You Are Intuitive
11 Ways to Access Your Inner Guidance
By Cara Gubbins, PhD
Spiritual Intuitive
Animal Intuitive
Pet Medium
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In YOU ARE INTUITIVE, you are going to
Understand the top 3 challenges to accessing your intuition
Discover the 3 keys to living a soul-centered life
Understand intuition and how to develop it to work for you
Connect with 11 tools to use right now to get intuitive info in
your life
And more!
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~A Note from Cara~ Dear Beautiful Soul,
Thank you for joining me on this journey! I am so happy you are reading
this! You are beginning a wonderful adventure in connecting with your soul and
getting guidance from the greatest source – yourself!
All people are born with natural intuitive ability. Intuition is not just in some
of us; it’s in all of us. You Are Intuitive presents 11 different ways to connect with
your inner guidance – and this is just a start! There are many more ways to
connect with your intuition . . . but these should keep you busy for a while. There
is a wealth of information out there; we just need to practice accessing it.
Most people come to me for an Intuitive Reading when they are feeling
Stuck, Stressed and/or Powerless. If you are feeling this way right now, I totally
understand. What I want you to achieve from this book is your own experience
getting guidance for yourself so you have clarity on your next steps, feel peaceful
inside and you are Empowered to have tools that work for you in your own
personal toolbox.
I look forward to helping you connecting with your soul and living your life
in a heart and soul-centered way. I believe that there are Three Keys to Living a
Soul-Centered Life. In no particular order, they are to Heal Your Past, De-Stress
the Present, and Guide Your Future. This book helps you with the third key,
helping you step into tomorrow more clear, confident and excited!
You can use this book on its own or in conjunction with my audio recording
“Access Your Intuition.” Following the steps in the recording will help you turn on
your intuitive center and make receiving your intuitive guidance that much easier.
To your success!
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~The Tools~
INNER ‘YES’ AND ‘NO’
“Your inner knowing is your only true compass.” Joy Page
Your ‘Inner Yes’ is a light, happy, excited, upward, outward feeling. You
literally feel lighter in your body.
To use this tool, practice by thinking about something that you love to do,
like dancing or walking in a beautiful place in nature, etc. Pay attention to how
your body feels. When you think about that activity, do you feel butterflies in
your belly? Do you light up inside? Do you feel excited and expansive?
Whatever you notice are the signs of your Inner Yes.
Your ‘Inner No’ is a heavy, constricted, downward, inward feeling.
My Inner No tends to be a tightening in my gut and/or a feeling of dread or
resistance. One of my teachers always reminded me that “if it’s not a yes, it’s a
no!” So, your Inner No can also be a neutral feeling that is not noticeably
heavy or tight, but definitely not a lightening feeling like your Inner Yes.
When using this tool for a question, quiet yourself, ask your question and
notice whether you feel light and more expansive when you contemplate your
question.
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My general rule of thumb is “If it’s not a ‘yes,’ it’s a ’no.’”
“Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?”
Rumi
BODY ‘YES’ AND ‘NO’
"You have to trust your body to take care of you."
A. J. Langer
After clearing and centering yourself, ask your question and notice what your
body does physically. Watch yourself and you will soon become aware of a subtle tilt
of your head or leaning of your body. Maybe your chest and shoulders move
forward. Maybe your forehead lifts up and forward. If you physically lean forward,
that is a yes. Watch yourself and see what your Body Yes is. If you lean back or
physically withdraw, that is a No. With practice you can begin to notice very subtle
shifts in your body posture – even something as slight as tucking your chin toward
your chest can indicate a Body No message from your intuition.
CLAIRVOYANCE
“When you don’t know what to do, get still. The answer will come.”
Oprah Winfrey
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The word “Clairvoyance” literally translated means “clear seeing.”
Clairvoyance is the experience of accessing information in the form of images,
visions and pictures. Images pop into your mind’s eye. They can be either
literal or symbolic.
To access your intuition using your clairvoyance, first center yourself, then
ask your question and finally, close your eyes and wait for an image to appear.
If the image doesn’t make sense, ask for a clearer image or a clarification
image. The key here is to simply notice what you notice without evaluating or
judging it.
If you think you are having a hard time with this, here is a tip: clairvoyant
images are not as clear and solid as ‘real’ images in the ‘real’ world. Here is an
exercise to give you a sense of what the clairvoyant experience is like: close
your eyes and picture a soccer ball. Next picture a rose. Now picture an ocean.
The images you saw in your mind were visual but most likely not as clear and
solid as your open-eyed vision. That is similar to what you would see when
experiencing clairvoyance.
MEDITATION
"If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts."
Alan Cohen
Meditation is simply quieting the mind. When left to its own devices, the
mind will ramble on and on – some people call it “Monkey Mind.” The trick to
meditation is to give the mind something to focus on so that it doesn’t amuse
itself and keep itself busy thinking thoughts. That’s why many meditations are
about focusing – focusing on breathing or a mantra or a movement or a
feeling.
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Many people have associated meditation with repeating or chanting the
word “OM.” This type of meditation is called Mantra Meditation. Repeating a
phrase or sound over and over helps clear the mind of thoughts and open the
meditator up to intuitive information. The two Mantras that I like are “om”
and or “om namah shivaya.” Om is the primordial sound of the vibration of the
Earth and om namah shivaya roughly translates into “I surrender to the guru
within me.” Both are wonderful vibrations to connect to!
Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hahn, in his lovely and practical
book “Blooming of a Lotus,” offers dozens of meditations that focus the mind
on breathing and certain feelings contained within words. He starts with a very
simple meditation (Repeating the following phrase as you breathe: Breathing
in, I know that I am breathing in. Breathing out, I know that I am breathing
out.) and gradually introduces more and more complex meditations, each one
more relaxing and yet uplifting than the one before.
Insight into your question may become clear to you during meditation or
after the meditation. Meditation is a practical method for clearing the
channels to receive subtle intuitive guidance.
I actually keep a notepad and pen next to me when I meditate so I can write
down any insights I get (and then I am able to let them go once I write them
down – if I didn’t write them down, my meditation mantra would become “I
gotta remember xyz. I gotta remember xyz.”). I don’t always get insights or
answers when I meditate, but when I do, they are good!
CLAIRSENTIENCE
"The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart." Buddha
Clairsentience literally means “clear feeling.” Clairsentience is different
than your inner yes or no. When using clairsentience, you will feel sensations
in body like tightness, pain, lightness or tingling.
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To access your intuition using your clairsentience, first center yourself, then
ask your question and finally, close your eyes and mentally scan your body.
Notice any new sensations or feelings in your body, especially if they might be
related to your question. Again, the key to using clairsentience is to simply
notice what you notice without evaluating or judging it.
When I’m doing an Intuitive Reading, I often find myself saying things like
“It feels like your body wants to dance” and those words come from a feeling
in my body that I can’t express any other way. I feel the urge in my own body
but since I am reading for someone else, I know the feeling is a message for
that person.
CLAIRAUDIENCE
“Anything you want to ask a teacher, ask yourself, and wait for the answer in silence.”
Byron Katie
As you might have guessed, clairaudience means “Clear hearing.” When
using this ability, you hear a message or a voice or distinct words in your mind
that are inaudible to physical human ears. Similar to clairvoyant images, the
words you hear clairaudiently may not seem distinct and crisp. And, they may
be confusing, like in the movie “Field of Dreams” in which the main character
hears voices but the messages are vague.
To access your clairaudience, ask your question and then simply listen. Pay
attention to any thoughts you are having, and song that you hear in your head,
etc. Just get quiet and listen.
SILENCE
“Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.” Rumi
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Silence is like clearing the slate so you can see something new. It’s like quieting
the mind, so that intuition has a voice. The passage below is written by Ron and
Mary Hulnick for their Ways of Knowing class at the University of Santa Monica.
The words are so accurate and yet so musical, I couldn’t do the material justice by
putting it into my own words!
“Silence is the gateway to profound peace. It is also a doorway to revelation of
the Self. In order to hear the deepest Wisdom of the Heart, it is necessary to give
oneself time and space for contemplation, reverie, and reflection. This involves
cultivating a relationship with Silence. When we withhold the gift of Silence, we
are blocking access to the wellspring of creativity and the Wisdom of the Soul.
After you ask your question, sit in silence for a pre-determined amount of
time.
Simply notice what feelings, images, and/or impressions bubble up within you.
You may want to write them down or you may want to sit with them and
continue sitting in the silence as more impressions come into your awareness.
DREAMS
“Dreams offer themselves to all. They are oracles, always ready to serve as our
silent and infallible counselors.”
Synesius of Cyme
Dreams are available to anyone at any time. They are free. They are yours. You
don’t have to wonder if you can trust the source of the information because you
are the source! Dreams can help you access your unconscious and your higher
knowing and therefor your intuition.
Dreams are a series of images, ideas, emotions and sensations that occur
during the sleeping state, mainly during REM sleep. They can last for a few
seconds or as long as twenty minutes. Dream Interpretation has been around
since 5,000BC!
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Before going to sleep, ask your question and ask for a dream that answers your
question. You can write down your question in a dream journal or on a piece of
paper.
When you wake up, write down any dreams you remember, even if you only
remember snippets or random images or feelings.
Next, analyze your dream, but don’t be too literal. Dreams are symbolic, so
analyze your dream from a symbolic point of view, giving your own symbolic
meaning to the images and feelings you experienced in the dream state.
Here’s a fun exercise: write down all the nouns in the dream in a column and
then do word association in a second column next to each word. I did this with a
confusing dream and got a clear message that was accurate and inspiring.
You can also keep a Dream Journal. I’ve kept a Dream Journal for over a year
and a half and I am always surprised when I go back and read it later how
informative and accurate my dreams are. Some nights I have no dreams,
sometimes I have confusing dreams, and sometimes I glean clear meanings from
my dreams. The journal keeps it all together so I can see larger patterns and
remember details that I would otherwise miss.
Here is a valuable key: don’t move when you first wake up and take a moment
to mentally review your dreams. Then write down keywords about your dream as
quickly as possible. Once you’ve gotten the keywords down, then recount all the
details and pay attention to how you feel as you review different aspects of your
dream – this is important information, too!
SYNCHRONICITY
“Synchronicity is an inexplicable but profoundly meaningful coincidence that
stirs the soul and offers a guiding glimpse of one’s destiny.”
Philip Cousineau
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Synchronicity is a meaningful coincidence of two or more events not likely to
happen by chance. Events are grouped together by meaning, not by time or linear
sequence. The phenomenon was first described and defined by Swiss psychologist
Carl Jung in the 1920s.
The cool thing about synchronicity is that it gives us a glimpse into the great
order of the Universe – the unifying energy field from which our intuition gets its
information. According to Wikipedia, “synchronistic events reveal an underlying
pattern, a conceptual framework that encompasses, but is larger than, any of the
systems that display the synchronicity.”
Jung commented that “when coincidences pile up in this way, one cannot help
being impressed by them—for the greater the number of terms in such a series,
or the more unusual its character, the more improbable it becomes.”
Let me share an example with you. When I first heard about EFT, a friend sent
me an email about it, a separate group of friends talked about it at dinner a
couple days later, and then the same night that I had dinner with friends, I saw it
featured on a tv show. I said to myself “I gotta pay attention to this!” My rule for
most of my life is something comes to my attention in 3 separate ways, I consider
it a synchronicity and evidence of a larger pattern that I should pay attention to.
Now, I stop at two and say “Okay, Universe, I get the hint; I will pay attention to
this now!”
If you even find yourself asking yourself “What are the odds?” you are
probably experiencing some kind of synchronicity.
To use synchronicity to access your intuition, pay attention to unusual events
and open your mind to connections and patterns that are emerging. If you’ve
asked a question, notice how these related events could symbolically be an
answer to your question.
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SIGNS
“When you ask for a sign, you are opening to a level of information,
insight, clarity and knowing that pertains to the Self.”
Dr. Gillian Holloway
When you don’t know what to do, you can always ask for a sign. Define your
sign before you ask your question and make it specific. I’ll share a friend’s story
with you to illustrate how to do this.
My friend was thinking about moving across the country several years ago. She
asked for a hawk’s feather to indicate “yes” she should move. She chose a hawk’s
feather because they were so rare where she lived and she knew that if she saw
one, it would definitely be a sign. While she was teaching, her second grade
students found a hawk’s feather in the school yard and brought it to her, saying
they knew it was for her and that she would like it! She got her sign.
When I heard my friend’s story, I decided that whenever I see any kind of
feather on the trail means ‘yes, you are on the right path’ to me. Now, I often ask
a question before I go for a walk in the park (nature preserve) near my house.
Many times, I have seen a feather in answer to my question.
Your sign can be anything you want. The trick here is to ask your question and
let go of it and let your guidance come to you from the outer world. Trust it!
PROCRASTINATION
“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
Mark Twain
Procrastination is such a big issue for many of us. There are seminars and
books and all kinds of self-help tools designed to help us stop procrastinating. But
what if procrastinating isn’t the problem? What if what we’re doing or how we’re
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doing it is the problem? What if procrastination is our soul’s way of getting our
attention and telling us that we’re not supposed to be doing whatever it is that
we are procrastinating about? I believe that procrastination is a message from
your soul that whatever you’re procrastinating on is not aligned for you. The
energy is off somehow. Maybe you’re not supposed to be doing it at all. Maybe
you should be doing it later or tomorrow or next week.
If you notice yourself procrastinating, assume it’s a message from your soul
telling you not to do it. Don’t make yourself do it anyway. Let it go for now. You
will come back when the timing is right and the energy is there. And guess what?!
It will be easier and funner and more fulfilling if you do it when the energy is
there. It might even feel effortless!
~Developing Intuition~ Developing Intuition is easy if you are consistent and pay attention. You can
keep an Intuition Log or track your results in some way so you can get feedback
on how you got the insight and how it panned out – how accurate you were. A
few daily habits can help your intuition grow and strengthen, these include
meditation, exercise, yoga and any kind of anti-stress device you have – taking a
walk, talking to a friend, or being in nature. Intuition can be subtle and hard to
notice.
When we are stressed, we are not as able to pay attention to that small voice
whispering to us or the little feeling in our gut holding us back or the other subtle
signs of our intuitive guidance. Any activity that helps you slow down, de-stress,
and be aware of the present moment will help you build your natural intuitive
ability. It’s also important that you pay attention to the information you get, trust
it and follow it. That’s part of the process for building your intuitive ability.
Because you want to train your natural ability to chart your own course and make
the decisions that are right for you. You do that by paying attention, noticing and
acting.
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One of the biggest challenges for me as I started developing my intuition
(which I am still doing, by the way!) was to follow my intuition even when I
couldn’t explain it logically. If you can let go of understanding, logic, and
explanations, you are ahead in the intuition game!
~Next Steps~ Now that you’ve increased your intuitive ability, you might want to ….
Receive a Soul Alignment Intuitive Reading from me. Soul Alignment Readings are 30, 60, or 90-minute readings that help you understand your life and its challenges from a spiritual perspective, receive clear direction on your next steps, and create the life you’ve always wanted to live. To book your session, please go to http://www.caragubbins.com/services/intuitive-readings/. Choose the length of your session and click on the appropriate “Buy Now” button. Contact me to set up a time to connect by phone or Skype or over the Internet.
Join me for a Soul Awakening Coaching program. On this journey, you will learn how to strengthen your natural intuitive guidance system even more, connect with the divine in your life, express the truth of who you are in any situation and with anyone, and discover and manifest your purpose on the planet. The program is available as an online group coaching experience, as a group coaching experience plus 6 monthly private sessions with me, and as a customized, private program. To book your session, please go to http://www.caragubbins.com/services/181-2/. Choose your journey and click on the appropriate “Buy Now” button. I will contact you will all of your registration details and directions for accessing your life changing material.
Try one of my Online Courses. I offer two 6-week classes that help you get the
most out of your intuition. The first, Opening to Intuition, is the
foundational class that guides you through clearing any energetic blocks to
your intuition and preparing you for receiving intuitive guidance. The
second class, Amplify Your Intuition, picks up where the first class left off
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and gives you the tools and experience to use advanced intuitive tools to
receive your intuitive guidance and conduct and intuitive reading for
yourself. My first online Opening to Intuition class will be held in June
2013. (I’m super excited!) Amplify Your Intuition will be offered beginning
in July 2013 and I hope to offer both of these classes at least twice a year
for a long time to come! I have plans for more classes later this year. Please
check back and visit www.caragubbins.com/classes for more info.
~About the Author~ Dr. Cara Gubbins was born with a natural psychic ability to
which she was highly attuned as a child. Rejection of her
gifts at the age of five by family members caused her to
shut down her intuitive abilities for nearly two decades.
During college, her skills naturally re-surfaced and she
began doing psychic readings for friends in 1985. Since
then she has studied many disciplines of energy readings
and healings, including Matrix Energetics, Reiki, EFT, and traditional psychic
development, including completion of a mediumship class during summer and fall 2012
to strengthen her natural ability to help her clients connect to the spirits of loved ones
who have passed on.
Cara began conducting scientific research as a high school student and she holds
BA, MA and PhD degrees in Animal Behavior, Physiology, Ecology, and Evolution. Cara
and her research have been featured on CNN, the BBC, the Discovery Channel, and
National Geographic Specials. A lifelong learner, Cara recently returned to graduate
school and completed an MA in Spiritual Psychology with an emphasis in
Consciousness, Health and Healing. She continues to take advanced seminars in
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Spiritual Psychology at the University of Santa Monica and graduate classes with her
psychic teacher in Chico, California.
Cara also teaches classes, both in person and online, to people who want to
develop their natural intuitive abilities and explore the ecstasy of their souls. Her classes
include Opening to Intuition, Amplifying Your Intuition, Energy Tools for Pet Lovers,
Intuitive Communication for Pet Lovers and Spiritual Anatomy. Her 6-month Soul
Awakening journeys combine intuitive development with Spiritual Psychology, chakras,
Emotional Freedom Techniques and guided meditations to deeply transform people’s
lives. Her goal is to help women connect with the divine in their lives by tuning into their
own intuitive guidance systems while creating authentic, empowered lives that celebrate
their uniqueness.
Cara also has the ability to communicate intuitively with animals and she combines
her love of animals with her intuitive abilities in her Intuitive practice. She lives with her
husband, their two children, and their Australian shepherd puppy in northern California.
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