Mary Mueller Shutan - Managing Psychic Abilities: A Real World Guide for the Highly Sensitive Person

MANAGING PSYCHIC ABILITIES

A Real World Guide for the Highly Sensitive Person

MANAGING PSYCHIC ABILITIES

A Real World Guide for the Highly Sensitive Person

Mary Mueller Shutan

Mary Mueller Shutan, 2017

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Published in 2017 by Findhorn Press, Scotland

ISBN 978-1-84409-700-5

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Contents

DEDICATION

Thank you to my students, many of whom were my testers for much of this material. I also wish to thank my parents who have honored my unique path, Kim Leyland and Chas Perry (who both contributed to this book, whether they realize it or not), and my husband, David, who has allowed me to fully blossom into who I am.

Thank you to those who read this, and to those of you ready to become who you fully are.

Introduction

W e live in a unique time, a time in which there are now thousands of books on the market about how to develop psychic abilities. We only have to look down the block, to our largest nearby city, or online to find a school that promises to make us psychic through their classes. Reality television has a wide variety of shows focused on celebrity psychics and ghost hunters, and popular nonfiction, television, and other media suggest that we can become psychic or intuitive with relative ease. As a culture we have turned becoming more psychic or sensitive into a multi-million dollar enterprise.

It is wonderful that we live in this age. The old archetypes of the gypsy fortuneteller or the psychic as devil worshipper are fading from the forefront of our cultural narrative, and we are becoming increasingly comfortable as a society with the unexplained, the spiritual, and the psychic. Our society as a whole is evolving from one based on materialismwhat can be seen, touched, and feltto one that is both material and spiritual at the same time. Many of us want to become more sensitive, more awake, and more aware of what is going on around us on multiple levels.

But where does that leave those of us who do not want to become more psychicwho are already psychic and may not understand our sensitive natures or how to work with our abilities? We may see, sense, or feel more than the average person and feel overwhelmed. Whether we are naturally sensitive or psychic, or have developed psychic abilities, we may lack the tools to understand and work with our psychic abilities. We live in an age of interest in psychic abilities, but with the primary focus of our outer culture being on acquiring psychic abilities, there is very little information out there for those of us who may be holding on for dear life while experiencing psychic and spiritual sensitivities that we lack the capacity to deal with.

It is typical for those of us who are naturally psychic to feel overwhelmed, to not want to deal with our abilities or deny them, and to have strong emotions and experiences throughout childhood, teenage, and adult years. We may feel angry and reject the fact that we sense more than others do. We may be a part of a faith or religious path that has difficulty with sensitivities and psychic abilities, or have trauma from seeing and sensing more of the world than other people do. We may look for ways to stop the onslaught of spiritual stimuli so that we can focus on everyday ordinary existence. We seek out material not to help us develop new gifts but to manage the ones we already have.

Much of the huge range of information out there now is misinformed and not useful for those of us with already manifested psychic abilities, meaning that many of us have nowhere to turn and live life in a state of overwhelm, fear, and decreased functionality. Most spiritual communities, psychic schools, and books are aimed at aspirational psychic states, and we just do not fit into that category. There is very little information out there to support those of us who are struggling with sensitivities and psychic abilities in any real way, and society, popular media, and literature as a whole overlook the real difficulties and experiences of being a sensitive or psychic in favor of aspirational material that provides an illusion of how wonderful psychic abilities would be if we were to have them.

This book is not aimed at people who want to become psychic. There is a glut of information out there for that population. This book is the first comprehensive guide to teach people how to manage psychic abilities and sensitivities that have already manifested. As natural psychics, we do not need to learn how to become psychic; we need to understand what we are experiencing, to develop healthy boundaries with our abilities, and to learn to work with our abilities so that we can be psychic as well as functional human beings, with lives, families, and careers.

This book will help you understand the nature of psychic abilities, how they develop, and where you are on the spectrum of sensitivities and psychic abilities. Most importantly, it will teach you the basic tools and practices that will allow you to manage your psychic abilities.

Many books offer information about acquiring specific psychic abilities, such as clairvoyance (clear seeing) or clairaudience (clear hearing), but no matter how our individual sensitivities and psychic abilities manifest we all need the same basic skills to manage them. Whether we are a bit more sensitive than the average person or a highly psychic individual, we can learn how to properly take care of ourselves. This book focuses on the skills needed to manage our psychic abilities, no matter what they are. (Note: If you have interest in individual psychic abilities and how they present themselves, I suggest my first book, The Spiritual Awakening Guide: Kun-dalini, Psychic Abilities, and the Conditioned Layers of Reality, for a basic overview of the different abilities and how to work with them.)

What do we mean by managing our psychic abilities? It can have a broad spectrum of definitions, but I understand it to mean the following: no matter our spiritual nature, or how psychic or sensitive we may be, we are intended to fully feel the wonder of our physical bodies and the joy, pas-sion, and full range of human experiences that our lives can provide for us. We can be the most psychic or sensitive person on Earth and still learn how to work with our abilities so that we can go into even the darkest of places and come out unaffected (or minimally affected and understand what appropriate self-care is after the experience).

We are intended to have relationships, friends, and community. Many sensitives and psychics are so overwhelmed that they recede from the physical worldit is a place of overwhelm, chaos, and difficult emotions and other energies that they will have to interact with. This does not need to be the case.