Hello and welcome back to the Woo Woo Channeling Crew. I'm Missy and I'm here with Denise and we are so glad that you decided to tune in. We think we have a really great topic to talk about today, but first we would really appreciate it if you would follow us so that you never miss one of our fantastic episodes. But today we're going to be talking about something that's really important with the work that we do as intuitives and that is intuition. I feel like some people have a really good sense of their intuition.
Some people don't know how to tap into their intuition, but for you and I, it's vital with the work that we do. Would you agree with that?
100%. Without our intuition, I don't think we'd be able to do this work at all. Right. One of my favorite quotes by Albert Einstein, he said, The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. We were programmed to kind of desensitize our intuition. I think everybody's got intuition. Everybody's got to honor what that intuition looks like. And today, I think it's important that we share the different aspects of intuition.
And I think it's one of the most reliable tools we already have, even if you don't always trust it yet. And, you know, I think there can also be a difference between say intuition and fear, right? Something that knowing how to trust the intuition versus being fearful of trusting the intuition and thinking that it may steer you wrong. So what is intuition? Why don't you start with talking a little bit about what intuition actually is?
Because for me, it's not a single thing. It's a blend of things, whether it's your your brain noticing subtle cues before your conscious mind catches up. There's the the body that sort of has the signal of a yes or, hey, pay attention to this. Then there's the there's the emotional resonance of there's an alignment of something, a felt sense of alignment or dissonance. And then there's a lot of things going on in the subconscious.
And there's also different levels of intuition. I think people need to understand where does it come from, right? Our heavenly helpers, is it coming from angels, spirit guides? Understanding predictions, people who have dreams and interpreting certain dreams, not realizing that having a prophetic dream is actually engaging your intuition. Some people don't realize that.
Let's talk about the different modalities of what that looks like. So we've got clairvoyance, which is to see, to see things clearly. You wanna give an example of clairvoyance?
Yeah. It's can be an image, also a symbol, sometimes numbers. In my experience, I might see something like a palm tree and it might just pop up. It's it's very much like going into your imagination, going into the third eye, but going into your imagination. So if I say to you, hey, I need you to picture, a blue car.
You can close your eyes and then picture that blue car. Well, that's how images or clairvoyance will show up for me is that I will get images that way. If I'm doing a reading, I can give an example of a reading I did recently where I was shown a bomber jacket, it turned out that that was a grandfather who served in the military, the the air force. So I was just shown a bomber jacket. So that's how I'll see things. Yeah. Does clairvoyance work in that way for you or a little bit differently?
It actually does. What what I think is interesting for people who are learning, I remember thinking clairvoyance was going to be such a clear visual photo for me. I always thought I'd have to have my eyes closed when you know, I really was trying to grasp what clairvoyant was. For me, it started off as dreams. Even as a little girl, I would have prophetic dreams. And I didn't even realize that was a form of clairvoyance. The first time I really experienced true clairvoyance, I was talking to a friend, and she was explaining to me that her aunt was living with her father, and it was really hard and they think something mentally is happening with her. As I was talking to her, I saw this couch in front of a window. I saw this woman sitting. She had her hair in a bun and I saw a green hoodie. And as she's speaking to me, it dawned on me, why am I seeing this? Right? Some there's such a fine line between your intuition and imagination. Mhmm. You start to think, okay, so I'm envisioning, I'm envisioning.
But it dawned on me that she wasn't describing her house. She didn't describe her aunt. And so I finally stopped her, I said, I'm just curious. Does your dad have a gray couch in front of a window? And she said, yes. And then I said, and I can even see that your your aunt has, like, a little bit of a a mustache, but it's so not like her. She is so on top of things. My friend literally hung up on me, but she's a little dramatic. Right? She hung up on me, and then she called me right back, and she's like, I had to hang up on you because I couldn't believe. She's like, you literally just described my aunt. She was always so put together. So when I saw her, she had a little bit of fuzz. Like she's not even waxing anymore. And I was like, Oh my gosh.
I literally just saw a clairvoyant image with my eyes open while I'm talking to someone. And then you start to think back and you're like, You know what? That happened here and here and here in my life, and I never thought in a million years that it was anything. Kind of like when I first met you and I said you're a medium and you were like, what what what is that? And then two days later, you start to accept and acknowledge the images that you were seeing.
It's like you had it your whole life, you just didn't realize it was something. So how clairvoyance works for me is visual and through dreams and dream interpretation.
Yeah. And I think too sometimes people think clairvoyancy is the prediction of the future. But sometimes clairvoyancy isn't about predicting the future, but it is a visual of a timeline of maybe how things can unfold, but then free will. And we won't get into that subject today. But clairvoyancy can just be a look at a timeline of something that's linear.
Right. And maybe you could talk a little bit about clairvoyancy also ties into how you use your intuition to then interpret. I know what this means, or I have a feeling that this is what this image is bringing forward for me. And intuitively, how do you connect to that?
I think that attaches to the other, what I call the clairs. Okay. A claircognizance , a knowing. Gotcha.
Yep.
Right? And so I will feel this impetus within me to share. I think we were talking earlier and while you were speaking, there was a point where I said, Missy, hold on a second, Spirit has a message for you. Like, what creates that? That happens greatly over time and with practice, right? But it's unknowing. Like, I know that I have to interrupt her right now because what I'm about to say is going to help what we're talking about. Did I answer the question? Is that what you were Yeah,
you're right. So, you know, I was thinking more along the lines, I wanted to understand if there was any intuition that came into play with clairvoyancy because there is a knowing behind the interpretation of the symbol or the image or whatever it is that you're seeing. But also for me, sometimes clairvoyancy feels like a little mini motion picture that's constantly playing in my mind's eye. And so I'm just kind of explaining, you know, as things are happening, it's like things are unfolding. There's that motion picture that's going on.
It's like a trailer. Right? If you when you go to the movie theater and you sit down and you're waiting for your movie to start, you get a trailer of upcoming movies. And that sometimes how things work for me clairvoyantly. There's it's a trailer of what's upcoming.
Those who are listening, whether you are listening because you have discovered that you're a healer and you're trying to understand what your gifts are, or if you're just curious in all this stuff. Every reader is different. Every reader's intuition is different. And I think it is so important that you understand. It doesn't necessarily have to be what you're best at.
I heard someone say understanding your intuition is like playing basketball. Anybody can, you know, dribble a ball. Anybody can practice, but not everybody can be the Michael Jordan of basketball. Right? Some people have to learn. Some people have to sit on the bench a little bit. Some people are just born with it. And so I feel like this episode is to really kind of define what clairvoyancy is, clairsentience, clairaudience, all the clairs, so that you can tap into what you think is a strength. And I felt that the minute I realized I had a strength in one, once I worked on it, all the others started to kind of come to play. I always feel like I've always been clear sentient, which is to have a feeling.
I feel. I can have a conversation with someone and I can feel that there's so much going on below the conversation. I didn't know that that was an intuitive hit that I was feeling. I thought that was normal. So a clairsentience is to feel. Do you have any examples that you wanna share about clairsentience?
Yeah. So for me, clairsentience shows up in the way that my body reacts to it. So it can be a clear feeling like I just feel this way, but I also feel it in a very physical way. So feeling for me can be, you and I have said, oh, I get I just got the goosebumps or I just got the tingles. A lot of times when I'm connecting to souls that are on the other side, the departed souls, I will often feel how they passed away.
So, if it's something to do with the heart or the lungs, the person that I'm reading for won't notice it, but I'll notice a a shift in me where my breathing becomes a little labored. So I think clairsentience can be both a an emotional feeling. Right? It can be a sense or a feeling that way. But for me, it also shows up in a very physical way through goosebumps, tingling.
I know you've talked about, oh, my crown chakra is starting to itch a little bit. Yeah. You know, that to me is also a clear feeling of something. So physical as well as the emotional.
That's a great example. And I'm glad you brought up something medical. But I remember one client in particular, the minute she sat down, my neck and my back, upper back started hurting me instantly. And I remember saying to her, What is going on with your neck? Because I knew I don't have neck problems. Right? And so it's to have that bravery to say, I'm gonna express what I'm feeling. It may not make sense to me, but like Spirit always says, Denise, they're not booking to hear your opinion. They're booking to hear ours. Right.
And so I'm like, okay. So I gotta honor, right? And I said, What's going on with your neck and your back? And she said, I have spinal cancer.
Yeah.
And I instantly got up, grabbed like a black tourmaline. It was big black tourmaline. I put it right between us just to kind of ground and bounce the energy. Within five minutes, I couldn't feel it. I'm glad that you shared that because you're right. It's not just a feeling from you. It's also picking up energy from others.
Yeah, and the way that I would describe that is kind of like a sensation in the body that feels like guidance rather than emotion, right? When we're getting the feeling of something, especially with the medical. So that sensation in the body, you with the neck, me with labored breathing. But like you, I think I've also experienced where I did a reading recently and I started to get pains kind of in the kidney area. And I said to the woman, is there anything going on with you kind of in the kidney region?
I'm getting some pains down there right now. And she goes, my gosh. For the past couple of days, I've been passing kidney stones. And so then I knew that I needed to ground my energy because I was absorbing. And I think one of the pieces of information I got about my intuition was to observe what's going on. Don't necessarily absorb all the energy around you as well.
Yeah, I love that. And that bleeds into claircognizance. Don't know why clairsentience and claircognizance has always been so difficult for me to divide the two, because they almost feel the same to me. That's just my opinion. Right. Because it's thoughts. I remember just talking to someone, and then they'd walk away and I'm like, Where did that come from? I'm like, That was great advice I just gave her. Right?
Yeah. And it doesn't feel like it came from you. And so I learned that a lot of times, like, I have to sometimes you have that dilemma within your head. You're like, I'm thinking this and I have these thoughts, but I don't know why I'm having these thoughts. And the fact that I don't know why I'm having these thoughts means I need to share it with the client.
Exactly. And I think that's the message that feels like it comes from beyond your own thoughts. Right. And for me, I remember when you described Claircognizance to me when you revealed my gifts to me, you said you have clear knowing. And jokingly, I said to you, oh, so I'm a know it all. And you agreed. You said yes. And I'm like, no. But the best way that I always describe it when somebody about it is, I know what I know what I know without knowing why I know it. I just do.
Good example for you is when I remember you told me that, you know, when you were in college you thought your boyfriend was cheating on you. Like, yeah, he's probably cheating on me with a girl named Linda. And then come to find out he was, and her name was Linda. So like, how do I know that? It's these amazing just thoughts that come through, and it's like at the seat in your solar plexus, it just comes out. You don't even know why you're saying that. Why would you choose Linda? It can also be like a sudden clarity that you have or just a click. Yeah. Or you just know it's something you need to say. You don't know where it came from.
I sometimes feel like with claircognizance, it'll hit me out of the blue. Yeah. You know? I don't know why I need to say this. But also I feel within a reading that claircognizance comes into play when you're handling maybe a very vulnerable subject with someone and spirit sort of allows the words to come through you in a way that makes them feel very seen, very heard, understood. There's a lot of compassion. It's like, I just know I need to say it this way. There's just that I know what I know what I know. I don't know how I know it. I just do.
But there's that feeling behind knowing this is how I need to express it.
Right, and for those of you who aren't doing readings, you go through this in your daily walk. And if you really look at what you do for a living, whether you deal with people every day, it doesn't surprise me that a lot of intuitive people that I meet outside of our world are like therapists. Yep. Yep. You have to have this certain level of compassion and you have a job where you're open to speaking your mind and your truth and helping others.
I noticed that a lot of them are very claircognizant and they'll say, Well, I don't know where that came from. I know a therapist who didn't realize she was a medium and she would work with children. And when she would do her therapy with them, she'd meet with the parents and then she'd say something and the parents like, We didn't put that in the paperwork. How did you know that?
Yeah.
And then she was like, I don't know. Then she started to think, Am I going crazy? Right? And it's like, No, you're just claircognizant. You're super intuitive.
And so I want those who are not in our world, who are just like, I'm always thinking of the curious also. But think about in your everyday life of what claircognizant, clairvoyance, clairaudience means to you. Before I knew I was even intuitive enough to do this type of work, I remember having an incident where had to close a deal. Missy and I both come from a corporate background. I remember my boss was like, do not leave Friday until this is done.
And Friday there at 09:00 had the attorney sign off. Good. We're golden. And I went to sleep that night, and I had a dream that I walked in Monday morning, and my boss said, Denise, get in here. I And was like, oh boy. And I walk in and she tells me the deal wasn't done. And I woke up with such a panic, knot in my stomach. Right? What is that feeling, that knot in in your solar plexus? And I said to myself, there's no way that can happen. I saw them sign off.
Sure enough, I walk in Monday. Denise, get in here. I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe it. And I remember that was one of the moments where I was like, I have to figure out what this is. You know? There's one thing when people are like, oh my goodness. It was just a fluke. Or I know. Can you imagine that I said that and it was actually true?
And then when you start to see these examples, you're like, okay. I gotta look a little deeper. I gotta look a little deeper. I wanna go to Clairaudience. I gotta tell you, this has become one of my faves. Okay? And I always use this example when I teach classes, but it's one of my absolute faves. So my daughter, when she was learning how to play the violin, she's five years old, she's playing Mary Had a Little Lamb. It sounds terrible, but you're like, oh, this is great, baby.
You're awesome. Right? I said, let me go call Nana so you can play for Nana. And I run to my room and I get my phone and I come back and I put my mom on speakerphone and I said, okay, honey, play. And she goes to play and the violin does nothing. No sound. And I said, what happened to the violin? And she says, I don't know, mommy. So I go, okay, do it again. And she goes to play.
No sound. And I go, what happened? She goes, I don't know. And I instantly heard in my head, she licked the bow. Missy, in the five seconds, I ran to get the phone in my bedroom. I come back out. My five year old licked the so I look at her, and I go, did you lick the bow? I'm sorry, mommy. I'm sorry. I don't know why I did it. I just I'm sorry. Alright, mom. Let me call you back. Right? But I wasn't even annoyed that she did that.
I was shocked that I heard that. Yeah. So this whole time, thought clairaudience was, you know, this booming voice. It's like, Denise, do this. Make sure you're doing like, I always thought I would physically hear it. And how I define clear audience, it sounds like your voice. Yeah. But it is not your thought. Exactly. Right? Your voice. When I heard she lick the bow, it sounded like my voice. But I would have never thought in a million years that she would have licked the bow. Right?
I've also physically heard Spirit speak when my cousin's fiance passed away in a car accident. That night he came to me, I literally heard his voice in my left ear. It sounded like radio static and it sounded like he was saying things really slow. Like at one point I heard him say, Hey lady. And I didn't know what that meant only to find out later that was his nickname for her.
So if he wanted a bottle of water. He'd say, Hey lady, get me a bottle of water. Hey lady. Like that was their little thing. That was the first time. And it was very jarring for me. I gotta be honest, I wasn't crazy about it. It sounded like a slow motion 1920s recorder type thing, but I had to get past it. Right? So those are my two examples of clear audience. How about you?
Yeah. So this ties a little bit in with intuition. So I remember when you and I first connected and you were explaining all the different gifts because, again, I really wasn't sure I even understood anything but clairvoyance. And I remember you saying to me, did you know that you're extremely clairaudient? I said, I don't know what that means. And you said, you have clear hearing. And my initial thought was, I can't believe I just paid money for someone to tell me I have good hearing. Right?
Yeah. Of course. And I don't have a license to adjust hearing. Right?
Right. And I think where intuition can come into play with clairaudience is knowing the difference between your voice telling you what you want to hear versus trusting the intuition and hearing it from spirit. So that's the question I get a lot is, well, how do you know that when you ask a question that it's actually spirit answering you or your guides or archangels? Are you telling yourself what you want to hear, or are you really hearing the voice of guidance?
And I think that was really it was a challenge for me in the beginning. But the first thing I remember hearing was trust us. Trust your spiritual team. So know that if you're asking a question, if you're asking for guidance, or you're just hearing it, is to just trust. Put aside the ego that you're trying to tell yourself what you want to hear and trust what you need to hear.
Yeah.
Right? So, you know, for me, I want people to understand that sometimes you don't get clear, full sentences. It's different for everybody. Sometimes I just hear a word. But intuitively, I know to take that word and use claircognizance, the clear knowing, and to stretch that out into whatever it is I need to be explaining or talking about.
So I really wish sometimes in a reading that Spirit would say, hi. You know, my name is George, and I'm her uncle, and I died of an heart attack while I was mowing the lawn. And so, yeah, I'm here, and my favorite color is red. That's not the way I hear it. Right.
What I hear is uncle. I hear a snapping of the fingers, which is someone who died suddenly. That's my symbol, or died quickly without the family being able to prepare. And I would see him wearing a red shirt. So it's just how we interpret. But that's how clairaudience shows up for me is that it's sometimes just singular words and all my other clairs have to kick in to help interpret, to provide the description of what it is that I'm hearing.
Or the information. I always call it like a dictionary. Right? Like, we all create our own dictionary. Every time I'm talking to a client and they show me a cousin of mine that I know is a little reckless and what have you, they'll show me in my third eye that cousin, and I know exactly who I'm talking to, right? Or exactly what the issue is. And over time you build that trust. And yes, and then everything else kicks in because then you start to see your pictures, and then it's kind of
Yep.
For me, it's like playing charades. Like, they'll throw me pictures here and there. Like, why is she showing me a uniform that she wore as a little girl? They're showing me she's doing labor work. Well, my mom's from the Ukraine, and they used to wear uniforms when they were communist, and they would let the kids go outside and do labor. Right? So it's just like a a glimmer, and then you have to trust.
I have to trust what claircognizantly I'm feeling is that this And makes sense when I realized, when Spirit said she licked the bow, my daughter licked the bow, right? After that, Missy, I had so much confidence. I mean, my confidence went through the roof because I don't know why it took that for me to trust my clairaudience more, but that's what happens with practice. So really, for those of you who want to do this for a living or or just wanna better understand your intuition, once you get that confidence, you just gotta run with it. Just trust yourself.
You gotta trust yourself.
There are also other Clairs. There's Clairgustance Right? That's the taste. Clairalience It's spelled a l I e n c e. So Alience, that's how I would pronounce it.
Okay. I guess I'm trying to be fancy. Claire Allianz.
Listen. All I know is that I can smell.
That's right. And that's exactly what that means, ladies and gentlemen.
For me, sometimes I smell something other people aren't smelling at the time. So I've had where I'm doing a reading, this is a really great example, and someone came into my room and I was like, oh my gosh, they're a really heavy smoker. And it wasn't them at all. It turned out that when their father stepped forward, he died from lung cancer because he was a heavy smoker. So that cigarette smoke was my indication from spirit that he was in the room. I've smelled other really wonderful things too. I remember going to client's house when I lived in Utah, and I walked in. I'm like, oh my god, the banana bread that you're baking smells amazing. She says, I'm not baking any banana bread. Oh, wow. And I was unaware that I had Clairalience until that time. Right. And as we sat down, it was her grandmother, she was very famous for making banana bread, and it was her grandmother that stepped forward during the reading.
So just smelling things that are unaware to other people and then tasting. So Clairgustance is clear tasting. And for me, I've often experienced the tasting of blood during readings, mostly mediumship, or I've tasted, say, metal in my mouth, which can sometimes be someone that died by suicide. That is sometimes how I connect to that.
But that's a definition for you that you created? Yes.
That's a definition for me. Sometimes the the metallic taste can be something due to a medication that someone took, and there's a metallic taste to the medication or the pills. And then I'll often experience what I feel like is a tasting of maybe foam in my mouth from that. So I have very distinct ways in which Clairgustance shows up for me. Does it show up for you in the same way?
Love the examples you gave. I love that spirit works with you that way. I too had an experience with smoke as well. My ex's mom was a chain smoker. And on the anniversary of her death, we're walking through our apartment and all we could smell was cigarette smoke. The windows are closed, it's snowing, we're and we don't smoke, Right? Back then, that would freak him out. So he would like, I wanna go walk outside. And in in my head, I'm like, that's kinda cool. To taste.
I too have had blood, which I didn't like. And I said this earlier, I don't know if it was in this episode or the previous one, you guys, it's okay to negotiate with spirit. I had a woman sit in front of me and they showed me someone falling off of a cliff and then I could taste blood in my mouth. And I said, I described to her what I saw and what I was tasting, and she shared that her son passed away while he was hiking. And I remember being extremely disturbed by that Clare.
And I negotiated with Spirit. I was like, I don't like that. It made me uncomfortable. So the negotiation was, if it's very traumatic, I don't want to taste that. It makes me uneasy.
And then there was a time where I was doing a reading using my Oracle Deck, and she started to talk about visiting her family and wanting to know if visiting her family was the right thing. And I instantly felt as if I just sucked on a lemon, And my mouth started to water. And I said, my god. I and I even apologized. I said, I'm so sorry.
I just got a burst of sensation in my mouth as if I just sucked on a lemon. And she said, oh, well, the vacation is gonna be Italy on my grandparents' their lemon orchards or what have you. And that was Spirit's way of saying, yes. Go on the trip? I was like, I'm like, guys, really? Just give me a card that says yes. Right?
Couldn't you have just told me lemons?
You could have just said lemons. You could have showed me a card that gave me a thumbs up that said, yes. Go on the trip. But I thought that was very interesting, and I didn't mind that. So I just want people to know you don't have to be trapped in things that may not necessarily feel good to you. Yeah. I know people who don't like clairaudience . It freaks them out. So guess what? Say, Spirit, it's not my cup of tea.
They'll negotiate with you. But I will say, though, if this is what you're meant to do, they'll leave you alone temporarily and then come right back. Well
and I think what we're really trying to show and talk about as we talk about all these different Clairs and and there are more is that all of this is really about the intuition. There are different ways in which the intuition is expressed, Whether you're seeing it intuitively, hearing it intuitively, feeling it intuitively, knowing it, tasting it, smell. So it's the intuition that gives the interpretation to what it is that you're trying to say or convey or share. Does that make sense to you in the way that I'm trying to describe it?
Yeah, that makes total sense. And I think what we should do probably in our next episode is kind of break down how do we hear this? I've had people say to me, you know, I'm a staunch Christian or Catholic and we don't, you know, who are you talking to? What do you mean you're, right, what's a guide, right? I've used the word guide and a Christian will say, oh, your guardian angel?
So I think it'd be really nice if we had an episode where we break down the difference between angels and guides and even ghosts. Right? Help people understand, like, you can easily protect yourself. You can easily connect with your guides and make sure you're guarded. You're protected as you're feeling this. Missy, since the beginning of time, I'm sure someone has heard Clairaudience and thought it was a demon. Yeah. Right? Right. I'm hearing this, and this can't be right.
Or when you think about all these insane asylums back in the nineteen tens and the nineteen twenties, I'm convinced that probably 60% of them were just intuitive.
Yeah. Right? Well, and the thing was they didn't really talk about it back then. If if something was was wrong, they automatically thought you were crazy, and then you were put away. But no one really thought to explore, you know, are these I mean, we could talk we could have a conversation about Edgar Cayce all day long, like, one of the most famous intuitives, medical intuitives, and everything.
But, you know, that he could be interpreted as crazy off his rocker. So they didn't know there weren't, there's no tests. Right? There weren't really tests that you could run. There are so many more now, the way that we can test intuition. So people were generally just kind of shipped off. But I would agree with you that many of those people could be seen as truly gifted.
I remember reading a Sylvia Browne book years ago, many, many moons ago, and her spirit guide said, the one word we wish you would take out of your dictionary is the word imagination.
Yeah.
They said because 95% of what you go through intuitively is not your imagination.
Yeah.
When you think about people back in the day who would instantly throw somebody in an insane asylum versus today.
I saw a stat maybe about eight years ago and they ask people, have you ever had a supernatural experience or do you believe in, you know, the mystical and things of that sort? And it was like 74% believed. I remember being so shocked by that because ten years before that, it was drastically lower. And so I think it's more information, right? Whether it's social media, we don't have to go to the library to go find a book on mediumship or spiritualism.
Now it's at our fingertips and people are a lot more open. And I also do feel that the veil is lifting, and we can talk about that in another episode.
Yeah. I think before we kind of wrap things up Mhmm. What are some of the ways that you feel our listeners could strengthen their intuition or learn to tap into their intuition? Right? Because intuition grows through repetition, trust, and energetic clarity. So think of it as a muscle that responds to consistent gentle training. What are some of the ways that we could share on how you can strengthen your intuition?
I have always been the type to recommend books. Okay. A great book for a beginner and understanding your guides and trusting intuition. I believe it's called Trust Your Guides by Sonia Choquette.
Is it called Trust
Your Guides?
It's Ask Your Guides, by Sonia Choquette, and then she has Trust Your Vibes. And I think those actually could work in tandem, but there are two books that she wrote.
Awesome. I liked Sonia Choquette. Now it's been a while, but I remember reading a book by Deborah Lynn Katz, and it was called You Are Psychic. And it's so hard. Like, if you are a hardcore Christian, it's gonna be hard for you to pick up a book that says you are psychic.
And I've said this before. If we are behind a pulpit with our gift, they call us a prophet. But if we're out in these streets Yeah. We're a psychic, we're a charlatan, we're something that they have to be cautious of. And universally, we just want everybody to understand that, you know, everyone has this gift.
It's religion that kind of disrupted the beauty of the intuition. And not for nothing. When I hear stories like, you know, Thomas Edison, they asked him where he got his ideas from, besides the fact that he stole half of them from Tesla, but we're not gonna get He into would take a nap and he'd keep a rock in his hand. And he said, Right before I'd go into a deep sleep, I would get information.
Mhmm.
His hand would move, and then the rock would fall, and it would abruptly wake him up, and he'd hold onto the ideas, and he'd jot him down. Yeah. It's like AKA, I was talking to my spirit guides.
Yeah. Yeah. There you go.
Right? And so I love stories like that where people didn't know how to interpret or define it. They want to be cautious in how they said it. When I think about Einstein, I think about Tesla, they all did very similar things. They were talking to guides, but they never really would say it out loud. That's another good episode I think we should create. Yeah. Right? Talking about the the OGs. Yeah. The OGs. Who were doing this.
Yeah. Yeah. I think one of the ways that people can strengthen their intuition or to begin working with their intuition is to kinda start with, I'll call it, low stakes intuitive choices. So those are, you know, what route feels better to drive today? You know, which item feels better for me when I pick it up in the store? Which email to answer first? Those are just like low key micro listening ways to strengthen the intuition. Micro hits build trust so the bigger ones feel clear.
That's a great point. I just want to give an example. When I was 17 and I didn't know I had this gift, I would play a game with myself and I didn't even realize it was an intuitive game. I'm like, oh my god, I studied on this math test, and I would say, god, am I gonna do well? If I'm going to do badly, let me feel it in my stomach.
I used to say things like this. Yeah. And then a majority of the time, I felt badly. And majority of the time, I didn't do well. But, you know, I remember the one time when I said, am I gonna do well? If I'm gonna do badly, let me feel a knot in my stomach, and I wouldn't feel the knot. And then sure enough, I'd get like a 90 on the test. I didn't even realize I was playing psychic games even back That's the other part of intuition is the somatic anchoring. Right?
So your body is the most honest intuitive instrument. So you can try things like sitting still, asking yes or no questions, and seeing where it shows up in the body. Notice where your yes is. Notice where your no is. A yes for many people feels like expansion or warmth or forward motion. A no can feel like contraction, heaviness, or a subtle pulling away. So you already know what your own energy does. So begin to rely on that or tap into that when you're seeking the intuitive guidance.
And practice makes perfect, right? I remember just driving and thinking, Spirit, show me a sign. I ask a question. And I stop at the stoplight and I'd look around, right? You'd be surprised what Spirit will show you. Every time I asked, I got a hit.
Absolutely. I mean, that kinda goes to intuition strengthens when you respond to it. Right? So every time you follow the nudge, you reinforce the channel, and that's what you're really trying to do with intuition.
I love that. I love that. Yeah. Missy, before we wrap up, I wanted to just pull an oracle card. So I pulled a card just for the collective, and the card I got says compassion.
Collectively, we need to have a lot more compassion right now, whether it's in your personal world, whether it's in the world. This week, we need to focus on being a little bit more compassionate. So let's take a breather before we respond. Let's be considerate of other people's opinions and other people's feelings. Just make a concerted effort this week to just focus a little bit more on compassion.
We're in a new year. People have probably set new intentions and new goals. Be compassionate towards yourself as you work towards the things that you've set out for yourself to do. I love the compassion card. So, guys, we really appreciate that you spent your time with us today. We know that you can be doing anything else, but we were so glad that you were here and tuned in. Please feel free to drop us a follow wherever you listen to podcasts and leave a comment. Get in touch with us. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. And thank you again for supporting the both of us on this journey.
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