I'm 18 and just starting to develop my psychic abilities.  I'm definitely an empath, clairvoyant, clairsentient, claircognizance, and possibly a few other things.  I think I was born with these but it's growing as I age or something.  I have trouble with hearing, automatic writing, astral projection, and some visual things like auras so far.  I've been looking up a little and most the sites say to develop the ability to see auras you have all these eye training exercises.  I have trouble seeing things in my mind sometimes, my vision is poor, and despite being a visual person I have lots of trouble with it.  How can I see auras?  how can I manipulate my eyes in these exercises?  How can I eventually see them without being on a white background and just naturally seeing them around people?

The way I practice seeing auras, is I focus on someone. Then I see different colours around people.

My aura is different than yours so I'm not sure why type of yours are...Sorry

the best way to begin to practice is to develop the peripheral vision which will then develop the etheric vision. I started this at age 13. It involves staring into a flame and then letting your vision soften until the flame is seen from the corner of your eye. Just google the terms, and you can find countless articles to try. Another one is where you hold your hands up in front of your face with the index finger from each hand pointing up, the rest of the hand is in a loose fist. Move your hands slowly back and forth until you pull the hands back to your ears or even further back and you can still see the fingers while looking ahead.
The point is to soften, soften, soften your focus because this is how we see beyond the veil and into the ethers.

When I first started to formally read, I would have the client sit in front of a single colored wall or even a white board. Then I would soften my gaze and look all around the body, never directly at the body, and colors, spirit guides, etc. would begin to appear.

Remember, this takes time and practice. Don't be hard on yourself, and keep trying. Also remember that your gift may manifest itself differently. You may never see, you may hear, you may smell, or you may just have a 'knowing'. We get things differently. It's all in perfect order.
Love and light, Fire Eater