Trying harder to develop your psychic gifts could be the very thing blocking them. Why would you want to block your psychic development? Why could your psychic growth be stalling or going nowhere? I have taught many workshops on Angels, crystals, psychic development and how to see and feel auras. It is common for one or more students to arrive expressing their frustration that their psychic and spiritual gifts are not developing the way they think they should.
Let me help you discover six ways you could be blocking your psychic development. Some may be obvious and others you may not have considered.
1 – You are Dictating How You Develop
If you insist that your development must happen in a particular way, it might slow down your progression. If you are not following your intuitive guidance because you are so “bloody minded” the spirit world and angels step aside and let you. You have free will.
Example 1: You have been attending the workshops and at first maybe noticed a difference. You could have met some lovely spiritual souls, but you are not developing as fast as your friend who you attend with – why? Firstly, is your friend choosing the workshops because they resonate with her? During psychic development, there may be times when you are meant to part ways on your development and attend different training events or accept that you have different gifts. Rather like the way we all get a different prescription for glasses, a workshop will not develop everyone equally.
Example 2: You are determined to learn tarot. You have spent hours poring over the books but their meanings do not seem to stick in your head. Your Grandad, your number one fan who is now in heaven, used to love a game of cards and was a keen gardener. He was also religious. He wants to help you develop but is not feeling the love with the tarot cards finding your choice of design a bit sinister. What about compromising, together you could enjoy angel cards or flower oracle cards. It could be that you don’t actually need tarot as your gifts are stronger at delivering messages in other ways, such a scrying (using a crystal ball or bowl of water) or bibliomancy.
2 – Psychic Development Block Because You are Tired or Unwell
I believe that energy changes form rather than disappearing. The inhabitants of the spirit world vibrate at their individual frequencies. When you are tired, it is harder for you to access the “worthwhile” dimensions which are going to help and guide you. They are more likely to be encouraging you to rest rather than develop. Listen to your intuition about what do you need when you are tired – more development which can be energetically draining or more self-care and nurturing. There is a time and a place for development.
My Psychic Experience: When I am ill, I cannot see auras. In fact, I know when I am on the mend and my health is recovering, as I start to see auras around my house plants. It makes me feel so happy to do so.
When someone is seriously ill, the body often focuses its resources on protecting vital organs than maintaining hair growth. Similarly, it is not a time for pushing your development against your body’s protective wishes. In my experience, pushing your development while unwell can also leave you feeling more energetically vulnerable to lower energies.
3 – Psychic Development Blocks Due to Your Job
My Teaching Experience: I always remember two sisters who took an active interest in attending my workshops together on a regular basis. Then one day, in front of the whole group, one sister asked ” Why is my sister developing more than me?” The difference was becoming noticeable. The answer was that she had a job which, if she developed clairvoyance (spiritual sight) or clairaudience (spiritual hearing) beyond what she had, then it would make her job unpleasant or make her unable to carry on in her career.
Expert Tip 1: If you are a counsellor, police officer, social worker or any other role handling trauma, and maybe the outcomes of the worst acts in human nature, do you really want to see and hear everything? Yes, it might help you but you can’t pick and choose. It is rather like me seeing Angels, I also see the energy coming up through the floorboards and the Angelic opposite. Do you really want to see the relatives in spirit of your clients or service users? Do you really want to see graphic details of events or hear voices of unpleasant and unkind deceased souls?
You may be being protected. Instead, what you might find that your claircognizant (spiritual knowing) becomes incredibly strong, your clairalience (spiritual smells) sharpens or your clairsentience (clear feeling) increases. You are developing, but in a way that helps to keep you safe, enjoy life and remain in a career where you can make the world a better place. Psychic development shouldn’t be about creating trauma and turmoil in your world. It should help you follow an easier life path.
4 – Ignoring or Changing the Answers You Receive
This is quite a broad topic, so let me provide some common examples.
Messages Through Dreams: Getting dreams and not writing them down because they don’t make sense at that time. Make sure you write them down and the date.
Expert Tip 2: If your dream comes true, look back and note the time delay from the dream to it occurring.
Dreams with psychic information tend to be just before you wake up. However, if you constantly go to bed too late or fall asleep after drinking alcohol, you may instead experience a vivid, memorable nightmare during the night.
My Psychic Experience: I went through a period when I was exceptionally busy seeing clients. Simultaneously, my young daughter was needing extra support in school and also Dad was seriously ill with terminal cancer. A lot going on. I was going to bed late, absolutely shattered falling straight to a deep sleep.
However, one night, in the early hours, I woke up with a horrendous dream. In my dream, I was looking out of my bedroom window and the sky had gone black due to huge ships like on Star Trek with the USS Enterprise. Instead of Captain T. Kirk, they were being captained by Japanese men in full miliary unform. It was terrifying, I woke up thinking it was a premonition of world war three. I became ill a few weeks later. It was a warning to let me know, I was doing too much and to reduce my Reiki healing appointments. Reiki originated in Japan, which helped me understand the symbolism.
Expert Tip 3: Things do not have to make sense. It is rather like in a reading, if you see birds singing in your mind interpret what it means to you if reading for yourself. For a client, tell the client exactly what you have seen. When I told my client about the dawn chorus image, they replied saying that they used to sing in a choir and had been considering returning to their hobby. The message made perfect sense and was delivered accurately. It gave them the motivation they were looking for.
Expert Tip 4: The spirit world can be quite cryptic. A system of communication builds up over time between you and them. Write down what you see. If I get shown fence panels, I know the message is about personal boundaries. Then it developed to the fence panels nearer to me are missing or smaller, so I know that their personal boundaries have reduced or become non existent recently.
If lots of washing clairvoyantly appears on my clothesline as I look out onto my garden, I know to ask the client if they are ok with everything being discussed, as the spirit world are prepared to air the client’s dirty washing. If I only see one item, I let them know the spirit world are asking permission to talk about their personal business otherwise they will limit what they say – it tends to be people with relatives in spirit who are discreet. If I see an image of the ace of diamonds in my mind I know it is about finances.
5- Blocks During Grief and Trauma
When you are going through a difficult period in life it is easy to want to accept any answer. When someone is in bereavement, suddenly they crave connection to those in heaven and often will start wanting to psychically develop whereas previously they may have had no interest in it.
My Psychic Experience: I have clairaudience, so was fortunate to be able hear my Dad after he died and chat with him at a normal everyday pace. A telepathic conversation, which is how the spirit world communicate. However, we all get bored spirits walking amongst us. Naturally, I had days when I felt low and down, missing him greatly. Lower vibrational spirits would take advantage and pretend to be my Dad. I would ask them “What’s your middle name?” and when they couldn’t answer I would get an abusive verbal reply.
Expert Tip 5: If your spiritual gift is feelings (clairsentient), which as a psychic healer I get, bored spirits can send the feelings of love, so you can get confused believing it’s the person who has recently departed. It happened to me, these bored spirits can raise their game by grouping together to send the feeling of love. They often don’t have enough feelings of love within them to send it individually. But even together they can’t keep it up for long – one or two minutes. So don’t start opening up and pulling out the cards or intuitive writing etc until you wait to see if it lasts a bit longer.
Expert Tip 6: If unsure or you feel uneasy ask “Are you of the light?” three times. They will usually go before you have asked the third time.
6 – Psychic Gifts Come and Go
What isn’t really talked about is psychic gifts coming and going, ebbing and flowing.
My Healing Experience: When I first started developing my healing gift, under the guidance of a spiritual healer, my main healing guide appeared: a huge Japanese sumo wrestler. He wanted me to bend people backwards, stamp their feet to help release the old stagnant energy and other strenuous methods. However, I had very little upper-body strength and, at the time, was very slender in build. I continued with my normal job and life, seeing him when I healed loved ones.
When I started my Reiki healing business, he appeared constantly at the beginning. But his energy was so strong the therapy bed would shake, which was unnerving for clients. Also, at that time, I wasn’t certified in massage or reflexology. As I wasn’t working with him, other healing guides came forward. A surgeon appeared when energetic repair work was need after an operation. An Indian lady came forward to bless clients and shower spiritual rose petals over them. She cleans the energy lines from their heart chakra and around them, then turns mini chakras in their aura so their energy shines more vibrantly.
People assume that main guides just stay there doing nothing, waiting for you to use them. I fully believe that my Japanese Sumo Wrestler is working with other healers. Now and again I see him, but mainly with clients experienced in spiritual healing.
My Psychic Experiences: I also went through a phase of seeing spirit animal guides around people, and receiving messages from them. I remember running a coffee morning to bring together clients but instead I felt compelled to teach a free Spirit Animal Guide workshop within it. The spirit animal phase has quietened and is currently not so dominant or intrusive.
Another psychic development phase was when my daughter was a toddler. I would see trees talking to each other via balls of light as I looked out of the lounge window, whilst giving her a bottle of milk. The trees in the garden also sent healing to me when I was ill in bed, via their root system. I could see lots of balls of light surrounding me and was shown the tree roots and the healing love from the trees to thank me for the way I tended to them and the other plants in the garden.
As my daughter became older I was shown a doorway in a tree on a walk in a local woodland. Another time, the tree in my garden showed me its chakras. I see plants in my therapy room sending healing energy to clients, projecting it up to three metres to reach them and to cover them.
Summary
Some psychic gifts are “full on” for a period of time and then disappear and return when needed again. Others are one-off moments. I am still waiting to see another door in a tree, chakras in a tree or tree roots sending me healing. You get what is right for you at that moment in your life. What will help you and others.
Psychically developing at the pace the spirit world and Angels want for you is, in my belief, far safer for you energetically. They want what is best for you in this life and the development of your soul. I have seen people quite sick who went against their intuition and guidance in the pursuit of an ego-led psychic gift. There are many rooms in the mind and many energy levels out there, it is about opening the right doors and accessing the right vibrational spaces.
I am writing from my experience as the English Psychic Healer™, so that I may help others develop in a natural way, co-creating with the universe.
There are other common ways that you may be blocking your psychic development which I have ready for another blog. Consider these six reasons first before we explore the next ones.
If you would like to develop your own spiritual gifts in a supportive way, then please look at my Training and Events page. I mainly teach Reiki but also hold workshops on topics such as Angels, Crystals, Psychic Development, Meditation and Auras – how to see and feel them.
Best wishes in your psychic development. Let the spiritual gifts meant for you flow to you.
Julia
Please note: If you hear voices that are threatening, distressing or interfering with every day life, or you feel mentally unwell, please seek support from a qualified healthcare professional
