Intuition and Psychic Abilities; What’s the Difference?

Intuition and Psychic Abilities; What’s the Difference?

Are intuition and psychic abilities the same thing? As a psychic medium this is a common question I am asked by both students and clients alike. An interesting question to say the least, and the answer may actually surprise you.

Intuition and Psychic Abilities; What’s the Difference?

Many people use the term intuitive and psychic interchangeably. And while it is true that everyone is intuitive, not everyone has psychic abilities.

What do I mean? Intuitive and psychic abilities although similar intrinsically, have one very distinct difference. In order to explain the difference between the two let’s first take a look at each term individually.

Then as an added bonus you will be given the tools to discover if you are intuitive or psychic!

Ready? Let’s go . . .

Intuition

Intuition is described as the innate, initial ‘gut’ feelings, or first impressions you may have about a person, place, or event. Intuition is a broader feeling that something is not quite right about a person or situation, which arises of its own accord. In other words you know something just isn’t right but you can’t explain why.

What may surprise you is that intuition arises from your natural, latent instinct of survival. The term ‘gut feeling’ means coming from the gut; or in terms of the energetic body, the third chakra (solar plexus area).

In terms of your bio-energetic body, the third chakra is not only the originator of your personal power, but it is also responsible for keeping you safe. In other words the third chakra is the seat of your survival instinct, which is that part of you that is constantly assessing the environment around you for potential danger.

In this way your intuition acts somewhat as a unconscious alarm that alerts you to impending conflict or danger, and triggers what is called the flight or fight instinct. The “fight or flight response” is your body’s primitive, automatic, inborn response that prepares the body to “fight” or “flee” from a perceived attack, harm, or threat to your survival.

When activated, the fight or flight response causes a surge of adrenaline and other stress hormones to pump through your body. When your intuition is triggered you will suddenly feel uncomfortable about a person’s intentions, or in regards to a particular circumstance without really being able to discern why. This is similar with that of your psychic abilities however in a much broader sense.

Psychic Abilities

While it’s true that everyone is intuitive, and not everyone is psychic, those who are skilled in the psychic arts use both their intuition and psychic abilities simultaneously. And while your intuitive impressions are often ambiguous (i.e. something is just not right about this situation), psychic impressions are more detailed.

There are a few notable reasons for this, the first being that your intuitive instinct will spontaneously arise when triggered, but your psychic skills are activated by conscious will; which enables you to receive more clarity and insight about people, places, things, and events.

And secondly, while your intuition is centered around your instinctual gut feelings, or third chakra, your psychic knowing relies on information gleaned from the upper four energy centers or chakras in your energetic body.

This makes your psychic impressions not only more reliable, but also more powerful because your psychic assessment is more objective, balanced, and detached.

The Psychic Chakras

The upper four chakras in the energy body are responsible for helping you to assess your psychic impressions at a deeper level in order to help you decipher the information you are receiving. They allow you to feel, see, hear, and to know on a more profound level so that you can formulate a clearer course of action in any particular situation.

These four chakras, also known as the psychic chakras, are the: heart, throat, third eye, and crown chakras; and each interpret and communicate psychic impressions in a way that is individually unique. I call these four psychic communication centers your ‘intuitive speak’, or psychic communication style.

Your intuitive speak consists of what is commonly called the four clairs:

• Clairsentience or ‘clear feeling’ (heart chakra)
• Clairaudience or ‘clear hearing’ (throat chakra)
• Clairvoyance or ‘clear seeing’ (third eye chakra)
• Claircognizance or ‘clear knowing’ (crown chakra)

Many people have a mix of one or more of these four main psychic communication skills which develop and blossom through use over time. Here is an everyday example of the difference between your intuition and psychic abilities in action.

Intuition – You want to sell your house and an acquaintance recommends a real estate agent. You call the agent up and set up an appointment. She comes to your house and immediately upon meeting her you ‘feel’ in your gut that something is not right about her. She is professionally dressed, and has a pleasing personality, but something inside you is making you feel uncomfortable while you were talking to her.

Psychic Abilities – You want to sell your house and an acquaintance recommends a real estate agent. You call the agent up and set up an appointment. She comes to your house and immediately upon meeting her you ‘feel’ in your gut that something is not right about her, so you tune in to your psychic knowing to discover more. Although she is professionally dressed, and has a pleasing personality you see a picture detail about her in the form of a police mug shot, and you hear the words “con artist”, or perhaps you have a sudden psychic download or “knowing” that she is going to try to swindle you.

Acting on your psychic impressions you tell her that you need to mull things over before signing any paperwork. And despite her attempts to hard-sell you into procuring her services you stand your ground. Later, after doing a bit of investigation you discover that your psychic impressions about her were correct.

Are you intuitive or psychic?

So are you intuitive or psychic – how can you know? You’ve already learned that everyone is intuitive, but not everyone has fully developed their psychic skills. Psychic development is a skill, and like other skills it needs to be honed through practice. For a test of your innate psychic abilities please refer to the following article Intuition; How to Trust Your Gut which will also provide you with a detailed look at the four clairs.

Do you want to live a life full of peace, love, and clarity? Then do yourself an incredible flavor by taking the time to start to deepen your psychic abilities beginning today. Your intuition and psychic abilities go hand-in-hand. Both are Divine Gifts that are intended to not only keep you safe, but to also help you navigate through life smoothly. The most significant difference is that your intuition operates from instinct while your psychic abilities are activated by conscious will.

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