Most people have experiences in everyday life that show their psychic abilities are at work.  Have you ever thought of someone you haven't talked to in quite a long time, and that person contacts you soon after you thought of them?  Have you ever had a feeling that you should take one route while driving, instead of another that you usually take, and then later find out that there was a wreck or traffic jam on the usual route you had the feeling to avoid?  Or conversely, have you ever disregarded that feeling and taken the route you usually take, only to get stuck in a traffic jam?  These are only a few quick examples of how the sixth sense works in everyday life...the more you pay attention to it and trust it, and find out it's right, the better you will become at recognizing and utilizing it.

Shelly,

One factor that you seem to not be able to do this when you are serious is because you are concentrating too hard.  It should be natural and it should flow.  The gifts are of nature and so in the same token, it shouldnt be where you have to concentrate really hard or focus really hard to get it right.  Compare the two times and you will see that when you are just playing around, you are more relaxed and you have allowed your sight free reign...

angel

As the psychic talents, abilities, skills are as natural as life, we all have them, in varying degrees...like other talents.  When we have a talent it is important to learn all we can through a good teacher, then home the abilities within ourselves to the best possible level of accomplishment.  (After all, even a concert pianist had a teacher for the fingering on the keyboard).

Do not dismiss the psychic as a gift.  Gifts do not require our effort and can then manifest in just that vein.  It is often said, we get out of anything, the effort we put in.

You don't try to move your finger... you just move it.. without focus.

Notice in school they try to make you focus.  They told you not to daydream.

I also had a teacher tell  me never to look at the sun.  

I look at the sun now but with my eyes close.


-peace

As with any talent, go for the basics to a good source (teacher) and then practice your own talents. Each and every talent will be unique to the individual...just as the snowflakes are unique in expression.  

Imagine a concert pianist, born with the abilities...he still goes to a good teacher for the basics as he practices to hone his own talent.  Are psychics any less worthy?

God bless, J