In Episode 22, called “Don’t Just Look. Observe,” we considered how to be better at noticing details in the world around us. Tonight, we’ll take that idea a bit further with a discussion about how to improve your intuitive skills.

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Welcome to the PEEP Podcast! I’m your host Nicolle Morock, and on this episode, I’m going to share my tips for honing your intuition, but first, I have a few announcements.

On Saturday June 3^rd, I’ll be in Canton, Ohio, for Small Town Monsters MonsterFest – not as a speaker or sponsor, but just as an attendee. And I’m so excited about it! The guest roster is a list of some of my favorite content creators from the documentary film crew at Small Town Monsters to Forrest and Scott of Astonishing Legends, Micah Hanks, Jim Harold, and Shannon LeGro of the Into the Fray podcast. Seriously, y’all! These podcasters are on my list of the people who inspired me to the P.E.E.P. Podcast back in 2020. I bought my VIP ticket when I saw the lineup on the day the conference was announced last year.

If you happen to be there and you see me, say “hey.” I’ll probably be the only person wearing a PEEP Podcast t-shirt, and if I’m a little awkward, that’s because I’m an introvert and empath doing my best to pretend to be comfortable in big crowds.

By the way, I’m planning to wear my Somewhere in the Skies t-shirt to the Small Town Monster’s film premier that Friday night because not only do I love that podcast, but host Ryan Sprague included my UFO experience in his new book “Stories from Somewhere in the Skies.” It’s Chapter 5, titled “The Meteorologist and the Foo Fighters.” I gave him permission to use it because he wanted to put the best stories of his many listener stories episodes in the book. I wasn’t sure mine would make it, so I was thrilled when the book was released, and I found mine in it.

Ironically, I never thought to call what I witnessed Foo Fighters because I wasn’t flying in a World War. I was driving when I had my sighting, but given what I saw, yeah… the name fits! I actually let Ryan know recently that I appreciated his giving me something to call them that makes sense.

If you haven’t heard my story, listen to Episode 42 of this podcast or/and pick up a copy of Ryan’s book. This is not a sponsorship or ad by any means. Ryan does an amazing job covering the UFO topic, from breaking news to the most human side of it, and I will always support someone who is earnestly covering the subject for the purpose of documenting all aspects of it. He’s on that list of podcasters I love that I mentioned a moment ago.

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Now back to our topic: how to hone your intuition.

For me, improving my intuitive skills has been a lifelong process. From getting past being told that paranormal events were just my overactive imagination to learning to trust what I feel, see, and hear, it hasn’t always been easy to know what was my intuitive mind speaking to me and what was just internal noise. And sometimes, it’s still hard, but I’m much better than I used to be. In fact, in the last couple of years, my skills have taken a giant leap forward. So, I wanted to share a few tips to help you, or someone you know, who may be interested.

1. Going back to the “Don’t Just Look. Observe” episode, my first tip is to become a better observer of both the world around you and your own thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations. This is especially important if you have empathic tendencies. The more self-aware you are at all times, the better you can decipher what thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations are your own or are coming from somewhere else.
    
   When you experience something that seems to come from outside yourself, that’s probably your intuition, and if it sounds more like a voice than just a knowing, it could be Spirit communicating with you. I’ll give you a few of examples from my own experiences.
    
   
2. Several years ago, I was driving home from work around 5:30 in the evening and everything about my commute seemed normal, except for the words that kept repeating in my head. “Slow down.” I checked my speed on the highway and made sure I was going the speed limit. “Slow down.” I checked my speed at my exit. “Slow down.” I checked my speed on the five-lane road that led to my neighborhood. Instead of quieting, the words grew louder, but not louder in volume, just somehow louder in intensity and repeated faster. “Slow down. Slow down. Slow down.”
    
   I listened, and I took the turn into my narrow cul-de-sac at a snail’s pace, and then I stopped mid-turn. In front of me, coming down the wrong side of the street to exit the cul-de-sac was a car that shouldn’t have been there. If I had taken that turn at my usual rate of speed, I would have had a head-on collision.
    
   The best way to describe the voice saying “slow down” was that it wasn’t mine. It didn’t sound much different from my normal self-talk inner voice, but it was much more persistent and felt like it was coming from outside myself.
    
   Thankfully, I had already learned that when my inner voice sounds like it has exterior knowledge, I should listen to it.
    
   
3. Here’s a typical example of physical empathy for me: Once, I was standing next to a friend that I hadn’t seen or talked to in a few months. We were at a bar, watching our mutual friends play live music. My friend was sitting, and I was standing to his right. My right knee started to ache. Now, my normal aches and pains come from my left knee and my right hip due to arthritis in that hip triggering an occasional limp that throws off my left knee. This pain was in the wrong knee and neither hip hadn’t been bothering me at that time.
    
   So, I did what I call checking myself. I did a quick grounding exercise that I covered in my last episode and focused on the sensation of my feet on the floor. Then I asked internally, is that pain mine? No, my own knee felt fine. Because my friend already knew I was a little unusual, I wasn’t afraid to ask him “Does your right knee hurt?” He laughed a little and said, “yeah, I’m actually scheduled for knee replacement surgery in two weeks.” And with that confirmation, the sensation of pain in my own knee ended.
    
   If you’ve heard me mention during interviews that I keep my psychic walls up most of the time, this is an example of why. As I’m getting older, I have enough of my own aches and pains that I’m not interested in feeling everyone else’s all the time, and really, I never have been. That can get overwhelming fast. But in cases when I’m investigating a supposedly haunted location or when I’m working with energy healing clients, being able to tune in like that is really helpful.
    
   
4. Once last example I’ll share happened this past February during an investigation of the Battleship North Carolina. My former paranormal investigation group, NSPIR, decided to have one last hurrah and investigate one of our favorite places. We paid the extra fee to have an hour down in the area of the ship near where the torpedo hit during World War II.
    
   During our EVP session in that area, one of our members asked, “What was your job?” and another asked “What is your name?” After a few moments, the word “Chandler” popped into my head, but it didn’t make sense to me. A chandler is a candle-maker, and you don’t want an open flame on a ship full of gun powder. As a name, Chandler was not one of the names of the people who died from the torpedo hit. So, I tried to push it out of my mind, but it just kept repeating in my head, “Chandler. Chandler.”
    
   So, I finally said out loud, “Y’all, I keep getting the word chandler, so I’m just going to say it aloud and move on.” And that’s what we did.
    
   After another EVP session in the machine shop that was physically painful for me in ways I don’t want to go into here, we went up to the Ward Room – our home base for the evening – to take a break. All of us were gathered in one area of the large room, including the sitter for the night, and I pulled up the Dictionary.com app on my phone and typed in “chandler.”
    
   To my surprise, there’s a second definition for that word: a dealer or trader in supplies, provisions, etc., of a specialized type. Example, a ship chandler.
    
   You can imagine my excitement when I held up the phone for them to see and yelled, “Y’all, chandler!” Which was immediately followed by a voice from the opposite side of the big room yelling what sounded something like “that’s it!” At least, it was definitely two syllables and had an enthusiastic tone. We all heard it, and knowing our whole group was sitting in our tight space, I ran over to that side of the room to make sure we didn’t have a stowaway, but there was nobody there.
    
   So, not only did I get a job title that actually fit the question (although I had no idea that was the case at that moment), but we also seemingly received confirmation from a disembodied voice that it was right. And of course, our recorders were not running because we were taking a break. Ugh.
    
   
5. The next step to improving your intuition is keeping a journal. In Episode 16, Robert Waggoner talked about paying attention to dreams as signs from your subconscious. More recently, in Episode 62, Dr. Larry Burk mentioned how important keeping a dream diary is for understanding symptoms. We’ve heard other interviewees mention journaling, too.
    
   While I agree that writing down your dreams will help develop your ability to understand them. I haven’t been great at practicing that unless I have a dream that’s a doozy. I dream vividly every night, and I usually remember them on waking, unless someone (like my cat) interrupts those initial thoughts as I wake. If they feel important, I may remember them for years – even decades.
    
   But when I say keep a journal, feel free to write your dreams in it, too, but I want you to write down every experience that feels like it could be a moment of intuition or ESP. Whether it's a story like the three I just shared or it’s something that hasn’t come to pass yet. For example, if your friend is pregnant, and you have an intense feeling about the baby’s gender or date of birth, write it down. After the baby is born, if you look back at your journal and see you were right, that validation is immensely important to learning to trust yourself next time you get information the same way.
    
   The more you can trust yourself, the better your intuition becomes, or at least, that’s how it will feel. I have weeks when mine is firing on all cylinders, and it can be a little freaky but now that I trust mine 90% of the time, I am more likely to act on what I’m getting when action is needed.
    
   That action might be something as small as picking the right meme that jumps out at me when replying to a cohort’s Twitter thread. Receiving that “My favorite Pokémon!” reply from him when I know absolutely nothing about Pokémon felt pretty good and validating. I thought to myself “of course, it is!”
    
   And don’t ask about that other 10% of the time. That’s why I say it’s a journey for me. I still have moments when I doubt myself and then I kick myself later when I learn I would have been right.
    
   
6. Meditate more. I’ll admit, I cheat a little on this one and mix it with Yoga and Reiki – or maybe I should say I enhance it that way. It’s all about perspective, right? Yoga puts you in touch with your breath, which is a form of meditation, and Reiki requires a clear mind and focused intention to practice.
    
   I was sending distance Reiki to my best friend, and I had a vision with her in it that was very real – as if I were clearly remembering something that hasn’t happened, yet. Now, I’d been told that practicing Reiki could help open my third eye chakra, which is in charge of clairvoyance, but until that moment, I hadn’t experienced it. Man, that was wild! I wrote it down when it happened several months ago, and this past week, I received confirmation from her that the prediction from that vision was correct. How cool is that? Of course, I had about a 50/50 chance of being right, but I never doubted that I was because I have learned to trust myself!

And if you practice these tips, you’ll learn to trust yourself more, too.

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