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

Do It Yourself
Psychic power

NATALIA O’SULLIVAN

Practical Tools and Techniques

for Awakening Your Natural Gifts

Dedication

To all those who through the years have offered

invaluable advice and help from the Spirit World.

&

To my wonderful husband Terry for all his support

and to my children Sequoia, Ossian and Bede for

their patience and generosity of spirit.

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Foreword

SECTION ONE

Introduction to Psychic Powers

SECTION TWO

Awakening Your Psychic Powers

• Meditation and self-awareness

• Psychic development exercises

• Sacred time

SECTION THREE

Developing Your Psychic Powers

• The aura

• The power of the chakras

• The spirit bodies

SECTION FOUR

Communication with Spirits

• Spirit guides

• Mediumship

SECTION FIVE

Psychic Protection

• Creating protective boundaries

• Knowing the enemy within

SECTION SIX

Useful Tools

• Crystals

• Dowsing

• Scent

• The elements

SECTION SEVEN

Creating Sacred Space in the Home

• A home for the soul

• A home altar

• House healing

• Welcoming nature into the home

SECTION EIGHT

Energetic and Psychic Disturbances

• Detection and diagnosis of energy and atmosphere

• Ghost busting

SECTION NINE

Working with your Gifts

Resources

Index

Copyright

About the Publisher

Foreword

My intention in writing this book is to help people develop their natural psychic powers so that they can become a part of their daily life. Psychic ability is a gift that allows us to take on life’s challenges, to be one step ahead, to learn how to read and recognize the subtle messages in life, or to learn to receive messages from our soul or from our spirit guides. We learn how to do this by becoming aware not just of a physical reality, but also of the subtle reality of the spiritual world which encompasses it. This requires a great leap of understanding for many people since we have grown up in an age that neglects or ignores subtle reality – despite the fact that millions of people read their daily horoscope, visit psychics and fortune tellers and go on the Internet for a quick-fix tarot reading.

You may think it implausible that you are psychic, yet I expect you have often sensed that something is going to happen or that someone is about to call – and it does or they do! We may pass these off as hunches but in truth they are the result of different types of psychic powers: sensing the future is precognition and knowing who is about to call is a form of telepathy. Many talented psychics have denied or suppressed their powers only to find that once they have taken that shot in the dark, experienced that moment of discovery, life makes sense and a whole new spectrum of living opens up.

How to Use this Book

This book is not intended to blast open otherworldly gates so that you are sucked inside. It is designed to help you find the doors and pathways already in your life. It will help you discover what resonates within you so that you are able to call back from your soul and ancestral heritage the psychic gifts that you already possess.

To this end, I have concentrated on practical advice and exercises. This will help you develop your psychic skills and incorporate them into your everyday life. To help you identify with the concept of psychic powers proposed in this book, I have also included some of the experiences of people I know and admire.

It is not my intention to alienate any reader from her or his spiritual tradition; the practice of psychic power is compatible with the practice of any spirituality. It may even provoke a more profound appreciation of your religion’s mystical application or bring to you a wider understanding of how to work with your spiritual life in a mystical way.

Please read these guidelines before you read the main text.

• Read this book through at least once and understand the concepts and principles before attempting any of the practical exercises.

• I have tried to keep the text and information as up-to-date as possible so some of the information may challenge the more ancient traditions of psychic development and spiritualism.

• This book will not qualify you as a psychic practitioner, but if you wish to use your psychic powers to help others then seek out a personal teacher (see Resources on page 180). Ensure that you know how to work with your gift and have an understanding of protection before you teach, help or counsel others.

• Try the exercises the way they are set out here. If they don’t work for you after a series of good and sequential attempts, then adapt them intelligently and creatively, using your own spiritual guidelines and techniques.

• Do not mix these practices with others you have learned in other non-psychic disciplines and do not treat any exercise as a psychological or therapeutic technique.

• Keep a journal or diary to monitor your development as this will enable you to see how much your psychic powers grow over a period of practice.

• Keep your sense of proportion by regularly, preferably daily, visiting the natural world, exercising your body and keeping yourself healthy.

• Keep your sense of self-importance in check with humour and common sense.

• Finally, enjoy the unfolding of your psychic powers.

SECTION ONE
Introduction to psychic powers

Psychic powers are natural and intuitive – everyone can develop their psychic potential if they wish to. Developing this skill is not only a means of connecting with the spirit world; it helps us achieve greater awareness and control over our destiny.

Psychic awareness is the natural ability to perceive things before they happen – even guessing lottery numbers and winning on a horse race may have its basis in one’s psychic ability. We are all psychics to varying degrees of sensitivity. If we observe nature it’s obvious that animals sense a presence long before it can be seen; this is essential for their survival. We use this same intuitive source – in our work, during competitive sports or business situations – to survive in the modern world. Our gut instinct helps us to connect with a sixth sense, or second sight, which in turn helps us to ‘tune in’ to places and people – both past and future.

There is no need to follow a spiritual path or to have strict religious tendencies to be an accurate psychic, but in most traditions training is required in order to develop accurate psychic skills. Each psychic works on many different energy frequencies and, if we have the necessary skill, these can dictate to us our future profession. Being psychic can be a bonus to the lucky ones and a curse to others.

What qualities make a good psychic?

• Personality: Psychics tend to be bright, naturally intelligent and extrovert. People with more out-going personalities score more in psychic tests than those who are sombre, shy and reflective.

• Sensitivity: Do you find that you get easily hurt and are oversensitive to people and atmospheres? Most psychics are also extremely sensitive individuals and even in childhood would have been considered oversensitive.

• Creativity: Are you artistic? A large proportion of psychics come from an artistic or creative background. Some psychic researchers suggest that this is because psychics, like artists, predominantly use the right-hand side of the brain – the side that is creative and intuitive.

• Dreams: Do you have vivid and colourful dreams? Dreaming is one of the routes to the subconscious mind. If you are in tune with your inner self, then you naturally become aware of your psychic self during sleep.

• Perception and sight: Do you see bright lights around living things? If so, this is the ability to ‘see’ the aura, the magnetic field around living things. The aura is known to change shape and colour depending on the mood or energy levels of a person or living thing. If you can see this – and even the colour of the aura – then you are very psychic.

• Intuition: Do you listen to your intuition? Do you have a gut instinct or can you sense things about people, situations or places. Much of the information that we receive through intuition is gained through sensitivity and connecting through the solar plexus into another person or situation. Intuition is listening to your inner self and hearing advice from the spirit world.

Are You Psychic?

Think not? Well, you may be more psychic than you think. If you trust your natural instincts about things you will begin to realize that these instincts are as natural and normal as any of our five physical senses – the abilities to see, hear, touch, taste and smell.

Our own unique psychic potential utilizes our ability to be able to receive, access and transmit vast quantities of information from our day-to-day life. This takes place within an aspect of our mind that tunes into a psychic or unseen frequency. We can learn to strengthen, access and make use of these abilities, whether it is for the simplest of tasks or a life-threatening situation – for instance, choosing a job or profession, trusting your judgment about a partner or deciding when to have children. The act of being able to see beyond most situations means you can avoid being in the wrong place at the wrong time and avoid making wrong decisions. Psychic awareness is there to help guide and inform you of future problems and opportunities.

Are You Naturally Psychic?

Have you experienced any of the following?

• Do you frequently phone your mother or friend only to find their number engaged as they are trying to phone you? Or do they say that they were thinking about you when you called?

• Have you ever decided on impulse to change your route to work, only to discover later that there was an accident or an unusual traffic problem on your customary route?

• You meet someone new who appears to be ‘perfect’ but something inside tells you that you should distrust them – then later you discover your reservations were justified.

• You phone a friend on impulse, feeling that there is something wrong and they confirm that there had been a disaster at work, in their love life or a family crisis.

• Sometimes your dreams are so vivid that you feel they are real, then the next day you find that your dream comes true.

• You suddenly think of someone you have not seen or heard from in years and the next day you receive a letter, e-mail or call from them.

• You waken seconds before your baby, despite the fact they are in another room and have no regular sleeping patterns.

• You book into a hotel and find that there is a bad atmosphere, you cannot sleep and you sense that it could be haunted. When you check it out with the hotel they confirm that the place has been known to be haunted.

• You have a mother or grandmother who is psychic (psychic abilities run in the family).

• You have seen lights around people’s heads – perhaps since you were a child and were surprised that other people did not.

• You have heard voices of dead people or sense someone standing behind you when there is no one there.

• You can make things happen with thought or intent.

• You have always been very sympathetic to other people and feel other’s pain and suffering.

• You possess the ability to make people feel better and can detect a warmth coming from your hands when extending affection or wanting to soothe another’s pain.

• You sense dangerous moments before they happen or have disaster dreams that come true.

If you recognize four or more of these experiences then your psychic powers are already well tuned. Even if you only relate to one or two of these statements, your psychic abilities are still present. Maybe your natural psychic abilities were present in your childhood but were not encouraged, so you relied on your five physical senses and logic alone.

Being able to connect to your psychic potential enables you to use your intuitive and psychic senses as if they were as natural and normal as using your mind to create ideas and make decisions. To see beyond the reality that you are living gives you the opportunity to be one step ahead. This can allow you to feel comfortable in your own skin – often for the first time. Many people who have been psychic since childhood have been unable to acknowledge the feelings or sensations they experienced as a child or teenager for fear of alarming others.

Being a Psychic

Some of us are using our psychic gifts without even realizing we are doing it. We are aware of the information that we receive through an ‘inner’ sense but do not talk about it – often fearing that other people will not understand.

There is a common misunderstanding that psychic power is something that some people possess and others do not. The reality is more complicated: we all have the ability to be psychic, but some people are just more awake to their powers than others. Everyone has the potential and each individual’s potential is unique.

Awakening these gifts and utilizing them to support your personal and spiritual life is a journey that takes time, support from good teachers and mentors, and discipline. It is your choice whether or not you develop your latent psychic gifts. This is similar to learning how to play an instrument: you must have both the passion and the patience to learn before you can become a talented player.

Opening Up to Your Psychic Gift

Some people are fascinated by human psychological and emotional characteristics, and often their psychic gift will be an ability to tune into a person’s personality and see their weaknesses and strengths. Other people have the gift of vision – of seeing into the past and future of individuals, a place or a situation. We could call them fortune tellers or diviners. They will have a natural vision which will come to them in dreams whilst they are asleep, through daydreaming thoughts and inspirations, or from just having a knowing feeling that something good or bad may happen. Other people see visions: for instance, a place or circumstance causes a deja vu experience that brings forward an inner sight of a situation or circumstance which may have happened or is going to happen.

One of the most accessible methods of psychic development is psychometry – the ability to see psychically by using touch. Many people find it a good first step in encouraging their psychic gifts to open up. In the majority of cases strong psychic abilities tend to be hereditary. They do, however, commonly skip a generation so parents are often uninterested in spiritual or psychic matters and find it strange that a child of theirs should be drawn to study these traditions. Such children learn to be quiet about their ‘strange’ feelings and it is often only when they begin to uncover their gifts that they also discover that a grandparent or great-grandparent was psychic.

Psychic abilities can be separated into nine main categories:

TELEPATHY is the ability to tune in to the thoughts of others and to be able to project your own thoughts into another person’s mind.

PRECOGNITION is a knowledge of events before they take place – enabling you to make predictions about the future.

DIVINATION is the ability to see into the future by using psychic tools such as crystal balls, tarot cards and tea leaves.

PSYCHOMETRY is seeing without eyes – the ability to ‘tune’ into objects to be able to read a person’s character and even tell their past or future.

DREAMING is the ability to tune into psychic frequencies while sleeping and bring the information back into everyday life by interpreting the symbols and images seen in dreams.

SPIRIT COMMUNICATION is the ability to communicate with spirits either by being overshadowed by a spirit’s presence or through direct communication. It is also called channelling or mediumship.

CLAIRSENTIENCE is to be able to smell and sense what is unseen.

CLAIRVOYANCE is being able to see mentally what is happening in a dimension that is unseen or out of sight. It is a term that means exceptional sight.

CLAIRAUDIENCE is the faculty to hear what is beyond the normal range of hearing.

I hear so many stories from people who have had psychic encounters without recognizing them. For example, knowing if a family member or close friend is in trouble without speaking to them first, or averting disaster by listening to their intuition about road traffic. These are simple intuitive responses to your day-to-day life but when you take these innate skills a step further, you will enhance your ability to see through people, hear and feel spirits, see auras and colours in the atmosphere and divine the future.

Connecting With Our Psychic Energy

Mankind is an ancient being and evolution’s long memory is locked away within each of us. Our DNA has encoded within it ancient patterns of behaviour that once helped us survive in a harsh environment. In today’s modern world, most of our inherited behaviour patterns are obsolete and no longer necessary for survival. Yet they still lie dormant in the unconscious, ready to re-animate should they be needed again.

Below the thin layer of brain called the cerebral cortex, where the rational mind functions, lies the 90 per cent of our being that we are unaware of–the primitive, reptilian brain. Within this aspect of the mind lies our subconscious connection with our ancestors and their ancient knowledge. When we are able to access this memory or connection, we are able to draw from the powers within our subconscious mind and this is where that aspect of our spirit talks to us about who we are and what we want from our lives.

Let’s look in more detail at the varying kinds of psychic ability.

Telepathy

Telepathy is an exchange of information directly from the mind of one individual to the mind of another without the need for words to be spoken aloud or any exchange of physical, nonverbal communication such as eye signals, hand gestures or other forms of body language.

We are all telepathic to some degree and go about our daily lives transmitting and receiving information – often without being consciously aware that we are doing so. While we each transmit and receive in different ways, the basic principle is the same: we all act like radios, tuning into information and sending out signals on certain frequencies. Some of us have a greater ability to receive; others are more able to transmit. Some people are on the same frequency and therefore find it easier to receive telepathic messages than others. Many people discover that as they become closer in a physical relationship they begin to connect with that person on a telepathic level. Mothers and daughters have a natural link, particularly as the psychic gift is passed down the mother line from both parents into their descendants.

Our individual telepathic abilities are closely linked to our other psychic gifts. If we are more clairvoyant than clairaudient, for example, then we are much more likely to receive our telepathic information in the form of visual images or symbols than to ‘hear’ the thoughts of other people in our head. A telepathic clairsentient may receive a sense of another person’s physical or emotional state, even at a distance.

Telepathy can operate at short distances or at great ones. We experience short distance telepathy with family members and friends. In these cases, our telepathic abilities become entwined with our other abilities to read and transmit information and to tune into our intuition. For instance, we often know when someone we know well is angry with us, even when they do not express it openly. We may pick up a combination of signals that includes body language, tone of voice, changes in behaviour and clairsentient emotional messages, as well as telepathic thoughts that the person transmits – and we receive loud and clear.

Long distance telepathy can be just as common, though it can appear more remarkable because we do not have the more obvious physical signals to rely on. On many occasions I have thought of a friend abroad and then received a letter or e-mail from them.