The Psychic Heart
(Emotional Intuitive Type)
Emotional intuition is the natural heart-centered intuitive awareness of emotions, feelings, and emotional energy. One of the most common ways that emotional intuition emerges is through intuitively feeling another’s emotions and feelings unknowingly. To varying degrees, most of us do this, especially with those we love and care for.
For instance, have you ever asked someone how they are feeling and their reply of fine or good does not ring true to you? Despite their protests, you can feel their grief, fear, or stress. Have you ever felt a heaviness in your heart, yet there is no known reason to be feeling this way? Then soon after the onset of these feelings you get a call from a loved one who shares a recent disappointment with you. In a similar way, do you ever feel heart-centered and positive only to discover that someone close to you is in the midst of a joyful experience?
One of the differences between emotional intuition and simply knowing someone well enough to know how they feel involves time and space. With emotional intuition, we do not need to be physically close to another or know of their current situation or circumstances to intuitively feel their emotions and feelings. Even if we have not recently spoken to a friend or family member and they are hundreds of miles away, we may still intuitively feel their feelings.
It is also possible to intuitively feel the emotions of those we do not personally know. During times of national or global tragic events, we may emotionally absorb the grief and fear of another or a group even though they are thousands of miles away. We may also intuitively feel the uplifting and positive emotions of others during celebratory times. The energy of joy and love travels quickly. The universal law of like attract likes applies to intuitive receptivity. Positivity is an intuitive magnet that attracts more positive energy to you, while negativity intuitively attracts negative energy.
Common Characteristics
of an Emotional Intuitive
Those with a high degree of emotional intuition often share common characteristics. Most are highly sensitive and empathetic, especially toward those who are in pain or suffering in some way. With a desire to support, help, and be of service to others, they may believe that love can heal all. It is not surprising that those with a high degree of emotional intuition also tend to be emotionally intelligent. Common traits of emotional intelligence include such things as the ability to be aware of, communicate, and express emotions as well as the ability to skillfully help others to process their emotions. Not only can an emotional intuitive feel another’s emotions, but they are also able to reduce another’s emotional stress and worries through a kind of emotional psychic intervention. They often do this unknowingly by sending pure waves of unconditional healing love energy to those whom they intuit are in need.
Because an emotional intuitive is naturally attuned to others’ emotional energy, they may find that they are continually in or getting out of intense emotional relationships. Those with a high degree of emotional intuition may also have a longing to experience perfect love through union with another or through experiencing an inner state of mystical divine love.
The raw openness through which those with a high degree of emotional intuition intuit can leave them feeling vulnerable and overly sensitive. Stressful environments, disagreements, witnessing another’s suffering, or being in the midst of angry or unhappy people can leave them feeling exhausted and overwhelmed. Many emotional intuitives have no inner shield or protective boundary and unknowingly feel and intuit both positive and toxic emotional energy, often to their detriment.
Due to the magnitude and volume of emotions that an emotional intuitive absorbs and feels, many suffer from free-floating stress and anxiety. Because of this, some withdraw from social interactions or situations in an attempt to avoid emotional overload. However, because they are intuitively connected to emotional energy, this is rarely effective. Even when sitting alone in a room, they can still absorb the emotional energy of others or situations. Some emotional intuitives unconsciously harden their heart in an attempt to protect themselves or intuitively try to shut off their emotional receptivity. When the pain, grief, and stress of others and the world becomes too much to bear, they attempt to shield themselves by withdrawing and closing their heart. However, this is not an effective solution and often creates a sense of inner emptiness and unhealthy detachment. An emotional intuitive needs the vibrations of love almost as much as they need oxygen to survive. When they close their heart, they can no longer feel and benefit from the rich waves of pure love that flow through them.
While some emotional intuitives shut down, there are others who reside at the other end of the spectrum. They are almost addicted to the ups and downs of emotional energy and crave emotionally charged interactions. These emotional intuitives often have a fair amount of drama in their lives. Their relationships may be marked by the extremes of love, hate, jealousy, passion, and other intense emotional states.
Emotional energy can be seductive and powerful. For some it is almost like a drug that they feel they need in order to feel alive and full of energy. Without powerful emotional experiences they can become depressed, tired, and anxious. Yet the constant craving for emotional intensity can eventually lead to emotional burnout and even physical illness.
Intuition as a Feeling
Emotional intuition surfaces primarily through the heart. Listening to our heart is not the same as allowing our emotions, feelings, and desires to dictate our perceptions and behavior. Underneath everyday feelings and emotions resides the wisdom of the intuitive heart. Beneficial guidance and insights that can help us through the everyday ups and downs of life flow from the heart, and when we listen to and trust our heart, we never regret it.
A good place to start developing and refining heart-centered intuitive awareness is to become aware of the emotions and feelings that you experience on a daily basis. Although our emotional energy is multilayered, we tend to be most conscious of our current and recent emotions and what we want to be feeling. We are usually aware of how we feel toward the people we regularly interact with, and we tend to be in touch with the emotions that we generate in our present condition. Our feelings guide us in developing our likes and dislikes and our preferences and assist us in making choices and decisions.
We are always feeling something. Our emotions are a part of us and are so important to our well-being that we can never not be feeling. We may be confused or not know how we feel, but emotional energy is still circulating and moving though us. When we experience emotions that are uncomfortable, such as anger, fear, and grief, we often repress and ignore them. Yet they are still a part of us and continue to have power in our lives. Awareness of our daily emotions and feelings increases our self-awareness and promotes positive feelings of well-being. A stronger connection to and appreciation of the wide range of our emotions can also help us to better identify and understand our intuited emotions.
To develop emotional intuition, it is essential to become aware of the differences between emotions that are self-generated from our ego and personality self and emotional energy that has been absorbed from others.
Emotions and feelings that come from the ego are usually reactive and protective and are connected to what is happening in our lives, our personal preferences, and our past experiences. They are intertwined with our thoughts and beliefs and what we encounter on a day-to-day basis and may be triggered by another or a particular situation. They vary in intensity and come and go.
When developing emotional intuition, it is important to be aware of our ego-centered feelings and emotions without trying to rid ourselves of them. This awareness aids us in identifying and separating our personal feelings from intuited emotions and feelings.
Emotions Intuitively Absorbed from Others
While it is important to feel and be aware of our self-generated emotions, it is also crucial to be aware of the feelings and emotions that we intuit from others. When we unknowingly absorb the emotional energy of others or of events, it can be confusing. Waking during the night feeling intense emotions that do not make any sense or suddenly feeling a wave of sadness or grief may leave us wondering. Feeling emotionally overwhelmed and not knowing why we feel this way or suddenly being worried or concerned about another for no known reason can be disconcerting and even have us questioning our sanity.
Day-to-day life for those with a primary and innate mode of intuiting through their emotions may at times feel like an emotional rollercoaster. If you have a high degree of emotional intuition, you may not be aware of the degree to which you intuit another’s emotional energy. Because you were born with this innate sensitivity, you may not always be able to distinguish between your own feelings and the feelings that you have absorbed from others. When young, many emotional intuitives become the emotional barometer for the family and unconsciously try to balance and harmonize the emotional energy within the home. They may be viewed as overly sensitive and moody and may express the bottled-up and repressed emotions of other family members.
While our self-generated emotions and feelings can help us increase our self-awareness and make good decisions and choices, emotions that have been absorbed from others are not as beneficial. We cannot process and gain personal insight from intuited emotions. While they can help us understand and develop our intuition, intuited emotions do not provide us with insight into personal preferences, issues, and needs.
For instance, I gave a reading to a woman named Sara, who suffers from depression. A heavy shroud seemed to weigh her down. She was physically tired and had no enthusiasm for the activities that had once brought her joy. Antidepressants were not effective, and therapy and other alternative treatments brought only minimal relief. When I first psychically tuned in to Sara’s energy, it was almost as if I were reading two people. I could feel Sara’s emotions, and intertwined with them was her mother’s emotional energy.
When I shared this with Sara, she didn’t argue or dismiss this unusual idea. Instead, she told me that her mother had experienced a difficult childhood, and as far back as she could remember her mother had seemed unhappy, tired, and sad. In an attempt to help her mother, Sara thought that maybe she was absorbing her depressive emotions and had been doing this for a long time. However, this intuitive strategy was not working. Her mother was still depressed, and Sara was burdened with these same feelings and emotions that she couldn’t do anything about.
You cannot change emotions that are not yours, and you cannot take another’s emotions from them. However well-meaning your intentions are, when you intuitively absorb another’s emotions, you only feel what they feel.
The Power of Love
Once you become aware of your emotions and feelings and the emotional energy that you are absorbing from others and the environment, you can release and let go of those emotions that are creating stress or are toxic to your mind, body, and spirit. As you do this, it becomes easier to tune in to the intuitive heart and further develop and use the psychic abilities of emotional intuition in beneficial ways.
The heart is the psychic center for emotional intuition and is your connection to divine and unconditional love. Love in its highest form is positive vital life force energy. This kind of love elevates our consciousness and shields us from lower toxic energies. When your intuition is aligned with the pure vibration of love, you are protected from the harsh effects of negative and potentially damaging emotional energy. Guided by the wisdom of your heart, you cease absorbing others’ energy and instead become a force of positivity and healing. Psychic love is healing and compassionate awareness. It is a calming balm that allows us to be a source of healing for others.
If you have a high degree of emotional intuition, it is essential that you open and connect to the higher vibrations of love. We all need love. If you intuit primarily through emotional energy, the need is even greater. The higher vibration of unconditional and divine love restores and creates balance and harmony. It strengthens and protects you from the potentially debilitating effects of toxic and caustic emotional energy. It helps to soothe the effects of emotional sensitivity and enables you to intuit others’ emotions without absorbing them. Love empowers you to embrace your intuitive gifts and use them in life-enhancing ways.
Exercise: Receiving High-Vibration
Love Energy
This exercise helps you to release toxic and negative emotions that you may have unknowingly intuitively absorbed from others and the environment. It also empowers you to release and heal any personal repressed emotional wounds and blocks. As you open your heart to the nurturing and enlightened energy of divine love, a cleansing flow of high-vibration energy releases toxic emotional energy and fuels psychic awareness.
To begin, get comfortable and breathe long, deep cleansing breaths. Imagine breathing white-light energy down through the top of your head. Send this energy through your body and exhale any stress or tension through the out-breath. Continue to breathe cleansing and clearing breath, releasing any stress or tension through the exhale. Imagine a protective white-light bubble of high-vibration energy completely surrounding you.
When you feel relaxed, imagine breathing white-light energy down through the top of your head, then send this breath into your heart. Feel your heart open as you continue to breathe in this way. If you have any difficult or repressed emotions that you are holding on to, allow them to surface. Continue to breathe into your heart and feel any emotions that emerge. As you acknowledge and feel your emotions, even the difficult and confusing ones, they release and dissipate. You do not need to know the origin of the feelings or why you are feeling them. If you find yourself beginning to overthink, go back to the breath. Inhale white light, sending the breath through the heart.
Feel your heart expand as the emotions surface. Breathe and let go of them. Allow your heart to become lighter and fully open. Ask for the energy of pure divine love to flow through you. Continue to breathe and imagine that you are connected to the highest form of love. Feel your heart expand.
Stay in the vibration of love as long as possible. Move this love energy through your entire body. As divine love moves through you, repressed, negative, or toxic emotions dissipate.
Breathe and feel the love that is within your heart. This love is timeless and connects you to higher benevolent forces. Listen to your intuitive heart. It has a message for you. Remain open and receptive.
When you feel complete, imagine that the white light of love is completely surrounding you. This love allows only positive and life-giving energy to enter your mind, body, and spirit.
Repeat this meditation as often as needed to release repressed or difficult emotional energy and the emotions and feelings that you may have absorbed from others or situations. You can also use this meditation before or after psychic development exercises to ensure that you are connecting to the highest vibrations of love and to release any energy that you may have unknowingly absorbed. Make it a daily practice to invoke and surround yourself with the white light of love and protection to protect yourself from harmful energy.
Clairempathy
Clairempathy is the ability to psychically feel and become aware of another’s past, present, and future emotions and emotional energy. Through clairempathy, which empowers you to feel and express compassion, you can detect repressed and toxic emotions and heal emotional wounds.
Empathy is the sensitive awareness of another’s feelings, pain, and suffering. A conscious act of sympathy and caring, empathy helps you to form positive connections and relationships with others. Most people are born with this innate ability and are socialized from a young age to express concern and support for others who are experiencing emotional difficulties and challenges. Clairempathy is the superpower of empathy. It allows you to be aware of another’s emotional energy even when the person is hundreds of miles or more away and to be a channel of divine love and healing.
Like most psychic skills, clairempathy often occurs spontaneously. For instance, my friend Laura was driving home from work one evening when a wave of sadness came over her. However, there was nothing in particular in her life that she was sad about. As she continued the drive home, her friend Meg came to mind and she intuitively realized that these feelings were connected to her. Laura knew that Meg had recently interviewed for what she believed was the job of her dreams. In this moment of sadness, Laura intuitively felt that Meg had not gotten the job. Her heart filled with compassion and love for Meg, who was having a difficult time in other areas of her life as well.
Not all of the feelings that we absorb from others and the environment are painful, distressing, or toxic. Clairempathy also enables us to feel the positive and joyful feelings of others and can be an uplifting and energizing experience. For instance, some political and charismatic leaders and spiritual and religious teachers can have this effect on others. When we hear them speak, read their writings, and follow their teachings, we absorb the energy of their love and inspiration. We also intuitively absorb the positive energy of others. We often do this randomly and without our conscious awareness. When we open our heart to love and positivity, they find their way in.
Emotional Healing
With clairempathy comes the innate ability to help, comfort, and heal others. Quite often this gift goes unacknowledged and operates on an unconscious level. When we do not embrace our innate soul gifts, they can surface in confusing and unhealthy ways.
Those with a high degree of emotional intuition often unknowingly absorb others’ difficult and painful emotions and feelings in an attempt to alleviate their suffering. Many loving and compassionate people do not recognize their innate intuitive gifts and unknowingly take on others’ burdens and emotional stress and find that they continually feel overwhelmed and exhausted.
For instance, I recently did a reading for Claudia, a cosmetologist who has a busy hairstyling practice. Like many people who work in this industry, she is a natural healer. When I began our session, I could feel Claudia’s exhaustion as an energetic heaviness in her body and energy field. As I intuitively looked for the cause, I became aware of her emotional intuitive nature and her desire to help others and alleviate their stress. As she washed, cut, and styled her clients’ hair, she compassionately listened while they shared their difficulties and challenges. However, she did more than just listen. Because of her sensitivity and innate clairempathic ability, she was also absorbing their burdens. Her clients’ emotional difficulties and stress clung to her energy field like a heavy shroud.
When I told Claudia that her exhaustion was in part due to her tendency to intuitively absorb others’ problems and emotional difficulties, she agreed.
“I thought this might be happening but would then doubt myself. It seemed a bit far-fetched to believe that someone else’s energy could affect me so much,” she said. “But last week I had an experience that made me realize just how much others’ emotions can drain me. I went in to work feeling well rested and full of energy. When my first client, a woman I have been working with for years, sat down in my chair, I could literally feel the energy draining out of me. Her daughter has leukemia and the whole family is suffering. My heart goes out to all of them. When she began to talk about her daughter’s recent medical treatments, my heart opened and I wanted to help. I could almost feel their pain being absorbed into my body.”
Becoming aware of the tendency to intuitively absorb others’ energy and further developing the psychic ability of clairempathy acts as a protective energetic shield. Clairempathy is not simply feeling emotions and being aware of emotional energy; it is also the gateway for the healing higher vibrations of divine love to flow through you.
Helping Others Without Hurting Yourself
If you find yourself feeling physically and emotionally tired for no known reason or feeling confusing emotions that make no sense, you may be absorbing others’ emotional energy. Feeling disoriented, exhausted, or ill during or after emotionally charged situations or when you are in the company of others who are experiencing emotional challenges is an indication that you have absorbed difficult or toxic energy from others or your environment.
Exercise: Letting Go of
Intuited Toxic Emotions
If you suspect that you have intuitively absorbed the difficult or stressful emotions or feelings of others and you are ready to release them, try this exercise.
Sit quietly and become aware of your feelings and emotions. As you allow your emotions to surface, name them. Being able to identify and name our emotions and feelings is not always easy, but it helps us to better understand them and increases our self-awareness.
As you focus on the most intense emotions and name them, ask if these emotions are yours or someone else’s.
The answer will come as an intuitive feeling, insight, or awareness. Trust what you receive. Self-generated emotions feel intense, raw, powerful, and potent. You may want to stuff them down, and they may invoke memories or thoughts about a situation or another person. You feel them.
When you unknowingly intuit and absorb others’ emotions, you may feel detached, numb, or confused. You are aware of the emotions, but they may feel heavy, muted, and confusing. Their origin is a mystery, and you may not be sure where the emotional force is coming from. There may not be anything you are currently experiencing that you can relate them to.
To process and transform self-generated feelings, fully feel them. Although it may be difficult and uncomfortable to allow their full intensity to surface, they will disperse and release as you feel them.
You do not need to understand or figure out why you are feeling what you are feeling. Simply accept your feelings and feel them. Be gentle and compassionate toward yourself. Allow the feelings to surface and at the same time become aware that love is present. Ask for the presence and power of the pure energy of love to soothe you as you feel and let go of the difficult emotions.
If the feelings or emotions that you are experiencing have been absorbed from others, ask them to return to their source—not in their present form, but transformed through the energy of love. Breathe into your heart and imagine it opening. Feel love flow through you. Send this love to the person, group, or situation that generated the feelings or emotions.
If you suspect that you may have absorbed the emotional energy of more than one person, you can repeat this process. Ask the feeling or emotion to return to its source, and send high-vibration love to the person or group that generated it. Feel the power of love flow through you, and trust that it is truly helping and healing others.
It is not necessary to know whose feelings you are feeling in order to help another. Just ask that this feeling go back to its source as positive energy.
Protecting Yourself
Once you embrace your emotional intuition and become aware that at times you may unknowingly absorb others’ emotional energy, you can take steps to protect yourself and become a positive force of healing.
Make it a daily practice to become aware of your feelings and the emotional energy of your environment. If you are in an emotionally stressful situation or with others who may be experiencing emotional difficulties, take a moment to shield yourself. You can do this by simply imagining a white-light bubble of love energy completely surrounding you. Intend and imagine that this bubble of light allows you to absorb only positive energy that is in your highest good. Become aware of your desire to help alleviate others’ suffering, and ask to be a channel through which divine love, healing, and compassion flow to them. If there is someone in particular whom you would like to help, imagine that divine healing energy uplifts and heals that person.
You can also ask for the angels or another divine presence to be with you and act as an intermediary. Years ago I began to become overwhelmed by the suffering and pain I felt with my clients and in the company of others. In a moment of emotional exhaustion, I looked up to the skies and asked for help. I suddenly felt the presence of Mother Mary. Even though I had not previously looked to her for support in this way, I felt uplifted and free of emotional burdens in her presence. I still feel her with me when I am with others who are in need. The suffering and difficult emotions of others bypass me and easily move into her vibration, where all is transformed into pure love energy.
How to Prevent Others from Absorbing
Our Negative or Toxic Emotions
Do ever wonder if others may be intuitively absorbing your less-than-positive feelings and moods? In the same way that you intuit another’s negative or toxic emotions, it is likely that others are intuitively affected by yours.
On a daily basis we all experience a range of emotions. We may wake up feeling excited about a new project at work. Then after sitting in traffic or spilling coffee on ourselves, we may show up at the office feeling grumpy and frustrated. Emotions and feelings come and go, the pleasant and uplifting as well as the angry and sad.
One of the best ways to ensure that others do not intuitively absorb your emotions and feelings is to acknowledge and own them. It is our unconscious and repressed emotions that have the most power to negatively impact others. When we take responsibility for our emotions, we can feel and process them.
Journaling, talking to a trusted friend or counselor, and meditating are other helpful tools that empower us to understand and let go of negative or toxic emotions. Accepting our feelings, feeling them, and having love and compassion for ourselves is usually all we need do to ensure that others do not intuitively soak in our less-than-pleasant emotions.
When we are suffering from a significant loss, grieving, struggling with depression, or working through past repressed emotions, the process of emotional healing may take longer. However, you are not necessarily adversely affecting others just because you feel lousy. As long as you are not denying your emotions or wanting and expecting others to take care of you and take on your feelings, you can still be a positive influence. Your courage and strength in accepting your feelings and processing them can be a valuable example and light the way for others when they are struggling.
We cannot control the actions and intuitive receptivity of others. There will likely be times when we are emotionally struggling and another may choose to detach from us or avoid our company. This does not necessarily mean that we are not taking responsibility for our feelings or that we are a negative influence. The other person may be dealing with their own issues and feeling emotionally vulnerable or intuitively sensitive and overwhelmed, and just need alone time.
Exercise: Meditation to
Release Your Toxic Emotions
This meditation can help you release and let go of negative emotions. Even if you are not able to release all of the negative or difficult emotions that you feel in one session, you have still made progress. It may take concentrated effort over a few days or weeks to feel our difficult emotions and let them go. Eventually you will feel lighter and more positive. Clearing our emotional energy of toxic emotions also boosts and increases our intuitive receptivity.
Begin by taking a deep breath, then relax and exhale any stress or tension. Inhale white-light energy down through the top of the head and send the energy of the breath down through the body. Exhale any negativity or pent-up emotions. Continue to breathe in this way for a few minutes.
When you feel relaxed, move your awareness through the body, starting at the top of the head. Become aware of any confusing or negative feelings and emotions anywhere in your body. Breathe into these emotions. As difficult as it may be, allow yourself to feel them.
Imagine that the emotion has a voice and can speak to you. What would it be saying? Listen and continue to breathe, feel the emotion, and exhale it. As you allow your feelings to surface and acknowledge them, they release.
Continue this process until the emotion or feeling begins to dissipate. Once the emotional intensity subsides, imagine breathing white-light energy down through the top of the head. Continue to inhale and allow white light to collect in your heart and solar plexus. Imagine that with every breath, this energy becomes stronger and expands throughout your entire body. As your body fills with white light, imagine that it forms an orb that completely surrounds you.
This white-light orb allows you to intuitively absorb only what is in your highest good. At the same time, it continues to help you to release negative or toxic emotions.
Clairsentience
Clairsentience is the ability to feel energy information and is another psychic skill of emotional intuition. On a daily basis we all have spontaneous episodes where we receive energy information in this way.
For instance, despite a lack of evidence, have you ever had a feeling that a plan or project would be a success and this feeling proved to be spot on? Are your feelings about how a future event will unfold generally spot on? Do you ever feel like you can trust someone, or are you ever wary of another without any factual evidence? Have you ever not listened to your feelings about something or someone and then later regretted it? These are common ways that clairsentience guides us and provides insights and information.
The two different types of clairsentience are physical and emotional. Physical clairsentience is an intuitive awareness that is felt in the body, usually in the solar plexus and gut or through a tingling up and down the spine or arms. Emotional clairsentience is heart-centered awareness. To be clairempathic is to intuit and feel the emotions and feelings of others without being in their presence and without conscious knowledge of their circumstances. To be clairsentient is to intuit energy information through pure heart awareness, unclouded by feelings and emotions.
The feeling energy of clairsentience is not the same as our self-generated emotions. The feelings associated with clairsentience are more neutral and may at times be in conflict with our personal emotions and desires. Instead of being reactive and ego-based, they emanate from within as a certainty or feeling of clear and sure awareness. Emanating from the heart, clairsentient feelings are intuitive signals that broadcast energy information and guidance.
For instance, from a young age, Glenda, a client of mine, had always felt an affinity for animals. In her youth she had a dog and cat, but after moving to the city she was pet-free. The condo where she lived did not allow them, and with her busy work schedule she knew it would not be fair to leave a dog or cat alone for long hours.
One morning on her way to work on the subway, she read an article about a woman who had started an animal rescue farm a couple hours north of the city where she lived. As she read of the pigs, sheep, horses, and other animals that now found shelter on this farm, her heart opened.
I would love to be doing this, she thought. However, her busy life went on as usual and she forgot about the article. Several months later the animal rescue farm that she had read about was featured on the local news. The owner was asking for donations and help as the need for her services grew. Again, Glenda felt a powerful feeling of connectedness stir her heart. However, this time she felt that she was meant to be involved with the farm. The feeling was so clear and strong that she could not dismiss or deny it.
The next morning Glenda called the owner of the animal rescue, and the following weekend she went up for a visit. After a couple of years of going back and forth and helping with the animals once a month, she decided to move north and become a partner with the owner. Her heart told her that this was the right decision, and she never questioned it or regretted listening to it.
Emotional Relationship Radar
The feelings of clairsentience often provide valuable information for and about others. One of the most common ways that we naturally use clairsentience is in our relationships. Intuitive feelings upon first meeting or being introduced to another are especially important to pay attention to. You most likely have experienced this yourself. For instance, have you ever met someone and felt instantly comfortable with them? Alternatively, have you ever felt uneasy and apprehensive when meeting another even though there was no known reason to be feeling this way? Do your feelings ever warn you about another or an event?
This happened to me several years ago while walking to a gazebo with my children in a secluded section of a park. My feelings of enjoying the day with my kids was interrupted by a strong feeling of danger and stress. As I got closer to the gazebo I noticed a lone man with his back to me. Although I tried to shake off my feeling of unease, the closer I got to him the more apprehensive I felt. With my two young children in tow, I realized that it was probably a good idea to listen to the feeling. I turned around and headed back to the playground. I will never know what might have happened if I had continued, but the feeling subsided as soon as I acted on it. We are all born with this natural intuitive insight and awareness. Unfortunately, we do not always truly listen to it and trust it.
Clairsentient feelings often let us know when we are meeting or about to meet a potential partner or romantic interest. For instance, have you ever first met someone and felt that you know them? Beyond physical chemistry, the feeling of being drawn to another and the intuitive awareness that someone has come into your life for a reason or purpose comes from the heart and soul.
However, it is important to recognize that when you listen to and act on these feelings, you may not always experience what you expect. People often tell me that they have felt an immediate soul-mate connection with another, but the relationship did not turn out to be the bliss they had hoped for. The feeling of connection that we instantly feel with another is a signal that there is something that this person has to share, teach, or experience with us, but it might not be a long-term or romantic relationship. If you have listened to and acted on the feeling that you were meant to be with another and the relationship did not turn out the way you wanted it to, it does not mean that you made a mistake. Continue to trust your feelings and know that there are important reasons that people are brought into our lives, even if we do not always know or understand what those reasons are.
Precognitive Clairsentience
Clairsentience often manifests as precognition, the psychic ability to intuit future events and manifestations. This may naturally occur as the feeling that you are meant to experience something in particular or the heartfelt awareness of your life purpose. It might also be a feeling that you need to make a life change, pursue a dream, or take action on something that seems contrary to the status quo.
For instance, my friend Sasha and I were born on the same day. With a master’s degree in art history, Sasha’s dream was to spend time in Italy going from gallery to gallery and soaking in the art and sculpture. When she was in her late twenties she landed a great job at a prestigious museum. It was a surprise to everyone when, after only a year of employment, she quit her job to go to Italy. Her vacation days did not allow much time off and she felt a strong desire to travel. We were all stunned, and more than one of her friends tried to talk her into waiting a few years for this epic trip. But Sasha was determined.
“I feel that I need to go now,” she said and never wavered from this feeling.
Sasha spent two wonderful months in Italy seeing and doing all that she had wanted to do. Three months after her return, the car she was driving slid into a telephone pole on an icy road. She died instantly.
I think of Sasha often, and she gives me courage to follow my feelings, as crazy or inconvenient as they sometimes seem to be.
Exercise: Tuning In to the Intuitive Heart
Through Clairsentience
Clairsentience can help us to become aware of our deepest soul truth. Underneath our desires and ego-based emotions and feelings, the heart guides us to the people and experiences that are in our highest good.
In this exercise you can practice how to become more aware of heart-centered intuitive guidance.
To begin, think of an issue, condition, or concern that you would like to intuitively receive clarity and guidance on. Sit quietly and breathe. Imagine inhaling white-light cleansing breath and exhale any stress or tension.
Allow your feelings and emotions about this issue to surface.
For instance, you may feel anxious, hopeful, worried, or confused about your current job or relationship. Name the feelings as they surface.
Become aware of your desired outcome. What would you like to have happen? How would you like this concern or condition to be resolved? What would you like to be feeling in relation to this situation? Write down your feelings and responses.
Once you have written down your feelings and emotions surrounding your concern, sit quietly and breathe in cleansing and clearing energy and exhale any stress or tension. Feel the feelings and concerns that you have just written down. This helps to release them.
When you feel relaxed, take a deep breath and send the energy of this breath into your heart. As you exhale, imagine your heart opening. Visualize a high-vibration white-light orb of energy completely surrounding and protecting you from negative influences. Continue to breathe and open your heart and imagine the pure energy of love filling your heart. Feel this love and send it through your body.
Listen to your heart. Underneath the ego emotions and feelings that you have surrounding your issue or concern, the quiet presence of love is speaking to you.
Continue to breathe, open your heart, and listen. Take all the time you need. What is your heart saying to you? What do you feel?
Accept your heart’s guidance, however it emerges. You may not intuit a specific outcome or a step-by-step plan of action. However, when you feel and allow the healing power of your heart to flow through you, its energy resolves and transforms your stress and fears. Conditions and difficulties begin to resolve and transform. Continue to listen, and when you are ready, open your eyes and write down your experience.
The Importance of Emotional Intuition
Emotional intuition is so common that we do not always recognize its psychic importance and potential. Emotions can be elusive and transitory. They are constantly changing, and their ability to provide solid insight and guidance may seem to be less effective than other forms of intuition. However, emotional energy is powerful. Our emotions and feelings guide our choices and decisions, dictate our behavior, impact our health, and create a life of happiness or misery. Our unconscious emotions are especially powerful. Emotions that we have stuffed away or are in denial of contribute significantly to what we create and experience on a day-to-day basis. Unhealed grief, anger, or stress impacts our well-being, and until we recognize our core emotions, they create havoc in all areas of our lives.
Intuitive emotional awareness can help you to tune in to unconscious and repressed emotions and feelings and provide you with insight into how they may be influencing what you are experiencing and creating in your life. It can also help you to release these emotions, heal, and create positive and fulfilling experiences.
For instance, Pauline, an attractive woman in her early thirties, came to me for her first reading. Soon into the session, I became aware that she had recently ended a relationship and was not sure if she had made the right decision. I talked about her ex-boyfriend and a few other issues. However, I knew that her biggest concern was if she would ever meet her soul mate and have the kind of loving relationship that she so longed for.
When I looked into the future, I saw a romantic partner whom I felt she would meet later that year. I shared this with her, and she asked questions such as What kind of work does he do? and Where will we meet? and I gave her my impressions.
There was, however, a bigger issue that had to be addressed. Just because I saw someone coming into her life did not mean that she would experience the love and joy that she hoped to experience with him. To be able to give her a more accurate reading, I needed to psychically tune in to Pauline’s emotional readiness and ability to create and sustain a loving relationship. Even though she so much wanted such a relationship, if her unconscious emotional energy was not in alignment with this desire, the relationship would fail. She might also attract someone who would once again hurt or abandon her.
When I tuned in to Pauline’s emotional energy, I felt feelings of unworthiness and unhealed childhood wounds. She felt abandoned by her father and was fearful of future disappointment. Pauline needed to become aware of these unconscious feelings and beliefs and heal them. Otherwise they would sabotage her efforts and desire. As much as she wanted a loving, long-term relationship, she would likely continue to attract the same kind of disappointing relationships that she had been encountering for years. When I told her this, she seemed committed to doing whatever it would take to attract a loving partner.
In my early years of psychic work with others, I may have intuited that Pauline would soon meet someone, but I might have either missed or underestimated the effect that her emotional energy would have on the success of the relationship. Over the years I have learned to tune in to my client’s emotional energy before I give a prediction about what may or may not happen.
Although we may be able to intuit the success, abundance, and healthy relationships coming our way, if we feel unworthy or too emotionally wounded or fearful to accept these positive opportunities, they will pass us by. Many psychic predictions do not manifest for this reason. To manifest and live our highest good, our heart must be open and ready to receive.
It is important to remember that psychic accuracy will only be as good as your ability to tune in to the emotional energy of any situation or condition. This is true both when you intuitively tune in to yourself and what is coming your way and when you intuit for another.
If you intuitively detect and feel that you are sabotaging or preventing good and positive experiences and opportunities from coming into your life, take some time to intuitively listen to your heart. Emotional intuition is an effective tool for self-healing and mending your emotional wounds. Listen within without judgment and stay with the emotions that surface. Be kind and loving to yourself and ask your angels to guide and assist you in healing. To further release and heal negative and self-sabotaging emotions, you can practice the Letting Go of Intuited Toxic Emotions exercise in this chapter.
Fully developed emotional intuition is a powerful force through which you can create positivity and joy and receive all the good that life has to offer. The psychic skills of clairempathy and clairsentience empower you to receive heart-centered, soulful guidance and to heal and transform yourself and others.