By Daniella Breen.
Crystal Ball
Each one of us possesses psychic powers—extrasensory abilities that can enhance our experience and understanding of the world around us. We often rely on these abilities, sometimes without even realizing it, using our intuition to make decisions and making what seem like ‘lucky’ guesses, especially in areas where we have skills or interests. Most of the time, we are unaware of this powerful ability that lies within us.
While it’s true that everyone has these abilities, like any gift, they can remain dormant until we cultivate and practice them.
Before we explore how to develop these gifts, it’s important to recognize that psychic abilities come in various forms, which can be categorized into four main types.
Clairvoyance – The ability to psychically see clearly.
Clairsentience – The ability to psychically feel or sense clearly.
Clairaudience – The ability to psychically hear clearly; and
Claircognisance – The ability to psychically know clearly.
Each of these categories encompasses a variety of gifts and abilities that can differ from person to person. For example, clairvoyance can manifest as vivid dreams, visions, the ability to see auras around people, or even perceiving auras with the eyes closed, among other experiences. Additionally, everyone possesses these gifts to varying degrees. One individual may excel in clairvoyance and have a good grasp of clairaudience, while having minimal clairsentience and claircognizance. Conversely, another person might be exceptionally strong in claircognizance but have little ability in the other areas.
As you develop your psychic gifts, you will uncover your strengths and weaknesses. It’s essential to nurture all your psychic abilities, as each has the potential to grow. You may find that with some effort, what you once considered your weakest gift can evolve into one of your strongest talents.
Developing your natural gifts is relatively straightforward. Much of their progression stems from your intention to improve and the effort you put in, rather than the exercises themselves. It is crucial to avoid over-exertion or forcing anything. Imagine that your work is powered by a steady river of energy flowing through you, rather than being pushed by sheer willpower. As you practice each exercise, focus on the activity itself instead of worrying about the results; enjoy the process for its own sake.
Before you begin any psychic development exercises, it’s important to learn how to protect yourself. Safety is vital in all aspects of life; for instance, you wouldn’t send a child off to school alone without first teaching her how to cross the street safely. Similarly, as you develop your psychic abilities, you are entering a new realm of existence, and it’s important to approach this work with caution. The protection techniques you learn will help you navigate this journey safely.
Why Protect
Here on Earth, we have both healthy and unhealthy individuals. Violence, hatred, and bigotry are prevalent. To some extent, we have all learned to establish boundaries that protect us from these negative behaviors and attitudes. As you develop your psychic abilities, you will gain the capacity to tune into people and energies in ways you may not have experienced before. Therefore, it’s crucial to learn how to protect yourself at these new levels as well. These exercises are straightforward yet powerful. Remember to focus on the flow of energy within you that creates this protection, rather than relying solely on your own energy or mindset.
The Mirrorball
The first exercise is visualization. It is as powerful as it is simple. Visualize a giant, sparkling, spinning mirror ball surrounding you. Each time a negative thought, focus, or being of any kind comes your way, it is repelled by the blinding light that they are faced with. This is a great exercise to do if you spend a lot of time around negative or needy people.
Archangel Michael
The second exercise involves Archangel Michael. This powerful angel is the protector and defender. He will never cause harm, and he will always protect and keep you safe. For this exercise, all you need to do is call Archangel Michael to you. You can do this out loud or in your mind. Say, “Archangel Michael, please come to me now! Wrap your powerful wings of protection around me until you completely shield me. Protect me from all negative or dangerous energy, now!” Make sure you are clear and strong, not derogatory or rude.
These tools are two of many techniques that help keep you protected and strong as you journey into your psychic gifts. As you develop your psychic gifts, you will come across many other self-protection methods, and I strongly encourage you to explore and implement new tools if you feel guided to do so.
Psychic Hand
More Exercises
We have discussed important clarifications regarding individual psychic ability; you have learned about the four different psychic talent categories and key protective tools to use during psychic development. Now you will learn several wonderful exercises to develop your own psychic talents and, more importantly, tools to keep you centered and strong as you develop your gifts.
The exercises used here are designed to develop your clairvoyance, Clairsentience, and Clairaudience. I have yet to determine practices that specifically develop Claircognisance, although it does seem to develop as your other abilities grow.
Before you commence the exercises, remember to set up the protection tools introduced in the previous article. If you already have protection tools that you feel more comfortable with, by all means, use those instead.
Once you have completed your practice and development session, make sure you ground yourself. Grounding is being fully connected to your physical body and the Earth. You can become ungrounded in several ways, but one of them is by working with your psychic gifts. When you do this work, you raise the level of psychic light or energy running through your conscious mind to the point where it can become unsettled, and you can feel lightheaded, vague, disconnected. To remedy this, do something very physical. Wash the dishes, eat some food, dance to music with a heavy base or beat, or step outside and walk around barefoot on the Earth. These are all easy-to-follow actions that will help you fully return to your body.
The first procedure you will be introduced to in this article is an exercise designed to help you identify your current skill level in each of the four psychic areas. Please do not put too much emphasis on the results of this exercise; merely use it as a guide for helping you understand your current standing with these talents.
In The Kitchen
For this exercise, please use all aspects of your imagination. Experience this exercise in whatever way is easiest for you. Make sure you are comfortable and that you won’t be disturbed. Remember to relax and enjoy this.
You find yourself in the most beautiful kitchen with a great big picture window overlooking the lovely forest. See the trees swaying in the gentle breeze, watch as some lovely kookaburras land in a tree and begin to cackle, laughing away as you listen to their delightful sound! Your attention is drawn back into the kitchen when you feel the heat on your leg. You remember that you are cooking a beautiful chocolate cake!
Just as you remember this, the smell of chocolate cake comes wafting through the air! There’s nothing like the smell of baking to make your stomach rumble! Then, just as you think you can’t wait any longer, the buzzer or bell goes off on your oven. You grab some oven mitts and open the oven door, careful to avoid the rush of steam pouring out. You take out the cake and place it carefully on the bench. When it has cooled a little, you tip it out onto the rack and decorate it however you wish, with icing sugar, cream, or frosting.
Now, here you have this beautiful chocolate cake, and you have to have a piece, so get a knife and cut into it. Watch (and smell) the steam rising out of the freshly baked cake. Pick up your piece and take a big bite out of it. That is the most perfect chocolate cake you have ever tasted!
When you are ready, return to the room, wiggle your fingers and toes to bring your consciousness fully back into your body.
So the questions are:
- Did you see the kitchen, the forest, the kookaburras?
- Did you hear the kookaburras laughing, the oven bell going off?
- Did you feel the heat, taste, and smell the cake?
- Was any of this experienced more as a ‘knowing’?
- How easy was it to experience all of these things?
- How clearly did you see, hear, and feel all of these things?
- Which was the easiest: seeing, feeling, or hearing?
- Which was the hardest?
The answers to these questions will provide insight into where your more developed gifts lie and where your least developed gifts are. It is important to recognize that every individual’s experience of their gifts is just that… individual. People can waste a lot of time lamenting the gifts and psychic experiences others have and don’t, instead of exploring and developing the wonderful gifts they do have. Let go of preconceived notions of what constitutes a psychic experience and begin opening up to the wonderful gifts you have been given!
So, on to the psychic development exercises. I encourage you to practice each of these; even when you feel you are getting nowhere, you will be making crossroads at some level. Remember to protect yourself before starting and ground yourself once you’ve finished.
If at any time you experience responses that invoke fear or discomfort, immediately call on God or Archangel Michael to take you out of ego (fear and darkness) and into the light. Allow yourself to be lifted above any negativity.
Exercises for Clairvoyance – Clear Psychic Seeing
Seeing Colors – The first step in developing your clairvoyance is to visualize. Start with colors: imagine seeing sky blue, magenta, red, emerald green, and so on. If you have difficulty doing this, then buy some pieces of colored cardboard from the local newsagent. Choose one piece of cardboard, look at its color for a while, then, when you feel ready, close your eyes and imagine the color. Imagine a stapler that color, or imagine your house painted that color. Try to become accomplished by seeing as many different colors as you can. When you feel that you’ve mastered this exercise, move on to the next.
Psychic Aura
Seeing Auras – Now that you have become comfortable with colors, you can move on to seeing auras. This is the first level of this skill, but an important one. Think of someone that you know. Using your imagination, answer these questions. If you could see that person’s aura in full color around their head area, what color/s would you see? Remember that there’s no pressure; no one needs to know what you are doing. This is purely for the exercise of it. Keep moving around their body, imagining what colors you would see there. Practice this with a number of people you know and those you don’t, such as politicians, celebrities, and the like.
Next, move around their body in your mind and imagine what colors you might see in different areas. Practice this with several people you know, as well as those you don’t, such as politicians, celebrities, and others you may encounter. You can even try this while watching television by focusing on TV personalities. Before you know it, you will be fluent in Aura Speak!
Exercise for Clairaudience – Clear Psychic Hearing
It is important, when dealing with Clairaudience, to understand that psychic hearing, although sometimes can feel like physical hearing, is often experienced more as talking in your head. No, you are not crazy if you experience this form of communication!
Receiving messages and writing them down have been powerful tools for healing and guidance since time began. This is also a wonderful tool for developing your Clairaudience.
Archangel Michael is a beautiful and divine creation of God, who lovingly and joyfully supports, guides, and protects each of us. Archangel Michael is very easy to hear and very accurate in his messages. For this reason, he is wonderful to work with in developing your Clairaudience.
Archangel Michael’s Messages
Have a pen and paper to write down any messages you get. Get comfortable and make sure you will not be disturbed. Do your protection exercises then…
Call Archangel Michael to you and say to him, “What would you have me know right now?” Then open up and wait for an idea, feeling, or thought to pop into your head. As soon as it comes, don’t judge it, write it down. Once you’ve written it down, go back and see if there is anything more. You can ask questions to clarify what you are being told or to expand on the information you are receiving. If at any time the message seems critical or negative, understand that your ego is getting in the way, so say to Archangel Michael, please take me out of ego and into the light so that I may hear your message more clearly.”
In performing this exercise, you mustn’t judge what you are receiving, as it is common for people to think they are making it up rather than receiving it from Divine Source. If it is loving, positive, and empowering, then it is coming from a Higher Place. If it is negative, unloving (to you or anyone else), competitive, or disempowering, then it is coming through an ego filter and can be discarded. Keep practicing; you will quickly get to know the difference.
Exercise for Clairsentience – Clear Sensing
In this exercise, the design is to get you tapped into feeling other people’s emotions. (Please note that there are added clearing exercises to be performed at the end of this exercise.)
The easiest way to practice this exercise is in a public space, like a coffee shop. After making sure you’re prepared before heading out, choose a seat where you’re less likely to be disturbed but can still see the activity around you.
Start by selecting a waiter to focus on. Imagine what they might be feeling. Are they enjoying their day or feeling frazzled and tired? Do you think this is their only job? Do they have children? Are they studying at a university? What about their relationship status—are they married or in a partnership? Consider whether they are social or private people, shy or outgoing, and so on.
Explore who they are using your imagination, and remember not to pressure yourself or second-guess your thoughts. By practicing this regularly, you’ll notice a significant improvement in your ability to connect with people.
At the end of each session, complete your practice with some cleansing techniques and take a moment to ground yourself.
Cutting Cords
Imagine lots of little cords attached to you and the people you have worked with in this exercise. Now see a giant, powerful sword coming down and easily slicing through all cords, cutting them away from your body and dissolving into thin air.
White Light Shower
This can be done with a real shower or just as a visualization. See a running shower, but instead of water, beautiful, sparkly white light is pouring out. Step under the shower and watch as any dark or gunky energy washes off you and pours down into the drain.
Once you have completed these exercises, ground yourself using one of the exercises mentioned earlier.
Psychic Ability.
These are just some of the many powerful exercises that you can use to develop your natural psychic talent. Your psychic abilities are gifted to you to support your journey through this world. Life becomes so much easier when you use all of the gifts given to you for this journey.
Daniella Breen, B.Sc., March 2006, updated March 2026.
About the Author: Daniella Breen, B.Sc. (Psych), has experienced her psychic gifts since early childhood and is now dedicated to teaching others to step into their own psychic powers. Article Source: Ezine Articles
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