Recently, many people kept asking me HOW I accessed my intuition? And I realized I didn't really have a one sentence answer for them that would just stop there, but continue to spark a deeper conversation. Knowing that there is a time and a place for everything, talking about metaphysical "stuff" isn't everyone's idea of "fun" at a happy hour, so I knew I had to write a blog on it sooner or later!
So, the well-meaning questioner asked, "Did I read tarot cards, a crystal ball, or use a Ouji board?" Looking back on my answer then, my answer kind of sucked. (I blame it on the wine).
For starters, many people assume tarot cards because it is a commonly used tool to access intuition, and it may be the only tool they are currently familiar with, and that is OKAY, because there is no "Right" method to access intuition, but only the "Right" intention: Unconditional Love and healing for the intuitive and the client.
I use my higher self and spirit guides to access my intuition.
Of course this leads a question of, Where do these spirit guides come from? Who are they?
WHERE: It is in my belief that the healing information we receive while giving a intuitive reading can come from the following spiritual guides: Angels- Archangels or guardian angels, power animals, deceased ancestors/relatives, or our higher self- it can come from a combination of the three, or maybe just one.
Where do the guides comes from?
Power animals reside in the underworld (not the Greek version of the underworld) in another dimension, generally underground.
Higher Self- is you on a higher spiritual dimensional plane, Can I pinpoint it on a map? No I can't.
Angels/Archangels: Also on a higher spiritual dimensional plane, heaven I guess.
Deceased ancestors/ relatives: Many of these guides reside on the "Other Side"/Higher Dimensional Plane
The other side is commonly called the 'veil between two worlds', (if you ever read Harry Potter, kind of like that) We reside in the 'physical reality'.
- Deceased persons may keep popping up and asking you to resolve issue, resolve them, so they can cross to the other side!
- Sometimes deceased persons come through to help out/check out what you are doing/ give advice etc.
- In some cultures it is an honor for a deceased relative to appear to a person.
What are guides used for? Protection and Guidance.
Psychic protection is a fundamental base that ALL intuitives learn
and practice EVERYDAY either on their own, or even better with a mentor.
Why? It keeps us grounded, protected, and probably saner.
#1: Intuitives are OPEN. Analogy: The intuitive is that shiny
lamp in the middle of the night, that all the bugs are attracted to, the
bugs represent all other people's emotional stuff and maybe even deceased people
who need to be crossed to the other side.
#2: Most intuitives have
guides to help keep those 'bugs' off, or at least have them look at the
shining bright light from a healthy distance. We meet our guides through
merely asking, signs, meditation, or they simply choose us whether
we've asked or not. It's common for intuitives to have multiple guides
through their lifetime, or just one. Our guides do protect us
psychically and they can protect us physically, that
being said we still have to use common sense: just because you have a
spiritual guide doesn't mean you can go walking down a back alley at
nighttime, or go cliff diving in shallow water, it is still human
responsibility to take care of oneself.
"Okay", says the client, "But How do you know that the peeps you are talking to are giving you accurate information?" "How do you know that they aren't bad spirits?" "How do you not put your own judgement on it?"
1. Although the intuitive may receive information, its up to the client to validate us- Accurate validation comes from the clients end, the client can confirm/reject the information coming through. Example: No, I have no idea what your talking about, OR Yes, I remember that event/that person/etc.
2. MOST intuitives understand the importance of psychically protecting oneself before starting a reading, most guides are also our psychic protectors. I know for my clients I start off with a prayer and ask the Archangel Michael to watch over us as we do are reading.
3. To prevent putting my own ego on a reading before I start a reading, I clear myself out. Meaning anything that isn't 'perfectly' me, criticism, judgement, basically anything negative, gets CLEARED OUT. Basically making myself a "clean vessel" all the information that comes through is not filtered or twisted by my own judgement, ego, prejudices, etc.
Extreme Hypothetical Examples
For example a young lady might call and ask me, I don't know what to do about my boyfriend he does all these really confusing things, she goes on to tell me the mixed signals he says/does, she wants to know should they break up?
Response Me (not a clean vessel): He sounds like a total moron, read Steve Harvey's Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man book, and move on sister!
Me (Cleared out): I get the feeling he is afraid to let you down, I'm getting a feeling in my gut of anxiety, he has a lot of anxiety about the future: his career, how he will take care of you. Let me ask my guides what is the healing information for your relationship...
Girl: Should I break up with him then?
Me: That is completely up to you, you have receive the information, so its your free will to how you plan to use it. I cannot make that decision for you.
"Okay", says the client ,"But HOW do you receive this information from your guides?" Or even better, "How do our guides communicate to us?"
There are several types of tools/abilities intuitive have and use.
Clair-audience: hearing information from guides, voices in your head (I never forget telling my therapist that one, hahaha)
Clair-voyance: Seeing images in your mind's eye, that place above your eyes, it feels like your imagination but isn't. Can see images from past lives, past, present, future. Commonly used in remote viewing to find missing persons or locate places of interest by U.S. Intelligence.
Clair-sentience: Feeling: feeling aches and pains, hot/cold, anxiety/joy etc.
Clair-olfaction: Smell-o-vision. Smell perfumes, cigars, foods, etc.
Psychometry: Touching/Holding an object and seeing/hearing/feeling information on the owner. Commonly used to located missing persons.
Psychography: Automatic writing, channels messages from guides via writing/drawing.
Telepathic: picking up on other's thoughts ( Sookie Stackhouse from TrueBlood) Yes, it does exist! Twin Flames and twins commonly have this telepathic connection between each other. Persons who do animal communication have strong telepathic ability, young infants and children before they formulate words, also communicate telepathically.
Medium vs. Channeler
(I had to clarify this! People use this term interchangeably)
Medium: Individual who passes along messages from those from the other side, the medium still retains their identity while speaking to the deceased person. Some mediums see deceased persons as if they were sitting down and having coffee face-to-face, or others like myself see them in my mind's eye. Medium's also receive information from deceased persons in -audience, -sentience, -olfaction, and -voyance.To illustrate, a medium is a lot like a road median, the cars aren't allowed to drive on it, just on either side of it.
versus
Channeler: A person who channels is also known as a "trance medium". The individual takes on the spirit's identity, voice, habits, demeanor, fully, of a deceased person, deity, or entity. The whole eyes rolling in the back of the head thing, think of the Greek Oracle of Adelphi channeling the Fates. Channelers allow their bodies to be vessels for another entity. So, I think of a Channeler as a water channel, redirecting the entire flow of water through a condensed space, or the person.
For example, in Afro-Brazilian Candomble ceremonies, the participants channel the orixas/deities for particular saint feast days, taking on the demeanor, personalities, likes/dislikes of the deities. (I'm not a channeler, I don't condone it, just not a tool in the personal toolbox)
So anyway, this a brief list of 'tools' used in the intuitive tool box, that I'm aware of. Most intuitives have 2-4 of these strengths and use some more so than others predominantly in their work. However, guides/spirit/higher self communicates in how it wants to. It is very possible that a deceased relative will communicate via -olfaction, rather than a -voyance. For example, deceased Uncle Bob knows, the best way to let his niece Suzie know that he is really there at the reading is to use smell-o-vision for the medium rather than pictures.
