For many people, gut feeling is a kind of intuition or sixth sense.
But it is certainly not wrong to understand the real reason that triggers the gut feeling: It is based on similar experiences in the past or is innate with similarities in these situations.
Similar experiences in other situations can be useful, but as a rule they are not absolutely congruent.
You always experience feelings that tell you one hundred percent that this or that is absolutely correct and in order and that urge you to make this decision.
If you ultimately decide against the feeling, you can get a bad gut feeling.
However, if you are not an expert in the field (but also sometimes if you are an expert), you should critically question these feelings. Because the less you know about a thing, the more they can creatively pretend.
If e.g., the gut feeling says, this or that should be decided one way or the other, then you can often register later that you made a wrong decision.
Of course, the feelings are often right. Because the same experiences with regard to similar events usually lead to corresponding results.
So, it is not so easy to discover wrong feelings.
If, however, something very important is involved, then it would be good to look back at what has been said above and turn on your thinking. In this way, one activates the consciousness at the same time, which can take a closer look at what the feelings want with intensified senses. And this gives the brain the opportunity to revise its decision with this information.
Info:
The abdominal brain - enteric nervous system (ENS) - consists of around 100 to 200 million nerve cells.
In comparison: the head brain consists of around 100 billion nerve cells - a thousand times as many.
The brains communicate with each other: 90% from the stomach to the brain and 10% vice versa.
If a decision is pending, the brain looks for similar situations and checks the perception of them. (In the head and stomach brain.)