"My Psychic Gifts" has probably worked and it's brought you here, thinking that I'm going to tell you I can speak to the dead or going to quote the famous movie "The Sixth Sense" with the "I see dead people", which isn't entirely true, but what I am going to explain to you, are the psychic abilities and "sixth sense" I do possess and how they came to be.
Throughout my childhood, I had certain thoughts or "premonitions" that turned out to be true, but as a child I never really thought about them or understood what they were. I thought it was normal and that everyone could do this, so I never told anyone. What I did tell my mum was, that I had recollections of my past life and how I died. They weren't big believers in that sort of stuff so it was never really discussed and just kind of passed off as something a child would say. As I've got older, I have a greater sense of what I said as a child and how I do believe it to be true, or true to the extent in which I have vivid memories of things I can't just put my finger on. (They didn't happen in this life, I don't remember them in that way, but rather that I have memories of my death, but I don't know who I am, or exactly where I am, but I always remember the exact same scene, more so the feeling from that scene than the picture itself).
"The Cloud"
This part may be long-winded, but it's important. This is the story of the domestic trauma that really lead to the outcome of my psychic abilities protruding their heads.
With hindsight comes great power, the power to say "Oh if only I had did this, if only I had said this, or that". Hindsight is powerful because when we get to a place where we know hindsight, we are then at a place where "the cloud", that I talk about, has lifted.
What is "the cloud" you ask? I can only describe "the cloud" in terms of a great mist, a great fog it feels, that entirely encompasses your brain, your thoughts and your cognitive function. You may have experienced this in the past or at some time in your life. Drama, stress, trauma may have occurred (or nothing at all), and you feel unable to think properly or to get your thoughts right. I'm sure it's happened to most of us, it can even happen when you're tired. So when I discuss "the cloud" throughout my works and writings, you will understand what I'm referring to and what state of mind I mean.
Domestic Abuse.
Well I had the cloud for roughly 3 years. Every day, for around 3 years. I couldn't think straight and I never felt able to recognise my own feelings and emotions from what was the truth and what was false. You see, I now live in total recognition of my own gut instinct. We all have a gut instinct, some may call it a "sixth sense", "intuition" or something altogether different, but we all have one, some of us just choose to fine tune it to make it sharper, and make us more aware of our "sixth sense".
In hindsight, my gut instinct protected me from the minute I met him, but I didn't fully trust it then. I hadn't yet done the work on myself to become the full version I was yet to become. So as I've began this writing with, hindsight is truly a wonderful thing. "If only I had honed in on my gut instinct, I wouldn't be sitting where I am today", but that's exactly it. I wouldn't be here, with the psychic abilities I have now, able to fully trust my intuition, I would still be oblivious to how powerful I truly am. So I am entirely grateful for the 3 years of abuse, in a "hindsight" sort of way.
At the time I couldn't have been less grateful, this cloud never left. I blamed it on all sorts of things, "motherhood", my dad getting cancer, moving away from home, "grieving". But truthfully, my cloud was none of these things, but one person itself. One person that was chipping away at me daily, that I was entirely blind to see. I never noticed it at the time, I just knew something didn't feel right. My "spirit guides", or my "instincts" were screaming at me to wake up, to trust myself, to trust that I knew there was something not right, something not adding up.
"The Jigsaw" I created, which lead me to the truth.
(The jigsaw I talk about is a time in my life where I was being lied to in a domestic abuse setting, and it was my way of finding out the truth, this is that story of how I did that).
And so my work to find out the truth began... I didn't just wake up one day and decide I needed to trust myself, or that I needed to start finding and literally creating jigsaw pieces for this masterpiece which I refer to as "the jigsaw" to come together. Oh no, it was slow. It took days, weeks, months that then turned into a year or two, to finally draw on all my sources to complete this jigsaw and stand back to reveal the final piece.
To figure out a jigsaw, you need pieces. But what do you do when you don't have pieces? Well, if you're resourceful like me, you will make those pieces yourself. With this method some might argue that the jigsaw pieces then fit my bias, and that may be true... but I always tried and tested out my pieces before I identified them as a worthy piece. This would come in the form of asking people, close to the perpetrator, asking them to identify what I seen as a jigsaw piece, asking them to put their spin on things and asking them the truth. Ultimately, all I wanted was the truth. So, if a jigsaw piece did not fit, I disregarded it entirely. I was not there to waste my time to try and paint a picture of someone to fit my narrative. I wanted to fully believe that my gut was wrong, that I was wrong. That the jigsaw piece was some fathom of my imagination and that I, truly was, going nuts.
Unfortunately, the more pieces I created, the more information I gathered from sources, the more I realised my gut instinct had been 100% correct and I was on to something. There was no eureka moment, in fact, just a sick feeling that never left. The cloud feeling that engulfed my full being. With my jigsaw pieces, and the cloud not leaving, I was unable at times to fully understand to the extent of what my findings actually were, but as I say, in hindsight, and with the help of professionals and friends, they were able to guide me on my journey to finding exactly where those jigsaw pieces fit into. Without my friends, my spirit guides (which I didn't fully recognise at the time) and these professionals, I fear to think where I would be with my findings, for ultimately it was my gut instinct and my friends who were able to give their outside spin on things to help me see where I was, where I needed to be and where I was heading if I didn't kick myself into check.
You see, I have two little children, two little people who look up to me and their whole world is based around. "Mother is God in the eyes of a child", I couldn't fail for them. I needed to survive, I needed to create something, I needed to find my answers so to push myself down the right path. I questioned myself many times, I questioned my gut, I questioned the professional bodies and I questioned my friends. Thankfully, all were fully committed to my healing and my growth and therefore were patient in dealing with all my queries. Thankfully, they stayed by my side every step of the way and for that I am forever grateful. They guided me when I couldn't guide myself, they held me when I no longer had the strength and courage to go on.
But my most important figure throughout this traumatic time, was my spirit guide/my intuition. When the cloud was there and I couldn't fully understand what was happening to me, I was somehow still guided on this journey to a better place. To a safe, and comfortable place of knowing. (Ultimately, away from my abuser and back home).
My Spirit Guides
Because I've always had this gift, I tried to push it away, I didn't want to be "weird" or "different", people look at you like you're mad when you try to explain this stuff, so I didn't want it. But what I went through in terms of my domestic abuse, I believe it happened to get me back onto the right track. I was given this gift for a reason, and I don't quite know what that is yet. But I now believe in myself and my abilities, and I don't think I would have if I hadn't had to rely so much on myself and my "Spirit Guides" through my trauma.
To trust in myself and my instincts, has been the biggest gift to me throughout this all. There is nothing I fear anymore, I know I will have myself at all times and if needs be I can call on my "spirit guides" to help.
When I say "spirit guides" you might be thinking I mean ghosts or spirits, not entirely. I use the term "spirit guides" in place for "intuition" or "gut instinct", I'm not entirely sure which term I prefer or which rings truer to me. What my spirit guides do for me, is that sometimes I get information that I can't have known, I get information into my thinking and my consciousness that has just popped up. I might not have asked for this information and I might not understand it at that time, but it can come in the form of a thought bubble, as a message, or as a question. I sometimes see in my minds eye, a place, a colour, a person, a name or something entirely unrelated to whatever I may be doing at that time. I don't know if that is a being or simply an energy without a "being", a higher self or something altogether different, but I refer to it as my "spirit guide", it is a safe and beautiful energy, that I fully trust and feel comfortable with, I cannot see it but I can feel it guides me.
Before I would have wrote this off as "random thinking", and depending on how stressed I am, sometimes the thoughts are simply compulsive, intrusive thoughts that aren't in any way related to my gut, (as we all get this sort of thinking).
The way that I differentiate between just normal intrusive thoughts and actual messages, is that I give myself time and space, I leave the thought or the image where it is and I will ensure I'm not stressed, I'll maybe have a bath, meditate or listen to my mantra (which is monks "OM" chanting at 432hz), then I will see if the thought comes to me again. Usually, my gut instinct has a way of making these thoughts or messages come back, and I will physically feel it to be true, but this took a lot of work to understand what is "overthinking" or an actual gut feeling. In the beginning of your journey into trusting your gut, you will find it difficult to differentiate between the two, wither it's just your own thinking or from another source, (i.e your intuition/spirit guides).
Sixth Sense
I've always felt like I've had a connection to the "other side" and at times throughout my life I have seen things out of the corner of my eye that haven't been there, that I know haven't been there but have put down to being "tired" or whatever else. I've looked at photos and pointed at people I don't know and can say their name totally unaware how I've known it. I've been in places where the energy is quite awful and I've had to leave, with no explanation. It's always been there and I've always had proof, but how much proof do we need before we believe? It's only as I am becoming more comfortable with this side of myself, learning my own boundaries of what energy I will allow in and what energy I won't, that I'm feeling more confident in exploring who I am and what way my psychic abilities show themselves.
Being a natural empath, brings us that bit closer to the energy fields we live in and are surrounded by, they are so close we can almost touch. And if you just open yourself to them, that's when we can receive messages and realise how gifted we truly can be.
There are many different ways to explore your "sixth sense", we all have one and we may just choose not to use it. For instance, I do not hear things and I do not see ghosts walk about. But I feel energies, and I'm not fully aware yet if these energies are the spirits of people that have passed or what they are. I also receive messages in my consciousness that can be completely random, I can read a persons energy, see their visible aura and sometimes I'm able to draw experiences from their past that they haven't yet told me about, or very rarely I have had messages of their future, but not often does this happen.
Predict the Future
I have been asked to "predict the future" and I always explain to people, that if I receive a message I will let you know, but I can't ask for it to come to me, it just comes in it's own time.
In the same breathe, I am not here to "prove" myself to anyone, this is not something I make fun of or mock. I don't pretend to be a "medium", and I don't go around handing out "advice" that comes to me, I quietly acknowledge all that I know within myself, this is the first time I have ever went public with any of it. People close to me have always known, most are completely supportive, and I appreciate sceptical people. I don't have answers for you, I don't know why I know the stuff I do, I'm still learning that myself, so whatever questions you have, I have already asked myself 100x over.
I was dubbed the "human lie detector" by those closest to me who seen how I worked with my "gifts" and exposed many lies, even if there were no evidence to prove it was a "lie". I no longer have to question people, I will just know now if what they are saying is truthful or not, and for that I can be thankful to my gut/intuition/spirit guide.
This spans into all aspects of my life, especially relationships. If I make a connection with someone, I will then be able to feel their energy and tell many things about them without verbal communication. My kids are especially conscious of this.
I'm a lover of science, of facts and of cold hard evidence, so this doesn't entirely fit my narrative of the world we know, but I admire it also, as it provides questions into what we know about the world today, and what we may not know. It is simply fascinating.
I am excited to learn more and to see what the future holds with regards to my intuition. I have been researching and studying NDE's (Near Death Experiences) and what science is telling us about them, about our consciousness. My own grandfather had a NDE and I wish he was here today to explain it all to me as I've only heard it second-hand from someone else. I find it fascinating. Quantum Physics explains to us that we are all energy, that the universe is energy, that we are all connected and the energy we cannot physically see is still very much around us. So what is that energy? No one knows.
Trust in yourself.
I hope in a few years to come I can come back and update this blog, in saying how much more I've learnt by allowing myself to delve deeper into this topic. I don't think it'll go as far as mediumship, but I'm happy with where the process takes me.
I don't know who this is going to reach, and I don't know what way people are going to take it. But it's my blog, and I need to write this down for my own sake, to document for myself. Someone out there is maybe in the process of trusting their own gut, or maybe unable to identify what they're going through. Be it domestic related or not, there comes a time where we all need some guidance. And all I can say is, trust your gut, your spirit guides, your intuition or whatever it is you want to call it, because ultimately, it will only ever put you on the right path and show you the truth.
Take Care,
Meghan x