You only hear what you want to hear!

One thing that I have found is that sometimes we got to go backwards a bit in order to go frontwards. Like in the case with knots, you might be temped to just pull it as hard as you can, and you make it worse.
Same goes for intuition. Your gut may very well be telling you with all your might to pull harder when really you need to push away. Your gut may lead you down paths of great strife, if you are not seeing things with the bigger part of yourself in agreement.
Your emotions are just as much guides in that communications come from the bigger part of yourself to communicate where you are in relation to that which you are facing. Attraction shows you what you lack, being repelled from something shows you what you have too much of.
Your subconscious (bigger part) never forgets, your conscious brain is meant to process and retrieve data. You may have noticed the calmer you are the easier you can think, and retrieve information, or in the case of near death experience you seem to have an auto pilot thing that happens, and time slows down.
This is the idea of enlightenment, to work through your emotional disturbances to the point that you have more conscious capacity to deal with that which is on hand. Your emotions give you clues as to how you are balanced in relation to the external input. While we tend to want to modify the external to meet the conditions we hold normal to, the same expectation we hold ourselves to, enlightenment is being the change we want to see, meaning we must work to know ourselves and adjust ourselves to see and understand our external factors, so that we can gain back our consciousness, and rely upon the full capacity of our being.
Point of all this is that to go with your gut, but apply it in relation to your quest to know yourself. Don't trust it in that you are trying to read the external, like who to trust, or what to approve of, as what you can see is limited to your own awareness and state of being.
Ever heard that angry lover yell at you "YOU ONLY HEAR WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR" that is all anyone ever does, they hear what they can interpret in relation to their capacity to hear or know.
Allot of self knowledge is going to be counter-intuitive. Embrace that which you would rather banish, and come alive!