Mindfulness, Intuition & Healing
Uncover the secret they have in common this month, and how they can transform your healing journey as well as your quality of life!
Hello Gorgeous!
Before we begin, I’d like to say thank you for your patience in receiving this email as my family and I have been preparing for a category 5 hurricane headed straight for us.
We are in hurricane season down here in Florida, but we here on the west coast haven’t seen anything like this in 100 years. And this is how we gotta roll sometimes, adapt and survive… and as people living with chronic conditions and disabilities we get this on a visceral level because we’re always needing to create our own accommodations to adapt to a world that doesn’t typically make room for us.
There will be massive devastation that will be life changing for many. But nature is like that. Nature comes in and will destroy, to bring in new life. And with that said, my hope this month is to help you welcome in changes and a new life of your own!
This month, we’ll be exploring the connection between mindfulness, our natural intuition and healing.
I’ll share insights into how mindfulness can offer us a better understanding of our unique needs through the subtle communication of our bodymind (intuitition)…
We’ll learn how our intuition can help us declutter our lives, simplify decision making and help simplify our healing journey…
Plus, we’ll hear inspiring stories from people living with a chronic condition and/or disability, who’ve trusted their own intuition to guide them towards better care, and a better life…
And I’ll share a couple guided meditations to help get you started.
Sound like fun?
But before we get ahead of ourselves, let’s be clear-I’m not teaching you to be a psychic. I’m sharing a key ingredient for more self-empowered living.
I know many people connect intuition with being psychic. Yes, once once we’ve mastered understanding the subtle communication from our bodymind and higher consciousness for our own well-being it’s easier to tune in and filter information we may naturally receive about people and places around us. But if you don’t already have the foundational skill-set for your own self-care, there’s no need to go any further right now. So we are only focusing on building that skill right now.
When we trust our gut feelings, or those “hunches”, and listen with the intention of understanding, instead of criticizing, we can actually hear our body’s unique communication with us.
We can better understand those subtle messages that let us know exactly what is right for us in each new moment. For example, it can let us know if what we’re thinking of eating is the best choice for us right now, and if those supplements, medication or treatment is beneficial for us. We will KNOW if our therapist or doctor really aligns with our values and is right for us, or if we need to find one that won’t gaslight us, and so much more.
Mindfulness helps us tune in to our natural intuition, and offers us a better understanding of what we need for balance emotionally as well.
From personal experience, I can tell you that when I’m caught up in a PTSD moment, the last thing I have at my disposal is the ability to focus, concentrate, make good decisions, plan or organize. In that moment I’m hyperaroused. I’m in a heighten state of anxiety and alert. All I can think about is fighting and fleeing. So if you have any doubts that you can connect to your intuition if you live with PTSD too, I get it.
But this is where we need to play, when we aren’t in a hypervigilent state. Because having a developed intuitive awareness can make every one of those moments safer for us, and for everyone around us.
Emotionally, we may be struggling with grief, anger, guilt, shame or any number of emotions, and not know how to untangle ourselves from their clutches. Mindfully creating a safe space for ourselves, then tuning in to our natural intuitive nudges and insights can untangle that mess, and light the way out with much more clarity.
Our natural intuition is something we’re born with and is always with us. Throughout our lives we’ve been conditioned to believe that the logical, rational, linear thinking mind is more important, and more valid, than our intuitive notions or guidance. But nothing could be further from the truth. Our intuition offers us a clear understanding that the rational mind often misses. It’s what so many police, EMT, Firefighters, medical and ememrgency personel depend on in a crisis. Becasue logically your brain could tell you one thing, even though in your gut, you know the truth.
The intution depends on that part of our mind that takes in every micro-bit of information every second of the day, everything we’ve learned over the years and information connected to a higher consciousness through our authentic Self. Yes, logic is inportant, but more people trust their intution in a crisis, and are glad they did.
Before the auto accident that changed how I live my life, I spent years cultivating my relationship with my authentic Self and my intuition.
It’s been the one thing I’ve been able to depend on to guide me through me healing journey when everything around me has felt overwheling and out of alignment. My intution has been spot on, every single time I’ve needed to make a choice right for my path.
I just KNOW what I need in that moment to feel safe. I just KNOW in my body exactly what I need to help me regulate and find balance emotionally as well as physically. I KNOW what I need to nurture, nourih and empower myself.
It can come to me in a flash of information that some may easy to dismiss. It can come in a feeling, or a subtle whisper in my internal ear. I’ll share my story about this part of my journey later. But if you’d like to plant the seeds to cultivate your own intuition, I’m offering 1-1 guidance for free to any paid Mindful Member that messages me this month.
We don’t have to depend on external sources to let us know what we need to heal.
We can trust our own inner guidance system to help us go from where we are now, to where we want to be. It may not be the path we think it will be, it may not seem logical, but I can attest that it will get your there with greater clarity and ease.
When I was in the early days of my TBI healing journey, I went the allopathic doctors I was told to see. I jumped through the medical and litigeous hoops. Why? Becasue didn’t have any experience with this level of prolonged concussion and PTSD, and I was going through a lawsuit and wanted to win.
Along every step of the way, my body was letting me know this was not working for me. That if I truly wanted to heal, this typical medical path that everyone followed, was not my path. So I told my lawyer, that I wasn’t getting the help I really needed to heal. I told him that I was going to follow my gut and travel a more alternative healing path. It was going to be my focus, and I would do the best I could to follow the allopathic approaches, but they were not working for me. He said he would do his best, but he respected my decision. I happened to have an amazing lawyer, and we won our case.
Not only that, but my intuition led me to people, websites, books and practices that hadn’t been in my repertoire before. It often seemed like I had someone guiding me from the other side of the veil towards exactly what I needed every step of the way (and I still do if I’m being honest). It may not make sense at the time, but I’ve learned not to question it. Becasue the one time I did, I ended up here - living with a disability for the rest of my life.
This is one way my intution led me… although I had been practicing yoga for decades, I’d never been introduced to chanting. And yet, my intuition led me to chants that not only helped me regain my speech when experiencing Dysarthria and Dyspraxia of speech, but also helped bring me a greater sense of calm and ease.
I’m not the only one that intution has been a lifesaver for. This month I’ll share the story of a woman named Crystal, who despite having a brain bleed and a traumatic brain injury, trusted her intuition, which led her to find the medical doctors and holistic practitioners that transformed her life.
Knowing how to understand that subtle communication from our bodymind can transform our healing journey and help us make choices for our individual highest good and well-being. It can simplify and declutter our minds and cultivate a more trusting relationship with our authentic Self.
Here’s One Thing You Do Right Now…
This week I invite you to play with your intutition. Start with what you eat, what you read, what you wear or any small decision that feels safe to play with at this time.
Ask yourself, “What would (pick one) nurture, nourish or empower me this moment for my highest, most sustainable good ?”
Then notice the quick and subtle feeling, image, or words that come to you. It may be something your brain tells you to dismiss. Go with it instead. Go with the flow of that information. It won’t make logical sense. But do it anyway and notice the outcome. Notice what happens if you ignore your get feeling, your hunch or that subtle voice in your inner ear. Journal what you discover. Making notes of where you feel intutive nudges and what they feel lke to you. How you know what is right for you, versus what is not.
For example, I will typically explain that is something feels “right”, it’s usually easy to breathe, I’m more relaxed, things feel lighter and my muscles are at ease. If something feels “wrong”, I am very tense, it’s hard to breathe, my gut clenches and feels nauseous, and my whole body is tight. I may even experience a fight, flight trauma response.
What about you? Let’s get a conversation started with everyone this month, instead of just the paid Mindful Members!
I hope you’re as excited about tis upcoming month as I am!
As always, the light in me, honors the light within you….