So many who come here tell us that they are intuitive but not psychic. Well, the two words mean the same thing, but most people think that being intuitive is something softer, more spontaneous and subtle, insights that come without effort, rather than something they can invoke when they want.
I'd like to know how you came to realize you had the gift, even if you think it's not THE gift, but a kind of intuition that has surprised you from time to time.
When I was very young, I used to find myself in the right place at the right time. I'd find someone in a huge crowd who I'd just been thinking about and needed to speak to. I also had clear preferences and aversions to people I didn't know, and later as I grew older, I realized I was picking up on something that was real.
Later, I felt that I just knew things, but I didn't consider it psychic. I just thought it was obvious, but I couldn't explain how I knew it. In early public policy jobs, I knew what the public thought or needed. I didn't need to do a survey to validate. I just knew. I would stare into space, focusing on the group of people I was trying to read, such as the voters in my state, and I'd get information about them. All I had to do was focus on them, and I'd know.
Still, I didn't think this was psychic.
But when my ideas got floated to the higher ups, like the MA governor and the NYC mayor, they'd be interested because those ideas were about to emerge from the Collective conscience, which means that those were ideas whose time had come. I now realize that I was, back then, reading the Collective and the future.
Once when I saw two people laughing together in my office, I knew instantly that they were in love. It came to me in a split second flash that I had while walking past them in a hallway. They ended out marrying and raising a family.
I've heard so many stories of how people's intuition saved them from harm or guided them to love.
What's your story?
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I’ve been thinking about how to answer this. I think I have turned off some of those abilities or not spent time learning how to develop them. Sometimes it is in hindsight that I realized I had a sense something was going to happen. I used to do more work with light by actively meditating in an inner pyramid I created. I have picked it up a bit to try and help protect Ukraine but I guess I initially stopped because I was worried about affecting pets I had with seizures. I got this notion because used to have a dog who would get up and move if I was actively trying to surround her with a certain color of light. I think I also tend to get anxiety if I start getting messages from the universe via a number sequence that has a deep connection to me. I tend to get concerned I’m getting a heads up that something difficult is going to happen. So, I need to learn how to attach and be able to just observe. I would also say past trauma makes it harder to stay grounded enough
I do LOVE synchronicity though. It reminds me the Universe is much more complex than whatever we as humans go through on a daily basis
@tybin Thank you for such a thoughtful and honest response. Your kindness and sensitivity makes my heart swell. You said so much in your short post.
Clearly your abilities are vast. Your healing meditation could make your dog actually move. I feel your loving energy is pure and good. But I understand why someone as caring as you would hesitate to use powerful energies. Still, did it ever occur to you that you may have come here to use those healing energies?
You didn't mention it, but I do feel we need to protect ouselves from the very energies we wish to heal.
Along with opening our intuition and letting in the energies of this world comes a deep connection to everything and everyone. So much of the time, we cannot help but feel people's pain. I want to release their energy blocks. It's an automatic process in me that occurs when I am thinking of someone who is in pain.
It's a lot to experience. So I do something to get relief for myself -- I have to go in and out of connecting with the pain in people and in the world, like wading into a pond and then stepping out, then wading back in, then stepping back out.
My safest and most protected way of feeling the world or anyone in it is by using a loving kindness meditation, where I start with caring for myself, and then actively open my heart to others while sending them love and caring. (It's the meditation that's posted here). It's also the meditation I do during the Circle of Light each Wednesday night.
When I give readings, I always find myself seeing the person's best self, through eyes of loving kindness. When I want to send healing to anyone, I learned a while back to send angels to do the healing, rather than do it myself. They instantly go to the person (or animal) and start giving them healing in ways that are needed. It keeps me protected from taking in the pain or toxicity.
But I can't be "on" all the time. I need a lot of space in my living quarters, and don't usually enjoy parties or large group gatherings. Too many energies flying around.
@tybin I am intrigued by your mention of a scary number sequence. I hope it is okay to mention it. I use to have a number when I was young that felt like a warning. I was making mud pies outdoors with another 8 year old girlfriend and when I was about to make my third trip down to the brook to get some water, a knowing came to me that the number three was unlucky for me and I was going to hurt myself on the third trip to the brook. Well, I did trip and cut a gash in my ring finger that needed stiches, the first stiches of my life. Also the ER doc gave me...yup, three stitches. Ha Ha. Three's don't bother me any more. In fact the scar on my finger disappeared after my third major love affair. I met and married my husband after that and something of those difficult relationship years faded away, as did the scar from those stiches.
While writing this post, I realized that the number three is the archytpal number of the Empress in the Tarot -- the matriarch and the mother. The ascended woman!
@jeanne-mayell Hi Jeanne. Thanks for your wonderful replies. In regards to the number, I think it is not meant to be negative and I have to remind myself that a communication from the Universe isn’t always a warning. I see 144 and 441 a bunch. Sometimes it’s a heads up but maybe sometimes it’s just an affirmation and I shouldn’t just jump to dread that some loss is about to happen
@tybin Oh wow, those numbers in the Tarot add up to nine, the Hermit, monk, Holy Man, meditator who gathers light from going within. He is one of my favorite Tarot icons, turned inward, with brilliant light flowing through him.
It also seems to be a significant building block number of the universe
@tybin Oh wow, those numbers in the Tarot add up to nine, the Hermit, monk, Holy Man, meditator who gathers light from going within. He is one of my favorite Tarot icons, turned inward, with brilliant light flowing through him.
I always dreamed and would have prophetic visions. I knew my brother got in a car crash by dreaming it and asking.my mom. She didn't want to worry me but I already knew.
I can predict sort of dumb things like he is bringing home ice cream that starts with a p. He then brought home pistachio and peanut butter both. I refer to this as being an incidental medium.
I pick up on energies of children and animals. I also see words in my mind when reading for friends. I have read many pets and can pick up on infants energy. I see visions and hear songs from departed loved ones and pets. When I hear songs i have a deep knowing who has sent them. Often I will hear the same song repeatedly and know it is meant to comfort me.
I get drained by other peoples energy. I can feel evil and good. I work on protecting myself.
I find gifts from spirit especially pennies, white buttons, and feathers.
I have had many dreams and visions of heaven, even where I live there. I am easy to hypnotize and readings I receive are usually strong and accurate. When I read for myself the Tarot or oracle cards I am well led and discover more and more about myself,
I feel lucky to have a clear channel most of the time.
I don’t know exactly when I noticed how intuition worked in my life. I did notice that I had dreams that tended to come true, even about mundane things. Once I dreamed I bought twin mahogany poster beds and that my grandchildren would sleep in them. The next morning I went for my walk and there was a garage sale in the next neighborhood. There were twin mahogany poster beds in the driveway, priced at $200 for two beds. I bought them. And my twin grandsons sleep in them even now.
Jeanne, thank you for this new thread. It has really made me look back at my life and think about times when intuition played a major role.
My grandmother was intuitive. She always knew things that we hadn’t told her, when people were in love, when a woman was pregnant, etc. It was a bit off-putting. Then as a young adult, I noticed I had the same kind of knowing. I knew a friend was pregnant before she told anyone. I would know the outcome of certain events. Even as a young person, people confided in me and came to me with their problems and heartaches. I now see that intuition played a role in those situations and I knew how to comfort and reassure people. (How could I have had that wisdom as a young person? I was barely figuring out my own self.)
Later in life, I took up plein air painting and would paint in public areas. Strangers would stop by to talk and then share their life stories with me, confiding their problems. I could spend three hours on a pier, trying to paint a landscape and might get one hour of painting done. While I didn’t get my painting finished, I knew that I was meeting the people I was supposed to meet. Those interactions benefited me and others.
Back in 2009 when the stock market was plunging, plunging and we watched our life’s savings going down the drain, we panicked and took all our money out of the market. One month later, I kept having a nagging thought that dogged me day after day: we had to get our money back in the market. So we put our money back into the market and just in time because the market took off and we regained all our losses. If we had stayed out of the market, our retirement would be a lot different. Today I know I need to listen to those nagging, nagging thoughts. That’s my intuition warning me, guiding me.