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Dear Soul Arcanum:

I often have feelings about things that prove true. For example, I will sense it when someone is lying to me, or the other day, I had a bad feeling as I started out on my usual route to work, and I ended up stuck in a traffic jam. Would you say that I’m psychic? If not, what’s the difference between being intuitive like me, and being officially “psychic?” Thanks!
– Sue

Dear Sue:

I would probably use the same label you do and call you “highly intuitive.” By this I mean that you have a lot of natural psychic ability, and are receiving a lot of psychic information. To be officially “psychic,” all you have to do is trust your intuitions enough to act on them. (Mind you, these are all abstract labels; there is no hard line where someone becomes officially “psychic” any more than there is a hard line where someone becomes officially “beautiful,” “intelligent” or “artistic.”)

Where you may have a vague feeling that road trouble lies ahead and then discover (the hard way) that your feeling was right, a psychic will put that feeling to good use and take another route!

Let’s work with your driving example, since this is something we can all relate to. I get a lot of intuitive guidance when driving myself. Just last week I got on the highway to head across town and run some errands, and soon I came to a point where I could take one of two routes. I usually take what I’ll call “route B,” but as I approached this split, I heard in my mind, “Take route A.”

Now, years ago when I was just developing psychically, I may not have been able to specify that I “heard this in my head.” I may have said I just “knew” that I should take the other way, and I probably wouldn’t have done it.

Many people have experiences like this all the time. They “just know” that they should take a different route, or they have a feeling that they should stop and get gas now instead of waiting until later, or they “sense” that something or other is going to happen, but the feeling is so vague or “improbable” that they choose to brush it off. Then later, something happens to confirm that they should have “listened to their intuition.” What they do at THIS point determines whether they will continue to remain highly intuitive or start to develop into someone we could officially label “psychic.”

Anyway, in my case, when I heard “Take A,” I woke up and dialogued with whatever was telling me this. I don’t know where this information came from. I did not perceive an angel sitting next to me in the car, or a spirit guide speaking through the radio, or the presence of any other being. It was just a voice in my own mind, so one could say that I was “talking this over with myself.”

I basically asked, “Did I hear that right? I should take Route A?” I then heard in reply, “Yes, take A!” I then mentally said, “Okay, I will take A, but I would really like evidence later down the road to verify this decision. I hate it when I listen to my intuition and then I never get to witness the wisdom of doing so!”

I quickly changed lanes and took the other route, and sure enough, just as I approached my exit, I saw signs stating that due to bridge construction, the very ramp I would have needed to take if I had gone my usual route was closed. Further, there was a big traffic backup due to this construction, which began just where I was getting off the highway, so I was not inconvenienced at all.

At this point, many people might start to question the whole experience. They might reason with themselves that this was perhaps just a coincidence, or they might smile, shrug, and say, “Wow, that was weird,” and then forget about it and come back to “reality.”

I, however, paused and gave THANKS to that voice – whatever it was and wherever it came from. I took a few moments to relish the feeling of being blessed and guided, and I affirmed once again that I am indeed psychic.

I also reviewed how this information came to me so that the next time it happens, I will recognize it for what it is. (Of course, I knew to listen to it this time because I had received similar guidance in the past, and done the same review at that time.)

Above I mentioned something that is worth exploring further. To progress from being intuitive to psychic, we must be willing to take some leaps of faith – to act on our intuition even when we have no logical reason to do so, and even if we never receive evidence that it was a prudent thing to do.

For example, if we have a feeling that we should stay home some night and we listen to it and nothing happens, we may never know what COULD have happened if we hadn’t listened to our intuition. This is the whole point! Our intuition is protecting us from something bad happening, so it’s a good thing if nothing happens.

Further, the more we listen to the “little nudges” that come to us, the more we will build trust in this source of guidance, and the better it will work for us. Our daily lives can then become much easier and smoother thanks to all the intuitive guidance we receive.

Please note that my own psychic radar ebbs and flows depending on lots of different factors, many of which I’m sure I’m not aware of. If I’m in denial or illusion about anything personally, for example, I will probably block my own inner guidance simply because I don’t want to see the truth. If I’m exhausted, caught up in negative emotion, stressed out, etc., it will wane. By contrast, when I’m relaxed, happy, on top of my life and issues, feeling fine, etc., it will blossom again. I’m sure that planetary/astrological energies affect our intuition too, as do the natural cycles our bodies go through.

Below are some of the intuitions that came to me on a day I was really psychically on. There were far more than I could list here, and there were probably far more that I experienced that I didn’t consciously note or remember. (You have many like that too!) Here are a few:

  • When I woke up, it came to me that “someone would come to the door” that morning, so I had better be dressed appropriately. Sure enough, a little while later, a tradesman unexpectedly knocked at the door at an unusual hour.
  • I had a feeling that I need not race to get the phone, as it would not be for me, and later when I checked the caller i.d., this was confirmed.
  • I had a feeling I was forgetting some appointment or obligation, so I went back through my “sent emails” file, and sure enough, I had failed to put a reading on my written schedule.
  • I had a feeling that a package would be delivered in the afternoon that would require a signature, and that I should thus make sure I was home at that time, and this happened.
  • Throughout the day, I often had people pop into my head, and when I then checked my email, I had just received emails from those people.
  • I have been looking for a local resource for a project I want to get going, and I had a feeling that I should look in a certain publication. I opened that publication, flipped through it, and went directly to a page where I found what I was looking for.
  • I had a feeling my son was not being completely honest about his homework situation, so I told him I would be checking with his teachers, at which point he decided to confess the rest of the story.
  • I had a feeling that I shouldn’t email my real estate agent about a certain concern yet, and sure enough, within an hour that concern was cleared up – by the guy who came to the door early in the morning!

I’m out of space here, but I could go on and on. Anyone can learn to turn their intuitions into useful psychic guidance like this, and I highly recommend it, for it can help us choose routes that lead where we want to go, and smooth out paths that may otherwise prove rocky and frustrating.

– Soul Arcanum

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