Taking Charge of Your Psychic Life

 

HOLLISTER RAND
Medium and Spiritual Teacher

 

 

This is YOUR night. Your night for getting in gear and starting to exercise those psychic muscles you already have. First of all, welcome to all of you - and get ready for some fun.

We are all psychic -- it is only a matter of degree and development, and like everything else we so often look to the experts to solve all our problems. Well& I am all about using and developing personal resources and talents you already have to live psyconsciously, and yes, I made that word up!

To live psyconsciously means to live in the present, being aware of all around you, experiencing life to the fullest, and serving those around with love and respect. To live psyconsciously is to live in freedom from fear, from death, from the unknown. So how do we do that?

We exercise!!  And we have fun!

Tonight I'm going to quickly run though what I call the START method of psychic development. Here's the anagram:

S stands for Spirit
T stands for Trust
A stands for Affirmation
R stands for Relax, and
T stands for Try

Simple, isn't it?!

First of all, let s start with the S for Spirit.

It is to remind us that we are not alone -- absolutely not! Those we love in the physical, and on the other side as well surround us. So remember, you are not alone!

Not only do you have friends around you, you have spectacular opportunities to chat in rooms , and share your experiences with open ears and hearts. Truly, if you ask a question, the teacher will or the situation will arise to help you learn. Now it is time to take all you've learned from chatting and start doing!

For the S in Spirit, here is Exercise 1.

This is called the "I am not alone" exercise.

Sit down with paper or a journal or a stick in the sand. Think through your life a decade at a time. Consider at least one instance per decade in which you learned a great lesson, in which your life took a turn for the best, in which you felt guided, in which disaster was avoided.

Once you got one for each decade, keep going. Write down as many instances as you can think of - you won't believe how big this list can get. WE ARE NOT ALONE!

Now this exercise is not meant to discount the difficult times in your life. Sometimes the most difficult times bring the greatest blessing...the times when we think we can't take another step show us those who can help us to walk.

And once you've done this exercise on your own it might be interesting to convince some friends to do the same. Even those who don't think that they're psychic may surprise themselves with "odd" things that have happened through the years.

Sometimes it is a great to take stock of life's little miracles. And don't limit your list to the extraordinary -- what about little acts of kindness from strangers? Words of wisdom from people you've never met?

The big changes in life that started from something small and seemingly insignificant -- or even a traumatic event bring about deeper appreciation and respect for life.

And now for the T which is "trust."

One of my favorite guys, Albert Einstein, once said. and I'm paraphrasing here, "the only question that we really need to ask and answer is whether we live in a beneficent or non-beneficent universe -- because that is the reality we will create for ourselves."

When I first started doing public demonstrations as a medium I wore a bracelet given to me by a friend. The bracelet was simple pewter and all it said was "Trust." But that was the hardest thing for me. So for those of you who can't trust yourselves or your own psychic abilities right away, practice what I did which was "Test, then trust."

We can only gain confidence by trying and succeeding more times than we fail - and believe me, in psychic work any work really; we can learn more by failures than successes. So here is an exercise to help you trust in your senses!

Exercise 2 - - Trust and expand your senses.

One of the gateways to getting in touch with your psychic self and living psyconsciously
is to get in touch with our senses -- all of them -- seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, feeling.

This exercise is a very tangible, definitely un-woo-woo meditation.

Get yourself an apple -- doesn't matter whether it is red delicious, gala, green or black Arkansas. Sit quietly. Now that, itself, is a challenge in the world we live in   lol -- and hold the apple in your hand.

Look at the apple...study the apple. Then close your eyes and imagine the apple in front of you -- see as much detail as possible. Hold onto that image in your mind's eye. This part of the exercise can really help strengthen clairvoyance -- clear seeing.

Now open your eyes and bite into the apple -- chew and swallow...savoring every last bite. Even if you don't like the exercise, remember, an apple a day keeps the doctor away and that's something! Now back to being serious.

Close your eyes...and recreate the taste of the apple in your mouth -- and yes, your mouth will start to water. Whether you have the physical stimulus or are "imagining" it, the body responds.
Interesting, eh? This exercise will strengthen clairgustus...or clear tasting.

Also remember the sound of biting the apple...was it a crunch? A crunch-slush? Crunch-slurp? Imagining every nuance of sound can help strengthen clairaudience   clear hearing.

Now, open your eyes and smell the apple. Close your eyes and analyze the smell -- use words in your mind to describe the smell. And don't be surprised if the smell takes you to a vision of an apple orchard, a childhood memory or a person in your life -- a teacher perhaps. This part of the exercise will strengthen clairscent...clear smelling.

Smell is one of our strongest senses and one of the easiest psychic senses to develop. Just think for a moment why is the perfume industry a katrillion dollar business worldwide?

Now, open your eyes and feel the apple -- is it hot, cold? Smooth, or rough spots? A stem? What and how do you feel holding the apple? This part of the exercise lets you play with clairsentience...or clear feeling.

Don't be surprised if you sense a state or country associated with the apple -- let your mind wander...after all, this is your meditation. You can check out the apple s packaging later to see if it gives you any clues.

So, if you wonder if what you're seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling and seeing psychically is just your imagination, don't worry -- your imagination can be the portal to receiving and processing the info coming to you! Once you are aware and trust your own physical sensations in the present, there will be less room for doubt in trusting your psychic senses!

That is one of the reasons why children are such natural psychics...they haven't learned the difference between what we call "real" and "imaginary."

Okay, right now, just think about how an apple tastes. Haa -- I got your mouth watering, didn't I? And that is just an imaginary apple! Once you've had fun expanding your physical senses you can start having fun connecting them even more to your psychic senses.

So now let s go to A for Affirmations.

I'm not just talking positive thinking here. You can help create your reality by where you focus your attention, so that's why I encourage people to use affirmations, a real focus shifter.

Exercise 3   Affirmations.

An easy affirmation to start off with is, "I am psychic!" Post that on your bathroom mirror,
and besides everyone else in your life thinking that you've finally gone 'round the bend'
you will be amazed at what beings to happen once you say it out loud to yourself a couple of times a day.

The universe will step right up to the plate to help prove to you that you are indeed psychic! And believe me -- the opposite also applies. If you're down in the dumps and keep telling yourself that life is difficult, the Universe will help make you right!

On my CD I have about 20 affirmations which have been helpful to people in their development process.

R is for Relax

One of the biggest blocks to developing and using psychic ability is getting stressed about it. We get so anxious about getting it right that we can't get anything at all! One of the best ways I've found to relax is:

Exercise 4 - To help relax.

Put some restful music or nature sounds on. Place a mat, blanket or towel on the floor with a chair at one end. While lying down on the mat, bend your knees and rest your heels and calves on the chair seat.

This position takes pressure off your back and allows the muscles of the body to relax. And wheee -- you can really take some "imaginary" trips in this position or even catch a short nap with visions.

And finally...T is for Try

And this means if at first, you don t' succeed, try, try again! The only failure is not trying!  Use your knowledge experiment. This is the rah, rah sis-boom-bah 'cheerleading' part of the chat, and here's an exercise to help focus and "play" with all of your psychic senses.

Exercise 5 - For Try.

Try "reading" objects and photos. Friends will love to play this game with you and help you practice. Get together with one or two people with whom you're extremely comfortable, who have great energy and are open to the psychic world.

Have them bring metal objects -- jewelry, keys, watches (their own or from someone they know well) and photos of friends and family members. Start with the metal objects, holding one at a time in your hands.

Blurt out the first thing that comes to your mind -- no censoring yourself! What do you hear? What do you smell? See anything? Taste anything?

Someone in one of my workshops once held a watch and kept seeing sand, hearing the ocean and seeing palm trees -- it didn't make sense to her (so don't worry about making sense) but it did to the person the watch belonged to. The owner had just gotten back from a trip to the Bahamas where she had temporarily lost the watch in the sand at the beach.

So, don't put any judgments on what you get just give what you get!

Try the same exercise with photos - starting with photos that have only one person, animal or place. I am all about fun and all these exercises are meant to be fun! So have fun doing them -- and that's an order! Time to START living psyconsciously! Just START!

 

And while you are having all this fun it is important to also journal everything you get...pretty soon, you'll see it make sense. Keeping track is great - - builds confidence.

 

 

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Hollister Rand was born with the ability to see, hear and feel spirits. She shares her extensive knowledge of the unseen world with demonstrations, lectures, classes and workshops.

Hollister is regularly featured guest on Southern California's radio show  Angels in Waiting. 

Her CD,  Many Doors - An introduction to Mediumship,  is a standard resource for those beginning to develop their own interest in mediumship. Hollister is available for private readings by appointment.

For more on Hollister Rand and her work, please visit her web site at: http://www.HollisterRand.com