The Healing Gift of Psychic Reading

By Jeff Allen

The most loving thing we can do for another is to see them as the Spirit that they are. The validation that comes from being seen in this manner is more empowering and healing than any physical validation or remedy we can offer. This simple act of seeing another as a Spirit is what I call "psychic reading".

When I read, I tune in to the subtle energies that are beneath the body and the personality, and I see the spiritual aspects which are at play. Communicating what I see from this perspective reminds the person that they are more than their body and more than the concerns and dramas that so easily draw their attention. They are a beautiful Spiritual Being with vast amounts of experience and insight to draw upon. They are fully capable of creating peace and harmony in their life by simply aligning with their true self.

Seeing people from this perspective is healing even when no words are exchanged. Just noticing and admiring someone as a spirit provides an opportunity for them to experience their spiritual nature as well — to see or feel themselves more clearly because they have been seen. To me, this is the true essence of healing.

My interest in psychic reading began in the early 90's as I awakened to the idea that the world was more than I could see, hear, taste, touch and smell. I was having spontaneous psychic experiences and was reading many new age books in a frenzied search to understand and develop my extra-sensory abilities.

When I stumbled upon Psychic Horizons Center (www.psychichorizonscenter.org) in 1996, I finally found what I was looking for — an organized method of teaching psychic abilities and an environment which supported and validated my spiritual awakening. My spiritual growth accelerated as I began experiencing my spirituality rather than reading about the experiences of others.

Today, I still use and teach the tools I learned at Psychic Horizons Center which follows the tradition of the Berkeley Psychic Institute (www.berkeleypsychic.org), founded in 1972 by late psychic and medium Lewis Bostwick. The concepts are easy to learn, time-tested, and widely applicable.

The basic premise is that we each have natural abilities to sense and change energy, even though few of us learn to use them consciously. The BPI teaching provides a simple framework for tapping into these natural abilities. Techniques are introduced for grounding and replenishing the body, establishing healthy boundaries, reading energy, and working with chakras and the aura.

While I've found these tools invaluable for helping me be grounded and centered, the greatest gift I received came from learning to psychically monitor and maintain my own spiritual growth. In the BPI training, this is referred to as "blowing a picture".

The term "picture" is used to describe a belief which is held in ones energy body. Our pictures are the building blocks of our reality and the filter through which we view and experience the world. "Blowing a picture" refers to releasing this stored energy and allowing ourselves to see and experience the world without this filter.

The power of this concept is that it gets in deep, past our social programming, past our psychology, and past our emotional wounds and blocks. The idea is to look as neutrally as possible at the effects of these forces upon us rather than looking at the forces themselves. We look directly at the stored energies (pictures) which came from these experiences. These stored energies now shape our belief system and our experience of the world. When these pictures are brought to our conscious awareness and we choose to release them, this changes the filter through which we view the world as well as the energetic program we create our world with.

The beauty of the system is that is works without us needing to figure anything out. We don't need to understand the physics behind the process or even the deep nature or origins of the energies we are releasing. When used most effectively, the analyzing mind is turned off, and we are guided by the simple desire to be clear, to remove the unconscious pictures which shape our experiences, and to tap into the true stream of life which is underneath.

For myself personally and for many others I've seen use this system, I've watched a steady reduction in judgments, frustration, and misperceptions. These are replaced by a corresponding increase in joy, happiness, and abundance which arises naturally from a less cluttered version of reality.

The ability to take a step back from my beliefs has also led to a growing sense of confidence and security and a deep knowingness that all is well, that underneath my human-formed pictures, life truly is beautiful, full of love, and full of wonder. I hold this idea true for myself, for those around me, and ultimately for all of us on Earth as we engage in the game of unbecoming our limited perceptions and embracing our true Divine selves.

Jeff Allen

Rt. Rev. Jeff Allen is a spiritual teacher and healer living in and loving Sedona, Arizona. Jeff's practice includes remote psychic reading, channeled hands-on healing, and spiritual teaching through guided meditation and interactive intuition and healing classes.

Contact Jeff at (928) 204-1062 for information about individual sessions, upcoming classes in Sedona, or to schedule a workshop near you.

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