Psychic Skill Building
Intuition Sometimes defined as a gut instinct. For magical practitioners, it is the ability to hear or feel the higher mind, higher self, or inner spirit, or that small quiet voice inside and its guidance.
Journaling Keeping notes on one’s experiences, thoughts, feelings, study, and practices. It never fails that when I ask students to keep a journal, they ask if they can keep a digital journal. The answer is no! Here is why. Handwriting is connected directly to your thought process. This thought process then flows through your body creating an embedded memory for both the mind and body. Handwriting stimulates the part of the creative brain in the cerebral cortex that a computer or other electronic device does not. The part of the cortex that handwriting accesses is the very part of the mind we are trying to enhance in psychic skill building, and writing by hand puts the mind in a semi-altered state similar to spellwork and meditation. Typing on a device does not access the same part of your brain. Journaling also assists in making our thoughts more tangible and present in our lives and mind. Journaling is how this book came into being and how my thoughts and experiences became tangible. I have been handwriting lessons and journaling for ten years. I have thirteen notebooks broken down into subjects and labeled.You may be thinking this system is a pain because it all had to go on the computer later. This, too, has its use. When you enter your handwritten notes on the computer, you also are reading them, which then taps the deeper memories and thoughts that were previously provided in the original writing. This stimulates a more informative and consistent flow 11
