listen to the voice in your head.

@savypat (20216)
United States
February 23, 2013 12:57pm CST
This morning I was to go to town, about 25 miles away and do the shopping. We had been told all day that the weather is going to be bad, but when I left home it didn't look to bad. Well I got up over the hill so that I could see across the valley and there it was, the storm coming in. Well I really wanted to get my shopping done but the closer I got to the store the more my little voices were telling me go home, don't get stuck in the snow. So I finally listened and turned around and drove home. I'll go tomorrow when the weather improves. Do you listen to that little voice or ignore it and just carry on?
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@barehugs (8973)
• Canada
23 Feb 13
And don't forget the voice (or feeling) in your stomach that keeps (or tries to keep) you on the straight and narrow . The voice in your head talks to you about personal things while that other voice is tuned into the spiritual aspects of your life, and your dealings with other people. You might say,"the voice in your head is about the physical, while the voice in your stomach is all about the spiritual!"
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@savypat (20216)
• United States
28 Feb 13
Yes I have a very outspoken gut, it never seems to let me down. Thanks
@dragon54u (31634)
• United States
23 Feb 13
I definitely listen to that voice and it's saved me from a lot of inconvenience, aggravation and physical harm. Sometimes I'll not hear the little warnings but see something--once I saw a dark black cloud hovering over the part of town I was headed to about ten miles away and I went back home. There was a robbery in the store I had planned to go to! Another time I when I lived in Arizona I was on my way to town and saw a coyote standing beside the wash. No rain in sight but that coyote walked out in front of my truck and did not move. I went home. Half an hour later the heavens opened and the wash and everything else flooded, cutting off access to town--and my access had I left. The water didn't go down till the next morning. There is a lot to be learned if we will just listen, look, and quiet our minds of the endless blathering running around in it.
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23 Feb 13
Hi, That's such a great question and topic. I believe that we all have a wisdom that extends beyond our cognitive reasoning, the same part of us that gets a gut feeling about someone or feels like we're being watched. If we allow ourselves to listen to this voice or sense then I believe that we tune into a very valuable resource that we can learn to trust and balance our more rational and logical reasoning. I also love what dragon54u said about quieting our minds - mindfulness in action!
@GardenGerty (160908)
• United States
23 Feb 13
Sometimes I do one, sometimes the other. Usually when I listen, I am glad I did. I am glad you are safe. We had about thirty hours of snow this week, and more is coming in on Monday evening.
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@Pose123 (21635)
• Canada
23 Feb 13
Hi savypat, I don't always listen but I've discovered that it is best to do so. The inner voice seems to know best. Blessings
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@lelin1123 (15595)
• Puerto Rico
24 Feb 13
I have learned to listen to it because I believe its your angels guiding or helping you to do the right thing. When I haven't listened in the past something bad has offen happened. I'm so glad you listened this time because you wouldn't want to be stuck in the snow. The shopping I'm sure was not that important that it couldn't wait another day. In fact, if its still bad tomorrow I would wait till Monday if I were you. Good luck and God Bless!
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@Raine38 (12391)
• United States
24 Feb 13
Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. If I didn't, sometimes I will blame myself for not listening. But when I did, I would say that I am being paranoid. And still, there are instances that I am so glad I listened to my higher self. I think it all depends on the situation, and by experience, we begin to process logic and sometimes near-clarity that it will just be too sad not to heed that little voice.
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@KrauseHome (36447)
• United States
27 Feb 13
Personally for me, a lot of times, it has depended on the situation. I can remember times when it was snowing here and still tried to make it, and ended up having to give up and call into work and say I would not be able to make it. At the age I am at now, and with all the health issues I do try to pay attention more.
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@savypat (20216)
• United States
28 Feb 13
As it turned out the storm I was watching never reached us, but that made me wonder what else was awaiting me. I was home safe and sound and I don't regret the turn around. My voices often warn me for the wrong reasons but I usually later learn something else happened instead. Thanks
@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
28 Feb 13
I usually go to two different gyms, one requires me driving, the other requires just a walk, now on Mondays I drive to the gym, but I woke up with someone telling me NOT to drive today and to go to the other gym. I listened to the voice, of course I'll never know what could have happened if I had of driven and ignored the voice, only in a parallel universe, but it does make you wonder, what if you hadn't listened to the voices inside!
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@marty3888 (2355)
• Acme, Michigan
23 Feb 13
It just happened to me the other day. Our power went out. I called the electric company. It was not going to go back on between 7pm and 9. We have some electric outlets that need to be replaced. Ours are not polarized, it only has the two holes. It was a little after 4. I took one off, but I thought what if this new one is defective, what if I don't hook up something up right, there is a lamp nwe plug into it thatr my g/f uses and she would be furious. At 5:30, I decided I'm going to do it. The one in the kitchen. I thought about it. It would only take 15 minutes at the most and it was over an hour away. But those voices stated saying what if it comes back on BEFORE 7? i decided to forget it. 15 minutes later, the power came back on. I would have been right in the middle of it.
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@TriciaW (2441)
• United States
23 Feb 13
I believe strongly in that little voice in my head. I figure if I don't listen I may regret it later and that it won't hurt if I put off something until tomorrow. I remember once not listening to my little voice and was caught in a flash flood. I have never been so scared in my life but I had to pick someone up and so it wasn't something I could put off until tomorrow. I saw the wall of water coming towards me and didn't know what to do. I followed the lights of the truck in front of me and thankfully he stayed on the road which led me in the right direction. I hate to think what would have happened if he had gone off the road when the water hit us. From that time on I never ignored those little voices.
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
26 Feb 13
I'm learning to listen to it. Most often, when I don't, I regret it.
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@inertia4 (27960)
• United States
26 Feb 13
Sometimes I do. But if I am headstrong about something then I usually don't. Some things I feel are worth the battle of the weather. But there are those times when I do believe safety is the number one priority.
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
24 Feb 13
sometimes it's voices but for me it's most of the times gut feeling. Years ago my cousin and my aunts asked me to accompany them to inquire about how to apply for some loan blah..blah..From the start i did not want to go but did anyway to accompany the all female party and always followed them from behind, so when we were there i suddenly felt that i had to go and excused my self by taking a taxi cab. The following day I received a phone call ( no cell phones yet that time) that bricks fell from the facade of the building to where i was standing seconds or minutes before, It's not a ton but it's a lot . Just lucky? gut feeling? voices?
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