Being Psychic

One thing that being a medium has taught me is that with the gift comes a great deal of responsibility! A responsibility to yourself, a responsibility to the people you are giving information to and a responsibility to the soul or souls that are giving you the information (or that you're being given the information about). The fear of these responsiblities is what makes most people shirk off their own abilities. Most people don't want to know. Most people just want to rely on their logical minds to explain everything in life. Society shapes us to this as well. A pill is much easier to take than relying on our own spirituality to get us through life's trials and tribulations! Shutting the door on your psychic abilities because you're afraid of the responsibilities associated with these gifts is understandable, but I strongly encourage people to keep the door open and learn how to discern and work with the information that you're given. Believe it or not, accepting your gifts will bring more compassion, love, light, peace and understanding into your life. It's just a matter of releasing the fear and the ego and letting yourself experience and learn.
Here's a quick statistic for you according to psychologists and psychiatrists the world over. Much of psychology is based upon the fear of death! Mental illness, dysfunction, disorder... various inconsistencies of the human mental state is based upon the fear of death. Fear of the unknown. In accepting our spirituality and those gifts given us to go along with our spirituality, the symptoms of fear are alleviated and in most cases eradicated! Imagine that! Life without fear!
Another thing that harbors us from reaching our full potential as more "spiritual" beings is the inability to discern between a real, true vision, a fear, or an illusion that the ego may be creating (otherwise known as imagination). This is itself is terrifying to even think about! How do I know that I just didn't pull that information right out of the sky? Did I make it up? Am I just trying to impress someone? As you start to question and rationalize the information that you received, emotion attaches itself! Your adrenaline starts pumping. Sweat breaks out onto your forehead. Anxiety overwhelms you and things get completely blown out of proportion. The trick here is to NOT dismiss it! Do not over-analyze it! Introduce logic to the situation after the fact. Become an outside observer and think through the experience! Keep a journal! Meditate! Talk about it! BREATHE! It's ok! You're not wacked out! As you experience more and grow with your abilities, the capability to discern the type of information that you are receiving becomes easier! Like I said, the key is not dismissing it! I'm going to give you a "picture" or conceptual model of the "psyche" where our psychic abilities are housed. For some people, it is easier to reason the concept of psychic abilities through a physiological model. The human body contains 5 receptors that absorb and process information that we receive outside of our physiology. They are the Hypothalamus, the Pituitary, the Pineal, the Heart and cellular DNA. It's akin to a computer processor. The Hypothalamus is the inbox. It receives the information that comes to us through our soul and our guides who reside outside of the physical reality in which we work and live everyday. Some of us may hear voices of spirits or our guides, which is clairaudience. Some of us may feel (known as clairkinetic), some of us may just know, without first seeing, hearing or feeling; otherwise known as claircognizance or clairsentience. Our pituitary gland then translates this information from the hypothalamus and sends it off to the pineal gland where the information is translated into pictures and also the heart which is where the information is felt. Some people may use only one of these glands when they are being psychic; some may use all. It just depends on what stage you are at in developing your abilities. Some of us, myself included, receive information through their cellular DNA where the information is just "known" and then interpreted into pictures, words and feelings through the other glands. Here's an example taken from a personal experience I had quite a few years back with a boss of mine. Her dad had a message and wasn't going to leave me alone until I divulged his message to her. I initially had an impression of the color white. Then in rapid succession I got the impressions of tall, masculine, darker brown hair with some balding, then a white dress undershirt, dark blue jeans and brown deck shoes. Next, I had an impression of a "movie-star" handsome face, no facial hair and a gigantic broad pearly white smile as well as hearing, repeatedly, "I'm so-and-so's dad!" All of this information became concrete in the moment I accepted that I was going to have to listen to what he was trying to convey! And as I relayed this information, against all sense of doubt I had about sharing this with my boss, the pictures, emotions, senses and the messages he wanted to convey came with more clarity and more detail than I could have imagined and the more fulfilling the "reading" was for my boss. She was blown away, and I was exhausted (not to mention afraid that I was going to lose my job)! The next day, I was receiving requests for readings from other members of her family and many people throughout the office. Apparantely she had shared her experience with quite a few people in a short period of time.
The word messages received from guides occur in much the same way: there is an impression of a guide communicating, an impression of a message, and then the message gains form as words when I open my mouth and allow them to flow forth. Many times the impressions take the form of emotions; I've often sensed tremendous love, pride, deep sadness, anger or some other strong emotion. Most of the time the sensations of these emotions simultaneously flow through to my client and they then experience them in their own body.
The important thing to remember is that it takes TRUST to experience the sensations, allow the subconscious to interpret them, and then articulate them. Don't try to analyze them with your conscious mind. Just go with the flow and see what you're getting as you're getting it. Don't stop to make sense of anything! As I articulate, I 'see' images in my mind's eye, 'hear' messages in my mind, and 'feel' emotions in my body. Pay close attention to the order here: the information comes first as a 'knowing' or an impression, and then the more 3D type of information (seeing, hearing, and feeling) follows that. The information is usually deep, rich and detailed. The more often that you do this, the easier it becomes and you'll find that the information does make sense, to either the person you are reading or through research when there is nobody to validate the information, which often happens during investigation of puportedly haunted locations. 99% of the time, when I am receiving psychic information, it is coming at me like a freight-train. It's like a movie running through my head at mach 50 and my mouth is moving just as quickly as I speak aloud the information that is going through my head. There have been times when I have completed receiving a message or information that I stop and have to ask anybody that witnessed the session "so... what came through?" as I take a deep breath and relax my mind and body! I am just the medium. I'm just a tool. The messages are not, in 99.9% of cases, meant for me. That's where we have to release our ego's.
Now, there are a number of factors that get in our way and block our psychic abilities. Being mindful of these things can help us overcome these blocks. We may be out of touch with our physical bodies. It's a fantastic practice, whether we want to be psychic or not, to pay attention to our physical bodies. The best practice for this is through meditating and doing simple breathing and muscle-relaxation exercises. We may have emotional blockages that block our chakra's or energy centers. Meditation that specifically targets these centers can alleviate and/or eliminate blockages in these centers. Better than that, Reiki, as with our Reiki specialist, Cat Shaubach, (who is FANTASTIC at what she does) can not only clear the body of negative energy but can activate a number of our psychic receptors and stimulate our energy centers! Physical damage to these glands can also inhibit them, in which we would need to seek treatment in order to make ourselves healthy.
But the number one blockage is fear that the information being received is incorrect or simply imagined! Fear and expectations inhibit the process of learning and growing spiritually.
Because of all the media portrayals of psychics and the vivid visual descriptions from clairvoyants, we fall into the trap of 'expecting' that we must perceive in that way (visually) or we're not 'psychic.'
The key to releasing expectations, in my experience, is surrender: Surrender means to give up expectations, give way to the process, and give in to the reality of your own personal experience. Be willing to accept that YOUR way of perceiving psychic information is valid and of service; by allowing your perceptions to flow freely, trusting your 'imaginative' powers, and practicing articulating your perceptions, you develop confidence in your abilities, no matter what form they take!