A couple of things that I'm hoping the sensitives in the team can help me with.

I've started opening up again and have been reading a lot of books about developing psychic and clairvoyant skills. I've been doing some of the exercises to open up and close down again. But I'm finding that I seem to be over sensitive to everything and am beginning to get freaked out at the slightest little things. Every noise or shadow has me jumping out of my skin. I'm fine once I realise it's just something like the dog making noises in it's sleep or the lights flashing from the arcade machines in the shop. I've even freaked out at my own reflection in the kitchen window at night (yes, I'm serious   )    Is this a normal thing to go through when beginning to open up cos I can't really remember being this jumpy the first time I began developing? Is there something I can do to help prevent this?

Also, I'm starting to get peoples faces appearing when I'm falling asleep. This doesn't scare me but I try and focus on the persons face to see if I can get a good look so I can write down a description in case it might be significant to me or those close to me but all I seem to get is a fleeting glimpses and then it's gone. It's very frustrating    Sometimes it's not just one face, it is lots of faces one after the other but again just brief glimpses. Is there a way that I can try and get these pictures to stay with me longer?

I'm sure I'll have more questions as I go along my new journey so I hope you don't mind me asking them here  

Hi Hon

Sorry not really helping you with this but what books did you get for the development?

Thanks
Fran

hi julie,dunno if i can help,but i will try

i will tell you what i was told by a sensitive years ago,because i was the same as you,reading everything i could about it,

i was told stop reading about it and just do it!!!

your head will be full of lots of different ways to do the one thing that you want,which is to open up and close down,just find a tecnique thats simple and works for you!

the way i chill is to find a time thats quiet defo not through the day in this house!!
anyway,i used to have an old personal cd player with earfones,when i went to bed i put my music on,which in my choice was benedictine monks singing in latin,or native american stuff like dolleigh put up on the forum a wee while ago,now the whole point of this is to calm the mind and chill,and yes i chilled that much i fell asleep,but that dosent matter how often that happens,as it trying to train the brain to chill,so the more often i done that,the quicker i got calm,at first before i went on an investigation i used to listen to the music for about an hour,hour and a half,but then it got to the stage i just listened to it in the car on the way there,so it was my switch so to speak that calmed me,now i just sort of switch on automatically,but i need to start listening to it again as i feel im not calm enough.

now to me if your freaking out at everything your not calm,and your expecting something bad to happen which is stopping you from being calm,if you see what i mean,do not expect something will appear to you straight away,do not expect anything,just consentrate on calming your mind.

theres a lot of calm in these paragraphs  

hope this helps at least a wee bit

Hi Fran

Too many books to mention each one individually. I've got books by famous mediums, books on psychic development, clairvoyancy, spiritual books and so on. In fact I think if I buy another book my other half may hit me with it. I have tons of books and they're scattered all over the house. I'm a bookaholic  lol  My local library is also a great resource. I'll get books from them and if I like it I'll go and buy a copy. I pick a lot of books up at boot sales or off ebay.

I read the methods and usually adapt it to suit myself. I also pick and choose what feels right for me. I'm not the type to take one authors word as gospel.

Hi Roger

Thanks for this. You've got me thinking about the way I used to do things a few years back. Trouble is I never used to write anything down. I'm wishing I had now. Yes, I agree I do need to find something simple.



You are so right. I'm not calm and I think the key thing here is I'm not meditating plus I'm using a method of grounding which I'm not 100% comfortable with. I didn't realise this until after reading your post. I have now just gone and listened to one of my favourite guided meditations and grounded myself using my old technique which was so simple it only took a couple of minutes. I am feeling better knowing that I'm at least part of the way to being calm again. I'll keep using my grounding method and hopefully that'll bring me back down to earth and keep me more centred.



Thanks Roger, this has helped me out a lot  

thats great if its got you thinking,and you"ve tried an old technique which is simple and works,things can only get better for you,

as i said don"t expect things to happen straight away,just chill !!!

They say that as you lose consciousness just before you fall into sleep, that your physical senses dull and the spiritual ones come into play more. A lot of people experience the afterlife just before or coming out of sleep. I think that when you sleep that you leave your body too and  can enter the astral plane. Dreaming is a little bit more than just dreaming I think.
So........Im thinking that yoiu are probably just seeing some random spirits out there on the astral plane at this time of falling asleep. Ive had this during meditation. I feel that if you dont see their faces too clearly, then they are just randoms.