Note: for the record, my post addresses intuition and dialogging with Spirit (what you might call "psychic ability"), not the topic of schizophrenia (schizophrenia being something I don't know enough about to address in a meaningful way). Please consult with the appropriate people if you wish to address the topic or condition of schizophrenia. Quote:
Originally Posted by blossom  Wherever the voices come from, they have no control over you unless you allow them to. |
Indeed.
Whether it's through your action (i.e. whatever you're doing) or the vibration you offer, you invite what you experience into your experience (or, in other words, your experience is a reflection of your vibration... always, no exception--or so I feel and believe).
To use an analogy from Abraham-Hicks, just because you can read, doesn't mean that every book you can read will be good for you. The same with your ability to interpret energy (whether it be non-physical or physical energy).
Ultimately you're the one who "sets your tuner."
If I "listen" to my intuitive channel and all I get is negativity, or if I'm not feeling good, while I might listen, I don't invest too much in what I hear. These days, though, I've come to remember what it's like to experience the flow of helpful, positive, uplifting communication--guidance and information.
One thing that isn't spoken about much by intuitives and psychics is the importance of feeling good. I'm still exploring this area, but at least in my experience, the most powerful, resonant
Insight comes to me when I feel good. I can still hear good stuff when I'm not feeling good, but it's like I'm not "on the channel" enough to fully hear it--like not being fully tuned into a station on a radio (which results in a mix of
signal and
static). Additionally, I find that the context I consider guidance from--the perspective I see from--when I don't feel good (but somehow manage to receive guidance, anyway) is never quite as expansive and leading-edge as the context I resonate with when I feel really good.
I'll mention that when I feel really bad (for whatever reason), often I experience not-very-nice thoughts, which really used to bother me, but I've come to relax about it. To use another Abraham-Hicks analogy, if you go to a library and pick a book up randomly and it has content in it that displeases you, you don't beat yourself up for choosing such a terrible book with such nasty, unpleasant content--you just acknowledge that you weren't choosing very deliberately, and proceed to choose with more conscious, deliberate intent.
That's all those not-very-nice thoughts are: a vibrational match to the "station" you're currently tuned to--a station I bet you didn't reach by deliberately tuning yourself to it (I bet you sort of went there because you became angry, frustrated, or annoyed, or fearful in response to something). As soon as you change your "station"--your vibration--the thoughts you have access to (and the ones that pop into your awareness) will shift with it.
(Test this if you want: try to think fearful thoughts when you're ecstatically happy--when you're on top of the world. I bet, not only will you not want to--you'll probably think "why would I want to do that?"--but you'll also have trouble, or at least, fearful thoughts will feel--seem--more distant. That distance is the vibrational difference between your current state and the vibration of that thought.)
A thing I keep in mind is that guidance is almost always uplifting. It can challenge you, it can create contrast, and sometimes it's not exactly what you want to hear (e.g. "this thing you've invested lots of energy in isn't what you really want anymore; your desires have evolved" is not always fun to hear), but I don't feel it's ever critical or negative. If it seems to be, just switch to a better-feeling station.
And also, when it comes to hearing things that are positive in nature, although challenging, contrasting--not what you want to hear--keep in mind that you can't hear an answer to a question that you haven't asked. The context you're assigning to the guidance or insight--the way you interpret it--is very relative to the questions you ask.
E.g. If I address my "spirit guides" as singular with my intent--e.g. if I ask "What is your name? What is your gender?" and any other questions that make certain assumptions--they will (usually) respond in the context of my question. Usually, though (or at least more recently) I experience Spirit as a
we--a greater collective on a certain, or at least similar, frequency. Singling them out is like muting all but one member of a choir, or restricting an orchestra to only one instrument… it's just (in my experience) not very desirable. Anyway, my point is, if I only ask questions that address Spirit as singular, I'll get answers in that form. (Which isn't a bad thing--
Perhaps a better example of this pretty-tricky-to-convey concept is this: if I'm considering doing something and I hear "don't go!", it doesn't always mean that there's something inherantly bad about what I'm considering, or that doing it would be wrong. Quite often "don't go!" is the best I can hear--the best I can interpret from what is being offered--and, in my actual life experience, what "don't go!" usually means is "there's something else that is even better for you. It's not that what you're considering is bad, we just have something else arranged that you'll enjoy more."
Guidance is often--scratch that; guidance is (probably) always--about calling you towards joy, rather than guiding around what is unpleasant (although it does that, too, but again--consider that in context, and you'll realise it's more so about joy--about experiencing and resonating with your desires in the moment, or even being immersed or guided to the manifestation of them). It's helpful to remember that, and the idea "the context you interpret intuition from influences your interpretation of it."
Postscript
Here's a good thread on the topic of psychic self-protection:
Psychic self-defense, yes or no?