On Being Psychic
 

I used to avoid saying what I do for a living because it can make people uncomfortable. They think I can see into their lives, what they had for breakfast that morning and what they'll be doing tomorrow. I can, if I want to. But to look inside someone's life without invitation is trespassing and I prefer not to break these universal principles. Besides, what value is there in filling my head with the intimate details of others' lives? I've got enough to think about, wondering what *I'm* going to be doing tomorrow...

When I worked the phone lines I was always amused at people expecting me to give them the winning numbers for that night's lottery... If I could predict the lotteries consistently, do you think I would have been sitting on the phone answering such silly questions? The truth is that some of the numbers I've given people as 'lucky' have indeed been winners, but there was a lot more to each winning than just knowing the lucky numbers. And there's a lot more to being psychic than predicting the future.

Being psychic is about learning to live in attunement and harmony with your world, in love. It requires a deep understanding of oneself, a release from judgment about what is considered good and bad and a willingness to notice and then listen to ALL the shifts in energy around you, including the subtle signs, the fleeting images and inner knowings... Being psychic requires that you actively participate with the whole of your world AND your Self. It demands daily attentiveness and real spiritual discipline.

The word 'psychic' conjures up all kinds of images - of ghosts and spirit-talkers, magic and rituals, tables that move by themselves, spoon-bending, Out of Body or Near Death Experiences (OBE/NDE), channelling and mediums, gypsies, fortune-tellers and curses, even UFO's and abductions. While every psychic invites and will have some of these experiences - so does everyone else!

Being psychic is as natural as breathing. We're all psychic. If you can learn to add and subtract, you can learn to sense, to see, feel, hear, smell, taste ALL of the energies that affect your life - and then you can learn how to move the energy around you to get what you want from your life. All it takes is a willingness to notice - and to act on what you notice.

Time and again, my dedication to applying the art of noticing in my own life has literally saved the day. A few years ago I neatly avoided a pickpocket - felt the dark energy coming at me and reacted to it in time to save my purse. We recently caught a very unusual and apparently difficult-to-detect fraud through our web site. The credit card companies were shocked when we reported it - "No one catches these things on just two transactions! How did you do it?" Simple, we noticed our reaction when the first order came through and when the second came in, it stood out like a sore thumb - to us. We allow ourselves to be all that we are, all the time. And we are psychic.

Being psychic is in all of us. Living psychic requires a little practice and a big change in personal beliefs. It all starts by accepting that being psychic is as natural as breathing and living psychic is worthwhile.

Allowing

Two of the most common questions asked about being psychic are:

1) Why would I want to be psychic, it takes the surprise out of life? AND
2) If as you say, everyone has the ability, how do I develop mine?

I answer both questions with a story, usually of a time when I was in London, England, shopping in one of the world's great bargain centres - Camden Town. A beautiful sunny morning, money in my pocket, and quite by happenstance I find myself in one of my favourite haunts - definitely high on life that morning, feeling fabulous. Stopped in a little covered market, poking my way through the stalls, oblivious to everything but my good spirits and the merchandize around, when suddenly I felt a bolt of bad energy coming at me over my left shoulder. I whipped around just in time to stop a pickpocket from cutting the lap pouch off my shoulder... I was so stunned, I wasn't sure it had actually happened - the young man just seemed to shrink into the crowd as I demanded to know what he was doing.... then, a few minutes later someone else wasn't so lucky and I saw the fellows scurrying away under tables, with their next victim in full chase.... Thanks to my psychic self, I put the lap pouch safely around my waist and continued on my merry way. Soon after, I noticed the signs posted all over Camden Town to beware of the pickpockets. That is only one of many times when being psychic, being tuned in to the energy around me, saved the day. At Easter this year, being psychic literally saved my life and my son's. In bad weather conditions on the highway I projected forward mentally, saw serious trouble on the road ahead, made a split second decision to get off the 401 immediately and in the process avoided a fatal accident.

That little incident, like the pickpocket story was awe-inspiring. The perfect answer to the question of why to allow yourself psychic ability. And the right place to start learning how to become more psychic. An "allowing" attitude is essential to our being able to receive - and discern - ANYTHING. If you want to be prosperous, then you must allow prosperity into your life. Want romance? then you must be willing to allow love into your life. Want to be more psychic? then you must ALLOW yourself to be psychic...

It all sounds very simple - just allow it and it will be... but there's a little more to the story - and the more has to do with our ATTITUDE and beliefs and how open we are to shifting some of our basic beliefs.

Using the pickpocket story as an example, there were several levels of 'allowing', a number of different energy dynamics at work, and a specific attitude that enabled me to feel that bad energy coming at me.

At the first level, I had to allow the information into my consciousness. This took believing that I could see and feel energy, that I "had eyes in the back of my head", that my senses ran deeper than the physical.... it required an allowing attitude - an attitude of openness, a willingness to respond to non-physical stimuli.

At the next level, I allowed myself to protect myself, to feel I deserved to have such a wonderful day and to have it un-violated by a pickpocket. This took believing in myself, letting go of fears around being in a "strange place" alone, and loving myself enough to want to avoid such an incident.... it required a loving attitude, and an attitude of trust - a sense of security - both in myself and in my world.

At the third level I allowed myself to trust the information I received so that I would react spontaneously to it... had I waited to consider or attempt to verify what I sensed, I might not have avoided the incidents. I believe the extrasensory information I receive, trust that it means "something" and so I acted, the moment I sensed. A trusting attitude, a belief system that is open to ALLOWING extrasensory perceptions, produced prompt action and a happy ending to each story....

If you want more happy endings to the stories that make up your life, develop an ALLOWING attitude to your natural psychic ability, AN ATTITUDE THAT MANIFESTS INNER BELIEF SYSTEMS BASED ON OPENNESS, TRUST AND LOVE. Our "attitude" is the outer manifestation of our internal belief systems. Those who are said to have a "positive" - ALLOWING - attitude, the optimists in life, reflect an open belief system, a belief system based on trust and on love, for themselves and for their world....

So be an Optimist - ALLOW yourself to be psychic, to trust yourself and to love yourself enough to use that natural ability in all of us... You'll see for yourself that being tuned into your world can 'save the day'.

The ability is in you now, and the information is all around you, readily accessible to you, all it takes to be able to receive it and act on it is an allowing attitude, an attitude of trust and love... So go for it, be the psychic you are, it'll be well worth it... even if it means shifting a few old beliefs around to get it all happening. Good Luck!