In the previous entry, I ranted a bit. Today I want to give you very important advice, an advice that was given to me in the age of sixteen, by the PsiPog.net. This advice is: “treat psychic development as your great adventure and have fun“. Some practitioners tend to increase their training and they begun to rush things a bit, even I have fallen into this treacherous trap. But you can not.

Psychic development is a exploration of your own mind, and a mysterious world of strange phenomena. It’s not your work, it’s not your responsibility, it’s not something you should die for, therefore, exploring this field of human existence should be fun. If you will acquire important scientific data by having fun, that’s great! But you should not be blinded by the pursuit for scientific data or you will reach the wall you can not break through, just like me. Right now, I’m going back to the crossroad, where I begun scientific exploration, only to choose another path – the path of fun and hobby-like exploration.

Tips for saving you from my mistakes

In order to save you from getting lost in this “scientific wood”, here are some tips for you to follow:

1. The world won’t end if you will skip few practise sessions – it’s not a race, if you’re tired, don’t practise. No one is forcing you to practise, and you should not do this also, because if you do, you will become discourage very quickly. Do not force anything, as developing every skill needs time, no matter if it’s riding a bike, fast reading or psychic abilities.
2. If it doesn’t work, it’s OK - the biggest problem with psychic abilities is that very often they are unrepeatable, it refers mainly to psychokinesis or different “zener-like” card tests. In one session you can get a high score, and in the next, you can barely achieve anything. Precognition, premonitions and “knowing things” experiences are also rather unrepeatable. They just happen, you can acknowledge them, interpret them and understand them, but you can’t repeat them. Look at the bright side – each day you can expect some surprises :).
3. One psychic says this, you says something different, you’re both right – most of the time, our experiences are subjective, and mind of each person operates different than others. It’s clearly visible in psychometry or giving psychic readings, two psychics will tell two things, in some range different, in some range similar. In both abilities I mentioned, what psychic speaks depends only on his own interpretation – psychic information are not reaching our mind directly.
4. You can be wrong – meaning, you are allowed to be wrong. There are no ultimate experts in the psychics field, and there are no “all powerful psychics” like we see on these movies like Push or Next. We’re explorers, and we’re learning, and we will be learning for many, many years. You can be wrong, and you have to accept this, because otherwise, you will be too afraid of failure. So don’t be afraid of being wrong, because acknowledging that you can be wrong is another way of learning something new and developing further.
5. Have fun – be Winne the Pooh, wake up and say “I wonder what will happen today“. Experiment with different things like a child, playing with new toys. Have fun and have some good time. There’s nothing to be afraid of (well, almost nothing…), and there’s no need to rush things. Psionic exploration has to be fun, otherwise it wouldn’t be a hobby, would it?

When you will learn enough, there will be time for you to begun scientific exploration of the psychic phenomena, but as someone said once, in order to prove psychic abilities you have to find a psychic first. If we won’t learn anything because of rushing things, we won’t be any good for anyone, right?

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