The Power of the Intuitive Arts

While there are people who are naturally fascinated by the occult arts and spiritual disciplines, the vast majority of people seek out a consultation with an astrologer, Reiki master, psychic medium or energy worker after they have undergone a long and painful period of hardship. Suffering is by far the most common entranceway through which people venture into the worlds beyond. What is it that so many people are seeking in the intuitive arts? Why do we instinctively reach for these modalities when we are trying to enhance our well-being? Let’s look at some of the therapeutic benefits that have kept people returning to the wellspring of these ancient disciplines for so many centuries.

Seeing the Bigger Picture

Above all what we seek in the starry skies or the magnetic fields of energy is an answer to the question: why?!

We seek a sense, in the midst of chaos, that there is indeed an ordering principle to the Universe that we have not yet grasped.

When medicines have failed to cure a disease, or when we have a long series of failed relationships, or we cannot make headway in our career, we want to know there is a codifiable reason— that there is some boundary line which we have been transgressing or ignoring— the comprehension of which will restore balance to our lives.

Fortunately, the intuitive arts do indeed unveil the harmonious order hidden beneath the tumultuous tides of life, by opening our eyes to the layers of reality that lie beyond the physical.

The body/mind interface experiences a very tiny range of frequency called visible light, and there is very, very much in this Universe which falls outside of this range. The five human senses of sight, sound, taste, touch and smell provide only a very limited window into what is really there. If the range of your senses were augmented just a little, much more of the Universe would come into view!

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This may sound the like New Age “woo-woo” until you consider the animal kingdom. Cats can see in infrared frequencies that humans cannot.  Dogs can hear sound waves that are far too high for the human ear to register. The reality that our animal friends live in includes things that are not “real” to us at all— yet can we really deny their existence?

All that you see only appears in the shape and form that it does because your sensory apparatus is “built” with certain limits and filters. Psychics, mediums and energy healers are often born without these filters, or else they have learned how to lift them at will. They are thus able to directly witness the Universal energy field and the aura, and receive communications from the deceased, angels, spirit guides and Ascended Masters.

A reading with such a person can be tremendously therapeutic for someone in grief, for once you realize that the invisible worlds are just as real as the physical one, you internalize the fact that your loved ones are never really gone. Similarly, you need not feel anguish at the limitations of science or medicine when you discover that there is an entirely different way of “operating” upon and healing the body.

Health, Wealth and Happiness

One of the basic tenets of energy healing is that all disease originates in the psyche. A disease is only the physical manifestation of an unhealthy attitude or an emotional trauma that has been left untended. If you work directly upon the energetic issue that has caused the disease, the disease clears up of its own accord.

Energy workers, Reiki Masters and medical intuitives are able to read the energetic blueprint of your physical vessel and see how energy is moving through the etheric double, affecting the health of the physical body. A doctor can perform tests or x-rays to spot which organ is malfunctioning, but an energy worker can see beyond the physical ailment into its roots in the mind.

The seven chakras that fall along the central column of the spine correspond to different levels or modes of consciousness and their respective planes of manifestation. If a given center is open and healthy, this tells us that the physical organs associated with the chakra are functioning well, but also that the individual is manifesting healthy behavior and attitudes in the corresponding area of life.

If a given center is contracted, this indicates that the individual is practicing unhealthy attitudes, beliefs or emotional patterns in a certain area of life, and thus constricting the flow of life force or chi to the associated parts of the body.

The implications of the state of balance within the energy body are innumerable and extend far beyond physical health. When chakras are open and balanced, we are energetic, productive, loving, perceptive, awake, confident and self-respecting. We instinctively choose what is healthy and effortlessly turn away from what is not. We have an easy time identifying and going after what we want, and we are successful in getting it.  We feel a sense of “belonging”— something absolutely essential for mental health— because we connect spontaneously and authentically with people who support and nurture us.

When the chakras are blocked, we are not allowing life force to move through the body freely. We may be inhibited in our ability to give or receive love, or our streams of wealth, security and resources may stagnate. We might feel sickly, uninspired, depressed, lethargic, disorganized, disoriented, or lacking in self-confidence. We stray from the path of our best interests, and frequently our lives are filled with logistical problems, sickness, hardships and shortages.

The body is a temple, and this temple can become a magnificent conductor of energy if we tend to it with the proper care. Meditation, yoga, diet, aromatherapy, sound healing, shamanic therapy and crystal working all cleanse and purify the aura, helping us to allow in etheric nourishment and release what we do not need. Intuitive healers can also teach you how to create an uplifting, “high vibrational” environment that nurtures you etherically on the subtle level.

Understanding Your Shadow

Every person has some chronic difficulty or habit of self-undoing— a pattern of operating that circles back again and again just when one thinks oneself free of it. Often it seems that, try as we might, we cannot seem to make any permanent headway on this problem; it is as though we are doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over again.

Intuitives can see through the messy chaos of our circumstances to the root cause of our addiction, unhealthy relationship patterns, toxic lifestyle habits or financial troubles. Beneath any compulsive behavior is an unmet need, and intuitives help us put a name to the deeply buried hunger that is upsetting the balance of the psyche from below the threshold of the conscious mind.  We can stop driving ourselves into ditches only after we identify who has been driving the car.

The core issue will seem obvious once it has been spoken, even though it has proven elusive for so long. A poignant phrase from a guide or Master brings a feeling of relief washing over the body— a moment of “aha!” or “of course!” , as the clouds part and everything becomes clear. Indeed, spiritual sessions often have a feeling of familiarity or “coming home”, as though you are remembering something you have always known.

This is because you do already know all the information that comes through any reading. Information that shows up in a Tarot spread or that comes through a psychic medium reorients you to a higher order that you’ve lost sight of, or brings your attention directly to something that you have been glossing over.

Often the most helpful kind of information that comes from a reading is a re-ordering of priorities, or a new, crystal clear definition of an important concept, value or goal. Such re-definitions can be extremely helpful in lifting us out of downward spiral or breaking the vicious cycle of a negative feedback loop.

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