Inner Vision: Look Into My Crystal Ball

To believe, or not to believe. That is the question. Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to follow the offerings of a gypsy fortune teller or your Aunt Gladys’ tea leaves, who can say? Is that Juliet that rises in the East or do I need new glasses? Look into my crystal ball, my friends, and all will be revealed.

But hold on a minute before you make that call to one of Dionne’s Psychic Friends and let’s see what we’re talking about when we reach out to psychics for direction and clarity.

First things first: We’re all psychics to one degree or another. Yes, even you who don’t believe it. All the things we’ve been talking about attest to our internal psychic world: intuition, collective consciousness, good vibes, bad vibes, etc. It’s all there all the time, whether you think you can feel it or not. What differs between “regular people” and those we think of as “bona fide” psychics has to do with our individual innate talents and how well we develop our skills.

Take our superstars of the sand, Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh. Gold-medal Olympic athletes, extraordinary volleyball players, right? Now, assuming we’re physically capable, we can all play volleyball if taught the game. But whether we have a knack for it, like these ladies clearly do, and how much we focus our attention on it determines our success in this arena. Our gals are undefeated champions when it comes to the net but who knows if they can shoot hoops or throw down in a cage match with the same ferocity?

Determining our psychic abilities is like anything else we do. We learn what appeals to us, what we’re good at and we go from there. My own capabilities are more along the lines of an empath. This means I have a highly developed sensitivity to others’ feelings and emotions, and sometimes I know what they’re feeling even before they do. It’s the natural way I read people, which shouldn’t be confused with reading minds. It may not be as sexy as declaring myself clairvoyant but it is what it is.

Clairvoyance is the ability to see images - past, present and future - and this is what most of us think of when we think of psychics. “I see a house falling on your sister,” comes to mind.

Whether they’re actually clairvoyant or not, psychics can use a wide range of tools and methods to help them see below the surface. Some read palm patterns, some use Tarot cards, some relate to Runes and, yes, there are still some tea-leafers out there. Some psychics use personal objects to pick up messages; and some are so well-attuned that all they need do is lay a hand on your shoulder or other body part.

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