As long as I can remember, I have been sensitive to the energy of others and what I perceive as a collective energy around us.
As a self-proclaimed skeptic and student of the scientific method in my 20s I found it difficult to reconcile my gut feelings with my perceived “knowledge” that told me humans do not have a sixth sense. It all seemed so strange to me that I could sense that the world was entering phases of happiness, strife, growth, etc. but I could not explain in logical terms how I knew it.
The truth was, I had no idea what was going on, but my whole being could feel energy shifts and it started to happen with more regularity. When I was around 25 years old I began meditating. Slowly I started to crave the quiet times of reflection and shun the noise and energy of the world becoming more and more sensitive over time. Eventually, my entire existence became a meditation as I went deep into myself for a few years. Forget television. That had long been abandoned, as well as reading the news. In my deepest phases of introspection, I could no longer even handle music while driving or even reading a book. I simply wanted the peace and floating feeling of resting in my own mind.
From this place of inner awareness, my gut feelings became more noticeable and intuition astounding. I found myself in conversation knowing what the person was going to say (or even thinking they had said something they were only thinking, later to be confirmed). My decisions in life became easy and precise: I knew exactly when to act and how when it came to financial matters. My creativity skyrocketed and business ideas poured out of me. It was from that place of stillness and awareness that I moved toward my inner calling of being a teacher and guide.
Indeed, it was not me acting at all. I came to realize that I was simply going with the flow of energy and not acting from my head.