Sudden Psychic Opening

Dealing with a Sudden Psychic Opening

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It can be difficult and scary to have your psychic abilities pop open suddenly and strongly. It’s like a dam bursting and the resulting flood of psychic experiences can be very destabilizing.

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The signs of a sudden psychic opening vary from person to person and depend a lot on what your natural psychic abilities and skills are. For the most part, it includes having your psychic abilities switch on very suddenly. This can leave you feeling overwhelmed, confused about what is happening, and longing for a way to understand it all. You might even want to be able to turn it off when you need to.

Sudden psychic openings can happen as the result of spiritual practice, but often they are the result of a wild initiatory experience that shifts and shocks you into a sudden opening.

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Here are some examples of what can precipitate a sudden psychic opening:

• Long periods of time doing spiritual practice like meditation or yoga.

• A near-death experience or a serious illness that brings us close to death.

• The death of a loved one or a powerful loss, such as a breakup or divorce.

• Sudden and extreme shift in circumstances, like a move, a crisis, or a natural disaster, which is also sometimes a brush with death.

• Psychedelic drugs like ayahuasca, LSD, DMT, or psilocybin mushrooms.

 

If you are in the middle of something like this, don’t panic. This is a huge opportunity for personal and spiritual growth for you. The energy management practices on this website will help you ground and center yourself, and also help you to integrate the experiences you are having and learn to manage the flow of psychic experiences.

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Here is what to do if you feel like you are in a sudden psychic opening:

1. Don’t panic! You are not crazy and it is a normal thing to happen.

2. Do your best to really ground every time you need it. Go outside bare foot, get crystals that can ground you, and do lots of breathing.

3. Handle any emotions that are coming up. Journal, meditate, or do whatever works to process an emotional overflow.

4. Get help from healers, therapists or doctors if you feel so overwhelmed that you can’t manage it. This experience can bring a lot of anxiety with it as well as dredge up past trauma that needs healing.

5. Integration activities can help like slow yoga, napping, walking, and general self care activities.

6. Get more training with a psychic teacher that can help regulate and explain your experiences.

7. Read books, watch youtube, etc; adding to your knowledge base about the psychic worlds gives context to it all.

8. The other thing that can really help is to learn to shut down your experiences when you need to. Try imaging that there are radio or TV dials where you can turn down the volume, or even just turn it off.