How the word 'Psychic' can prevent you from developing your intuitive abilities
Why the word ‘psychic’ is the biggest obstacle to developing your intuitive abilities
Tomorrow, Tuesday, June 15th, we’ll have session #5 on my Intuition to Vision class and I am happy to report that so far I have been able to teach everyone how to do ‘visions’. YAASSS.
Here’s some of what I have learnt so far.
Does the ’gift’ matter?!!
I don’t necessarily believe in the concept of the ‘gift’. I believe some people may be more inclined towards this field but it is a matter of actively developing and most importantly, learning how to listen.
The biggest barrier to accessing the ‘intuitive layer’ of information is the label ‘psychic’. In the course of speaking to people I have noticed this focus on the search for the so-called ‘psychic’ information. The same people who focus too much on the word ‘psychic’ initially, often had a hard time connecting with intuitive information.
Why is that?
The problem with the word ‘Psychic’
I’ve noticed that for many people the word ’psychic’ is connected to the idea of a passive recipient of otherwordly information. In addition to that, it has come to imply that there is a value judgement connected to intuitive experience. You are either too good (therefore ‘a gifted psychic’) or not good enough ( where you have to ‘earn’ this ability).
There is a lot of anxiety attached to that label, and with that, the barrier to actually listening. In reality the first step to ‘receiving’ information is listening without the ego.
When you focus on the search for ‘psychic’ information only, you could be dismissing information that is relevant because often, especially at the beginning, ’psychic’ information doesn’t fit your definition of ’psychic’.
When you focus on the word ‘psychic’ too much, you turn off your ability to listen without prejudice.
And that is what I place so much importance on learning how to listen.
The importance of learning how to listen
When you become focused on picking up information that you *believe* to be quote-unquote ’psychic’, you miss out on a lot of important insights.
When you use your left brain to make a judgement, you are also limiting your ability to listen. And truly intuitive information can only come to you when you are NOT judging. The process of then interpreting and connecting the dots comes after - not before or during - the process of listening.
The hardest thing is not letting your left brain take over.
Listening involves not letting your ‘left brain’ take over.
Most of us are analytical. Even if you are the type of person who is very interested and engaged in this process, the moment you ask too many questions pass judgement on the information you are picking up on, you turn off the listening process.
And when you do that, you close yourself off.
The baking analogy
It’s like baking a cake. If you decide to open the oven and remove it before it’s fully cooked, you can’t actually eat the cake.
Like baking, in order to enjoy the outcome you seek, in this case receiving intuitive information, you need to let the first and most important part of the process be completed without interfering, before you can taste it and judge it.
You need to make sure you listen, and THEN once you have observed the information from a detached place, you can describe it and make sense of it.