Sometimes we get blindsided by love. This happens when we don't know how to properly distinguish specific emotions, sensations and thoughts that we are experiencing once entering into a relationship. Oftentimes we intellectualize our feelings, which can cement us into emotional blocks. For example, you may have felt your recent partner was cheating on you, but you ignored it because you didn't ...

Sometimes we get blindsided by love. This happens when we don't know how to properly distinguish specific emotions, sensations and thoughts that we are experiencing once entering into a relationship. Oftentimes we intellectualize our feelings, which can cement us into emotional blocks. For example, you may have felt your recent partner was cheating on you, but you ignored it because you didn't want to come off paranoid. Later on, you discovered your gut-feeling was right. Too many times, especially when choosing the right partner, we ignore the wisdom inside the belly.

The enteric system is located in the stomach and it enables us to feel. Feelings actually strike in the stomach and not the head. That's why we get butterflies when we're nervous, or a sick feeling when we feel revulsion. The vagus nerve is responsible for perceiving intuitive information.

According to the chairman of the Department of Anatomy at Colombia University and author of the book “The Second Brain,” Michael D. Gershon explains the structure and relationship of the two brains: “The patterns the gut uses are separate from the brain's. The brain tells the gut to go into overdrive, but the gut determines the information by itself through its independent working patterns. The stomach has the same information that is in the cerebral brain. Both send signals to each other, but when it comes to emotional issues you need to focus on the intestinal system.”

So often, people ignore their gut feelings about someone and it results in relationship patterns that don't serve the individual. The gut has a wisdom that can give us guidance the intellectual brain cannot. Whenever the stomach has discomfort it's trying to tell us to listen. Learning to combine the wisdom of the two brains we can live harmoniously in our own bodies.

Erin is a spiritual director and writer with a passion for health and healing. More of Erin's writing can be found on her website Moxxy Girl, a movement created to help others obtain a way of being that is more expressive and explorative.