Bubblegum
Learning to trust your intuition
When my spirit guide, who goes by the nickname Falcon, told me that he wanted me to title today’s article “Bubblegum”, I have to admit, I was definitely skeptical, thinking that he must be joking. But no, he insisted that today, we are writing about bubblegum.
The reason I use the term “we” is because the articles that I write are essentially channeled messages. It’s honestly kind of nice for me, because it takes the guesswork out of what I’m going to be writing, as all I have to do is sit down, open my screen, and then wait for Falcon to tell me what to write. It’s why I reference him so frequently in my writings — because these messages come primarily from him rather than me.
So back to bubblegum. Falcon is now saying, “How do you do it?” When I asked him what he was talking about, he said, “How do you blow a bubble?” I went into detail trying to explain the process, with how you wrap the gum around your tongue, hold it in place with your teeth and lips, then focus on blowing air into the gum to create a bubble.
Even with this, I didn’t feel like I gave a fully accurate description, as it’s one of those things where you just sort of figure it out and learn the feel of it, rather than following step-by-step instructions. It’s something that you just sort of learn to do, but don’t really give thought to how you do it.
Falcon is saying that’s what intuition is like. You learn the feel of it, and you learn to associate different feelings with different outcomes, but it’s not necessarily a process that you could describe step-by-step. He’s explaining that everyone, everyone, everyone (he told me to write “everyone” three times for emphasis) has intuitive abilities, no matter who you are, what age you are, or what walk of life you come from. Intuition presents in each person in different ways, but every single person in existence has this, whether they’re aware of it or not.
Over time, as you learn to listen to and trust your intuition — that gut instinct that everyone has — you can strengthen the connection with that part of yourself. In doing so, that’s what allows people to have heightened intuition. What tends to happen, unfortunately, is that life circumstances can teach us that our gut instincts are wrong, and sometimes, these experiences can cause us to ignore our intuitive abilities altogether.
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An example Falcon is having me use is my mom. She’s someone who is very toxic and has a lot of narcissistic qualities, and there were times growing up when I would pick up on certain things that she was saying or doing where I could tell that she was trying to manipulate me. However, when I would try to stand up for myself or call her out on this, she would say, “Don’t assign motive,” as if I were making incorrect assumptions. She would try to steer me away from what I was very clearly picking up on, to get me to doubt and question myself.
Even so, my intuition turned out to be right every time; she just didn’t want her manipulations coming to light. Once I was finally out of that environment, it took me a while to learn to trust myself and my own intuition again, after a lifetime of being gaslit by my own parents.
It’s why now, Falcon regularly does exercises to help not just strengthen my intuitive abilities, but also to strengthen my confidence in myself, teaching me that I can trust what I’m feeling. Sometimes, it can look like him having me try to interpret dream messages on my own before he’ll step in with a full answer regarding what they’re about. Other times, he’ll give me a slight misdirection on something so that I use my discernment to recognize that and call it out.
Whenever he gives me a misdirection, it’s always something low-stakes. An example is that he might tell me one evening to make pancakes for dinner. It’s not so strange that it’s out of the realm of possibility, but it’s just odd enough that I question it because it feels a little off. When this happens, he expects that I’ll respectfully ask him if that’s actually what I should be doing. Once I do so, he’ll immediately tell me that no, it was a discernment practice.
He doesn’t do this to trick me, but rather, he makes it obvious that it’s a discernment exercise, because he’s trying to set me up for success in strengthening my intuition, not trying to make me distrustful of him. It’s why he keeps these discernment practices low-stakes, so if there’s something of more importance, I know that I can trust him and follow his guidance without questioning if it’s a misdirection.
I see now why he had me use “Bubblegum” as the title for this article. It’s a perfect example of this. It sounded just strange enough that on one hand, I thought it could be a discernment exercise, but on the other hand, with some of the other article topics he’s had me write about, I knew that it was just plausible enough that it might actually be what he wanted. When I asked him, he was direct in telling me that yes, this was what he wanted to go with.
Something else he’s guiding me to add is that these discernment exercises are something he does with me because he knows I’ll respond well to them. However, this won’t work for everyone, and it’s not necessarily a comfortable dynamic for all people. Just because he does this with me doesn’t mean that it’s what everyone’s spirit guides will do with them.
For others, if this isn’t something that would work well for you or would create stress, your spirit guides will find other ways to help you strengthen your intuition. And that’s the beauty of it. Your spirit guides will know. You can tell them that you’d be uncomfortable with this, but you won’t have to, because they’ll already be aware, and they’ll know what’s going to work best for you.
Falcon is telling me to leave it at that, so I hope everyone has a great Tuesday!
