How to become motivated?

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There are a [url=http://www.psionicsonline.net/about-psionics/general-articles/9-getting-... [url=http://www.psionicsonline.net/about-psionics/general-articles/16-maintai... here about making and keeping schedules.

However, I've found the most helpful thing for me is to pick something that you can use in every-day life.  Something that you can use and practice on the go tends to work better than something you have to sit down and practice a certain amount each day because 1) it's actually useful so your mind starts to care, 2) it's more interesting than an abstract "oh do this random exercise", and 3) most people are too busy to actually carve out dedicated practice time.

The 'pathies are fairly easy to use this way, and if your sensitivity gets high enough, energy manipulation starts being a bit of a necessity as well (filter shields).

Good luck.

Energy manipulation can be done virtually anywhere, and the next most available being telepathy/empathy. Personally, creating a routine is as simple as setting a watch alarm (at the expense of looking a little strange for leaving the room every time your watch goes off). As for motivation, It's all a matter of how much you want it vs/ the amount of effort required. In that respect, energy manipulation is the easiest to learn, and requires the least effort to preform basic functions. Provided you have a good workable method that is effective for you.

A community where members are progressing at a fast pace is what I've found the most motivating for me.

For example, subscribing to a lot of energy-working users on youtube so that there's at least something new every week. Watching their videos, using them for inspiration and practicing it regularly.

For me this works pretty well against getting tired of repeating the same exercise every day.

In my opinion, with a lot of different methods and stuff for practice, you'll see your goal from different angles and learn more about it. Also, I think that empathy/telepathy, healing/energy manipulation and telekinesis are all interconnected and by practicing one, the others are improving as well.

Have fun..  ;)

First of all, thanks so much for the advice and tips! :)
As I'm still a student, I've got people surrounding me for a lot of the day, so, empathy and telepathy should be a useful day-to-day skill, and, something that I can practise whenever!
Energy manipulation is something that I sort of gave up on after the infamous psiball, so I may just throw myself into the deep end, with something that's more interesting and useful than a relatively useless ball of energy.

I feel that I have a problem with the sceptical side of me taking over when I can't actually notice the effects, or when it could be luck, such as with healing, empathy, telepathy, all the more mind-based skills. So, I'm trying something that I've had success with before, and that's trying to change my eye colour, from a sort of dark brown, to a green-blue. If it works, then I have the proof I need to move on to other skills. And, it's rather easy. Whenever I see something that's a nice greeny or bluey colour, I just imagine the colour swirling into my eye. It can be done anywhere, whenever!

So, after that, I think I should focus on energy manipulation, but I just need to get the proof into my brain, to shut up the part of me that's saying that it isn't real! :)

It's always difficult to get past the "is this real" hurtle. Took me years personally, but there was always a little part of me that knew, and told me to pursue it.

If your looking for a skill that's more mind than energy, telepathy is the way to go. However I find I get better results when I superimpose my consciousness unto them, which takes energy to sustain the projection. You need to be linked like that to do suggestive telepathy, the practice of inserting thoughts intentions or feelings into others. Has high application potential, I've lost count how many times I've brain hacked a bus driver to get them to go instead of spending 10 minutes sitting at a stop.

Empathy is slightly more energy based, being that the predominant method is to feel there aura radiation for a particular feeling. If your not skilled in energy manipulation, it can be difficult to find the trace of the aura to focus on.

Sup, I was around UPC too. And I basically gave up because I saw no use in continuing with something that I never used for anything. Plus I'm a bit weirded out by what has become of this site - people going on about leylines and zodiacs and ridiculous nonsense like that.

Cue shitstorm?

Don't be so quick to dismiss ley lines. Potentiality quotients are an order of magnitude greater if a ley is operated. Thats speaking from experience, and I've only been to lesser leys. I can't even fathom what a major ley would be like.

Though i do agree with zodiac, in terms of newspaper readings. The psionic communities are going "shitstorm" because the level of experienced contributors are outweighed by the novices who require their questions to be answered, and the semi experienced people who don't get off there ass to have new experiences and create new rich content. There are a great many people who just sit at there computer waiting for some kind of enlightenment; this is unfortunate.