Premonitions
and Intuitive Hunches
Premonitions are one of the most difficult psychic abilities to master. By definition, a premonition is a forewarning, and most people receive a premonition in a dream state.
There are hundreds of thousands of stories from people who have a premonition through their dreams, in which they receive information regarding health issues, warnings of danger regarding travel and accidents, and warnings to stay away from a certain person, place, or thing. Even presidents have shared the premonitions they received through their dreams: Abraham Lincoln dreamt about his death and saw the mourners lined up to view his casket.
Some of these premonitions are haunting in their reality. One famous case is a 1966 mass premonition by children in Wales who didn’t want to go to school because of their nightmares. The children had reported their terrifying dreams of being buried alive for weeks before the event actually occurred. A coal slide disaster then destroyed a portion of town, including the local elementary school.
Other people find that their premonitions first come in physical form as a way to warn them of danger. Perhaps you knew someone who would warn of danger coming, saying that they “felt it in their bones.” The body is a highly attuned instrument that we take for granted in many ways. It operates on a complex and at most times flawless level as it processes and distributes information throughout the day. One example from wise women teachings says that when the palm of your hand itches, money is about to come your way. If the left palm itches, money will come to you from an outside source. If the right palm itches, money will come to you from the hard work that you are putting into a project.
When we better understand the rhythms and the attunements of the body, we can understand how it provides an early warning system. We often describe sensing danger as the hair raised on the back of our neck, which is an area open to our psychic sensitivities. Many of us can also share stories of when we detected danger around us as we stepped out of a car or walked at night, when no imminent danger could be seen with the eye. We just know that we experience an increased awareness of our surroundings as the body works as a detection system.
There are thousands of stories about people who decided not to take the train or plane on a certain day, those who turned off a road at the last minute following a feeling, or those who decided to stay home rather than going into work that day, and by doing so, all avoided a terrible situation.
Through my work teaching entrepreneur intuition, I’ve had the opportunity to work with some very wealthy people who recognize that their intuition is a significant part of the “luck” in their financial dealings. They will often describe the “feeling” that they get about a stock that is about to go up or down or the physical pain they receive in their lower back when they psychically know that a deal is not going to work out. They are actually receiving a premonition with advanced knowledge of what will be occurring in the future. This corresponds to Louise Hay’s work on the power of the mind in healing, as she explains that lower back pain is connected to money worries and troubles. Some of these financial wizards have unconsciously attuned their body to signal them when the market or a business deal is going downhill. Once they become aware of what their intuition is telling them through the physical signs, they follow these “gut hunches.”
Many successful men and women who don’t openly admit to following their intuition will share how it was their dreams, their physical aches and pains, or following their gut feelings that led them to the success they had achieved. From this starting point, I am able to show them how to tap further into these feelings in order to see the waves of energy that rise and fall with each decision and conversation. Of course, intuition alone cannot fuel success: they also put in a tremendous amount of hard work. However, they will testify that the intuitive nudges are what brought them over the edge into great success.
In this sense, business intuition can be taught, but premonitions are trickier. The best training I can offer in regard to premonitions is to consciously direct your higher self to be more proactive in your dreams.
“Who is my higher self?” you may ask. The simplest way to describe the higher self is to explain that your soul is much greater than the part of you who is here on the earth plane having this human experience in this current lifetime. Your soul, which is also referred to as your higher self, contains all of the essence of you from every lifetime you have lived. It stores all of your experiences and knowledge. Over the many lifetimes you have lived, you have learned many things and evolved. The soul, or higher self, contains all of this information and remembers each lifetime you’ve had. I describe the soul as an upside-down pyramid. Up in the higher spirit planes, the large base of the pyramid is where your higher self resides, full of all of the knowledge of you, and the tip of the pyramid points downward. The very tip pierces the earth plane and is implanted inside you, with that tiny bit of your soul inside you through your aura. This tiny bit captures all of the experiences of this lifetime for you. When you learn to expand your consciousness, you can connect with your soul (your higher self) on the higher planes, where you have access to a greater amount of information and guidance.
When going to sleep each night, ask your higher self to take an active role in your dreams. Speak directly to your higher self or, if you prefer, to your spirit guides and ask to be warned of any problems coming your way. Ask your higher self or guide to help you remember what you are dreaming about when you wake up. Keep a dream journal by your bed and each time you wake, write down what you were dreaming about. Over time, through directing your higher self to be actively involved in your dreams, you should become more cognizant of your dreams and of future events.
An interesting note about premonitions is that it doesn’t appear that they can be used on a regular basis for personal gain. People may have a lucky feeling that they use to buy or sell a stock, buy a lottery ticket, or follow a hunch that leads them to a successful outcome, but reports show that these people can’t create this. In fact, when their focus turns toward directing energy just to make money using this technique, the proverbial well dries up and disappears. People who continue on this path usually find that the energy from the spiritual planes is no longer available to them for this endeavor and they are forced to then pull energy from their aura energy body. If they do this for too long, it twists and distorts their energy into something dark, and they are not able to restore their energy to the same levels. You’ll see that a person on this path begins to have serious health problems that most often start at the base of the spine, which begins to twist and inflict ill effects on both the body and soul. Those who specifically know what they are doing in this practice of the dark arts will then become energy vampires, looking to pull energy from others for their dark desires.
Many people in the spiritual world will tell you that the energy twists this way because these abilities are not to be used for personal gain. It is true that it does seem to follow some pattern and natural law of its own in this regard, and it appears premonitions cannot be planned or controlled. A person will have a hunch out of the blue to purchase a stock or apply for financing on a certain day and will be rewarded, but hunches are random and cannot be forced or controlled. People who choose to delve into the dark arts and use magical practices in order to try to wrestle this information out of the ethers to gain control for personal gain soon find, as mentioned, that it takes a serious toll on their mind, body, and spirit. Hunches are great to follow and are given to us for a reason, but they seem to operate more like a karmic give-and-receive bank account balance. The more conscious effort you put into doing your job to the best of your abilities, the luckier you become.
You can definitely be both spiritual and prosperous. You can connect with your energy and the energy of the universe to become successful and wealthy. The difference is that the energy you pull from the spiritual planes is there to help you work hard to be the best you can be, and the natural return is to be prosperous and successful from these endeavors. This is why psychics aren’t able to hand out the lottery numbers on a daily basis, for example. There are certain universal laws in effect that are not truly understood at this time, and it appears that these laws can limit the flow and delivery of this information.
Gut Feelings, Hunches,
and Psychic Ability
As a psychic, it’s very hard to read for yourself. Most psychics will tell you they are not able to predict their own future or clearly see what’s coming for them. It’s interesting that we can do so well with this ability to help others, yet we cannot see in the same way for ourselves.
For this reason, many psychics have other psychic friends that they confer with in order to help each other with future plans. In other cases, they rely on their intuitive hunches to help them deal with things in their life.
We all have intuitive hunches. Sometimes I describe them as gut feelings. You get these hunches when you look at a person and just don’t get a good feeling about them, or when you just “know” not to take that job or go out and meet that person tonight.
These gut feelings are very important to pay attention to. As many will testify, hunches are hardly ever wrong. Most stories that people share about their hunches or gut feelings aren’t about when they listened to them and all went well, but rather when they didn’t listen to these feelings and knew they should have. Yet they ignored them anyway, because they felt sorry for the person, felt silly canceling the event that had been planned with other people, or didn’t want to hear the fallout and complaints.
Many times my intuitive hunches help me make a decision about something that is directly affecting me, such as canceling a certain appointment, signing some papers at a later date, or not engaging with a person or situation.
Making decisions based on gut feelings is not always easy or comfortable. Other people often don’t understand why you are “changing your mind” all of a sudden. On some occasions, you won’t be able to explain why you have changed your mind because it would involve sharing personal information about other people that you are only aware of through your psychic abilities. (There is a code of ethics among psychics that prohibits sharing private information about people with others.)
The best way to handle these types of situations is to pay attention to your intuitive hunch and then follow it up with gaining psychic confirmation on the situation.
The difference between having an intuitive hunch and knowing something to be true through psychic ability comes with practice. With a hunch, you have an overall sense of something, a feeling that something is wrong or that a person isn’t being truthful, but you can’t quite put your finger on what’s going on or what the person is lying about. As you develop your psychic skills, you are able to delve deeper into the aura energy field around the person or group of people and can home in on the details to get a clearer picture of the situation.
For example, when people are first developing their psychic abilities, they may walk into a home and feel a sense of dread and sadness, but have no clue why they are having this feeling. As they strengthen their psychic ability, they are able to connect with the energy field in the room and see that a horrible accident, in which people lost their lives, happened here. They are feeling the residual etheric energy from this incident and possibly even a ghost. Another example is getting an intuitive hunch that a person is lying to you or someone around you. You first get the sense that the person is being deceitful, and many times beginning psychics describe this as an uneasy and slimy feeling that washes over them as the person speaks. Later as they develop stronger psychic abilities, they are able to pinpoint the lie by following the energy vibration as the person speaks, and they see or sense the vibration as it goes negative into a lie.
As your psychic ability develops further with training, you are able to tune in to a hunch and see the thoughts and thought forms or pictures in the aura around the person, which portray the bigger picture of it all. This is not one hundred percent accurate all the time. Pathological liars are tricky, as they believe the lies that they are speaking, so the pictures in their thought forms portray their belief in the truth of what they are saying at times. Another difficulty is that when you are emotionally connected with others, your emotional field clouds your ability to clearly discern what they are saying to you. This is why many psychics find it difficult to read for family and loved ones.
The best way to begin understanding this ability is by following the hunch and then gaining further clarity through your psychic skills. In these situations, I begin by paying attention to my hunch that something is wrong. These feelings can be so overwhelming sometimes that I literally feel it in my gut and endure physical sensations of being ill in the solar plexus area. When I then take the time to breathe deeply, clear my thoughts, and go within to center my energy, I can see psychically what is at play with the thoughts and actions of others and discern why my intuitive self is trying to send me a message and warning of things to come.
As you develop your psychic abilities, you’ll be able to move from just having uncomfortable gut feelings and vague intuitive hunches to understanding at a deeper level what is going on with the people around you.
Exercise: Advancing from Gut Feelings
to Psychic Ability
To begin practicing this ability, pay attention when you have a gut feeling or hunch that something is not right. When you feel this type of energy, the tendency is to tighten up and go into a protective stance.
However, when we become tense, we close down our psychic ability.
The next time you experience this feeling, first ensure that there is no danger present at this time. Once you have discerned that you are in a safe space and are just picking up on the energy of the person near you who is perhaps trying to push you into making a decision or trying to manipulate your feelings, you can work to open up your intuition.
First, take three deep breaths and surround yourself with a white-light field of protection, asking that only energy of the highest good be allowed to permeate your auric fields. See this bubble of white light surrounding you and creating a force field around your energy body.
Now that you have protected your energy fields, relax. Continue to breathe deeply and become more aware of your surroundings. As you relax and sync with your breathing, you will find that the world slows down around you.
When you are ready, pay attention to the energy of the person who is making you feel uncomfortable and producing this gut feeling or hunch.
Now listen as the person continues to speak. If you are able, close your eyes and just listen. If for polite reasons, you need to keep your eyes open, allow your gaze to continue in their general direction, while not looking at them directly in the eye.
In this relaxed state, ask your higher self to assist you in opening up your psychic ability in order to understand what you are feeling as an intuitive hunch or gut feeling about this person. You will also need to work to detach yourself emotionally from the situation and what the person is saying. Allow the thoughts and images that come to you to flow freely. Just listen and pay attention. Over time, the images and impressions will become clear to you.
When you are relaxed, you are no longer in the protective mode that closes down your psychic sensitivities. You have a white-light shield of protective energy surrounding you. Because you are no longer engaged emotionally in what the person was trying to impress upon you, you are able to see more clearly and use your psychic ability to discern what my teacher used to call “the true meaning behind what they are meaning.”
With practice, you will be able to discern what others are emitting through their energy fields with their thoughts, emotions, and words. You will see how their energy can disrupt and affect your energy field and others in the same room. Your white-light protection bubble bounces this energy away from you so that it dissipates into nothingness and does not affect your energy field directly. This allows you to psychically tune in and see what energy is flying around the room. You’ve always felt this energy, knowing that a person made you feel uncomfortable, but with practice, you’ll soon be able to determine what type of energy is emitted and understand the meaning of what is occurring in this exchange.
In the upcoming chapters, we’ll explore psychic protection so that you have a deeper understanding of how to block energy when needed and can safely explore and be open psychically without picking up others’ energy at the same time.