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 by Dr. Rita Louise
Everyone has psychic abilities. We all have psychic experiences daily. Being psychic is not about having some "woo-woo" abilities that one can only be born with. For many of us, we do not have the words to describe or label what we are experiencing thus allowing us to identify what we are experiencing as "psychic experiences".
There are many myths that surround our abilities to utilize our own psychic information. Many people feel and acknowledge that they have intuitive abilities. What they don't understand, is that the only difference between being psychic and using your intuition is the level of trust that you have that your intuition is correct. Trust is a major component when working with your psychic abilities. One must trust the information that is coming through, the feelings, the inner communication, the pictures, and the just knowing. By not trusting, you are in essence invalidating the information that is coming through to you from your higher self, your guides, and the universe.
When I was a kid there was a TV show called the Sixth Sense which was about a crime fighting psychic detective. During a typical episode, there would be, of course, a murder, and the psychic detective would be called in to help. This is where things got interesting to me. When the detective would walk into the crime scene, he would see the victim being murdered, or he would see them floating around the room trying to provide him with a piece of evidence. At times he would pick up an item, like a piece of paper and have a precognitive flash where he would see someone driving their car off cliff. I thought this was too cool.
From that point onward, I started reading whatever books I could find on ESP, witchcraft (which was the only thing around in the '70's) and the paranormal. By the end of 7th grade, I knew that I had some kind of psychic abilities, but I didn't know how to tap into them on a regular basis. My expectation was to see things floating around... to have these "experiences". I figured that if I kept reading I would have to become "enlightened". By High School, I was turned on to Tarot Cards, and started performing reading those for myself and friends. I thought for sure that I would become psychic by doing this. Wrong....
After many, many years of searching and studying, I found the Berkeley Psychic Institute, thinking, WOW, these people will teach me to be psychic.
My first truly validated "psychic" experience occurred while I was in a beginning healing class, learning to perform aura healings. We were instructed to pay attention to anything came to mind while we were doing the healing, and that we should mention it to the person we were working on. That day, I happened to be working on instructor of the class. There was a lot of energy sitting in her aura around the back of her head. The next thing I knew, I was saying bill, bills, bills. The class assistant looked at me and informed me that the instructor had finished paying bills just before class started. I thought this was so cool, but I still couldn't control it.
Needless to say, I immediately signed up and started in the clairvoyant program. The basis of the training was that you learned how to perform readings by working with more of the experienced readers. As I sat, eyes closed as instructed, during my first real psychic reading, I wait for these things to start floating around the room. Well as you might imagine, this didn't happen.
A couple of weeks later I went to one of their psychic fairs. I was really nervous. I knew I wasn't psychic yet, and I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do at the fair. They did however team me up with a more experienced reader. Our first client was a woman who had a question regarding her relationship with her husband. As the other psychic began speaking, in my minds eye, I was astonished because I was seeing everything she was talking about. After a while, I started to share with the client what I was looking at. The information was in essence the same, but it was from a different angle, from my perspective.
When the reading was done, a light bulb went off in my head - "Oh...that's what you want us to do. I've been seeing stuff like that my entire life."
It was never explained that this was the kind of "seeing" you want to experience when you are working on clairvoyant levels. It is in the mind's eye that you see things floating around the room and it is here that you see the aura. I was ecstatic.
Our psychic experiences are controlled by the chakras. The chakras are energy centers within the body. They are how we process information from the world around us. Chakras can be likened to the aperture of a camera, in that they have the ability to open and close as they process information.
There are 7 major chakras within the physical body that run along the spine. There are also chakras in the hands and feet as well as where median lines cross in the body as identified by acupuncture. Physiologically speaking, the major chakras are located where groups of nerves meet to form nerve centers. They are also related to the endocrine gland system, which includes the adrenal gland, thyroid and the pituitary gland.
While there are 7 major chakras of the body, we will only be discussing the chakras that control our psychic information.
Clairsentiance, is an ability of the 2nd chakra. It is the ability to feel energy. The 2nd chakra is located just below the belly button. The character Diana Troy on Star Trek, the Next Generation, for example, is an empath. Empath is another term for clairsentient. Diana feels things. On a more personal level, have you ever walked into a room and "felt" bad vibes, only to find out that an argument has just taken place, or have you ever walked into a room that someone has just cleared, performed a healing or are deep in meditation, where you in turn feel cleared, uplifted or that you are releasing energy and relaxing. You are processing that information through the 2nd chakra. So when you are feeling energy, validate that you are having a clairsentient experience.
Clairaudiance is an ability of the 5th chakra. It is the ability to hear information. The 5th chakra is located in the base of the throat, just below the voice box. Many think that our inner dialog is just an overactive brain. We are, however, always receiving information on clairauidant levels. For example, have you ever trying to figure out how to do something and "a little birdie" tells you what you should do? This is your clairaiduance at work.
Clairvoyance is the ability to see pictures in your minds eye. It is controlled by the 6th chakra, sometimes referred to as the 3rd eye. It is our ability to visualize, which should not be confused with our ability to trust or validate that what we are seeing. It is the most important tool you will use as you develop your clairvoyance. It is a tool in which we all use on a daily basis. By working with your visualization skills, by flexing those visualization muscles, it will become easier for you to accept the information that comes in on psychic or clairvoyant levels.
As you continue to read this paragraph, can you picture or visualize what your house looks like or your car? Can you see your bedroom or your office at work? Can you see the vacation you took as a child or the face of your first love? Can you see all of these things in your minds eye...clearly, easily, effortlessly. This is the place that you go to visualize. It is also the place where you see things on a clairvoyant level.
Knowingness is an ability of the 7th chakra. It is the ability to just know stuff. The 7th chakra is located on the top or the crown of the head. When you work with information on knowingness levels, you don't know how you know something, you just know? Since the 7th chakra sits on the top of the head, the body and the other chakras do not have the opportunity to process the information involved. You are saying something literally right off the top of your head. This is your knowingness at work.
As you validate each psychic experience you have, you may find that you experience one thing one time, and then you might have a completely different experience the next time. Trust that each of these experiences are true for you. Keep with your integrity.
As you can see, working with your intuition, your psychic abilities is a very experiential thing. It is not something that you can just read from a book. It is something that must be experienced first hand, validated, and then practiced and refined. Remember , we all have psychic experiences daily. What have you experienced today?
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