The Calling: Gut Feelings and Why Your Gut Won’t Shut Up (And Shouldn’t)

Daniela Goes-Udoff
Sep 2
4 min read

Updated: Oct 27

“If you’ve ever felt crazy for wanting the thing that scares you most—good. That’s not insanity. That’s your upgrade loading.”

Gut feelings aren’t superstition—they’re wiring. 500 million neurons in your gut send signals up the vagus nerve to the limbic system. The body whispers, the brain translates, the soul chooses. What we call a Calling is that three-way conspiracy tapping you on the shoulder saying: this way.

What is a Calling? Gut Feelings and Why They Feel Like FeaR

A Calling is not a job title or a career move—it’s the soul’s blueprint rising to the surface. It feels like a gut punch because it comes from your deepest truth. And because truth is disruptive, your brain resists it.

Gut feelings calling us forward are not irrational—they’re signals decoded by the brain–gut axis.

Your limbic system (the brain’s emotional core) is where gut messages get translated into meaning. So that twist in your stomach, that tightness in your chest? That’s not imagination—it’s biology translating the soul’s signal into language your body understands.

The amygdala’s job isn’t fulfillment—it’s survival. New paths? It stamps them DANGER. That’s why your body floods with fear when a calling arrives.

👉 Neuroscience calls this the approach–avoidance conflict: dopamine reward circuits pull you toward passion, while the amygdala yanks you back. 👉 Vedic astrology calls it karma: old patterns replaying until consciousness interrupts.

And here’s the paradox: Passion comes from passio—suffering. We don’t move until the pain of not doing it outweighs the fear of doing it.

✨ Neuroscience confirms: the discomfort is not a mistake—it’s the rewiring in progress.

Gut Feelings Are Neural, Not Naïve

Everyone knows the phrase “trust your gut.” But here’s the science:

Your gut has its own nervous system—the enteric nervous system (ENS)—with nearly 500 million neurons, more than in your spinal cord.
This “second brain” constantly chats with your limbic system through the vagus nerve.
Neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine flow along this axis, shaping mood, memory, and choice.

So when you feel a knot in your stomach before a wrong decision—that’s neural data, not fantasy. When you feel an almost magnetic pull toward something terrifying but yours—that’s your soul breaking through survival noise.

👉 In neuroscience, this is the gut–brain axis. 👉 In Vedic astrology, it’s the soul’s blueprint reactivated by timing.

Both agree: gut feelings are not mystical fog. They are the soul’s voice, translated through the oldest communication system in your body.

Why We Reject Ourselves First

The Default Mode Network (DMN) is your brain’s internal narrator—the self-referential loop that replays who you think you are. If “healer / teacher / creator” isn’t in your current identity file, the DMN stamps it: NOT ME.

So when a Calling shows up, the first rejection usually comes from… you. It feels irrational. Maddening. Like you’re betraying your own sanity. But this isn’t insanity—it’s conservation. The brain is just trying to save energy and preserve its story.

✨ Neuroscience confirms what you already sense: self-belief, visualization, and aligned action can rewrite those loops—literally shifting the DMN to accept a new self. What feels like “madness” is often just the moment your inner story demands an update.

Silence > Multitasking (And Why Presence Is Power)

Multitasking is the biggest productivity scam since low-fat margarine. Neuroscience proves it: the brain doesn’t juggle; it ping-pongs. Every switch costs time, accuracy, and focus. Even an unread email sitting quietly in your inbox can drop your IQ and spike cortisol.

MIT’s Earl Miller says it flat: “Don’t try to multitask.” And he’s right—because what you lose isn’t just efficiency, it’s clarity.

Spirituality figured this out centuries ago. Every practice—prayer, yoga, ritual—was designed to train single-pointed awareness. Why? Because only when you stop scattering attention can you hear the deeper voice inside.

(And here’s my favorite parenthesis: the loudest voice comes from the silence of the mind. Painful, yes—but silence frees you to hear the rhythm of your own heart and finally decide. Trust me, I heard it. It was like a louder, crazier Janis Joplin acting as my “journal police.” Every time I skipped writing a truth that stung, she’d scream: “Oh Loooord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz?” And she was right—because there I was, driving a white Mercedes, making it all a bit worse and a whole lot funnier. What can I say? Even in my silence, sarcasm has a seatbelt.)

The Soul as Differentiator

Take away the soul, and the body still runs its programs. The lungs inflate, the heart thumps, the neurons fire. Efficient. Predictable. Like a very fancy Alexa.

But the soul? That’s what makes two people with the same résumé live radically different lives. One cracks under pressure. Another finds courage.

👉 Biology gives us structure. The brain gives us processing. But the soul gives us essence. And essence is what turns survival into meaning.

This is where science ends—and calling begins.

My Disruption of the Old Normal

For too long, spirituality and astrology have been dismissed as “nonsense”—reduced to superstition by people who measure life only in spreadsheets and profit margins. The kind of families who look at the night sky and see nothing but… weather.

One woman once asked me, with a patronizing tilt of her head: “Why are you wasting your time studying astrology?”

I didn’t answer then. Here’s my answer now: this blog, this debut, this disruption.

Because astrology is not superstition—it’s a mirror of consciousness. Because spirituality is not weakness—it’s clarity, presence, and the courage to act. And because science itself is catching up:

Gut intuition = biology.
Visualization = neuron rehearsal.
Meditation = brain rewiring.
Presence = performance, not luxury.

Ignorance leads to fate. Knowledge guides us to free will.

(And as for the skeptics? Let’s just say: some people keep yapping like anxious chihuahuas when the compass is pointing due North. But you don’t have to listen.)