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Absolutely, You Have Intuition: Learning how your intuition works.
What if I told you that you have an innate ability to connect with your inner guidance? Join Melanie Smith and Laura Hillkirk in this enlightening episode of the Into the Light podcast as they dive into the fascinating world of intuition. Discover that intuition is not merely a gift for the chosen few; we all possess it in various forms waiting to be unlocked.
Embark on a journey through the many aspects of intuition, exploring misconceptions that associate it solely with mediumship and spirit communication. Gain insight into the different ways you can access this gift, from clairvoyance to clairsentience, and learn how each person’s experience is unique. The hosts also touch on the importance of empathy in intuition, emphasizing how being sensitive to others can enhance your intuitive abilities.
Pointing to practical exercises and tips, they encourage listeners to explore their intuitive messages through dreams and the signs around them. Healing and self-awareness are discussed as vital components in the personal journey of honing one’s intuitive abilities. You’ll find practical guidance on trusting your instincts and nurturing your gifts.
This episode not only enlightens but inspires you to embrace your authentic self as you embark on the journey to understanding and connecting with your intuition. Join us and unlock your potential! Don’t forget to subscribe, share, and leave a review!
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Speaker 3:Welcome back, hey everybody. Episode 14, we are diving into intuition. What is intuition? There's a lot of different ways that we receive our intuition and we are going to kind of just shed some light on the different ways that you could be getting your intuition. I think the biggest misconception is probably from movies or whatever. That being intuitive means being a medium or a psychic Right, and everybody has intuition. I don't care who you are, you are born with intuition. You have intuition. Some of your gifts are going to be stronger than others. It really just kind of depends on where you are in life, what you were born with, all of those things. But everybody has intuition.
Speaker 3:And I think a lot of people can basically think intuition means I see dead people and that's really not what your intuition is and I mean it is for us. That's a part of it. But your intuition is so much bigger than that. I always tell people really that's not that exciting. Seeing the spirit world isn't all it's cracked up to be. It's exhausting, it can be terrifying. It's taken us, you know, four decades to figure out and even when we think we have it figured out, we're calling each other going what the fuck just happened. I don't even know what this was. So you know, the goal shouldn't be to see dead people. The goal should be to connect to that divine guidance in your intuition.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and discovering what your personal abilities are. It's very unique to everyone with how information is received and then also with what your abilities are. Some people have one ability, but it's very strong, and then some people are multi-layered and it just depends on you. Yeah, it's you.
Speaker 3:And I think for like you and I, who do this for a living, for work, and we're good at what we do, I think it's because our intuition comes in in all those ways. So you have some people where it's like I'm a hearer, I'm a seer, I'm a feeler, and they have like one of those ways. And it have some people where it's like I'm a hearer, I'm a seer, I'm a feeler, and they have like one of those ways and it's fantastic because that's going to help them. You can use whatever spiritual gifts you have to help guide you in life, to be able to do a reading or, you know, be an intuitive healer per se. The reason that works for us is because we have that information coming in and seriously all the ways at once. Sometimes I couldn't even tell you if I'm seeing or hearing or feeling. It's all kind of at one time and it just comes together like a puzzle.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I feel like mediums people who are mediums they're also empathic and they're psychic Like they have like that multi-layered ability there. Yeah, empaths also, like I think you can be a psychic empath, but there's a difference between seeing spirit and not seeing spirit, because the way that I view this is that if you are mediumistic in nature and you're seeing spirit and you're accessing spirit, you also have access to all the things that are in spirit. So it's like that psychic, psychic knowledge, empathic knowledge, all of the clairs kind of come in to play there and we'll get into the Claire's guys, but that all comes into play. And then you have all the other multi-layered things on top of that that really don't have a name, that just instinctually happen. So mediums the best way I can say it is not all psychics are mediums, but all mediums are psychic. So it's like, because of the way the vibration has to be set to connect to spirit, it just pulls and draws in all those other types of intuitive abilities.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and I think everybody's empathic. I think there's different degrees of empathy. You know I'll have people, the people that are chronically ill and very sick and anxious I know they're off the charts empathic and they just don't understand it. And that's where learning about energy or getting Reiki attuned can really help. It can really help you understand energy in a way to help protect yourself. Because I know for me, getting attuned to Reiki changed everything. When I began to understand energy, it became so clear why I had been suffering for so long, because I was feeling so much, and I do believe that. I think everybody is empathic. It's just to different degrees. Some people are going to feel other people's physical pain. There's going to be people that feel emotional stuff and there's other people that aren't really paying attention to it at all. They've kind of closed that part off.
Speaker 2:They don't want to bother with it.
Speaker 3:Yes, yeah, so I mean there's all of these different ways that your intuition works. The biggest question I get when people come in asking about intuition is how can I see the spirit world? And my answer is you might not. You know, and I'll talk about some things that you can do to try and practice if you want to see, or whatever, but not everyone's meant to be a seer. It's more, I always tell people you can't compare your intuition to somebody else. You have to just pay attention to what your intuition is and what the ways that you know the divine and the spirit world is trying to connect with you, and the goal should be to connect with your guides and that divine guidance, versus I want to just randomly connect with dead people.
Speaker 2:Because a lot of people want to see their own departed loved ones and that's really not how it works, guys, I rarely see my parents, Like they're both dead. I rarely see them. I don't see my friends that passed away, Like it is very, very rare that it happens.
Speaker 3:The same. I can feel like their presence. That it is. We start like it's like verbal diarrhea. I'm just like blah, blah, blah, blah, blah and then when I'm done, I'm like I don't even know what I just said. But when it comes to my people, it's so personal and I know them so well. It's like, well, I mean, I can right now picture my best friend and I can see her. So it's like how would I even know if that's her? You know, because you can create those things. So when it comes to our own loved ones, yeah, we're not like sitting on the couch chit-chatting.
Speaker 2:Exactly, and I think that's the misconception there and why some people want to see dead people and it's, you know, it's not all roses and sunshine like. It's definitely um, definitely can be scary, um, but yeah, I yeah, like, developing your abilities should be uniquely defined for yourself, not based on somebody else. And you know, comparison is the thief of joy. It'll steal things from you and when you try to be like somebody else, you're wishing yourself away and that's not the way to ever live your life. So, looking at what your characteristics are and what your abilities are and strengthening those, that is what's going to raise your vibration, because as soon as you try and be somebody else, it lowers your vibration, it dulls what you have in terms of natural gifting and you just won't be able to develop anything, and that's the truth.
Speaker 3:Yeah, authenticity is honestly the key to happiness and healing. Yeah, authenticity, don't try and be like anybody else. So we're kind of mentioning you've got clairs, okay. So it's kind of this fancy word that they use to describe what the intuition is. So I mean we can start with clairvoyance. So that's the seeing. Yes, so clairvoyance. I don't ever say clairvoyance, I say it's the seeing. I use just like regular terms, but that's what it's called. Clairvoyance is seeing. You can see, we both see both ways. You see a physical spirit standing there where you, you see them with your physical eyes and then, because your third eye isn't your physical eyes, and then where like more how I see it now, which is because that's what I've asked for I see flashes of pictures. Meaning, right now I'm staring at a computer screen on Zoom, I'm looking at Melanie's face, but off up to the left is where my third eye is, where I see flashes of things. And you know, your clairvoyance can work in different ways.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, it can be like a movie reel where you're watching things Picture flashes yeah, picture flashes and then seeing spirit. It doesn't always have to be solid like a person. Sometimes people will see shadows or they'll see light. Energy Auras is also a part of clairvoyance, where you're seeing different colors surrounding other people. My oldest daughter has that ability where she's like Mom, you've got purple all around you and what she's doing is she's seeing my aura, and so clairvoyance in the mind's eye, or the seeing it, can be multilayered and you just don't see one way either, like you're going to see them in all the ways, whether you're seeing energy spirit pictures in your mind, which can get confusing, because sometimes those can be literal, or they can be metaphorical. If they're metaphorical, I always say it's like they're pulling from what I know in my brain and showing it to me. What I'm seeing doesn't literally go to that person, but it's a reference for me to get what they're trying to say.
Speaker 3:Yeah, this is why I don't do readings anymore, because it exhausts me the whole like just deciphering what is literal, what am I figuring out in the whatever? And so now when I'm channeling, I channel more from like Akashic records, guides. I do talk to loved ones, but readings itself, the way that information comes in for me, was just so overwhelming because you get it all over. And I teach a intuition class and there's always one one in the group and where I realized, because almost everybody can access their third eye at least, so we would do this exercise and I found that there are people that struggle to access that and the best way I describe to people about like how to look for your third eye when you read a book, you paint a picture of what's happening while you're reading a book, or I thought everybody did, and I came to find out there are people that cannot read a book and do that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's no visualization.
Speaker 3:There's no visual whatsoever, um, and I would always have people do different exercises where they're trying to access that point, um, but it's, it's interesting. It's. There's always one out of every class that can't they can't visualize. I'm like that's okay and they're always like really strong in some other, claire, but it's always interesting to me that there's. There's some people I didn't realize that until I started teaching that class where I'd be like what, like you can't know. I was like, yeah, like you read a book, and they were like no, I don't know, I don't even see anything, and I was like I can't even comprehend that because I've always been a vision.
Speaker 2:Always. It's just yeah, that would be maddening to me. Yeah, I wouldn't like that very much Me either.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so I mean it's flashes of pictures, movies, all that the aura. I'm glad that you brought that up. I love when I have a client in here and we're doing like spiritual guidance before the healing part of the session and I have where the chairs sit in here there's like a plain gray wall and to see auras, a white or a light beige color, solid wall. That's how people can practice seeing an aura. And I'll have somebody in here and they'll be like they'll get this look on their face and they're like I see this really bright light around your head and I was like, oh, you're seeing my aura. And they're like I can't see auras. I'm like, well, you are right now, that's what you're doing, you're seeing an aura and that happens quite a bit. Mean, I think people have that ability.
Speaker 2:They don't understand it or they don't even know how to like practice it or not, or really facilitate it in a way that, like they can use it every day yeah so it's figuring out that balance.
Speaker 2:But the first thing is you got to figure out what your giftings are and then you go from there Because it's not like you and I woke up and said, oh, we're mediums, I'm just going to go walk around and talk to people all day, like no, it was a journey. It was a journey, and each journey is very different from the other. Some people catch on super quick, like I always envy the people who are mediums in their 20s, and they just know. And I'm like, god damn, I wish I would have, I wish I would have been able to do that, but I just didn't know. I didn't know it was weird. I was drinking, it was just not my time, that generational cycle.
Speaker 2:Because what you said is very interesting. When your students are saying, well, I can't do that, that thought, right there, is powerful enough to turn your intuition off, because we're always seeking validation. And instead of seeking validation, just take what you're feeling as is yeah. Don't try and tell yourself you're not feeling something like are you crazy? No, so then why would you think what you're feeling isn't real right, so it is. That is a very powerful thought that can disable your own abilities and progress in learning.
Speaker 3:yeah, and I just feel like the biggest component to your intuition is trusting that first thing. Yes, trusting the first thing you saw or you felt, or you heard, or you know. That's the biggest part. And I feel like you know here I am five years in I don't generally second guess it, it comes in. I'm like, yes, I trust that, but that has been quite a journey to get to where it's like I'm going to trust this. My advice to people is the first thing is the thing you trust the crazy thing. Always believe and think and say out loud the crazy thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly Because you're seeing it for a reason. And as soon as you, and as soon as you question that and really don't trust yourself that you lose that trust and you don't allow yourself to open up. I mean, I've had readings before where I'm like man I don't know if I'm seeing this right, right but X, y and Z, and they're like oh my God, yes, and blah, blah, blah. To me it sounds nuts, but people live their lives very different ways, very, very different ways, and so what I'm seeing doesn't make sense to me, but to the other person it clicks instantly, like the other day.
Speaker 2:I must just say this really fast, because it was ridiculous to say this really fast, because it was ridiculous, like two weeks ago, before a home party, I was in the kitchen and you know I'm getting my water and everything. So I start singing this song that I have never heard before and it's about a sailor on his boat and how he loves his boat and he takes a float and he does all this stuff with his hat and I'm singing this song and I go into the living room and I'm his hat, and I'm singing this song and I go into the living room and I'm like Ben, have we heard this song before? So I start singing it to him. He's like I don't know what that is and I'm like maybe it goes to somebody, whatever. So I go to this reading.
Speaker 2:This guy shows up and he's got a captain hat on. He's saying ahoy to me and he's got his captain hat on and I start singing the song in the reading and this lady starts bawling because her grandpa used to sing that on the lake he would wear a captain hat and he would drive his boat. Now, if I would have invalidated myself and said I must have heard it on TV, that moment for spirit and that living woman would have never happened. Right, she needed that. So it's like trusting those instincts and trusting what you're hearing, whether it makes sense to you or not, is very powerful, because the validation will come later, even if you're not doing readings.
Speaker 3:Yeah, every reading I've ever done, the thing that connects with the person is always the insane thing. I don't want to say yes, it's always the thing where I was. The person is always the insane thing. I don't want to say yes, it's always the thing where I was, like this isn't a thing. And then I'm like I say it and then somebody's like crying oh my gosh, yeah. And I'm like I didn't want to say that thing, but I've learned that that thing is the thing.
Speaker 2:Yes, because it's something no one else knows and it's something the person can connect to. Yeah, so it's like how the hell am I supposed to know what your grandpa's saying? On a boat in the middle of a lake, right, like no one knows that except the family and people that were around them. So you know, trusting yourself, trusting yourself comes first and validation comes later, and that's the part that's tricky to people, right, especially when you get to the clear audience part where you're hearing, because a lot of people will like poo-poo that away.
Speaker 3:Well, let's talk about that one next. So clear audience is clear hearing. It's the hearing, and to me, yes, I have heard other voices. I don't think that's common. I think you and I can hear other voices, but a lot of times that's in my own voice too that comes in. I think people associate clear audience with a booming voice from the sky, like some powerful voice or maybe grandma's voice, and you can. You can maybe hear a, a, something like that, but for most people it is going to be your own voice. And then people's next question always is okay, well, how do I know that? Because we all have that like running dialogue, and the best way I describe to people is we as human beings are extremely indecisive. So in our head we're a little bit like do I want Taco Bell? Do I want McDonald's today? Okay, do I want to go to the bank now? Like we're sort of back and forth. When it is intuition, it comes in almost so fast you'd miss it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I agree with that. It's.
Speaker 3:Very quick, but it can be in another voice. It can. It can be yours as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and when you start practicing hearing, you'll be able to recognize, because I always hear up and to the right, which won't make sense when you're listening to this, but it's like my voice is in the middle and then what I'm channeling is up and to the right part of my brain. And as I've been doing this now, I hear from both sides, which is new. I hear from both sides, which is new. So your hearing can, like, develop, like your abilities can change and shift as you get older. You know puberty, menopause, any type of hormonal changes can definitely fluctuate and shift your abilities. But with hearing it used to be up and to the right and now I hear through both sides and I want to say I'm 50-50, like 50% hearing my own voice talk, but then 50% hearing a voice that's not mine. That's very audible, like other languages.
Speaker 2:I get a question about that Can you do readings for people who don't speak English? Yeah, I can, because when I'm hearing somebody, I'm hearing them in, like, let's say, spanish or German, like I'm hearing them in that language, but I know what they're saying in english. Yeah, a hundred percent. It's like the language barrier doesn't, it's not existent when you cross over, because it's emotional context and it's energy, so you can definitely hear someone, and I just heard someone talk. I wonder if we caught that. Um, we're gonna have to re-listen. I just heard that.
Speaker 3:Anyway, sorry, Was it a woman or a man? It was a woman Because I thought I heard a woman.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it just I feel like the microphone glitched for a second. But anyway, you can. I forgot what I was saying. Different languages you can hear them, it doesn't matter. That threw me off, sorry, that's. The other thing with abilities is you have other people inside your energy field, in your brain, so you can get sidetracked very, very easily, which is why grounding is very important to ground yourself constantly, which we'll go through when we go through protection and things like that.
Speaker 3:I, I feel like mine comes in like evenly into my head, and I don't feel like it's even in my ears. I feel like it's like up here somewhere and I just hear it. And so I this is interesting I don't just hear. Hearing never comes in alone. I call it like the hear feels like I'm hearing and feeling and knowing all at one time, like simultaneously. I'm seeing and hearing and knowing, and so sometimes it's like I don't know if I heard something or knew something or felt something, but it's like all happening at one time.
Speaker 2:Yes, no, I'm the same way. It's not just oh, I saw this, oh, I just heard this. It's definitely multi-layer, whether it's like an empathic psychic. Sometimes you get all the senses activated at once and it gets really overwhelming.
Speaker 3:It's like that most of the time, where I'm like, okay, well, I saw the person and know that it's this, and then I heard this and felt this, and it all happened at one time yeah, yeah, it's no, it's definitely.
Speaker 2:yeah, the way information comes in is is at all all sources so, but it's like the hearing when I'm just focusing on hearing that's, that's how it will come in.
Speaker 3:Right, and if you're a hearer, like if you're listening and maybe you're not, so like you aren't going to maybe have them come in all the ways, that hearing is going to come in very unique to you, like you just heard Melanie say, it's like up in one corner, but now now it's sort of resonating balance, more balanced within your ears, like in both ears, yeah, now, so it's.
Speaker 2:it's very different. And some, when I first started hearing, it would come in as like a, a radio sound, like a, like. I thought something was wrong with my ears and I'm like I think I'm going deaf, because it was like, and then I would literally start losing hearing, like my ears would ring so loud and then I'd go deaf and then I'd hear like a radio frequency and then that morphed into hearing actual words and people talking to me, so, like the clairaudient one, I think that I mean it definitely helps with getting more specific information, but I'm also getting visual cues as well, and then empathic, like all the feelings that go with things, or I'll taste things in my mouth which what is the name for that? For taste, because it's clear clear gustants.
Speaker 2:Yes, it had some weird name.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so clear gustants and we can move on to that. One is inner. That's a tasting, so it's tasting something without actually having something in your mouth, and it's my least favorite gift, yeah. So as far as tapping into the spirit world, um, it's like I can taste alcohol. Somebody maybe died and they were an alcoholic, or maybe they died in a drunk driving accident or whatever that is. It's like alcohol somehow connected to their identity. In some way. I will taste like horrific alcohol in my mouth. Um, cigarettes, sometimes they make me like it's not gross, but it's like it is when you're ready for it, like I've had grandmas, like they're really proud of their apple pie, and it's like it is, when you're ready for it, like I've had grandmas, like they're really proud of their apple pie, and it's like I'm tasting apple pie or their casserole they made, or you know something like that um happened to where it's like spirits trying to feed you.
Speaker 2:You're like taste the turkey I made for Thanksgiving years like oh my god, I made the best apple pie.
Speaker 3:It's like okay, but I don't want to taste that right now, like Like I'm drinking coffee or whatever.
Speaker 2:I know it is so funny when they do that I'm like stop feeding me. I'm on a diet Now.
Speaker 3:I want like stop doing this to me yeah, and it's tasting, so you are tasting, but obviously you don't physically have something in your mouth, so you're not tasting with your physical three-dimensional taste buds.
Speaker 2:Yes, but it's very real.
Speaker 3:Oh, it's very real I gagged.
Speaker 2:Yes, when I get heavy smokers that come in, I can taste the stale cigarette smoke in my mouth.
Speaker 3:Yes, it takes me back to my 20s.
Speaker 2:Heavy perfume wear. I can taste their perfume Murder, murder victims. I always taste blood in my mouth like that's my sign they were murdered, and so it's like a that very irony taste and I'm like and I feel like people that have clear gustants, um, and clear, which we'll talk about in a minute, is a smelling.
Speaker 3:They have a true heightened sense of taste and smell, which I do. I can smell. Like nobody else is turned off by a smell and it's like I can smell everything, like I'm so tuned into smell and taste. Like I can taste something and it tastes off and it's like I don't want it. I have a heightened sense of both. Like even in my household we had something weird. Our dishwasher was, every once in a while, like you do the dishes and then the bowls would have this like wet dog smell and nobody else was smelling the smell and I was like, ew, these all need to be rewashed. Like I'm so fucking grossed out and everybody was like, what do you mean? Like I don't even smell this. I'm like this is no, because I just have a heightened sense of smell, um, and taste for sure, um. But I feel like people have a physical heightened sense when they have that clear ability.
Speaker 2:That's a good point, because my daughter's like that where anything with smell or taste, she's very sensitive to it. Yeah, and she also has mediumship abilities. So I do feel like those go hand in hand. And I'm the same way. Like chemical smells, I'll smell it. I'm like this food smells like chemicals. Like chemical smells, I'll smell it. I'm like this food smells like chemicals. Or I've actually smelled sickness on people where they I can smell that they're sick and you can smell it. There's just I don't know another way to I do not know how to describe it.
Speaker 3:It's like a rotten smell.
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, that's a good way to put it Not like garbage rotten, but it's like a rotten smell. Yes, yeah, that's a good way to put it. Not like garbage rotten, but it's almost like like a rotting smell.
Speaker 3:Yes, yeah and yeah, we're tapping into like we both done that, like murder victims and stuff.
Speaker 2:It's like uh well, sometimes you can smell the corpse because they haven't found smell or taste or I don't know it.
Speaker 3:It's something it's not enjoyable. I don't enjoy it. I don't love it.
Speaker 2:I know it serves a purpose, but I don't know and like loved ones, come and visit through smell. So sometimes people smell cigarette, smoke, the perfume, lavender, roses, like if they were really into gardening and you'll get a whiff of those things which I smell a lot of roses. Whenever you know my angels show up or like there's some sort of divine intervention happening, I'll start smelling roses and I'm like, ok, like this is, like you know, christlike energy coming in.
Speaker 3:So yeah, I always smell smoke when my papa is around, I know. And at night this was always the case when my kids were little I would get whiffs of smoke and none of us smoke and it's just like such a weird thing and I realized that was my papa coming like every night when I would be putting my son to sleep. And he smells it a lot too and that's more of a comforting when it's his, when it's his smoke. Other spirit smoke is not, and that's that's clear scent. So smelling is clear scent, but it's this clear smelling. And again, you're smelling something and obviously it's not physically there there's no one smoking a cigarette next to you but perfumes. You smell flowers, whatever they're trying to portray smell flowers, whatever they're trying to portray.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, it literally could be anything. Yeah, like lake or water smell the ocean, the sea salt, whatever it is like, they can manifest that smell in an energy form yeah, and it's like I guess the biggest one for me when I'm doing client interaction stuff, channeling readings, whatever.
Speaker 3:Um is the smoke and the alcohol. I mean it's smelling, the alcohol is like.
Speaker 2:I know it's always like that next day. Bar smell is what it says.
Speaker 3:It reminds me of like my early twenties. I, I my scent was Marlboro Lights and Jager Bomb residual Jager Bomb smell.
Speaker 2:I mean, that's what my smell was in my early 20s drive it, because that's exactly what it smells like, especially when you taste it talking to someone who's yet dealt with alcoholism and that's what they died of. That is what it really does smell like.
Speaker 2:It doesn't smell very pleasant no and then you can also get the smells with, uh, negative entities in your home as well, like people who suffer from affliction or oppression due to negative entities being there. They'll get like a garbage smell or like a rotting flesh smell and they'll smell it all through the house and it's something that's very consistent and that's usually indicative of something negative being in the home. So spirit does carry smells and it's our intuition that's allowing us to tap into it to either give us a warning or to say hey, you know, someone's here to visit. They're trying to say hi.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean there's just, there's so many ways that that that comes in, that that smell is like it grosses me out to even think about it. Another way is clairsentience, so that's feeling, there's feeling, and then there's claircognizance, which is the knowing, and so feeling is like that empath. So and you and I have that, I, this is the thing where I feel like everybody has that, where we can feel, but there's some of us that do it at a higher degree. I had no idea my whole life I was feeling people's physical pain.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's a big one Physical pain.
Speaker 3:It's a connecting to a feeling. It could be emotions. When I connect with my kitty clients that are really struggling with anxiety, being overwhelmed in school, the first thing I talk to them about is that feeling that they get and I teach them how to sort of protect using bubble method and things like that, and they always come back and go. I feel so much better because what most children especially are just naturally very empathic. You know they could go to school and the best way I describe it to children and adults alike are you wake up and you're having a good day.
Speaker 3:Nothing's happened to change your mood or make you feel any way. Maybe you're excited on the bus to school or you're in your car on your way to work and you're having the best day ever. And then you go in to school and all of a sudden, within an hour, like you're sad, like your heart feels sad, or you want to cry or you just feel like overwhelmed, but there's nothing overwhelming happening. Those children or adults are feeling what somebody near them is feeling, and so a lot of these children are with people that don't have good home lives, or you know their hearts are broken and you know they don't have parents that are showing them love or whatever the reason is, and these children are sitting there like a sponge and feeling it, and then they're overwhelmed and they don't know what to do. And so that's what you know, that empathy. You can feel physical pain. You can feel someone's back pain, absolutely. You can also feel people's emotional moods while being the state.
Speaker 2:Empaths are very good at reading the temperature of a room. They can walk in and their their mood will shift. It'll go from zero to a hundred, and within seconds. And some people they're not good at navigating what's happening. They think there's something wrong with them, not realizing they just walked into a room where there was a heated debate or argument or there's tension within the household. So picking up on that energy and consuming it can be extremely frustrating, especially when you don't know what you're dealing with, and it can be exhausting, like it.
Speaker 2:When I before I knew I had any of these abilities, I would go to the doctor constantly.
Speaker 2:I was having heart palpitations, I always felt like I was sick, I my body ached all the time and what I eventually realized was that I was picking up on dead people that were around me.
Speaker 2:So you know, somebody dies of a heart attack and I'm getting chest pains, thinking I'm having a heart attack, or my heart starts racing because somebody had X, y and Z, or I'm picking up on anxiety.
Speaker 2:So all of those things like I didn't know how to monitor. And you know it was literally written in my chart that I was a hypochondriac, which now I want to go back and be like middle finger to everybody, because they found nothing all the testing and they thought it was mental. And I really thought that I was mentally ill for a long time, not realizing that I had empathic abilities and that I was picking up on emotional context from people as well as physical. And I think there are varying degrees of that, because some people have I call them and I don't know if this terminology is correct but some people I call physical mediums or physical empaths, because the severity of which they feel physical symptoms is to the point where it can actually create and manifest diseases within the person who's picking up on that energy. So it can literally cause those feelings so immensely that people end up taking themselves to the hospital.
Speaker 3:Uh, feeling so immensely that people end up taking themselves to the hospital.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and most people that are clear sentient suffer from anxiety and depression oh my gosh absolutely because you're feeling like I had no idea, the same with me, like I remember getting tested for mono and all these things, like I was exhausted or I get random pains in the body but there was no explanation for it and I, I, I, I, I had no idea. School was really hard for me. That's why I resonate with children so much, like my goal is to just reach as many kids as I can, because I I hate the thought of children suffering because they simply can't understand their gifts and it's really simple, like they set the intention to protect and that stuff goes away. It's very empowering. But yeah, I mean feeling that physical pain. I have clients that you know are in their forties and fifties and are just figuring out that they're feeling, you know, they're feeling other people's stuff that they didn't realize. Oh, I'm in the checkout line at the grocery store and got crippling stomach pain doubled over and, you know, end up coming home or going to the ER and then there's nothing wrong with them and they realize, okay, the person behind them had stomach cancer and didn't know. You know, like those kinds of things are very common. So if you are somebody that is feeling things and then they go away.
Speaker 3:And I always say, when an emotion or a feeling comes in, what I do is I say if this isn't mine, let it leave me. And it's like it leaves instantly. It's like poof it just goes away. In a session I use that. That's helpful information. I allow that to come in. If somebody has physical pain, I want to feel it. It shows me where it is on the body and then I can go to there. But then it's got to go. I'm not going to take that with me anymore. Yeah, so that's that's clear feeling. We have clear, the clear cognizance. Yeah, the knowing. I love this one. Yeah, the knowing. So yeah. Again.
Speaker 3:For me it comes in with the clairsentience. It's like those two for me work together and I don't know the best way to describe that is you just know. For me, the biggest thing with this particular intuitive gift is just I know people. I don't ever have to talk to you. I don't have to know anything about you, I know. I just know instantly. I know if you are a good person. I can feel your intention.
Speaker 3:My entire life I was labeled a bitch and, don't get me wrong, I have been a bitch in certain situations, haven't we all? But labeled like I was judging, because I can remember friends would be, maybe it was a new boyfriend or they'd bring somebody new around, and it would be instant. I would either like immediately, really like feel like that person was okay or good person, or it would be like no, and I would be like this person isn't good, their intentions isn't good, or I would know xyz, they used to call me the private investigator. It's like I just could find shit out or I knew shit and nobody understood why.
Speaker 3:But it's like I just have this knowing where it's like I just I know um so many instances throughout my life where I have an awareness of this person who just looks like a regular person. I'm like they're bad, they're going to do something bad, like physically harm someone or whatever that is. I don't, and it's a feeling that happens with the knowing. It's like alarm bells going off in my body. Um, yeah, but there's other ways that that works. You know that knowing can be for other things, but for me it's, and I definitely know things like channeling and and stuff like that. But that knowing man, it's like it is such an instantaneous thing yeah, it's.
Speaker 2:I mean, the simplest way, I think, is if you feel, if you're driving and you're like I shouldn't turn this way, and then you don't and you avoided an accident. It's that knowing, it's that intuitive pull, and we talked a little bit about that when we were talking about spirit guides, so that knowing can come from different energy sources. So your guides or you're simply just picking up on energy fields surrounding you or, like you know, environmental fields or energy fields of other people, and you just intuitively know that somebody is bad. You intuitively know that going in a certain direction isn't good. You intuitively know things.
Speaker 2:I'm pretty good at just intuitively knowing where there are cops, which is why I haven't got a ticket in a long time, knock on wood. So it's like there's different ways that a knowing can present itself and it's just paying attention to it like anything else. And if you're always dead on about something, there's a reason for that, like you just don't. I mean gambling. I am very good at roulette. I don't play because I think I would develop a gambling addiction, but I'm very good at roulette because I just know what numbers are coming and it comes real quick, very fast, very quick, and it's streaming into that energy source and pulling that information or you're receiving and downloading it from wherever.
Speaker 2:But that knowing is something that I don't see it in everybody who has abilities and everybody who has abilities I think it's a handful of people who have a knowing that's dead on, because a knowing isn't, it doesn't waver. It's this very strong, persistent feeling that you can't shake, you can't ignore it, you cannot Like. If you do, you end up having issues sleeping, and I've had that where I have to say this like it has to be said, or I have to honor how I'm feeling because it's helped me escape some pretty dicey situations, helped me not get arrested when I was younger. I mean all these kinds of things because you just know something's going to happen, or you know a person is just a shit bag of a human being and you save yourself from getting entangled in that mess and it's just another way you just know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you just know. I mean, there's no other way to describe it. Really it's just this strong, knowing you know what you know. You know what you know. And I used to. For a long time I ignored it because for so long I was told what I was feeling. I was like invalidated or was being a bitch or whatever. And now I might tell you if I feel a way about a person, a else's, and I'm to the place where it's like nobody else's opinions on that matter to me. I know what I know. If I think somebody doesn't work for me, I will just step away from that. I don't need other people to know the same thing, I know. I'll just let them figure out on their own, but I know what I know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I, you know, and the worst thing you can do is not trust that knowing, because what you're doing is not trusting yourself, and I've done that before where I'm like, no, maybe I'll give this person a chance, maybe I am just being mean, and then I was right and I'm like, yeah, so I'm like I'm not going to put myself through things ever again and it's just, I'll just stay away from people and y'all can figure it out on yourself if you want to listen, that's what. I do.
Speaker 3:I'm like you want that person in your life. Yeah, fine, that's fine. I wish you well, and maybe that means they're just not right for me and they're great for you. I don't know. Either way, I might stick around to find out, I'll know. I wanted to talk about a couple other things when it comes to intuition it's not the Claire's we talked on it a little bit, I don't even know what episode that was that we were talking about it but animal signs, numbers, synchronicities and dreams that is another way that your intuition communicates with you. Absolutely, dreams are a big one. So, and a lot of times people are like well, how do I know that a dream was sending me a message as my intuition? And I said you'll know, I remember pretty much every night when I dream and there is a very distinct feeling about dreams that are a message. They stick with you, they don't leave you. Like it settles in your soul, like you can feel it. You wake up and you're like oh, my goodness, what did that mean?
Speaker 2:And they're not always cut and dry. A lot of them are. You're getting symbolic dreams where you know they're kind of playing charades with you a little bit. But I always tell people if you're a dreamer or you're getting prophetic dreams because that's another thing that people can get where they're picking up on future things. I mean, people have had dreams about people dying. They've had dreams about the future where they're getting warnings.
Speaker 2:If you're not understanding what your dreams are, just keep a journal by your bed and when you wake up in the morning, write down the date, how you felt with the dream and just what you remember. You don't have to remember everything, but what it's going to do is it's going to start conditioning you to have dream recall a little bit better. It's going to strengthen that because if you think about exercising, you just don't get on a treadmill and run one mile without stopping. You have to work up to that. Your intuition is the same way. You're exercising that part of your intuition.
Speaker 2:So if you're a dreamer and have had vivid dreams or have had really emotional dreams, you're better off writing down what you're feeling every night. You have them because it's just going to train your soul to start recalling those and your guides, spirit, whoever will be able to talk to you a little bit better, because some mediums they're dreamers and they dream of the dead more than they see them when they're awake. And I did find that that is just how some people's abilities work, which sucks because you're not sleeping, but that is how some people's abilities work or through dream state, yeah, and some people's loved ones visit them in dreams, and that's real.
Speaker 3:That is how some people's abilities work. Or through dream state, yeah, and like, some people's loved ones visit them in dreams and that's real. That is how your loved ones visiting you, you know, in in a dream. That's real, you know, paying attention to how that dream feels. Some dreams are just dreams. That's not. Every dream is some prophetic message and you have to learn to discern the difference. You've got animals. We've talked about that in another episode. Messages from the spirit world can come in through animals synchronicities, numbers and things like that. So there's a lot of ways that your intuition comes in. We encourage you to start exploring what ways you're connected to your intuition. And then, like Melanie said, I love the treadmill analogy. You can't go out and just run a mile. It's the same with your intuition. You need to practice using it. You need to practice trusting it. That's the best thing you can do to engage with it.
Speaker 2:Absolutely it. Just you just don't go zero to a hundred. You and I didn't start out like that either. I had a hell of a fucking time trying to figure this out and what I was seeing and what I was feeling and how to navigate that and then funnel it into a way that works, not only for me but for spirit too. Because if you're you're not paying attention to it and you're not resourcing how it works for you, you're it's going to be a shit show and you're just going to be exhausted all the time and frustrated and you don't want to shut down because it is a sensory factor with us. So it's like cutting off an arm.
Speaker 2:If I were to lose my abilities or they would get blocked or something I don't know that I would know how to function. So it's like it is definitely a sensory thing. So if you're not learning how to facilitate that within yourself and you're blocking it, it can definitely create some issues for yourself physical, emotional or mental because you won't feel complete or you'll feel like you can't function well. And that's how most of my experience was, when I didn't know how to use this, and that's why you know I would go out and have some drinks. I partied a lot. I'd play my music really loud because I was like it was too much. It was too much and I didn't know what to do with it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it is. It's a lot and that's why when people come in are like I just want to be like you and I was like I don't think you do, I don't think you want it all the way. It's like embrace the few ways that it comes in, learn to hone that in and protect it. But to hone that in and protect it. But I wouldn't trade what we have for anything, but it has been a journey to learn to appreciate it, understand it and use it in a way that isn't sometimes terrifying, exhausting and overwhelming.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I'm grateful for the journey. I know we both say that all the time and it's like you know. I'm grateful for the journey, I'm grateful for what it's brought into my life. But, like my boyfriend Ben says he's very wise is you always have to pay it forward. So you're always paying something in advance to get the reward later, and that payment that's due up front isn't always easy. It could be going through a healing phase, because if you're not healing yourself, then developing your abilities is going to be very difficult. You have to have some sort of healing phase in there. You've got to call yourself to the carpet, look at yourself in the mirror and say what can I work on? Because if there's no like development with the self, it does block the way that your abilities are manifesting and how you use them and how they excel. We see that a lot.
Speaker 3:We see that a lot with people doing this work too, that you never get to a place where you have to stop healing, exactly Constantly evolving and as we're evolving and healing, our spiritual intuition and gifts evolve too, and then it's just like starting all over again trying to figure out, okay, what do I do with this now and it's it's never ending, but, um, I hope that those of you listening are starting that journey.
Speaker 3:I hope that this episode can help you at least sort of understand. Some of you know what, what you're looking for and what to expect. Um, books can be nice, but I think talking to other people with intuition is also good. You know what, what you're looking for and what to expect. Books can be nice, but I think talking to other people with intuition is also good. You know hearing that because it's so different Everybody, it's so different.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the journey is going to be different and the results are going to be different. And we're such an example of that, yeah, you're not going to be a replica of somebody else. Nobody is, so it's like embracing what you have to offer and then making it the best part of who you are.
Speaker 3:Yes, that is a great. I love that and making it the best part of who you are.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's all you can do is be the best you. You can't be the best somebody else.
Speaker 3:Nope, you cannot. Well, I loved this episode Me too. It's fun, this is fun. This is just us like talking about life. Oh well, guys, as always, shoot us a message. We wanna hear from you and we will see you back next time. Bye guys, we'd love to hear from you and we will see you back next time. Bye, guys, we'd love to hear from you. Email us your questions at ITL podcast 1212 at gmailcom.
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