Tapping Into Psychic Abilities
Everyone has psychic abilities and tapping into them is easier than you think. Learning how to cleanse your energy and tap into psychic abilities is something everyone should explore. The word psychic describes the unconscious, spiritual phenomenon that otherwise cannot be explained by science. But what if I told you that psychic abilities can be explained by science, and are part of our nervous system’s proprioceptive and interoceptive function. It’s true, psychic abilities are part of our everyday experience, and most of the time we aren’t even aware of it. Yogis have been aware of the psychic siddhis, or powers, locked within the chakras for thousands of years. As the world opens up to the idea of mindfulness and meditation as a state of being people are starting to experience psychic phenomena more frequently.
The key to tapping into psychic abilities is meditation. Meditation unlocks our psychic abilities by helping us to reach states of non-attachment where we can clearly see the energy that we are picking up around us. The word siddhi means powers achieved by an enlightened individual, usually called a Siddha. When we practice non-attachment we move in and out of states of awareness in which everything is arising where we are not attached to preference or outcome and in this place, we can access these psychic powers or siddhis.
You might be wondering what your psychic abilities are and how you trust your intuition, and ultimately that question can be answered through mindfulness practices found in yoga. When we connect to Pure Awareness we let go of our attachment to identity and become one with the present awareness where all fluctuations move. The more we practice this the more we can tap into these abilities.
Psychic Development & Energetic Protection
When we work to develop our psychic abilities we are learning to protect our energy and trust our intuition. Truth be told, there is no such thing as “bad” energy; rather, there is energy that activates negative responses in our energetic field. But the energy itself is not “bad” or “good”, it’s just energy. When we start to use meditation to open our psychic centers and unlock our siddhis we start to see our perception of the world for what it is, attachment.
Attachment keeps us in holding patterns that cause us to move in and out of dis-ease states. Sometimes we’re happy, and sometimes we’re sad, but for some reason, it’s so hard to maintain contentment. The reason for this is attachment. The more we can see our own attachments and let them go the more we protect ourselves psychically.
Let’s look at an example. Let’s say two people are talking and one person says something that activates insecurity in the other person. The person who is activated is experiencing aversion to the recognition of their insecurity. Aversion is the same as attachment, it’s the opposite side of the same coin. Now, the person who has been activated is reacting in a way that causes them to feel dis-ease energetically. They may even feel that the person that activated them has “bad” energy, but in truth, it’s not the person’s energy that is bad, but rather the experience has disrupted the activated individual’s energy field.
If the person who was activated had not been insecure and therefore averted to their insecurity, then they would not have been activated in the first place, and their energy would not have been displaced. This is why it’s so important to cleanse your energy & tap into your psychic abilities.
You could think of it as water displacement. If I’m attached to something and it gets thrown into my energetic pool of awareness then I feel a lot of disruption as the energy sloshes around. But what if I’m not attached to it? Then it’s like a leaf that gently falls on the surface of the water unnoticed. The key to protecting our energy psychically is to maintain perspective and to watch out for unnecessary attachment.
Practicing To Build Psychic Awareness
Psychic practice starts with a healthy pratyahara practice. Pratyahara is withdrawal of the senses and it’s what most people think of when they think of meditation. When we turn our senses inward we begin to first see the mental fluctuations that have us seeking refuge in the outside world, and then we practice observing them without judgment. Mindfulness, or observation without judgment, is the key to practicing to develop psychic abilities.
Imagine if you were on in an endless sea. No land in sight, just waves berating you from all directions. You might panic and possibly even drown, which is what many of us experience when we sit down to meditate. Our thoughts, like waves, beat us down and sometimes make it seem like we can’t get a moment of peace. But, if we start to lay back and float in the waves we begin to relax. The physical body starts to let go and the mind loses its grip.
The more we practice this type of pratyahara the more we can access the meditative state where we observe thoughts, feelings, memories, and sensations without attachment. Over time, we begin to distinguish between the unconscious mind’s need to reconcile experience and information coming from the outside world.
It is this recognition that helps us to see clearly, and when we see clearly we can access clairvoyance, clairaudience, and clairsentience among other subtle psychic powers ane nuances.
Psychic Training
There are many ways that you can directly hone your psychic abilities. Some people pick up a lot of psychic training in advanced yoga teacher training. Nowadays, there are so many options for advanced yoga teacher training online. These are great options, especially if you are a yoga teacher looking to upgrade your credentials with Yoga Alliance.
Aside from advanced yoga teacher training online or in-person you can also enroll in an actual psychic development course. These courses give you many opportunities to practice connecting to intuition and psychic phenomena. On the other hand, you could also enlist the help of a private teacher. Working with someone who understands how to work with psychic material and clear energy can be hugely beneficial.
As you learn to cleanse your energy and tap into psychic abilities you will feel an overall energetic shift. Over time, and with the proper support, you will be able to access psychic powers, maintain appropriate boundaries, and routinely clear your energy psychically without issue.
Psychic Transformation
Learning how to cleanse your energy and tap into psychic abilities helps us to trust the universe. When we tap into our psychic abilities we become more grounded, embodied, and present with what is arising. We can cultivate compassion more freely because we have access to wellbeing, life living through us with purpose and meaning.
The more you work with psychic abilities the more comfortable you become with your physical body as a conduit; we become more connected and we can sense things inexplicably. Our heightened senses give us the wherewithal to maintain composure in any situation and to channel source as needed for healing and personal growth. Psychic transformation is real, and it’s our birthright as sentient beings. If you’re curious about deepening your practice or working with a teacher one on one check out some of the resources we offer on meditation, energetic balance, and healing through the chakras. It will undoubtedly change your life for the better.