Are you a teenager or 20-something who sees auras, has recurring deja vu, feels the emotions of other people, has premonitions, sees people who have passed over or has other psychic experiences? If so, this video is for you.
I wasn’t brought up as a religious person. In fact, on our Easter holidays, when Mum and Dad would inevitably take my sisters and I to some camping ground in the Australian bush, you could frequently find me arguing with the local Christian group. They were the unofficial babysitters who provided free movies and activities for the kids and gave the adults some much-needed alone time.
From memory, my questions for these people usually featured the word ‘why’ a lot and relied heavily on rational and reasonable thought. I’m sure they cringed when they saw me coming and thought I was a pain in the backside.
My parents said we could decide what we believed when we grew up and, until then, our religion was officially Church of England. But we only went to church for weddings and there was definitely no Sunday School (thank goodness!).
As a teenager and then a younger adult I was a self-confessed atheist/agnostic. I guess I was hedging my bets with that stance.
A couple of years ago, a good friend (who’d known me in my 20s) asked me what I thought about God now. I’d just shared the story of my psychic awakening with her and I guess she was trying to get her bearings.
‘I’m not sure,’ I said. ‘I don’t believe in God like they teach you in the Bible and I still don’t buy into any religious doctrine. But I believe there is an energetic force that binds us all together.’
So I guess, despite all those cynical years spent harassing hapless Christians at the camping grounds, I have discovered faith after all. It is a faith that we are all connected; individual yet part of something bigger than ourselves. And I’ve realised that faith cannot be reasoned through. It is not about the rational mind. Instead it springs from a deep inner knowing based on what I’ve seen, felt and just know within my soul.
At 12 or 22 if you’d said I would learn we all have souls and return again and again to live in human form (thus explaining some of my déjà vu experiences), I would have dismissed your comments as fantastical. If you’d suggested I would eventually connect with spirit guides and family who’d passed over, I would have laughingly waved you away. And if you said I would uncover a strong capacity to feel what others were experiencing when they were nearby or even suburbs or oceans away, I would have felt very uncomfortable indeed.
But these days I know all those things to be true and I reflect on that mouthy teenager and shake my head. I gave those people in the campground such a hard time about their faith…and now I have discovered my own.
It’s funny how life turns out, isn’t it.
Imagine for a moment you are giant radio antenna positioned in the middle of a heavily populated area but someone forgot to tune you into a specific station. Instead your antenna is picking up signals from random and unidentified people and situations. It can feel like you’re picking up a radio play, the news, classic FM, rock and pop, and a chat show at random times for no obvious reason.
That’s what it can be like when you’re going through a psychic awakening.
You can be in the shower and suddenly have an insight that a friend of the family has been diagnosed with cancer. You can be sitting in a railway carriage and feel a huge lump in your throat and you’ll have to cough because the person two seats away isn’t speaking their truth to their travelling companion.
Other times you won’t have a clue where the feelings and thoughts come from because you won’t be tuned in properly. You’re just picking up signals from all over the place.
Are you supposed to do something with the scattered signals you’re receiving (if you can make sense of them)? Well, sometimes the information will be coming through to help you in some way, to give you an insight. But most of the time, at that early stage, you’re not supposed to do anything because you’re just picking everything that’s around you. You’re simply opening up to the energy that surrounds us all; you’re seeing and knowing things that a lot of people will never feel or notice. You’re beginning your psychic journey.
You may feel like you’re going a bit crazy – that’s pretty normal. But trust me, eventually you will learn how to manage the information you’re receiving. You will begin to understand when you’re picking up stuff just because you’re highly intuitive and then be able to let it go. You will also come to understand when the information you receive is for the purpose of helping you or someone else.
It’s a process that will take some time. But, as you become more skilled, you will increase your understanding of the metaphysical world you are part of and be able to use your gifts to help others and live your purpose. After all, that’s why you chose to have them in this lifetime.
If you’d like to meet other people who are beginning their psychic journey and learn how to manage your gifts in a safe environment, why not join us for the next Night for Spiritual Beginners in Brisbane on Wednesday, 15 April 2105. You can find out more and register at http://lucyandlife.com/a-night-for-spiritual-beginners/
I’d love to see you there.
A few years ago I found myself driving to Byron Bay for my first spiritual retreat.
A lot of weird things had happened to me that year – smelling things that weren’t there, knowing things I couldn’t know, and spiritual guides showing up when I least expected it (i.e. during meditation in my yoga class) – and my mentor said the retreat would be helpful.
I wasn’t so sure.
Most of my contact with psychics until that point had been with women who lived outside the mainstream. They weren’t like me. None of my friends were psychic. My mentor was more mainstream but even so, I wasn’t sure how I would fit into this world I was suddenly part of.
As I drove the 2.5 hours to Byron Bay, I kept saying ‘I’m not a weird hippie chick, I’m not a weird hippie chick’ over and over in my head. It’s not that I had anything against hippies (be whoever you want to be, I say) but I definitely wasn’t one.
I was a public relations professional who wore suits and loved stilettoes. I had no desire to live an alternate, off-grid lifestyle. Psychics in my mind conformed to a cliché that, it turned out, wasn’t real at all.
During the five-day retreat I was constantly surprised at how normal everyone was. In fact, a lot of them were just like me and came from all walks of life.
There were some with hippie-like tendencies but there were also business people, a senior government administrator, a counselor and a dress designer. Others worked in nutrition, teaching and a range of other professions.
They were mainstream, just like me.
The retreat helped me to understand that maybe I wasn’t so strange after all and I wouldn’t need to abandon my mainstream life just because I was psychic. I could still be me.
These days I frequently meet people who are psychic. I’ll find myself in conversation with someone at a wedding, in a workshop or even on a bus and serendipitously it will come out somehow. I’ll be chatting about that part of my life and suddenly they’ll be sharing their own experiences. Sometimes they will have been too cautious to tell anyone about it before. And as we chat, I’m able to reassure them that they are normal and not going crazy.
My psychic journey has been tumultuous in many ways and it’s been a challenge to balance my life with the gifts and insights that have opened up to me.
But I am still me.
So for all of you out there who see the spirits of those who have passed over, have insights about things you can’t possibly know, feel the emotions of others or have other psychic happenings, please know you are not alone. You are one of many who walk this planet living a mainstream life.
And being psychic doesn’t mean you have to be a weird hippie chick.
If you’d like to meet other people who are beginning their psychic journey, please join us for A Night for Spiritual Beginners on Wednesday, 18 March 2015 in Brisbane. There are still a few spots available and you can find out more at http://wp.me/Pirqj-g1
One of the upsides of being psychic is you are often more sensitive to the feelings of others. You will sometimes literally feel what they are feeling.
This can also be a downside because you will feel things you may not want to feel. And you may know things you don’t necessarily want to know.
It can be a challenging gift to manage particularly when you’re starting your psychic journey.
Several years ago, I was on holiday in another country when I was suddenly overcome with feelings of terror. I was on a busy street and knew I was completely safe. There was no rational explanation for how I felt.
While this was happening, I thought of my close friend Cadie* but I didn’t know why. The feeling eventually passed, but the next day I called Cadie back in Australia.
She told me that the day before (when I’d been feeling terrified) her abusive partner had been threatening her with a knife. I had felt her fear although I was thousands of kilometres away.
The information completely freaked me out and I told her off for allowing herself to get into that situation in the first place.
‘I never want to feel that again!’ I said angrily.
Of course, it wasn’t her fault I felt her stuff. We were very close and, knowing what I know now about my psychic connection, it wasn’t surprising that I should feel her emotions in that extreme situation.
My experience with Cadie wasn’t the first time I’d connected into the feelings of someone I cared about. And it has definitely happened since.
When you are emotionally close to someone you will be naturally more connected to what is happening for them. And, depending on how your psychic skills manifest, you may feel or sense what they are going through even if they are in another suburb, state or country. And let me be clear, you may not be seeking to connect with them, it will just happen out of the blue while you’re walking down the street, washing the dishes or sitting at your office desk.
When their situation is extreme, you may feel it very strongly. You may not know the details of the situation but you will feel what they feel.
Fortunately, as I’ve been on this psychic journey for a while now, I can understand what’s happening to me. But it’s still unnerving, particularly when there is usually nothing I can do to change what’s happening. I’ve just had to accept that it’s part of the psychic package I’ve been given, and I’ve learned to manage it accordingly.
If you’d like to learn more about managing your emerging psychic abilities and would like to connect with others who are on a similar journey, please join us at the A Night for Spiritual Beginners on Wednesday, 18 March 2015 in Brisbane. More details are available at http://wp.me/Pirqj-g1
* All names changed. Cadie made it out of the relationship in one piece and is now living a much happier life.