Intuition or Anxiety? Priya's Gut Had a Terrible Track Record

Priya's gut talks all day long, and it has been wrong about nearly everything. It told her the plane would crash. The plane landed early. It told her she had left the stove on. She drove home from work to check, forty times in one year, and the stove was off forty times. It told her the lump on the dog was serious. The lump was a burr. So when her cousin Raj asked her to go into business with him, and her gut said "don't," Priya had a problem. Was that her intuition? Or was it the same voice that thinks every phone call is bad news? She searched "is it intuition or anxiety" and took three online quizzes. They told her she was "an empath," "a golden retriever" and "mostly anxiety." None of that helped with Raj.

So she booked an intuitive reading at mrhesch.com. "My gut is a liar," Priya told Paul. "I need to know if it's lying right now." "Tell me how it sounds when it's wrong," Paul said. "Loud. Fast. It says 'what if' a lot. What if the stove, what if the plane. It keeps repeating until I do something." "And the feeling about your cousin?" Priya stopped. She had to think about it. "It said it one time," she said slowly. "It was quiet. It just said no. And it hasn't changed in three weeks." "That's a different voice," Paul said. "Anxiety shouts and keeps changing the subject. Intuition says a thing once and waits for you." Then Paul tuned in and told her what he was picking up around the business. He said it had to do with paperwork, and with a promise that was not written down anywhere. Priya's mouth fell open. Raj had said, "We don't need a contract, we're family." "Okay, that's a little spooky," she said. She did not go into business without a contract. Raj was offended for a week, and then he got a lawyer, and it turned out the lawyer had some questions too. Priya's gut still thinks the stove is on. She has learned to pause and check the facts before acting on a feeling. If anxiety is running your days the way it used to run hers, a doctor or a therapist can help with that part.