Divination Series - Part Who Knows - Psychometry

Psychometry

Have you ever touched someone or something and gotten some kind of message --

a message in the form of ideas, pictures, or words? While shopping in an antique

store, do you pick up impressions about certain pieces? Are you instantly attracted

to some people and objects and repelled by others? If you’ve experienced any of

these sensations, you’re experiencing psychometry.

Psychometry is the art of interpreting the psychic vibrations contained in objects.

Sometimes referred to as "psychic touch," it is the ability to read an object's history

or the history of those who have handled it. While it deals most often with the past,

it may often reflect present states as well. It is often used in cases of missing

persons. The reader can touch an object the person has worn or touched, usually an

article of clothing, to get intuitive impressions of the person’s whereabouts.

Some common items used in psychometry are rings, bracelets, necklaces, earrings,

and watches. Any of these items will hold information about the wearer, such as

their thoughts, emotional state, and events affecting their life.                                           Through psychometry, a story unfolds that describes not only the events of a person's life,

but also how the person is feeling, thinking and reacting to these events. In order to

receive clear information, the object should belong to, and have only been worn by,

the person getting the reading.

The following exercises are very basic, but they will help you learn to develop your

psychometric abilities, individually and in groups. Everyone has this ability to

some degree, but most of us don't focus on it consciously. With practice, you may

become proficient.

If you decide to develop your psychometric skills, only use them for positive

purposes. Any attempt to intrude on someone’s life without their permission is not

only inappropriate, but clearly an invasion of privacy.

Which Hand To Use

The hand you use to get impressions from objects is very important. Your dominant

hand gives or relays information, while your non-dominant or receptive hand

receives information. Your receptive hand is the correct hand to use.

The following is a simple test to find out which hand is most receptive. It is very

important that you do this, as you will always use this hand to receive impressions,

at least until you have become so accurate that you can use either hand.

For most right-handed people, the left hand is the receptive hand. For left-handed

people, the right hand is likely to be the receptive hand. If you are in doubt, or were

changed from a left-hander to a right-hander as a child, the following test can be

used to discover which hand is your receiver.

1. Hold both hands at chest level with fingertips pointing up and palms facing each

other.

2. Rub hands together very lightly to stimulate the energy flow.

3. Move your hands closer together, then apart, feeling the flow of energy.

4. Whichever hand feels stronger, or that it is emitting stronger energy, that is your

dominant hand. The other is your non-dominant or receptive hand. Always use

your receptive hand in psychometry.

When you are beginning your work in psychometry, always pick up or touch an

object with your receptive hand. If you pick up the object with your dominant hand,

you may inadvertently transmit an impression as you do.

Form a habit of using your receptive hand to take things from others, and to pick up something you may intend to use. This will be a challenge, as you are probably

used to picking things up and holding things with your dominant hand, but this

practice will help you to remember to use your receptive hand for psychometric

work.

How To Practice Psychometry

As we have already learned, all objects carry an energy frequency connected to the person they are most in contact with. You can learn to interpret these energies with

the exercises that follow.

The first exercise is for the individual, but it is best performed with a friend from whom you can receive feedback.

1. Sit relaxed with your eyes closed and your hands in your lap, palms up.

2. Instruct a person to place an object that they have had in their possession for a

long time in your receptive hand.

3. Relate everything that you see in your mind, think of, hear in your head and any

feelings that you have while holding the object.

You may pick up some thoughts, feelings, and symbols that seem meaningless to

you but keep talking as much as possible about what is in your mind and you may

be amazed at how much is relevant to the owner of the object. This technique

develops your gift of feeling. It gives you the experience of learning to tune into

another person's vibrations to discern what you are feeling.

Sometimes, while practicing psychometry, the feelings associated with the object

are vague and don't seem to bear much relevance to anything recognizable to the

object’s owner. On other occasions, the opposite is the case and intricate details can

be discerned. Some people are more relaxed and trusting and so they get many

messages immediately. Some people are afraid they will say or do it incorrectly so

they get nothing. Don’t worry. You can’t do it wrong!

Dermo-Optic Perception

Another area of psychometry is dermo-optic perception, or "sight through touch." It

refers to ‘seeing’ by touching the skin’s surface. Some people have developed this

sensitivity quite naturally, especially those who are sight impaired and must rely on

touch.

Everyone emits electromagnetic energy. When we tap into this energy, we can see

as well as if we were using our eyes. But regardless of continuing proof that such a

thing as dermo-optic ability is present in many people, arguments still abound that

relate dermo-optics to telepathy and clairvoyance. Therefore, it should be

mentioned that in many cases where dermo-optic perception ability was found

evident in a certain person, that person was separately tested for telepathic and

clairvoyant abilities, and in most cases, no such ability was present!

Some people can distinguish colours and patterns through dermo-optic perception.

Various colours have different feeling. Some have described black as "sticky" or

"clinging" to the touch, while yellow was "slippery" and blue was found to be "still

more slippery, but cool to the touch, like delicate ice." Red causes great, bold

radiation, and according to some, is so hot that the subject immediately draws his

hand away, as though from searing heat.

It seems that small children are sensitive to colours, and can easily distinguish them

merely by feel. One young mother reports the case of her six-year-old daughter’s

ability to distinguish colours by touch. She discovered it one day while she was

wrapping Christmas presents, she asked her six-year-old daughter to give her the

bolt of red ribbon. Her daughter reached into a bag without looking and

immediately pulled the right colour of ribbon out of the bag, and repeated this with

green, gold, white, and blue ribbon. She never pulled the wrong colour out of the

bag.

With practice, we can all master the ability to read by touch.

Here is an exercise to help you develop your sense of touch.

1. Prepare a bowl of lukewarm water.

2. Close your eyes and gently dip your fingers into the water.

3. Repeat this exercise for about five minutes at a time.

At first, you may have some difficulty knowing exactly when your fingers make

contact with the water, but after a bit of practice, you will feel the tips of your

fingers becoming more sensitized.

Feeling textures is also a helpful means of developing dermo-optic perception.

Place various specimens such as salt, sugar, sand, or other granular substances into

small separate envelopes and touch each substance through the envelopes. Don’t

reach in and touch the substance directly. First, try to distinguish it through the

paper of the envelope. At first, it may seem impossible to detect exactly what your

fingertips are touching through the paper, since all of the substances are similar in

texture. Here is the point of the test where you must not doubt! Trust your instincts.

With patient practice, you will be able to detect the substances in the envelopes just

by using your fingertips.

Various objects have different feelings. This applies not only to texture, but to

vibration as well. Because everything radiates its own specific energies, trained

fingertips can sense these differences. Awareness of this speeds up your own

development in dermo-optical attempts.

Feel the difference between wood and paper, plastic and metal, wool and silk, china

and glass, or hair and fur. This method will help to enhance your sensitivity to feel

the varying objects and textures.

Such practice raises your vibration so that eventually you will be able to "read"

someone just by touching them. Remember though, it’s ethical and polite to ask

someone’s permission to read them before you touch them.

About the author

Per Hogseth is a professional psychic, palmist and magician and author. Hogseth

has written the definitive guide to Palmistry For Fun And Profit and is currently

working on a palmistry and psychic accredited courses.