Spirits..?

To see Spirits is different for everyone. Some people are just born with the ability. Some open their third eye chakras(and should open and balance All of them). Some are clairvoyant. I find that you have to really believe in the spirits, acknowledge them, and want to see them. But that is not always the case.

Sometimes seeing an apparition happens once or twice, sometimes it happens a whole bunch of times. Seeing a spirit, in the sense of communicating with it, doesn't necessarily mean physically seeing it. When spirits make contact, images of things and images of words appear to your mind. Communicating with a spirit isn't looking face to face with one and having a conversation. For instance, sometimes I "hear" words inside my head when they communicate with me. Sometimes I just see images of things related to what they're trying to tell me, such as a chair, a house, or if they're referring to a person who is (for example) a female with blonde hair, who works at the supermarket, Ill see images of a checkout line, food etc and a vague image of a female with blonde hair (not facial features, never that distinct unless a dream).

The block may be because of a fear of what will happen when you do connect with them. It's your body's way of protecting you.

Well, there are five different ways to sense spirits.

Clairvoyance (Clear seeing) = Seeing them through the third eye

Clairsentience (Clear feeling) = Temperature change, mood swings, feelings on your skin, ect

Claircognizance (Clear knowing) = Like intuition. Knowing information without prior experience or thought.

Clairaudience (Clear hearing) = Hearing words within your ear chakras or seeing them within your mind

Dreaming = Communication through the dream realm/Astral Projection

like mentioned above, there are different ways to 'see' spirits, as we get older we're less perceptive. as a child i could see spirits like they were living people, now i can feel something in the room, around certain times of the year i can hear them easier, but i can't see them anymore.

you're afraid, which is probably causing the mental block which prevents you from seeing them. you could have a fully opened chakra, but if you're scared, even a little, it won't do anything. you need to let go of your fear, spirits aren't scary looking. i've seen many spirits, the only time i've ever been scared is when they intentionally jump out to scare me. otherwise, they're siting or standing or whatever, they just look like people. i'm not saying all do, but the one's i've met do.

chakra work would help, you could have an imbalance in the natural flow of energy in your body. let's say you do have a fully opened third eye, but your heart chakra is completely closed, this will stop the natural flow and cause energy to pool in parts of your body. with a fully open third eye it can cause headaches. build yourself up slowly, work on each chakra individually on a daily basis, each week, adding another one. example, week one, each day you focus on one chakra, week two, you focus on two each day, week three, three chakra until working up to all 7. there's also some tea's you could try, and even some chants that might help.

All replies on this post are very true, but I would like to add that some times you just need to know yourself. You need to know why you are wanting to see or communicate with spirits. I don't mean why you think you want to but why you really want to. What are your intentions? Sometimes if your intentions are for personal gain, ( recognition, to be different, to fit in with someone, ect.,) your subconscious will block your abilities until you have the right intentions. Just something to think about.

Thank you everybody for replying. I'm sorry about acting so desperate, I was really having a mental breakdown right there -_-. I had spent the entire night up until 4:00 am reading ghost stories, probably had to do with it.

I realize that the reason I don't see them is because I realize that they are my worst fear. I was thinking about it, and I realize now that all my fears are because of it.

-Mirrors: Afraid of seeing "somebody" other than myself (Is this even possible?)
-Turned off tv's and computers: Same as above
-The dark: Seeing supernatural beings

I can't believe I've never realized this before. Now I'm quite glad. The last thing I would want to do is see/communicate with a spirit, be it good or not. So, I'm going to stick with other things, such as simple psi balls and such.

What should I start with?

i still say chakra work, it'll help with many different things. second i'd move on to shielding and other protections. if you're hoping to one day work with spirits, you need to protect yourself to some degree. while not all spirits are evil, you could get hurt, better to be safe than sorry.

on regards to your fears:

~ i've never seen spirits in mirrors, i've tried, but never saw anything. in a black mirror, or skrying, you can see things, but if you think while brushing your hair, or saying 'Bloody Mary' 3 times, won't really happen. there's a very slim chance, but it's the same as being struck by lightning, can happen, but rather low.

~ i find it easier to see spirits in a turned off tv, it's the same as mentioned above, you're skrying. you can see things in the tv, but again, for something to just appear it's rare. if a spirit already there, then yes, but personally, i see it the same way i'd see myself, an outline with some features, but really not a obvious face or something. i use to watch shows about hauntings, still like them but they're never on. anyway, Rori [a spirit] would sit next to me watching them, i would see him in the tv, but i couldn't next to me, so it's easier imo to see them in tvs.

~ seeing spirits and other beings in the dark, i find they're more active, but again, Rori's just bugging me when i want to sleep. your eyes play tricks on you in the dark however, so you shouldn't chalk it up to a spirit or something else. though Rori will walk around the room at night and i see a shadow, so you can, but rule out everything else first.

above all, you don't have to worry, it can be a little shocking seeing something the first time, i still feel a little chill the first time i see/hear a spirit, but i've never been hurt by one. Rori use to poke me in my side to get me up when i was in school and didn't finish a project, but other than that, they're mostly talkative.

Being a natural born medium, I see and communicate with spirits on a daily basis. Basically if you aren't born with the gift or haven't opened your third eye fully or properly a spirit can choose when and how to reveal themselves to you, spirits are naturally attracted to fear and or hatred, some of the best ways to have a spirit show themselves to you is to make them believe you are truly afraid of their greatness and power, tell them what they want to hear. If wanting to contact a spirit, visually or mentally, do the following.
1) go into a quiet room
2) light one white candle and place it in front of you
3) sit in a comfortable legs crossed position
4) close your eyes and clear your mind
5) as you breath in count to seven in your head then think of spirits
6) as you exhail do the same thing
7) repeat this until you feel your mind open or expand
8) once you've reached that state open your eyes and whisper I'm ready
9) them blow out the candle
Warning, this can cause accidental communication with a demon, enjoy (:

I can see that a bunch of great information has been given to you, about different points of view and manners. I would like to add some more things to the given information, and help you or "touch" your actual problem with seeing spirits by using the specific method you are talking about and trying to communicate and see spirits by using it. All of the other questions you saw on your thread were correct and really helpful, but yet I feel like I should talk about seeing spirits and about your problem while everything is related to the method of sight and way of communication with spirits and other entities.

Firstly, you did mention that you got scared while sensing / seeing a spirit, which is something that might make the process of sensing them harder. While being scared, you actually kinda block yourself from seeing them and make yourself to avoid the experience of sensing them.
So the first reason of having your difficulty with seeing spirits might stem from your deep fears of dealing with spirits and experiencing anything related with them. So shortly, you can't see spirits because you are afraid from them. You probably heard so many frightening legends about ghosts so that you prefer not to see them and believe that they do not exist. Consequently, your mind blocks you from seeing them. So basically when your mind blocks any sort of sight or entity, you will not be able to see it or sense it.

In order to get rid of this difficulty, you need to remove your fears and overcome them. One way to get over the fear is to be aware of your mind's fear from ghosts until the fear is no more. Do not fight the fear, accept and observe it. My tip is that.
You can also check why you are fearing of ghosts and watch your mind's conflicting forces of underlying skepticism and underlying belief. These are the causes for your fear - on the one hand you believe in ghosts and therefore want to avoid them, on the other hand you are skeptic and therefor feel that you are isolated and alone in the world and therefore can trust nothing to help you and guard you, hence fear.
Observe in particular your skepticism, observe and accept, do not fight it. It will also become weaker as you observe it.

When the fear and skepticism become weaker, the mind's blocking of non-skeptical phenomena will subside and the reality created and observed will start to include more happenings that cannot be categorized as natural, logical, science-proven. In this new state of mind you may be able to sense the presence of what you call 'ghosts' (spirits).

I also saw that someone told you that you might have a third eye chakra blockage, which is not necessarily true. The fact that you cannot use your third eye chakra in order to see spirits does not necessarily tell us that you have a blockage in your third eye chakra.
Mostly when this sixth chakra experiences a blockage, one may suffer from frequent nightmares and headaches, poor eyesight, lack of concentration and sometimes even migraines.
Also if the 6th chakra is not balanced, you have the potential to be a cold intellectual who trusts only reason and logic and is manipulative when it comes to getting what you want. Also when you say that , you are undisciplined and probably an underachiever.

So if you don't find any of this symptoms this may just tell us that you haven't developed it enough and didn't practice and meditate in order to improve your third eye chakra and develop your skills with it.

So what you simply have to do, just as about any other skill or ability in the craft or other subjects, you have to have patience for it and practice in order to develop it and improve it.
What I recommend you is to use meditation in order to improve your third eye chakra. You need to dedicate time, effort, energy and patience in order to achieve improvement and development of this chakra.
Through performing a third eye meditation you can open your subtle senses to perceive higher-dimensional worlds and energies. The third eye is the center of what is called clairvoyant sight , meaning "clear vision," and refers to the higher-sense ability to intuitively see or perceive subtle energies.
Just dedicate some time to meditate and give it as much time and effort as you need in order to success.

You may search about opening your third eye in Google (or any other searching engine) and look for the sixth chakra (third eye) meditation methods. You will find a bunch of articles about it, and you will probably get the information you need.

I also agree with people who said that there are different methods of sensing and seeing spirits and other entities. Yet, I decided to explain about the terms that the person who opened the thread asked about. But you can also simply search for other plenty of various methods of sensing and seeing spirits and entities.

Thank you for your answers. I do spend more than half my time on computers reading ghost stories, which could be part of the cause of my fear. I have another question: If I fear them my whole life, will I never be able to see spirits/demons? Like I mentioned, seeing them is just something that worries me, and always nags at my heart. I suppose they're just something that I'm deeply curious about, yet want to stay away from.

Lastly, I know this is paranoid, but... Do demons know when you are scared/nervous? Would they be able to tell if I'm writing this?