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Tuning In to Your Career Instead of Tuning Out at Work: 3 Easy Steps to Use Your Intuition to Get Ahead, by Melanie Barnum

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

So often it feels like we get up every day and go put in an entire 8-10 hours like a worker drone. We are putting the time and energy in but getting little satisfaction from it. Whether it's from a lack of interest in what we are doing or it's because we are merely working to pay the bills, it rarely will make you happy. The old adage, "If you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life" is true. It's time to enjoy what you are giving so much of your life to! No more merely punching a clock for you—oh no, you are ready to tap into your desires and begin a career that makes you appreciate every day.

Your happiness is crucial to your health and wellness. That's why using your intuition to help guide you to your best possible career can be your greatest asset. We use our intuition all the time—the difference now will be that you'll utilize it intentionally. Recognizing and acknowledging that your intuitive wisdom will help you to discern something allows you to better pay attention to the visceral reactions you’ll attain when you practice purposefully. Activating your natural ESP, or extrasensory perception, becomes much easier without the need to focus on the process so we keep it simple in the beginning. However, simple does not mean small. Go into the exercise below without any preconceived notions of what you should feel or what messages or information you are supposed to receive. That can work against you and tend to make you feel blocked from any impressions you may have. Instead, be open to your own intuitive abilities, with a little help from the energy of the universe, leaving behind any judgment, fear, or self-doubt.

So, what would make you want to go to work, want to put in the hours that would feed your soul instead of depleting it? Who but you would know what would make your spirit soar? You want to do something that makes your heart sing, but that also gives you the opportunity to be productive and pay your bills and help support your family. So, how do you figure out what that would be? And how do you make it happen? Well, first, you read my newest book, Intution at Work, and then, you start taking your life and your intuition to the next level!

One of the best ways to begin understanding what makes you feel successful in business is to determine what you love and what you're good at and what you want to do. This, so often, can be a difficult task, so let's break it down into a few, rather simple, steps using your natural intuitive gifts. We will call them the What, the Where and the How.

1. The What. Think about the following and visualize in your mind's eye, using your clairvoyant, or clear sight, intuitive sense to discover what your answers are:
   • What do you enjoy?
   • What do you dislike?
   • What goals did you have before you were told you needed to just work and make money?
   • If you could do anything in the world, anything at all, and make money at it, what would it be?
2. The Where. Decide whether you want to stay in your current field of business and move up the career ladder or if you want to change altogether. In order to do that, sometimes it helps to use your clairsentient abilities, or to sense how something makes you feel. So, take a deep breath and think about the following questions one at a time, breathing before each. Pay attention to whether something feels good or bad, or right or wrong in your body. You may feel a heaviness or a lightness, depending on if it feels bad or good. How does it feel when you contemplate whether to:
   • Stay in your current job?
   • Stay in your line of work?
   • Change companies?
   • Open your own business?
   • Change your entire career to something new?
3. The How. Making it happen is sometimes the easiest part of the equation, when you use your intuitive guidance system to help you. Let's look at how you can get there by using a mix of your clairvoyance, your clairsentience, and your claircognizance, that intuitive ability to just know something you have no reason to know. You will also throw in some manifestation, because why not? Manifesting is the ability to create something out of nothing, or to bring about that which you've asked for from the universe to help you better yourself. And it's easier than you may think.
   • Allow yourself to relax, in a comfortable and non-disturbed space.
   • Breathe, and feel your body calming down as you focus on how your breath feels as it passes through your body. Inhale in positive energy around the new position, and exhale any negative thoughts you may have attached to what you are doing now but no longer like. Continue to focus on your breathing until you feel like you've let go of all negativity.
   • Now that you've discovered what it is you want to do, whether it's staying at your current place and moving up or making a complete change, it's time to manifest that. Focus on what your goal is, breathing it in and truly feeling yourself in that position. Imagine living your greatness, doing what makes you happy. See it, feel it, even hear any sounds associated with it by listening with your clairaudience or your intuitive hearing.
   • See, in your mind, the logistics of what having that new position would mean and the possible steps you need to accomplish it. For instance, if you are currently a lawyer but have always wanted to be a social worker, you need additional schooling. Focus on what the name of the college would be or how you'd take the classes—via in person or online, etc. Ask aloud who you need to talk to in order to move up or switch jobs in your current business (if that's what you want to do) and expect to hear or just know the answer. Based on what you have decided, there are many questions you can ask and expect to receive a response—though you may have to wait a day or two to get it or understand it.
   • Now comes the big ask. Ask the universe to put you on the path, soon, that will bring your desire, your vision, to fruition. Believe it can happen and that you will be presented with a variety of opportunities in the not-so-distant future. Then, and this is the hardest part, let it go. Know that it will happen if it is for your greatest good and don't try and figure out how it may come to be. Be present in your life—participating in it to help the universe manifest it. In other words, if you get a phone call from an employment agency asking if you want to change jobs, take the call. Or, if you see an opportunity to take a workshop or class that can increase your skills in the career you have or want, take it. Just because the universe is helping you to manifest it doesn't mean you sit it out. It simply means that you don't have to worry about how it will happen. And, thank the universe, and your spirit guides who are always around to assist you, for understanding and knowing what you want and what you need and bringing it to you.

Now that you've run through the steps, it's time to be realistic. You may not have felt 100% connected to all of the steps and everything you did. That is totally okay! Think of it like riding a bike for the first time without training wheels. It can feel a bit scary and make you uneasy; you're not quite sure how it will all come together or may even fear that you'll be able to do it at all. But, when you are able to let go of the fear and trust that you are born with natural instincts, you'll realize that you are meant to do this. Just like using your intuition—you are meant to succeed. And, as with using the training wheels, it's okay to take it slow. You will probably not be able to see or feel or know or hear everything immediately but be open to the possibility that you will receive information soon. Sometimes it will show up in the form of a sign or a synchronistic event within a day or two. Or it may come to you in a flash like a polaroid picture seemingly out of the blue or a song resonates with you in a way that makes you think it just may be an answer to what you're working on. Pay attention to these moments, these intuitive clues. Have faith that it is most likely the easiest way for you to recognize the intuitive information.

Using your intuition at work and in your personal life can bring you beyond where you are now in so many ways. Thinking of it as a tool in your toolbox of skills can help normalize it for you. It can increase your processing of information as well. Adding this tool to your intelligence, that you also work every day to increase and develop, helps you nourish your mind, body, and spirit. Changing your mindset to one of belief that there is a power within you that can help propel you to a place where you're tuning in on a regular basis instead of tuning out is the greatest gift you can give yourself. So accept it, in the midst of all of the chaos in the world, embrace your gifts. They are, after all, your birth right and are waiting for you to step into your intuitive power!

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2021. All rights reserved.

Since I was a child, I have loved to dream, because in my dreams, I could fly, and it was very real and vivid! As I got older, these dreams sadly became fewer and farther between. I'm now 37, and for the past four nights, I've been having the same dreams again but with a twist. I fly for a while, and then I feel hands on my shoulders, pushing me back down to earth! I look up, and there is a lovely lady with long hair smiling at me. I don't feel scared, but I want to go back up, and she won't let me - she keeps pushing me down. Why won't she let me up? I have never seen her before. What do you make of all of this?

- Darrell

Dreamchaser:

Darrell, what a clear-cut example of astral travel you have here! You also have a whole lot of lucid dreaming going on. Lucid dreaming is dreaming while fully aware that you are dreaming. Astral travel is traveling out of the body, either while asleep or while awake. You can learn to perfect either one of these methods. There are many books written on these subjects. Astral travel is a natural phenomenon: while we sleep, our souls leave our bodies to heal from today and prepare for tomorrow.

When we are children, we are not encumbered with grownup mentalities. We can fly free and play make-believe and tell wild tales and just be kids. When we grow up, we are expected to act more mature. Children experience both astral travel and lucid dreaming quite frequently because of their innocence and openness. As you grew, you shut it down and became more logical. You have already figured out that there is a reason for this phenomenon to be happening now.

First we have to deal with the lady. She's a spirit guide and a teaching guide. She governs your sleep time. When you are going into an area where you should not be going, so to speak, she is there to push you back onto the proper path. Apparently, you are easily swayed and distracted when you are astral traveling. You would run wild instead of dealing with the issues at hand if you were not monitored. Basically, that is her job.

She is also there to tell you when your time is up and it's time to go back to your body, as you have already learned. You woke up a few times as she was doing just that. The only time you will see her is if you happen to wake up during a dream again and she chooses to show herself to you.

The only question left here is why you are doing all this at this stage of your life. You have been going through some extremely trying times lately, Darrell. People you never thought would turn on you have stabbed you in the back. You are taking control back, but you have to work very hard on all four levels (physical, emotional, mental and spiritual) to make that happen. This woman is helping you work through the lessons attached to these very challenging times.

Things are going to bust wide open for you, Darrell, and you are going to be very happy with all the changes. Every area of your life will improve. Know that you will be rewarded in the long run for all the hard work you are doing now. I wish you many enjoyable flights!

*****

Astrea:

Dreams of flying are dreams of an Old Soul. You flew before in another incarnation a long time ago, so it's a memory you carry in your DNA. All of us who flew before dream of being able to do it again. One of my friends says that he'll be able to fly again here on Earth someday. It's all he dreams of at night. He says when he was a kid, he dreamed about it all the time too, but now, those dreams are fewer and farther apart.

This happens because when we're small fries, we have more past life recollections than we do as we get older, when our brains and psyches are cluttered up with all the things that we have to do just to live in the world and survive. The older we get, the more distance grows between us and our Before Times. Ask a five-year-old sometime what he or she remembers about before they got here. You'll get an earful!

The lady in your dream pulling you down to Earth is one of your guides who has been with you through many other incarnations. The reason she is trying to get you to stop flying is because there is something going on in your life NOW that you need to come back down to Earth to address.

If you have a house or a business for sale right now, that could be it. If you're having issues in your personal relationships, it could be that, too. If you're having money issues, that's another thing that would require you to come back down to Earth and quit flying around all night, having so much fun! The best way to find out just exactly why she's doing this in your happy flying dreams is to ask her the next time you see her. She wants you to ask! She will happily explain the situation in your life that you're not paying enough attention to.

Before you go to bed at night, take your shoes and put them under your bed, toes toward the foot of the bed. That will ensure that you'll dream of flying that night. When she comes to get you to come back down to Earth, put your hands on hers, while they're on your shoulders, and simply ask her why you have to stop flying right now. She'll answer you, but it might not be in words. Keep paper and a pen handy to write down her answer when you wake up. Write your message down right away. Three nights in a row should clarify whatever it is she wants you to stop avoiding.

Flying is fun. I miss it. I know you do, too. Maybe someday we'll all be able to do that again here instead of having to wait to do it together again in the spirit world.

Astrea:

Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.

Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!

While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!

I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!

As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.

I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.

You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!

Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.

A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.

You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.