Intuition or gut feeling-wise guides

“Intuition is your future remembering itself, guided by your past.”

I’m a spiritual person, but I also love a rational explanation.

Can you relate?

So when I learned something interesting about intuition — something that has always fascinated me — from science in podcasts, I was thrilled.

Our gut feeling. We often see it as something mysterious, almost magical.

But in fact, it’s literally your gut speaking. As the English phrase goes so beautifully: gut feeling.

You could (if I’m explaining it somewhat correctly) call it an extension of your brain, connected through the vagus nerve.

Our body carries a silent library of experiences: patterns, impressions, and emotions we’ve gathered over the years. In our gut, there’s a nervous system of its own, with millions of neurons. Through the vagus nerve, this system continuously sends signals to our brain — faster than words, faster than the logic of our “thinking” brain.

What we call instinct or intuition is really our body recognizing a pattern before our brain understands it.

It’s memory and experience, whispered in the language of feeling — a slight tension in the chest, a warmth in the stomach, a sudden calm.

Intuition is not a guess. Nor is it “madness.” It’s true knowing, even before you actually know why.

So listening to it — your intuition, your gut feeling — is definitely not a bad idea!

(Maaike, consider this a little reminder for yourself 😉🙃😉🙃)