What are Psychic Abilities?

What makes Psychic Powers Work?

Telepathy is the communication between two minds via non-verbal means. Clairvoyance is the ability to get visions of events taking place elsewhere in the world. Telekinesis is the ability to move objects remotely without physical intervention. Channeling is the ability to mediate communication between the living and the dead. And the list can go on. We can talk til we are blue in the face about all the different kinds of abilities out there, and our theories about how they work, but in the end, what are they?

Science has been looking in to psychic phenomena for decades, if not centuries, and the general consensus is, that it's not real. The primary reason for this is two fold, as I've found.

The first and likely most important is, reproducibility. Psychic phenomena, like all supernatural phenomena that are tested here in the west, commonly lack reliable means of being repeated again and again, as science demands for proper testing. Until then, science cannot accept something that could be chalked up to a fluke.

The second is establishing an acceptable theory behind these phenomena. Currently, because of the brain being the center of our attention in science; science looks to the brain and it's physical components for areas that are dedicated to these phenomena. But no physical area has been detected to be the source of either the sending of receiving of these effects. So therefore if there is no station in the brain to do it, it must not be actually occurring.

To put it another way, if it does not repeatedly adhere to their physical theory of the world, then they wont accept it. But the phenomena itself persists, digging into the sides of the scientists who oppose it, until like good little soldiers they are, rise to fight. They can't very well let something stand that might challenge the status-quo, and with inquiring minds at their back demanding a rebuttal, they default. It's the mind playing tricks on them, mental illnesses and delusion, or their favorite when the odds are against them, “It's chance!”.

As simple of an argument that it is, claiming it's chance, it does sadly fit. After all, there is a lack of repeatability within testing, so chance alone may account for the statistical hits and misses. Although that is only when the bare and blunt results of these tests are weighed. I could probably bash science, or more accurately scientists; because it's not science itself that holds the bias; all day for overlooking a set of real phenomena just because it doesn't adhere to their standards. Even though quantum physics doesn't either, but that doesn't challenge their beliefs in the world as stringently. I wont though. Because the fault doesn't fall completely on their shoulders.

Many try and train to acquire these abilities, and so they practice and practice and practice. Trying to hone the sharpness of the skill, refining it, polishing it. But when the time comes to call on it, it's not always there. You end up feeling tired and worn out, maybe even a little board, or perhaps nervous given the circumstances, and it's not always there. Why is that?

I can only give you speculation at this point based on what I have read regarding these tests, and the participants in them. There seems to be two types of people that get tested for these abilities. The haves, and the have nots. Far, far more people who are tested are in the second category of the have nots, then the first. What the haves have is not the ability to perform these supernatural feats, where the have nots don't and think they do. What the have nots actually lack, is the power. Energy might actually be a more fitting word, though.

Like anything else you do, it requires fuel to perform. Now energy in this sense is far more then mere fuel, but in this instance, we will look at it as such. Most of those capable of repeatedly performing these supernatural feats are chi masters. You know, qigong, kung fu, tai chi, yin and yang, those sorts of masters? Anyways, the other group is more of less the average joe who tries to practice honing the skill, but neglects the fuel that powers it. These masters train to not only hone the skill, but to store the power, or energy needed to fuel it, within themselves. Because of this, they not only have the skill to perform these miraculous feats, but also the energy needed to accomplish them, so they get far more consistent, and frankly impressive results.

Most who are interested in training for these psychic abilities are invested in this new age movement, which over emphasizes the mind as this end all be all thing, that requires nothing more than some exercise in visualization to strengthen the ability. This exercise may improve the vividness and accuracy of these phenomena, but it doesn't improve the frequency or potency of them.

Telepathy, as an example, is information transference from one mind to another. But what does this information ride on? What medium does it use to get from point A to point B? Of course you know where I am going with this, it's energy. When it comes down to these abilities like telepathy or telekinesis, it's energy that powers them. When trying to accomplish either of these two abilities, your body will only use the excess energy that it has on hand to try and do so, and unless pushed, which is dangerous, will not allow you to exceed past this extra energy.

Most of your energy is dedicated to keeping your body healthy, so in most cases, these abilities can only be achieved when extra energy is acquired, and most people don't have an excess of energy. It is because of this that you get the unpredictability of psychic or supernatural phenomena under tests. They burn up the excess energy over the first round of tests, leaving them empty and struggling to reproduce results. Which also happens to look very bad for the testers.

Again this is usually the opposite for energy masters, as most of their efforts are spent not on training up these skills, although they do, but on saving up mass amounts of energy. So they have plenty of energy to work with for a while. The draw back is, they put a great deal of effort into saving up this energy, like money in a bank account, and therefore might have some reservations about letting it go for what might be deemed as parlor tricks.

But to sum up, all psychic or supernatural phenomena require energy to be performed or perceived, which explains why these testers aren't consistently hitting high scores, and why psychic and supernatural abilities aren't getting the appropriate attention they deserve. I see a lot of people sitting down and trying to move objects to no avail, and work with telepathy, or clairvoyance, etc. showing no fruit for their labors because they believe that you need some special practice or technique, while neglecting the most basic and most important part.

Anyways, hope you enjoyed.

Later!

Improving Self-Esteem

Overcoming Doubt

My last post was about doubt and a little on how to over come it. This time, I want to dig a little deeper in how one might try and overcome it. To see if I can't flesh out a process a little more, and maybe help anyone out there that might be having some issues with self-esteem or doubt. I myself (as of the time of the writing) recently went through an episode of depression, doubt, anxiety and fear. It all sort of culminated into an ugly moment in my life, and I struggled to find my way out of the darkness.

For most of my life, I have struggled with self-esteem issues. Always looking at myself as if I was unworthy or inadequate. Never quite measuring up to the standard of things, a born failure if you will. I would have my good days, sure, but they usually proceeded a bad day, which would quickly put a lid on any optimism I might have acquired during those good times. A victim of circumstances, always allowing the bad in my life to carry more weight then the good.

A couple of months ago, I figured something out about my life. Something that in-fact would change my whole world. It was like a light-bulb had finally turned on, and I could see everything more clearly, which allowed me to put my energies in the right places to help fix my life. It was great! Everything was clicking. Like I was the guy from the movie Limitless. I literally became faster, smarter, stronger, happier, less stressed and fatigued, and I for some reason, didn't need as much food or sleep to get me through the day, with no ill-effects. I felt 120% better! Like a whole new person was born.

Of course this was short lived. A week or two into my new found happiness, when then something happened (which I wont go into) and suddenly, the walls around my new life buckled and the ceiling collapsed hard on me. Hitting rock bottom after climbing so high was very difficult to deal with. I went from living in a dream world, to living in a nightmare. I was tormented by fears and doubt, which lead to depression, and depression further fed the fears. My mind swirled with images and thoughts derived from these fears. It swallowed my mind, turning it against me. I couldn't control these thoughts, or push them out of my head. They even began to wake me in the middle of the night, or prevent me from sleeping in the first place. It was pretty bad.

All I wanted to do was return to being happy, feeling confident and full of energy. I figured the best way to do this was to retrace my steps on how it managed it the first time. But there was a problem. I suddenly couldn't remember how I did it. Only bits and pieces of it remained, but most of the path I took to achieve it vanished from my mind. It was unbelievable to me. During that great period, only weeks prior, I had spent most of my waking days just thinking about how good I felt, and even how I managed it. I even meditated on it, everyday! Yet now, when I needed it the most, I couldn't remember...

All I remembered about it was, that I focused on myself above everything else, it involved the subconscious mind, as well as the Soul, and energy. But now, when I thought about those things, they felt so distant from me. Like petty wishful thinking. Even though I remembered not only believing in these things, but also being aware of them, and feeling them. It was like I was in touch with some deep part of me. But now, I felt like it was all an illusion. A trick of the mind I played on myself. Even though deep down, I knew it wasn't.

So I was trying to juggle retracing my steps and dealing with my depression at the same time. Trying to remember how I came to a point in which I was able to reach some deep place inside me, and begin to turn my negative beliefs around into positive ones. I spent weeks on it. Everyday dedicating it to just finding my way again. And everyday, coming up with only the same bits and pieces that I already knew, and they felt empty. I kept trying to believe in myself, and looking to the future with hope, but it did feel hopeless. After a while, it began to stress my body, and stress developed in the back of my head and neck, which made matters worse. Finally after a couple of weeks, I began recalling a few more memories. Like, everything tormenting my mind was just crap. Crap that needed to be cleared out because it was fear based, and nothing more. Others included the importance of energy in your physical, emotional and psychological health.

Finally I began to remember more, and here is how I did it.

We as a people are conditioned from an early age to be subjected to the outside world. We get our happiness, love and confidence from the experiences around us, and it doesn't need to be that way. I'll give an example. Lets say today is an average day for you, and you are feeling pretty neutral, not too good, but not too bad though either. Suddenly, someone comes up to you and pays you a compliment, one that hits you just right, and suddenly you are feeling better and happier!

So, why are you feeling better now as opposed to a few moments before the compliment? It's not that the person gave you happiness. It's not even that the person is responsible for your happiness. It was all you. You see, when the person in the example above, complimented you, YOU responded internally. It's partially psychological, because we aren't really taught to be that independent. We are taught to mostly respond to outside stimulus, and not as much inside stimulus. Even though that feeling of happiness was always within you. I mean, it came from you, right? It had to be in there to be felt and experienced in the first place, right?

So if that feeling, or any feeling you want for that matter, is already inside of you, why can't we call them up on demand when we want them? Because we are conditioned to be responsive to the outside world, not the inside world. However, if you focus a bit more on responding to yourself, and less on the outside world, you could feel as you wish, all the time. It's a matter of reevaluating where you should put the most authority in your life. Why can't YOU make YOU feel happier? What could possibly be standing in the way?

Maybe believe in yourself? Perhaps you respond to others more then yourself because you believe in them more then you? Ever ask yourself why that might be the case? Maybe because everyone else looks to them (figuratively speaking) or others as an authority, so perhaps you should too? Then again, it was probably 'them' that convinced you to trust 'them' over yourself in the first place.

So it just becomes a matter of learning to respond to yourself a bit more. Learn to feel happier because you want to. Not needing something outside yourself to accomplish it, because it's already within you in the first place, or else you couldn't experience it. Once you begin to respond to yourself, you will begin to believe in yourself, and you will feel like your thoughts and feelings matter the most to you, and you will have authority over your own life. You will feel centered and grounded in yourself.

Once you pop the lid, things really begin to pour. You may even start to challenge other negative beliefs. Start asking yourself why you can't feel smarter, or calmer, or have more energy to do things, or anything you want really. You could start changing everything you don't like about yourself. You are effectively a walking psycho-energetic being, and everything is energy. So imagine what you could do if you could change your mind around, and spend all that energy on positively reinforcing yourself. Why not, right? After all, it is your life.

Meditation helps wonders with this too. Although, the prospect of sitting still while contemplating yourself may not sound all the thrilling, it does allow you to focus your mind on just the task at hand with no other distractions, so you can dig deeply into yourself and turn things around. You aim is to simply get yourself to respond to yourself, on as deep of a level as you can. Don't stress over it, stay as relaxed as possible, and you begin to notice as you do this that you are almost talking to yourself on a deep level. I kind of looked at it as giving myself therapy. And after a while, meditation became quite pleasant, because I was responding to myself more and I could then make meditation feel however I wanted it to feel. Even being able to tell aches and pains to go away, because I held a connection with some deeper part of me.

Anyways,

I hope this was at least mildly helpful.

Hope you enjoyed!

Later...

The Folly of Doubt

Doubt

I figured I would just a ramble on a little bit about doubt.  I recently experienced a fit of doubt, it often comes with other emotional side effects, such as; Depression, anxiety, fear, emptiness, loneliness, lack of self-worth and more.  I guess I always had that feeling that once a hurdle was overcome once, it was in my past, safely overcome and dealt with, so it may never cross my path again.  But that was probably ignorant of me, but I did like to believe once something was accomplished, it was done, and need not be handled a second time.  I’m childish in that way I guess.

But the truth is, I have to face it on a weekly basis.  Something always pops up during the week that makes me stop and question.  A lot of times, it’s a site or information I read on the internet somewhere, that conflicts with an idea or belief I had.  I wont just accept anything that I run across, it has to bring something to the table to stimulate my questioning.  Whether it be pictures, or evidence, or wording, it’s always something.  But, most often, it’s really none of these, just me who gets in my own way.  Pictures don’t actually sway me much, but a video can.  I go to youtube a lot and watch all kinds of videos, it’s a nice hobby to pass the time.  Evidence can quickly catch my attention, especially people who claim to have evidence against something I believe.

When it comes down to evidence, it usually involves tests, or studies science has done.  Then people quickly run and grab the findings and point to different parts of the results to emphasize their claim by pointing out evidence.  This can be very confusing when you go to different sites or sources pointing to the same tests and studies, but different parts of it, to back up their claims.  For instance, a skeptic could make a video showing a specific part of the test or study, showing how something is wrong, or fake or whatever.  If they ’word’ their video correctly, they can create a compelling case against something you thought was real, or something you just personally believed in, which in turn, can and probably will create doubt.

Wording is so important when it comes to expressing what you believe in, and trying to get others to believe in it too.  This is especially true when the level of vocabulary is higher then your own, it has a tendency to bring authority to the subject, and therefore is more inclined to pull upon your will and beliefs, making it waver.  No worries from me though, I suck at wording.  If you stop and think about the things in life that make you stop and question, it generally involves 2 to 3 things or more.  Evidence, Wording and Confidence.

Confidence to me is one the most important things, but it can also easily be faked.  Although on it’s own, it’s worthless, it is what makes evidence and wording shine.  Let’s take the video example from above and apply it a second time.  Let’s say, you believe in Psychic Abilities, I figured it would be fitting… And you’re on youtube cruising around looking at videos, and your stumble across a video that claims to prove all psychic phenomena are fake, so out of curiosity, you give it a look.  The video has all three, evidence wording and confidence from the presenter, to make the video a smooth representation.  To you, the person doing the video gives off the feel that he/she knows what it is he/she is talking about.  The person is confident in presenting this evidence, wording it elegantly.  The video itself may have even branched into areas you haven’t looked into yet, and this adds more pressure to your beliefs to hold it’s ground.

This happens to me all the time.  I run across places or information that is presented to me in a way that is slightly over my head, in a confident and elegant fashion.  It even makes me feel a bit dumb from time to time, or maybe makes me question if I jumped before I looked ahead to see if I had gathered all the information to make a well informed decision about what I was getting into and what I decided to believe in.  In fact, some places have been so good at it, for a short time, I did drop everything I believed in and took up what they where saying as truth.  They had the evidence after all, they definitely gave me the impression they knew what they where talking about, as well and giving me the impression I wasn’t fully informed, or I was even duped into believing in something that was completely fake, as if I had been had….

I will be the first to admit, I’m not the strongest willed person, and I consider myself more open minded then many people around me.  Hell, I sometimes even waver at times when people are just confident in what they say, even if they can’t back up their claims.  Worst yet is, if someone purposes an idea that conflicts with mine, my brain seems to lock up, as if it seized.  The harder I try to dispute such claims, the more it locks up.  The social norm can also be a factor.  People have a  tendency to judge you on small things, and then label you based on a single attribute of yours, this can and has caused problems with me.  So after years of this, I began to wonder if I was right, or if I was wrong.  If I was right, how do I dispute it to those so willing to crush my beliefs.

I honestly can’t answer that.  The best advice I can give you, is if you are having doubt, go out and do more looking around in the area.  I know now, I will never be able to sit down and dispute a topic to the degree others can, I’m just not that good.  The only offense I really have is defense.  Learn what I can and try and understand what I can.  For instance, I know if two different people look at the findings of a study or test run by science regarding a topic such as psychic phenomena, that each person can see different results.  People see and believe what they want to see and believe.  People are biased like that.  I know for instance that if I run across a video that supports psychic phenomena, I will be more inclined to believe it then toss it aside, the only exception being it was so poor or too wild of a story to be real in any way.  But my personality also likes to give people the benefit of the doubt.

There’s only one way I fight evidence, and that’s with evidence.  First, I begin to doubt, and wonder if it’s true, so I go take a look.  And I usually look in the skeptics area first… what do they have to bring to the table that I have overlooked.  I try to read up on where they are standing the best that I can, but I always keep an eye out for holes in their argument.  If I find anything suspicious, even if I can’t quite put my finger on it, I will then begin to look at their claims more closely, specifically trying to find a source of information that is trustworthy that is the least biased, that goes over the case study or experiment from beginning to end, and then I draw my own conclusion.  The second and probably best way to gather evidence is through personal experience.

Personal experience is so very important.  First you need to understand, that what ever you feel or uncover, is for you and you alone.  You can’t really hand out personal experience as the word of god.  People don’t take personal experiences as fact.  Hell, most will try and use it against you.  But at the end of the day, it has to be important to you.  You, after all, did have the experience, so on some level it was real… wasn’t it?  Only you can say yes or no, no one else can say it for you, because it wasn’t them who had the experience, was it. 

Anyways, I’m starting to run in circles I think now.  Somewhere along the lines here I lost track of where I was going and I think it just turned into me venting a bit.  But I will leave you with this.  Science is leaning more and more closer to the paranormal each day.  It’s a subject up till recently was regarded as myth.  I’ve found that many studies that presumably proved that any psychic ability or phenomena was fake, either did the opposite, and they only showed the low points or tried to explain the findings as incoherent anomalies.  Or, the test or study either didn’t exist at all, or wasn’t specifically done for psychic phenomena.  I also know that people don’t know everything.  So if someone shows me compelling evidence against or for something, I know that test was done with the information we have available right now, and the results where scrutinized by methods based off what we know right now.  So they could have missed something key completely.

Lastly, a lot of people tell me one thing or another about something they’ve read about how it’s fake.  Second hand information is never completely trustworthy regardless of the source.  I do a lot of reading and give people the benefit of the doubt when I read or watch something, but at the end of the day, if all I do is watch and read then take what they say as truth, then I have lied if I pass it off to the next guy as truth as well.  This is why personal experience is so important, if nothing else but to yourself.  If they say something is someway, and I take it and tell it to the next guy without trying it myself, then how can I be sure what I’m saying is even true?  So understanding that a lot of what people say to you is just second hand information being passed on again, makes it a little easier to deal with, even if you can’t immediately dispute it. 

Anyways, that’s my little ramble… you don’t have to take it to heart… oh damn, I forgot one major doubt.  Just plain ol’ self doubt.  For no apparent reason you maybe begin to question if your ability to do something.  Ever get the feeling like, “Ya, I know it exists, but maybe it’s just that ‘I’ can’t do it”.  This question can pester me to death when I begin something new.  This doubt stems purely from your own strength and will.  The best way I find to turn this around, is to sit on it.  Dwell on the idea that you might not be able to.  Try to feel your emotional state at the moment.  You might realize that it’s just your emotions talking, maybe out of frustration, fear or something else.  Once I realize my emotions are playing a big part, I slowly try and turn it around.  One way I do this is by re-evaluating what I believe in and why, and how I came to believing in it.  Another way is I question why I believe I don’t believe I can do it, and see if I can find evidence somewhere to suggests I can.  This doesn’t have to be about the subject in question specifically, sometimes I look at other things in my life that I at first didn’t believe I could do, but eventually ended up doing.  Or, I try and figure out why I can’t do it, and begin to fix whatever is stopping me in the first place.

Doubt will likely continually afflict you throughout your life, and it likely will be where your spirits are at the moment.  Are they low or are the high.  I personally believe doubt creates growth, in one way or another.   Though I don’t personally believe there is some miracle cure to doubt, I do believe there are ways to help alleviate the potency or even turn it around.  Though, I’m still looking for the miracle cure to doubt and instant self belief where it never wavers.  Or the perfect formula to psychic and spiritual potential, I know that at the end of the day, it will have to be me walking on my path, discovering myself and dealing with my own hurdles that allow me to progress and grow and come to my own beliefs in my own way.  But, I still have a tendency to want to look else where at those who are where I want to be, and have them show me how they did it.

 I know I can learn from them, but I also must learn to apply what they tell me in my own way…

Anyways, I think I’m done… I doubt this was helpful (No pun intended…?) but I do know that many people are afflicted with doubt, and if nothing else, at least you know your not alone… It affects everyone, and by overcoming it, hopefully we grow just a little…

Phew... long post...

Later...

Psychic Training | Lesson 3

Third-eye | Mind’s Eye

When people hear the Third-eye, or Mind’s eye, they almost immediately think of the Pyramid cap with an eye enclosed in a triangle; which can also be seen on the back of the one-dollar bill. The symbol of an eye in this respect, actually depicts the all seeing eye of God. But the Third-eye is also closely related to the Mind’s eye and a higher knowing. It is because of this reason, that the symbol is also related to psychic phenomena, as the information obtained through psychic feats almost seems to come from a higher place or attunement.

It is also associated with the sixth-chakra in eastern culture’s meditative practices. As well as a more modern spin with the Third-eye being associated with the pineal glad located in-between the two hemispheres of the brain. As you can see, the Third-eye or Mind’s eye is surrounded by myth and legend, but more specifically, intrigue. It has in some fashion or another, caught the attention of every culture. So, I figured it might suit well for a lesson.

I picked up a book not too long ago, about Energy Work. In fact, that was the Title, Energy Work by Robert Bruce. It’s a good read and can help you out a lot if you feel stuck or are new to the ideas of Energy Work, and want results more quickly, but it also has a lot of exercises. Anyways, in the book, he mentions an exercise that I have ran across before, and decided to play around with. You basically visualize a purple energy ball, as purple corresponds with that chakra. Try and imagine it as if it had static/electrical qualities and feel this ball as much as visualize it, and every sensation that might accompany it if the ball actually existed.

Once created, and you can feel it, or at least some sensation, you begin to move it slowly, in and out of the Third-eye chakra which is located between the eyes on the eye-brow ridge. You focus purely on your actions and the sensation of it moving in and out, through flesh and bone and into the brain itself; trying to feel every detail as it passes through and stimulates the energy there. Do this repetitively for a few minutes and then stop for the day, and do it each day for a few minutes. If the sensations become bothersome, stop for that day and don’t do it again until the problem passes.

I have found that with this method my accuracy with intuition has increased and become a little more active. Not to mention my concentration has improved as well, which is always nice.

As a side note, you don’t want to stress over feeling the sensations, if you can't feel it immediately, keep trying and it will come, but don't stress. He describes it as electrical, but I personally couldn’t feel it as electrical, it was more like the area got sensitive and receptive to activity. The sensation felt more like moving air, and sometimes a heavy or thickness where ever I felt the ball. So long as you feel something, and it isn’t bothering you, you should be ok. But you really should try and hone in on what you are feeling in response to what you are trying to do mentally. After only a few days, I was able to notice more results, it was quite interesting.

Doing this exercise should help with opening up more of your psychic abilities and this area; the Third-eye or Mind’s eye has always been associated with Psychic abilities and Intuition.

I hope this lesson helped some.

Psychic Training | Lesson 2

Developing your Psychic Intuition

In the psychic world, if you throw a rock in any direction looking for information, you’ll find the word Intuition pops up a lot. This is because intuition is highly revered and important. Intuition is a knowing or understanding without prior exposure to whatever was perceived. It is as much internal as it is external, and it is intuition that most of the information acquired through means of ESP are gathered. It is regarded as a buffer of sorts between the knowledge of this world, and a higher knowing beyond. It is for this reason that when Intuition picks up on something, it often emerges as feelings, visions or an indescribable understanding.

We’ve all experienced that gut feeling before, that told us something was right, or wrong, for no apparent reason. Though, sometimes you find out it was wrong, but on the other hand, sometimes you find out it was right. But, if you’re interested in learning how to become psychic (more accurately training your already existing psychic abilities), picking up and working with your intuition more is important. But, how does one work with a gut feeling?

It’s about how you would guess. First, knowing yourself more helps loads here, and is why I listed meditation and awareness as lesson one. The more you know yourself, the more informed you are about yourself and can then make better decisions based on this.

Believing that your intuition can guide you to the answers you seek is important. Believing can encourage it to surface more often, and therefore you can exorcise it more often.

Trusting yourself helps as well. If your first instinct/gut feeling/intuitive response is negative towards something, then trust it and don’t do it, this also applies to the opposite.

If your intuition gives you an answer, follow up on it. See where it leads you when you follow it. This can help you fine-tune it more.

Don’t force your intuition to happen, there is nothing I have found when it comes to anything dealing with the mind or soul that you can force and have happen. Relax and let it come to you.

If you have a question, ask it to yourself, then quietly wait for an answer. Be patient about it, try not to think it up, just let it appear.

Just a little note. When people experience a moment of intuition, it is usually followed by a flurry of thoughts shortly after. Sometimes the gap between the intuition itself and the flurry of thoughts is almost none. Also, the thoughts are often closely related to the intuition itself as well, so in many cases, it may seem like it was just a single thought among the many. The intuition usually is what kicks starts it though, giving you an answer that may well not be what you wanted, and sometimes these thoughts that follow are filled with details that discourage you from listening to this inner-voice.

This is why I say follow up… if you do so and the results are surprisingly positive, then you will be more inclined to try and follow it more. But, even if the results are negative, you still gain from it. This is apart of the fine tuning process. It is said, “You learn more from failure then success“, this statement I have found to be very true.

Well, I think that should do it for Lesson 2 - Developing your Psychic Intuition.
Psychic Training Lesson 3 is next.

Psychic Training | Lesson 1

Developing your Psychic Awareness

The development of your psychic abilities begins and ends with your awareness. What you are aware of and why, is the founding cornerstone to how you perceive the world around you. Perception comes after awareness because you must first be aware of something, before you can perceive it. Perception is how you interpret that which you are aware of, and, with these two things combined, you get ‘your take’ on the world around you. These things are applied to your life at all times, and must be expanded if you wish to develop your abilities.

Meditation

Meditation is a great place to start. It allows you passage to a deeper understanding of yourself. Meditation is actually quite flexible in terms of approach and execution, as it really has neither a “Right way” approach or execution. It is used for a myriad of things such as concentration (To relax, and fixate your mind on a single thought or object for an extended period of time), or awareness (To relax and expand your mind and senses to feel, see and hear more… allowing yourself to take in information that was previously overlooked), or even to conquer a fear or obstacle in life.

Meditation is merely the means, or the tool in which to train yourself the skill of concentration, or expanding your awareness. Your psychic development hinders on your ability to expand and accept more of what is out there to find. But be wary, as you begin to embark in your psychic training journey, you will likely be treading in unfamiliar territory, and thus it is your imagination that will likely lead the way. This is not uncommon, and is your mind’s way of trying to bridge a gap between what you are used to, and what you are not.

It is for this reason, that when you begin developing your psychic abilities to not abandon reason or logic. The imagination is a powerful tool when used correctly and with restraint. Because without logic and reason, one would only have exorcised their imagination to the point of believing what they think they feel or sense. But, don’t abandon your imagination either, it has it’s place in your training as well. Instead, use your imagination to perceive and be aware beyond, and use logic and reason to keep you balanced.

As for the meditation itself, start by getting into a comfortable position, this can be sitting or laying down if you like.  Once you find a comfortable position, sit or lay still, let your mind go blank, as if it is emptying itself of all your thoughts and troubles, until you find yourself in a state of peaceful nothingness.  Try to embrace this peaceful nothingness for a minute or so, allowing it to wash over your whole self.  You may begin to feel some odd sensations, such as tingling, buzzing or a light sense of vibration, even a little warm or cold.  These sensations are fine, even good, as long as they aren’t causing any discomfort.

At this point, if you want to work on your concentration, then all you need to do is pay attention to your breathing.  Try to be preset with each inhale and exhale, gently keeping your attention on each breath.   Try not to monitor your breathing in such a way to cause any stress, and try not to control your breathing while you do this either.  Allow it to remain in a natural, peaceful and effortless state. 

In the beginning, you will likely have stray thoughts pop in and out, they may even take you on a short little adventure without you noticing.  This is natural, simply as soon as you realize it has happened, softly bring your attention back to your breathing.  Eventually less and less intrusive thoughts will interfere, and you will be able to maintain this peaceful state of concentration for longer.  I use this meditation a lot when I want to clear and center my mind, and it works quite well. 

If you would rather work on expanding your awareness, then it is a little bit different then working on your concentration, it’s also a bit more tricky.  Having practiced and improved your concentration can help tremendously here.  Start by relaxing and coming to a state of peaceful nothingness, but instead of placing your attention on your breathing, try to move it through your body a little. 

An example would be to place it on your left hand, allowing your awareness and attention to seep deeply into it.  Again without stressing over it, try to feel the skin and a little of the atmosphere around it, then a little deeper to maybe the blood vessels and tendons, then to the bone.  Try to keep the area of your awareness to that of the size of a golf or tennis ball, which ever is easier for you to maintain.  Move it slowly and gently up your wrist to your elbow at a comfortable pace.  While doing this, don’t overly concentrate, as you also want to maintain that blank space in your mind as much as you can.  When you begin to get better at moving your awareness around your body, the less you will need to concentrate to maintain this state.  This is where it gets a little tricky. 

With the comfortable blank space in your mind, you want to open it up to where you are placing you attention and awareness.  Allowing for pictures or anything that may be important to show up in this blank space.  For instance, if your awareness is in your left hand, and you want to pick up some specific information about it, let’s say because it feels tingly, then place your awareness in your hand, then open the blank space up and allow into it pictures, words or even impressions.  Allow the answer, or even a clue to come to you.  Just try not to force any pictures, thoughts or impressions using your imagination.

With some time you will get better at it, and eventually you can practice expanding you awareness to outside your body.  Its important to remember to let the information come, and not force it to.  This will help taper any bias or lust for an answer, and allow for the answer to be more accurate naturally.  This also can promote an acceptance of your psychic abilities.

When starting out, take small steps and don’t try and leap for the stars. Don’t be impatient, if you truly want to develop your psychic abilities, isn’t it worth the wait and do it correctly? Those who jump without thinking, find themselves freefalling in a dream. It may seem tough in the beginning, or even you may feel as if you are getting nowhere, but the saplings to any tree bear no fruit in the beginning, but with time and patience, it grows. The same goes for Developing your Psychic Abilities.

Anyways, I think that covers Lesson 1, See you in Psychic Training | Lesson 2