Do It Yourself Psychic Power: Practical Tools and Techniques for Awakening Your Natural Gifts using Clairvoyance, Spirit Guides, Chakra Healing, Space Clearing and Aura Reading. Natalia O’Sullivan
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meditation is for the more advanced student.
• Sit in your meditation position, relax and focus on your breathing – do not try to control it, simply observe it.
• Now take your attention to the third eye between your eyebrows. Close your eyes and focus on the third eye centre. Just as you observed your breath, do the same with your mind. Do not follow any thoughts that come into your mind, simply watch them and let them go by. If you find that you have slipped and fallen into a stream of thinking, bring yourself back to the third eye centre and start again.
Through meditation, thoughts can turn into visions. Some may be beautiful and others ugly. Treat them all with the same detachment. Observe them and let them go. Many will be of a psychic nature – such as visions, prophecies or glimpses of things happening in other places – but, for the time being, let these go also. Focus on being an unattached observer.
By separating yourself from your thinking, you attune yourself with what mystics call the ‘overself’, our higher consciousness. This extends into the spirit world and beyond. You may experience being the watcher of yourself in your day-to-day life, becoming closer to the realization of the true nature of the self within your personality.
Meditation exercises are a starting point for the greater inner awareness essential to a healthy psychic connection. By opening the third eye centre you have taken the first serious steps to true clairvoyance. But remember – it takes a lot of patience and regular practice to open yourself to your psychic gifts. (For in-depth books on meditation see Resources section, page 180).
Techniques for Tuning into and Focusing your Psychic Vision
When we have learnt how to calm mind and body, we need to learn how to tune in and listen to our inner voice. We begin this process by connecting with our personal sacredness – through spending time in nature.
When I first learnt how to meditate, my psychic development teacher insisted that I spent time in nature, listening to and feeling the seasons, the birdsong – even watching the clouds go by. It was the first time as an adult that I had been given permission to just be still. This was alien to me at first, but I soon realized the benefits. My psychic technique improved considerably – I learnt how to be still so it became easier to tune in and listen to Spirit.
Meditating in Nature
Meditation and connecting with your inner space is not just about sitting in quiet concentration, central as this is to meditation practice. It is also about a range of active techniques that enhance the powers of mind control. These powers are used not only while sitting in meditation but also in our day-to-day lives and even while we dream. Meditation thus touches most aspects of human experience, rendering them potentially richer, more profound and more meaningful.
Learning to tune into the energy outside yourself is not difficult; the energy sources are all around us in nature and nature speaks to us at all times, it’s just that we seldom listen.
Nature Meditation
If you listen to the sound of nature – if you tap into the earth’s powerful energy – you will hear messages that have the power to uplift and transform you. Try these simple methods of tuning into the earth. When done mindfully, these exercises will resonate at a deeper level.
• Watch the clouds while lying on the ground
• Watch a sunset and sunrise and be inspired
• As night falls catch the first star
• Enjoy a summer evening in your garden watching the sun set and the moon rise
• Sit alone in a tree and feel the wind brush across your face
• Stand alone on a hill top
• Sit on the sea shore or by a lake and watch the water
The list is endless, but when was the last time that you enjoyed being in nature? It is an invaluable way of connecting with your sense of wholeness and being restored by the power within the earth.
‘Wherever I am in the world I try to connect at the same time each day to meditate and open my spirit to the divine. I ask for help and offer prayers for world issues and my family. On some days I conduct a ritual, I celebrate an event in my life or connect with God for healing and upliftment.’ Susan, ballet dancer and teacher
Morning Connection Meditation
It is important to start every day by connecting with a deeper aspect of your self and the best way to do this is by having a morning ritual. This puts you in harmony with your surroundings and prepares you to face everyone you meet during your day with equanimity. Try it for a week and watch the difference in your confidence and energy levels
Morning Ritual
To conduct your ritual, ideally you should get up an hour earlier to give yourself a clear period of connecting time each day. The more you practise the less time it takes – my ritual now takes 20–30 minutes.
1 As you emerge from your night’s sleep catch some of the inspiration from your sleep. You can do this by saying a morning prayer to your god, guides and spirit deities.
2 Warm up your body by taking a hot drink (whatever your favourite morning drink is – mine is hot water and lemon juice).
3 Do a few minutes of physical exercise – either yoga (sun salutation is ideal), tai chi, qi gong or even a few aerobic stretches (whatever your favourite exercise is) – to encourage your body to loosen up, realign your spine, stimulate your internal organs, balance your energy and clear your mind.
4 Now begin your meditation exercises.
5 Finish with a prayer to your spirit guides and deities for peace and protection – or whatever the day requires. I like to light a candle at my altar and read a few lines from a spiritually inspiring book to get me in the mood for the day. I sometimes choose an oracle or tarot card to show me how the day will flow; at other times it will be the magical little angel cards to get me in a higher frame of mind. I leave the cards on my altar to give their energy to my day.
6 I complete the ritual by calling Spirit for protection, and wrap up in a psychic cloak to protect my aura (see page 97).
• Warning: You will get good days and terrible ones but you should do the morning ritual every day regardless, unless you are ill.
Clearing Your Energy
At the end of each day spend 10 minutes clearing your energy and your mind. One of the simplest ways to do this is to have a candle-lit bath with uplifting and calming aromatherapy oils such as chamomile, rose, lavender or geranium. Other recommended practices for cleansing your energy include breathing exercises, smudging your aura with a sage stick, yoga, tai chi, qi gong exercises and chakra-clearing exercises (see pages 62–66).
Grounding Meditation
This meditation is a deeper alternative to the daily morning ritual, as it connects your mind, body and spirit to the earth. This aim is to ground your spiritual energies and open your mind both to a wider vision for your day and to receive creative inspiration. I find that working with nature gives me a lot of creative and spiritual power.
Choose a tall, ancient tree in a field or copse as the focal point for this meditation.
1 Start by sitting or standing with an erect spine against the tree trunk and imagine your spine and the tree melding into one energy. This is a meeting with tree power and earth energy.
2 Through the roots of the tree – which are linked to the nervous system within our feet – the power of the earth can be drawn up into the spine. As the power rises it is drawn up inside us to touch the heavens, connecting