‘Want to know why you should always listen to your gut feeling? Here are all the reasons to never ignore your instincts.
Your gut feeling is that innate alarm system that warns you when danger is nearby. Your mind may play tricks on you and your heart may mislead you. However, your gut never lies.
At different times in your life, you will meet people your inner alarm tries to warn you about. You won’t be able to easily explain the feeling they give you. The only way you’ll describe it is that something seems to be “off” about them. Moreover, you’ll get a sinking, creepy feeling in the pit of your stomach. And, you will feel the bad vibes pour forth from these people.
This is your gut feeling warning you. Therefore, in this post, you will learn why you shouldn’t ignore your gut feeling but pay close attention to it.
Once you learn all about this important information, you will be compelled to listen to your gut and take steps to avoid dangerous individuals.
This post is all about your gut feeling so that you will pay more attention to it and protect yourself from potential human predators.
Your Gut Feeling
You will often mistake this feeling for paranoia and ignore it. This is something that a whopping majority of bully victims do.
However, if you learn to listen to your gut and avoid people who give you that creepy vibe, you will save yourself a truckload of trouble.
God gave us all that sixth sense. Most people call it your gut feeling or your instincts.
Never ignore this instinct!
Anytime you get a bad feeling in your gut about someone, you’re not being overly suspicious. No. What you are doing is picking up on negative energy.
Moreover, your inner alarm, your gut feeling is trying to warn you about a person or situation and keep you safe. Your inner alarm will warn you many times about someone’s personality. It will also warn you when someone is about to harm you.
If you’re a victim of bullying, you may not listen to this instinct because bullying and abuse fills you with self-doubt. Bullies may gaslight you and convince you to overlook your own intuitive abilities.
Therefore, you will mistake your inner warning system for paranoia. Or, you may go to the other extreme and not trust anyone, even those who love you and have your best interests at heart.
As a result, you will repel those who would otherwise be your true friends. And you will miss out on many opportunities for love and friendship.
No, you can’t trust everyone. However, putting up psychological barriers and shutting everyone out isn’t the answer either. This is another reason you should listen to your gut. It not only enables you to sense danger, it also helps you to spot those who are good and to trust the right people.
Your Gut Feeling:
Being bullied can destroy your ability to sense danger.
How? You may ask. Here’s how.
When you suffer bullying, your bullies constantly attack your judgement, decisions, and feelings. Bystanders may also negate and condemn them.
In that, they teach you that none of those things are valid. Or, they convince you that they’re wrong. Therefore, bullying diminishes your ability to trust and believe in yourself.
So, you won’t trust your gut either. When you endure bullying, it blinds you to danger because it dulls your senses of who’s for real and who’s fake. As a result, you won’t be able to avoid dangerous people.
If nothing else, know this! If bullies ridicule your instincts, know that you weren’t born yesterday. You’re not imagining things nor are you being overly-sensitive. And you are not mentally imbalanced or whatever else unsavory characters may call you.
When trouble is nearby, you feel it.
You know when something does not feel good. Not only will you feel it in your gut, but you’ll see it when certain people cut their eyes at you. Moreover, you’ll hear and see them talk through their teeth.
You’ll hear the short and cold tone in their voices. And you’ll sense the nasty vibes they exude. Put all these things together and you have a deadly mishmash of toxic goo! Therefore, eighty-six those people! Fast!
Again, never ignore this instinct. It’ll likely save you from so much trouble. It could even save your life!
Realize that you have more power than you think. Therefore, it’s up to you to listen to what your gut is trying to tell you and act on it. No one else can do it for you. You owe it to yourself to avoid anyone who gives you bad vibes.
Here’s the reason you should always heed your inner warning system.
Your Gut Feeling:
It helps you to pick up on dangerous people.
When you’re able to pick up on the vibes of the people around you, you have a gift. This can be a godsend if you suffer bullying.
Just imagine that you’re able to feel other’s energy and sense their moods and emotional states! It’s great because it warns you ahead of time that negative people are nearby.
Therefore, it gives you the cue that you need to steer clear of them. Therefore, it gives you the chance to avoid harm before it happens.
those sensations may not feel so good.
However, physically, they may not feel so good. In life, you’ll pick up some really yucky vibes from the people around you.
You’ll notice that something just doesn’t sit well when you meet them. These feelings and sensations are always physical. Moreover, you usually feel them in your body, particularly, your stomach.
Your body is like a radio tower that picks up frequencies. In other words, that tower is your body and the frequencies are the energy and vibrations that others put out.
When you pick up negative energy, you’ll get that sick feeling in your stomach. You may feel a lump in your throat. Sometimes, you even get that cold, creepy shiver up your spine.
Also, you may feel the hairs standing up on the back of your neck.
However, though it may not feel good, it is a good thing because it enables you to sense danger so that you know that it’s time to either run or fight.
Your Gut Feeling:
What’s best for you doesn’t always taste good.
Paying attention to these not-so-good feelings is like taking a spoonful of medicine when you’re sick. No, it doesn’t taste good. In fact, many kinds of medicine taste downright nasty.
However, if you’ll just hold your nose, put the spoon in your mouth, and swallow the concoction, you’ll feel so much better later.
In other words, pay attention to those bad vibes instead of ignoring them. And you’ll be able to excuse yourself from the encounter and avoid a potential attack. You’ll also be able to better avoid the suspicious person in the future.
Then, once you’re away from them, you’ll feel so much better. And, you’ll feel safer. Also, you’ll feel so proud of yourself knowing that you likely dodged a bullet.
When you begin listening to your instincts, you’ll notice Patterns and Details that most people don’t.
When you listen to your gut, you’ll also notice tiny patterns and details too. You’ll be surprised at just how much you pick up on that most others don’t. And, not just from other people, but your surroundings.
For example, as a child, I noticed things that other people never paid attention to. At school, I was often accused of not paying attention in class because I was distracted by other things. These were things like the black mold in the upper corners of the classroom walls.
The school building was old. It had been built during the 1940s. I would also notice the spider’s web in one of the light fixtures, or a red wasp that flew through one of the partially opened windows.
Maybe I would notice the loud roar of a plane flying overhead, or the squeak of a mouse trapped in the classroom waste can. Or maybe I had the displeasure of seeing the butt-crack of the fat boy sitting in front of me, who had a terrible habit of not pulling his pants up.
Whatever it was, and no matter how tiny the detail, I noticed it. Moreover, I’m pretty sure that others were threatened by that.
However, maybe there were reasons they were so threatened. Maybe, they saw the likelihood that I might see through all the bullshit they were trying to shovel. Or I’d notice the “fine print” in the stories and narratives they tried to sell me.
When you begin listening to your gut feeling, you’ll ask many questions.
In fact, you will go deep and tried to dissect everything you see or hear. And others will hate that about you. However, as annoying as it may be, what they’ll really hate is the likelihood that you’ll expose some true motives and hidden intentions.
Why? Because it’s only when you dissect something and go deep, you find the real malignancies underneath. The devil really is in the details.
In closing
Trusting your gut is one of the most important things you can do. Not only will you avoid bullies, fake friends, and other shady people, but you will also pick up on patterns and details such much quicker.
You see? Your instincts are like your muscles. If you don’t use them, you lose them. However, if you start trusting and paying attention to your gut feeling, it only gets stronger and more accurate.
So, exercise your instincts and you’ll only get better and better at spotting evil and avoiding it.
This post was all about your gut feeling and why you should pay attention to it so that you can more easily spot and avoid bullies and other nefarious people.
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2. Fake Friend: 11 Easy Ways to Spot One with Bad Intentions
3. Knowing Yourself: Why it’s the First Step in Building Confidence
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Aum Shanti
Thank you, Shanti!
Noticing little things and being distracted by them is a sign of DAMP, I was in the same boat as you and discovering this has made me realize that I wasn’t all at fault and it was more to do with the lack of patience of others. I can’t remember any gut feelings but I know I was too trusting of people and they sometimes led to trouble.
I completely understand, Michael. I had those gut feelings, and I remember having them. I was a very perceptive person back then. However, I ignored my gut, and I paid dearly for it. As for DAMP, I don’t think I had it. I just noticed patterns and details that most others didn’t, and it threatened a lot of people. I think they were afraid I’d catch on to their BS. And I did. Thank you for sharing your story. It’s further proof that I wasn’t alone.
This one is vital. Several things here to digest. First of all, people should always look for multiple red flags. I mean we all have our moments where we make an ass out of ourselves. For instance, politically both sides are ridiculous trying to make others believe they are right and the other side is wrong. Bottom line MAGAS think they are right, Progressives think they are. And sometimes both sides are flat out mean to the other side. That solves no problems.
I use that for an example, that we all can get caught up in a moment but hopefully we eventually check ourselves at the door. But bullies either lack self-awareness or they simply don’t care. Both are dangerous.
If you are let’s say out on a date, pay attention to how the person you are out with treats the service. Pay attention if someone constantly puts down someone working a low paying hard job. Pay attention if conversations always become political or constantly are about race or gender. Red flags if done a lot.
Pay attention to how they act toward other people even if they are treating you personally well but they are rude to everyone else. Eventually it is going to come your way too. Watch how they treat the elderly. Watch how they treat animals.
A couple of other things and I know I am running long. Watch for jealousy. It is a major red flag, big time. Watch how you are included in a group. We all playfully tease our friends and you should know if someone is playing around but in a group if you are the one always being picked upon, red flag. Or if you only talked to, asked to do things when they can’t find anyone else then a major red flag. And in a competition, say something athletic if you consistently win do they get angry about it, do they make a ton of excuses, etc. Competitiveness is one thing but if they have true anger or jealousy about losing at something, red flag there too. We probably all are guilty of one or two of these things occasionally but it should be the exception to the rule, not the rule and for bullies it occurs over and over and over again.
I totally agree, Bradley. In fact, my mother told me the same thing – watch how your date treats the wait staff at the restaurant or the janitor, because they’ll treat you the same way in a few months. The same with bullies. They give off all sorts of red flags before they select you as their victim. Also, bullies know what they’re doing, they just don’t care, and they think it’s cute. It isn’t. Being too competitive is a red flag, too. You’re right about that. For example, when I was in my 20s, I had a date who got mad because I was good at singing and won a talent show. Needless to say, I never went out with him after that. Thank you so much for your input.
I think there is a lot of merit in one’s gut feeling. Am I right every time? Of course not and a few times I probably was flat out wrong. But if everyone examines his or her life, how many times did you not trust your gut? You are going to be right a lot more than you are wrong. And if you ever are wrong, own it and if it was against someone else immediately apologize.
I have used this example a couple of times but I don’t know seems relevant here too. I had a crush on a friend but for years never told them. My gut always told me I should tell them despite it being years ago, having moved on to other great relationships (we both have at certain points in our life) etc. I didn’t for so long because I feared being ridiculed which was only my own head. Even though that is water under the bridge and in some ways even back then, I expected them to be a mind reader which was totally on me. And I still think they are awesome and a great friend. But my gut was always tell them. It is no reflection on your current or past relationships but something I have kept to myself forever and my gut needed a release.
Finally I had a good long duscussion/revelation and I felt this anchor come off me. It wasn’t any kind of pursuing or anything just some piece of mind for myself. AND they could not have been more gracious and kind and appreciated me telling them. I felt incredible and realized if I had gone with my gut years ago, I would have been so much more at peace. Your gut can give you that.
Yes ma’am, trusting your gut can give you peace. However, I think the reason why we don’t listen to our gut in things like crushes is because we’re afraid of rejection and of embarrassing ourselves.
Yes definitely but I think that quanifies into the bullying discussion too. Attraction is a subjective thing too that a lot of factors go into. If you are interested in someone or even if you seek just a close friendship with someone, how they react to it even if it isn’t the right time or whatever can be a sign to it. If they start talking bad about you to others, mocking your interest etc, potential bullying.
One time after a divorce, I had someone I was fairly close to ask me out . I turned them not very politely because I simply needed a period of time to process the failed marriage and refind myself. It was definitely where my mind was at that soon after a divorce and I knew if I dated anyone that quickly they would be a rebound.
Absolutely, if the person starts treating you bad, then your gut will tell you to walk away from this person. Just because it isn’t the right time or they’re not attracted to you doesn’t give them the right to mistreat you. And sometimes, when we’re going through a lot and just left a bad relationship, we may mistreat other suitors without meaning to. When your mind is in a bad place, it’s easy to do.