I was soooooooooooo excited when I found this article by Sonia Choquette! I listen to her show on Hay House Radio every week! I hope you enjoy the article and check out her show as well!
Light and Love, Sister Bridget
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!
About The Author
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.
