Your Intuition Can't Outgrow Your Soul #253

If you’ve been wondering why your intuition feels a little fuzzy lately—or why your abilities seem to be plateauing no matter how many cards you pull, meditations you attempt, or books you read—this episode will give you some much needed clarity.  We are pulling back the veil to help you understand the fundamental foundation of your intuitive growth and what may be stopping you from experiencing the ease with your intuition that you have been working towards. 

The secret is, skill building work doesn't necessarily determine the level of growth you achieve with your intuition, mediumship skills, or healing abilities.  Something else very important is at the center of it all.  

We'll talk about: 

 * The three biggest reasons intuitive abilities plateau
 * How to strengthen your relationship with your higher self
 * Why meditation is a non-negotiable for intuitive growth 
 * How loved ones in Spirit gather closest during the holidays
 * What it means to build a true spiritual foundation—not just intuitive technique

Christina Wooten helps you access the wisdom and support of the Spirit World to elevate your life.
She is a Certified Psychic Medium and Reiki Master Teacher.  Christina is the owner of Sedona Medium and co-host of Modern Life and Spirit podcast.

She offers Psychic Medium Readings, Soul Readings, and teaches how you can start communicating and receiving messages from your Spirit Guides - through her program.
Learn more about her offerings here


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Transcript

Unknown: 0:48

Christina, welcome to the Modern Life and Spirit Podcast where we explore spiritual topics relevant to today's world. Your hosts, certified psychic medium Christina Wooten and Reiki master teacher Robert Wooten, break down how to work with spirit to create more positive growth in your life. Consider this podcast your go to spiritual resource for navigating the modern world.

Christina Wooten: 1:15

Hey there, kindred spirits. Welcome to Modern Life and Spirit podcast. It's Christina Wooten, certified psychic medium at SedonaMedium.com Welcome to our episode today. I'm so glad to have you here. This is the last episode of 2025 which Wow. What a powerful year, really. As I'm starting to get into this place where I'm thinking about how the year has been so transformative, what it has shifted and changed both in my life and the people around me, I'm just really in awe. I'm just in awe of these different layers of transformation that we experience and go through, and the depths that we are learning and growing and expressing ourselves. It's really beautiful. I think this year has been not the easiest of years for a lot of people, but it has been a time of necessary internal shifts. And anytime we're doing big internal shifts, we have a tendency to see all the things that are external, our circumstances that are connected with that begin to change as well. So it's just been a very interesting time. I'm excited for what next year is going to bring to and in the meantime, I'm just going to be here in the present moment. We here in the United States, are getting ready to celebrate Thanksgiving soon. And I do know that as we start to get busier, there's a lot of things happening at the end of the year. You know, maybe we can get a little bit ungrounded during this time, just because there's a lot of things that maybe you're holding in your head or you're trying to do and figure out, there's just new responsibilities that come forward around this end of the year time and intuitive people can sometimes feel the most disconnected from themselves during these busy seasons where we're rushing or we're trying to fulfill things On a checklist and not necessarily being quite as present with what our energy is saying to us or what we feel guided to accomplish. It becomes like, Oh, I've got to fit this in and do this and so forth. And I know for myself that it's something that I have to always be very intentional about, to learn from my experiences and to create space at the end of the year. So some of you also might be heading out to family gatherings, or maybe you have family that's coming into town soon. And I just want to remind you very gently and very lovingly, if one of the things that you have been working on this year has been to honor yourself in a different way, and you need a little bit of extra help from a boundary perspective, I just want to remind you that we have episode 108 which is helpful boundary phrases for your next gathering that is available to you at any time. It's always good to have some helpful boundary phrases that are just in your back pocket for those conversations that you just don't want to debate about your truth. You just don't want to get into all of that or feel like you need to justify yourself. So just remember at any time, you can always listen to episode 108, all right. I hope that your holiday plans, whatever they're looking like, that they bring you peace, that they bring you a sense of joy and a sense of beauty. And of course, remember that you don't have to do what you have always done. You can always give yourself that permission to flex and to flow with the energy that's at hand and in wherever it is inspiring you. So just keep that in mind if you have been beholden to old traditions that aren't serving you. This is a nine years. This is about closure. Maybe there are some of these things or ways that you've been looking at this time that you're ready to see shift and change. So I just want to remind you of that and invite you to step willingly, lovingly and excitedly, through that threshold of change, and either way, of course, the holidays are always a really special time for our loved ones who are on the other side. They love to be a part of our celebrations because it. Filled with the joy of life, the joy of living, the warmth of family, and filled with love. It's one of our places where we really the energy of love is shared so beautifully between all of us during this special time, and so they love to gather around and be a part of that energy with us. I know that throughout the year, I see my Mimi the most over the holiday season when, especially when it's the early mornings, when I'm cooking in the kitchen and getting ready for hosting. And I always sense my grandfather the most around whenever we cut the pumpkin pie, because he was a diabetic, but he was always like sneaking little bit of extra pumpkin pie. So don't forget to say hello when you sense your loved ones that are around, or you can always tell stories to help invite them in or welcome them into your space. As we wrap up the year and move into a little bit more of a reflective time. We're starting to drift from this fall time and getting a little bit close to winter time, it naturally brings up questions about where we feel aligned, and maybe places where we've drifted a little bit more we can see things or have more wisdom and insight at times when we're looking backward or just doing some reflection. And that applies, of course, not only to our daily life, but to our intuitive and mediumship development as well. So whether you've been working on your own communication with your guides or loved ones on the other side, or whether you're doing more service and trying to help and support others. So today, I really want to dive into something that I see all the time, which is people who are practicing and practicing and practicing their skills, but still are feeling blocked, or maybe you're just feel like you've hit a plateau, or you're completely feeling stuck because something really important that you don't realize is being a bit overlooked. A lot of people put the focus in practice when they're working on intuition or skill development when it comes to communicating with the other side, but end up neglecting the spiritual development aspect and wondering, you know, why have I stagnated? Why am I getting blocked now and seem to be moving backwards, even the basis of true intuitive development and spirit communication development is the foundation of spiritual growth, these things really cannot be separated. You'll only go so far if you aren't also tending to your spiritual growth and that process. So you can't just work on your intuition skills and practice, or your spirit communication skills and practice and do that in isolation. You have to continuously be building your spiritual awareness, deepening your well of understanding and bringing wisdom to the surface and how you approach your life. Really applying that this is really important. Your intuition cannot outgrow your spiritual maturity. And I'm going to say that again, because it's really, really important. Your intuition cannot outgrow your spiritual maturity. You have to develop and deepen your relationship with your soul, your essence of life that's within you. This is where that phenomena really exists, the phenomena of spirit, communication and interconnection, and those abilities, the things that we consider exciting and interesting, the wonders that lead to these huge spiritual awakenings. This comes from our blossoming relationship with your own soul energy and that connection with the divine energy, waking up that consciousness so that you are beginning to integrate that in deeper levels, bringing that down into the earth plane. There are three big reasons that you might be feeling more stagnant. So maybe you're thinking, I'm meditating more, I'm pulling my daily cards, I'm taking more spiritual classes. Why am I not growing? Well, it could be you're over focusing on your technique, and you're not focusing as much on the embodiment of what that means for you in a greater picture or perspective of your life. You have to bring that and integrate it into. To how you look at the world and how you live that life. It is all about embodiment. So if you are putting a lot of emphasis on technique and not on the embodiment piece, you'll definitely find that things begin to plateau. You reach a place where you just feel like, I'm just not growing, I'm not continuing. Another thing that can happen is maybe your spiritual bypassing. So spiritual bypassing means using spirituality or spiritual buzzwords and phrases and concepts and ideas to avoid healing. So it's when we jump to spiritual truths like love and light and positivity or destiny as a way to avoid really sitting with our human stuff, or doing the inner work that our soul and our higher self is asking us to do, so not wanting to look at that heavier stuff that really blocks intuitive clarity, so it can bring this sense of emotional clutter or this energy of avoidance, and that is going to start to build in your energetic field, and that's going to cause more obstruction in your intuitive awareness, because you start to internally, begin to block things off so you don't realize you're doing it, but you begin to create these blockages when you aren't being open and doing the work that you really need to be doing. And another thing that can lead to a lot of stagnation is just not honoring your soul. So your soul is a part of this partnership that you have in this lifetime. So if you stop tending to that as a relationship, things can start to feel fuzzy. We want to continuously be drawing closer to our soul energy, bringing that forward as much as possible in our life. So if you are thinking that your intuition is more mechanical and not a symptom of the relationship you have with your higher self energy, then you're going to find that there's confusion and you don't understand why things are feeling so fuzzy, because your intuition is not mechanical. It is very connected with the relationship that you have with your higher self. This is also something to think about when you suddenly feel a huge dive bomb in your abilities and you're thinking, Oh my gosh. Like, what happened? What changed? You know, ask yourself, what is your relationship with your higher self right now? What are you resisting? What have you been ignoring? More than likely, it comes down to a lack of self honesty or a lack of willingness to change where the Spirit has said and directed you. It's time for a bigger change. So you've started to get into resistance, which leads to blockages, which leads to feeling more and more disconnected, and that is going to show up in your intuitive practices or your spirit communication work. So what's important to understand is that your relationship with your spiritual energy, with your soul is the crux of how you're able to continue to grow. And as you grow spiritually in that relationship with yourself, your higher self is proportional to the growth that you will experience in the phenomena of spirit, communication, of intuition, connection with your guides and so forth, because you are rising to that frequency, raising to that vibration that you need to be in for that communication to be able to happen. When we think about what I mean by soul relationship, this is feeling your own essence before trying to feel spirit. So it's you being able to notice what your energy feels like, as a being, as a frequency, and then connecting with the other side, or connecting with your spirit guides, for example, it's making space for silence, for quiet, for stillness. It's acting in ways that are aligned with your intuition, so not just asking for help, but really acting on the direction that you get. This is another thing that I see that can be a big problem. When you're in deeper connection with your soul, you're moving without that resistance. You're moving in the direction for evolution, and that evolutionary process is transformational. It involves a lot of change, and it involves a lot of flowing. When we get in. Intuitive guidance, acting in alignment with that is very important. You can't ask for intuitive help and then not follow through and be frustrated about, well, why am I not getting direction? Your guides are going. I told you five times, like three days ago, what you needed to do, like there's not a new answer. The answer is, x, y, z. You have to jump through that hoop. You have to go through that door before the next stage of things will open up for you again, because it's about embodiment and integration. And of course, listening when your soul says you need to rest or not. Now, there is a lot of value in learning how to recognize what divine timing is. It's important to recognize that there's a season for everything. And as much as we like to rush along the process to just go ahead and cut to whatever the end result is going to be. I mean, that's very tempting, right? Like, who loves process when you can just like, like, take me on the fast bus? But when we're getting the message that this isn't the season for that, this is the season for rest, for recuperation, the message is not right now, listening to that versus continuously trying to force, really shows that you are in a deeper relationship with your soul, that you're not resisting the timing that's there. You become more in harmony with things, and that harmony allows more life force to flow throughout your body as well, which is really important with our health and our intuitive processes too. The more energy that we have, the higher we can lift up as well. So when it comes to continuing your spiritual growth, making sure that you have a continuously expanding foundation for spiritual knowledge and development that is going to grow along with you, so that your experience of spirit, communication and intuition continues to grow as well. There's no substitute for meditation. There just isn't this is where change really starts to take place. There are adjustments that happen within your energetic system that cannot occur otherwise. I want you to hear that there are adjustments that happen when you are in a meditative state to your energy system that over time, are really important to your development and growth, intuitively, that cannot occur unless you are in that state. If you need a visual if you're a very visual person, think about that. These receptors aren't really added into your field unless you are in this energetic space that allows for that to happen. So every time you sit with spirit or you sit in a meditation, you are allowing that growth within your energetic system to occur. And there is no substitute for that, and I know that can be hard to hear when you're someone who maybe feels like they just don't have a lot of time or feel really frustrated in meditation, but the truth is you probably do have the time. You can always do 10 minutes a day somewhere, so you have to kind of kick that excuse out the door, and you've got to recognize this is an important priority for your growth. The next thing that will help you in really building your foundation is a pursuit, a real, genuine pursuit, to develop your understanding of the Divine and building that relationship. This includes learning, learning, reading, understanding, meditating on concepts, allowing yourself to pull inspiration from the wisdom that's come before us, but also it's about integrating that wisdom into your life to practice what it is that you have learned and creating that direct relationship with the divine. You've probably heard me talk about this before, is that sometimes people put into this category of spiritual work that they're doing. As they start to work more and more with their spirit guides, they're like, Oh, well, I'm doing all of this spiritual work because I'm talking to my guides every single day. I'm doing journaling with them. I'm, you know, practicing what I'm hearing and putting it into practice. But your work with your guides can never be a substitute for your own development with the divine of your understanding that that energy, that. Relationship that is critically important. So it can't be like this is my spiritual growth over here with my guides. Yeah, that is part of your spiritual growth, but it is a component. It's a piece of that you have to have it balanced, where also you are working on your divine relationship. What that means for you, bringing that wisdom into your life, as well, practicing creating space for that to speak to you and to speak through you in your life, I think we have all seen examples of people who who know things. So when you're talking to them, they say, I know, I know, but they're not living it right. They aren't practicing it. They aren't becoming one with the wisdom that is an important part of our spiritual growth process. Think about it like this, knowing about boundaries is different from practicing boundaries. Knowing about surrender is different from letting the universe lead you for real. Knowing spirit is loving is different from trusting it when life goes sideways or completely different direction. We have to practice the wisdom that we are learning bring it very deeply into our life integration. That level of integration is what expands your intuitive bandwidth. You're able to hold more energy and higher levels of energy, which is going to raise your vibration, which is an important component and part of the intuitive connection with your guides and those that are on the other side. And I would also add kind of as a side note, as part of that integrative work and building that relationship with the divine is allowing yourself to heal and resolve issues that you know are still in your energy field are still creating challenges for you, so that you can be more clear energetically, you can let go of these heavy weights of ego within your energetic field, that's going to create a lot more clarity as well, so that this heavy energy doesn't really have a place to plug in and connect with you and influence you. You begin to radiate the divine energy even out in your auric field and affect all things around you. That's the goal. When we're really living this integration, we are impacting not just ourselves the beauty of being in our own essence with the divine, but also being able to positively influence the vibration of those around us, support them in other ways as well. So I want you to just consider that if you have been feeling stuck, if you've been feeling frustrated, maybe you have plateaued. Maybe you're just feeling like there's some stagnant energy around and you just can't seem to get past a certain level in your intuitive development or your personal work. On the other side, instead of asking, what's wrong with my abilities? Why is this technique not working for me anymore. Why is this not happening? Really ask yourself, from a different perspective, where is my soul asking me to grow next? Maybe you really need to have some more dedicated meditation time on a regular schedule so that the work that is happening in your energetic field can be done, and it's not anything that you have to do, it's things that will happen naturally as a result of regular meditation practice that is going to make a big difference. And also, you know, maybe you're resisting some growth, maybe you haven't been fully stepping into integration, or maybe you just kind of have been letting it ride and haven't really been challenging yourself to continue the growth process in your relationship with divine energy and your understanding of that. So bring that into the conversation. Ask yourself, instead of it being about the abilities or these mechanics of things, recognize that it's not about the mechanics you've you've outgrown your platform, and it's time to revisit the platform and create a larger, broader, stronger platform so that you have more continued room to grow. And you'll find that your development begins again. Thank you so much for joining us today, as always. I hope that this episode just helps you to make deeper, really meaningful connections with your spirit guides with your higher self, which in turn, is going to enrich your life in ways you. Can't even imagine, as is our yearly custom, we're going to be taking a break from publishing new episodes in the month of December, so as we're going to take that time to celebrate with our family, I have family that's coming into town for about a week, and I'm really, really excited about seeing them just having some special time to reflect, to appreciate the year, and to just make sure that we aren't getting into the busyness and into the checklists and really being able to be present with the insights that are coming forward as we prepare for our next stage. While we're gone. Don't worry, you're gonna have access to now. What 253 episodes that you can binge while we're gone. So whatever topic you're looking for, we have probably covered it, and I am looking forward to being back with you again in January. In the meantime, please know that I'm sending you so much love. I know your guides, your loved ones from the other side are sending you a lot of love, and we'll be doing a lot of visiting as well over the next couple of months. And of course, please remember that we would love to hear from you. If you've enjoyed today's episode, please leave us a review. Make sure you're subscribed and let us know what resonated with you, or maybe you can share your favorite episode with someone who just needs a little bit of extra love or needs a little bit of extra support. We have lots of episodes that can potentially help for any stage of life until next time, we will see you next year in 2026 so much love and as always, many blessings.

Robert Wooten: 27:28

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