Even though I haven’t been to a baseball game since I was a little girl, living in Philadelphia and watching the Phillies do their thing on the diamond for the past two years has rekindled my interest in the game. So I’ve really been into the World Series battle between the New York Yankees and the Phillies. (Go Phils!)

On Monday the Phillies absolutely, positively HAD to beat the Yankees, or the Yankees would win the Series. The Phillies were ahead from the first inning, but I was leery. The Yankees are a no-nonsense team, and I knew they could snatch the turf from under the Phillies feet in the blink of an eye.

That kind of tension – watching an intense deal breaker game – makes me both nervous and agitated. So agitated in fact, that I could hardly watch the game without feeling all knotted up in my gut.

By the third inning, I tuned in psychically and asked, “Who’s going to win tonight?” I mentally got the score 6-8. I knew that the Phillies would win, and I turned the channel to Home and Garden Television, where the only source of angst is trying to guess which house they’re going to choose on House Hunters.

I can’t remember what inning I tuned back in, but the Yankees had just gotten a man on base. At that time I psychically felt the shift that this was where the Yankees would start moving up. Sure enough they did – but not enough to beat the Phillies. The final score was indeed 6-8.

Was I shocked? Yeah I was!

Just because I use my psychic ability on a daily basis doesn’t mean I don’t get tickled by my own ability. On the contrary, I’m amazed on a daily basis. That’s what makes this work so gratifying. It’s literally incredible.

But it’s not so incredible that it’s impossible for anyone to do. I say this all the time. Psychic ability isn’t some exclusive skill reserved for certain people. Although some people are better at using and trusting it than others, it is available to ALL of us.

The more you choose to become intuitively aware, the more you’re able to distinguish intuitive insights from regular thoughts. And that includes psychic predictions.

What Does a Future Prediction Feel Like?

Contrary to what the Hollywood producers put on the big screen, you don’t need a crystal ball to predict the future.

For me, a future prediction feels like a ‘slightly’ light filled sureness. There’s no thinking in between the question and what I perceive as the prediction. The question is asked, and snap… the answer is there.

My mind feels like a night light has been turned on. What I see isn’t bright. It’s ever so slightly illuminated.

But it feels sure. It feels like a puzzle piece sliding into place. Even if I attempt to rethink what I see or put in another choice, the other choice feels dull and out of place. I feel like the other choice doesn’t even belong in my mind at that time.

Now in the case of the Phillies-Yankees game you might be thinking that I just wanted the Phillies to win because I live in Philadelphia. Sure I have a hometown interest in the game. But I’m actually from the Bronx (hometown of the Yanks), and while I love Philly, I LOOOOOOVE New York. So I have a vested interest either way.

My point is that you can have a stake in the turnout of your prediction and still be right. It’s all a matter of understanding how your prediction process works.

How Can You Predict More Accurately?

1) Document your predictions. I ask a single question a day and then I write down my prediction in my journal. I also write down exactly how my body and mind feels as I come up with the prediction. This is important. Increasing your predictive ability is all about understanding how your body and mind communicates with you.

2) Watch for your personal signs. As you begin to journal your experiences, you’ll notice these body/mind signs popping up in your everyday life without you asking a question. For instance, I’ll get that mental illumination whenever I see a book that I need to buy. I may not have even looked through the book, but if I get that light in my mind, I know that it’s meant for me to have.

You’ll get these signs randomly as a confirmation that they do in fact have value. That’s why it’s vital for you to initially write them down. Recording them helps you see them at work in your everyday life.

3) Don’t ever second guess your ability. It’s easy to feel like you’re making it all up if one of your predictions turns out to be wrong.

But I can tell you right now that you are going to be wrong sometimes. And being wrong doesn’t mean that your ability is poop. It only means that free will is absolutely working.

When you make a prediction, that prediction is based on the current path that all parties involved are on. If someone or something on that path should deviate from the original direction, your prediction may become null and void. And you shouldn’t stress about that. We are having a human experience and failure is inevitable – just ask the richest people in the world.

“My wife died a few months ago and I was wondering – can you connect with her?”

I’ve never considered myself a medium, in the sense that I could connect with the deceased friends and relatives of my clients, on demand. But here I was – doing a reading – with this heartbreaking question resting on my lap.

I quieted my thoughts for at least a minute. I thought I would start getting nervous. But somehow for that minute I managed to stay in a calm state-of-mind.

Slowly the images began to come through. And then that damaging thought occurred…

What if I’m wrong?

With such a delicate situation underfoot I hesitated a bit to relay what I was seeing. What if the images I was getting were off? Do I really want to launch into a scenario and be terribly mistaken, possibly hurting this man even more?

Before I could contemplate any longer I started to speak. I began describing the woman that I saw. My leg started to tingle, and I inquired why.

Turns out that I had indeed connected with his deceased wife. She apparently had a limp, hence my tingling leg.

When I got off the telephone with him I was both excited and shocked. Excited because I’d just done a “John Edwards” move. And shocked because the images that came through were so plain and matter-of-factly.

I always thought when I connected with the deceased it would be some kind of glitzy inner production. You know like some kind of flash you see on shows like Ghost Whisperer.

But it wasn’t ANYTHING like that.

And that’s why TRUST is such a big deal for us.

Psychic thoughts are almost like chameleons. They’ll blend in with whatever’s going on in your mind – to the point that sometimes you’ll barely recognize them.

For example, while I’m giving a reading I might have a passing thought about a conversation I had with a friend earlier in the week. I used to ignore those fleeting thoughts. After all, what does my private conversation have to do with my client?

I quickly realized that that’s the way your psychic mind works.

If a conversation I previously had pops up out of nowhere during a reading, the basic message of that conversation almost always applies to the person I’m reading for.

It’s just a matter of trusting what you see, hear or feel when you’re in that psychic state-of-mind.

And it’s actually a lot easier than it sounds.

You simply have to be open to trusting what you see, feel or hear. And if you’re doing a reading for somebody else, you have to be trusting enough to relay those thoughts.

So if you were looking for the whiz-bang method, there is none. There’s only TRUST.

It’s easy for most of us to feel intuitive and spiritually connected right after we’ve meditated.

The not-so-easy part comes when you’re trying to get into that mode when you’re at work, dealing with a significant other, or when you’re in the midst of the proverbial “shit hitting the fan.”

In fact, that’s the part that stunted my intuitive growth for many, many years. I couldn’t figure out how to match the inner intuitive me with the outer worldly me, at the same time.

It’s hard. And for me, the two halves didn’t really become a whole until I started giving intuitive readings.

When you sit down to give a reading you have to be “on” in front of somebody. So you’re forced to communicate from an intuitive vantage point. You have to be able to think it/feel it/see it/hear it (get the insight), speak the information you get, AND often try to interpret it as best as you can.

It’s like buying some CD’s to learn Italian, and then being shuttled to Rome to practice what you’ve learned. Although you probably know most of what to say, you’re going to feel nervous whenever you have to communicate.

But you also know that the more you force yourself to speak Italian, the better your pronunciation becomes, and the better you’ll be able to understand the natives.

I guess that’s why the act of giving readings – even just practicing on friends and family – helped me to become more intuitive in my everyday life. I was forced to speak the “language,” ultimately helping my fluency levels increase.

Now I’m not saying that you should run out and start giving readings. I mean if that’s your calling, then by all means do it. But if not, there’s a more direct path you can take.

1) When you wake up in the morning, acknowledge to the Universe that you’re intuitively doing or saying the right thing at the right time.
I’m not an affirmation practitioner, but I do believe that habitual repetition of action is golden. Even if you’re repeating the same thing once a day instead of 50 times a day.

As soon as the alarm sounds off at 4am, I smile a great big smile.

I say the same prayer of thanks every morning. I greet my guides and we exchange pleasantries.

I do this every, single morning without fail. It seriously helps to establish my mood for the day. And my philosophy is that you start things the way you want to finish them.

2) Pull a cue card.
A friend of mine shuffles her tarot deck and pulls a single card every morning. She uses that card as a point of awareness for the day. When a tricky situation presents itself, she thinks back to the significance of the card.

I started off pulling a card-a-day, but now I’m a bit more esoteric in my approach. As I’m performing my morning duties I allow an object to speak to me. Sometimes it’s a book. Sometimes I’ll notice that the clock times are different. Maybe it’s just an emotion that comes over me.

Either way, when I see or feel the object I instinctively know that it’s my cue card for the day.

If I’ve got an ongoing situation, I attempt to interpret the significance of that object. Otherwise I just remember it. Its purpose will normally come into play sometime during course of the day.

3) Listen and think with your whole body.
When I’m getting ready to give a reading over the telephone, I’m listening with much more than my left ear. I listen with my entire body.

And though it might sound strange, I can feel the energetic vibrations within the person’s voice. It will travel right through my body like a mellow shock of electricity.

I noticed that when I allow my whole body to absorb the sound, I get a much clearer reading. And yes… it can work for you too.

Take a few moments right now to imagine a white energy field circling your entire body. Keep it close to your physical body and imagine that it’s pulsating like a heartbeat. That’s your aura.

Listening with your aura is a good thing because your aura always surrounds you. So whether your speaking to someone face-to-face, over the telephone, or even online, you can take a few minutes to feel the situation out with your aura.

With daily practice you’ll notice how your aura changes depending on the situation. Sometimes when I’m thinking about doing something I get a steady humming feeling. For me, that’s a positive sign. Other times it’s like a rolling wave of energy. And sometimes there’s absolutely nothing.

Nothing is important too, so don’t try to force a feeling if you’re not feeling anything.

The thing about listening with your body is that you have to learn how to interpret the feelings that you’re getting. Because a hum might be positive for me, and a big NO for somebody else.

So initially you’re also going to go with your first impression (as far as what you should do). And you’re going to keep track of how your decision panned out. Was it good or bad?

4) Be consistent.
Perform these steps on a daily basis and you’ll begin to notice that your intuition is actually helping you in your everyday life.