1YOU ARE ALREADY PSYCHIC
What you will learn in this chapter: Many people think that being psychic is something that is only available to a few people who were born with the gift. Not true! All people are born with innate psychic abilities, and this chapter will show you some of the basic psychic abilities that we all have and may not even call “psychic.” I’ll tell you some stories about people (including me) who used these tools for good, and also what happens when we ignore them. I want you to begin feeling comfortable in accepting that you already, naturally, have some gifts and tools. The more you are aware of them, the more you can use them in a positive way.
Did you ever have an experience where you wanted something and your gut told you not to pursue it … but you did anyway and later regretted it?
Perhaps it is a person you are attracted to, but inwardly, there is a little feeling that they may be trouble. But you feel they are attractive, and you begin a relationship with them anyway, only to find out that your inward feeling was right all along. How would it have ended up if you had listened to that little feeling? Perhaps you would have found a more positive relationship.
Or perhaps there is a business opportunity you know is iffy and could potentially be negative, but you pursue it anyway. It seemed almost too good to be true, a quick way to gain success or money. But in the end, it didn’t work out and perhaps even left you a little (or a lot) worse off than before? The opportunity indeed was too good to be true.
Can you remember a time when this happened to you? Whenever I ask this question to an audience and ask them to raise their hands if they can relate, most people raise a hand quickly.
Now think of a time when you had that same nagging feeling about a person or an opportunity, and you actually listened to it … and it turned out you were right! We see the person’s true colors or see how the opportunity was really a scheme or trap. When this happens, we sometimes say we “dodged a bullet.”
Again, when I ask people in audiences if they have had this experience, many (if not most) hands go up.
Why is this important? Think of this as one of your first intuitive, psychic experiences. Remember it! Remember how you felt when you received that feeling—whether you followed it or not. This was most likely a warning from your spirit guides and guardian angels from the universal knowledge of goodness, love, and your most protective deity. It could also have been a karmic lesson you needed to learn. How many times do you have to put your finger on a burning stove to know that you will get burned? Our angels and guides will do their best to help us; however, we all have free will. The future can change at any second, at any moment, because of our choice or decision or that of someone else. Once we act upon it, it starts that energy in that direction, putting that path in motion. Life is our school, and we are here to learn lessons. Our guardian angels and spirit guides are here to help us learn them.
Do you have a journal or notebook close by? If so, go get it, and have it handy as you read this book, and I’ll give you some powerful prompts and ideas to write in it. Making this book interactive and personal will mean that you will have a powerful experience. Got the notebook? Great! This is a good time to make a list of all the occasions when you had a gut feeling about something and didn’t listen. Go ahead, really write these down. I’ll wait right here while you do.
Next, make a list of the moments where you had a gut intuitive feeling about something and you did listen! Again, I’ll wait right here while you do this.
Good. Keep these lists close by, and add to them as more experiences come to mind. These lists help when doubts pop up about whether or not you have any psychic connection. You do. These lists prove it. This book will help to increase it.
There are true stories about people who were supposed to take an airplane flight and, at the last minute, turned around and didn’t go because they had an intuitive warning, later finding out the airplane they were supposed to take had crashed. Did you know it was reported that Jackie Kennedy Onassis had a vision that her son John Kennedy Jr. died in an airplane crash? I read that she never allowed him to take flying lessons. After she passed away, he learned to fly his own airplane. On the evening of July 16, 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr. died when the light aircraft he was flying crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off Martha’s Vineyard, off the coast of Massachusetts.
We not only get these nudges, these messages, for ourselves, but we get them for our loved ones as well. If people accepted these intuitive warnings that we get as real truths, imagine the number of people who would have prevented accidents or be alive today. I find that many creative people are intuitive, but intuition is certainly not limited to creative people. Quite the opposite. There are businesspeople, teachers, mechanics, scientists, grocery store workers, nurses, real estate brokers, siblings, parents—whoever you are, you can learn to listen to your gut and become more intuitive.
It’s important to know that these messages come through us, not from us. When we are connected to the universal consciousness of goodness, love, and God, then the thoughts of wisdom flow through us. We are so busy with work, obligations, families, and life’s challenges that we don’t always make room in our thought process to understand, become aware, or acknowledge the information that is coming through.
Oftentimes, the messages we receive go against our desires, and we dismiss them! Who wants to plan an important business trip or personal trip with all the rewards of anticipating a successful time ahead and, when you finally get to the boarding process, a voice in your head says, “This isn’t safe. Don’t go. Turn around”?
Everyone feels that gut feeling differently. Some people get a weird feeling in their stomach and get nauseous. Some people have a direct thought that is not based in fear; it’s more of an all-knowing feeling. Some get a thought that is felt in their gut. We all have the responsibility of learning what our warning signs are. Sometimes a loved one will simultaneously get the same feeling and bring it up to you even though you never discussed it with them.
CHAR TIP: NUDGES
Which of the following do you experience that could be your psychic tuning fork? What other ways do you get that feeling from the Universe that aren’t on this list?
Gut feelings
Many people literally feel something in the gut when there is a moment of truth that they cannot deny. Whether it is good news or bad news, it is wisdom trying to guide them in the right direction. Once they act upon it, there is a feeling of peace. It’s the Universe helping them out.
Nagging thoughts
Do you ever find yourself repeating the same idea over and over again? Our divine guidance is intangible. The only way the message can get to us is if it is drummed into our heads until we realize, “Oh, wow! This is a message.” There are times my friends will say, “You sound like the Dustin Hoffman character in Rain Man.” The thought or words coming out of your mouth continue until you get the message! You wake up in the middle of the night, and you can’t get that thought or guidance out of your head.
Stomach upset or nausea
Sometimes that gut feeling gets so prevalent that it causes you to feel sick to your stomach, especially if it is a dire warning. It may be the only wake-up call that will make you aware of the message.
Dreams
Our minds are so full taking care of obligations during the day, it’s almost impossible for our guardian angels and spirit guides to get a word in edgewise. The only time it’s possible is during our sleep, through dreams. Many times, the dream is symbolic. We can’t take it literally. For example, a tooth falling out can mean a loss of something in your life that just happened or is going to happen, like a relationship. Dreams can be psychological or psychic.
Imagination
What is a message from beyond, and what is a figment of your imagination?
How many of you had an imaginary friend as a child or know someone who did? Is it their imagination, or is there really an energy connecting with them? Our imagination comes from thoughts from the Universe and from our daily experiences. Walt Disney had a huge imagination and turned his ideas into a magnificent creative venture that all of us have enjoyed at one time or another. There is a universal consciousness of knowledge and wisdom that we all connect to. Even though our imaginations may seem unbelievable, there can be grains of truth in them that can help us create and also guide us. Practice makes perfect. Your imagination may give you an idea to write a successful song, book, or screenplay, or guide you to start an amazing career, or find the love of your life. Never ignore the thoughts and images that enter your mind or words that come out of your mouth.
Profound things you say
There are times in our lives that we say things that come out of left field. It can go against all logic or go against your emotions. I learned this the hard way. If something comes out of your mouth and goes against your feelings or what you believe to be true, check it out. Don’t let your emotions get in the way of the wisdom guiding you. Don’t blame someone else but eliminate the reasons why you would be right or wrong. For example, you may have an intuition that your spouse or significant other is cheating on you. (You need to be aware of your own fears or past experiences and psychological state of mind before accusing someone else of this.) You don’t want to start an argument unnecessarily or cause distrust. But you can do investigating on your own. Perhaps you feel someone is stealing money from you. You can follow the money trail and find out.
Déjà vu
You have an experience that feels as if you have had it before. Usually, this means that you are in the right place at the right time. It’s a meant-to-be moment and says you are on the right path at that time in your life. I also find when this happens, I get a psychic thought about the situation I need to be aware of.
Reading signs
Have you ever had something you really needed an answer for? It may be about a romance working out or a new job. We are desperate for an answer. When this happens, put the thought out into the Universe, and then just leave it alone. Don’t dwell on it. As the saying goes: “A watched pot never boils.” Within hours or a day or two, you may be thinking of your question. You are stuck in traffic and the license plate in front of you has your initials and the billboard to your right says LOVE IS IN THE AIR or THIS JOB’S FOR YOU. There’s your answer!
Nature also likes to communicate to you with signs. While filming my show in the Netherlands, I went to the grave site of a young girl named Meril. I was communicating with her and her family. Just then, a bird flew in and landed on her gravestone. The type of bird was a merle! Many spirits will identify with nature to let you know they are with you. Some come as a butterfly, bird, or dragonfly. I have a friend who asked the Universe for an answer, and a beautiful rainbow appeared. I know someone who asked for a sign, and a cloud above her took the shape of a heart. Others have been walking on the beach and found a stone or shell in the shape of a heart. Think about what your loved one’s sign is when they visit.
My friend’s father drops dimes. My spirit guide White Feather drops white feathers, even in a snowstorm. Once I was walking to lunch with Regis Philbin in New York City during a snowstorm talking about the white feathers that have floated in the studio while I was on his show. Just then, one appeared drifting in front of us. Some spirits come as ladybugs, dragonflies, deer, flowers, and many other forms of nature.
Smells
A spirit may identify with a scent. It could be your grandmother’s perfume, your father’s pipe smoke, or your mother’s favorite recipe. When you sense this, it means they are around you. They may be trying to give you a message. So be aware of your surroundings and thoughts when this happens to you.
Electrical signs
You may be getting a message through electricity. Spirits like to learn to use this to make themselves known. The light in your room starts flickering. The TV turns on and off by itself, and when it turns on, it’s the program you watched with your grandmother before she passed away. Some people have gotten phone calls and texts from their deceased loved ones after they passed.
If we are not heeding the call, our angels and guides will find someone else to make us aware. I do believe that some things in life are predestined, but many things we create by the choices we make. We all come to Earth with a blueprint of our lives. There are certain people we have karma to experience with or complete, lessons to learn, choices to make that develop our moral character.
“I Saw Him Across a Crowded Room and Knew I Would Marry Him!”
Do you know people who have had that experience? I recently interviewed Kelly Ripa and her husband, Mark Consuelos, on my vid/podcast, CharVision. Kelly knew the day she was introduced to Mark that he would be her husband. It was an all-knowing feeling of confidence and belonging. It’s a familiarity with another person, a complete feeling that is like finding the missing piece of a puzzle and fitting it in. That is not to say that we only have one person we connect with; you can have more than one “soul mate” and “soul mates” who are not romantic. I have friends I believe I was destined to have, and of course, I feel destined to have met my teacher. A soul mate is someone who helps your soul to grow. Like the mythological wizard Merlin, we all have an ability to “remember the future.”
Imagination and Dreams
As all of us live in the physical world, we exist and live in the energetic world as well. That’s where our imaginations take over. However, intuition and imagination are not that distant from one another. The greatest artists and creative geniuses are fed information. There is a plethora of knowledge in the Universe that is available to all of us. Information is downloaded into us like a computer. Our job is to spell-check and interpret the messages accurately.
To that end, you cannot be wrong in your message. Like I always say, “I’m not always right, but I’m never wrong.” I once had a dream that my best friends broke up. They had been together for twelve years. The next day, I told them about my dream. We all laughed about how ridiculous my dream was, until six months later, when they broke up.
We get a lot of our visions in our dreams. Our minds are so busy during the day that sometimes the only time a message can be given to us is when we are asleep. Some dreams are psychic, some are psychological, and some are imaginative thoughts either from what happens during our daily lives or new random experiences that only take place in our dreams.
How vulnerable are you? Did you know that messages can be given to you from different energies, good and bad? That’s why I am constantly encouraging my clients, family, and friends to say a prayer of protection. I have had some people tell me they don’t believe in prayer. I tell them that prayer is just positive thinking into the Universe. Positive energy attracts positive energy and creates positive results. Unfortunately, negative energy attracts negative energy and creates negative results. That’s why it’s so important to keep our thoughts positive and not wish bad things on others no matter how horrible they are!
I always say a prayer of protection before every reading. Put yourself in a white light. Keep all the goodness and love around you. Then put yourself in an egg. The outside of the egg is a mirror. It will send anything negative away from you.
Here is an example psychic prayer of protection you can use:
We ask the universal consciousness and God that holds the highest spiritual power of knowledge, wisdom, and truth to guide and protect us as we communicate with our guides and angels in the spirit world and tap into the wisdom of the Universe. We respect this opportunity and take full responsibility to use this not for ego or controlling others but with the pure intention of spreading love and healing life on this Earth and beyond.
Anything that is in, near, around, or about me that is not of light, go back to where you came from and turn to light if you choose—but stay away from me!
When you go on an airplane, they tell you to put your own oxygen mask on before helping the person next to you with theirs. It’s the same with protection.
You can also put your loved ones in a white light and mirrored eggs. The first true love is self-love; it means your needs matter. So always protect yourself first, then put your loved ones in their own protective armor of a mirrored egg.
Blessings in Disguise
What goes around comes around. Karma happens, and the Universe will take care of that energy. Again, to have faith in our whole beings makes life much more comforting. However, it doesn’t work unless it is real. It encompasses our bodies, minds, spirits, and souls. It empowers us!
Have you noticed that some of our biggest disappointments turn out to be some of our biggest blessings? My best friend Stuart worked for a big studio in Hollywood for seven years. In 2019, four months before the pandemic, the studio decided to eliminate his and other jobs, since they were looking for places to save money. He received a very handsome severance in his departure, a golden parachute. He would get his fine salary for a whole year.
Then COVID-19 hit! He got to spend quality time with his seventeen-year-old Chihuahua, his constant companion, who was going blind. The day before her eighteenth birthday, she jumped off a chair and broke her jaw. In quarantine, he had to make that terrible decision to send her to heaven. In the early morning of her eighteenth birthday, he drove her to the vet to take her out of her pain. She was a special dog whom we loved very much!
The silver lining regarding work is that he landed an amazing job with a big network a week later. He is constantly getting offers and choosing which projects he wants to work on. I’m telling you this story because when one door closes, another door or window opens a little further down the road. My friend has great faith, and I feel that when we do carry that faith within us, it helps manifest our next opportunity in our lives. Doubt can be a roadblock. Keep the endless possibilities alive in your heart!
What does this have to do with following your intuition and knowing you are psychic? Everything!
There’s an old saying: “We make plans, and God laughs.” There is always a reason why things happen to educate our souls. Although we find disappointment, there is an opportunity to learn and grow and elevate our souls. Can you think of experiences you have had that were devastating at the time but turned out to bring you joy? Some things are indeed blessings in disguise.
Say you have a dream and your deceased grandmother visits you in it. She’s in the kitchen cooking like she always did, but this time the food is burned. It startles you, and you sit up in bed, awakened from your sleep. Is this a message from beyond? What can this mean? This is where we have to interpret it carefully.
The dream you had felt real! You knew it was your grandmother, but she wasn’t exactly how you remembered her; however, you felt the familiar feeling of love toward you that only she knew how to show. What does the burned food mean? Usually, the answer will be the first thought that runs through your mind. But sometimes a meaning dawns on you later on when you aren’t trying so hard to figure it out. It could mean that something you are preparing in your world needs more attention and you need to be careful that you don’t sabotage or ruin it. Try not to destroy it. It could also mean that you should be careful cooking so you literally don’t burn yourself. Eventually, you will figure it out. Many messages come like puzzle pieces. They can be symbolic. You may dream about your dog, but it could be a message for someone close to you about their dog.
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