Debra Basham

Living and Loving

Tag: intuition

  • Missing Metformin

    It was odd that he would doze off while they watched a bit of TV after dinner. He had done that a lot before being diagnosed with and treated for sleep apnea — but not since he had begun using a CPAP. He was faithful using it every night and even for his afternoon naps.

    This dozing had been happening for a few days. She thought back over the dinner menu, wondering if it been too heavy on carbs as he was also being treated for Type 2 diabetes.

    Saying softly, “You are dozing off again,” resulted in an emotional reaction. He was normally mind-mannered, so she stayed calm as she told him that reaction, too, might indicate something was going on. She suggested he test his glucose level to see and it was a little high but not alarming.

    During the dozing after dinner the previous evening they had considered having him take the Metformin with dinner rather than at bedtime with the rest of his medications and supplements. He got the bottle of Metformin out of the medicine cabinet to identify it in his PM dose but there was not one in the cup. Checking the two-week medication dispenser he discovered there was no Metformin in the following week either.

    How could they have missed the Metformin when they filled his two-week supply? As a precaution, they fill his meds together….

    They were both so thankful her “nagging” sense had led them to discover the missing Metformin.

    Note* One of the ways to harness intuition is to notice some of the signals of intuition. Signals are emotions like fear and anxiety, but also physical sensations—like feeling tense and persistent thoughts, dreams, and suspicions.

  • 21st Century Mystic

    Sacred Stories

    They were on FaceTime, sharing their reentry to the “real” world after having been on retreat for a week. The conversation turned to the awkwardness that can arise when using intuition in our everyday work life, especially in fields that do not embrace this path.

    One mentioned having heard author Alan Seale say, “In the 21st century we will all become mystics or we will be nothing at all.” She went on to mention how spiritual practice historically had been cloistered, where those called to service were likely living within religious community that understood such a calling. On Becoming a 21st Century Mystic: Pathways to Intuitive Living, was written in 1997. Very different from today!

    A few minutes after their conversation ended, the other friend sent a text message with a photo of a paragraph written by the Buddhist nun, Pema Chödrön:


    Along with the quotation was her comment, “I guess women have always had to figure out how to be busy mystics when cloistering was not available for them. Thought this part of my reading was a synchronicity with what we had discussed.”

    From the back cover of On Becoming a 21st Century Mystic:

    Intuition, in its highest form, is nothing less than the voice of God within you. It is one of God’s greatest gifts. Journey deep into your heart. Uncover your innate intuitive gifts. Discover vast realities beyond your outer senses. Experience the oneness of your rational and intuitive minds. A breakthrough book – a clear and practical guide for spiritual and intuitive living in the 21st century.

  • Acupuncture

    Sacred Stories

    Her husband was in rehab. He had not yet regained bowel function, was bloated, toxic, terribly uncomfortable, and growing frustrated with the unsuccessful treatment: stool softener, laxative, suppository. “You would think a progressive hospital like this would have acupuncture available,” she lamented.

    That was noon.

    At 7:00 pm, she received a call from a client she had been playing phone tag with. The client was glad to make contact, hoping to schedule an appointment. “Unfortunately, my calendar is at home, and I am at Mary Free Bed hospital with my husband.”

    “Oh, that is such a wonderful facility. My niece was there for rehab and she did great. I will say, it was the acupuncture that really helped her,” the client chimed in.

    “Acupuncture?” she inquired.

    “Oh, yes, they offer acupuncture at the Wege Institute connected to the hospital,” was the response.

    Her husband had acupuncture the next day, and had a normal bowl movement after just one treatment.

    Every day since her husband had been moved to rehab, she had parked in the lot right next door to the Wege Institute.

    What we need is probably always closer to us than we might think….
    wege

  • Become a Priest

    Sacred Stories

    She purposely avoided engaging with the man entering the church just as she was leaving. She had never seen him before, and she was in a hurry to meet someone.

    She pushed on the door. It did not budge.

    Assuming that the right side door was locked already, her thought was to step left to go out the door the stranger had just entered.

    Although you might think she made this up, or that she was delusional, she knows when she is being “stopped in her tracks” by God.

    “Go find that man who just came in, and give him a message for me. Tell him I want him to become a priest.”

    Following that inner guidance, she found the man and gave him the message. He was moved to tears and thanked her.

    As she left the building and was about to get into her car, her cell phone rang. It was the friend she was scheduled to meet.

    Her friend excitedly exclaimed, “The most amazing thing just happened! I was with my friend this morning. He was very distressed, trying to determine if he was to take over his family business or go to seminary to become a priest. I sent him over to the church, knowing the service was over, but the doors would still be open. He just called to say some woman walked up to him, said she had received a message for him, and that God wanted him to become a priest.”

    We don’t always receive such immediate confirmation. The man had come to that church solely to pray, seeking discernment about the question she had been directed to deliver an answer to!

  • Saved by the Horn

    Sacred Stories

    This man’s memory of his having being saved by a horn honk is still alive after over fifty years. He writes:

    I was driving north on Bayshore for a date with my then-girlfriend. The speed limit was 55. Traffic was, as usual, heavy. I was listening to the radio and pretty-much lost in thought. I heard a horn honk. I looked up just in time to see that the traffic had come to a full stop in front of me. I jammed on the brakes and just barely managed to stop before rear-ending the guy in front of me. I looked around to see whom I should thank for the warning honk. No one was paying any attention at all to me. My sense has always been that the sound of the horn was “other dimensional.”

  • Thanks, Chrissie!

    Sacred Stories

    She went swimming one day, and as she was looking at the clouds, she thought, “I should have asked Chrissie when she was alive, that once she passed, I would know what that sign might be.”

    So she thought, “Okay, Chrissie, just give me a sign, any sign.”

    As she was driving home, there was a huge rainbow in the sky…

    “Thanks, Chrissie!”

    rainbow michigan city lighthouse sept 2015

    How often we might have thought something was too late, then realized those who have passed on are right here with us.

  • Intuitive Knowing

    An 8 year-old boy was walking with his grandparents at the zoo when he said, “I feel like a tree is going to fall.”

    Seconds later, they all heard a huge crashing sound—like an explosion. They heard someone exclaim, “A very big tree fell in the woods!”

    We are all born with intuitive capability. As adults, we often get to remember the gift.


    tree falling

  • Poker Table

    Her mother had recently transitioned and so she went for a healing session to support her through the grief process. The image of a poker table popped into the healer’s mind immediately.

    “I get the image of a game table, you know the kind people play poker at, and my sense is that your mom is doing well. I would say she is letting you know she is enjoying herself. Your dad’s energy pops in, too. That all sounds promising to me.”

    They went on with the session and at the end she said, “The dining table in our home when I was growing up was a poker table. It came out of a saloon. In fact, after my dad died, when my mom sold the family home, I got that table. It is still in my house now.”

    You can appreciate when information comes that you know you could not have gotten through your intellect. You are being guided!


    poker table