Can Anyone Become Psychic?

Can anyone become psychic? Or are some people simply born with abilities that others don’t have?

In this episode of Psychic Whispers, I’m exploring a question I’ve been asked countless times over the years: can anyone develop psychic ability?

After more than thirty years of working as a psychic medium, my answer is… yes. And no. 

We’re talking about the difference between intuition and psychic ability, whether natural ability really matters, the different ways psychic information can show up, mediumship, developing your abilities — and why being psychic certainly doesn’t mean being right all the time.

I’m also sharing a little of my own experience and what three decades of doing this work professionally has taught me about what being psychic actually means.

Whether you’re actively developing your abilities, have always wondered if you might be psychic, or you’re simply curious about how any of this works, come and join me.

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Hello and welcome to the Psychic Whispers Podcast. Hey, and welcome back to Psychic Whispers. So today I want to cover a question that I get asked all the time. Can anyone become psychic? It's one of those questions that sounds like it should have a really straightforward yes or no answer. And after all the years of working psychically, reading tarot, communicating with the other side, and doing all of these readings, my answer is yes and no. Which I appreciate is incredibly annoying. But stay with me. Honestly, I think part of the problem is that when we talk about being psychic, we're actually talking about several different things. Are all human beings intuitive? Can psychic ability be developed? Can anybody learn to read tarot? Can everybody communicate with the other side? And does have psychic experiences mean that you could or should become a professional psychic? All of those are completely different questions. You know, I observe that sometimes this spiritual world out there bundles all of them together and says, hey, yes, everybody is psychic. And I don't completely disagree with that either. I just think it's a little more complicated than that. So today I thought we'd get into it. Can anyone actually become psychic? And perhaps more importantly, what does being psychic actually mean? So let's start there. What do we mean by psychic? Because I think that's where we probably need to start. When I say that somebody is psychic, I am talking about the ability to receive or perceive information beyond what we would normally expect to know through our ordinary senses. And that can happen in lots of different ways. Some people can see things, some hear things, some people just feel things physically, others have dreams. And some people just know. And I know that I just know sounds like the least helpful explanation imaginable. I get that, I hear you. But if you've experienced it, you'll understand exactly what I mean. There's no thought process. You haven't worked something out. The information just arrives, kind of like a mental download, if you will. And you think, how could I have known that? You couldn't have. We actually call that ability clear cognitence for those interested. And then, of course, there's mediumship, which for me is connected to the psychic ability, but isn't exactly the same thing. You can be incredibly psychic and not necessarily communicate with spirit. And you can be a medium whose strongest ability is communicating with spirit rather than predicting what's going to happen in somebody's career next year. The opposite can also be true. People have different abilities, different strengths, and different ways of receiving information. I think that's one of the first things people don't always realize. Being psychic isn't one thing. There's actually four clair abilities. I mentioned earlier, claire cognitance. There's also claire audience, which is the ability to hear. There's also clairvoyance, which is the ability to see psychically. And there's clairsentience, which is the ability to feel things. So psychic is kind of bundled up into those main abilities, but the way that people experience them are quite unique, to be fair. So I think I'm gonna be really clear about one thing. I do think that we are all intuitive. Here's where my answer becomes yes. I genuinely believe that intuition is part of being human. I don't think intuition belongs exclusively to people who call themselves psychics. Think about how many times you've said, I knew they were gonna call, or something told me not to go, or I knew something was wrong. Or you've met someone and instantly felt comfortable with them, or you just instantly thought, nope, not for me. And you couldn't necessarily explain why. I mean, sometimes there'll be perfectly ordinary explanations. Our brains are taking in enormous amounts of information all the time. You know, body language, tone, patterns, previous experience, things that we aren't consciously, you know, playing paying attention to. I'm perfectly happy to acknowledge all of that. But again, all these years of doing this work, I've also experienced enough things that I cannot neatly explain away. Things that I shouldn't have known. Information that meant absolutely nothing to me, but meant everything to the person sitting in front of me. I've had connections with the other side where something incredibly specific has come through. And those experiences are part of why I'm still doing this, of course, after all these years. I've had my validation. I know the ways in which I feel this and have experienced this to be very real. So, yes, I think intuition is natural. I think most people have experienced it in some form. But does that mean everybody is a psychic? And this is where my answer gets a little more complicated. All right, I'm gonna say it. Natural ability is a thing. I know this isn't always the most popular thing to say, especially in spiritual circles, because we love the idea that everybody can do absolutely everything. And I get that. But I don't think that's how human beings work. For example, most people can learn to sing, but not everybody is going to become an extraordinary singer. Most people can learn to draw. Some people pick up a pencil for the first time and they clearly have something natural there. And most of us can learn to cook, but that doesn't mean that we're all opening restaurants next Thursday. I think psychic ability is similar. I absolutely believe it can be developed. But I also believe that some people naturally have stronger abilities than others and also a stronger drive. If I told you that if you practiced and really threw your heart and soul into learning more about your intuitive abilities, that you would get better, there would be this magical little moment and you would say, yes, great. And I'm gonna tell you right now, that is true. If you dedicated yourself to this, you will get better. It's whether or not you have that natural drive to want to be better. Just like if that singer wants to be better and they practice every day, they will. But it sometimes just comes easier for some one person than it does some other person. And that sometimes becomes quite disheartening. I'm definitely not trying to be elitist. It's just noticing the difference and understanding that it's not everyone's drive. But I believe that if anyone put their energy in, they would definitely see results. But a lot of people find themselves disheartened if it's really too hard or it's just where they're pushing it too much. I understand that. If I tried to learn to play guitar right now, I don't know that I could hack that. I don't some people, it just comes natural. Their brain kind of comprehends it. It's not for me. I mean, it's not something I'm gonna just pick up and expect to play with, you know, absolute professional performance. But could I learn? Absolutely. Do I want to? Not really. No, I'm good. And I think that's the thing. Psychic ability requires some dedication if you're not there just by default, then you're really pushing something. And I believe that's possible. But I believe that some people just don't feel the need to do that. And I that's fair. I think that there are people that are just naturally incredibly sensitive to energy. And some that really have those vivid psychic dreams from early on in life. You know, others seem very naturally clairvoyant or they have a strong sense of knowing. And others just found themselves even sometimes accidentally connecting with spirit. Like, what is this? I mean, there's people out there that have just don't know how they got here. And it's just happening to them. And a lot of the times, these things are happening long before that person has had in any language for what they're experiencing. But don't let this deter you. I just want you to be honest about where you feel you are in that journey. And I want you to also recognize that you might not have tested your natural abilities. And I don't want you to compare your journey to someone else's. I want you to go into this and figure out where your natural default lies, because there is going to be some natural psychic ability within you in the way that psychic energy shows up for you. There's going to be something for you to grow with if that's what you truly want in your heart of hearts. But if it's not, if it's not where you are, then it's not going to be something that you develop. But you could, if you really wanted to. Now, I often don't like telling my origin story on how I got into this psychic world because it just sounds a little cliche sometimes. But also I don't like to tell it because I don't want to put to put people off or for people to believe that somehow if they didn't have something in childhood, then that means that they are not going to ever be a psychic. Not true. I just need you to know that before I share my version of what happened for me, that I have seen people develop their abilities at any life stage, early, mid, and late. And I have watched people grow in their psychic energy and realized they had a natural ability or tapped into something really natural for them, or developed psychic ability when it wasn't their natural default at every stage of life. So by the way, it's possible. But for me, it appeared really early. I got here by a huge curiosity in the paranormal and with ghosts when I was seven. And I remember just these questions I needed answering. Why were they stuck here? What were ghosts? If there were ghosts, how can we be, you know, multiple people? I had this understanding of past lives where it had never been discussed with me. So I definitely felt like I brought, you know, other life knowledge into this one with me. You know, old soul went, hey, I'm just gonna remember that stuff. I know that stuff, so tell me how it works. And I feel that in that stage of curiosity, I never let go of the energy with where ghosts were concerned and the curiosity over the paranormal. And there I began to realize that I was experiencing things and feeling things and sensitive to things that nobody got to kind of interpret for me. I was just asking questions that everyone kind of cocked their head to one side and said, huh. Finally found someone that could answer those questions when I was seven and definitely began to floor that poor person, uh, that poor woman got the, you know, many late nights, whether she was ready or not, and got to ask a million questions all at once. And I found myself over the years really just hanging on to that. And through that, when I was 16, I got uh tarot deck kind of in front of me. There was a friend of mine, and she was reading tarot and began to read for me and said, Here, you have a go. And I did it and read the cards. And it just seemed to have some kind of natural click. And at that point, she handed the book to me and said, You're supposed to be doing this. And I did. And it began to unlock what I knew was already there from when I was a child, but it really unlocked all the things and the ways and gave me a channel and an explanation and a and dialogue for the things that I was feeling. And that's how it started. And I read tarot, and then I realized I was a clairvoyant, and it all of these other abilities just began to open to me. And that's, you know, how this began. I came into this profession in my early 20s at a time when nobody wanted to take somebody of my age seriously. So I had to do it over the phone because to look at me and to see me looking, I guess, young and take advice from me, people were not prepared to do that. And so I learned to do this remotely and I learned to do it very quickly remotely so that I could do it because I needed, I needed to. And it worked. And I am here 30 years later, loving every connection I have ever had. And just what a blessed journey this has been on my part. I I've loved it so much. I'm honored to do this job, this work, to call it my life's work. Um, it's just been a passion. But don't let my story interfere with yours because you don't have to have had that when you're seven or some crazy experiences. I'll share some of those, more of those with you. There's so much more to those stories. Um, you don't have to have had that in your childhood. But maybe there is a little inkling. Maybe there's natural abilities you just don't know about yet. You just need to try it. And if it's too much work and effort, you'll soon realize that you're not interested in developing it. I think that's the main thing to just pay attention to. Does it become a passion? Does it become something you want to work at, or is it something that you just kind of think, oh, too much effort? I get it. Either way, but there's something, something in there. You know, psychic ability has a language. When people start developing psychically, I think they often expect something very dramatic, like a booming voice or some grand vision, or just a spirit appearing at the bottom of the bed. And yeah, sure, you know, people can have very vivid experiences. But I've said this in previous episodes, you know, psychic information can be incredibly subtle. You might see something in your mind for half a second, or you might suddenly think of a song or a word might just appear. Or maybe you feel something physically or smell something that's not there. Or you might just know, as I've said before. The difficulty in the beginning is learning which things are information and which things are simply your own thoughts and your confidence in that. Confidence speaks volumes for how you begin to deliver information or just trust it. And if we haven't got the confidence to discern what's mine and what's psychic information, it can be a little bit flustering at the beginning, but it takes time. It takes practice. It takes getting things very wrong sometimes and just throwing yourself in the hat of like, fine, all right, it doesn't matter. I'm not gonna look foolish. Who cares? Even if I do, I just need to know: is this right? Is it not? Am I getting it? Am I not getting it? Because you'll recognize the feeling of when you do get it. And when you know that feeling, you begin to go, aha, that's the that's the trusted feeling. That's the thing I'm looking for that discerns psychic information versus just my brain trying desperately to think of something to say. And trust you. You might get some things really wrong. It doesn't mean your intuition is wrong. It might just mean that your interpretation of that information is wrong. And that's okay too. It takes time to learn psychic language. That's part of it. Because you have to learn your own psychic symbolic language. If I see a particular image during a reading, what does that mean to me? And if it doesn't mean anything to me, what might it mean to them? What feelings and emotions and other clues can I derive from that piece of information? You might wonder, you know, how does my body respond when something feels like psychic information? How does it feel when I'm trying too hard? Because you'll know what that feels like. You'll begin to understand that. Those are things that you learn through experience. And somebody else's psychic language can be completely different from mine. And that's why I don't like those rigid rules around psychic ability. There isn't one correct way to receive. And also, your loudest natural psychic ability is likely to be the most dominant for you. You're having to learn how to read through the more dominant ones first and let the other ones open up over time. Like I said, you just gotta go out on a limb. Be a little foolish. Say stuff out of your mouth to think, I did I just say that? Just to know whether or not it's right or wrong. And it's okay to say to the people that you're practicing with, I'm just trying this out. I'm just learning here. Give me a second. Can psychic ability be developed? Absolutely 100% yes. And this is the bit where my answer is, as you heard, a very definitive yes. Attention can be trained, intuition can be strengthened, you can learn tarot, you can learn to work with symbols, you can meditate, you can practice psychometry, you can practice reading energy, you can sit in development circles, and you can learn how your clairvoyance or your clairsentience or your claircognitance or your clair audience works. And more most importantly, you can practice. Don't underestimate how much practice goes into becoming good at this. As I said, I've been doing this for more than 30 years. I've done thousands of readings. That matters. Not because it makes me infallible, far from it, but because it experience teaches you things that a book can't. You start recognizing patterns. You learn when you're forcing information or when you're tired or when to stop. You begin to learn when something isn't clear enough to say. You learn how to communicate difficult information responsibly. That's a real big one. And you learn that just because you receive something doesn't automatically mean you've interpreted it correctly. Which brings me to something I think that is really important. Psychics are not always right. Being psychic does not make you omniscient. I do not know everything. Thank God. Can you imagine how exhausting that would be? I don't walk around knowing everybody's secrets. I'm not reading the person standing behind me in the supermarket queue. I don't know next week's lottery numbers. If I do, I'm gonna play them. And psychic information isn't always crystal clear. There's interpretation involved, there's symbolism, there's context, and there's the human being receiving the information, me with my own experiences and maybe my assumptions. And yes, psychics can be wrong. I think we need to be able to say that because acknowledging that doesn't diminish psychic ability. If anything, I think it just makes the work more responsible. If I don't feel confident in everything I'm getting, or it feels cloudy, or I'm not going to pretend that I'm no stuff. I'm going to be honest. And that's the thing I think that we can get stumped up when we're reading, when you're learning, when you're growing. And even when you're an established psychic, the pressure to know something feels really there. And if I don't, I'm just going to say it. I don't. And if I don't know, maybe I'm not meant to tell you. That's another part of this too. But if I don't know, there could be other factors that have blocked that, regardless. It doesn't make the work that I do less valuable. There's still so much guidance that can be gained in the readings, but we need to give ourselves a little bit of human compassion. Experience hasn't made me more certain about everything. It's just made me more comfortable saying, I'm not sure what this means yet. And I think actually that's its own skill. And this brings me to the fact that being psychic and being a professional psychic are not the same thing. And I think that this is something that gets a little overlooked. Let's say that you discover you're incredibly intuitive. You start developing. You realize you're naturally clairvoyant. You're getting information for friends. Brilliant. This is amazing. Does this mean that you should immediately start charging people for readings? Not necessarily. Because doing this professionally requires more than just psychic ability. You're dealing with real people. Sometimes they're grieving, their relationship is falling apart, they're scared, they're desperate for an answer. And that carries responsibility. You're going to need boundaries. You definitely need ethics. You need to know when not to say something. And I don't mean that my readings, I withhold information, but sometimes we can go down a little pattern of information and realize maybe this needed to be delivered in a more responsible way. You need to understand that your words can have weight. And you need enough humility to know that being psychic doesn't give you authority over someone else's life. I feel so strongly about that more now than I ever did when I started this. And, you know, my job and anybody's job here isn't to make somebody dependent on me. It's not to tell them what to do. It's certainly not to scaremonger. I'm so against that. It's to offer what you're receiving and allow them to remain the authority over their own life. If I can do anything for anyone, I want the readings to empower them. That is my main frame. Because I am here giving guidance, insight, clarity. The messages that are coming from your guides and my guides and all the psychic information is designed to help us see the woods from the trees, to help remind us of what's important, to bring us back to validating what we know is already true and to give us the clarity to move forward with it. That takes a lot and it takes a lot of experience and it takes a lot of patience and it takes liking and loving people. That's a much bigger job than reading for your friends, trust me. But please don't think that you can't start reading for your friends and get to that professional point if that's something you want to do. Trust me, if you want to do it, if it's destined or called or the work is speaking to you, you'll definitely not be able to get away from it. I think most psychics are called to this work. There's just something about it. There's something that we feel compelled to do to help, to be there for people. And it's something I just think once you're on the journey, you'll know. So can anyone communicate with the other side? Now we're getting into the really interesting bit. Because intuition and mediumship aren't exactly the same. Do I think everybody has the potential to experience spirit? Yes. I think many people do. Often without even calling it mediumship. We're talking about dreams, a sudden sense of somebody being there, a smell associated with someone who's passed away, a moment that feels impossible to explain. But do I think everybody could train to become a working medium? I'm not so sure. And I'm okay to say that. Again, I think natural sensitivity plays a role. I think that some people have a stronger connection with certain forms of psychic information. And I think we're allowed to be different. And I also feel that you have to have a certain demeanor, temper, personality to kind of handle that kind of work. It's very emotional. You need to be able to separate yourself from the work that you're doing to help someone communicate with a loved one or to help a loved one communicate with them. It's quite taxing. And I think you have to really give yourself a lot of grace when you first start. It's hard not to feel affected by the emotions that come through, but it's also important to stay strong for the connection. And I do think that that part of it takes a certain kind of person to really go through that work and be able to make that connection and then actually be able to read with it. That's that's a lot. And I think that uh, you know, not everyone is going to feel that they've got the toolkit to deal with that. And that's okay. That is okay. It doesn't mean I don't think you shouldn't try if that's what you're curious about, and see how you feel about it. I think it's definitely a test the waters kind of thing and see how you feel. If your ability isn't mediumship, it might just be, you know, good intuition. Or maybe tarot makes complete sense to you. Perhaps you have really vivid dreams, or that you sense energy, or you are just brilliant at reading people. Maybe your psychic ability appears, you know, more creatively. There doesn't have to be a hierarchy. You don't graduate from intuition into mediumship as though mediumship is the final boss level of being spiritual. Each thing has its own strengths and own healing ability. It's not at all uh, you know, the top of a chain at any stretch of the word, but different people have different strengths. And if this is a strength of yours, fantastic. I know people with real mediumship ability that absolutely rejected it because they just don't, it's overwhelming. They just don't feel like they can deal with what comes with it. And I know other people who absolutely could deal with that, who have that demeanor in them to be able to translate that level of information who struggle to maintain those connections to spirit. It's just so unique with us all. Now, you don't need to become a psychic. And perhaps is the biggest thing that I want to say today. You don't have to become a psychic in order to explore your psychic ability. Please explore, explore, explore. I encourage this every single day. You don't have to have a title, and you don't certainly need to consider going off reading for everybody. But you can just be more interested in the way that you experience your intuition. You can start noticing, you know, what happens when you know something? Where do you feel it? Do you dream? Do symbols repeat for you? Do you have moments of synchronicity? Are you drawn to tarot? Or do you sense people? What happens when you walk into a room? What happens when you stop trying to force something to happen and just start paying attention? And that's where I'd begin. Not how do I become psychic, but how does my intuition already communicate with me? That's a much more interesting question. And I can promise you, your intuition is already connecting with you on a regular basis. You just perhaps haven't recognized that that's what it is. So can anybody become psychic? I told you at the beginning that my answer was yes and no. And I'm gonna stick with that. I believe the intuition is natural. I believe that far more people have psychic experiences than they realize. I absolutely believe psychic ability can be developed, but I also believe that natural aptitude exists and that we're not all wired identically. And I don't think that we should pretend that we are. Some people will explore their intuition, it will become an incredibly important part of their everyday lives. And some will become brilliant terror readers, and some will discover that they have mediumship abilities and love that. And some will have the occasional experience that they never quite managed to explain. And, you know, some people will decide this whole thing is complete bollocks. That's okay too. But if you're curious, explore it. Play with it, pay attention, learn, practice. Don't worry about whether you're psychic enough. And don't compare the way you receive information with somebody else. But if you are curious, there is something likely naturally lurking in you. People who are not curious are tend to be the ones that just don't have that kind of aptitude to explore this too far, who don't really feel like that natural ability is there. But the people that are really kind of hungry for it, it's probably because there is something in there calling to you that wants you to make sense of it. And I can say for certain that one thing that I know is that psychic ability does not look always the way people expect it to. Sometimes it really is extraordinary and it's incredible, but sometimes it's absolutely ordinary and everyday. Other times it makes perfect sense. And sometimes, even after all these years, it still lives leaves me thinking, like, what the hell was that? And honestly, I think that's part of the magic. Now, if you have enjoyed our conversation today, you can find me at psychic-whispers.com. And if you just love the podcast, thank you so much, by the way, to the listeners out there. You can find more ways of connecting with me on psychicwisperspodcast.com. Now, until next time, trust your path, honor your truth, and always keep listening.