How can you discover your own abilities and train them as well?

Question

I know each person has their own natural abilities, and I am trying to figure out what mine are. Medetation is nerely out of the question seeing as how i have yet to find a way to slow down my mind in order to reach a relaxed state.

Answer 1

Somebody already gave you a list of the main psychic abilities but I'm leaving you a link that explains each, as well as gives some exercises that you can do to begin developing them. My suggestion is read over the explanations provided and make note of what you know and feel within yourself. Don't ask for a friend's advice in this...they are also unique, with their own journey and experiences. But nobody has lived your life, with your abilities or trials.

If it eases your mind any, meditation isn't always a strict requirement in learning to develop one's abilities. As you progress, you'll find that certain things inside you will change. The key is to remain open minded...if a topic or subject crosses your path and it interests you, it's important that you follow through. Often, people will come into our lives with the express purpose of exposing us to something new that is essential to our growth and learning.

One quick exercise that I enjoy doing and works our "psychic muscle" in a unique way is quite simple and takes only a few seconds...and I highly suggest that you try it out a few times. Before you go to bed at night, take a quiet moment and request to be shown an image or symbol of the first person you'll see the next day..or maybe the first person to call you on the phone. Make note of any immediate impressions that come into your mind, no matter how ridiculous they may seem. The key is to trust what you're seeing or feeling. When I started doing this, I found that one of my friends has a circle with a V inside of it, as a symbol, while another is a solid steel gurder with red rust. They sound strange but reflected some major aspect of them as a spritual being.

Regarding your difficulty with meditation...don't feel bad, it's something that we all encounter. My own method to keep my mind from wandering is counting breaths. Called rhythmic breathing, typically one inhales for a set number of heartbeats, holds the their lungs full for an equal period of time, exhales to the same count and then leaves their lungs empty until the cycle begins again. I normally use a 4-2-4-2 count but for a very quick orientation I'll use an 8-6-8-6 count. Concentrate on the air coming in through your nose and mumble the count out loud if you have to. We all have to start some place and the most difficult part is beginning. Believe it or not, it doesn't take very long for your conscious mind to begin to understand when it's meditation time and for you to drift into an altered state. It doesn't like to be ignored, as we both know quite well, and will use some unique methods to get back the control.

One other exercise that opened some incredible doors for me, as far as realizing my psychic potential, is called Mind Vacation. One simply selects a photo (I like to use National Geographic but I have used one from a calender), memorizes the details and then sets it aside. The next part involves closing one's eyes and bringing up the picture on your mental screen - your minds eye. Once it is somewhat complete, try to move forward and enter the picture. Nature scenes, without people, are ideal for this. Before you pass this off as nonsense, I will tell you quite honestly this is the execise that allowed me to see and interact with my first spirit guide...at least the first I was really aware of. This exercise is really preparation for shamanic journeying into what's known as "non-ordinary reality" and I've included a second link that explains this and other important aspects of communicating with one's guides and power animals with this method.

Sorry for the length but I wanted to stress that one can develop their psychic abilities and meditation is not a requirement initially. I've also included a link to my metaphysical blog called "Incursions Into Otherworld" that highlights much of my experimentation with magic, psychic abilities and spirit guides. I am only adding it so you can see that I am writing this comment from experience and not second hand book knowledge.

I hope this helped a bit. If you're feeling an urge to explore this aspect of yourself, it's important to do so and is evidence that your guides are at work behind the scenes, hoping to show you your true potential. It is never a random occurrence.

Blessings.

Answer 2

Meditation will help & Psychic and Spiritual Development

http://www.crystalinks.com/psych.html

We are all born with Psychic senses everyone you talk too Yes even YOU, has one or more psychic sense. Some people choose to enhance them, others just ignore them, others may just shut them down. They still use them however they don't know they are : )

Senses are

Sight: Eyes "Clairvoyance" Spiritual Body "Eye" (called the Third Eye)

Sound: Ears "Clairaudience" Spiritual Body "Ear"

Touch: Skin "Clairsentience" Spiritual Body "Skin"

Taste: Tongue/Nose "Clairlinguance" Spiritual Body "Tongue"

Smell: Nose "Clairolerance" Spiritual Body "Nose"

*Know: Brain "Claircognizance" Spiritual Body "Mind"

Clairaudience - Intuitive

This is a person who will pick up a thought and hear it. This persons mental or intellectual understanding is very important and they can make good leaders. We all know someone that we would say was a mental person, always having to understand mentally. They carefully think things through. If this person were to become enlightened they would have the ability to become a medium, someone who channels information from entities who have passed over, because their most heightened sensitivity is to hear.

Clairvoyance- Visionary

This is a person who will pick up a thought and see it. This person has the ability to transform a thought into a vision, symbol or in colour by using their mind's eye. If an artist, a decorator, a creative person, someone who mainly uses the right side of their brain were to become enlightened they would have the ability to read auras, our chakras, draw guides and this is how they would channel what they received because the ability to see images is their most heightened sensitivity.

Clairsentience - Prophetic (1)

This is a person who will pick up a thought and just knows it. This person is sensitive to precognition and has hunches, dreams and knowings and this person usually deals with the future or present and how it will affect another. If you were to meet an enlightened Prophetic you would be able to get some information about your 'line of probability', tomorrow is not set in time remember. This could be a person who has a dream about something and that dream turns out to happen in reality. They have the ability of prediction because they 'just know' and can tune into and understand their hunches.

Clairsentience - Feeler (2)

This is a person who will pick up a thought and transform it immediately into a feeling. This persons life can revolve around how it feels to them. Their sense of touch is well-developed and they have the ability to know people by feeling what they feel. After enlightenment, this is someone would have the ability to practice psychometry. The ability to put something belonging to someone in their hand and read the energy. Depending on their other gifts, they could tell the past, present or future from the energy. They have the ability to feel how others feel but only on the emotional level. They will be able to not only empathise but experience their pain, loss, grief etc. For instance, if they were to channel energy from a persons past life they would experience the pain and hurt that that soul experienced in that past lifetime.

Clairgustance - Taste

Clairgustance is being aware of tastes without putting anything physically in the mouth. To perceive the essence of a substance through taste from the spiritual or ethereal realms. The sensation of what one is tasting is often linked to a spirit on the other side.

Claircognizance - Know

The sense of knowing through our brain, even though it is not a physical sense, simply because it has a corresponding metaphysical sense known as claircognizance, or knowing without knowing how you know.

Clairolerance - Smell

The sense of Smelling different fragrances from Spirits to find that earthly connection, strong odours you can't escape and can't explain a reason for eg: Cooking odours, Perfumes, Cigars or Cigarettes, Flowers, Extra. The characteristic essence linked to a spirit on the other side.

"Using some of the senses or all of the senses you can do"

Psychometry - Touch

Psychometry is another form of psychic divination using the sense of touch to get mental impression linked to it. Psychometric impressions may come in the form of emotions, sounds, scents, tastes or images. The visions can appear is single flat images, much like a photo, or as animations. As we exist in an electromagnetic energy reality, metal objects often work best.

Aura Reader - see

Aura readings look at your spiritual energy system as represented in the seven layers of your aura. Along with colours, a reader may see memory pictures, symbolic images, spiritual beings and usually energies belonging to others--like friends and family members. Readings can help you identify and release blocks. Aura readings also help you get in touch with your own energy, so you can know your own truth and make the highest choices for yourself.

Love & Blessings

Milly

Answer 3

Meditation is one thing that helps to discover abilities, but astral projecting can go deeper into our natural abilities. If you have questions on this contact me.

Answer 4

i think the best to discover your abilities is by joining clubs or organizations which aim to train and develop talents of every individual. back in school we have such organizations like the school news paper, taekwondo club, school choir, Artistic club, yoga science club, and a whole lot more. the analogy is like this: if you mingle with other people and you discover that you are similar in one ability (e.g. inclination to mathematics), then take another step. try competing with other people as well in a very open manner.

Answer 5

You'll never know unless you try a bit of everything.  I've always wondered if I'd be good at the piano or flying a jet, but unless you try, you might live the rest of your life unfulfilled.