What is Intuitive Guidance? What it Is and Isn’t

Many people know the kinds of problems that a counselor can help you with, but what about intuitive guidance? How is it the same, and how is it different from traditional counseling?

In its broadest sense, intuitive guidance can be defined as guiding a person to see their choices and way to go in life. An intuitive guide can help you see things from a different perspective, unravel issues, make decisions, sort out relationships and deal with health issues. However,  an intuitive guide will not make any decisions for you; the choice of what to do is up to you.

This is all similar to a traditional therapist. 

However, how the information is gathered and presented back to the client during an intuitive guidance session is very different from traditional counseling. Unlike traditional counseling, there is no deep dive into your family tree and family history, or probing of feelings and lengthy discussions about your family or relationship dynamics.

The kind of information that comes through is very different from a traditional counseling session. The information is usually very direct and personal to you, not theoretical or reflective or role play based.

It involves using information that is perceived and received from beyond the five senses. It transcends what can be known through smell, sight, taste, touch and hear audibly.

It extends beyond ordinary thinking processes and reasoning to tap into intuition. Sometimes this is called ‘gut feelings’, or what your heart says, or what your soul is saying. Some call it connecting to your higher self or spirit guides. 

 Most commonly it is explained as connecting to the state of higher consciousness, or the divine, that exists in and around us all the time.

Intuitive abilities are natural and not supernatural. 

Are there different types of Guidance?

Yes, there are many different ways to sense and give intuitive guidance.

They are often explained in terms of the ‘Clairs’. This is a word that comes from the French language: ‘Clair’ translates to  ‘clear’ in English. 

• Claircognizance is clear knowing. 

• Clairvoyance is clear sight.

• Clairaudience is clear hearing or sound.

• Clairalience is clear smell (detecting scents). 

• Clairgustance is clear taste.

• Clairsentience is clear touch.

What happens during an intuitive guidance session?

It varies from intuitive guide to intuitive guide.

Tannis explains that “[w]hen I am doing a mediumship reading, I connect to my higher self and my spirit guides/team as well as my clients higher self, guides/team. I also ask God/Source/Creator to come in to protect the space and only allow benevolent beings in that have the best messages and only 100% positive intentions for the reading. And yes, I can tell the difference between them. :)”

Since an intuitive guide connects to your higher self only with the permission from your higher self, it is not an invasion of privacy. 

An intuitive  guide facilitates the asking of questions you want to ask your higher self and then receives and perceives the answers, and usually only you will fully understand the answer provided. The intuitive guide passes on information rather than interprets it for you.

It a not a psychic reading or Akashic record reading. It is not cryptic like a tarot card reading. It is not future focussed or fortune telling. 

Intuitive guidance seeks to empower, not control a person. 

It is not disempowering in any way. There is never any laying of blame or shaming involved. 

How do you feel during and after an intuitive reading? 

Some people report feeling nervous or apprehensive about what they may hear or learn during an intuitive reading. Others are excited and eager to get a new perspective on a problem or troublesome issue, and happy to be surprised or validated by what they hear. 

Emotional breakthroughs are common during a reading, and often the realization of something is enough to start healing an issue, or instantly heal it. Some intuitive guides are also able to remove blocks in your energy fields related to issues and traumas as well (using a wide variety of   energy healing ). 

While intuitive guidance is often used in conjunction with energy healing modalities, it is a powerful modality in its own right. It is complementary rather than a replacement for energy work. 

An intuitive reading is often described as leaving clients feeling uplifted, enlightened  liberated, and empowered, both during and after a reading. 

How Can I Know Which Intuitive Guidance Method is Best for Me?

The next step is to determine which kind of intuitive guidance modality would suit you and provide you with the most benefit for your situation.

Go with your gut. the best way to know is to try out different modalities. Read about what each modality does so you can match a modality to your problem and preferences.

There are many types of intuitive healing and guidance sessions you can choose, so stay tuned for more articles with deep dives into different aspects of intuitive guidance and healing approaches.

If you are still uncertain, you are warmly invited to book a free consultation with Tannis at Tannisstuckless.com