By Vladimir
Sensing psionic energy is a useful ability no matter which area of psionics you specialize in. It’s important for keeping your field healthy and shields functional. Ever lost a construct? Locate it by scanning the area you think it could be floating around. This skill is also very important for attack recognition, if combat is your “thing”.
There are a number of recreational uses of psi-energy sensitivity. Psionic paintball and water fights are boring unless you can sense when you’re hit and such. Ghosthunting is another recreational use, as well as good practice.
On to the “how to”.
Notice how you’re “aware” of your arm. You can feel if anything is touching it, where the arm is, it’s positioning, etc. Try to feel your bodily awareness shifting outside your body. Effectively become aware of an area outside your body. Try shifting your awareness to objects in the room, feel the edges of your keyboard with your mind, whatever you want.
Now, get a construct (wise to have a friend make it and not tell you what it is) and shift your awareness onto it. Feel the edges of it, concepts attached to it, color, anything else that comes to mind.
As your sensitivity increases with practice, you’ll start getting more information, clearer. Information like programming.
Reading programming can be a little bit abstract to explain. The idea is to just scan the construct and think what you associate with it. Hopefully this way, you’ll pick up what the programmer associated with it while he/she made it. This is a skill that is probably best to just experiment with, and figure out for yourself. It may seem difficult at first, but it gets easier. Try practicing with games like “pass the construct”. Make constructs with friends and try to identify them, and verify your results.