Introduction to Psychic Skills and Tools

Psychics have a variety of skills and tools that are used to help others. Most  people think that consulting a psychic is all about predictions.  But, let me clear something up from the very beginning. A fortune teller and a psychic are not  the same thing!

Psychics are individuals who have a wide range of tools. We don't just see, feel and sense into the future! Many of us sense much, much more than just events that are going to happen. (See the article, "The Many Faces of A Psychic" and "How Can A Psychic Help Your Relationship?" to learn more about what it is that a psychic does and can do beyond mere prediction!)

In fact, you should know that no psychic is 100% or even 85% accurate. Even if the psychic markets herself as a high percentage of accuracy....don't believe it!  There is no true way to gauge accuracy since there is no way to keep in contact with all the many people that consult a particular psychic.

Free will of all individuals involved- that includes you as well as the person you are asking about- determines the outcome more than any psychic prediction ever can! Please remember this important fact.

So, let's get off the subject of predictions because...
  psychics do so very much more. 

Psychics are people who have a heightened state of intuition.  The skills they rely on have to do with what can be called sensory channels.  We all know about the five basic senses of sight, sound, smell, touch and feeling.

Psychics will use a variety or combination of these basic five sense in addition to the added sixth sense known as intuition.  Intuition is a skill and a tool.  Just having good intuition is not enough for someone to call herself a psychic.  Skillful use of intuition is a prerequisite for a good psychic counselor.

Psychics vary in their use of particular sensory channels. Some rely most on the channel of sight.  These psychics are called clairvoyant. In our culture, the visual channel is more highly respected than the other sensory channels. There is evidence of this in the way we are taught in school using a blackboard to get the information across.  Greco-Roman cultures put primacy on the written, visual experience over other types of knowing.

This bias translates into clairvoyants  being regarded as more real than psychics who use the other channels as well. This, of course, is a limited view.

Information that comes through the auditory (hearing) channel is referred to as clairaudient.  Clairsentient is when a psychic feels in her physical body or her emotional body a particular piece of information. Please, again, let's not assume that the information is of a predictive nature!

Tools Are A Means To An End

As for the tools a psychic may use, let me say that they are of a great, great variety.  The tools range from tea leaves, to tarot cards, to use of a deepening breath. If you did a serious study of psychic instruments, you would find that the culture of the psychic often dictates the tools used as reliable by the psychic to transmit information.

A tool is just that - a tool.  It is not the tool that determines if a person is psychic but rather the blending of the tool with the person's skillful use of intuition.  I've seen people who channel information while simply doodling on a pad. It is not the pictures that are speaking.  It is simply the motion of the hand that is taking the psychic out of his head using a repetitive movement to create a trance-like state.

Tarot cards are used much in the same way. They are not translated so much as the cards with images and color pull the psychic out of the ordinary left brain into the right brain which is the seat of intuition.  People think that the cards have the information and that all anyone has to do is read the interpretation for a particular card and all is known.  Again, this is a narrow view.

Some people even distrust a psychic who uses cards or other concrete tools because they think that the person is not psychic but only doing an interpretation. What a funny way to think but I have heard people say many foolish things.  A better understanding of psychic abilities is needed now that more and more people are turning to psychics as counselors, consultants and advisors. 

Thank you for your interest in learning and growing. 

Blessings to All,