There are plenty of reasons to start paying attention to your intuition and to even take steps to strengthen it. It can help you make better decisions. You can avoid energy-draining people. Heck, it might even save your life. (Think of all the people who avoided becoming victims of the 2001 World Trade Center Terrorist Attacks because they had an urge to stay away.) But another reason you should get serious about strengthening your intuition is because you can literally cause physical harm to yourself by suppressing it.
Forget about the fact that ignoring your psychic abilities can cause you to miss out on a message to turn right when an accident is about to occur straight ahead. I’m talking about all the ways we inflict damage on ourselves by trying to shut out our intuition and other metaphysical abilities we’re not comfortable with.
Consider these scenarios and whether you can relate to them.
You don’t want to know the truth
You’re in a relationship with someone – could be a marriage or just a committed partnership. You start to get this icky feeling that something is not right. You feel like your partner is lying to you. You suspect they may be seeing someone behind your back. You have no evidence of this but you just sense that your world is dangerously close to being rocked. No, if you’re honest with yourself, you know your world is close to being rocked.
But you don’t want to trust that feeling.
As a matter of fact, you’d rather find a way to make sure you don’t get feelings like that anymore. You don’t want to know this information; you want to ignore your psychic abilities entirely. Intuition is bad when it’s telling you something you don’t want to hear!!!
So you dull your senses by drinking more wine than usual or eating your favorite sweets and fatty foods. You’ve noticed that when you do these things, you’re less likely to notice that knot in the pit of your stomach that seems to twist whenever your partner finds an excuse to stay away. At the same time, you’re damaging your health through your unhealthy Pizza Hut binge eating sessions.
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You’re afraid others will disapprove of your beliefs
There are other dangers. Many people avoid their psychic abilities because they believe they would be unaccepted by their families and loved ones if they knew the truth. And they might be right. Their loved ones may be very religious and think psychic ability and psychic tools such as tarot cards are evil. So they either hide their interest in spirituality or they suppress it entirely. (Both of those choices can be harmful because they cause you to shut down your authenticity.) While I am not a member of the LGBTQ community and I would never want to suggest that I understand what ‘coming out’ is like, I do think showing your true self as a metaphysical person who is interested in New Age topics can spark a similar fear of rejection. You may even feel guilty when you try to strengthen your psychic abilities if you were raised to think doing meant you were a bad Christian or were being led by a so-called ‘devil.’
You have noone to teach you how to cope with psychic abilities
For those who have a very strong natural psychic ability, suppressing it can be even more damaging. Say you’re clairaudient, meaning you hear psychic messages, and you don’t understand the skill. You may start to wonder if you’re hearing voices or if you’re even sane! While mental illness is a real thing and I’m not trying to suggest it’s not, I do believe that some people have been wrongly labeled ‘mentally ill’ because they had psychic abilities that they didn’t understand and didn’t know how to integrate into their lives. That’s why those who have super-strong abilities should seek out a psychic mentor who can help them learn the ins and outs of using their skills.
Depending on your community and your background, exploring your psychic abilities can be scary. It can be a big f-ing deal. But ignoring psychic abilities can put you in worse shape. Maybe it’s time to take a breath, put your interests first and start reclaiming the life you incarnated here to live.
