India, Feb. 7 -- Everyone has had the call of the gut feelings once in a while that sways the most logical reasonings. The pull of that vague instinct is so compelling and convincing that you listen to it, despite the best rationalising. In a way it can't really be put into tangible description, it's just a very strong feeling about the choice.

But the main question is, should you trust them? Can these gut feelings mislead you somehow? At the juncture of different life choices, it's often a faceoff between logic and gut.

In an interview with HT, Dr Rajiv Mehta, Vice-Chairperson of Psychiatry at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Delhi, shared the science behind these gut feelings.

Gut feeling or intuition is not easily understandable, as Dr. Me...