Myths about being psychic

Three Myths about Psychic Ability

Myth # 1: Only ‘Gifted’ People Can Develop Psychic Awareness

Clients often ask me ‘do you really think I could develop some psychic ability – is it possible for me?’

We all have the potential to be gifted psychics. Your intuition is your birth right, but for many of us our psychic senses diminish in childhood as they are not nurtured in the same way that our five physical senses are. Those who are psychic have either:

1. retained their psychic abilities from childhood
2. actively worked to re-awaken their intuition
3. undergone some sort of experience that has spontaneously unlocked their intuition, like a near-death experience

Myth # 2: Psychic Development is Scary Because You Have To Communicate With Spirits

I didn’t want to talk to spirits or see them - I was afraid of being startled.

Talking to disembodied spirits and seeing them is a big aspect of psychic awareness. But I later learned that there are other ways to tune into Spirit. Psychic awareness can also be gut feeling (Clairsentience), an inner knowing (Claircognizance) or listening to your inner voice (Clairaudience).

If you’re a beginner in psychic development, you can begin by tuning into your own Higher Self. You don’t have to talk to disembodied spirits to do that.

Your Higher Self is already communicating with you constantly – whether you are perceive it is another matter. If you’re stuck in a job you hate with no escape in sight, your Higher Self may whisper to you ‘you know this job isn’t for you…why don’t you pursue your dream of writing a novel?’

This sense of knowing that you’re not fulfilling your purpose by working in a job you hate is just as much part of your extra-sensory perception as clairvoyance is.

You can begin developing psychic awareness just by allowing your Higher Self to guide you. Take note of what feels ‘right’ to you, on a deep level and take action accordingly. It is one thing receiving intuitive guidance, but acting on that intuitive guidance is something else entirely and can take a great deal of courage at times!

Myth # 3: All psychics are clairvoyant by definition

I thought that all psychics had to be clairvoyant. This was mostly because many professional psychics are natural clairvoyants.

Most clients do not primarily utilize the gift that we normally associate with being psychic – clairvoyance. Over the last several months around 35% of my clients have been primarily claircognizant (this means that their strongest natural psychic ability is claircognizance), 30% clairsentient, 30% clairaudient and only 5% of the people I read for were clairvoyant.

Many people haven’t heard of clairsentience and claircognizance (and few have heard of clairaudience), which is interesting because according to what I’ve seen over the past several months, these psychic gifts are so much more common than clairvoyance.

Does this mean that the people who aren’t naturally clairvoyant can’t be gifted psychics? No, what it means is that most people have a different psychic skill set from the one we’re used to hearing about most - clairvoyance. But clairvoyance is not the only skill to develop. Clairsentience, claircognizance and clairaudience are equally valid intuitive ‘vehicles’ too.

So now when clients ask me “do you really think I could be psychic?” – my answer is always yes, if you can do the following: identify your strongest psychic gift , honour and acknowledge the guidance you receive through that intuitive ‘vehicle’ and then make time to consciously develop it .

The rest will follow. Once you honour and develop your primary gift, you will find that other skills that once weren’t so natural to you will develop as well.