Intuition, hunch, gut feeling  – haven’t we experienced these sometime or the other in our lifetime? Hasn’t it ever happened that you have been in dilemma, on crossroads of an important decision of your life, which would change the course of life altogether? And you have trusted on your gut feeling to take a decision?  Many a times intuition overrules emotion as well as objectivity. Trust me ! 9 out of 10 times the outcome is positive.

Paulo Coelho in his inspiring novel “The Alchemist” talks of this inner voice or intuition which we ignore through the course of our daily hectic schedules, the clutter, the noise and the hundreds of external chaos. This inner voice is the connection of the external world to our inner being which drives us, motivates us and takes us into the next realms of life. I have read somewhere that women are wired to be more intuitive compared to men as they evaluate matters based on emotions and feelings. I believe the sense of intuition has nothing to do with gender as it develops from past experiences and happenings. Intuition doesn’t merely happen due to emotions but it is a synchronisation of logic, wisdom and emotions in our subconscious mind. The more we trust our gut feeling the stronger it keeps getting. Such inexplicable is this power of intuition that though many a times the immediate consequences might not be very encouraging but over a period of time the positive outcomes start surfacing.

Life throws innumerable challenges at us, we sometimes are unable to decide the step we need to take. We ask our well-wishers, friends and seniors – parents, grandparents for opinions. There were times I had based my decisions on these external factors rather than listening to my inner voice. Yet over a period of time I have started realising how important our own inner voice is. No-one wishes wrong for someone but the variables in each of our lives are so high that the opinions on a certain matter vary immensely. Among all the opinions, the ones parents provide are closest to our inner voice because we are a part of them and most of the times what they advise yield positive outcomes.

I might have sounded extremely pholosophical but in these times of uncertainty, as the world warps into a more complex network I believe the voice of self speaks loudest and creates the road ahead in each of our lives. Listen to yourself and you will always be happy!! Because your own self is worth more than you can imagine.