“Hey, EA, can I turn my intuition off?”
I’ve been asked this question (or something similar) hundreds of times over the years.
The short answer is: nope.
The intuition is just like any other sense and you can’t turn your physical senses off. The human body just doesn’t work that way.
In the video I talk about why you *may* want to turn your intuition off, what to do instead and how to have a great relationship with it. 🙂
Try ONE of the techniques I outline in the video and comment below.
See you next week!
xoxo
Rev. Kerti
Reverend, Kerti,
Thank you!!! Just what I needed to hear!! As a visual, emotional empath, I experience feelings from other folks and I sometimes become frightened and anxious if the vibration is negative or lower. I immediately go into a gratitude mode and pray as well. Some additional pointers that I use: Music, beautiful soul-touching music just takes me out of it and raises the vibration into inspiration and I write, poetry, creative thoughts that “ink the think”!! I write down, “put pen to paper” (not through/on the computer!) all my thoughts on paper in a journal/book. I take that book and I bring it with me everywhere:) I am in touch with resentments that come up and the anger that some of them still resonates with me; i.e. if someone has really hurt me, I try to go into a “forgiveness” mode to release it!1 Also, very important, my sense of humor kicks in and I can laugh at myself and that really releases resentment and tension!!:) “Laughter is the best medicine” :):) I listen to my gut all the time. When I am in a state of truth, as I am most of the time, I can pick up when some things that I am not comfortable knowing about the person. I ran into this last week with someone that I have known for quite awhile and his behavior was so obvious (he was unconscious of himself) that I questioned myself; I had to check in and re-check and then it all made perfect sense and what came into my awareness (out of the blue; get them all the time) as well as a heaviness in the heart chakra) the distinct feeling that I no longer want to be in that energy anymore (I got tired of it, as an emotional empathy, as it has been going on for years:)) and I made a final decision not to see that person or anyone like that in my life ANYMORE!
Wow, so nice. Thank you for your sharing about the gratitude and forgiveness. I admire it Jeanine that you made such a big decision. I started several months ago, still in it, it is a difficult one. Celebrate !
Thank you for this teachin g ! I am an empath, but due to a trauma, I am not aware of picking up the feelings of others as I´d probably normaly do. However, I observe that I must have picked up on the emotions of others anyway, because just the fact I am not aware of it or suppress it not to be harm, does not turn it off (good to know that I cannot turn if off, I cannot be someone different as I tried to be all my life).
In the significant relatinship with my ex (who comes from a narcisisstic spectrum, which I did not know that time), I must have taken upon me his emotions: emptiness, sadness, tiredness of life. It complety turn upside my life, I fell sick. Today, I had an intuitive nudge to make some research about him (which I don´t want to do..but I followed). I found some photos with his eyes and it appears to me seeing the same emptiness of life there, I had the gut feeling that “yes, it was a dangerous person, it is true” and I picked up his life, his feelings and carry them in me. My feelings of emptiness transformed . I was grateful to have the intution to recognise it today, but also very sad that I have been hurt through it. If I had not the intuition, empathy, I would have not carried the shid stuff from such a person, he would have not been that interested to be around me. Also as a small child, I had the impression that my rageous grandmother injects the “evil” in me and I cannot protect myself. I literally swallow their madness in my system – and let it stay in my body, because I have no idea how to clear it. These people get apparently better, I got worse, cannot focus on my life etc. In such times, I´d wish to turn it off (I can blame the intuituion for letting me get hurt in a danger situations far more than most of the people would have been, also for attracting such people towards me).
Also, I feel scared with some people, situations, because my intuition is attuned to search for danger, it does not make me feel safe. In such times I´d wish to turn it off, be as the “others”, don´t worry, don´t overexaggerate.
I tried to shrin the chakras (first to imagine it). I saw th e heart chakra being too bride, so I tried to make it smaller, dense, but pay attention to the energy through anyway.
I find that if it gets too much, you can train yourself to “close the door”, kind of, at least temporarily.
Say, you imagine a big, wooden chest, and envision it as the container where all this knowledge comes from, and you symbolically close the lid (I probably wouldn’t go as far as mentally LOCKING it, because hey, sometimes you might still want to know about emergencies).
Or a shower curtain that you pull closed around you – whatever imagery works.
You can’t ever switch off your sense of sight, short of removing or blinding your eyes, but you can *close* your eyes and choose not to see everything that happens around you.
In reverse, it can be helpful to clearly state your intention to receive information, say by explicitly opening the chest up wide, opening the curtains and embracing “the outside”, etc.
Great tips! Thank you, Eddy!