Praise for Psychic Development Level 1

“Sandy has the ability to take the nebulous concept of developing an intangible ability and helps to awaken your inner potential. This is a great introduction to the world of psychic development.”

— John Edward, Psychic Medium

“I came upon Sandy’s program several years ago when 'odd' things began to happen in my life that I could not explain; experiences that had me wondering if what I was hearing, seeing, and feeling was on the normal side of ‘anything.’ Through Sandy’s classes I realized that not only were these abilities of a psychic nature, but also that I could actually learn to control and use them safely... and with confidence!”

— Lisa Freeman, Psychic Medium

“Sandy’s Psychic Development series gave me the control I was in desperate need of. Learning to protect myself has proven to be one of the most vital elements I was missing. Meditation has given me control over my life both mentally and physically.“

— Lisa Garcia, Student of the Anastasi System

“I have been studying under Sandy Anastasi for more than four years. In the first session of Psychic Development Level 1, I was nervous and did not know what to expect. Sandy has an innate way of making everyone in her classes feel included, which made it easy for all of us to relax and learn. I’ve had many psychic experiences in my life, as most of us have, but wanted to have a better understanding of the things I saw and felt. That was all I wanted. I got so much more than I ever dreamed was possible. I am now able to understand messages that are sent and able to bring much joy to others in sharing them.

Sandy's intelligence, style, and vast knowledge are astonishing. We students advance in areas of psychic work that none of us imagined were possible.”

— Liz Bartow, Instructor of the Anastasi System

Books by Sandy Anastasi

The Anastasi System Psychic Development Series:

Level 1: The Fundamentals

Level 2: Energy Work and Auras

Level 3: Toys and Tools

Level 4: An Introduction to Channeling and Spirit Communication

Level 5: Developing the Energy and Skill in Spirit Communication

Level 6: Healing in Spirit Communication (to be released)

Astrology:

Astrology: Art and Science

Intermediate Astrology

Tarot:

Tarot Reader's Workbook: A Comprehensive Guide from Beginner to Master

Kabbala:

Pathworking the Kabbala

Notices

The Anastasi System — Psychic Development Level 1: The Fundamentals

Copyright © 2009 Sandy Anastasi

ISBN: 978-0-578-01079-3

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And when in doubt, use common sense!

Notice of Liability:

Although the content presented in this book is instructive in nature, it is up to the reader to use the materials in a safe and ethical manner. The author, publisher, and distributors are not responsible or liable for any misuse of the presented material. Although the exercises contained within are generally considered safe for most people, persons with mental disabilities or a history of mental illness should seek guidance from a licensed professional before proceeding.

And when in doubt, use common sense!

Acknowledgements

This work took thirty years to develop and has undergone countless revisions. During all this time I have been blessed by the support of some truly wonderful and special people. I want to take a moment to extend thanks to the following people, without whom it would never have come into existence: Ron Tourville, my husband, who has a way of making all things possible; John Maerz, who helped to develop and distribute the earliest versions of this book and series; my many students whose questions, interests and problems led me to refine and redefine the way the material was presented until I finally arrived at the present version. My good friend John Edward who has given his help and support in so many ways, not the least of which is through his own example; my family and friends for their belief, support and patience; Rick Rajter for his computer knowledge and excitement about the job; Emily Jack for her excellent proofreading and editing; and last but surely not least, Lisa Freeman, my personal assistant who has a knack for keeping track of it all... including me. You all have my deepest gratitude, and my love.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Author’s Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1 — How Psychic Abilities Work: An Overview

The Power of Positive Thinking

Start a ‘Do-good’ Book

Start a Dream Record Book

Figure 1: Your Brain, Your Higher Self, and Your Unconscious Mind

Create a Telepathy Exercise Book

The Psychic Development Aptitude Exercise

Table 1: The Psychic Development Aptitude Exercise

Evaluating Your Exercise Results

End of Chapter Activities

Chapter 2 — Planes of Consciousness and Methods of Developing Your Psychic Ability

The Fine Art of Being a Good Receiver

The Fine Art of Being a Good Sender

Table 2: A Quick Reference Chart for Sending and Receiving Techniques

Figure 2: A Schematic of the Planes of Consciousness

Figure 3: A Schematic of How You Relate to Your World Psychically

The Art of Meditation

10-Point Progressive Relaxation Exercise

Your Worry Box

Beginning Meditation Exercise

Alternate Nostril Breathing

Some Benefits and Some Problems of Meditation

Basic Pointers to Follow in Dream Interpretation

End of Chapter Activities

Chapter 3 — Psychic ‘Tools’ for Protection and Development

Exercise #1: Techniques to Surround Yourself with White Light

Exercise #2: The Energy Balloon for Protection

Exercise #3: Simple Exercises That Stimulate Your Third Eye

Exercise #4: An Exercise That Improves Memory

Exercise #5: Energize Yourself, and Develop Your Sensitivity to Energy

Exercise #6: Protect and Energize Yourself at the Same Time

Marsha’s Recurring Dream

End of Chapter Activities

Chapter 4 — Opening Your Psychic Energy Centers: The Chakra System

The Chakras

Figure 4: The Placement of the Seven Chakras in the Body

The Root Center

The Sacral Center

The Solar Plexus Center

The Heart Center

The Throat Center

The Third Eye or Ajna Center

The Crown Center

Table 3: The Seven Chakras and Their Corresponding Attributes

Chakra Development Exercises

Chakra Exercise #1

Chakra Exercise #2

Kundalini

End of Chapter Activities

Chapter 5 — Exercises to Deepen Meditation, Open Psychic Centers, and Increase Psychic Awareness

Exercise #1: Creating Your Magical Workplace and Using Your Energy Screen

Meditation Using a Mantra

Exercise #2: Meditation Using a Mantra

Exercise #3: Practical Telepathy Exercise

Exercise #4: The Crown Center Mandala

Figure 5: The Crown Center Mandala

An Overview and Review of the Meditation Tools You Have Learned So Far

Yogic Style Meditations

10-Point Progressive Relaxation

Chakra Meditation

Guided Meditation

T'ai Chi Ch’uan or Moving Meditation

Some More Information on Dream Interpretation

End of Chapter Activities

Chapter 6 — Self-hypnosis, Distance Healing, Mind Travel, and Past Lives

Self-hypnosis

Exercise #1: 1-Month Programming Using Self-hypnosis

Distance Healing

Exercise #2: Using Your Energy Screen for Distance Healing

Exercise #3: Using Your Energy Screen to Do a ‘Health Scan’

Exercise #4: Mind Travel to Visit Distant Places and People, and to Foresee Future Events

Exercise #5: Using Mind Travel to Look Into the Past

Exercise #6: Using Mind Travel to View Past Lives

End of Chapter Activities

Chapter 7 — Conclusion

House Clearing and Protection

Some Additional Protections

About the Author

Additional Products and Services

Foreword

Chances are the psychic reader you use took this course!

Everyone is psychic, but not every course teaches psychic development like The Anastasi System. There are several psychic development courses on the market, but Sandy Anastasi's course gives students and professionals a comprehensive guide to enhance or tap into psychic abilities. Unlike most psychic development courses, The Anastasi System – Psychic Development Level 1 starts with basic principles and teaches them in an understandable format. The course opens the mind and demystifies the word ‘psychic,’ along with all of its meanings. Sandy Anastasi teaches students how to quiet the mind with several mediation and visualization techniques. She explains that everyone is psychic at birth and why we forget to be psychic as adults. Step by step, the course teaches students to train their minds and expand their consciousness. What is telepathy? Where are chakras? How do I protect myself from psychic attack? Can I hypnotize myself? What do my dreams mean? Is it possible to remote view? Can I astral travel? All of these questions and more are covered in this book. For the past 30 years, Sandy Anastasi has been a professional astrologer, metaphysical teacher, and psychic channel. She has taught students from all walks of life to open and develop their own psychic abilities. Sandy co-founded Starchild New Age Books & Gifts and the Astrological Institute of Integrated Studies (AIIS), which taught great psychics such as John Edward. Sandy has written numerous books on the subjects of Astrology, Kabbala, Tarot, and psychic development. Her expertise has been featured on several radio and television shows including Crossing Over and Cross Country. Sandy Anastasi's The Anastasi System – Psychic Development Level 1 will give a jolt to your mental, intuitive, and physical body. Learn to develop and strengthen your psychic senses from a proven method. Once your psychic door opens, the mental possibilities are endless.

Ericka Boussarhane
International Psychic Medium and Radio Host
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Talk Radio For Your Body, Mind, and Spirit

Author’s Foreword

I first began teaching psychic development classes to small groups in my home in 1979, when my clients asked me to teach them how to do what I do. Over the following years my classes grew. They became part of a formal educational system when John Maerz, gifted psychic-astrologer, and I formed the Astrological Institute of Integrated Studies in 1983. In 1993 the first draft of this book was conceived and the Anastasi System, still consisting only of levels one through three, was born. These first three levels together give a complete foundation in psychic work including empathy, telepathy, remote viewing, clairvoyance, astral travel, predictions, and more. In 1995 Starchild Books opened and became home to both the Astrological Institute and the Anastasi System of Psychic Development. These three entities have grown apart, but the ‘System’ remains an integral part of each of them. In 2002, I worked with John Maerz to create the latter three courses in the series – these give a foundation for understanding and development in channeling and spirit communication. At the present time thousands of students worldwide have studied psychic development using the Anastasi System as the foundation for their studies. Many have become successful psychics themselves. In 2008, the Anastasi System began to license individual instructors fully trained in the presentation of this material. And so the journey continues.

Looking back, I laugh at myself when I consider the early classes back in 1979, and how I approached them before the ‘System’ evolved.

I remember that I expected the first group of people I taught to be able to learn psychometry (reading the vibrations on an object) and to be able to see and feel an aura (the energy field around the human body) with no prior experience and no real understanding of what these things were. Back then, out of a fairly large group, astonishingly one student was actually able to do this, a second made a fair attempt, about four grasped the concept involved but could do little with it and the remainder failed completely. It seems all I had really succeeded in doing was giving ego support to the one person in the group who was already capable of doing this on her own, and stimulating an interest in the field in the remainder of the attendees.

Interestingly, I have found, over the ensuing years, this same breakdown to be fairly consistent with the general population relative to learning and developing psychic abilities – unless a foundation for learning those abilities is first established most people have only sporadic success at best. However, with the proper foundation supplied EVERYONE is successful!

It was my conclusion back then that my first class was a failure on my part, not on the part of my students. You see, I KNEW that all of those people were psychic, and they should have been able to perform as I expected them to!

And so in my next series of classes, I began to develop the System for psychic development instruction that gradually evolved into the structure that I currently use in the Anastasi System of Psychic Development series of classes.

The System was in its early stages of development during the time that the world-renowned Psychic Medium John Edward, host of the hit television shows Crossing Over and Cross Country, studied with me; only levels one through three were developed, and none of the books were yet written. John himself only took level one, which this book covers, and part of level two, before going out on his own as a professional psychic. His spirit communication came later, and was self-developed. He was one of those rare students who came to me already ‘knowing’ how to do everything. It was as if his psyche only needed a reminder of what it already knew how to do. He was that unique ‘one’ that I mentioned above. Unlike John, most people, though the ability is latent within them, need a step-by-step system and lots of practice to open their inborn abilities to conscious use. Gifted people like John Edward learn from this program what their psychic ability is, why it works, how to use it safely for themselves and others and how to make it work on command!

It was in 1993 when I first realized that the method of instruction I was using had evolved into a system for teaching psychic development. I was teaching a wonderful group at the time and many of those students were looking for a manual. I laughingly asked the ‘Guys Upstairs’ (that’s what I call my guides and my Higher Self), “Well, if I did write a book on psychic development, whatever would I call it?” Much to my surprise, “The Anastasi System of Psychic Development” popped into my head. Of course, I didn’t take it seriously at the time... it sounded too egotistical, and I was too busy teaching, and writing another book anyway, one on Tarot, and then I became involved in opening and building Starchild Books. So this book, the book my guides wanted me to write, remained in rough draft form for a long time, though the System continued to develop. The first edition of this book was finally published in 2002. By then the System was fully developed and the classes were packed.

Over the years I became well known in the psychic field, and the number of students I was reaching grew. The requests for a book to accompany my classes increased. Although all of the classes for the System are available on audiotape and CD, and some on DVD as well, people wanted a book that utilizes the same system that so many professional psychics, channels, and psychic development teachers throughout the United States and abroad started with. Now I know why the Guys Upstairs (my guides) wanted to call it the ‘Anastasi System!’

This book, written by popular request, is the first volume in the series, which consists of six classes that together complete an entire curriculum in psychic development. I’ve organized this first volume into sections that follow exactly the system used in my “live” Psychic Development classes. Students participating in the classes in person or via audio or video will benefit from using it as a reference since it explains many things in greater depth than is possible in the hands-on version of the class, given the time constraints of an actual class. Students attempting to utilize this system directly from the book alone will find excellent descriptions, explanations, examples, diagrams, and everything else they need to know to establish a firm foundation for developing and expanding their psychic awareness. Anyone pursuing this study on his own will benefit from working with a partner, since many of the exercises will require someone to work with. If you lack a partner, I suggest using the Internet to find one.

Please do not assume that I am in any way attempting to diminish the methods employed by other psychic development teachers, or other books. There are as many ways to learn to use your psychic abilities as there are people who want to learn to use them. All of these methods are effective for someone, or they wouldn't be in use at all! I have merely found over the years, that I have been able to reach and train the most people consistently with the technique I am presenting here – ‘The Anastasi System.’

Introduction

Psychic Development Level 1 is the most important part of the entire Psychic Development series because it establishes the foundation for all future psychic development. Beginning level through professional level psychics will all benefit from it. I feel that it's not enough for a student to be able to do something, it's also important to know why you're doing it, and what the ‘scientific theory’ behind it is – for I believe this is tomorrow's science that you are studying. So you'll be learning theory as you practice. And everything you learn will be taught with your protection, well-being, and spiritual advancement in mind.

Some of my students have occasionally felt that during Psychic Development Level 1 they weren't DOING anything; they felt it moved too slowly for them and they didn't feel like they were making any definable progress. That is, they felt that way until they began Psychic Development Level 2 and amazed themselves by being able to do things they never believed were possible for them to do. They were glad they had built their abilities the slow, sure way.

Most students who jump directly into Psychic Development Level 2, by comparison, cannot achieve the same quality results, even if their innate ability is better. Some students over the years have even gotten themselves into serious trouble by attempting advanced things before they had established the proper foundation and the accompanying protection.

So, I do not hesitate to encourage you to start here, with Psychic Development Level 1, no matter what your background or level of skill!

Professionals who have taken the course have noticed an improvement in their readings; they develop an ability to go deeper and 'see' with greater clarity than ever before. Tarot readers have practiced this material and found that their tarot readings evolved to an all-new level of expertise as a greater 'psychic' element was added. Students studying spirit communication find they are able to access the deeper levels of consciousness required for this more readily after setting the 'foundation' provided by the work in Psychic Development Level 1.

Psychic Development Level 1 focuses on work on the self. The overall aim is to help you to create in yourself a sense of balance and centeredness, which allows for a stronger connection to both your unconscious mind and your Higher Self.

The exercises you’ll learn will help you to prepare and develop your mental, emotional, intuitive, and physical bodies so that you will be thoroughly prepared to channel and properly utilize the higher energies that will eventually flow through you as your psychic abilities unfold and grow.

To do this I utilize various relaxation and meditation techniques, guided visualizations, exercises geared to raise consciousness, balance the right and left hemispheres of the physical brain, bridge the unconscious mind, and open and develop the 'chakras,' or as they are otherwise known, the psychic energy centers. I also include many alternative exercises that give variety and added interest to my more basic ones.

In Psychic Development Level 1 you will also learn practical techniques for long distance or 'remote' viewing, self-hypnosis, telepathy, dream interpretation, grounding, clearing, and protection. These are invaluable tools for every successful professional psychic, and a definite aid to the everyday person who simply wants to learn to use his natural abilities to enrich his life.

I encourage an objective, 'scientific' approach to psychic development, so you will receive explanations for why you should learn each thing presented, what it really is, where it comes from and how it works (to the best of my knowledge), and the ways it can be used.

The object is to teach you to open up psychically, to your Higher Self, and to the greater 'psychic universe' around you, while at the same time remaining grounded, protected and centered emotionally and physically so that you can make practical use of your developing abilities for yourself, your family, and your friends. Following this you may safely meet your guides as well.

With the foundation you create here you can gain greater insight into, and greater control over, your own life!

I firmly believe that anyone who is not solidly grounded in his own life should not study or try to develop his psychic abilities until he has achieved that necessary grounding and centeredness. There are far too many unbalanced and erratic psychics in our field because too many have tried to fly before they can crawl. By the end of the Psychic Development Level 1 program you will know if you are ready to continue your studies.

By developing your psychic abilities you should enhance your life in every respect. Students who want to become professional psychics should start here; but all people who want to improve their lives, and live more fulfilling ones, will benefit as well.

Our universe is so much greater than the mere physical world you see around you; as your psychic abilities develop your awareness of this greater world will enrich your life in every way!

Chapter 1

How Psychic Ability Works: An Overview

Everyone is psychic. It is imperative as you begin your studies to develop your psychic abilities that you embrace this concept right from the beginning. Everyone is psychic! You are psychic.

You cannot be taught to be what you already are; but you can be taught techniques to rediscover what you have forgotten, and to enhance and improve what you already know you have.

Every one of you reading these words has already had incredible psychic experiences.

Some of you have had real eye-opening experiences, like having bad feelings about air travel and changing your flight, only to find out later that the flight you would have taken crashed. Or like thinking of a friend at the exact moment they died. Or perhaps you heard a voice in your head advising you about something that was going to happen, and later it did. Maybe you've waked at night to find yourself floating outside of your body, or carried on a brief telepathic conversation with someone, or even long-distance viewed an event as it was happening. Maybe you feel other people's feelings as if they are your own.

Those of you who have had experiences like these know you are psychic already. What you're interested in doing is learning to control this ability you have, so that you can make it happen at will. Some of you may even want to learn to control it so that you can stop it from happening. Either way, learning what it is and what you're doing to make it happen is essential. These experiences are NOT the product of an overactive imagination, but are real, and are shared by hundreds, maybe even thousands of other people, and they have a rational, even a 'scientific' explanation.

But what about the rest of us? Those of us who haven't had any of those major experiences that let us know without a doubt that WE ARE PSYCHIC?

The truth is, we've been having psychic experiences all along too, but they're so 'ordinary' that we just chalk them up to 'coincidence.' I have learned to hate that word! John Maerz defines coincidence as "a word used to describe a universal law that hasn't been discovered yet." You see, there are no coincidences!

Everything boils down to energy. For every result there is a cause. That’s a Universal Law. In order to have a certain result, a certain action had to happen. That means that for every so-called coincidence some energy had to be at work to draw the two experiences together.

So when you're thinking of someone and the phone rings and that person is on the other end of the line, it is NOT a coincidence. It is YOU telepathically receiving that person’s intention to call before the call is actually made!

When you're thinking of a letter or package you've been waiting for (without having been reminded of it) and you get home to find it there, that's a psychic experience! When you're angry with someone because he hasn't done something you want done, and you pick up the phone to give him a push only to find out that the work is in progress, or done, that's psychic too!

When you wear the same color, or style of clothing as your co-worker on the same day, one of you 'psyched-in' on the other. See if you can find out who put it on first, then you'll know who the 'sender' was!

When you are in a hurry and you drive up to the store and get the parking spot right in front, that WAS NOT a lucky break! You psyched-in on where the free spot was, and made a beeline for it!

Are you one of those people who will always know what mood your husband or wife is in BEFORE they get home? Or are you really sensitive to environments; perhaps you don't like crowds? You're an empath!

Do you feel other people's physical pain, ‘know’ what's causing it, and want to fix it? You're clairsentient.

Do you feel the vibrations carried by objects? You may find you're attracted, or repelled, by something you're getting ready to buy. Do you become uncomfortable sitting in a certain chair because it doesn't 'feel' right? Or have to leave a place because you suddenly feel as if you don't belong there? You have a natural ability for psychometry – that's the ability most psychics who work closely with police authorities use. You're actually connecting with the people who held the object, or occupied the place!

Do you finish people's sentences for them, and correctly, too? Do you get into trouble all the time for bringing up the 'sensitive' subjects (that you're not supposed to know about)? You're a receptive telepath – a 'receiver.'

Do you find that every time you're just about to do something, your husband or wife begins to nag about it? Or when you finally get ready to make a big purchase, a friend or family member does it first? You are a generative telepath – a 'sender.'

Do you hear voices in your mind, occasionally? It might even feel like you're talking to yourself, except that it's not something you would say. If so, you're telepathic.

Have you heard a voice that sounded like it was right next to you? You're clairaudient.

Have you had a very clear image, awake or sleeping, of someone or something you needed to find, or to do? Have you seen a shadow out of the corner of your eye, but when you turned your head there was nothing there? You are clairvoyant. With a little practice you could easily learn long-distance or remote viewing, or how to see auras (the energy fields around the human body, plants, and animals).

Have you had the feeling of someone being in the room with you, or thought you heard the voice or smelled the perfume of someone who's passed on? With training YOU could become a psychic-medium!

Have you had a feeling, or a vision of something you just know has never existed or happened before, yet feels real? You're that rare talent, a 'seer' as they used to be named; nowadays we'll just call you a future-oriented or 'pre-cognitive' psychic.

So, are you beginning to understand why I take the approach that EVERYONE, INCLUDING YOU, IS ALREADY PSYCHIC?

As a matter of fact, I have found that all of us have a psychic side to each one of our physical senses. And just like some people might see better than others, or hear better, some people might have better natural clairvoyant skills or clairaudient skills. Yet as with the physical senses, all of us have all of them, and with practice they can all be developed to a high level of proficiency, not just the ones that come most easily. In fact, it's not uncommon for people to experience a sharpening of all of their 'normal' physical senses when they begin working to develop the equivalent psychic ones. I worked with one student, for example, who was severely hearing impaired, but through the development of her psychic senses compensated for her hearing disability enough that she did not need to wear a hearing aid most of the time!

So, understandably, the first step to developing your psychic abilities is to accept that you already have them, that some will be more highly developed than others, and that all can be worked on and brought to a high degree of proficiency.

The Power of Positive Thinking

The very first step toward developing your abilities is to become a positive thinker. Remember, if you can think it, you can do it or be it. Likewise, if you can imagine it, you can create it. These are not new concepts at all. Yet applied to your developing abilities, they will make the difference between success and failure. You are what you know yourself to be; so know yourself to be a psychic being. That means giving yourself respect and recognition for your psychic experiences.

As I said earlier, all of us are already psychic, and are already using that ability, in varying degrees. Those of us with the least amount of ability are not 'less psychic' – we've only put up thicker walls separating us from our ability, than someone who appears 'more psychic.'

You see, we all started this life as totally psychic creatures. Science has proven that an unborn child can know and react to experiences and people the mother was involved with when she was carrying it. Science has also shown us, through extensive testing, that even newborns are already interacting with the world around them, and being strongly affected by it, in spite of their inability to form words, or even focus their eyes properly. Every mother knows how psychic her baby is when she finally sits down after a few hours of hard work to rest, and the sleeping infant knows that moment to wake and cry for her attention! In fact, it's probably in the very obvious 'link' between mother and child that we can most clearly see our inborn psychic ability at work.

We do keep those abilities all of our life, though for most of us they only operate at the unconscious level. I believe that the nine-tenths of the brain that scientists believe is presently not in use are very busy receiving and sifting through psychically received information for us!

Imagine if you will, that you're an infant again. You're a being only recently learning to focus on and interact with the dense material world around you. Having just been born of spirit, you're actually more at home in the world of spirit, in the world of energy. For you, the manifested world is no more real than the world of spirit, and you're seeing and living in both. Have you ever noticed the way an infant's eyes wander and seem to look randomly at things you can't see?

Physicists now know that the world of matter is not really as dense as we think it is. For example, if you put your hand under strong enough magnification, you would see more empty space in your hand than molecules of matter! What's in that empty space? Again, physicists have argued that there's room enough for whole galaxies to exist between the molecules of our own physical, material world. Supposing as an infant you could see into those other galaxies, those other dimensions, other realities? A bit overwhelming, isn't it?

Well, it certainly isn't possible to grow up in our world today unless we learn to live in it fully. Perhaps this is one of the secrets of autism. Perhaps those children never learn to shut out those other realities to focus only on this one. So we hang pretty colored objects in our infant's crib. We shake rattles, talk to them, tickle them, and do everything we can to claim their attention for our reality, our plane of existence.

As our children grow, we discourage their invisible friends... that's distracting them from HERE. We laugh when they are afraid of those vibrations they feel in the dark when their psychic senses are heightened. We tell them to stop being a baby when they think there's something under their bed (when they're only feeling the energy they ‘grounded’ last night while they were sleeping!) or need to check behind the shower curtain to see if someone is there whenever they use the bathroom (again, they’re only feeling the energy residue that has been washed away during repeated showers...). To greater and lesser degrees, we teach them, slowly, to shut off their psychic perceptions, to relegate these extra senses to the unconscious. With rare exceptions, by the time we reach adulthood in our society, we are well conditioned to ignore our psychic impressions, having learned to be attentive only to what we can see, feel, hear, and touch with our five physical senses.

It's sad that it was only in the second half of the 20th century that the field of Psychology became accepted. Until then, our society didn't even want to accept emotions as being prime motivators – you couldn't ‘see’ them! How much longer will it be before psychic ability is generally accepted? I salute people like John Edward, Sylvia Brown, George Anderson, and James Van Praagh, who are doing so much to open the minds of the general public to begin to accept things that belong to the ‘unseen world’... things that are psychic!

I have found by and large that most adults who maintained their psychic abilities to some degree from childhood into adulthood, only managed to do so because they hid them from their friends and family. Once in a very great while, I’ve come across a lucky individual like John Edward, whose mother believed in him, and encouraged him. If you're one of those, I applaud you and your open-minded family. You will have an easier time developing the ability that is rightfully yours.

But most of you beginning the process of psychic development will need to break down the walls that Mom, Dad and society helped to place there. Some walls, obviously, are necessary. You couldn't have grown up in our physical plane world if you didn't get that initial training that focused you on HERE. Likewise, you don't want to lose your defenses so completely that you can't tell your own thoughts and emotions from another person's, or that you cease to be able to function in your worldly activities. After all, you elected to be born on this plane of existence, and here is where you must function, learn, and grow. That's why I encourage all of my students to get a real handle on their day-to-day lives and emotional and mental issues before beginning a serious study of psychic development. I want you to become psychic, not psychotic!

The trick is, then, to take down your walls selectively, and therefore control what you let in!

The first step is positive thinking. You KNOW you are psychic. Knowing that, you then must begin to observe THE ABILITIES YOU ALREADY HAVE in action. You need to recognize when your psychic ability is working, and give yourself recognition for it. It's as if that psychic little girl or boy buried within your unconscious mind has been ignored for so long that he or she rarely speaks up any more – it's up to YOU to draw this being out, by giving pats on the back, encouragement, and recognition just as you would a flesh and blood child.

Don't get angry with yourself or frustrated if you don't do well at some of the exercises we'll cover – remember, the name of the game is POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT. You are not GOD. You will make mistakes; you will sometimes misinterpret accurately received information. Allow yourself to be wrong! By leaving your ego behind you will make yourself a better psychic. You will learn to applaud yourself when you're accurate, but recognize your humanity when you're not. In time, all of your abilities will develop, of their own accord, to their highest level.

Remember, that in choosing to develop your psychic ability you are becoming the psychic, not the parapsychologist, who has the job of studying psychics and psychic phenomenon. You cannot be both! Healthy skepticism on your part will keep your feet on the ground and encourage you to seek validation of your experiences – it will make you a better psychic. But negativity and self-doubt will undermine your ability; even cripple it. This is especially important right now, when you're in the beginning stages of your development.

Start a ‘Do-good’ Book

Get yourself a three-ring binder and divide it into three sections. Label the first section ‘Do-goods,’ and from now on, begin recording all of your psychic experiences in your ‘Do-good’ Book. Initially, this is the best consistent positive reinforcement you can give yourself. If you have the support of your friends and family, bounce your ‘do-goods’ off of them; get some applause. But if the people around you are non-supportive, I advise you to keep your experiences to yourself. Even experienced psychics have a lot of trouble ‘performing’ in the face of negativity. We're not talking about healthy skepticism here; that's fine, even desirable. But negativity and a put-you-down attitude will interfere with the best psychic's ability – and you're (probably) just a beginner!

It's in your Do-good Book that you should begin recording all those experiences I mentioned earlier – you know, like thinking of someone just before they call you, or knowing who's going to answer the phone before it's picked up. Start small, but record them all. As those pages begin to fill with YOUR experiences, you'll get more and more of them. Once the unconscious ‘psychic child’ in you realizes it's no longer being ignored, it will begin to perform at peak ability in order to receive more praise and recognition, just like any real child would! Gradually, these every-day psychic experiences that make your life so much smoother will become so much a part of your life experience that you'll no longer see them as lucky coincidences, but as your psychic ability at work making life easier and more fulfilling.

At this stage someone always has to ask, “Why is the information I get always bad?” For example, why is it that you only ‘know’ when an acquaintance is in a car crash, or when your son or daughter is in trouble? Many people who have only received such negative ‘do-goods’ all of their lives are actually AFRAID of their psychic abilities. If you are one of these people, rest easy. If you are receiving the bad ‘stuff,’ you can also receive the good stuff once you start to listen to that little inner voice. The reason you're only getting the unpleasant things now is because your ‘inner child’ is screaming so loudly at you because it has to, to get your attention over the really important, life threatening things! Listen and you'll start to receive the positive information as well!

As you keep your record, you'll begin to understand how your own psychic ability works, and what things you are best at. You'll have a record in black and white that validates everything you're doing.

You'll be beginning to re-create the strong link between the conscious and unconscious parts of your mind!

To strengthen that link still further, you'll want to begin recording your dreams in the second section of your 3-ring binder.

Start a Dream Record Book

Earlier I said that the average person is not aware of his psychic abilities because he’s learned to ignore them; he still receives psychic impressions, but these remain in the unconscious part of the mind.

For the average person, it is only in the dream state that psychic information is freely exchanged between the various parts of the mind. While you're dreaming, psychic impressions received all day long are able to filter through to the conscious mind, usually in the form of symbols. (Symbols, you’ll discover, are the language of both the unconscious mind and the Higher Self.) For everyone, therefore, working with dreams and learning to understand and interpret them is one of the best places to start developing psychic abilities.

The Higher Self, that part of you that exists on a higher, transcendent plane (many of you reading this might think of it as your 'Soul,' others as your 'Guardian Angel'), is also able to communicate with you through the language of symbols while you're sleeping. It will often work with your unconscious mind to help you draw conclusions or gain insights based on the psychic impressions that have been collected. These conclusions will then be delivered to you in the language of dreams, which is a language of symbols – your symbols!

Since your Higher Self communicates itself to you in symbols in the dream state, it makes sense for you to get to know these symbols. As you begin the process of dream recording and interpretation, at first it will probably be slow-going. But over time, your conscious mind will begin to understand and even participate in the symbol language being used by your Higher Self. Remember, your Higher Self has the entire file of your life experience to draw on, so even though dream dictionaries (usually based on cultural or racial universal symbols) can be helpful, ultimately it's your own reaction to your own symbols that's important to understand.

Those of you who've done work in systems that use symbols – like Tarot, or Numerology, or Astrology, will find that your Higher Self makes frequent use of these symbols because they're part of a language it can use that you've already started to develop! The more symbol languages you learn, the easier it will be for your Higher Self to communicate accurately and easily with you!

I'll be giving you some basic guidelines for dream interpretation to work with in Chapter 2, and I want to encourage you to work out your own language with your Higher Self. The symbol language you create as you proceed with your dream interpretation can become the basis for a symbol language that you will later make use of as a practicing psychic or medium!

The third part of yourself you get in touch with while you're sleeping is your sub-conscious, which I haven't even mentioned yet. I often think of the sub-conscious part of your mind as the 'trash bin' into which you dump all of the things you don't want to deal with. These also can surface in dreams.

One of your real challenges in dream interpretation will be to learn to separate the ‘this-is-my-fear-surfacing’ symbols from the ‘this-is-an-important-message’ symbols.

Your Higher Self has even been known to borrow some of those sub-conscious fear issues and throw them at you in a dream just to get your attention – so that you'll remember the rest of the dream!

I'll be talking about dream interpretation and symbols later though; for now, the important thing is to get your Dream Book started, and by doing so, to encourage more frequent and more fruitful dreaming!

Your dreams cannot only give you precognitive information; they can also help you to work through major issues in your life, once you understand them. Many cultures, in fact, like the Australian Aborigines, believe that the dream world is the real world and this is the reflection. Such cultures have learned to use their dreams in many ways, some of which will be discussed in future chapters, and in Psychic Development Level 3. Remember, it is initially through your dreams that your Higher Self can make the easiest and most direct connection to you.

Keep your Dream Book right next to your bed when you're asleep. If you wake up with a dream in your mind, even if it's in the middle of the night, write it down. Even if you don't remember the whole thing, write down whatever you recall, even if it's just a feeling.

Remember, it's by positive reinforcement that you encourage all of your psychic abilities to develop – and dream recall is one of them.

Many people don't remember their dreams. (We all dream, folks. Scientists now know, as a matter of fact, that if we are prevented from dreaming we will die. You're alive, right? So you MUST dream at night!) As a matter of fact, not only does everyone dream at night, but everyone Astral Travels at night while they sleep. We'll learn more about that in Psychic Development Level 3, and along the way we're going to be learning about 'lucid dreaming' and 'dream walking,' too.

Here are some things you can do to improve your dream recall:

- Go to sleep before you're over-tired. Exhaustion prevents dream-recall.

- Do something relaxing before sleep, like meditating, which you’ll soon be learning.

- Don't eat immediately before sleep.

- Rub your Third Eye; it’s in the center of your forehead at the root of your nose, to stimulate it.

- Ask your Higher Self, or your guides, to wake you if you have an important dream.

- No matter how minimal the result is, reward it. WRITE DOWN YOUR DREAM!

Once you've written down what you remember of the dream, go back to sleep. If you get back into the same sleep position you were in before you woke, you might be surprised to find that you go right back into the same dream, or that you remember more of it. If so, wake up and write down that extra bit, too.

When you wake up with a dream in your mind don't roll over and tell yourself, “Oh, I'll remember to write it down in the morning!” and go back to sleep, because the chances are, in the morning IT WILL BE GONE! Write it down right away. Or if you’d rather, keep a recording device at the bedside and talk the dream into the recorder. Transcribe it the next day.

Later, during the day, a snatch or two of additional information about a dream you had may come back to you. Write that down too, but make a notation that this information was an ‘add-on.’ That might prove to be important, too!

Always leave space after each dream record for additional notes. When you initially record your dreams, it will be in as much detail as you can remember, but later, when you interpret them, you'll scale them down to important points. That's what you'll use the 'note space' for.

Don't forget to record your emotions during the dream, at the end of the dream, and immediately upon waking. This can give you important insight into the meaning of the dream. For example, if you dream of a car crash but have feelings of joy while it's happening, it's obvious the dream is not about a real-life car crash! (Not unless you are a VERY strange person!)

Here is a simplified schematic that shows the areas of your brain, and your Higher Self's connection to you through it, the way I am presenting it here.

Figure 1: Your Brain, Your Higher Self, and Your Unconscious Mind

The primary focus in Psychic Development Level 1 is to help you to get all of these parts of yourself to work together smoothly and seamlessly. You will learn to center yourself, and to balance the right and left hemispheres of your brain for better information transfer. You’ll get in touch with the unconscious and subconscious parts of your mind, create a gradually strengthening link to your Higher Self, and create a peaceful and protected space for yourself to learn and grow in.

For your information, the left side of your brain connects to the right side of the body, and is both projective and cognitive, while the right side, which connects to the left side of the body, is both receptive and creative. To both receive information from your Higher Self and from the world around you, and to be able to successfully interpret that information, your ‘brain’ must communicate well with itself on ALL LEVELS. The two hemispheres must be smoothly working together and you must be able to maintain a centered calm that allows input from the subconscious, the unconscious, and the Higher Self to become available to the conscious mind for its use.

You can see where both your Do-good Book and your Dream Record will be of great value in setting a foundation that will help you to accomplish this.

Create a Telepathy Exercise Book

In addition to a ‘Do-good’ record and a ‘Dream Record,’ you should add a third section to your 3-ring binder – a section for recording ‘Telepathy Exercises.’

You will need to find a partner to work with. If your partner is a pet, or an unknowing partner, he will only be able to do the ‘receiving’ parts of the exercises, and you will have to get feedback through observation alone. It's much more effective if you can get a friend, relative, or fellow student to work with you.

If you don't have anyone available to partner with you, may I suggest finding a partner online? There are many chat rooms related to psychic work and psychic development available to you if you look for them.

You will find that if you work with a family member, your initial success rate will be high, but it will quickly become obvious that one of you is the consistently better sender and one the better receiver. You'll also find that quality reflected in your relationship! Continuing to work with your partner will usually improve on only what you can already do... so, if you’re the receiver in the relationship, working with them will serve to make you a better, more conscious receiver! It won’t help you to improve your sending ability unless you both work very hard to reverse the natural flow of energy between you (which may actually be desirable in some cases!).

Likewise, if you work with different partners all the time you will be expanding the different types of people you can work with, which is good, but you'll improve slowly.

For a beginner, the best partner is probably a friend that you are comfortable with, but are not too close with, that you can work with consistently. This is where you'll see quick results that enable you to refine your skills as well. Distance is no barrier to telepathy. There is no problem with selecting a partner who lives a long way away.

After a while you should increase the number of partners you work with, so that you will gradually expand on your ability to tune in to the energies of different people. A good psychic needs to be able to read all different kinds of people! If you think of your mind being a radio receiver, it’s as if the average person only receives on AM. The developing psychic gets an FM band. But a full-fledged, experienced psychic works with these, plus has long-wave and short-wave capabilities as well. You get the picture!

Now, you're probably wondering what developing telepathic abilities could have to do with centering and creating stronger links to the unconscious and Higher Self.

The fact is that all of us are already telepaths, just as we're all empaths. Because of this, we are constantly receiving information from our environment and the people around us, without our knowledge, AND WE ARE AFFECTED BY IT! Most of us, in fact, are better receivers than we are senders, so we buy the blue shirt, for example, not because we really like the blue one, but because the person who tried it on last really wanted it but couldn't afford it.

We are even more susceptible to the thoughts and emotions of the people we care about. For example, I have learned to phone my sister (who lives 300 miles away) before purchasing any item relative to household decor, because far too often she has just bought that item and is strongly projecting her thorough enjoyment of it, which unconsciously motivates me to go out and buy it too!

Just think about how hard it can be to keep your marriage or relationship happy when someone you know and care about is going through a messy divorce.

Obviously, if you don't learn to control or at least recognize your receiving ability, you can end up living a life created by other people's thoughts and emotional projections, and find yourself wondering why you're never happy!

Likewise, if you're a good natural sender (not as common as being a good receiver) the people in your life that you're close to will be acting out your desires even before you know them yourself! Maybe when you learn finer control of your sending ability everyone around you won't be trying to jump in on your latest activity before you've even had a chance to know for sure if it's what you want to do!

Are you beginning to see how important developing CONSCIOUS control over your sending and receiving ability is?

As your abilities improve, you will also see a progressively greater impact on your whole life. It has been hypothesized by many that you create your world with your thoughts. If you've followed my examples, above, you can see that this is so!

It is a fact that as you improve your telepathic sending and receiving ability your life will improve in every way. You will learn to recognize whether the thoughts in your head are your own, or if they ‘belong’ to someone else; you will learn to focus your thoughts, and to consciously project only the ones you want others to receive, or the ones you want to manifest in your life. We'll learn more about how to do this in Chapter 2, since it's so important!

In Chapter 2, we'll also be learning another important tool for centering and stilling our minds, so that we can better receive thoughts, feelings, and other information from our Higher Self, and be sure that is where they are really coming from – the tool is meditation. In fact, all really good psychic work begins with the art of meditation, so we're going to spend quite a bit of time learning different ways to meditate. Without finding that calm, centered space within you before doing a reading it's not possible to get consistently accurate information about future events, or to ‘channel’ information accurately from your Higher Self or guides. Mediumship (communicating with the spirits of those who’ve passed on – an advanced psychic ability, the foundation for which is laid in our Psychic Development Levels 1, 2 and 3), in particular can be especially dangerous if the medium has not first learned to center and make the Higher Self connection.

All people, whether they want to be psychics, or just want to gain more happiness, centeredness, and control in their lives, will benefit from learning to meditate. It is in fact the only tool that I KNOW will balance your mind, and allow that pervading calmness that must be present before conscious, unconscious, subconscious, and Higher Self can work together to bring information to your conscious awareness.

Your Telepathy Exercise Book will be used to record the exercises you do with your partner. Each time you do a sending/receiving exercise, you will record in the book both what you sent, and what you ‘received’ from your partner. Later, you can compare notes with your partner to see how you did.

Date each exercise, so that you'll be able to look back at your gradual improvement. This is one of the best tools for positive reinforcement that you have because you WILL SEE improvement. As a matter of fact, as you progress from simple to more difficult things to send, you are going to amaze yourself with your accuracy!

When you do your telepathy exercises, you'll set a day and time with your partner. I recommend doing at least one session a week until you are comfortable with it, but more often is fine if you both have the time. Set your working times about five minutes apart, with one of you sending while the other receives, and then five minutes later reversing this so that the original sender is now the receiver and the original receiver is now the sender. After all, you want to learn both skills.

Don’t worry, either, if you confuse the time. Do the exercise anyway, just as if you were doing it at the right time. After all, your unconscious mind and your Higher Self exist outside of time. It really doesn’t matter to that part of you if you do the exercise at the correct time or not. It’s just that most people are so time conscious that if they don’t keep to the exact times their ‘conscious mind’ thinks they can’t do the exercise. Time is connected to your conscious mind alone.

You can touch base with one another by phone or email following the exercise to get feedback, but don't contact each other prior to the exercise, or you will have created an empathic energy link and will be relying on that instead of telepathy.

Let me explain. All of us are surrounded by an egg-shaped energy field we call the aura. Outside of the aura is a sort of psychic energy ‘web’ that connects everything and everyone to one another. So when someone thinks about you, for example, a tiny burst of energy travels through the energy web until it connects with your aura. You receive that thought into your energy field first; from there it touches your physical skin (have you ever had that prickly sensation called ‘getting the chills?’) and then that feeling proceeds inward to your emotions, feelings, and unconscious, then conscious mind. I’ll talk more about this in Chapter 2.

When you use telepathy, you're sending thought energy through that web. When you connect first through any electronic device, you're cheating. You see, you can actually use the electrical device as a sort of conduit to create the ‘link’ to carry the thought, instead of using the psychic web. Haven't you ever noticed that when you're really tired you can make lights blink, or that short in your car's directional only acts up when you're angry?

Unfortunately, many people are (unconsciously) aware of their ability to project emotional energy readily through telephones – John Maerz calls them the ‘telephone dumpers.’ They're the ones you always feel ‘dirty’ after talking to. When a link is made through an electronic device it's on an emotional, empathic level, which may be a valid way of sending and receiving psychic energy, but isn't developing your growing telepathic abilities. That's why I don't want you to connect via telephone before your telepathy exercises. I want you to really be using telepathy for these, not empathy.

Before you get started on your telepathy exercises, there’s an exercise that I’ve used with my students for years that uses your empathic ability along with your telepathic ability. If you do it with the partner you're going to do your telepathic work with, it will jump-start you.

It's a great base line for you to measure your improving psychic ability against, too, once you’ve done the initial exercise.

And it's fun.

If you do the exercise frequently, it not only serves the purpose of being a baseline for measuring your developing telepathic and empathic sending and receiving abilities against, it also becomes a training tool that will help you to continue to improve.

It's done with cards. It involves sending a black and white or colored shape to a partner. And you can do it either in person, on the phone, or even in a chat room on the Internet.

The Psychic Development Aptitude Exercise

The more often you do it, the better you'll get at it; that’s why it’s a training tool. The more different people you do it with, the more people you'll find you're able to establish good psychic connections with. But you'll see your greatest improvement over time when working with consistent partners, as you develop a ‘language’ with one another.

Not surprisingly, children usually score very high on this initially, while adults’ initial scores are usually low. Don't let that worry you. Remember, it's a training tool. Over time your scores will improve.

Your Psychic Development Aptitude Exercise looks more difficult to score than it is. Some simple instructions follow.

You should either be sitting opposite your partner, or have them on the phone or use a chat room Internet connection. You will both do the exercise; first one sends, the other receives, and then you reverse roles. You should each have a score sheet. On your score sheet you'll notice a space for the name of the sender and the receiver. That's because you're BOTH being tested. The receiver can't receive if the sender didn't send correctly! When you're done with the exercise, you should make photocopies of both forms so you can each have a record of your performance sending as well as receiving. You should photocopy the form in this book and keep one in reserve for future copying.

Divide your deck of cards into two sections, black and white, and colors. If you didn't purchase the cards, then you'll be working directly from the form, which is already divided into these two sections – black and white on the left side, colors on the right. Just follow the shape and number given on the test form. Printable copies of the cards are also available for download at www.SandyAnastasi.com.

Start with cards numbered 1 through 25, the black and white ones. The shapes on them will be a square, circle, star, or triangle. The sender should shuffle the cards to take them out of order. Each has a number in the lower right corner that mirrors the same shape and number on the score sheet. If you are working straight from the score sheet, just focus on the shapes randomly.

When sending you should look at the shape on the card and use whatever technique you care to try to send that shape to your partner. After you've finished the exercise make a note of which techniques seemed to work best. Remember, you and your partner are developing your language. You may find different techniques work better with different people.

Your partner should say the first shape that he thinks of.

To record your partner’s choice, look down the score sheet to the number of the card you projected; if the shape is correct, put a check in the column next to it. If it was incorrect, draw in the proper shape. We do this because if every time you project a square your partner says triangle, you will know that if you want them to get a triangle all you have to do is think of a square – that's your language!

Sometimes your partner calls out a wrong shape, and then you turn over the next card only to see that shape was next. That's precognition. Put a check next to the shape in the precognitive column.

Likewise, your partner may call out the correct shape only after you've already put the card you were working with down, and drawn the next one! That's post-cognitive. Note it with a check next to the card in the post-cognitive column.

When you've done the black and white shapes, you're ready to move onto the colored shapes, numbers 26 through 50. The scoring is the same, but it's a bit more time consuming because you have to score the correct/incorrect, precognitive and post-cognitive for the colors as well. The colors this exercise uses are red, blue, yellow, green, orange, and purple.

Take your time, especially with the scoring. After a time or two it will be easy. When scoring the colored shapes you'll be amazed at how complex the scoring can become! You could conceivably have both color and shape correct, yet have the color be precognitive and the shape post-cognitive! Have fun with it. Don't let it drive you crazy. It's a tool! You'll get it! When you're all done, add up the number of correct choices on the bottom of each side. Just follow the directions on the form.

When you're all done with your exercise, a review of the results will help you to better understand what these scores mean. The exercise is on the next page.

Table 1: The Psychic Development Aptitude Exercise
A free, printable copy of this table is available online at www.SandyAnastasi.com.

Evaluating Your Exercise Results

If you had the greatest score for either or both sides of the form in the first column – that's the ‘now’ of the score sheet – you are an in-the-moment thinker. Psychically you will tend to get information that is immediately important.

If you had more correct on the black and white side, you are more of a word thinker; more of an intellectual. Visualizing things may not come easily to you, though with practice this ability will be yours as well.

If you had more correct on the colored side, you are more of an intuitive thinker; you tend to think more in terms of color and shape and feeling. Your visualization skills are probably already well developed.

If you had a lot of precognitive choices it shows that as a psychic you will tend to receive more future-oriented information. Your orientation in daily life will also reflect that mind-set.

If your score was high on post-cognitive shapes and/or colors, you will tend to look back in the psychic work you do. *This may also be an indication that the partner who was doing the sending was holding on to the thought. We'll talk about that in greater depth in Chapter 2.

The hardest thing to do in this exercise is to get both a color and shape correct, in any time frame. If you succeeded in doing that, give yourself a big pat on the back! Over time, as you repeat this exercise, you'll do better and better! Your telepathic and empathic abilities will improve.

Now, let's look at some of the things that will make your sending better:

- Visualize clearly.

- Images and feelings seem easier to send than words. (That's because pictures and feelings travel on an energy level closer to the physical plane than words do – empathy vs. telepathy.)

- Project the image you're sending.

- Let the image go.

These are only some of the things you can do to improve your sending ability. We'll discuss these, as well as various aspects of receiving telepathically, in greater depth in Chapter 2. Meanwhile, you now have a foundation to build on with your partner in your telepathy exercises. Don't forget to record them!

End of Chapter Activities

1. Keep your Dream Book throughout this entire course.

2. Keep your Do-good Book throughout the course.

3. Keep your Telepathy Exercise Book throughout the course.

4. With a partner, send and receive a colored shape over distance. Use the same shapes and colors you used in the Psychic Development Aptitude Exercise. Remember not to phone them until after you are done with the exercise. Record what you sent, what you received, and any other random thoughts or images that passed through your mind in your Telepathy Exercise Book.

5. Keep your completed Psychic Development exercise sheets. You can use them as a baseline to help evaluate your improvement over time, as you repeat the exercise again in future chapters. With repeated used this exercise becomes an excellent tool for psychic telepathic and empathic development.

Suggested Additional Reading

- Any dream symbol interpretation book that you feel comfortable with.

- You’ll See It When You Believe It by Wayne Dyer

Chapter 2

Planes of Consciousness and Methods of Developing Your Psychic Ability

Review: How to send and receive a telepathic message.

Assuming you completed the end of chapter exercises from Chapter 1, you have now done your first long-distance sending and receiving exercise and have sent, and received, a colored shape. Congratulations!

Let’s take a moment to discuss how to interpret and evaluate the results of the exercise.

It is typical, especially for people who are doing this exercise for the first time, to think they have ‘missed’ when they have actually done quite well. That’s why I want to discuss with you some of the connections that might have been made that you could have completely overlooked.

First, relative to shape: often, someone will see the ‘point’ of an object being sent and assume the remainder of the shape. So, a triangle sent could be received as a star, or a star sent could be received as a triangle. Similarly, a square, unless the sender emphasizes the angles could be received as a circle, or vice-versa. If you practice sending and receiving with the same partner over time you will begin to see patterns such as this emerge, and you’re sending and receiving with them will accordingly get better.

Next, let’s take a closer look at color: many of you do not realize that we all perceive color differently. The only reason, for instance, that we know that our sky is blue is that we have all agreed that whatever our individual physical eyes are seeing is called ‘blue.’ But in reality, we are all seeing something different. Suppose I send you a yellow circle, and MY ‘yellow’ is more of ‘gold’ than yellow, but YOU would normally see ‘gold’ as a derivative of orange; then you would have thought you received an orange circle. So it’s not uncommon for certain sets of partners to confuse yellow with orange or green, or orange with red, or blue with purple. Again, the only real way to know if this is the case with a particular partner you are working with is to work with them over time, and see if a pattern emerges.

Now there’s also another thing that often affects our sending and receiving – that something is the environment. You might have thought your partner was sending you a blue shape, for example, when they were sitting in a blue room. They could have absorbed the room color unconsciously and ‘sent’ it to you! Likewise, if your partner was holding a square object in his hands when he did his sending, you might have thought you received a square object, instead of what he was trying to send. This is why I asked you, in the End Of Chapter Exercises, to be sure to record random images and thoughts, as well as what you sent and received.

Now go back and review your results again, and think if there were elements in the environment that could have interfered with sending, or if the color or shape was close enough that it could have been confused.

You did a lot better than you thought you did, didn’t you?

But now you should be asking yourself, well, what good is learning to send and receive if all these things can interfere so readily with the process?

The answer, of course, is that you need to learn control. With control, you are going to simply amaze yourself at how well you can consciously send and receive thoughts.

You’ll be surprised to learn that entirely different skills must be applied in ‘receiving’ and ‘sending.’ To move back and forth between both skills, you need to thoroughly understand how each is done, and practice both. It is true that most people are better receivers than senders naturally, but both skills can be learned. You undoubtedly are already good at one of these skills, though you may not yet know it!

Let’s look first at what skills must be employed to be a good receiver.

The Fine Art of Being a Good Receiver

To be a good receiver you need to be able to let go... to drift in your thoughts. Are you a good daydreamer? If you answered yes to that question, you are definitely a good receiver already, though you may not be aware that you are. To be a good receiver, you must learn to completely relax, let down your mental guards as you do in daydreaming, and put your mind into a sort of stand-by mode that feels sort of like you are waiting or listening for something. In essence, it is a daydream sort of mental feeling but you are not daydreaming, instead you are holding your mind in an open and receptive state. When something comes into your mind if you are holding it in this receptive mode, you know that is something you’ve received telepathically. This state is called ‘Alpha’ because your brain actually generates an Alpha wave.

And that’s all there is to it!

Yes, I know it sounds easy, but it’s not! Daydreaming is easy. But being aware and focused in this daydream state is not! To allow your self to daydream in a totally unconscious way is really very dangerous in the psychic world. It makes you too susceptible to the casual thoughts of all the people around you. Remember, as you study and grow psychically, you will become progressively more sensitive... which means that you can someday be truly at the mercy of the jumbled thoughts and feelings of EVERYONE around you if you do not learn early on to control those daydreams. We all know people like that... people who seem to drift through life never focusing themselves on their own goals, being deeply affected by whoever happens to be their best friend of the moment... these people are good receivers who have never learned to control their ability.

Let me share with you several experiences that happened to me early on in my career as a psychic, and that I have never forgotten.

While still living on Long Island I had agreed to take my parents to Kennedy Airport, located in Queens, New York. I dropped them off, and headed back home on the Southern State Parkway. And as I always did when I was in the car driving, I let my mind go and began to daydream. I lost conscious awareness of my actions. I had put my vehicle on automatic. Does this sound familiar to any of you reading this? Well, the next thing I was aware of was that I was pulling my car up to a curb on the right side of a one-way street, in front of a chain link fence. On the opposite side of the street was a row of attached homes typical of a city neighborhood. I had no idea where I was, or how I had gotten there. And of course, I began to panic. But just then I looked across at one of the houses where a door was opening, and the man who stepped out was someone I recognized. So of course I got out of the car to ask him directions to get home. I was quite embarrassed in fact, until he said to his girlfriend, who followed him out, “See, I told you I could do it!” Let me tell you, I was enraged. He was practicing his mind control, his sending abilities on me, without my permission, without my knowledge, and I was very, very aware of just how dangerous that could have been. Suppose he had projected that I run off the road? And yet, I quickly realized that it was me who was at fault. I was daydreaming. I was in an uncontrolled receptive state. This lesson was one of the most important I have ever learned.

The second experience I want to share is similar, but in a way even more astonishing. Again, I was daydreaming while driving home after work. Again, a ‘friend’ was trying to send to me without first asking my permission. It was dinner time, and the friend was eating alone at a near-bye diner. He wanted me to join him for dinner. While in my unconscious daydream mode, I drove straight to the diner, and then ‘woke up.’ I explained to him that this was a misuse of his abilities – he should better have projected, ‘Call me.’ I had a previous engagement with a girlfriend I was meeting at my house, so I excused myself and drove straight home. Well, she was late. I waited. And I waited. Eventually she called me. “Sandy,” she said, “I’m lost. I don’t know how I got here, I know where you live... but nothing here looks familiar!” I asked her to give me a description of where she was so that I could give her directions from there to my home. She was at the same diner I had left earlier. She had also been daydreaming while driving, and been drawn into the same mental projection as I had, because as she was driving to meet me, her link to me had opened her to what was affecting me at the time.

If you allow yourself to walk around in an unconscious receptive state you may pick a fight with your husband just because the woman on line in front of you at the supermarket is angry with her boyfriend; you may paint your house the color your neighbor is THINKING of painting his; you may follow your sibling or friend into a career or life path that isn’t suited to you and that you hate.

So you can see why I am so adamant about my students learning to control their daydreams.... which essentially means to not daydream! Learn to keep your mind in the NOW. It is far safer. Put your mind into ‘conscious daydream mode’ only when you are trying to receive a thought or message. Practicing your receiving ability will gradually train your brain to produce a receptive alpha wave at will, as will meditation.

The very best tool I know of, in fact, that will teach you to control your mind and learn to enter this ‘receptive-but-conscious’ mental mode at will is meditation. Meditation can also teach you to focus your thoughts so well that it is also an excellent training tool for training your sending abilities too!

The latter portion of this chapter will be devoted to learning the basics of meditation.

But remember – although meditation can teach you mental control, and to consciously enter the receptive state known throughout the psychic world as the alpha state, you don’t want to be in a meditative state while receiving. True meditation, as I will show you here, will keep you totally protected and closed to the thoughts of those outside you – it can actually block your ability to be receptive to outer thoughts. So, you see, it can teach you the feel of the proper receiving state, but should not be employed while putting yourself into a receptive mode. Meditation will also teach you the feel of your own thoughts, so that you will be more aware of when you are receiving a thought that is ‘not self.’

I tell my students that, when they are meditating, they are meditating. When they are doing psychic work, they are doing psychic work. Meditation can help train your mind, but to be truly beneficial to you should not be confused with your receptive psychic work!

The Fine Art of Being a Good Sender

Sending is obviously entirely different than receiving. As a matter of fact, when you send, you want your energy level to be high – you don’t want to be relaxed! You’ll find that you do your very best sending right after or during physical exercise, or when your emotions are running high (either very happy, excited, or even angry).

All of us are naturally good senders when we are in an energized mode. But very few of us get to reap the positive rewards of that ‘sending’ ability.

And here’s why:

To be a good sender, you have to be able to formulate your thought clearly, power it, send it, and then let it go. Most of us do send, and send very well. But we do it without control.

As a matter of fact, it is said, “We create our world with our thoughts...” and we most certainly do! The problem is that most of us don’t recognize our thoughts returning to us as our lives because we don’t CONSCIOUSLY remember sending them out. Most of us would say, “Well, that can’t be true because if I created my life with my thoughts it would be so much better than this!”

I have found that the turn around time for the average untrained person between a thought and its manifestation is 7 to 8 years because it takes us so long to let go of our thoughts! Most of us tend to obsess and fixate on the things we want, or even the things we fear. They don’t begin to manifest in our lives until long after we have finally let go of either the desire or the fear.

This is why most of us don’t recognize what we are creating!

And since we power our thoughts with our emotional and physical energy, for the average person, life is going to be filled with hardship and stress because so many of us face life on a day to day basis filled with negative emotion and fear. If we power our thoughts with fear, or anger, or resentment, we’ve attached fear to the manifestation of the thought. Please, if you get nothing else out of this discussion, remember to think positive, happy thoughts, and to consistently try to replace the negative thoughts and emotions you experience with positive ones! It will make for a much happier life for you 7 or 8 years from now! (Although, as you practice your sending abilities, you will significantly shorten that time period because you will learn to power the thought, focus it, and let it go, almost in a single moment.)

Let me give you an example from my own past.

When married to my first husband I lived in a small bungalow that was never meant to be a year-round house. The kitchen was a lean-to add-on that leaked and was insect infested. I wanted a new kitchen. My husband, frugal to a fault, resisted this. For about three years I obsessed about the kitchen of my dreams. I leafed through magazines, did research, watched construction TV shows, looked at new homes. I obsessed. I thought about my kitchen when I drove, while I cooked, while I lay awake in bed at night. I obsessed. I had it completely built and decorated in my fantasies. It had a quarry tile floor, a double stainless steel sink, and brown-tone appliances. It was warm and cozy. It never happened. My ex-husband resisted. I resented.

Finally, after three years, I gave up. I stopped cooking. I didn’t care about a kitchen anymore. I LET GO!

And guess what? He gave in. Just like that. (There is a lesson in that statement, too, folks. Think about it!) He called in the contractor, and they started to build... and build. Remember, three years of obsession had gone into this. This was a VERY BIG thought form. The project took 10 months.

The old kitchen was torn down. The new one went out 6 feet into the yard and up two stories. We raised the roof and added a bedroom above it to fill all that space. It got top of the line appliances, the latest innovations in cabinetry and a great big airy bay window... it was definitely NOT the kitchen of my dreams. My obsession had exploded it far beyond that! It sort of embodied every other kitchen I’d looked at! It was beautiful, but it wasn’t mine. And guess what? That wasn’t all that thought form had built into it, was it?

That’s right. There was all that resentment. That final letting go of what I’d wanted, knowing I no longer did. That continued to grow, too, and eventually led to a divorce.

But I’m still not done with my famous ‘kitchen thought form.’ My original dream kitchen really was out there – the kitchen with a ‘happy’ energy attached to it. The original thought form was still out there. And some four years later it manifested. I was in a new marriage and we bought a handyman special with intentions of fixing it up. We ripped up five floors in the kitchen to find a quarry tile floor. It had a double stainless steel sink, and brown-tone appliances; but those were old and damaged and had to be thrown out.... it was my dream, but I had long outgrown it. When it finally manifested, it did so in an old, used, way.

Have I made my point?

So you see learning to send well has the very important side effect of helping you to create a healthier, happier life for yourself. As you learn the things that make you a good sender, and practice them, your thoughts will become more controlled, more directed, and gain a laser-like quality that will begin to manifest your reality very quickly around you. You will have to learn to be careful what you think because you will get it, and quickly! I’m particularly aware of never thinking bad thoughts about people, for obvious reasons.

Let’s get back then, to what makes a good sender:

1. Send when your energy is high.

As I said earlier, you will do your best sending when your energy level is high physically, emotionally, or both. If you are a chronically low energy person you will not be a good sender. When you’re tired you’re not a good sender. When you’re ill you are not a good sender. Getting the right amount of sleep, eating right, staying healthy, are all things that aid your sending ability.

2. Set your antennae.

Many thoughts don’t reach their recipient because they weren’t ‘aimed.’ If I want you to phone me and I just send out, ‘Phone me!’ I may end up with a million people trying to phone me, or none, but it is unlikely YOU will get the message! I figure that by now there must be trillions of unaimed thoughts circling around and around the galaxy, looking for someone who wants them!

On the other hand, if I visualize you in my mind, say your name, feel how it felt to be in your presence when I met you last, and maybe even face the direction of your home when I send, my thought will be more likely to get to YOU.

And if I take this even a step further and use something called long-distance viewing, or more commonly now, remote viewing, I can set my antennae exactly and you are even more likely to receive the thought.

To long-distance view you, I will form an image of your face in my mind, then I will let myself look at what you are wearing NOW, where you are NOW... I will SEE as much of the space around you as I can. In the process of remote viewing you I will be creating a very strong link indeed.

Most psychics, by the way, will feel someone ‘looking’ at them in this way. What they are feeling is the link this establishes.

Remote viewing is a very important psychic tool. I would like to encourage you to practice it when sending because it will help with your visualization skills, your sending skills, and it will also have very practical applications in your life. I always remote view my dogs (they’re my kids) when I’m away, to make sure they are OK; I often remote view a place I’m going before I get there to see if there is anything special I should know about it... I even use this to discreetly ‘check in’ on the people I love, to make sure they are OK. Yes, a very valuable tool indeed.

A word of caution about remote viewing, though: Please exercise discretion. DO NOT remote view someone in the bathroom, the shower, or other personal place. And if you are working with a partner in these exercises, you should both avoid working in compromising places. Remote viewing is real, even though as a beginner it will feel like it’s your imagination!

Here’s a rather fun story from one of my early classes:

A young man in this group was doing his telepathy exercises with an elderly woman. While waiting for their telepathy ‘appointment,’ he did the things a normal young man does. He stood in front of his bedroom mirror clad only in his jockey shorts and flexed his muscles, admiring his build. He played with his bird, which was caged on the dresser before the mirror. Then, he suddenly realized the time, remembered he was only in his shorts, so he grabbed a blanket from the bed, wrapped it around himself, turned out the light, and proceeded to do his exercise with his elderly partner.

The grandmotherly partner was laughing as she came into class to report. She said, “Well, I couldn’t really see you during the exercise because everything was dark. But you know, I was early for our appointment, so I did my long distance viewing to set my antennae early... and I believe I saw you in your shorts posing in front of your mirror... and there was a bird on the dresser!”

The whole class roared as the young man, who will remain unnamed, blushed.

3. Focus your thought.

Next, you have to learn to quick-focus your thoughts. The thoughts that you send the best will be the ones that almost ‘slide’ through your conscious mind and get a little boost from you on the way by. If you find yourself holding onto a thought and over-focusing, that is bordering on obsession, and the thought will lose its clarity, as mine did in my example above. It is important to get as much content into your thought as possible as you create it. If you can, do it quickly. Feel, taste, smell, what you are sending, and visualize it as clearly as you can. Say the name. Your breath is life-force energy – breathe the name out as you say it.

4. Power your thought.

The easiest way to add power to your thought is with emotion. But if you do use emotion, make sure it is a positive one. Sending a negative one can hurt the person who is receiving. You can also power your thought by sending right after some strenuous physical activity, or dancing, or listening to music that initiates a strong response in you.

5. Send your thought.

There are as many different ways to send a thought, as there are people reading these words. Here are just a few examples students have offered up over the years:

- ‘See’ the thought disappearing into your partner’s forehead.

- ‘Drive’ the thought down the road to your partner’s house.

- Write it on a piece of paper, then ‘see’ yourself handing it to your partner.

- Put the thought, mentally, inside a tennis ball, and hit it to your partner.

- ‘Say’ the thought, and ‘See’ your partner shake his head yes, as if he heard it.

- ‘Inhale’ the thought, and then ‘blow’ it at your partner, ‘see’ it enveloping him.

- ‘See’ yourself handing him the thought.

- ‘See’ your partner doing the thought. For example, if you are sending a blue square, ‘see’ him wearing a shirt with a blue square on it.

Use your imagination. There are many more possible ways to send! Make a note of what works for you!

6. Let go of your thought.

Here’s the biggie, folks. This is the area, aside from ‘setting your antennae’ that most people fail to do properly. This is the reason why my kitchen exploded into that giant thought form. We humans seem to have a very difficult time letting go of anything, and our thoughts seem to be the hardest thing of all to let go of. Just remember, that if you don’t let it go, you can’t send it. If you don’t let go, you can’t have it, or achieve it. It seems like a paradox, but that IS the way it works.

For most people, the easiest way to let go is to replace the thought with something else. That’s why most people don’t let go of one relationship until they find another one or of a hurt until they find something else to focus their energies on. I call this substitution. A psychiatrist might call it sublimation. But whatever you want to call it doesn’t matter. It works.

Here are some techniques you might try to ‘let go’ of your thoughts:

- Replace the thought with something else to hold your attention. For example, send your partner a blue square, then think of a yellow one and hold it in your mind. (I’m sure some of you, when you practiced this, have already noticed that your partner got the colored shape that you considered sending first, not the one you tried to send as you held onto it!)

- If you send using your breath, let go on the next inhale.

- Imagine your mind as slippery as a wet pane of glass... the thought you sent can’t come back to you because it will slide away from you.

- Hold your mind still, as you will learn to do in meditation. See a lotus flower, open at your crown.

- If you wrote the thought on a piece of paper, throw the paper away.

- If you ‘see’ the thought go into your partner’s mind, have him turn his back on you, or disappear, or shake his head, “Yes, I got it.”

- If you send it in a tennis ball, just watch the ball go into your partner’s court and stay there! A student who had a lot of difficulty sending thought that one up and ever after became a great sender!

Again, use your imagination. Be creative. There are many, many ways to let a thought go! Again, make a note of which technique(s) work best for you!

Here’s a table that will help you to remember the important steps in sending and receiving.

Table 2: A Quick Reference Chart for Sending and Receiving Techniques.

Sending and receiving, as I have been discussing them here, involves the psychic ability called telepathy. Practicing your telepathy exercises as described in these pages will help you to develop and fine-tune this ability. Everyone has this skill, though since telepathy does deal primarily with the mind; it is a bit more difficult to develop than the more accessible abilities of empathy and psychometry (often referred to as clairsentience – clear feeling). Your mind actually exists on a higher plane of development than your emotional nature, and it is therefore harder to harness its power. Yet even though empathic and psychometric abilities come easier to most of us, you can readily see why the developing of your conscious sending and receiving ability is so important. It helps you to create a better life for yourself, and through you, an increasingly better world. It helps to raise your consciousness. It is a primary tool for you no matter what direction you choose to take as a developing psychic.

Figure 2: A Schematic of the Planes of Consciousness

Learning to use your empathic ability is best done through working extensively with all of the exercises for meditating, centering, and raising consciousness that you will be given, which will help you to recognize and interpret the emotions and feelings that you receive from people and the world around you. (I’ll discuss this more fully later in this chapter.) Learning to use your telepathy will also help your empathy and vice-versa. Be aware that since telepathy is harder for most people to do, if the partner you are working with is in the same household, it is likely that you will be doing your sending/receiving exercises with that person using your empathic ability, not your telepathy.

At this point in our discussion, it’s a good idea for you to become familiar with the schematic of the planes of consciousness as I have learned them, and as I teach them. Much of what I do in my classes is based upon using this schematic as a ‘roadmap’ for your psychic and spiritual development. Essentially, I believe that a part of you exists on every plane in the universe at the same time. As a matter of fact, those different parts of you may actually comprise the stuff of which those various planes are composed! Understanding those parts of YOU that reside on those planes not only helps you to understand the nature of each plane, but also how each part of you functions in the overall scheme of things!

Now, if you refer back to the preceding diagram you will note that the parts of us that you think of as your personality... your emotional nature, your mental nature, and your dreams, desires, and drives, all reside on the lower planes below the Higher Self, as does your physical body. In fact, many people believe that they ARE those parts of themselves, never realizing that there is, in fact, a Higher part of the Self that is infinitely more insightful, mature, and aware, then those lower parts of Self we call our personalities.

I think of the Higher Self as that part of us that is eternal, that puts on the personality as a ‘new suit of clothes’ for each successive incarnation. (I believe in reincarnation, and my teaching reflects this.) The problem is, that for most people, the personality that develops is so strong, and each element of it focuses our attention so intensely into the plane it is attached to, that most of us completely forget we have a Higher Self. Those of us who do remember it usually relegate it to our soul that we go to church to ‘save’ every Sunday and mostly forget about in-between!

Because of that forgetting of our Higher Self, unless we have done a lot of spiritual work including meditation and centering, our psychic ability is usually not being directed by our Higher Selves, but rather operates randomly as the elements of our lower personality collect psychic information and feed it to us. This is the reason that so many psychics can be excellent at reading your mind or telling you about the state of your emotions, but are not very good at making future predictions, which can only be made when the Higher Self is participating!

Remember, it is your Higher Self that exists outside of time. Because of this, IT and only IT has the ability to see the past, present and future all at the same time. It can use the abilities of the lower personality to collect information, but without the ability of the Higher Self to interpret and give projections; future predictions will not be valid. I like to think of the difference between your Higher Self and your lower personality as the difference between standing on a busy street at ground level versus standing on top of a tall building at an intersection with a clear view of the surrounding area. When you’re on the ground your vision is limited. There are just too many obstacles in the way to see clearly. When you’re elevated you can see all of the events clearly, even the obstacles.

Since most people have not yet done the ‘work’ to make a strong link with their Higher Selves, most are constantly collecting psychic information at the level of the lower personality, using their minds (consciously or consciously) to evaluate the information collected, and making educated ‘guesses’ based on that. Or what is worse, they follow their emotional desires relative to what they THINK they know.

But when you learn to center yourself and to meditate, as you will learn in these pages, you gradually open up a channel to your Higher Self. Once that channel is opened, by aligning all of the aspects of lower personality with the Higher Self, you have the input of your Higher nature and what IT sees and knows relative to any situation added to the psychic information the lower self has collected. Once you have done this you will be well on your way to being a truly GOOD psychic!

Each of the lower aspects of personality has its own unique form of psychic ability.

The physical body itself can transmit psychic information to us in ways that are familiar to all of us. Most of us have experienced that feeling of ‘getting chills down the spine’ when we hear something we know is true... or we may get a headache when our body is telling us we are not supposed to go to a certain place or do a certain thing. One of the reasons most people are so very good at psychometry is because that psychic skill is very closely tuned to the physical body’s own innate psychic ability. Many people call this ‘getting vibes.’

Likewise, we may experience emotional attractions or repulsions to or from certain people when we are being told by that part of us that resides on the ‘Lower Astral’ plane that a particular person is or is not good for us. Our empathy operates on this plane. Our ability to feel an aura or any electromagnetic field and interpret it is attached to this plane. This is why psychometry really combines the ‘getting vibes’ of the physically oriented psychic ability with the deeper reading of the electromagnetic field of this plane. We learn how to do psychometry in Psychic Development Level 3. Alignment with the Higher Self on this level allows us to communicate with IT through our emotions.

Our ability to communicate telepathically with another person comes from that part of us that resides on the mental plane – the 1st part of the ‘Upper Astral’ plane. When we have aligned all of our lower ‘bodies’ so as to communicate with our Higher Selves, we may receive information from IT telepathically as well!

Lastly, our inner feeling of direction... the urge to follow a certain path, be a certain place, make a commitment to a certain thing... take action on our intuitive feelings, comes from that part of our personality that resides on the second part of the Upper Astral plane. People with this part of their personalities aligned with their Higher Selves have an uncanny ability to ACT in an inspired way.

Now you understand how YOU occupy many planes at the same time. Let’s look at a schematic showing how your lower personality collects information from the world and people around you. Note that if the Higher Self participates in a person who has opened that channel, the numbers can be reversed as IT can now act through YOU onto the physical plane.

Figure 3: A Schematic of How You Relate to Your World Psychically

When all of your lower bodies are out of alignment with the Higher Self, information is received and processed sporadically, without the extra insight only IT can provide...psychic information received in that manner can often be fragmented and is easily misinterpreted; but when your lower personality is in alignment with the Higher Self the effect is almost magical. Psychic information is received, processed, and correct action is taken almost effortlessly. It is for that reason that I do not just teach psychic development to my students, I also teach psychic awareness... how to open up and develop your higher consciousness.

So what you are actually working toward in studying psychic development with this system is a gradual opening and strengthening of all of your psychic abilities related to the lower personality, and also the alignment of the bodies of the lower personality with the Higher Self. To create this alignment you will be learning progressive relaxation and several forms of meditation; you will learn to open your chakras (psychic energy centers), and to draw energy up through them to open and develop them; and you will learn techniques to balance the hemispheres of your brain through sound, breath, and meditation. You will also learn to program and guide yourself through self-hypnosis.

The Art of Meditation

Meditation is the art of stilling the mind. It is only when the mind is still that you can learn to know ‘self’ from ‘not-self.’ It is only when the mind is still that you can begin to know the voice of your own Higher Self.

Most beginning level students don’t have much success initially with meditation for the simple reason that they do not address the most obvious problem... meditation is essentially YOU taking control of YOUR MIND, which is as unruly as a child. Your mind will be distracted into ANYTHING it can find that will give it back the control. Many people find meditation initially frustrating because it is so hard to keep the mind focused. In the blink of an eye it can travel from being hungry, to an argument you had yesterday, to your future plans and more. It’s a slick antagonist, too... it knows all your weak points, all the things that you will be distracted by. Get ready for a real battle. The battle is with your own mind. Essentially, it is a battle with yourself, in order to know your Higher Self.

To achieve success with meditation it is essential that you eliminate all of the distractions in your environment first. Put out the cat, turn off the telephone, make sure the room temperature is comfortable or have a blanket at hand, and please choose a time when you will not be interrupted by friends or family members. Traditionally, the best times to meditate are at dawn and dusk, noon and midnight... as the tides of the earth itself ebb and flow. Also, the middle of the night is good, as there are fewer ‘awake’ brain patterns to cause you interference. However... WHENEVER you can find time will be a good time. You will find that it is helpful to put your meditation on a schedule. If you do it the same time every day, your mind and body will actually become conditioned to meditate at that time. It makes it much easier.

You should meditate at least once a day, for at least 20 minutes. If you meditate before leaving for work in the morning you will find you have a much smoother day. And don’t worry about getting up a little early... time spent in meditation is actually better than sleep... 20 minutes of meditation will easily make up for an hour’s lost sleep.

Most books on meditation (and there are many good ones) will teach you to sit with the spine straight, to augment the energy flow up the spine during meditation. This is important... but it is more important that you are comfortable.

If you are comfortable on the floor, by all means sit on it. But there is also no reason you can’t meditate perfectly well sitting in a chair with your feet flat on the floor. Do not lie down or you are likely to fall asleep. Do not cross your arms or legs or you WILL disrupt the energy flow during meditation. (I have found that ‘Indian Style’ sitting is not a problem here). Also, placing the tip of your tongue on the soft pallet of your mouth (not pressed against the back of the teeth) completes a strong energy loop that allows for a deeper (and easier) meditation. In fact, it is just above the soft pallet, below the nose, that the nerve and energy circuits from your brain switch sides, so that your left-brain hemisphere controls the right side of your body, and your right-brain hemisphere the left side. This is a very sensitive area indeed. You may leave your hands either palms up or palms down in your lap.

Choose a room that is quiet and peaceful. The family room will probably have too many active vibes to let you meditate properly. Likewise, choose a chair that is not your normal chair for active activities like working. You need to be in an environment that is quiet, peaceful, and non-disruptive. Since furniture AND rooms have their own vibes, choose a place and seat that is conducive to what you’re going to do.

Do not try to meditate on a full stomach. Some people advocate an empty one, but I have found that only gives your mind something to bother you with... so eating a LITTLE something first will take your mind off of being hungry.

Whether or not you use music is really up to you – but let me caution you that using a piece of music your mind can follow is a bad idea. If you do employ music it should be relaxing, repetitive, and very much background sound. Nature sounds work wonderfully well, especially waves or running water.

And last, but definitely not least, is that you simply cannot meditate if your body is not first relaxed. As a matter of fact, initially when you meditate you may very well do 15 minutes of progressive relaxation and five minutes of actual meditation. But with practice you will get better and better at relaxing the body. Then you will do five minutes or less of relaxation, and 15 minutes or more of meditation!

So before you do the actual meditation, you’ll learn an excellent progressive relaxation technique that I have modified from one introduced by the Monroe Institute of Applied Science in Faber, Virginia. I like to use this one because it does such a very good job relaxing the mind as well as the body... but if you have one of your own you’ve been using that works for you, by all means stick with it. But don’t even try to meditate unless you have employed SOME form of relaxation technique first... or your efforts will probably be in vain.

I suggest you read completely through the progressive relaxation exercise below several times, so that you can do it with your eyes closed, without reading it. Do it first several times for practice, without trying to meditate. You may want to do this over a period of days. When you have the progressive relaxation down, then proceed to attempt some meditation after fully relaxing. Instructions for meditating follow the progressive relaxation exercise. You can move on to that when you are ready.

10-Point Progressive Relaxation Exercise

1. Start with your head, neck, and face.

1. First relax the skin of your scalp and forehead. Wrinkle your forehead and relax it to feel the difference.

2. Next relax your eyes, eyelids, and the muscles that move your eyes.

3. Now relax the muscles of your cheeks.

4. And next relax the muscles surrounding your mouth.

5. Swallow to release the tension in your throat.

6. Gently roll your head around on your neck first left, then right, to release tension there.

7. Breathe deeply and notice the accumulated relaxation in your head, face, and neck.

2. Now breathe in deeply and slowly, and as you do, breathe the relaxation you feel in your head, face, and neck into your mind and brain. See it in your mind as a soft cloud drifting in to soothe your mind and brain. Continue to inhale gently, letting this soothing relaxed energy bathe your mind, until your mind has fully absorbed the feeling of relaxation. Feel your mind ‘smooth’ and relax.

3. Now, with your mind, send a wave of relaxation down through your whole body. Start with your neck, then move it through your upper torso, your arms, hands and fingers, then down through your lower torso into your legs and finally all the way down to your feet and your toes.

4. Now, keep your focus on your feet. With your mind, TELL the muscles, ligaments, and tendons of both feet to RELAX, to LET GO, and to SLEEP. Repeat that command a second time. Focus on the muscles and tendons of both feet and tell them to RELAX, LET GO, and SLEEP.

5. Next, move your mind’s focus up to your legs. LOOK at your legs from your thigh all the way to your ankle. With your mind, TELL the muscles, ligaments, and tendons of both legs to RELAX, to LET GO, and to SLEEP. Again, repeat the command a second time. Say it to yourself as you do.

6. Move your attention to your lower torso. Focus on your abdominal area... in your mind’s eye ‘see’ your intestines, bladder, sex organs, kidneys, and abdominal muscles; with your mind, ‘tell’ them to RELAX, LET GO, and SLEEP. Repeat that. Tell them again to RELAX, LET GO, and SLEEP.

7. Now bring your attention up to the organs and muscles of your upper torso. Focus your attention on your heart, your lungs, your stomach, liver, gallbladder, spleen, and on your solar plexus and all of the muscles of your chest and upper abdominal area. With your mind, tell them all to RELAX, LET GO, and SLEEP. Again, repeat the command. Tell them again to RELAX, LET GO, and SLEEP.

8. Look now, with your mind, at the muscles of your back... start at the base of the neck and go all the way to the base of the spine. Tell all of these muscles, RELAX, LET GO, and SLEEP. Again, repeat the command... RELAX, LET GO, and SLEEP.

9. Bring your mind to focus now on the muscles, tendons and ligaments of your arms, hands and fingers... with your mind, tell them also to RELAX, LET GO, and SLEEP. Again, repeat the command... RELAX, LET GO, and SLEEP.

10. Now FEEL your whole body totally, completely relaxed, asleep, while your mind is still and alert. This is the ’10-State’ where your mind is generating a smooth alpha wave, is totally relaxed yet awake and alert, and your body is asleep. Say to yourself ’10,’ and be aware you are in this state of mind awake-body asleep. Say it again, ’10.’ And one more time, ’10.’

Now just remain peacefully relaxed for as long as you want. You can use this exercise at any time to attain a deep state of relaxation. Before bed is fine, if you want to use it to fall asleep and get a better night’s rest. Certainly you should use it before you meditate, every time. If you do it exactly as it is written here, before long you will be able to ‘count yourself down’ from 1 to 10 and enter this same deep relaxation just by counting to 10. And eventually, merely saying ‘10’, ‘10’, ‘10’... will have the same effect.

If you want to come right back to a normal waking state, a ‘beta’ brain-wave state, just count yourself back from 10 to 1. ‘One’ is normal waking consciousness for you.

The more often you use this tool, the better at it you will become. A side benefit is that eventually you will condition yourself to relax any body part simply by saying, and thinking its corresponding number! When you feel proficient enough at it, proceed onward to the next exercise and learn how to meditate!

Your Worry Box

Many students also find it a benefit to create a ‘worry box’ to put all cares and worries, even their own physical bodies in, before meditating or doing any psychic work. It helps to clear the mind. It will also help you sleep better to use your worry box every night as you drift off to sleep. Just imagine a box with a lid. Open it and put all of your concerns inside. Then close the lid and put the box behind you, or away, where you cannot see it.

Beginning Meditation Exercise

1. Follow the directions earlier in this chapter for choosing the time and place that is best. Have your meditation environment completely under your control and pre-planned.

2. Use your worry box.

3. Do your 10-point progressive relaxation.

4. When you have entered the ‘10’ state of mind awake-body asleep, spend a few minutes just quietly following your breath as you breathe rhythmically in and out.

5. When you are breathing in meditation, this exhalation is more important than the inhalation. The inhalation will take care of itself. The exhalation should be as smooth, long, and deep as you can make it. The inhalation should follow the exhalation gently and be of the same duration. As you breathe, be aware that as you breathe out your belly flattens, your diaphragm pushes up, gradually forcing all of the air out of your lungs. As you breathe in the process is gently reversed... your belly expands out, your diaphragm drops, your rib cage expands, shoulders drop, and your lungs fill to capacity. If you focus your attention on the exhalation you will be doing proper inhalations in no time at all. (Most people don’t breathe right, tending to breathe from the chest only, which creates nervous tension.)

6. Now, you can either choose to just keep following your breath, maintaining your attention on your breath and calling your mind back to that each time it drifts until your meditation time is up (I recommend initially setting an alarm... that way you won’t be distracted by worry about the time getting away from you...) or you can do some alternate nostril breathing to deepen the meditative state more quickly. See the following section for instructions on alternate nostril breathing.

You will notice as you come out of a deep meditation that your hands are very warm. Placing your warm palms over your eyes for a few moments will energize the eyes and Third Eye area, stimulating mental clarity and psychic awareness. Also, do not drive or use heavy equipment while in this altered mental state. Give yourself a few minutes to ‘come down.’

Alternate Nostril Breathing

Alternate nostril breathing is a yoga tool that can be used to deepen a meditative state, or to enter one more quickly. If you are already relaxed and want a short cut into meditation, this can be it. It has the effect of over-oxygenating the brain and producing an altered state quickly. Here is one type that you can try:

1. Place your right pointer finger and your middle finger on your forehead.

2. Put your right thumb over your right nostril and press it closed.

3. Breathe deeply in through the left nostril to a count of four.

4. Close off the left nostril with your right ring finger, still holding the right nostril closed.

5. Hold for a count of eight.

6. Release the thumb from the right nostril, and keep the left nostril covered.

7. Breathe out for a count of four.

8. Breathe back in through the same nostril for another count of four.

9. Cover the right nostril again with your thumb. Hold for eight.

10. Uncover your left nostril and breathe out to a count of four.

11. Breathe back in through the left nostril to another count of four.

12. Continue on in this same pattern, alternating your breathing pattern from side to side to a count of four in and four out, holding for eight in-between switching sides. Do this for about 10 full breaths on each side.

Some Benefits and Some Problems of Meditation

Students who apply themselves to learning meditation will progress very quickly in their psychic development studies. They will need less sleep, and be healthier, they will be more grounded and centered, and they will begin to access information from their own Higher Selves and guides much more quickly than students who do not. They will quickly learn to identify their own thoughts and feelings as separate from those around them, be much less susceptible to the emotional projections of others, and will be more emotionally stable in their own lives. The ‘meditative personality’ they develop will give them a constant sense of well being, and they will deal with all of life’s difficulties in a smooth and easy way. THIS is why meditation is so popular.

The problems you may encounter are as follows:

In order to keep the benefits of meditation you have to keep meditating. If you stop, you may keep those benefits for three or six months, but they will eventually wear off, and you will be right back where you started.

You meditate to meditate, not to do psychic work. Keep the two practices separate. You can use meditation to clear your mind before doing the psychic work, but do not attempt to receive information psychically from your guides or Higher Self while in meditation or you will destroy your meditation. Giving you psychic information will just become another ploy your lower mind uses to maintain control.

Until you become really proficient, and that can sometimes take years, you will constantly be fighting with your lower mind that will continually seek to distract you. It is best not to be disturbed by this... it is a perfectly natural occurrence, and with perseverance you will win the war even though you may lose many battles. When you become aware that your mind has led you into a daydream instead of the meditation you set out to do, don’t get mad, just add a point to your score pad for ‘it’ and then bring your mind back to still point focus on your breath, and add a point to your side for regaining control. Eventually, those distractions and mind journeys will happen less and less and you will be really meditating.

Before I end this Chapter, I do want to give you a little more direction in working with interpreting your dreams. By now you should have a considerable store of them if you’ve been keeping your dream diary, and you should be making some headway with interpretation if you’ve bought a dream dictionary.

Dream dictionaries shouldn’t be followed TOO closely.... remember, those interpretations of dream symbols will all be from the author’s point of view... they will be based in the author’s cultural, racial, and familial heritage. This is why when you select a dream dictionary you should spend some time leafing through it and checking out symbols that are familiar to you. See if the author’s perspective matches your own. If it does, the book may work well for you. But remember, even if your racial and cultural heritage is similar and calls on similar dream symbols, your familial heritage and personal experiences will be different. And dreams use ALL of those symbols to talk to you. So ultimately, you will need to develop your own understanding of your symbols!

Basic Pointers to Follow in Dream Interpretation

1. After you’ve written your dream down as you remember it, in as much detail as you can, go back and make a synopsis of what appear to be the important points.

2. Look at the first line. Where does the dream take place? Who is it about? This is your most important information. It literally tells you what and who the dream is about. Is the dream taking place in your friend’s house? It’s about your friend. Is it in your car? It’s about your mobility. Is it in your house? It’s about you. In a public place? It’s about your interconnection to the world, or something taking place outside of you. You need to be very clear on this because the whole dream will be interpreted based upon what you uncover about it in that first line or two.

3. If your dream is in your house, is it on the ground floor? It’s about daily life. Is it in the basement? It’s about your subconscious fears. On an upper floor? It’s about your growth and development, your spirituality. Is it in the bathroom? It’s about cleaning out. Is it in the kitchen? It’s about nurturance... these are some general guidelines that really work.

That should get you a little further along in your dream interpretation. You’ll get a few more pointers at the end of each chapter. Meanwhile, there is an excellent book called ‘Creative Dreaming’ by Patricia Garfield that I highly recommend to students who want to get into doing their own interpretations deeper, and faster.

End of Chapter Activities

1. Continue to record your dreams and your psychic experience in the appropriate notebooks.

2. With a partner, do a new telepathic exercise still working with colored shapes. Try to employ the sending and receiving techniques discussed in this chapter. Write down the appearance of your partner, and where you see him, at the time you do the exercise with him.

3. Do your progressive relaxation daily.

4. Meditate daily.

Suggested Reading

- Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukov

- Creative Dreaming by Patricia Garfield

Chapter 3

Psychic ‘Tools’ for Protection and Development

By now you have been practicing your 10-point progressive relaxation, and meditation, daily. You are beginning to become comfortable with both. Your mind is clear, your thoughts more ordered than they have been, and you are ready to learn some psychic tools that employ visualization and feeling that will aid your developing psychic ability and give good protection at the same time.

If you do not feel that your visualization skills are developed enough to succeed, don’t worry. We’ll be giving both visualizations and things to feel in doing these exercises. Most of you reading this will be able to do one or the other, and some can already do both. Visualization for many people takes time to develop... so, if this is difficult for you now, don’t worry, the skill will come in time.

The first thing you will need to learn is how to put yourself in the ‘white light.’ White light in a spiritual sense is cleansing, energizing, and is a first step in psychic protection. In essence it says that you are aligning yourself with the universal forces of light and positive influence. It balances you and helps you to focus. It helps you to make a stronger connection to your Higher Self. It is a good idea to see yourself bathed in white light as often as possible, but certainly put yourself in it when you do any meditation, any psychic work, and when you feel threatened in any way. Here are several techniques that will help you learn to do this. One of them, at least, should work!

Exercise #1: Techniques to Surround Yourself With White Light

1. Here’s the most basic one: Imagine yourself in your shower. The water is cascading down all around you. You feel it pouring down over your head and shoulders, touching all parts of your body as it runs down to the floor and puddles around your feet. Close your eyes and hold this image of yourself before your mind’s eye. Feel the water with progressively greater intensity. Now imagine that the shower head is a small sun, and that the drops of water are cascading light. White light is pouring down over you, and surrounding you in a pure, cleansing, energizing bubble of light. Practice holding this image and the accompanying feeling for progressively longer periods, until you can simply know that the cascading shower of light is pouring down over you wherever you go, or call it at need.

2. This exercise was created by John Maerz and is extremely effective: Close your eyes and imagine a point of white light glowing within your heart. As you look at the point of white light, see it growing in intensity, until it looks like a small brilliant star of white light within your breast. You should feel your chest tingling and your breathing quicken as you do this. Now, keeping a part of your attention on the star shift your attention to visualize a major light source, like the sun, shining down on you. The light from that light source pours down around you... you can feel the heat of it on your skin... and as you watch and feel the star of light within your breast explode outward to merge with the light that is pouring down all around you until you are not only surrounded by the white light, you are the white light! Once again, hold that image and accompanying feelings for progressively longer periods, until you can re-create it with a mere thought, and keep it around you as long as you wish.

3. This one is for those of you who have or desire a strong sense of spiritual guidance: Imagine your Higher Self as a being of energy. In fact, see your Higher Self in your mind’s eye as a human-shaped figure composed of swirling, intense, white light. Now, with your eyes closed, imagine yourself merging with the white light of your Higher Self. Feel your body expand, and yet feel physically lighter and your skin tingle as you merge yourself into this Higher part of yourself that is composed of pure, white light energy. Again, do this as often as you need to and for progressively longer periods until it feels perfectly natural.

4. Last, but not least is the egg. I occasionally have students who cannot visualize, and has difficulty imagining feeling and sensation as well. This technique usually works well for them. Hold a white chicken egg in your hand. The tactile stimulus will help you visualize this. Feel its smoothness; look at its pure white shell. You know what’s in it, so it’s easy to ‘see’ the yolk within, protected by the hard white shell. Now close your eyes and imagine yourself as the yolk... see yourself literally climbing into the shell and closing it down around you. Feel yourself tucking your arms and your legs into that shell. In your mind’s eye, when you look around you, all you see is the inside of the shell, so everything around you is white. As with the other techniques, repeat this as often as possible until it becomes both familiar and easy, and you can take yourself into it and out of it at will.

Exercise #2: The Energy Balloon for Protection

This is one of the simplest yet most effective protective techniques I have ever come across. I adapted it years ago from a similar exercise presented by the Monroe Institute of Applied Sciences in their Gateway Program. It is still available, incidentally, and I highly recommend these and other Hemi-Sync tapes you can obtain from the organization. These tapes utilize headphones to put different tones into each ear... your brain actually hears the difference between the two tones, which forces both brain hemispheres to work together. Needless to say, having your brain work as a single unit is a great foundation for centering and creating a strong connection to your Higher Self, and it increases the flow of intuitive information between the two hemispheres as well. These tapes and CDs are a wonderful aid to both meditation and psychic development. There are now many companies producing tapes that use this technology, but the Monroe Institute was the first to develop it, and its tapes are still tops on my list.

I adapted the energy balloon as one of the primary protections I teach my students because it is so easy to do, so quickly learned, and so very effective. The first time through it, you may want to do a progressive relaxation and brief meditation first, to aid in your ability to visualize and feel it.

Once learned, the balloon can be thrown around yourself, your car, your home, etc., in a matter of seconds. Over the years students have reported many miracle stories where their energy balloon saved the day.

Here’s my favorite:

Joe was headed home on the Southern State Parkway on Long Island. He came to that wild interchange where Sagtikos Parkway branches off left and the rest of the road goes right just as an entrance ramp joins the Parkway. Two cars going at crosswise directions converged right in front of him, and he had no place to go. He quickly threw his energy balloon around his car, fully expecting to be hit at any moment. As he looked out the passenger window, he saw the car on his right bounce off ‘something’... it wasn’t his car because he felt no jolt and suffered no damage... he was thrilled to walk out of that one safe and sound, and thanked his energy balloon for the blessing.

So you see, according to some of my students, this protective technique can give actual physical protection in some circumstances; but I am actually teaching it to give you psychic protection as you develop your psychic skills. When you feel emotionally threatened, putting yourself in the balloon will protect you. When you are entering an unknown situation it’s a good idea to use it as well. When you’re dealing with crowds where your space will be invaded it will be a phenomenal help. And of course, as you learn more advanced psychic work, it will help to protect you from ‘picking up’ the negativity of people, or being exposed to other negative psychic influences.

Here are two versions. The first is the basic version and the second is a variation taught by John Maerz that is much more grounding.

Version 1:

Close your eyes. (For now, keeping your eyes closed after you’ve read this through once or twice will help your concentration. Once you are good at it you’ll be able to do the visuals with your eyes wide open. As always, pay attention to what you feel as you do this. It can be put around you by feeling it as energy or by visualizing it.) Start by visualizing the white light around you, using one of the techniques shown at the beginning of the chapter. Now, holding the white light around you, focus on that part of it that is beneath your feet. Feel your feet get warm and tingle as you focus on the light. You will do this next part three times. The first time let the light enter the soles of your feet and feel the tingling spread up your body as you inhale, ‘pulling’ the light all the way up to the top of your head with your inhalation. When it gets to the top of your head, let it sprout out of your crown like a fountain, and spray down all around you. When it gets down to your feet, curl the light around to re-enter them, creating a balloon of light. The second time there is a variation – pull the light up through your feet again using your inhalation, but as it enters your feet spin the white light counterclockwise – that is toward your left, as you breathe it up to the crown of your head, and when you fountain it out, let it burst from the top of your head as blue light swirling down and around you in a clockwise direction (toward your right) as you exhale. The third time do exactly the same thing as the second. Now you are in a protective blue energy balloon that is spinning clockwise around you.

You can put your energy balloon around you in the morning and leave it there all day if you like, but bear in mind that if it is not re-done at Noon and at 6 p.m. it will gradually disperse. Also, if you decide to keep it around you ALL the time you may find yourself getting very irritable. After all, it not only keeps the bad vibes outside you out... it also keeps your own stuff in. So, you need to release it for a certain portion of every day so that you can do your necessary grounding.

To release it, when you sprout it out the top of your head see it go out into the universe, instead of around you to form the balloon.

Version 2:

This version is similar to the first energy balloon, but instead of bringing the white light around and into the bottoms of your feet you direct it into the ground, and then pull it up from the ground back into your feet. This one is much more cleansing and grounding than the first. Here’s how it goes:

Again, use one of the aforementioned techniques for putting yourself in the white light. Next, focus your attention on the white light beneath your feet, and breathe it up to the crown of your head, swirling it counter-clockwise, to your left. Exhale it out the crown of your head and swirl it down and around you like a fountain of blue light (use blue for protection) moving clockwise (to your right). Feel it scraping off the day’s debris as you spin it down and around you, and when it gets to ground level plunge it into the earth, grounding what you’ve scraped off. Now bring the white light, clean and fresh again now, out of the ground and into the soles of your feet again, and repeat the energy balloon in this way two more times.

Do the energy balloon three times because you are actually creating a psychic protection on three separate planes. You power it with your breath because breath is life-force energy. You use blue on the outside because of the protective nature of that color, and you spin the light-energy clockwise because energy moving clockwise is energy coming into matter... that grounds and stabilizes your energy balloon on the physical plane. As with all of the other exercises you are learning, the more you do this, the more effective it will become, and the faster you will get at doing it. Eventually, you can throw it around yourself or your vehicle merely by exhaling sharply three times as you quickly visualize the spirals of light. This is one of the most effective protections you will ever learn. Practice it!

There are some more exercises that will help your developing psychic ability that I will cover in this chapter. They include exercises to stimulate your Third Eye to open, a related exercise to improve memory, and two exercises to energize yourself. All of these exercises will be more effective if you do them the first time (at least) immediately following your progressive relaxation and meditation.

Exercise #3: Simple Exercises That Stimulate Your Third Eye

You can do these two exercises separately or together. The first is to hold your forefinger up and look at it as you slowly draw it closer to your forehead. As you look at it your eyes will cross. Repeating this will exercise your eyes muscles, and also train your eyes to achieve the ‘soft focus’ required for clairvoyantly seeing auras and energy. The actual techniques for doing that are taught in Psychic Development Level 2. Don’t overdue this exercise until you build up eye strength or you will get eyestrain. The second exercise to stimulate your Third Eye is simple. Just reach up to your forehead and rub the area just above the ‘root’ of your nose as often as you think of it. In fact, very gently massaging the center of the forehead for several minutes will also stimulate this center. You will not see any sudden opening using these techniques, but over time there will be a profound affect if you are consistent.

Exercise #4: An Exercise That Improves Memory

This exercise is related to the two preceding ones. It is essentially rubbing the Third Eye to improve memory. Here’s how:

When you have lost or forgotten something, and need to find it, merely call the thing you need to remember or find to mind, place the first 2 fingers of your right hand to your forehead and say to your Higher Self, “I need to recall or find....” Then take your fingers from your forehead, and put the whole thing out of your mind. Let it go. In a short time you will suddenly remember, as your Higher Self finishes going through the storage files of your subconscious mind and delivers up the answer to you!

Incidentally – this also is an excellent way to recall a dream if you forget it before you can write it down!

Exercise #5: Energize Yourself, and Develop Your Sensitivity to Energy

This exercise is very simple, yet very powerful. It is also the foundation of several other exercises that I teach in Psychic Development Level 2 that rely on the flow of energy through the hands. This exercise will energize you, teach you to feel energy, and also teach you to build energy through your hands. Students who have an interest in psychic healing or in studying Reiki at some future date should spend extra time with this one! Here it is:

Close your eyes. Hold your hands out in front of you, palms up. Imagine (visualize) a strong, intense beam of white light coming down and entering the center of each palm. The beams of light then travel up each arm, spread to your chest and heart, and from there fill your whole body with white light. Your palms will begin to get hot as you do this, and perhaps tingle as well. That is the light-energy you are feeling. Continue to do this for a few more minutes, and you will have lots of energy to get through the rest of the day with!

Exercise #6: Protect and Energize Yourself at the Same Time

This last exercise is particularly good for energizing yourself and protecting at the same time, and is really great when you are driving in traffic! All you need to do, when you feel stressed, is to place the palm of your right hand (right is sending, left is receiving) on the back of your neck and hold it there for a few minutes. Undoubtedly many of you already use this technique unconsciously, because it really does feel good! After a few moments of holding your hand there your neck and hand will get warm, you will begin to feel more relaxed and energized, and the stress will be gone. That’s because in putting your hand on the back of your neck you are not just adding energy into one of the body’s most receptive centers (the Throat Center) but you are also protecting it from the ‘negative dump’ of the drivers behind you! Of course, this can be used in other circumstances, too, when you need to energize and protect at the same time.

And many of the young ladies reading the part about the back of the neck being a most receptive center probably have just had a moment of illumination – YES....that is why so many men put their right hands on the back of their ladies’ necks... as a matter of fact, the Throat Center is a higher octave to the Root Center, which relates to sex! So ladies, if you don’t like the gentleman, don’t let him do that!

And while I’m at it and discussing cars anyway (or at least I was), here are a few interesting energy tips that will help you while driving, and give you a chance to exercise your sending ability and to see psychic energy at work. Go ahead and practice these exercises as often as you like – just remember your sense of right and wrong and be sure to not misuse them!

First, if you have someone in front of you going very slowly (way under the speed limit), you can usually get them to speed up by mentally ‘holding onto his bumper and holding him back.’ Obviously, you do this with visualization. I have noted that many people use this ‘blocking technique’ on the road to get and absorb the energy of all the rush-hour drivers behind them. But as soon as THEIR energy is pulled on, they can’t wait to get away!

If someone is tailgating you they are usually also making eye contact with you in your rearview mirror to try to push you to go faster. Eye contact is a phenomenal way to exchange energy. The eyes are, after all, the ‘windows to the soul!’ Try flipping the mirror to night vision. Usually, the tailgater will pull out and pass you in a matter of moments. It’s as if you just turned him off. It’s pretty amazing, really, to see this one at work. As an aside, be aware if you are right eye or left eye dominant. The right eye is the sending eye and the left is the receiving eye. That certainly tells you something about yourself! Try not to look with your left eye at another person’s right eye, unless you WANT to be on the receiving end of the conversation!

If you have an erratic driver on the road in front of you, and need him to move over, visualize a snow plow on the front of your car pushing him into the other lane. He will usually change lanes quickly. (This is only for erratic or dangerous drivers folks. It’s unethical to use it on others!) Needless to say, NEVER use this technique to push someone off onto a shoulder.

Try to send for all the lights between you and your destination to be green. You’ll be amazed at how often you can become successful at that. Experiment with various techniques. I usually simply see them all green all the way down the road, in my mind, as I leave the house in the morning.

*Note that you will not be able to affect a driver who is engaged with a passenger in conversation, or any driver who is not daydreaming. Remember the dangers of that uncontrolled daydream state?

Please be aware though, even as you practice these things that the universe is always talking to you through the symbols it places in your path. This is also known as synchronicity. Like energy attracts like energy. If you have a slow driver in front of you, perhaps you need to slow down in your life. If you have someone tailgating you, perhaps you are blocking someone in your life.

As a matter of fact, let’s take it even further. If you have a car crash, please evaluate what happened, exactly (without placing blame). That’s the universe talking to you too. If you were hit broadside, something is coming into your life that is literally ‘broad-siding’ you. Likewise, if your car is in the shop getting brakes, you probably need to put the brakes on somewhere in your life.

Our world is full of such symbols and the universe is always talking to you, letting you know where you stand. Work hard to be observant, and to search out and understand your symbols. It will help you with your psychic work, too.

And speaking of symbols... lets do a little more work with dreams before I close this chapter. We’re going to start following the dreams of some actual students. The dream I am recounting below was a recurrent dream for Marsha... she had it since she was about 14 years old, on and off, up until she was 27 years old.

Marsha’s Recurring Dream

Marsha is walking along a peaceful deserted beach at sunset. She’s looking in a tidal pool. The reflection in the pool shows a huge tidal wave coming up behind her. She turns, and sees a 40-foot wave headed for the beach. She wakes up hot and sweaty, feeling like she needs to run away.

Recurring dreams are always important. Remember, dreams are your Higher Self’s most direct way of communicating. If a dream is recurring, your Higher Self is trying very hard to get your attention! Usually, when you finally hit upon the meaning of the dream, it stops. If you get part of the meaning, the next time you dream it, something in it will have changed. You can often speed the process by rubbing your Third Eye before bed, and asking your Higher Self to give you a dream that gives extra insight into the one you do not understand. In this way your dreams can almost become a dialogue with your Higher Consciousness.

Well, here’s how I interpreted Marsha’s dream. First of all, let’s look at the first, most important part of the dream that tells who, where, and what the dream was actually about. Marsha was walking along a deserted beach at sunset. So the dream is about Marsha. I asked her if she knew of this beach, and she said, she didn’t, she only dreamed of it. So, it’s her ‘dream’ beach and she is alone on it. A beach is dry land. She’s walking on it... she’s not going into the water that represents emotion, the unconscious and intuition. She’s playing it safe. And she’s not looking toward the ocean; she’s looking into a small tidal pool, completely surrounded by safe beach. She’s seeing the world of her emotions only by reflection. And the concept of reflection is important... it tells of something being reflected back or perhaps repeated. What will be repeated? The tidal wave that disrupts her peaceful, ‘safe’ beach will be. Marsha’s emotion upon awakening is very important. She wakes up in a panic, feeling like she needs to run.

The fact that she was alone on the beach is a give away to me. I asked her if she was married, or had a boyfriend. Of course the answer was no to the marriage, yes to the boyfriend. Apparently, every time someone gets close, she runs away. Is this starting to sound like her dream? I questioned her. When she was 14 years old her parents were divorced. Shortly after that she started having tidal wave dreams. Not always the same, but always similar. She is always taken unaware in the dream. She always wakes up wanting to run. In her dream, Marsha is on dry land because she is afraid to take a chance on emotion. The sunset tells her it’s getting late. She will have to choose soon. She is only looking at her emotional needs through reflection. She has never had a dream where the tidal wave actually hit. She has never taken the chance. Sure enough, the fellow she’s dating is getting serious. She has to make a choice or lose him.

In Marsha’s case, once she understood the dream, she stopped having it. That is also why I knew it was a correct interpretation. If it hadn’t been, the dream would have continued to reoccur.

Your dreams can be interpreted on many levels. As in the case of Marsha’s dream, they can talk about real issues in our lives, or psychological problems you might have. But they can also be astral dreams – i.e., you can actually be meeting and interacting with other people while you sleep, and they can also give spiritual insight. You will eventually learn to interpret your dreams on many levels at once.

It’s also interesting that most really important dreams are short and to the point. The long rambling ones are more often than not your everyday mind gnawing on the day’s activities.

End of Chapter Activities

1. Continue recording and interpreting your dreams.

2. Continue recording your psychic experiences in your Do-good Book.

3. Continue with your telepathy exercises with your partner, this time including remote viewing. Instead of a colored shape, send a simple object.

4. Continue to practice your 10-point progressive relaxation daily.

5. Continue to meditate daily.

6. Practice your energy balloon, using the white light, the exercises to stimulate and open the Third Eye, and improve memory, and the energizing exercises.

Suggested Reading

- The Miracle of Universal Psychic Power by Al Manning

- Wisdom of the Mystic Masters by Joseph Weed

- Practical Guide to the Development of Psychic Powers by Melita Denning and Osborne Philips

- Manifest Your Destiny by Wayne Dyer

Chapter 4

Opening Your Psychic Energy Centers: The Chakra System

Psychic Development Level 1 is about setting the foundation for your future psychic work, and about raising your spiritual level of consciousness so that you may be as successful as possible in accessing information from the highest planes you are capable of reaching.

I know of no better way to help you to raise your own consciousness, increasing both your psychic and spiritual awareness, than to teach you to open and to develop your chakras, or as they are otherwise known, your psychic energy centers.

In this chapter you will learn what these centers are, where they are, why they are important, how to open and develop them, and what happens if they become blocked. You will also learn the Chakra Meditation, which is actually a guided visualization to lead you through the opening of your own psychic energy centers. For those of you who learn best through audio or video, the Chakra Exercise is now available on my Web site, www.SandyAnastasi.com, free of charge, and may be viewed online.

The Chakras

The Eastern term for Psychic Energy Center is chakra. A chakra is a gateway for energy to enter into the physical body. Clairvoyants such as C.W. Leadbeater (who wrote the classic book Chakras) describe the chakras as spinning wheels or tubes of energy that form connections between the physical body and the aura, (the energy field around the body), each being a distinctly different color as seen clairvoyantly. The color is directly related not only to the state of health of the chakra, but also to its nature. The state of health, openness, and developmental level of these chakras is most important to your own health and emotional and spiritual well-being. Having any of them closed or blocked has an affect similar to having plaque on an artery to your heart... the stuff you need for life does not get through. Ultimately, illness directly related to the blocked chakra results. But when your chakras are open and healthy, you are vibrant and filled with life-force energy. As you develop these chakras to where they can carry more energy, you experience an expansion of consciousness. Your psychic abilities begin to unfold as well. You become very magnetic to other people. Your innate psychic protection improves as well; having lots of energy makes it harder for other people to ‘download’ onto you. When the chakras reach a certain level of expansion and development, you may be one of those people to have a Kundalini experience in which the enormous amounts of life-force energy stored at the base of your spine in your Root Center are released up the spine through the seven major chakras, along the channel that in the East is called the Sushumna, opening the Crown Center at the top of your head to create a real spiritual awakening. I’ll discuss Kundalini in greater depth later on in this chapter.

This discussion next leads automatically to the question as to just what the aura, or human energy field, is. It is obviously interconnected with our physical body through the chakras. It is known to be electromagnetic in nature and that up until the invention of Kirlian photography few believed it existed, since only clairvoyants could see it. Today scientists admit it exists, but still know next to nothing about it. My own belief is that your aura is just as much YOU as your hand or foot. It is merely the part of you that exists on the next plane up... the lower astral (see Figure 2 in Chapter 2). It is a part of you that is vibrating at a much higher frequency than your physical body so that to most people it is invisible. (Note that EVERYONE can learn to feel the aura... and most people can learn to see it as well. These abilities are taught in Psychic Development Level 2.) It is also worth noting that when you astral travel it is the aura, or ‘the body of light,’ that does the traveling. Astral traveling is part of Psychic Development Level 3.

There are virtually thousands of little chakras, or energy wheels, in the body, but the seven major ones are the ones usually referred to as the Seven Chakras. These seven major energy centers are located at key places along the spinal column, whereas the rest are smaller, and are located all over the body... acupuncturists and massage therapists using acupressure will be familiar with these, as special energy points or vortexes they can work with to alleviate pain and illness with great success.

Figure 4 below shows the placement of the seven major chakras in the body along the spine and the three Astral Tubes that carry this energy up and down the spine. These function much like ‘antennae,’ bringing life force energy both down from the crown and up from the root. In the average person, energy is carried up one of the side tubes and down through the other, reversing polarity and direction of flow every two hours. (These side tubes are called the Ida and the Pingala.) In a person who has aroused the Kundalini energy, the flow is up the spine itself (this channel is called the Sushumna), since it alone is capable of carrying such a large amount of energy. When you learn the Chakra Exercise you will be visualizing energy moving up your spine, to encourage the expansion of the Kundalini. Interestingly, Chinese and East Indian doctors have long worked with the Ida and Pingala, but Western science did not admit to the existence of these tubes until recently since they cannot be seen with the eye alone. It was only with the advent of high-powered microscopes that Western scientists learned they were real.

Figure 4: The Placement of the Seven Chakras in the Body

The discussion that follows will give you a better understanding of what the seven chakras are, how you may best visualize them, how they affect you, and what parts of your body they correspond to. This understanding will make it altogether easier to work with them.

The Root Center

This is the bottom most chakra in the body itself. Note that there are also chakra points on the soles of the feet, but although important they are still minor chakras and they are not connected directly to the main seven chakra system we are working with here.

When you visualize the Root Chakra you should see it as a red spinning ball of light. (It is red on the physical plane level. Each chakra contains all seven colors of the rainbow, and more, within it and the colors listed here are only their physical plane correspondence. Because of that, when you actually do my Chakra Exercise, if your mind suggests a different color, don’t fight it. Perhaps you are seeing your chakra on a higher level!)

The Root Chakra is located at the base of the spine. The entrance point for the energy into this center is located at the vagina for a woman and at the perineum (midway between the anus and the testes) for a man. The Root Chakra is the most closely connected to the physical plane of all the psychic centers. It is the center associated with survival of the species, and with the fight or flight instinct. It is also strongly sexual, on an almost animal level.

This is the center, too, where in the average person most of our energy used to incarnate is stored. When you learn, slowly, to unleash this energy, you not only raise your consciousness, you unleash an enormous store of energy as well. Just consider – the atomic bomb that blew up Hiroshima only weighed 15 pounds... yet when the stored energy of that bomb was unleashed, it was enough to evaporate a large city... how many 15 pound bombs would fit into your body? How much do you weigh? How much energy is locked into your physical body that can be unleashed as you learn to open, develop, and expand your root center?

Most people are born with this center open, and fairly well developed. The Chakra Exercise will help to tap its energy to develop the higher centers. Many of us inadvertently block this center as we live our lives due to emotional issues touching upon survival fears, or sexual problems. Such blocks can result in health issues ranging from prostrate and uterine problems to kidney, bladder and bowel problems, to lower backbone and nerve problems. Again, the Chakra Exercise can help such individuals to clear the blocks and create a healthy Root Center once again.

All physical activities, from sex to bike riding and tennis help to keep the Root Center open and clear. Of all the centers, this one is most important to physical health and well being, being the most connected to the physical plane and the physical body itself. Aspiring psychics should pay close attention to this, because commonly psychics spend so much time working with their upper centers, that they allow their three lower centers to ‘atrophy’ and gradually become blocked. This often results in weight problems as well as physical health problems.

All of the main chakras affect the physical body so strongly because each is connected to one of the body’s ductless glands. When they are healthy and balanced, they help the gland to meter into the blood system the correct amount of hormone to keep the body balanced. But when they become blocked they cause the corresponding physical gland to malfunction, either putting too much or too little hormone into the bloodstream, creating an imbalance that all of the other glands now must try to compensate for. This is how ill health develops. We can keep our aura, the energy field around us healthy by working hard to eat right, sleep right, and get the right exercise... but our energy body can also keep our physical body healthy by maintaining a healthy emotional outlook on life. Remember, our aura, or astral body, exists on the lower astral plane, which is VERY sensitive to emotions. The physical body and the energy body are very closely interrelated... part of a single system, which needs to be balanced as one. The ductless glands that correspond to the Root Center are the gonads – the male and female sex glands.

When this center is open there is a strong sexual sensation, sometimes accompanied by physical symptoms such as tingling, etc.

Interestingly, this center is the lower level correspondent to the Throat Center. You will see that the three centers below the Heart Center correspond to the three above the Heart. They deal with similar things, but on different levels.

The Sacral Center

When you visualize the Sacral Center you should see an orange spinning ball of light, approximately two inches below your navel along the spinal column. The Sacral Center is also a strongly sexual center. Opening it may be associated with a feeling of pressure on the lower back (between the two hollows to either side of your spine on the lower back) or a pressure on the lower abdomen. Again, there may be tingling or feelings of sexual arousal as well. The Sacral Center connects to the spleen in the physical body. It is in fact sometimes called the ‘Spleen Center’ and is known in the marshal arts world as the ‘T’an T’ien’ – the seat of ‘body mind.’ This is the psychic energy center that is most creative, in a physical plane sense. All creative people, such as artists and musicians, as well as all marshal artists, have this center very strongly developed. Most people are born with it open, and well developed, but again, negative emotional reactions to life’s problems can cause it to become blocked. If blocked, involvement in any of the arts, marshal arts, meditation, or sex with a loving, caring partner can help to open it back up again, as can the Chakra Exercise. Illnesses associated with this center can again involve the sexual organs and lower back, but also the pancreas, liver, and spleen.

The Sacral Center is the seat of our lower intuition. People with this center well developed have very strong and accurate hunches. They usually know they have keen intuition and tend to follow their feelings more than most. The Third Eye Center is the Higher Octave to it.

The Solar Plexus Center

The Solar Plexus Center should be visualized as a bright yellow spinning ball of light, located at the base of the sternum, or breastbone. Its glandular counterpart in the physical body is the adrenal glands. The Solar Plexus Center is the seat of the lower mind. All of our human intellectual capabilities at this point in mankind’s evolution are drawn from this center – from our socialization, to our politics, to our science. People who have sharp minds, who are very social, who are good at technical things that require focus and concentration, all have well developed Solar Plexus Centers.

This center is open at birth in most people, and should be fairly well developed. People with this center well developed usually have strong lungs and powerful upper body development. When the solar plexus becomes blocked it is usually due to emotional disappointments in love or interpersonal relationships and can lead to heart, stomach, liver, upper digestive tract, lung or breathing problems. Since it is so closely placed in the body to the Heart Center, often these two centers operate together, head and heart. People operating strongly from this center though tend to take things personally, whereas people viewing life from a Heart Center level are more objective.

It is also worthy of note that this center is used to store the Kundalini energy once it has been released, since it is not possible to pull that intensity of energy back into the Root Center.

When the Solar Plexus Center opens it feels like extreme pressure is being placed on the base of the sternum. You may feel a need to take a very deep breath, feel your rib cage expanding outward, your upper back straighten. This is a powerful center that has the capacity to hold a great deal of energy. The higher octave to the Solar Plexus Center is the Crown Center. This is another reason why the Solar Plexus is used as the ‘storage area’ for energy raised but not needed.

The Heart Center

The Heart Center is the middle center, placed exactly between the three lower and three upper centers. You should see the Heart Center as a spinning ball of green light in the center of your chest, in your heart. The glandular counterpart to the Heart Center is the thymus gland. When this center is opening you feel your chest area expand outward, you may feel an actual ache in your chest... when it begins to develop and expand to carry larger amounts of universal life-force energy, you feel a rush of joy or as many followers of Eastern Religions call it, an outpouring of bliss. The Heart Center is the seat of unconditional love. When opened it has an infinite capacity for giving, and also an ability to receive freely and without restraint. It is the key to all healing work. When your Heart Center is open, you become a beacon of light to all the people around you. You actually generate a loving vibration that makes people simply want to be with you.

Most people in our world today are born with this center open, but undeveloped. As a matter of fact, one of the things we are all doing on the planet right now is learning to develop the unconditional love of the Heart Center. When all of us have this center open and fully developed there will be understanding and acceptance between all people. There will be no more war. Right now all of us have brief moments when this center operates on a higher level. For example, every woman pregnant with a child knows exactly the feeling I am talking about! But very, very few people on the planet have this center operating in its fully developed state all the time. As you raise your consciousness slowly, using the Chakra Exercise, this is one of the first centers you will see real progress in!

When this center becomes blocked, it is usually the overflow from a blocked Solar Plexus Center that causes the block, since the two centers are so close together in the body and connect so closely at this point in mankind’s development. And again, heart problems, lung problems, breathing problems, and upper spinal and shoulder ailments are the most common results.

The Throat Center

The Throat Center is the first of the upper centers. It is a higher octave to the Root Center, so of course you know it’s a highly creative center. All of us have this center partially open at birth, but not blocked... just not developed. In people where it is slightly more developed you see a strong will-power, an ability to work through problems that would stop other people. It is very likely that the only people on the planet at the moment with this center FULLY developed are the Avatars in India, who have elected to live far from human influences that can so readily pull them back down to a lower level. It has been noted by many people that the Avatar Sai Baba, for example, can materialize objects, and has been seen in several places by multiple people at the same time, even though he never left his home in the desserts of India. These are traits of a fully open and developed Throat Center – the ability to manifest your desires completely, immediately, and physically. Perhaps it is a good thing we can’t all do this one yet!

You should ‘see’ this center as a blue spinning sphere of light when you work with the Chakra Exercise. The corresponding gland in the physical body is the thyroid gland.

The Throat Center is located at the root of the tongue, high up in the neck almost where you would swallow. Seen from the back, the hollow at the base of the skull is an entrance point for energy into the Throat Center. Now you begin to see why so many cultures utilize sticking out the tongue to indicate dominance and virility. As a higher octave to the Root Center, this center is also strongly sexual.

It is important for those of you reading this who aspire to become psychic mediums to work hard to develop this center. As medium or a channel psychic information is more likely to be coming through you through your Throat Center than from you. It is therefore important that this center be well enough developed that you are not a sitting duck for ANYTHING that wants to come through. Only a strongly developed Throat Center will allow YOU to remain in control, and giving control over to an unknown force can be very dangerous indeed.

When the Throat Center opens you may feel your chin lifting and your throat area expanding as more energy begins to pass through it. You may feel a tingling going right down through your arms into your hands, which are very connected to this center, and you may even feel popping in your ears... again, they are closely related to this center.

A blocked Throat Center usually results from holding back the things you want and need to say. It can result in ear, throat, mouth, neck and thyroid problems.

The Third Eye or Ajna Center

The Third Eye Center is located at the root of the nose, between the eyes. When it opens you will usually feel a pressure there, and behind your eyes, and also in the middle of your forehead. It will feel as if your head is expanding and your eyes are somehow opening wider. When you visualize the Third Eye Center, see a deep indigo spinning sphere of light, in this area just between and above your eyes.

In most people this upper chakra is also only partially open, and undeveloped at birth, though not blocked. It usually remains that way throughout life, unless individuals do some sort of spiritual or psychic work to open it and develop it. If they do, it becomes their doorway into the realm of spirit. It confers the ability to see clairvoyantly when combined with the Crown Center. It gives the ability to see and hear your guides, and to connect with people who have crossed over. When fully open it gives the ability of omniscience, and the ability to literally see through people and things – x-ray vision, in effect. When this center becomes blocked, it is usually through misuse; from attempting to exert control psychically over another person. Blockages here result in head and eye problems.

The Third Eye Center is also highly creative, as is the Sacral Center, the center that is the lower octave to it. Since the gland associated with it, the Pineal gland, actually nestles against the Pituitary gland that corresponds to the Crown Center, these two centers almost always function as one. It is hard to separate their functions because of that. Many of history’s most inspired and creative people DID have these two centers open and channeled amazing things through them. Einstein, for example, ‘received’ E=MC squared, his famous energy-matter formula, while fishing in a rowboat! Beethoven ‘received’ his Ninth Symphony in only moments, hearing the whole thing from start to finish, and then took over five years to write it all out. But in these unusual people, the other chakras were not equally fully developed, so unfortunately they had severe problems in the other areas of their lives. It is for this reason that it is important to open, develop, and balance ALL the chakras, and ideally in order, as their capacities build one upon the other.

Interestingly, scientific studies have shown the pineal gland to be overlarge in infants. After infancy it shrinks down to the size of a pea, but expands again during adolescence... only to shrink back down in adults. But in Yogis it is enlarged, even beyond the size found in infants. Apparently, infants, adolescents, and Yogis are all using it for something! Yet science does not know what this gland does... only that it is also sensitive to light waves beyond the visible spectrum... and we know it to be primarily responsible for the psychic ability of clairvoyance.

The Crown Center

The Crown Center is located literally at the top of the head. In the East it is often shown as a thousand petal lotus because when fully opened it expands consciousness into other planes of existence, conferring great insight, intuition, wisdom, and an ability to merge the personality of the lower self with the exalted consciousness of the Higher Self. It is characterized by direct inspiration. When it is stimulated, it, combined with the Third Eye Center, confers clairvoyance and telepathic ability, as well as the ability to know the future. When it is opened or stimulated, you may feel like the hair on the top of your head is standing up, or get a tingling sensation all around the crown of your head, or feel the sensation of a very light hat on your head... or even like the top of your head is opening like a trap door. It’s not uncommon either to feel a ‘band’ around the head when both it and the Third Eye are open together. The color associated with this chakra is violet. The Crown Center corresponds to the pituitary gland. In most people it is partially open at birth, not blocked though, and undeveloped. If it does become blocked in life, it usually will do so because of over-negativity in ones thinking, an almost deliberate shutting down. This tends to result in migraines and severe head and neck tension.

Visualize this center as a brilliant violet ball of light spinning in the crown of your head.

Table 3: The Seven Chakras and Their Corresponding Attributes

Chakra Development Exercises

Well, now that you know what the chakras are and what they do, it is time to learn the exercise I use to teach you to open and develop them. Because you do this on your own, using your own energy and visualization, it is completely safe and is very effective. You will open and develop your chakras at your own pace in this way. There will be no danger of overload or imbalance, as there would be if you were working with a partner, or if you had someone trying to open them for you.

Two versions of the exercise are presented here. The first is the one that I have used for years with my students and is a basic and effective chakra development exercise. The second is a variation of the exercise developed by John Maerz. Both are effective. Both rely heavily on use of the breath, which gives them real intensity. Try both, and use the one that seems to work best for you! Feel free to experiment with other forms of this exercise that you might find from other sources as well.

Chakra Exercise #1

*This exercise can be done lying down since it is very energizing and employs active creative visualization, but since you are a beginner it is still a good idea to do it while sitting in a chair. Please note that the spin of a chakra will depend on whether it is pulling energy into your body (clockwise), or pulling energy from you into spirit (counter-clockwise). Since your Psychic Energy Centers may change their direction of spin every two hours; there is no ‘normal’ direction of spin. Whichever way they seem to be going on their own is the way you should let them spin. (* Note: I know that some authorities will disagree with this, but here I’m sharing MY experience with you.)

1. Close your eyes. Center yourself by taking three deep diaphragmatic breaths. With each exhalation, feel your body settling more firmly into the chair, letting go of all of your tension. Let each exhale be a little deeper than the preceding one. If you choose, you can do the 10-Point Progressive Relaxation and use your worry box as you learned in Chapter 3, but since this is an active meditation that degree of relaxation is not necessary unless you need it to calm your mind before proceeding.

2. Use one of the techniques you learned in Chapter 3 to put yourself in the white light. Spend time on this, until you are completely bathed in white light and your whole body feels like it is glowing and tingling. Know that there is a light source outside of you that is continually pouring white, radiant light into the energy field surrounding you (your aura), and in your mind’s eye see your aura becoming progressively more and more brilliant.

3. Now, breathe in sharply and deeply as you see a shaft of that incredibly brilliant white light from the energy field around you being directed into your Root Center at the base of your spine. With each successive inhalation continue to see the shaft of white light entering your body, and pooling at the base of your spine... entering into a luminous spinning sphere of red light that gets larger, spins faster, and becomes more brilliant and crystalline with each additional particle of light that enters it with each breath you take. Keep your focus on this image, and the sensations of heat, pressure, tingling, opening, and perhaps even arousal that accompany it, until it feels that your Root is about to burst with the amount of light energy entering it. At that point exhale completely and move on to number 4.

4. Breathe in again as you see a shaft of brilliant red light from the spinning sphere of your Root Center burst from the top of it and move up your spine, exhale and breathe in again until it merges into the next psychic energy center, the Sacral Center, two inches below your navel. As the red light energy from the Root Center enters the Sacral Center watch it turn orange, flooding into the Sacral Center that you see as a glowing spinning ball of orange light. Exhale and breathe in again as at the same time, you visualize another shaft of white light entering into the Sacral Center from the brilliant white aura surrounding you. See the white light coming in from the field surrounding you and the red light coming up from the Root Center merging into the glowing sphere of your Sacral Center, and then see it begin to spin faster, with an intensity and clarity that is as clear as a jewel. You may feel pressure on the spine or the stomach, feel a tingling or even burning sensation in the sacral area, or even feel a sensation of sexual arousal as the energies continue to intensify. Keep breathing in, while you keep visualizing the white light coming in from around you, and the red light coming up your spine and into the Sacral Center, until the ball of light virtually begins to fill your abdominal cavity and feels ready to burst from you. Then exhale completely and move on to number 5.

5. Again, breathe in as you see a shaft of light shoot up your spine... this time it is the orange light from the Sacral Center that explodes out the top of that Center and rises up to enter into the Solar Plexus Center. Exhale and breathe in again as you draw another beam of white light from the energy field around you into the Solar Plexus Center. In your mind’s eye see the orange light from below and the white light from outside both entering into the yellow sphere of light that is your Solar Plexus Center, at the base of your breast bone, and as they do, watch the light they shine with turn yellow, too. You may feel a need to draw in a very deep breath as this center opens and expands. Do it. Your ribs may feel like they are being pushed wider apart than ever before as you breathe. Your diaphragm muscle feels like it needs to expand to accommodate the light filling your lower chest area. You feel yourself sitting straighter. Your back in this area feels like there is literally a hole in it as white light energy keeps pouring in. Keep visualizing that orange light coming in from below, and the white light coming in from outside, as the Solar Plexus Center begins to glow with intensity strong enough to rival the sun in the sky. It becomes progressively more transparent, and spins faster and faster. Again, continue to breathe in as you visualize the light energy flowing in until the yellow energy bursts from the top of the Center. When it does, exhale completely, and move to number 6.

6. Breathe in again strongly as you visualize the yellow light of the Solar Plexus Center moving up into your heart. There it enters into the Heart Center, in the middle of your chest. Exhale and then breathe in again while at the same time you draw another shaft of white light from the energy field around you into your Heart Center. As these two beams of light enter into it you see it expand and glow with green light. At the same time you feel your physical heart as if it is expanding, and you’re filled with a sense of inner joy and well being as this center begins to open. Your shoulders straighten, you feel yourself needing to push your chest out to accommodate all of this green spinning light from the universal life force. As you continue to focus on breathing more light in with each inhalation, you feel waves of light energy filling up this center and causing it to overflow into the rest of your body, indeed into the world around you. Continue to hold this visual, letting your Heart Center fill with new life force in the form of the colored light and breath entering it. Again, let the pressure build in this center, helping it to grow and expand, until you find you cannot hold it any more, then breathe the green light from your Heart Center up your spine into your Throat Center. Exhale completely, and then proceed to number 7.

7. Feel your head thrown back on your neck, and your throat expanding as you breathe in the green light energy moving up your spine into your Throat Center. Be sure to keep your tongue on the soft pallet of your mouth to keep this circuit ‘closed’... at the same time bring a shaft of white light in from the energy field around you into your Throat Center and watch the green light of the Heart and the white light of the universal force merge into the blue light of your Throat Center. Keep visualizing the shafts of light entering your Throat Center with each breath you take, making that blue spinning sphere at your Throat change to a progressively more intense and vibrant crystalline color. Again, continue to bring the light in until the Center is expanded to hold as much ‘light energy’ as it can handle, and then shoot the blue light from your Throat Center up through your head and into your Third Eye Center. Exhale completely again, and move on to number 8.

8. See the blue light from your Throat Center shoot up through your head as you ‘breathe’ it into your Third Eye Center; keep that blue light entering into the spinning, deep, dark indigo sphere of is the Third Eye Center while you also breathe in a shaft of white light of universal life force from the energy field around you and direct it into your Third Eye Center too. Feel your forehead expanding, feel a band-like sensation around it and pressure in the center of it, as more and more light energy enters into this center and merges with it. Feel the depth of this center as it begins to make bridges to other dimensions and realities as you open it. You may find a corresponding tingling in the lower octave center to it, the Sacral Center, as you open it. Again, keep breathing in the light energy from both sources, the Throat Center below and the white light from outside of you, until you feel you can breathe in no more. Then, let the indigo light from this center move up into the crown of your head. Exhale again and move on to number 9.

9. Breathe the indigo light moving up through your head into your Crown Center and see it move into the center, to merge there with the violet of your spinning Crown Center. Breathe in again and pull a shaft of white brilliance from the field around you into your crown as well. It too merges into the violet of the Crown Center. Now with each breath you take keep drawing these two light energies into your crown. You may feel like the top of your head is going to burst open... feel your consciousness expanding far beyond the limits of your physical brain and mind. Continue to breathe the light energy into this center for as long as you can. When you feel that you can hold no more in this center, exhale and move on to number 10.

10. Now, holding your attention primarily on your Crown Center, ‘look down’ to your Root Center. You see it pulsing strongly with clean, clear red light. Exhale, and as you breathe in, pull that red energy from the Root Center up your spine to your Sacral Center. Take a moment to let the red light from the root mix in a swirling motion with the orange light of the Sacral Center, while holding your breath. Exhale. Then breathe that mixture of red and orange light up into your Solar Plexus Center. There let the red of the root, orange of the sacral, and yellow of the solar plexus swirl together, while you hold your breath. After a few moments exhale again. Now breathe in again and as you do pull these three colors, still swirling together, up your spine into your Heart Center where now you have red, orange, yellow and green light energy swirling together. Again, hold your breath while you watch them swirling around. Then exhale once again. When you breathe in again, breathe those four swirling colors in your heart, red, orange, yellow, and green, up into your Throat Center. Again, hold your breath as you add these into the blue of your throat center. When all the colors are flowing smoothly together, breathe out again. On your next inhale draw all of the colors of light energy you’ve gathered from the chakras (red, orange, yellow, green and blue) up into the Third Eye Center. Again, hold your breath as you watch all these colors swirl together. Then exhale again and on your next inhalation draw the swirling colors, finally, up into your Crown Center. Hold your breath once more as you watch all seven colors – root red, sacral orange, solar plexus yellow, heart green, throat blue, Third Eye indigo, and crown violet swirl together. When the pressure has built up and you can hold your breath no longer, exhale all seven rainbow colors out the crown of your head, shooting them up and out into the universe.

11. Now, let your breathing slowly return to normal. Keep your eyes closed for a few moments while you access the new feelings in your body and your chakras.

Be sure to allow your awareness to return to normal before driving or operating heavy machinery.
Chakra Exercise #2

1. Sit comfortably with arms and legs uncrossed. Inhale in through the nose while expanding the belly. Let the weight of your body create the exhale pressure as you breathe out gently. Repeat two more times then breathe normally and gently. Follow your breath like the tide. Don't attempt to control it, just follow its rhythm for a few cycles.

2. Then, in your mind’s eye, step out of yourself and look at yourself. See a point of white light in the middle of your heart. Each time you breathe in feel that light expand further and further out to encompass your heart, your lungs and chest, your shoulders, arms and hands, your neck and head, your hips legs and feet.

3. You are now completely surrounded within an egg of clean, clear, cleansing, energizing and protective white light. Sit for a moment and relish the comfortable protected feeling.

4. At this point follow your ten-point progressive relaxation exercise to relax your body if you need to.

5. Within your mind's eye, look down at your feet while still relaxing within your white light egg. See the white light gather in a funnel in a counter-clockwise direction (right to left), spiral up and enter into your root center through the perineum.

6. Powered by the breath this light enters the Root Chakra, spirals up and in counter-clockwise, turns red and proceeds to fill up the center. The inhale serves as a bellows pulling the energy up and in, increasing in speed, filling and spinning, throwing off the day's debris. Faster and faster it fills, spins and turns red while growing in strength and intensity. As the Root Center fills to capacity a trap door opens in its top allowing the red light to spiral up into the Sacral Chakra.

7. Powered by the breath the red light enters the Sacral Chakra, spirals up and in counter-clockwise, turns orange and proceeds to fill up the center. The inhale serves as a bellows pulling the energy up and in, increasing in speed, filling and spinning, throwing off the day's debris. Faster and faster it fills, spins and turns orange while growing in strength and intensity. As the Sacral Chakra fills to capacity another trapdoor opens in its top allowing the orange light to spiral up into the Solar Plexus Chakra.

8. Powered by the breath the orange light enters the Solar Plexus Chakra, spirals up and in counter-clockwise, turns yellow and proceeds to fill up the center. The inhale serves as a bellows pulling the energy up and in, increasing in speed, filling and spinning, throwing off the day's debris. Faster and faster it fills, spins and turns yellow while growing in strength and intensity. As the Solar Plexus Chakra fills to capacity another trapdoor opens in its top allowing the yellow light to spiral up into the Heart Chakra.

9. Powered by the breath the yellow light enters the Heart Chakra, spirals up and in counter-clockwise, turns green and proceeds to fill up the center. The inhale serves as a bellows pulling the energy up and in, increasing in speed, filling and spinning, throwing off the day's debris. Faster and faster it fills, spins and turns green while growing in strength and intensity. As the Heart Chakra fills to capacity another trapdoor opens in its top allowing the green light to spiral up into the Throat Chakra.

10. Powered by the breath the green light enters the Throat Chakra, spirals up and in counter-clockwise, turns blue and proceeds to fill up the center. The inhale serves as a bellows pulling the energy up and in, increasing in speed, filling and spinning, throwing off the day's debris. Faster and faster it fills, spins and turns blue while growing in strength and intensity. As the Throat Chakra fills to capacity another trapdoor opens in its top allowing the blue light to spiral up into the Third Eye Chakra.

11. Powered by the breath the blue light enters the Third Eye Chakra, spirals up and in counter-clockwise, turns deep dark indigo blue and proceeds to fill up the center. The inhale serves as a bellows pulling the energy up and in, increasing in speed, filling and spinning, throwing off the day's debris. Faster and faster it fills, spins and turns deep dark indigo blue while growing in strength and intensity. As the Third Eye Chakra fills to capacity another trapdoor opens in its top allowing the indigo blue light to spiral up into the Crown Chakra.

12. Powered by the breath the deep dark indigo blue light enters the Crown Chakra, spirals up and in counter-clockwise, turns violet and proceeds to fill up the center. The inhale serves as a bellows pulling the energy up and in, increasing in speed, filling and spinning, throwing off the day's debris. Faster and faster it fills, spins and turns violet while growing in strength and intensity. As the crown center fills to capacity another trapdoor opens in its top allowing the violet light to spiral up and out of the top of the head like a fountain.

13. As it spirals upward like a fountain it turns back to crystal white, folds over you like an umbrella and starts to spin in a clockwise direction (left to right) down around you.

14. As it moves back down your body like a clockwise tornado it accumulates any leftover debris.

15. Spiraling down it moves past your ears, your shoulders, your elbows, your hips, your knees and your feet pushing the debris back into the earth for re-use. Deep into the earth it turns back up toward you and returns to a counter-clockwise spin coming up through your root center, sacral center, solar plexus center, heart center, throat center, Third Eye Chakra, crown center and back out the top of your head like a fountain.

16. Bring it back down around you again, pushing the debris into the earth.

17. When you bring it back up again, this time let the white light push up and out into the universe.

Kundalini

Earlier in this chapter I promised I’d include a discussion about Kundalini. The best way to do this, I think, is to copy here some correspondence between myself and a student who probably had the same questions you do. Here is her letter to me, and my response:

Sandy,

I was reading about Kundalini and it said that this energy is often referred to as the ‘coiled serpent’ that lives in the Base Chakra...

I remember John Edward calling it the ‘serpent rising’... what I read says that as the medium develops, the serpent starts to uncoil and rise up through the chakras... how would I know that this is happening Sandy?? Is it now?? Should it be now, or am I to that point??

And it also said that it is imperative that this is not done too fast as the Kundalini can affect the physical body and actually cause physical harm... I'm sure I'm not going too fast... so I really don't have to worry about that, but how would I know?

And lastly... it says that once the serpent is uncoiled, it will remain uncoiled... does this mean once you have the knowledge, you never lose that??

I'm just trying to get this in my frame of reference so I might understand it a little clearer...

Thank you for your help...

Love and hugs,

Lisa

Hello Lisa,

When your soul incarnates the excess life energy (Kundalini) to be used for evolution over time is stored in the Root Chakra at the base of the spine. In this state it is called the ‘coiled serpent.’ Serpent, because all energy travels in spirals, and as it is slowly released over time, causing a rise in consciousness that usually occurs over successive lifetimes, it spirals up the spine activating and raising the energy of each of the other major chakras, giving it the 'appearance' of an uncoiling serpent.

The raising of Kundalini is the natural process of evolution. It occurs in all creatures, not just man. All of us draw on our 'Kundalini' energy at times, and in small ways. Each time we draw on it, we pull more of it up and it stays there, helping us to evolve and grow. When someone such as yourself sets her feet on a conscious path toward spiritual evolution, through the accompanying practices the Kundalini is raised more quickly, though it is still in reality a slow, controlled, release, which enhances the body as opposed to causing illness. Right now, with the meditations from our Psychic Development series, especially the Chakra Meditation, you are in the process of raising your Kundalini in a controlled manner. When you raise your Kundalini in this way, with control, slowly over time, YOU are the one pulling up YOUR OWN energy... and you cannot cause harm. You will only be able to draw up as much energy as your body is capable of channeling right now. What is interesting though is that the effect is quantitative... the more energy you raise, the more you are able to raise!

Meanwhile, very occasionally someone has the Kundalini coiled at the base of the spine released all at once. This is referred to as having 'Kundalini rising' or a ‘Kundalini experience.’ If the body and emotions are properly prepared, the result is a total alteration of consciousness. In essence, the Higher Self can completely occupy the body. The personality becomes a suit of cloths for it. You in essence would become somewhat omniscient... you could hear people's thoughts, see energy (not just auras), know things the average person has never even imagined. It is a transcendent experience. This is the experience all the Yogis in India spend their lifetimes searching for, and few achieve. Meanwhile, in our society, when an individual 'raises the Kundalini' in this all-encompassing way, there is little use for it. So, it usually drops back down and is stored in the Solar Plexus Center, where it is more readily accessible to be drawn on at need. Then, the separation of Higher Self and Personality occurs again, only the Higher Self has a more direct conduit to the Personality than it did before. Kundalini energy cannot go back down to the Root Center once raised. The Root Center can no longer handle the energy, which once uncoiled, expands.

When the Kundalini rises but the person is physically or emotionally blocked, it can be dangerous in that the spine (the only conduit that can handle the energy) cannot channel the energy so it spiders out into other nervous channels and can burn them out or overload them. This is why I always emphasize that you should not let someone else try to raise the Kundalini for you. When it occurs naturally, this sort of problem rarely occurs.

Sincerely,

Sandy Anastasi

End of Chapter Activities

1. Study and become familiar with the location, colors, and meanings of the seven major chakras.

2. Practice one of the chakra exercises in this chapter daily.

3. Continue to meditate daily, be sure to use your 10-point relaxation.

4. Continue to practice the ‘tools’ given in Chapter 3. These include the white light, the energy balloon, exercises to open the Third Eye, improve memory, and energize yourself, as well as your worry box.

5. Continue recording your psychic experiences in your Do-good Book.

6. Continue recording your dreams in your Dream Book.

7. Do a telepathy exercise with a partner; send a simple object and attach an emotion to what you send. See if your partner can get the emotion as accurately as the object. Don’t forget to use your remote viewing.

Suggested Reading

- The Chakras by C.W. Leadbeater

- Remote Viewing Secrets by Joseph McMoneagle

- Chakra & Kundalini Workbook by John Mumford

Chapter 5

Exercises to Deepen Meditation, Open Psychic Centers, and Increase Psychic Awareness

In this chapter I am returning to the discussion of tools that will increase the awareness you are working toward achieving. The tools I am introducing through the exercises in this chapter build upon the ones you have already learned, and include the creation of your own special magical workplace on the inner planes, along with an energy screen, and also the use of Mantra in meditation to further open your Throat Center. You will learn to work with the Crown Center Mandala. You will also get a chance to learn and to practice some practical telepathy exercises. At the end of the chapter we’ll review the various meditations you have learned.

Exercise #1: Creating Your Magical Workplace and Using Your Energy Screen

For best results, just jump right into doing this exercise, and we’ll discuss what your Workplace is and other ways you can use it at the completion of the exercise. If you have a tape recorder, you may want to read it into the recorder yourself and then play it back while you close your eyes and follow your own voice... you are likely to achieve better results that way. The latter part of the exercise teaches you to use your energy screen to do your sending and receiving exercises. You may want to set a time with your telepathy exercise partner so you can practice it with him, long distance.

1. Close your eyes, put your cares and concerns into your worry box, put yourself in the white light, and do your 10-Point Progressive Relaxation.

2. From there go immediately into the Chakra Exercise that you have chosen to use.

3. At the completion of the Chakra Exercise, allow your breathing to deepen as you drop into meditation with your concentration on your breath.

4. After a few minutes, begin the following visualization:

1. Imagine that you are walking along a beach. You can feel the wet sand beneath your feet, feel the salt spray of the water on your skin, and smell the salt air. As you walk you see a path that leads off away from the beach. You begin to follow it. Before long, you come to a special place that you immediately recognize is YOUR place. It may be a building, or a cave, or even a clearing in the forest. Whatever your mind gives you is correct.

2. Now your special place has a door. Outside the door is your worry box. Place any remaining cares or worries in it, and close the lid. You’ll leave it outside as you go in. Now open the door and step inside.

3. Inside you see a stairway. Take the stairs. They will lead you to your magical workplace. A place that only you, and your guides, can come into. A place within you that is totally safe and protected.

4. When you get to the end of the stairs go into your workplace. Slowly turn around a full 360 degrees as you look around. Take note of the colors of walls, furnishings, etc. See what is in your own magical workplace on your inner planes. Your workplace will always reflect you. Always look it over like this whenever you come here. Changes in it reflect changes in you!

5. Now in the center of your workplace is a worktable with an energy screen on it. My screen looks like a computer screen... but yours could be a T.V., or a chalkboard, or a window, or even a crystal ball. Let your screen be whatever your unconscious mind suggested first.

6. Now let’s explore a way to use your energy screen to long distance view someone, and to send and receive a message. Why not work with the partner you usually do your telepathy exercises with? Otherwise, just do the remote viewing part of the exercise for now.

7. Move to the center of your workplace and ‘turn on’ your energy screen. It is a blank white screen at the moment. Now focus your thoughts on the partner you want to send to, and watch the screen as a full-size picture of him appears on it. Take a moment to notice how he is wearing his hair, where he is, what he is doing, and what is in the room around him. You will find this easy to do since it is so much like watching T.V., and you are very good at that! You are now using your energy screen to remote view your partner. Be sure to write all this down when you are done, so you can check it with him.

8. Next, see the object you wish to send him appear on your energy screen next to him. Either watch him take the object and look at it, or see the object move into his head. Watch him shake his head yes, to let you know he ‘got it.’

9. It’s time for you to use your energy screen to do your receiving. Turn the screen off, and the image of your partner receiving your thought is gone. Turn it back on to the plain white screen again. Let another image of your partner form on the screen. But this one is sending YOU something. Just keep looking at the screen until something appears on it. Your partner’s image will disappear and the object will replace it.

10. Now that you’ve learned how to use the energy screen, turn it off again, and step back from your worktable. Turn slowly around 360 degrees. Take careful note of any changes that have taken place in your workplace. Remember, any changes in you are always reflected in it.

11. When you are done, take the stairway once again, move out through the door, and count yourself back to your normal waking consciousness by counting slowly backward from 10 to 1.

You actually learned two valuable tools here. If you go into your magical workplace when you meditate your meditation will be deeper. If you go into your workplace before you do your energy balloon, your energy balloon will be much more effective. Anything that requires intense concentration and focus, and that you are left alone, is better done from your workplace.

Your energy screen has many uses, the first three of which you just learned. These are remote viewing, sending and receiving. Practice those until you are comfortable using the energy screen. It can also be used for distance healing, self-hypnosis, viewing past lives, and astral traveling. We’ll be learning those techniques in Chapter 6.

Meditation Using a Mantra

Mantra is the use of sound in meditation to alter consciousness and open the psychic energy centers via vibration. It is not unusual, if you are studying meditation in an Ashram with a Yogi, for the Yogi to ‘listen’ to your inner vibration, and give you a Mantra of your own that resonates to that vibration. In sounding that tone or word as you meditate, you bring your own energy into resonance with the tone, and in doing so you balance your energy and raise your consciousness. Those of us, who don’t have the benefit of a Yogi to give us a Mantra, can still use the time-honored ones of OHM, or SO-HUM that help us to raise our vibrations, too.

And frankly, just emitting any part of the OHM, an AH, or OH, or Hmmm is also effective.

You will find, when you start using Mantra, that the initial tone that comes from you as you ‘sing’ the Mantra, is the tone that carries the vibration you are most comfortable with. As you move your voice up and down the scale you can use ‘Mantra’ to literally clear all of your energy centers. The tones that are hardest to reach will be the ones linked to the centers that are blocked. All Mantra clears, opens, and develops the Throat Center. Holding a clear quartz or smoky quartz crystal while you do Mantra Meditation will amplify the sound and tone within you. It will increase the effectiveness of the Manta, or Toning, as it is sometimes called. Also, doing your Mantra Meditation with friends in a group is a truly magical experience, and will help you to achieve a deeper and more effective meditation, too.

Many of you will find that the exercise below is one of the most effective in helping you to clear your chakras and open a channel within yourself to reach the deepest levels of meditation.

Exercise #2: Meditation Using a Mantra

1. Close your eyes and take three complete breaths to ground and center yourself.

2. Prepare yourself for meditation as described in Chapter 2.

3. Use your worry box.

4. Move to your magical workplace in your mind (if you choose).

5. Surround yourself with the white light (Chapter 3).

6. Do your 10-Point progressive relaxation (Chapter 2).

7. Do some alternate nostril breathing to balance your brain and deepen your state of awareness.

8. Now begin your Mantra. Choose to ‘tone’ – ‘Ahhhhh,’ ‘OHMmmmm,’ or ‘Soooooo Hummmmmm.’ Whichever you choose, continue to sound it aloud as if you are singing it over and over. The ‘Ah’ and ‘OHM’ should be sounded on the exhalation, extending the breath as long as possible and letting the inhalation take care of itself. The ‘So Hum’ may be broken up with the ‘So’ sounded on the inhalation and the ‘Hum’ on the exhalation. Do the Mantra for at least five minutes, using complete, or great, breaths. You should continue for as long as it takes for you to feel clear and light. Mantra done properly has the effect of completely clearing the mind, bringing in a sense of lightness and crystal clarity. Remember, that if you want to clear and open all the chakras through Mantra, not just the throat, all you need do is carry your voice up and down the scale spending the most time on the difficult notes!

9. When you have finished your Mantra and you have gained that mental state of still, clear mind, enter into a normal sitting meditation as described in Chapter 2.

10. When you are ready to return to a normal waking consciousness you may count yourself back from ‘10’ to ‘1’ or simply say to yourself ‘1.’

*Do not drive or operate heavy equipment until you have fully returned to a normal waking state. If you have made a tape of this or any other meditative exercise in this book, do not use it while driving.

This next section is one of the most fun exercises in this book. It is in essence a practical application of your growing telepathy skills. Once mastered it can be a very rewarding skill. For this you will need a willing partner. Yes, you can practice on the dog or cat, but your exercise will necessarily be more limited and a little more difficult to get feedback on. You can also practice with your partner over the telephone, or even in a chat room on the internet, but it does become more difficult when you can’t physically see your partner.

Here’s what you will be doing: If you and your partner are in the same room, you will sit opposite them. One of you will be the sender and one the receiver in the first section, and then you’ll reverse roles for the second section.

The sender is going to tell the receiver to do something physical telepathically. The receiver, getting the message is going to do it! Done properly, this exercise improves both your sending and receiving skills dramatically.

Here’s an example – suppose I am sending to you. I will look with my right sending eye at your left receiving eye. I will feel a wave of energy pass outwards from my Throat Center (the Will) and another from my Third Eye (clairvoyant ‘sending’) carrying the thought of what action I want you to take with it. I see that thought pass into your head. I see you taking that action. Now, bear in mind that if I want you to scratch your nose, that is not one action, it’s actually about four. So, it’s easier for me to project an itchy nose and to see the final action I desire, than to try to walk you through each part. You, for your part, must work to be very open to my sending. You must pay attention to any urges or mental or visual flashes you have, and act them out. When I see your action, I have my feedback. If I saw no action, when we finished the exercise I would ask you what you felt. Perhaps you did get it, and didn’t interpret it correctly. This whole thing should take less than 10 seconds. When you send, do not plan what you are going to send before you start, because your partner will likely get it as soon as you think it, and assume it is not right because they didn’t get it during the exercise. The more often you practice the better you will get. Remember, too, that in every relationship there is a sender and a receiver. Once you determine in your telepathy partnership who is the better sender, who the better receiver, you will probably continue to working that mode. So at that point, find an additional partner who will help you hone your opposite skill.

You can readily do this exercise with your pet (most are wonderful receivers) but if they choose not to participate you will never know if they really ‘got’ your sending and just ignored it, or if they didn’t get it at all! Also, your pet cannot send back to you on command. So there are limitations to this form of practice.

If you are practicing on the telephone or the internet you cannot make eye contact, or see your partner, so you have to visualize him. But it can still be done. In fact, it is a good alternative practice technique.

I shouldn’t need to tell you, by now, that it is very important that ‘psychic etiquette’ be followed when practicing this exercise. Do not do it with an unwilling partner, or with a partner who is unaware of what you are doing. To impose your will on another person in that way is essentially doing black magic with your mind.

Exercise #3: Practical Telepathy Exercise

1. Sit with your partner facing you.

2. On the count of three begin your exercise.

3. Project the motion you want your partner to do using the above technique.

4. After a count of 10 stop sending. Put your thoughts totally on something else.

5. Wait a few more seconds, in case your partner didn’t get your message until you let it go.

6. Get feedback.

7. Reverse roles and repeat steps 1 through 6.

Exercise #4: The Crown Center Mandala

This next exercise utilizes your physical eyes to open the Third Eye Center and Crown Center, both of which must be open in order to develop clairvoyance and precognition. It utilizes a Mandala developed in India and representing the thousand-petal lotus of the Crown Center. To use this, merely gaze at it as often as possible. If you like, photocopy it and place copies around your house in strategic places. Used over a long period of time it will gradually train your eyes to see clairvoyantly and your Third Eye to open. In Psychic Development Level 2 we will work extensively with this, so beginning to work with it now is a good idea.

To use the Mandala to help open your Third Eye and Crown Center gaze (don’t stare) at it as often as possible. Rest your eyes if they become tired, and then continue. Let your eyes follow its contours and drift around the Mandala if they want to. Have fun!

Figure 5: The Crown Center Mandala
A free, printable copy of this is available at www.SandyAnastasi.com.

We will be learning to see and feel Auras in Psychic Development Level 2. If you begin working with the Crown Center Mandala now, you will have much better results with developing clairvoyance later on!

An Overview and Review of the Meditation Tools You Have Learned So Far

In the last section of this chapter I will be reviewing with you the various meditation tools and techniques you have learned so far, and adding a few variations:

Yogic Style Meditations

This form of meditation is the basic form from which all others are developed, and is therefore most important to master. There are many forms of Yogic Meditation. However, all utilize the precept of total concentration and breathing.

It is usual in its most basic form for the practitioner to sit quietly without crossing either hands or feet, close the eyes, relax the body (using a special relaxation technique such as the 10-Point Relaxation) and begin to focus concentration only on the breath.

The object initially is to relax and blank the mind so that one’s entire sense of consciousness is focused on the air entering and leaving the lungs. It is imperative that each breath is from the diaphragm, which means that tight fitting cloths must be loosened, and the in-breath and out-breath should be of approximately equal length. You will find that the out-breath is initially difficult to let out completely, but with practice this will become easier and facilitate the complete cleansing of lungs and body with each breath.

The best times of day to meditate are when the energies of earth and environment are least active, that is, dawn, dusk, and anytime during the night, especially around 3:00 a.m. Of course, if you can only choose one time during the day and it is not one of these by all means do. It's better than not meditating at all. You should also attempt to choose the same time, and the same place each day, as the energies will collect and help you more by doing this.

Yogis say you should not eat prior to meditating as this draws the prana, or life-force energy, to your stomach to digest the food, and therefore inhibits the raising of consciousness. I have found this to be true, yet if you are really hungry, your stomach bothering you all during your meditation can also ruin your attempt, so if you haven't eaten at all (for example upon rising in the morning) in several hours it might be a good idea to have just a few bites of fruit or juice or something equally light to take the edge off and free your mind for meditation, not eating.

As you meditate your mind will rebel by constantly taking you away from your concentration on the breath. When this occurs, simply return to your concentrated breathing as soon as you become aware of it.

Visualizing the breath as light moving in and out of your body is an aid to occupying the mind and furthering the concentration. Also, feeling the air enter and leave your system is a further aid.

The following techniques may be used to enhance this form of meditation or to enter the meditative state more quickly:

1. Alternate Nostril Breathing: The first 10 times breathing in only thru one nostril, out thru the other, and then reversing the nostrils for ten more breaths. The effect this has is to balance the left and right energy zones and to over-oxygenate the blood to enter the meditative state more swiftly.

2. Alternate Nostril Breathing with Counting: In this method you follow the same technique as above, but as you breath in you breath to the count of 10, then you hold for 10, breath out for 10, and hold again before breathing in for 10. I do this only seven times on each side. This is even more effective for persons who become dizzy when doing (1) – this will eliminate the dizziness.

3. Alternate Nostril Breathing Turning the Head: In this method you follow the same technique again as in item 1 but each time you switch nostrils you turn your head to left or right, always in the opposite direction. Do this 10 times on each nostril. The effect is dizzying and disorienting in addition to the other affects stated under item 1. This is good for people who have trouble letting go.

4. Postures: These are widely used by persons practicing Yoga and if you are interested in trying some of these, there are many books currently available in the local library demonstrating such postures. There are also cable television programs on several networks that demonstrate them, and local instructors available for classroom instruction. The purpose of these postures is to physically open and integrate the body's energy system so that when the posture or position is adapted and used in conjunction with various breathing exercises such as those listed here the body's energy is raised and consciousness may begin to be transformed.

5. Mantra: The use of the vocal chords (throat center) in vocalizing certain sounds such as AUM, SO HUM, etc., may be combined to very good effect with the technique of concentrating on the breath. When you try this, listen to the note(s) that come from your lips to get an idea of what body centers are blocked, or unblocked. The pitch and notes you keep hitting will show where you're concentrating your energies; try moving the notes up and down the scale and see how it feels. If you combine this with (6) look at what colors are associated with each note. Do any of them appear tinged with brown? If so, you are releasing used, unclean energy through them. Keep hitting that note until it's clear.

6. Color Visualization: As you breathe in and out see the energy as light, and watch it turn to various colors as it enters and leaves your body. Now see the energy as white light being breathed in, and then flowing to all parts of your body, energizing it. Finally, breathe in the white light and let it flow throughout your body and finally up into your head, and hold it there before breathing it out. As you breathe it out try a final technique – see the energy in your head rise up out the top of your head and form a violet ball of light before drifting apart.

7. Energy Balloon: Using color visualization again, see the white light enter your body, spreading thru it, and congregating in the base of your spine and your lower body. Then, as you breathe in see the white light move up through your body and up your spine, and as you breathe out see it burst out the top of your head and begin to spin down around you, forming a sort of balloon or a protective cocoon.

8. Basic Relaxation Exercise: This exercise can be used any time but is a good way to get ready for a good meditation. Here is a summary you can readily use:

10-Point Progressive Relaxation

1. Relax the head, face, neck, jaw, and eyes.

2. Allow the accumulated relaxation from (1) to flow into the mind, relaxing it.

3. Let the relaxation of the mind flow thru the whole body.

4. When the flowing relaxation reaches the feet, hold it there, focusing on the toes, then the feet, then legs, relaxing those muscles.

5. Now relax the abdomen, hips, lower back, and internal organs of this region.

6. Next, relax the upper chest, diaphragm, upper back, and internal organs relating to this area.

7. Relax the spine and the entire back.

8. Relax the arms, hands, fingers, and shoulders.

9. Bring your focus back to the head, again feeling its total relaxation.

10. Let the completion of relaxation flow thru the whole being.

Chakra Meditation

This form of meditation is an active or Yang type of meditation as opposed to the very Yin or totally passive form of meditation described as Yogic Meditation.

To do this first see yourself in a sea of white light, completely encircled by it. It sometimes helps to imagine a shower head above you and consider it the ‘universal source’ and see a shower of pure radiant white energy coming down and completely surrounding you. Now take a beam of this energy and direct it at your Root Center, base of the spine. As it moves into your body, opening the center, see it turn red. Allow yourself to feel and perceive any sensations that accompany this.

Sometimes a spinning sensation accompanies the opening of each center, sometimes pressure of some sort, or even emotional sensations.

Allow yourself now to feel the energy of that center pushing upward along your spine. When this occurs direct another beam of white light from the field around you into the center two inches below your navel, the Sacral Center.

As the light enters the center, see its color turn orange and again pay attention to any accompanying sensations.

Finally, feel it pushing upward along your spine once again and as you allow this energy to push up into your Solar Plexus Center, at the base of the sternum, also direct a beam of light into it from around you and again focus on the accompanying sensations. The color associates with this should be yellow.

Next, you will begin to feel pressure up along your spine to open the Heart Center, so allow the energy to push up your spine as you now direct a beam of green light from the surrounding field into the heart. Again, feel what's happening.

Next, direct the light beam into the Throat Center, and see it turn blue. When pressure begins to mount, let it and feel that.

From the Throat Center the energy moves up into the Third Eye, located at the root of the nose; as you feel the energy pressing to move up, let it, and now direct a beam of indigo (blue-black, almost purple) light into the Third Eye. Again, feel the accompanying sensations and any pressures.

Then you'll feel the energy again trying to push upward, and as it does, allow it to move as you direct a beam of white light from the surrounding field into your Crown Center located dead center in your forehead, but buried deep inside your brain. Watch the energy you send in turn violet. You may feel your hair standing on end or a feeling of a band around your forehead as this center begins to open.

As the energy again pushes upward and you feel the need to release it out the top of your head, don't.

First, in your mind, reach down to the base of your spine and collect the red energy filling the whole of your body at that point. Draw it up your spine and add to it the orange energy of your Sacral Center; draw it up again and add to it the energy of your solar plexus, yellow, and up again to add the green of your Heart Center.

Pay attention to the feelings and sensations of each center as you draw the energy up and through them.

Now draw all of the accumulated energy up through your Throat Center, adding the blue to it, then up through your Third Eye where you add the Third Eye's indigo. Finally move it up to the Crown Center where you add the final violet to your ‘rainbow’ and then, as you feel it again pressing to exit through your scalp, allow all the energy to burst out the top of your head, diffusing back into white light as it re-emerges with the universal energy.

This exercise is an excellent developer of the psychic faculties, and is also exceptionally protective.

Some people may perceive different colors than those given here for each center, and they should use whatever color seeks to impose itself, as these will be specific to them. Colors given here are physical plane correspondences.

Guided Meditation

This term refers to any form of meditation in which visual images are offered by yourself or an outside instructor to induce a meditative or sometimes hypnotic state in which you will be open to psychic or other impressions. This technique is not one, which uses the breath, nor is it protective in nature, of itself. Any protection afforded through this technique is strictly supplied by the visualizations offered. There are many approaches and techniques of guided meditation, many of which are used in this class. Most importantly, this technique can be used for past life regression, for the development of all forms of psychic abilities, for techniques of self-improvement and for self-hypnosis once the technique is mastered. This is a Yang or mind active form. It does not offer the physical benefits such as increased energy, improved circulation, heart, etc., that the others all do.

T'ai Chi Ch’uan or Moving Meditation

This uses body motions designed to balance left and right to enter an altered state of awareness. It is a particularly good form of meditation for those who initially find sitting still or quieting the mind difficult, and is especially beneficial when combined with other forms of meditation. When speeded up T'ai Chi Ch'uan becomes a martial art. Done in its traditional form it is a slow, relaxing exercise that anyone can do regardless of his or her age or physical condition. It also has amazing healing affects on the body for many people. No matter where you live you should be able to find a teacher of this increasingly popular martial art.

Some More Information on Dream Interpretation

Before I end this chapter, let’s take a moment to look a little deeper at dream symbols. The most important thing about the symbols in your dreams is what they mean to you! For example, if I, as a Westerner, dream of a snake, I may very well be dreaming of something that is negative and bad for me. This is the ‘snake in the grass’ sort of connotation. But if an Easterner dreams of a snake he may very well be dreaming of an expansion of consciousness – the Kundalini energy is often seen as a snake or a serpent. So when you are interpreting a dream, take the time to go back into your own experience with the main symbols in the dream... what do they REALLY mean to YOU?

Remember, your unconscious mind speaks to you ONLY in a symbol language. And it has available to it every life experience you’ve ever had.

As you get better at interpreting the symbols that appear in your dreams you will begin to see that your unconscious begins to use these same symbols to communicate information to you while you are awake, too. For example, now that you understand what a snake means to you, you may very well find yourself looking at images of snakes in the world around you (not necessarily live ones) as your unconscious mind tries to deliver a symbol message to your conscious mind. You are creating a new language here. Pay attention!

End of Chapter Activities

1. Do your Telepathy Exercise with your partner this time from your magical workplace, and use your energy screen to do your sending and receiving. This time, send a simple picture, and send a single word along with it. Remember to record your results and get feedback.

2. Practice meditating using Mantra daily when you do your regular meditation.

3. Practice the Practical Telepathy Exercises presented in this chapter until you are achieving positive results with your sending and receiving every time.

4. Copy and post the Crown Center Mandala in your home in a prominent place, and work with it frequently.

5. See how your unconscious mind is already using symbols from your dreams to talk to you during waking hours. Record these examples in your Do-good Book.

6. Review the discussion of Meditation Techniques at the end of the chapter; be familiar enough with them to be able to use most of them.

Suggested Reading

- Superconscious Meditation by David Condon

- Still Voice by White Eagle

Chapter 6

Self-hypnosis, Distance Healing, Mind Travel, and Past Lives

In Chapter 5 you learned to use a wonderful tool that will be your key to achieving success with self-hypnosis, distance healing, and mind travel & past lives. The tool is your energy screen. Let’s look at how to use this first in self-hypnosis.

Self-hypnosis

Self-hypnosis is a phenomenal tool for every psychic to know and to use. It essentially amounts to being able to program your unconscious mind to help you to achieve just about anything you want or need to, relative to yourself.

In a physical sense, what changes have you wanted to make in yourself? Do you want to lose weight? Stop smoking? Improve your posture?

How about emotionally? Would you like to have a more positive outlook on life? Be happy and carefree?

What about the intellectual you? Do you want to communicate better with other people? Pass a test, or be good enough at your job to get that promotion? Stop procrastinating?

What about your psychic development studies? Is there a particular ability that you really want to be especially good at?

Well, you can succeed at all of these things. All you need to do is to program them into your unconscious mind, using your energy screen in a self-hypnosis technique that is easy to learn and to do. The unconscious mind, once programmed, will automatically move in the direction of achieving what you have programmed into it. But you have to help it with your conscious mind by following its guidance.

For example, if you programmed yourself to stay away from eating sugar, but the next time you reached for a piece of chocolate cake and had a sudden urge to set it aside instead of eating it you ignored the urge, you will have just negated your programming. Each time you do that your programming becomes weaker, until it is no longer effective. On the other hand, if you felt that urge to pass the chocolate cake up, and listened, you will have reinforced the programming... next time the urge will be even stronger. So even though your self-hypnosis works on the unconscious mind, it does need the support of the conscious mind to be effective.

Let’s do some self-hypnosis. What you are about to learn is something I call 1-Month Programming. If you do this each month, you can use your self-hypnosis to gradually change yourself and your life in a positive sense. As you do this, please notice how I am wording each suggestion. The directions are very simple, very positive in orientation, and no double negatives or words such as cannot and do not are used. The reason for this is that your unconscious is much like a child. It reflects a positive attitude if you present it with one. It only responds to simple and direct commands that are not confusing. If you say, for example, “I do not like smoking,” your unconscious will not hear the ‘not.’ It will get the “I do like smoking” so your programming will be ineffective. Also, be careful with how you word your suggestions. The previous suggestion, (about smoking) for example, will most likely be ineffective anyway because it is directly going against a prior program that says you like smoking. (After all, why would you do it if you didn’t like it?). So if you programmed it to be an exact opposite, it becomes a stalemate that only sets up internal conflicts, and the original program, being there longer and therefore being stronger, will win. In this case you would be better off programming “smoking is a dirty habit, so I will stop doing it.” This program is not in conflict with the original one, and will take priority (provided you support it with your conscious mind) because it can blend with the original one and utilize its accumulated strength.

I also recommend starting with easy habits to change, NOT something like smoking because as your unconscious becomes used to your programming it, the programming gets easier and easier. A few months down the road programming yourself to stop smoking will be much easier than it will be right now, provided you practice the programming each month.

Exercise #1: 1-Month Programming Using Self-hypnosis

1. Take three deep breaths as you ground and center yourself.

2. Put yourself in the White Light.

3. Do your 10-Point Progressive Relaxation.

4. Move to your magical workplace, and put your cares and concerns into the worry box outside the door. Go inside.

5. Turn 360 degrees around and see what has changed or been added since you were last here. Make a mental note of it.

6. Move now to your worktable, and turn on the energy screen there.

7. Now you will do your 1-Month Programming.

1. See yourself on the screen, looking exactly the way you did this morning in your mirror. Now, think about how you want to look physically. Project that image over the first until the first image is gone and only the second remains. Say to yourself, “This is how I will look within one month from now.” As you watch, let the image float off the screen and drift off into the universe, where it will be able to manifest physically within the next month.

2. Again, see yourself on the screen as you are now, and think about how you want to feel health-wise in the next month. Now see a vibrant, radiant, smiling and totally healthy YOU superimpose its image over the first ‘you’ on the screen. Say to yourself, “This is how I will feel physically within one month from now.” Float that image off the screen too, and send it off into the universe so it can manifest in your life.

3. Look at the blank screen again, and again let an image of the current you appear on the screen. Project an image of self that is smiling, happy and joyous onto the screen until it is superimposed over the first you. Say to yourself, “This is how I will feel emotionally within one month from now.” Once again, float the image off the screen and watch it move out into the universe. Let it go.

4. Now look again at the blank screen. See yourself again; as you are now, but this time see yourself completing something you have wanted to get done. You see yourself put the last touches on the job, smiling, while you feel a sense of happy satisfaction. Say to yourself, “I will finish this job within one month from now.” Float that image off the screen and let it go, too, as it moves out into the universe.

5. Last, look at your blank screen and see again an image of the current you there. See yourself doing that particular psychic thing that you want most to be very good at. See yourself successful. Feel the happiness of doing something well. Now, float this image off the screen, too, and let it go out into the universe.

8. Now turn your energy screen off, and step back from your worktable. Turn around 360 degrees again in order to see what, if anything, has changed in your workplace. When you are done move out of your workplace and count yourself back from 10 to 1, normal waking consciousness.

It is a good idea to do your programming monthly, and also annually. You can also do it in-between if there is something special you want to program!

Distance Healing

Once you begin raising your consciousness to develop your chakras, especially your Heart Chakra, you begin to have a strong desire to reach out and help, and even to heal, people you know are in need. You will be delighted to know that there is an easy to use technique that you can use to do this, and you already have the tools!

As your Heart Chakra begins to open and develop, this desire automatically strengthens, because all psychic healing comes from the Heart Center. So of course, in doing your healing work, you will rely strongly on this center. But you will also need to use your Third Eye, which is the center that will actually create the link for you to do your sending through, and your Throat Center, which will power the energy you send with your ‘will.’

Remember, too, when you do your distance healing that you should only send such healing to people who have agreed to receive it. It is important to always ask first, even if you do your asking via visualization, as you will in the exercise that follows.

Additionally, be sure to send your healing energy to the ill person’s Higher Self for IT to use, rather than to the person directly. You may think you know what the person’s problem is, but his Higher Self undoubtedly knows better than you. This is a very important part of psychic etiquette because sending psychic energy can be invasive, and not everyone is open to that.

Additionally, you should know that not all illnesses are MEANT to be healed. Sometimes a person has an illness in order to learn from it; sometimes the lesson is about learning to help themselves! You can’t know this; only the Higher Self can. If you are sure to send the healing energy to the Higher Self, you can be sure IT will use it in a way that is needed.

Let me share with you an example of my own. Years back I was teaching a class in which there was an elderly gentleman, who will remain unnamed. Early in the week his wife called to let me know he would not be attending class that week because he had hurt his back. Eager to be of help, the next opportunity I got, I decided to send him some Distance Healing. Imagine my surprise when, as I put him on my energy screen, the image of him was pointing to his nose, not his back. I couldn’t quite figure that out, so, as usual, I sent my healing energy to his Higher Self, knowing IT would resolve the issue, and send the healing energy where it was needed. I was not surprised when he showed up the following week and told me that his back problem had been quickly resolved, but that he missed class anyway because he had been suffering all week with a head cold.

Exercise #2: Using Your Energy Screen for Distance Healing

1. Take three deep diaphragmatic breaths, to balance and center yourself.

2. Surround yourself with White Light.

3. Do your 10-Point progressive relaxation.

4. Use your worry box.

5. Move into your magical workplace.

6. Assess any changes in the workplace.

7. Move to your worktable, and turn on your energy screen.

8. Let an image appear there of the person that you want to send healing to.

9. In your mind, ask him if he wants the healing energy you would like to send him. Know that it is actually his Higher Self that you are asking this question of.

10. The image of the person on the energy screen will shake its head yes or no. If you get a yes answer you may proceed. If you get a no answer, let this person’s image float of the screen, and think of another person you would like to send healing to. Repeat the process of asking until you find a person who wants to participate in getting the healing from you. Ideally, you should choose a person whom you can get feedback from later.

11. Now that you have selected a person who agrees to be healed, hold his image firmly on the energy screen. Start your healing by taking a green ray of light from your Hear Center and directing it to the image on the screen, knowing you are sending this energy of healing love to his Higher Self. See the aura surrounding the person on the energy screen begin to pulsate with pure green radiant light. Keep the green light flowing into the image as you proceed.

12. Next, take a ray of indigo light from your Third Eye Center. Direct it into the image on the screen, being conscious to send this energy to the person’s Higher Self. See this indigo light blending with the green light of healing in his aura. Again, keep this ray of light flowing as you proceed.

13. Lastly, take a ray of blue light from your Throat Center and direct it into the person on the screen, again being conscious that it is being directed to his Higher Self for healing. Keep that ray flowing along with the other two, and let them all blend together in the person’s aura, until you slowly see the aura go from a dirty color to a clear golden light.

14. At that point begin to cut off the energy flows from your psychic centers. First stop the flow from your Throat Center, next from your Third Eye, and last from your Heart Center.

15. Thank the person’s Higher Self for allowing you to send the healing energy.

16. Turn off your energy screen and step back from your worktable.

17. Once again assess your workplace. Make a note of anything that has been changed or added.

18. Leave your workplace as you count yourself from 10 back to 1 and come back to your normal waking consciousness.

By now you are asking yourself whether the energy screen can also be used to determine what is wrong with a person – as a sort of diagnostic tool. The answer is, yes, it certainly can. However, remember this is not a substitute for a real-world medical diagnosis, just as the Distance Healing technique above is not a substitute for real-world medical care. These tools are meant to augment and help, not replace medical treatment. Below is an exercise that will help you to get an insight into what might be wrong with a person. I highly recommend getting some illustrated biology textbooks if this area of the psychic world interests you... you will want to get to know the body well enough to visualize its internal organs well.

Exercise #3: Using Your Energy Screen to Do a ‘Health Scan’

1. Take three deep diaphragmatic breaths as you ground and center.

2. Put yourself in White Light.

3. Put yourself in your energy balloon (you definitely don’t want to pick up an illness by accident, and as this is a receptive exercise that could be possible).

4. Do your 10-Point progressive relaxation.

5. Use your worry box.

6. Proceed to your magical workplace. Inside, assess any changes.

7. Move to your worktable and turn on your energy screen.

8. Let the image of the person you want to diagnose appear on the screen.

9. Ask his Higher Self if it is all right to proceed. If you get a ‘yes,’ continue. If the image says ‘no’ or shakes its head no, you cannot diagnose this person, as he would consider it an invasion of privacy.

10. Now, first look at the image of the person and see if the figure points to any body part. If so, that is the problem area.

11. Then, starting at his head and moving downward, look at each body part externally and internally and see if you see or feel any abnormality. For example, if the person has a problem with his left eye, you may see a red coloration or darkness around that eye, or you might feel a pain or pulsing in your own eye. People who are empathic are more apt to do the latter. You can go as deeply into this as your knowledge of body biology allows you to.

12. When you have finished thank the person for allowing you to do this work.

13. Turn off your energy screen and step back from the worktable.

14. Note any new changes or additions in your workplace.

15. Leave your workplace as you count yourself back to normal waking consciousness, starting with 10 and counting back to 1.

16. Upon waking write down your diagnosis immediately so as not to forget it. Get feedback!

You learned in Chapter 2 how to do remote viewing, and in Chapter 5 how to do this using your energy screen. Now you are going to build upon these to learn to use your energy screen for mind travel. It is possible, using the energy screen for remote viewing, to travel with your mind to any place on this planet, to anywhere in our solar system, even to other dimensions and realities. You can even use mind travel to visit someone who has passed on, or to look into the future or the distant past. Your imagination is your only limitation.

A word about imagination – I believe that all that we imagine exists SOMEWHERE, even if it’s not in our world or even on our plane of existence. I have also long believed that there are no truly original thoughts. I believe that all the thoughts that will ever come into being were probably produced at the time of the big bang along with everything else in our universe. Karl Jung would call this pool of thought the Universal Mind. Edgar Cayce called it the Akashic Records. Call it what you will, as mankind evolves to a degree that allows him to conceive a new thought it is common for people in several places on the planet to invent a new thing relative to the new thought at the same time. And all of them think the others somehow stole their invention. What they don’t realize is that their minds have evolved to the point where it could conceive the new idea. Their creativity is not in receiving the thought... but how they organize those new thoughts and what they make of them is. I believe that is true creativity.

The reason I hold this belief is direct personal experience. When I was 13 years old (back in 1966), I fantasized every night as I drifted off to sleep (when I was in alpha wave state, of course) about going to a place where they had special machines that could contour and shape my body, tools that could inject something into a body part I wanted to make bigger and curvier, and others that could reduce body fat... I even sat in a chair that looked like a dentist chair where they pointed a light at my eyes and when they were done I didn’t need glasses. That was the very best part of the ‘fantasy.’ All of you reading this today know that now all these ‘procedures’ are not only available, they are commonplace; but in 1966 they were at least 20 years off into the future. The laser hadn’t even been discovered yet for medical uses. My desire had carried my mind into the future, where I could read the Universal Mind relative to discoveries that were fairly imminent because mankind had progressed to a point where we could understand how to develop this technology. Other, more mature minds were also accessing this same information. What for me was just a young girl’s fantasy, was for them the beginning of scientific investigation. And they thought it all began with their imagination!

In the following two exercises you will learn how to use your energy screen to mind travel. In the first, you will travel to various places on the planet, to visit people, and to look into the future. In the second, you will learn how to look into the past of a person or a place, and also to look at your own past lives.

Exercise #4: Mind Travel to Visit Distant Places and People, and to Foresee Future Events

1. Take three deep diaphragmatic breaths as you ground and center.

2. Put yourself in white light.

3. Put yourself in your energy balloon.

4. Do your 10-Point Relaxation Exercise.

5. Use your worry box.

6. Move into your magical workplace. Note changes or additions to it.

7. Move to your worktable and turn on your energy screen.

8. Chose a place on this planet that you have not been to and want to see. Exhale deeply and close your inner eyes as you do. Let go all thoughts and all preconceptions concerning what you expect to see in this place. As you inhale open your eyes and look at what has appeared on your energy screen. This is not a static picture. It can move, and you can move it. So go right ahead, and direct your mind around the area much the way you would if you were looking through a telescope, or the lens of a camera. Using this technique, see as much of this place as you can right now. You can get feedback later on to determine your accuracy. If you want to experiment still further, you can enlarge the energy screen so that it is the size of a doorway, and step through it so that you can walk around, in your mind, and see things in this other place first hand.

9. Now, to disengage from this image and move to another, merely close your eyes again as you exhale. Breath normally for a few moments while you think of the next place you’d like to visit. Once you’ve made up your mind open your eyes on an inhalation, and look at the new image on the screen. Be careful to keep your mind focused because if you let other choices come to mind at this moment, you will end up at one of them instead. Do the same thing as above to explore the place. When you are done, disengage again by closing your eyes and exhaling.

10. Now with your eyes closed think of a person you want to look in on. (Remember, remote viewing and mind travel should NOT be used for prying!) As you open your eyes inhale and look at the screen. The person will appear on the screen exactly as he is in this moment. Take note – is he alone, or is he with someone? Where is he? Turn up the volume on your energy screen and you can hear what he is saying at the moment. Now, since this is mind travel not just remote viewing, you can follow this person wherever he is going, by keeping the lens of your ‘camera’ focused on him. Or if you choose, enlarge your energy screen as above, and step through it. See if you can get the attention of the person by mentally tapping him on the shoulder. Watch him for a few more minutes, then close your eyes and exhale as you let go of him. You will need to contact him for feedback to determine your accuracy later on. See if he thought about you when you touched him.

11. Finally, let’s use our mind travel for a look into the future. In this case you will look three years into the future. Close your eyes and exhale. Let go of all thought, except that you are going to look into the future of the same person you were just looking at. Open your eyes as you inhale, and look at the energy screen. You will see the same person, but he is in a different place, doing something different. Make note of everything you see. Again, remember that this is a picture in motion... you can follow the person for a time and see his home, friends, or place of work. To break the connection, close your eyes and exhale.

12. Back in your workplace, turn off your energy screen, and look around to see what, if anything has been changed or added.

13. Count yourself from 10 back to 1 as you come back from your workplace, into normal waking consciousness.

14. Take a moment to write down all that you have seen. Get feedback wherever it is possible to do so.

It is important to note when doing mind travel that you can move from one destination to another with the speed of thought, which is much faster than the speed of light. Because of that, it is most important to control your thoughts, especially as you ‘launch’ each image. When doing these exercises it is also a good idea to set a timer and to work for no longer than 15 minutes initially, and never to exceed one hour even when you become experienced. Mind traveling takes a lot of energy to do!

And I also need to remind you here that mind travel should never be used to find things out about people. It is fine to use it to look in on someone you love, or to find out if someone you haven’t seen in a while is doing all right. It is NEVER to be used for control or manipulation in any way!

Exercise #5: Using Mind Travel to Look Into the Past

Do steps 1 through 7 as in Exercise 6. Begin here when your energy screen is turned on and you are in your workplace.

1. Again, you will work with the same person as you did in Exercise 5. Close your eyes and exhale as you blank your mind to let go of all pre-conceptions. The only thing you should hold in your mind is that you are going to look at an event in this person’s past, not necessarily an event you are familiar with. Now open your eyes as you inhale, and see a younger version of the person on your energy screen. Turn up the volume so you can see AND hear him. Remember, this is a moving picture so you can follow the person through the whole event or even series of events. Make a mental note of everything you see and hear so that you may get feedback from the person later on. If you feel any emotions make note of them as well. If you choose, you may enlarge the energy screen and step through it to be a first-hand observer.

2. Now, let’s disengage from looking into this person’s past. Remember, to do this just close your eyes and exhale, letting completely go of the image and connected emotions.

3. You can use the same technique to look back into your own earlier life. It’s a bit harder because you lack objectivity and you will unconsciously try to force the image, but if you really let go and just let it happen you will get accurate images. Try it. Close your eyes, and just focus on mind traveling back to something that was of importance in your life. Let your Higher Mind choose what... Now, open your eyes as you breathe in, and look at your energy screen. On it will be an image from your own past. Try to be objective and not let your mind interfere or you will lose the accuracy of the image. Watch it as if you are watching television. Let the incident play out with you being the objective observer. When it is done, close your eyes and exhale, letting it completely go. Your screen will return to blank.

4. When you come back to your workplace look around to see what, if anything has changed.

5. Count yourself from 10 back to 1 and return from your workplace back to normal waking consciousness.

6. Now compare what you saw to what you remember. Usually this is quite amazing because you will note distinct differences between what you saw in your mind travel and what you thought you remembered.

*It is important to note that initially it is best to look at random past images, not to try to select a specific one. When you get good at this, and have a high degree of accuracy and are able to maintain your objectivity you will be ready to attempt looking at specifically selected events. Remember, the more you WANT to know about something, the less likely you are to be able to get accurate information. Your desire destroys your objectivity.

Exercise #6: Using Mind Travel to View Past Lives

Again, do steps 1 through 7 as in Exercise 4. Begin this only when you are in your workplace and your energy screen is on.

1. Now let’s use a similar technique to go back into a past life. Again, it is important to not have any preconceptions. I like to allow my Higher Self to select which life I will look at. Here’s how: Close your eyes and exhale, clearing your mind. Then open your eyes, looking at your energy screen, on which you will see a long hallway leading away from your workplace, into the past.

2. Enlarge your energy screen until it is the size of a doorway. Mentally step through the doorway into the hallway and begin to propel yourself down it. There are doors to either side of you, that you know lead to other lifetimes you have lived. You find yourself hurtling down the hallway before long, with the doors flashing by. Finally, you stop in front of a door chosen by your Higher Self. Make a mental note which side the door is on; look at the door to see if there are any symbols or descriptions on it.

3. Walk through the door, and close it behind you. Look at it from this side. Touch it. Look down at yourself, to see if you are a man, woman, or child. See how you are dressed, and make a mental note of that too. See your face. Hear your name in your mind.

4. Look around at your surroundings. What type of place are you in?

5. Since this is a moving vision, you can readily see your home and your place of work. Merely travel in your mind to them. See what it is that you are doing in your work. See what people are important to you in your home life.

6. Likewise you can mind travel to the end of your life, and see how you died, objectively, without experiencing any pain.

7. At the end of the life, you can allow you to look back over the life, recalling the event(s) that brought the greatest joy, and those that brought the greatest pain.

8. When you are finished turn around and you will readily see the doorway into this lifetime that you have just mind traveled to. Move back through it, and then follow the hallway back into your workplace. Step back through your energy screen into your workplace, and shrink the screen to normal size again.

9. Close your eyes and exhale to let the images go.

10. After coming back to your workplace, look around to see what, if anything has changed.

11. Count yourself back from 10 to 1, normal waking consciousness, and move out of your workplace.

It is important to note, that there is only one reason to revisit a past life... to learn information that can benefit the present and make the future more rewarding.

Also, note that it is not within the scope of this book to debate whether past life recollections are real or not. It is worth noting though, that whether they are real, or are products of your imagination. There is no doubt that many people’s past life recollections have real bearing on the life the are living now, and are certainly worth investigating!

It is also possible to use this same technique to go back and look at another person’s past life experience. This is often even easier to do just following him directly on the energy screen, as if it were a television.

End of Chapter Activities

1. Review your 1-month programming and do it again on your own. Note any tendency towards fulfilling the things you programmed. Give that positive reinforcement.

2. Practice using your distance healing. Get feedback.

3. Do a ‘health scan’ on someone, just as it was shown in the chapter. Get feedback.

4. Practice using your energy screen to look at a past event for a partner. Get feedback.

5. Practice mind traveling back to a past life yourself.

6. Do a telepathy exercise with a partner. Send and receive a simple scene, along with an emotion, a sensation, and a word.

Suggested Reading

- Mind Trek by Joseph McMoneagle

- The Way of Reincarnation by Judy Hall

Chapter 7

Conclusion

Psychic Development Level 1 set the foundation for all of your psychic work. If you have followed the discussions in the preceding pages, you now have a very good grasp of the psychic world and how your psychic abilities work. You will have also learned a great deal about psychic etiquette. If you have truly practiced the exercises in these pages, you already have the makings of a very good psychic.

I recommend spending a lot of time learning all of the things presented in these pages, until you feel fairly proficient at all of the exercises, and have developed your psychic abilities to the point where using them feels normal to you.

And if you wish to continue to develop your ability, I recommend you go on to take the other classes in our Psychic Development series. Psychic Development Level 2 covers energy work. In it you learn to see auras, feel auras, and read auras. By the time you are done with it you are able to do a complete psychic reading on someone just by connecting with his or her energy field. Psychic Development Level 3 covers many of the tools psychics use, explaining what they are and how to use them. Tools such as psychometry, pendulums, automatic writing, crystal gazing and astral travel are covered, to name a few. Psychic Development Level 4 introduces Channeling and Spirit Communication; Psychic Development Level 5 teaches you how to be a psychic medium, and Psychic Development Level 6 covers Advanced Spirit Communication Techniques. All of these classes are currently available on audiotape, and CD, as well as in book form.

To develop your psychic abilities requires that you are able to be clear, and work in a clean, clear, protected environment. To help you to create and maintain such an environment in your place of work and in your home, I’m including a technique here for house clearing and protection. If you shower daily to keep your own aura clear, use the protections found in these pages, and clear and protect your home and place of work regularly, you will grow and develop more quickly and bring into your life things and people with a more positive energy as well. You should also read some Psychic Self Defense books, such as The Art of Psychic Protection by Judy Hall and Psychic Protection by Ted Andrew. They are both excellent resources.

House Clearing and Protection

This house-clearing should be performed at least four times per year, on the Solstices (June and December 21st), and on the Equinoxes (March and September 21st). You can do it in between as often as you like!

1. Start in the eastern most point of your house or office. You are going to walk the entire inside perimeter, following the outside wall clockwise (toward your right) going from room to room until you return to your starting point. If you have multiple floors do them separately. You can also do this for your car. During this clearing you will walk the perimeter a total of three times.

2. Open a window somewhere in the house. Get yourself some incense that you like, and feel is a good clearing incense. I personally like to use sage or pine, or a combination of frankincense, myrrh and copal called Gloria. It’s OK to use a smudge stick or an incense cone or stick.

3. Take your incense to the east in your house and begin to carry it, burning, around the house in a clockwise direction. As you walk, open closets and draws so that the incense gets in everywhere. Say over and over to yourself, ‘Let all evil depart and only good enter here,’ or something similar. Visualize all of the negativity in the place collecting in a great, black ball. Throw it out the window, and close the window.

4. Start again in the east, with some pure (Kosher or rock) salt and water. Just a pinch of the salt in a cup of water will work fine. Circle the perimeter again, this time sprinkling the salt and water as you go around the perimeter. This will cleanse the perimeter of your home.

5. Finally, go back to the east, and again circle the perimeter clockwise, this time drawing a banishing cross or pentagram over every door and window, and in every corner, with the salt and water, to seal it.

Some Additional Protections

You can also sprinkle a clockwise salt circle around your bed at night to protect yourself while you sleep. Many developing psychics don’t realize the strong links they have to family members and friends, until those very same people are sharing their dreams every night! It’s not always fun to be that connected to people, especially when many of them are sharing their stresses with you!

You can sprinkle salt lightly around the perimeter of your property in a clockwise direction starting in the east, too... it is also quite protective.

It is important that as a developing psychic you continue to practice all of the meditations, visualizations, exercises, and techniques discussed in these pages. Don’t stop doing your Chakra Meditation or your regular meditation for example just because you’ve completed this book. These things need to become a part of you, a part of your life, in order for you to continue to grow into the full psychic potential you possess. They are the foundation you will build on... that foundation only remains strong if it is cared for. Even after you’ve moved on to more advanced work, you should periodically come back to these basics and review them. You may see some of them through different eyes. Periodically repeating the things you’ve learned here will raise your consciousness and ability to new heights each time you do them. This I will promise you!

Whether you want to use your psychic ability professionally, or whether you are studying to develop your abilities in order to enrich your life, you should follow this advice.

The material in this book was originally taught over a six-week period, with lots of practice in-between classes. It is now also presented in a tightly packed Psychic Development Level 1 weekend seminar. For best results working with this material, I recommend you go at the six-week pace, and when you’re done, go back over it again.

Now, go back and repeat the Psychic Development Exercise in Chapter 1. You will undoubtedly see an improvement between the first time you completed the exercise and now. Indeed, each time you repeat it, over time, you will see new growth in your abilities. Remember, it’s all about keeping a positive attitude, while keeping your feet firmly on the ground, and getting positive feedback. Be the best that you can be. That’s what developing your psychic abilities is really supposed to be all about.

About the Author

Like many who realize their psychic gifts later in life, Sandy Anastasi awakened to her abilities in her late 20's. She understood that many people develop deep psychological problems because their psychic abilities are misunderstood and often blocked. These insights and an inner need to pass on her knowledge and abilities led her to begin teaching others to develop their own psychic gifts. She believes that if you are psychic, you MUST use your gifts, or at least learn to control them, or they will use you!

Sandy has many psychic gifts, but she believes her greatest to be the ability to identify and emulate the gifts of others. Because of that she is uniquely suited to teach people to open and develop those very gifts in themselves.

Sandy has been a professional psychic and astrologer since 1979. She holds a B.S. degree from Adelphi University and has teaching certifications in several fields. In addition to teaching, Sandy has worked as a Safety Engineer, and owned her own small book store for many years before retiring to become a full time psychic counselor, writer and teacher. Sandy's writings include books on Astrology, Kabbala, and Tarot, as well as psychic development.

Sandy has also appeared on many radio and television shows over the years, most notably Crossing Over and Cross Country – both television shows hosted by her good friend and former student, John Edward. She currently lives in Florida with her husband and four dogs.

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In order to help you get the most out of the content of the books and tapes, many of the exercise sheets and other support materials are freely available for download online at www.SandyAnastasi.com (For example the crown chakra mandala and the psychic development aptitude test). There you will also find free gifts and bonuses, such as a downloadable chakra meditation audio that you can use to balance your body’s energy system. You are allowed (and highly encouraged) to give and distribute these materials in whatever ethical manner you deem appropriate to others that have an interest in this type of journey.