5 Simple but Profound Ways to Develop Your Own Psychic Abilities

Everyone is psychic to some degree. While some are born more naturally attune to the psychic world, we are all capable of perceiving what is on the other side. If you’re like most people and need help developing your psychic abilities, try these five very accessible things:

1. Get in touch with your intuition. Sometimes, you just know things. Whether it’s because you’re actually picking up tiny clues in the environment or cosmic vibes, sometimes you have access to inexplicable knowledge about a person, place, thing, or situation. Modern society tells us not to pay attention these perceptions, that it is unreasonable, or that what can be known is up to a vote. After all, how can you be right if the people around you (who have dull senses) can’t sense what you sense?

Perhaps you were never talked into ignoring your intuition. You’re lucky. However, chances are you’ve been told to ignore your hunches about things. You may not even recognize the tingle or shock of intuitive flashes anymore. Your intuition is like a muscle: the more you use it, the stronger it gets. But like all your muscles, you may not use, your intuition is still there.

Honor it. Abide by it.

2. Develop your five senses. They don’t call it “extra-sensory perception” for nothing. Developing your five, typical senses of sight, hearing, touching, taste, and smell will help develop your extra-sensory perception. Using your senses heightens your overall sensitivity, because when you train your body to be more sensitive, you also train your mind to be more sensitive. When you learn to pay closer attention to your environment and the things that others overlook, you learn to perceive the things that others cannot.

There’s many ways to do this. Listen to classical music. Sit and think about the different tastes in the food you eat. Notice the scent of places you go. Try to get all-sensory experiences, too. Go hiking and use your hands to climb. Don’t be afraid of touching the Earth.

3. Stop censoring your thoughts and emotions. This is difficult at first, but over time, it gets easier. Society teaches us that there are “right” and “wrong” thoughts and emotions, and in order to be a good person, one must have the “right” thoughts and emotions. This is ridiculous. There is nothing more raw and personal than one’s thoughts or emotions, and nothing more private, either. Even still, we live in a world where we fear each other’s most basic emotions.

Take a bold move and literally tell yourself that all of your emotions, positive and negative, constructive or destructive, are okay. Then literally tell yourself that all of your thoughts are fine. Don’t act on certain ones, and don’t dwell in them forever, but don’t judge yourself for simply having the thought or the feeling.

In order to develop psychic ability safely, one must be fully accepting of all of their thoughts and feelings. They must know their own dark side and face it with courage so they can face what is on the other side of the veil between the material world and the psychic world.

4. Learn a form of divination. Divination is the practice of using something present in the physical world to determine what happened in the past or what will happen in the future. Astrology, tarot card reading, palmistry, and other practices like them help practitioners develop stronger intuition and thus stronger psychic abilities. The reason for this boils down to the fact that everyone who does a form of divination has to work with symbols.

If you can imagine that having to figure out what the pictures on a tarot card could mean and putting it into plain English for someone takes a certain amount of wisdom not readily available, then you can see how this is a lot like being psychic. Learning divination is like a boxer jumping rope. It works out the muscles needed to navigate the ring more effectively.

The universe isn’t going to blurt out its secrets. It will give impressions. A strange scent may be indicative of the personality of a ghost nearby. The physical feeling you get from being around a person can tell you whether or not they’re a good person, in good health, or in good spirits.

5. Become more of an artist. Artists and psychics are very similar. They take impressions, thoughts, and feelings, and present them to the world in a way that they can understand them. Artists can be visionaries, revolutionaries, and interpreters of not only this world but the one to come. They also have to understand people at a fundamental level in order to reach them through the senses. Thus, developing your artistic ability will help you develop your psychic ability.

Even if you don’t think you have any artistic talent, go ahead and try something. The key is to be artistic, not to simply make something. Sitting around a room drinking cheap wine and painting the same thing isn’t artistic. Be alone with your paints and a blank canvas and go for it. No one is watching, judging, or placing a value on what you make. Whatever medium you want to try, just go for it. Don’t worry about finishing, either. What’s important is the process of opening yourself up to impressions.

And, if you happen to discover a new talent, all the better.