How are these skills developed?

It depends partly on the individual but includes meditation and mental discipline. Some people are born with their psychic faculty switched on and for them it becomes a natural part of their lives. Others may need to work much harder to obtain results.

One way of thinking about psychic skills is to consider the five human senses, sight, sound, touch, taste and smell. Now imagine we have a sixth sense - psychic intuition. It's not super-human and certainly not supernatural, it's simply asleep in most people! People may even have psychic experiences and not even realise it!  

Just about everybody will accept what their normal senses tell them, what they see, hear etc. So how does psychic information arrive to the human body? The answer to that is the subconscious mind. The subconscious is constantly gathering information, seeing patterns, seeing outcomes, however we tend to ignore it. The idea is to transfer what the subconscious recognises and transfer it to the conscious mind. This is easier to do than it is to explain! But you essentially you become an antenna, picking up information from those around you, when it comes to sensing international or world events, you might think of yourself as a satellite, monitoring the earth. 

The information is received in a far more involved and complex way than our other senses are capable of picking up, and it is perhaps this fact which makes psychics so able to help us. For example, we may initially sense a concern about something in our clients, but we also have a deep understanding where these concerns emanate from and where they are heading. It is this comprehensive knowledge that allows us to recommend future plans for each individual. 

A psychic is able to see into a person as a whole, although he or she will 'pick-up' on certain events, it's this ability to communicate on a higher level that becomes important. If we can accept that we are spiritual beings, then these readings are not quite as fantastical as many believe. We are simply communicating at a higher level, the psychic has learnt to attune to these higher thoughts, and the client is sending this information out automatically. But it is important to state that psychics are not mind readers, the information can in fact come from a spirit guide who is helping the person. Perhaps that explains why we don't pick up on secrets! We may often be able to sense problems that are not easily spoken of, but we only pick up on them if the person is willing to discuss them. There is a loving law that covers our job that operates with care. Each individual has to be ready to face their own problems, only then can the healing really begin.

Sometimes a psychic or medium will experience a pain or emotion connected with their sitter. Again they have simply let the subconscious receive this information, transferred it to the conscious mind, and experienced it by means of the other five human senses. 

Psychics & Mediums Same Thing????

There has been some confusion over the differences between mediumship and psychic skills, and so we decided it was time to investigate and who better to ask than some currently working mediums. In a small survey conducted towards the end of 2000 we are able to present our findings.

Firstly let's look at the 'technical' and established differences between a Psychic and medium; 

Mediums - A medium can communicate with those in the spirit world, this may include a variety of techniques to accomplish the task. 

Psychics - Do not contact spirit people, yet are able to make predictions and sense things about people and events.

I said 'technical' differences because in practice most 'mediums' are psychics as well. It's useful to understand these terminologies, should you wish to visit a psychic fair for a reading, you will know who to select for the reading you require. 

To add a little flavour to the debate I brought this thought forward;

It is believed that we all have a spirit guide. Spirit guides can speak to other guides at the speed of thought. Our mediums can hear or sense information from their guides. So perhaps we mediums are just acting on what your guide tells our guide who in turn tells us! If your with me!?    

So is it a natural psychic skill that allows us to pick up things about the people who come to see us, or is it all the work of our spirit guides and helpers? I and many other mediums speak of the differences between psychics and mediums, and if the division exists, where does one stop and the next begin?

Conclusions? I'm not so sure, you see I've noticed regardless of what type of information is picked up, there seems to be a law in place which controls things. It's how we are lead to the right information, how we don't get information we are not supposed to have. How things just seem to work out right for the occasion or person. It seems to me that 'reading someone's aura' or 'intuitively picking up the vibrations that are floating around us and the planet' would lead to all manner of information coming forward in a very random order. And although just my humble opinion, I like to think we are guided, helped and encouraged in every endeavour to use our gift for the good of mankind. 

Psychic Skills

Psychics may work with any number of different techniques, Tarot, Crystal Balls, Psychometry etc. It all depends on the individual and what `works` for them. The use of the above items often just helps the psychic to tune-in better.

There is another very suitable word used to describe psychics, and that is a ' sensitive '. The psychic is in effect sensitive to the thoughts, emotions and events around him. Using the psychic awareness can also be likened to the imagination. I remember a fellow psychic asking me  to imagine the walls of the room we were sitting in to be a different colour. The actual colour of the walls were yellow, but I was asked to imagine they were blue. The next step was to tell them how i felt about the effect this different colour had on me. Doing this exercise puts you in touch with the area in which psychic information comes from.

Of course some people grow up being psychic, but that does not stop us from learning the technique later. The term natural psychic simply means that someone has grown up with the ability. From an early age their psychic awareness was already part of their lives. At the age of about 11 I can remember predicting who was ringing or who was at the door, I experienced a smug satisfaction at being right, but not really knowing why.

The awareness itself seems to operate on many different levels, depending on your development. From simple predications and knowledge to very personal insights into other peoples feelings. When someone starts to first develop their awareness, the information received is often very random, but also very trivial. It could for example be of world events such as a plane crash or forest fire. But as they progress it becomes more personal to individuals, perhaps reflecting the increased capacity to deal with that information, and perhaps also reflecting the 'law' of which I mentioned previously? 

What are your thoughts ???