I started studying psychic phenomenon when I was a small boy. No one taught me how. No one said this is the way to do this. I thought I'd share with what you might consider practice excercises, I considered basic playground fun...
I didn't know what I was doing when I started out.
My friend and I would play an imaging game with our minds.
"In front of you you see three houses, one blue one red with a wrap around porch and a white one that is only one story, which do you go into?"
"In the front room you see a staircase to your left and a room with a doorway in the back to your right"
These imaging games are similar to the text based RPG's that kids would play in the time on their BBS boards.
As I started dating I began hypothesis'ing girls expressions into motives and eventually back stories to suffice the why's of the motives.
Get overwhelmed in each phase then withdraw.
I gained empathy through experience and failure.
Then I focused on myself. Not caring about anyone else in the world.
When the first thought broke through the silence, I was wrapped up in my own success, satisfied.
Although, I couldn't understand it, I heard it as a sound if not.
Replaying it, I came up with twenty possibilities it could be.
I ran through the probability of each with small discreet tests.
Certain, I moved on to the next part of my life.
The next part included a not-so-certain mental impression.
I repeated.
Through trial and error, through attempts and failures, I discerned a truth. I discerned an honestly with myself.
I learned to read minds, and I still to this day broadcast my thoughts outward, hoping to meet......... and confirm......... conversational telepathy.
It takes alot. I have thoughts I hate. I'm over them. They occur. They pass. I seek someone who can understand my thoughts as if it were my voice. I speak. I type. I think. All at the same pace. Begin this way as a mind reader. Advance this way as a fearless telepath.