Are you in touch with your psychic abilities? Or are you awed at how someone else can do it? Maybe you’ve had some psychic experiences but you want to understand it better or increase your skills?
Some renowned intuitives have expressed their views on how you can attain this. For Edgar Cayce, the most documented psychic in history, if you become more spiritual the psychic arises as an offshoot. (His recommended methods: Bible study, forgiveness, the willingness to be longsuffering, kindness, patience, setting spiritual goals, and meditation.)
Author and esteemed medical intuitive, Caroline Myss, insists: “The key to becoming clear as an intuitive is developing self-esteem, integrity, and living a congruent life. You must be devoted to a practice of inner integrity.” (Highlighting is mine)
I’m all-in on integrity and congruity. But self-esteem? How many of us can claim we have that or have it ongoingly? Most psychics I know can’t. Often people in my profession came from chaotic or highly stressed childhoods. I certainly did.
And it doesn’t necessarily lend itself to feelings of self-love. But I notice that Myss defines self-esteem differently from how you might normally think of it. She calls it “spiritual self-esteem.” Though I’m not sure I fully understand her meaning, her description struck a chord with me.
I can say that I have “spiritual self-esteem.” What is it? I trust the spiritual world. I trust myself as a spiritual being. I believe there’s something deep within me fully capable of supplying right messages when I need them. I trust the messages I get. Or on a conflicted day, I don’t discount them.
Sure, if I’m doing a reading for someone else, I may have fear because I want to get it right, or a desire to please and that big obstacle I can hit up against when doing readings: Everybody else says this is going to happen. Everybody but YOU.
How can I be right when more people, some I imagine have more prestige or fame than I disagree? Time will tell. Time has stood me well. One client claims his biggest regret is not listening to me when I told him not to invest. I remember how hard he tried to convince me that his investments were “sure things.”
My response: I can only tell you what I get. If it were my money, I wouldn’t invest.
Bottom line, I trust my intuition when it comes to my well-being. When I was in Emergency in 2015 with my shattered leg and they asked if they should phone the on-call doctor or one of my own, something told me to accept the on-call doctor. This was fortunate because it turned out that one of his partners was known for being the angel of difficult cases; the two of them surgically and remarkably put my leg back together.
I’ve certainly paid a price in my life when I’ve gone against my inner knowing. I bet you have too. Rather than beat ourselves up at those times, better to use it as instruction. The pain of not following your gut can be a future reminder to follow it.
Without self-trust, you will not be able to stay with your own truth when everyone tells you you’re crazy. Or when they laugh at you. Which they will likely do if you follow the psychic path. “We don’t see it and we don’t hear it,” is a refrain I remember from childhood. Wondering how people couldn’t see and hear what I did, or why they were so annoyed by topics I raised.
When I became a professional psychic, I started to be treated with a respect I’d not had before. It was different from being fake-liked for knowing or having access to famous people. Now I was sought out and my words were treated with value. The same sort of words that for a good deal of my life, I was cautioned to shut up about.
“Your wealth is in your weirdness,” says financial coach, Morgana Rae. This echoes the idea of staying with your own truth, but I want my truth to be an informed one. I can be weird/unique but not self-deluded. Best to learn from your mistakes and your successes. Observe. Imagine. Know yourself and your own flaws. What’s that got to do with being psychic?
I believe that intuition combines all of who we are, where we’ve been, what we know, even our DNA, and uses it. Why would someone come to me rather than another psychic? Perhaps my writing background will slip in some wisdom for their session, or their words will spark a memory that will be instructional for where they are.
Unless you’re simply a fotune teller and you assume that the future isn’t changed by our actions, psychic readings include a mixture of the psychic, philosophy, spirituality, past and future perceptions, telepathy…
Once, a psychotherapist I read for didn’t think I was being psychic when I mentioned the way she was mistreating her husband and what it portended for their relationship. She was not won over until I described her past lives and lessons she could take from them. That fit her definition of psychic and didn’t challenge her in ways she felt she was more expert than I.
“I’m a therapist,” she told me. “I say this to other people.” Originally, she’d asked if she was going to complete certain projects. What came through in response was that she should change things about the way she was behaving if she wanted to reach the goal she’d set. Should I have just said yes? Which is what she wanted to hear? Or no, which was the more likely answer if she didn’t take certain actions?
Psychic means “of the soul.” We’re tapping into messages of the soul. We’ve crossed over some invisible planes of energy and we’re holding threads to another world while weaving them into words that will help the person live more fully and freely in this one. I take the process seriously while retaining a light touch, and I hope humor.
I’ve come to respect how much the process takes from the reader. If you ask my greatest prescription for a good reading, let the reader be well-rested. When I’m well rested the energy flows. When you’re rested, you’re less likely to be frustrated with the world in general but more patient, yielding and compassionate. You can come from that overflow.
The inner integrity and congruence that Myss speaks about are important to me. To me, integrity means self-trust, knowing one’s self, trusting that your word has value. You may have grown up with fears of inadequacy but that doesn’t mean you can’t take right action even when no one is looking. Is it perfect? Do you know anything that is?
