Being psychic is natural. We all are psychic. Those who suffer from it usually are highly psychic and it may be past their time to awaken to it. Developing your psychic talents in a professional manner can lead you to seeing, feeling and experiencing the world, and all the other realities, as beautiful gardens shining with a peaceful light. It can bring you into a sense of harmony with nature, people, and more importantly... yourself. Year by year this will unfold if you study and practice.

The problems we experience in regard to psychic abilities are mostly from misunderstanding and fearing it, and not being taught how to use it early enough in life. The result is an overload of tensions, problems, blocks and fears that we hold in our bodies and subconscious minds. They are the biggest reason why people are afraid of opening their psychic perceptions. Clearing and healing our own "stuff" can be painful at times. Seeing the negativity in others is also unsettling. But psychic and spiritual techniques not only release the negative and bring warmth and light into those cold dark areas inside us, they actually can bring you to a point where you are shining light and love out of your body like a lighthouse and make you a positive force on the planet.

There are also beautiful and powerful spiritual beings (spirit guides, guardian angels, etc) who wait for us to ask them for help from above. They are dedicated to protecting, teaching and guiding us every step of the way as long as we are not closing ourselves off to their influence.

Personally, I believe that a good, open minded, therapist could be a tremendous help in the journey to awakening, especially at the beginning. They can assist us in facing the unconscious psychological patterns that hold us back and cause us pain. I also employed a hypnotherapist (and made audio tapes of the sessions) to help me learn to relax deeply and imagine ways to release old energies and discomfort, fears, etc, from my body. Ten years later, I went into a professional studio and recorded a relaxation tape (Amber Light) based on these ideas to help my own students take a big step through their problems. I still play it to myself when I get bogged down in my old patterns and need to relax and open up again.

The psychic gift is always there. It is probably a matter of your body being overloaded with tension and your everyday way of thinking occupying your conscious mind. This will block you off until something psychic is strong enough to break through it and rises to the surface of your awareness. This can be caused by a momentary lapse in this nervous thinking such as: when first awakening, taking a shower, or gazing out a window mindlessly. (History class spaced me out so much that I was watching actual scenes from the historic times the teacher was discussing and could not pass the tests because I wasn't really in the room trying to memorize the names and dates he wanted.) An outside situation, or person, in need of psychic help can also draw you into an intuitive mode whether you were trying to enter it or not. Don't forget - you are and have always been a healer and empath, regardless of your age, recognition of it, or degree of training. As we get older we just have to face it more whether we want to believe it or not.

This is an amazing time on the earth. There are masters, channelers and teachers who have put their years of study and spiritual unfoldment down on paper, on audio and video tape, and travel to teach what they know to the general public. So many people are awakening to their psychic and spiritual gifts and are surrounded by healers, readers, teachers, initiators who are ready and willing to help them. I suggest that my students look for at least two other teachers to study three different methods or aspects, so they don't get caught up in any one teaching or teacher.

I am presently putting together a list of books that a few dozen of my colleagues and advanced students are recommending to add to my personal reading list. I recommend reading books by White Eagle to know what it sounds and feels like to have a guide speak to you. Use your intuition to choose books on personal growth, relaxation, meditation, opening the chakras, healing the aura, and basic psychic development and spiritual unfoldment. The students who spent time and effort on their basic psychology and relaxation ended up rising through advanced classes effortlessly. Those who tried to pass through the basics quickly kept getting stuck trying to become advanced without having a solid foundation in basics, a clear mind and a healed body vehicle to journey in. Humility is an important key to success on the path. I still think of myself as a beginner in so many ways even after over twenty years in the field. The day I believe I have it... I am it... I am no longer a seeker of truth, therefore I have limited the light, love and wisdom to the stage I am presently in.

Practice a little of the following every day, even if only for five or ten minutes. Physical exercises, relaxation exercises, opening your aura to healing energies, expanding your chakras, meditating, asking the higher realms for help on your journey. It could be a ten minute yoga exercise while playing a tape you make guiding yourself through these other things, instead of trying to harness your thinking each day to get it done. Many people claim they don't have the time. My answer is that we all get 24 hours every day. We choose what we spend these hours on. If they still insist there is no room in their life, I suggest doing it in the shower, during those normally frustrating times we have to wait (trains, buses, red lights, elevators, waiting rooms, waiting for a phone call, on hold, etc.), or while performing simple tasks that leave room for the mind to do other tasks.

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