Listen, I’m not going to beat around the bush or sugarcoat anything here. The truth is the truth and you oughta know it so that you don’t get persuaded to climb Mount Everest, or anything like that.

The truth about developing your psychic ability is that it’s not hard. Yes, that’s right…NOT hard. Some might even say downright easy. Would I? Why yes – I think I would say that!

It’s as easy as having a thought. Can you have a thought? Great, then you’re 99% of the way closer to being psychic. And I don’t need a crystal ball to tell you that. Psychic development is a thinking person’s profession, and if you can tell me what’s mulling around in that beautiful mind, then you’re in the club.

So why does it appear that you can’t get a psychic impression to save your life? Or that you can only get a psychic impression to save your life?

Easy! (The ultimate catch-22)

There’s nothing unusual or strange about knowing or sensing things.

I mean we’re all connected by way of spirit DNA. We’re all clones of the light. Different outer coverings, but the same, chewy loving energy force inside. There’s no way that you cannot be psychic. Feel me?

Yet it’s that ease that actually makes people seriously UNeasy about trusting their psychic abilities.

Thoughts are running through your head all the time. They’re going through your mind far more than they’re not going through your mind. You go to sleep and you’re still thinking. You go to meditate, and you can’t stop thinking about that callous on the bottom of your foot, or the mess you’ve gotta clean up in the bathroom.

So when a psychic impression pops in there, and it looks like every other thought, you don’t trust that it’s a psychic impression.

I liken psychic impressions to a mouse in your house. You think it’s in there because you kind of saw something out the corner of your eye. But you’re not… quite… sure. And the skeptic in you starts thinking,“Naaah. It was nothing.”

The Journey Begins With One Simple Step

If you want to become a better psychic then there’s one skill you must master.

Trust.

Gosh, just one 5 letter word. And it seems harder to do than lying still for a colonoscopy – (without the relaxation meds).

I can assure you that there’s not a professional psychic alive who doesn’t struggle with trusting what they get. Granted it gets easier to trust as time goes on. But a periodic twinge of, “Is that right?” creeps in when you least expect it.

So how do you trust a thought to be a psychic thought when it looks like a regular thought? How do you know when you’re not just making stuff up?

Well I’m going to give you a simple technique that works for me.

“Give Me What I Don’t Have”

When I’m doing a reading I tend to ask my spirit guides to supply me with visual messages. I do this because I don’t normally think in pictures. So the visual imagery tends to help me separate my own thoughts from genuine psychic impressions.

On the other hand if you’re a visual thinker, you may ask to hear your messages, instead of getting mental imagery. In this case you might get a dialogue going on in your mind – not necessarily that you’ll hear any weird voices. It just might be like a wordy story playing out.

The point of this request is that you redirect your psychic ability to a skill that’s less prevalent in your life. This way when you do receive a psychic message, you’re able to discern it more accurately, thus building your trust muscle.

Try it out on a few friends. And don’t be surprised if you notice any differences in the way the impressions are given to you. Just accept them and relay whatever new differences you experience.

The most important lesson I learned from this past week (which was actually more than a week since the last time I blogged about this topic) was that if you have a psychic message, you should react to it.

Case in point, I was running the bath for my daughter recently. I noticed an almost empty bottle of tea tree oil castille soap on the shelf, and a psychic flash prompted me to tell my daughter not to mess with the bottle.

I love this particular brand of soap. But my UPS delivery wouldn’t be in for another couple of days. So I was trying to salvage the little bit I had left.

Even though I had this clear message to say something to my daughter, I didn’t. And you know what happened? She called me into the bathroom to show me that she had poured the rest of the soap into the bathtub, and she was now using the bottle as a water spray.

I was partially amazed and partially pissed off that I hadn’t said anything to her. But moreso amazed because she NEVER messes with the castille soap. Ever!

The mitten that should’ve never been lost

On Christmas Eve my neighbor took my daughter present shopping for me.

Before they left I felt a psychic push to hook my daughter’s mittens to her coat. In my mind I saw her coming home with only one mitten.

But once again I didn’t follow through. Mainly because (once again) my daughter has never lost a single mitten in her life. Before she goes out to play, she makes sure she always has her scarf, hat and mittens on. She just doesn’t like being cold. So I never felt like I needed to hook her mittens to the coat.

Darn it… I should’ve acted on my impression! As soon as I went looking for the mitten, she admitted that she’d lost one at the store. But then again, I knew that would happen.

The corner that should’ve never been turned

Every night before I go to bed I take my trash and recycables to the incinerator room, which is around a rather longish corner on my floor.

Because I’m walking around that corner with my pajama’s on, I normally check in psychically to make sure that I don’t run into any of my neighbors. Especially because the incinerator room is in the same vicinity of the elevators.

So this one particular night I’m preparing to take the trash out, when I get a clear “don’t go right now” message.

I paused for a second, and checked in again. The second time I checked in I got nothing. So I thought it was my imagination.

I start sprinting down the hallway and around the first corner. Just as I get to the second corner where the elevators are, an elevator door opens, and out pop 6 tipsy people. One of whom insisted on chatting with me, while I’m standing there with pajamas on and rollers in my hair. I was so embarrassed!

But then again, I knew that would happen too.

If you’re going to use your psychic skills, don’t be shocked

The problem a lot of people have is that they make an active decision to be more intuitive, and then they end up not reacting to the messages that come through.

If that’s you, I want you to take one day to act as if all of your psychic impressions are completely valid. If you get a mental flash that’s alerting you to a potential situation, react as if you just heard that message from a real person. Don’t ignore it.

This will do two things:

1. You’ll learn to better tell the difference between your intuition and your imagination.
2. You’ll re-affirm your psychic ability, which will make that ability even stronger.

So just try it for one day. I’m sure you’ll be amazed.

Over the past week I’ve been making a concerned effort to keep my psychic antennae up during waking hours.

That’s a big deal for me.

You see I’m a loner. I enjoy company of the opposite sex, as well as friends and family, from time to time. But I love my quiet time even more.

A fantasy vacation for me would entail sitting in my house for a week, without having to answer the telephone or watch television.

That’s not to say that I don’t have a full and productive life. I mean if you met me in person you’d have absolutely no idea that I was a closet hermit. I don’t come across as a shy, wallflower type. Even so, at the end of the day I just really appreciate my quiet time.

And that’s precisely why an always-on psychic antennae seemed like a big deal in my reality. It thought it would take away that aloneness, and put me in the center of what would seem like a never ending storm of mental activity.

But that’s not what happened

Psychic or intuitive impressions aren’t big and clunky. They don’t normally come knocking you over the head, unless you’re in a dangerous situation.

So despite my conscious decision to leave that antennae up, I found that my intuitive thoughts flowed seamlessly with my regular thoughts. Though this time, they came with a regularity that I’d never experienced before.

For example…

Visions of upchucking dancing in my head

On Tuesday evening I had a vision of my daughter throwing up in the bed. It just came to me as I was doing some work on the computer. But since my daughter wasn’t sick, I just considered it to be a passing thought.

Even still, I kept thinking how awful that would be since she sleeps in a loft bed (which is like the top part of a bunk bed), and that bed doesn’t have a mattress cover. So basically if it did happen, all that yuckiness would seep through the sheets, to the mattress – causing one helluva stinky mess.

I made a brief mental note to check out some mattress covers on Amazon, and then I forgot about it.

The following night there was a holiday party in my building. My daughter ate shrimp and bread and God knows what else. Then we went to my neighbors house for tea and ginger snaps. My neighbor also gave her 2 or 3 small candy canes.

We went home, and I put my little Pac Man to bed. (Perhaps you see where I’m going with this!)

Around an hour later I heard a noise. Wait… it sounded like something SPLATTERING!

I rushed over to my daughters bed and sure enough, she was making my upchuck vision come true.

The coupon story

On Wednesday I was picking up some Christmas gifts from Macy’s. Along the way there’s an art supply store called Dick Blick’s that my daughter loves to shop at.

I was walking past Blick’s, when I decided to cross the street and go in to buy some stocking stuffers. But as I was about to cross the street a car blocked me. At the same time I thought about a Barnes and Noble coupon I’d gotten a week earlier.

I received the Barnes and Noble coupon for 40% off kids calendars a day after I’d just purchased a Hello Kitty calendar for my daughter. So when the car blocked me, and the thought of the Barnes and Noble coupon passed through my mind, I took it as a sign that I shouldn’t shop at Blick’s that day. A coupon was probably coming.

Sure enough, the following day I got an e-mail from Blick’s for 40% off any non-sale item.

Woohoo! That time I got the message and I understood it.

Go ahead and read the sales letter

And then on Friday I had a consultation with a client (for my writing business).

The client had sent me an e-mail a week earlier detailing the issues he wanted to discuss. In that original e-mail he said he wanted me to take a look at a sales letter he’d written, and give him some feedback on it.

A few days after that first e-mail, he sent me another one saying that he wanted to discuss other things. Basically he didn’t want to go over the sales letter.

But the morning of the consultation I had a vision of him asking about the sales letter. So I briefly read through it.

And just as I saw it, he DID end up asking about the sales letter. In fact, it was the first thing he inquired about.

An affirmation to just listen

After reading through my journal I saw there were far more clear, psychic impressions this week than those times when I didn’t have my antennae ‘on’ all the time.

I found that to be interesting.

All this time I assumed that if I left my antennae on, I’d be bombarded with random thoughts flying through the air. For me, that hasn’t been the case. If anything, I’m getting far more helpful information now than I normally get on a day-to-day basis.

Now mind you, this has nothing to do with giving other people readings.

Even though I’m accurate when giving other people readings, I sometimes find that I’m ignoring the psychic signs in my own life. So this past week has really been an eye opener in that department.

And it’s a reminder to you… if you make a choice to listen, you will hear. If you decide you want to see, then see you will. But you have to make that decision. It doesn’t come without actively deciding that you want it.

“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.