Intuition and Survival

When I was a junior in high school, a group of my friends had planned to go bowling on Saturday night. I got permission from their parents to go out and loaded into the car. There must have been eight of us packed in there, and I'm sitting at my best friends lap as the car drove away. As we were leaving the campus, the driver of the car looked in the mirror and said: "Lisa, your mom is following us."

"Drive faster." I said, definitely.

"No, she is on foot, and she is catching up. I better stop."

My mother pulled me out of that car, even after I gave permission to go. I was confused and angry. She looked at me and said: "Lisa, I have a bad feeling." Ten minutes later the car crashed into a tree and overturned. My best friend, whose lap I was sitting on, he was dead.

Feeling, and my mother is a super-human sprinting skills to save his life. I know it.

I heard just this morning, the children of women who are just removed from her home after discovering her live in boyfriend had molested one of them. "I had a feeling, but I just do not know why."

I had a feeling before I even met the man in person was almost killed both himself and his son. I listen to that feeling, I just stumbled forward in the relationship, because I could not put my finger on why I felt as I did.

We hear it all the time. "I felt that I should not have to walk that way."

"I had a feeling about this woman."

"I just had this gut feeling before I walked through that door, that I should not."

Sometimes listening to the voice of a little inconvenient. Sometimes it takes a tremendous amount of courage to follow your gut away from danger. Sometimes it just does not make sense to walk away. Most of the time when we follow those increases never know why, but sometimes we later found out we were spared. However, when we do not listen to the above, it is always obvious in hindsight. I should have listened to my stomach.

This is a different animal when you gut feeling leads us to the promised land of inspiration. It feels light and exciting. When a voice shouting "NO" this may be difficult to tell whether you are just reacting to the fear that I need to push or intuition. However, this feeling can save us from traffic jams or accidents. That would save us from the bad days or dangerous relationships. It just might save your life.

Mother's willingness to look ridiculous and confuses me, saved mine.

Lisa Hayes is the author of how to escape from the relationship of Hell. She is the mother of two children, a yoga instructor and hypnotherapist, and internet project manager. Lisa likes long walks on the beach and rest.