Here is an old article I wrote for a psionic site. Please note that psi and the Force are the same thing.

The Uses of Psi
I would like to give a very special thanks to anyone who responded to the “How do psi skills help you?” thread. It’s you all that made this article. I just typed it up.

When I ask a newbie how training is going I usually get informed that they have not trained for a while. The usual excuses are lack of motivation, wanting a teacher or not knowing how to train. I explain to them that articles from different sites do the teaching. Then I got told they don’t have time to train. That is no excuse and here is why.

Everyone has their own way of training. Some like to do a steady hour or two of training. For hyper active people, sitting and focusing that long might kill them. I, myself, have found ten minutes here and five minutes there work well and adds up to an hour or more.

The next excuse I get is the newbie does not know how to use these abilities out in the real world. I understand that training online is not the same as in school, surrounded by people. You do not want the whole school or room to know you have power. You also want to do something good and helpful, or so I hope, with these skills. So you want to do this in a fashion that doesn’t attract attention. This can be done, but it is not easy. You should make sure you have your basics of each skill before trying them out in public. Then you might want to practice with a trusted friend. If you do get caught and don’t want to tell the truth, you need to come up with something quick and good. Be ready for such situations. Here are some different skills that people have told me about that they use in their daily life.

Empathy and Telepathy
These two skills are nearly the same. They are done in the same method and are usually for the same thing. People and animals are what you use these skills for. Advisers, councilors, negotiators, doctors, vets, healers, and anyone having to work with people’s emotions can use empathy. If you are trying to comfort a friend you can use empathy to sense all the emotion and reason. You can then send out waves of calming to get the person to relax and cheer up. People with pets can use empathy to sense pain or pleasure in the animal. This can help if the cat is clawing your or a bear is too close to you by sending out calming waves of emotion. Empathy can be used to monitor your moods and help you keep happy in a stressful environment. You can use empathy to see if someone is being honest with you or to sense pain and the location. When making friends you can use empathy to find people that are like you.

I have found telepathy is useful for inside jokes, secrets and or those moments between people you don’t get. Both skills can be used in an interview to see if you will get the job or during a practical test to see how you did. In retail stores you can use these skills on customers or even the boss. You can tell what kind of person you are dealing with and know how to react. Someone told me that they will use telepathy to nudge a person into agreeing on where to go out to eat or what pizza to order. Another person said that they use telepathy too for pets to come in or ping people with messages or just to get their attention. Telepathy is also useful in talking to people who speak a language you do not understand. This reduces language barriers.

Remote Viewing
This skill is the one I find most useful, easy to use once you have the hang of it, and one I used the most. I found this to be true with a lot of other people. It allows me to be alert about everything around me. It’s literally like having eyes in the back, front, sides, below and above of me. I don’t have to see something to know where it is. By using remote viewing I can tell how fast something is moving. I can program myself to give a warning when I sense that I am too close to something.

Remote viewing is best when you are in motion. When I first started training with it I would walk through the most crowded hallways and sense the people around me. I would avoid them by sensing where they were and where I was. The same method is used when I would drive. This time I was sensing size and speed of the cars around me. I could tell, based on how, where and the speed of the car if they were going to change lanes.

When you get up in the middle of the night to get a drink of water you might find yourself tripping or falling over things you can’t see. If you use remote viewing and are awake enough or have a warning system like me, you can sense where the toys are, how the they are and if you dog is coming your way.

When you talk to someone over the phone or online you can use remote viewing to sense what they look like. The other use for remote viewing is finding lost things. You will find some psi sites will help you find misplaced papers or glasses. Of course you can do this yourself.

Remote Presence and Linking
These two skills are easy enough to use in a secluded way. Remote presence is good for finding people and their location. Linking, which is part of telepathy, is the mental link to another person’s mind and can be used to grab their attention, pass a thought, emotions or energy. This is useful for finding children or vise versa.

Scanning
Scanning is the combination of empathy, telepathy and remote viewing. It is not just all three skills, but also can find the personality and essences of a person. You can quickly tell what type of person you are dealing with in a business. You can look through the eyes of another person and see why a customer is unhappy. I generally use this at school, at the beginning of the year to tell what the teacher is like.

Kinesis
We all wish we could levitate the remote control to our hand and save ourselves the energy of getting up, but most of us have a far ways to go. Here are the kinesis that I heard were more practical. Electrokinesis can be used to change traffic lights or make computers to work. Cryokinesis is for cooling yourself in a hot classroom, house or building. Pryokinesis is something I use to heat my body and control the fire in my fireplace. You can also use shields to heat or cool yourself. One person told me that they use psychokinetic to close doors, slow down cars and retrieve pencils that have been dropped in class.

Meditation
It is well known skill used to calm the body and mind. It also trains the mind to a state of calm and peace, a state that is much needed for psi abilities. It trains the mind to be aware of the present. It can relieve pain and raise energy levels. When combined with energy you can explore the flow of energy. It greatly helps with astral projection. It’s a great way to learn more about yourself too.

Astral Projection (OOBE)
It’s useful in the real world because you can explore the people around you, the planet, the universe and other planes. The trouble, of course, is trying to faking it as sleep. You can go anywhere you want and do anything you want to do. There are no laws, no rules, no parents and few dangers. You can meet online friends in the astral plane as long as the friend can astral project. You can train your psi abilities while astral projecting. Your spirit guide also exists there and can train or help you. The possibilities are endless.

Precognition
It is also known as clairvoyance, is highly useful, but is hard to control. Glimpsing into the future is dangerous, as well as unreliable. It is dangerous because people tend to act on what they see the wrong way. For me, I usually see things that mean little of importance and usually happen within a few minutes after I foresaw it. Precognition can also be recognized as a gut feeling, a very strong gut feeling. Someone said they use this gift to find out where they should go. It can be used on tests, but understand in the long run it will not help you. You will have to learn the material.

Other Uses
When it is the end of the day and you are sore and dead tired, but you still have work to do, energy can aid you. By sending a stream of psi through you can give you renewed energy and for a while wash away the ache. People have been known to feel psi just to relax them and ground away the excess or negative energy and emotions. Sending energy through you can also get rid of built up energy that can lead to headaches, bad moods and illnesses. Psi can heighten your senses such as seeing or hearing. It can be as good as a cup of coffee, waking you up.

Psi can also alert you to any nearby or upcoming danger. When you come to a decision like what road should you take, you should open yourself up to psi and go for the road that feels like it’s calling to you. If both roads call for you, pick the stronger one. Energy is always correct, but you may misunderstand it.

Psi balls are usually good for newbies to learn how to feel, gather and move energy around. Those who are looking for something for challenging, but have yet to flare their ball you can make psi pets. Psi pet, from what I have been told are psi balls formed into the shape of an animal and programmed to act like a pet. Of course you can turn a psi ball into any shape and play with it.

Conclusion
As you can see there are endless uses for these skills. There is only one option I have not mentioned and that is showing off to get money. I mean either on the street one acts or television shows. It’s cheap and in my opinion wrong. Those shows are often faked and the people are bribed. It doesn’t really help anyone, but you and it harms the psionic reputation. I’m not a huge fan of showing off abilities to get newbies to believe you, but sometimes a newbie needs that proof. I don’t mind using a bit of telepathy on a customer, but don’t abuse it. Of course never attack or harm anyone for any reason. So next time you get bored in class or in a dull meeting try these skills.

Master Karen ,, you raise some good points as the things that we can do are part of us ... problems arise though when we try to hide who we are from the rest of the world and in some places it is just not acceptable to preform such feats so what advice do you have for those that are in such a situation... especially those who's events occur with very little effort or preparation. for me i have found the most useful aspect of psi is its reflection of our emotional states... times may come when we are far to cluttered in our minds to realize what we are actually feeling inside... as we are trained from a very early age in this day and age to focus on the task at hand, and not to be distracted by our emotions.. and for others these manifestations are a form of artistic release for such emotions not too different from painting or sculpting etc...
in a nut shell how does usefulness weigh against sociological impact?

tempest, I would say be mindful of your negative thoughts of what others think of us. All religions started the same way and that way it will always be. I take no head of what any other person thinks of me or my religion. It has been shown in the past that those with cluttered unfocused minds do not do very well in the world and that it takes people like us to help them along there paths, and for most of the time it will be hidden help they do not even know they are getting.

Also your training will help you through this situation, it will help you not to worry about what people have thought about you or us in the past, now or in the future. Like the training teaches us not to worry about the past or future, but more like what can we do to influence the moment at present and the future.

All is I can say is I find comfort in knowing the force is there and that each day I step closer towards it.

*Bows*

yes master Karen there is a time to play and a time to train and i always have time to train i trai ned th is morning ,but i understand.

Greeting my fellow Jedi,

I would agree. As a newer, and untested, faith or belief system, we are going to be scruntinized for claiming some abilities. I would definitely say that we should be practicing our strengths, but not in public...at least not for the time being. If anything, the exercises (whether we succeed or not) will help us build our focus and concentration so we might be able to live life better and serve the communities with better clarity. Personally, I do not hide who I am...but I do not advertise it either.

May the Force be With You,
Jedi Grayson Dark

Master Karen you have rasied some new knowledge to me bu also shown how events in the past have gone by me using many off these that you described..
My the force be with you all.

You're welcome. Glad this article helped you. May I direct your attention to the Force guides that go into much more detail about the skills in this article.