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Episode 154: Developing Your Psychic Gifts
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Welcome back, Witches! 🔮 This week, we’re diving deep into the mystical waters of Developing Your Psychic Gifts—tuning into the unseen, the intuitive, and the powerful energy that lives within us all. We’ll explore the different types of psychic abilities, how to recognize your own intuitive strengths, and practices to help you grow and trust your inner knowing. So get in losers- grab your journals, open your minds, and let’s unlock a little magic—one insight at a time. 🌙✨
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References:
- Magic (2024). How to Develop Your Psychic Abilities: A Beginner’s Guide. WitchesLore. https://witcheslore.com/bookofshadows/spiritual/how-to-develop-your-psychic-abilities-a-beginners-guide/
- Jessica (n.d.) 20 Clairvoyant Exercises and Tips. Intuitive Souls Blog. https://intuitivesoulsblog.com/clairvoyant-exercises/
- Yann, Stella. 8+ Psychic Abilities & Spiritual Gifts AND How to Use Them. (2024). Medium. https://stellayann.medium.com/8-psychic-abilities-spiritual-gifts-and-how-to-use-them-3346df1a951e
- Youtube:
A. Ivy Corvus- How to Develop Psychic Abilities: 5 Ways to Improve Psychic Gifts + Removing Mental Blockages
B. The Norse Witch- How to Train your Psychic Abilities
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Transcript
Introduction to Witchcraft and the Occult
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Do you feel drawn to learn more about witchcraft and the occult but feel lost on where to start? Then welcome to Get In Loser Where You're Doing Witchcraft, a podcast all about what it means to be a witch and where to get started on your journey.
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Join us as we navigate through various witchy topics and share what we've learned about the craft.
Exploring Psychic Abilities
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So get in witches as we discuss how to develop your psychic abilities.
Book Talk: 'Iron Flame' and Contemporary Romances
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So, um, how far in are you on Iron Flame? And that's not it. Onyx Storm. I was like, onyx flame?
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Yeah. yeah um i Iron Flame, I'm done with, but yeah i am on chapter 40? Okay. okay Every time I read, I fall asleep.
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And not because I don't like the book, I'm just fucking tired. I am almost done with it. And I just, I'm trying, like, I've only been reading a few pages at a time because I know just from listening or reading, not not reading any spoilers or anything.
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Yeah. But what I have seen about this is it ends in a fucking cliffhanger. And and everyone's like, There's a terrible ending or something. And I'm just like. Yeah. And she will. We won't be getting the next one for a while. Because she said she's taking the summer off.
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To spend with her family. Which rightfully so. She's writing a um contemporary romance. Next. And then. She'll get back into it.
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That's where she got her start. yeah am not a fan of contemporary romance. I'm not a huge fan. It's my least favorite. But I'm just like, goddamn, like, I don't want this.
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i have a feeling like I know where this going to end. And I'm just like,
Fan Fiction and Storytelling
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don't know. So apparently, I've never read any of her contemporary romance.
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But from what I have gathered, most of her contemporary romances do not have happily ever afters, which makes me a little anxious. um If there is not a happily ever actor for Zayden and my girl Violet, will sue. I will have beef with Rebecca. yeah i will be like, what's his name in Vampire Diaries? Rebecca.
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Literally what will happen, because here's the thing. um Fan fiction, i love it we love it. I love a fan fiction.
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I don't mind I want this story. Yeah. I don't want a fan fiction of it. I want this story. But what I'm saying is if she fucks it up, best believe there will be somebody out there that is like, actually, we're just going to rewind that a bit. We're going erase that from our memory. We're going to fix it.
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Just like, you know, like with the ah the Hermione, like Hermione fanfics that are a fucking top tier. Like that. Yeah. you better watch your back.
Sad Endings in Romance Novels
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I'm just saying, because if you fuck up this story, it's over. rebecca I'll be going Klaus on you. We will be hunting you down, screaming Rebecca. And we're going to change the ending ourselves.
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yeah Yeah. So again, i don't know how accurate that is because I've never read any of her contemporary romance. um But apparently they're all sad endings.
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I hate that. i heard too some of her contemporary romances are like military books, like military romances. She's all a military spouse. I did know that.
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Yeah. like So I can only imagine that would end in a terrible ending. And it's like, what the fuck, girl? Yeah. Let's not speak that into existence. Yeah. I saw a TikTok of somebody talking about how they were worried.
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Because what? This is a – it's supposed to be five books, right? I think so. Yeah, so we're on book three. We're in that kind of halfway point, essentially. So I'm wondering what's going to happen in the next two books. I still haven't finished the third one, so we'll see how I feel about that. But they were talking about how, like, they had finished it and they were upset. They didn't give a spoilers, which I appreciated.
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um But they also, because they loved
Fantasy Series Comparisons
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these so much, went back and read her contemporary romances And were shook it at the endings of these. And said that basically they're all like sad, awful, terrible endings.
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So she apparently, that's what she likes to write. And I'm not excited moving forward now. womp, womp. I hate have a little bit of anxiety about this.
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Oh my god. Anthony finished Throwing a Glass. Oh, yeah. He said, not the best fantasy series I've ever read. I'm sorry. Anthony.
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I said, do you want a divorce? Yeah. Because we're about to have one. do I need to unfriend you? Because I'm sorry. No. He said, Name of the Wind was way better.
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i'm like, okay. Name of the Wind is different. It's a different type of fantasy. It's amazing. But it did not worm its way into my brain where I think about it daily. Yeah.
Favorite Fantasy Characters
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No. I was not connected to all these characters like I was thrown a glass. Yeah. That is my worst re-read series. Yeah. I haven't re-read them yet because I'm trying to force myself to read other things.
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But at least once a week I go. Should the Yeah. i will even like I won't even start from the beginning. would just pick a random book and I would start reading it.
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Yeah. ah Queen of Shadows was his favorite. And then he loves Lorcan. And he is he does have beef ah about what Lorcan did. Yeah. What did he do?
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What did he do? Yeah. then he... and then um he I don't want to give spoilers if we leave any of this in there. he was very upset about two particular deaths. so He also loved Dorian.
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But how can you not love Dorian? He's just fucking perfect. i just Every character in that. After he finishes, he goes... you know what they never addressed? And I was like, what?
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He goes, the fact that Dorian is literally like the most powerful being by the end of this. Right. and I'm like, you know what? I didn't really think. It'll come back around.
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think it's going to come back around. She said she's going to revisit it. so we're going to see some crossovers and yeah more than what we've seen so far.
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Yeah. Yes. Top fucking tier. He's going to start fourth wing next. He says he taking a break a break from mass. He's going to try a different one and then he'll go back and read the Crescent Cities.
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yeah Which he's really excited for those because they're urban fantasy. i don't like urban fantasy. So that was my least favorite. yeah
Music Preferences Shift
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ah That was actually my first urban fantasy outside of that fucking dumbass Nora Roberts series that We read in the other book club.
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So. Yeah. sure very different urban fantasies. I just want a part of it is like, I don't mind urban fantasy like sometimes, but with Crescent city, the main characters are not my favorite people. My favorite people are two side characters that are not the main characters. So who are your favorites?
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Rune and and um what's her face? the girlie The girl. And I can't think of her name. ah Daylight. Daybright or whatever. oh Lydia. Lydia. Those two are my favorite.
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I would read an entire series of them. I'm not a huge fan of Bryce or Hunt. I don't like Hunt. I don't think that they really are endgame. She said they are.
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she has come out and said that they are. don't like that.
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I don't like him. I just don't. I don't really care for him. I just don't. know And when I picture him in my head, I'm just like, he's not really attractive to me. I don't know. i don't He doesn't do it for me. seems like he would have body odor. I don't know.
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It seems like he'd smell. Yeah. don't know. just don't really like Hunt. i don't know. I don't mind him, but he's definitely not my favorite male in the book for sure. He's like not even my top 10 like book, like boyfriends, like not, not even close. Probably not even. I wouldn't even put him in top three just in that series.
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Yeah. No, not at all. No, but yeah. So, but obviously I love Rune a ton because I named my dog Rune. Yeah. I mean, Rune is,
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he's a top tier yeah character i will i will take rune will crawl ashley have gotten ashley into sleep token like she is obsessed with sleep token and the other day she was like does vessel remind you of rune and she was like not your dog like I mean, I could see it. And she was like, I was sitting here trying to figure out why I have fallen deeply in love with this man. And it's because I already fell in love with him in Crescent City. People are ridiculous.
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ah that's the Andy from Black Veil Brides is a rune. I'm sorry. o I could see that. Yeah. She probably has never listened to Black Veil Brides, though. She needs to, though. She's a Swifty and a Beyonce. See, I'm a Swifty, but I also love Black Veil Brides.
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Yeah. i'm I'm breaking her out. i recently got her – so I got her in a sleep token, and she fell down that rabbit hole fast. And then the other day, she messaged me, and she was like,
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I put on a random playlist and Spirit Box came up on that. And is she a siren? i was like, you're welcome. Not only is she absolutely stunning, but she has the voice of an angel and she can scream.
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So, yeah. Oh, I love that. Right? But...
Deep Dive into Psychic Development
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not talking about books and music in this episode. We're not. Although we could have an entire podcast about that.
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and We need a side podcast for that. Yeah. A side podcast for that specifically. If you're interested, let us know. I mean, I would be down for that too. So, you know, like last podcast on the left where they have their regular episodes and then they have every so often an episode that's just called side stories.
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Oh, you know what? Maybe we should do that. Maybe. Maybe. I don't know. We'll see. We'll see. Not as if we aren't busy enough. I know. What are we actually talking about on this episode? Right?
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ah So we are actually talking about developing your psychic powers, your psychic abilities. Yes. When I asked the question, i was like, what are we talking about in this episode? it's It's been a hot minute since we even did the intro outro.
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I know. 40 later. Literally 40 minutes later. literally forty minutes later feel like a flash for y'all whenever listening to this but for us for not quite literally 35 minutes yeah it has so i guess let's get into it though because it's almost my bedtime um gotta talk salmon after this episode yeah we do um we sure do ah so background here Everyone has some level of intuition within them, whether that manifests as a gut feeling, a sense of knowing, or some other flash of insight.
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And while there are many skeptics out there, there's just as much proof, if not more, showing that psychic gifts are real. And just because you currently don't know how to harness those skills or develop them doesn't mean doesn't make them any less real.
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And what we see documented in mainstream media shows ah big misrepresentation in understanding psychic abilities. and We all have the potential to harness these abilities. It just takes time and dedication to strengthen them.
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Some of us are more sensitive than others or they work harder than others to develop and strengthen psychic gifts. But Western society teaches us to hyper-rationalize and often most will shrug off these abilities when they are unaware of what they are or um when they are untrained in them.
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What's important to understand is that you have to practice those skills to learn them, train them, and develop them. Everyone will have at least one Claire that is stronger for them than others.
Understanding Psychic Abilities
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And we're going to talk about what those are here in a minute, but just know that you will need to figure out which Claire is your strongest and then work to really develop that ability. um And I was reading that there's this thing called the orange tree exercise that can help you figure out which Claire is your strongest.
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So basically for this, you need to close your eyes and visualize an orange tree. Throughout the exercise, you'll go step by step through the clairs. So visualize it. Then you want to visualize yourself going up to it and touching the tree and like really just seeing can you feel the bark? Can you feel the leaves? Those kinds of things um in your visualization.
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Try to hear everything around the tree. So like birds, winds, insects, etc. And then next you're going to try and pick an orange and peel it. Do you feel the orange? Can you feel the texture of it?
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Then after that, you're going to try and smell the orange and then last try to taste the orange. And this will help to show which ability is your strongest. And it's okay if you try to visualize the tree and you can't actually see it in your vision.
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Continue on with the rest of your senses because not everyone can actively visualize. And know that you can have more than one psychic ability. Most people do.
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You can also choose to either hone your strongest skill or to start working on those that have identified to like be there, but not be as strong. That part is just completely up to you on where you want to start.
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Yeah. So going into what exactly are psychic powers? mean we hear this a lot. Psychic powers are known as extrasensory perceptions and their abilities that go beyond the five physical senses.
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They involve receiving information outside of what would be quote unquote normal sensory channels and are often classified as a sixth sense. Psychic powers can encompass many different experiences like clairvoyance, aka clear seeing,
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telepathy, which is mind-to-mind communication, and precognition, or knowing things before they happen. And developing psychic abilities allows us to access information that exists on a deeper level.
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So it allows us to pick up on things like subtle impressions, feelings, or images to provide insight on the past, present, and even potential futures.
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And so they there are many different types of psychic powers. The first one are the Claire's. We've discussed the Claire's before on the podcast back in season one. And I believe it was episode 21 where we talked about working with your spirit guides and how to find them.
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But that was also four seasons ago. So we're going to go you know back up a bit and give you a little bit of a refresher. So Stella Yen Medium explained the abilities in literally the simplest of terms. And I actually really loved it. So I figured I'd share that here because if this is something that's new to you, we're going to throw out a lot of terms that you might not understand. And I felt like this would be the easiest way.
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So when we talk about the Claire's, You have clairaudience and that one just think I hear. So this is going to be like hearing things. ah For clairvoyance, it's I see.
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Claircognizance is I know. Clairgustance is I taste. Clairaliance is I smell, which I don't think I would like, or at least like depending on what the smell is. Like what are we smelling? Are we smelling like death? Because I don't want to smell that.
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Yeah.
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And then there was a couple that i I hadn't heard of before. and I don't know if you have, but this one is called Starseed. And that means i create. But because I haven't heard of that one and it is definitely new to me, I wanted to kind of include what it was.
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um So Stella continues to explain that the Starseed blueprint is more than a psychic ability or a spiritual gift. It's a whole origin story. Starseeds are rare and those that possess their abilities are considered extraordinary.
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Those with the starseed ability are said to be able to create solutions and formations because they have the ability to be innovative and channel ideas that haven't been seen. These abilities look like this. So the ability to Blend elemental powers.
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Innovation ahead of your time. They're often inventors from a young age. Solution-oriented living. Limitless potential. And curiosity is their superpower. That's interesting. I've not heard of that.
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Right? There was also one um that was listed as the chosen ones. And they like the way to know what those ones are is to think I accomplish um So again, this one was also new to me in terms of the Clares, but Stella explains that the chosen ones are on a divine mission and that they are here to accomplish the impossible with access to spiritual shortcuts and gifts.
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She states that the chosen one blueprint shows that they have access to seemingly limitless potential and psychic abilities throughout their lifetime. The abilities of a chosen one are that they are cycle breakers,
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They're constantly facing resistance and monitoring spirits. the um Their presence can help to activate others and their own abilities. So they kind of act as an amplifier.
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Their purpose is to defend and protect others. And they can handle a lot of psychic abilities at once. Which I thought was really interesting. I don't know if you had heard of either of those. Well, you said you didn't with the star seeds. No, yeah, I have not heard of those. But that is really interesting. Makes me want to...
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learn more about those.
Practical Psychic Development Methods
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yeah um So outside of the Claire's, there are other types of psychic abilities as well. This a list too that we're talking about is not an exhaustive list. There's other things as well, but these are the main ones.
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So telepathy, which I mentioned was mind-to-mind communication, allows you to read or send thoughts to others without using words or other physical signals. Precognition,
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Often, this is what people think about when they think of the word psychic, and this is the ability to foresee events before they happen. And this manifests sometimes in the form of dreams or through sudden insights or even just those gut feelings that you can have.
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psychometry or the practice of reading the energy of objects by holding or touching them is another common psychic ability. And if you've watched the medium Tyler Henry, he uses psychometry often in his readings and will have um family members bring something like maybe a watch or something that was tied to the person that he's trying to read for.
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And then ah mediumship. This is the ability to connect with spirits or energies from other realms. And an example of this would be connecting with those who have passed on, but it doesn't necessarily have to just be a deceased loved one. It's anyone outside of are the astral realm that we are in right now.
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And then astral projection. This is a type of out of body experience where your consciousness travels beyond your physical body to other realms and dimensions. So moving into some practical methods to develop your psychic abilities.
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um When you get to a point where you've figured out what clairs you possess and which ones you plan to train, you should start small and then build your way up so that you don't overwhelm yourself by taking on too much.
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um This type of practice can be very taxing on your own energy. So for example, if you're trying to train your clairvoyance, but you struggle with visualization, then start by trying to visualize a 2D shape rather than like a 3D shape, um something like a circle. And once you start getting comfortable with that, you want to try to add color to it.
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Once colors are easy, then bring it into a 3D shape. Once you're able to visualize a 3D shape, then work on movement of the item in your visualization.
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So you're always going to want to start at the smallest point and then add on as you become more comfortable with it. This is something that's, it's going to take time. You're not going to just, you know, decide I'm going to do this. And then by the next day, you're like a master at it. It takes a lot of time to master these skills.
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I don't even know that anyone actually masters any of the Claire's like you just get better at them. So The Norse Witch on YouTube explains a general practice you can do to train any of your clear senses.
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She states to take an object that you know has a specific history, so something like a wedding ring or a family heirloom, and practice finding its energy and use your psychic abilities to hear, to see, to feel, etc.,
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its story and its history. It should be an object with a history that is known to you so that you can understand your clairs better as you're training them. And then once you've kind of gotten that down, you can move on to objects from a friend that you can try to pick up on those energies and then confirm those energies with the friend and see how accurate you are.
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And I thought that was like a really great just general explanation of how to train a Claire. i was like, okay, like what a great general practice that doesn't take a whole lot. And it's something that, you know, if you're not comfortable telling someone about this, you can practice with your own items that you know what their history is to see like what things you're picking up intuitively.
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Ivy Corvus, who I've mentioned on the podcast before, many times before, has a great video on YouTube where she shares five ways that you can work to improve your psychic gifts and to help remove any mental blocks that you may have.
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I've linked it in our show notes for anyone interested, but be aware that it it's over 30 minutes long, so you'll need to have a little bit of time to sit down and watch it. But just in general, she says to start developing your abilities, you have to be able to move past the mental blocks that keep us from accessing our psychic abilities.
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The first is fear. So you'll have to figure out where the fear is coming from and learn how you can overcome it. These fears could be a fear of the unknown, a fear of the abilities themselves, etc.
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The next is doubt. So we are inherently built to doubt ourselves, especially in witchcraft. Part of this is because our society conditions us against these practices. The next one is expectations.
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Most people, when just starting out, have a certain expectation of where they're going to be by a certain amount of time, like working towards that thing. So another thing that puts these expectations in our head is the way the media portrays them, like Sam mentioned earlier.
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So these things in TV, movies, and books are super embellished. um You have to be realistic in your expectations and keep them in check. You have to be able to understand that real world psychic abilities look very different from how they're portrayed in the media.
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You also have to understand that your abilities can vary from day to day. Some days you might feel all the energies where there might be periods of time that you feel like no energy or the energy feels dead or inactive to you. And that's just how these things work.
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The more you work on your abilities, the easier it will be for you to, in a way turn the ability on and off. Once you have addressed your mental blocks, you'll be able to start working on improving your psychic abilities.
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So to start, you'll need to start a regular meditation practice. This allows you to enter into an altered state of consciousness that will allow you to receive psychic messages.
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Practicing meditation will allow you to be more cognizant of those energies and messages coming through. And meditation in itself is amazing for developing any psychic ability, but especially in regards to the Klairs.
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Meditation is one of the most important exercises you can practice because it connects you with your higher self, your spiritual self, it grounds you, and it also raises your vibration, which makes connecting to your psychic abilities easier.
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And it's best if you practice meditation daily or as often as you can squeeze it into your schedule.
Enhancing Psychic Powers
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And there are a few crystals that you can use specifically to open up your third eye and give you an intuitive boost.
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And these are amethyst, labradorite, lapis lazuli, aquamarine, opal, fluorite, tektite, celestite, tiger's eye, and moonstone.
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If you're someone that finds meditation to be hard, try starting out doing body scans. um This is where you sit or lay and you check in with each area of your body, acknowledging where you need adjustments.
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So like if you check in with your shoulders, for example, and you feel that they're super tense, you know that you need to like work on relaxing that before you move on to the next look. area of the body. um You'll do this practice from head to toe.
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And by doing this daily, you'll start to grow more comfortable with shutting down the outside energies and focusing inward, allowing you to build up to meditation. Back to Ivy Corvus, she recommends the psychic dimmer visualization meditation. And um she states that she found it in the psychic witch book by Matt Alrin.
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And that this particular meditation helps you to be able to turn your psychic abilities on and off easily. So for this practice, basically what you do is um You'll want to start by relaxing, taking in 10 deep breaths, doing a body scan, and then visualize yourself walking into a room.
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And in that room, there's a dimmer switch on the wall. You envision yourself walking up to the dimmer switch and you either turn the dimmer switch down or off or to decrease your psychic abilities when they're too much or you turn the switch up um when you're wanting to activate those abilities. I thought that was a pretty good one. i hadn't heard of that before. hmm.
00:28:09
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But I also am not really good at meditation and visualization because my brain is never off. But another one that she recommends too is lucid dreaming as a way to work on your psychic abilities.
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Lucid dreaming is another thing that I don't have experience with. And it's like a whole different subject that we might explore in a future episode maybe. um But if you have practiced lucid dreaming, you can use this as a way to hone your psychic abilities as well.
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Another thing you can do is to work on energy sensing. This was explained as practicing sensing the energy from things around you. So for instance, to sense the energy of a crystal, you would hold it in your hand and try to sense the energy profile that you get from this crystal.
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Spend some time focusing on it write down what you like get from it, and then look up the crystal's properties and energies to see if you've sensed it correctly. This is also a technique that is used when you start working with tarot.
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and building your intuition in your tarot readings. So you can really do this with anything though. Divination can also help you to develop your psychic abilities as well. So if you have a divinatory practice that you already use and are comfortable with, start using that practice on yourself regularly and check in with how accurate your reading was.
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um Once you feel really comfortable and if you feel comfortable doing readings for others, you can do that and then ask for feedback on your accuracy after the reading is done. um The feedback will help you to understand how consistent you are with your abilities as you continue to practice and grow.
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And the last one that I'm going to talk about is to practice psychic affirmations. So affirmations have been proven to change our psyche through neuroplasticity.
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And by practicing psychic affirmations, your mind will create the reality that you want in your practice. So say things like, I am psychic, I receive accurate information, or my abilities are growing every day.
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Come up with a handful of these and then practice saying these things to yourself every single day to speak your psychic abilities and into existence. Yeah. And other methods that you can do, so you can connect with your spirit guides. And again, going back to season one here,
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But connecting with your spirit guides is a great way to help you advance your own psychic abilities. And if you've never connected with your spirit guides before and want more information on how to do this, go back and listen to episode 21.
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But a good starting practice can be just checking in with your guides throughout the day, asking them for intuitive guidance to help you make decisions and be open to any intuitive nudges, images, or maybe gut feelings that you notice after asking for ah sign from of your guides.
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Additionally, you can even practice ah developing your psychic abilities with a friend using Zenner cards. So this is a great clairvoyant exercise specifically, but can also be an amazing exercise to help with telepathy as well.
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So you'll need a pack of Zenner cards, and those cards have the square, circle, star, and wavy lines on them. So you might have seen them in like on TV or Wherever um then select a card and look at it. Close your eyes and imagine the shape in your mind from there. You'll imagine sending the image to your friend's mind and then ask your friend what image they received.
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Then you'll want to switch and let your friend try sending you an image. And if you're practicing receiving, some helpful tips are to take a few deep breaths and focus on your third eye area, and then allow yourself to receive whatever image comes to mind. Don't second guess yourself, relax, and just let the image come to your mind.
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And um I think this is a really fun exercise to
Nature and Dreams in Psychic Growth
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try. And this could be something I think would be really cool if we both had a pack and we did this together, like over Zoom, like that would be, or When we're recording or something, that'd be fun. Yeah.
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I've never heard of those cards before. I don't think I've seen them. I had to look them up because I pulled your notes up to make sure that we weren't doing the same information. was like, this is interesting. So I looked them up and i was like, I've never seen these.
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i The first time I saw him was in a movie and I can't even remember what the movie was, but is such a good movie because you can also practice divination with them. Yeah. It's an older movie. Cate Blanchett was in it.
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I cannot remember the name of it though, but it was so fucking good. and um And it's, it's really good. But anyway, yeah. They're really cool cards. um So additionally, you can practice dream work. So dreaming is one of the most powerful times for psychic experiences because during this time, the barriers of your waking consciousness relax, allowing you to receive deeper and more intuitive insights.
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So to start, keep a journal by your bedside table. And as soon as you wake up before you do anything else, write down as much as you can remember from your dreams. Make sure to include any symbols, people, feelings, whatever it is that you experienced in your dream or any so or any situations that stood out to you.
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no matter how chaotic or unrealistic they seem. In the beginning, your dreams may seem random or disjointed, but after a while and with practice doing this, you'll notice specific patterns and recurring themes in your dreams.
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The process of writing your dreams down allows you to get into the habit of remembering them, which in turn helps you to develop your psychic abilities even more. And having a dream journal where you write down your dreams and you see the patterns that emerge allows you a way to process your dreams as well.
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And you can even begin to develop your own dream language. So understanding what the different symbols and patterns you see in your dreams actually mean. So you don't even need like any sort of dream dictionary or anything like that. You can develop your own dream language based on the symbols that you are seeing.
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This can also help by providing guidance in your waking life as well. Dreams can offer direct advice on challenges you may be facing, and it they can even provide information on future events as well.
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Then lastly, i think like one of the easiest things that you can do is to use nature as a tool to help your psychic abilities. Nature can help enhance your psychic abilities as the natural world is full of different vibrations and frequencies that resonate with you our own energetic fields.
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You probably have already experienced the power that nature has just by taking time to be present outside, whether that is just sitting on your back porch, visiting a beach, or just going for a nature walk.
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But this can be such an easy and basic way to connect with your psychic abilities. The first thing you'll want to do is make a habit of spending time outside. So take the time to notice things like the leaves rustling, the feel of the sun on your face, and the sounds of the animals and insects outside. So any birds chirping, locusts singing, or whatever the hell sound they make and practice breaking free of the thoughts and distractions of your daily life.
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Whatever stressors you have at home or at work, practice setting those things to the side and being fully present outside. Next, you want to take your shoes off and practice grounding. So by placing your bare feet on the ground,
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regardless of if your feet are on sand, dirt, or grass. Imagine roots extending from the soles of your feet down through the earth to absorb the energy of the soil, the rocks, and the minerals that are underneath you.
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Practice allowing this to be a channel to receive intuitive information. The earth's energy can increase your psychic abilities while also stabilizing you and keeping you anchored and protected.
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am a bitch that loves grounding. it's It's perfect. Stressed out, go stand outside. Go touch the grass. Just go put your toes right in the grass. It's amazing.
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And it's scientifically backed. it It really is. Yeah. Sorry. Another idea to connect with the energy of the natural objects outside with you.
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This helps in developing your psychometry and your clairsentience as well. So pick up a stone, a leaf, or a shell and hold it in your hands. Practice spending time focusing on that object.
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Close your eyes and feel the impressions that come to you. Does this object evoke any specific emotions or images or thoughts? Practicing this on a reoccurring basis can help really develop those skills.
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