It Isn't What You Think It is

Movies certainly give a distorted view of what “being psychic” is all about. They present some funny ideas about psychics: all psychics can hear voices, “see” things that nobody else can see, predict the future, tell you what your fiancé is thinking, and move objects without touching them. Some psychics will even cast an evil spell on your boss (for an exorbitant fee). To be able to do all of these things would be a very tall order indeed! Well, that’s Hollywood for you!

So if being psychic is not about impressing people, what is it about? It’s about personal and spiritual growth. First you have to become aware of (1) who you really are beneath your thoughts of who you think you are, (2) how you are using your own energy to live your life, and (3) how other people’s energy may be invading your space and influencing your decisions and behaviors. It is in the process of learning these things that you can bring your spiritual and psychic talents to the forefront and use them to heal yourself, have meaningful communication with others, and create change and miracles. These are the real rewards of being psychic!

There is nothing magical or mysterious about being psychic. In fact, everyone (everyone!) is psychic. If you have a physical body, your body is sensitive to energy. What this means is that your body can feel the energy of someone else’s thoughts, emotions and feelings. So now, why is it that most people (you too?) don’t think that they can perceive other people’s energy? This is because when you were growing up, you didn’t get validated for your experiences, so you started to ignore them yourself. When you may have told your parents that you knew what they were really thinking, they might have responded, “Oh, don’t be silly!” Or worse, they might have yelled at or punished you for telling the truth. This would have caused you to close down your intuitive abilities really fast! In contrast, perhaps you got validated for doing well on school tests, or playing a musical instrument, thus encouraging you to continue to develop these skills.

There are several popular myths that may cause you to not see yourself as being psychic. Movies and books suggest very few people are psychic; and those who are psychic are also strange or eccentric. This is an invalidation of your sensitivities, so now you’ve closed them down and put a lock on them because you don’t want anyone to think you are crazy.

So how do you unlock and open up your spiritual gifts after all these years? Well, if you haven’t received much validation in the past, the first step is to learn how to get some validation. Every person has slightly different talents. Do you seem to know what people really mean when they are trying to explain themselves? Can you see the direction some situation is taking, and how it will end up? Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed by other people’s feelings or needs? These are all examples of being intuitively perceptive. Due to the reasons listed above, most people have a hard time learning how to validate themselves. Eventually after receiving validation from others, you’ll gain your certainty and be able to validate yourself!


Hurray! It's finally springtime in Seattle!
Madeline


www.PsychicAwakenings.com

Creating Change

People know that New Year’s resolutions are difficult to maintain and bad habits are hard to break.  It is generally believed that habits are deeply ingrained and probably integrated as part of your personality.  You can’t make yourself change.  How many times have you said to yourself:  “I really, really, really want to be _______________,” (fill in the blank: thinner, happier, smarter, kinder). You may have taken some new steps in the right direction, but after a while reverted back to your old ways of operating in the world.

     
The reason that personal change is so difficult is because the underlying cause of undesirable feelings and behaviors is “energy” that is sticking firmly somewhere in your space.  The word energy is a rather vague, new-age-y word, so let me describe it in a more meaningful way.  You’ve probably have been able to definitely discern that when someone is yelling at you it means that they are angry because you can physically feel the energy of their anger.  It makes your body feel very uncomfortable; you will want to respond by running away or fighting back.  Before that person made the anger energy visible by venting it, it was inside their body. Now if they don’t vent the energy at all, it stays inside the body.  The energy of this anger can then become the cause of undesirable behaviors such as being rude to people (or in extreme cases, manifest as self-mutilating behaviors or disease).  This energy has to be released in a safe way before any change or healing can take place.  Anger is just one example of energy that can be stuck in your space.  The energy of guilt or shame or responsibility (just to name a few) can also be the basis for behaviors or feeling that you wish to be rid of.  So if you want to change, you have to release energy, let go of it, de-energize it. 

     
When you release energy, you create more open space within your body and aura.  You can fill up that space by replenishing your energy and healing yourself.  I’ve seen people create many changes and miracles by releasing energy and replenishing with their own energy.  You can’t force change, but you can create the space for change to happen.  This change can happen effortlessly.  It is usually accompanied by a transitional time (“growth period”) as your body gets used to the new energy. 

     
We have several techniques for releasing energy, but that is fodder for another post! 

Energy Exercise:
Sit in a comfortable chair with a straight back, put your feet flat on the floor, and take a deep breath. Imagine that you can see the debris swirling around you. If you would like to know where it came from, just grab a piece and look on the back for a name. It's probably someone you know, but not always. Next, imagine that there is a giant vacuum down at the center of the earth, and the hose extends all the way up to you so that you can use it. Turn the vacuum on and let it suction the debris out of your space. You can also use the nook and cranny attachment to get in-between the layers of your aura. There is also the soft brush attachment for the days when you need a gentle cleaning.


Sorry I've been gone too long. It's nice to be back.
Madeline


http://www.PsychicAwakeningsSeattle.com

Space Beings in Human Bodies

“This is Major Tom to ground con-trol,
  I'm stepping through the door  
  And I'm floating in the most peculiar way
  And the stars look very dif-fer-ent today...”   David Bowie

We are space beings. Without our physical bodies, we can quite easily move through space and time. You may have glimpsed this sometimes at night during your dreams and astral travel. Out on the astral, you get to experience the “oneness” of the universe. You are one with everything, thus being able to bring to yourself anything you want. We take human bodies to learn how to do this on the physical plane; how to create more comfort for your physical body, free expression of your emotional body, and better awareness of yourself as a Spirit in a body.  The first lessons are about learning how to be in your body in order to master life on earth.

Since we are used to being space beings, as described above, it’s quite a challenge for everyone to stay focused in their body on planet earth. Some people seem to have a strong desire to return to the peaceful calmness of space. There are many forces that seem to be in cahoots to keep us from being comfortable in our own skins. From the first days of your life, parents and family members put their intense attention points on your little body and especially in your head, pushing you out (and therefore back into space). Throughout our lives, whenever we talk to someone else, we get right in each others’ head. Anytime you forget what you were just about to say, it’s because someone else just put their attention right in the middle of your head.

A second factor that keeps us out of our bodies is that we receive a lot of validation for thinking, thinking, thinking. When you think, your attention goes out of your body and to whatever you are thinking about. Usually we are thinking about the past or the future, so you are not vibrating in the present. When you are not present in your body, it feels neglected. When you are not present, your brain and mind are quite susceptible to being programmed by other peoples’ beliefs.

The third reason for being “spaced out” is physical and emotional pain in your body. Pain really knocks you for a loop! Of course pain is always a sign that you are ignoring something that is going on. It’s a cycle: the more you ignore the issue, the more it hurts, the more you space out and ignore it, and then the more it hurts.

A fourth dynamic that keeps you out of your space is that as you get older, you receive fewer spiritual hellos and less validation for just being who you are. Instead, you get inundated with your family’s expectations and beliefs of who you are and how you should be. It takes truly enlightened parents to say to their teenager: “Hello, I see You, and I totally accept you the way you are!”

The last item I'm going to mention (but there certainly are more on your own personal list) is the dozens of items each day that attract your attention, and dis-tract you from focusing on the things you would rather be doing.  Advertisements, the internet, people intruding on your time are just a few of the things that can suck you attention and energy.  These are all good opportunities for learning how to set good boundaries for yourself.

All of the experiences described above are normal, everyday occurences.  They are the basis of how we are trained to interact with the world around us. There is nothing "wrong" or "bad" about them.  However, it is by becoming aware of these energy forces and learning how to manage them that you can develope authentic communication with, and knowledge of, yourself.  When you really know yourself, then you'll be able to integrate your spiritual "space-being"awareness and gifts into your "human-being" body. It's the best way to feel alive and enthused.

Exercise: Sit in a straight-back chair, put your feet flat on the ground, close your eyes, and take a deep breath.  Send down a wide grounding cord of energy deep into the earth.  Visualize pulling your aura, or your personal space, in close around you.  Put your attention behind your eyes, in the center of your head.  If it's easy to be there, congratulations!  You are well on your way to knowing your authentic self.  If you feel like something is pushing you out, that is foreign energy keeping you from knowing yourself.  Here are some suggestions for getting help to clear your head: 1) get a massage (have the masseuse really work the back of your neck well); (2) have an accupuncture session, and (3) jump into a cold pool.

Go Out and Have Some Fun,
Madeline

http://www.psychicawakeningsseattle.com/
 

It's A Good Time to Let Go

It’s January 1, we are deep into winter, the days are about as short as they’re going to get, and we are in the shadow of Mercury Retrograde. Each of these on its own indicates that it is a good time to let go of many things. All of the above events happening concurrently create the perfect ambience for letting go. Take advantage of this opportunity to resolve or release the situations in your life and create fresh space for the new. Letting go results in a healing for you. Think on these things:

First, move out any energy stuck in your space that vibrates at a level that is no longer meaningful or appropriate for you: relationships, jobs, residences, and limiting beliefs.
       It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security        in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. Alan Cohen

Second, let go of effort and making it perfect. You cannot create from a space of effort. It is okay to put energy into your situations and projects, but stay relaxed. It’s also a good idea to have faith in the process and your ability to create.
         By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning. Lao Tzu

Third, let go of anger and grudges. Non-forgiveness will destroy you from the inside out every time. At the very least, forgive yourself.
        As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind. Isabelle Holland

Let go of things that didn’t happen that you wanted to happen. You have to step out of the disappointment and move on.
        Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.    Marsha Sinetar

Exercise: Write down everything you would like to release, even the things you don't feel ready to release.  Put the paper on a fire-proof plate and light it with a match or candle.  Focus on the intention of releasing while you watch it burn.  Afterwards sit for a few minutes with your eyes closed. Evoke the feelings of contentment and wholeness.  Let these feelings fill the new space you have created for yourself by releasing. 

     And Spring arose on the garden fair,
     Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
     And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast
     rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
     —Percy Bysshe Shelley

Wishing You Many Blessings for 2011,
Madeline

http://www.psychicawakeningsseattle.com/

Have You Read a Good Book Lately?

Many people want to know if I have my students read any textbooks as part of their psychic training. Well, we use something much better than text books; real people are our books. Reading people has much in common with reading books, but it is so much more that the word “reading” just barely begins to describe it.
When you read a book, you look at symbols and pictures that are printed on a page and, hopefully, you understand what the author is trying to express. When you read a person, you look their aura and also interpret the significance of the symbols and pictures that you see there. In the first case, you use your eyes to see the symbols and your intellect to decipher what the author is trying to express. In the second case, you use your clairvoyance to see the symbols, and your intuition to glean their meaning.
There are other ways that reading books and auras are similar. Books and auras both contain a tremendous amount and variety of information and confer much wisdom and knowledge upon the readers. Many books give you a glimpse of how other people live, think and feel. So do auras!
Even though I really enjoy reading books, reading auras is much more exciting to me because it is interactive. You read the aura, you transmit the information to the readee, this information helps the readee to shift or raise their energy, which in turn helps you to raise your energy also. As the energy rises, the spiritual communication becomes deeper, and the participants feel more real and alive.
Reading certain books can help you to improve your knowledge, shift your energy, help you to be a better person, and give you a healing. When you read an aura, you communicate the information you see to your client, and you can watch as he or she receives all of these benefits right in front of you! Using your clairvoyance and clairsentience, you can see and feel the tremendous shift and healing that the readee experiences. What really puts the cherry on top of the ice cream sundae is that you, the reader, also receive the same benefits as the readee, plus the additional benefit of honing your spiritual skills of clairvoyance and spiritual communication. By honing these skills, you become more capable of communicating to the readee in a way that helps them along their spiritual path. The healing comes from the spiritual “Hello” that you give to the readee. This Hello acknowledges them as being a very capable spirit in a body. It helps them to rediscover their authentic self, and to be more aware of what and how they are creating in their lives. In other words, they take another step closer to being able to use their personal power, and come closer to owning their own spiritual freedom and truth. These are the reasons why I read auras, and why I teach other people to read auras. To paraphrase a common saying: “So many auras, so little time!”
So is your life a mystery novel, a work of fiction, a romance novel, a thriller, or a combination thereof? Get an aura reading someday soon and find out.
Exercise: Ask a friend to show you a photograph of another one of his/her friends whom you have never met.  Sit down in your private space (away from your friend), put your feet flat on the floor, take a deep breath and send a grounding cord of your energy deep into the earth.  Put your attention in the center of your head, then look at the photograph again. With certainty and without any effort,  simply write down your perceptions about the person in the picture.  Ask your friend to read what you have written and give you feedback.  You and your friend might both be surprised at what you came up with.  If you want more real practice, you're always welcome to come to one of our Reading Clinics where everyone gets a chance to participate in giving a reading, and to receive a reading.  It's the best way to get some validation for your abilities!
Enjoy Your Holidays,
Madeline
http://www.psychicawakeningsseattle.com/

Can You Relate...to Yourself?

Many people are unaware of their psychic and spiritual abilities because they just don’t know and understand themselves very well. Does the question “Who are you?” provoke a sense of self or a feeling of confusion? There are many obstacles to developing a genuine relationship with and understanding of yourself. Your life is busy with responsibilities and obligations (mostly to other people). You probably had very poor role models consisting of people who constantly berated themselves and made decisions that were not in their own best interest. Many of us are raised without recognition and validation of our true spiritual nature. So you were probably not taught how to see yourself as the invaluable spirit that you are your, much less even how to relate to yourself as an infinite being with unique gifts. In addition to not being able to use their psychic gifts, the lack of this most basic relationship causes many people much confusion, grieve and unhappiness.


Relationships take work. Getting to know someone entails giving and taking equitably, appreciating each other’s strong points, and having compassion for any weaknesses. You make time to spend with your friends doing the things that you enjoy doing together. As the result of sharing quality time with friends and family, you develop a deeper bonder and a stronger sense of the person they really are beneath the various roles that they are playing in their life.

Living with one or more other people has its own special challenges. Everyone has to share the living spaces, and hopefully everyone has some private space that they can retreat to when necessary. Sometimes you just need to get away from everyone and find your own space. The one person you can never get away from is yourself. How is your relationship with yourself? Do you appreciate your strong points and have compassion for your weaknesses? Are you able to spend quality time with yourself, developing a deeper bond with and sense of yourself and your intuitive abilities?

Creating a relationship with yourself is not something you can analyze into happening. It comes through experiencing it. Just like relating to good friends, it can come quite naturally with a little planning. You have to create a consistent, regular time and space to do the things you enjoy doing with yourself. You have to appreciate your strengths and have compassion for the parts of you that you wish were different. On an energy level, you have to move everyone else’s energy (i.e., opinions, expectations and demands) out of the space reserved for communicating with yourself. To this end, here are a few exercises with which you can experiment:


Exercise #1: Look in a mirror. Make eye contact with yourself and say, “You know, I really am a pretty cool person!”


Exercise #2: Do whatever you usually do to move everyone out of your space. Jumping into a pool of cold water is good for this. That clear-headed feeling you get is the result of everyone else jumping ship, so to speak. Everyone is psychic. When you jump into the pool, they unconsciously experience it as a drowning feeling!


Exercise #3: After doing exercise #2, spend a few minutes appreciating your uniqueness. This awareness will probably not last very long, but it is necessary to balance out the energy you put into wishing you were different.

Take Good Care of Yourself,
Madeline

http://www.psychicawakeningsseattle.com/

Learning How to Read Auras

A question I often hear is “How do you teach people to be psychic?"  If you have a body, you already are sensitive. I don’t teach you how to be psychic. I teach you how to interpret and use the information that you already receive. Many people feel that they might be psychic because they “see” images and colors around other people. When they don’t know how to deal with this information, they end up feeling confused and afraid that they might be crazy. Please be reassured: you’re not crazy; you’re psychic!

When you are first learning how to read energy, it can be very useful to create a pre-defined structure to help you organize the information. For example, when looking at colors in the aura, you can decide beforehand that when you see green, it means growth or change. When you see orange, it can mean healing energy to you. As a beginning reader, you can do a simple reading like this and it may be exactly what the person being read needs to hear that day. It may even be of great value to the readee. Very likely he or she may not be able to hear or understand anything more detailed than that.


As you become more confident and sophisticate in your reading abilities, you can go deeper into the information: “I see that you are experiencing much growth in your ability to communication more authentically with your close friends.” “I see orange in the third layer of your aura. Your motivation for much of what you do is to help other people with their issues.” As your reading skills deepen, you will attract more clients who reflect back to you the issues that you yourself are working on. Not only will you be providing valuable information to your client, you will also be healing yourself.


The next step in reading energy moves away from the concrete method of “blue always means this” and “red always means that.” When reading at this level, when you see a particular color or symbol, you ask yourself “What does this color mean for this person at this time?” or “What does this symbol mean for this person today?” Many times the information just comes to you without having to ask first. Just as in the simple reading, your client shows you what he or she needs to hear that day.


Here’s an exercise you can do with a friend who is also interested in psychic development. Sit down across from each other, with your feet flat on the floor. Take a deep breath, ground yourselves deep into the earth, and focus your attention right behind your eyes. First just ask yourself, “What is the most predominant color is his (or her) aura?” If you think you don’t “see” anything, say to yourself “If I could see a color, what color would it be?” After you get a color, ask yourself, “What does this color mean for this person today?” When you are done with the first color, you can look for other colors, then trade and have your friend look for your colors. If you think that you and your friend already know each other too well for this to work, you may surprise yourselves at the information that comes up.


Blessings,

Madeline

http://www.psychicawakeningsseattle.com/