My name is Patty and I have daily visions or deja vu. Everything always plays out just as I have envisioned it. Some visions are what I call mild. For example, they can be as simple as my daughter walking in the room and asking me a particular question, which played out in my mind before she entered the room. Other times, the visions are more complex. I have seen minor accidents like a glass falling off the shelf and breaking, car accidents, someone falling off a ladder, and most recently, my disabled mother falling down a flight of stairs. (Thankfully, she only suffered a sprained ankle and a few cuts and bruises.) I also see images that are more difficult to understand. I often see mental glimpses or snap shots that seem to be random and meaningless. I'm wondering why I see those snapshots and how I can control the visions I have and discern what they're trying to tell me. Do you have any suggestions?
Patty
Susyn:
Your visions are wonderful gifts, but I can see why they might cause you concern. When we experience this sort of phenomenon and are not sure of its meaning or how to control it, it's easy to feel overwhelmed.
Up until this point, you have not envisioned anything truly frightening. However, as your gift grows, you may start to see things you would rather not know about. When you do, you may be at a loss as to whether to share these with other people out of a desire to either warn them or try to change the course of destiny.
Many psychics and empaths started out in just the way you describe: They realized that they were able to see into the future, and they sought training to learn how to direct and control this gift so they could put it to good use.
Of course, the ability to see into the future carries a heavy responsibility, so you will want to find a way to use this gift for the highest purposes. You might consider adopting a spiritual practice like studying tarot or astrology so you can get more information about the random visions you see. These methods can be valuable tools for learning to direct and control spontaneous visions so they are not constantly streaming in.
Another way to put some boundaries around your gift is to start recording these visions when they appear as well as the actual outcomes so you can determine the accuracy of these events. By getting a sense of how often they occur, what times of day they are most active, and how soon after you have the visions the events come to pass, you will begin to learn more about your gift.
It sounds like most of the time, these visions immediately precede the events they predict, which keeps you from sharing them with others. For example, if you had seen the vision of your mother falling down the stairs earlier, you might have been able to warn her to be careful.
One very effective practice that may help is called corralling.
It is a method wherein you determine a set time of day when you will entertain these visions. You may want to establish an early morning or late evening meditation time when you specifically ask for visions to come to you. After your session, write them down so you can see which ones come to pass. In this way, you aren't blocking the visions but you are gaining control over when and how they manifest.
It is important to remain open to this gift, but equally important that you don't let it take over your life or cause you concern. With practice, you'll discover how to invite visions in at your convenience, and know when to share them and when to keep them to yourself.
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Mata:
The first thing you need is greater understanding of what's going on. Imagine that, as you move through life, you're watching each moment unfold much like you would watch a movie. At any given moment, most people are locked on a mental screen that is either playing what is happening right now, what happened in the past, or what might happen in the future.
Those of us who have expanded psychic awareness have mental screens that are more like 360-degree Imax movies than traditional theaters, so we have access to far more information than most people do. Though we may be focused in the moment, in our peripheral vision, we may get a glimpse of what is about to happen even if it's not something important. Events that are close to the present moment such as your daughter coming into the room will grab our attention; they are in our peripheral psychic vision simply because they're about to occur.
Events that are important or dramatic can grab our attention even if they're playing far above or behind us because it's natural to turn toward noises, images, and other input of a startling or intense nature. Thus you may be focused on something totally unrelated when, in your peripheral awareness, your subconscious mind picks up on a scene of your mother falling down the stairs. This grabs your attention because your mother is important to you, though other dramatic information such as accidents and other big events will similarly break through into your awareness.
When we develop our psychic abilities, we learn how to shift our focus from what is happening in physical reality in this moment to any part of the holographic cosmic spectrum. We do this by altering our state of consciousness and learning where to look
for the information we desire as well as whom to ask for help with such endeavors.
To gain control of these visions, you must learn three things: how to stay grounded in physical reality/the present moment, how to purposefully look for and filter the information you receive, and how to ask Spirit for more information (such as what you are supposed to do with the psychic visions that come to you.)
Your spirit guides can help you filter out any visions you are not meant to act upon in some way; they can also help you align with only positive, meaningful psychic experiences. Since my space is limited here, I encourage you to start researching psychic development and how to work with your spirit guides in general. There are tons of great books in print and articles on the web on these subjects; you might even pray to receive a vision on where you should begin!
Astrea:
Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.
Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!
While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!
I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!
As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.
I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.
You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!
Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.
A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.
You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.