Just trust God, and the rest comes easily. Those who know me have read me say this before: If you put God FIRST in anything to do with the Psychic Realm, then EVERYTHING ELSE falls naturally into place, it's just that simple. God does really make things simple, it's mankind who makes things complicated.
At first when a new psychic is trying to actively have psychic events happening to them, they will try very hard. For example, they will wish to Astral Travel. They will try daily over and over again in a meditation yet very little or even nothing seems to happen. I remember trying very hard in my late teens with my numerous attempts at Astral Travel, only to have nothing happen. Then when I finally gave up and turned it over to the Lord if I ever was going to travel, that's when things started happening with my out-of-body experiences. You see, I was trying to lead with it, trying to will myself to do it. I was trying to make myself Astral Travel and learned that it is totally not of my own abilities or skills that I could ever do it. It's when I released all of the control part of this to God, that I started having that ability given me and it was much later in my case. When I was later being trained to become psychic to aid others, then I was taken on guided tours by Guides after that, and at no time was I doing the touring myself. Only when I was able to be giving with the psychic gifts is when my abilities increased, so it is clearly in the giving that we receive with these special abilities.
I therefore had to learn the "chain of command" there, and be at peace with it. My suggestion is to just let go and have God take charge of your psychic abilities totally. If you could just tell God that you want Him in charge of anything and everything you consider psychic abilities to be and that you are open to whatever He wishes to show you. Then give it a month or so, and keep a journal of all that you are witnessing and experiencing psychically, (i.e. visions, dreams, telepathic thought messages you suddenly "out of the blue" hear said, including thought sentences that you were not AT ALL thinking about just a split second ago that now are heard inside your mind.) Take into consideration EVERYTHING that you know didn't come from you personally. Write it down what you feel important to record. After a month, you may see this trend showing up in your journaled writings, this theme or plan and notice it as a type of lesson experience.
When someone gets to that point of releasing it all over to the Lord what is frustrating them, what has stymied them, what has brought them to an ultimate decision-making point, you can sense that your Spirit is needing resolution here, and making that choice can now bring forth a much deeper level of your own Innermost Feelings about all things of the Spiritual Realm. Sometimes we need to get to this much deeper level FIRST and I say that just because of the issue of Hindsight Being 20/20. If we are testing the situation with the LOOKING BACK THUS FAR TEST, we can actually take on a different attitude here, an impartial viewpoint of Perceiving It From The Viewpoint of us now seeing where we have traveled on our Spiritual Path and REVIEW IT. You see, if we can just look back and see what has brought us to this point in our journey. Ask yourself why you wish to have psychic abilities in the first place? If you are blocked psychically, seek deep within yourself the reasons why you are wanting to become more psychic and you will find out where it is the blockages are. Once you are understanding that our viewpoint of being psychic and the Heavenly Realm's viewpoint of being psychic are needing to be the SAME REASON, then you will find yourself growing psychically and spiritually. You see, all in the Spirit Realm is geared around Aiding Others. That is their Primary concern. Secondary is the aiding of self. That's why I was not able to Astral Travel years ago when I was young. I was doing it for only myself. There was the energy there of my curiosity; my interest in it was not enough to warrant their effort to aid me, UNLESS I was also training myself to Aid Others somehow with my knowledge of Astral Traveling.
I know it may sound strict with how the Spirit Realm is governed with the usage of these Gifts of the Spirit, yet the Spirit Guides are volunteering their time and effort. They are trained for two years in college for the Degree of Spirit Guide. They work hard for their degree those two years, and are dedicated people for the most part. So from their perspective, they are willing to work hard for those they are assigned to for improving their psychic skills only if that "ripple effect" of impacting others also with the spreading of the training and experience to aid still more people is the result. So we need to put ourselves in their shoes for a moment and view it from their perspective with these wonderful gifts. Blockages are always there for a reason, they are not randomly placed there, and often they are placed there just so that the new psychic will notice it, and ask why. The blockages are not placed there permanently in many cases, and surprisingly these blockages are there because we requested long ago when we were up in the Spirit Realm planning our lifetime to not have these psychic abilities. That is another aspect to consider, too! So all in all, blockages are placed there to have it questioned why and to reason it out with the psychic to gain a better understanding.
It helps to have a focal point with your theme of becoming psychic. My focal point with the psychic abilities would have to be considered my "Going Within" and focusing inside my mind rather than outside with looking at an object. Going Within opens up a universe of vision for me, yet always do I ask permission first. It is that "honoring of Who is in charge of this Universe" that brings forth the visions and the information. If I didn't give gratitude, honoring, and appreciation to God for whatever I am asking to receive even if it is only for someone else's entire benefit, then I am sure all I would see is the inside of my eyelids. Again it is that "chain of command", that acknowledgment of Who is in charge of the Spiritual Realm.
Now a list of the basics:
1. Study first. We have a list of great books on our Books List, along with numerous "how to" articles here at HopeFromBeyond. Read at least six books about it from various authors' perspectives so that you feel a confidence level there. There are many ways to say the same thing, and yet certain authors are more expressive and descriptive than others so that you gain a further knowledge, just to compare from. Notice while you are reading the many similarities even though the authors didn't know each other when they wrote the books, and none of them were copying each other.
2. After you have read enough to feel comfortable and secure, practice first on your family members and close friends who are in harmony with what you are doing. Altered attitudes of skepticism and/or negativity block it extensively, even if you are fairly close on the mark, as their energy radiates outwards enough strength to thwart your contacting a strong link if they are having a discouraging attitude. So ask only those who are willing and open-minded with this effort. This ability testing stage is essential to learn how to do readings wisely and when to notice the changes within you so you will end the contact at the proper time and not go on past it. Usually about 20-30 minutes is long enough, and only once a day at first.
3. Keep a log or journal as I discussed up above and write down how you evaluated your readings of others. What type of percentage would you say you were accurate? Jot down ideas for improvement and self evaluation comments. Keep a separate Dream Journal also, to log your dreams and messages you receive via that connection. We receive a great deal of information via our dreams.
4. Be willing to offer it without charge right at first, so that you learn the basics. Later you can charge according to your conscience if you wish to become a commercial psychic.
5. Remember that you will always be tested as a psychic by your Spirit Guides, to keep you ethical and wise in using psychic abilities.
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