Common Ground Series Part 3
We all have an expansive array of psychic abilities that kick in when we need them. They are a major tool utilized by your energetic system to communicate energetic information. The few psychic abilities which are generally recognized, accepted, and have been given names are the ones that parallel physical senses. No surprise there. There is much more to our psychic abilities than is currently understood. Keep an open mind because comparing them to physical senses and abilities does not begin to offer their expansive potential.
As discussed in the Energy Senses post, your beliefs can inhibit information reaching your consciousness, including the way you receive it. However, psychic abilities will sneak through defenses whenever possible to try to pass along knowledge to you. This is especially true when strong feelings are involved, such as intense love, grief, or fear. In fact, there are ways that this happens that Western societies generally accept. Most people will acknowledge that there are ties between a mother and child, or twins, as well as certain family or friends, which cause events to happen that transcend physical reality. We all have heard stories that relate such occurrences. It may be that you have had the experience of thinking of a friend and then they called you or you met them in the street.
One of the common ways that people experience psychic abilities is through dreams. Dreams are often utilized as a vehicle because they are an everyday part of your life. Clairvoyance is the name given to psychic sight, where energy is interpreted through visual images. Clairaudience is the name given to psychic hearing, where energy is interpreted through sound. In a dream, you can have a visual and audio experience that seems similar to physical experiences and, therefore, acceptable. Although there are exceptions, because dreams have been common to you since childhood, they are interpreted as safe. You will not become scared, as you might if a deceased loved one suddenly appeared in front of you. On the contrary, it is usually comforting to see and feel the presence in a dream of a loved one who has made their transition.
People often have spoken to me of dreams where their deceased loved ones have visited. Sometimes it is to reassure you that the person is fine now. If they were sick or had a physical disability, they are now free from those physical burdens. When you had a confidant, a person who helped to work out problems, they may show up in dreams and have a conversation with you about a problem and possible solutions, perhaps warn you of upcoming danger or problems so that you are prepared, or simply discuss something that they didn’t have time to express before they died. There are as many types of dream experiences as there are relationships on this planet. The point is that these are not just regular dreams. They are opportunities for a loved one to communicate with you through psychic abilities in a way that you can accept consciously.
Another way that psychic abilities sneak through is when you are experiencing some form of growth. Any type of personal growth does not happen in a vacuum. Learning about your mental and emotional patterns during a healing process means that certain thoughts, emotions, and beliefs, will be challenged. Healing physically triggers thoughts which trigger emotional responses, such as frustration and doubt in your ability to continue or complete your healing process. True spiritual growth is solidly grounded and directed through right brain functions. It is impossible to develop any part of yourself without affecting all parts of you, including your energetic field. While you are in the stages of growth and development, your energetic frequency is also in a state of change.
Every time you accomplish growth, your energetic frequency shifts into a new resonance. Your psychic abilities will be involved, whether you are aware of that fact or not, and the opportunity for further development of these abilities exists. Often, the signs of this show up but are ignored or suppressed.
Clairaudience is the term utilized for hearing energy and was an active psychic ability for me from early childhood. Once I began exploring energetic fields during my twenties, clairaudience was one of my psychic abilities which began to obviously develop and sneak through into my daily life.
The first experience that grabbed my attention was a phone call with a friend. It was a time shortly after call waiting became available and when there were additional costs for all long-distance calls. I wanted no part of call waiting so I had no practical experience with how it worked but my friend had that option activated on her phone line. We were talking one day, and she received the call waiting signal that another call was coming in. She asked me to hold on while she picked it up. After she clicked off, I heard her talking to her father. She told him that she was on a long-distance call and asked if she could call him back when she finished, to which he agreed. Then she was back on the line with me. Teasing her, I told her that it wasn’t nice to lie to her father. There was silence for a second and then she asked me what I meant. I related what I had heard and said that I wasn’t a “long distance” from her. She was shocked and said that I couldn’t have heard her conversation. I told her that obviously I did because I repeated it to her word for word. I didn’t think too much about it until she called me a week later to tell me that she had been researching what happened to me on that call. She tested her call waiting with many people. No one else could hear any part of her conversation when she spoke to someone else through call waiting.
Nothing outstanding happened for a while after that and then my clairaudience really started to show up in my daily life. Events especially seemed to occur when I would retire to bed to read, which is my nightly habit. Probably, at that time of my life, it was the first time all day that I was quiet and focused. I would suddenly hear voices, as if I was in a crowded room and everyone was speaking at once. I couldn’t make out the words and, truthfully, it was annoying.
One night, as I was reading, I heard a radio announcer talking. I used my clock/radio to wake me up for work in the morning. Since, once asleep, I often do not hear noises that would easily wake others, I had the radio positioned in my room so that I had to get up to turn it off. That way, I was sure that I wouldn’t turn if off in my sleep and not get up for work. I could not understand how the radio was on. I got up out of bed and walked over to the dresser where it sat. As I got closer, I realized that the radio was off, yet I still was hearing the announcer. I pressed the button that turned on the radio and the voice that came out of it continued the sentence that I had been hearing. I checked the settings for the morning and returned to bed. As soon as I settled in bed, the same thing happened. I got up and repeated my actions, and, again, I was hearing the announcer even when the radio was turned off.
Eventually, as my energetic field frequency reached a certain level, my psychic ability of clairaudience fine-tuned, and such random intrusions do not generally happen. Because everything is energy, sometimes when you are developing a psychic ability, your energy senses pick up on surrounding energy patterns. It is no different than developing muscle through exercise and having your body react in a way that you didn’t expect. You learn to adjust the exercise to your body’s responses, and you can also learn how to adjust to your energy field’s responses. Knowledge helps by alleviating fear and thoughts that something is wrong. I know that I can expect some form of psychic ability shift whenever I am in a healing/growth process and that the form will likely change as I develop. I remain calm and patient with myself until I learn the new skills my system is teaching me.
It is not natural for children to doubt their experiences. They simply experience everything they become aware of, including experiences that originate from their energy senses. Children are taught to judge their experiences by adults, other children, society – every aspect of Western society has rules and judgements based on physical existence alone. When my son was very young, he once told me about a man who came to play with him. I asked him some questions about the experience. It was obvious to me that there was no harm and it made him feel happy. I acknowledged his experience as a real one and he would tell me whenever he had a visit. Mainly, I wanted him to remain open to his psychic abilities and the energetic world surrounding him so that he would have the option to expand throughout his life.
When my son was in his twenties, he traveled to India and lived there for about a year and a half. At the time, the lifestyle there was extremely different from ours. Whenever he traveled, he was considerate and kept me informed as to his wellbeing. But he could not easily call from India, since often there were no phones anywhere around. Sometime after he was in India, I felt that I really wanted to hear his voice. I picked a quiet time, relaxed, and thought of my son. This allowed me to connect to his energy field and my feeling was that nothing was wrong, so I determined that I just missed him. I decided to test where he was in his development. I sat quietly for a while, repeatedly sending out the thought to him to call me. Three days later, I picked up the phone and my son was on the other end of the line. “Mom!” he said. “I’m sorry that I couldn’t call sooner. I got your message three days ago but this is the first that I could get to a phone. Is everything alright?” After, I never worried when my son traveled to far off places. From that moment, I knew for sure that he would hear me, wherever he was. Quite a number of years ago, I was sporadically receiving thoughts that I would be present at an accident and that when the police came, I would be the first person from whom they would take information about the details of the accident. I assumed that this was referring to a car accident and I made sure that I drove extra carefully so it hopefully wouldn’t have to be my accident.
One morning, one of my housemates fell down an entire flight of stairs and hit her head. I wouldn’t allow her to move until the ambulance came. You can imagine the turmoil that swirled around us. Later, when everything calmed down and she was declared fine except for a broken wrist, I remembered the information I had received prior to this incident. After we called for an ambulance, a police car arrived almost immediately.
Although there were several people present, one officer walked directly over to me and took all the information regarding the accident from me. It taught me that my mind had interpreted the energetic information based on my past experiences of police taking information at car accidents. From that time forward, I understood that I needed to keep an open mind when I was given information from energetic sources.
You can also learn that your energy senses and psychic abilities exist through common experiences. The Universal energy field which surrounds and connects everything in our cosmos carries information to all of us. Through this field, you can receive input from the energy fields surrounding events as well as living things. When uncommon, major events occur, your system can pick up on the energy patterns because these events affect you even if you are not physically there. The more developed your psychic abilities are, the greater the chance of sensing incidents that you are not a physical part of, but some events have such emotional impact that many people’s psychic abilities are engaged. After such an event becomes known, you may remember feelings, thoughts, or physical experiences that you didn’t understand at the time. Your psychic abilities broke through your conscious mind because of the enormity of the situation, even though you might not normally be aware of information coming to you in this way.
During my private practice, I noticed common complaints and ailments. When I heard the same exact things repeated over and over, I knew something was coming. In the two weeks leading to Hurricane Katrina, clients were asking for help to relieve the same symptoms. They related feeling tense and anxious, although nothing in their lives could be pointed to as the cause. They were getting upset easily and the smallest task was creating feelings of too much pressure. They couldn’t relax and none of their usual tools were working. What was interesting was that I was experiencing the same feelings. When Katrina happened, those feelings dissolved, and they were replaced with the common horror, disbelief, and pain that we all shared as we watched the unbelievable pictures unfold before our eyes. This happened several times over the years, always tied to a major event that affected people all over the world, emotionally if not directly.
Experience and observation have led me to believe that each person has at least one psychic ability that is easily developed because it is closer to consciousness. In most cases, the apparent ability is one that can be intellectually related to familiar physical senses. That helps to perceive the psychic ability as real. As understanding is growing that there are many more psychic abilities than previously thought, new identifying names are being created to try to indicate the myriad of nuances within our psychic abilities. This area is so vast, the human drive to identify individual psychic abilities and pinpoint how they manifest will likely fall short. To simplify, it is known that you experience communication from your psychic abilities through visual images, hearing words and/or sounds, smells, tastes, touch, thoughts, emotions, and a sense of knowing. What is happening is energetic patterns and vibrations are present to inform you in some way. Your psychic abilities are a means of getting the information to you, but it is your system which openly receives or rejects this process. Once your awareness expands and you notice that you are having experiences separate from physical experiences, interpreting the meaning of such events takes time.
I think of the process as training yourself to pay attention differently. You learn to accept information in a defined way. Information filtered through your psychic abilities reaches you differently than that defined way. So, you must pay attention differently to catch hold of information that is coming to your consciousness from energy sources. It takes time but it certainly can be done. Patterns always repeat themselves. We see that in our physical and emotional lives. It is true of energy patterns also. Information will come to you through psychic abilities, and you will have thoughts and feelings connected with the experience. In the beginning, you will seem to forget about it. But a similar experience will happen again. And again. At some point, you will recognize the same feelings and/or thoughts. Be receptive when you become conscious of this. You don’t have to understand what it means right away. You do not have to know if it is a real energy experience. Just be open to the fact that it might be. Don’t discard it. Decide that learning more about yourself is a priority, an ongoing process, and a necessity for your health. That is really all that you need to do, and your system will take care of the details.