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Dear Soul Arcanum:
Have you ever experienced a manifestation of intuition that ran counter to other things you’d learned? If so, how did you work through that? I do healing work and I have a client who on the surface appears to need a specific homeopathic remedy. However, when I took her on a guided meditation, she brought up a different remedy. She described it perfectly, to the point of even saying that what she needed from it is in its roots. (This medicine does happen to be made from the roots of a specific plant!) I consulted with another provider, and that healer thinks I should give her the remedy that she appears to need and dismiss what she said in the meditation. Now I’m in a quandary, for I can’t tell if I’m just being stubborn and wanting to do this my way. Should I trust that what she found for herself during the meditation is what she needs right now? Have you had similar experiences in your psychic work?
Val
Dear Val:
Though homeopathy is an alternative healing approach, it’s not so much an intuitive art as it is a traditional science. Like allopathic doctors, homeopaths dialogue with patients about the symptoms that have led them to seek help, and from this information they logically deduce which remedies are needed. It crosses from traditional medicine into the psychic realm in the notion that by taking a homeopathic remedy, one communicates with the body that there is a problem that needs to be addressed and trusts the body to then do whatever is needed to return to balance. If you’re going to trust the bodies of your patients to heal themselves, it would also be wise to trust your patients to know what they need in order to heal.
While patients seek help because they don’t know what else to do, you did something to empower your patient to get in touch with her own inner wisdom: you took her on a guided meditation. In combining the science of homeopathy with this intuitive approach, you moved into a gray area where you must now decide what you’re going to put greater faith in: the general knowledge you’ve been taught or the personal wisdom of the person you’re trying to help.
As a hypnotherapist, I’m inclined to trust the wisdom of the person I’m working with above all, for I believe we do know what we really need – we just may not be able to access that awareness consciously. I never presume to know more about someone than they do. In fact, one of the most fascinating aspects of my work as a hypnotherapist is watching my clients’ subconscious minds come up with insights and remedies far better for them than anything I might have conjured up.
This attitude may seem antithetical to the whole notion of psychic reading work, but even in that arena, I always tell my clients to listen to their own inner guidance above all and disregard anything that doesn’t ring true to them. I also tell them to watch for strong feelings that certain psychic insights are really “on” as signs that their own inner knowing is confirming what they already knew on a deep level but were not yet consciously aware of.
Here’s my point: whether we are healers of the body or soul, the people we are healing are always the ultimate authorities on themselves. The job of a healer is not to tell or give people what they need, but to help them shift toward greater conscious awareness of their true issues and reconnect with their own power to create what they want in their lives.
People generally seek alternative healing methods when they’ve tried mainstream approaches without success. For the most part, this means that whatever is going on is not something that can be deduced in ordinary ways. For example, many people turn to hypnotherapy when doctors tell them that they can find no physical cause for their pain or no real cure for their emotional issues aside from medication.
There is always a reason why people feel the way they do, but if a particular patient is anything but typical, a typical approach will tend to fail. When we bypass learned knowledge and ordinary cognition to access the deeper wisdom of the intuition and/or the subconscious mind, amazing insights come to light. The whole power in working psychically is to get more accurate information than can be obtained via traditional or learned methods.
One reason intuitive processes succeed where traditional methods fail is because they are perfectly suited to the individual. Instead of dealing with general knowledge to try to deduce what is going on, intuition connects us with what is actually happening for that person. This is like the difference between trying to interpret a dream for someone based on what you’ve learned about dream symbols versus working with that person’s own subconscious mind to determine what the dream means for them.
You asked if I’ve experienced the dilemma of having psychic impressions make no rational sense in my work. This happens all the time! In fact, most psychics will tell you that it’s the details that make no sense or seem totally random that often prove to be the most powerful in a reading. Our rational minds are constantly sorting, editing, censoring and reformulating the intuitive impressions we receive. When we don’t outright reject intuitive insights, they tend to end up diluted or distorted to some degree. This is what your rational mind is doing right now: it’s trying to weigh learned information against intuitive insights to determine how to proceed.
I have nothing against the rational mind; in fact, we need all the faculties we’ve been blessed with to function at our best. However, in my experience, it is wise to pay special attention to insights that seem to strike out of the blue. If this patient had little knowledge of homeopathic remedies and could not have come up with the information she relayed on her own, one has to wonder where that information came from.
As an intuitive counselor, one of my most important jobs is to teach people to trust themselves and their own inner guidance, for this is the only way to find what we personally need to feel balanced and fulfilled. In health matters especially, we’ve all been taught to trust doctors and other healers more than we trust our own bodies and inner guidance. If you disregard the answer this woman’s inner knowing provided when asked, I imagine it will have a detrimental effect on her relationship to herself and her power to heal her life.
I think it’s great that you took this patient into a deep trance, asked what was needed, and got a clear answer. By altering our state of consciousness via a guided meditation, deep trance or dream, we can communicate with the wisdom of the body, the subconscious mind and the higher self. In fact, I think this would be a smart thing for you to do in order to weigh your learned knowledge against what your intuition may tell you about the individuals you work with.
If you have trouble psychically accessing information in this way, there are methods you can employ to quickly get intuitive confirmation. For example, kinesiology testing would be a very fast and effective way for you to determine what to do in this and other situations. Have your patient hold the remedy you think she needs in one hand while you test the strength of the other arm, and then have her hold the remedy she came up with and see which one makes her stronger. By regularly testing the remedies that ‘seem’ to be needed in this way, you can infuse your healing work with the power of your patients’ own innate wisdom.
Soul Arcanum