You’re Not Blocked, You’re Just Not Listening: The Real Way to Develop Your Psychic Ability

Stillness isn’t a talent, it’s a habit. The quieter you become, the more life starts talking back.

Someone reached out to me recently, profoundly spiritual, accomplished, and credentialed in every sense of the word. Their question was simple but revealing: “How do I cultivate stillness? How do I surrender when I’ve spent my entire life achieving?”

It struck me because I see this same struggle everywhere, especially in hospice. People often imagine hospice as a sacred place where everyone is peacefully letting go, but it’s not what most expect.

Even in the final moments of life, many people treat it like a waiting room, flipping through channels, watching the news, debating politics, still holding tight to identity and opinion. True surrender rarely comes easily.

Letting go isn’t something you unlock once and keep forever. It’s something you have to practice, a rhythm of trust, release, and return. It’s learning how to exist without needing to know.

I’ve come to believe the meaning of life has less to do with finding answers and more to do with asking the right kind of questions.

Those who do that, the quiet ones, the ones who can hold presence without filling the air, have always moved me the most. As an extrovert, it’s something I’ve had to learn.

I used to be completely driven by accomplishment. But the deeper I immersed myself in this work, the more I realized how essential it is to check your ego at the door, to truly listen.

Not to wait for your turn to speak, not to fill silence with comfort, but to listen so fully that your presence alone becomes an act of understanding.

This article is about that kind of listening, the kind that sharpens intuition and strengthens psychic ability in a grounded, practical way.

It takes about 10 minutes to read.

And by the end, you’ll understand how to develop psychic abilities, how to strengthen intuition, and why you don’t need anything outside of yourself to access it.

You don’t need crystals, incense, or even ritual objects. Those things can help set the scene, but they’re just reminders, psychological cues that tell your mind, I’m entering a sacred space.

All you really need is you. Your awareness. Your willingness to be still.

So read this all the way to the end, especially if you’ve been trying to hear what’s next for you. The answer won’t shout. It’ll whisper, right beneath the noise you’ve been taught to call normal.

If you’ve never experienced a session with me before, you can get a sense of what it feels like to sit for a genuine psychic or tarot session by reading what to expect from a reading with me. It’ll help you understand how presence and intuition work together long before a single card is drawn.

Can anyone become psychic or intuitive?

Psychic ability isn’t about seeing more, it’s about noticing what everyone else overlooks.

Most people think being psychic means having visions or hearing voices, but it’s actually about paying close attention. Awareness starts in silence.

When you slow down enough to observe your emotions, body language, sensations, and instincts, subtle information begins to surface.

It’s not a “psychic gift” in the mystical sense.

It’s a skill, one rooted in trust, self-awareness, and sensitivity to the unknown. True psychic perception isn’t about being special; it’s about being honest. It’s about allowing yourself to feel what’s real instead of dismissing it as imagination.

Think of it as a kind of paranormal literacy, the ability to read what’s already written between the lines of everyday experience.

It’s less about receiving messages and more about interpreting what’s already there: the coincidences, emotions, thoughts, memories and synchronicities that are constantly trying to get your attention.

Everyone has access to that. You don’t have to be chosen, you just have to choose to listen.

If you’re ready to train your intuition more intentionally, this guide on how to increase your psychic abilities expands on daily methods that actually work.

How do I know if I have a psychic ability?

If creativity or math can run in families, so can intuition, it’s the same language, just spoken through feeling.

This question comes up often, and I’ve always said that if your grandparents or parents had a talent for something, engineering, mathematics, music, or art, you might naturally inherit their way of perceiving the world.

Maybe you think in shapes, colors, or sound. Maybe you process through rhythm or movement. Psychic sensitivity isn’t all that different.

It’s not supernatural; it’s neurological. It’s the brain’s ability to detect subtle patterns and emotional frequencies that most people overlook.

It’s the instinct to trust what you feel before you rationalize it away, to sense the quiet shift in a room, or the unspoken emotion behind someone’s smile.

Try this: visualize an apple. What do you see? For some, it’s a flat, fleeting image. For others, it’s a three-dimensional apple, one they can rotate, smell, or even taste.

That capacity to create a sensory experience in your mind is the foundation of clairvoyance.

If you’ve ever had a hunch that proved true, sensed someone’s feelings before they spoke, or dreamed something that later unfolded, you’ve already brushed against your own psychic ability.

It’s not waiting to be given to you, it’s waiting to be noticed, trusted, and used.

For a deeper dive into how empathy and awareness evolve into real psychic accuracy, read Developing Intuition: Practical Insights from a Psychic Medium.

What’s the difference between intuition and psychic ability?

Seeing isn’t believing, believing is seeing. Light a flame, set your focus, and let the afterimage teach you how to look.

     Most people use intuition and psychic ability interchangeably, but they’re not quite the same.

Intuition is instinctual, it’s the body’s natural intelligence.

It’s the nudge to call someone right before they need you, the gut feeling that says “something’s off,” the emotional current you pick up in a room before anyone speaks. It’s subtle, spontaneous, and deeply human.

Psychic ability, on the other hand, is intuition trained into precision.

It’s what happens when you consciously tune into those impressions, translate them, and apply structure to what you’re sensing.

Psychic ability organizes intuition into language, symbols, visuals, names, sensations. It’s a skill, not a superpower.

Clairvoyance, the “clear seeing” aspect of psychic perception, is a lot like noticing the afterimage that lingers after a camera flash. It’s subtle, faint, but real.

When I first saw a full-bodied apparition during a séance years ago, I realized that what I was seeing wasn’t physical light, it was residual light. The mind’s eye amplifies what it focuses on.

During mediumship readings, I light a candle and say a specific prayer to formally invite in only those of love and truth. Otherwise, you’re just an open channel, and that can be psychologically risky.

You need strong values, clear intentions, and grounded awareness before you start.

I’ll often explain to clients that I stare into the candle flame, then into the wall. The afterimage starts to shift into recognizable patterns or faces, a process known as candle scrying.

When I blow out the flame, the session closes. It’s not just ritual, it’s structure, and structure protects both sides of the connection.

If you’re starting to open up psychically, it’s essential to know how to set boundaries, this article on spiritual psychic protection walks you through exactly how.

How can I develop my psychic abilities?

Psychic growth thrives where curiosity lives, stay playful, stay patient, and let accuracy surprise you

If you want to develop your psychic abilities, start small and treat it like play. Intuition sharpens through experimentation, not expectation.

The tools don’t matter, tarot cards, UNO cards, or even a simple deck of playing cards will do. What matters is the mindset behind them.

The moment this work becomes too serious, you lose the very frequency that allows it to flow.

Play keeps the energy light, curious, and receptive. Hide a card and try to sense its color, suit, or number before flipping it over.

Notice what you feel in your body before you answer, tension, warmth, stillness, a subtle pull. The goal isn’t accuracy, it’s awareness. You’re teaching yourself to sense rather than think.

Personally, I strongly recommend the remote viewing course from Sean McNamara’s Mind Possible, if anything to prove to yourself with evidence how psychic you may be.

The key is belief, not blind faith, but quiet conviction. Belief that life itself is interactive, that it responds to your focus, that your awareness is part of a larger dialogue happening beneath the surface of things.

Every thought, every feeling, is a ripple in that conversation.

When doubt creeps in (and it will), don’t shut down. Doubt isn’t failure, it’s your ego testing your trust. Instead of fighting it, observe it. How does it feel? Where does it land in your body? Then return to curiosity.

Celebrate the moments you’re right, and laugh at the ones you miss. That humility keeps your intuition clean.

You’re not trying to become psychic, you’re learning to notice differently.

The more you treat it like exploration instead of evaluation, the faster you’ll grow.

Being psychic is a practice, not a performance. Every small success builds trust. Every attempt, no matter how subtle, sharpens your perception. Over time, what once felt like coincidence begins to feel like rhythm, and that rhythm is where intuition starts to sing.

If you’ve ever confused intuition with fear or overthinking, this breakdown helps you tell the difference clearly.

What’s the best way to strengthen intuition?

Intuition isn’t mysticism; it’s listening so deeply that silence starts to speak.

When you think of the word intuition, what comes to mind? Most people imagine someone who just “knows”, the friend who senses what you need before you say it. But intuition isn’t magic, and it isn’t guessing.

It’s presence. It’s the discipline of staying with what’s unfolding rather than trying to control it.

True intuition is listening without agenda and awareness without interruption. It’s learning to be still enough to hear the subtleties, the pause in someone’s sentence, the shift in tone, the sensation that tells you there’s more beneath the surface.

It’s noticing how someone makes you feel, even when they say they’re fine. It’s hearing the emotion behind their words and sensing the story that isn’t being told.

That’s psychic awareness in its simplest, most accessible form, empathy refined into accuracy.

To strengthen it, start with observation.

Notice the tiny details of your environment, patterns in conversation, synchronicities, timing, temperature, tension, silence. Intuition thrives in these spaces between logic and instinct.

Do I Need Tools or Crystals to Be Psychic?

All that glitters isn’t guidance, intuition doesn’t live in bracelets or stones. It’s already in you.

Let’s get this out of the way, no, you don’t need a single external thing to be psychic. You don’t need to be draped in flowing scarves, covered in clinking crystal bracelets, or surrounded by the scent of incense so thick it could summon the dead twice.

I’ve met people who look like a walking apothecary, jingling with quartz and citrine from wrist to ankle, and they swear the more they wear, the more “protected” they are.

It’s no different than the jewel-encrusted, bedazzled-track-suit-wearing televangelists who think their faith lives inside the glitter. The truth? All that shimmer is already within you.

Real intuition doesn’t need accessories. It needs attention.

Now, that’s not to say you can’t enjoy ritual. I personally sleep next to an amethyst chunk, and during readings I’ll often hold it. Not because I think it channels other realms, but because it reminds me to ground myself. It’s tactile, a physical cue that says, slow down, breathe, open up.

Tools like crystals, cards, candles, or meditation tracks are just bridges between your conscious mind and your deeper awareness. They create rhythm, familiarity, and focus, psychological cues that help the body follow where the spirit leads.

For example, I listen to two apps simultaneously: Brainwaves Pro and ThinkUp.

I’m not affiliated with either, they just work.

In ThinkUp, I’ve recorded over 175 positive affirmations in my own voice. Because here’s the thing: when your subconscious hears you, it believes you. Whether you’re describing someone else or yourself, your mind accepts those words as fact.

Some of my affirmations are specific: “I see clearly through love.” “My perception is precise and kind.” They help me sharpen my clairvoyance, steady my energy, and stay emotionally present for whoever’s in front of me.

I play them quietly during runs, workouts, meditation, and sleep. It’s not magic, it’s neuroplasticity. It’s reprogramming.

Crystals can remind you. Rituals can center you. But the connection, the real power, has always been you.

If you found comfort in this, you’ll love this reflection a reminder that your timing, growth, and intuition are unfolding exactly as they should.

How can I practice being more intuitive every day?

Write it down. Track the magic. The more you measure the invisible, the more visible it becomes.

If you’ve been following me for a while, you already know this, but if you’re new, these are the teas that help me enter a calm, receptive state. None are necessary; they simply enhance peace of mind.

Lemon Balm Tea relaxes the nervous system, that quiet, melted feeling you get after a long hot bath.

Blue Lotus (from Anima Mundi, founded by a friend’s sister) helps bridge the waking and dreaming state, softening that threshold where intuition lives.

Mugwort (also known as artemisia) sharpens memory and intuitive recall through scent. I use its essential oil before readings as an anchor, scent links memory, and memory links awareness.

Again, you don’t need any of it. Stillness is free.

If you want to see results, keep a psychic journal. Especially for dreams. Write in fragments, not essays. Focus on how you felt, what images lingered, or what you think it meant. The goal isn’t detail, it’s continuity.

Measure what you treasure.

The more you track something, the more you grow it. Over time, your mind starts noticing patterns and synchronicities automatically, as if your awareness begins to recognize itself.

It’s like tethering your conscious mind to your subconscious, training them to walk together instead of pulling in opposite directions.

Final Thoughts

You are the one with life, intention sets the boundary, and presence keeps it sacred.

All psychic development begins with one truth: intention is everything.

You set the tone, you claim the space, you decide what’s invited in and what’s not.

You are the one with life.

So practice gently. Let go often. And listen like the world is speaking directly to you, because it is.

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Written by Chris Bennett, internationally acclaimed psychic medium, tarot expert, and writer behind one of the best psychic blogs in the world. Renowned for his accurate, evidential, and emotionally intelligent readings, Chris bridges the space between psychology and spirituality with rare precision.

Recognized globally as one of the best psychics in Canada and a top international tarot reader, his sessions are described as profoundly validating, quietly transformative, and deeply real. Through his writing and readings, Chris continues to redefine what it means to be intuitive,  grounded, ethical, and measurable.

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