How Can You Tell If You Got a Good Psychic Reading? — Second part
You Take Your Chances.
Note: There is channeling in this piece. It’s in a bold italics font.
I always go to different psychics. I don’t know why other than I like to see how other psychics handle things. See, we’re all of us different. We’ve got different skill levels. We all have different filters as to how we experience life. We all had different training. Some will have learned from one teacher, others will have attended an academy of sorts or taken classes. Some will have been born with a fully developed gift, others have that talent develop slowly. I was 35 years old before I had a clue something odd was happening to me, and decided to pursue a psychic path.
So, other than taking some courses, going to psychics is the best way to become one. Also, reading books about people with psychic stuff going on in their lives is very helpful.
As far as I am concerned, everybody is psychic. Some have family members who were psychic. I’ve heard it sometimes will skip generations. My own maternal grandmother was psychic. She died when I was 11 years old, and I didn’t hear the stories from my mother until I was in my late teens. I had a particularly odd dream where I saw my grandmother standing in my room, except I wasn’t asleep. I squeezed my eyes shut and opened them again. She was still there. I squeezed my eyes shut again, and when I opened them, she was gone. In the morning, I told my mother about it. That’s when I learned I might be psychic. She said to me, “I don’t doubt that you saw Grandma. She was psychic.” She went on to tell me the story of how Grandma called the tower at the airport frantic, asking how her husband was. They said he was fine. She told them no, he’d just been in an accident, and right then, as Granddaddy was landing his plane, he had an accident. He was okay, but ever after that, nobody wanted to talk to her. I wonder if that’s when she loaded cat food on Ritz crackers at a cocktail party they gave. The guests loved it.
But whether you actually have psychics in your family or not, everybody has the ability to rely on their psychic impulses, which are mostly instinctual. I have a feeling we had those gifts in stronger doses thousands of years ago…long before cell phones and newspapers.
Unless those psychic impulses involve food, channeling about food, for me, is a whole different subset of psychicness. I enjoy it tremendously, but I don’t trust diet advice from Spirit, being as how I’ve had a life-long problem with my weight. So, here’s a rule of thumb. Ignore weight and fitness advice from a fat psychic. Just saying. Thank them, certainly. They do mean well, but just sort of gloss over it and don’t entirely trust what they say. Similarly, as my grandmother once said, only go to restaurants where the chef is fat. I have collected a number of recipes from Spirit. You can find them on an old blog I have.
There is also something called wishful channeling. The channel has to be clear they are not delving into that area. What is it? It’s just wanting something to happen so bad you unconsciously twist the channeling into what you want it to be. It helps that the channel is emotionally well-balanced. Having gone through therapy helps. But it happens, mostly when we are channeling for ourselves or if they have an eating disorder like I do. I asked my guide once why they kept channeling through me if I was such a bad psychic. Oh, actually, he wants to answer that. “Thank you. We will never give up on you. So, if you hear the word as railroad and that is the wrong word, instead of interrupting the flow of the channeling, and spoiling the mood, so to speak, our next sentence might contain a word more suited to the conversation, whatever it might be.” Thanks, Seth.
If a psychic told me, “You need to read the directions more.” I’d slide my eyes at them and think to myself, “I never read the directions. Part of the fun in life is not reading directions. The figuring out of things is entertaining.” However, the next time I work with electrical wiring, I might take precautions and read the stinking directions.
Would you like to hear it from our point of view?
Sure. By the way, my spirit guide, Seth, just said that. I will put his stuff in Bold Italics Font just to make it easier to tell who is talking. Also, he sounds different than I do. Mostly.
And, with that fine introduction, I will speak upon the finer points of a psychic reading. Best not to become addicted to them. It is very much as if you were to continually ask a friend or relative for advice on whatever you do next. Your duty as a grown-up person is to make your own decisions. If they turn out to be mistakes, learn from them, think of them as lessons, and move forward. If you find yourself stuck in life, then you can apply some pressure to get unstuck. It is by comparing yourself to others that you can see if you are stuck at some point in life.
For instance, if you were to see another 35-year-old person who has your same level of education, the same number of years worked in a similar industry, able to afford a home, nice cars, vacations every once in a while, and weekends free where you with similar qualifications work seven days a week, never have time for vacations and an old car you can do a more in-depth study of the situation if that is important to you.
The first thing to ask yourself is, “Am I happy?” If you are happy, then there is no reason in the world to be dissatisfied with your lot in life. Over. Pursue whatever it is that interests you. Don’t have time? I’m sure you will make time. Or study and ask your friend for more details about how it is they have such a wonderful life? Perhaps they are not really happy. Perhaps they feel the adventures you have had are more important than the carefully drawn plans of their own life.
Everyone is different. If you find yourself comparing your own situation with somebody else’s, that’s fine. You might gain a bit of knowledge about where you could aim your own efforts next. But don’t become slavish about it. Try not to obsess. Just have a look and move forward.
Similarly, advice from anyone, psychic or not, about what you should do next is to be taken under consideration. There are people out there who would love to be able to tell you, “I told you so. If you had followed my advice the first time, you would not be in this situation”.
The thing is that people can be happy whatever they are doing. They can be happy having a ton of money, or they can be happy living paycheck to paycheck. Is one better than the other? No, it is not, and it may just be your own lesson in life to understand that.
All people have their own lessons in life. Sometimes, looking at somebody else’s lesson, you would think, “Oh, that is horrible. I don’t know if I could handle something like that.” But they are able to handle it, whatever it is. They will be affected by those lessons just as you have been affected by your own lessons. It is life.
Our blessings. Our channel is tired.
Pauline back again. Hey. That’s a lot of typos.
We noticed and have every confidence that you will address them.
So, that is sort of what a reading is like. I like to close my eyes and slip away a little bit. Not a total trance where somebody can stick a pin in me to see if I am aware, just a less noisy, meditative, and calm place. It took me a while to be able to get there, but that’s how I do it.
Other people are able to just speak using their own voice and trust that what they say will be coming from Spirit. My guide has always sounded a little like a count from Transylvania or an Eastern Bloc country. It works for us. Plus, for me in the beginning, it was easier for me to be able to tell the difference between what my guide was saying and what I was saying. That phase of development didn’t last all that long, thank God, but we kept up the practice. I feel comfortable with it being that way. It’s just that sometimes people are a little taken aback to hear a man’s voice coming out of an old lady’s mouth.
Other psychics will use tools of divination to help with the reading. It takes years of study to do this well, but knowing the basics or having a book beside you will help. I’m talking about reading Tarot cards or the Runes. I have both and will employ them for myself occasionally, just for fun.
In fact, you could devise your own system with index cards or post-it notes. Have three of them: Yes, No, and Maybe.
If you really want to have some fun with it, get a Magic 8-Ball. My husband used to have one at his office they would regularly consult. “And what does the Magic 8-Ball think?” Sometimes, business decisions were made in accordance with those answers.
You will never get cursed. If somebody tries to curse you, laugh and retreat quickly. I wouldn’t be worried unless you lived in Louisiana. Then, I might worry.
What else?
Once, I toyed with the idea of spells. I remember early on, my guide said two things to me. He said, “People will think you are a witch.” Which they have on occasion and which you can either deny or turn to your advantage. The other thing he said was, “You will grow very quiet.” Which also turned out to be true. I am happy with my own company. Sometimes, when I am talking to my guide and others in Spirit, I will snort with laughter. Depending on whether the people I am with know that I channel, I can tell them about it, or if they don’t know, I will come up with something to cover the snort.
Anyway, spells? The only advice I got from Seth was, “They need to rhyme and be energetic.” For a future article, perhaps.
I no longer give psychic readings, at least paid ones. Off-the-cuff stuff is okay. I’m more into helping other people learn about their own psychic abilities and knowing this stuff? It is not essential for a better life. None of it is going to make it possible for you to live on Easy Street. What it will do is help you realize you have friends in high places who are happy to help pick you up and dust you off if you fall down.
This article started getting too long. So, I split it into two, and the First Article is here: