Are we all a little psychic because..

[CelestialHorse]

(Not sure if this should be here or in spirituality) but, I hear we're all a little psychic but it depends if you keep it,learn how to keep it/ptractice.

I used to get images once in awhile or feelings but I have noticed the last some years, it just dimished. I think I know the reason why, my emotions get in the way, or I don't meditate.

Ever gotten those psychic like abilities and they just go away? I would LOVE to have that back! I remember one time at my old house I was cooking something but I went to pet my dog (Still in the kitchen), and I just got an image flash across my mind of the pot starting to boil over. So instinctivily I went to the stove and the water was really boiling! I like to think my guides was warning me. I also one time meditated and wanted to see what my guides looked like (This was when I was studing animal guides) and I got af ew images.

Now it just all went away. I wonder if I am not meant to have those kind of images or something? Another time I sensed one of my uncles was about to call. I also knew which one and I was right. Heh my momwas like WELL WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY SOMETHING? Yeeeah you would want me to say something when you hate anything psychic/wicca/pagan/spiritual >.> (I don't, I think wicca is interesting as spiritual, I'm like a cat, very curious about things lol).

What are your experiences? Ever gotten really good/bad feelings about something, images then they went away? Did you ever get those intutive feelings back and how?

I do wonder if I meditate and live more positivitly maybe those will come back (And yes, all but my sacral chakra is blocked )

 

[spiraling]

I've naturally been highly intuitive since childhood. What I've discovered is that bias and self-criticism ruins the meditative state required to access it. An overly skeptical mindset can, too.

A personally aspiring life is generally met with high intuitive ability.

Society's rigid propensity to mistake over-rationalization for logic can also cause a disconnection, if you allow it to.

Time and again, I've brushed off what was, in retrospect, comprehensive intuitive insight. Self-doubt is surely what ruins it.

 

[CelestialHorse]

I've naturally been highly intuitive since childhood. What I've discovered is that bias and self-criticism ruins the meditative state required to access it. An overly skeptical mindset can, too.

A personally aspiring life is generally met with high intuitive ability.

Society's rigid propensity to mistake over-rationalization for logic can also cause a disconnection, if you allow it to.

Time and again, I've brushed off what was, in retrospect, comprehensive intuitive insight. Self-doubt is surely what ruins it.

Yeah that makes sense and that's what I was thinking. Kinda sucks though how when you're curious and would LOVE something but the doubt, etc overrides it >.> dang it! LOL. I also do wonder if it's also because of the environment you live in, even if you're in a quiet place, you may not like it so it messes things up. Sure it's quiet some of the time especially during the day for me, but I don't like it XD

 

[spiraling]

Yeah that makes sense and that's what I was thinking. Kinda sucks though how when you're curious and would LOVE something but the doubt, etc overrides it >.> dang it! LOL. I also do wonder if it's also because of the environment you live in, even if you're in a quiet place, you may not like it so it messes things up. Sure it's quiet some of the time especially during the day for me, but I don't like it XD

The idea is that if a person is individualized, and participates in life with self-love and understanding, then intuition is possible no matter the environment or circumstance.

 

[Milfoil]

Like any other skill, it seems to me, from experience, that the more you keep trying, testing and confirming your intuition, the better and more practised you become. The awareness and detection of what is intuition and what is hope or fear based comes from experience but as spiraling has said, rationalisation and doubt will kill it stone dead if you let it.

A great exercise each day is to simply widen your awareness of everything. Notice patterns in bird flight, which birds are where, how many, what is the weather doing, what patterns do you notice in the swirling clouds/snow/leaves/grass/water/rain drops etc, animals, tracks, numbers repeating, odd coincidences, gut feelings when meeting people or images which pop up in your mind - everything! Make notes and see which ones correspond with actual events. It could be days or weeks before you find out if what you felt or saw turns out to have a connection with a person or event but the diary is a great way to keep a check on what works and what doesn't. That way you can teach yourself to discern between your own emotions and the messages all around you.

 

[celticnoodle]

I've naturally been highly intuitive since childhood. What I've discovered is that bias and self-criticism ruins the meditative state required to access it. An overly skeptical mindset can, too.

A personally aspiring life is generally met with high intuitive ability.

Society's rigid propensity to mistake over-rationalization for logic can also cause a disconnection, if you allow it to.

Time and again, I've brushed off what was, in retrospect, comprehensive intuitive insight. Self-doubt is surely what ruins it.

I so agree.

Like any other skill, it seems to me, from experience, that the more you keep trying, testing and confirming your intuition, the better and more practised you become. The awareness and detection of what is intuition and what is hope or fear based comes from experience but as spiraling has said, rationalisation and doubt will kill it stone dead if you let it.

very true. it is important to keep practicing it. like anything else, if you don't use it you can lose it. And you have to re-learn to not doubt yourself. That also comes with practice, if you've allowed doubt to creep in. Keep an open and positive mind about it.

(Not sure if this should be here or in spirituality) but, I hear we're all a little psychic but it depends if you keep it,learn how to keep it/ptractice.

yes, I firmly believe that everyone is psychic. We just need to learn to understand our abilities, use them and acknowledge them. it is important to keep at it. I don't think if it is lost it is lost for good, but you will have to be patient and work hard at it to get it back again.

Ever gotten those psychic like abilities and they just go away? :

Yes. I've had times recently where I feel I have lost some of my abilities. It was also due to not fully being used. I was dealing with some major issues and one of them was my health-so I had to take a break. Now that those issues are for the most part behind me, I'm diving right back in and doing my best to build them up again. It takes time to do that CelestialHorse. Don't despair. Just be patient and keep at it. Your abilities will come back to you again and who knows, maybe even stronger so!

( I would LOVE to have that back! I remember one time at my old house I was cooking something but I went to pet my dog (Still in the kitchen), and I just got an image flash across my mind of the pot starting to boil over. So instinctivily I went to the stove and the water was really boiling! I like to think my guides was warning me. I also one time meditated and wanted to see what my guides looked like (This was when I was studing animal guides) and I got af ew images.

Now it just all went away. I wonder if I am not meant to have those kind of images or something? Another time I sensed one of my uncles was about to call. I also knew which one and I was right. Heh my momwas like WELL WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY SOMETHING? Yeeeah you would want me to say something when you hate anything psychic/wicca/pagan/spiritual >.> (I don't, I think wicca is interesting as spiritual, I'm like a cat, very curious about things lol).

that is just one way for you to begin getting your abilities back. When the phone rings see if you can tell who it is. that is a great exercise to do. But, I'd also recommend meditation too and reading books about this. Especially ones that will give you exercises to do so your abilities will develop. Even people who make a living at giving psychic readings need to keep on top of things. If they were take a long required break and then try to get back into it, they'd be a bit rusty too.

Check out different games and exercises here on AT and join in. There are a lot of different threads that can help you with developing your abilities again.

What are your experiences? Ever gotten really good/bad feelings about something, images then they went away? Did you ever get those intutive feelings back and how?

I do wonder if I meditate and live more positivitly maybe those will come back (And yes, all but my sacral chakra is blocked )

As I mentioned, I had to put my readings on a low boil the last few years and take a very much required rest from it all due to things going on in my life and due to my ill health. For the most part that is behind me now and I'm ready to jump back into it full force, but after taking such a break I know it's not going to be quite as easy for me to pick up where I left off. so, I'm easing myself back into it. I probably could do more too then I am, but I do what I can and what I am comfortable with. It is still there though, I know it. I just have to re-learn how to access it all as easily as I use to.

If you know your chakras are blocked, meditation can help with that too--but I'd highly recommend listening to chakra cds to help unblock them. it is truly relaxing too when you listen to them--or at least I think they are. You should be able to find some to listen to on youtube.com also.

since we've moved back to our home in New York again and I'm not reading tarot in the store anymore, my reading tarot has really taken a hit. Especially in the winter months, I notice even my out of state customers who call or email for a reading has slowed a lot--which is common really. It should pick up again, but it has left me w/o much tarot reading to do. As a result, I do feel a bit rusty tbh.

I've gotten a few new decks to play with this year also and I decided to pull out one of my favorite books to use with getting to know these decks. It is one I always tell people to invest in. The Psychic Tarot by Nancy Antenucci and Melanie Howard. I'm going through it again with one of my new decks. I can already feel it paying off, but I have to admit, I have taken my time with this book and deck so far. I need to keep at it and finish it because with the warmer weather, I'll not be sitting inside quite as much and have more things on my plate to do as well. So, that is one of the things I am doing. I also took a few classes at the New Age shop in this area, and hope to take some more as well. Nothing on the horizon there as of yet since my last class though. I am waiting for the 'right' class to present itself again.

I do need to step up my meditations, as I have been very lax on that. And, I'm doing a few things here on AT again that is helping me get back into the swing of things too.

so, CH, just keep at it. Dont give up. Be patient and persistant. It'll come back to you. But, keep at it!

 

[.traveller.]

I'll probably get laughed at for posting this, but I have wondered sometimes if planetary influences can affect our psychic abilities, even to the point of creating a block until the influence passes. Up until I was 12 or 13, I was wide open psychically but suddenly experienced a total block. I went from being able to easily read thoughts and feelings as the most natural thing in the world, to a complete black out of all ability. It was like being stricken deaf, dumb, and blind, and I found I no longer knew how to talk to other people. That experience led me to tarot and other forms of spirituality, I was too young and inexperienced to understand what happened but I knew what was missing and it's been a life long journey to get some of that back.

So I guess what I'm saying is that it isn't always something we do or don't do that affects us, but forces larger than ourselves that dance us about like puppets on a string.

(oh... and You didn't see me. )

 

[Anna]

No, I don't think so.... just like some people are tone deaf when it comes to music, I think some people are not in the least bit psychic. I don't think it's a very big percentage of people, but I do think that they exist.

For me, the strongest stuff comes through in dreams. My psychic dreams are different to normal ones; they are more vivid, more real, more emotionally involving. And I don't have to try to remember them, they stay with me for the whole day. I am finding that the more I take note of the dreams and act on them, the more I have them.

I have flashes of psychic insight whilst awake, but it is in my dreams that the strongest and most significant stuff occurs. I am hoping to develop this ability further by working with a Shamanic drum.

 

[VGimlet]

I've always had this strange idea mankind as a whole used to be more psychic. That it was a sense much stronger when mankind was young, and inclined to be eaten by large, hungry predators. Because it's not used as much anymore, I think there are some people who don't have it. Common genetics - if something isn't needed for survival, it eventually disappears.

I think that many people still have it strongly as kids, but it fades as we age, especially when we are taught that trusting intuition and gut feelings isn't logical. If something DOES happen, it was coincidence.

I was lucky that in my family we were taught to trust our gut instincts. My family also was open minded about there being things like ghosts, and that people could have premonitions, and that nothing was impossible. (We also used to debate the whys and hows. I do miss those discussions...)

I have also had flashes. I just know stuff. And it's rock solid. but that is rare - and highly unpredictable. Too bad.

I also trust my intuition and gut feelings, which is kind of a different thing. For me, those are more things we don't always think about, but our uncouncious mind puts everything together and says - hmm, don't walk that way, or avoid that guy...

 

[Milfoil]

I share that belief VGimlet. In fact when out in nature, just me and whatever else is there, the heightened awareness is noticeable. For me it makes perfect sense that our ancestors were way more in touch with and connected to their surroundings on many levels.

Use it or loose it as they say.