Intuition: the 6th sense (part 2)

Okay, so if you haven't already... go back and read the context in part 1 surrounding what I'm about to share with you.

This 'thing' that happened this weekend has actually happened to me before. And the first time, it definitely left me speechless. The second time (the event from this weekend) left me speechless but also with greater confidence of like 'holy moly this is a thing... I need to pay attention to this...and nurture this part of me.'

I felt so lit up and humbled by it all (and that's always a sure sign for you to pursue something).

My first go-around with this 'thing' was when I was at a health & yoga retreat in Mexico last year. During one of the workshops (we were talking about the necessity of human connection as it relates to our health), we were randomly partnered with a partner... a partner we didn't know or hadn't spent much time with yet. I was partnered with a gal who I had had very little interaction with up until that point in the retreat. She was quiet and more reserved, but had gentle energy about her.

Our task: we had to sit and stare at each other in the eyes for 5 minutes (5 whole minutes!)... Then after the 5 minutes, we had to draw or craft what we 'saw.' Be it their facial features, what we felt during the exercise, etc.

Well not but two minutes into the exercise, as I was gazing into my partner's eyes as instructed, and I started crying. I felt extreme levels of gratitude for this woman all of sudden (so it was tears of joy). I felt fully connected to her. I could feel her grace. All I could think was kindness. I also had clear images of a beautiful and bountiful garden with plants of all varieties, thriving and being appreciated by many others. I didn't know why the garden thing came up, but it did...

When it came time to draw/write down our experience, I drew this elaborate garden (again I had no idea why, but I was like 'hey it's the assignment to draw what came up and the garden showed up, so we're going with it'). I also wrote the word kindness - because that's what I felt and that's the word that kept popping up.

After the exercise, we shared our experiences with our partners (which felt vulnerable! lol). When I started walking her through my visual of what I had experienced, my partner was mesmerized as she described that gardening was her primary hobby (her life force) and she has a huge garden that she nurtures every day and it sits in a place where many people walk by and admire it (in fact she gets great joy when she sees others admiring Mother Nature's work in her garden). She then said 'and when I saw you start to cry, all I could think about was kindness... I kept sending you kindness.'

(reflecting back on this now still leaves me in awe)

And that was my first very real and raw experience of deeply connecting into the energy of another human in an almost telepathic way. In an allowing type way...where you're not there to 'seek' information or gather data but instead, you're there to simply receive what comes up.

Again - this is not so much as a gift only certain people have - but it's simply a skill set that we all have available to us and can choose to deepen into and nurture.

It's not weird nor woo woo. It's very real to me. And normal!

And this weekend (the impetus to write this 2-part story) a similar thing happened.

This time it was right in my own home office.

It was at the end of a hypnosis session (via zoom) where it was just me and another woman in the session. We were sharing our thoughts with each other after a particular exercise that's designed to strengthen our intuition. This particular exercise involves the other person holding an object that's near and dear to their heart and together we sort of 'receive' energy/information about that particular object (so I receive info about her object that she's holding, and she receives info/insights/intuitive messages/etc about my object that I'm holding up).

Now again, I didn't know this woman. It was only the second time in 6 months that I had seen her in our hypnosis sessions and usually the group has a small handful of people in it vs just two of us. When I was describing the 'downloads' I got as it relates to her object, I described to her a sense of heaviness that I felt, but also a sense of cleansing tears (I also wanted to cry, but this time the tears felt more poignant/sad), I saw a pearl necklace (again, I had no idea where this was all coming from), and even stranger yet I had a sense of a 'red elephant' (I remember feeling hesitant 'do I even mention the red elephant thing because it's so far out in left field?')

Well - I'm glad I felt brave enough to share everything vs share through a filtered voice because as it turns out, she had just lost a dear friend of hers and had been feeling immense heaviness recently. The memorial was just the day prior, so these emotions were particularly potent for her. She also said she hadn't cried at all but had been feeling like she should process her emotions (she told me tears would bubble up but since 'she wasn't a crier' she didn't want to cry in front of people). And also the day prior, she told her husband 'I need to find my pearl necklace.' (aha, so there was a pearl necklace! I wasn't crazy after all...) And as for the red elephant: well after the memorial service, she went to a friend's house where her friend's kiddo came into the kitchen where her and friend were sitting and he was carrying a watering jug that was a red elephant (he came in to water the plants) and she commented that she had never seen one like that and how cute it was.

Alas, the red elephant! Officially not crazy.

We were both humbled.

And I felt so validated that my voice and my Intuition matters. But so did she. She felt validated in her own experiences and emotions, and for that, I was grateful.

Furthermore - when she shared her insights with me. She said 'I kept getting gray hearts... I could see them all around you... just gray hearts everywhere as if you have this feminine earthy protection around you.'

And then I showed her what I was sitting beside me on my table (see picture) - a heart that was etched (undeniably by Mother Nature) into a rock that I had found 10+ years ago. And I find heart rocks everywhere. Like everywhere. And every time I find one, it's like a God-wink and I feel so protected by a loving energy.

When I told her this, she had a big smile on her face and she said "you can't make this stuff up!"

And all we could was smile and laugh because we were both left speechless, and she's right, you can't make this stuff up.

I think this is more commonplace than what we all give it credit for - all people experience these downloads and insights and so many go unnoticed or un-spoken about.

This is why I work with women the way I do from a standpoint of blending the  grounded, tangible, simple strategies that are necessary to care for our bodies/health as we age with the deeper energetic healing work (the stuff doctors, therapists, & medical providers aren't mentioning) that helps make the food we eat, the exercise we get, and the meds/supplements/HRT work even more effectively for us.

This also explains why even seeing 8-10 patients a day in the PT clinic was exhausting to me. It was like I had a huge receiver on my head and I was unknowingly receiving, downloading, and absorbing constant energy from others.

I had to completely rework and redefine how to use energetic boundaries within my work so that I could think and speak from a more clear place.

Not only that, establishing a new sense of deeper energetic boundaries helped me listen in more therapeutic ways where I wasn't listening with the intent to gather information but rather, I was listening with the intent to receive what was *not* being said but actually needed to be vocalized (and that's where I get to witness epic & validating breakthroughs with the women I work with).

And boy I'm far from 'having it all figured out' ... in fact, I don't think anyone can have it all figured out... listening to and trusting your intuition is a practice just like everything in life. But what I can say is that your most important ahas won't come from some expert or even a beloved mentor, they'll come directly from the divinity inside of you when you begin to practice slowing down, listening, and trusting your own instincts.