Sensitivity and Psychic Ability

[haleyw]

I'm a very sensitive, emotional person, and I've got a theory that you probably have to be this way to have strong psychic abilities. Being sensitive to things makes you more open to be able to tune into things. What do you think? Do you know anyone who isn't sensitive who has psychic abilities? Do you think you have to be open and receptive to psychic/spiritual events or can they happen to people who don't even want them to?

 

[tarotbear]

I have always said that 'I am a transmitter, not a receiver.'

Both of my grandparents died in the house I grew up in, and nothing ever bothered me. However, two friends of mine have seen people walk by and other manifestations, but I've slept in the bed grandma died in many times ... nothing.

I think you need to further define 'sensitivity' and 'psychic ability.'

 

[haleyw]

I have always said that 'I am a transmitter, not a receiver.'

Both of my grandparents died in the house I grew up in, and nothing ever bothered me. However, two friends of mine have seen people walk by and other manifestations, but I've slept in the bed grandma died in many times ... nothing.

I think you need to further define 'sensitivity' and 'psychic ability.'

I'd define them as...

Sensitive - having deep empathy and high intensity, with powerful intuition and awareness.

Psychic Abilities - Knowing things before they happen, seeing or sensing things that others can't, having another sense outside of the five we (most of us) use daily.

Obviously, that's just a couple of quick sentences about much broader subjects.

 

[Carla]

I believe I definitely have sensitivity, but as far as I have experienced, no psychic ability. Although many people do say we all have latent psychic abilities. Mine go no further than the ordinary garden variety knowing-who-it-is-when-the-phone-rings type.

 

[The crowned one]

I think psychic ability as described in your post is more related to a ability to "believe", reading causality into unrelated events as in the case of conspiracy theories for example, then any sensitivity on a emotional empathy level.

 

[PAMUYA]

My mother was psychic, she was a very distant and unemotional person. Now I am very emotional and sensitive but I don't believe I have a psychic bone in my body. I did met another woman who was psychic, unrelated to me, she was a recluse. I really don't know if that is the norm, the only thing I have is my own experience. I have met many who have claimed to be psychic but I didn't get the feeling that they were, great card readers, but not psychic. I don't know why I didn't believe they were psychic, maybe because I spent my life with one, and they were not like her. I am babling...sorry, shouldn't be writing so late. Good night all.

 

[Stormdancer]

I think psychic ability as described in your post is more related to a ability to "believe", reading causality into unrelated events...

I can not believe I actually understand what you're saying, but...I think I do.

So...the thought of "flan", followed closely by a link to a Wiki page with "Flan"...er, spelled "Flahn"...was a coinkidink. It means nothing. I'm reading causality into unrelated events.

What does it mean if there are lots of those....coinkidinks?

 

[Bhavana]

I don't think it is that simple, at least not by the standard definition of psychic. Do sensitive people have a better understanding of some things? Maybe. But I have known plenty of sensitive and emotional people who were not psychic...and in reality, I don't know of any "real" psychics.

 

[The crowned one]

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What does it mean if there are lots of those....coinkidinks?

I think you answered the question within the question, not that I have ever heard or read of this happening. Still some people find it easier to correlate events then others.

I wish I was a psychic, I wish I knew one because if I did we would be both, very rich. Seeing anything others can not is a advantage: for example Galileo took the idea of the telescope and began to make improvements on it. He soon had a device that he could market to politicians and to the merchants of Venice. They were able to see ships at sea approaching the land well before the competition. .. With the help of the telescope, merchants could manipulate the price of commodities and make larger profits off each shipload of goods by knowing what ships were coming in before anyone else. ( or prepare for enemies)... A psychic, I would think would hold a advantage some what like that in what ever field their psychic ability was. Everyone I have read of ( true they are the "famous ones" so in that respect enjoy the limelight, and therefore a obvious secondary motive) have been proven to be frauds so far.

 

[LibraX]

It's an interesting topic for sure, and who knows what the answer is? I remember reading an article recently about how the majority of people with psychic abilities also have experiences with mental illnesses such as depression (not to be confused with the majority of people with depression are psychic), so I suppose there's a correlation there between a person's emotional depth, depression, and psychic abilities?

I've been told I have extremely raw talent and the potential for powerful psychic abilities once I get my mediumship training down, and I'm bipolar, so I guess I speak from experience?

I do think that empathy is an important point here - not that all psychics are empaths, but psychics who ARE empaths have that added bonus I guess, and in order to be an empath you are incredibly sensitive. BUT on the flip side, I've noticed that people who are more withdrawn into their own feelings are more analytical, and to be honest that's not a bad attribute to have if you're practising say, psychic readings.

So I guess it all comes down to personal opinion; every psychic is different, they work in different ways. I, personally, use my empathy as much as I use my psychic abilities in a reading and my sensitivity is what helps me... but to others, they could find it useful to be cut off from making that emotional connection to a sitter, and provide them with only the cold, hard facts, which arguably may make a better reading? So if you're asking if being more sensitive makes you a more powerful psychic - no, in my opinion, I don't think it does.