15 Exercises For Developing Psychic Ability and Unlocking Your Psychic Powers

by Alissa Monroe
So many people are interested in the things unseen in our world, the things that
lie beneath the perception of most people. If you have been curious about what it
would be like to become a psychic, then it might be time for you to dedicate some
time to develop your psychic abilities.

Of course, the next question that you will probably ask is “How do I develop my
psychic abilities?” Fortunately, there are a lot of methods and techniques you can
use to expand your senses to the world beyond normal perception. From there, you’ll
begin to strengthen your intuition and see and know things that the people around
you won’t be able to pick up on.

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Here are some methods you can try to help make that happen and see how they let you
experience life on a whole new level of perception!

Getting Started
If can be a real challenge to begin developing your psychic abilities when you
aren’t sure what to do. Fortunately, there are a lot of different techniques you
can do to practice cultivating your intuition and make your mediumship gifts known!

It’s best to commit to making time to practice a single technique each and every
day. They don’t have to be done in any particular order, so just try those that
sound helpful to you and after you try something, if it doesn’t work, move on to
try something else!

Begin with what seems easiest for you or that sounds like the most fun. Then, start
trying things that sound a little bit more difficult to challenge yourself. After a
few months have gone by, you might be surprised at the progress you’ve made.

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How To Develop Psychic Abilities: 15 Exercises To Try
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#1: Meditate Daily for 10-15 Minutes

Raising your body’s vibration is an important aspect of developing your psychic

abilities. This is because spiritual energy vibrates at a higher frequency.
Meditating regularly will allow you to be relaxed and raise your energy vibration.
As time passes, you will begin to feel an increased connection to your Higher Self,
Spirit, and others’ energy. If you get bored of your typical meditation, try guided
meditations.

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#2: Learn About Your Spirit Guides

If you pursue the psychic path, then your spirit guides are going to be there to
help you every step along the way – so it’s important to familiarize yourself with
them and get to know them – you especially need to learn to trust them. While you
are meditating, ask your guides to reveal themselves to you at that time. Ask them
what their names are. Don’t filter anything out; just go with it and trust what you
see.
#3: Practice Psychometry Skills

Psychometry refers to reading
method to start practicing at
especially a metal object and
and close your eyes to see if
about the object’s owner.
the energy of an object. This is fun and is a great
your abilities. Simply start by holding an object –
something with a lot of energy, like a wedding ring –
you can intuitively see, sense, or hear anything

#4: Develop Your Clairvoyance with Flower Visualization

This is an especially fun technique! You begin by closing your eyes and focusing on
your third eye area. Then, invite your Spirit Guides to show you peaceful images of
beauty and be absent of any other thought. Let your mind wander, and the images
will naturally flood your third eye!

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#5: Take a Nature Walk

Meditation doesn’t need to be boring or done while sitting. You can enjoy a
mindfulness meditation by taking a nature walk. Concentrate on each step as you
walk and focus on your body’s movement. With each step, repeat the word “step.”
This will aid you in clearing your third eye from clutter and will also increase
your vibration. Even a regular nature walk is also extremely meditative!

#6: Read Psychic Development Books

Reading helps you to become more aware of your skills, so reading a few pages of a
psychic development book daily will help you to learn more about your natural
talents and to hone your skills as you learn.

#7: Visit an Antique Store

These stores are full of energy. Visit an antique store and pay attention to what
you intuitively sense and feel when you are in the store! Does the energy feel
heavy? Wonderful? Pick up different objects and see what you sense. Maybe you’ll
hear a name or see a vision!

#8: Make a Symbol Book

Often, psychic information comes to us in a number of ways. It often has a symbolic

quality and shouldn’t be taken literally. Your Spirit Guides will help you in
interpreting things as your psychic abilities develop. Get a journal and pen you
like and sit quietly while you invite your Angels and Spirit Guides to help you.
Ask them to show you a symbol, such as for events and occupations. For example,
they may show you a birthday cake to represent a birthday, or you might hear the
happy birthday song instead. Write all of these down in your symbol book so later,
if you are shown that symbol again, you will remember what it means.

#9: Practice Your Aura-Seeing Skills

Anyone is able to learn to see auras, and it happens to be a great way to develop
your psychic skills. Have a friend stand in front of a wall with a plain color.
Step back eight feet. Then, focus on their forehead (third eye area) and imagine
you are looking through them, at the wall beyond. You will begin to notice the aura
layer around their head.

#10: Practice Giving Readings Often

The best way to develop a skill at something is to practice, and its key to
becoming a medium or psychic. Give readings every chance you get and watch your
skill, accuracy, and confidence increase with every reading.

#11: Tune-in to Your Pet

When your pet is calm, try sitting with him or her and intuitively picking up on
their feelings. This helps to develop your clairsentience.

#12: Try Reading Old Family Photos

A picture says a thousand words – and can you read all of those words from a
picture using your intuitive abilities and psychic gifts? Look at people in old
photos and write everything down that you sense from them. This is a fun way to
develop your psychic skills!

#13: Journal Often

Frequent journaling helps you to tune in to your higher self, your soul, and your
spiritual helpers. Try thinking of a situation that you could use some guidance in.
Journal about it and allow yourself to relax and be divinely guided at the same
time.

#14: Join a Spiritual Development Circle or Class

No one is ever enough of an expert at something that they don’t have anything to
learn from others. Try taking a class or joining a psychic development circle to
meet others on their spiritual journey and see what you can pick up from them!

#15: Focus Your Third Eye

Clairvoyance is one of the primary abilities that come with being psychic. To
develop it, take a few moments to focus on your third eye area, which lies just
above and between your eyebrows. Imagine your third eye opening. If you do, you
might even feel the spot begin to tingle!

How to Tap Into Your Own Psychic Abilities

No crystal ball or ouija board necessary.
BY ALIZA KELLY FARAGHER

July 2, 2018
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Welcome, cosmic warriors. I'm astrologer Aliza Kelly Faragher, and this is Allure
Astrology, a column dedicated to all things magick. Today, we’ll learn how to tap
into our psychic abilities. No need for a crystal ball — these gifts are already
embedded deep within your spirit.

As an astrologer, tarot reader, and occult practitioner, it’s quite easy for me to
tell whether a client is psychic — certain planetary placements in a birth chart,
card spreads, or even casual conversations about manfiestation reveal an
individual’s extrasensory perceptions. Although I’m always thrilled to meet other
super-feelers and am eager to share my observations, I always proceed with caution:
Being psychic isn’t easy, and many people have misperceptions about what this gift
actually entails. Working with psychic skills requires patience, practice, and lots
of self-love.

I’ve come to realize that when many of us hear the word “psychic,” we imagine a
neon-lit storefront, decorated with crystal balls, fog machines, and animatronic
contraptions that manipulate supernatural occurrences — the true essence of “smoke
and mirrors.” From an early age, we’re warned by our parents that these services
are scams and begin associating psychic gifts, at large, as dubious and fraudulent.
The otherworldly events we experience in childhood are often discredited, and even
as we explore divination practices in adulthood, we are still quick to raise an
eyebrow at the word “psychic.”

For many of us, the first step in tapping into our extrasensory abilities is
divorcing this concept from deception. While there are definitely many charlatans
who either exaggerate their skills or make them up entirely, these individuals are
not psychics: They are con-artists who use fear tactics to pray on gullible or
vulnerable individuals. In most cases, pretending to be psychic is just one of many
exploitative schemes for these imposters.

Psychics, on the other hand, are simply individuals who are able to see, hear,
feel, sense, taste, or have intuition beyond the boundaries of the physical world.
It is difficult, perhaps even impossible, to firmly define what society deems
“normal” perception. After all, we are conditioned to believe that our perception
of reality is fairly concrete: We assume that everyone knows the sky as blue or can
detect when someone is in a cranky mood. But as we continue to expand this sensory
spectrum, we quickly realize that certain senses become increasingly less common
among our peers. It is through this awareness that many of us become aware of our
unique, inherent psychic gifts.

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The Psychic Spectrum
Fundamentally, psychic skills are defined by an innate ability to process sensory
data — both tangible and intangible stimuli — on an extremely deep emotional,
physical, or spiritual level. Of course, this is a rather broad definition. Because
extrasensory gifts vary greatly in intensity and application, it’s best to imagine
psychic skills on a spectrum.

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To visualize this range, imagine four friends meeting for dinner. The first
individual to arrive approaches the host stand, speaks with the maître d', and is
led to the table. After sitting, she notices that she’s missing a fork and that her
water glass has already been filled. She’s quite thirsty, so she takes a sip.

Shortly after, the second friend enters the restaurant. He approaches the host
stand and notices that maître d' is scrolling through Instagram on her phone.
Unsure of whether the maître d' is bored or indignant, the second individual
delicately gets the hosts attention through a gentle greeting. The host is gracious
and welcoming, and the second individual is immediately relieved. The host leads
the second individual to the table, where he sits down, greets his friend, and
proceeds to review the menu.

The third friend enters the restaurant. As she approaches the host stand, she is
overwhelmed with stimuli: She notes the restaurant’s garish decor, the servers’
swift movements, and a particularly loud gentleman in the back of the room who
seems to be dominating the conversation. His energy is arrogant and abrasive, and
his young children appear both embarrassed and afraid. Will they grow to adopt his
behavior, or will they reject it and become soft and docile? Suddenly, the third
friend snaps back in reality as maître d' asks how she can help. Once she arrives
at the table, she immediately shares her observations with her dinner mates.

Finally, the fourth friend walks into the restaurant. Upon entering, he’s
completely overwhelmed by the movement, sounds, lights, and smells. Within an
instant, he’s aware of interpersonal dynamics at each table, the complex
relationships between the servers, the pungent odor of a particular dish that
reminds him of childhood, and a few charred rafters on the ceiling. Had there been
a fire? Suddenly, he senses an extreme heaviness (something bad happened here) and
— avoiding the maître d' — hurries towards the table of friends. He tries to shake
off these experiences, but they continue to linger throughout dinner.

From the above example, friend one and two demonstrate a relatively standard range
of sensitivity, while friend three and four exhibit more extreme extrasensory
abilities. Consider your own experiences: How much stimuli do you absorb on a daily
basis? Which types of stimuli resonate most deeply? How does it impact you
emotionally? Physically? Spirituality? By understanding your own unique gifts, you
can begin to learn how to tap into your psychic strengths.
Tapping Into Your Psychic Abilities
Most frequently, we develop psychic abilities during childhood. These gifts are
either passed down through close individuals (who, directly or indirectly, teach us
this language) or are cultivated in response to environmental conditions. As
children, we notice more, see more, hear more, and feel more — these are basic
survival instincts that enable us to safely move through the world. But as we
mature, we are told to stop being so sensitive, that ghosts aren’t real, and that
pain is always physical. Through this conditioning, we start to believe that
emotions and intuition are antithetical to science and reason. We suppress our
gifts, sneer at “clairvoyants,” and accept the physical realm as the full extent of
reality.

But don’t fret, cosmic warriors: Your psychic gifts are never completely lost.
Though it may require a bit of work to reignite these dormant skills, here and some
easy tips and tricks for tapping into your extrasensory abilities.

Grab coffee with your intuition.

Imagine meeting up with an old childhood friend who you haven't seen in decades.
You're excited to reflect on memories, and can distinctly remember your unique
interpersonal dynamic. But a lot has changed since your playdates, and although
your old buddy is still the same person, in many ways, you're now complete
strangers. In order to build a new friendship, you'll need to get to know each
other all over again.

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In order to tap into your psychic abilities, treat your intuition like this old
childhood friend. Of course, you're familiar with your intuition — it's always been
part of your spirit. But you may have a completely different way of working
together than you did in the past.

Cultivate a relationship with your intuition by developing a daily practice. One

simple exercise involves assigning colors to your emotions. Start by considering a
very straightforward experience, such as a frustrating conversation with your boss
or flirty text exchange with your crush. Next, choose colors to associate with
these feelings (in this example, let’s select yellow and pink, respectively). Over
time, this color will become synonymous with that emotion and your intuition will
be able to communicate through this non-verbal language. Once the color has been
fused with the energy, your intuition will be able to signal on events outside your
immediate realities. So if you see pink when your friend starts telling you about
her new coworker, you’ll immediately know that there’s a romantic link.

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Scan the room.
Another great way to cultivate your psychic abilities is to practice “environmental
scans.” To do this, position yourself in the center of a room. Move around the
space (either physically, or just with your eyes), noting the sights, sounds, and
scents. Which areas are the most inviting? The least? Explore the corners, the
windows, the furniture. How do these energies make you feel?

I know this exercise may seem a bit awkward at first, but trust me, no one will
notice your psychic exploration. Practice these environmental scans in different
areas — parks, bars, offices, and even subway cars. The more you become aware of
your surroundings, the easier it will be for you to pick up on subtle shifts in
energy. Eventually, you’ll be able to extrapolate this skill to past memories, as
well as future happenings. This is the first step to astral projection, the ability
to willfully manifest out-of-body experiences. Of course, astral projection takes
years of practice, but environmental scans will help deepen your psychic practice.

Get dreamy.
It may sound trite, but one of the best ways to access your psychic skills is
through the subconscious. In our daily lives, we are constantly creating boundaries
to limit how much stimuli we ingest — and with good reason. In order to live
healthy, functional lives, we simply cannot absorb everything we encounter.
Accordingly, these experiences are often stored within our psyche.

The fastest way to tap into your psychic abilities is to cultivate a healthy
relationship with your subconscious mind. Dreams are a great pathway into this
realm: They symbolize the alternative reality to our waking world. Free of physical
constraints, we can move effortlessly move between spaces — exploring foreign
lands, traveling to bygone eras, and encountering otherworldly spirits. Dreams are
a portal, and the more acquainted we become with this subconscious realm, the more
easily we are able to access the full spectrum of our psychic gifts. Be sure to
always keep a pen and paper close to your bed: As you become increasingly
comfortable with your subconscious, you will begin to realize the incredible
fluidity between worlds.