How To Develop Your Intuitive Gifts Without Being Overwhelmed By Them: Part I – The Discovery

Recently, I received an email from someone who’s been blessed with discovering her intuitive gifts. She was feeling overloaded by the “signals”, as she called them. From prophetic and intense dreams at night, to loads of visuals and feelings from others picked up during the day, she was becoming overwhelmed by the barrage of information, that it was starting to affect her daily living.

Although it is a delicious thing to discover your gifts, it can be startling, and sometimes scary, to receive this kind of information, and not know what to do about it. Sometimes, it can be much more appealing to try to shut it down, rather than to explore it.

The truth is, everyone has intuitive gifts. Some of us are just more open to tapping into them. But, we can all have access to them, if that’s what we want.

Sometimes, we do not want to explore our gifts due to fear of the unknown, being “singled out”, or being looked at as “woo woo”. I’ve got news for you, the Uni-verse is made up of all sorts of woo-woo, and energy is everywhere, and is what interconnects us! Chinese Medicine practitioners call it Qi, Reiki practitioners call it Ki, and many other modalities and spiritual lineages have their own identifications for what connects us all.

We are all energy.

As Albert Einstein put it, “Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.” Who knew Einstein could state the Law of Manifestation so eloquently!

And, because we are all energy, we all have ways to interact with our surroundings, with others, and with ourselves, in ways that are outside the spectrum of what we physically see, hear, and feel around us. We take in information through our senses and intuition. This can come in the forms of: clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, and claircognizance. Many people have more than one sense, and often, one is more prominent than the others.

So, what’s the difference between these intuitive gifts?

Clairvoyance – when you are able to See the intuitive information. Those who are clairvoyant:

• Are very visual people.
• Can see things very clearly in their head before doing things.
• Have very clear and vivid dreams (that often come to pass, or reflect in their lives during waking hours).
• See colors and images that don’t necessarily have to do with what’s physically in front of them. They might even view colors surrounding people (auras).
• Might see cords connecting people, usually at the chest, sometimes at the navel, or below.
• Can see those who are not in the physical realm.
• Often catch things out of the corner of their eye.

Clairaudience – when you are able to Hear the intuitive information, usually from your Higher Self or Spirit Guides. Those who are clairaudient:

• Hear relevant words, sounds, or songs in direct response to certain issues they’re trying to work out.
• Hear guidance when deeply meditating.
• Are often sensitive to loud sounds.
• Hear voices when going to sleep or upon waking up.
• Hear voices, sounds, music, when those sources are not around them.
• Hear recurring songs in their head. And, when they stop to think about the lyric that keeps repeating, they often find that it is relevant to the problem they’re trying to find the solution to.

Clairsentience – when you are able to Feel the intuitive information in your gut or in your body. Those who are clairsentient:

• Get their answers through feeling emotions deeply.
• Can often feel, or pick up, others’ emotions.
• Feel overloaded after being around crowds for an extended period of time, and are rejuvenated after spending much alone time.
• Knows next steps because it “feels right”.
• Can feel charges in the body as a response to outside stimuli, even if they are not in direct physical contact with it.

Claircognizance – when you are able to Know the intuitive guidance. Those who are claircognizant:

• Have a “knowing” without being informed, and are usually correct about those assumptions.
• Can easily get a sense of people without speaking to them.
• Tend to be thinking-oriented and very left-brained.
• Usually have an answer for everything.
• Can tell when things are about to happen.

Some signs that your gifts are opening up to you, are:

• The sensation of pressure between your brows. This is your Third Eye awakening.
• Certain parts of your body may feel “lit up” or activated, particularly in your energy centers (chakras). Some may experience Kundalini awakening. This is when all chakras are activated at the same time. Many people practice meditation and yoga for years, in an effort to achieve this. For others, it can just spontaneously happen. As wonderful as it can be to have all of your chakras open up at the same time, this can definitely be an overwhelming experience when it happens all at once. And, when you aren’t equipped with the knowledge of what’s happening to you, it can feel more like a burden, than a blessing. This is when it is helpful to start honing your abilities, which I’ll explore in the next blog post.
• All of the information you receive may feel like a jumble of sensations, that may make no sense, at first. Depending on the gift that is awakening, getting used to feeling it may take some time. And, some areas of the body may feel alert, while other parts of the body may feel overrun.

But, when it comes to becoming aware of your intuitive gifts, especially if it comes in a way that is overwhelming at first, remember that your gifts are opening to you now because you are ready to handle them.

You just need to hone your skills, and get in your zone with them. And, when you hone them, just like a finely tuned instrument, you’ll be more able to tap into them in manageable ways.

To explore how to best develop your intuitive gifts without being overwhelmed by them, check out, “How To Develop Your Intuitive Gifts Without Being Overwhelmed By Them: Part II – The Exploration“.

Did this blog post resonate for you?
Are your gifts unfolding for you?
What helped you the most when you discovered them?
I’d love to hear your comments, below!

To your blossoming intuition,

Copyright © 2014 by Alcantara Acupuncture & Healing Arts. All rights reserved. You may quote, copy, translate and link to this article, in its entirety, on free, non-donation based websites only, as long as you include the author name and a working link back to this website. All other uses are strictly prohibited.

 

 

 

Detox And Heal This Fall With Yoga, Acupuncture, & Reiki – A workshop with Chia-Ti & Yours Truly!

YOGA, ACUPUNCTURE, & REIKI FALL DETOX WORKSHOP

With: Chia-Ti Chiu and Margarita Alcantara

When: Sunday, October 5, 2014

Time: 2pm-5pm

Where: ABC Sanctuary, 638 East 6th Street, 3rd Floor, NYC

$45, to register, please RSVP to chiati@onelovewellness.com

 

Do you find transitions between seasons difficult? Curious about how different wellness practices complement each other?  Treat yourself to a Fall Cleanse with a combination of yoga, acupuncture, and reiki to balance the Metal (air) element of the body, in this Fall Detox Workshop facilitated by Chia-Ti Chiu and Margarita Alcantara.

The air quality in Ayurveda (Indian medicine) is called Vata, which is predominant as summer turns to autumn. Excess of Vata can increase irritation, cause us to feel anxiety, and bring about mental and physical imbalances.

In Chinese Medicine, autumn heralds in the start of the Yin cycle. This is the time for us to harvest the energies of the past few months, take inventory of what needs to be released, and allow the Metal element organs of the Lung and Large Intestine to release what no longer serves us, so that we may receive our blessings more fully.

Learn yogic techniques to ground this Vata energy, receive an acupuncture treatment to honor your Lung and Large Intestine flow, and feel the soothing benefits of a group reiki session; ensuring a smooth, harmonious transition into fall. Reiki-infused filtered water will be available for you during the workshop, so that you may ingest the healing, as well.

Payment: PayPal, ChaseQuickPay, check or cash. You must pre-pay for the workshop.

Contact chiati@onelovewellness.com to make your reservation.

www.onelovewellness.com | www.AlcantaraAcupuncture.com

 

 

Copyright © 2014 by Alcantara Acupuncture & Healing Arts. All rights reserved. You may quote, copy, translate and link to this article, in its entirety, on free, non-donation based websites only, as long as you include the author name and a working link back to this website. All other uses are strictly prohibited.

All information on this website is my own opinion, and not to be taken as medical advice. Reliance on any information provided on this website is solely at your own risk. Please refer to your medical practitioner before making any medical decisions.