A UK teenager lost his sight, but soon after discovered that he had Psychic abilities.

As recently reported by the dailyrecord.co.uk, Dominic Boag was just a regular teen before he lost his vision.

Dominic was a normal teenager who dreamed of being a policeman before a rare disease which affected his nerves almost wiped out his vision.

But after becoming almost blind, he found he had developed a “sixth sense”.

And he has now qualified as a spiritual medium and started up his own business.

Dominic said: “They say that when you lose one sense, the others become stronger – and I really have developed a sixth sense since losing my sight.

“There are cynics but people tell me I have a talent. I am doing really well with something I wouldn’t have found had I still been able to see.”

Dominic, 20, from Port Glasgow, Renfrewshire, runs his business around his day job at a call centre.

He said: “People ask me if I would give up communicating with the spirits to get my sight back but I feel like this has helped me through the journey of losing my sight and I could never turn my back on it.”

He added that his most memorable contact was with his late dad, ex-Morton Football Club captain John Boag.

He said: “My dad kept repeating, ‘I’m still here, I’m still here’. It was nice to hear his voice again.”

By Rajen Vakil

Everything we do requires energy – be it thought, emotion, movement, or the instinctive functions of the body. Our every psychic act uses up energy.

We relate to life through the five senses; impressions come into to the brain through them. Psychic energy registers what comes in through the senses, giving us the power of registration and focusing attention.

Take being on an extended holiday involving a lot of site-seeing, for instance. At a certain point although we are seeing everything, nothing seems to register. This is because we have used up all our psychic energy. Yogic texts say that our main source of energy is the food we eat. Food gives us the energies of magnetism, motor electricity, reflex electricity, and sex. But food cannot give psychic energy, which is only replenished in sleep. Hence, so much importance is given to optimal amount and good quality of sleep.

We have a certain quantity of this psychic energy when we wake up in the morning; we must learn to use this judiciously. This is stored in a large centre (or reservoir) which in turn is connected to two smaller centres. Suppose, we are reading a very interesting book, we can observe that after about forty-five minutes of reading, we feel a little tired and are not able to absorb the true meaning. This indicates that one of the smaller centres is empty. It takes a few minutes for us to connect to the other centre which is full. The best thing would be to walk a little.

Once we connect to another centre, we feel a rush of energy and can again read for another forty-five minutes. Perhaps, the reason why schools have study periods of forty-five minutes; it is the optimal period one can pay attention for. Once the other centre is empty too, we reconnect to the first centre, which by then has collected energy from the large reservoir. If we have not given it enough time to refill completely, we feel tired and debilitated sooner than later. Most of us are so overloaded with mental work that we overwork these energy centres, leading to exhaustion and mental breakdown.

Yoga prescribes practices which help to refill this psychic energy very fast, but that’s for another time.

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Originally printed by the dalymail.co.uk, this article discusses the question – do we all have psychic abilities? Are thought premonitions and telepathy more common than we think?

Like many mothers who feared for their family’s safety during World War II, Mona Miller was evacuated from London to the peaceful seaside town of Babbacombe in Devon.

It seemed like a wise precaution but, shortly after her arrival there with her young children, Mrs Miller became increasingly uneasy.
‘I had a feeling that I must leave Devon and return home,’ she told me.

‘At first I dismissed the idea; why leave when I was so happy and contented despite the war going on around me?

‘But the feeling increased. The walls of my room seemed to speak to me: “Go home to London.” I resisted the call for about four months then, one day, like a flash of light, I knew we must leave.

‘On a Saturday in late 1942, we travelled back to London and a few days later I received a letter from a friend in Devon.

‘“Thank God you took the children on Saturday,” she wrote. “Early Sunday morning, Jerry dropped three bombs and one fell on the house where you were living, demolishing it, and killing all the neighbours on either side.”’

Mrs Miller was far from the only person to experience such forebodings during the war.

Three years later, in the spring of 1945, U.S. serviceman Charles Bernuth took part in the invasion of Germany and, shortly after crossing the Rhine, found himself driving along the autobahn one night with two officers.

He described how a ‘still, small voice’ within him told him there was something wrong with the road ahead.

‘I stopped, amid the groans and jeers of the other two. I started walking along the road.

‘About 50 yards from where I had left the jeep, I found out what was wrong.

‘We were about to go over a bridge — only the bridge wasn’t there. It had been blown up and there was a sheer drop of about 75ft.’

Both Mrs Miller and Charles Bernuth had experienced presentiments — feelings that something was going to happen without knowing what it would be.
These differ from premonitions, where the person involved has an insight into what lies ahead, as when 16-year-old Carole Davies visited a London amusement arcade during the Seventies.

‘While standing looking out into the night, I had a sense of danger,’ she recalled.

‘Then I saw what looked like a picture in front of me showing people on the floor with tiles and metal girders on them. I realised that this was to happen here. I began to shout at people to get out. No one listened.’

Together with her friends, Carole hurried out and went to a nearby cafe.

As they sat inside, they heard sirens in the street outside. A weakness in the arcade building’s structure had brought its roof and walls crashing down on those within.

‘We all ran down the road to see what had happened,’ Carole remembered.

‘It was just as I had seen. A man I had shouted at was being pulled from under the debris.’

Like Mona Miller and Charles Bernuth before her, Carole was convinced she owed her life to her mysterious sixth sense, a notion which you might expect a scientist of my background to dismiss out of hand.

I am a biologist who has studied, researched and taught at both Cambridge and Harvard, and held senior academic posts on both sides of the Atlantic.

Yet I’ve long believed that presentiments, premonitions and other psychic phenomena such as telepathy should be taken more seriously by my scientific colleagues.

My fascination with this subject began during the Sixties when I was a graduate student in the biochemistry department at Cambridge University.

This was not long after the South African writer Laurens van der Post had published his accounts of life with the Bushmen of the Kalahari desert.

Like most traditional societies, theirs was one in which telepathy was not only taken for granted, but put to practical use, as van der Post saw when his hosts hunted down and killed an eland antelope many miles from camp.

As they were driving back in a Land Rover laden with meat, he asked one of the Bushmen how those back at camp would react when they learned of this success.

‘They already know — we Bushmen have a wire here,’ he replied, tapping his chest. ‘It brings us news.’

He was comparing their method of communication with the white man’s telegram or ‘wire’.

Sure enough, when they approached the camp, the people were singing the ‘Eland Song’ and preparing to give the hunters the greatest of welcomes.

Many other travellers in Africa have reported that people seemed to know when loved ones were coming home.
The same would occur in rural Norway, where the inhabitants developed a special word — vardoger — for the anticipation of arrivals.

Similarly, accounts I read of the ‘second sight’ of some inhabitants of the Scottish Highlands included visions of arrivals before the person in question appeared.

But none of this convinced me, converted as I was to the dogma of ‘materialism’ which has dominated scientific thought since the late 19th century, and still does so today.

According to materialists, science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry.
And anything that cannot be thus explained can be dismissed as illusory.

Educated in this tradition, I adopted the standard dismissive attitude when the subject of telepathy came up in the laboratory tearoom one day.

I was gently taken to task by Sir Rudolph Peters, one of the doyens of British biochemistry. He was a kindly man with twinkly eyes and more curiosity than most people half his age.

He told me of an ophthalmologist friend who had a severely disabled and mentally retarded young boy as a patient.
Although he was almost blind, he seemed able to read the letters on the optician’s chart very well, but only when his mother was looking at them.

The only explanation appeared to be some form of telepathic communication between the two, and in 1968 Sir Rudolph conducted an experiment in which the boy correctly guessed many of the written numbers or words shown to his mother, even though they were sitting on either side of a screen which prevented him from picking up any visual or auditory cues.

Sir Rudolph concluded that this telepathy had developed to an unusual degree because of the boy’s extreme needs and his mother’s desire to help him.

But, as I discovered, even laboratory experiments involving strangers had produced results which, if less marked, were still compelling.

For example, the years between 1880 and 1939 saw something of a boom in early psychical research, with the publication of more than 186 studies involving trials in which subjects guessed which randomly selected cards a ‘sender’ was looking at.

When the four million individual results were combined in a statistical procedure called meta-analysis, the overall results were hugely significant because they were considerably more accurate than would have been expected from random chance.

Later experiments during the Seventies involved subjects sleeping in a soundproofed laboratory while a ‘sender’ in another room, and in some cases another building, opened a sealed package containing a randomly selected picture and concentrated on it, trying to influence the subject’s dream.

Sometimes the thought transference was very clear: one subject described having dreamed about buying tickets for a prize fight while the sender was looking at a picture of a boxing match.

Occasionally, it was more symbolic, as when the subject dreamed of a dead rat in a cigar box while the sender was looking at a picture of a dead gangster in a coffin. But in 450 such trials the overall results were very significantly above the chance level.

My research has included more than 4,000 cases of psychic phenomena. Many, like Mona Miller’s near-miss in the Blitz, involve mothers.

Hundreds told me that during the months they were breastfeeding, they’d know when their baby needed them, even from miles away, because they began secreting breast milk.

With the help of a midwife, I studied nine nursing mothers in North London during a two-month period, and found that their unexpected ‘let-downs’ of milk when they were separated from their babies very often coincided with their infants experiencing distress.

The odds against this occurring by chance as often as it did were a billion to one, and this telepathic connection makes good evolutionary sense.

Mothers who could tell at a distance when their babies were unhappy would tend to have babies that survived better than those of insensitive mothers.

Such connections often seem to continue even when the children have grown up, with many stories on my database concerning mothers who had an urge to get in touch with their children when they could not have known by any conventional means that they were in trouble.

Many would do so by telephone, the method of communication most commonly mentioned in reports of telepathic experiences in general.

Many people told me they had thought of someone for no apparent reason, and then that person rang in a way that seemed uncanny. Or they knew who was calling when the phone rang, even before they picked up the receiver.

I designed an experiment to test this, a simplified version of which you can try through my website.

This involved asking subjects for the names and phone numbers of four friends or family members before placing them alone in a room with a landline telephone with no caller ID.

I then selected one of the four callers at random and asked them to phone the subject, who had to say who was on the line before answering.

By guessing at random, subjects would have been right about one time in four, or 25 per cent.

In fact, the average hit rate was 45 per cent, very significantly above the level of chance, and these results have been replicated independently at universities in Germany and Holland.

In attempting to explain such phenomena, we need to look far beyond the traditional scientific view that everything is essentially material or physical, including the human mind.

That materialist approach was summed up by Francis Crick, who in 1962 shared a Nobel Prize for the discovery of the structure of DNA.

‘You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behaviour of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules,’ he wrote.

Crick spoke for the scientific mainstream, as did influential neuroscientist Susan Greenfield when she described seeing an exposed brain in an operating theatre.

‘This is all there was to (the patient) Sarah, or indeed to any of us,’ she reflected in a paper published in 2000.

‘We are but sludgy brains and somehow a character and mind are generated in this soupy mess.’

Yet this idea that our minds are fixed physically inside our heads, and that consciousness is nothing but a by-product of the activity of the brain, runs contrary to our everyday experience.

When we look around us, the images of the things we see are outside us, not in our heads. The feelings in my fingers are in my fingers, not in my head.

The human intuitions I have described fit better with the ‘field theory’ of minds.

We are used to the fact that fields exist both within and outside material objects such as magnets and mobile phones, and there is reason to believe that our minds have similar fields which have their roots within our brains, but also extend beyond them.

Extraordinary though this sounds, it’s supported by studies of another remarkable psychic phenomenon — the sense of being stared at.

Most people have felt someone looking at them from behind, turned around and met the person’s eyes.
And most people have experienced the converse: making someone turn around by staring at them.

In extensive surveys in Europe and North America, between 70 and 97 per cent of adults and children reported such experiences.

In a series of interviews with police officers, surveillance personnel and soldiers, I discovered most felt that some people seemed to know they were being observed, even though the watchers were well hidden.

‘A lot of times the crook will just get a feeling that things aren’t right,’ I was told by one narcotics officer.

‘We often have someone look right in our direction even though he can’t see us. A lot of times we’re inside a vehicle.’

Surprisingly, laboratory tests have shown that the sense of being stared at works even when people are looked at on screens, rather than directly.

Our emotional response can be measured by the activity of our sweat glands and this increases in many subjects being watched on CCTV, even though they are unaware of their response.

All this suggests that, whether through direct staring or CCTV, we are capable of ‘touching’ each other with our sight — further evidence that our minds are not confined to the inside of our brains.

With telepathic communication, it seems that these fields somehow interact at a distance, picking up feelings, needs or thoughts across space.

As for presentiments and premonitions, these imply links across time, as we tune into our future mental states.

That such links are real was suggested by a series of experiments in the U.S. and Holland over the past 20 years.

These measured responses to a series of noxious smells, mild electric shocks, emotive words and provocative photographs, interspersed with calming stimuli which had no physiological effect on subjects at all.

No one, not even the experimenters, knew what kind of stimuli the computer involved would produce next, but in a significant number of cases the subjects reacted to the unpleasant stimuli some three or four seconds in advance, somehow connecting with their future selves who would be experiencing the stimuli for real.

These findings are fascinating in themselves but, as I will explain in Monday’s Mail, psychic phenomena are not restricted to human beings.

There are amazing stories of telepathy and premonitions of disaster in many other species, including pet dogs.

As for exactly how such phenomena operate, it may be years before we understand them, but an important first step is for scientists to acknowledge that they exist, and that the minds of both animals and humans interact in as yet unexplained ways.

Article source: dalymail.co.uk

Watch this interesting video interview of Psychic Helene Olsen of Salem, MA.

In this interview Psychic Helene talks about how we all have natural Psychic abilities which we can learn to use.

About Psychic Helene Olsen:

elene is a licensed psychic with the city of Salem, Massachusetts. You can make an appointment to meet with her at the beautiful & spacious office of A Higher Balance Healing Center in downtown Salem. Or you can choose to connect with her by telephone. Please refer to the “Salem” tab for directions.

Helene is a multi-dimensional Psychic Medium and Reiki Master who is able to “hear”, “see”, and connect to many Realms. Each connection is more proof to Helene that Love never dies and that Love alone is the most powerful force in all Universes.

Recently reported by STARpod.org, reported documents are said to confirm that an American Professor sought to create a Psychic intelligence unit days after the 9/11 attacks.

According to the documents, on or about September 19, 2001, Professor Gary E. Schwartz was actively seeking funding to set up a “Precognitive Intelligence Research Unit” to prevent future tragedies, bring terrorists to justice, and reveal “the reality of ‘invisible’ assistance as received by sensitive people in dreams, day dreams, meditation, guided imagery, and spontaneous openings.”

Schwartz cites UK “Dream Detective” Chris Robinson, who produced warnings of planes deliberately crashed into buildings during the month prior to the September 11 attacks. In one document, Schwartz notes that Robinson “worked undercover for Scotland Yard and British Intelligence.” Schwartz also confirms having spoken “at length” with Robinson’s intelligence contacts in the UK, noting “they swear to his authenticity, accuracy, and utility,” and that Robinson “works part time as an undercover agent.”

Regarding Robinson’s nightmare warning of planes crashing into buildings in New York City, Schwartz writes that he was initially skeptical of Robinson’s alleged psychic skill and had not taken the warning seriously.

According to the documents, after working with Schwartz at the University of Arizona in August 2001, Robinson returned to England, and on September 9, 2001, contacted his UK intelligence handlers about the plane threat. He then sent a letter about the impending 9/11 attack to the US Embassy in London.

According to Robinson, shortly after the planes hit the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, but before the Pentagon was hit, he was called by an American Colonel concerning his precognitive warning.

The documents note that following 9/11, Robinson was “haunted by continued dream information about future tragedies, the location of bin Laden, and other key information that the FBI and CIA are ignoring.”

Schwartz notes the need for secrecy, as “previous efforts to investigate remote viewing and precognitive skills and apply them to military and humanitarian needs were conducted by the CIA and defense, in secret,” and “much of this information is still classified.”

Schwartz received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, and was a professor at Harvard before teaching psychology and psychiatry at Yale University, where he became the director of the Yale Psychophysiology Center. Schwartz joined the University of Arizona in 1988, where he conducted dream precognition experiments with Robinson.

The documents also suggest possible involvement by US persons connected to intelligence services, noting, “For reasons of security and other matters, some supporting and collaborative members will do so anonymously.”

Sources, including Robinson and intelligence sources who must remain anonymous due to the nature of their working relationship with the US government, have confirmed Robinson’s involvement with Thomas Drake, the former senior National Security Agency (NSA) official who had been under indictment for espionage by the US Justice Department. One source identified futurist John L. Petersen’s Arlington Institute as the center of a network of US government persons and private citizens collaborating on precognitive research. Mr. Petersen’s institute produces the WHETHEReport, which attempts to track trends in future threats from dream reports supplied by the public.

The documents note the need to provide “immediate protection of Mr. Robinson so he can devote his primary attention and energy to national and global security.”

Other independent sources have claimed that the US National Security Agency maintains a covert psychic intelligence operation and manages private research at Johns Hopkins and through The Monroe Institute.

There is a long history of the connections between alternative science and paranormal researchers to the intelligence community. In 2004, the CIA released a selection of redacted documents on official government paranormal activities called the STAR GATE files. According to the files, the late Richard Helms, former Director of CIA, sought paranormal research for operations at CIA shortly after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In the 1970s, CIA funded psychic research at the Stanford Research Institute. In the 1990s, the Defense Intelligence Agency moved research to top ten defense contractor SAIC.

Robinson told STARstream Research founder Gary S. Bekkum that he suspected British Intelligence Services were unhappy over his cooperation on psychic intelligence and may have intervened to sabotage the Precognitive Intelligence Research Unit. Following 9/11, British Intelligence set up their own psychic research experiments, as was reported by BBC and other mainstream media sources. UK-based author Jon Ronson also claims to have been told by Ur Geller in October 2001 that a man named ‘Ron’ had reactivated his psychic services for the war on terror. Ron is widely thought to be Ronald S. Pandolfi, a senior CIA analyst known to be involved with persons involved with alternative science and paranormal research. Another source related that private intelligence sources were looking into the use of fMRI brain scans for mind-to-mind communication.

Several researchers have died under questionable circumstances. Larissa Vilenskaya — a Russian paranormal researcher who later moved to the US and worked with Dr. Ed May, the head of secret Defense Intelligence Agency STAR GATE research in the 1990s — walked in front of a train and was killed in June 2001. Vilenskaya had accompanied May to former Soviet Union research centers to collect intelligence that was forwarded to DIA, according to declassified documents. John Mack, famous for his research into so-called alien abductions, was struck and killed by a vehicle in 2004. Cold fusion advocate Eugene Mallove was murdered by an intruder the same year. Pat Price, one of the CIA’s star psychic spies, was struck down by apparent heart failure shortly after CIA tasked him with operational spying against Soviet targets.

Professor Gary E. Schwartz recently authored the book “The Sacred Promise” in which he explores non-mainstream ideas in the Spiritual and Psychic Realms; from his book overview:

Are there sources of invisible information and guidance waiting to be tapped and harnessed if we are just willing to listen?

If we, in our essence, are spirits too, can we come to see this possibility when we look at ourselves in the mirror? And can we draw on this great inner potential and power with wisdom and love to change our ways accordingly, before it is too late for humankind?

I believe that science not only can address such questions, but in the process can potentially help increase our ability to receive spiritual information accurately, and we can then act upon it safely and wisely.

With one of the first studies of its kind, researchers at Washington University say they are unlocking the process our brain uses to make these everyday near-future predictions. But hold on stockbrokers, Wall Street analysts and crystal ball readers: The study also discovered why we may not be as good at predicting events down the road.

It’s about what Jeffrey Zacks, associate professor of psychology at Washington University and lead study author calls our “stream of consciousness.” When his team focused on the mid-brain dopamine system, an evolutionary ancient system that signals the rest of the brain to predict events, they also found the brain encodes prediction error when we are forced to choose what happens next. That’s why we’re sometimes wrong.

“I can predict the future, and so can you,” says Zacks, “and it’s not extrasensory perception. It’s just using the information in front of us to predict what’s happening all the time. It’s so ubiquitous that we don’t even notice. But from time to time, we mess up, and what we’ve found here is that messing up corresponds to a fundamental element in our stream of consciousness.”

However, not everyone has a good stream of consciousness, and that’s what happens to people who are aging, or suffering from early-stage Alzheimer’s disease, neurological diseases or brain injuries. Scientists believe they can use this information about how we segment events to figure out how to treat people who have trouble making these connections.

Predicting the near future is an important part of guiding behavior, language processing and learning, says Zacks, whose research will be published in the December edition of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Zacks and other researchers asked a group of healthy, young volunteers to watch movies of everyday events such as someone washing a car and doing laundry. The volunteers were asked to predict what would happen next when the movie was stopped. When it was stopped in the middle of a scene, participants were more than 90 percent correct in predicting what would happen next. But when shown a completely new scene and asked to predict what would happen in the next five seconds, they were less than 80 percent correct, and much less confident in predicting the outcome.

Researchers then used MRI exams to watch midbrain activity, and discovered the brain responses “really light up at hard times, like crossing the event boundary and when the subjects were told they had made the wrong choice,” Zacks says.

“A big chunk of the brain is devoted to figuring out what is going to happen next,” he says. “These studies show that mechanisms operate when we understand everyday activities. The parts of the brain that are specialized for tracking predictions are on the job, and they tell us when a meaningful event has ended and a new one has started. When they go south, it has consequences for understanding and memory.”

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Develop your Tarot Card Reading ability with these great tips!

Intuition and psychic abilities are skills not taught in a classroom setting but are crucial ingredients of receiving and giving tarot readings. The symbols on the tarot cards give understanding and insights into different issues. Commonly done without intuitive insights, nevertheless, card readings become stronger and deeper if done with a stronger intuition.

Using meditation to increase psychic skills

Meditation is a great way to strengthen your intuition and increase telepathic abilities. Your mind may tend to hold on to preconceived ideologies and mind conditioning that people have received over time. Life has its pressures and variations that often make it difficult to concentrate on other things. By setting aside approximately 20 minutes daily to meditate, this will help you to unwind and empty the mind. With time, this not only becomes a habit but a lifestyle.

Meditating for a few minutes before a tarot reading session clears away distractions and enables an individual to be relaxed and at ease, this essentially heightens their sensitivity. Paying attention when you are reading tarot cards is very critical to your trust and the outcome. When you get a feeling that a card has a meaning then you should trust your intuition, often this is true.

Another means through which your intuition can reveal tarot card readings is by revealing connections between cards. The card reader may be focusing their attention on a client’s career path and a card comes up that points to emotional or psychological issues. The card may seem to be out of place however, this could mean that the person has emotional issues that are a blockage to their career success and growth.

As an individual gets more acquainted and proficient with tarot card readings, they automatically learn how to use their subconscious mind to connect with life and to sense, hear and see messages form the spirit world through the card mediums. This enables an individual to concentrate on the collective consciousness giving knowledge on present past and future.

How to improve tarot card reading skills

Telepathic skills take time and efforts to develop and become effective and accurate. Nevertheless, with a few tips one is able to grasp them easily. For one to learn the cards well one can refer to a book to figure out the meaning, however, this will ruin the whole flow of the card reading. It is important to get a well-rounded interpretation of each one of the cards and learn the spreads as well.

You need to learn and get away from book descriptions and explanations of tarot cards. You should allow your instincts to help you develop how you visualize the cards rather than assuming the conventional meanings, which often are radical. The other way that one can learn is by reading for others as a way to practice. You will always find friends who need tarot card reading on a regular basis, just like with any other skill, it takes practice.

Spending substantial time with the cards will also help you understand them better. This may mean carrying them or sleeping with them under your pillow. Lastly, keep journals of your tarot card reading, especially where there are future events predicted.

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Georgia (pictured with a client)

My husband Nick was lying on the sofa, groaning and calling for extra-strength Nurofen. He’d had a bad fall ten years earlier, in his gap year, and ever since had suffered from intermittent sciatica.

The discs in his lower vertebrae were crushed in the accident, and an operation had failed to provide a cure. Hot dry summers helped, but as soon as the weather got damp and cold, his back would go into painful spasms.

Every winter I got used to taking on the role of porter and furniture-mover until the inflammation calmed down. But this could take weeks, and he never knew when the pain would strike.

So, as winter arrived and Nick lay face downwards yet again, I told him he had to find something or someone to help him. My father said he’d just met a marvellous young healer called Jeff: perhaps he could do something?

Nick scoffed and rolled his eyes, but I persisted. I had no idea whether healing would help, but Nick couldn’t pop painkillers for ever.

My husband didn’t give any credence to complementary therapies of any sort in those days, but with much nagging from me, he’d reluctantly hauled himself off to see an osteopath. But all the clicking and cracking hadn’t made a whit of difference. So how could some chap laying hands on him possibly be more effective?

Frankly I wasn’t optimistic either, but he had nothing to lose. Finally he relented, with the tetchy proviso that it would, of course, be a complete waste of time. After all, how could faith healing work on him when he didn’t even believe in it?

His scepticism was not allayed when Jeff arrived. He was an unprepossessing, limp young man in a cagoule — and he was an hour late. He’d wandered around London getting lost, and seemed amazed that he’d found our house at all, which did little to inspire our confidence.

Alternative therapy: Georgia says if she felt run down, an appointment with a reflexologist, acupuncturist or masseur was often the best remedy (Posed by models)

As I watched him hold up his hands about six inches away from the operation scar, even I was doubtful: it seemed pretty obvious that nothing at all was going to happen.

But almost immediately Nick yelped: ‘What is that? What are you using? It feels like a three-bar electric fire.’ He found it almost impossible to believe that Jeff wasn’t touching him at all.

After ten minutes, Jeff said the treatment was finished.

And, amazingly, that was the end of Nick’s back pain. Twenty-two years later, he still doesn’t have any trouble with it.

I do not consider myself a credulous person. I’m a middle-aged mum to four children, and my work as a journalist and author demands a degree of enquiring scepticism. But seeing the miraculous effect of Jeff’s treatment on Nick, and its enduring results, sowed a seed in my mind.

Over the years I’d tried all sorts of alternative therapists for myself. My GP is great, and of course I’ll take antibiotics if I need them; but I found that if I was feeling tired or run down, an appointment with a reflexologist, acupuncturist or masseur was often enough to sort me out.

I noticed that many of these practitioners also had healing hands. I could often feel a warmth or a sort of tingling through their palms, which somehow seemed to boost my energy and calm my overactive brain.

I wanted to know where this mysterious energy came from, and how it made me feel better — so I asked the therapists a multitude of questions.

Some said, enigmatically, that it was ‘love and light’. Others talked about brainwaves and electrostatic energy. Whatever this energy was, it was working, and I was intrigued.

I started to read books about healing. Part of me was still sceptical because I couldn’t physically see any of this energy. But as a client, I trusted that whatever they were tapping into worked on me.

I imagined that Jeff and Co must have been born with some kind of special gift, but they said that we are all healers in different ways. Anyone who has rocked a crying baby, kissed a child’s bruise, or supported a friend knows that even kindness and good intentions can make someone feel better.

Surprisingly, they said that I could be a healer too; that I had an energy, a gift for it.

Eventually, I took the plunge and decided to see if this could possibly be true. After experimenting with various workshops, I signed up for a two-year professional course at the College of Psychic Studies in South Kensington, London.

Even then I had misgivings. I was worried that other people in my group might be odd and alternative; a rag-bag of crystal-ball gazers and hippies. I was relieved that they turned out to be lovely, utterly normal people: there was a tax accountant, an office administrator, a couple of grandmothers; even Jeffrey Archer’s butler. And all of them seemed genuinely sincere about doing whatever they could to help people.

‘I was worried that other people in my group might be odd and alternative; a rag-bag of crystal-ball gazers and hippies’

We learned that if healers rely solely on their own energy and kindness, they soon get exhausted. So, in simple terms, we were taught to be sort of human hosepipes, channelling energy from the universe to wherever our clients needed it.

It seemed strange at first, following the teacher’s instructions and trusting that there was light flowing in through the top of my head then out through my hands; but I suppressed my doubts and persevered.

After a while, I could definitely feel heat and energy emanating from my palms. Better still, I discovered that I was extremely sensitive. Working on people, I found I could often detect where the area of pain or disease was.

It’s hard to describe how I know: it feels almost as if there is a cloud of dense air surrounding the area. It transmits into a physical pain, which I feel in my stomach. So, implausible though it may sound, I can usually sense exactly where to put my healing hands.

Sometimes the results are instantaneous. My neighbour, writer Cressida Connolly, insists I have cured her aching shoulder. My father-in-law’s nagging wrist pain has never come back after a session we did one Boxing Day. But I am realistic enough to know that most changes are more subtle and take much longer.

Now that I am a fully qualified healer, with a practice in Chelsea, some of my friends find my new career path rather odd. They think — as Nick once did — that the very idea of healing is a load of old hokum.

I can understand their cynicism. We’ve all heard sorry stories about the gullible and desperate seeking cures from practitioners who turn out to be complete fraudsters.

I don’t make any extravagant claims for healing, and it doesn’t always work, but I am still amazed by the range of problems that healing can tackle. People come to me before operations or after skiing accidents, or simply because they feel tired and anxious.

My oldest client is a 77-year-old Chelsea Pensioner at the Royal Hospital, where I work as a healing volunteer. Tough old soldier that he is, he tells me every week that he doesn’t believe in healing.

‘Don’t you start asking me to think lovely thoughts either — because I won’t,’ he insists.

But he also admits he finds the sessions very nice and soothing — and he always welcomes me back. Which goes to show that even if you are a confirmed disbeliever, healing can help.

Source dailymail.co.uk

By D.J. Poe

Clairvoyancy can appear to a person at any time, at any age. Some say it is a curse, others a gift. More often than not, there is a history of clairvoyancy somewhere in your family tree. This “sixth sense” often occurs at different degrees of ability, and in different ways.

Some ways to determine if you are clairvoyant: Do you dream and have all or part of your dream predict an event? Are you able to see, hear or communicate in any way with people who have “crossed-over”? Do you have visions that result in accurate depictions of events? Can you approach an old crime scene or automobile wreck or other traumatic event and visualize what happened; who was involved; was it an accident or intentional?

Claivoyancy is not even discounted by the government. For several years, the CIA conducted a “remote viewing” program whereby persons with psychic ability could visualize a designated area and tell what was occurring there, describe buildings, streets and in some cases a topographic cryptography of the designated area. This program has been discontinued, but we as citizens don’t really know how successful it was. We don’t even know if it was actually discontinued.

My great-grandfather was clairvoyant. He was poorly educated, yet the local law enforcement agencies used him to help solve cases…even a murder. Myself; well, I am somewhat clairvoyant in that I can predict things, but some are right and some are wrong. I am unable to “fine tune” my ability in order to be certain that my prediction is correct.

Skeptics will say,”why don’t you pick winning lottery numbers, or bet on the winning horse?” It just doesn’t work that way. Clairvoyancy can not always be turned on and off like a water faucet; and “it” picks what you see. Very few psychics are 100% correct. The concept of the old gypsy lady with the crystal ball is more Hollywood than reality. Even the old man Dorothy ran into in “The Wizard of Oz”, used trickery to make her believe he could see her Auntie Em.

John Edwards is one of the few psychics who has a high percentage of accuracy, but he has an ability that is somewhat specialized in the field of communicating with people who have crossed over.

Clairvoyancy, mediums, psychics; whatever you wish to call them, are real. If you have special abilities, cultivate them if you wish to pursue the field. As I said before; it can be considered gift or a curse.

Source http://www.associatedcontent.com

By ‘Psychic’

As reported by associatedcontent.com, psychic readings can help enrich the lives of others. It is thought that we all have psychic powers inside, and there are methods to fine tune, and develop these powers. You can use the tips below to help you perform an actual psychic reading for your friends and family.

If you know how to give psychic readings, then you may be the life force of any party. Most psychics are welcomed by their friends and family members as people that want to open up new windows and doors for people. They are usually caring and loving. Many psychics around the world like to offer their services to those that are in need. Even the best psychics may still ask themselves, “How can I perform a psychic reading.” There are so many different styles to the psychic reading that not everyone will be able to see or even understand why a psychic reading has to be done or even conducted. You will find that people in general appreciate your psychic reading because it is helping them.

The best way to give an accurate psychic reading is to meditate for around 15 minutes before doing any kind of psychic reading. When you sit back and focus on the energy that is around you, it will be clear to see the energies of others as well. You should try and give a psychic reading in a quiet and calm place where you can feel like you are relaxed. You may feel nervous during a psychic reading. This is only normal. Some people get scared or nervous when they feel as though they have to please their clients. Everything you say during a psychic reading may not please the ears of others. Stephen Piperno is the author of, “Is Life Worth It? Sex, Money and Power from a Psychics Point of View” and he believes that a good psychic reading is best conducted when you are feeling peaceful.

If you just drank a can of soda, you may want to wait around 2 hours before you give a psychic reading. Sometimes the caffeine can make you feel a bit jumpy and even nervous. I have found that drinking water and decaffeinated drinks and juices are best to have before and during a psychic reading. If you find yourself feeling like you should not do a psychic reading for a day or two, then you should not. It is clear that your spirit probably needs a break and is ready to relax for awhile.

The late Edgar Cayce (world recognized sleeping prophet), only allowed himself to do 2-3 psychic readings a day and no more. He understood that a psychic reading can be draining and exhausting. You have to determine how many psychic readings you can do each day and stick to it. Once you start giving psychic readings, you will begin to get many requests each day for them. It is not a good idea to give free psychic readings once you begin your practice. If you do this, then people will begin to depend on you as though you were God. You do not want the same person coming to you everyday for counseling. They will only drain you. You do not want to create a counseling office because you are not a licensed counselor. Most people should only get a psychic reading once every few months. However, many psychic addicts will try to come to you every day, expecting you to solve all of their problems and drain you completely. You may feel bombarded by them. That’s why it is best to charge a price. It will limit the amount of times that a person comes to see you per week, month or year. Remember that you are not God. Only tell people what you see and never try to solve anyone’s problem.

The best kind of psychic reading comes from the heart. If you truly believe that you have a prophetic word to give to someone, then it is best to just give it to someone that is in need. I am sure that they will appreciate it and you will feel like your life is becoming equally balanced.