A student of mine recently told me a story about an intuitive hit she had many years ago.  (She has allowed me to share this story for educational purposes.)

She went on a date with someone she met online. I’m going to call him “Greg”. As she met him and said hello, the words came into her head “this man has legal problems” and she had the sense that Greg had a criminal record.

But he was really sweet, gentle and kind…very chivalrous, too, and she started to think she must have been wrong. She was under a lot of stress when she met him, and so she assumed she had been projecting her stress onto him and was just a bit jumpy. 

The more she got to know Greg, the more she decided she was wrong. He was so kind. And then he told her a story about being falsely accused of a crime. He’d even been on TV having been arrested for the crime and then it was found he was actually framed (and this was a documented fact that he could prove). She decided that her intuition had picked up on this: Greg had had legal problems, and it hadn’t been his fault. 

And she also had concrete evidence that his criminal record was completely clear — phew. Greg had never been charged with or found guilty of anything. 

So she was wrong.

Except, she wasn’t.

She later found out (again, through her own intuition which caused her to investigate and find the truth) that this man was actually involved in organised crime and had never been caught. 

His lovely personality was a well practised persona and the real Greg was an absolute sociopath. But it took years for this to come to light and by then, she had been through the wringer with him.

This experience fractured her relationship with her own intuition.

At the time, she was doing readings for others professionally and she was so badly affected by her own failure to see this man’s darkness and heed her guidance, that she stopped reading for others. She decided she wasn’t fit to be reading for others if she had failed this badly herself. And she never went back to the readings.

She was trying to heal the lost faith in her own intuition and that’s why she ended up taking one of my courses.

She asked me: Was she OK to be giving readings again to others?

I thought that she was being overly hard on herself. 

Intuitive warnings about people in our lives are not always easy to heed!

The hardest part about getting intuitive warnings is that we often do not want to listen to them, and the mind will sometimes talk us out of them. When we get “negative” info about someone or something, what the mind will do is try to explain away, relabel or interpret the info we get. This is something that happens after we get the intuitive hit. And this can dilute or change how we see the info. 

For example, my student was told, he has legal problems. That could have been phrased more helpfully and clearly. Her intuition ideally would have said “he’s a criminal”. But for some reason, it didn’t.

But “he has legal problems” is something to look into and keep in mind.

What her mind did instead is look for evidence he did not have legal problems (because of his lovely persona). 

It also went looking for concrete evidence that she was wrong (and he didn’t actually have a criminal record)

And it came up with reasons why she might have been wrong (such as her own stress). 

Sometimes intuition will be along the right lines but slightly ‘off’ in how it comes through, and this is not uncommon.

Intuition can be a bit symbolic and slightly roundabout in the way it comes through.

But we also need to be open to the energy of what comes through and the general symbolism. Rather than honing in on the specifics and writing it off if it doesn’t match exactly.

Another example of this: several years ago, I used to do remote viewing exercises where I’d be given a file number of a random photo online and I’d remote view and see what the photo was of.

One of the things I learned about this process was how willing back then my mind was to put a label on the intuition I got, and change it, despite being right the first time.

For example, one time during the remote viewing, I saw a big blue expanse. Rather than say to myself, ‘I see a big blue expanse’, my mind said “it’s the sea!”. I wrote down, the sea. When I opened up the photo it was a blue sky. Yet my mind had been so sure it was the sea.

This has happened enough times to me over the years that I have learned to tell clients what I pick up undiluted, without labelling it. Or if I do label it, tell clients that this was my interpretation, and separate that from what I perceived, but pass on both, making it clear which is which. 

So why am I sharing this?

I think it’s a good lesson for developing intuitives to separate the hit from the interpretation and be aware of:

1. What is the info

2. What is the mind’s story about what the info is. 

Also write down HOW the hit came. Was it a vision? If so, what did you see? Was it a feeling or gut instinct? What did it feel like? Was it words? If so, what were they verbatim? 

Writing the info out helps to separate the hit from the mind’s story about the hit. 

Another couple of tips:

1. Sometimes we don’t even notice what is the intuitive hit and what is our mind’s separate interpretation of it. Mindfulness meditation can help us to get into the practice of noticing our internal processes. This is why I recommend that psychic developers have a daily meditation practice. 

2. The reason we get intuitive hits about people is so that we can have all the info we need to deal with them. We don’t tend to get irrelevant info about people. Spirit wasn’t giving my student this info about Greg “out of interest”. It was so she could protect herself. 

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PS. even though my student did not follow her intuition and she felt it had damaged her relationship with her own guidance, there was a silver lining… 

She ended up meeting her current, much loved husband through the events that occurred with Greg and when she met him, there was no intuitive warning or info at all. She just felt comfortable and safe from day one. 

PPS. Even though there is a lesson in this story, I also think that my student needed to cut herself some serious slack and start doing readings again professionally. Her intuition did what it was able to do at the time to warn her, and continued to warn her throughout the relationship, but sociopaths and personality disordered people can be very convincing and charming.