Exclusive Interview with:
Sonia Choquette

SONIA CHOQUETTE: Hi Cindy. Hi Gerri.

We had so much fun the last time we talked with you about true balance and we learned so much.

Good! I try to devote myself to sharing information that people will actually embrace. I actually think that if it’s just more stuff for the brain it could get in the way. So I try to share what people will do, not what they should do and to make six-sensory, happy balanced living as natural and as easy as possible.

Yes. And, as you like to say, you do take the “woo-woo” out of it.

Although I do have to say, the first chapter of Trust Your Vibes is “Woo-Woo” is Where It’s At, because I think that if we get too sterile we miss the magic of our lives and that the sixth sense is the component that brings the magic into your life. And we really need to allow for that and acknowledge that it’s a part of our natural essence to have a little spirit, not just the intellect. I think we need it, we love it and quite honestly, nobody can resist it.

Absolutely. There are many people who question the sixth sense and you’ve been counseling folks for more than 30 years about this.

It’s been a life mission for me. I do say to people when we talk about intuition, and they say, “Oh, I don’t know if I believe in that,” that that’s really not a very modern level of awareness. The new question is not “Does it exist?” Science has already located the point in the brain that they have isolated to be the point of the sixth sense. Plus we’ve also acknowledged, science acknowledges, that there are neural pathways to the heart and to the stomach and that’s just what they know for now. It’s an ever-evolving science. So the modern approach is not do you believe it, but how does it work? And how does it work for me? What can I do to make my sixth sense the first? If you want my opinion, I think that it’s the sense that differentiates your life from just one of struggle to one of real success. And I don’t think any of us can live really to full potential without your sixth sense. I just do not see how it’s even possible.

Especially when you make it so positive the way you do.

It’s natural. Bats have radar. Whales have sonar. Human beings have vibes. And we need to trust our vibes, our vibrational response, because the entire universe is vibration. Our vibes are our awareness responding to vibration as it intercepts our personal experience. It’s faster than the five physical senses. So we do feel it. We feel it in our guts, our hearts, our throats. We feel it in the hair on the back of our necks. And one of the most important gateways to becoming what I call a six-sensory, as we’re naturally designed to be, is to develop a vernacular, a language that allows us to express our intuitive experiences comfortably. That is probably one of the most important gateways, to be able to talk about your vibes positively. Let’s stop putting parenthesis around it and saying, “Oh, that’s weird,” because your subconscious mind will shut down.

How can people tell if they’re thinking it or if they’re having a true vibe?

Well, that’s a good question. The way to differentiate a vibe from a thought is that a vibe is consistent where a thought jumps around like a bouncing ball. A vibe is subtle and it’s embodied where a thought is usually not so subtle. Regardless of what external information is coming at you, a vibe will stay consistent. For example, “I want to buy that house. I love that house. Let’s buy that house. We can afford that house.” OK, those are all your thoughts. Enthusiastic and highly emotional thoughts. But your vibes will say, “It just isn’t right.” And you can say, “Well, it’s the right neighborhood. It’s the right place, the best school.” But your vibes will say, “It just isn’t right.” There might not be anything visibly, viably, verifiably wrong with this picture. For example, I had this experience myself, where we were going to buy a house. Everything was right about it. Then three weeks before the closing, I said, “It isn’t right.” And my husband said, “Then you get us out of this.” And when I did, I said it’s because I had bad vibes. Well here’s what happened. Two weeks after the closing would have occurred, there was an unprecedented amount of rain in Chicago over 23 days and that house flooded.

So, if you’re going to be a six-sensory, I suggest, you have to trust and then you have to learn to stand in the fire of the five sensory world challenging you. Learn to speak about it positively… and here’s another tool – surround yourself with other six-sensories. Find believing eyes. Find people you can talk shop with who aren’t going to challenge you and question you.

There was a study done in the 80s by Harper’s Business Review, I believe. And they interviewed the top 100 CEOs and asked them, “What do you attribute your success to?” And all 100 said, “Well I would, off the record, attribute it to my intuition, my vibes. But officially I don’t say that.” All 100 said, “It’s my vibes, but I don’t want anyone else to know that.” So I’m on a mission to let the whole world know that if you really want to succeed in life, you can’t do it without your vibes. And start seeing them as natural. Stop making it unnatural. It’s natural. It’s a revolution to say, “You know what? I am a six-sensory and I have ingredient X that works for me, that I’m going with.” And practice, practice, practice.

Just stop and sense it. Feel it.

Speak it. That’s the key. The biggest gateway is to talk about your vibes. Everybody’s intuitive but how many are members of the Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda Club? It’s the ones who speak up that then follow through and act on it. So learn to talk about your vibes comfortably. Humor, my hunch, my vibes, my gut, whatever. You don’t have to say my psychic feeling, although that’s fun for me. Find a language that allows you to speak about and voice, because the other thing is that your vibes resonate and originate in your heart. And your throat is the chimney of the heart. So the more you can talk about your vibes, the more you open up that gateway. Those who talk about their vibes become more and more and more and more intuitive. The more you talk, you name it – you claim it.

That is great. We like that. You begin to trust it more.

Right. When you put it in the physical world, the minute you speak about it, you claim it. Then you get your feedback. It really is very exciting to live the six-sensory life. It works this way: the more intuitive you are, the more six-sensory, you raise your vibration. When you raise your vibration, you become more attractive. So synchronicity kicks in. You actually start attracting to you things that will support your vision, your mission, your purpose, your intentions. It’s a multi-faceted opening, not just that you get to know what’s coming down the pike. You actually begin to attract what you want to come down the pike.

It’s a huge shift. It’s an entirely different breed to be a six-sensory.

Sonia, in the beginning, did you find that you had to practice tuning in or turning it on? Is it on for you all the time?

No. By choice. And I think that it’s important that you learn to turn it on and turn it off. It’s just like radio. You don’t what to listen to 24 radio stations 24/7. You’ll go crazy. But what I invite people to do is what I call psychic sit ups. Practice turning it on in the things you care about. So, here’s a psychic sit up. You say, “My head says ___” Then fill in the blank. Then you say, “And my heart says ___” And then fill in the blank. That’s an immediate invitation to have your intuition speak because it comes from the heart. But you don’t what to fight your head, just let your head have its say, let your heart have its say, and then let the two sit side by side. It becomes very obvious what way to follow. You can do little games, like when the phone rings, before you look at your caller ID, feel the vibe. Is that a man or a woman? Is it friend or family? Is it good news/bad news? And speak it out. Just speak it out. When the elevator comes, you’re at the bank of elevators. Just feel the vibe. Which elevator is descending? Speak it. If you’re wrong, so what. Oh, well. It’s not a test. We’re just learning to refine our awareness. Have fun with it. When the bill comes in the restaurant, before you turn it over, what are the numbers? What’s the final bill? And even, what should I order? Play with this. Don’t work on it, play on it. Because your intuition comes from the right brain, the channel that’s playful and light, happy and easy. And do these little sit ups. But your intuition definitely follows what you care about.

So when you walk through the casino, you can say, which one is going to hit? Is it going to hit now? Is it going to hit soon?

Yes. And frankly, if you’re not invested in your ego, your intuition can talk to you. But if you’re invested, the minute it’s like “I have to have a hit.” Forget it. You’ll continue in survival and fear.

You’re trying too hard.

Yes. You’re in survival and fear and you unplug the intuitive channel.

I have a funny story. I was in Reno with my family, when my children were a little younger. And my daughter, Sabrina, who is also extremely intuitive, was just walking along with her hands up along the different slot machines. And she’d say, “This one, this one, this one,” and we’d put a quarter in, and we’d win. We’d get $30 worth of quarters or $15 worth of quarters. And they came up and chased her out. And they said not only because she was under age, but the one woman was chatting with us, and she said, “You know children are so good at this, it’d break the bank because they don’t care.” So we start out pretty naturally intuitive. We get dumbed down and that’s one of the reasons Trust Your Vibes lists the 33 tools of six-sensories. These are the behaviors that we six-sensories stick to that five-sensory people who’ve gone dormant forget about. These are our life commitments, this is the way we live. One of them is, to do your psychic sit ups.

We love that. One that particularly resonated was the one about laughter. We love to laugh. Hardly a day goes by that we don’t have laughter in the phenomeNEWS office.

It clears the window. You laugh really hard and at the end of that you’re tuned into your spirit, which is tuned into your heart, which is tuned into your integrity, which is tuned into your intuition and you know exactly what you must do. If you can laugh, you will get complete clarity on what is right for you. Complete clarity.

So put in a stock of those Three Stooges movies.

Absolutely! Laugh, go for a walk. Here’s another tool: Don’t talk on it, walk on it. Go for a walk. You can’t decide to go left or right, should I or shouldn’t I, is it the right partnership, should it get this business, should I take this job, should I leave this job, is this the right doctor? Because your body is very intuitive, so if you give your brain a rest, you can hear it. Physical activity is another thing that really assists the intuitive channel. Really turns it up high.

Are there certain areas in the body that are more psychically sensitive than others?

Your gut, your heart and your throat. These are the three sensitive areas. The belly because this is what we call the lower octave channel. Survival. So your gut feelings protect you physically. “That’s not good. Don’t go there. Better watch out. Put your guard up.” That’s your low octave. It will take care of your physical.

Your solar plexus.

Right. Then your heart is what takes care of your spirit. This is what takes care of your purpose, this is what tells you about your relationships, your connections, your vision, your purpose. And your throat is your truth. So if you’re not speaking your spirit or truth, the throat will start acting up. You always can tell if someone starts clearing their throat or coughing. Pay attention. Of course, if they just had a big milkshake that might be it. You have to listen to the physical, too. But if someone has got a habit of clearing their throat or a habit of coughing, then there’s a conflict. And they might not be conscious of it, but there is a conflict. It’s something in their intuition that is being muffled and muted.

And here’s a tool: sing. Sing your heart open is what one of my students said. It will open up the voice of your intuition. Singing is a very powerful way to by-pass the brain and after you sing a great rendition of “This little heart of mine, I’m gonna let it shine,” you’ll be very clear about what intuitive messages are trying to come through. So that’s another very important one.

You mention in your book to pray, first thing when you get up in the morning. And pray that you continue to remember to pray.

Yes, because prayer opens you and connects you. It’s like turning on the radio station and dialing in to your Creator and all to the resources that your Creator offers you during the day to stay in tune with who you are, integrity with your soul, your true essence, your natural, authentic self. And you can sing-pray, you can dance-pray, you can walk-pray, you can exercise on the treadmill and pray. It’s a constant dialogue with your Creator. And prayer is very important for keeping your mind trained to support spirit instead of fight with it. They should be friends.

What form of meditation do you use, Sonia?

My favorite form of meditation is walking meditation. I’m a very energetic, kinesthetically active person, so I walk at least an hour a day. If I can’t be outside I’ll be on a treadmill, but I walk. I usually go with my husband or my daughter and we don’t talk, we just walk. It’s very powerful clearing. I also sit with my guides before I work in the morning and I do rosaries. I love rosaries. Every morning before I do my work in my office. I call in my guides and my teachers and I connect with Mother Mary for my work. So that’s my other, main meditation.

Sounds nice.

I say I’m a Catholic with a twist. Because I was raised Catholic and I totally appreciate all the connections in the Catholic religion to the guides and the angels and the saints. They had some things very right. Some things we need to upgrade, but some things are very right.

How important to you is gratitude and appreciation?

It’s a fundamental tool. It’s an absolutely fundamental tool. If you are stuck in your head, you are not being grateful. Speak gratitude. If you practice gratitude for 24 hours, your sixth sense will be up and humming like a wheel inside a wheel. And we forget, the mind only looks at the surface and backward. But the spirit looks into the moment and forward. And so if you’re not grateful, then you’re not seeing what is. Practice being grateful because it trains your awareness to see what’s real. So that’s why it’s such an important intuitive tool.

Very good. Have you had people talk to you about the movie, The Sixth Sense?

Well, sure. Because it came out the year I wrote The Wise Child. The movie’s premise is absurd. But why these sorts of movies keep coming around is because we ignore our intuition except when we’re truly in danger. Then it begins screaming at you. Unfortunatly, we have come to associate intuition with trouble, instead of seeing that is just one of its most basic elements. We six-sensories see dead people all the time, but they are happy! And helpful, and beautiful.

Not scary.

No. Absolutely not. But you know, the people who write these movies don’t understand that the spirit lives on and there is no death, so the idea that someone died and can’t deal with it because they only believe being alive is the important thing. Well we’re alive on all levels. We’re alive in spirit on all levels. These movies, I call them good rough drafts. Let’s give them credit for trying to educate, but they really miss it. They scare you away from wanting to know about the spirit world and I think they don’t really do any service for anybody. You shouldn’t let it scare you.

Now we have The Spiritual Cinema out there.

I love The Spiritual Cinema. In fact, I wrote a book called Diary of a Psychic which was my journey growing up as a child, being psychic. I actually have someone writing the screenplay. I want to turn that into a movie because everybody who reads Diary of a Psychic says this should be a movie. It’s just the adventure of meeting the spirit world and having a great time with it.

It will help people get excited.

Yes and what the diary does is helps you remember your own spiritual journey, your own spirit guides and angels when you were young, and call them back in.

Wow! That’s incredible. We love it!.

Sonia has a new book coming out called Vitamins for the Soul. We haven’t seen it yet, but we’re excited for you.

That’s a very wonderful companion to Trust Your Vibes. It’s the little daily doses that will nurture your spirit, strengthen your intuition and help you remember and feel the vibration of joy in your life.

That sounds fabulous. And do you have a website?

I do. It’s easy to remember, www.trustyourvibes.com. And I have a radio show on Tuesdays, 5-6 Chicago time on my site and come right to it and call me. I take questions. Email me. I take email questions, too. So please, do come and visit me on my site.

Thank you so much, Sonia. We appreciate what you’re doing and look forward to more. Bless you. You’re such a delight.

Thank you Cindy and Gerri. It’s been great fun.