I'll tell you a little something about me, I've had no formal training in how to use my gift. It's something that simply is there and I know myself and I know the ability and I don't want a strange teacher coming in and corrupting the relationship I have. Psychic skills are much like how you crammed for tests in high school and college, it worked for you and you knew how to remember things by your own methods. It's the same for psychics.
What I'm going to share with you is something that I have come to know on my own, not something I was told, but something I learned from doing a great deal of psychic reads. Here's the secret I've learned:
Ego, Intellect and Interpretation are the three biggest roadblocks for psychics wanting to give accurate reads.
These side traps are not related to your psychics skills, but rather your very human and analytical side.
1. EGO
When I do a reading, I demand two things of the person I am reading for:
1. I must turn my back on them and not view them.
2. They must not say anything or make a sound, just let me talk until I'm done.
Why such strange requests? The ego. Your ego is a fickle thing. It tends to prod you to keep going when you should just stop. You know that person who says something funny and when people react with laughter, he keeps taking the joke a bit further and further until it's uncomfortable? Yes, that is the ego at work.
Should I see expressions or hear reactions to my reading, I will pursue that which gets a reaction. The problem is, I could be taking myself in entirely the wrong direction, trying to produce more and more information where there is a dead end.
If you've ever seen a TV psychic give a reading, you've seen this dilemma. They start with a reading, produce a name or detail that excites the client and then tosses in something that makes the person's expression fall flat in bewilderment. The psychic often times blames it on the deceased one retreating and perhaps someone else in the audience's family member prodding his way into the reading.
The truth is, you can be a good psychic and still go further and further until you produce random and sometimes unrelated information. We are not perfect beings because we have insight, we are simply talented and even a talented baseball player will strike out upon occasion under the crowd's stress.
The desire to produce a result when perhaps there is no connection is ego-motivated. We want to give a service when asked to do so, but sometimes we simply draw a blank, cannot make a connection, are having a crappy day. It's better to just say “this is probably not going to work right now. Let's try later.” The ego; however, will often times make you spit out things when you should have just shut the hell up.
Any time someone hears I'm psychic, they begin to shove their hands or jewelry at me and want me to perform on the spot. I'm only glad I don't tell them I'm really good in bed. I don't want to know what they'd be asking me to prove on the spot!
style="font-weight:bold;">2. INTELLECT
Mentalists are people who have learned through observation and prompting, how to learn more about a person. The process is not intuitive, but keen deductive reasoning based on intelligence and conclusions.
A psychic, however, is not at all immune to using cues to help them realize if what they intuit is accurate or off the mark. I can observe someone in designer clothing and perfect manicured grooming and assume a good deal about her, but if the ring she is having me read tells me something of a rough life and hunger, I am likely to conclude I am off the mark.
Our intellect is our very worst enemy, which is why I tell psychics to go with immediate impressions, just shoot them off without stopping and judging their value. The best way to develop your skills is to simply sit with a subject and let your hand write anything and everything, sketch, doodle, put together a few words, adjectives, verbs, nouns, names... Do not edit. When you are done, hand the person the piece of paper. Let them interpret how and why you wrote what you did where you did on the page and see the reaction. It can be quite astonishing.
The worst thing you can do is question the authenticity or worth of what you get or let yourself be swayed by what you know about the person, what you see or hear about him.
I always say I prefer to read strangers. I have no preconceived notions about them. When I know someone, I question everything I get because little voices like this sound off in my head, “she never mentioned losing an uncle at a young age.” “I know he's never been in love with a foreign woman.” “She would never have done something that crazy.”
INTERPRETATION
I believe that capturing information is something that is always there, always accessible for everyone, but interpreting what you're getting and why you're getting it is what separates active psychics from people who think they are not psychic.
I was given a piece of a pottery shard by someone. I have a frame of reference for people who are indigenous, but they are similar which makes it hard to define. I described where he found the shard, the elderly arthritic woman associated with it, but I surmised the woman was Jewish. She was a Native American. My frame of reference was not developed enough to define between types of indigenous people.
I read a young man once and said that he and his brother were 10 months apart and I was right, but knowing that he was more responsible, I assumed he was the elder. He was actually the younger one.
Most psychics get a combination of things; audio, visual, sensory, emotional, and tactile. For me, a great deal of what I get feels like memories. If I asked you to recall your high school graduation, you probably remember where you sat, who you sat with, some fool who flashed the crowd, the sound of the crowd, the feel the cool air from the football field of the heat of the auditorium. That's what I get, as if someone's bits and pieces of memories are inserted into my mind. Now, I must figure out where I am and what is happening. Difficult, huh?
You often have to be patient in interpretation. You are put into a context and if you have no relationship to it, such as you are reading a New York City sophisticate and you are a Midwestern farm gal, you may not have any way to understand what you're getting, so I always advise psychics to read, watch documentaries and History Channel shows and get a body of experience for references.
Next time you go up against a psychic and you think "oh, jeez, he's no more psychic than my dog," remember that it's not enough to have a talent. Like blades of grass in the way of a perfect par golf game, one little glitch in that unholy triad of ego, intellect and interpretation can ruin the focus and give a very off read.
Mentalists are people who have learned through observation and prompting, how to learn more about a person. The process is not intuitive, but keen deductive reasoning based on intelligence and conclusions.
A psychic, however, is not at all immune to using cues to help them realize if what they intuit is accurate or off the mark. I can observe someone in designer clothing and perfect manicured grooming and assume a good deal about her, but if the ring she is having me read tells me something of a rough life and hunger, I am likely to conclude I am off the mark.
Our intellect is our very worst enemy, which is why I tell psychics to go with immediate impressions, just shoot them off without stopping and judging their value. The best way to develop your skills is to simply sit with a subject and let your hand write anything and everything, sketch, doodle, put together a few words, adjectives, verbs, nouns, names... Do not edit. When you are done, hand the person the piece of paper. Let them interpret how and why you wrote what you did where you did on the page and see the reaction. It can be quite astonishing.
The worst thing you can do is question the authenticity or worth of what you get or let yourself be swayed by what you know about the person, what you see or hear about him.
I always say I prefer to read strangers. I have no preconceived notions about them. When I know someone, I question everything I get because little voices like this sound off in my head, “she never mentioned losing an uncle at a young age.” “I know he's never been in love with a foreign woman.” “She would never have done something that crazy.”
INTERPRETATION
I believe that capturing information is something that is always there, always accessible for everyone, but interpreting what you're getting and why you're getting it is what separates active psychics from people who think they are not psychic.
I was given a piece of a pottery shard by someone. I have a frame of reference for people who are indigenous, but they are similar which makes it hard to define. I described where he found the shard, the elderly arthritic woman associated with it, but I surmised the woman was Jewish. She was a Native American. My frame of reference was not developed enough to define between types of indigenous people.
I read a young man once and said that he and his brother were 10 months apart and I was right, but knowing that he was more responsible, I assumed he was the elder. He was actually the younger one.
Most psychics get a combination of things; audio, visual, sensory, emotional, and tactile. For me, a great deal of what I get feels like memories. If I asked you to recall your high school graduation, you probably remember where you sat, who you sat with, some fool who flashed the crowd, the sound of the crowd, the feel the cool air from the football field of the heat of the auditorium. That's what I get, as if someone's bits and pieces of memories are inserted into my mind. Now, I must figure out where I am and what is happening. Difficult, huh?
You often have to be patient in interpretation. You are put into a context and if you have no relationship to it, such as you are reading a New York City sophisticate and you are a Midwestern farm gal, you may not have any way to understand what you're getting, so I always advise psychics to read, watch documentaries and History Channel shows and get a body of experience for references.
Next time you go up against a psychic and you think "oh, jeez, he's no more psychic than my dog," remember that it's not enough to have a talent. Like blades of grass in the way of a perfect par golf game, one little glitch in that unholy triad of ego, intellect and interpretation can ruin the focus and give a very off read.
