Riding the Paranormal Highway: Psychometry in Practice

In my last post, I told you about the elements of me, hoping perhaps we can find similarities in my abilities and how I go about gathering information through the “paranormal highway.” If anyone has commonalities and perhaps psychic moments or abilities, I’d love to hear about it so we can find traits/factors that might run in common.

Before I tell you how I read an object, I know there’s going to be some people wanting to know how. I’d like you to try it and see if this description helped you to tap into that same highway. We might actually find out how we do it, even when we’re vastly different people. It could be, as I suspect, something innately human and takes no special “equipment” internally.

To find out the hand you read with, the easiest way is this. Put both hands in front of you palms facing each other in front of your chest. Keep them about 3-4 inches apart (far enough apart that when you bend your fingers, they don’t touch the opposite palm, but as close as you can without touching). Now, tickle your right fingers towards the left palm and feel the sensation. Do the same now with the left hand towards the right palm. Which palm felt the tickling best? That is the palm you should read with, the receiving one. The opposite palm, by the way is the sending one, the one you give your energy to others with. If you need to dominate someone, put the sending hand on them. If you need to give them your love and healing energy also use the sending hand. If you want to know if they’re good or bad inside or read and object, use the receiving hand, the one that takes energy in.

Every psychic will give you a different explanation on how they read. Let me try and explain it as best I can. I don’t need to do any spiritual or magical rituals to prepare. I don’t need to meditate or imagine a white light or any of that woo-ha. I simply clear my mind. No words. No thoughts. Nothingness. I liken it to becoming an empty vessel. It’s critical to become blank which is probably why I prefer to read people I don’t know, my logical mind can’t interrupt the info I get and talk me out of what I see.

I put the object into my hand. For me, that’s my left hand. (You find a lot of right-handers read with their left hand and vice versa). Sometimes I will roll it round in both hands, but usually I just use my left hand. My eyes usually move around a bit until I lock into a feeling. That feeling can be melancholy, hurt, joy, or other. Once I sense that feeling, it’s as if I’m recalling it. I lock my eyes in that position. If you remain completely open with no expectations of what emotions might be attached to the object, it will come to you. Sometimes, it feels like a tension in your belly, a tightness in your throat, a looseness in you pelvis. You’ll recall that same sensation in your own life. In fact, it will likely remind you of a time you laid out on the beach in Hawaii without a care in the world, or perhaps a giddy party night out on the town, or a withdrawn pinched angry resentful sensation when you were jealous.

Now, once you have the feeling locked in and you eyes know your eye position (eyes closed or open, but I prefer open), you'll begin to get a sensation like when you're trying to recall someone's name. Ever have that celebrity who you can picture so clearly and yet their name for some reason escapes you? That’s a normal part of the process. At this point, it will be much like mediation in that your concentration is deep but your thoughts are fleeting. It’s like sifting through a Rolodex until something captures your attention.

Sometimes, I get a sense of someone on my right or left. I can nearly picture their personality, their mannerisms, their relationship to the person. I can feel how the person feels about the possession’s owner or the owner’s feeling about that person. If a person doesn’t show, a situation can sometimes show. It’s like when you recall the details of your high school prom. You remember little bits, like how bad the band was, how someone fell into the resort’s pool, and how you didn’t stay to see who got crowned. Often times, I get something crazy, like an old-fashioned kitchen counter but as I concentrate on it, I start to see more of the room as if it’s a room I personally know, even though I’ve never been there. Once in that place in my mind, I can understand where the people of the house are and what is going on there. It's critical to keep yourself open-minded in that even the absurd and fleeting can be applicable.

It's like seeing a movie you've never seen. You don't know what the plot will be yet, but right off the bat you think you understand the characters and setting. Once you've locked into something pertinent, more and more of the story unfolds for you. I'd suggest an easy way to do this is having someone give you an object but not tell you where it came from. You won't make any assumptions. Let the person take notes of what you got and find out your accuracy. When you have a bad read, you move on until you find how it is your mind and body read things. I've taught other people how to do this and it is teachable, but also something that needs practice to learn your mind's pathways.

I always say that psychometry is about 30% getting info and 70% interpreting it. With the amount of info and focus you get, it's real easy to read it wrong. Interpretation comes over time and you get a feeling in your body that tells you when it's right and when you're edging away from the right path.

Here’s what we can determined about the process of psychometry from my description:

Begins with physical contact
Moves on to clearing of the mind
Turns into emotion
Provides relationships/locations
Culminates in events/details
Lasting results; the memories become my own

I mentioned in the last post that there would be significance in my synesthesia. The reason I think this is very tied to my ability to read objects is because the method by which I “see/sense/recall” information is that it is seen in the exact same manner that I view time—projecting outside of my body into different planes. Does this mean that I’m able to project my mind outside of my body into different time periods/different places? I don’t have the sense of being outside of my body, but I do have a sense that time and information are stored and retrievable from the environment. As I say this, I realize that it sound to me a lot like residual hauntings. Perhaps as we travel the paranormal highway in this series, we might find a tie between paranormal activities that prove they ride the same roadway.

Ultimately, we’ll have the exciting task of trying to figure out what comprises the paranormal highway. I can hardly wait for that discussion!