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Angels, Guides & Loving Spirits:
Trust Your Vibes
Tune In
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by Sonia Choquette, Ph.D. |
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So many people have the false notion that intuition is tuning out the real world. Nothing could be further from the truth. Strange as it may seem, in order to become aware of the voice of your soul and tune into your intuition, it is first necessary to become of aware the world around you and be fully conscious of what is here and now. My spiritual teacher Dr. Tully taught me that the key to developing intuition is to pay attention to the world around us today. He told me that people are confused when they think intuition is tuning into some other-worldly frequency. ""True intuition" he explained, "is the consequence of keen an accurate observations of the here and now. . It is these accurate observations, once turned over to the subconscious mind that lead to the most advanced insights. In other words, you need to be fully aware and present in the moment to even notice your intuition.
. So many of us today are so over booked, juggling too many things at one time, constantly playing "catch-up" and racing around like crazy that we often end up diminishing our awareness to nothing more than a whirling gray fog of confusion. We miss the most obvious of situations, never mind being able to tune into the more subtle, intuitive aspects of things.
One day years ago, when my children were only one and two years old, I sat exhausted on the front porch after a long day at work and watched the girls playing in front of the house while Patrick watered the lawn. After a few minutes, a pleasant-looking woman walked up to Patrick and the two of them chatted briefly. Then she smiled at me and continued down the street.
“Who's that, Patrick?” I asked.
Patrick looked at me in disbelief. “Sonia, that's our neighbor who's been living next door for the past six months.” He shook his head in wonder that I didn't know her.
“You're kidding,” I answered. “I've never seen her before.”
“Yes you have!” Patrick insisted. “You've seen her hundreds of times. You've just never paid attention to her before.”
Boy, did I ever feel like a fool. Patrick was right. My awareness had truly shriveled up in the past few years. Ever since Sabrina was born my life had speeded up so much that it became a blur. I spent my days trying to manage so much -- the two girls both in diapers; rehabbing our two-flat building with Patrick while he worked two jobs, keeping up on my one-on-one work with clients and giving workshops. All of this was crammed into a very short 24 hour day, and I was so overwhelmed with so much activity that there were days when I couldn't even remember what I had done, let alone was conscious of anything. And now, staring at a neighbor as if she were a complete stranger, I realized that in my effort to do it all I had spiraled right out of my own body and off the planet Earth. I was so “otherly” focused that I had lost the ability to see the nose in front of my face.
Though Patrick and I laughed about it at the moment, that experience was a real wake-up call for me. "Where was I? Where had I been? Where was my awareness lately?" I asked myself. As I reflected on the previous year I could hardly bring any of it into focus. Nothing stood out. As I watched my girls carefully scrutinizing the ants on the sidewalk, I realized that in all my hurried doings I hadn't really been present in my life. Not to them. Not to anything.
I watched my daughters gleefully examining a fallen leaf. First Sonia eyeballed it very closely and then she handed it to Sabrina, who promptly popped it into her mouth. It felt good to be back in the moment, leaving my mental rat-race behind. I took in a long, deep breath, savoring the air as it filled my lungs and energized me. As I exhaled and sat in that quiet moment before the next breath, my awareness exploded into a symphony of acute sensuality. I began to notice things I hadn't noticed before. Colors became brighter. Sounds became more crisp. My children were no longer mental extensions of me, but returned to being the unique and precious beings that they were. It was as if someone had just tuned my mental TV channel from fuzzy black and white to sharp, brilliant color.
Slowly, luxuriously even, I took another breath. Sonia tottered toward me screaming, “Mommy, a ladybug!” Sabrina spit out her leaf and followed her sister. Sonia held up her baby hand to me, and right in the middle of it was a bright orange-red ladybug with black dots. The minute I looked at it, it flew away.
In that moment I decided that I absolutely had to slow down! I had to stop racing around in my mind trying to frantically cover all the bases. I had to stop scheduling every minute of my day down to the nano-second, leaving me no time to be aware of anything. I had to back off from my nose-to-the-grindstone, hyper-drive tempo of trying to keep it all together and simply breathe and trust that my slowing down would not compromise a thing. In fact it was necessary if I wanted to be a good mother, and more importantly, to arm my children with such necessary life tools as intuition and clear vision. I myself had to stop the insane and unconscious pace of do it all that had removed my awareness from Planet Earth.
“So this is what Dr. Tully meant when he said intuition arises out of a keen sense of the here and now.” I thought to myself as I watched Sabrina digging in the dirt, and Sonia very carefully sticking her toes into the water-sprinkler. “They are noticing everything in this moment by having a very direct experience with the world around them…right now! This is where intuition is born. This is the first lesson in awareness.
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Sonia Choquette, Ph.D.
Psychic, Healer, & Author
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Sonia Choquette is a world-renowned and highly spirited six-sensory author, story teller energetic healer, and intuitive teacher who specializes in helping others recognize that we are all endowed with a sixth sense that we can count on.
A masterful and humorous teacher committed to strengthening intuition in our daily lives, she is the bestselling author of seven books:
Diary of a Psychic,
The Psychic Pathway,
Your Heart's Desire,
The Wise Child, True Balance, Your Psychic Pathway to New Beginnings,
Your Psychic Pathway to Joy,
and numerous audio editions.
A highly trained six-sensory intuitive and life guide, with an extensive background in Eastern and Western mysticism, Sonia was educated at the University of Denver and at the Sorbonne in Paris, and holds a Ph.D. in metaphysics.
She says, "I am comfortably and competently intuitive because I was encouraged at all times to be awake, aware, and guided by my sixth sense. I grew up in an environment that treated the sixth sense as the first and most important of our senses. I view it not only as natural, but actually essential to successful navigation in life. Intuition is a gift that we all have, that we can all experience, that we can all trust and that we all need!"
In working with people for more than 32 years of almost daily one-on-one private consultations, Sonia insists that the sixth sense is natural to us all, but dormant in most. Whether we call them "hunches" or "feelings" or as she does, "vibes," everyone has them, but unfortunately most people dismiss or ignore them to their detriment.
As we try to adapt to the world we now live in, Sonia emphasizes that trusting our vibes, our sixth sense in action is "no longer optional. Awakening and strengthening our sixth sense is becoming more and more fundamental to our ability to live harmoniously with ourselves and others in the new world order."
Paying attention to the sixth sense-learning to listen to it, to trust it, to train oneself to call on its guidance-are the challenges facing six-sensory people trapped in a five-sensory culture.
Approaching human potential "from the inside, out," Sonia offers a unique brand of grounded and practical techniques for people to use in order to activate their most sense and let it lead their everyday life. Her mission, in other words, is to help people to "trust their vibes."
She guides them in how to build a psychic scaffolding to support their sixth sense so they can be more brilliant and effective than they've ever thought possible.
She teaches that our sixth sense's primary function is to guide our soul's growth and keep us connected to our path and purpose-without its direction, we lose our way.
In her first book, The Psychic Pathway, Sonia introduces us to our 'vibes." In her latest book, Trust Your Vibes, she shows you how to master them.
Sonia's own path has encompassed bestselling books published in more than 23 countries, speaking and conducting workshops around the globe, thousands of grateful clients, and a home in Chicago that she shares with husband Patrick Tully, daughters Sonia and Sabrina, and a poodle named Miss T.
Website:
www.soniachoquette.com
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