What is a Psychic Reading?
As a Psychic in Portland I was surprised to find out that there are 400,000 people typing “what is a psychic reading” in a month into the search engines. There’s a similar number typing “what is intuition.”
Let’s take a look at this “hard to describe” but worthwhile idea.
In many periods of history there have been people that were intuitive and spiritual for a community. The Africans had priestesses. The Europeans had midwives. In Christian and Islamic history there are prophets, both male and female. Around the world there are Shaman, male and female.
So here’s the thing, no matter what religion or what time period there are people that are intuitive, that have a spiritual role in the community.
Now, depending on religious or political prejudice, the society at large sometimes makes fun of these people. For instance, in Europe in the Middle Ages, the medicinal healers of the time were midwives. They were usually women. They were the community “psychics;” they had great intuitive powers and could tell you what your baby was going to be when it grew up.
When the sugar trade came, these women got ostracized and eventually there was a “witch hunt.” The sugar trade didn’t like what these women were saying, that sugar was bad for you. Neither did the official “medical industry.”
But no matter what time period and what religion, there are women (often women) that take a spiritual role. Psychics are this today, even though the American society at large likes to depict them as “charlatan.” Remember that each society is different–for instance in Russia 80% of the people have been to a tea leaf reader and they love their psychics–they’ve even voted Psychics into public office.
What the word Psychic means | Psychic Definition
The word Psychic stems from the Greek word Psyche. It is related to the concepts of “soul” and also “wind,” in other words the wind that blows through the body and gives it life–the “breath of life.”
Most spiritual words are related to “breath of life” — even the word spirit is related to breath–respiration, expiration. Ancient societies seemed to know that spiritual awareness rides on the breath.
So a Psychic connects spiritually to the Universe to tap knowledge about a person’s soul. For some reason, this “works” in a Universe where we are all connected, and our soul seems to imprint itself on the Universe. Think this sounds funny? Keep reading.
Edgar Cayce, the great Psychic of the 20th Century told people that he was reading the impressions of someone’s soul to read their medical histories and get diagnosis. Sylvia Browne has helped police stop crime. Even the Dalai Lama has an oracle and many American Presidents have Psychics.
“Am I Psychic?” | Why We All Psychic
Just look at the animal kingdom and see how “psychic” your cat or dog is–how they know when you’re coming home, when you are sick, well, etc.
Look at the plant kingdom–scientist have found out that trees “listen” for birds chirping so that they know when to bloom. Scientist have also shown that you can measure changes in plant cells depending on what the plant owner is thinking 25 feet away!
So are us humans psychic? You bet. The governments in US, USSR and China have all done numerous studies. In one study done by the University of Amsterdam, if you measure the emotional response of humans to photos (showing them happy or sad photos), after a while, their response will six seconds before the picture appears!
Humans can do remote viewing and many other psychic skills (remote viewing is psychically connecting to something that is lost to help find it)–once a plane was lost and the government used 2 remote viewers to find it.
Psychics help the military, the police and world leaders every day.
Psychic Abilities | Why they are great
When you use your psychic abilities your are really just connecting with your spiritual inner voice, and whatever you believe is your higher power. It doesn’t matter if you are Christian, Hindu, etc. You are able to tap your own abilties to help people.
In my psychic classes I have students journey on one’s student’s problem. They just close their eyes for a few minutes and see what impressions they get. They always get helpful information!
To be successful at being Psychic it just takes the same things as being successful as connecting with Spirit:
- being humble
- being faithful
- asking for information
- being self loving and feeling well, eating right
Being more psychic and intuitive gives you a more guided, peaceful life, and it can feel very happy and blissful connecting with spiritual energy as well.
Psychic Readings | What a Psychic Reading Is
In a Psychic Reading, there are two intuitive people in the room. One is the Psychic Reader that gets spiritual information about your soul direction, and the other is you! It is your intuition that “knows” what this spiritual information means and what to do about it.
One time in a reading, someone asked me who their next love would be. She was driving to California at the time. I said I saw a man on a farm, with her helping to farm. I saw him also in a submarine built for four people. (I thought the submarine for four people was peculiar, as I had never heard of anything like this, but shared this detail with her anyway). As it turns out, she was on her way to her ex boyfriend’s house, and he lived on a farm and designed submarines for four people! They did get back together.
Psychic Readings can go even deeper than just predicting events– they can show the “movie” of where your soul is going, and how you would live a more soulful, happier life. That’s really what Psychic Readings are about. There are some beautiful, gentle people that do this work and love to help other people.
I love being a Psychic in the Portland area where there are alot of cool, spiritual folk that love seeing the deeper meaning in life.
Noelani is a guest blogger for How to be Psychic, an online resource for learning to be psychic.