Know the Soul Abilities: Psychometry
Know the Soul Abilities Series: Psychometry
Let’s get familiar with object reading, what it is, an example from my experience and an exercise to try to test out your psychometry skills.
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What are soul abilities?
There are many different ways to use soul abilities that translates to psychic skills, intuitive skills, healing abilities or mediumship abilities. It is not how you sense but what you experience that makes a soul ability. Everyone has access to their soul abilities. Some people may be able to access more abilities than others. Some people will be able to have high skills in multiple abilities or modes. Which of these abilities is your strongest right now, how many can you tap into right now- these are questions that you need to investigate, have curiosity about and experiment with on your own.
For now, just being aware of the different soul abilities could open up definitions and clarity for the developing psychic, intuitive, healer or medium.
Here is your chance to get to know an ability and, upon reflection, see if you have experienced something that fits within this experience’s boundaries.
What is psychometry?
Psychometry, also known as object reading, psychometrics, is taking psychic impressions:
From Britannica.com:
Psychometry, also called object reading, process whereby facts or impressions about a person or thing are received through contact with an object associated with the subject of the impressions. Rings, photographs, and similar tokens are often used, but sometimes the physical presence of a persona may bring about images or visions in the psychometrist’s mind that correspond to real facts (sometimes still in the future) in the life of the subject. A degree of lowered consciousness (that is, a state sometimes approaching trance) is thought to improve psychometric “readings”. Psychometric visions are usually too haphazard to be of much practical value. The parapsychological institute of the Rijksuniversitelt te Utrecht in the Netherlands was one of the first to perform experiments using psychometry in finding lost persons or things and in solving crimes.
From Merriam-Webster:
Divination of facts concerning an object or its owner through contact with or proximity to the object.
Dominant soul ability and soul senses used in psychometry
I would be inclined to have intuition as a dominant soul ability with this soul ability type but, again, it depends on what information you are receiving, which could include retrocognition (psychic) or receiving information from an external entity (mediumship) . I could see any soul sense being able to give you information about an object which could include clairvoyance, clairaudience, claircognizance or any other psychic/soul sense.
My experience with psychometry
One experience I’ve had with this particular soul ability type was, again, during a development circle session I attended during the first year of my development.
During the class, we were each asked to bring an object to that week’s meeting, but it in a basket and then pick an object in the basket that was contributed by someone else attending the class and not knowing which objects belonged to whom.
We were asked to choose the object, sit with it for a minute, figure out who the object belonged to and mention any impressions we got. I had a little coin with a saint on it. I picked up on visualizations of flowers and a sense of pride and accomplishment with the object. I selected a gentleman as the owner of the coin and when it was my turn I proposed all of these details.
It was not the gentleman sitting across from me but the woman sitting next to me who was the owner of the item. She told me that the saint on the coin was Saint Francis of Assissi who is a Christian religious figure who is associated with nature, even having a collection of stories called ‘Little Flowers’ written about his legendary life, compiled in the 14th century.
She also mentioned that she took the coin with her to climb a mountain and felt a great sense of pride after accomplishing the feat.
This one experience was a great one to start my psychometry practice with but I would want more experiences to really gauge where my baseline is for this particular soul ability type and to be able to really accept that this is information I can ‘count on’.
Ways to Develop Your Psychic, Intuitive & Mediumship Skills
Meditation
Meditation is important to find ‘your baseline’, where you connect to your own physical, mental and spiritual self in order to compare experienced external energy/messages to. Practicing meditation allows for you to explore the psychic world and get to know yourself. This is your journey and this is how you lead your way.
For more information on meditation, check out my blog post 'Meditation Basics for Developing Psychic Abilities and Other Soul Abilities' and try out these videos so you can sit back and find your baseline.
Know Your Clairs
If you are not familiar with the clairs then you may not be able to identify how you receive with you psychic senses/soul senses. It is important to get to know them so you can get a clearer understanding of your own psychic/intuitive/mediumship/etc. abilities and the tools that you naturally use to receive energy and messaging.
Get to know the different kinds of clair by checking my previous blog post ‘Time to Meet the Clairs’.
Tips For Exercising Your Psychic, Intuitive and Mediumship Abilities
There are some tips I have for you when you are getting your psychic/intuitive/mediumship exercise on that will help you tremendously. In my previous blog post ‘Psychic Development Exercises: Developing the Soul Senses & Soul Abilities’, I had a section of tips that I infographed and you can see in brevity to the side here.
Here are your tips when practicing connecting with your psychic, intuitive and mediumistic self:
Keep an open mind
Meditate
Observe
Document
I had already mentioned meditation above, but let me give you a little more about the others listed:
Keep an open mind - don’t dismiss or let logic take control
Observe - don’t judge what comes in, just receive
Document - keep a journal of your experiences and try to include details
Additionally, I would add that, with time, observing how your ego enters your receptive process will help you get messaging better and reduce the strain of picking up on things. My previous blog post ‘Identifying Ego In Your Psychic Messaging’ can help you out with that once you have your bearings.
A beginner’s exercise with psychometry
Have someone lend you an object that they have knowledge in it’s background and prior owners: a watch, a piece of jewelry, a book, whatever.
Get your first impressions and see what surfaces
It’s a simple exercise but, being able to do it in sessions will give you more ability to hone in on your own technique in how you receive accurately and well with this soul ability type.
