Have you ever felt that you can almost hear what a person is thinking of while sitting beside you, or may be that you suddenly have very strong and sudden gut feelings of something happening before doing something or going anywhere which later turns out to be right? And if I my guess is right then you have always thought them to be sheer coincidences in your life. And now that you are reading this article, I can safely conclude that somewhere you have doubts in your mind about these experiences and it might well be the case that you are a psychic having specific psychic powers.

The special ability to see, hear, feel or know about things which are otherwise hidden from the five sense organs is what is known as a psychic power. Psychic powers help a person in knowing about things which another ordinary person cannot perceive. Generally something which is born with, psychic powers can also develop at a later date due to a near death experience of a person. Such near death experiences open up faculties or other senses not experienced by the person before.

Various types of psychic powers exist in the world. The most common being those of telepathy, clairvoyance and precognition. While telepathy involves perceiving and knowing the thoughts of another person, clairvoyance refers to seeing things which are far away or are otherwise not available to you or anybody else. Precognition on the other hand is the psychic power of predicting future events.

If you are a person who can tune in to another person's mind and their thoughts and understand how they are feeling, then you have the psychic power of telepathy. If you have very well developed telepathic powers then you might also inject or infuse your own thoughts into the other person's mind.

If you have the special ability to see things which are hidden or are occurring at a distance then you have the psychic power of clairvoyance. A clairvoyant person is capable of remote viewing of things, events or persons which are thousands of miles away. In contrast to remote viewing, if a person can hear or know about things which are otherwise hidden, the psychic powers are termed clairaudience and clairsentience respectively.

Precognition again is the psychic power of predicting about the future. It involves knowing about the future, predicting outcomes of courses of action, informing about events before they happen and dreaming about future incidents. Precognition can be stated to be the most common as well as the most popular of all psychic powers. Its popularity stems from human's innate desire of knowing about the future and thus astrologers, tarot readers and the like have a high demand.

Other than that of these three psychic powers discussed above, there are various other types of psychic powers. These include the power of taking off from the ground to a higher plane know as levitation, power of influencing things and moving them around with the power of your thought or psychokinesis, power to perceive another person's energy fields radiating from him/her known as aura reading, power of communicating with outside intelligence known as channeling or the psychic power of leaving your own body to travel to another place, known as astral projection.

If you are a psychic, chances are that you take yourself to be either gifted or cursed. Always remember that psychic powers are extremely rare and are special abilities that not many people are born with. Hence, consider it as a blessing and try to make it come useful for the betterment of others.