Psychic gift or ability?

Credit: Aditya Saxena

Are you born a psychic or can you develop it? I get this question often. It is one I pondered myself when I was first introduced to a course on intuition development. How do you define intuition? Here are my thoughts on intuition development:  intuition is the secular term for psychism (I have a whole lot to say on that but we will save it for another post). 

Just like witches got a bad wrap from colonizers ages ago, so have psychics. I pose the question: what does this actually tell us? JK You'll have to stay tuned for that blog post too. 

In this post, I want to address whether your psychic senses are natural born or developed. The answer is: both! Everyone has psychic abilities. They are as innate in us as any of our other senses. However, like a neglected muscle, our psychic abilities will weaken over time without exercise. It takes consistent practice to maintain our psychic abilities.

If you asked me about this at the start of my spiritual journey, I would have told you that I never had any experiences. I would be a perfect example that you absolutely can develop this. However, it all comes back to consciousness. The more I learned, the more I understood of all the seemingly insignificant moments that were truly spiritually guided.

Now YOU tell me, what do you think being psychic is all about?