How to Develop Your Intuitive Psychic Abilities

by  Alice Grist
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Did you know you are quite naturally psychic? Think to all the times you ‘just knew’ something, or had an idea about an event or person, that proved to be true. Maybe you’ve had ‘feelings’ all your life that eventually turn out to be accurate, or a dream that reflected an event that later happens, like a premonition or a warning.
 
From my 30-year study and experience in spirituality and tarot, I am convinced that we all have the latent superpower of being psychic. The difference between those with the gift and those without, is simply this, practice. Tarot allow for the most amazing practice, which is chock full of empowering self-reflection. My books will teach you how to access this, but this article is a great place to get started. 
 
Unfortunately, our natural psychic sense is not taught in schools and has become laden with stereotypes and disbelief. Yet, you have had your own experiences of it. Part of my work as a tarot teacher is to help you to really dive into your intuition to accurately read the cards, but to also empower your psychic understandings to seize the best life possible. Believing that you can and thinking about your own experience of these things is a great place to start.
 
Have a think about your personal experience of psychic ability. How have you dismissed it? How have you written it off as coincidence? Take a moment to allow yourself to believe it was real, that it was too uncanny not to be. Allow yourself permission to believe that this natural superpower is yours as much as anyone else’s. 
 
The world of traditional psychic ability is split into different areas. Psychics tend to lean towards one skill (much like how we all have likes, favour certain hobbies or have our individual talents and interests) these are; clairvoyance, claircognizance, clairaudience, and clairsentience abilities. I believe that these ways of understanding the world, sit within each of us, and when we pay attention to those little inklings such as inner whispers, images that flash in front of our minds, feelings and knowing, we can start to profoundly grow our understandings of the world we live in. 
 
Here are my top three tips to start to explore your natural psychic ability.

1. Work with tarot, astrology or another tool that allows you to objectively see the patterns around you. When the same card keeps arising, or the cards / stars are surprisingly accurate it becomes easier to believe and understand that there is something more for you to access, and that your intuition is worth working with! 
2. Keep a spiritual journal that is focused on the amazing everyday events that occur. The conversations that happen spontaneously that gift you an answer, the connections you make, the white feathers that keep finding you, the inner knowing that lead to you making the right decision. Examine your everyday and report back to your journal everything that happens. You will soon see patterns and begin to recognise that you, as much as anyone, have psychic abilities. 
3. Ask for a sign from spirit, maybe an animal or a symbol. Then get on with life and believe the sign when it comes. I recently asked a client to do this, she asked for a dancing woman with hearts. She then went on holiday where she forgot all about it, until she found herself outside a ballet theatre, covered in dancing women, with a bunch of helium heart balloons randomly placed outside. Let your sign come to you, and don’t have any expectations what it means. When it comes, it’s an affirmation that you are connected, intuitive and ready for more! 

 
My books will help you venture further into this magic….