Unlock Your Intuition — Book Review
Unlock Your Intuition : How to Accurately and Reliably Access Your Most Valuable Resource
by Andrea Hess of EmpoweredSoul.com
A few months ago, I wrote Andrea to share my first response to her book: “I wish everyone who submits a question to me for a spirit guide reading would read your book first!”
Since voicing that wish, I’ve been blessed by new visitors who’ve found me via Empowered Soul and corresponded with me about connecting with their guides. Andrea’s readers share a common feature that makes them stand out from the crowd of spiritual seekers — they arrive already empowered with a conscious, insightful spiritual vocabulary.
I feel that an author’s highest intention should be to share her world view with you in such a way that you learn to speak her language — you absorb her vocabulary and come away with the ability to apply it to your own life.
Unlock Your Intuition by Andrea Hess
If I taught a course on developing intuition, this would be the required text book. Frankly, in this day and age of blogging, I feel that some of the best-known books out there about spiritual development, developing your intuition, or using your inherent psychic abilities are nice – but that’s it. They’re just nice. They present a nice overview of general concepts… Best-selling authors like Laura Day, Doreen Virtue, Sonia Choquette, Richard Webster, or Sylvia Browne wrote ground-breaking books, mostly in terms of when they were published. Were these authors to come on the scene at the same time Andrea did (in the last few years) the general material they have published wouldn’t cut it in my opinion — they could give away the same information through blogs.
Most established authors in the New Age market still don’t blog, and the few who do have web sites do not offer anywhere near the amount of original, on-going, free content that Andrea does via her Empowered Soul blog.
What is Intuition?
What impressed most about Unlock Your Intuition is the amount of additional, practical detail Andrea shares. This is not “re-hash” or re-purposed blog posts put to paper — 90% of the meat of this book goes into areas way beyond what you’ll find on Andrea’s web site. This is a relatively “short” book at 130 pages — but it’s not 100 pages of “You should use your intuition. Intuition is really cool. See, I wrote a book about it.”
The overviews and chapter introductions are informative and brief — but this is a workbook. I read Unlock Your Intuition for the first time, in one sitting, about three months ago. But I’ve been working with it since that time.
Divination Basics — Dowsing
One thing that may not be apparent from the book’s jacket cover description is the degree to which dowsing plays a significant role. To really make the most of this material, you’ll need a pendulum. Fortunately, I had a really cool citrine crystal pendulum from my days as a jewelry buyer for a metaphysical bookstore. I happily dug it out of the treasure box where it had been languishing for a decade.
Years ago, when I was more actively experimenting with divination tools, I tended to be more of a card reader. About five years ago, another psychic (as well as my guides) told me to put away all forms of divination tools — I had outgrown them. But they were a significant part of my intuitive development. Having a divination practice as a foundation is a great place to start, and a skill you can fall back on from time to time for confirmation.
The Art of Accessing Information
Unlock Your Intuition
- Internalizing the Intuitive Process
- Beyond Yes or No — Accessing the Information Flow
- Resolving Inconsistencies
Working with Discorporate Entities — Spiritual Guides, Teachers, and Grandma
The relationship between intuition and communicating with your spirit guides is not overlooked. Andrea’s psychic process and her system of profiling spirit guide teams is noticeably different from my own — but I delight in the opportunity to “compare notes.” I learned a lot from the overlap in how I approach spirit guides.
I would recommend that the best recipe for effectively working with your spirit guides is to read what different people have to say on the subject, and then stir all those ingredients together — with a big healthy dose of what resonates with you.
As you may also know from my recent confessions, I generally feel that I’ve already spent a lifetime saturated with books on alternative spirituality and new age topics; not to mention, my “day job” as a blog marketing consultant is dominated these days by working with other post-modern mystical authors — obviously, I make reading and evaluating my clients’ material a priority. For these reasons, alone, I’d call myself the toughest audience any contemporary mystical author could try to reach.
For the record, Andrea is not my client, she’s my friend — but I’m still a huge fan. So, I’m thrilled to be able to congratulate her on this excellent achievement. I can whole-heartedly endorse this book.
When was the last time I recommended you go out and buy another author’s work? I don’t run Google Ads, I don’t have a blogroll a mile long, and I don’t stuff my posts with affiliate links (you surf the web, you know there are tons of opportunities for me to do so, if I chose to go that route). I strive to maintain the highest credibility possible, so that you can trust my recommendations, when I make them.
I often receive emails from people who say that they can’t afford private readings, but they really want to develop their intuition and their relationship with their spirit guides. If you only have $15 bucks to spend on your spiritual development, get a copy of
Unlock Your Intuition by Andrea Hess
If you’ve already read the book, please share your review in the comments below.
Contacting Your Spirit Guide 101
Free resources for Shift Your Spirits readers:
- Read the eBook by Slade Roberson especially for beginners who want to know who/what spirit guides are and how to communicate with them
- Listen to the mp3 preview of the Spirit Guide Attunement portion of the Talking to Your Spirit Guides class by Slade Roberson
- Try the meditation to Meet a Guide contributed by Jeff Lilly of Druid Journal
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Slade and Andrea,
As I read the review I heard only one thing repeat in my head.
Words to the wise.
I guess I’ll have to find out for myself.
Thanks in advance of seeing the 130 pages.
Slade,
Coming from you, that’s a really high recommendation. I’ll get it as soon as I receive a payout on my illustration sales.
Vitor
Slade, thank you, thank you, thank you! I am so grateful and honored that you would recommend my book to your readers. I’ll just say thank you some more - thank you!!!!
Lots of hugs and blessings,
Andrea
Thanks Slade for the recommendation of Andrea’s book.
I love your writing style Andrea and I’m sure the book will
be just as readable as your blog.
I’ll come back and make a post after I’ve read it.
xo xo
Deb
I bought the book. It came in from Amazon and I promptly lost it. I have been telling myself for over a week that I have to find it because I really want to read it. I love Andrea’s style of writing. This article just gave me another reason to find that book. Love to you both.
Deb,
Love the “Slade & Andrea Fan” — kind of makes us sound like a rock band!
Definitely come back and share what you take away — I’d encourage everyone to leave reviews on the Unlock Your Intuition Amazon page, too.
Patricia,
For whatever reason, it has not yet been the perfect time for you to read the book. Have faith that it’ll pop back out at just the right time.
I have the book, I read the book, I loved the book, I meant to review the book on my blog… but I don’t have a blog at present.
And I couldn’t have done a better review than this one.
I’ve read lots and lots of stuff on intuition and this was more grounded, more real, more definite than anything else. It states that working with intuition is just that - WORK. You need to develop it, ask the right questions in the right way, and do it regularly to get the hang of it…
But the rewards are worth it.
Personally, I struggled with the dowsing. My pendulum would swing each way for the same question, and sometimes also not at all, as well. This was no fault of the book, and in fact, Andrea discusses how to properly work with a pendulum to stop this from happening.
Like Slade, I read it pretty much cover to cover three months ago. Unlike Slade, I haven’t been working with it in the time since - and it’s my loss.
This review will prompt me to go get it out (once I unpack it after the move I’m making…) and re-read it. No better time!
I went looking for my copy of this book after reading the comments and found it in plain sight in my book shelf so like Deb said, the timing wasn’t right to read it before now. I am reading it now and like Andrea’s blog, I really like her writing style. I look forward to reading more and using it to develop my intuition more. Thanks, Andrea and Slade for doing the review and reminding me to look for the book again. Don’t you love how things hide in plain sight and you still can’t find them.
I just wanted to drop back in and say that I received the book in
4 days from my Amazon order !!! AND I did not order it the quick way. LOL
I’m INTO it and will post back again. I can’t believe it arrived so quickly.
xo xo
Deb
[...] My endless gratitude goes to Slade at Shift Your Spirits for reviewing my book “Unlock Your Intuition.” Thank you, Slade! [...]
I first found Andrea’s book as a ebook download from her website and was thrilled when she published it in *real* book form. I found it to be an invaluable how-to of practical, step-by-step instruction from which I have derived great benefit.
I second your review and recommendation, Slade. Everyone with any interest in expanding their abilities to communicate with their Higher Self should have this book.
(ps - Andrea - you know me by my *real* name! ;-))
[...] Parents, Siblings, Aunts & Uncles I like Andrea Hess’s description in Unlock Your Intuition: “If our Higher Self can be regarded as our parent aspect on the spiritual plane, then our Spirit Guides are the caring aunts and uncles that are deeply invested in our growth and well-being… In the physical, we have many teachers and mentors beyond our parents. Similarly, we are offered a broad range of assistance and information through our Spirit Guides on the spiritual plane.” [...]
[...] Another vote for Andrea Hess’s book, Unlock Your Intuition. You can download the first chapter from Andrea’s site, which is a good way to "try before you buy". If you want an overview of the book, have a look at Slade Roberson’s review at Unlock Your Intuition — Book Review : Shift Your Spirits or mine at Woo-Woo Wisdom: Andrea Hess: Unlock Your Intuition __________________ Woo-Woo Wisdom Latest blog post: The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull [...]