Question: How can I learn to trust my psychic abilities, specifically clairvoyance and the images I get? How do I know if they are real or have any real meaning?
Answer: Clairvoyance means clear-seeing. It is the psychic faculty that goes through the third eye chakra located between your eyebrows. With clairvoyance you see images in your mind’s eye, the same place you see dreams at night with your physical eyes closed. It’s the same place you go when you daydream or remember an event from your past. We all have the ability to see in our mind’s eye.
When you use this ability to do psychic readings, something a little different is happening. You’re opening your mind to receiving information that will help you or help someone else. In other words, you’re receiving an energetic download from the universe, guides, Source, angels, etc. which you must interpret so that you can help others, as in a psychic reading, or get greater clarity on your own path.
So if you’re already able to tune in to these images, how do you discern which are from “out there” and which are just fear, logic, or ego-driven? How do you get to a place where you know for sure when you are receiving an energetic download from spirit or when you are just thinking with your own mind?
Get High
Not on drugs! On vibration. You need to get to a high vibration before opening yourself up to receiving clairvoyant images. Do this with meditation, deep breathing, or putting yourself in a state of love, joy, and gratitude. If you do this work in a low vibrational state such as anger, fear, depression, or guilt, you may not connect with the beings who have your highest interest at heart. It doesn’t have to be a permanent state, just get yourself to a high vibration before you start. My free ebook, 10 Ways to Raise Your Vibration in Under 10 Minutes will help you with this.
Boot Up Your Chakras
Your chakras are the energy centers in your body. They’re like the batteries of your soul. When was the last time you replaced the batteries or made sure they were working? Read my article on chakras and boot them up before you tune in. Clearing and opening your chakras will clear away any negative emotional residue that might be clinging to you. And it’s also a signal to your guides that you’re tuning in. Think of opening your chakras like extending your antenna.
Climb to Greater Heights
Along with raising your vibration, you need to raise your energetic frequency. This means sloughing off the daily worries and focusing your mind on connecting with the beings who are going to send you the information you need to help you on your path. So once you’ve gotten to a deep meditative place and opened your chakras, raise your frequency. I do this by climbing a staircase in my mind. I count as I go and continue to do deep breathing. Counting keeps you from thinking about what you’re going to have for dinner, the bills you need to pay, and the other flotsam and jetsam that invade your mind when you meditate.
Find Your Guides
You don’t want information from just anyone. That would be dangerous. If you’re using clairvoyance to do a reading for someone else, you’ll want to connect with your conduit guide (mine is named Bob), so he or she can help you tune in to other people’s spirit guides. If you’re using your clairvoyance to get information about your own path, just connect with your own spirit guides. If you haven’t done that yet, get on it. It’s really important to connect with higher vibrational beings before you open yourself to receiving an energetic download that could affect your life.
Learn to Interpret the Information
Receiving images isn’t that difficult, relatively speaking. You’ve been using your mind’s eye for years. Interpreting what you get is what’s difficult. We’re always receiving information; from other people, from fear, from guides, from expectations and memory. When you’re receiving information from a spirit guide or other high vibrational being, sometimes they send metaphors. Symbols. You have to figure out what they mean, just like you would in a dream. This takes practice, but it’s critical if you want to get accurate information for yourself or others.
Practice
If you’re planning to use your clairvoyance to do readings for others, nothing takes the place of practice. I did more than 100 readings with people to make sure I was interpreting the energetic downloads properly. It wasn’t until I recognized the difference between my own stuff and stuff coming from the guides that I went professional. Keep practicing until you’re sure when you’re connecting and when you’re not.
If you’re using clairvoyance for yourself, you still need to practice. Apply the information you get and see if it worked out the way you expected. In other words, test the information on yourself. If you got it wrong, it could be a problem receiving the info or a problem interpreting it. Keep practicing.
Trust
I can’t stress this enough. You must learn to trust your guides and the information coming through. I can’t tell you how many times in the beginning I got information that didn’t make any sense to me, but which made perfect sense to the person I was reading for. One time during a reading I got an image of a woman putting out a place setting (plate, fork, knife, napkin, glass, etc.) but in the image she put the knife and fork on the wrong sides and her boss yelled at her. So I’m getting ready to interpret the image and she tells me it doesn’t need interpretation. Turns out she was a set decorator and just a few days prior to the reading she actually did set a place and put the knife and fork on the wrong sides and her boss yelled at her.
In another reading I saw my client as a 6-year-old girl on a bicycle and she ran into a tree, knocked her tooth out and brought it home to show her mom. Again I thought it was a metaphor, but she told me that really did happen to her when she was 6. So I learned that sometimes the images I get are not metaphors at all. It takes time and experience to know the difference.
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We all have psychic abilities. Not everyone develops them. Although the discussion above dealt with clairvoyance, it’s very similar with clairaudience, clairsentience, and claircognizance, or really any psychic tool. Give your abilities the time and attention they deserve, and before you know it, you’ll have an excellent tool you can use to make your life and the lives of others even better!
