Intuition At Home
In the past few weeks I have spent a lot of time talking to
many people about nurturing intuition in children. In those
conversations, one of the most frequent messages I hear from
parents is just how painful life has been for them because they
lost touch with their own inner voice and don't listen to their
own heart in life, and how they want better for their kids. In
fact, the number of stories of regret, lost opportunity,
struggle and even sickness resulting from being led by other
than one's own intuition are endless.
The more I hear from people the more I realize just what a
profound wounding being out of touch with your intuition
actually is. I believe losing a connection with your sixth sense
is just as profound of a loss as losing a connection with any
one of your other senses would be, if not more so. Our intuition
is the lifeline to our Source, God. It is the voice that helps
us remain in integrity with our real nature, our essence. Being
aware of, honoring and following the guiding wisdom of our
intuition is the most reliable way to create lives that fulfill
our deepest dreams and desires. As important as intuition is, it
is no wonder that losing touch with it does so often bear out
such unfulfilled lives. Knowing this, I believe that intuition
should be perceived as our first sense, not our last, and should
never be the sense we ignore or throw away?
I think we lose touch with this inner voice when we are young.
We lose it through the million and one subtle ways in which we
are told that our feelings are not reliable, and cannot be
trusted. Or are told that what we feel is not real, or not
important and cannot direct our life. The injuries to our
spirit, the voice of our intuition, are usually so subtle that
they can never be specifically identified. Rather than dying a
death by dramatic blows, it is my observation that intuition
usually dies a death of a thousand tiny pinpricks, suffered as
we grow up.
The good new about our intuition is that even though some of us
have become disconnected to it, because it is inherent to our
Spiritual Nature, it is totally possible to reconnect with it in
our own lives as well as preserve it in the lives of our
children. All it requires to do this is to create the proper
environment for your intuition to re-enter your life.
The first suggestion for doing this is to begin by paying
attention to your own feelings. As you know from your own
experience, we do not necessarily do what we feel when growing
up, but rather we do what we observe the important people in our
lives doing. Therefore, if you want your children to connect
with their intuition, you must demonstrate how to do this by
connecting to yours first.
Begin with giving attention to the feelings in your body as you
move through the day because this is how intuition gets your
attention. Does it come to your attention in your belly, your
chest, your throat, or somewhere else in your body? Where? Be
aware. Notice.
Next, acknowledge your own intuitive feelings as they come up in
your life, and share these feelings openly and without a lot of
drama with your children. Be certain not to put a negative or
unnatural spin on these feelings when you do speak about them,
such as describing intuition as "weird" or "bizarre" or "scary"
as some people do. After all, what kid wants to emulate
something "weird" "bizarre" or scary?" Probably not yours.
Another thing you can do to foster intuition in your home is to
ask your kids how they feel about things. And then respect their
feelings when they do share them with you. If their feelings
suggest a modification in your plans, be open to changing
course. Because intuition works to assist you in making the best
decisions possible in life, it is only natural that many
intuitive feelings suggest re-directing your course to a better
way, or to avoid potential problems.
Another suggestion is to create an atmosphere in your home that
is harmonious and invites everyone to share their intuitive
feelings without censorship, embarrassment, or a need to justify
their instincts in any way. When we create an atmosphere that
respects the unseen, but felt world as much as the physical
plane, we are well on our way to reclaiming the most important
instinct for success that we have.
And finally, encourage your self and your children to ask for
intuitive guidance in life and begin to turn your awareness
inward and listen for it. Intuition is natural and available to
anyone who desires to connect with it. It is never to late to
awaken your intuition as well as support you child's intuition,
even if you feel you have been out of touch with it for a long
time. The reason this is so is that intuition is NATURAL and
present in anyone willing to notice.
Nurturing intuition isn't so much a matter of what can we do to
foster an awareness that isn't present, but rather it is a
matter of what can we do to protect the natural yet subtle soul
awareness that is present in all of us. When we connect to our
intuition, the world takes on a friendlier place, welcoming us
to all sorts of opportunities, surprising us with
synchronicities, protecting us from adversity and directing us
to the best possible course for sharing our gifts with the
world. This is the natural plan and the way it should be. Invite
intuition into your home, for your own sake and for the sake of
your children as well. It's worth it!
Sonia Choquette is a world-renowned revolutionary
psychic, intuitive and spiritual teacher. She specializes in
leading others out of the dark ages and into the 21st century by
helping others recognize that we are all endowed with a sixth
sense that we can count on and need to activate in order to
succed in our lives. She is the best-selling author of seven
books: newest book - Diary Of A Psychic (Hay House July 2003),
The Psychic Pathway (Three Rivers Press), Your Heart's Desire
(Three Rivers Press), The Wise Child (Three Rivers Press), True
Balance (Three Rivers Press), Your Psychic Pathway to New
Beginnings (Clarkson Potter/ Publishers, July 2002), Your
Psychic Pathway to Joy (Clarkson Potter Publishers, July 2002)
and numerous audio editions. Highly trained in the psychic arts
and metaphsyical law, Sonia has extensive background and is
educated in the mysticism of East and West and was educated at
the University of Denver and at the Sorbonne in Paris, and holds
a Ph.D. in Metaphysics.