Are You Psychic?: Find the answers you've always been looking for

4 Gently explore the edge of your partner’s emotional field. In some places, you may find that you can move your hands over it, as if you’re feeling the surface of a bubble of air. Don’t think about what you’re sensing, just feel it. You will get a sense of what this person is feeling, though it will seem as if they are your own feelings. This is how Spirit is helping you to connect with your partner’s energy.

5 As you go through the emotional field, be very aware of your hands until you come to a feeling of change – this could be a temperature change, either warmer or cooler. You could also feel a subtle tingling in your hands or possibly all over your body. You are now touching the edge of the aura. Now sweep your hands around gently, keeping the palms flat open until you feel that there is less resistance. When you feel this place of least resistance, follow through the opening in the auric field with your hand, because this will point directly to the place in that person’s body where there is a physical problem of one kind or another.

6 In order to carry on through to the etheric field you need the permission of your partner, as this is the innermost layer of protection in their energy field. Consequently, as you keep moving your hand closer, you may find that there is more resistance here. Eventually, you may sense either hot or cold under your hands. Stay in that area until whatever you are feeling disappears completely. Often, if someone has had an operation, you will find the least resistance at that point in their etheric field, which will also penetrate right through to the outer emotional field.

What did you sense?

By paying attention to your sensations, you can begin to ‘read’ your partner. Your response to their emotional field will tell you how they are really feeling inside, not how they say they are feeling. For example, if someone has buried anger, you may experience this in your palms as a strong ‘pins and needles’ sensation, or a general prickly feeling.

If you felt less resistance in some areas of their field, or if you felt a hole, this can indicate that there is something wrong with the body. This can alert you to the beginning of a health problem. If you follow the hole with your hands and your senses, you will be able to say what you feel the problem is.

This exercise is to help you to understand your own sensing – trust what comes to you. It is important that you speak out loud the feelings you are experiencing to your partner as soon as you have them. This way, your mind does not have time to alter your immediate perceptions and you are allowing your instincts to express themselves freely.

2 Sensitive hearing

Many clients tell me their hearing becomes more acute as their psychic ability expands. When I lived in a house by the sea, I even heard morse code while sitting in my garden. I didn’t know it was morse code at the time – I described the bleeps I was hearing to a family friend, who explained what it was. I would often hear the signal from a boat, and then watch it sail into view an hour or so later, with a rescue boat alongside.

You may begin to hear birdsong from half a mile away, a conversation between people in a busy supermarket or on the street. You’ll know it because it works like a radar – you can’t hear it, then suddenly the sound comes into range. It might sound as if I’m talking about normal hearing, but when you consciously focus on your intention to hear, you will hear more. Try the exercise below to practise tuning in to distant sound.

1 Sit in a comfortable chair, and close your eyes. Feel at peace and be perfectly still.

2 What do your hear? What is the quality of the sound? How does it feel? Do your ears ring, or tingle? Far-distant sound can feel like a subtle sensation around your ears, like tiny pin pricks.

3 Listen to the sounds of silence; it can be quite noisy!

4 Write down what you have heard, or speak it out loud.

Aural information from Spirit doesn’t have to come from a distance, however. I call close-up sound from Spirit ‘internal sound’. This happens when Spirit tell you something without you being aware of it. Have you ever been with someone and you are convinced that they have just said something important to you, but when you tell them, they say that they haven’t said a word? This can be a sign of Spirit talking to you close up. This kind of knowing resonates on the inside. Often when Spirit speak, they speak inside of you, so you sense it as if you are receiving a message. How often have you felt that you have heard something that you know is meaningful and yet you dismiss it as your imagination? We could receive so much more guidance if we could accept these promptings as real messages sent to help us.

3 Sensitive sight

This exercise helps you to believe more actively in what you see, and expand your spiritual vision. There are two ways of seeing: physically, or externally, often beginning as a small sensation at the corner of your eye, and internally, when you see a picture in your mind’s eye. These are the images that you will work with during the visualisation exercises (see page 32). Because Spirit will only appear to you in a way that is comfortable for you, to begin with you may feel a presence, rather than see an image physically or internally. The more comfortable and practised you become, the more sensitive your vision.

1 Place a candle securely on a table. (I use a light-coloured candle, because it gives clarity of vision.) Sit comfortably so that you can see the candle, and light it.

2 Focus on the flame. Don’t try to draw the candlelight in to you, and don’t take yourself into the flame. Just be with the beauty of the light.

3 Now pay attention to what you may see at the edge of your vision, without altering your focus on the flame. Let any colour, sensation or image register. Don’t think about what it could be. Just receive it.

4 Now close your eyes. This will help you to expand what you have seen with your peripheral vision. Don’t expect anything. The more you can push away your thoughts, the more clearly you may see.

4 Centring

You can practise this simple visualisation as a preliminary to any of the guided visualisations throughout this book. It is particularly helpful if you are feeling stressed, or generally out of kilter. Through practice, it can help you become more sensitive to your internal vision.

1 Visualise a candle flame, and look at the golden centre.

2 When you can do this, hold both your hands as if cupping the light of the flame.

3 Feel, if you can, the warmth of the flame.

4 Move your hands apart, stretching the golden light. Keep going until you are no longer aware of your hands and you feel the light is both in and around you.

You are now centred. You can learn to do this quite quickly, at any time when you need to take a few minutes to sit still and be quiet.

5 Opening your chakras

This is a good general exercise for daily practice in developing sensitivity, particularly when you need to feel calm and still your mind.

The chakras are the seven principal energy points on the body. They are sited at the groin (the base, or root, chakra), the spleen (or navel, chakra), the solar plexus, the heart, the throat, the brow (or third eye, between the eyebrows) and the crown of the head. There is also an eighth chakra, located above the crown, which usually corresponds to your fingertips when you extend your arm above your head (see the chakra journey exercise, page 105). In this exercise, we use the seven on the physical body. The chakras are energy centres of spiritual knowledge, through which we can access our higher selves. By opening the chakras, we open to increased sensitivity.

1 Sit comfortably, with both feet on the ground. Close your eyes, and take a deep, round breath, in and out through your nose.

2 Visualise a cocoon of white light enveloping you from head to toe for protection (see page 68). Seal it as if you were holding the air inside a balloon.

3 For the base chakra, visualise a violet flower: feel its texture, trace the outline of its petals. See the petals open, then open the centre of the flower. Really look at the colour and detail of the petals.

4 For the spleen chakra, visualise a white daisy. Open and touch the petals, feeling its vitality. Open the centre of the daisy and look around – what can you see? Just allow yourself to experience whatever comes to you.

5 For the solar plexus chakra, visualise a sunflower. Touch it with your fingertips as its petals and centre open up to you. Its centre reveals a volcano, and deep within is liquid gold. It isn’t hot; it is totally safe. You are sitting on the volcano’s edge. Dive in and immerse yourself in this gold. Feel its light and energy penetrate your being.

6 For the heart chakra, visualise a delicate pink rose. Again, feel its texture. See its petals and centre open for you.

7 For the throat chakra, visualise a forget-me-not. Trace the outline of its blue petals, and watch them peel back to reveal its centre.

8 For the third-eye chakra, visualise a buttercup: open its petals and centre.

9 For the crown chakra, visualise a golden crown opening, and shining a ray of light upwards.

You are now open to Spirit in a way that you will be able to sense beings.

Now close your chakras. To do this, imagine that each chakra has two little flaps, one folding over the other. See them close, one at a time, for each of the seven chakras, and feel at total peace.

Chapter 2 Meeting Spirit Guides (#ulink_f3d7114d-239a-5bbd-ba2f-f58a31504261)

My spirit guides live in my earliest memories. Their love and guidance graced my formative years, and I cannot remember a time when I did not sense their presence. To me, my guides – or ‘Spirit’ – were friends that not everyone else could see. My mother and Lottie, both sensitives, believed in my otherworldly confidants, but as a little girl I had not yet grasped that invisible friends were generally tolerated by other adults as a childhood game to be put away with the toys.

At that time, my spirit guides came to me day and night. I didn’t think it unusual that my version of a bedtime story involved talking to five or six deceased people: together, we shared the liveliest conversations and, later, the most amazing spiritual teaching. I became used to seeing the ordinary faces of my spirit friends gathered at the foot of my bed, and me chatting about the day I’d had. I would have been three or four years old at the time, because I remember that they all followed me to school when I was four and a half. Yet my friends never frightened me, even in the dark; I instinctively knew that they were there to protect me and keep me company, especially when school days felt lonely.

The guide who was with me the most at that time was the man who I had named ‘God’. I can see now that he resembled a monk, but as a little girl he was simply a man in the rough, brown suit. I talked to him as naturally as I talked to my mother and father – out loud. Clearly, ‘God’ was an unfortunate choice of name since I attended a Catholic girls’ school in Birmingham. Within weeks of my arrival I was reprimanded by the nuns for taking the Lord’s name in vain.

I recall one nun asking me who I was talking to.

‘It’s God,’ I replied.

‘Don’t blaspheme!’ she shouted. ‘Who do you think you are?’ I knew that she was really angry with me, but I was indignant. God had never told me his name, but I had just made the assumption: he was

my friend God.