vital energy and within its own vibration will hold yours. Therefore, when a psychic holds your watch they can read your personality by just feeling the vibration.
Objects that we own for a long time absorb vibration – just like buildings and places. Just as the magnetic tape of a cassette recorder has music imprinted on it that can be played back many times, so objects hold ‘recordings’ of the character, emotions and memories of the owner – and in some cases even those of the maker of the object, particularly if it is a religious or sacred object. A good psychic can read these ‘records’ of our lives and give a detailed history of the owner. Sometimes this may include names of family members, friends and places that the owner once knew.
Psychometry teaches you to sense the atmosphere of a place or read the history of an object. An extension of this gift is to sense the atmosphere of a person and become aware of people in the spirit world. Tuning into the energy of a person or place is the first level in learning how to interpret psychic information. When you practise psychometry you will be amazed at how accurate the information that you pick up can be.
Clare, a London-based PA, never considered herself to be psychic. During a psychic awareness workshop she was asked to pick up a ring which belonged to her partner’s deceased grandmother. She tuned in to the ring for only a few minutes before the hairs on the back of her neck stood up and she smelt a strong fragrance of perfume (the grandmother’s favourite). She surprised herself by opening up to psychic skills she never thought she had. She found out later that her grandmother had a talent for reading signs in tea leaves and had become well known in her village for giving advice and telling the future from what she saw in people’s tea cups.
Psychics believe that thought travels outside of the body and is absorbed by our environment. This would account for the sense of atmosphere that is felt in buildings. An ancient church, for example, may feel peaceful and sacred, whilst a stately home, which may be as old as a church, with centuries of activity may have an atmosphere that belies its tragic family history.
Tuning into a place uses the same principles as tuning into a person. As a psychic you are reading into the vibrational energy. Glimpses of history are sometimes a form of psychometry: a psychic inadvertently becomes aware of the atmosphere of a place and suddenly finds themselves replaying images from the past. These visions could be daydreams and fantasy but sometimes a person is psychic enough to be able to see directly into history.
Many researchers believe that ghosts are an etheric imprint left behind by traumatic events. Have you ever walked into a property and felt the atmosphere of the past and even in some cases felt there were ghosts lingering around? These places are very easy to read and are fascinating to use for practising in how to tune into places. This is how I learnt to have confidence in my own skills – by visiting haunted homes and ancient places. I could then follow up my visits with research to find out how accurate my visions and psychic impressions were.
Learning Psychometry
The impressions you receive when doing psychometry will at first come as a flood of mixed messages and images. The first step is to learn how to unravel these and build them into a coherent story. I have trained many talented students who began their training by accurately picking up impressions from people or objects. They were unable, however, to communicate these images in a practical and grounded way until they gained experience and learnt how to communicate their impressions.
Improving Your Psychometric Skills
The key to improving your psychometric skills is to practise on a regular basis. First choose a like-minded friend to work with you on this development. If possible, work from your home. Choose a room where you will not be disturbed, preferably a room with no television or telephone.
Get your friend to choose an object whose origin you are unaware of. Hold the object in the palm of your hand, move it around and touch all the way around the object until you begin to sense an energy or a feeling come over you. Start to talk to them about what you see or feel when you begin to understand what you are picking up and are able to put it in a coherent order.
The impressions that you can pick up from psychometry are limitless. Always structure and keep what you see as practical as possible so the person who you are reading for understands what you are telling them. You may see images that appear not to have any physical relevance, such as an animal or a picture of a sunset or a raging fire. These images could symbolize the person’s emotional or spiritual life and indicate an interpretation rather than a prediction.
1 THE OWNER
Talk about the character of the object’s owner, how you see them. Just guess and go with your instinct. Are they tall, small, male, female, old or young? The colour of their hair, eyes and any physical disabilities, etc.
2 THE PAST
Next focus on their past – childhood, relationships, family, siblings, and any births or deaths that have ocurred in the family.
3 LIFE HISTORY
Gradually move forward in time and pick up their current profession, emotional relationships, marriages, children, etc.
4 THE PRESENT
Keep going until you reach the present and then describe events that have recently happened, the car they drive, their home, their profession and family life.
Note: when you open up your sensitivity, you must then close down afterwards (see Psychic Protection, pages 92–105).
Images that come through from the psychic realms have their own linear level so it requires a grounded and practical mind to discern all the symbols and images. This takes the most practice, as you need to know when you are actually picking information up or when it is your imagination interpreting something else.
Later, when you learn about the development of other psychic gifts, such as mediumship and clairvoyance, you will understand the importance of getting your impressions into a workable order. The work you do now is the cornerstone of the clear, concise and evidential clairvoyance that marks a good psychic. Students who come to my psychic awareness workshops work hard at developing their psychometric skills so after a few months of laborious practice they are able to move on naturally to reading auras and communicating with the spirit world.
Once you have practised psychometry a few times with familiar people try using it with someone you do not know – this will really test your skill.
Dreaming
The ancient Egyptians and Greeks believed that dreams were messages from the Gods that revealed future events. In many early cultures the term ‘incubation’ meant seeking information by way of dreams. It was believed that transmitted material from the spirit world was passed into a channel for the recipient to pick up while they were dreaming. However, as this material is incorporated into the dream, the dreamer must recognize it as such and decipher it before waking.
Dreams contain prophecies and are an important key to self-knowledge. Known as the gateway to psychic powers, dreams are our means of bringing spiritual information and intuition from our higher self into our consciousness. We dream every night and, whether we remember them or not, our dreams reveal our innermost desires. They can also be used to solve difficult problems. The dream state allows the brain to interpret the events of the day: it digests the information we have received and, free from the constraints of
