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Welcome back to the don't wait for your wake up call podcast. I

am your host Melissa dealey. And this month my phim is intuition

something we all have, but do we listen to it? Firstly, I'd love

to share a testimonial I received recently from someone

who listened to her intuition that her stomach issues were

caused by being on a prescription drug for way too

long. And now she needed to heal her gut. After doing some

research she found Dr. coveralls CBO protocol and purchased it

but found following it was difficult. She didn't know if

she was doing it right or where to turn to for support. So she

put a comment in the group on Facebook which I was alerted to

and reached out to her to offer the support she was looking for.

And here is her testimonial. Melissa found me last fall

thanks to the natural healing of echolife and since then, she has

been a godsend. In June of 2021. I was having all kinds of

stomach issues due to being told to stay on Pilocytic for way too

long, following a stomach ulcer diagnosis. Fast forward to the

fall of 2021. I had developed food intolerances and had

constant indigestion type pain under my ribs. I was on my path

to healing while doing the CVO protocol from Dr. Cabral. When

Melissa took me under her wings and guided me to healing, it was

a very long, hard struggle with many frustrations and tears.

Melissa was with me every step of the way, her support and kind

uplifting words are something I will forever be grateful for.

Fast forward to 2022, my gut has healed, I no longer have food

intolerances and have never felt healthier or better. Not only

did Melissa teach me about gut health, she also taught me it

was okay to not be okay. And to make time for me. I have learned

stress relief techniques to calm the nervous system that I have

also used in my feisty toddler. Melissa is a wealth of knowledge

and truly cares about her clients, she goes above and

beyond, she truly cares. Thank you, Melissa for all you have

done for me and taught me. And that is from Jamie Mackiewicz in

Pennsylvania. So thank you for sending that in Jamie, I've

truly loved guiding you and your gut back to full health and love

the progress you have made. So let's get back to talking about

intuition. And what is the definition of intuition? I

looked it up. And it is the ability to understand something

immediately without the need for conscious reasoning. That last

bit is key without the need for conscious reasoning. In other

words, it is driven by our unconscious mind, that part of

us that keeps us alive by keeping us breathing or heart

pumping our digestive system working and breaking down our

food, and so much more without us ever giving it a second

thought. In fact, our unconscious preserves the body

despite the lifestyle choices we make and what we put in it. Just

stop and think about that for a minute. Do you ever stop and

think about breaking down the food that you put into your

body? You know, do you ever stop and think about your heart

pumping and choosing to keep it pumping, you might notice it if

you're doing a workout and you get your heart rate up. You

might consciously slow down and think about your breath. But

there's so much happening inside our body thanks to our

unconscious mind that happens despite what we do and what we

put inside our body because that is all part of the

responsibility of our brain which is to keep us safe and

keep us alive. So our unconscious mind is responsible

for 90% of our brain function, whereas our conscious mind is

only responsible for 10 percent, which is where you hear that

saying that we only use 10% of our brain, we're actually using

it all. But we are only consciously aware of the part

that is 10%, right. But we can tap into the other 90%. And one

way of doing that is to learn to tap into your intuition. We all

have intuition, but for some, it's stronger than others. And

there are several reasons for this. Those people who have a

stronger intuition or opening too, are open to listening to

their intuition. They slow down enough to listen to their

intuition, or intuition. When we're in a Go, go go doo doo

doo, rush, rush rush mode, we are not hearing our intuition,

we're in a state that is far too consciously driven at that

point. They also practice listening to their intuition, it

is like a muscle and the more you slow down and allow yourself

to be guided by your intuition, the more you can be as your

awareness of it increases. And of course, it's not just humans

that have intuitive intuition. Look at the entire animal

kingdom. I mean, they put so much of what animals do is run

on intuition. You just need to look at the pets in your own

house to see that right. And animals in the wild too. They

intuitively know which food may not be good for them, and which

food may be good for them, right. And we even know that as

young children when we listen to our bodies, but sometimes that

gets overwritten by parents who meant well. And we're

encouraging us to eat everything on our plate because there's

children starving in Africa, etc. And we're not allowed to

not eat the food that intuitively our body is

suggesting, doesn't want. And as young children, we don't

necessarily have the vocabulary, or even the gumption to stand up

against those well meaning parents telling us we can't

leave the table until we've eaten everything on our plate.

And over time, we learned to tune out our intuition. Because

that must be important when we have to listen to what our

parents are telling us, right. So the way we listen to our

intuition can also vary. For some it might be a feeling in

their gut, hence the saying listen to your gut, for some

maybe felt more in the heart area. For others, it might be a

random idea that just pops into your head. It can be felt in

different ways in the same person. I know for me, I feel my

intuition in my gut. But I do also get those random messages,

ideas, thoughts popping into my head. And sometimes it's a

little bit of the butterflies in our gut, that can be a sign of

nerves as well. And our our nervous system kind of turned on

because we're stepping outside our comfort zone. Like if we've

got a big race or a piano recital or settlers speech.

We can feel those butterflies. But we do have a knowing in our

gut it is, after all, our second brain. So now I am definitely

not an expert in the field of intuition. But I am learning and

I'm excited to bring you two ladies who are experts in

intuition to my show this month in episode number 70 and 72.

Cheryl Brewster who is an intuitive coach who I've worked

with myself, as well as Laura Powers, who is an entertainer,

celebrity psychic actress, model host of her own podcast, healing

powers, podcasts and TV show behind the scenes with Laura

powers. So I'm super excited to have both of these wonderful

ladies on the show this month to share their expertise on the

topic. But today, I just want to share with you a few of my

experiences with intuition, as you may relate. And it may

encourage you to or spark an interest to, you know, start

digging into your own intuition again, and figuring it out and

learning how to listen to it and interpret what it's trying to

tell you. Right. So whether this is all brand new to you or you

are possibly afraid of your intuition as I was. Or you might

be dipping your toes into working with your intuition and

looking for guidance to learn more. Stick with me these four

weeks and I promise you will learn a lot. If you're enjoying

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the link in the show notes.

So when I was a very young child, probably three to four

years old, I have a memory of my mom telling me in the morning

one morning that she'd woken in the night and knew that my dad

had been in a car accident. We lived in Australia at the time,

and he had driven down to Thredbo, a ski resort. And as I

said, she knew he had been in an accident. And that kind of

frightened me. But soon after he had called, and told her that he

had been in an accident and that he was okay. And so she was able

to go back to sleep. So all's well that ends well, right. But

as a four year old, or three year old, however old I was this

whole conversation frighten me. Firstly, the thought of my dad

being in a car accident was scary. But I was also confused

as to how my mum knew that before he even called her and I

decided, I didn't want to know stuff ahead of time like that.

And honestly, I don't remember if I had the cognitive ability

to make that decision at age four. Or if I made it at an

older age when I heard my mom retelling that story, because

that is a very conscious mind decision. Regardless, I didn't

want to know bad things. And so I unconsciously spent a lot of

time blocking my intuition, as that felt safer to me. But

ironically, our intuition of course, can also keep us safe.

And another event occurred when I was four, that I remember

clear as day. And we do tend to remember traumatic incidents

that occurred before age six, even though we don't remember a

lot of what happened in our life before age six, our unconscious

mind remembers all of it, but our conscious mind doesn't

remember it. But this was traumatic. And that is why I

remember this particular event. So well. I was baking in the

kitchen with my mom and her intuition kicked in, she told me

to run to check to see if my two year old brother was with my

dad, who was in the garage, I ran to the garage, and he did

not have my brother. So I ran back and reported to mom that my

brother was not with dad, she took off ran out of the kitchen

outside to our pool that we had literally just had built and

gated, and she looked over the fence at the pool, couldn't see

him in the pool or any or anywhere around the pool area.

So we ran around the house looking for him. And then she

ran back to the pool. And this time, she saw him floating on

the surface of the water. And he's very, very fair. And the

first time she looks, she thinks that just the way the sun was

coming in to shining on the pool that he might have been in the

sunlight and because he's like literally white blond hair white

skin, that she hadn't seen him in the sunlight. But now he

floated into the shade, and she could see him. So she ran

through the gate and dove into the pool fully clothed with her

shoes on to get him out after telling me to run and get my

dad, I watched in horror thinking my mum was going to die

because my little four year old brain was telling me, you don't

go into a pool fully clothed with shoes on that's just gonna

make you sink to the bottom. But I ran and got my dad. And by the

time my dad got there, and I got back to the pool, my brother was

out of the pool and my dad started giving him mouth to

mouth. And I was told to run next door to the neighbor who

was a doctor. Fortunately, he was home and call for an

ambulance. And he came running over and my brother was taken

away in the ambulance. He spent two days in hospital while they

monitored his symptoms and watch for possible pneumonia. And then

came home. And the great news is that he survived falling in the

pool with absolutely no negative side effects, all because of my

mom's intuition kicking in, and her knowing something was wrong.

And we had to find him. Now. Imagine how easy it would have

been to think. I wonder what he's doing. Oh, he's probably

fine. I'll just get the cookies in the oven and then look for

him. Right. But my mom's intuition is so strong, she knew

she had to look for him now or that we had to look for him now.

So it turns out our dog had dug a hole under the fence, which

was big enough for my two year old brother to follow him

through. And my brother had a matchbox harvester truck. Some

of you listening probably remember Matchbox cars and

trucks. And he decided to throw that in the pool for whatever

reason. And of course, once he did that he wanted to have it

back. And so he jumped in after it to get it. And guess what

that entire incident was the start of our swimming lessons

and a long high level swimming career for both of us. And in

fact, my brother still swims as a World Cup champion at a World

Cup champions master's level. So yes, thank goodness for

intuition, when it can save us from danger. You're and save

lives is the same intuition that might stop you from, you know,

stepping out in front of a car, you

look left, you look right, you look, you know, and then it's

just like, Wait,

there's something there. I thought I checked, but something

has was in my blind spot. And I caught it, you know that

intuition tells you to do that double check, right? It's the

same thing. So fast forward to when I was 13. My father passed

away suddenly after surgery, and then blood clots in the

hospital. And yes, it was a shock. And yes, we were

grieving. But I think I started tapping into my intuition, then,

because somehow I knew he was still with me. I couldn't see

his physical form anymore. But I felt like he was with me as if

perched on my shoulder. And whenever I had a difficult

decision to make, I could consult with him and get an

answer. Is this intuition? Is this my spirituality? Is it a

blending of the two? I'm not sure. But I know that my

conscious mind wasn't involved in the answers that I was

receiving. So I know, this helped me make some tough

decisions over the years and feel confident in the choices

I'd made, or rather was guided to making. So what about you is

your intuition something you turn to often for guidance, or

something that guides you to safety or the safety of loved

ones, like my mom's did, or something you haven't really

tapped into yet? Intuition can absolutely guide us with our

health as well. And in rewriting my bio, recently, as I went

through the process, I was reminded of a story where I use

my intuition, when it came to my own health. This time, my

intuition told me not to panic, but instead get a second

opinion. And with the knowledge I have today, I'm very glad I

did, because when we panic, we set off our sympathetic nervous

system, our fight or flight system, and this shuts down

other systems in our body in order to give us the energy

needed to fight or flee. And one of the other systems that shuts

down is our immune system, not something you want to have shut

down when dealing with a diagnosis of melanoma. Melanoma

was what had landed my dad in hospital for surgery. In my

case, when I was given the diagnosis, the doctor was

panicked. It was a Thursday, she wanted me to book in for surgery

on Monday morning, she was going to do the surgery herself at our

local clinic. I was supposed to go on a business trip on the

Saturday and she told me Nope, there was no way I could do that

I had to cancel, I must have this surgery immediately. That's

just what I had to do. But in my gut, I felt this was wrong, that

I needed some time to assess my options, and not take months and

months to do so. But, you know, take a week to just assess my

options. And I felt that while I was on my business trip, I

couldn't be doing that. And it felt right to not cancel that

business trip. And so I thought, well, I should get a second

opinion on all of this. And this is what felt right in my gut.

And so I didn't book that surgery. And even the people in

the clinic at the front desk, were telling me no, you're

wrong. You have to do this. You've got we've got to get you

booked in it's very, very urgent. So I was feeling very

pressured. But I listened to my gut. And I came home. And what I

did is I called the doctor, this skin cancer specialist who was

the one who had actually taken the biopsy of the mole that had

now come back as melanoma. And he called me back later that

evening, and I was able to ask him if he felt I needed to

immediately have surgery on Monday morning, or would it be

okay if I go on my business trip, and have surgery when I'm

back. And he replied, was something I hadn't even thought

of. He said, This will be a very large incision to ensure we get

it all it needs to be done by a plastic surgeon, not your family

doctor, I will submit a referral for you. So and you will be

close to the top of the list because we do take melanoma

seriously. And we do want to get it out that more out of you very

quickly. But it's not going to happen for a couple of weeks. So

go on your business trip, we'll get your surgery day booked, and

you'll have the surgery once you're back. And so my intuition

had told me that option one of immediate surgery by my family

doctor wasn't the right path. And that made me seek out a

second opinion, which gave me an option that simply made much

more sense to me and allowed me to stay out of panic mode and

not weakened my immune system. And the great news is that the

melanoma was fully excised, and it's been nine years and I've

embarked on a path of health, health and wellness ever since.

Including detoxing which how Oops, ensure that I haven't had

any further health problems since that time when I teach my

health, kickstart, and detox program to others, because as

humans, when we find something that works and is highly

effective, we want to share it with others, right. So that

wasn't the immediate start of my health journey. But over, you

know, the next few years, I was definitely guided into this. But

I did start detoxing

after my melanoma because I really wanted to ensure that

cancer wasn't coming back. And so now when I teach my health,

kickstart, and detox program, one of the greatest benefits my

students talk about is the new awareness they have around how

their body feels in relation to the food they're putting into

their body, their sleep, their exercise, as they learn how to

tune into their body. And in this process, they are tapping

into their intuition to working as one with their body instead

of just being in their conscious mind and ignoring symptoms and

intuition that can come with those symptoms, suggesting you

should take action steps to reverse the imbalances causing

those symptoms, right? How often do we ignore symptoms, which

again, is another way of our body talking to us. And we

simply ignore them because we're in that gogogo, rush, rush,

rush, rush mode, and we're not tapping in and listening to our

body. So as you can see, I've learned to listen to my

intuition. And as I said, I'm no expert. So it's still definitely

a work in progress. But this is such powerful information that

you can learn from your body, when you allow yourself to be

guided by your intuition, even the signal of being full, so

that you aren't over eating, even if your plate is an empty

can be considered intuition. It is the result of hormones

sending the signal. But when you understand the message without

any conscious thought, it is also intuition, right? If we

wolf our entire meal down, because we're really hungry, our

body doesn't have time to release our satiety hormone and

give that signal. And if we're rushing through, we're not

listening for it anyway, right? When we slow down and we give

our body a chance, our body will talk to us, and you can then

take the appropriate action. So I did learn something a few

years ago, because remember, I said that I was afraid of my

intuition more, I was afraid of my mom's intuition. And she's

highly intuitive. And it just frightened me, how does she know

all this stuff. But I learned that you can also ask that your

intuition be sharing with you what you need to know, and not

sharing with you, you know, the negative or the scary things,

right. And so that's how I felt safe to start tapping into my

intuition and using it, which is what I've been, you know,

developing that myself, because as I said, it's a muscle, you

have to strengthen it. So I am literally just touching the

surface here on the topic of intuition as I share my stories.

And I hope that you relate to one of the stories or it sparked

an interest maybe in working with your own intuition at a

deeper level. So that you can be more guided in whatever it is

that you're doing, instead of just, you know, trying to figure

it all out on your own and pushing through in your

conscious mind. When we're guided, we know that we're

actually on the right path, right. And so please join me

again next week when I have Cheryl Brewster on the show. And

we'll be diving in and talking about the ABCs of intuition. And

she is a real expert in this topic, her business is called

the intuitive life. So until then, have a great week, start

thinking about your intuition getting you know, dipping your

toe in coming back to your intuition if it's something that

maybe you worked with before, and you've kind of moved away

from I know when I was in the corporate world for many years.

It wasn't something that we ever talked about thought about. And

I felt like it was kind of pushed out of me. And ever since

getting out of the corporate world is when I've been coming

back to that intuition and using it and maybe you relate to that

as well. It's something you've used before. Let go of and now

you're coming back to So join me next week. Have a wonderful week

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