When I was a child I used to see my Grandmother who had passed away before I was born all the time. I would tell my dad that "The nice lady from under the carpet cam to visit me again" And he would ask who I was talking about and I would describe my Grandmother even though I had never even seen a picture of her at the time. I also remeber having an OBE (out of body experience) which I remember like it was just yesterday even though it was over a decade ago. I remember I was laying in my bed trying fall alseep when I felt paralized all of the sudden and I coudn't move no matter how hard I tried. I remeber looking up and being able to see my floating above myself as well as seeing my from above laying down in my bed all at the same time. It was so weird and I had no idea what was happening to me. As far as I remeber it only happened once.
Now that I'm older (24 if you must know I feel that I have lost any connection to the spiritual world. My dreams are broing and meaningless and I have yet to see anything paranormal. This is upsetting because I would like to feel more connected to the spiritual world (hence me joining the forum) and feel that I have some sort of block.
I believe that its in my blood to be able to connect with the spirtual world because both of my parents have the ability but its hard to get them to talk about it. My father has dreams about people passing over and the very next day he gets the news, he also has preminitions that come true and both he and my stepmom have had many encounters with the spirit that still roams their building they had rehabed and and turned into their business. Actually pretty much everyone who has worked there has seen her, except for me. I feel left out.
My mother used to get phone calls from her passed over German Grandmother but she really got freaked about that and doesn't like to talk about it so I don't know what elese she is not telling me.
Its not that I want to be haunted and have all this mind blowing stuff happen its just that I want to know that I'm not somehow blocking communication.
Its like I'm so desensitized from everything. Stupid media! Do you think I could be perhaps putting out some sort of energy that says "Stay away" or something? Maybe a deep fear? I just have no idea. I try to meditate on this lack of conection and I get nowhere I usually end up thinking about what I have to do tomorrow or if I had remebered to floss. Its like my mind is consumed with anxiety over what I am expected to do each day. Could that possibly be blocking my energy?
Sorry this post is so long but I don't post often because mostly I have nothing exciting to share. I just enjoy reading the other posts.

Honestly I think you need to take some time and focus on your mind and awaken what has gone to sleep.. I don't think you lose an ability like this, unless you experience some sort of trauma which could cripple your mind.. thus closing the door forever.

if you have alot of stress in your life... this will make it easier actually.. well imo.. as this will make it easier to differentiate from the peace of your inner mind and the noise of the world around you. Just have to know where to look within yourself.

give it a try and good luck...

Have you ever had any experiences outside of sleep? It may be your not ready to be receptive yet. Stress and anxiety can be terrible blocks. Use your meditation to relax with instead of trying to 'connect spiritually' with for now - once you've dealt with that try again.

Hi nature girl
It happens very often that kids close up their spiritual channel. It could be that you were not taken serious, or you relized others did not understand you, or you simply got to busy with everydays cares. When the time is right it will come agin. You need to learn to relax. If you try to hartyou will only become tense and nothing will happen. Meditate, maybe concentrate on a burning candle, or a flower or something else that ill helpyou relax and stop you from being ancious about expecting results. maybe listen to relaxing music. Trust that you can not loose your gift, and it will comeback when you do more spiritual activities. Watch out for synchroniced things happening. This could well be messages of a different kind; like hearing the same song 3 times or the same sentence. ect.! Think posititive thoughts. surround yourslef with love and light and send it to others. What ever you do to others comes back to you 10 fold. Be patient; this may be the lesson for you to learn.
Most of all have faith and never give up hope. God loves you and you will get what you deserve when the time is right...
God bless you...

Try meditation.

I had a spiritual block for a while but is now back stronger than ever & getting better all the time

Thanks everyone for your advice. I guess I do need to stop stressing. I currently take prozac for my anxiety (I really don't want to but its the only thing that allows me to stop obsessing) so I guess that says a lot about how my mind works.
Isis, I understand what you mean about the whole "trying too hard" thing. I tend to do that a lot with things. I need to just let life happen naturally. You think that I would be more laid back considering I am a Taosit.
The only time I can really relax is when I am in nature or running, thats when my mind seems to let go, its like I go into a trance. Last night I was jogging around our lake in the community and after the first few laps I started to feel so relaxed and connected to everything. I almsot never feel like that when I try to sit and miditate. Maybe I'm just a hyper person and need to be constantly moving, like a shark.
When I was in Jr. High I had a very active imagination. I used to believe that I was a Jaguar. I mean, I really knew that I was a human but I felt obsessed with this creature. I wanted so badly to live in the Amazon so every night I would turn the lights off in my room (which I requested to be decorated in a jungle theme) and play a Sounds Of The Rainforest tape. It was like I was in a trance then too. I would just sit there and take it all in. I remeber one time I was so spaced out that I actually saw some sort of portal open up on my wall and on the other side was a jungle...It was bizare. I had to open and shut my eyes a few times for it to go away.
Eventually I became an out of control teen that ran with a bit of a bad crowd and then turned into the nerd I am today. (hehe)
Anyway, I have no ieda what that has to do with anything, just thought I'd throw that in there for comments.
Currently I am an esthetician and work in a spa. Go figure! Thats when I really focus on energy, when I'm giving a treatment. Its like a calm light goes over me when I begin. But if you've never had a spa treatment before its hard to imagine. When ever I recieve a treatment I can't relax. I just sit there thinking about how I should be relaxing but I can't.

The Prozac could be the reason for the block, the Medium who is guiding me told me the quickest way to "shut down" from spiritual communication is to have a drink (alcoholic), the Prozac could be having a similar affect

I'm not so sure...I find a few drinks doesn't close me down. But I keep my head out of the spirit world when I'm drinking anyway

I would think the block is more to do with stress and anxiety. Focus on meditating for relaxtion for now, anyone can train their mind to relax and it becomes easier and quicker with practise.

I've only been taking Prozac for a year so I don't think its causing the block, its my stress level, but apprently the prozac is suppose to help with that.
I do find myself to be an empath, I can easly pick up on negative energy, and when I meet a person for the first time I can tell if they are good or bad for me right away.
I often find myself taking on the stress of others, I worry about other peoples problems constantly. Its a bad habit.
I'm also one of those people who gets really engaged when they see a movie or read a book, its like i was really there, it affects me. This is why I stoped seeing horror films.

Has anyone ever shown you how to protect/shield yourself from other peoples energies? Some of what you pick up or absorb from others is probably not helping your anxiety at all.

Although living without medication is normally a good thing, if you feel the prozac is helping you with your anxieties I wouldn't recommend stopping it. If you don't think it's working to calm you however then please go to your doc and discuss it. I know from experience that medications don't always work, but there are so many out there you don't need to be tied to one if it's not helping you.

I too am an empath. It's not something I've gained control over though. I'll have flashes of emotion and just know immediately how the other person is feeling. It can get a bit disconcerting in town in crowds as I can feel all over the place, but I'm learning how to cope with that. I also can tell within a few minutes whether someone is right for me or not. I find I get a nagging feeling in the back of my mind about someone so I feel I can never completely trust them and nine times out of ten I'm proved correct not to. I also take on the problems of others, I find it provides a break from my own problems, but I can go a bit overboard and forget to deal with mine My husband is always telling me off because I get so engrossed in books and tv that I just don't hear him speaking to me, I can't help it, if I'm in the right frame of mind I'm just transported into it...

Bebi, you've describe how I feel perfectly, the flash of emotion and how crowds can be confusing. I am also very sensitive to my sourroundings. If I don't like the feel of the place as soon as i walk in I walk right back out. This sucks for my boyfriend. Sometimes we'll decide to try a new place out (a lounge or new place to eat) andI make us turn right back aroud. I'm always talking about how I "don't like the energy".
If anyone does have any suggestions on how to shield myself from other peoples energies I'm open to anything.

This one that works really well for blocking/shielding energies be it from people or spirit. You can use it and practise it during meditation.

The Bubble

Imagine the brightest bubble of the purest light (like the sun) above your head which slowly comes down all around your body till you're completely inside it. Try and visualise and feel this for a few mins, when you're ready, ask your higher source (whoever this may be) that this bubble of light protects/shields you from any negitive energy or entity that you may come across or may come your way. If you feel you have to reinforce it add a layer of metal to the outside surface, furthermore you can also add a layer or mirror glass and ask that any negitive energies be bounced straight back to there source. When your in this bubble your own energy field is protected from other energies.

There are more advanced ways of protection/blocking but this excersise is easy, quick and very effective for what you need it for. When you get the hang of it you'll be able to visualise it any place any time you need it

Maybe you are just trying to hard to get it back. I would try to relax or go away for a weekend on your own to work on clearing out your thoughts.

You need a "chakras" cleansing and to have your 'third eye' stimulated again. You can try do this yourself if you want, by placing a crystal amethyst on your forehead while meditating. I found though, that having someone else's energy work done on me had better results.

Of course, there is an even faster way, and that's taking a few tokes of "Salvia Divinorum".
It's a plant used by Shamans for centuries for spiritual awakening. Careful.... though it's harmless......it's extremely powerful and literally kidnaps you into another reality!

I "shut down" my gifts/sense for a lot of years after a teenage trauma during a seance (a friend appeared to become possessed and tried to kill me). I come from a family with gifts and have a little bit (my daughter inherited more than I did), but I never felt or saw anything after the incident for approx. 20 years. Until my daughter talked me into a seance again, then that opened the dam and it all came back. But on that note. I have noticed that the more "real life" stuff is going on (stress etc) the less I feel or see. There is a definite pattern to me. I would definitely recommend meditation is you can do it (my mind never shuts up long enough to do that, lol).

I don't do meditation but still pick up/sense a lot

I don't recommend you stop taking it, but I have found that medication can interfere with abilities.

The Salvia sounds interesting. I'm a bit afraid though as other herbs *WINK* tend to make me super paranoid and I no longer partake in those herbs. Are then any negative side affects to this?

I was reading the Topic and the "Salvia Divinorum" sounds really interesting so I decided to google it and found this interesting link www.sagewisdom.org/userguide.html I have even searched on where to purchase a "Blosser" any ideas? I am too skeptical about ebay and would never try to purchase some from there. How about a health food store?

do you regulars see this connection between OBE/AP and SP alot in here? I aways thought OBE /AP was more associated with NDE -near death experience
(are we supposed to type these out I havnt read rules yet?) also the medication issue see that alot in here as well mine being Adderral to combat ADHD which has really increased my lucid dreaming steadily as dosage increased, .. Any of you notice meds do in fact supress (perhaps intentionally)your sensitivity?....B

I'm going into Advice Mode here. Please feel free to accept or reject any part of it, ask questions, challenge, or whatever.

The Prozac will not give you any trouble. It might subtly alter some balance somewhere, but it's nothing you can't deal with. It certainly won't turn off any of your senses. If you are indeed depressed, an SSRI like Prozac might in fact restore and protect certain of your brain structures. It won't blind you psychically any more than it blinds you visually.

Avoid intoxicants, including hallucinogens. Our culture lacks the folkways to give useful structure to the experience. Ritual use is one thing, but we do not have any living tradition whatsoever of such rituals, so it is best to leave such things to those who do-- unless you happen to be an initiate in such a tradition, in which case I have no relevant experience.

As for your blockage, you are blocked by the same thing that most of us are. As aduts, we've spent a great deal of time cutivating and relying upon our analytical, indivividualistic, egocentric, "left-brain" talents. That bodes well for our survival as individuals in the physical world. But our transpersonal or intuitive faculties tend to atrophy. What is necessary is to cultivate these "right-brain" attributes as you have cultivated the left-brain ones.

I'd recommend getting a good book on the subject of psychic development. One of your first exercises can be going to the bookstore, to the "New Age" section, and letting your intuition help you pick a book. Then you do what the book says and see what happens.

Again, don't worry about the Rx, and for heaven's sake, stay away from intoxicants.

No. Seriously, forget about this whole line of thought.

Bravo Bro!.....B.

Couldn't agree more with you Boorite! and yes please stay away from the likes of Salvia Divinorum... while it may claim to richen spiritual experiences for some people, my thought is if you need such drugs to achieve it then it's all in the drug, nothing else.....

Having been on it and many other meds, I have to disagree from personal experience. Of course I don't recommend anyone stop taking their medication without talking to their doctor.

When I was on Prozac I ceased even dreaming and did not stay on the medicine long before I was switched to a different medicine.

You probably stopped remembering your dreams. I'm guessing you might've adjusted, given time.

I don't mean Prozac doesn't change anything or have side effects. I mean it shouldn't shut down any psychic faculties. Did it shut down yours?

Well of course I meant I stopped remembering my dreams.

I feel like a certain medicine I was on for a long time did give me some sort of block, yes. I've only talked about it with Anvil. I'm not about to say I'm psychic or something like that but I did used to have intuition and I didn't for years while I was on this medicine. I went off of it and not long after had the first experience I'd had in years. It's not something I talk about, but I do believe that certain meds can interfere with "abilities" if you want to call them that.

Yes, I think Lithium Carbonate can do that, and perhaps some others... neuroleptics and maybe some anticonvulsants like Depakote. Anything that profoundly flattens affect.