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Your Sixth Sense: Trusting Your Vibes to Lead an Extraordinary Life

Your Sixth Sense: Trusting Your Vibes to Lead an Extraordinary Life, by Sonia Choquette. Photograph of unicorn pool float in the water by Meritt Thomas
Photograph by Meritt Thomas

Estimated reading time: 15 minutes

Activating your sixth sense, your intuition, is both an invitation and a homecoming — a return to your divine state of being

Our world is at a tipping point. Recovering from the upheaval of the COVID pandemic, rocking and rolling through economic disruption, and reeling at every turn from daily climate disasters. It is undoubtably apparent that we humans need to do something different to create a livable future.

But as Albert Einstein once said, “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” It is time that we begin to seek and expand into new ways of thinking, creating, and solving the problems we face in ourselves, with others, and on our planet. The missing link? Incorporating our intuition and adding it into our way of thinking. Einstein was onto something. He understood the merit of this necessary ingredient for problem-solving.

If we want to shift our world, we have to shift our relationship to our intuitive selves.

Unfortunately, for many years, as an intuitive and spiritual teacher I have felt as though I was teaching out in the wilderness, publicly considered a ‘weirdo’ and dismissed as ‘woo-woo’, misunderstood — my message wrongly perceived as having no basis in science or reality or considered ‘practical’ in any way.

Fast forward to 2022, however, where these dismissive perceptions are thankfully beginning to change. Science now acknowledges that humans have six senses and that our intuition is an internal energetic awareness of vibration, or ‘vibes’. This sense is centered in the heart, gut, and possibly even skin, and is far more perceptive and sensitive than our external five senses are.

For example, scientist and author Gregg Braden goes so far as to suggest the heart is 5000 times more acute than our five physical senses. Our sixth sense, which I call ‘our vibes’, keeps us connected to our spiritual self

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