You're Already Reading Energy, You Just Don't Trust It Yet
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Written by Julie Zdravkovski, Spiritual Advisor & Medium
Julie Zdravkovski is a spiritual advisor and thought leader redefining how we engage with intuition, transformation, and personal power. Known for her direct, no-bypass approach, she challenges spiritual narratives and guides people back to grounded, embodied truth.
In the very first moment of contact with a person, situation, or decision, something inside you registers what is present. It's not a thought you can hold or a conclusion you've reached. It is a felt sense, quiet and immediate, existing before anything is said, explained, or given context.
In most cases, you do not stop there. You allow more time to pass. You look for more information and give the situation a chance to clarify or become more concrete. In doing so, you move yourself away from what you already knew in the first instant. You did this not because it was wrong, but because you were not sure you could trust something that arrived without a reason attached.
This is not something that happens occasionally or only in significant moments. It is something that is taking place continuously, in ordinary conversations, in rooms you walk into, in the decisions you are sitting with, and in the quiet assessments you are making about people long before your conscious mind has caught up and offered you a name for what you are sensing.
What you are picking up on in those moments is not imagination, and it is not something you stumbled into by accident. It is a form of perception that has been functioning inside you for a very long time, operating beneath the layer of thought and analysis that you have been taught to rely on, waiting for you to stop treating it as something that requires explanation before it can be trusted.
Before the mind catches up
Long before your mind has had a chance to form a thought about a person, a room, or a decision in front of you, your body has already registered something. It is processing known experiences, old patterns, and, at times, deeper imprints that have shaped how it responds. The body is doing what it has always done, keeping you alive. It is reading the moment for safety, for familiarity, for whether what is in front of you is something to move toward or move away from.
This happens regardless of whether the moment itself is positive or difficult. If you are standing on the precipice of a change you actually want, your body can still register a level of fear or anxiety before the mind has caught up, reminding you that this is what you have been working toward. The visceral response arrives first, and the reasoning comes later.
What you are sensing in another person, in a room, or in a decision is the energy moving between you and what is in front of you. Your eyes are scanning for exits and danger, whether you are aware of it or not. Your body is reading the other person. When you are asked to make a decision, especially one that requires something significant of you, your body is looking for a visceral response to tell you whether this is safe, whether this is right, or whether you need to find the nearest way out.
This shows up in the most ordinary, unremarkable moments. It can happen in a supermarket, where you walk in and feel slightly off without being able to name why. It can happen at a seminar, where the room is filled with people you do not know, and your body responds as though something is at stake, even when nothing observable has changed. It can happen at brunch with a friend you have known for years. Your body is constantly scanning the place you are in and the person you are with, translating that information into sensation before your mind has anything to work with.
The mind can eventually soften this. It can register the room, register the safety, register the context, and the nervous system can settle. But the body’s read came first, and that is not something random.
Why have you been taught to override it?
We have been taught to override our instincts, our gut feelings, the sensations on the skin, the warmth or the coolness or the tingling that comes when something is asking us to pay attention. We have been taught to override these things because we have lived in a society where structure has long been positioned as the safest place to stand.
If we know where we are going, if we know what we are doing, if we have all the steps laid out in front of us, then we do not need to sense or feel anything outside of that known structure. We replace knowing with structure, and we are taught that structure is more reliable than what we feel.
In some cultures, this is not the case. Sensing energy, trusting the body, and listening to instinct have been considered legitimate, even essential ways of moving through the world. But within many of the structures most of us have grown up in, such as educational, religious, organisational, or hierarchical ones, we have often been asked, without it ever being said directly, to move away from sensing energy, to stay inside the container, to trust the container more than ourselves.
The container does feel safer in a particular way. When you know exactly how something is meant to go, you also know when something is wrong. You can detect deviation from the structure. What you lose is the capacity to read what is happening when there is no structure to compare it against, when life simply asks you to know something on your own.
The long term cost of consistently choosing logic over what was already known is that you slowly begin to give your power away. You give it to the noise around you. You give it to the structures that have held you. You give it to the hierarchies and the old ways of operating that may no longer be serving you. The moment you step outside of that container, the dismissal you have been practising for years catches up with you all at once. It can come through as anxiety, as overthinking, as a visceral response that feels disproportionate to what is actually happening.
This is why people so often leave structures abruptly. They have been overriding the innate sensory ability for so long that, when it finally breaks through, it does not arrive quietly. It demands to be heard.
The gap between knowing and explaining
There is a particular space that exists between the moment you know something and the moment you can explain it, and that space is where most people lose access to what they were perceiving in the first place.
In that gap, you are tapping into an energy field outside of your physical body, a field you cannot see, but one that you can feel. The felt experience is what sets the body off in a particular way, and it goes both ways. It is not only the warning that something is off. It is also the sense that something is about to happen, the impulse to walk into a particular coffee shop on a particular afternoon, only to find someone you have been thinking of standing inside it. These moments cannot be explained, yet they happen often enough that anyone paying attention has had at least one.
What disrupts the clarity every single time is the moment you reach for an explanation. The moment you try to attach a logical narrative to what you have felt, the truth of what was actually happening begins to dissolve. You are no longer perceiving, you are translating. What gets lost in that translation is the essence of what was being communicated to you.
If you could stay with the feeling without rushing to explain it, the experience would continue. The information would deepen. You would begin to feel more connected to yourself, to your environment, and to whatever is consistently trying to communicate with you. The more you allow this, rather than dismissing it, the more you begin to navigate your life in a way that feels aligned rather than forced, which, incidentally, is also the state from which the things you actually want begin to move toward you rather than away from you.
Where this is already showing up
This is already happening in your life, and it is happening in places you have probably never thought to look. It happens with the people in your life. When you meet someone new and something registers immediately, either a sense of safety or a sense of caution that you cannot yet justify. When you have been working with someone for a long time and you notice that something has shifted in them, but you cannot name what it is, and you feel it would be inappropriate to ask. When a job opportunity appears and, before you have read past the first line, your body has already responded with something close to a yes or a no.
It happens with decisions you make based on things you cannot fully articulate. Someone suggests a date, and you look at the photo and immediately know it is not for you, and you spend the next several hours trying to construct a reason that sounds more acceptable than what you already knew. An opportunity arises, and something inside you contracts, even though every external indicator suggests it is the right thing to do.
It happens most powerfully when you meet someone and feel as though you have known them for a very long time, even though you have just met. That is not imagination, that is your soul recognizing another, and the energy exchange registering as familiar in a way your conscious mind cannot account for. When that happens, your body relaxes, not because anything has been said or proven, but because something has been recognized.
These are not abstract examples. These are the everyday moments where you are already reading energy. You simply have not been calling it that.
What shifts when you stop overriding yourself
The moment you begin to trust the energy moving through and around you, something quiet but significant changes. You no longer wait for confirmation from someone else, no longer reach for evidence to justify what you already know, no longer overanalyze every decision into a state of paralysis.
Your confidence grows, and you feel more in control. You become decisive about what works for you and what does not, not because you have hardened, but because you no longer require external permission to act on your own perception. When you finally honor this part of yourself, you stop feeling suppressed, burdened, or constantly confused by your own life.
Things become simpler. Not necessarily easier, as life will still ask difficult things of you, but it will come through a lot cleaner and more precise. You will also no longer feel the need to justify your decisions based on what you have felt, because the feeling itself becomes a credible source of information rather than something you have to talk yourself out of.
This is not something you need to develop. It is something you need to stop dismissing. We are all naturally intuitive. It is part of our nature as spiritual beings living a human life. The real difference between someone who reads energy professionally, such as a psychic, a healer, or a medium, and someone who does not is honestly very little. Some people develop this earlier because it is part of their purpose to be of service through it, but everyone else, every single person who is not doing what would be called ‘spiritual work’, has the same capacity. It is happening all the time. Your body is always reading, always trying to keep you alive, to keep you safe, to bring you back into yourself when you have drifted too far from what you actually know.
The misconception that keeps people stuck is the idea that this is something rare, advanced, or reserved for a particular kind of person. The more we move away from treating spirituality, intuition, and energy reading as taboo, and the more we begin to embrace the fact that we are all intuitive beings here for an experience, the less we have to carry the quiet shame of sensing things we are not allowed to acknowledge.
What this requires is not training in the way that word is usually meant. It does not require certification or development from the beginning. What it requires is room, room to breathe, room to show you what is already there. And most importantly, room to demonstrate, gently and consistently, that there is something greater than you, working alongside you, that has been trying to support you the entire time.
What you already know
You already know all of this. You knew it before you began reading. What this article has done, if it has done anything, is reflect back to you what you have been carrying quietly for a very long time without permission to call it real.
The thing you sensed about that person. The room you walked into and immediately wanted to leave. The decision you made was because something in you said no, even when everything on paper said yes. The opportunity you walked toward because something in you said yes, even when no one around you understood why. None of that was imagination or coincidence. Most certainly, none of it requires more proof or more time or more development before you are allowed to trust it.
You are already reading energy. You always have been. The only thing being asked of you now is to stop pretending you are not.
A note from me, and an invitation
This is the first piece in what I hope will become an ongoing column, and rather than direct you toward a session or a course or a program at the end of every article, which is not how I want this column to function, I want to do something different. I want to hear from you.
If something in this piece raises a question you have been carrying about what you are sensing, what you are dismissing, what you cannot yet explain but cannot stop noticing, send it to me. Each month, I will choose questions from readers and channel a response in this column. You will not be named. You will simply be heard, and through you, others who are sitting with the same thing will be heard too.
Send your question here. If some point, you find yourself wanting to work with me more directly, you can find ways to do so here, spiritual advisory sessions, classes, books, and more. It is all there when you are ready, and not before. I am Julie. I am a medium. I am genuinely interested in what you already know but have not yet trusted.
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Julie Zdravkovski, Spiritual Advisor & Medium
Julie Zdravkovski is an international spiritual advisor, teacher, and thought leader known for challenging the norms of the spiritual and self-development space. With over 30 years of experience, she cuts through surface-level spirituality to deliver grounded, direct insight that prioritizes truth over comfort.
Beginning as a child medium, Julie has spent decades refining her intuitive abilities while also building a corporate career in leadership and human behavior. This dual lens allowed her to bridge spirituality with real-world application in a way that is both practical and transformative which propelled her in building a professional spiritual-led business, Modern Day Medium.
