What is a Psychic?

What is a Psychic? Am I One?

The word psychic (pronounced /saikik/; from the Greek psychikos--of the soul, mental') refers to the ability to perceive things hidden from the normal senses through what is described as extra-sensory perception, or to those people said to have such abilities.

The truth of the matter is that everyone has extra sensory abilities or psychic-ness. It is what the common-or-garden term used these days is your 'gut feeling', intuition, sixth sense; that little voice in your head that tells you otherwise. It is the sense that tells you to avoid a certain place or person without any logical reason.

Everything and everyone has a psychic ability that we either choose to use or ignore. It is just a matter of being aware of your own unique gift.

Being a psychic person in simple terms is the process of being aware and developing a greater heightened awareness of being aware. For some it might be a daunting task and for others is might be easier.




This is one of the reasons that many people engage in the practice of meditation, practicing bringing the mind to the present moment, yoga or any activity that develops the habit of strengthening your awareness.

A person who is highly intuitive/psychic or possess a greater heightened sense of awareness is not necessarily living the life of Buddha or anything profound but an ordinary life with all its up and downs of the day-to-day trials and tribulations.

It is like some people can wiggle their ears or raise one eyebrow and some people can tell you are going to call them before the phone rings. It can also be a difficult way of being without the help and understanding of others.

Have you ever been told you are just too sensitive? Are you hypersensitive in crowds? Electronic gadgets drive you crazy sometimes? Or maybe you have dreams that actually come true? literally.

These are all symptoms of having a psychic sensitive awareness. Some consider it a wonderful gift on a good day and some days a great burden. It is a responsibility that is not carried lightly but with guidance and support by those of us who have been there (especially in the more difficult times) to help learn to manage these gifts, it can be a beautiful way of being.

So in my opinion, everyone is a psychic and everyone has the ability to master their gifts of the extrasensory ability, it is just a choice as to whether you choose to use it, follow it, have confidence in it or not.

In the next issue of Psychics Emerging Newsletter we will explore different types of extra sensory/psychic abilities, what they mean, and for what they are used.

" How To TurnYour Life Around "

10 Steps to Turning Your Life Around

Discover all the positive things life has in store for you by moving up and moving forward today.

Up is the movement and direction toward possibility--"with God nothing is impossible." Up is the movement of reaching. Up is where we're going. When you watch birds take off, they don't fly down, they fly up. They leave the ground after they've found their food. They leave the place where they have come for their nurturing and their nourishment, and then they fly up, they soar.

Moving up, you will begin to discover who you are. So make the decision right now to fly, to change your life by moving up toward God and toward moments filled with yeses and possibilities in life.

Stand Up

Picture yourself as an inflatable boxing toy with a weighted base, a bop bag. Every time you hit that toy, it falls over, but it bounces right back up. Nothing can keep it down unless it's deflated. Refuse to decompress or deflate. When someone punches the breath out of you, inhale. Let God's spirit breathe new hope and life into you. Believe who He says you are, not what others say to defame and degrade you. You are a child of the King, bow to no negative circumstance or critical diatribe, stand up!

Steps to Stand Up

Believe who God says you are, not what detractors label you.
Stand up with stand up people; stop sitting down with negative, "ain't it awful" folks.

Leave the sitting chair of your past behind; decide your future...
When you get "sick and tired of being sick and tired," don't give up...stand up!

Speak Up

Never let fear keep you from speaking up. God hasn't given you a spirit of fear, but has imbued you with power, love, and a good, sound mind to give voice to your dreams, visions, ideas, and thoughts. So what if you miss the mark with a speech or message? So what if you stumble a bit, mumble, or stutter? Find your voice. Work on your diction. Work on your timing. Work on your voice, presentation, substance, and style. Speak up.

Steps to Speak Up

Pray and listen to God's leading and direction right now. Ask God to help you to "open your mouth and increase your territory" (prayer of Jabez in 1 Chronicles 4:10).

Prepare what you are going to say and then practice articulating your message clearly.

Embrace a bold and courageous attitude.
Speak up and create an environment and legacy for others to speak up. Start working with those around you.

Look Up

To look up means taking the time to find a place within yourself and around you to renew your spirit. Be intentional. Take a spiritual health break. When all is dark around you and no light shines at the end of your tunnel of despair, look up! Knocked down? Look up. Perplexed and confused? Look up. Surrounded by trouble...and depressed? Look up!

Steps to Look Up

Set aside a quiet time to pray regularly. Talk with God as you would a friend.
Get up and walk; don't just sit around bemoaning your problems.
Ask God for a vision for your life.
Choose to become new again. Allow God to do a "new thing" in you (Isaiah 43).

Book Up

Reading allows us to continue achieving and growing. I want to know what trials people faced and how they overcame them. How did they rebound when they were knocked down? How do we go from being miserable to fulfilling a mission in life? Grab a few moments each day to read. Go on a trip without ever leaving home. Discover a new world of imagination, reality, and mindsets. Expand your territory: book up!

Steps to Book Up

Set a time each day to read, even if it's just for five or ten minutes.
Decide on a business or professional journal or paper to read weekly or even daily.

Talk with a pastor, teacher, or professional about books they are reading.
Read Scripture regularly.

Kiss Up

Kissing up is being kind even when the other person slams or persecutes us for no good reason. It's blessing those who really seek to do us wrong or do us in. Blessings are in store for those who choose to be kind, to kiss up, regardless of the attitude or actions of others. Not everyone we kiss up to will someday respond. That's not the issue. Kindness flowers out of who we are, not how others respond!

Steps to Kiss Up

Don't allow rejection to cause you to give up.
Remember to plan wisely before you initiate connecting with people.
Refuse to compromise who you are or your values.
Take the initiative to connect with those whom you will bless and who will bless you.

Listen Up

Listening up is a valuable gift you give to another person of your time and attention. Don't let others abuse that gift. Set boundaries. Marriage, friendship, or being related isn't a free ticket for abusive dumping. When you need to rest and refresh, turn the phone, beeper, or e-mail off or just don't answer. Go to a quiet, secret place, to commune with God and be renewed. Remember that prayer, a form of listening up, is not just telling God about what you want. It's also listening to God for what He wants; God has wonderful plans for your life if you will just listen up!

Steps to Listen Up

Keep a pad and pen close by you at all times so that you can listen to God and jot down what He speaks to you.

Take a sabbatical rest. It may be for a day, or weeks, or months. You may need a vacation in order to get away from the bustle and hear God.
Take a crisis one step at a time. Listen to God for guidance about each step you should take.

Be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger. Speak to hear and understand before you respond.

Hang Up

In Isaiah, God says, "Do not consider the former things nor consider the things of old. Behold I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth." You are to walk in the newness, which means you must let go of past negatives--ideas, people, and feelings. Setting boundaries, moving on from toxic relationships, deciding to change, and releasing old patterns and bad habits while learning new and constructive ones requires courage, work, and commitment.

Steps to Hang Up

Hang up when the relationship is controlling, manipulative, intimidating, abusive, or addictive.
Prepare yourself to hang up by praying, seeking wise counsel, facing the facts, and taking action.
Set healthy boundaries, refusing to relate to people who tear you down instead of build you up.
Move up to positive, prosperous healthy relationships after you hang up on the old and embrace God's new for your life.

Make Up

Consider the reciprocity of peacemaking that results from making up: "Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the sons of God." God's blessing comes upon those who live our reconciliation. Make a list of those with whom you need to make up right now. Begin to write, call, e-mail, and visit each one. Forgive. Release. Refuse to take or carry the bait of offense. Jesus said it this way, "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us." You've heard it and said it in the Lord's Prayer. Now live it.

Steps to Make Up

Approach those with whom you are offended and reach out to them with forgiveness.

Choose to forgive before others repent...even if they don't repent.
Focus on forgiveness instead of hurt, anger, and offense.
Pray out loud the Lord's Prayer and speak the Beatitudes.

Wake Up

Waking up to long-term gain may cause you some short-term pain or sacrifice. Scripture reminds us that trial produces patient perseverance, and patience builds character and this process produces hope that doesn't disappoint, outpouring love from God, and power through the Spirit. The process of waking up may be painful, but it does produce character and maturity. Don't give up what's important, wake up to it.

Steps to Wake Up

Set priorities in line with your life's purpose, not your immediate demands.
Deepen the close relationships in life, particularly family.

Take time for what's important; refuse to waste time on draining relationships that have no staying power.

Be there now and take time with those you will be with throughout life's journey. Begin today.

Cheer Up

Cheer up is about just doing something fun. It's about laughing, doing something that brings joy to your soul. From prison, St. Paul wrote, "Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say, rejoice!" Find joy for your soul. Everything in life does not have to be hard. A missionary friend in Belgrade often quoted the ubiquitous proverb, "Life is hard and then you die." Life doesn't have to be that way. Cheer up!

Steps to Cheer Up

Associate with people who cheer you up instead of tear you down.
Choose to respond with joy; reject the myth that other [people] or things can make you happy.

Laugh at yourself. Don't be so serious and stodgy.
Think up ways to cheer up others; by giving cheer you will receive cheer!

Tips for Happiness in Daily Life

Bringing Happiness In Your Life

Daily life can be made happier. It is a matter of choice. It is our attitude that makes us feel happy or unhappy. It is true, we meet all kinds of situations during the day, and some of them may not be conductive to happiness. We can choose to keep thinking about the unhappy events, and we can choose to refuse to think about them, and instead, relish the happy moments. All of us constantly go through various situations and circumstances, but we do not have to let them influence our reactions and feelings.

If we let outer events influence our moods, we become their slaves. We lose our freedom. We let our happiness be determined by outer forces. On the other hand, we can free ourselves from outer influences. We can choose to be happy, and we can do a lot to add happiness to our lives.

What is happiness? It is a feeling of inner peace and satisfaction.

It is usually experienced when there are no worries, fears or obsessing thoughts, and this usually happens, when we do something we love to do or when we get, win, gain or achieve something that we value. It seems to be the outcome of positive events, but it actually comes from the inside, triggered by outer events.

For most people happiness seems fleeting, because they let changing outer circumstances affect it. One of the best ways to keep it, is by gaining inner peace through daily meditation. As the mind becomes more peaceful, it becomes easier to choose the happiness habit.

Here are a few tips for increasing happiness in daily life

1) Endeavor to change the way you look at things. Always look at the bright side. The mind may drag you to think about negativity and difficulties. Don't let it. Look at the good and positive side of every situation.

2) Think of solutions, not problems.

3) Listen to relaxing, uplifting music.

4) Watch funny comedies that make you laugh.

5) Each day, devote some time to reading a few pages of an inspiring book or article.

6) Watch your thoughts. Whenever you catch yourself thinking negative thoughts, start thinking of pleasant things.

7) Always look at what you have done and not at what you haven't.Sometimes you may begin the day with the desire to accomplish several objectives. At the end of the day you might feel frustrated and unhappy, because you haven't been able to do all of those things.

Look at what you have done, not at what you have not been able to do. You may have accomplished a lot during the day, and yet you let yourself become frustrated, because of some small things that you did not accomplish.

You have spent all day successfully carrying out many plans, and instead of feeling happy and satisfied, you look at what was not accomplished and feel unhappy. It is unfair toward yourself.

8) Each day do something good for yourself. It can be something small, such buying a book, eating something you love, watching you favorite program on TV, going to a movie, or just having a stroll on the beach.

9) Each day do at least one act to make others happy. This can be a kind word, helping your colleagues, stopping your car at the crossroad to let people cross, giving your seat in a bus to someone else, or giving a small present to someone you love. The possibilities are infinite. When you make someone happy, you become happy, and then people try to make you happy.

10) Always expect happiness.

11) Do not envy people who are happy. On the contrary, be happy for their happiness.

12) Associate with happy people, and try to learn from them to be happy. Remember, happiness is contagious.

13) Do your best to stay detached, when things do not proceed as intended and desired. Detachment will help you stay calm and control your moods and reactions. Detachment is not indifference. It is the acceptance of the good and the bad and staying balanced. Detachment has much to do with inner peace, and inner peace is conductive to happiness.

14) Smile more often.

"Tips About Raising Kids"

How to Raise Your Kids in a Balanced Way

Although everyone has their own different styles of parenting, there are 4 main styles of parenting. These four different styles are authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, and the uninvolved.Uninvolved parenting is really just a lack of parenting.

It is hard on children and should not be the way of parenting. Kids suffer issues such as feelings of rejection, lack of self esteem, and issues with trust. In the long run the children are harmed emotionally.Authoritarian, authoritative, and permissive styles describe a range of styles.

Authoritarian parents are at one end of the spectrum. This kind of parenting tends to be high in structure and low in responsiveness. Permissive parents are then located at the opposite side of the scale. This parenting style tends to be low in structure and high in responsiveness.

Authoritative parenting tends to be located in the middle of the scale, and is a balanced parenting style. There are many different parenting styles out there; these three represent a very wide range scale.Structure is important to authoritative parenting.

There are clear rules and limits and children know that there are consequences for their actions. Routines and schedules help provide a sense of stability for children.

For example, a child knows when bedtime is, and a teen knows when curfew is, and both know what will happen if he or she is late. Stability in this sense allows children to feel secure, and that, it turn, allows for an all around better atmosphere.

There is flexibility in authoritative parenting that allows the parent to bend the rules on occasion. Like if a child would like to stay up late to watch a favorite TV show.Authoritative parents also are responsive.

This results in less conflict and more balance.Authoritative parenting is a balanced parenting style. Structure and responsive are both high. The parents are involved with their child's life, and are flexible, but they still are parents. There are structures, limits, rules and boundaries, but they are not rigid.

Children with this kind of parenting tend to do well socially and functionally in life. They tend to not get into problems and not to have serious emotional problems. This type of parenting is balanced, and produces balanced children.

"Importance Of Someone's Absence"

Why do we miss a person?

It's either:

We realize that we never treasured the moments when they were always there, and it left us wishing we could turn back time again.

Or...

We were too happy with them, we enjoyed every single moment taht we became so used to the idea of having them around. But when we finally walked separate lives, we realized that a moment spent with them is like dying stars which slowly leave the sky...empty.

LIFE IS HOPE :-)

... I have encountered lots of ups and downs in my entire life. I have countless disappointments, pains and struggles. I have experienced loses and wins throughout my journey in life. Often, I am toppled down. I even asked why GOD why did he allowed such painful things to happen in my life. I have questioned God... a lot... But even though, I still press on and move on forward. The only reason is GOD. Through HIM, I have the courage to go on despite my failures. And i will always put in mind that HE will never leave me nor forsake me.

I wanted to share this article who had become one blessing in me. Let us be reminded that GOD's promises are true. He is our ONLY HOPE in times of sorrows and bitterness. He is our comfort and guide. And I know He will always be there for us. May GOD BLESS each one of us.

Shattered Dreams and Broken Hearts

In each of our lives there is a trail of shattered dreams,strewn with brokenness of heart, and many shed tears.Along the side of that trail is broken relationships,lost loves, hurt feelings and deep wounds and oftenrejection. Every life contains these, it is part ofthe fabric of life. However unbearable it is for themoment or for a season, it is not unbearable for all time.

In my own life, I have suffered many losses, been hurt many times to the point where I didn't want to live anymore. Perhaps it could have been when my first husband left me for a woman we both knew, and decided he never again had to help us financially. I had to pickup the pieces and learn to work, support 3 darling little girls and make sense of a new life I was ill prepared for.

Perhaps it was the abuse of another relationship I got in where I was either hit or verbally abused until I feltworthless. Unable to leave and trapped in my owngullible thinking I had to stick it out even whenI knew it was robbing me spiritually and physically.

Perhaps it was the times that I in some way hurt my children or said something till they didn't want to speakto me for a long time, whether fully my own fault or partof their's the wounds ran deep and I was plagued with guilt.

Perhaps it was the loss of my father to Alzheimer's, whohad been the soul of gentleness and a rock in my life. The onewho kneeled down with me when I was 6 years old andtaught me to pray and ask Jesus to be my Savior. The lossof him was great indeed, for he was one person who wasalways thrilled to see me, his face would light up, and hislove was unconditional, forgiving and instant.

Yes, each of us have many shattered dreams, and they can crush our spirit and rob us of hope.
Yet in each of these times in my life, some which lastedyears, I found a anchor for my soul. I always retreated in prayer to Christ, I never gave up, even though I came close to it several times. Within my spirit would riserighteous anger, a desire to live and a desire to pleaseGod and remember He was my Father.

Do you remember when you were a child, and would get hurt or someone would say something unkind to you?You would run to mom and dad and they would comfort you and you would go back out and play relieved of that burden and happy, carefree and unencumbered by that hurt.
That is the way we should be with all our trials, our pain and our hurts.

God says oh my child, I see your pain,I watch the tears fall quietly down your cheeks, and I knowthe loss and grief within your heart. Your broken dreams,your heart full of pain and disappointment from relationships,and your sadness for your own failures. For your physical suffering and your financial crisis, I am aware of each of these needs.

And my promise to you is that I will never leave youor forsake you. Bring your shattered dreams, and painto me and lay it at my feet. Crawl up into my lap place your head on my shoulder and find comfort for a season,and as you recover and grow stronger and become a warriorbecause of my strength in you.. you can go back into the world and face it with courage and HOPE.

Do not try to carry burdens you were never meant to carry.I am your Father, I will carry them for you, and I will work themout in their time. Remember nothing happened overnight,and nothing will change that way. Give me time to workin the hearts of people you are praying for, and bring circumstances into their lives that will change their heart and turn them towards me.

Don't give up, don't quit,don't despair and don't let anyone or any thing rob you of your joy or hope.

Remember my mercies are new every morning.

We are hedged in, pressed, on every side, troubled andoppressed in every way, but not cramped NOR crushed;we suffer embarrassments, and are perplexed and unableto find a way out, but not drive to despair.We are persecuted and hard driven, pursued, but NOTdeserted -- to stand alone; we are struck down to the ground,but NEVER struck out and destroyed.

Always carrying about in our body the liability and exposureto the same putting to death the Lord Jesussuffered, so that the resurrection life of Jesus mayalso be shown forth by and in our bodies.For we who live are constantly experiencing being handedover to death for Jesus sake, that the resurrection lifeof Jesus also may be evidenced through our flesh which is liable to death.2 Corinthians 4:8-11

So to me these verses are saying that we are tumbled about,hurt, lonely and yet never alone. And that no matterwhat comes our way, we have the resurrection spirit ofChrist within us to come against the powers of darknessand overcome all obstacles, hurt pain, and loneliness,trials, errors and deceit of this life in the name of Jesus.We rise to the occasion, rise up in Christ, and find peaceand strength in Him.

We are NEVER cast down.We are NEVER alone,We are NEVER without hope.For GOD IS STILL ON THE THRONE.

My friends, come to the Lord today, confess your sins to him,lay all your burdens and pain at his feet, as a child wouldto their parent, and let him heal your heart and infuse youwith strength from on high and renew you in him with courage,a sense of hope, a constant sense of comfort, and the fightingspirit you need to be a warrior for Christ, fighting the good fight of faith everyday.

I know this.. for He has shown me.. many times.

Right now my husband and I are going through a grievous,hurtful, and sometimes overwhelming loss. It is the kind of pull the rug out from under you, take the breath out of you,shocking and slap in the face kind of hurt, that saps your strength and makes you reel from it. It has taken medays to come to terms with it.. stop blaming myself and giveit to Christ. But I did. I woke up this morning, full of joyfull of hope, and strengthened... because of CHRIST.NOT because of my circumstances which have not changed.But because of my FAITH In Christ. This too shall pass.

For God is on the throne,and shall prevail and his will, will go forth and noman can stop it. The effective fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.James 5:13 Prayers are powerful NEVER doubt it.Jesus said, don't let your hearts be troubled,you believe in God, also believe in me. John 14:1 God says: Receive my peace. Right now. Don't delay, don't forfeit it to fear. Rely on, cling to, trust in, and find hope in ME.

Don't turn away from me for a minute, focus on me and I shall work all things out for my glory and for your sake. Many of you are suffering, hurt and broken, but you don't have to be. Happiness and a good attitude is a mental choice. It is how we face our life with God's perspective and not the victim feeling. We are victors in Christ. And that will stand for all time.

NOTHING can defeat a child of God, unless we allow it. Pray until you feel it. Pray until peace floods yourspirit.You too have all these promises.

Just Trust

lovemillieps.. forgive others, forgive yourself.

God's mercies are new every morning.Be strong and brave. Don't be afraid of them and don't be frightened, because the Lord YOUR Godwill go with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.-Deuteronomy 31:6

TIME FOR CHANGE

A N E W " Y O U "

The key to successful leadership is not to surround yourself with a group of people who look exactly like you, think exactly like you, or act exactly like you. In order to be successful, you have to have a diverse group, with varied perspectives, beliefs and opinions.

WHO ARE THOSE YOU SURROUND YOURSELF WITH?

Partner with those who complete you and not with those who compete with you.

As you journey through 2009, look around you. How are you assembling your team? Is it made up of individuals who act and think alike, or are you bringing in varied and diverse opinions that help you to balance the scales of thought and present a plan that is both detailed and well researched?

The decision is up to you.

I wish you a very peaceful, very happy, and very joyous new season!