival instinct we