She was taking the week off and flying home to visit family. I was excited for her and had approved the time off. She was openly telling me about the vacation and I asked about when her flight was leaving.

“Monday morning” she responded and then kept talking about some details of the week. Every red flag went off in my body that this wasn’t true. A long time ago, I learned what YES and NO or TRUTH and LIE feels like in my body. There is a physical response, almost like hearing or seeing. It is lumped under the “sixth sense”. Everyone is different in how their body interprets YES and NO. For me, I get a constriction in polar plexus and a feeling of being drawn inward, almost like a protective feeling. I feel like my body is shifting back, almost leaning backwards yet my physical body doesn’t move. I hear the word NO inside of my head. It is one of the first things that I have my spiritual coaching clients learn about themselves.

I stood listening to her and realized that I needed to pause for a second. Precognitive or psychic messages are interesting in the fact that there can be contextual issues. For example, my body was telling me in no unclear terms that she was lying to me, but my mind knew that she wouldn’t be lying about this, she had no reason to. The reality was that her vacation time was approved and it didn’t matter when or where or how or what she did with her time off and we both knew it. There was no reason for her to lie, I also knew on a personal level that she wouldn’t be lying about this. Thus, I paused. In the moment of pausing and centering my energy the answer became glaringly obvious. She wasn’t lying and I wasn’t wrong. I smiled and went back to focusing on what she was telling me.

Days later, she called me and told me that her flight was being moved. I smiled and I told her that I already knew that.

“You do?” she asked with a slight confusion in her voice.

I went on to explain the feedback that I had gotten in my body and that it took me by surprise. It forced me to pause and tune into the universe to realize that she wasn’t lying to me, that she simply didn’t know that her flight wasn’t going to happen on Monday. She wasn’t lying and I wasn’t wrong.

She went on to tell me that she was leaving on Saturday. I paused and gently said “no, you aren’t”. She laughed and said “well, there is a very small chance that it will be on Friday”. I laughed and told her to enjoy the flight on Friday.

She called me the next day and told me that the flight was moved to Friday night. I smiled, but didn’t need to tell her that I already knew.

She wasn’t lying and I wasn’t wrong.