Are your "gut feelings" actually felt in your gut?

I just stumbled upon a website, talking about gut feelings and a thought occurred to me: The term "gut feeling", does it originate because most people feel their sensing/intuition of the unknown in the gut area or is it a phrase that describes all feelings grouped together. For example, I get "gut feelings" all the time, but they come with just a quick flash in my body as if my body has gotten warmer quickly and then returns to normal. Or sometimes my mind will go completely calm.

Do you experience your gut feelings actually in your gut area or is it in a different area?

I thought the answer to this question (as far as the origins of this phrase) would be easy, but, after a lot of searching, the answer eludes me. It seems as if the only references I could locate were from the Bible...but they seem to speak more of butterflies in the stomach than anything else.

Hello brightflashes, I believe we refer to this term because of the 3rd chakra, which is located just above the naval also known as the Solar Plexus. This one is the chakra that connects our emotions to our solar system or what we call the universe. You can read more about this at: http://www.rickrichards.com/Chakras.htm

It is my humble opinion that chakra's are real and vital to our universal alignment as the spinal cord is to our physical alignment.

Love to all...

On the physical side of it,is it that taut feeling we feel in our stomach muscles?

Like a sudden jolt in the tummy when danger threatens?

Joanie

Joanie wrote:On the physical side of it,is it that taut feeling we feel in our stomach muscles?

Like a sudden jolt in the tummy when danger threatens?

Joanie

Yes I agree Joanie. They talk about 'gut feeling' or 'gut instinct'... it's the subconscious physical response to perceived danger....It's like a 'burglar alarm'....the survival instinct that developed way back during animal evolution....and humans still have it in varying degrees.

Type 0 blood type people have a finer setting on their 'gut instinct' and their internal immune response too because they have the physiology of the first hunter gatherers..They have a stronger physical 'gut feeling' ...survival depended on it because they faced real danger in everyday life.

Also the sick feeling that comes with that wrench in the tummy....Primal instinct sets off physical reaction.

Yes I agree Joanie. They talk about 'gut feeling' or 'gut instinct'...
it's the subconscious physical response to perceived danger....It's like
a 'burglar alarm'....the survival instinct that developed way back
during animal evolution....and humans still have it in varying degrees.

Type
0 blood type people have a finer setting on their 'gut instinct' and
their internal immune response too because they have the physiology of
the first hunter gatherers..They have a stronger physical 'gut feeling'
...survival depended on it because they faced real danger in everyday
life.

On the physical side of it,is it that taut feeling we feel in our stomach muscles?
Like a sudden jolt in the tummy when danger threatens?

Joanie

While I totally agree with both of you, these gut feelings are the purest of emotions. From prsonal experience these so called gut feelings has; summoned help for me, warned me of things to come, allowed me to experience life beyond my physical aspects (OBE), disbursed healing energy throughout my body, just to name a few. There is so much we can accomplish when we harness the power of the Solar Plexus. We don't even need to understand the physics of how, what, when, etc.... One thing I've come to know is that these type feelings are not exclusively our own. Gut feelings are shared throughout the solar system. Ever been in a frightening situation wherein it seem as if help came from out of no where? IMHO, that our gut as we mentioned here, commands help before we can even ask. The same for things we strongly desire. Ever want something so much you can feel it in your gut? Then all of a sudden you get it or it appears like it was waiting just for you to come along and claim it.

These are examples of how our 3 chakra (aka) Solar Plexus works for us. I often refer to chakras as the spiritual spinal cord. I best be quiet now before I put foot into mouth.

Love to all...

So it's a spiritual thing as well,Cw?

I know what you mean by Solar Plexus,CW.

In a different vein,wonder where the word 'Solar Plexus' came from?

Solar is connected to the sun,isn't it?

Why that?

As well as the other planetary alignments surrounding us (Earth) and the sun .

love to all...

Like many of you have already said our 'gut feelings' are I think not just physical but also spiritual.
I have had many 'gut feelings' mainly I must say about people and nearly always I've been right to follow these feelings.

I totally agree with you Assumpta, I follow my gut feelings they don't lead me wrong. I've had my share of not listening to gut feelings and I always regret it.

Sometimes I'll get the whispering voice along with the gut feeling. This one is serious business!

Gut is the area where the solar plexus is, as well as the third chakra, the bridge between the spiritual self and the physical.
It is logical, if a message comes in from our higher self, let's say, it could be felt n the highest chakra of the physical.
When I connect to what I call my divine self, I feel very quick yes answers and confirmations, to a thought or thought process, in this area as muscle contractions.

Thank you very much Detlef, very well said. I love the simplicity in your message.

Yes I was going to post about the solar plexus but many have already, it can feel very much like butterflies in that area when in communication with spirits too.