Intuition, Psychic Ability & Empathy

What’s the Difference?

I’m no stranger to intuitive practices. For nearly 25 years now, I’ve worked in the spiritual realm in a number of ways: sometimes as a yoga instructor, mindfulness and meditation teacher, writer and educator, and advisor and coach. And yet, I remember being surprised when one day, this happened…

I sat down with a client I was coaching, during a day when they were managing a difficult life experience. I don’t even remember what I said, just that the words came out before I could stop them. I got a sudden chill as if a light breeze passed through my body, and somehow I knew I said the exact words they needed to hear. Later that week, the opposite happened. I spoke with someone who sat in front of me, seemingly happy, calm, as if they didn’t have a care in the world. Yet, suddenly I felt queasy in my stomach, my face felt clammy, and I had the beginnings of a headache. Immediately following, they confessed they weren’t doing so well at all, and shared a traumatic experience they endured.

And it kept happening…so much so that I had to develop tools for filtering those negative experiences where I could still have that valuable intuitive sense without the illness that came with it. (More on these tools…