Afraid of Being Psychic?
by Echo Bodine
Responsibility
can be frightening. I currently have a student who definitely has psychic
abilities, but she's very afraid of them. When she took my beginner class, she'd
come for the lecture portion and leave before we did the exercises. She'd always
tell me she didn't have any psychic abilities and that she didn't want them
either. I asked her if she was able to pinpoint her resistance, and she said it
was the responsibility that terrified her. She didn't want to see negative
information about people or disasters.
Two or three times she did stay and tried the exercises. She was always
accurate with the information that came through her, but then she'd get so
freaked out that she'd stop coming to class for a couple of weeks. Two days
before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, she kept getting a picture of a plane
crashing, but she didn't know what it meant. She became extremely anxious
because she wasn't sure if it was a warning about one of her loved ones or if it
was a prophetic vision of something to come.
Shutting the door on your psychic abilities because you're afraid of the
responsibilities associated with these gifts is understandable, but I encourage
you to keep the door open and learn how to discern and work with the
information.
I've seen this happen with other students who have prophetic visions that
frighten them. The students think that if they stop coming to class, their third
eye will shut down and the visions will stop, but that's not how it goes. I
always encourage students to hang in there and understand their visions rather
than try to deny them. As they soon learn, denying them doesn't stop them.
Not all psychics get prophetic visions of disasters, and I've found that the
ones who do get them have been getting them on and off for most of their life.
It isn't psychic development that makes a person have prophetic visions. It's
psychic development that helps you understand them, and that helps you
distinguish between visions that are truly prophetic and those that are actually
the products of your fears or ego.
PROPHETIC VISIONS, FEAR, AND EGO
I want you to think about what fear feels like. It's usually located in the
stomach area, and it has a strong energy to it -- it's that sinking feeling in
the pit of your stomach that spreads quickly throughout your whole body.
Sometimes people mistake this feeling with intuition because they're both
located in the same area, but this feeling does not indicate your intuition.
Intuition does not have any emotion attached to it. It simply gives us
information.
Often when people are just developing their psychic abilities, they haven't
learned how to discern between a true vision, a fear, or a picture that their
ego might be creating, and this can be very frightening. Students often tell me
about previous experiences when they thought they were receiving an intuitive
message or a psychic prediction, only to find out it was one of their fears, or
it was their ego wanting to impress someone with "psychic information."
Here is a very simple but effective technique to help you understand which of
the three your vision might be: Ask yourself
how the information came to you. Did it simply pop into your head out of
nowhere? If so, then it might have been a true vision, but also ask yourself: Is
it related to anything you might have seen on TV or in the newspaper the day
before? Did it feel fearful when you saw it in your mind?
It's very important
that you calm yourself down and determine the source of the information. Some of
my students saw visions of airplanes going into buildings after the 9/11
terrorist attacks, and they thought that these were predictions of more attacks
coming. But when I had them trace back the feelings associated with these
visions, they discovered their fears were creating these pictures.
In a similar way, say you're planning to take a car trip, and the day before
you leave, you get images of a car crash and everyone dying. The vision feels
really scary, and afterward your body is racing with adrenaline. What have you
just seen?
First things first, calm yourself down. Ask yourself, are these images
similar to anything you've seen in the media lately? Has someone you know
recently been in a wreck? The fact that the information came with an adrenaline
rush of fear should tell you that this "vision" is connected to fears concerning
the trip.
If it was a psychic prediction, you would have been given the
information without any emotion attached. You would have seen an accident
(clairvoyance), thoughts would have come into your mind of the car breaking down
(clairaudience), or you would have had an inner knowingness that something was
wrong, a simple certainty that you weren't supposed to go on the trip
(intuition). These would have all arrived as plain information.
Another
interesting distinction between real and manufactured visions is this: when our
mind creates a vision, the images go on and on and seem to get more elaborate
with time, whereas a psychic message comes quickly and is gone. My teacher
always told us to pay attention when spirits speak because they don't repeat
themselves!
In other words, here is what to look for:
1) If it's a prophetic vision (even a negative one), it will simply be a
picture that came in out of nowhere, with no emotion attached to it.
2) If it's one of your fears, you'll be very aware of fear as you're seeing
the pictures. They will seem to go hand in hand. Fear also multiplies quickly
and can easily create a hundred scary scenarios in a matter of seconds, so
beware.
3) If it's a picture your ego has created (in its desire to experience a
"psychic vision"), your mind will be racing with thoughts, and there will be
mixed feelings of excitement and fear. Our ego likes to be the hero, so from
time to time it might try to come up with "psychic information" in order to
bedazzle people.
Ask for the Truth
One of the coolest things about our intuition is that it will show us the
truth of any situation whenever we ask (so long as our agenda isn't in the way).
If you've gotten some information and aren't sure what to do with it, try this
visualization:
Find a quiet place away from the noises of the world and sit down. Close
your eyes and take three or four relaxing breaths. Focus on the area of your
solar plexus. Inside is a white light at the center of your soul. I think of
it as the light of God within. Using your imagination, visualize this light
and completely focus your attention on it. Take a few more relaxing breaths,
and with each breath, imagine this light getting bigger and brighter until it
completely surrounds you. Feel the peacefulness of the light. This is a very
good discipline to learn in any case because it is a simple technique that you
will use over and over in your psychic work.
Once your mind has calmed down, and you're able to focus only on this
light, tell your inner voice to show you the truth of the situation. Ask it if
the information that came to you is accurate. If it is, you'll get an inner
knowing of yes. Then, while continuing to focus on the light, ask if there's
anything you should do about it. If your mind starts to race with thoughts and
ideas, return your focus to the calmness of the white light.
If the answer is no, you will either get a no feeling or it will feel
blank. If that's the case, thank the light for guiding you and open your eyes
when you feel done.
Some students protest that they aren't good at visualizing and they can't see
this light, but hear me loud and clear: You have an imagination and you can
imagine this light. You're not even making it up because we all have this light
within our soul. You may have to use your imagination in the beginning to open
your mind to this idea, but after you've done this a few times, it will become
very natural to see the light inside.
Use Your Journal
You may find that no answers come when you're doing this visualization, but
over the course of the next few days, more information may come when you least
expect it. I would strongly suggest any time you get information and you're not
sure what to do with it, record it in your psychic journal. You may indeed have
picked up on an impending situation through your psychic abilities. But even if
not, writing in your psychic journal can be very helpful.
Recording the visions,
thoughts, and intuitive feelings can help you sort through what's fact or
fiction, ego or fear. You can review the things you've previously written and
get a better understanding of the meaning of the pictures, images, and feelings
you've received. This is how we learn to discern truth from non-truth, the
feeling of accurate psychic information from the feeling of random thoughts,
fearful imaginings, and self-created visions. This is how we establish accuracy.
This
article was excerpted from:
 The Gift: Understand and Develop Your Psychic Abilities
by Echo Bodine.
Reprinted with permission of the publisher, New World Library. ©2003.
http://www.newworldlibrary.com
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About the Author
Echo
Bodine is a renowned psychic, spiritual healer, and teacher. Her previous books
include
Echoes of the Soul and
A Still, Small Voice. She
lectures throughout the country on life, death, life after death, living by
intuition, and developing psychic abilities. Visit her website at www.echobodine.com
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