that sixth sense...

is a wonderful thing! when we listen to it...

so this morning i was chatting to one of my best friends about a coupla things and we got onto dreams, mindfulness, intuition - so a good chat really - loads of the topics i love to chat about...kinda funny though that only a few hours ago we were talking about it, and then, just now, i really really needed to use mine!

so i'm on the phone to a potential client today and i get a sense (or is it a feeling??) that there is something i'm not being told, something i need to know and something that if i know, will alter my response to this person and whether or not i offer my service as a counsellor to him...so i follow my intuition and ask a very difficult (read as personal, probing and confronting) question...

what he goes on to tell me is that the issue is incest....it doesn't horrify me (i'm a trained therapist, so i'm not easily shockable), doesn't make me uncomfortable necessarily, but it is NOT an area i want to be working in, and i'm very clear on that! funny coz as a student and a novice counsellor, and more so, a person without a strong voice (and i don't mean vocally!), i would have struggled or felt bad for having the conversation i just had, but not today....and honestly, i am very very glad that i chose to listen to my intuition today...

it's funny, but because our intuition isn't visible we often under-estimate it's power, we often don't believe that it's more real than something we can see, feel, hear, smell or taste...but it is! and when we use it and listen to it and start to embrace it....it often works WAY better than the other senses! as i said to my girl friend this morning, just coz you can't see it, doesn't mean it's not real!

guess that's why it's called the sixth sense...and even though we can't see it, touch it, smell it etc, there is definitely a SENSE one gets when we should be listening to our intuition...