Allow parts of yourself to lay fallow until their season comes again

By Joanna BartlettApril 25, 2022April 25, 2022 Intuition, Personal growth intuition, personal development, personal growth

Not everything grows all the time. Sunflowers don’t grow in Oregon winters. And oranges don’t ripen in Florida until there’s a cold snap to ripen the fruit. Yet in a life where you can order something online and have it delivered sometimes the very next day, and we often feel the pressing crush of keeping…

Is it intuition, or is it trauma?

By Joanna BartlettMarch 2, 2020March 2, 2020 Intuition fear, intuition, trauma

I saw a meme recently that resonated: Learn to differentiate between your intuition guiding you and your traumas misleading you. Trauma and loss can cause your intuition to open up and lead you to become skilled in listening to your inner knowing, especially when they occur when you’re young. They can also cause your intuition…

Book review: Developing Intuition by Shakti Gawain

By Joanna BartlettDecember 3, 2019December 3, 2019 Intuition book review, intuition, intuition development

Developing your intuition isn’t a linear process. It often happens in fits and starts, with spurts ahead and seeming delays. Developing your intuition is a lot like living life. Developing Intuition: Practical guidance for daily life by Shakti Gawain, is one of the first books I read about developing your intuition, and I recently re-read…

What stops you from trusting and using your intuition and how do you change it?

By Joanna BartlettMarch 3, 2019March 3, 2019 Intuition intuition, intuition development

Your intuition is a wonderful, innate source of knowledge, wisdom and guidance. If only tapping into it and trusting it was easier! Perhaps this sounds familiar: you’re going about your day and get a hunch about something. It could be that you should drive a different way to work, or there’s something going on with…

What’s your strongest intuitive sense?

By Joanna BartlettJanuary 5, 2019August 19, 2022 Intuition, Mediumship intuition, intuitive development, intuitive senses, psychic development, psychic senses, psychic skills 1 Comment

We each have our strengths. And that’s OK. Some folks learn better by reading, rather than hearing information, for instance. Some of us are tactile learners and need to get our hands on things. Some people have great eyesight, but poor hearing. Or the other way around. Or they’re just more perceptive with one sense…

Unexpected messages from the universe

By Joanna BartlettApril 20, 2018October 4, 2018 Intuition connection, developing, development, higher self, intuition, intuitive development, intuitive senses, messages from the universe, signs from spirit, symbols

You get messages from the universe in your everyday life in all sorts of ways. Sometimes they’re signs or symbols. Sometimes they’re interruptions in your life that cause you to, hopefully, stop and think. When you start working with signs and symbols, you start receiving more of them in your everyday life. The same is…

What’s the difference between psychic, intuitive and mediumship information?

By Joanna BartlettMay 22, 2017 Development, Intuition, Mediumship intuition, mediumship, psychic

Ever wonder what the difference actually is between psychic abilities, intuition and mediumship? Have you read books or studied religions where one is held higher than the others and considered the “better” ability or the only legitimate one? In my background, Spiritualism, mediumship is lauded as the best thing of all. Psychic abilities (and psychic…

Are you afraid of using your intuition? Here’s why – and what you can do about it

By Joanna BartlettMay 6, 2017 Intuition intuition, intuitive development

Are you afraid of what you might get if you connect with your intuition? Or what might happen in your life if you follow the information you receive from it? If so, you’re not alone. It’s actually quite common for people to worry about following their intuitive urges and these fears can even stop you from tuning in…

7 tips for staying grounded in uncertain times

By Joanna BartlettJanuary 31, 2017 Intuition, Meditation empath, grounding, intention, intuition, learning, meditation

For anyone who’s sensitive — to energy, to emotions, to the vibe of the world — these last few months have been pretty rough. When you’re an empath and you absorb the energy and emotions of the people around you, it can be easy to get swept away in a tide of feeling, or feel static-y and…

Loving kindness meditation

By Joanna BartlettNovember 9, 2016August 7, 2018 Meditation books, compassion, intuition, intuitive development, learning, meditation, mediumship development, psychic development, unfolding 2 Comments

One of the things I really like about loving kindness meditation is its practice of compassion. You need compassion—for others and for yourself. Sit in your usual meditation posture. Take three deep breaths, fully inhaling and exhaling. If you like, you can let out your exhales with a big sigh, an audible “aahhhhh!” Allow your…