What does this mean exactly? 

When I talk about following your intuition, here’s what I mean.
When you are faced with a decision, any decision, say YES to the one that inspires a good warm feeling. Sometimes it can be so clear that this feeling can spread from your heart and radiate throughout your body like a strong wave of rightness. Or maybe it is goosebumps that sparkle across your skin showing you that what you are experiencing is important, powerful, aligned. Or it could be a clear sense of knowing deep in your core. 

Sometimes people default to thinking about following intuition for things that feel like danger, “my intuition told me something wasn’t right.” And that can be important, relevant and true. But what I find in my experience is that if I am more focused on following the other side of that coin, attuning my awareness to follow what feels good, then what feels good is more of what I see and more of what I experience. 

For example, while on a walk, rather than noticing that someone feels suspicious across the street, I am instead drawn to things that are resonating at a higher frequency or that feel good. The flowers in the person’s garden I am walking by, the invitation I’ve just received to attend something I’ve been craving, the exciting inspiration that is brewing in my heart. The energy of the suspicious person has a lower frequency and doesn’t have much to stick to in me because I am not focusing my attention at that frequency or looking to engage in an exchange that feels like that, so it just slides on by. The person doesn’t notice me, and I don’t notice them. We are each going to be drawn to different things and therefore will be engaging with a frequency of energy that matches what we are each focused on respectively.

This doesn’t mean difficult things don’t happen if we are focused on positive experiences. Difficult things are part of life, they will happen and we will navigate through them. However, what we focus on and expect to experience, in other words, the frequency of energy that we engage in, is what we will find reflected in our general experience. So if we are more focused on following what feels good, rather than focusing on what feels bad or getting away from what has the potential to feel bad, we will likely be more attracted to and noticing a warm feeling of alignment that will multiply rather than a cold or scary feeling of difficulty which conversely multiplies when we focus on it. 

Our brains are tricky and can omit information that doesn’t support something we are focused on believing or feeling. They also have what psychologists call a “negativity bias” that is hard wired in us for survival from way back. This makes us hyper aware and seeking out threats at a far grater degree than things that feel good. So it takes awareness and practice to focus on what feels good and in alignment. 

When I’m in a session and I’m tapping into this feeling of alignment, I can often sense an echo of energy that spans outward- like a pulse of loving momentum I am connecting with through my sensory system. I find that by engaging at a conscious level with this energy, it brings that potential of alignment more into being. With this I can feel a kind of loving ripple of affirming energy, a surge of light pulsing out into the future and the past. 

Following your intuition is attuning yourself to the energy frequency of love manifested in your being as you connect and engage with the world and allowing that frequency to guide you. We have learned so many ways to keep ourselves from feeling safe in its embrace, for example being hyper focused on what could go wrong. But this higher energetic frequency is powerful and strong and will carry us though if we allow it in. We all have access to it and with intentional opening and trust, we can continue to find our way back home with its guidance. 

Try this: Take at least three slow deep breaths, unclenching the jaw, softening the shoulders, belly, hands and feet. Close your eyes and keep breathing deep loving breaths into your heart as if it is a third lung, expanding with your inhales and contracting with your exhales. Smile. Send love to your heart, to your whole being. Do that until you feel complete. 
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From this place, consider a decision that might be in front of you. See yourself looking in observing the version of your life with one choice and then with the other/s. Notice how your body feels and responds when you feel yourself in these different scenarios. Perhaps one will rise above because it feels most aligned, there is more brightness, color or there are warm feelings connected with it. Note if you are drawn to paying attention to what feels most aligned or what feels most misaligned. No judgement, just notice. See if you can start paying attention more in your moments, reflections, days, to what is going well, what you are loving, what feels good, and follow that.

- Anna Blossom

These ideas can be harmful. Here's my offer of a different perspective.

Occasionally someone reaches out for support because they are concerned that they have a negative energetic attachment that is hindering their growth or getting in the way of them feeling balanced or safe in their lives. I know I can help them, but my interpretation of what is happening is going to be different. 
I saw a couple recently who were told by a psychic that a family curse was the reason they couldn’t conceive, which they’d been trying to do with difficulty and through multiple rounds of IVF treatments. I was sad to hear that they had been told this. Words are very powerful and as practitioners, our mindful, professional and careful discernment and delivery of what is happening for a client is critical. Our words can create long lasting incredible healing and positive effects. They can also be harmful, as I felt was the case in this situation.

The couple shared this information with me at the end of their session. They were clearly distressed by the words and concept and were trying to find a way forward which was one of the reasons, I believe, that they came to me. As I was sharing my perspective on the idea of curses and encouraged them not to take the message they received about this to heart, I was shown by the spirit realm how the woman’s grandmother had come through earlier on in our session. How she pointed to a part of her own personality that was fear based and initially rejecting of new ideas, that felt quite restrictive. She showed this pattern in the family blood line, which my client confirmed, and then showed how her granddaughter is trying to change this pattern now in her life. I could see that it took a lot of effort for my client to fight against this pattern, which she also confirmed. Her grandmother then offered healing energy work to support actually shifting the pattern through her granddaughter for her and her blood line so she didn’t need to fight against it with such effort but would be released of its strong hold and I could feel a distinct softening in my client and the pride and relief from her grandmother. 

Now perhaps someone else might have perceived a pattern like that as a “family curse,” but I would never see it that way. We pick these patterns up from our bloodlines, from the traumas our ancestors have experienced and from our own traumas. These aren’t curses from my perspective. They are a natural part of being in a body and we have the opportunity to heal and evolve through them as the generations continue. 

In this case, what happened was a beautiful offering of healing that came through for her and her family from the loving energy and intention of her grandmother and was the right direction at the right time for her soul’s growth and development. It unfolded beautifully and naturally within the session with information that was validated by my client the whole way through so that she could feel held, safe and connected in the process. I don’t know if it will help them conceive, but it isn’t for any of us to know yet. What is in front of them now is a slightly different playing field that will help them be more present in the process of their evolving journey. 

We have a lot of media out there spinning ideas and representations about curses and negative attachments for entertainment purposes who have little connection with actual energy work or training in mediumship or psychic practices. We also don’t have many standards of practice that are ingrained in these professions and there is a wide variety of training and understanding of how to interpret the information and energy we perceive. For me, and most mediums who I’ve trained with around the world, our perspective is generally as outline here. The concepts of curses and negative attachments are a misunderstood interpretation of what is happening. The spirits connected with us are loving and are here to help us learn from and heal through the joys and struggles we experience. They are not the cause or perpetrators of our pain or difficulty.

It is important to share that some cultures very much believe curses and negative attachments to be true. Generally in this case these beliefs are ingrained in the culture so that interpretations from the spirit or energy realm are matching a collective understanding. 

When there is one belief structure interacting with a very different one, for example while in a reading or session between a practitioner who has one belief system and client who has a very different one, it can leave room for much misunderstanding. That is why it is very important to be discerning with who you invite into your energy or psychic space to support you and make sure their approach is clearly outlined so you can make an educated decision if they are a good fit for you. Above all, follow your intuition and remember that there is room for many truths. 

Always ask if you feel unclear or leave a session not feeling good about something. You may not be understanding the same thing as your practitioner. There is often a huge amount of information and energy exchange to fit into few words and little time. I have always been grateful when a client reaches out for clarification if something didn’t sit well with them after a session. It almost always is a misunderstanding and I am so glad to have the opportunity to clarify and provide context.

You can read about another kind of blending of energy from a loved one who has recently passed that is relevant and related to this subject. In general though, negatively charged or intended energy attachments or curses just don’t fit into my way of seeing the world, nor are they involved at all in the spirit connections I have the amazing honor to facilitate.

​- Anna Blossom

Just at the end of a very full session with a client a couple days ago, she shared with me that she’d been having consistent physical pain in her chest and heart since her loved one had passed. There were so many other things to cover in her session, I hadn’t been shown this information by her or my spirit team and I’m so glad she followed her intuition to bring it to my attention. 

Sometimes when our loved ones pass, I have found over the years that some of their energy can remain attached or blended with someone who is emotionally and sometimes who was physically close to them when they passed. We can do healing energy work as a team to release their energy which is beneficial to everyone; the loved one in spirit can move through their process of evolving, the loved one remaining embodied can as well. One can feel stuck and less connected with their loved one in spirit if this happens. Sometimes clients fear letting go when I detect this is the case, as if they will lose their loved one even more by releasing their energy. Contrary to this, in my experience both parties, once separated, can evolve better and connect better after this work. 

I felt into her body and could see that she was right, his energy was present. She said she’d tried to ask his energy to leave her body many times but it wasn’t working. This client was already quite intuitive and aware of energy. I could sense her frustration but could see that this wasn’t intentional on his part and shared this important piece of information with her. As we moved into the energy work, I was able to help them both to release his energy without issue from her body, but when I tried to bring healing energy into her system she was barely open to receive. As if the aperture or opening to receive energy was quite closed and tight. I acknowledged this and asked her to open to the healing powerful energy that was being offered to her. As I was asking her to do this, I could see that this minimal opening was part of the reason his energy was stuck. There needed to be additional flow IN and her fear of experiencing more spirit connection than she was comfortable with along with her past significant traumas that aimed her expectation toward a negative experience were at play. Once we acknowledged this, she was immediately able to reframe her expectation and open to the powerful loving offer of healing and support available to her. I felt the shift and so did she. 

I was pleased to get an email the next day from her that said, “THANK YOU for last night's session. My chest feels MUCH better!”
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There were so many other amazing things that happened in her session and that happen in all sessions, but I’m happy to get this down in writing to share!