Do I trust my instincts? I am not sure I can answer a yes or a No because there have been times when I have been completely right, and there have been times when I have been completely wrong. Instead what I do is check my instincts. If there is something that I am sure of is that my instincts is revealing a depth in me that I have not noticed and instead of just doing what it is telling me, the best thing is to check it to see just what it is telling me to do and why it is telling me to do whatever it is. For example, if I suspect my partner is cheating and I go tell them they are cheating because my gut tells me so or my instincts preserves it then I will be setting myself up for emotional torture. A lot of the time I have seen these things happen and whether it’s true or not, the way to respond to it will either expose the truth, or destroy a relationship for life. Most of the time, the latter is what happens.
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There are two ways it destroys things, one is you speaking negativity to live by continually suspecting my partner, the other way is showing them I do not trust them and thus making them feel unsafe. Although, if it turns out that my instinct is correct, I would have saved myself a lot of stress, but if I am wrong, then I am wrong. This is why I always verify what my instinct is actually telling me. Perhaps it’s telling me that I am insecure and need to work on my self esteem, perhaps it’s showing my fears and making me act on them. I can say for a fact that one of the many people who follow their guts a lot are gamblers, and guess what, they usually lose until they win. Some might never even win. This is because their instincts were only feeding their greed, and they mistook it for it, showing them the way.
Our instinct is like a 7th sense, it pushes us to make decisions promptly. But then again, just like how you can’t see clearly if something is in your eyes, or you can’t hear clearly is something is in your ear, or you can’t breathe well if something is in your nose, that’s how it is when something is blocking your instincts or making you think something is what it is not. Desires can block our instincts, our fears can trigger it, people's narrative could affect it, our upbringing could also affect it. This is why I try to always check what my instincts are really saying, instead of going in blindly and failing woefully. But then again this does not mean we should ignore that 7th sense when it speaks, in fact we should check it immediately else we will fall apart when it tells us something and we do not listen.
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