About Psychic Ability
by Ronnee Ruselle
Psychic ability is a talent. You may not see it, but you can feel it, enjoy it and use it. It is the same as every other talent that a person may have such as the ability to play or write music, paint, play a sport well, run fast - anything at all. Our talents come from a portion of the brain working in connection with our senses and our body perhaps just a little better than for other areas of our brain and this allows us to excel in a particular area.
When you are exercising your use and interpretation of energy, you use one of your senses - correctly named the 'sixth' sense because just as your brain gathers information through your other senses of touch, sight, feel, taste and hearing, it also gathers information through your 'energy'. Nobody can question the fact that we have energy - it's what makes us move.
With psychic ability, your senses recognize energy. Your brain is able to take information from that energy and then translate it into images, words, thoughts, feelings etc that you may understand.
Psychic ability is the recognition and the use of energy. Any association with other things is up to the individual, but psychic ability in itself is just an ability and nothing more. I've heard many psychics say that they no longer like the word 'psychic' because it has negative connotations, but it doesn't. It is simply a word to describe precisely the type of ability or function that a person is using when they work with their energy. The word is simply a word. Rather than pushing the word aside, I would suggest that psychics work hard to ensure that the use of their talent is ethical and genuine thereby returning some credibility to the term. Psychic ability itself does not have a positive or a negative, it does not have a religion, it does not have an opinion. It is something that we can use to make our life easier and to understand our purpose for being. Just like a muscle, if you use your ability, it will get stronger.
I once believed that everyone has psychic ability to one degree or another and only needed to develop it to use it. I now believe that a lot of people are blocked off to it thereby being unable to feel it. They believe they have no psychic ability because they can't feel it, but in most cases, people only need to recognize their abilities or accept that they may have them in order to see them. People still use their abilities even if it's just a little bit. I haven't met anybody yet who does not have some psychic ability and use them even if it's just following their gut instinct.
Once you do begin to recognize it and become familiar with it, then you can begin to use it deliberately rather than instinctively. The key to working with your psychic ability is getting to know your energy. Like with any learning, you will require patience. Be aware of what happens around you and ask questions in your head. See what answers come to you and over time you'll get to know how your energy works and your psychic ability.
Practice and in time you'll be able to gauge what your talents are and how they work. Many people think that psychic abilities all use vision. This is not the case. There are many psychic abilities and each one of them is equally useful and appropriate for the lifetime you're living so it's possible to have strong talents in one lifetime and hardly any in another. We bring with us what we need and what is most appropriate to our learning in each lifetime. Of course, we help others as well so we'll bring with us what talents we'll need in order to do that as well.
Following is a list of talents and abilities. If you feel I've left any out, please let us know and I'll add onto it. I've labelled them as simply as possible to make it easier to recognize and understand the talent.
Seeing - (otherwise known as clairvoyant) The seer has the ability to 'see' with their energy. This can mean literally seeing with their eyes or with the mind similar to the images and visions you see when daydreaming. Often when daydreaming what we see can have meaning even if we don't know what it is yet.
What you can see varies. You may see flashes of light going by. This can be energy from any living thing or spirits. Sometimes the energy remains after the soul it belongs to is gone. Energy of course can come from people, spirits, animals, plants and pretty much anything that's been near a living thing that the energy has remained with. You may get images in your mind while your mind wanders or you meditate. These images can carry messages of meaning. You could also see spirits or your guides. Sometimes they can be seen with your eyes or in your mind. Either way it is real and useful.
Sometimes you may see colour and sometimes you may not. The colour may be significant in your visions. Ask what the colours mean when you see them and you'll be surprised how much you can learn about them. Each colour means something different to everyone.
Hearing - (otherwise known as clairaudient) The person who hears has the ability to hear messages from spirit and/or other people's minds. Many people hear their name called and turn to find nobody around them. This is common before your guides have open communication. If this has happened to you, then consider that you may have the ability to hear spirit. Sometimes the energy from another person's thoughts is strong and you can hear them. This is called telepathy and believe it or not, it is not uncommon. We often experience this with people who are close to us. Just as with the seer ability, you may hear the words with your ears or in your head as with your own thoughts, except that the words will come to you without any effort put into thinking about the subject matter. If something pops into your head from out of nowhere, take notice of it and you'll eventually develop your ability to hear.
Feeling - This is a very broad way of interpreting energy and the most common. You can break this up into several categories - gut, emotion, physical, The gut feeling is named so because it can actually be felt in the gut. This is what I call your 'truth' centre because this is where you feel it when there is a question of accuracy in some information. Sometimes of course it can be an outright lie, but you can also detect a partial lie or even inaccuracy in things. It is perhaps the most important area to listen to. You'll recognize it because that's the area that you probably felt give you a message the last time you said: "I knew I shouldn't have done that!" except that you ignored it. Feelings of danger are most likely to come from this area if your energy has picked up on something that you're not consciously aware of and at times, your guides can lead you to things and give you messages through your gut.
Feeling the emotions of others This is something that many people can do. Without realizing it, we ask questions in our minds about those around us. For example, you may ask in your mind how your boss is feeling when he/she walks into your workplace and without you realizing it, the answers will come to you. You may suddenly feel no need for concern or you may have the feeling that your boss is tired - it could be anything. With those we care about, we instantly feel for how they are even as we ask the question. We're not always aware that we're asking the question either. It's interesting when we realize how many times we instinctively ask questions in our minds and receive an answer without knowing it. Sometimes you may find that you ask someone how they are and they answer 'Alright' but you feel that there is something bothering them. We read our family and friends as we talk to them to gauge what their reaction will be and we automatically alter our conversation to fit with their mood. Of course some of this is body language, tone of voice etc. We do have a range of senses and our body and brain use them, but once you work out what information you get that cannot be attributed to body language, you'll soon start to recognize which information is from your psychic ability.
Feeling physical pain. This ability and the one above is usually labelled an empathic ability. If you find that at times you feel sudden pains and twinges without any injury or reason for it only to discover that it was someone else's injury, then you obviously have the ability to feel other people's pain. Some people can pinpoint whose pain it is and what has happened to them and some people can feel pain before an event and warn another person to be careful.
Reading - this is a general ability and perhaps the most common of all psychic abilities. It is used in conjunction with any and all other abilities, but of course the use, strength and combination is different in all of us. Basically this talent involves your energy reaching out to someone or something, taking information from it and returning the information to you in a form that you are able to understand. Every one of the accompanying talents is used with the reader ability. I recognize the ability on its' own to be a situation where you ask a question in your head and the answer comes back. You are able to judge people accurately when you meet them because your energy reads theirs and tells you what mood they're in, their personality, whether you can trust them and much more. This ability is used quite strongly with healing as well and is perhaps the foundation behind all psychic abilities. This is worth recognizing as a psychic talent on its'own. It can be used by itself to tell a lot about people even without using it with other talents such as working with spirit, foretelling or healing.
Psychometry is a classic example of how a reading ability can be helpful. Psychometry is where a person can hold an item that belongs to another and is able to get information from the energy that is around the article. The energy attaches itself to pretty much anything - photos, handwriting and anything that the person has handled or that has their image in it. Because energy carries information, if you think of another person or have them around you, their energy is mixed with yours and this is how people can read information about another person from you - their energy comes with your energy.
Prediction or Foretelling - The difference between having the reader ability and the prediction ability is that the prediction ability also includes a feeling of time whether it is past, present, future or whether it contains specific timeframes. Sometimes when you get a sense of past or future, if you follow that up with questions you may get a hint that has more specific information. The information can also be presented in the form of a graph or image that can help you to work out an approximate timeframe. Don't feel pressured to get specifics if that's not how your ability works. We're all different and that's the most beautiful thing about us so work with your ability and its limits and you'll find that you have a much more satisfactory result than if you try to make your ability do things that it is not suited to.
Channel - A channel is someone who has the ability to let energy flow through them for one purpose or another. Some channels who also have the reader or medium ability can receive messages from spirit or even allow the spirit to communicate through them.
Some channels can allow the energy to flow into their extremities and use it to heal others. In this way, it's possible for healers to use their ability to remove energy blockages that hang around an injury or illness. Once the energy blockage is removed, your energy will again be free to help heal the area. The energy that the healer uses may also help to increase the healing if it's love energy.
Healing - I see healing as a talent because, even though it uses a range of the above talents, there is a difference between a healer and someone who is not a healer. A healer tends to attract people who share their life stories even though you may not know them. A healer will often hear the words "I feel better when I talk to you." The healer works with strong love energy - most healers I've met had no idea that they were even healers. They feel things more strongly than others and find it more difficult to distance themselves from the pain of others. They may attract animals to them as well. This talent can be present in a range of ways.
Some healers have the ability to see energy and auras. They can sometimes differentiate between different energies through recognizing colours, thickness, brightness or even just the pattern or movement of the energy can mean something to them. Some healers are excellent at 'feeling' health problems and can work quite successfully with it. Some healers who also have the ability to communicate with spirit may have healing guides who assist them by giving them advice and directions. Some people work very well with various elements of nature such as crystals to do their healing.
Healer of Emotions - A person who can heal emotions generally uses a combination of talents - reading and empathy to judge how people are feeling and responding. The reader ability will pick up information around the person that will help you understand where their pain or emotions are coming from and the empathy will help you know how they are feeling, the intensity and how they are responding to your words. The ability to communicate with spirit can help you with finding the right words. Your guides will help out by planting ideas into your head or even phrases sometimes that you can use to help soothe the person you're speaking to. People who have a natural tendency to use these abilities make excellent counsellors.
Physical Healer - The physical healer may be a channel, and be able to see or feel the health problems as well as energy blockages within a body. It's not unusual for a physical healer to have empath abilities whereby they can feel the physical pain or other symptoms that help them to pinpoint and heal the problem.
Spirit Worker - This is usually called a medium. The ability of a medium can vary from being able to sense a spirit to being able to communicate with spirit. You could have physical sensations such as chills or a feeling of unease. You could also have the ability to hear spirit allowing you to hear them in your head and converse with them. You don't necessarily have to be able to hear them, for them to hear you. You can tell a spirit to leave without being able to hear them. If you have the seer ability, you will be able to see them. You don't have to be able to see a spirit clearly or for the entire time you're communicating with them in order to be a medium. Some people worry that they do not have the ability if they don't see the spirit clearly or all the time. It's not true. You still have the ability. It just means that it may not be your strongest ability and it doesn't mean that you should be necessarily working with spirit. It's handy to be able to see them in order to remove them though when they pop into your home.
If you possess this talent, you may be able to communicate with your guides although it is not essential to do so. The guides prefer to have the least effect on a person's lifetime as possible and guide in a subtle way so people who are not aware of their guides often are following their path very well and it's unnecessary for the guide to make themselves known.