Welcome to Episode 286 of Live Happy Now.

This is Paula Phelps, and this week we're talking about something that all of us have, but many of us just aren't using.

And I'm not talking about your frequent flyer miles.

Intuition is something we're all born with, but somewhere along the way, the noise of the outside world can drown out our inner voice.

Today, we're talking with Kim Chesney, author of the new book Radical Intuition, a revolutionary guide to using your inner power.

Kim explains how we can use intuition to improve virtually every aspect of our lives and take what she considers the next step beyond mindfulness.

Kim, welcome to Live Happy Now.

Oh, thanks for having me.

I'm so excited to be here today.

I'm excited to talk about intuition.

This is a very interesting topic.

I want to start by finding out what made you interested in exploring intuition. This is a very interesting topic. I want to start by finding out what made you

interested in exploring intuition. You know, I get that question a lot because it is kind of

this thing. Like, how did I get to be so obsessed with this really is what it ended up being?

Since I was a kid, I, you know, I don't want to say there's, I was born with any special

gifts because I really believe that everybody has intuition and everybody has that connection.

But at a young age, I had a lot of really extraordinary intuitive things happened to me that I think I needed to make sense of.

So really my journey started as as trying to understand how my experiences fit into our traditional conceptions of reality

because I understood these extraordinary things to be very real and very ordinary to me.

So it really has been a lifelong quest of really to reconcile our thinking mind and our

intuitive mind in a really meaningful way that helps us to understand our brains a little better.

And is it something that, you know, you said we all have it. Is it something we kind of lose

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