How to Discern Between Emotions And Intuitions

Many clients say to me during psychic readings, “I just have this feeling”, or “I don’t know, but something isn’t right.” These are great inquiries, because they are the first steps needed to establish a good working connection with your internal guidance system. Rather than questioning or doubting these feelings, maybe it’s time to tune up your internal guidance to get confirmation and validation for some of these feelings.

When you get upset emotionally about something that has happened in your life, in other words an actual event that occurred in the outer world, which you know really happened and is not imagined, is a different type of feeling compared to an intuition. These feelings have a broad range, from anger, sadness and fear, to joy and bliss. And you usually experience them in response to actual events that happen in your outer world.

Intuitive feelings that don’t typically start out like an emotion in the physical world, but are more noticeable at a subtle level, can be your ‘psychic feelers’ talking to you on a subliminal level. These intuitions are letting you know something is happening that you may be unaware of in everyday reality, or on the physical realm. Some people refer to this as psychic knowing, or having a ‘hunch,’ or a ‘gut feeling.’

How to discern between the two? Well, it’s not always easy and that is why it is good to turn to a psychic advisor for help. Even psychics get readings from other psychics for this purpose! When our physical emotions are triggered it is hard to think rationally, or to get a clear perspective on any given situation. It takes lots of deep breathing and grounding work to get calm enough to see things from an objective perspective, and even then, our own filters are in place and of course, our own agenda.

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way ~ Florence Scovel Shinn

Once we are on the path to spiritual development we tend to realize just how hard we’ve been on ourselves and that we were most likely raised by parents who told you to be a ‘good little girl or boy’ and to ignore what you are sensing… and to just follow the darn rules! Some of us listened and some of us didn’t. What does this mean for you as an adult now?  When you are getting a hunch about something or a gut feeling, it is no accident. Allow it, the intuitive feeling or hunch, to have a chance to be heard, and to talk to you. Let it say whatever it wants to. We’re often so afraid in our society of being ‘wrong.’  When we leave space for something to simply be what it is, and not get so attached to it being right or wrong, our inner child’s intuition feels heard… and that is the most important part to this process!

Your intuitive feelings, whether they know something psychically and are trying to convey it, or they are rising to the surface to heal a greater wound, are all simply seeking your attention… and each are valid. Some people strongly believe in ‘body talk’ and there even exists a program called the BodyTalk System, developed in the 1990s by Dr. John Veltheim, an Australian chiropractor and acupuncturist. It is based on muscle testing, or allowing a trained practitioner of the system to go through a process of communicating with various parts of the patient’s body, to get to the root cause of health issues. It is a proven technique that thousands of health practitioners have now been trained in and using with great success.

I feel the same goes for intuitive feelings and psychic knowing. Our bodies do not lie. They know when something is off. Thus, this is most likely where the expression comes from, “I have a gut feeling”. Our second brain is located in the belly and it has an intelligence all of its own. When given a chance to speak freely, and putting doubt aside for the moment, or the critical mind coming in telling you that you’re crazy, you may be pleasantly surprised what is revealed to you.

I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It’s my partner ~ Jonas Salk

Start experimenting with something that is not a big deal for you or with a friend’s situation that you can help them with.  Go into your intuitive feeling sense and dialogue with it about this situation. Put all worry on hold, about whether you’re right or wrong, and just simply feel into what your thoughts are about this. You could even do this about something as random as a sporting event or movie you may go to and feeling into whether you will enjoy it, or not.

The great thing about learning how to discern between your emotions and intuitive feelings is that you are developing a strong relationship with your spirit guides in general. Stepping onto the path of self-discovery can be one of the most rewarding things you do in this life… and you get to take it with you when you leave.