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Dangerously Intuitive: Recognizing Psychic Attacks

• Douglas James Cottrell PhD • Season 1 • Episode 70

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Have you ever experienced a sudden headache, mood shift, or strange sensation that seemed to come from nowhere? These mysterious feelings might actually be psychic impressions from other people's thoughts and emotions directed at you. 

Dr. Douglas James Cottrell dives deep into the concept of being "dangerously intuitive" - exploring how sensitive individuals can perceive and be affected by the emotional projections and telepathic communications of others. With vivid metaphors and practical examples, he explains how someone else's anger might feel like "a sledgehammer to your head" or how affection can manifest as sudden warmth and serenity washing over you.

The conversation reveals fascinating insights about our interconnected energy fields that extend 4-10 feet beyond our physical bodies, allowing us to "bump into" others' emotional states in crowded rooms. Dr. Cottrell shares compelling stories about interactions with discarnate entities and explains why recently deceased individuals might still "haunt" their homes simply because they haven't realized they've passed on.

Most valuably, this episode offers practical techniques for psychic self-defense: waving your hand over affected areas to break negative energy connections, crossing your arms as protection, and wearing headgear to block unwanted telepathic intrusions (explaining why so many religious traditions include head coverings). Dr. Cottrell even touches on telepathic communication with animals and how public figures suffer from sustained negative attention regardless of their intuitive abilities.

Whether you're highly sensitive or simply curious, this episode will transform how you understand your unexplained sensations and provide tools to maintain energetic boundaries in an increasingly chaotic world. What unexpected physical or emotional sensations have you experienced that might actually be someone else's energy affecting you?

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Welcome to Wake Up with Dr Douglas James Cottrell, your source for helpful information, advice and tips to live your life in a mindful way in this increasingly chaotic world. For over four decades, dr Douglas has been teaching people how to develop their intuition and live their lives in a conscious way. His news and views of the world tomorrow, today, are always informative and revealing. To learn more about Dr Douglas, be sure to visit his website, douglasjamescottrellcom, where you can download self-help exercises you can do right in the comfort of your own home. And now here's your host, dr Douglas James Cottrell.

Douglas James Cottrell:

Welcome everyone. I'm your host, douglas James Cottrell, and my good friend, les Hubert is right here right now. Hey, les, we have another exciting podcast for our friends out there. We do appreciate everybody letting us know which ones you like, what you'd like to hear more of, so send an email to info at DouglasJamesCottrellcom and help Les and I help you in the wake up. Les, what's on the menu tonight?

Les Hubert:

Hi Doug. Well, tonight the podcast is going to be about being dangerously intuitive. I've been getting reports from people. I know that they feel as if they're under some sort of ethereal or psychic attack and they're wondering, you know, is this their imagination? Can this actually happen? And, if it is happening, what can they do to defend themselves from it?

Douglas James Cottrell:

Well, really good question. To be intuitive you are so-called sensitive and to have that sixth sense you have extrasensory perception and to get feelings that are intuitive, you are sensitive. Now that's really encouraging and it's understandable when you speak of being intuitive in a sensitive sense, because you are, you're beyond your physical senses and you're getting information from you know the intuitive fields that that invisible made visible area out there that we loosely would call just the intuitive world okay so if you're, if you're sensitive, then you're sensitive to everything oh, okay you can pick up emotions from other people just by standing in the room that they're in.

Douglas James Cottrell:

You can pick up feelings with people who are not in the same room but are thinking about you, or maybe they're a little upset with you, or maybe they're a little appraising you, like they're in love with you, or they're jealous of you. Those emotions reach out across that invisible space, because intuition knows no time or space. So we're interconnected, we're all one and no matter where somebody is, if they're thinking of you or if they're referring to you, or if they're having a mental argument in their mind about you, or if they're just tearing strips off your eye because they're angry at just tearing strips off your eye, because you know they're angry at you for some reason. Perhaps you're totally innocent, you have no idea why, but they're in there.

Douglas James Cottrell:

that way you're going to feel that okay, right I once described it as somebody hitting you over the sledgehammer oh boy yeah, when somebody says something like you know, damn him. He took my parking spot at the office today. Wham, you know it's after work. You're maybe out there having a drink with the boys and all of a sudden you get this zinger right over your eyebrow.

Les Hubert:

Oh, wow.

Douglas James Cottrell:

Sometimes it's the intensity of the person's anger. It feels like a screwdriver being driven into your house in your head, as I describe it. You know that's figuratively speaking, but it feels like somebody's jabbing something in your forehead. It hurts for a moment, the same as when somebody says oh, I just love her, I just want to hold her and hug her and love her to death. Hold her and hug her and love her to death.

Douglas James Cottrell:

Well, a feeling of warmth and serenity and affection comes over you. And when you're walking through the grocery store and all of a sudden you get this feeling, you're getting a little aroused. You're like what's happening? Where is this coming from? Who's near me? What's going on? Is it the ice cream? What is it? It's somebody sending you out wonderful let's call it vibes. You know generically, basically good vibes, bad vibes.

Douglas James Cottrell:

So the idea is that you're sensitive to these emotional expressions from other people. You're also sensitive to telepathic communication, mind to mind, thoughts being given and thoughts being received. Some people are very good telepathic senders and some people are very good telepathic receivers, and some people are excellent at both and communicate telepathically. And for our friends in the wake-up, you want to test this out You're sitting in a restaurant and for our friends in the wake up, you want to test this out. You're sitting in a restaurant and the staff is a little tardy. You just think in your mind get over here, or please come over here, or we need a waiter or waitresses over here right now at table five or whatever. Try to be specific and you don't need necessarily to speak. Of course you're just thinking this. But you can speak very precisely and with intensity, like get over here, we need you now, use, use that in in.

Douglas James Cottrell:

In certain times not all the time, because some people believe it or not telepathically have egos and somebody's telling them what to do. They just do the opposite. So you don't want to scare the, the, the waiter or waitress away, but you, sometimes you can use it with. You know we're about to leave, get over here, we want service now, please. Wow. It's like, uh, with all due respect, sir, you know, and then you tell the speak to power and tell them off, but with that idea that you're communicating with people in a telepathic way, verbalizing what you want, and it can't be a whole bunch of things, it has to be we want service at our table now. Please come and take our order right away, or the reverse. We would like to leave, we want our check, we want the bill, okay, so that's kind of easy to understand. So the telepathic communication happens and, as we're talking tonight about basically challenges, these feelings or sensations or thoughts can come upon you when you are unsuspecting, you have no idea.

Douglas James Cottrell:

You're going home and somebody gets angry with you at the office or something happens, or you know somebody wants you to call them back and you haven't done it, or you're late or you've missed an appointment, something like that. Well, to the degree of the person's anger is to the degree you feel it. When somebody's just annoyed with you, it will feel like a little ache on your head for a few moments. If they're really angry with you, that sustains itself for some minutes. And if they're really really angry, it that sustains itself for some minutes. And if they're really, really angry, it's like somebody hitting you over the head with a hammer. It hurts. We've all had those feelings like oh, what was that? You know an aneurysm, I'm going to have a stroke. What happened?

Les Hubert:

Is this the same Doug for even discarnate beings? Can they send us negative stuff?

Douglas James Cottrell:

Not in the same way, but yes, there can be communication with discarnate entities. Here's a story A man went to a club, a fraternity, and he was supposed to have a certain apron or sash or something and he had left his at home or he lost it. So he went into the cupboard and there were other sashes sitting there from previous members who had passed on. So he just picked one up and wore it. He didn't take it back to the cupboard.

Douglas James Cottrell:

At the end of the meeting he went home with it oh and this went on for a couple of weeks and all of a sudden it's good, you know, on the meeting night you know it would be like, oh terrible, and what's going on. And then it dawned on him when he went back to the club, there was his. Somebody had found it and he had dawned on him. He forgot to put it back because it wasn't really his. So he exchanged it, he got his and he put the previous club members sash back and guess what? No more headaches, no more feeling of uncomfortableness. Well, from a certain perspective, he was borrowing somebody's property, even though the man had passed on. Oh my God, it was okay to loan it during a meeting, but it wasn't good to take it home because the man and his family had donated it back to the club and it should stay there.

Douglas James Cottrell:

It was interesting that as soon as it went back and the man went on his own, he didn't have those bad feelings at the time of the meetings. So, yes, there can be communication from the other side, the same as when somebody uh is, is frustrated that somebody new is coming to move in there into their house, you know, like somebody's passed on the real estate person that's coming to the door. This really happened. I had clients, uh, the two ladies went to the door, they opened the door and somebody pushed the real estate agent in the chest. My god pushed them back with like both hands and there was nobody there. Oh, they went to go back in and another push and by this the real estate agent plus the client were a little concerned. So they left. So they asked me, called me up. Oh my god, you know what happened. Oh, my god. And I said, well, first of all, is this an estate sale? He said, yes, it is. I said, well, you should have asked permission to go in-house, because that person who passed uh passed away just a few weeks ago. They're still there, it's still, they're in residence, they haven't ascended to heaven yet and so when you go next time, you know, say this prayer. You know. You know to the person and say may we come into your house? Do you have? Now you've passed on? Think of your relatives, you know. Just give them some little hints that they're gone.

Douglas James Cottrell:

The next time the real estate agent went in, nothing there was, no, there was no feeling of repulsion or pushing them about and they sold the house. So there is that sensation of ownership, even though somebody's passed on. They don't know it. So for a little while they're still, quote unquote, haunting their own house. And when somebody comes in to their houses, like anybody else, you would confront them at the door. You would push them away if they try to come in. So, yes, you can get, as, as you are sensitive, you can feel these, uh, call them.

Douglas James Cottrell:

Well, let's go back to good vibes and bad vibes. You can feel these good vibes or bad ones. So, first of all, the way to recognize this, you know, in the wake up. That's what we're teaching wake up, when you feel something come over you that suddenly came upon you for no reason. We usually look around for some excuse as to why this is happening.

Douglas James Cottrell:

So what did we do? I must have had a cheese sandwich. I knew I shouldn't have had that spicy food, or I'm really tired, or I didn't take my vitamins, something like that. The reality is to say wait a minute, this isn't mine. I was feeling perfectly balanced a few moments or seconds ago and now I feel this sharp pain over my eyebrow, I feel a pain in the back of my neck, I feel a pain in my hip, I feel cool around my ankles. When you feel these sensations we're not going to go into the details on that tonight, but when you feel these sensations, that's usually your intuition saying something is happening to you, where you're becoming aware of or you're sensing the emotional nature, thoughts or presence of something that doesn't belong to you.

Douglas James Cottrell:

Meaning telepathy, clairsentience, feeling negativity of somebody else, the emotional nature of somebody else. Now we spend a lot of time saying negativity, but again, it works for charms and and when somebody's thinking of you and you're feeling like, wow, this is feel, this feels great, you know, I feel like somebody's hugging me. Well, they are, they are sending you good vibes. So when you're sensitive, you can feel the good part, and when you're in harmony and that's why you should pray and or meditate and try to clear your mind of all the clutter the daily barbs are out there and try to get back to that balance point. To be decent in your life usually means that you're balanced and you won't get off the track. But when you feel things that are painful, you know somebody will say I don't know what it is, I just feel terrible in my gut, you know my solar plexus.

Douglas James Cottrell:

I just feel sick to my stomach. Well, you're picking up something that's about to happen or is happening, not necessarily to you. I get nervous when there's some bad news coming out the next day. I get really nervous if it's really bad meaning. I feel uneasy, I feel imbalanced. And I'll remark this to my friends who are intuitive, and they'll say the same thing. You know, me too. I feel. You know. Just, I feel blah. I feel like somebody sucked the energy out of me. That usually means that something horrific is going to come.

Les Hubert:

Just when.

Douglas James Cottrell:

Queen Elizabeth passed away here just a few days ago, three or four days the week before, I started to say to people I'm feeling really nervous, something's going to happen in the world, some bad news is coming, of course. When the announcement was made that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth passed away, that feeling left me. I was feeling the grief of a lot of people in the UK and you know, everybody has their own attachment to various figures and Queen Elizabeth has been around for 70 plus years. So when we're attached we can feel it, but we may not know where it's coming from. There's no, you know uh roadmap.

Douglas James Cottrell:

There's no uh logic that says this is where it is you're feeling something intuitively, and whatever it is that you're reaching out with your intuition, you're touching it. It's like like little fingers radiating out in your the energy fields that go around you. We call that the aura fields. They're not just close up to your body, they reach out four or five, six, ten feet and even further when you're looking to feel something that extends out like a cloud around you. But mostly it's about four to six feet, so you can bump into people in a room and you say whoa, whoa, I feel chilly, I don't like it here, I feel something's wrong, and you leave the room and you go. Well, it just left me, or the words it just left me.

Douglas James Cottrell:

Yes, you walked out of the cloud, somebody else's cloud of negativity, fear. You know some people come to parties and they've just had a big blow up with their spouse, they've got bad news at work or their child is sick, and so they have this cloud of negativity around, which is kind of like a sponge. It slurps up other people's good energy or strength when they're down and their energy is weak, and hence the words you know hey, I really feel up today. Well, that means your energy levels are up, your intuition is up. I feel down today. Well, your life force is down, your, your, your whole being is now in a and I don't want to say a destructive way, but it's in a lesser balanced way. But you flux in and up you know, know energy goes up and down.

Douglas James Cottrell:

To be aware, to be in the wake up as to who you are, you consciously become level balanced all the time. So when somebody runs at you and say there's bad news, your dad just went to the hospital, you say, well, I didn't have a dream about this, let's just be cautious about this. And you're allowed. It turns out that your dad went to the hospital. He went for a checkup, it wasn't a problem. So your intuition can gear your response and you can become aware of it in a feeling sense. But it can really hurt, and this is, I think, the importance of this call or this wake up. But it can really hurt and this is, I think, the import of this call or this, this wake up is that it can really hurt. It's really painful when people are thinking bad thoughts about you or you're in a field of negativity or bad thoughts.

Douglas James Cottrell:

When you go into somebody's funeral in a funeral home, if it's a young person, everybody's grief is overwhelming. It can make you physically sick. If you go into a funeral, um celebration of life for somebody that's lived a long life, the feeling's a little more jovial, it's balanced. I mean, they're missing and they're grieving. You know dad or grandma or grandpa, but it's kind of expected, everybody's okay, but when a young person passed away, that's a huge tragedy. Just to give you some idea of an area or that cloud that you can walk into now in those particular scenarios. You're prepared for that. Anyway, you know where you're going, you know what's going to happen, you know people are at heel, yeah, when you aren't prepared.

Douglas James Cottrell:

You know you're sitting there, with the traffic lights, you know what's going to happen. You know people are going to heal yeah, when you aren't prepared. You know you're sitting there, the traffic lights, you know, in the car, and all of a sudden you feel just whack in the back of my head. What happened? Well, the light's green and the guy behind you is in a hurry, so he's looking at the back of your head saying get going, right. It's like if you want to practice that, you know. All of a sudden you feel your. You know when you're sitting there in a room or someplace and all of a sudden you look over at somebody and they're looking at you. Why did you do that? You didn't look around the room, you looked right over and they're looking at you.

Douglas James Cottrell:

They immediately look at their feet or they look at the ceiling or they'll smile at you because they like you. But why did you turn your head to the 9 o'clock position or the 11 o'clock position or the 6 o'clock position behind you? Why did you do that? Because you're aware that person is looking at you and that awareness is, is the medium for um. Your intuition and the different ways I've described tonight and how you react to that are extensions of that awareness. You're in the wake up and this is one way to see that. You have extrasensory perception. You have intuition and you can be negatively affected or influenced by it if you allow it. You can't be harmed. If you feel something you know like that's that ding on your forehead, just put your hand over your forehead, over your eye, and wave it back and forth, and what it does is it, if you will. It massages the area, it clears up the energy, it breaks any tether or sting that's been coming at you and you'll know, because it goes away and you'll feel balanced again.

Les Hubert:

Makes sense. And wrapping it up, one of the questions that was given to me was even if you're not intuitive, but let's say you're in the limelight, you're a celebrity or you're somebody who is seen by a lot of people and they start throwing negative thoughts at you, even though you're not intuitive, do you pick that up and let's say, like a politician who is hated or something, do they suffer as well as an intuitive person because of just the sheer numbers of negativity thrown at?

Douglas James Cottrell:

them. That's a really good point. Less, it's not intuition that you have and therefore you're sensitive and feel good or bad, it's that everybody has a sixth sense we all feel. You know, intuitively people call it a hunch, their gut feeling feeling. It just occurred to me, popped in my mind. It'll come up with little cliches, or I just feel sick to my gut or I don't know. I feel like this situation is just strangling me.

Douglas James Cottrell:

Well it is. You're feeling this negativity in your throat. It's a pain in the butt or she's a pain in the butt, or she's a pain in the butt, or she's a pain in the butt or she's a pain in the neck. And when you're on stage, um, when people are sitting there watching you on stage, the reason actors get that on stage high feeling is because everybody's looking at them and it's wonderful to have everybody looking at you in a pleasing way. It lifts you up. You go high. I want you to think about this. A thousand people in the room applauding you. You've just had a wonderful talk or lecture or performance and you stage right, exit. And where do you go? All by yourself, down the stairs into the dressing room. What happens? It's like collapse time. It's like I was in a nice, warm, wonderful, you know, almost like a cuddly. You know mothers embracing their baby Feeling wow. I went off stage and now I'm alone and I feel ice cold. What happened? So you don't have to be intuitive, but actors, or anybody on stage, will get that high and then when they go off stage, they'll get that low.

Douglas James Cottrell:

When I do it, I'm the same offstage, onstage and offstage again. I don't allow myself to get excited and enthusiastic. You know, I just want to stay on the stage for the sake of being in front of the people, because it feels so good. You know some people keep talking and talking. That's what they're doing. Otherwise, you're on there and when you walk off you're collected. You have your integrity of the cloud around you, of your energy fields. However, if you're a politician, if you're out in public or you're anywhere in leadership, or if not, maybe people are telling rumors about you. You're a focus of attention. Yes, it can make you feel bad. Your handwriting starts to wobble, your health goes downhill, especially if it's sustained.

Douglas James Cottrell:

Oh, boy, yikes You're in a position of somebody who has been arrested, tried and convicted and he's innocent. He goes to jail every day of his life. People are hating him because he was convicted of doing something, but he's innocent. So people who sustain themselves in that environment and later on are exonerated, those are very powerful good men and their faith or the knowledge that they know they were innocent has sustained them. However, other people who are bad and they get that same negativity and adversity and hate towards them, then they suffer and they become more devious and they become more animalistic and hate abounds.

Douglas James Cottrell:

So you don't have to be psychic or intuitive or spiritual because we're a sentient being. All of us and all the other sentient beings in the world are our kin and so we can relate to them, and that's why we love animals. Some people love elephants, some people have favorite cats and dogs and birds and aquariums full of fish. We become attached. Turtles, snakes, whatever the reptiles people love them. I don't know why, but they do. I think they're cute to look at, but I wouldn't want them in my house, so to speak. Okay, well, everybody feels that way about different, uh, sentient creatures around us and we relate to them. We feel the energy. We communicate with them and I have a theory that the dog whispers, the horse whispers.

Douglas James Cottrell:

You know, these people seem to get along with animals. I think they telepathically talk to the animals. Matter of fact, I've written books about how they talk to the animals and my friends in the wake up, if you want to try this, look at Rover or Miss Kitty and say well, cats are independent. So I'm going to stay. I'm going to back up on that one. Look at the dog and say Rover, come, or Rover, you want to go out without saying the words and remember to say his name or her name first, as you would. When you are normally taught how to talk to your dog, you say the dog's name and then you give them the command. I tried that with my dog. I told him to come, come, come. That didn't work. So I said sit, sit, sit. That didn't work and so I thought his name, max sit. He went backed up two steps and sat down.

Les Hubert:

Wow, that's interesting. Backed up two steps and sat down.

Douglas James Cottrell:

Wow, that's interesting, that's cool. So you can commute with animals telepathically, thinking what you want them to do, telling them, asking them what their name. That all works, the same as people. But we can communicate with any sentient being on the earth, because we're all one. But you don't have to have any category of being extra, uh, intuitive, or extra of extra sensory perception, that that you can feel these things. You're going to feel it one way or the other if somebody hates you.

Douglas James Cottrell:

Doesn't matter who you are. You're going to feel that it's going to hurt oh boy, and if somebody loves you. You're going to feel that too, so it's better to be loved. Make no enemies. Make love not war. All that good stuff, those cliches, that's what that's all about we're in the wake up.

Douglas James Cottrell:

Wake up. However, you will have your enemies. Remember this, my friends. You will have enemies. There will be people who don't like you because you're too tall, you're too short, you're too sick, you're too tall, you're too short, you're too thick, you're too thin, you're too this, you're too that. That's their problem. You shield yourself from these people by just crossing your arms in front of you, maybe putting your hand over your forehead, and in really extreme cases, you can wear that tinfoil helmet. That's allowed Now in reality. This is why wearing headgear is very common in most of the world's revisions.

Douglas James Cottrell:

You're putting something around your head that's shutting you off from communication with other minds. That's a true saying. You put a band around interesting. They put a rope around their head or beads around their head to cut that off. Uh, it's, it shuts off. There's, I think, 26 nerve points around your head. They're on an angle from the top of your eyebrow to the back of your head, you know, on a sloping angle. And if you wear anything around your head, like a sweatband, a headband, a hat, a yamaka, a fedora, you, you know, a tiara, whatever you know, put something on your head.

Les Hubert:

It will help to shut you off from any incoming good, bad ugly, Wow Well, thanks again, Doug, for a great podcast, and we'll see you again soon.

Douglas James Cottrell:

Okay, you're in the wake up. This is your host Douglas, James Cottrell and Michael, who's Les Hubert.

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