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What it’s like for a psychic intuitive or psychic medium to give a reading

January 7, 2016 by bostonintuitive 4 Comments

Some people still think that psychics are frauds, research you ahead of time, or are just good guessers. To dispel these myths about psychics, I thought I’d describe my psychic reading process so you can have an insider’s point of view.

Please note that I’m only describing my process. Every psychic gets their information differently so their process may be different than mine. It’s similar in the way that one artist’s creative process is different from another artist’s creative process.

Truthfully, I’m usually nervous before I read for a client. I’m less nervous if I’ve read for that person before because I know they connect with my style which is a little different. I worry that new clients may be expecting the stereotypical fortune-teller. When people come to a psychic they think their life is an open book and their future is fixed and knowable. I don’t believe that you can predict the future with a high degree of accuracy because the future is dynamic. The future changes all the time because everyone has free will to change their mind. When you change your mind, you change your future.

I read from my living room with my client sitting next to me. After he or she has pulled tarot cards for the reading, I hold both their hands in my hands. I do this to establish a multisensory connection with them. As I hold their hands, I hear sounds, see images, and get feelings and knowings. I also give readings over the phone which for me are exactly that same as if that person is sitting next to me.

When I’m reading, I’m open and receptive to anything that might come through no matter how odd it might be. There are no words to adequately describe what it’s like. You have to have it yourself to know what it’s really like. It’s different from thinking thoughts or feeling emotions.

My intuitive pops come one after another. The images I receive are subtle, translucent, and disappear right after I notice them. The information I hear comes in quietly. Intuitive feelings linger until I describe what I’m feeling. If I can’t quite hear the information – it’s usually because the client is likely to resist what I’m telling them.

If I’m getting information clairsentiently, like the emotion of joy or fear, I feel it throughout my body. Having given so many readings my clairsentience is finely tuned. I feel subtle nuances. The feeling of anxiety is different than depression and fear seems different than terror or rage.

Frequently people ask me if giving readings is exhausting. Personally, I don’t get tired unless it’s a difficult reading. I do go into an altered state so I can get spaced-out. After a reading I may need to eat something or reground myself. I find if someone comes to their reading exhausted or sleep deprived, I get sleepy and can hardly stay awake for the reading.

In our training, we’re told to, “give what we get.” This means to describe the information we’re getting through our senses but not to interpret the meaning of that information. The problem being the psychic may misinterpret what they’re getting. Describing what you’re seeing, hearing, feeling, knowing, smelling or tasting is the best way for the client to recognize what the psychic is talking about.

I hope this post is helpful to you. Hopefully, it dispels the idea that psychics just make everything up. If you have other questions, send them to me using the Contact Us form on my website. Please feel free to suggest other topics as well.

5 Realistic Expectations to Have Prior to and During Your Reading With A Psychic Medium

December 2, 2015 by bostonintuitive 2 Comments

FIVE REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS TO HAVE WHEN YOU’RE GETTING A READING WITH A PSYCHIC MEDIUM

1) If you’re expecting to get a reading with Teresa Caputo’s clone, you’re not being realistic. Each psychic medium has his or her own unique personality. You might get a flamboyant medium or you may get a quiet one. Teresa Caputo, The Long Island Medium, is to the psychic medium industry as Dolly Parton is to the country music industry. She’s great at what she does and has a big fun personality. What you CAN expect is that your mediumship reading will be satisfying to you and touch your soul. Maybe you’ll shed a few tears that are healing.

2 )Expect to talk to your spirit people in the days and weeks before your reading. Let them know you’re getting a mediumship reading, when and where you’ll be, and ask them to show up. Do this multiple times not just once. Realistically – it works. Do it!

3 ) Expect that when you’re in your reading that a spirit will sometimes describe themselves differently than the way you think of them. For example, the spirit might say they’re sorry for having a short fuse. Before you say “no” “that’s not my Dad, he was as patient as the day is long”, think for minute if either he might have thought of himself that way or if others may have viewed him that way. Don’t make it fit but think about it before you say,”no”. Thinking might trigger you to remember…”oh yeah, boy, did Dad lose his temper any morning we were late leaving the house”. It’s not unusual for a readee to hear a description of a spirit and then have a brain freeze. Mediums expect this when none of the susequent details make sense. Be patient. Maybe you need to hear a few more pieces of evidence before you recognize that spirit. Perhaps the medium is misinterpreting the information and that’s throwing you off. I had a reading with a famous medium who insisted my family owned a general store. I knew we didn’t own a general store. Because I kept saying “no” to this important piece of information at the very beginning, the rest of the reading went badly. Later, when I thought about it, I realized my father worked for Sears Roebuck for 40 years, the largest general store in the US at the time. I viewed his job as working for a large corporation. I could not make the “general store” connection during the reading for the life of me. I learned a valuable lesson about readings that day. Be open and flexible of mind. Don’t make it fit -but stay open.

4) Hopefully, those spirits that you most want to hear from will come to your psychic medium reading. Realistically, any person you encountered during your life can show up in your reading even the neighbor down the street that you only waved to when you left the house. A good thing to think about before your reading is not only the spirits you most want to hear from but also all the people you know who’ve died. There are two schools of thought about spirit communication. One is that you don’t get to decide which spirits come through during your session. A medium can only bring through the spirits who are around you and want to talk. This is the most traditional viewpoint. There is another school of thought that a medium can call on any spirit anytime. Most mediums DO NOT believe you can just call in any spirit any time. All mediums DO believe, however, that you can call on any spirit, but it may take that spirit days or weeks to show up.

5) Finally, expect not to give your medium information before and during your session even though it’s tempting! The reason being the medium is trying to establish a connection with a spirit. The medium needs the spirit to give them information so they can tell you. A medium has a process for working with the spirit world and they trust that process even if it’s a difficult reading. Some mediums are really strict about not asking you questions and others are not. Try not to talk too much during your reading so that the spirits who want to talk have enough tme to come through.

Enjoy your session!

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Mediumship Myths – Do Psychic Mediums Need Training?

December 1, 2015 by bostonintuitive Leave a Comment

Anytime you see a psychic medium at work either in a one on one setting or on stage, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, he or she is a trained medium. It doesn’t seem to matter at what age someone begins this journey, whether natural born, as a child, or if they uncover this ability later in life, a good medium, like becoming a great musician or athelete, excells because they set that goal, work har developing their gift, and have a lot of training under their belt.

Learning how to do spirit communication is like learning an entirely new language. Even the way a psychic medium receives information is new and strange. A medium communicates with the spirit world through their psychic senses called the “Clairs.” The three major “Clairs” are clairvoyance, clairaudience and clairsentience. It takes time for a psychic medium to understand how this works within them and what their personal symbols mean.

Receiving proper training helps a medium develop all their psychic senses, instead of using just one primary psychic sense, and increases their range and sensitivity. The extent to which most psychic mediums train their psychic abilities and work with the spirit world is outside the awareness of the general public. Even after years of dedication and training, there are still days when communicating with spirit world is confounding, frustrating and has an elusive quality to it.

Today, to become a psychic medium, there are schools, certificate programs and online seminars that help a medium understand and master their gift. In the beginning days of mediumship, during the Victorian era, the only training mediums had access to was to sit in a circle, with the same people every week for many years, cultivating their communication with the spirit world.

In a future blog post, I’ll get into specific exercises that mediums use to develop their psychic senses. In this post, I wanted to explain that good mediums aren’t a dime a dozen. They’re dedicated professionals who’ve invested time and money in their training, working with the spirit world, to get the messages from spirit right. (This is no small feat!) A good medium wants the same thing for you in a mediumship session as you want for yourself – authentic and comforting communication with your loved ones who are on the Other Side.

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5 Things To Know To Find The Right Psychic In Boston For You

November 16, 2015 by bostonintuitive Leave a Comment

The psychic industry has come a long way since the old stereotypical fortune-telling days. Today, seers have access to thousands of serious metaphysical books, and professional psychic schools where they can earn advanced degrees in mediumship and intuition. Psychics today have a wide range of backgrounds and training.. Here are five things to know and ways to find the right psychic in Boston for you.

1) Know a little bit about the different specialties. There are two main categories. Psychic mediums talk to dead. Psychic intuitives provide insights into situations you’re facing or decisions you need to make. Most psychic mediums can do both psychic readings (spiritual counseling) and mediumship. All mediums are psychics, but not all psychics are mediums.

2) If you’re going to a medium, you’re primarily going to hear from the Other Side. Mediumship readings are especially helpful if you are grieving and connecting with your loved one in spirit might help bring you closure and peace. There is no guarantee, however, which spirits will show up. Mediumship sessions are meant to be healing.

3) Know why you want to get a reading today. Is this your first time and you’re just curious? You should be able to have a great experience with either type of psychic but if you go to a psychic intuitive that doesn’t talk to the dead, you’ll be disappointed if that’s what you’re expecting. If you’re only going for entertainment purposes unless it’s a party venue, or demonstration, you’re taking a chance. Psychic mediums and psychic intuitives take their work very seriously especially in one on one sessions and small group settings.

4) In mediumship readings, you can’t interact with the spirit and ask questions. In psychic intuitive sessions, most of the time, you do get to ask questions. Information from a mediumship reading comes from a spirit. Information in a psychic intuitive reading comes from the energy field of the person being read and the earth plane. Most readers will not combine the two different types of readings in one session because they require different skills.

5) Most of the time you’ll pay a higher price for a session with an experienced and well-trained psychic. It may sound logical that you have to pay more, but you’d be surprised how many people think that psychic ability is a magical power that doesn’t require experience and training. It takes time for a psychic to understand how their gifts work. The more training a psychic has had, and the more time they’ve invested in giving readings, the better they are.

If you’ve picked out a psychic or received a referral and still aren’t sure if you have the right psychic for you – read through the testimonials on his or her website. The testimonials can help you clarify the type of reading you can expect to get with that psychic. You can also call and ask them further questions after you’ve read through what is available about them on their website.

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Ten Things I’ve Learned By Being A Psychic in Boston

November 13, 2015 by bostonintuitive Leave a Comment

1) We have some of the best psychic training in the world within easy driving distance of Boston. Therefore, you can get a great reading with local psychics. If you want to get into this profession, you would do well to live in the metro Boston area.

2) We also have charlatans and scammers. Fortunately, they are in the minority and the police know who they are. Anytime a psychic says you have a curse, black cloud, or bad juju around you, and they can remove it for a price – run! Most people don’t want to admit if they were scammed by a psychic, though, you’ll do everyone a service if you report them. A couple of these shops popped up in the North End but didn’t last very long.

3) Many excellent mediums live in the Boston area too. Some of the faculty at Arthur Findlay College, a Spiritualist college in England that specializes in mediumship training, teach and give readings in Boston. Many local Spiritualist churches also provide great mediumship training. Again, the metro Boston area is a great place to live if you want to get into this profession.

4) Boston is a tough city for psychics to give readings because Bostonians are savvy consumers due to the accessiblility of talented psychics, great metaphysical shops, and psychic events.

5) If you want to have a good reading, before you say, “no” “no” “no,” keep an open mind, listen to what’s said and what it could mean. Then again, don’t make it fit, if it doesn’t fit. Psychics have a range of personalities and styles from wildly flamboyant to ultra conservative. You might be reacting to the psychic’s style rather than what they’re saying. If you’re not connecting after 10 minutes you need to stop the reading.

6) I’ve learned when I can’t connect, to check in and ask the client if it’s possible that they want a reading and don’t want a reading at the same time. It sounds like an odd question but it happens. It could be that person is not ready to hear the answer. It could be they’re afraid to hear the answer. It could be they’re going to reject the answer unless it’s what they think or want the answer should be.

7) I like neon signs with psychic symbols, like a hand, because I like kitsch. However, it’s dicey to go to a shop with a neon sign in the window. Look for other indications that the store is legitimate and professional before you get a reading and by all means go in if you get a good gut feeling. i know a great shop that is very kitschy and the psychics are well trained and good at what they do. So, there are exceptions.

8) In general, parking is at a premium in Boston, so if your appointment is in the city, give yourself plenty of time to park if you’re driving. You should find out the lay of the land ahed of time so you’re not late and have 10 minutes to spare to relax and so you can start your reading feeling calm and ready.

9) Many local psychics know and like each other and have cross-trained with each other at different psychic shops. There are a lot of professional people from other industries who moonlight as psychics in their spare time. Everyone is psychic, so if they’re interested, anyone can get the training to give a psychic reading. A psychic needs a lot of practice reading people to understand their unique intuitive language and symbols. To apply for a job as a psychic you usually have to read for the owner of the establishment to see if you pass the muster.

10) There are different psychic specialties and not every psychic offer every specialty. Know what you’re looking for when you choose a psychic. This especially applies to spirit communication. Not every psychic talks to the dead.

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