Why do some people have no natural talents for anything psychic or gifts?

I think there are a lot of good answers here but we don't go further enough to challenge what truly should be considered a 'gift'. I also find that our fear of spirit or the paranormal can often block certain connections with spirit/source.

The more I get deeper into channeling, the more I see how many people channel source, or higher intelligences and do so unknowingly. The artist, the scientist, the writer, the therapist, the athlete. They are tapping into something higher and bringing that information forward. How they translate it to the larger public is up to them. These connections are often called talents and are welcomed, sought after, and easily teachable or trainable. Some with stronger abilities than others, but is that nature or nurture? Others who can tap in and connect in ways that are not as mainstream (medium, psychic, etc) are sectioned off, and these connections are called gifts and are thought of by many as being hereditary (or imaginary). Again, nature or nurture? But deep down I believe they are the same.

I truly believe that everyone can connect and tap into spirit in many different ways. Once you find where that connection is for you, it will be easier to find other ways to plug in and connect.

There are the reborn who are born with active gifts and unique souls,

the chosen who are born without gifts and chosen for their impressive development and interpersonal feats spiritually and within the concept of individuation.

Then there is the akakened who are alike to both the born and the chosen and develop abilities from energy they are able to collect by accepting the journey.

There are also those who use gods and entities to gain their abilities

and those who utilize the energy of others aka psychic vampires (though everyone is technically a psychic vampire, there can be intentional sapping of energy)

It doesn't help that this world doesn't nurture the soul the way it should, so a lot of people with gifts and potential become dulled out quickly in their childhood.

It also takes a lot of understanding of how the spiritual world works as well as of one's own ability to be able to show any skill. Talent is a possibility, but this connection must still exist.

To help open your gifts and take the journey, both sides of thinking must be utilized and an individual must have a very open mind ( no walls to these new ideas). They must want to experience the journey and they must search for it. Only then in time and patience will it come to you

Everyone cannot do this. Whoever is saying what you quoted is mistaken.

Everyone has chakras, and chakras hold all the psychic abilities, so the more accurate statement that "everyone is psychic" is technically the truth.

But this statement is no different than saying everyone can write a novel or everyone can play basketball. These statements are technically the truth but incomplete.

What makes someone able to use their psychic abilities better than someone else? The answer is a combination of past lives, what information they brought in with them this lifetime, what they want to experience this lifetime, effective practice, and some luck. Yes, I know that nothing is a coincidence and that everything happens for a reason, but luck is just more fun to say. So raspberries!

Notice who you're comparing yourself to; people that randomly experience something psychic. If that's your goal, then good luck.

I had the privilege of interviewing 250 psychic readers of all styles and backgrounds, and got a short reading from each of them, all done by phone over two weeks. They were interviewing for jobs with a psychic phone line startup. I had to pick the top 25 readers out of 250, and it was not easy.

What the top readers all had in common was more years of experience doing readings than the others. All 250 were good readers, but the more experienced readers were better.

You need more practice. But first, know that this psychic reading stuff isn't difficult, so whatever you've been doing for practice before probably just doesn't work for you. Might work in amazing ways for someone else, but not you. Luckily, there's more than one way to get here.

So look at how you practice and see if you can decide on your own if it's worth repeating. Not all practices work for everyone. If your peer group all remembers their astrals and you're the only one that can't, don't despair. Take a healing class. Do some energy work on your third chakra, where your out-of-body memory is located, and see if you remember your astrals a little better.

In this game, there's an energy fix for nearly every psychic ability.

FYI here's the first technique taught to every clairvoyant student in the many training programs around the world.

Try this. Sit in a chair. Close your eyes. Take a deep breath. Feet flat on the floor. Hands separated and resting palms up on each thigh.

Create a grounding cord. This is a line of energy that connects your first chakra to the center of the planet. Your first chakra is a ball of energy about the size of a quarter that sits just in front of the base of your spine. Your grounding cord attaches to the bottom of that ball of energy.

Grounding makes your body feel safe, so you release energy more easily. Gravity pulls whatever you release, even your own energy, down to the center of the planet. No effort on your part. The center of the planet neutralizes the energy and returns it to whoever owns it. No karma for anyone. A virtuous cycle.

Nearly everyone goes to connect to the center of the planet the first time but stops at the soil, often making roots like a tree. This is a method that is taught in some martial arts styles, but it is not the best option for your spiritual development and healing.

So, notice the seat of your chair. Take a deep breath. Notice the distance between the seat and the floor. Now notice the distance between the floor and the soil below. Breathe.

Now notice the distance between the soil and the water table underneath. Notice the distance between the water table and the rocky mantle. Notice the distance between the mantle and the molten core below that. Deep breath.

Notice the distance between the molten core and the center of the planet. That ball of light at the very center of the planet is where you connect your grounding cord. Deep breath.

Say hello to the center of the planet. Do you get a hello back?

Notice the color and texture of your grounding cord. It may look like a line of energy, or look like something physical; a rope, a wire, a pipe, a tree trunk. Adjust it as needed to be in affinity with your body.

Getting this far means you've already released some energy from your aura and body. Now it is time to fill in the space that was created.

Create a gold sun over your head. Have it call back all of your energy from wherever you left it throughout your day and week. Work. School. Online meetings. Video games. Your fantasies about your future. Your regrets about your past. Wherever you've placed your attention. Just watch the energy come back and see if you notice where it came from.

Have the sun burn up and neutralize your energy. Then bring the sun into the top of your head. It will automatically flow into the spaces you created. Create a gauge to measure when you're full. Like a fuel gauge or oil gauge. You'll run better if you aren't a few quarts low on spiritual oil. If the gauge doesn't read "Full", bring in another gold sun.

Open your eyes, bend over and touch the floor, draining any tension from the back of your neck, then stand up, and stretch.

There is a progression with this technique. After grounding for ten minutes a day for a week or two, notice your grounding cord at the very end, while you're standing with your eyes open. Continue to ground with your eyes open and standing, and bring in another gold sun. Each day, increase the amount of time that you ground standing up with your eyes open.

After a week or two practicing this, add walking while grounded. Just notice your grounding cord as you walk. Say hello to the center of the planet while you walk. Bring in a gold sun while you walk. If you lose your grounding cord, stop walking and recover it. If you have to, sit back down and close your eyes and create a new grounding cord.

After this, you're ready to take your grounding cord with you into your daily life. Shopping. Getting coffee. Wherever you go, you can ground. This, combined with a little amusement about seeing new things on an energy level, will keep you safe and sound.

Now that you're here, at the end of your grounding meditations, create a gold sun over your head. This time, fill it with your highest creative essence, your present time growth vibration, and your affinity for yourself. The first energy is a healing for you. The second is a healing for your body. The third is a healing for your affinity in your fourth chakra.

Bend over and touch the floor. Stand up and stretch. If you're ready for more, sit back down and ground some more. Otherwise, have a nice day!

Note that every image you imagine, the gold sun, the grounding cord, the center of the planet, your first chakra, your body parts, is exercising your clairvoyance. You may be imagining what your tailbone looks like, but you're also creating the image of your tailbone and reading its energy. This is practicing your clairvoyant ability.

Some folks record the grounding and filling in parts of this practice on their device and play it back as a guided meditation. I like this approach because you learn the steps faster.

The same how some people just can't paint or draw. We all have different natural capacities and abilities. That said, I'm a believer that most things can be learned.

the idea that everyone can do everything, especially in the paranormal field, is VERY new and modern. All ancient cultures held the belief that only very few gifted people existed, and they were born that way. This has been my personal experience as well. Shamanic cultures, for example, held that NO ONE can "become" a shaman, unless they are born and destined to be one. The gift was also considered to be hereditary, so there were long shaman family lines. Same with (genuine) witches.

But how would all the scammers sell their "become a psychic/witch/medium"-courses if not everyone can do it in the first place? That's likely where the idea "everyone can learn it" came from.

Everyone is a psychic, but not everyone has the spiritual maturity for the process to be in full display, nor its part of their life contracts.

If i had to guess its about how old the spirit itself and how much experiences it has behind it, i would guess and say that most big mediums / psychics are called light workers for a reason, they are highly advanced spirits that came here to help humanity/planet increase its vibration by expending our horizons about the spirit, other side, and that we shouldn’t care so much about our own selfish desires, as this life is just a phase, one of many, and not one and done like many of us think/thought.

I think more people have abilities but take them for granted as normal (YAY!) While some people get talked out of their abilities.

For all my life I shared what I see, hear, feel, and experience with my mom, aunt and grandma. Being that many of my mom's side can do the same, they would always accept what i said. Then a couple of mentors came into my life, named various abilities, and taught me how to shield and differentiate what is mine and what is something in picking up. Because no one ever said That's not true or You're lying, my abilities naturally grew.

My brother on the other hand pushed down his abilities because they scare him. He doesn't want to see or hear. He still does but each experience makes him anxious

Learning to become aware of your psychic equipment, turn it on, and then start using it is like trying to become aware of a 3rd arm or a tail you didn't know you had. At first, you might receive only glimpses of its existence, but you'll have no sensation of it. With practice (there are exercises that can help to learn this over a period of several weeks/months), you may learn to recognize your internal patterns and mental processes and slowly learn to tell the difference between internal and external thoughts and energies. Recommendations: The Gateway Tapes (all 8 waves - some people have amazing success with those, but they require regular use and the discipline to not fall asleep during the exercises), Transcendental Meditation, Franz Bardon's system of magick (his book Initiation into Hermetics has many exercises that gradually help to develop one's abilities, though for the purpose of directing energy to cause changes in the world i.e., magick), and Mat Auryn's book Psychic Witch (geared toward witchcraft/paganism, but the exercises are good).

It would be a mistake to believe that only those with talent can learn to activate and use psychic abilities. In most cases, those who don't think they have abilities are simply locked into one mode of awareness and have never experienced any other states of consciousness. If your mind is constantly in logical mode, as if you're doing math problems at school, then you're in the wrong gear for psychic perception. A closer state of mind might be that in-between state between sleep and wakefulness. With practice, a person can shift levels of awareness at will and maintain consciousness, not drifting off to sleep. People who are more emotionally based and less locked into logical thinking are often able to access psychic skills more easily.

In astrology, there’s certain placements that would significantly bring those attributes to the forefront. So, whilst everyone is made of this energy, some folks are tapped into far more overtly. People with prominent water or Neptune placements, (particularly Pisces) or in a house that is associated with water (4th, 8th, 12th), or aspected (angles of interaction) to water houses are this, and will be the ones who are feeling the etheric currents most obviously 

They do have the ability to learn psychic ability, almost anyone can

Trauma and self preservation.

I believe it's survival instinct kicking in. As almost all people who have some ability always tell me if the trauma they have.

It makes sense to me too because for thousands of years, religions have been trying to squash the "animalistic" side of human nature. (Don't trust it if it's not logical, fear it if it's not familiar)

To pay attention to gut feelings and instinct makes it harder for people to manipulate and control you.

Though there are those who were raised with parents that are very open about such things and encourage the curiosity and such that also have gifts, it's just not as common as running into people that fly blind and don't understand what they're experiencing.

I have to say as much as I call it a curse, it has served me very well in my life time. My experiences started in grade school. I avoided many situations in which things could have gone very bad throughout my childhood and teen years.

Science has done studies where they found that the brain actually processes things at least a few seconds before the body reacts. Like often you feel pain a few seconds before you're actually injured. Which would then open the question of are people with gifts just more aware of things around them and processing it faster than most?

Tapping into these things requires a good amount of creativity, abstract thinking, and problem solving skills. One can easily explain it away with logic, but those who don't have an easier time with intuition.

Sometimes, we want something so much that our desire to have it pushes it further away.

Definitely not alone. My mom has been told by several psychics and ‘alternative medicine practitioners’, unprompted, that I have the ability/can do what they do, I just haven’t learned how to channel it yet. I’ve bought a few books, but because I’m currently unable to practice mindfulness/meditation (I blame my ADHD and CPTSD), the struggle has been real 😂

Most people have no recognition of events going on around them. Also their other selfs/spirit world literally tell them not to believe it.

The less you listen the less you receive some people choose to be closed

In that case, maybe try to train things that don't require Psychic gift?

Read about Occult. Following procedures to get object to become sanctified. Using charms to get effect of inviting Spirits.

There was an old concept in Conjuration where person summoning Spirits did not necessarily see them. They needed a Clairvoyant that was able to see them. Even in Late Antiquity, Lamp Divination in Layden Papyri required a virgin boy who was affected by Incantations and was able to see visions and visiting Gods.

There were situations where Conjurers worked and communicated with Spirits without Clairvoyant. Maybe try to read about them?

I was born as a psychic medium and my grandfather and great grandfather,my mother are all psychic .I think it comes down to genes I guess

I’ve worked for five years developing my spirituality and psychic gifts. I can now do all sorts of things, communicate with spirits, read tarot, manipulate energy, tell what people are thinking and sense the energy of people, trees, rocks, places and astral entities. Before I started this journey I felt nothing, and did not even really believe in the mystical.

The society lays chains and bondage over what should naturally occur. It's called the education system.

In the same way not everyone can pick up a pencil and draw something recognizable or open their mouths and sing beautifully without training, not everyone can just utilize their psychic skills consciously. In the end, any one of us can be taught to draw a decent figure or sing happy birthday without clearing the room, and it's the same with psychic skill.

There are a lot of reasons for this, but mostly, it has to do with programming and belief. We each have our perspectives about ourselves and our place in this world, all formed by however many tens, hundreds ... thousands? of lives we've lived plus the crazy amount of programming we go through via our families, our communities, our religions, our friends, etc.

Some people just have a lot more blocking energy to work through than others. :)