How do you know that a particular thought is psychic?

Looking back at my various psychic revelations, I've very seldom realized that the thought was psychic until after the fact. One example: just before my husband was wheeled off to surgery, he said "You've given meaning to my live." I said, "I don't want to live without you." He stopped breathing during surgery, turned "a blue indicative of death", miraculously survived intact. Neither one of us had any idea at the time that he was saying "goodbye" and I was saying "don't go". And even when I've Known what was coming up, I've dismissed it: saw in both my chart and my husband's chart that one of our daughters could be raped. Dismissed it with the thought that I was just being dramatic, that astrology didn't really work like that. Two weeks later our daughter was raped. I guess I'm asking for advice on how to recognize what those random thoughts really mean.

As cliche as this sounds you just know in your gut. I get information through my feelings and it's very strong. I just know something. For example one term in the beginning of college I had this writing class and the teacher was elderly and got sick often throughout the term (it was in the fall/winter) and one morning I was getting ready to leave for class and had this huge feeling of information come to me to tell my Mom to stay by and wait a good bit. So I got dropped off at class and it happened that the teacher was out (I think it was the time she fell and hurt herself) and we didn't have class that day. So it's just one of those things you know for sure in your gut/heart/soul.

I guess it isn't a word that people often use. I've been more familiar with 'intuition' or being tuned in, or attuned. So I'm not sure what the difference is, if any. However, I think we are all intuitive, and constantly pick up signs and feelings from our friends, our environment, etc. The trick is to pay attention to these signs without getting neurotic about it. You got a feeling about your daughter possibly being raped, then that happened. Not that you could've done anything to prevent it, but sometimes just paying attention to these intuitions is a good thing. It is especially helpful, imo, that after you've had some hunches and not paid attention to them, to start listening to any future ones. But not to get too extreme about it, just trying to use the information to improve whatever the situation is. I often keep my hunches to myself, and just see how things shake out. However, you can use intuition to make decisions, or choices, even about which direction to walk, or whether to drive somewhere if there could be a risk. btw, I like your screen name very much.

If you were to tell me several years ago I could pick up things I would've thought you were nuts. Now it's pretty easy for me.

Figuring out which info to listen to just takes practice. I personally just tune in after a "hit" if I'm upset or anxious right before I get the information I try to calm down and check in to see if the information still feels correct after I'm calm, if it does I pay attention. If I just get a "hit out of nowhere when things are calm I know that something is amiss and will heed what I get.

Most intuitives get into trouble because they are imaginative and most are neurotic (this is not meant as an insult to intuitives at all) or hypersensitive so that must be looked at and challenged often. I have found that balance is the key. When I am in a balanced state information flows easily without any hyper ungrounded thoughts. Also, if I have a glass of wine I get hit with incredible amounts of information but again I must be in a balanced state or if I am very sad I get clear true information.

Pay attention to what you get, act on those things that feel critical in a positive way and note how you feel when you get something dead on. I would suggest paying attention to your dreams as well. Allow yourself to learn what information means when it comes through you, in your own way.

O.B.

I write it down in my journal (well I write all that I get down) and keep it in mind. Sometimes I get stuff that is very, very, very strong and clear. Like last year not long before the election I got this very strong feeling that Bush will go down. I didn't know anything else and than I've had some other personal things happen that help me get better with learning. One of my moto's in life is: if you're unsure, don't do it. You're unsure for a reason. Sometimes it's nerves but you can usually tell if you're unsure or if it's just nerves. If you're really unsure about something it could be someone warning you whether a guide, family member, friend, your higherself etc.

I don't ever call myself psychic...or if I do I say I'm a "little bit psychic".

I've had incredible psychic experiences, but they don't happen very consistently. It's as though sometimes I "tap" into the right "stream" of info. At other times I get a huge mish-mash of junk that I can't make anything of.

These are the ways I recognize my psychic moments:

1) clarity of "vision" - the more vivid the more I trust it
2) a "reverberation" or sort of vibration that accompanies the idea/image/information (I can't really explain this one. I feel an energy connected to the idea)
3) a sense of "imperative action required" -- an urgency beyond what is known about a situation -- this one I've learned to always respond to no matter what anyone else says or thinks.

And then there is the "you want to take ____ with you" phenomenon. I TRY to listen to that because I've found that EVERY time there was a need or useful purpose for the ____, whatever it was. Bugs me though because I'll think, take that jacket. Then I THINK "jacket? why? it's going to be plenty warm. I don't need the extra bulk". Course I always end up saying "I wish I would have listened to the first voice...it knew something I didn't".

I think this is a common experience and might be a really easy first step in learning to hear your intuition.

And then there is the "you want to take ____ with you" phenomenon. I TRY to listen to that because I've found that EVERY time there was a need or useful purpose for the ____, whatever it was.

One morning when I was visiting in California, I went out early to a grocery store for some fresh fruit. As I left, something told me to take a wet sponge. Yeah. A wet sponge. So I had a big sponge and I got it wet, put it in a plastic bag, and took it with me.

Drove to the grocery store, visited the fresh fruit bar, came back outside and my car was smoking from the hood.

Some people were standing around looking at the car. I got into the car, opened the hood, and took the sponge and put out the fire, which was actually something attached to my hood insulation.

The funny part is not one person thought it odd that I got a big wet sponge out of my car to put out a hood fire.




Cher

Also, if I'm ever drawn to someone, something, an event etc. it's for some purpose from God or someone watching over me or whatever. But I agree if you have this huge "gut" feeling it's for some purpose. Like if you're real nervous or scared about something. It might not be something you can see but it's some reason perhaps spiritually. You'll learn to tell. And with vision's they just happen with me. I haven't had a vision in almost a year. The last vision I had was of Bush and he was leaving the White House with a sad and depressed face so something happened. When I try to make something spiritually related happen, whether a vision or traveling somewhere, it doesn't work and/or it's wrong. So I just let things happen to me no matter how much I want to travel somewhere or see something. It'll happen if I'm supposed to know.

I have predicted so many things that I never said anything to anyone because I thought it couldn't be so.

I just freaked out a neighbor of mine an hour ago, as well as myself, who came by to talk to me about something that was happening to him because I needed to know about changes going on about his property.

I made a statement to him that I shouldn't have known but I did and he immediately shook his head yes to my statement and then said, "I should never have told you that" and then he said, "But you told me".

We both were a bit stunned. I'm still a bit stunned myself.

...and then he said, "But you told me".

A Bewitched moment!





Cher

I have found that when the millions of thoughts come to a screeching halt in my mind and one thing jumps out and won't go away...psyhic thought! Another thing, is when I am talking and a random thought pops out of my mouth. The other day, at a company party, I was talking to people I had never met and telling things from their past and recent past. I had a few follow me around after that wanting to know their future (some I did tell). Just let it come. The harder you try for it the more elusive it becomes. :)

Just my experiences. :)

intuition mean until after the fact. Sometimes I think I can only tap into them and believe in them if the outcome is somthing I want it to be. It is much easier to brush off the ones that are negative. I usually only know in retrospect that what I intuited was true.

One good thing, though, many times I have an uneasy feeling while driving, which makes me extra vigilant for other driver's mistakes, so in that case the gut feeling may actually work to prevent something that is poised to happen. Although, since no accident happens there is no way to prove the theory.

One time I was traveling up a mountain very late at night. I saw three deer in my mind. They weren't really there, though. They were just in my mind.

Very shortly after I "saw" that, I reached the top of the mountain and started down the other side. There were three deer, standing exactly as I had seen them in my mind.

So "seeing" that definitely saved the lives of a deer or two.




Cher

I have frequently experienced what you describe with the car, the uneasy feeling. Being extra careful. And then as you mention, not knowing what might have happened. I get especially nervous if I experience the uneasiness as a passenger in somebody else's car. As well, I often sense when I don't want to go somewhere, or want to go a bit later than planned. Mostly I am unable to follow those paths, so in those cases it is easier to check out the reality- usually, not always, there is a valid reason, such as a cancelled class, or a delay, or even conflict between people that I'd rather have gotten out of. But it would be fun, wouldn't it, to get a list of what we've avoided using gut intuition. I'm sure it would be a lengthy list.

and to trust your intuition. It doesn't really matter which intuition materializes on the physical and which doesn't, or how an intuition manifests. If you are listening and trusting, you are ready for whatever life brings.

intuition as I should. I brush it off often in doubt. And I'm getting better. But when I do get a psychic revelation, there is no doubt whatsoever. I just KNOW. And it sounds kind of crazy but it is different from the everyday junk that I muddle through. It's more laser sharp and coherent. It FEELS different too. It stays with me longer. In several days, the junk will be fuzzy and often disappear from my recollection. But the real stuff stays with me always. I had an incident 10 yrs ago that is crystal clear to this day. I can close my eyes and see and feel everything like it was then.