Tools That Entrance Your Senses
It's fun to cast runes, look into coffee grounds, or try your hand at the crystal ball, but you don't need fancy paraphernalia to work with your psychic powers. Your senses can be effective tools as well — see if you can rely on sounds, smells, touching, or emotions to gather psychic information.
Playing by Ear
Sound can be a very important element in helping to create a psychic trance. Try playing soft music in the background, or get a small fountain, sit by a stream or the ocean, and listen! Another alternative is to use a recording of natural sounds. The sound of drums, bells, or chimes is also an effective way to put yourself in touch with your intuitive mind. Even a verbalized tone, such as chanting or humming “ohm,” can help.
An Emotional Connection
You can also try to establish an emotional connection; for instance, you could visit a place that has certain meaning for you. If your emotion is deep, it can help you enter a trance state. Maybe you feel deep calm when you visit a special place in the woods, or when you come to the beach. You could have special associations with visiting a church, synagogue, or temple, especially if these places can put you closer in touch with your Belief System. For some people, the simple action of staring at the full moon will give them a feeling that they can use psychically.
Many cultures use sound to help induce trance states. Australian Aborigines use the didgeridoo to produce a constant drone. Native Americans and Africans use drumbeats. Tibetans use bells and horns to help establish connections to the Universal Mind.
Special Scents
Certain smells may also help induce a trance — it's common to use incense, a candle with a special fragrance, fragrant oils, or herbs. You might want to burn some sage as a way of clearing old energies out of your present location.
Even a memory of a particular smell may affect you deeply enough to induce the trance state. Whenever you want to connect, take a deep breath and experience the feeling of something special.
The Magic Touch
The touch or feel of an object, such as a stone or perhaps something old that already has the experience of ancient wisdom in its energy, can help produce a psychic trance. It could be the clothes you choose to wear, the temperature of the room, a baby's blanket, or a piece of soft fleece — any such object may create the right feel to help you enter a trance.
Create Your Own Method
Once you try out various sensory techniques described here, you can go ahead and create your own method. For a moment, let yourself go into your relaxed trance state and think back over your life to times, places, and/or events that induced you into a spontaneous trance. It might have been a time when you looked into a steamy mirror after stepping out of a bath or shower. You were already in a relaxed state, and as you looked into the unclear image in front of you, your eyes suddenly saw something entirely different. It might have been on a foggy night when something seemed to materialize out of the mist.
It might have been a sound that induced you into a state of trance, such as the monotonous drone of an engine or a machine. It could have been the sound of many voices talking at once. It could have been while you were listening to a certain piece of music. It could have been an emotion that suddenly took over your conscious mind. As you think back, let your unconscious mind release your memories to you.
You may get an idea that you had not considered before. Make a note to try it out for helping you enter and enhance your psychic trance state. Some ideas may come to you later on in either a waking or a dream state. Once you have opened yourself to the possibility that you already have used naturally psychic tools in the past, all you have to do is wait for your internal and external guidance systems to remind you of them. These reminders may come from outside of yourself, so be aware at all times.
Whenever you open your psychic abilities in order to receive information about the future, make sure you know what you are requesting. If you are not sure right from the very beginning, you may open yourself to knowledge that is not necessary for you to know at the current time.
You may even have knowledge of psychic tools that are waiting in your unconscious mind from a past life. Now is the time to let them be updated to your present lifetime so that they may be used again to help you become and stay in tune with your life map. If you believe that you are letting your intuitive gifts be used for the greater good of others, you will be amazed at how you will become confident in and learn to rely on your own special psychic gifts. They are already there, no matter what tools you decide to work with.
