Cultivating Gratitude for a Happier, Healthier Life

By Joanna BartlettJanuary 4, 2022January 4, 2022 Personal growth gratitude, learning, personal growth

Gratitude is good for you. If you want to give yourself a present this year, cultivating a gratitude practice is one that can offer you gifts again and again. Gratitude can help improve your relationships,your physical and psychological health, and your self-esteem. It can enhance empathy, increase mental health and reduce aggression, and also help…

How do you know what you’re feeling?

By Joanna BartlettDecember 6, 2021December 6, 2021 Personal growth learning, personal development, personal growth

How are you feeling right now? Can you name it? How do you know? How are you able to tell what emotions are going through you? I often have bodily sensations that give me clues to my emotional feelings. A churning or tightness in my abdomen with anxiety. A lightness or sense of light with…

Simple ways to incorporate meditation into your daily life

By Joanna BartlettMay 17, 2019May 22, 2019 Development, Meditation learning, meditating, meditation 1 Comment

Meditation comes in many forms and varieties. But all its many paths lead to the same place – inner knowing, access to our wisdom and the ability to focus (and re-focus) our minds. Plus meditation has a host of physical and psychological benefits, including reduced anxiety and blood pressure, improved mood, memory and immune response,…

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…

How to use a pendulum for divining

By Joanna BartlettJuly 4, 2016 Development, Intuition, Mediumship learning, mediumship, mediumship development, pendulum, unfolding

Pendulums have been used for eons as a way of connecting with Spirit and divining answers to our myriad of questions as we navigate this human experience. They’re simple to use and a way to connect with your intuition. How do pendulums work? Divination using a pendulum really isn’t all that mysterious. The answers come…

Clairsentience part 2: understanding pyschometry

By Joanna BartlettMay 13, 2016January 25, 2018 Development, Mediumship clairsentience, development, learning, mediumship development, mental mediumship, psychic development, psychometry, unfolding, unfoldment

Psychometry – feeling the energy of objects and places – is the second aspect of clairsentience. Clairsentience is the sensing of energy (in the form of emotions and physical feelings) from people, places and objects. Psychometry is sometimes call “soul sensing.” Which makes sense, as it is like you are sensing the soul of an…

Developing your clairsentience

By Joanna BartlettMay 8, 2016January 25, 2018 Development, Mediumship clairsentience, intuitive development, intuitive senses, learning, mediumship development, mental mediumship, psychic development, unfolding, unfoldment

Clairsentience – which means clear sensing or clear feeling – is intuitive or psychic feeling and is closely connected to what we usually think of as intuition. In many ways, it’s a heightened or tuned in form of empathy. Its basis is the ability to tune into the energetic vibrations of people, objects and places…

Developing your clairalience

By Joanna BartlettApril 29, 2016April 6, 2018 Development, Mediumship clairalience, clairallience, development, intuition, intuitive development, learning, mediumship, mediumship development, mental mediumship, psychic development, psychic senses, unfolding, unfoldment 1 Comment

Clairalience is intuitive or psychic smelling and means clear smelling. It’s also known as clairolfaction and clairessence (because the word clairalience isn’t strange enough to start with). Clairallience (also sometimes spelled with two ‘l’s) is an ignored intuitive sense, which is a shame, as it can be very clear and powerful. It’s closely related to…

Developing your clairgustance

By Joanna BartlettApril 22, 2016 Development, Mediumship clairgustance, clairgustience, development, intuitive development, intuitive senses, learning, mediumship development, mental mediumship, psychic development, unfoldment 1 Comment

Clairgustance or clairgustience is also known as clear tasting. It’s your intuitive sense of taste. Tastes from Spirit? Really? In short, yes. Information from Spirit, or our own intuition, can come to us through our psychic senses of taste and smell (clairalience), as well as through our inner vision (clairvoyance), hearing (clairaudience), knowing (claircognizance) and…