4 Sneaky Daily Rituals Psychic Genies Swear By—And No, It’s Not Crystal Ball Gazing!
Added on August 19, 2025 inASTROLOGY CARDS
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Ever get that gnawing feeling you’re missing a cosmic memo everyone else somehow received? Like, Mercury just pulled a classic retrograde prank and left you squinting at the stars, trying to decode the celestial script? Well, intuition isn’t some mystical, flaky power reserved for astrologers in pointy hats—it’s more like your brain’s secret workout routine. The folks with the sharpest instincts have daily habits that flex this invisible muscle, letting them spot what others overlook—kind of like spotting a plot twist from a mile away in a B-movie. They craft quiet moments to blend logic with gut feelings, peeling back the societal smoke screens we all get dazzled by. Want to know the habits that make them psychic superheroes in disguise? Let’s dive in and see how you can tune in to what even the stars might be whispering. LEARN MORE.
Intuition is like a muscle that becomes stronger with use. The most perceptive people have developed daily practices that enhance their ability to read between the lines and pick up on details that escape everyone’s notice.
By creating space for reflection, these individuals can maintain a clear path and inner wisdom that comes from logic and intuition working together. This is the key to recognizing the reality behind the facade of societal expectations.
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Right from the beginning of our lives, we’re told to respect authority. We’re told to listen to them — without questioning them. Questioning your parents, teachers, or elders’ orders was equivalent to utter disrespect — and consequent punishment.
This makes sense in an evolutionary context. Because if a child doesn’t listen to his elders, his survival is in danger. However, this system is only supposed to be a placeholder. It’s not supposed to be permanent. But most people get stuck.
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Even as they get older, they can’t get themselves to question authority. They still place authority on a pedestal and listen to them more than they should. This — by definition — stops them from thinking for themselves.
The solution is to develop a skepticism toward authority. Or even disdain for them. Because if you don’t — authorities; politicians, teachers, and more importantly, your parents — they’ll keep telling you how to think and what to do. They’ll tell you that you need this car and that career to be happy.
But the problem is that they can only give you generic advice. Since they can never know you as well as you can, their advice will lack specificity. Their advice will be devoid of individuality. Only you can know what’s the right thing to do with your life.
I’m not saying their advice is completely meaningless. I’m only saying that it’s one thing to consider their opinions — another to act on them blindly. To begin thinking for yourself, you have to stop overvaluing the thoughts of others — especially the authority.
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Another aspect to begin thinking for yourself is to hate the herd mentality. You see, people are fearful of having their own opinions.
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Even if they have them, they’re afraid of speaking them out. And this, too, is rooted in evolution. We all have the desire to fit in — and to fit in, we must think like others.
But if you keep thinking like the herd, how can you possibly think for yourself? A simple example of this would be to get overly attached to labels.
It’s okay to be a part of a community. Communities help us live beautiful lives. However, if you overly attach yourself to the community, you’ll adopt all their beliefs without actually testing them out for yourself. And that, by definition, means that you’re not thinking for yourself.
Einstein hated herd mentality — just like he hated authority. He adored individuality, so much so that at one point in time, he even renounced his German citizenship because he didn’t want to think like other Germans. He only wanted to think like Einstein. He considered himself a citizen of the world.
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When you develop an aversion to herd mentality, you’re less likely to get influenced by other people’s thought processes. This allows you… nope. Scratch that. This forces you to think for yourself. And that’s difficult. But it’s beautiful.
Herd mentality and blind respect for authority are two things that stop you from thinking for yourself. When you erase both, there will be a vacuum within your conscious mind.
This vacuum has to be simultaneously filled by having thoughts for yourself. And this can only be done by developing an extremely high self-awareness.
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If you don’t simultaneously fill it in, your mind won’t like the vacuum, and it’ll slip into old methods of thinking, which will be achieved by relying on authority and herd mentality. That’s not what you want. And self-awareness is not at all easy to develop.
You have to explore the world — not just physically — but intellectually as well. You have to try different things — and then dissect your emotions. You have to tell yourself that your emotions — your opinions — matter. Because so far, you have been told that they don’t matter.
The world will tell you that you’re supposed to like this or that. But you have to ignore it all — and listen to the voice within your mind. After all, that’s the only voice that matters.
You have to not care about what other people like and what they think about what you will like. You have to explore your emotions as if you’re the only person that exists on this Earth. That’s how you develop high self-awareness. And that’s what will allow you to think for yourself.
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The three points we talked about above are essential — but not enough. Courage is the one who’s going to bring it home for you.
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You see, when you listen to authority and the herd, you’re free from being responsible for your thoughts. If things don’t work out, a part of your mind will always feel that it was not your fault. After all, you did everything you were supposed to do.
But when you begin to listen only to yourself, you’re now completely responsible for your own life. And that’s scary. Because if you screw up, you will feel stupid that you listened to your thoughts.
If you listen to and act for yourself, and god forbid you have to face a failure, an authority figure, or someone else from the herd will be dying to tell you, “I told you so.”
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That’s why it takes an extraordinary amount of courage for both:
And courage comes from self-love and self-respect. You have to realize on a very deep spiritual level that it’s your life. If you mess up, you mess up. So what? At least it’ll be your mess. You’ll learn from it and move on.
No matter what, thinking for yourself is a thousand times better than not thinking for yourself. Because that’s the only way to own your own life.
Akshad Singi, M.D., has been published in Better Humans, Mind Cafe, and more.
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