It’s a simple matter of deepening into the quiet awareness of your soul and allowing it to resonate with the energy and information you seek. Your soul will draw intuitive imagery and healing energy from the superconscious realm of Universal Consciousness, where Edgar Cayce believed the most accurate readings were produced.
Psychic perception and transmission are the natural abilities of the soul. Every soul can do these things, as you will see for yourself in trying out the powerful intuitive techniques presented in this chapter.
Seven Steps to Psychic Awareness
Linda Schiller-Hanna’s seven steps to psychic awareness quiet and center the mind while raising sensory awareness into the high-sense perception of the soul. After years of practice, Linda needs only a few moments to deepen into her alpha brainwaves, the doorway to intuitive awareness. Practice will teach you to shift your brainwaves and consciousness into this higher state of awareness very quickly, and eventually you, too, will consciously live the intuitive life of your soul.
If you are new to psychic inquiry, you will find these seven steps immensely helpful. I learned them in one of Linda’s Lightworker Intensive trainings and have taught them to hundreds of people in community college classes, with terrific results.
Whether you use the seven steps for self-guidance or to intuitively “read” someone else—an animal, object, or place—this preparation will enable you to access information about the past, present, or future. You may wish to read others in person to begin with, but with practice you will be able to “tune in” to the vibrations of the person, place, or thing without regard to distance.
When two people pair up to read for each other, the sensory-rich seven steps guide the speaker (reader) and listener (recipient) into a shared intention, subconscious awareness, and an intuitive heart connection. Experience these steps and their shifts in consciousness alone, as you begin. Then, after reading the guidelines in the rest of this chapter, get together with a friend or friends to practice paired readings with the help of these seven steps.
1. Breathe. First, breathe in through the nose and out through the mouth seven times. Immerse your mind in your deep, slow, and steady breathing.
2. Affirm protection. Say out loud or inwardly: “I set my intention that this reading is for the highest good of all concerned. This reading will be truthful, non-judgmental, non-manipulative, caring, and in divine order.”
3. Ground yourself. Imagine your body as a tree with roots extending from your tailbone and your feet all the way into the center of the earth.
4. Center yourself. Successively move your attention to the center of your forehead, the center of your heart, and your center of gravity (just below your navel).
5. Cleanse. Imagine a white shaft of light flowing from above you (and from God, if you wish) down into your heart and through your spine, carrying all negativity, fear, prejudice, and anything that is not perfectly you into the center of the earth.
6. Make a heart connection with your partner. Imagine a violin string of energy extending from heart to heart. You may feel a little tug indicating that this connection has been made. (Be sure to disconnect this heart string at the end of the reading.)
7. Open “banana” fingers. The speaker widens the fingers of both hands and extends both palms toward the listener to sense his or her energy field. At this point, the listener clearly states his or her name three times to attune the speaker to the vibration. The speaker’s eyes close, and the listener’s eyes remain open. The speaker says whatever comes to mind without any editing at all. The listener listens without comment and gives feedback afterward.
Schiller-Hanna advises the reader to “blurt out” whatever he or she receives, which is great advice. Sometimes people working in groups hesitate, as if looking to each other for permission to begin. But once the first person begins to read, so does everyone else.
Some people receive information more slowly than others, and that’s fine, too. Just take your time and allow the words, images, feelings, and inner knowing to surface in their own way.
Setting an Intention or Ideal
Psychic inquiry must always begin with a spiritual intention, as you have seen in the seven steps. Intention is everything in psychic readings, as it unites the body, mind, heart, and spirit into a single-pointed awareness that frees the soul to journey through the superconscious to the sought-after information.
The recipient’s intention is equally important; if it is only one of idle curiosity, there will not be enough resonance to make the connection, according to a Cayce reading (294-131) and the science of intuition presented in later chapters of this book. Resonance is the law in physics and metaphysics by which two vibrations attune to one another.
If you don’t already have a clear intention for your life, which Edgar Cayce termed an ideal or guiding aspiration, you may wish to set one now. Simply close your eyes, relax, and get in touch with what you need most in life. If that is peace and joy, create an affirmative “I am” statement along the lines of “I am peaceful and joyful.”
A good addition to your ideal would be something like this: “I am peaceful, joyful, and in touch with my psychic soul.” Use whatever words feel right to you, but be clear that you wish to open up to your soul’s intuitive awareness. Think, feel, and experience your ideal, and repeat it in meditation and waking life as a kind of mantra.
Cayce maintained that repeating an ideal builds it into every atom and cell of the body. Your ideal will radiate into your subtle energy field (the aura) and attract people and situations that serve your goals. If your ideal includes soul attunement, it will help your conscious mind’s ego to get on board with your practice.
Guidelines for Psychic Readings
Listening to inner guidance is a simple matter when only you are involved: you tune in and perhaps record on paper what arises. Readings for others bring ethical matters into play, as well as considerations about how to open up, receive, interpret, and report the information to the listener. Be sure to read all of these guidelines before you get started.
It’s always best, at first, to do intuitive readings for people you don’t know. This way, the thinking mind is not as likely to intrude with its memories and what it thinks it knows.
For the Intuitive Speaker/Reader: How to Receive and Report Information
Don’t try to force it. Wait patiently for a vision, inner voice, feeling and/ or sense of knowing to surface in your awareness. On the other hand, recognize that psychic information can and often does flow very fast, streaming into the mind within seconds like water through an open dam. If it flows this fast for you, blurt it out without any censoring. If there is a lull, allow the imagery some time to form in the depths of your subconscious mind.
Keep the channel open. Do not judge or analyze the information, as scrutiny will block the flow. Your attitude should be that of hopeful expectation. Build this expectancy, and all will come. Even if what you receive is puzzling or seems unlikely, go ahead and say it aloud. If you are working alone, jot down your impressions on a piece of paper.
Report the information exactly as it comes to you and leave nothing out. For example, “I see a white picket fence in the front yard of an attractive white cottage, with a child riding a bicycle on the
