The Mediumship Training Deck: 50 Practical Tools for Developing Your Connection to the Other-Side

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The key to being a psychic medium is intuition. Have you ever thought of a friend hours or minutes before they call you? Or perhaps you've experienced an overwhelming urge to go somewhere, only to realise, in retrospect, that there was a very good reason for going there. Alternatively, you may just know something about someone without them telling you, or you may sense that something is going to happen before it happens. It could be that you can detect when someone is telling a fib. That's your intuition in action. Clairalience means "clear smelling". This is a lovely way for our own loved ones to let us know they are around us as the sense of smell is so strongly linked to our memory. Pay attention to how you feel when this happens to you. claircognizant ('clear knowing') psychics simply know. If you ask the claircognizant psychic, 'How do you know that?', they will respond, 'I just do!'

According to legendary psychic medium Ivy Northage, who taught psychic mediumship at The College of Psychic Studies in the 1970s, the natural psychic is vulnerable to receiving spontaneous or random messages, forewarnings, advice or bytes of information that come from 'out of the blue'. Ivy lists four signs that suggest you have psychic potential: I truly believe that everyone does have varying degrees of Mediumistic abilities and that they can be developed over time. We all have an ability to connect with our own spirit and so it seems natural that we would be able to connect with and feel the spirit of someone else. We are all capable of receiving signs from our passed loved ones. Many of my clients have had profound experiences involving the Spirit World and often those experiences will come through as evidence in a reading which can be validating to the recipient. A Trance Medium is less common and refers to a Medium who is so blended with a Spirit Person, typically their Spirit Guide, that their guide may provide healing or speak through them. This type of mediumship is perhaps the most misunderstood and is often portrayed in Hollywood more as possession where the person acting as a Medium has no control or recollection of their actions. This often comes across as frightening or ridiculous. Genuine trance mediumship is a beautiful blending of the Medium and their guide to share healing and wisdom with their recipients. This type of mediumship takes years of practice to achieve authenticity and many Mediums practice solely for the benefit of having a closer relationship with the Spirit World.

Mediumship became popular in the 19th-century after the rise of the religious movement of Spiritualism in the UK. Spiritualists believe the each of us has a Spirit that lives on in the afterlife to progress and evolve and that the Spirits of the deceased wish to communicate with the living.

Much of this article was adapted from a lecture presented by Ivy Northage at The College of Psychic Studies called What Defines a Psychic Medium? To learn how to be a psychic medium, our beginner courses are a great place to start. We are all born with intuition. It is our sixth sense; our gut feeling; our inner knowing. Whatever you want to call it, it's that internal radar that alerts us when something feels right or wrong, safe or dangerous, an opportunity or a dead end. And every psychic medium knows that this intuition is our superpower. How do I know if I am psychic? They ask more questions than provide information. You don't need to provide information during a mediumship reading. Sometimes coaches, tarot readers, or healers will ask questions in a collaborative style reading to help you grow and this is a different type of reading. A genuine Psychic or Medium will be honest and tell you if they are not feeling a strong connection and make a referral to someone who may be a better fit. It’s rare but it does happen and not every Medium can read every single person!Clairaudient means “clear hearing” and refers to the ability to perceive energy through hearing sounds, voices, or music. Clairaudience may be subtle—sometimes it feels like you are hearing your own thoughts, or maybe your own voice. Objective clairaudience hearing voices, music, thoughts outside of the mind is also possible. Mental mediumship is communication to spirits through the mind of the medium. Much like evidential mediumship, the medium will blend their mind with that of the spirit communication to relay evidence and messages to their loved ones that are still here on the earth plane. Many people use this term to differentiate mental mediumship and emphasize it’s conversation like nature from trance mediumship or physical mediumship. I dislike the term mental mediumship and feel it’s not accurate because this type of mediumship although it may seem “mental” is an expression of the soul and mediums actually work very hard to keep their conscious mind from interfering in their mediumship. The term evidential mediumship or psychic mediumship I find much more helpful in explaining how I work. In this advanced mediumship training class, you will be taught to bring in those crucialsmall details using the tools available to you: clairvoyance, clairaudience and clairsentience. You will develop and hone the accuracy, depth and scope ofyour delivery as a medium.

A mediumship reading may take place in a group or private setting. In a group setting you will hear others receive messages from their loved ones and possibly receive a message yourself. The information revealed by the Medium will never be too private or personal. This is also a chance to see how a Medium works before investing in your own private session. Today in the U.S., mediumship is more closely linked to the wellness industry and the practice is used as a healing modality to bring peace and comfort to the grieving or those who are looking for life guidance. clairsentient ('clear feeling') is about feeling information through the body, for example, you might feel anxious if the person you are reading foris stressed, or you may experience a pain in our kidney if they have an issue there. One of the benefits of experiencing a mediumship reading is that you may feel drawn to develop mediumship for yourself. Sometimes this means working to develop a new relationship with your loved ones who are in spirit or exploring the desire to practice mediumship with other like-minded people. They use fear as a motivator, or tell you they need more money or more sessions to help you remove a curse, bad energy or anything similar. They try to sell you crystals or other items outside of your budget to help “heal you".Having said that, it is also important to remember that you have needs. It is all very well to wish to dedicate yourself wholeheartedly to being in service of Spirit. However, you must take care of your physical body. Nourish yourself, rest well, and ensure that your physical needs are taken care of. When in doubt, always listen to your helpers and guides. Enjoy the path You have chosen a wonderful journey of awakening and development, and as College Tutor Maria Antoniou says, you can never stop learning! There is always room to grow, to develop, to learn something new. Our online courses in psychic training and mediumship development celebrate this! We look forward to helping you discover gifts you never knew you had. Often referred to as a Psychic Medium, Intuitive Medium or Spirit Medium, Evidential Mediums will offer evidence to clients of their passed loved ones to provide evidence that they continue to live on and be part of their lives here on the Earth plane. They encourage you to feel dependent on them. An authentic reader will have a set period of time that you should wait between readings. I don’t typically see clients for mediumship reading more than every six months. A tarot reading or psychic reading can happen sooner (possibly three months) if things have changed for my client.