Empath And Clairvoyant Skills Help

I am exactly the same. I am an Empath and I get vivid premonitions of things to happen. I wish I could give you some advice or help, but I have no idea how to control my own gift, as we like to call it. Sometimes it can really confuse me. Before seeing a future event I tend to go into a trance like state and then the visions come to me. It is like watching TV, but it hasn't happened yet. I also get a bit nauseated when this happens. I am also very in tune with emotions of others. I have to shield myself from the news. If I didn't I would get very depressed and cry. There is so much hate and I find it overwhelming to say the least. I am going to try to harness my ability through meditation, but so far I have not tried it. The odd thing is no one in my family has the ability that I have. I always thought that these things would run in families, but not always. I wish you luck with it and I know that it is difficult. Not long ago I had a vision and it had something to do with work. I knew that it wasn't a good thing. Some months latter I was laid off and I saw it coming. It is tough to keep a secret from someone like me. I just know what is going to happen. Any way good luck to you and if you figure out a good way of harnessing it let me know. I need to try different things until I find something that will work. It would be nice not to have to have visions that are unwelcome. I would like to choose what I see and when.

Entomophagy,
I would start with a simple concentration game, which will really help you with meditation. Just count down from 100, visualizing or not, and see how far you can get without losing count or getting distracted by other thoughts. It's not as easy as it sounds, and takes practice. If you really want to be hard on yourself, then you should start over at 100 every time a single other thought pops in. Easy mode would to just keep on counting down, unless you have completely forgot which number you were on.

Thank you ThulsaDune! I will definitely try to get to a private space and meditate in that same way. Starsofclay, are you referring to the practice where you count down from 100 but imagine opposite numbers? I will try that as well thank you!:)

Hi Entomophagy,
I don't know if this will help you, but I can explain what I figured out for myself to help me. I had to learn how to control focus and shift focus to filter out what was in the way. I trained myself to zero in on what I was trying to gather and block out the rest. I would go out in nature to a spot as far away from people and traffic as I could in a short distance from my home. Luckily I live not to far from a river with a wildlife habitat preserve next to it. I would find a spot close my eyes and listen to nature around me. It would not take long and I was thinking of nothing but what was around me everything else was gone. I would pay attention to the sun's warmth and where I felt it on my body. Then I would feel for and pay attention to the breeze and where it hit my arms or face and which direction it was coming from. Then I would turn my attention to a sound around me that I would pick out. I would try and focus intently on it and try and figure out where it was coming from and how far away it was from me. Believe it or not I actually could catch the sound of a field mouse moving in the dead vegetation on the floor of the woods I was sitting in. I was able to tune everything out and listen to just the sound of that mouse. I could feel where it was at around me open my eyes and look at almost exactly where it was at. I was training my mind and senses to shift focus and tune in or tune out things going on around me. Yes it is a form of meditation but it trains me to gather information from outside myself and to shut down or tune out things I don't want bothering me. It gives me the ability to alter my state of consciousness very rapidly and come back out of it. I have many abilities but, I have to constantly shut down or tune out to much information to keep my sanity. There are times when I just have to escape and get away or unplug from it all. I need to recharge my batteries so I can deal with the crushing energy again. Some psychics need to really reach out towards things and some need to seriously filter the garbage out of the way. Some get just a jumbled up confusing mess of stuff to try and see through. Everyone is unique and it takes awhile to find your own path.
I hope maybe a little of this helps you.

Entomophagy, (or Serenity)
Get really good at visualization. This will help not only with developing your clairvoyant ability, but will help you to build those barriers for your empath protection that you talked about. I admit, I don't practice building energy shields as I should, so do as I say, not as I do...haha.

I am really interested in mind exercises as well. I would love to hear any that other people on here have come up with. The ones I have come up with for myself have mainly been to improve visualization and concentration, two areas that I have a terrible time with. You will find them in my posts. But it takes constant practice, and once again, I have fallen behind, so do as I say, not as I do.

I had even created an entire library/meditation room in my head that I would go visit, and I created it down to the last detail, but I haven't visited in a while. Before I started the exercises, I could barely even visualize a single number in my head. We all have this ability. Dreams are proof of that. Just look at how vivid and real a dream looks. And then remember that it is nothing but visualization, created by you. The problem is, you need to learn to do it while fully conscious. That's where meditation will help. By practicing doing it while in a state of semi-conscious, you will eventually learn to strengthen that ability to do it while fully awake. These will be more of visualization meditations, not the typical ones that are always talked about on the internet where you need to clear the mind. But the method of getting there will be the same.

Binaural beats and Isochronic tones will help you get there very fast. Every time you use them, you strengthen the ability to get and stay deeper and deeper in a lower state of mind. Start with alpha first, and once you feel you've mastered that, then start trying to get into theta. If you feel yourself falling asleep too often, find a track that stays just a bit higher in frequency until you are used to that and then learn to go lower and lower. If none of that makes sense, let me know and I will break it down for you.