Clairvoyance Exercise

This is an exercise that we did in our September Six Sensory Meeting.  We usually begin our meeting with a guided meditation to raise our energy and clean our energetic field. This prepares you for the psychic work you are about to do.  If you would like to listen to the meditation we did during this meeting you can go to it here  http://www.lmk88.org/by-lisa-k/lisas-corner/meditation-from-six-sensory.html  The meditation is an actual live recording so there is some background noise.

This is an exercise to practice your clairvoyance skills.

1. Find a magazine that predominantly has pictures and photographs.  There should be pictures on almost every page. For example, National Geographic would good for this exercise, The Economist would not. 
2. Have some post-its or small pieces of paper to be book marks handy, you will be using three.
3. Number your book mark pieces of paper 1 through 3.
4. Using your journal, write down on one page 1, the next page 2 and the next 3.  You will be writing what you ‘receive’ on each page for 3 pictures.  Have your journal and pen or pencil ready to write on. Make sure you are on page 1. Then place your magazine next to it.
5. The first step is to close your eyes and take your first book mark, then randomly select a page in the magazine, without looking at the page in the magazine put your first bookmark there.  Keeping your hand on the page, but not looking, put your left hand, or the hand you do not write with, palm down or fingers down or just one finger (index or other) onto the page.  
6. Be careful not to peek!
7. With your other hand, pick up your pen or pencil and get ready to write.  
8. If you want you can close your eyes, but you don’t have to.  Now with your hand on the page, notice what images pop up in your mind.  They may be shapes, or colors, or textures, or something else that may be visual to you.   Draw what you see in your mind’s eye, even though you may not be good at drawing, you can still draw shapes, like a circle, or a square.  You can write down words if they describe what you are seeing.  Be as complete as possible.  You may tell or ask yourself, or your guides or angels, show me what is on this page, or “What images are on this page?” 
9. Then repeat this with pages 2 and 3 and bookmarks 2 and 3. 
10. Only when you are done with all 3 pages you can look at the pictures. 

It is important to only look at your photos when you have finished all 3 pictures.  This is because you will get better as you go along, and just get into the flow.  Don’t judge what you are doing, just write whatever you get.

Look very carefully and see what you picked up and how it matches the photograph.  You may pick up a predominant color, or a general shape.  Remember, you may also be picking up images that are on the opposite page, that is the page that was resting on top of your hand, not under it!  Don’t be disappointed if what you thought you saw over all in the scene is not what is in the picture.  More importantly, look at the shapes you drew, where you drew them, or perhaps the words you picked and where you put them on the paper.
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Energy Exploring Exercise

The language of our spirit is spoken to us through our intuition and intuition communicates with us through the language of energy.  That is why I love to explore and learn about energy.

If you want to learn about energy, the best way to do that is to use your physical senses to feel energy in your environment or with items and places that have strong energy.  You may like to work with crystals because different minerals have different energies that you can experience and explore.  You can also visit old sacred sites where  energies have accumulated over time by many people.  The best sites are the ones that are still in service that people still frequent.

Because the energies of crystals or sacred sites can be strong, it is easier to notice energy with crystals or at sacred sites and get to know how energy feels to you.   If you don’t have access to crystals or sacred sites, you can still experience energy just in your every day environment.  You just need to be more aware of how your own energy feels to you as you move through your environment.   While the energy changes may be more subtle for you in each location, you can still learn from it.   I wrote generally about exploring energy in a previous post called Exploring Energy and described how different energies may feel to you.  In this post we'll go over how to actually feel these energies, and what are the best steps to explore energy as an exercise.

As you become better at noticing and then ‘reading’ energy, you will be able to follow a trail where it guides you to and you’ll find that more synchronicities are likely to occur.  You may even receive more messages!   That is how your spirit and the Universe speaks to you.   Being open to the possibilities and having the intention to be aware of energy, is the first step, the next is to go out and seek out energetic experiences!  That isn’t too difficult because opportunities to experience them are always happening.  Here is a process that you can use to explore energy.

Before you begin to explore a place energetically, you should pause to center your mind on how you are feeling at the moment, what your body feels like and what you feel emotionally.   Are you calm?  Are you tense?  Are you content or neutral?  Take note of how you are feeling.  This is your ‘control’ state.  Sensing energy is being aware of the changes in how you feel.  If you are going to sense energy in, say, a store or a building, pause outside a moment and check in on how your body feels to you before you enter, then go inside.

My usual method of exploring any place energetically is to walk around the inside perimeter of a space, and as I do so, I am sensing what I’m feeling, both physically and emotionally.   I’m also aware of the thoughts that are going through my mind.  Because I am claircognizant, that is, I pick up a knowingness, I am open to what thoughts pop-up subtly and what my inner voice may be saying to me.   To be open to those thoughts, your mind needs to be in an receiving state, which I would say is like a state of “exploring.” It’s almost like you’re a detective, searching for clues, because the “clues” the energy gives you is often subtle.  It is therefore important that you are not thinking about your todo list, or what you’re going to have to eat later, for example.  You need to have a clear mind, one that is not running down a ‘one-way’ street, so to speak.

As I walk, I am sensing what I am drawn to, visually or feeling-wise. What looks attractive, what feels good?  What repulses you, what feels icky? What feels good may not look attractive, so be aware of all the things you are feeling, seeing and experiencing.   I once had the strongest divine energy experience come from a wooden statue of Mother Mary and Child, that was no longer recognizable as a figure, it looked like a big log of bumpy driftwood, but the energy there was amazing!

I can also ‘focus’ in on energy by relaxing, and taking a deep breath and releasing it, like a big sigh.  Breathing is important because it moves energy.  Your attention and intention tunes in the channel of the energy.  Once you think you’ve experienced a difference in how you’re feeling, you are tuning into the subtle shift of energy, you have now first noticed it.  Then you can relax, breathe, and tune into it by keeping your attention on where and how you felt the feeling in your body.  As you relax, and breathe, and attend to this feeling, it will grow stronger, which gives you a clear indication that it is really there.  You can then play with it by walking away from the space you felt it in, and then going back to it.  Focus on the feeling in your body, your body is the best psychic sensor around!

As you walk, you are sensing and being open to what you feel.  You are picking up energy that people have left behind in a particular place or space.   Sometimes the places themselves hold certain kinds of energy.  That energy may be geomagnetic or metaphysical.  You can also sense energy from the people who are in the space with you.  As you walk by them, you can notice what you are feeling from them.  Again, notice how your feelings change as they walk by and you become aware of them.  You can do this discreetly by not staring at them.  They may be walking by quickly, but their energy can still be felt even as they go by.   It’s just like someone wearing strong cologne, you can smell it even after they have passed you.  Focus on the feeling, or thought, that occurred as they pass you and it may grow stronger and give you more information or continue to grow in feeling.

If you have someone you can go on a sensing energy field trip with, that’s even better.  You can explore places together and discreetly share your findings.  Many times you’ll find that you pick up similar feelings even though you hadn’t shared them prior.   That helps you validate what you’re feeling.  Often times people will feel the same vibes from the same places or objects, or even people.   For example, if you are going to feel the energy of a store, go in and browse, “Just looking” is a good way to discreetly wander around.   You can do this with a friend, then when you leave, share what you felt. See if you both felt the same things in the same places.  Or you may feel different feelings, but in the same place giving you the same kind of information.   Maybe a spot makes you feel ‘icky’ and the same spot makes your friend feel cold.

After you’ve finished your exploration and leave, you can verify if what you felt in the space stays with the space and leaves you as you exit.  Later, you can share what you experienced with your friend or if you are alone, you can make notes in your journal on what you experienced and learned.  

Try it! You may discover that you are more sensitive than you realize and with more practice you will find you pick up more information.  

If you have questions, you can post them here and I'll answer them, or come back and share your experiences here in the comments section.  

Would you like to learn more, or perhaps join a psychic development group?  Go to my website to find out how you can learn to develop your psychic abilities on your own, with a group, or with me personally.  http://www.lmk88.org

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More Psychic Exercises You Can Do Alone

A few months ago I wrote a post on every day psychic exercises you can do alone.  I’m often asked by my students how they can continue to practice outside of class.  The best way to improve your psychic and intuitive skills is to practice in what is called a development circle, which is where a group of like mind people can come together to practice psychic development exercises together without fear of being ridiculed or judged.  The best circles should be supportive and have people who get along well.   If you are lucky enough to find a good circle, with the right kind of circle leader, individual personalities, and energy that suits you, that’s great!  Often times, there are no circles locally, or you may have difficulty finding like minds even if you wanted to start your own group.  Other times, you may have found a circle but the group just doesn’t feel right to you.   There are development exercises you can do on your own and have your intuitive hunches validated.  

I listed nine exercises in a previous post, and I thought I’d share more with you here.

The key is to practice on things where the results have no real consequences for you.  That is, they are small insignificant pieces of information that you are trying to pick up.  Trying to practice your psychic skills on big important question items is not a good idea since we have so much invested in the answer, our Egos and fears often get in the way.   In those situations we have difficulty picking up a clear and true intuitive message.  Once you have become more comfortable with practicing and seeing more positive results, you can then use your intuition on the tougher questions in life.  Even then, no one is one hundred percent accurate, so keep that in mind and don’t punish yourself when your hunch is a ‘miss’.

1. The next time you get on an elevator, see if you can pick up which floor other passengers are going to before they hit the floor button.  You may not get a specific number, for example, you may receive that they get off before you, or after you.  
2. At the bank or at the department store when you’re on one of those single lines that feed into a row of tellers or cashiers, see if you can pick up which teller or cashier you will be going to.  
3. Try to pick up how many or who will be in a class or meeting that you regularly go to.  Usually if you take a class regularly, you never know how many people will show up, or who will show.  You can use this opportunity to use your intuition.  Sometimes I just get a feeling for how many will be there, so I guess a number.  You may even be able to pick up how many men and how many women. 
4. Predict when someone will arrive, it could be a guest, or your spouse, or perhaps even a stranger in a public place.  See if you can intuit the time of arrival.  Or you can change it around, and predict when they are going to leave.   When I was in the hospital for a heart infection, I had to stay in the hospital for a week.  During that time I shared a room with another person.  Often, the other person stayed a day or two or longer.   One day a very impatient and crotchety old woman was brought to the other bed.   She complained about everything, the food, the light it was too bright or too dark, the room was too cold.   She called the nurses every two minutes to complain.  She had them bring her more blankets and when that didn’t help, she had them crank up the heat so much it was boiling in the room.  Even the nurses would come in and say, “Why is it so hot in here?”  I couldn’t rest and she was making me uncomfortable.  I asked my guides and angels “What is up with this woman?  How long is she going to be here?”  They told me, “She doesn’t need to be here, she’s leaving tomorrow.”   And sure enough, she really didn’t have anything wrong with her, she was just complaining so much the doctor sent her to the hospital, on her request, for observation.   She left the next day!

5. If you are going to meet a friend you can try to pick up what was their day like?  What mood will they be in? Then you can validate it by asking them or talking to them when you meet.

6. Where ever you are always sense energy!  I posted this last time, but it is so important!   This is a great exercise and something that is important in being tuned into your psychic senses.  Always be aware of how you feel from place to place, what you are picking up energetically.  If you are not sure of what energy feels like, you can just tune into how you are feeling either physically or emotionally and how that may change based on where you are standing or walking, or perhaps from who has come near you. Then check to see how you feel when you move away from the place where your energy or feelings shifted.

7. You can also use a deck of cards, a regular deck, to see if you can pick up whether the card you draw will be red or black, or perhaps what suit.   Speaking of cards you can also purchase, what’s known as, Zener cards.  Zener cards were developed by a perceptual psychologist named Karl Zener.  He worked with a parapsychologist named J.B. Rhine to do some experiments with ESP.  These cards have a circle, plus sign, wavy lines, square and star on them, and the ‘test’ would be to predict what card will turn up as you flip them over.   

8. Teaser news headlines are good trigger points for practicing your intuition.  When you see a headline, try to pick up what the story is about, the details, what happened?   You can do this with the newspaper that you read online since there are always teasers with links to the entire story.   Or perhaps a TV news show where they tell you about an upcoming story.  See if you can pick up what the story is about before you read or see the detail.  Where did the news story occur?  Who was involved?  Can you pick up details of the scene?  I did this once for the announcement of Time Magazine’s man of the year, and posted it in a previous post here. 

These are all great, simple exercises you can do to keep your psychic skills in tuned, and practiced.   Remember practice makes perfect, and if not perfect, it certainly can greatly enhance your ability to pick up more psychic and intuitive messages!

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How psychic energy is processed in the human energy system

The following is an excerpt from a draft of my Masters Thesis in Metaphysics which will be a part of my PhD dissertation on Psychic Development.   All of this information is the basis for my teachings on psychic development.  

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How psychic energy is processed in the human energy system

The human energy system is comprised of energy that makes up both the physical body as well as the consciousness.   As mentioned earlier, the energies of the physical body are subtle physical fields that can be measured as electromagnetic fields  and are called L-fields.  The energies that comprise our thoughts and consciousness are subtle energies that never become physical but move and exist as fields of energy called the “thought field” or “T-field” (Dale, 2009, p. 116)  These T-field energies flow along the same pathways as L-Fields do, within, into and out of, the human energetic system.    Energy flows through our energetic system via pathways called meridians or nadis within the framework of our physical bodies as well as through our extended energetic field outside the boundary of our physical body through portals or channels called Chakras.  As mentioned previously, different Chakras are associated with channeling different kinds of psychic information, though the processing of the meaning of this information is not in the Chakras but interpreted by the brain.

Energy from our environment, which is not limited to just our immediate vicinity but goes beyond time and space,  is interacting with our own personal energetic system.   We are taking in energy from around us as well as sending out energy through our Chakras.   The flow of energy cycles through our energetic and physical bodies in a similar fashion to the circulatory system of our blood, only the energetic system is not a closed system the way our blood flows in our physical bodies.  It is an open system and where energy is exchanged with the energy outside of our bodies.   According to the Chinese, energy flows into our bodies enter our Taiji Pole  through the Crown Chakra or Baihui point at the top of our heads which takes in heaven energy and from the earth through the bottom of our perineum, which corresponds to our Root Chakra location, where the Huiyin point is.   Energy also enters our Taiji Pole through the rest of the Chakras that are in our energetic body   (Johnson, 1 Chinese Medical Qigong Therapy, 2002, p. 233 Vol 1.).  Chakras, again, act as portals for energy to flow into and out of our energetic systems.

This energy then fills the Taiji Pole, also known as our Energetic Core, which then flows into the three Dantians and then fills those Dantians like deep wells or pools of energy.  Energy is then held there to be redistributed through both the physical and energetic body via the nervous system, endocrine system, organs, blood for the physical body and then the channels and collaterals which are the meridians of the energetic body.   This flow is like the circulatory system of the heart, but the energetic system is an open system not a closed one like the one for our blood.  Energy flows into the physical and energetic body and then out, nourishing them.  (Johnson, Chinese Medical QiGong Therapy, 2000, p. 103)

Energy flows into our energetic system and then circulates within us, nourishing our energy where we need it and bringing in with it energetic information that we sense and interpret.   That interpretation within the brain is where we process and extract our psychic information.

How the brain actually does this is explained later in the paper.  By understanding the mechanism of psychic processing within the brain we can better understand what exercises and practices we can do to develop our psychic abilities.

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How Psychic Messages Appear

When we watch experienced psychics or mediums work, particularly on TV, we think, oh my gosh!  Look at all that detailed information they are getting, it's like they're reading a book!

But what psychics are receiving are bits and pieces of information, often symbolically.   The only difference is that experienced psychics and mediums have learned what the bits and pieces of information mean and can put them together to make sense of it all for the person they are reading for.    

You can only do this by practicing your psychic process often enough to understand how you personally receive psychic information and what it means to you.   One example of a symbol having meaning is working with colors.  Colors that you see in your mind's eye or even physically when you are receiving psychic messages can have meaning that you've associated with each color.  For example, for me, red means anger, blue can be emotion, and green healing.   When I see a color during a reading, I know that it's associated with these meanings.  I can then gather more information, or pieces of psychic messages and put it together to make sense for the person I'm reading for. 

As you practice your psychic awareness and how you pick up information, you will begin to see how information is revealed to you.  The more you practice the more you'll learn what the symbols and signs mean, and, most importantly, you may also see how the information you receive is accurate, even though it seems wrong!

Here is an example.  One morning in December on the TODAY show, Time magazine was about to announce it's "Person of the Year" for 2011.   Of course, being a television show, they tease you with what's coming up, then they make you wait until later in the program.  So in the meantime, while I was waiting I thought I'd see if I can intuitively pick up who it is.  I'm always looking for opportunities to practice my intuition.  I then became distracted with my morning tasks and I forgot about it, then the story popped up on the show that it was going to be the next item coming up and just a minute before they showed who it was I thought, oh I have to psychically pick this up, who is it?  My "pop-up" image in my mind's eye was a silhouette of a young man with very blond highlights in his hair - but the 'roots' were kind of brownish, like that guy on Diners, Dives and Drive-Ins where the hair in the image was sticking up like his too.   The silhouette was of a narrow oval head, and I couldn't see the face, it was all blurred out, so I couldn't figure out who it was.   I thought, who the heck is that?  It must be wrong....then they showed the front cover of the magazine:

Click on this link to see the cover.  or you can Google "Person of the Year 2011"

So the moral of the story is, don't dismiss anything that you receive.  The best thing is to write down what you get so you can refer to it later.   As you can see, you may be getting correct information, even though your left brain, or logic, says, nah that can't be.   

When you are practicing, write what you receive down, don't edit anything, however small, outrageous, or illogical it may seem.  That will be the only way that you will know how you receive information.  When you practice and start to see how your messages come to you, and usually they are quick and fleeting or the first thing that comes up, then you can hone in on that feeling, or that state of mind.  Then the next time you get a message you will notice it rather than dismiss it or ignore it.  

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Working With Energy to Develop Your Psychic Skills - Part 2

This is Part 2 of Working With Energy to Develop Your Psychic Skills blog entry.  This post explains the next 2 steps in working with energy to develop your psychic skills which are to learn how to sense energy through both our psychic and physical senses and to learn how to interpret the energetic messages you receive to make sense of them consciously.

Our second step in working with energy to develop our psychic senses is to learn how to sense energy and work with it.   One of the best ways to learn how to sense energy is to practice energy healing.   I was very drawn to energy healing early on, not because I wanted to be an energy healer, but because I was curious about energy healing and I also felt guided to learn more about it.  I am now certified in Crystal Resonance Therapy, Integrated Energy Therapy, I am a Reiki Master Teacher and I’m currently a student of Medical QiGong Therapy.   Over the years, the energy healing work and studies I’ve done have helped me tremendously in knowing what energy feels like to me.   Of the 5 modalities of energy healing I’ve studied, I would say Reiki was the easiest to learn, and is the most accessible.  You can learn Reiki almost any where around the world these days.  Some of the other energy healing certifications I’ve studied take years to complete.  What energy healing helps you with is feeling the energy as it flows within you and how to feel it in your hands.  Not all teachers will help you focus on working with energy in their Reiki class, but as a Reiki teacher, I do teach you how to feel it and how to work with it because I feel it is important for you to try to experience how the energy feels.   Just having the opportunity to experience how energy feels in your body and hands will help you get to know how to sense energy, and how to move energy.

Aside from energy healing, you can also practice sensing energy.  The way energy feels in your body is key for psychic development because it is the shifts in energy that you feel that give you information psychically.   You can also pick up energetic messages from objects, such as people, places, items or anything physical, or even non-physical.   People who are negative, or have evil intent, will give off energy that you can feel long before you encounter them or get close to them.   To learn how this energy would feel to you is important so you can know to stay away from them.   I often energetically sense what foods would be okay for me to eat if my stomach is out of sorts.  I can sense what foods would even make me feel better by sensing the energy of the food and connecting it to my stomach even if it’s food I’ve never eaten before.  I’m usually right.   When you are more skilled, you can even sense the energy of a place and pick up information about the people who live or work there.   I have a fun exercise that I did once, just to practice.   One day, a few years ago, I went to visit my husband’s office.  It was the first time I was there and since I arrived right after everyone had gone home for the day, the office was empty.   I told my husband, that I wanted to walk around the office a bit and see if I could sense the personalities of the people who sat at each desk, just by tuning into the energy left there.   I walked by each desk and was able to accurately describe each person’s personality by the energy they left at their desk where they work all day.

There are a couple of ways you can learn how to feel energy and what energy feels like in your body from a place or an object.   First, you can work with crystals.  Crystals are amplifiers of harmonic energy, meaning that the energy they emit is harmonized to one kind of resonance.  That is due to the crystalline structure within the stone.  I can’t go into the science of that right now, but you can learn more about that in my Crystal class.   By holding different crystals in your hand, you may be able to feel the different energy vibrations they emit.  I’ve done this with many people by giving them several types of crystals to hold.  Some people who were doubtful, or don’t usually feel energy were surprised to find that they could feel the energy in the stones.   Of course, for the doubters I would pick stones that are known to have strong energy fields.

Crystals give you a good way to practice what energy feels like in your physical body and  helps you focus your awareness on a particular part of you, which in this case would be your hand.  You should expand your awareness to how energy feels in your body or different places in your body.   Focusing on how a part of you feels is key to being able to be aware of the subtle feelings you pick up psychically.  Initially, you should be practicing your awareness of how you physically feel, later you can work on how energy shifts your emotional feelings.   Learning how to notice how your muscles feel, is a good place to start; ask yourself, do they feel tense, relaxed or even sore.  Which muscle feels sore?  Where does it feel tense?  A good practice is to do a relaxation meditation where you focus on each part of your body and relax it consciously.   I plan to release a relaxation meditation which will help you become aware of your body’s feelings, as well as be a powerful way to relax and heal your body.  So be on the look out for that.

Another way you can practice sensing energy in your body is to notice how you feel when you are out and about.   For example, if you were in a mall, you can walk into different stores, try to notice how each store makes you feel, what is different about the feeling of each place.  You may notice that you feel a certain emotion, or just a gut feeling.  Each place will feel different to you, if you stop to notice.  You can just pause and tune into your body after you’ve taken your first steps inside.  That is the best way, because once you’ve spent some time there, your feelings may get used to being there.   It is the change in your feelings that you’ll want to notice.  You can even walk out again to see if you can sense the difference.   Of course, you can do this while pretending that you are just a shopper, rather than someone playing with sensing energy.

What does energy feel like?  The feeling of energy is very subtle and it’s the same for your psychic or intuitive messages.  They are very subtle and almost unnoticeable.  They go by very quickly, and sometimes you even have to think, did I really feel something?  By practicing your sensing energy and then being able to open up to that energy, you can amplify it, so it is more noticeable to your conscious mind.  Once you amplify it, by being aware of it, it will become clearer to you that it’s there and you can then discover what the energy actually means to you, that is, whether it’s a good energy or a not so good one.   Energy can feel like buzzes or tingles, or you may feel a slight temperature difference.  Sometimes the energy feels like a change in the atmosphere, as if the air has gotten heavier or lighter.   You may feel a rush go up your leg or down your spine.  Or you may get, what Doreen Virtue calls, angel bumps, which are like goose bumps you get when you’re cold, but your not cold, it’s just energy.  Sometimes the energy is an emotional feeling, you may feel tense, or sad, or heavy in your heart, or you may feel uplifted.  If you are on the look out for these energetic sensations you may not be able to pin point a reasonable physical explanation for it.  For example, you may be out and about somewhere feeling good and healthy, and suddenly you feel tense or ill for no apparent reason, or you may feel a buzzing in your legs as you’re standing in line at the grocery store.  It may be that you are picking up metaphysical energy from someone or something.

The third step in working with energy to develop your psychic abilities, is to be able to interpret what the different energies you feel mean.  After you have become aware of how to sense energy and you’re able to practice feeling it, and even moving it, you can then move onto interpreting the messages that the different energies bring you.  One of the mistakes people make in trying to learn how to receive psychic messages, is that they believe the messages will come to them in complete sentences and great detail.   This is because when you go to someone who is a very experienced picking up and interpreting psychic messages, they sound like they are getting downloads of detailed information as if it were a narrated story.  I assure you, they are not.  What they are receiving is bits and pieces of messages, which may be feelings, a popup image or a word or phrase.   They are the detectives in working with this information and putting it together, to make sense of it for someone else.

When you receive psychic messages or energetic feelings, you receive them mostly in the right hemisphere of your brain.  This is the part of your brain that is more abstract and processes information in parallel, rather than sequentially.  It is also the part of your brain that cannot put words to meaning.  So information comes in pieces and impressions.  Your left hemisphere, which is the logical side that thinks in words and sequences, then takes those impressions and interprets them.   You can trigger your impressions by using your left hemisphere, which is your logical conscious mind, to ask questions to your self, and then receive more impressions to help add more pieces to the puzzle.  Eventually, you can put the puzzle together to make sense.

For example, when I was in my husband’s office, as I was walking down one row of cubicles, I felt a buzzing energy around my head, some of the energy felt like it was mostly in the front of my head, like I was thinking quickly and a lot.  Along with that feeling was a sense of tension in my back along my spine, almost as if someone was behind me waiting to pounce on me.  In asking myself what do these feelings mean to me?  The impression I received as an answer, was a feeling of competition and a frantic effort to gain something.   The feelings were consistent from cube to cube and I also sensed a feeling that they were connected.  So I concluded that the people who sat in the cubes that had the same feeling were working together as a team.   It turns out I was right, the people who sat there were in the same group who were working together in a highly competitive bid to win business which had a short timeframe.

The key to making sense of your psychic impressions of energy is to be able to sense the impressions first, rather than spin a long tale around a guess that you’ve created in your left brain or logical mind.   It is a constant balance of going back and forth between your right brain and your left brain.   But, that’s a topic for more advanced psychic development.   For now, the first step is to get to know how to feel energy and how to work with it.

So this was a relatively short explanation of how to work with energy to develop your psychic skills.  Energy work and psychic development is a huge subject and one that I will be writing more about in the future for my book and teaching in my workshops.  I hope that it’s given you some insight on how to work with your energy and the energy around you to develop your psychic and intuitive skills.

copyright (c) 2012 Lisa K.

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Working With Energy to Develop Your Psychic Skills - Part 1

When I first began working on my intuition and psychic skills, energy was always mentioned as important, and once I knew how important it was, I didn’t know how to work with energy much less how to feel or sense energy.  I used to wonder, how do you interact with ‘energy’?  Since then, I’ve discovered the answers to those questions and today we’re going to go over a few ways to work with your energy to enhance your psychic skills.

Knowing that energy was really important to building psychic skills, I began to study the  human energy system and how to work with it.    I wanted to learn how energy feels, how to move it, work with it and how energy is connected to psychic abilities. The study of this metaphysical energy is a huge topic.  From QiGong, which is the Chinese  study of Universal energy and how it works, and modern metaphysical energy researchers like, Barbara Brennan, along with many other studies, I’ve put together a summary of things you can do to cultivate your energy and your ability to work with it to assist your psychic development.   The interesting thing is that many of the practices you would consider to be spiritual are actually practices that naturally increase your psychic abilities, such as meditation, mindful intention, which can be seen as prayer, and eating foods that are more natural and closer to the earth.   Many of the eastern philosophies have said that people who are highly evolved spiritually naturally have psychic powers such as telepathy, clairvoyance, and even bilocation, which is the ability to be in two places at once.   In spirituality, the goal is not to become a supernatural psychic, those abilities are just a by product of our human ability to evolve into a more wholly spiritual being and ultimately be enlightened.  Being enlightened or more spiritually evolved is really the goal.

Working with energy to enhance your psychic skills involves similar steps to being more connected to spirit, or being more spiritual.  Here are three steps to working with energy to develop your psychic skills.  The first step is to work with our physical and energetic bodies to keep it clean and healthy energetically.   The second step is to learn how to sense energy through both our psychic and physical senses.  The third step is to learn how to interpret the energetic messages you receive to make sense of them consciously.  I’ll explain how and why each of these steps are important. 

The first step in working with energy involves taking care of both your human energy system, which is your energetic body, and your physical body.   The reason for this is because the best psychic receiver is your entire human system.   You are designed by nature to absorb, pick up and interpret psychic messages.   The good thing about ways to enhance your body to be more psychic is that it is also good for your general health!   There are three things you can do for your energetic health, the first is eat well, the second is to move your body and the third is to still your mind and focus your thoughts to be able to clear and move energy. 

The energy in the food you eat is also the energy that your body and your energy field absorbs.  So having a good meal of foods that are energetically clean allows your body to absorb the best nutrients and energy more easily from what you’re eating.  The healthier the plants and live stock were before you eat them, the higher and cleaner their energy will be.  For example, that means eating more organic foods that are grown without pesticides, and eating more meat from free range animals.  These foods are going to be better for you energetically.  

Ancient Chinese masters knew that everything was made up of energy and science has proven this.   In ancient China they developed QiGong, which is the study of energy and how it works.  Qi means energy and Gong means work.  QiGong tells us that energy is continually flowing into and out of our bodies.  The energy is like water flowing into rivers and lakes.  As the energy flows in through our chakras, which are energy portals or doors in our energetic body, it gathers into three main places in our bodies called the Dantians.  These three Dantians are like lakes or pools of energy where it is stored and then flows out from here through channels or streams of energy called meridians, to reach all the cells in our body.  It is like the circulatory system of our blood.  According to QiGong, there are three ways in which we interact with the flow of this energy; first is through what we eat, which we already spoke about, the second is physically through the breath, movement and posture, and the third is with our mind or intention. 

QiGong teaches us that movement is one of the keys in maintaining our energy flow and balance.  That is because with certain movements and stretches we open the meridians or the energy channels in our bodies.   Relaxed movements help the energy flow more easily, any tension we hold in our muscles or joints will prevent the energy from flowing.   Most of the QiGong exercises you see people do are specifically designed from 1,000’s of years of practice to open and clear particular energy channels in the body for both energetic and physical health.  Tai Chi is a series of gentle, flowing movements that are relaxed and are meant to harmonize the mind, body and spirit.  Tai Chi, was originally created as a martial art, but many of the movements in Tai Chi have QiGong forms and movements which are good for cultivating and moving your energy.   

Barbara Brennan says in her book, Light Emerging, that the movement will enhance and strengthen your lower chakras, which are your energy portals that are associated with the physical aspects of your body and are located in the lower part of your torso.  You don’t need to do Tai Chi, or Qi Gong, you can go for a walk to help get your energy moving.  The aerobic exercise of walking gets both your energy flowing and your breath moving. 

QiGong also says that your breathing is important for increasing and moving your energy and that it is a vital part of your intake of good energy and getting rid of negative energy.   Deep breathing also helps you move energy through your energetic system.  Barbara Brennen says, “Through breath control we can regulate and direct the flow of energy through our body and auric field.”   I’ve discovered for myself that I am a natural energy healer and I am guided to do certain things when I energetically heal someone.  One of the things I naturally do is to guide energy through someone else while breathing deeply.  That’s because I can feel the energy flow more strongly with certain deep breath patterns.  It wasn’t until later that I read from Barbara’s book the following, “Healers breathe strongly and deeply to increase their energy and power for healing.”   Exercise helps us breathe more deeply and helps our energy flow.  Again, even if you just go out for a walk, that will help exercise your breathing. 

One of the most important ways we interact with energy in our bodies is through our thoughts and our intention.  Energy follows your thoughts and is guided by your intention.   In many schools of spiritual development, meditation is key in training your mind so it can be a clear and powerful guide for energy.  Our Higher Self, which is the part of us that connects to Universal Consciousness, is always interacting with our conscious minds and by using meditation we are able to connect more clearly with our Higher Self.  The Chinese call our Higher Self the Yuan Shen, and they call our Conscious Mind the Shen Zhi.   If our Shen Zhi or conscious mind is too active it becomes the “monkey mind.”   It is then difficult for the Yuan Shen or Higher Self to be heard through our intuitive messages.   According to the ancient Chinese texts on energetic alchemy, the Shen Zhi, or conscious mind, is supposed to be the servant of the Yuan Shen, or our Higher Self.

So your conscious mind is supposed to be the servant, and be guided by the Higher Self.  This was pretty much summed up nicely by Albert Einstein who said, “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rationale mind its faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”  So using meditation to become more aware of our Higher Self is very important in developing your psychic and intuitive skills.   Meditation is key in QiGong to developing  what they call the Eight Supernatural Powers, which we would call psychic skills. 

If you have trouble meditating you can begin your mental training with what is known as guided meditations.  Guided meditations do two things for you, they keep you on track in meditating and secondly they help develop your imagination.  Imagination is how you direct and move energy.  Your imagination also resides in the part of your brain that receives intuitive messages.  Guided meditations are usually narrated by someone who is giving you a story to follow in your meditation.  The story is usually telling you to use your imagination to create a journey to a safe place that relaxes and guides you through scenarios that raise your energy, or help you access your intuitive mind.   Your intuitive mind is in your right brain, which is the right side of your cortex.   This is where your subconscious lives and it is the part of your brain that has immediate access to your intuitive and psychic messages.  It is also the place where your creativity and your imagination functions.   So by meditating with guided meditations we are strengthening our imagination and our ability to connect consciously with our right brains.  Our imagination is also how we create intentions to guide energy. 

Chakra Clearing is an example of how to use your imagination to guide energy and work with it to clear your energetic field.  To maintain a clear energetic field you need to have clear and open chakras.  Chakras are the portals in our energetic body, and if they are clogged, then good energy can’t enter and bad energy can’t leave.  A simple Chakra Clearing meditation is ideal for this, and it is usually a guided meditation where you follow a narration of what to imagine to clear your energy.  Remember, energy follows intention.  I have a simple Chakra Clearing meditation that you can download from Amazon.com for 89 cents.  Go to my website http://www.LMK88.org to find the link to amazon.com  Or you can use other chakra clearing meditations from your favorite author.  There are many out there.  

So by keeping up our energetic health through raising our energy vibration, keeping it clear and balanced we become clearer receptors for our psychic and intuitive messages.   Remember our bodies and minds are the most powerful tools in receiving psychic information.

This is the end of Part 1, Part 2 will follow in our next post, and I will explain the next 2 steps in working with energy to develop your psychic skills which are to learn how to sense energy through both our psychic and physical senses and to learn how to interpret the energetic messages you receive to make sense of them consciously.

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Following Your Inner Guidance and Intuition

One of the reasons I chose this topic is because I have received so many angel messages for clients that tell them to follow their inner guidance, to listen to spirit or to listen to their higher selves.  When I give clients the message to follow their inner guidance, they all ask me how to do that.   This show is all about how to follow your inner guidance, how to work with your inner voice, and know when you are being guided and not just being pulled by your Ego.

How do you know when it is you are getting guidance, and what is it really?  We all can receive divine guidance at any time, you don’t need an angel therapist, or a psychic or anyone else to get your angel messages for you.  Of course, you can go to one if you want to, but isn’t it better to get the message directly?   The problem is when we do receive inner guidance, it’s usually subtle and easy to miss.   The messages are not always, as I call it, in your face.   This is why people have trouble knowing when they are getting a message, or when their inner voice is talking to them.   Sometimes that inner voice sounds like ourselves!  

Being able to receive your inner guidance, and connect to spirit is really the best way live your life’s path because you’ll always be guided to the highest good for you and your soul.  You can fulfill your soul’s desires by listening to what your higher self and your guides want you to do.  The Universe, then in turn, brings to you an abundance of great things because that’s what we are all meant to do, expand and grow to follow our soul’s desires.

But how do we hear our higher self?  How do we know we are getting a message? There are so many ways that your spirit, your Higher self, and your angels around you give you messages.  The messages aren’t always words in your head, sometimes the messages are feelings, or urges, or even a desire that comes from deep inside us.   The more you practice taking notice of these kinds of messages, when they come to you and how they come to you, the greater your knowledge will be in knowing it’s truly a message and not just your Ego or your mind playing tricks on you.

The only way to improve your skill in recognizing your inner guidance, is to practice.  That’s the fun part, practicing.  Just as you would learn any knew skill, you start with simple steps first.   The great thing about getting messages from spirit is that we get them all the time, it’s just that our Ego minds have drowned them out and masked them from being recognized.  So we need to recognize them, so they become more noticeable when they come by.  As your skill improves, you’ll find at times your messages will have more and more information in them.  And more importantly, you’ll know when you are receiving a message and pay attention.

I’m going to begin with the simple steps of just recognizing what a message is, and how we all can easily work with them.  I won’t be able to go into depth here on how to get detailed messages, since that would require a lengthy workshop to teach you.  But, that’s okay, because the best thing is to learn the different ways we get messages and how to practice receiving more of them.  You can still get quite a lot of guidance and direction from these simple message which will help you, on what choices to make, to make your life’s path easier.

But first, the best thing is to understand how the they come to you.  You can get a message inside of you or outside of you.  For most people, the easiest way to start is to tune into your feelings.  Usually, the messages we receive inside of us can be an emotional feeling, such as feeling happy and comfortable, or feel repulsed and tense.  You may also get, what I call, a pop-up feeling.  Pop-up feelings are one way our guidance is showing us the way.  Pop-up feelings are like impulses but they are different in that there is no strong Ego attachment to it, and there is no nagging, nor obsession connected with a pop-up feeling.   You can let the pop-up feeling go.  Pop-up feelings are often light and don’t feel burdening.  It may feel like a slight urge, or as if you are drawn to something.  An analogy might be that it’s the same feeling you get when a friend says to you, “Hey, come here look at this!”  You have a feeling of openness and, of course, are drawn by your curiosity to find out what is so interesting that they want to show you.

Have you ever had that pop-up feeling?  Being drawn to something that inside seems to pique your curiosity?  It’s the “I wonder what’s down that road?”  feeling, that road that looks like it leads to some place interesting.

Let’s talk about our inner pop-up feelings first, because they have all the characteristics of a message of inner guidance.   The pop-up feeling or message, is repetitive, it is light, never scolding, it doesn’t feel contracted or burdensome, it is positive and it is short or to the point.  The pop-up feeling of being drawn or subtly attracted to something is a good way to receive which direction your being guided to.  That is how we receive divine guidance.  It was a pop-up feeling that lead me to become and Angel Therapist.  I never wanted to be a spiritual teacher, or least of all, Angel Therapist.  In fact, people always ask me, how did you go from being an engineer to a spiritual teacher?  and here I am, years later and my life has been changed in a way that has expanding my happiness and I know I’m on the right track because it all feels right!

This is how it happened, one simple step at a time by following my inner guidance, or following spirit, as they say.

One day, before I considered myself psychic, I asked my angels what book I should read to help me improve my connection with my Higher Self and spirit guides, they gave me this phrase "angels come and go.” I then typed the phrase into Amazon’s search box and two books popped up, one was Doreen Virtue's book,  "Divine Guidance, How to have a dialogue with God and your guardian angels."  At the time, I had no idea who Doreen was.  The other book that came up didn’t feel right, but more importantly, I felt very drawn to Doreen's book.  So I bought her book and when it came it was the perfect one! I couldn’t believe it, it was exactly what I needed!

About the time that I finished the book, "Divine Guidance" I was drawn to Doreen’s website.  I looked up her offered courses, and none of them really interesting to me except one, the Angel Therapy Practitioner® Certification course.   I was incredibly drawn to wanting to take the class.  I had no idea why.  In fact, I didn’t sign up right away, because taking this kind of class was so unlike me.  Why would I want to become a certified Angel Therapist?

But, I found myself going back to the course webpage, over and over, and each time I felt so drawn to taking the class.  It wasn’t an urgent feeling, I just felt good when I read the course description which always left me feeling, “I really want to take this!”  

I didn't think I was a Lightworker, or even wanted to practice as an Angel Therapist®.  I also thought at the time, GOSH, I'm not psychic, I'm not a medium, how am I going to do this???   I had a young son who I had to take care of and I had no way to take care of him for an entire week when the course was to be given! But, I figured I’ll only know if this is true guidance if I follow it, because if it’s meant to be, it will work out.  I had to trust and have faith. So I signed up for the class.

Well, as you’ve probably guessed, it DID work out!  Our baby sitter, just graduated from college and just happened to be between jobs during that week, so she was free the entire day and could drive and take care of my son while I was away.  I loved the course and the entire experience, it was exactly what I needed and wanted.  I also found out that I have (as we all do) psychic abilities I don't know I had.

Your angels have a way of urging you to do the very right thing and making it all work out when you are open to 'listening' to the guidance and trusting it will work.  The key is to believe and have trust that you can, and do receive guidance.  After all, if you are going to learn a new skill, you have to believe that it is possible to do it.

What does it mean to be “drawn” to something?  I give my clients an example of the feeling you have when you are, say, reading a magazine and you see a picture of a piece of chocolate that looks so good, you’re drawn to it, you can almost feel how good it will be to taste it.   Or maybe a picture of a vacation spot that looks warm and inviting, you feel drawn to going there.   There aren’t many words or concepts that go along with it, it’s just a feeling.

You often have a chance to practice your pop-up feelings whenever you have a choice to make.  In the beginning, we receive our messages more clearly when we are not so worried about the out come, or when our Egos are quiet.  The best ways to practice is with simple choices, for example, choosing what to eat at the lunch stand.    So choosing what to eat for lunch is a good one.  Instead of buying something you normally eat, try something new, something unknown.   You begin by asking a question as you are looking over the choices, “What should I pick today?”  “Which one will taste good and feel good in my stomach?”  Be open to receiving, as you look over your choices, one may catch your eye, it may look brighter or more colorful to you.  You may even imagine what it will be like to eat it and how you will feel after you’ve eaten it.   The one that feels best to you, the one that you may be drawn to, or the one that you keep coming back to, is the right one to choose.  Then you get to see if you’re right by eating it!

You can do the same when you’re looking for a parking spot in a large parking lot.  See where you are drawn to.  Again, you activate your intuition by asking a question to yourself or your guides, by saying, “Which aisle will I find a the perfect parking spot?”  Then see where you are drawn to.

Remember, this is all practice, if you don’t find a parking spot, or you don’t like what you choose, just let it go.  Try again the next time.  You may find that when your choice wasn’t the right one, that you had second guessed your pop-up feeling or message.  You may find that you were in a tense state of mind, or that your Ego got in the way.   When you are right, you may find that the pop-up message was quick and fleeting, or perhaps came to you as a vision in your mind.  That is how you learn how you receive your messages best. -  copyright (c) 2012 Lisa K.  learn more - www.LMK88.org

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Psychic Exercises

Every Day Psychic Exercises You Can Do Alone

Practicing your psychic skills, like any skill, helps you improve your psychic abilities.  One of the best ways to practice is in what is called a development circle, where like minded people who want to practice their psychic abilities get together to practice with each other.   But this isn’t always possible.   We can still practice our intuitive and psychic skills by ourselves just doing every day things.  

I’m surprised at there aren’t many psychic exercises you can do by yourself out there.  Here are a bunch I’ve created that may help you improve your intuition.  They are easy to do and I do them all the time!  You can do these alone, by yourself.  The more you practice the better you’ll become.

Soon you may find that you receive information spontaneously. That is because you will be more used to how the information pops up that is correct.   It is familiar to you, it is practiced and honed.   Information may come up when you least expect it.  

This happened to me when I was driving to Target one day.  On the way, I noticed in front of me a man riding on a motorcycle with a young child sitting in front of him, their hands on the handlebars.   They were both wearing helmets, so I couldn’t see their faces.  I thought “Wow, that boy looks a bit young to be on a motorcycle!  Maybe his Dad wants him to experience being a man stuff.”  When we got to Target, the same motorcycle was parked in front of the store with the helmets on the handlebars.  I figured, “I guess they’re going to Target”, then forgot about it.  We did our shopping, which took a while, and then went to the check out counter.   On the way, I noticed a man in a dark blue t-shirt walking with his daughter holding her hand in front of us.  Immediately, I received, “They’re the ones on the motorcycle.”  I thought, “Huh? Nah, that’s a little girl.”  Again, it popped up, “They’re the ones on the motorcycle.”   Then as we left, sure enough, they both got on the motorcycle and drove away.  I was so convinced it was a boy on the motorcycle, but my intuitive message was still able to get through, because I am always in a practiced receptive mode.   That is because I am in psychic practice mode being receptive all the time when I am out and about.  

You may not realize it but you are telepathic.  I call it “pop-up mind reading”.  We often get impressions from other people all the time.  They are subtle and quiet, and we are actually picking up what other people are thinking, it’s just that we never say anything about it, because it is kind of intrusive.   But you can find out if you’re right, sometimes by acting on what you pick up.  Perhaps you get a feeling that someone wants an object that is near you but are a little too far to reach it, you can pick it up and give it to them, saying, “I thought you might need/like/could use this.”  That may prompt someone to say, “Why yes!  I actually was going to pick that up.”  Or you may not say anything, or do anything, you can just see if the person will perform an action that is in line with the thought.  

For example, one day I was in the pre-prepared food section of Mrs. Greens.  As I walked to the refrigerated cases where the pre-packaged food was, I was passed by a woman who was animated in her conversation with her colleague. From the tone in her voice I could tell she was not in a good mood, she was angry with someone else.   I really wanted to get some sushi for lunch that day and as I was looking over the selection,  I did my usual psychic practice.  I asked, “Which one would be a good choice for my lunch today?”  Then I spied a really nice set of Salmon Sushi, it sort of popped out at me.  I thought, “YES! That one looks great!”  Just at that moment the irritated woman reached over and grabbed the very package I wanted.  I have to say, that it could have been that she was in a ‘domineering mode’ and sensed what I wanted and she probably unconsciously took the one I wanted.  Regardless of why she picked just THAT one, when she did pick it up, my first feeling was irritation, but then, I received, “She’s going to put it back.”  So I calmed down and waited.  And sure enough, she put it back, and I quickly grabbed it.  I believe that because I was already in practice mode of listening to my intuition, I could hear the messages as they popped up, even when I didn’t ask for more information.  

Remember the state of mind for picking up your psychic messages is NOT the state of meditation, while meditation helps you center and quiet your mind, meditation is just a practice for improving your ability to notice when messages do pop up.  It’s also important to realize the messages pop up quickly and are subtle, so you have to be open and aware, not distracted.  Have a calm mind when doing these practices.

Here are some psychic exercises you can do by yourself:

1. Where is that person going?  When I’m driving, I like to psychically predict where the person in front of me is going.  The good thing about this exercise is you can have your hunches validated.  You’ll see whether indeed they turned right or left, or exited where you received they would.  A couple of the ways I do this is I tune into my clairsentience, I try to feel where they will go, or I imagine us traveling further down the road, and see if I feel where they will no longer be in front of me. 
   
2. Feeling the energy from people and places.   Over the years I have become more and more aware of the energy around me, particularly when I am not at home because home is where the energy is familiar and relatively stable.   I have my radar on to be alert to how I’m feeling as I am going some where, or as people pass by me.  Many times the drastic changes in physical feelings I have, I can pin point to a place or a person.   You can test your clairsentience by being aware of how you are feeling all the time and if you feel differently, see if it’s the place you walked into or up to.  Sometimes it’s feeling sick, or tense, or uncomfortable, or perhaps warm and loved, or even buzzy.   Learn what these energies feel like to you.  Walking to the spot where your feelings changed, and then walking away, can give you a sense it’s the place.  If it’s a person, when the person moves away from you does the feeling change or diminish? 
   
   The other day I was having dinner in a restaurant.  It was very crowded and we were seated in the back.  I was feeling okay when we entered the restaurant and while we were waiting for our table.   When we sat down, I immediately felt a bit dizzy and buzzy.  I thought maybe it’s the lighting because it was kind of bright where we were sitting compared to where we were waiting.  So I put my hands over my eyes, but the feeling didn’t go away, so that wasn’t it.  Whenever I have feelings like this out of the blue, I analyze myself and then my surroundings to see where it’s coming from.  This time it wasn’t in me it was somewhere outside of me.  Usually, it’s not someTHING but rather, someONE.   There were a lot of tables around us with elderly people.  I was drawn to one table in particular had two couples, in the midst of their dinner.  Being with my husband, who is also quite good at picking up other people’s energy, I asked him if he felt anything, and he said, yes he felt it was from that table in front of us.  As I scanned each person at the table, I felt it was coming from the women, not the men they were with.  The only way I could validate that it was them, was when they left, the feeling went with them.  All was calm again.
   
   
3. Look for opportunities to use your intuition, what food to eat, which item should I buy?  which store should I go into?  One time when I was attending a cousin’s wedding over a long weekend, I had brought white satin pumps to wear with a long dress.  I didn’t realize before hand that the wedding was taking place outside in the grass, which was soft.  I couldn’t wear those pumps because they would certainly sink into the soft ground and get dirty.  I had barely enough time to run to a nearby mall and see if I could pick up something else to wear.  Having never been in this town before, I didn’t know where to start or where to go.  I am not a real shoe person, I would much rather wear sneakers.  So it’s hard for me to find shoes that not only fit, but that I can wear without breaking my ankle.  I asked for guidance from my angels and spirit guides to help me find the right store.   As we were descending down the escalator, I noticed a shoe store on my right and felt drawn to go inside the store, but as I looked at the store display and the shoes were very glitzy and exotic, there were stilettos, boots with super high heels with sequins and platform soles.  I thought, I’ll never find what I’m looking for here, but I went with my intuition.  Quickly scanning inside the store, nothing looked remotely fitting, until my eye caught one pair of flat sandals with a white decorative leather over the top which looked just dressy enough, and perfect for my dress.  Very nice!  And they were on sale for $30! 
    
4. Predicting the future exercise.  Try predicting event outcomes such as elections, races, sport events, etc.  Just ask the question “What will the outcome of such and such be?”  See what immediately comes up.  Again, while the future isn’t fixed, you can predict energetic trends.  Try it, but remember, if you’re wrong, it is meaningless.  Don’t give it any weight. While the future is not set in stone, we can tap into general trends of energies and be able to predict what events may occur in the future.  Most often I can feel what is going to happen as far as a trend for a person or an event.   As I ‘look’ into the future, which is merely just imagining time going by as if I could move the clock forward, sometimes I will receive pop up messages. 
   
5. What time is it? Don’t have a watch or you’re not near a clock?  Or perhaps you’re near a clock or have a watch, and when you want to know the time, before you look see if you can pick up what time it is.  Ask to be given the time, see what pops up first in your head.  I often see an analog clock.  Then, if you can check to see if you’re right.
   
6. When will I be called, or next? If you are waiting in a doctor’s office, we never really  know exactly when we’ll be called in.  This is a great opportunity to see if we can pick up when we’ll be called.  Again, I often see an analog clock pop up in my head with a time.
   
7. Magazine, try to predict or know what the photograph is on the last page of the magazine. If you have a magazine you haven’t read before, see if you can pick up what the photo is on the last page, you may have a feeling, or a color, or hear something, it may not be a visual message.  See if any of what you receive matches the picture or even the words that are on the last page.
   
8. If you’re going to meet someone, see if you can ‘see’ what they are wearing today, or perhaps how they are today?
   
9. Help me find what I’m looking for!  Can’t find what you want in the store, or trying to find that new restaurant?  See where your intuition and psychic guidance leads you. Archangel Chamuel is the angel who helps you find lost things.  So you can call on him to help you find things.  

My $30 Sandals

Remember, these are ALL just exercises.  You get what you get, and you don’t get upset if you have a miss.  It’s all just practice.  The less you pressure yourself, the more you will receive.  Often times the most profound messages are given when you think it’s just ridiculous or improbable.  So don’t discount anything.  

If you have any questions about these exercises you can contact me through my website at http://www.lmk88.org

Copyright (c) 2011 Lisa K.

Exploring Energy

Those of you who are interested in connecting with spirit and your inner messages are probably interested in energy because, as most of us know, everything is energy and that is how we connect to spirit to receive our messages.   It is also part of everyone’s day to day spirituality, because we have all been given the gift of being able to receive.

As many of you may know, my family and I love to travel.  We enjoy visiting sites all over the world to learn about history, culture and to experience “being there.”   One of the reasons I love to travel is to visit sacred sites.   The energy of certain sacred sites is just amazing and often a mind-blowing intense experience!  I always see those positive energies as blessings from the Divine.

I would like to share with you my experiences of energy and the sites I’ve found that hit me with the strongest energy on my spirituality blog.  I also now have YouTube videos to go with them!!

We’ve all experienced feeling something about a place, at least, I believe we all can and do.  Have you ever arrived somewhere, walked into a room or a place and felt that something wasn’t right, or perhaps you felt peace and warmth that you didn’t feel before?  You may find yourself saying, “Oh this place feels good!”

The more we understand energy, and how it affects us as well as how to work with it, we can gain more knowledge of how to use it, or perhaps just gain benefits from it.

To me, that is why I enjoy exploring the many flavors of energy, both from working with energy as an energy healer but also feeling and experiencing the energy from people and special places, such as sacred sites.  I truly believe that the blessings that come from the divine energy that we experience is of goodness and love that is both is healing and is just a good thing!

Vézelay - Relics of Mary Magdalene

What makes a place a sacred site? or perhaps the better question is, what gives a sacred site that wonderful feeling?

Martin Grey explains reason why here:

“Rituals and ceremonies are a way of gathering, concentrating and focusing the energy of spiritual intention. The longer that ceremonies have been conducted at a shrine, the greater will be the field of energy developed within and around the place. An ancient and continuing use of sacred places is particularly common in Asia. Europe, too, has sacred sites where ceremonial activity has been performed for millennia.  Beginning with the megalithic people of late Neolithic times, and followed by Celtic, Roman and Christian cultures, the nature of ceremony has dramatically changed, yet the spiritual power deriving from those ceremonies has continued to accumulate at the sacred places. The spiritual power or force of intention is a universal human attribute. - Martin Grey”

Places of worship, where many people come to pray and the rituals that are performed over many years is what makes a site filled with sacred energy.

I’ve found in my own personal experience, when I go to places and feel the energy, I’ve been surprised to find exactly where the energies are felt that are so strong.  It is always in a place where people pray the most often with strong intent and belief.

I once asked the priest at my church why did he choose to be Episcopalian, he said one of the reasons was that he likes the ritual performed in the Episcopalian church.  While I’ve always shied away from formalized rituals, but I now see what he means.  The ritual of the mass is supposed to center you, to allow you to turn within through the repetition of the ritual every time you participate in it.   In the “Great Thanksgiving” we are giving thanks to All That Is, our creator and acknowledging God within us.  It is a form of prayer, a process of focusing your mind on something greater than ourselves that we are a part of. This is what Martin means by “spiritual intention.”

Meditation in the Eastern traditions is a focusing within on the eternal Self.  In meditation they often chant a mantra, which is usually the name of God.  The temples of India become sacred places of divine energy, because they have the accumulation of energy from many people meditating on the God within over many, many years.

If you are aware, perhaps you too can feel the characteristic energy buzz, or whatever it is energy feels like to you in these special places.   The next time you visit a sacred place, and there may be energy that you come across, see what it is that you can feel.

In the many psychic development classes I always hear the question, what does energy feel like?  How do I know what the energy means?

I always tell my students the best way to learn about energy is to interact with it, to play with it and experiment.   One of the easiest ways is to feel the energy in your environment as you are going through life.  Sometimes it’s easier when you are traveling because your senses can be more aware of a new place than one you’ve been to over and over again, that’s because they are in exploration mode.

Energies are felt kinesthetically, meaning you feel it physically.  It may be a change in temperature on your skin, cool or warm, it may be a feeling of “goose bumps”, or it may feel like a buzzing in your arms and legs, or even down your spine.  Some people feel what they describe as tingling.  It may feel as if the air pressure has changed where you are standing or in the room.   You may feel as if the room suddenly seems brighter or more vibrant.  Or you may feel a heaviness throughout your body, or in a part of your body.  You may feel it in different parts of your body, and that can give you a clue as to where the energy is coming from or what kind of energy it is.

Energy can manifest it’s feeling in you through your gut.  Your digestive system (your gut) is considered in a way your second brain.  It has just as many neurotransmitters and neurons as your brain does in your head!  So that “gut feeling” that men have or for  women it’s “intuition” that has interpreted the energy you’ve encountered.  To you something just feels different, or it feels good, or not so good.

By the way, the only way YOU can know what the different flavors of energy feel like to you, is to notice the energy when you encounter it and either be alert to evidence of what it could be, or experiment with someone who can give you feedback.  Actually, that is why learning energy healing can be a good way to learn about how energy feels, you can work with a partner in class and ask for their feedback.  If you are fortunate enough to travel to a sacred place, go and see if you can feel anything different there, or even within the space, the cathedral, church or temple, where does the energy feel different to you?  Not all places that are deemed “sacred” have energies that you can feel, it may either be because not enough energy has accumulated there or because the energies have been mixed and dissipated by other energies (e.g. the energy of many curious tourists often upsets the sacred energies of a place and can overwhelm the energy of the spiritual intent.)  What is even more fun is going to these places with someone who is interested in exploring energy as much as you do, then you can compare notes.  My husband is highly intuitive and very sensitive.  We often compare notes of what we are feeling energetically, and often we are sensing and feeling the same thing.  It can be quite validating.

So how your body physically is feeling in your gut, or perhaps your spine as you are feeling these buzzes, the tingling, or the heaviness can tell you what kind of energy you are encountering.  You can use your kinesthetic senses to corroborate your energy feelings.  When you feel that buzzing in your legs, what does your gut tell you, is it a good gut feeling or a bad one?  Here are some examples of what I have learned about how I feel energy.  Everyone can feel energy in differently, but there are some commonalities, so I share how I feel energies with you for that reason.

Energy Healing - When I did my very first energy healing as a student, I felt like I didn’t really know what I was supposed to do but put my hands lightly on someone else. The moment I did I was shocked to feel this tremendous rush of energy flowing through me, down my head and through my body, as if the energy flow was turned on by someone else, or perhaps it was me, I ‘turned on the switch’ purely with my intention.  I just went with it, and as I breathed in and out, each exhale the energy would flow more strongly as if the wave crested.

Since then, I’ve done many energy healings, and I still feel the energy though, not as strong.  It seems to pass through me, and through my arms and out my hands.  My hands begin to get very warm and some clients say they could feel the heat from my palms.  If the person I’m healing is in great need of healing the energy flow will be stronger.   The energy I now feel, whether I’m doing Reiki or Crystal healing will feel like a gentle flow through me, and I can feel a shift in the air around me and my client, it feels a little warmer, a little thicker.  I feel as if there is a little buzz on the surface of my skin.   If I’m not feeling well, which sometimes happens, since I am channeling the energy through me (not using my own energy) I will feel better myself as the energy heals us both.

I am a Reiki Master and in Reiki, a Japanese form of Energy Healing, the energy has an intelligence and automatically goes where it needs to, in the part of the body that needs it the most.  Reiki healers have reported that it often just flows whether you are intending to heal someone or not.   I experienced that one day standing in an elevator.  As the doors opened and a young woman in a wheelchair entered with her family.  I felt the Reiki energy just flowing through me, I assumed it was for her, even though she didn’t look ill.  The energy was a little more subtle than when I heal someone with intention.  In general, with energy healing, my intention can change and affect the flow and feeling of the energy, though not always it’s intensity.  The intensity seems to grow on it’s own.


Prayer - A prayer is setting an intention to connect to energies higher than ourselves, to connect to the Divine.  The energy of a prayer, as I pray, is centering, brings my attention to the center of my being, and I feel a tingling that rises up through my spine up over the top of my head as it cascades down around me, and as it does so, I can feel a peaceful calm come over me.  If I’m praying in a sacred space, or during mass, as others pray with me, the energy flow can feel quite strong as the buzzing is a little more intense and lasts longer.  If I come out of prayer, the energy ceases.

Divine Energy - The only way I can describe divine energy is that it is very intense, it sometimes is so intense it makes me dizzy.  The energy buzzes and vibrates within me, particularly around my head, but I do feel it from head to toe.   I’ve experienced this energy in places where there is intense worship and prayer, and once during an Aarti ceremony in a Hindu temple and another time in the Sanjusangendo Temple in Kyoto, Japan which was an active monastery.  I could almost feel the energy squeezing me and vibrating me head to toe, almost as if I was swimming in it, or was it swimming in me?  The energy would course through me on it’s own, but it wasn’t waves, it just grew inside of me getting more and more intense.  It didn’t feel scary, or negative in any way.  Though I do know I had no control over this energy, it was doing it’s thing to me.

Knowing “It’s Right” Energy - This kind of energy often is very subtle and is more of a feeling within.  The feeling is a calmness, which is almost solid and repetitive, in response to your thinking about something.  For example, in choosing what to do, you will receive a feeling about it, whether “it’s right” or not.  So if you are deciding between A or B, in thinking about one, for me, the “it’s right” energetic feeling is a feeling of solidity, calmness and completeness.  I feel an urge to go forward in that direction. When it’s not right, I’ll feel an uneasiness in my spine, I will feel hesitant in moving forward.


The energy of angels and spirit guides - When I do angel readings and call in the angels and spirit guides, I intuitively feel their presence through my clairs, but it’s only as I’m actually doing the reading and talking do I feel their energy as their messages are being given.  I feel energy vibrating usually down over my head and down my arms.  That’s when I know the messages are being channeled directly and are particularly important for a person to hear.  It doesn’t mean the rest of the reading isn’t important, but that the connection is strong and clear at that moment to make a point.

Energy of DLOs (deceased loved ones) - As a medium I often feel energy of a DLO if they are very close and what the spiritualists call the “overshadowing” of spirit is strong.  This overshadowing is the merging of the DLO’s energy with the medium’s.   I feel a buzzing energy that seems to be more the surface of my skin rather than in and through me (like divine energy) and the energy is confined from my waist up.   Many times it’s more a feeling on the outside of my arms.  Sometimes it’s just a wave of that surface energy that flows over me.  The energy does not always come and stay, it often waxes and wanes, as, what I assume is, the spirit coming closer and then moving back.  The energy is often light and of a high vibration.  Sometimes my eyes get warm.

Energy of Earthbounds - DLOs who have not crossed to the light are called Earthbounds, or what most people think of as ghosts.  I’ve found that energy to be much heavier compared to the DLOs, the vibration is slower, and it almost feels like it’s weighing me down.  I most often will feel the energy in my lower extremities like my legs.  Those ‘ghosts’ who have not gone to the light often still have with them the heaviness of depression, or fear, or anger.  Those who have gone to the light, no longer have those feelings.  If the earthbound is particularly not happy or has an aggressive temperament, I’ll feel the energy as heavy on the back of my head and neck, and often my eyes will get very hot (how weird is that!)

Energy of someone who is negative or even dangerous - The energy of someone, living, who has negative or even evil intent is probably easy for most people to feel.  We are naturally programmed to be wary of people who carry around negative, harmful intentions.  I often feel their energy several ways, I may feel a slower, heavier vibration in my lower legs, or I feel a tightness in my spine and I always feel uncomfortable around them, with a subtle feeling of uneasiness.  Sometimes I feel vulnerable, or that I want to move back.

I remember one time while I was still working in corporate, which was a time when I was ignorant of energy and how it affected me, I was in a private meeting with my boss and the CEO of a small software company and one of his lead salesman.   There was nothing unusual about the meeting, but for some reason I had a strong feeling in my body to stay as far away as I could from the CEO physically.  I unconsciously found myself pressing up against the wall I was next to, as if my body was trying to escape the room.   Oh yes, he was a smooth talker with an Ego but there was nothing in what he was saying that indicated anything negative.   I just had a bad feeling about him, but it didn’t seem like the feeling was about the software company, it was about him personally, as if I would be in harms way physically around him.    Oh, what an awful thing to feel about someone you just met!  He may have been an upstanding businessman, but I sensed there was something not right personally, like don’t ever find yourself alone in a room with him!  I’ve never felt that way about anyone in the work environment, it surprised me, and I never felt that way about anyone since.  Unfortunately, I never had any information to validate that experience.  I did have an experience on a New York City subway that was validated.

Having gone to college in the city and then working there for quite a few years, I’ve had to ride the subway many times and have ridden with probably thousands of other riders.  One day I boarded a subway and sat down. At the next stop a young man, dressed casually wearing what looked like a fishing vest sat in across from me.  He was neatly dressed, didn’t look shabby or unusual, just like a normal guy.  He had a shoulder bag (I guess this was before back packs were popular) which he put down on the seat next to him.  He offered me a stick of gum which I said no thank you to.  Immediately, I had that feeling of wanting to physically move away from him, my body felt tight and uncomfortable, I felt as if my body was saying “Watch out for that guy!”  Just then, he pulled out some things from his bag, which revealed he was a photographer and he had an expensive Nikon camera.  I caught myself and thought, “Wait a minute, why am I jumping to conclusions, this guy doesn’t look so bad!”   Then at the next stop, someone came by and sat down next to me on top of a newspaper that was on the seat.  Immediately the guy who offered me the gum started screaming at him wildly, “DON’T SIT ON THAT!  HOW CAN YOU SIT ON THAT! WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU!??!?!? GET OFF THAT SEAT!”  Then I knew for sure, yup, that guy is nuts. I was right, my feelings were right. The everyone in entire subway car suddenly went silent and person who sat on the newspaper promptly got up and went to the other end of the car.

People’s aura hold the energy that you feel and pick information up from intuitively.  That energy is picked up by your psychic senses, and translated into feelings and thoughts.

Energy of sacred places - As I stated earlier, I love to visit sacred sites.  Mostly because I believe places with divine blessings give me those blessings by just being in the divine energy.   After all, that is what many Indian saints have said, just by being in the energy of God you will be transformed and enlightened.   It’s sort of like an energy cleansing, and maybe even purification, if nothing but enlightening.   Some places I feel a centeredness and peace as if in deep meditation.  I often look for the familiar buzz of what I believe are blessings.  I’m a buzz junkie, I love to find it and just be there for a while and center myself, pray or meditate.  From my travels to many historic cathedrals in Europe and some temples in Asia, I can say that I have discovered the energies are strongest where people pray the most with devotion and strong belief.  Sometimes that belief is rooted in something tangible that people can physically relate to, which in Europe is often a relic of a saint.  I believe, it’s not the relic that holds the energy but rather the connection of the energies associated with the relic that come from the people.  The stronger the divine energy, for me, the more I feel the intensity of the energy buzz which is often around my head and shoulders and cascades down my back to the floor.  If it is really quite strong, I’ll feel as if the crown of my head is being squeezed.  Perhaps that is because our crown chakra is connected to spirit, the gateway of our energy field to the divine energetically.

This energy sometimes can take me by surprise, it hits me when I’m not looking. I don’t do anything to ‘create it’ or initiate it’s flow.   You can read in my blog on Sacred Power Places, where I write about my experiences at sacred sites I’ve visited here:

http://spirituality.lmk88.org/Lisa_K_Spirituality/Sacred_Power_Places_Blog/Sacred_Power_Places_Blog.html

Healing Energy of Others with Positive Intentions, healing and divine love -  One of the things I love to do with my students and clients is to do a energy clearing meditation.   We clear our energy with divine love and energy from heaven.  It is unconditional love of the Universe and is very powerful.  At some point in the meditation I guide everyone to bring the energy down from heaven and up from Mother Earth and as it meets at their hearts to send it out from the hearts into everyone else’s heart in the room.  I can feel the energy, which feels similar to the divine energy described above, wash over me and fill me up.  It comes in waves and ebbs and grows.  I’m always surprised at how it seems to have a life of it’s own as I’m sure it’s intensity is being driven by the intention of everyone who is sending it.

I’ve even experienced this kind of energy with certain healers and channels.  Just being in their presence, you begin to feel the energy flow through you.  I’ve also felt these waves of energy in the presence of spiritual teachers.  One of the most memorable times I felt it was in Indonesia when I was getting married and the Indonesian Catholic priest was performing the ceremony.  I felt it again with him when he blessed my son.  I’ve never felt that with other Western priests.  There’s something special in Indonesia, but that’s a whole other story.

copyright © 2011 Lisa K.

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