How to train your intuition and learn to trust it, and how one person who listened to hers found a new and fulfilling life
- Corie Chu found her calling as a reiki practitioner after quitting her well-paying job and moving to a place where she knew no one – all based on her gut feeling
- We are all intuitive beings, but the challenge is knowing how to tune into our instincts and trust it to make decisions. Self-awareness is key, one expert says
In 2011, Corie Chu quit a well-paying corporate job and a cushy life in Los Angeles, in the United States, to move to Buenos Aires, in Argentina, where she knew no one. She had a strong sense that she had to be there, so she trusted it. She has no regrets.
“It was one of the boldest moves of my life, but I knew that there was another path waiting for me,” says the 38-year-old, who was born in Hong Kong.
“I’d visited Argentina for 10 days the year before and something told me that I needed to spend more time there. It was a wise decision.
“Being in a new place, I was able to re-centre myself and had more time to practise meditation and reiki [a Japanese form of energy healing], which I’d long been interested in but never considered making a career of.”
Months later, in 2012, Chu’s gut told her that she should be an energy healer in Hong Kong.
“The feeling was so strong that I didn’t second-guess myself, so I took a leap of faith and now I’m the owner of a reiki energy healing studio in [Hong Kong’s] Central [business district]. I feel like it was meant to be.”