HealingHQ.com speaks with Sonia Choquette and gets in touch with our sixth sense

With her motto “Trust Your Vibes,” Sonia Choquette is certainly someone who relies on her sixth sense. A renowned intuitive, teacher and best-selling author of eight books, Sonia specializes in helping people move from a five-sensory paradigm of limitation and fear to a six-sensory paradigm of creative possibility and personal power. Her radio show, “Trust Your Vibes,” airs every Wednesday from 2 pm-3pm Central Time on Hay House Radio, giving listeners a chance to tune into their own inner voice and change their lives.

You focus very heavily on six sensory living. Would you explain a little more?
Basically, we’ve been culturally indoctrinated with the notion that we only five legitimate senses to inform us about our world – sight, sound, hearing, taste, touch. But in reality, we have a sixth sense. It’s been discussed by philosophers, explorers and adventurers, but now science is beginning to catch up, even identifying parts of the brain that pick up on energy that provides information and guidance about the nature of our world just like our other senses. We are naturally hardwired sixth sensory beings and without it we’re really compromised. Because the sixth sense hasn’t been legitimized, people have tried to ignore it, question it, bury it, hide it and not really make decisions based on that sixth sense, and often to their detriment.  Interestingly, it’s those people who are powerful, pioneering, creative thinkers like Albert Einstein, Louis Pasteur, Ralph Waldo Emerson and even Bill Gates, who have trusted that sense.

Do you think ancient peoples were more in touch with their sixth sense?
I think industrialization is what cut us off. Ancient civilizations were very in touch with their sixth sense and relied upon it for their architecture, for their healing, for their medicine…but the industrial age, the mechanical age started to pull us away from natural wisdom. We sort of amputated our inner voice and collectively we fell into a common maneuver to overvalue the external world and devalue the internal world.

Your main focus is on teaching but you also do personal readings. Are you really able to get a sense of somebody simply by talking to them on the phone?
I do, because of vibration, because of voice, because of one’s energy field. I can tell what is and what isn’t in alignment or harmony. It’s sort of like a musician who can tell if a piano is off key. I can just hear that dissonance that perhaps an untrained ear cannot detect.

So our five senses really help us to maximize our sixth sense.
Right. They’re not operating separately and they’re not in competition. It’s much more synthesized and symbiotic than we realize. In fact, in my book Psychic Pathways I say very clearly that the sixth sense is basically founded on a solid and accurate use of your other five senses.

I think that would appeal to a lot of folks because just the word ‘psychic’ makes many people bristle.
I think that’s because we’ve been culturally denied to have an open and comfortable interaction with the soul, or an expression of the soul. ‘Psychic’ means ‘of the soul.’ It’s also a very patriarchal society and ‘psychic’ is a feminine word and so it’s like, ‘ok, we don’t want to talk about that.’ It’s interesting because vernacular influences things a great deal. You can say hunch, sixth sense, intuitive, vibes and you get a pass. You say psychic and you get a negative reaction. So I say don’t use the word psychic. Call it whatever you want, but don’t shut it down because people are confused or have been manipulated to discount what is actually very natural.

There’s also a lot of religious resistance toward the idea of psychics.
There is a paternal, protective inclination on the part of many religions, especially more conservative organizations. To tell the truth, the intuitive world is a bit like the Wild West and if you’re uninformed and  not really in touch with your own intuition, you might be inclined to turn your power and your judgment over to people who say they’ll do it on your behalf and tell you what to do. And that’s not the right use of intuition. True intuitive practitioners are here to serve as guides and catalysts to help others get in touch with their own inner voice. So even though I could say that the religious resistance is overzealous, maybe what they’re really saying is ‘hey, don’t turn your power over.’

Are you optimistic that the world is headed in a good direction?
I am because I think that what’s wrong with this picture has probably wrong with it forever. And with information and more exposure we become more aware of the problems. We can’t heal what we don’t know. So even though it looks like all heck is breaking loose, I don’t think our world is any more of a bleak place than it was in the Middle Ages. But we can’t move toward a more balanced harmony until we develop our intuition because that is the common bond that helps us recognize that we cannot hurt ourselves or our fellow man and get away with it.

What is your advice to those who want to become more intuitive or more trusting of their vibes?
It’s really simple – the more you name it, the more you claim it. The biggest difference between those who are intuitive and those who aren’t is that intuitive people say so. They speak out. Those who don’t think they’re instinctive probably get the same amount of intuitive feelings, but they just stuff them. Intuition comes from the heart and your voice is the chimney of the heart. You can reactivate your intuition in a very short period of time because it’s natural. We all have it.

Interview by Mar Yvette