This is what everything revolves around and is the most important part of development as this is what everything else hinges on. Sensing is just another way of understanding the world around us; we do it every day and is as natural to us as breathing. We never really think about it just like breathing it just happens and we understand our world by it.
All of us understand our world differently although things are similar they will never be the same as our unique upbringing will give us a unique sense of our world. This is why it is hard for anyone to actually tell you the right way to perceive something as it will not make sense to you when you perceive the same thing you will both see it differently. It is much better to get you to understand the way you see things and then cross reference that with the way the instructor sees it.
When I facilitate a workshop and do these exercises I have to see it not only the way I see it, my unique perspective, but also how my colleagues see it then I can define it for them so they can cross reference it, this then makes sense of things for them, they're will be similarities but it will not be the same. When we sense things we use our 5 senses but our 6th sense interacts with all the other senses. So when we go into a room we have never been into before we will, immediately without thinking, have sensed all sorts of things about the room, most importantly if it is safe to be there. We will have smelt it, seen it, heard it, felt it via your body, temperature etc, and even tasted it, daft as it may seem.
The extra sense you have will be scanning for anything else which cannot initially be sensed through our 5 senses it will be a feeling or thought to you, your intuition, something just out of reach but as equally important as any of your other senses. To sense the things you cannot see with your 5 senses but can sense with the sixth sense put your hands together. Slowly rub them so you can feel the skin then gradually move them apart slowly opening and closing them, not touching each palm just nearly touching them, can you feel the tension between your hands a slight resistance, it could feel slightly electric, a buzzing feeling or like holding a balloon soft and squishy.
When you have realised this feeling, slowly move your hands further apart and try again feeling this energy between your hands and then further away again see how far you can separate your hands before you cannot feel the energy, congratulations you have just connected with your Aura, the energy field around everyone's body, and more importantly started to connect with your 6th sense. When we sense these feelings we are not only connecting with ourselves but also with everyone else that's around you.
Have you ever gone into a room full of people who you have not known and when looking around have decided that there is someone you would not like to go to at the other side of the room, although you have never met them or talked to them you have taking a instant dislike to them, no rational reason why you should not want to interact with them but your 6th sense is telling you something which most people would act on and move away. You were even at the range you were at, have connected with that person's energy and decided it was not ok to interact with them.
We don't think anything about this we just rely on our sense to guide us in our world, you have just connected with your world through your Psychic Sense, now how normal is that, nothing weird or spooky just normal and ok. This giving and receiving of energy not only gives us a connection to the world but it also transfers information between the parties involved and that information lets them know us as we know them. If you have a plant in the room with you or go outside if it is appropriate to find one. Look at the plant, flower or bush how does it look, is it limp or healthy, if its limp then put your left hand near it, not touching it, just near it, then feel the energy between you both, just like you did with your hands in the previous exercise.
Now feel the energy what does it feel like buzzing or flat, warm or cold, soft or strong etc write down what you have experienced then give it some water and see if there is any difference. If you are outside then find a healthy plant with new shoots and maybe one that is not so healthy again write down any difference you felt, you may be surprised at the difference, not so silly now talking to plants eh. People who are healers, either naturally, which we all are, or learnt, which is just learning a better way of channelling the energy, can help heal plants, people etc with this energy, we don't really heal we just kick start their own battery to help them heal themselves, if it's allowed to be healed.
Anything that is alive and that also means animals, crystals, rocks etc gives off energy as does anything that has been alive like wood tables etc. The reason for using your left hand is that most people, that I have found, have a circular circuit within their body which naturally comes in through the left hand and goes out through the right hand, which is why we naturally shake hands with our right hands giving our energy out to the people meet, also checking that their energy does not enter our bodies until we are ok with them, then we may hug them so allowing their energies to enter within our bodies, so left receives right gives. We will use this left hand receiving way of working with all our feeling and information gathering exercises, a few people are different to this and after experimenting with using both hands you will find if you are one of the minorities then just swap hands.
Anything that is a natural substance withholds energy information this is why when we do Psychometry we pick up on the residual energy which still resonates from the object in question and this then tells us all about it, who owned it and what circumstances surrounded it. It also give understanding as to why when you go into a house which you have never been in before, to buy or not to buy it, you get a feeling if it is an ok place to buy or whether it just does not feel right, as some people say. We also use this sensing ability to understand things within a historical site, to find information about what happened there, when it happened and who was involved. Some people attribute this to ghosts, a term them upstairs don't really like, as they don't see themselves as dead, just alive in a different way.
Apparitions come in two styles the first being a video recording of an event, usually emotionally charged, that replays when the atmospherics are correct or when someone who is connected, energy wise, with the incident or the house steps inside and reconnects with it, this is the most common form of apparition, it will not interact with anyone just replay itself. The second is an energy which resides in that place, for all sorts of reasons it may want to stay there, which I shall go into later in the book; it will interact with you and make a connection with you.
To give you examples of these ways of connecting in my life me and my partner visited a old mostly derelict 12th century castle in North Yorkshire a while ago, when we entered we spoke to the curator and he said that due to there being low numbers of people attending the site today there would be no guided talks, we said we did not mind as we liked to do our own guided talk, he gave us both on of those funny looks, that people often do and we proceeded into the castle. As we walked around we entered into one of the remaining turrets which was partly demolished and on entering into it we felt warm instead of the cold it had been outside, given this turret was exposed to the elements we found this strange.
On connecting to the energy inside the turret we smelt hops and tasted brewing tastes also saw a donkey walking around the outer edge of the wall, it was fascinating watching all this unfold before us and we watched a free show of the history of this place. After we had fully finished looking over this castle we decided to go for a cup of tea and as we walked out of the castle the curator asked us if we had enjoyed ourselves we said we had and commented on the brewery experience we had had. He look slightly shocked that we knew this as this was not in the guide book, indeed we had not actually purchased one, but confirmed that this is what they thought the turret had been used for at some time, this is residual energy.
All these different ways of sensing are quite normal and really do open up our world to a new dimension, one that increases our connection with everything on this planet and in doing so enhances our lives enormously. Just think if you could be connected with everything how that would enrich your life and effect your decisions about how you lived it and what different interactions you would have had with the people, earth and places around you.
Ian Wallace
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