Emmy Vadnais - Intuitive Development: How to Trust Your Inner Knowing for Guidance with Relationships, Health, and Spirituality

Praise

In this thoroughly grounded book, Emmy Vadnais gives the reader a toolbox full of practical exercises for getting in touch with and effec- tively using their intuition. Highly recommended for anyone who'd like to advance beyond the occasional gut feeling and gain a more inti- mate and direct understanding of their full intuitive potential.

Dean Radin, PhD, Chief Scientist,

Institute of Noetic Sciences, and author of Real Magic and other books

Our sources of inner wisdom are powerful and plentiful, but they await the proper nudge to unfold in our lives. In Intuitive Development , Emmy Vadnais provides keys to unlock this treasure. The benefits, she shows, are not just an increase in our menu of life skills, but also an abundance of joy and happiness as well.

Larry Dossey, MD, author of One Mind: How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters

" Intuitive Development is a masterpiece. The author, Occupational Therapist Emmy Vadnais, is a ground-breaking international leader in holistic service delivery. Her exquisite book is exceptionally well written, easy to read, and filled with a multitude of accessible resources and references. Emmy provides numerous stories that are relatable and rep- licable. Her descriptive knowledge is profound and serves as a stimulus for all readers interested in expanding their intuitive skills. This dy- namic and insightful book leads the reader through hundreds of easily understood activities and self-reflective, contemplation moments de- signed to stimulate our intuitive abilities. I highly recommend Intuitive Development and will use it in all my Reiki, a Complementary Health Modality workshops for medical professionals and others. Reading Intuitive Development will open your mind to the endless possibilities of inspirational awareness and the connectedness of all life."

Rebecca Austill-Clausen, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA,

award-winning author of Change Maker, How My Brothers Death Woke Up My Life

Emmy Vadnaiss new book Intuitive Development offers readers a lu- cid foundational and pragmatic approachalmost a step-by-step how- to guidebookto understanding ways to improve ones natural intui- tive abilities. Vadnais does a thoughtful review of many different types of intuitive modalities, including psychology, meditation, martial arts, dream work, mindfulness, psychic tools, and heart-centered therapies. She includes simple exercises that anyone can do at home. Her book is a fun and easy read. I highly recommend it.

Nancy du Tertre, award-winning author of Psychic Intuition: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask

Do you want to reduce anxiety, pain, and depression? Do you want to find meaning and purpose, happiness and peace, and develop a deeper sense of self-love and love of others? With a vast array of exercises and tools, Emmy Vadnais shows you how. Follow her on the road of intu- itive knowing into the field of imagination, creativity, and dreams where you will discover your innate ability to know yourself and to change your life. Pamela Eakins, PhD, author of Tarot of the Spirit

Emmy has been a courageous trailblazer in the area of holistic health for many years. Her book is packed full of practical techniques you can immediately apply to your life to enhance your self-development practice toward greater intuitive awareness, peace, and joy.

Dan Eisner, OTR/L, Certified Coach, author of The Clinical Success Formula

Emmy Vadnais has written a tour-de-force, a compendium of the phi- losophy and many techniques concerning healing and intuition that an interested student needs to know.

Bill Herbst

Copyright 2020 Emmy Vadnais. All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-7352632-0-5 (paperback)

ISBN: 978-1-7352632-1-2 (ebook)

DISCLAIMER:

The author of this book does not presume to offer therapy or advocate the use of any technique for the treatment of any specific mind, body, or spirit condition without the approval and guidance of a qualified healthcare prac- titioner. The intent of the author is only to relate her personal experience in the hope that it may help you in your quest for health and wellness. If you use any of the information here as a form of self-therapy, the author and publisher assume no responsibility for your actions. Do not listen to or practice any of the meditation or relaxation techniques while driving a car or engaging in any activity that requires your full attention.

The stories in this book are primarily compilations of the experiences of cli- ents or students the author has worked with, and names of participants have been changed to protect their privacy. Some of the stories are wholly true and accurate, and in those cases the author received permission to include them.

An Intuitive Development playlist with meditations and interviews is avail- able at Emmy Vadnaiss YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/ EmmyVadnais

Credits:

Heart painting: Emmy Vadnais

Cover design: Marieka Heinlen

Interior design: Mary Neighbour, MediaNeighbours.com

Photo of Emmy Vadnais, dedication page (opposite): Alexander Dixon

Photo of Emmy Vadnais, back cover: Kathy Van Guilder Photography

This is dedicated to all who want to feel at home with themselves.

Contents

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Foreword

he great Swiss psychiatrist Carl G. Jung famously defined four major functions of the human psyche: thinking, feeling, sensing, and intuiting. Of these, intuition is the least emphasized and the most dis- paraged. For example, although we teach reading, writing, athletic, and arithmetic skills to our children, very little education focuses on the skills associated with intuition. This state of affairs, in my view, is a terrible shameas intuition is the very source of our deepest understanding of ourselves, as individuals, and our each, unique purpose in life. The im- portant skills featured in this book are generally never taught in school.

Of course, there are many forms of intuition. Some things come nat- urally, such as language learning in young children. Some come slowly, such as the wisdom cultivated over years of professional practice. Some lie below consciousness, such as the brains amazing ability to perform calculations and analyses that find their expression in dreams. Some confound conventional scientific analysis, such as the empirical findings of parapsychology that, after more than a century, have finally been acknowledged by the psychological community.

In August 2018, the American Psychologist , the flagship publication of the American Psychological Association, published an article, The Experimental Evidence for Parapsychological Phenomena: A Review by Etzel Cardea, sum- marizing the results of over 1,300 experiments with overwhelming statistical support for the existence of anomalous cognition.

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In 1993, I was invited to assume the presidency of a non-profit or- ganization known as the Intuition Network. The organization had been founded by Weston Agor, a professor of business at the University of Texas, El Paso, who had written several important books on intuition in management. Funding was provided by Lynn B. Charlson (affectionately known as Buck), the inventor of the hydraulic motor and also power steering. Professor Agor, who was stepping down, selected me as his replacement because of my background in parapsychology as well as the national media outreach I had by then achieved through the Thinking Allowed public television series.