Stephanie: In one of our Second Acts stories, Denise Cerreta recounts having an ah-ha moment, an intuitive insight that lead her to found a nonprofit, pay-what-you-want restaurant. What’s the difference between an intuitive insight, and just getting a good idea?
Peggy: With an ah-ha moment, it’s as if time stops and then all of a sudden you hear, feel or know some new revelation. In my workshops, I teach people how to connect with this space so they can access it all the time, any time. You learn to trust it through practice. If you venture away from knowledge you’ve intuited, you’ll feel as though something’s wrong and you’ll be redirected. If you follow your knowing, then you can trust that you’re meant to go in this direction. Often, people will change direction only to find out it’s the wrong decision. Which leads them right back to their initial instinct. These are good mistakes to make because you’ll learn over time to trust that knowing or feeling part of yourself.
You can also do this exercise when you have a question: Write it down on a piece of paper. Make the question very specific, with time frames and other details. Put it on your nightstand before you go to sleep and ask to get the answer in the middle of the night or the next morning. This way you open yourself to the knowledge. Also, psychic information is circular, meaning if you don’t “get” it the first time, it will come back around again and again. You can also just observe yourself as you hold the written question in front of you, and see if you get a strong knowing or gut feeling. It takes constant practice and awareness to hone your instinct or intuition, but the more you use it, the stronger it gets. It took me a long time to fully trust the information that was coming through to me, and I found that the more I trusted it, the deeper the impact would be for the people I was seeing.
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