When You Have Trouble Believing in Psychic Abilities

I think it’s normal and natural not to fully believe in something when you’ve not seen concrete, consistent, reliable evidence of it.

In fact, why should anyone believe in psychic abilities, unless they’ve had undeniable first hand experience of it?

Me asking you to believe in psychic phenomena, when you haven’t got your own personal first-hand evidence of it would be like YOU asking ME to believe in a country called Wanalulu land, which I’ve never heard of before and can’t find on the official map. If I’ve never seen any evidence of it existing, then why should I believe you? You might be deluded, or just mistaken.

The only reason why I might possibly suspect that it could exist is because a few other people are talking about it too, including some people who I respect and trust, when they’re telling me what a great country it is and how I should visit.

Then I might start taking notice and find out how to go on a trip to this mysterious place myself. But before I’ve been there to see it myself, don’t expect me to believe in it.

It’s a ‘Catch-22′ Situation

The difficult thing is that unlike my fictional Wanalulu land, the realm of psychic phenomena is not a physical place that we can all experience no matter what. We can’t put it on the map and that’s because not everyone agrees it exists.

Why doesn’t everyone agree that it exists, though?

Because to see evidence of psychic phenomena, you have to be open to the idea that it might exist. And If you’re completely closed off from the belief ‘there may be something more to life than what I can see’, then you’ll never see any evidence of that.

Why?

Three words: Law of Attraction.

If you’re reading my blog, then you’ve probably heard of the Law of Attraction and you probably know all about it. The Law of Attraction says that you create your entire reality with your thoughts. Your thoughts arise from your belief system.

So, if you believe, or think thoughts such as ‘there may be more to life than what I can perceive around me with my five senses’ or ‘there is another, spiritual side to life’ THEN you will begin to see things occurring under the surface of what you call your life experience. You begin to see a little bit deeper. Perhaps you have a spiritual experience and you get a glimpse into ‘something more’. You start manifesting more and more evidence of the ‘paranormal’ around you – of course you do, because those are the thoughts you’re having.

If you believe and think that there is nothing more to life beyond what we see, then you’ll also see things showing up in your reality which appear to reinforce that, because those are the thoughts you’re having.

So in that sense experiencing psychic stuff is a choice. You can choose to accept the belief ‘Psychic ability is real’ and create it in your reality or you can opt not to. Neither way is wrong, and both can be real. They’re both based upon that belief (or the lack of it) that psychic phenomena might exist.

As the psychic-medium character in the Spanish horror film ‘The Orphanage’ said, the old adage ‘seeing is believing‘ is not entirely true as applied to psychic experiences. Because of the law of attraction, it’s more like ‘believing is seeing’.

So, here, the real question is not ‘Are psychic abilities real?’ but rather ‘Do I want to believe? Do I want to experience another layer of reality in life?’ and ‘Will it be beneficial for me?’

Of course, if you don’t believe in the law of attraction, then this reasoning will just be a load of rubbish to you. But I’m not going to debate the existence of the law of attraction in this article because it’s something I believe in. Indeed, this whole article is based upon an assumption I accept – and that is that the law of attraction exists.

But back to what I’m trying to say…

How to Experience the ‘Woo-Woo’ When You Don’t Fully Believe

If you want to see evidence of psychic phenomena around you, but the problem is you’re a wee bit skeptical, then all you need to do is open yourself up to the idea that you may not know everything; that there may be something underneath the surface of life. Once you’ve seeded the belief that it’s possible there may be more to experience under the surface of life, you begin to manifest evidence of that.

You don’t need certainty or complete confidence. Not many people do manage that 100% full belief in the beginning, when they’re starting out on their journey of psychic exploration – and that’s to be expected. But a small flicker of a belief still works.

When only a very small part of you believes, that part of you manifests a little bit of evidence that psychic abilities and phenomena are real.

And because you gained a bit of confidence, the part of you that believes gets bigger, and so you manifest a little bit more evidence of psychic phenomena.

And so on, until it’s a really big part of you that believes, so much so that you feel comfortable integrating your intuition and psychic resources into your life, and begin to connect with others who are also manifesting the same thing.

You go from a rational, ‘normal’ person to a believer in crazy ‘woo-woo’ stuff.

This is what happened in my case.

How My Faith in the Psychic Realm Began

I had two seemingly conflicting sides to me – one of them is a really spiritual, open, believing side to me that goes by the philosophy ‘what do we know about life and the universe?’ and then a logical, rational, doubtful, skeptical, side of me which at its worst tells me I’m a real fool for believing in the spiritual side of life.

When I started getting interested in developing my psychic ability, I saw these two conflicting world views in those around me. There was my old university friends and my immediate family who thought I was gullible for doing the work I do and believing in it (and they told me so) and then was my Grandmother who was the lone voice of ‘what do we know about the nature of reality? – just keep being guided by your instincts’.

So I had these two conflicting camps – inside of me and outside of me, when I started out

Those two sides of me – the believer and the skeptic – went to war on one another when I had a reading with Andrea Hess, (who later became my teacher) because her reading described me perfectly. Without me telling her anything, the reading explained WHAT I was like, WHY I was the way I was, what my issues in life were and how I could solve them.

The reading literally blew the lid off the big can of worms labelled spiritual/psychic stuff – is it real? because it was so accurate.

I was blown away. I went straight to my friends and told them about it, utterly convinced. But I was amazed (and frustrated) when they said ‘Ummm, well, you know this woman could have Googled you before the session. She also could have had some lucky guesses.’

I hadn’t thought of that. No-one else seemed to believe in it. And my confidence and certainty was shaken again by what I saw as the lack of support around me. So the two sides went to war once again. And so it went on for a good few weeks.

In the mean time, I had dreams at night which came true in the daytime. I had feelings of deja-vu. I knew what people were going to say before they said it. But was this really me being psychic? Maybe they were just lucky guesses? Maybe it was me reading body language? I came up with all sorts of excuses as to why it may not be real. Time and again, I saw evidence of there being a real psychic world open to me and at the same time I saw evidence that I was just a gullible idiot. But I couldn’t prove either side so both voices were equally loud.

Then, I decided that I was going to do a professional intuitive training course. It was a big step for me, because half of me didn’t believe in it, so the risk was that I would be wasting my money and would feel like a real idiot for having wasted money on a concept that wasn’t proven.

The Visitation of a Spirit

The event which erased all my doubts came around the time I started the course. I have written about it a couple of times before – I was woken up in the night by a spirit of a man (not something that used to happen to me every day!). I later found out it was a deceased spirit. The spirit told me who he was, whose relative he was, what he looked like when he was alive and I received a message for someone who was known to me. The message told me about an event that was known to this person and the deceased spirit, and revealed a couple of specific details that I had no way of knowing. The message was actually for my boss at the time, and he wrote about it in a testimonial he sent me, which you can read here.

He writes in the testimonial, at the end of it that I’m gifted. I like getting testimonials which say I’m gifted. Who doesn’t? But if I’m being really honest, I’m not gifted in the sense of ‘I’m one of the few people who has this gift’. I’m not more gifted than you. We all have that connection to Spirit if we want it to exist and if we believe it can. I am just someone who took the risk of believing, in spite of a big nasty side of me which told me I was an idiot. I invested some money and energy in my belief that it might be true, and manifested something which confirmed for me that psychic phenomena can indeed exist.

Since then, the evidence that I saw around me grew day by day because I stopped focusing on the doubt. And I began to manifest really clear, undeniable evidence that my psychic abilities are real. In my very first readings, I began to get details about people’s lives that I could not have known and I still get consistently accurate dates (months and years) of past events in people’s lives.

I also began to see things. One night when I was particularly upset about something, I called upon the Angels for comfort and in my bedroom I began to see little sparkling coloured lights dancing around. Just a few of them. I couldn’t believe my eyes. They were like fireflies. Then a few more came, until my whole room was full of different-coloured dancing fireflies and I was filled with a love the size of which I didn’t know existed.

If I had had that kind of validation right at the beginning of my psychic development journey, things would have been a lot easier. My doubtful voice would have disappeared quicker and given me less grief. But it doesn’t work like that. The law of attraction means that like attracts like, so when you take the leap, then you see the evidence. But the Universe demands a little risk from you. Until you stop focusing intently on that viewpoint which says to you ‘psychic abilities are for gullible people’, you won’t see evidence of anything that disputes that.

And even after all the evidence I’ve seen in my readings and in my own personal experiences, the logical, rational voice still gets some air time once in a while. I get too much validation from and about the spiritual world for it to gain any ground though.

So if you’re looking to begin on your psychic development journey, but you’re afraid that it’s not real, keep an open mind and weigh up the possible gain and the possible loss. If you explore it and then conclude that it’s all a load of rubbish, you have only lost your time and energy and perhaps some money if you spend any on books or courses.

If on the other hand, you explore it, let a part of you believe, manifest yourself some evidence, and let that belief continue to grow, then the benefits of using your intuition in your life can be huge. The best thing about having a connection to the Spirit world is that you know that you’re never alone – you can call on your Guides to help you when you’re lost and your Higher Self will also provide direction when you’re got off track.

What have been your experiences with self-doubt and your psychic abilities? How did you overcome your self-doubt?