As a psychic, being able to “tune in” to the spirit world and accurately describe what is given, is sometimes not easy. In my experience, it’s not only describing the images I’m shown, and understanding the words I’m given, it’s also sensing the emotions and context so that I can accurately relay to my client what spirit wants to convey. Sometimes the things I see, while not having much meaning for me, may have a wealth of meaning for the person having the reading and this can make all the difference to what he or she takes away from the session.
When I started doing readings for people, I’d find some people would say nothing at all apart from telling me their name. After a while, I realised they didn’t understand that a reading was an opportunity to work together to gain insights into people or events in the past or currently in their lives that had caused them confusion or pain. Sometimes it can even be an event in the future that can be avoided. Through these insights, the sitter can often see those experiences differently. To achieve that, the psychic and the sitter need to work together to make sense of what the psychic is accessing through spirit. It’s a lot like putting a jigsaw puzzle together.
For example, I was doing a reading for a woman, Marie. I could see a youth running across a paddock of lush, green grass and suddenly, he ran straight into a stone wall with a loud smack. I relayed this to Marie and she said the young man sounded like her son, Charlie, but why he was running through a paddock in the country was a puzzle to her. I tuned in again and there was Charlie running like mad as if the wall didn’t exist. Marie said Charlie’s vision was good and he much preferred the beach to the country so the images simply didn’t make sense to her. I was not getting any more information so we were just about to move on when Marie asked me to describe the images again as I saw them, so I did “….and he’s running like the wind and BANG! He’s just hit the wall!” We looked at each other. The phrase “hit the wall” was the key. Marie then remembered. Charlie had been working very hard at University and had put himself under a lot of pressure to do well. Recently, he’d become withdrawn and stopped studying altogether. In reality, it wasn’t a real wall he’d hit but a sudden loss of confidence to pass his exams had prevented him from continuing his studies.
Working together as Marie and I did, helped both of us understand that what I was seeing and hearing did have meaning for her and, in Marie’s case, gave her the understanding to provide Charlie with some specialised support.
I’ve learnt that messages from the spirit world are often quite literal like this and need to be interpreted carefully with this awareness in mind.
Equally it can be a challenge for me, as a psychic, to restrain myself from putting my own interpretation on what I see, sense or hear because the person having the reading, may be interpreting my descriptions very differently to me. This is because their personal experiences in life are very different to mine. and as with every reader, I can’t let myself forget the reading is for the sitter, not for me.
Let’s look at an example of this in a future blog.
