The Truth About Intuition, Sensitivity & Spiritual Awakening — with Colin Mathews
Alt Life Podcast • Episode 6
The Truth About Intuition, Sensitivity & Spiritual Awakening — with Colin Mathews
In this episode of Alt Life, I sit down with medical intuitive and mentor Colin Mathews to explore intuition, sensitivity, energy anatomy, and what it really means to walk a spiritually aligned path in life and business. This is not a conversation about escaping discomfort — it’s about learning how to listen.
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Intuition vs Thought: Expanding Instead of Narrowing
Colin describes thoughts as a narrowing funnel — a distillation of what the mind already knows. Intuition, on the other hand, feels like an expanding funnel: an opening into information greater than what the mind can logically access.
One of the most practical insights from this conversation is learning to feel the difference between thought and intuition in the body. Thoughts often arrive with tension, narrowing, or pressure. Intuition arrives with spaciousness, expansion, and a sense of “first knowing.”
Trauma, Anxiety & Sensitivity
A powerful distinction Colin makes is between intuition and trauma responses. Trauma contracts the body — tightening the breath, bracing the muscles, and narrowing perception. Intuition requires openness.
Many anxious people are deeply sensitive — but that sensitivity hasn’t yet been harnessed. As Colin puts it: you’re not too sensitive — you’re not sensitive enough. When sensitivity is supported by self-esteem and safety in the body, it becomes clarity instead of overwhelm.
Energy Anatomy: When the Body Speaks
In medical intuition, physical symptoms are not random. They are expressions of where energy is being invested — and where it’s being overextended. Shoulder pain, jaw tension, digestive issues, and throat constriction all carry information.
Ailments, Colin explains, are not punishments. They are offerings of empowerment — signals that something in the way we’re living, relating, or carrying responsibility needs to change.
Spiritual Entrepreneurship & the Will
We also explore spiritual entrepreneurship — not as a brand or identity, but as a developmental journey. Colin breaks down the three stages of willpower: obedience, self-actualisation, and service. True spiritual entrepreneurship integrates all three.
This part of the conversation is especially relevant for creatives, healers, and founders who feel exhausted, disillusioned, or tempted to give their power away to systems, gurus, or formulas.
Charlatans, Gurus & Trusting Yourself
In a world flooded with spiritual offerings, discernment is essential. Colin speaks candidly about the dangers of outsourcing your power — whether to intuitives, healers, or systems that promise certainty.
The real question is not whether someone else is legitimate, but how willing you are to develop trust in your own inner guidance.