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A good resource for working on developing your sixth sense. The meditations and exercises are easy to follow.
Good book. Walks you through multiple ways of developing including scrying and tarot cards. Excellent for a beginner.
A very nice book. There is plenty of information in this book and some wonderful sounding exercises to try.
A good self help book. The meditation techniques are simple and effective. Each chapter helps us to introspect ourselves and try the technique ourselves. I am sure one can see huge difference upon regular practice of the methods explained in this book.
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I liked this book a lot. I have only been into meditation for about a half a year, but I found the exercises in this book clearly written, and easy enough to remember once I was meditating.
I’ve been a reading a lot more lately. It seems I’ve hit a quiet time in my life where I actually have enough stillness to pick up a book and read for hours on end. It may be due to the fact that I’ve had more meditation in my life, not that things have actually slowed down. I was drawn to this book as a way to expand my meditations. This book was perfect for that.
This book is divided into two parts. The first part is called ‘The Basics of Psychic Development’ and it dives right in with meditations to help you get to know yourself better. The author explains what each of the clairs are (clairvoyance, clairsentience, clairaudience, and claircognizance). She offers a short quiz on helping you sort out which might be higher for you. Then she offers a specific meditation to help you open a channel to tune in to that gift.
The second part of this book is called ‘Connect and Receive Information’. This part of the book expounds on tools you can use and how to interpret messages. The author also lays out meditations for special situations such as being in nature, dreamwork, past lives, and auras and energy. Each subject is given a good overview, a meditation, and prompts for journaling and reflection.
What I loved about his book is that it is not a cover to cover read it and forget it. This is the type of book that asks the reader to do some work and reflect on the journey. I admit to not having divulged the amount of time needed to do all the author’s suggestions. I have started it, and I plan to go back and invest the time to get the most of out this read.
Unless you plan to get an audio version of this book, I would suggest recording yourself reading the meditations and then use them by listening to yourself reading them while meditating. The guided meditations are detailed and most likely not something you will want to just read and then try to visualize. The details the author describes really helped in my meditations to take me to a calmer place and allowed me to try to reach out to tune in.
I think this book is a great start for those looking to expand their psychic abilities. I don’t know for sure that this will actually turn on psychic gifts for you, but I can say time in meditation is never wasted time. I would recommend this book for anyone interested in learning more about how and why meditating for psychic development is a good place to start.
Parkinson discusses cultivating ones psychic gifts through meditation and other related activities. Readers searching for a how-to on drawing these gifts, the practices of them from intuition to experiences past and present, and on to applying them to the future will find this primer worth going to time and again
Meditations for Psychic Development Practical Exercises to Awaken Your Sixth Sense by Chanda Parkinson is an absolutely lovely book full of meditations that will help you develop your psychic abilities.
I received this as an ARC (Advanced Reader Copy) in return for an honest review. I thank NetGalley, the publisher and the author for allowing me to read this title. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.
Meditations for Psychic Development is a great resource for those starting to develop skills to awaken their sixth sense. The meditation exercises included are simple but effective. I can't guarantee the exercises actually increased my psychic ability, but I can say that I felt all the usual benefits from sitting down and meditating. I recommend this book if you are interested in learning more about psychic abilities and how to work and strength them.
I think this is a great "beginners" book for those looking to develop their abilities. I found a lot of useful information in this book.
If you are interested in the notion of psychic abilities and/ or a novice to this field, this is a great book for you. Parkinson writes in an approachable way to pique your interest in psychic abilities, but does not overwhelm the reader with all of the incredible possibilities. There are bullet points in each of the chapters that summarize and yet also provide ways to further engage and develop one's abilities.
If you are interested in learning more about how to strengthen your psychic abilities, Chandra Parkinson's book may be for you. Meditations for Psychic Development: Practical Exercises to Awaken Your Sixth Sense gives the reader an opportunity to learn more about their abilities and provides easy-to-implement meditation exercises to increase those abilities. The first section of the book covers the basics the author thinks the reader needs to know and understand in order to reach their fullest potential. There is a short introduction explaining how everyone is psychic to some degree and how to create a mindset that will nurture your psychic growth. The fundamentals of meditation and psychic work are also addressed, but only on a surface level. A quiz is provided to help readers determine how they best receive psychic information through one or more of the "clairs" (clairvoyance, clairsentience, clairaudience, and claircognizance). There are specific meditations that align with each of these clairs provided, as well as questions for journaling and reflecting on the reader's experiences. Then, the chakras are explained briefly and meditations for opening the third eye, enhancing your intuition, and grounding yourself for protection are included.
The next section of the book goes into more advanced forms of receiving and connecting with psychic messages. Meditations that address auras, spirit guides, mediumships, nature, and your higher self are included in this section. Like in the previous section, each meditation includes prompts for journaling and reflection.
Personally, to make these meditations work for me, I recorded myself reading them aloud and played them back as a guided meditation. Some people might be able to just read the meditations first and then go through the exercise on their own, but I was not successful using this book in that way. Of the meditations I did try, I felt the immediate benefits of a slower heartrate, and a calm, clear mind. It's too soon for me to say whether or not these exercises have increased my psychic abilities yet, but with continued practice, I'm hopeful. All of these meditations were easy to do and even those who have never meditated before should be able to complete them. I appreciated the addition of the journaling prompts because it allows me to track my progress as I do the meditations more and more.
Overall, this is a great beginner book for those interested in strengthening their psychic skills. I can't guarantee the exercises actually increase psychic ability, but I can say that I felt all the usual benefits from sitting down and meditating. So it's definitely not a waste of time and worth checking out if this is something that interests you.
*Thanks to the author, Llewellyn Worldwide, and Netgalley for providing me with a digital ARC in exchange for an honest review!
This is a great book for those starting to develop skills. I learnt quite a bit which surprised me. Thank you.
Discover and Nurture Your Psychic Abilities
What an absolutely lovely book full of meditations that will help you develop your psychic abilities. The author firmly believes we all are psychic, but we may not know our gifts and the ways we connect and receive information. The book is broadly divided into two sections, one about the psychic basics like the “clairs” (clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, and claircognizance) and topics like chakras and intuition and one about connection and receiving information that digs a little deeper into psychic topics like your higher self, spirit guides, auras, dreamwork, and past lives. In each chapter, she discusses the topic more broadly before getting into the meditation; she often gives "bonus" information, like how to develop your intuition outside of the provided meditation and journaling suggestions. I liked the meditations. They are quite creative, tapping in and drilling down on the psychic skill/concept, and can certainly be done multiple times over time to help you continue to develop your abilities or seek different information. At the end of each chapter are journaling suggestions. She suggests in the introduction that you keep a psychic development journal, which I think is a great idea. The only way they could improve the book is if they placed the Helpful Guidance at the beginning of the meditations instead of the end, as they are often suggestions for what you should do before the meditation. The book is very positive, and the author is very enthusiastic about you discovering your psychic gifts and developing them. If you've wanted to explore your psychic gifts/abilities and nurture them, this book will probably help you do so.
Excellent book for beginners that want to test and hone their psychic abilities. The book discusses the different forms of psychic abilities and how they are used. Not everyone can master all forms. This book helps to perfect those abilities that are most prominent. The book walks you thru different meditations and techniques to help tap into your specific abilities. It also discusses methods used to receive messages such as Tarot cards or scrying. The manual also points out signs that our loved ones, that have passed on, use to communicate with us. Those signs can be very comforting. I found this book extremely informative and helpful.
Thank you to NetGalley and Llewellyn Publications for this advanced review copy. In return, I am submitting my unbiased and voluntary review. All opinions and thoughts are my own.
If you enjoyed PSYCHIC WITCH by Mat Auryn, this is a wonderful book to go further in deepening your psychic ability. This book guides you through different types of psychic abilities, understanding what they are, tools that can enhance the ability, meditations, and journal prompts to seal it all in. It's definitely a book you're going to want to sit with for the course of months and work your way through to get the most out of it.
I have deep interest in psychics and especially developing y own psychic abilities. This book is definitely one I will be dipping in and out of . This book talks about meditation and how it opens up your awareness the more time you do it. It talks about keeping a journal which can help with your meditation ritual. I like the pictures in the book and it was easy to read and understand.
Thank you NetGalley for letting me read this book.