Psychic Exercises
(This is an excerpt from a University Of Metaphysical Sciences course at www.umsonline.org, please feel free to visit the school website)
To get the most from these intuitive exercises in this course you might want to use a tape recorder. Read the exercises onto a tape, giving pauses between the instructions so that you will have time to perform what you have just instructed yourself to do. You may also want to use a tape recorder to record your answers so that you do not have to come out of trance to write things down. Writing down your answers to questions is laborious and can bring you out of trance and back into the ordinary waking mind. You can transcribe these answers later. Laura Day says in her book Practical Intuition: How To Harness The Power Of Your Instincts And Make It Work For You (1996), “Another advantage to speaking out loud is that doing so gives your reflective mind less time to interfere in the intuitive process.” The other problem is that it is difficult to keep up with the flow of intuitive impressions while writing. Laura Day also says, “In fact, being able to keep up with your impressions is a good sign that they are not intuitive.” Yet another reason for speaking your answers out loud is preparing yourself for the ability to channel if this is something you're interested in.
Here are a few pointers for training your intuition that Day gives us:
- Giving a reading is not taking a test, so don't worry about whether your impressions are right or wrong.
- Trust your intuition. Don't try to figure out the answer, even if it doesn't make sense.
- The impressions you receive don't have to make sense to you.
- Intuition is a natural sense, you don't have to try to receive impressions. Be allowing.
- Be willing to make mistakes. No student of any subject performs perfectly in the beginning.
- Record everything, even impressions that seem like interference.
- If you don't feel you're getting an intuitive response, make something up or guess. Later you can examine it for accuracy.