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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objects. They were unable, however, to communicate these images in a practical and grounded way until they gained experience and learnt how to communicate their impressions.
Improving Your Psychometric Skills
The key to improving your psychometric skills is to practise on a regular basis. First choose a like-minded friend to work with you on this development. If possible, work from your home. Choose a room where you will not be disturbed, preferably a room with no television or telephone.
Get your friend to choose an object whose origin you are unaware of. Hold the object in the palm of your hand, move it around and touch all the way around the object until you begin to sense an energy or a feeling come over you. Start to talk to them about what you see or feel when you begin to understand what you are picking up and are able to put it in a coherent order.
The impressions that you can pick up from psychometry are limitless. Always structure and keep what you see as practical as possible so the person who you are reading for understands what you are telling them. You may see images that appear not to have any physical relevance, such as an animal or a picture of a sunset or a raging fire. These images could symbolize the person’s emotional or spiritual life and indicate an interpretation rather than a prediction.
1 THE OWNER
Talk about the character of the object’s owner, how you see them. Just guess and go with your instinct. Are they tall, small, male, female, old or young? The colour of their hair, eyes and any physical disabilities, etc.
2 THE PAST
Next focus on their past – childhood, relationships, family, siblings, and any births or deaths that have ocurred in the family.
3 LIFE HISTORY
Gradually move forward in time and pick up their current profession, emotional relationships, marriages, children, etc.
4 THE PRESENT
Keep going until you reach the present and then describe events that have recently happened, the car they drive, their home, their profession and family life.
Note: when you open up your sensitivity, you must then close down afterwards (see Psychic Protection, pages 92–105).
Images that come through from the psychic realms have their own linear level so it requires a grounded and practical mind to discern all the symbols and images. This takes the most practice, as you need to know when you are actually picking information up or when it is your imagination interpreting something else.
Later, when you learn about the development of other psychic gifts, such as mediumship and clairvoyance, you will understand the importance of getting your impressions into a workable order. The work you do now is the cornerstone of the clear, concise and evidential clairvoyance that marks a good psychic. Students who come to my psychic awareness workshops work hard at developing their psychometric skills so after a few months of laborious practice they are able to move on naturally to reading auras and communicating with the spirit world.
Once you have practised psychometry a few times with familiar people try using it with someone you do not know – this will really test your skill.
Dreaming
The ancient Egyptians and Greeks believed that dreams were messages from the Gods that revealed future events. In many early cultures the term ‘incubation’ meant seeking information by way of dreams. It was believed that transmitted material from the spirit world was passed into a channel for the recipient to pick up while they were dreaming. However, as this material is incorporated into the dream, the dreamer must recognize it as such and decipher it before waking.
Dreams contain prophecies and are an important key to self-knowledge. Known as the gateway to psychic powers, dreams are our means of bringing spiritual information and intuition from our higher self into our consciousness. We dream every night and, whether we remember them or not, our dreams reveal our innermost desires. They can also be used to solve difficult problems. The dream state allows the brain to interpret the events of the day: it digests the information we have received and, free from the constraints of our conscious mind, can solve issues, worries and fears and, occasionally, tell us about the future. Nightmares in particular provide important clues about fears and problems and recalling them, however scary, can help release these emotions.
Thoughts, ideas, worries, hopes and fears are all represented by symbols, metaphors and images within our dreams. The subconscious mind draws from our experiences and writes them into a mini play. Most of us are emotionally at the mercy of our worries and troubles, but if we use dreams properly we can, with a little effort, become the master of ourselves and learn how to connect with our psychic powers.
Using Dreams as a Psychic Connection
To become more aware of your dreams, try setting your alarm clock slightly earlier than usual. With luck, you will interrupt a dream that has something to say about you, or your future – even offer a solution to a problem that you may be experiencing.
Dreams can be excellent problem solvers. Write down your problem in the form of a question. Then, just before you go to sleep, put it under your pillow and affirm in your head what you have written down. Try to see the question in a picture form rather than in words. Pray to your inner self to help find a solution – once you have set the programme running, your dreams should do the rest. If you find that you get no answer the first night, affirm your question over seven nights and then check if you have dreamt the answer. Many people find that the dream doesn’t mean anything until something happens in their day to remind them of the dream – only then does the answer come.
Keeping a Dream Diary
Most dreams are forgotten in 10 minutes, so to remember them just run through the dream in your mind before you get up, then write it down straight away. Don’t worry about how you write it: sometimes you may want to draw what you saw – it is not an essay, it is a diary to help you interpret messages from your subconscious. Even if you didn’t dream, write down the first thoughts you had as this may trigger recall.
List everything, no matter how unimportant it may seem. Note the day and time and divide the paper into two – in one column write down or draw your dream, and in the other write your interpretation. The key is how you interpret your dreams and the symbolism within them. For instance, once you have written the dream down, pay attention not just to how you felt about the dream, but to the way you describe it, the references you make, the turns of phrase, and any memories it may trigger – they are all clues to the answer your dream is providing. You will get flashbacks to your dream throughout the day, note these as some will help solve problems or missing links.
If you work at unravelling your own dream symbols, you will eventually find that the images speak for themselves. In the majority of dream interpretation books you will find that there are links to typical emotional reactions. For example, teeth falling out in a dream indicates insecurity and in some books means that a part of your self is dying. Water relates to emotions, fire to anger or passion, and so on. Most dreams don’t fit neatly into categories – they are your own unique experience – but a good dream analysis book and some interesting dream imagery will keep you fascinated for a long time and will help in your personal psychic development.
Spirit Communication
Many psychics believe that they are guided by personalities in spirit who are able to offer valuable information and support through clairaudience, clairvoyance, clairsentience and channelling. Some believe that their guides are people who were once physically alive and who now inhabit a higher spiritual dimension. In some cases, their guides may be known; relatives, friends or former partners who continue to offer guidance to the people they love beyond the limits of their physical mortality. Others, subscribing to a belief in reincarnation, claim that in