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by Richard Webster

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

Whenever I conduct a workshop on mind reading, my students are pleasantly surprised to find that they're already good at reading minds. In fact, they began doing it when they were babies. As a baby, you would have recognized the expressions on people's faces, and knew if someone was likely to be friendly or not. As you grew, these skills continued to develop. Today, a casual glance is likely to tell you if someone is happy, sad, angry, or tense. You unconsciously observe people's body language all the time. You can, for instance, tell if someone is nervous but is trying to conceal it. People's posture tells you how they're feeling. Someone who is standing tall and straight with head up, feet apart, and arms by the side is feeling confident. Someone who is standing with his or her arms and legs crossed is likely to be feeling uncomfortable. If you happen to walk into a room after two people have had an argument, you'll be able to feel the atmosphere, even if the people concerned are trying to act as if nothing's wrong.

Of course, while you're gaining information from other people, they're learning about you. All day long, you're subconsciously revealing your thoughts and emotions. If, for example, you dislike someone with whom you work, you'll unconsciously and telepathically transmit your feelings to the other person. There's bound to be emotion attached to these thoughts, and this ensures the other person cannot fail to receive them. The same thing applies to thoughts of love and affection; your feelings will be subconsciously picked up by the object of your affection. These are common examples of an old saying: "Where your thoughts go, energy flows." This shows that it pays to be careful what you think about.

Have you ever tried to contact someone at the exact moment they were trying to contact you? Do you sometimes know exactly what someone is going to say before they've said a single word? Have you ever thought of someone you haven't spoken to for a long time, and then been contacted by them shortly afterwards? Incidents of this sort show that you can, and do, send and receive thoughts. These are all perfectly natural abilities that enable you to understand others and get along well with them. People who lack these abilities find it hard to function well in society. In actuality, you're reading minds in almost every communication you have with others. You use your powers of observation, along with memories, emotions, and reason, to work out what the other person is thinking about.

You may even have done some of this deliberately. When you were at school you might have stared at the back of the head of the person sitting in front of you willing him or her to turn around. Once you'd achieved success, you may have continued doing this with other people in your class. You may have willed someone to contact you when you had no other way of contacting them.

To develop your mind reading skills you need to find a partner who is also interested in the subject. Ideally, you need someone who is prepared to suspend disbelief and act on his or her intuition. With practice, you'll be able to work with almost anyone, but it's important to take your time and choose your first partner carefully. Hopefully, you already know someone who'd be willing to work with you. Like-minded people tend to attract each other. I met someone by chance at an airport, and after getting to know each other, we conducted a number of experiments together. You can also meet people at new age stores; psychic development classes; or the mind, body, spirit sections of public libraries. Even today, many people find it hard to talk about their interests in telepathy and other psychic subjects. Be brave, and make a few comments when you're with a group of people. You're likely to already know a number of people who share your interests in the paranormal.

You'll find it helpful to do one or two warm-up exercises before starting more serious work. You should start every exercise with confidence and a sense of expectation. Many people destroy their psychic perception by feeling anxious and trying too hard. Allow yourself to feel calm, relaxed, and grounded. Most importantly, retain your sense of fun. Laughter and a light-hearted approach can enhance your intuition.

One preliminary exercise that I enjoy involves you and your partner sending bursts of energy to each other. To do this, your partner should stand facing away from you. Stand about ten feet behind him or her and gaze at your partner's back. Close your eyes and visualize energy coming from every part of your body and collecting in your heart. Once your heart feels overflowing with energy, open your eyes and raise your right hand high in the air with your fingers extended. Take a slow, deep breath, and as you exhale, lower your arm so your fingers point directly at the center of your partner's back. As you do this, visualize all the energy gathered in your heart shooting down your arm and into your partner's back. The whole process from lowering your arm and firing the energy should take only a second or two.

Your partner is waiting to receive this energy. As soon as it is received, he or she needs to do something to let you know that the energy was received at the moment you sent it. Your partner might turn around, raise both hands in the air, say something, or do anything else to let you know the experiment was, or wasn't, a success.

You may not experience success when you first try this, as it might take time for the other person to feel the transfer of energy. However, once your partner has become familiar with the sensation, he or she will sense it every time. You should swap roles once your partner has successfully received the energy.

In this exercise, you're sending energy from your heart. Once you've gained experience at this, you can experiment by sending energy from your solar plexus, head, or any other part of your body, to see if your partner can differentiate between the different energies.

This exercise also works well with a group of people. Everyone stands in a circle facing inward. The person who is chosen to start the exercise looks across the circle and chooses the person he or she will send energy to. He or she gather as much energy as possible, looks the chosen person in the eye, raises his or her hand in the air for a moment, lowers it and shoots the energy at the person's heart.

As soon as this person receives the energy, he or she fires the energy at someone else. This continues until everyone in the circle has received energy at least three times. After this, everyone will feel ready to carry on with their experiments in telepathy.

There are an almost unlimited range of tests that can be conducted. I found using five cards, drawings, or objects the ideal number to start with. The choice is not too large, and both the sender and receiver know what the five objects are before the test begins. In my classes I often use five soft animal toys that I kept in a box. The receiver sits with his or her back to the sender. The sender mixes up the animals in the box, and then, without looking, removes one of the animals. The box is closed again to make sure the sender ignores the other animals. The sender focuses on the randomly chosen animal, thinking of its shape, color, and any other distinguishing features it may have. He or she then sends the thought of these to the receiver. This is repeated five times, and the results recorded. After this the roles change to give both people an opportunity to be both sender and receiver.

The advantage of this simple test is that virtually everyone experiences at least some degree of success. This provides motivation and encouragement as my students progress on to more challenging experiments.

The ability to read minds can be practical and useful in everyday life. I hope you enjoy experimenting with it.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2015. All rights reserved.

I have a question concerning wishes. Is it possible to speed up our original life plan by making "wishes?" If so, do we have to do so on a conscious level? I've noticed that when I make a wish for something, my life starts to change. I then wonder if I'm fulfilling my destiny - if I felt called to make that wish because it's part of my life plan - or if I am changing my destiny by nudging it in a new direction. I guess what I'm really asking is if we can change our destiny/life plan based on our desires after we incarnate, or if our desires are always guiding us to fulfill a set higher plan. Thanks!

- Maggie

Dreamchaser:

Every once in a while I get a question like this that I am so happy to answer in this public forum. You see, I do a lot of research of all kinds, and am always trying to learn something new, for I know my clients expect me to have some answers.

I used to think that we had a set purpose or destiny, and we had to find it and fulfill it. In my studies, however, I have learned that we have many options and many different choices.

In its own way, your destiny will find you. You will meet who you are supposed to meet and go where you are supposed to go. In the mean time, you can do whatever you want. You can make whatever choices you want, be whatever you want to be, and be with whomever you want to be with, and your "destiny" will still find you. If you look back over your life at its different twists and turns, in hindsight you will see that this is true.

Often we forget there is a whole web of activity happening all around us that we can't see. There is a whole host of beings that are working to help us clear a path and put us where we need to be. When you make a choice, the universe can and will shift according to that choice. Everything that is working for you and around you will shift according to the path that YOU choose.

One of your lessons in life is to learn how to become one with the Universe. You are to learn how to manifest and how to choose what you really want according to what is truly good for your soul. You will see your life change when you change your mind.

When you start asking for things or start consciously trying to manifest things, your life will change. Those forces working around you will move things so that you are in alignment with what you want. If you choose to move to another country, of course everything is going to have to shift to accommodate your new life. After you make a big decision like this, things will adjust accordingly.

I suggest everyone reading this article watch a movie called What the Bleep Do We Know. It will explain all of this to you not only from a metaphysical standpoint but from a scientific standpoint as well. Scientists have proven that our thoughts create what happens around us, and this movie explains how that happens in a simple way. We literally create our worlds with what we THINK. You are starting to learn that.

Don't worry if your world changes completely. Your soul knows its job and your soul will do its job. You just wish for whatever you want and live your life. Another good movie about manifesting is The Secret. I highly recommend both of these films.

I wish you an incredible life journey.

*****

Astrea:

I may be the wrong psychic to ask about Destiny, because I don't believe in it! I believe in choices and consequences, and that our job here on Earth is to be happy.

However, because of Free Will, sometimes our choices aren't the best, and we have to live with the consequences. Since we're not God, our highest Destiny (if such a thing exists) escapes most of us. Thus we have reincarnation, and get the chance to revisit and correct our mistakes one incarnation after another until we are Enlightened.

I believe that life plans are made consciously as we go. I don't know anyone who has ever made an "unconscious wish." Wishes are wants, and to want, you have to know you want something.

While we create our own paths, no matter how careful we are, there are seemingly random events that happen to everyone. Illnesses, others' choices and even death are things that no one can plan for. Like dances, life plans are temporal and change with our changing wants, needs and desires.

As for wishes, there is nothing like visualization for manifesting what we want. One of my psychic friends taught me this in the early eighties. At the time, I was driving around an old beater and needed a reliable car. One day when I was whining to her about the beater, she said, "You're not seeing the new car in the driveway. You have to SEE it to OWN it."

I took her at her word and began to imagine a little red sports car in my driveway. Three weeks later, one of the girls working with me had to give up her fancy car. It was the cutest, best car I ever owned - a bright red Toyota MR2. I drove him from 1984 until 2004. Of course, after that I had to begin to visualize how the heck I was going to earn the money for those car payments, but that worked out too.

Wishes can also be classified as prayers, so when we wish for something, Someone hears us. People who say that sometimes the answer to a prayer is 'no' don't get it. Our wishes can come true if we concentrate on doing what it takes to MAKE them come true.

What does this have to do with Destiny? Maybe nothing, maybe everything - but positive visualization, wishing and prayer WORK. Of course, you can't just sit in a room wishing without taking inspired action to make your wish come true, but even THINKING about having positive people and things in your life will help bring them to you.

If that is working towards your Destiny, great. Just remember that our job is to do everything we can without hurting anyone else, and to just be happy. So wish away, for even the act of wishing will put you in a more positive frame of mind to manifest whatever you want and need.