Developing our natural Metaphysical Abilities

"This is for me a problematic question simply because I could be very glib and say, 'Well, everyone's got the same natural abilities, which is to embrace all that is, to know all that is, and to be all that is.'  That would then encompass all possible metaphysical activities.  But I do not think that is the answer you are looking for.  What you're asking for is, 'What did I design for myself for this lifetime and what is most easily accessible?' Sort of like, 'Will I ever learn to play the violin?  Or do I have a natural propensity for learning Italian?'  And in that area I would say that the easiest way to look at that is as modes of perception.  That each person has stylistic ways of obtaining information, and that is really all we are talking about there in terms of metaphysical gifts.  How one obtains, processes, and transmits information and energy.  Some people are very suited, in their basic makeup, to being a voice channel, to being an automatic writer, or to being a psychic, or a palm reader, or an aura reader, or a healer, or a vision questor or whatever it is.  And what each of these sorts of things has underlying it is what bandwidth, what sensate bandwidth information comes in as.  Some people are visionary, they see things visually, some people are auditory, they actually hear things.  Some people receive impressions, some people receive words.  Some people receive symbols.  Some people are prone to receive energy of particular frequencies and transmit what others might call 'useful' information, others receive and transmit energy in non-information form but in an energetic form.  Some folk receive information in this symbolic form that can be useful in transmitting symbols, in this way providing guidance.  Some people are sensitive to astral form, some people are sensitive to non-astral form.

It all has to do with what frequencies you are most sensitive to and most easily tuned to.  I think this is best looked at as a self-diagnosis. You will find this frustrating but I think self-discovery is very very useful in this way. Stop and think about the way your own mind works.  When you go to remember something...do you see the event in your minds eye?  Are you good at recognizing and describing, holding in your mind's eye and being able to say it looked like such and such?  The car was white, the sky was blue, he had on a red shirt....with ducks on it!  Or do you instead have a memory of what was said?  Who, what, when?  How it felt.  'It felt as if he were angry and I remember being upset.  And there was a general chill to the situation.' Or do you remember the number of people involved, remember that it reminded them of 'a ship floating on the sea, or whatever', or people who remember emotional content, or people who remember visual content, or people who remember auditory content.  There are also people who remember just the way it feels, just the way it seemed.  What I mean by that is there's a sort of impression that holds lots of information but they're not very good at the details, neither the visual details, nor the auditory details, nor the emotional details, but they have a big picture that is not visual, it is impressionary.  Everyone has a little bit of all of those.  But every one also has a favorite modality.  That modality gives you the first clue to the way your gifts work.  Often times we come across someone who desperately wants to be able to do....automatic writing, but they don't relate very well to words. And so when they do some automatic writing, it is somewhat what you would call stilted, because that is really not their major modality.  It is not that they can't do it. Someone who gets impressions will do a magnificent job with what you call psychometry.  Someone who can pick up an object and what they will feel is the full impression of what went on with this object.  Someone who feels emotions, may when handed an object just feel what the person who wore it felt but not have any detail about what the cause of it was.  Someone does words may not be any good at psychometry, but may be an excellent channel.  Someone who does pictures will probably not be real red hot as a voice channel but may be an excellent reader of auras or may receive pictures almost like moving pictures when they do psychic readings.

So the first thing is to discover your modality.  The next is to stop and think about your relationship to the world in terms of energy. What we mean here is.... when you walk into a room that is empty, what are you most likely to, not visually noticing, talking about vibrationally noticing, about the room?  Are you feeling the content, i.e., the room as it exists right now and how the objects in the room affect the energy in the room as it is right now?  How the people, if there were people there, how the people are arranged in the room affects the energy in the room.  Or do you notice that?  Do you notice in fact, a sense of it still being inhabited?  Do you sense its past?  Its emotional content or the events that have happened?  Do you just have a feel about the room?  The reason why I ask that is that gives you a good sense if you can pinpoint the way you relate to energy that comes to you.  If you're relating to the room itself, you're relating to the energy in the objects themselves and how they interact and in that case being able to do hands on healing will work quite well because you're relating to the object and the objects of the body and the way they relate to one another.  You would also be good at this thing called Feng Shui, which is the arrangement of objects in a room for the most peaceful or whatever kind of energy.

The person who feels what has gone on in a room is once again feeling psychic energy and is probably much more connected with astral.  David here, someone who makes contact with those who have passed on, either those who are wandering about lost or those who aren't but want to make contact with somebody else, tend to be very sensitive to the pasts of the room.

Someone who just has a sensation about the room, this is a comfortable room, this is not a comfortable room, this is a cold room, this is a place I don't belong kind of room this room makes me uncomfortable, this room is such a warm and wonderful room I'd like to spend forever in it, is relating to the whole energy of the room, both the objects and the past and the whole ethic form and they make excellent channel because they're reaching beyond the astral in to the everything and they're open to everything.

Then I would say to you look at how you relate to the outer world and the way you use your energy.  Do you desire energy to be information, to be healing, to be teacher, to be guiding, counseling?

Each one of those produces, comes from, a different style of broadcasting of energy.  Someone who wishes to inform, who wishes to spread knowledge, uses energy differently than someone who wishes to heal, and someone who wishes to counsel, to bring healing to the soul, than someone who wishes to teach or someone wishes to guide.  Once you find your mix of modalities, then it is a question of merely opening each of those modalities as wide as possible rather than running around being pissed that, 'If only I were visual I could paint pictures of angels!'  You, you're not visual, you're not going to paint pictures of angels.  And that's just the way it is.  Find your modalities, work with them, naturally it will all blossom."

- Channeled information, compliments of Coyote