Anxiety vs. Intuition: When to Trust Your Gut

Anxiety and intuition both trigger gut feelings, but one is fear-based, while the other is wisdom-based. Anxiety jumps to worst-case scenarios, while intuition provides quiet insight. Learning to differentiate them can reduce unnecessary stress. Have you ever mistaken anxiety for intuition?

When it comes to gut feeling, I have come to realize that anxiety would always scream and make all the danger signals to go off. Intuition actually is calmer. To get the difference between both, I always practice mindfulness when that gut feeling comes.