How to Switch Off Psychic Abilities
Posted in Developing Psychic Abilities / The Spirit World on 31. Dec, 2009
So you are beginning to work on awakening your psychic abilities. And you’re making progress. Perhaps you are feeling your chakras opening and tingling, maybe you are seeing things in the corner of your eye moving and hearing things.
It’s all quite exciting.
Except it’s happening all the time. You don’t know how to turn it off and it’s overwhelming.
What can you do to shut it down?
If you are feeling you need to tone down your psychic awareness, it’s because you’ve got too much energy running through your third eye and crown chakra. (Check out this article if you’re not too familiar with the chakra system.)
This is because you have opened your third eye and maybe it hasn’t been open for a long time. So it’s running amok a little bit. Here’s what to do in that situation:
1. Get a clear process for shutting down your energy field – and use it
If you want to be able to turn your psychic abilities off at will, you need a clear process for turning them off (AND for turning them on.)
When I tune into people’s spirit guides/energy body, I open up my chakras, and raise my vibration in order to connect. I have a process for doing it (it’s here). I also have a process that I do afterwards (which is the opposite of the opening up process) – to close my chakras and come back into my body. If I don’t do that process, I wouldn’t be closing down my psychic awareness.
My process consists of:
I really have to mean the last step. I say that because sometimes I don’t want to close down. Let’s face it – being connected to your guides and receiving information is otherworldly and exciting. It can feel pretty cool. And you can go around on that psychic high for days feeling connected and hooked in. That’s not normal, real life though. So that’s why I say you have to mean the last step. You really have to want to disconnect from your psychic awareness and shut it down for this to work.
If you have an opening up process, you know you can connect again when you want to, so don’t be afraid to close it down.
And remember that your energy is entirely within your control. You control it through your intentions – conscious and subconscious. Turning off psychic abilities after a while becomes like flicking a switch, through intention.
2. Get out of your head and out of your third eye
Secondly, for all the time and attention you’re spending on your psychic and spiritual development, make sure you spend just as much time and attention on your physical human life, for balance.
Your third eye can’t stay open permanently if you are putting your attention elsewhere, on more human, mundane matters. Your energy can’t be all in your third eye and in your head if it’s focused and distributed elsewhere – like in your lower chakras.
Here are some quick fixes to stimulate the lower chakras:
3. Get out of your head (as a way of life)
Being in balance with your psychic abilities is a way of life. It’s not about a quick fix to ground you here and there. If you are someone who is consistently engaging with the psychic and spiritual realms, you must be as dedicated to your physical life too – and pay it just as much attention, if not more.
I know this because I spend a few hours a day in the psychic realm and I know what it is like to be on a high from that. But that high doesn’t last. And life will bring you back down to Earth from it (with a nasty bump) if you don’t counterbalance psychic work with being human and in your body.
Being human involves spending time on your human relationships and getting back into the real world afterwards. That is, unless you want to live as a renunciate or a monk.
I’m pretty sure I did that last time I was here so that life holds no appeal for me.
If all else fails, if you have lots of energy running through your third eye and you can’t switch it off (although realize that ‘can’t’ is a choice, as your energy is completely within your control!), take a bath with a cup of sea salt or Epsom salts in it. That is a good temporary fix to settle your energy.
THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT. Thank you, Anna. I just discovered the truth of it the hard way… And am still recovering from a very nasty, scary bump… I stupidly ignored all the messages around me pointing to balance, perhaps thinking I was immune. I even had Ken Wilber’s book “Integral Life Practice” sitting by my bedside!! I hope everyone who reads this will really take it to heart and apply it to their lives.
This comment has nothing to do with this article.: Happy New Year Anna!
Since I found your webpage a short while ago, I’d been hoping you’d write on exactly this topic! Not knowing how to shut myself off is what keeps me from wanting to develop myself psychically. I wonder if you might explain more about how to visualize chakras closing in your mind’s eye. Do you simply visualize the colors disappearing?
I came to this website because I have a problem. I cannot turn off seeing spirits and interdimensional beings to the point that I think I might be going crazy. Can anyone give me any advice about how to turn seeing spirits off? They rarely tell me anything useful that I can help them with, or anything that is useful to me, their just there, usually when I first wake up in the morning.
Hi Rachel – glad you found this helpful!
Moi – Happy new year to you too!
Elyse – I visualize the chakras as being like flat discs (about the size of a CD) spinning around a pole that runs from the centre of the top of my head, right down through my body. When they are open, they are about 1-2 metres outside of you. To bring them in, you use the power of your intention to just see the chakras get smaller and smaller, some people like to see them as lotuses closing the petals. It makes no difference how you do it – the intention is what matters.
Justice – the same principles apply as what I have written about in this article. You may also want to inform those beings that you do not wish to see them and to leave you alone. Ignore them, stop feeding this issue any energy and see what happens.
Thanks for the advice. I have tried that. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Part of the problem is when I see them, it is usually when I first wake up, its so frightening to wake up and have someone be there, waiting to talk to you, or worse, just stare at you before fading away. Sometimes I wonder if I need to see a doctor, because some of the things I see are not human spirits. There is a diffrence between seeing spirits and being downright crazy. I am wondering, how do you tell if your crazy, without the help of a doctor? Most doctors are not spiritual and will assume Im crazy, which is why I have not been to one. I have come to a conclusion, either I am going to turn out to be a powerful medium, or a crazy person who needs help.
Hello,
this message is for M. Justice, please send me an email at your earliest convenience. I have some questions for you that may provide you with a few answers.