That's a reasonable question, especially since most healing modalities are based on working with invisible energy.

But there's a more common question that comes up quietly with almost every healing student I've ever worked with.

Am I psychic enough to actually do this work?

Do I need to be seeing visions or hearing messages from someone's guides to be a good healer?

I know exactly where that question comes from because I've asked myself the same thing many times over the years.

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During my very first healing workshop, I put my hands above another student's chakras and I could sense energy. It was subtle, but it was real, and it was enough to get me hooked on healing.

But the more workshops I took, the more I met people who were really clairvoyant.

They could see colors and images. Some could sense a person's past lives just by looking at them, or get clear messages from a client's spirit guides or angels.

Honestly, I felt envious. It made me feel "less than."

I could sense energy with my hands, sure, but I wasn't seeing visions or hearing voices. Some of the people I met had been clairvoyant their entire lives, and compared to that, my abilities felt pretty small.

If you've ever felt that way, comparing yourself to someone who seems more gifted, I totally get it.

So, let me share what decades of healing work has taught me about all this.

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Everyone is a natural-born healer

I believe that with all my heart. We all have the ability to heal ourselves and help others heal. It's hardwired into every one of us.

And everyone is psychic, too.

If you've ever had an intuitive thought or feeling (and I know you have), that's all the proof you need that you're psychic.

That's what psychic ability actually is: sensing something beyond the typical physical senses.

It just doesn't always look the way people expect. Some people are clairvoyant and perceive energy visually, through colors, symbols or images. Others are clairaudient and hear things.

Some are clairsentient and feel energy in their bodies, their emotions, their hands. And plenty of us, me included, are also claircognizant. We just know something clearly and suddenly without knowing how we know it.

None of these is more real than the others. They're just different ways the same gift shows up in different people.

So, if you're not seeing colors or hearing messages from someone's guides, that doesn't mean you're not psychic.

It just means your gift is showing up in a different way that maybe you haven't learned to recognize or trust yet.
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Being really psychic doesn't always make someone a great healer

I want to be careful how I say this because my intention is not to judge or criticize anyone. This is just what I've observed after years of teaching healers and watching how they work.

Some of the most psychic people I've trained have had to learn how to set part of their psychic gifts aside during a healing session.

When you've spent a lifetime perceiving all sorts of information on multiple levels, all that input can get in the way during a healing session. Your attention goes to everything you're picking up instead of to the person sitting in front of you and what they actually need to help them heal.

At the end of the day, that's the whole point. Your priority as a healer is to help someone move forward toward creating a new, better reality for themselves… physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually.

How much you can perceive with your sixth sense matters a lot less than most people think.
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But here's where it gets interesting

What I've seen far more often, and what's incredibly fulfilling to witness, is the opposite.

When most people start doing healing work, their intuitive gifts simply blossom and refine themselves on their own.

That was my experience. Session by session, my perception kept expanding and sharpening, until I went from simply sensing energy with my hands to experiencing something much deeper.

Eventually, I got to a place where I stopped doubting my ability to perceive or receive whatever I needed for a particular client in a particular session.

I didn't force any of that. It just unfolded, because I kept showing up and doing the work.

Healing work accelerated my spiritual growth in every direction. It made it easier to connect with guides and angels, easier to connect with my own higher self and my clients' higher selves, and it opened the door to channeling in ways I never expected.

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So, if you're reading this and wondering whether you're psychic enough to become a good healer, here's what I want you to know.

You’re already psychic. You already have the capacity to sense meaningful information beyond what your five senses tell you.

It might be showing up as a feeling instead of a vision, or a knowing instead of a sound, and that's not a lesser version of the gift. It's just your version.

Being highly psychic was never a requirement for becoming an effective healer.

Showing up and doing the work, and trusting what unfolds for you along the way, that's the requirement. The rest takes care of itself.

In that light, here’s a video that may interest you:

​How Energy Healing Unleashed My Spiritual Potential: 5 Essential Truths I Discovered​

Most of the huge leaps I've experienced in spiritual growth have been the result of learning how to heal myself and others. In this video, I share five spiritual truths I discovered about myself through energy healing.

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Until next time, I send you my love and light from Lemuria,

David

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