In last week’s post, we established that you are psychic, to one degree or another, right? To recap, you’re impatient, you’re attached to what you ‘see’ or ‘know’ (and I use them interchangeably here to include what you hear or feel, as well as what you see psychically, or know telepathically, to simplify the language) , and you assume everyone else is like you and ‘sees’ what you ‘see’.

And after dealing with my own issues around this, not to mention at least a few hundred of my clients and friends, I’d like to talk about some common issues people have with their psychic abilities and offer some advice:

Are you responsible for what you ‘see’? Did you create it, of just ‘see’ it? There is no way to tell if you are just ‘seeing’ what you ‘see’, or if you are helping to create it. Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle says that you can’t know exactly where an elementary particle is and how fast it is moving at the same time, which implies that the experimenter is choosing which to measure/see, and is thus deeply embedded in the experiment. (This issue was borne out by Marilyn Schlitz, who accepts psychic (or psi) phenomena as real, and Richard Wiseman, who doesn’t (or at least didn’t at the time), doing the same experiments on psi phenomena on the same equipment in the same lab at the same time, and getting contradictory results.) So you do affect the situations you ‘see’ just by ‘seeing’ them. You can’t not affect them. The truth is, you’re affecting them even if you aren’t conscious that you’re ‘seeing’ them. Just accept it. And take the attitude that everything you ‘see’ be for the highest good of all concerned. At least that way your effect will be slightly positive (no matter if it looks positive in the moment or not).

What do you do with what you see, especially if no one asked you to ‘see’ it? That depends... Here are two questions to ask yourself if you see something no one asked you to see.

• Would the people whom this concerns actually want to know?
• Would they take me seriously if I told them?

And if the answer to either of those questions is ‘no’, don’t even bother bringing it up.

What do you do when you don’t want to ‘know’ what you ‘know’, or ‘see’ what you ‘see’? Think of it like this: forewarned is forearmed. For example, if you ‘know’ you’re about to be laid off, you can start your job search before it happens, so that you have a new job lined up and you’re never out of work. Of course, you can play ostrich, and pretend that you don’t know what you know, but things will begin to happen to get you to pay attention to what you really know. And many of them are less than pleasant. So again, you’re much better off to use the information you have, even if you can’t explain to others exactly how you got it.

What if you’re wrong? We all are sometimes (for more on this, see below). And here’s what to do to improve your accuracy:

• Notice what you ‘know’ - Just notice it. Like, ‘oh, I just saw a flash of a bird that isn’t physically there’. You don’t have to know what it means. It may not mean anything. Just notice it.
• Notice how you ‘know’ it – Did you see something? Hear something? Feel something? Smell or taste something that wasn’t actually there? Pay attention to the specifics of the packaging of the information. Was it large and bright? Small and translucent?
• Write it down – Keep a notebook of all the things you ‘know’. You’ll be surprised how many there are. And then you get to look back and see how much was right, what types of things were right, and how you ‘knew’ them.
• Say ‘thank you’! - There’s an old line, ‘what you focus on, expands.’ And gratitude is a form of focus, so when you say thank you, you get more of that which you appreciated.