I'm a big believer in the "go with your gut" concept. Your gut instinct is your inner concious that picks up on things you may not realize outright. It's that little voice inside your head that you hear telling you one thing even when you are doing another.

Your heart makes emotional decisions. Your mind analyzes things and makes logical decisions (based on the data it has collected). Your "gut" is the one you should follow, though. It is that voice you refer back to you when you say "I knew something wasnt right about this situation!" in hindsight (after you "followed your heart" or over-analyzed something).

Anytime you are in turmoil, or having a hard time making a decision, it is because more than one of these are conflicting with the other. If you can really 'listen to yourself' and learn the difference between the three... you will never be faced with a "difficult decision" again. You will always know your answer - which is what your "gut instinct" is telling you to do.

Emotions are kind of fleeting little things. They arent to be trusted with major decisions. I mean, just think about it - we've probably all loved someone 100% whole-heartedly... only to find out later they were cheating, or lying, or not who we thought they were (because we were fooled by our heart - which blinds us to everything else).

Logic cant really be trusted either. You will argue yourself out of wearing a coat on a winter day. Think of a courtroom trial. It's not necessarily about the truth or the facts... it's about who presents the best case. And when you REALLY want something (because your heart is rooting for it)... you'll twist logic to work in your favor.

Gut instinct cannot be manipulated. It's there. And you know it's there. And you stuff it away, ignore it... use the heart and the mind to argue it into submission.. then do what you want. Then later you say "I had a feeling..."