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Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind : Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind Many are attracted to metaphysics because of what is called "psychic power". People new to metaphysics think that becoming psychic is what it's all about. This is a misunderstanding. It draws people to metaphysics for all the wrong reasons. Basically, they want to see themselves as "above" everyone since they "read minds", see the future or tell someone about past lives. These are all TALENTS that can lure students; however, any true metaphysical teacher will put that ego in perspective when they tell the students that everyone is psychic.
Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind : Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind The psychic part of the mind is in everyone. It's part of your innate being and you use it on a very shallow level when you respond to your intuition or "gut feelings" about something. Metaphysics teaches you to tap into your psychic (higher) mind through the disciplines of concentration exercises, visualization techniques and meditation.
Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind : Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind When you learn to command your mental processes you can attune your mind to a focus that enables conscious use of your psychic mind. However, this level is really only a lower level of the mind's potential and the beginning of learning to control and use your psychic mind power. The more important goal is that you learn to raise your consciousness ABOVE the psychic mind to the higher mind.
Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind : Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind Higher mind energies can be more difficult to access at will; however, they are more effective in use and are not tainted with the emotion of the lower psychic mind. Higher mind is accessed through meditation and in deep trance. It is also referred to as Higher Self, or superconscious mind (Jung). The message from Higher Mind is not concerned with the emotional reaction of the situation, but rather the facts and solutions.
Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind : Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind Psychic: The word psychic is derived from the Greek word psychikos ("of the mind" or "mental") and refers in part to the human mind or psyche (ex., "psychic turmoil"). French astronomer and spiritualist Camille Flammarion is credited as having first used the word psychic, while it was later introduced to the English language by Edward William Cox in the 1870s.
Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind : Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind It refers to a claimed ability to perceive information hidden from the normal senses through extrasensory perception, or to people said to have such abilities. It is also used to refer to theatrical performers who use techniques such as prestidigitation and cold reading to produce the appearance of such abilities. It can also denote an ability of the mind to influence the world physically and to the telekinetic powers professed by those such as Uri Geller.
Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind : Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind Critics attribute psychic powers to intentional trickery or self-delusion. In 1988 the U.S. National Academy of Sciences gave a report on the subject that concluded there is "no scientific justification from research conducted over a period of 130 years for the existence of parapsychological phenomena."
Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind : Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind In a 1990 survey of members of that organization, 4% of respondents agreed that extrasensory perception had been scientifically demonstrated, or that it happened sometimes. Asked about research in the field, 22% would discourage it, 63% would allow but not encourage it, and 10% would encourage it.
Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind : Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind A survey of the beliefs of the general United States population regarding paranormal topics was conducted by The Gallup Organization in 2005. The survey found that 41% of those polled believed in extrasensory perception and 26% believed in clairvoyance. 31% of those surveyed indicated that they believe in telepathy or psychic communication.
Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind : Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind A poll of 439 college students conducted in 2006 by researchers Bryan Farha of Oklahoma City University and Gary Steward of University of Central Oklahoma, suggested that college seniors and graduate students were more likely to believe in psychic phenomena than college freshmen. 23% of college freshmen expressed a belief in paranormal ideas. The percentage was greater among college seniors (31%) and graduate students (34%). The poll showed lower belief in psychic phenomena among science students than social science and education students.
Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind : Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind Some people also believe that psychic abilities can be activated or enhanced through the study and practice of various disciplines and techniques such as meditation, with a number of books and websites being dedicated to instruction in these methods. Another popular belief is that psychic ability is hereditary, with a psychic parent passing their abilities on to their children.
Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind : Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind Mind: refers to the aspects of intellect and consciousness manifested as combinations of thought, perception, memory, emotion, will and imagination, including all of the brain's conscious and unconscious cognitive processes. "Mind" is often used to refer especially to the thought processes of reason. Subjectively, mind manifests itself as a stream of consciousness.
Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind : Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind There are many theories of the mind and its function. The earliest recorded works on the mind are by Zarathushtra, the Buddha, Plato, Aristotle, Adi Shankara and other ancient Greek, Indian and Islamic philosophers. Pre-scientific theories, based in theology, concentrated on the relationship between the mind and the soul, the supernatural, divine or god-given essence of the person. Modern theories, based on scientific understanding of the brain, theorize that the mind is a product of the brain and has both conscious and unconscious aspects.
Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind : Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind The question of which attributes make up the mind is also much debated. Some argue that only the "higher" intellectual functions constitute mind: particularly reason and memory. In this view the emotions - love, hate, fear, joy - are more "primitive" or subjective in nature and should be seen as different from the mind. Others argue that the rational and the emotional sides of the human person cannot be separated, that they are of the same nature and origin, and that they should all be considered as part of the individual mind.
Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind : Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind In popular usage mind is frequently synonymous with thought. It is that private conversation with ourselves that we carry on "inside our heads." Thus we "make up our minds," "change our minds" or are "of two minds" about something. One of the key attributes of the mind in this sense is that it is a private sphere to which no one but the owner has access. No-one else can "know our mind." They can only interpret what we consciously or unconsciously communicate.
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PSYCHIC MIND: the subconscious, or unconscious, mind in which we receive psychic impulses. The psychic mind is at work when we sleep, dream, and meditate.
Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind : Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind If you are going to convince your mind to listen to your intuitive feelings, your mind has to value those feelings. Your mind requires an acceptable reason to value psychic feelings. The best way to convince your mind to pay attention to these feelings is to introduce it to where these feelings come from. After all, there is a big difference between listening to Joe Nobody's opinion on something, and listening to a highly knowledgeable expert. Whom would you listen to?
Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind : Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind To begin ask yourself:
1. Where do I think my psychic information comes from?
2. Why should I listen?
3. Do I think it's trustworthy? Do I think it comes from a helpful and knowledgeable source?
4.Am I comfortable tuning in to it?
Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind : Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind It's important to ask these questions. The good news is, the answers are very specific, very personal and enlightening.
Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind : Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind Where Does It Come From?
Actually, psychic energy comes from various sources. Our conscious minds have been trained to focus on one broadcast on our sensory radio: the broadcast of our five-physical-sense relay. But there are other relays broadcasting that we can and spontaneously do tune in to now and again which give us our psychic information.
Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind : Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind The first of these psychic relays comes from our own subconscious minds. Our subconscious minds are like giant computers taking in thousands of bits of information every day, information that slips past our conscious attention, yet nevertheless is perceived and saved for a future moment. Every detail of every experience that we've had since the beginning of our lives, and in our past lives as well, is stored here and held unless released spontaneously by some necessity.
Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind : Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind It would be overwhelming for our conscious minds to process every detail of every event, so the mind allows unneeded information to slip unnoticed into this huge storage library. If the subconscious is jogged by need or by visualization or relaxation, the subconscious will release back to the conscious mind necessary and helpful information.
Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind : Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind An extreme example of this is the case of an accident or crime witness. The events witnessed may have occurred too quickly or have become clouded over by emotions of surprise or shock, and the details lost. But if this same person were to relax through hypnosis, his or her recollection would become nearly perfect, because the subconscious memory can be accessed.
Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind : Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind This also occurs in everyday events. Perhaps you have been mulling over a problem for weeks, coming to no specific solution. Then suddenly, when daydreaming during another task like watering the lawn or taking a long drive, a solution will pop into your head. This relaxed frame of mind is a receptive frame of mind, and in this receptive state, your subconscious can scan its stored information for possible solutions. If it does find one "Eureka!" you'll have a psychic flash.
Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind : Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind This type of psychic experience happens most often in your work or in an area that you've spent a great deal of time learning or reading about, or in an area of natural interest. The fact is, you may have acquired bits and pieces of useful knowledge along the way, information that would provide an answer or solution. Your subconscious mind can take in and rearrange these bits and pieces and create new and significant relationships among these bits of understanding. The solution lies in finding new relationships to old information.
Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind : Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind All this occurs below your conscious awareness. Can you believe that your subconscious mind not only records your experiences perfectly, but can also combine different records, thus creating solutions that couldn't be found just in examining the pieces? Yet it does, naturally. Through proper training, you can develop far greater access to this stored information than you ever believed possible.
Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind : Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind The Superconscious or Higher Source
The most interesting source of psychic energy is from the superconscious plane of energy. Every one of us has, as our spiritual birthright, access to a Higher Source of knowing and loving guidance.
Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind : Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind This Higher Source is actually composed of several distinct levels of spiritual guidance. These types of psychic impulses influence your future and the present choices you make that will set up your future.
Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind : Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind This level of psychic guidance influences your perspective and helps you look at your choices from a new point of view. These kinds of communications are felt as warnings, urgings, new ideas, inspirations, breakthroughs in understanding, desires to redirect your life, a need to stop or let go of what you are doing, or a need to commit or go forward with what you are hesitant about.
Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind : Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind Remember, these types of psychic experiences are loving but not flattering to your ego; stable, consistent, and unwavering but not coercive; subtle but distinct. They will always leave you feeling reassured, relaxed, and certain of yourself, in spite of appearances, if you listen and pay attention. Additionally, these types of psychic feelings help you with questions in love and relationships, health and well-being, and creativity and purpose in life, and above all will help you find inner security and spiritual peace of mind.
Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind : Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind Let's face facts. Your conscious mind will be more amenable to listening to these impulses if it is given a reason to listen. After all, your conscious mind would like to consider itself reasonable. If it accepts and understands the reasonableness of listening to your intuition, it will do so far more easily. You would not ignore the advice of an expert if you were building a house, would you? Especially if the advice were free? And painless?
Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind : Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind It is just as foolish to ignore the assistance of your psychic guidance as you build your life, especially knowing that your psychic sense is offering you a solution from your subconscious mind, from a telepathic relay, or from the loving guidance of your superconscious. The psychic experience comprises all these sources of assistance.
Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind : Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind What Does It Involve?
Essentially what psychic development involves is becoming keenly aware of what is going on around and inside you, here and now. By tuning in to your little psychic impulses, you will notice what you heretofore may have ignored. Once you make this realization, you can begin your development.
Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind : Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind Have you ever had a hearing test? If so, do you recall (when wearing the headphones) that all your senses perked up to hear the barely audible beep that sounded for but a split second? Or an eye test, where you wore a patch first over one eye, then over the other, while scanning a screen for a teeny blip of light moving over the area? These exams are designed to test your ear and eye sense acuity. The more acute, the more subtle the beep or flash you noticed.
Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind : Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind Psychic development requires the same acuity. Relax and enjoy, notice impulses you otherwise overlooked. Don't worry that you are imagining things. You aren't. You are just redefining your sphere of awareness and allowing it more room to play.
Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind : Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind Once you understand where your intuition and psychic feelings come from, you need to learn how to gain freer and easier access to these channels of the subconscious, telepathic, and superconscious broadcasts, so that they are available when you need them.
Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind : Metaphysical Tools - The Psychic Mind Only you can accomplish this process. However, having assistance is helpful. Psychic readings, Channelings can assist you; however, only if you have sought the answer yourself and discern the information you get in terms of what “feels” right for you. These outside sources are meant for confirmation, not to enable you to avoid responsibility for your choices.
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