The Real Ways Psychic Gifts Show Up

We break down the most common intuitive and psychic gifts and why they usually show up as quiet, body-based signals instead of dramatic visions. We also share how trauma, anxiety, and judgment can blur your accuracy and what helps you build real discernment and trust. 
• intuition as a natural human capacity shaped by the nervous system 
• why psychic information often feels subtle rather than loud 
• clairsentience as clear feeling and reading emotional shifts 
• claircognizance as clear knowing and sudden certainty 
• clairvoyance as imagery, symbols, and meditation visuals 
• clairaudience as inner phrases, names, tone, and guidance as words 
• empath traits and the need for recovery time 
• intuitive body awareness like gut feelings, chills, and heaviness 
• distinguishing intuition from anxiety, projection, fear, and hypervigilance 
• somatic work, grounding, and regulation to improve accuracy 
• focusing on the gifts that already come naturally 
• reducing judgment to hold better space for clients

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Transcript

Welcome And The Subtle Signal

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Hello, it's Dr. Donna and welcome to another episode of my podcast, Soul Talk and Psychic Advice. Today we are exploring different types of intuitive or psychic gifts. Many people assume that psychic ability looks one specific way. You know you're seeing visions of everything, right? We see that dramatic stuff on TV. Predicting the future perfectly, receiving dramatic messages. But intuitive perception often shows up in subtle ways. It's often very subtle. I've been doing this work professionally for 24 years. You know, it could be very subtle, and sometimes you get a big message or a loud feeling. I call it a loud feeling because it just feels so strong. But it's not always that way. You may hear something just gentle in your ear. Or you may just feel something subtle. And you may already be using your intuitive gifts and not even realizing it. Psychic ability is not always loud, it's rarely loud, trust me. It's often quiet, you know, and the more you do it, you just learn to tune in more and more to it. That's why I love somatic work because it helps to regulate my nervous system so I can really tune in and be present with the client. You know, it's gentle. It because it's a part of us, it should be gentle. We shouldn't be tweaked out, you know, on psychic, you know, messages coming left and right from different ways. And it's body-based because often you feel these things in your body. So today we will explore common types of intuitive perception and how they may show up in your everyday life. So let's talk about it. Intuition is a natural human capacity, it really is. It's not this rare thing that only some of us have, you know, only some of us are using it to the level that I am professionally, but I believe everybody has it. And some people don't believe it so they shut it out, or some people don't trust it enough, so they may not realize that they fully have the gift, or some people, you know, they're like, I get some messages here and there. It's different for everyone, so it's definitely a natural human ability. Your nervous system is constantly receiving information, it is all day, you know, even when you're asleep, it's receiving information. Some information comes through logical thinking, and yeah, some of it can feel very logical, and some comes through sensation, some comes through emotion, and some comes through imagery, right? You're just getting visions, and some comes through knowing. You just have this inner knowing, and some people go, I just knew it, I just felt it, I knew it was gonna happen. That is so common, and so trauma-informed intuitive development focuses on helping you distinguish intuition. What is it? How is it for you, versus anxiety? Because sometimes we have anxiety when we think something bad's gonna happen or we assume something bad's gonna happen because something always happens, and you know you get stuck there, and maybe nothing bad will end up happening, but some people may interpret it as I'm getting a feeling, I'm getting a psychic moment when really it's anxiety, and then you learn to distinguish if you're projecting, because that happens, or a fear response, because intuitive clarity increases when the body feels safe. And unfortunately, for a lot of us in the world, period, you know, we're just now talking about therapy and counseling and making it normal to go my therapist. I'm I'm 55, you would have not even heard people really say that 10 years ago, and so definitely not when I was growing up, right? People didn't admit it because if you went to therapy, it meant like something was severely wrong with you. But now we're talking about healing and trauma and nervous system regulation and y you know, just being comfortable with it, and it's really the key because when your body feels safe, you become more intuitive and you're able to trust your intuition more. You know, trust your gut, that's your intuition. So let's talk about common types of psychic or intuitive gifts. The first one is clear sentience. That is clear feeling. This is one of the most common intuitive gifts. It's very common. You may feel emotional shifts quickly. You may sense tension in a room or tension between two people. You notice when someone is uncomfortable. You notice when someone's feeling like off, you know, or you just think, are they okay? You get pulled towards them. You pick up on unspoken feelings. That's why it's important to know the difference between anxiety and projection and true intuition, especially if you have clear feeling, clear sentience. It's very important to know. You know, um, you feel energy in your body. That's very important, you know, to pick up on and to understand if you're feeling something in your body, and it can become overwhelming. That's why you want to have tools to regulate yourself so that you're not overwhelmed. Now let's talk about being clear cognizance, clear knowing, clear cognizance. You may simply know something without knowing why. So, haven't you ever had that happen? I think most people have. You just know something without knowing why you know it. You may have sudden insights, know the answer quickly, you know, almost answer before somebody finishes answering, asking the question, right? Understand patterns easily, feel certainty without evidence. You just know, you're just very clear, and you just you have answers, and people are like, Oh, you're smart as a whip. Whoo, you know, you're walking in encyclopedia. That is what it means to be, you know, just knowing. So let's talk about clear voyance, clear seeing. And a lot of people want to be clearvoyant because of what they've probably seen on on TV, that oh, people getting visions, and they just think it's so powerful of getting visions, but to me it doesn't matter how the gift comes in. Sometimes my clear audience, you know, clear hearing is the strongest for me, and it's been good. And sometimes, you know, the feeling will follow up, and then a vision may come later, you know, it just depends. And so one gift isn't more important than the other. Some people only have one gift, some people have them all, some just have two or three or whatever, and it doesn't matter which one you have, they all are valid. But I even remember being in a community where they just thought, oh, clairvoyance is the best gift, and the rest are weaker, and that's not true. So clairvoyance is clear seeing. This can show up as mental images, visual symbolism, vivid imagination, seeing memories easily, receiving imagery during meditation. You just see images during meditation. That is very common. Now let's talk about clear audience, clear hearing. Okay, this is what it is. You may hear internal phrases. I do. I'd be like, Well, I hear this phrase, or you know, I hear them saying this name, and or they they will give me an an example of something, and even sometimes they give me an example from a show so I could tell the story, right? And so you can also notice tone strongly, receive guidance as words, and be sensitive to sound. You know, there's so many ways that it could come in clear when you're clear hearing. It really does. And so I get words, I get phrases, I get examples. My guys are like, Do you remember that show and how they did this? That's what's happening here, you know. Or they go, Do you remember that character from that show? That's who this person is. Or they say, You remember when you did X, Y, Z? Well, that's what's happening here. So that's how I'm able to tell a full, you know, explanation because of how my guides send information to me. Now let's talk about clear empathy. This is emotional knowing, this is being an empath, and a lot of people will be recognized as empaths, right? You may feel others' emotions strongly, you may experience deep compassion, you may need recovery time after emotional conversations or being in crowds or at a party or events. You just need to be alone, you know. And a lot of people identify as empaths, and and some empaths were born out of trauma, but they are still empaths, and they can still even develop their gifts even more. And even if you get a reading from someone who says, I'm feeling I'm just an empath, that's very strong. That's very important too. That's a very powerful gift to be an empath. So let's talk about intuitive body awareness. You may feel sensations in the body, notice gut feelings, right? Experience chills when something feels true. I think this happens to a lot of people. You feel heaviness when something's off. When people go, I just know something's wrong. I feel it, I feel it. You know, they that's what's happening. That's intuitive body awareness. And you know, mediumship is a whole nother special gift. I think I need to do a podcast just on mediumship because I'm also a medium. And when you can read people from the other side, that is a whole level of a gift. That's something that also, you know, help people develop in the embodied psychic portal, my group. But let's talk about trauma-informed intuition development. When intuitive people are dysregulated, it can be difficult to distinguish, right? Intuition, fear, trauma, memory, hypervigilance. It's hard. And sadly, a lot of psychics do have trauma. You know, we didn't talk about these things before, and so a lot of us haven't you know, hadn't gone through therapy when we first started. I was forced to do some because I was a teen mom, but I really when I started doing this work, I'm like, I'm gonna go to therapy even more so and heal more stuff, and it makes a difference because when you have unhealed stuff, you will attract clients with everything that you have unhealed, and they will trigger you. And I constantly tell the story of the one psychic who said, I don't want to talk to anybody who is having an affair or walked out on their family because it happened to me. And I and I told her, I said, you know, every client is gonna be that, you're not gonna make any money until you heal that work. She got mad at me, but work just shut down for her. And it's because what we don't heal, we have to be confronted with when you do healing work. My thing was boundaries, so boy, everybody was testing my boundaries. Boy, do I learn boundaries? That's why I teach it now. And yes, and so remember what you don't heal, you will face in your readings with clients, in your coaching with clients, and your therapy with clients. It will show up because it's saying you need to heal this also. So somatic practices help create clarity, yeah, and they just help you to heal. And regulation supports discernment, you could discern better when you are emotionally regulated and your nervous system is able to detect things properly. You know what's fear, you know what's trauma, you know what's true intuition, and grounding supports accuracy. You do not need to become overwhelmed in order to access intuitive information. You can learn to receive insight while feeling stable. Yes, you can. So let's talk about strengthening your natural style. Instead of forcing yourself to develop every psychic ability, because you don't need to. You just focus on one or two. It doesn't matter, it'll come natural anyway. It could be helpful to notice which style already feels natural. Do you feel or do you just know? Do you sense? Do you visualize? Do you hear? Your intuition may already be working. It may simply need support and trust. That's it. That's all it may need. And you know, I think that it's important when it comes to understanding intuition that if you're gonna, you know, develop your gifts and do this work, you wanna be trauma informed for yourself and for your clients. It makes a world of difference. It's so important and it's so necessary because you can't discern. And when people ask a question, if you have something unhealed, you're gonna get triggered, you're gonna have judgment. It's something that I will hear often on the platform where I work that people feel judged. And I always tell people if you're rude, I'm gonna judge you. No need to be rude to me no matter what you're going through, but I'm not gonna judge for other stuff, because that's not my purpose. And you know, we get into this world of right and wrong and black and white, and I just learn, listen to people, listen to their story. We don't a lot of us end up in places where we didn't think we would end up, right? People end up in bad relationships that they never thought they would be in. Some people end up in affairs and they're like, How did I get here? I used to judge people who did this. People end up being scammed, people end up, you know, just making bad decisions for many reasons or you know, shocking decisions, and it's because of their own trauma. And you know, if you're gonna do this work, you can't judge them, you can only hold space and facilitate for them. If you sit there with your opinions, you're saying that you're in a pro in a place of superiority, and no one is better than anyone. We all make different decisions, and you know, we are all healing and growing. And I wanted to talk about this because you you know, the gifts I I used to almost take it for granted or not see the value in it when I first started doing this work, and then I started looking back on how much I grew as a person because of this work and because of speaking to people all over the world, right? Different social classes, races, religion, and realizing we're all pretty much the same in so many ways, wanting similar things out of life. You know, people call about relationships, work, family. We all want the same things, we're not really that unique, you know. We we're just looking different or living different, but it's really wanting the same things. And you know, I've had people say, Don't judge me, and I said, That's not my place, but I know they've been judged, and so that's why I have really committed to working on myself and and creating an environment where I help other psychics and healers do their healing work in a safe, non-judgmental space so that they can, you know, be their best. Because I remember I went through something tough around the pandemic time, and I don't read for myself. I just don't because I want to save all that energy for my clients. And yes, I have knowings about stuff, and usually I'm right, but when I want a lot of detail, I have my psychics that I call and I read for psychics. And I was surprised when I was trying to find my right advisors, you know, I was surprised how many just didn't care. They were judgmental, they didn't respect the work. And they had opinions, and our opinions are irrelevant if you're doing this work. You can have opinions all you want, but you keep it to yourself and you serve and you turn that off because the more that you turn off judgment, the more like intuitive you become, the more accurate you become, the more psychic you become, and the more you give and the more clients will naturally come to you. I built my business over 24 years and I'm never without clients. I have a predictable clientele, predictable income. Even when some clients fade out, more will come in. And that's something because I had to work on myself, and for some psychics who aren't able to do that, you know, just like do the inner work, be more open to people. And yeah, you know, I tell people, my biggest thing is be nice, and I tell people online, stop being so rude, stop being so nasty. There's no need for that. We don't need to be fighting with each other, right? We can have different opinions, different places. I have judgments, but it's not for work, it is not when I'm doing this work. That is important, and so that is why I created the Embody Psychic Portal, not just to help people develop their gifts, but to be the best at their gifts, to make sure that they are giving their best 100% of the time, you know, because that is owed to the client, and a lot of people should be doing this work, a lot of people need to be doing this work. People want it, especially during I mean, they've always wanted it, especially when there's hard times in the world, and when we were in the pandemic, the psychic business grew. It grew like 20, 30 percent. You know, it's like a four billion dollar year business. So a lot of people who claim to not believe in it are using it. They just I don't know what it is. I think people don't want to act like they need help, you know, and they don't want to act like they were called to ask about their future because people want to seem in control, but nobody has full-on control of anything. And it's okay to ask for help. And you know, I remember when I was calling around and I needed help by surprise at the people who were very caring. Like when my son died, I ended up with a psychic spiritual coach versus a regular therapist because that person had the most empathy and the most compassion for me to help me with the loss of my son. And so there's so much that you could do with this if you're doing this work, and there's so much that you can offer, even if you're a business coach, bring intuition into it. No matter what type of coach, anxiety coach, there's what there's a coach for everything, right? You know, even if you're A sex coach, you can bring this into it. There's just so much that this gift can do to help a person with whatever business they're doing already. If you don't want to just be a psychic, so that is important. I want to close this out, but I have a lot to say. This is very special work. I realize that. So your intuitive style is not wrong. However, your intuition comes, whether you have one gift or several gifts or all of the gifts, it's all great. And it's just about you being cleared up enough to see it and discern and to use it and know with your stuff and with the person's stuff that you're reading for. That's what it's about. And so I want to thank you for listening. I want to tell you to have a great day, and I will see you in the next episode.