Standards and Challenges
of Being Psychic
One of the toughest challenges of reading for people as a psychic is that you are held to impossible standards. Sometimes these are unbelievably impossible standards that no one else in the world is held to for their abilities.
People expect psychics to be 100 percent accurate, 100 percent of the time. This is impossible. “Then you are not psychic,” you say. “If you don’t know everything, then you are not psychic.”
This is simply not true, and, like with every other ability, no one is perfect. Psychic ability is a skill and an art, not a perfect science. When you are reading the energy swirling around a person, you are seeing all of their thoughts, desires, emotions, wishes, and karmic influences. All of these things are fluid and interchanging moment by moment. Many times what you are seeing are the thoughts that the person has been focused on for a long time or the emotions that are the strongest emitting from their energy fields. For example, if someone has been in love with a partner for a long time and wants to be with them, even when the partner is not treating them well, you will see their desire to be with this partner. As you tap into the energy field of the partner, you will see their energy field and their thoughts of betraying the other person and possibly looking to end the relationship.
Our thoughts and emotions are expressed in these energy fields, and what we focus on the most is the direction we are heading and the path we are heading toward. When you read a person’s energy field, you will see the path they are on due to where they are putting their energy. You’ll also see karmic markers that help attract certain people and situations to them for experiences they need to have in this lifetime. You might read for this person a year later and see a completely new path in front of them if something has drastically changed in their life and they have aligned their thoughts and emotions in a new direction. For example, maybe out of the blue the person finally grew tired of the relationship in which they were not being treated well, so they took the initiative and got a divorce. That is a free-will action that they took on their own, and when they did, they changed the path they were on energetically. Now when you read for them a year later, their free-will decision has opened a variety of new paths before them. Their thoughts and emotional energy have shifted and are now exuding new energy that can attract new people and situations into their lives.
If there was a karmic marker in their aura that attracted the last relationship to their life, such as a lesson to be learned about not losing balance in a relationship, you can check to see if this marker is still there or if it has dissolved. If it’s still there, you can remind them of this so that they think about how they lost themselves in the last relationship and how to find balance within themselves first, to avoid repeating this experience in the new relationship. If the marker is gone, congratulate them on having learned what they needed to learn from the previous relationship, and explain how to fill this space in the aura with positive energy and new thoughts of what they would like to experience in their new relationship. This is one of thousands of examples of how you can help someone when reading for them.
Like I said earlier, though, it’s not a perfect science. When you read someone, you are seeing the fields around them and what they are in the process of manifesting through their wants, desires, thoughts, emotions, destiny, and karmic markers. Happily, because of free will, their paths can change at any time. This is great and also challenging, as it means that the data you can see is changing constantly for each person.
When you are reading for a person and you move beyond their energy fields and are looking into the spiritual planes for information to help them, this information is often presented to you in images and brief bits of data that come through quickly. I’ve mentioned that for me it’s like seeing a short movie clip about the person. I don’t get the whole movie, just a minute or so, and then I have to discern what this short movie is trying to explain to me. Some of these are more straightforward than others, and over time you’ll get better and better at reading what they mean. Additionally, the spirit world moves in its own direction and sense of time, which is very different from the earth plane. Some visits over there are clearer than others, and many parts of it are still a mystery to us. So when you gather information from the other side, it’s never quite the same.
As we better understand psychic abilities and more people share what they experience, it will help everyone understand how this process works. Right now, because many people do not understand psychic ability, their litmus test for true psychic ability is knowing everything about everything and everyone in the world, and the readings must be repeatable constantly with no room for error. Psychic or not, we are still human, and as humans we are not perfect. No one can be held to this level of perfection.
For example, in baseball, the best batter in the world does not step up to the plate and hit a home run every single time. That is the equivalent of the standard that a psychic is held up to with a reading.
In the medical field, doctors do not save every patient, nor do they diagnose every patient’s illness correctly every single time. Life and people are complicated. A psychic, like a doctor, sees clues and hints to what is going on with the person and does their best to help in any way possible.
As a person with intuitive ability, the more you work to hone your skills, the better psychic you will become. You learn how to connect with your higher self, with the other side, and with your guides. You find better ways to quiet your mind and open your energy in a clear way. Like any other ability, practice doesn’t really make perfect, but it brings us as close as can be achieved according to our talent and drive in our field. So keep in mind that this is your personal journey and that developing psychic ability is an art more than a science. This means that each person finds and develops their unique style that works best for them. While I can offer guidelines and tips and techniques to try out, as you continue to practice, you’ll find the ways that work best for you. Trust your intuition and let your higher self be your guide, as there is no better instructor for you than your higher self, who knows you better than anyone!
Keep a Notebook and Make Observations
One of the best practices that helped me understand what I was seeing as I was developing my abilities as a psychic was to keep notes on what I was seeing around each person.
When I was young, I saw the aura around each person and found it fascinating. I loved watching the colors, the shapes, and how the aura changed around each person as they said and did different things.
I observed how a person’s aura would be open and relaxed and flowing. As someone came into the room that they did not like, I saw how their aura would pull in around them. It would tighten up and get thick, creating an energy shield around the person.
This person would unconsciously be creating this blockage of energy to literally push the other person away. They were building a wall so that the other person’s energy, comments, and actions would not penetrate them as deeply as they could have if the person’s aura had continued to be open and flowing in a receptive mode.
I would watch another person in a conversation who was unaware of the angry energy pent up in the aura of the person they were speaking with. They did not yet know that angry energy would soon be coming at them from this other person. They would be caught off guard in a conversation that was flowing nicely, and then out of the blue the other person would say something rude and hurtful. I could see how these words wrapped up in the angry energy bubble emitted outward from their body. This bubble would strike the other person and cause great ripples in their aura, like being hit with poison arrows.
Fascinated by these interactions, I began to keep notes on what I saw and how it altered each person’s aura and emotional field. I also kept notes on things I would see appearing in the aura, including shapes, symbols, and diffused colors. As I spent more time around a person, I saw how these shapes eventually manifested in the person’s life. Sometimes the shapes appeared as a physical manifestation; at other times they would manifest in a mental or emotional capacity.
The more I observed and studied what I was seeing, the better I became at reading auras and understanding what each color, shape, and symbol meant.
Take notes. The same work applies in all types of psychic work. The more people you read for, the more experience you’ll gain reading their energy fields from the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual layers.
You’ll find over time that when a certain image, like a pink rose, appears to you during readings, the color and the size and texture of the image will have a specific meaning that applies to whomever it is shone to during a reading. For example, the pink color of the rose will have a specific meaning over red, yellow, or white, and even the state of the rose will give hints to the meaning.
Is it a rosebud, fully closed and yet to have opened? A closed bud means they are holding on to things too tightly and so there is no room for new growth or energy to come in. Or is it a rose in full bloom? A rose in full bloom means the person should be congratulated on accomplishing something that they have done very well.
Both types hold clues to what spirit is trying to tell you in regard to how the person is doing and feeling.
The more you work with your intuition and connect with the higher planes and your guides, the easier these symbols become to interpret, for you will have observed and recognized them through many readings.
Challenges of Being Psychic
As a psychic, sometimes you’ll see the future even when you’re not expecting to do so. You may have experienced this if you are naturally intuitive; out of the blue you might have a vision of something that comes to pass or a vivid dream that later becomes reality.
I’ve had dreams and visions like that my whole life. Some of them are very clear and easy to understand, while others take some work to interpret. I’ve had to access my research with dream interpretation symbols and other information to discern what the dream was trying to tell me.
Sometimes the information that you receive is unpleasant or uncomfortable to see. It can be about a person that you know, or you may see something about an event coming up in the future that you can do little to stop, like an earth change or major storm that will affect a large area of the world. It’s important to understand the scope and variety of things you will see as a psychic along with the realization that there are things beyond your control that will occur in the world.
Another side effect to being psychic that surprises many people when they awaken their abilities is that once they are able to tell others something about their lives that the psychic had no other way of knowing, this changes the way those people feel about the psychic.
Some people are excited by this news and want the psychic to constantly tell them everything about their life. This is not a good thing to agree to, as the person can become overly dependent on this information, wanting readings way too often in order to make every decision in their lives. As a psychic, you’ll need to decide how often you will do a reading for someone so that it doesn’t become a crutch in their life.
On the flip side, as you begin to share your psychic abilities, whether you do readings as part of your work or just share with others what you feel psychically, some people will be scared by this revelation. They may have reactions that truly surprise you, such as wanting to avoid you because they think you are scanning them and reading their thoughts all of the time or because of their religious beliefs, which conflict with the concept of this being a natural ability. Due to their religious beliefs, some people believe that psychic ability is a negative ability caused by evil spirits. You may find that some people will pull away from you when they see that you have psychic ability.
Other times, people reject the existence of your abilities entirely. I’ve spent a good amount of time in this lifetime engaging with scientists and researchers explaining the metaphysical types of energy relationships. When they say they cannot find definitive proof with their eyes, I patiently remind them that absence of evidence by their protocol and eyes is not proof of absence. I ask how many of them are color blind and without fail, a few of them will raise their hands. I then explain, “If we were going by your ‘evidence’ as a color blind person and what you can see, the rest of us would be deemed crazy or liars if we claim to see the color red. Just because your eyes aren’t attuned to see what others can see, that does not mean that it does not exist.” I can only hope this gives them some further thought to consider infinite possibilities.
These are all situations that you’ll need to consider when opening up to your psychic abilities. With any new change that you make, there is always a response from other people in your life. Change of any kind can make some people very uncomfortable. Over time, those who stick around will see that you are still the person they know. All that’s changed is that you developed some new tools to tap into your intuition to help yourself and, in many cases, others.