Month: May 2017

If you ask most psychics or intuitive readers, religious or spiritual people what is the one ritual they practice on a regular basis, you are likely to hear meditation. Or, prayer.  Or “sitting still and being quiet.” Which is essentially what meditation is.   So many people do it and yet so many more are skeptical.  Because most of us live our lives in a state of constant busy, it’s hard to sit still and be quiet.   We have too many things to do. Too many places to be (all at the same time).  And too little time to get it all done.

Yet one of the easiest ways to tune into your own intuition and to develop your own psychic and intuitive skills (which I believe we all have) is to sit still and  be quiet…and to listen.  They say if prayer is asking for help, then it’s meditation when we listen for the answer.   But we have to be quiet.

Meditation has endless methods.  Different sitting positions, hand positions (mudras), ways to breathe, things to focus on (the flame of a candle, for example). Outside, inside, while engaged in movement (as with walking) or while being still.  All of those approaches have one thing in common: being quiet.

So let’s start there. Being quiet. Seems simple enough.  Go into a room. Close the door. Make sure everything is turned off. Put your phone down (mute it).  Sit down. Okay. So far, so good….

…now stay just like that for two (2) minutes.  Two full minutes. If you have to set the alarm on your phone, set it, then turn it over so you won’t be tempted to look at the clock ticking down. Two minutes. Start with that. Eyes open or closed.  Quiet.  If you think of something, think it and then put it off to the side. Imagine your thoughts going into gift boxes.  Boxes for thoughts about work. Boxes for thoughts about your family or the kids. Boxes for thoughts about errands. Boxes for worries about money. Put it in a box, and put the lid on and put it away.

This is how you listen. You just be quiet.  You don’t even have to strain to pay attention. You’re just being quiet.  Start with two (2) minutes every other day. Then two minutes every day. Then extend it to  three minutes.  And so on.  There’s lots of variations on this “be quiet” theme, too.  If you normally listen to the radio or a podcast on your way to work, don’t.   If you normally walk to lunch while looking at your phone, put the phone away. Tuck it in your pocket or in your purse so you aren’t tempted to look at it.  If you have the TV on while you make dinner, turn it off.  Let your thoughts flow. Let your mind wander.  Allow yourself to be a little more engaged with what you’re doing and not distracted by chatter and noise.

Really? This is how you develop your own intuition and your own psychic skills? Yep. This is how you start.  You just have to get quiet.  You can take it a step further and write down what you thought about when you were quiet after your two minutes session is done.   At first it might be things like, “dinner tonight, we need milk for cereal in the morning, I need to deposit that check this week, these jeans feel so tight….no more chocolate the rest of the week.”  But gradually you’ll be writing down less and less.  And what you do write down might amaze you.  Answers to questions, solutions to problems, tiny beacons of light in the darkness.  You’re on your way.

Be open to what calls you…

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Let’s say you’ve always had an interest in metaphysical things.  You’ve been looking up your horoscope every morning before work or school. You make  a point to go outside and look up when there’s a full moon. You feel drawn to certain stones in jewelry, not just diamonds. You drink chamomile tea to help you sleep and drink peppermint tea if your stomach feels upset. Maybe you had a dream once that ended up happening in real life a few days later.

There are countless branches and leaves to the tree of metaphysical and spiritual studies.  It might be helpful to visualize a tree.  With a  lot of big branches. And off those big branches are smaller branches. And on those, there are leaves.  Some of the bigger branches can be divination, astrology, ghosts, magick. Let’s just stop there. It will be a small tree.

Off the branch of divination, there can be smaller branches of tarot cards, oracle cards, pendulums, scrying, palm reading, tea leaf reading, runes.  And the leaves of those branches can be the hundreds of different tarot and oracle decks, the endless number of stones used for pendulums, scrying with crystals or with water or with fire, on and on.

If the other big branch is magick, some of the smaller branches can be candle magick, herbal magick, crystal/stone magick, using saints and/or angels in magick, on and on.

You get the idea. There are countless areas of study and practice. Some will appeal to you, some won’t.  If you don’t know already which areas you are interested in, reading and learning will help you find it. Certain things are going to resonate with you. Some things are not.  I also encourage you to listen to Podcasts (many are free on iTunes) and Youtube videos. You can learn so much just by listening to other people talk about their experiences or share their knowledge and wisdom.  Read books, blogs, articles…anything you can get your hands on. And don’t ever be afraid to ask questions. That’s one of the best ways you learn.  Don’t worry about looking dumb or sounding stupid. I know from my perspective, I am always willing to answer questions when somebody has a genuine interest.

So this first post isn’t about any particular thing exactly. Just to illustrate how many things will be discussed.

Be open to what calls you…

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