These real-life scenarios of intuition and anxiety will help you determine if you should listen to that gut feeling.

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Your intuition is always alert. It’s constantly informing you and guiding you onto the right path. However, recognizing this wise voice may be challenging since the intuitive gut feeling may be erroneously confused with emotional responses linked to anxiety. Moreover, if you’re constantly disregarding intuitive signs, anxiety may show up quickly after and therefore cloud your intuitive hunches. So how can you tell if it’s intuition or anxiety?

In this article, we will help you distinguish intuition from anxiety by illustrating specific examples of when it’s unmistakably intuition, when it’s distinctly anxiety, and when these two inner states overlap.