The importance of trusting your gut feelings

By: Natalia Rose

Every single one of us experiences gut feelings. When I first learned about opening up my psychic abilities with Janine Louise Medium, she said to me that your gut feeling is your most important and basic form of intuition because everyone has it.

Whether you get a bad vibe about a person, place, situation, going to party or more, it is always right.

This is because it is our intuition, our sixth sense, telling us that there is something wrong. It is both divine intervention and protection.

It is the universe and our spirit guides warning us that deception, negativity, or even danger, lies ahead.

They are warning us to give us an opportunity to make the right decision - to not befriend that person, to not go to that party etc.

They are trying to stop that aha moment we have when we realise, "oh crap, I should have listened to that feeling about xyz. I can't believe I was right."

These decisions can save us lots of heartache and hurt. They give us the chance to make a decision that benefits us in the long run.

So many of my own experiences come to mind (and I'm sure you're thinking the same as you read this). There are some key experiences that I want to share with you so that you don't make the same mistakes that I did.

The first one is in regards to being bullied in my retail job. For those of you who don't know, I was bullied, harassed and stalked by my old colleagues and their friends. I got bad feelings about and could not stand most of the people who were heavily involved in the bullying when I first met them.

I especially couldn't stand one girl when I met her. She ended up being one of the main instigators of the bullying and stalking. Let's call her Cornelia*. When I first met Cornelia around 6 years ago, I instantly got a bad feeling that she was malicious and that I couldn't trust her. And the more I worked with her, the more I felt it.

I had no intentions of befriending her further, especially because she was a little rude to me when we were on our own. One day, one of my other work friends - let's call her Crystal* - asked me if I liked Cornelia. She was shocked when I said I didn't. Crystal told me that I was wrong and that I just had to get to know Cornelia. That once I got to know her a little better, I would see how lovely she was.

Against my better judgement, I let my walls down and we became friends. But, even though we hung out, I never told Cornelia any secrets or trusted her with details of my private life. Two years before the bullying began, I kept having recurring nightmares about her doing something horrible to me at work. This only convinced me more not to get too personal with her. But I should have cut off from her completely because, in the end, she used our friendship as a platform to convince people that her lies about me were true.

All the red flags were there, and I ignored them because of someone else's opinion.

I am also no longer friends with Crystal because she was a bad friend and ended up getting involved in the bullying behind my back. I'll be honest, I'm not friends with anyone who thinks that Cornelia is nice anymore. I consider it a red flag.

I don't regret my decisions, and I understand and appreciate that being bullied was meant to happen to me for my own personal and spiritual development.

But, one of the many lessons I took away from it was to never doubt my intuition or gut feelings, especially when it came to other people.

I've even put this lesson to use recently with online dating. I had joined Hinge and Tinder to try and find a partner, but ended up getting off them after 2 months. I kept getting bad vibes when talking to different men. And one experience really stood out to me and reminded me about trusting my intuition.

I was talking with a guy and then he asked me on a date. He seemed normal, but I got a sick feeling in my stomach and didn't want to reply. I told myself that I was just being nervous, and agreed to go. We planned it and added each other on Facebook. The night before our date, I couldn't sleep.

I had horrible nightmares about something bad happening to me. When I woke up, my body felt sore like I had been lifting weights and exercising. And my stomach felt sick. I tuned into my abilities, and had a vision of him beating me up. It was so vivid that I backed out of the date and deleted Hinge. He got angry and asked my why I had deleted it, even though I hadn't told him I did. I didn't respond, but he still sent me angry messages, so I deleted and blocked him off Facebook.

My vision could've meant different things, such as that he could have abusive traits without physically touching me, or that I could've been completely wrong. But either way, I wasn't about to tempt fate and find out for myself.

Plus, I had little confirmations that I was right. His anger, and the fact that my body felt normal again after I cancelled the date, was all the proof that I needed.

Just remember that you don't need the whole truth or tangible proof that your intuition is right to believe it. And sometimes in life, you may never get proof that you are right. You just have to listen to the universe and trust that they're looking out for you.

*Names have been changed for privacy reasons.