Lucy Dale
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intuitive, creative guide
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Lucy Dale ~ intuitive, creative guide ~
Then tarot arrived. I was immediately drawn to it, not as a way to tell the future, but to access the subconscious. It helped me identify and remove blocks and allow ideas to emerge and take shape. What started as a personal hobby quickly became something I shared with others. I have always loved helping people navigate life - from helping friends navigate relationships or as creative director, helping people to identify ideas express them to the world.
My inner world became intriguing as my outer, leading me to yoga teacher training, energy work and psychic development and finally training as an energy healer. I loved this world but didn’t feel like I could talk about this in the office. Intuition felt like an alien concept. Too ‘woo’ to share with my colleagues. Although in reality the intuitive work was improving my creative process. My ‘woo’ was improving my performance. More and more, I felt called to bring these two worlds together.
Shanghai shifted things. By chance I came across the surrealist art movement and learnt about their techniques for accessing the subconscious. So much of it involved relaxation. Meditation. Something that was totally alien to me: not doing. When I applied them to my own creative process, it was like a door swung open. I realised I’d been forcing the ideas out with an iron grip. When actually, all I needed was to relax enough to notice them arising.
It wasn’t until I lived in China that I really realised what intuition was. Up until that point, I had been running on pure brain power, coffee and grind, first to get me through a law degree and then to land me a job as an advertising creative. In this male dominated, Madmen world, ruled by charm and rational thinking. I was selling ideas and going on fancy film shoots. But the price was headaches, hangovers and mysterious digestive issues.
