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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Top Psychics Mediums

It's been  while since my last blog entry.  I've contemplated for a while what I should write about.  I don't believe in writing just for the sake of writing.  My writing has to have meaning, and just as the work I do, I believe it should have an impact.  The point of this writing is about the impact of the Top Psychic Mediums.
First I'd like to say who I feel these Top Psychic Mediums are.  There are a number who fit into this list, John Edward, James Van Praagh, Allison Dubois, Robert Brown, Char Margolis, George Anderson, and my personal friend and mentor, Carmen Harra.  This list is in now way meant to be all-inclusive.  This is just a few of the Top Psychic Mediums, and ones who have had an impact on me and my work.
Each of these Mediums have done wonderful things to bring to bring our work out into the open and bring recognition to this very legitimate field.  As I've written in the past, not everyone doing this work is doing so for the right reasons, or using it in the way it was intended to be used. John and James were, I believe, the first to put this work in the media, doing television shows and making the rounds doing group readings and helping people connect with their loved ones who have gone onto the next dimension.  Allison had a television show about her life, called Medium.  Each of these mediums have written and published books.  They have helped countless people connect with loved ones, and helped the society to have a better understanding of the process of making those connections.  I can honestly say that until they came out in the media, I didn't have a full understanding of what I was experiencing.  Having grown up with the gift of knowing things, seeing things that others didn't see or hear was a bit different.  Really knowing that others didn't hear things the same way I did was brought to light to me until I was in my mid-twenties.  Up to that point, I thought we could all hear things the same way.  I knew that we didn't all see the same things
When John and James first started with the media and writing, I started reading everything I could get my hands on that they had written.  At that point it all made sense to me.  In one of John's books he wrote about the people that helped him to understand his gifts and use it in the way that he is now using it.  The first person was Lydia Clar.  She was the psychic whom his mother knew and visited all the time, and worked with for a period of time.  Lydia came to their home and actually did a reading for John.  Her contact information was listed in his book.  I contacted her and set up an appointment with her.  Lydia did a phone reading for me.  Lydia suggested that I should get in touch with Sheila Mattingly, who does past life regressions.  Also at her suggestion, I got in touch with Irene Weinberg who is an author of book that had been channelled to her by her husband that had passed.  Irene invited me to attend a workshop she was putting together with Dr. Sharon Wendt.  I attended Dr. Wendt's workshop in New Jersey.
I believe it was in John's second book he also mentioned that he had done workshops with Sandy Anastasi.  At that point I decided to research her and see if she was still doing workshops.  As it happened, she was beginning a new set of workshops that weekend.  My wonderful supportive husband said to that I should go.  We were living in Virginia, and the workshops were in Port St. Lucie, Florida.  Although it was short notice, everything fell into place, and I was able to attend the Psychic Development workshops with Sandy.  For the next six months, I attended workshops to get a handle on my abilities.  This was purely to be able to use these gifts in my own life, which I had already been doing, but I wanted to have a better understanding of them and be able to use them in a way that would be more helpful to me.  I was enjoying my successful career as a court reporter at the time.  During this weekend workshop I was introduced to Shaman Mic McManus, whom I continue to work with today.  I continued to read everything I could by every single psychic author I could get my hands on, the list was endless; Robert Brown, Char Margolis, George Anderson, Echo Bodine, Carmen Harra, and others.  As I read each of these books there were things in them that I could relate to and felt as though I was reading about my own life in some aspects.  Especially, when I got to read the book by Allison Dubois.  With Allison's connection to the law and court system, this was all very close to home for me.
I continued to practice my court reporting and was even looking at getting a position within a court system, one where I could go to one place everyday.  With my experience and the fact that they had previously paid me as a contractor to come in and train their reporters on a new system, I believed I was a shoe-in for the job.  Only, I wasn't a shoe-in, they didn't hire me.  So, I called Carmen and set up a reading with her.  Carmen said to me, I don't know if you realize this, but you are supposed to do readings full-time, like I do.  Carmen knew nothing about me, so she wouldn't have known that I had done workshops to be able to control my gifts.  But in taking those workshops, I would never have thought I would end up doing readings full-time, as I was perfectly happy doing my court reporting, which I had been doing at the time for about 18 years.  After Carmen said that to me, I told her, I have no idea how to even begin doing this professionally.  She advised me to get a website, and she introduced me to Scott Cluthe, who at the time had a radio show.  When I talked to Scott, I ended up doing an impromptu reading for him, in which is wife came through, she had passed from cancer.  That was the beginning of me being on radio shows with Scott through the years.  Scott has been on Sirius radio, Healthy Life, Blog Talk Radio, just to name a few.  I've been on each of these networks with Scott.
Two years of doing court reporting and readings, and then it was time to give up the reporting altogether, and do, as Carmen had said, full-time readings.  Over the years of doing this, I've talked with and met quite a few people.  Many of which have told me about the impact that I've had on their lives, and I tell them, I merely deliver the messages, what you do with them is your responsibility.
Recently a client that I did a reading for had an opportunity to get an in person private reading with James Van Praagh.  When he went to the private reading, he said that James told him a lot of the same things that I had told him in our session.  He mentioned me to James, we've never met.  James, of course, didn't know who I am.  My client sent me an email telling about his session with James and that he was a going to attend a workshop with James in New York.  After a great deal of through and meditation, I decided that I too would attend the workshop.  I got to meet James, and thank him for the work he has done and continues to in this field.
What makes these people the Top Psychic Mediums?  Well, for one the attention they have brought to the work.  They have impacted so many people, some of which they have met, others they have not.  As you can see from my telling of their impact on me.  Reading a couple of books, I've ended up meeting a number of people that have helped along the path of bringing me to where I am today in doing full-time psychic and psychic medium readings myself.  This is not something I would have thought I would be doing with my life, for sure.  It's through the impact that we have on others, sometimes we know and sometimes we don't know. but our impact can be far reaching.  And because of that, I would like to say, thank you John Edward, James Van Praagh, Allison Dubois, Robert Brown, George Anderson, and especially, Carmen Harra.  For those I have met, it's a pleasure to count  you as my friends and colleagues.  For those I have not met, I feel very blessed for your contributions to my life, without you even knowing me or meeting me, you have helped me and many others by the work you are doing.  Keep it up and I send you Universal Love and Light.
A client of mine had an opportunity

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Is Your Psychic Real or a Scam?

In my last posting I talked about what to expect when you have a reading with me.  Today I'm going to talk with you about what I call the "Neon Sign Factor".  There are many psychics and psychic mediums that are real, genuine, and operating in the light.  Unfortunately, there are equally as many, if not more that are not real, are looking to scam people, or are just not operating in the light with the right intentions.  If you are in an area where there are shops, or psychic reading salons, as they are sometimes called, there will be a neon sign saying "Psychic" or "Palm Reader".  By no means am I saying that all of these are scammers, but in this blog I am going to give you some indicators to look for if you happen to be in one of these types of shops, or even if you are doing a reading by phone.

More often than not when someone is looking for a reading they have a situation that is going on in their life that they are hoping to gain insight into, having a relationship issue, or someone close has passed away and they are hoping to connect with them.  In situations like this the person going for the reading is vunerable.   When we are vunerable we sometimes miss things that would not otherwise get by us.  There are times when people are just going for a reading because it would be fun to do, but that is really the unusual type of reading.  But these guidelines can help no matter what the reason is that you are looking for a psychic reading.

A lot of times it will start with being lured in with really inexpensive, or a cheap price.  That is because knowing that clients are vunerable, the money end of the scam comes at the back end of it.  I don't mean to imply that all the scams start out as completely inexpensive either.  Some have gained confidence and will charge more in the beginning.  Part of the reason for the inexpensive draw in is to gain the client's trust, and build a relationship, keep the client coming back often. 

Another indicator is your psychic reader telling you not to tell anyone what you have been told in your reading.  There is no reason in the world why, if you choose to share something that has come through in a legitimate reading that you cannot.  This is a red flag.  Along the same lines is taping a session.  In fact, I encourage people to record their sessions, that way I know they can be paying full attention while we are in the session and not distracted by trying to take notes at the same time, and then it can be listened to again after the session.  So, if  you are told you cannot tape record your session, ask why?  Now I can tell you that there may be something that comes through in a session that spirit might not want on the tape, and they can make it sound different, or it is blank, but that is not and should not be the decision of the person doing your psychic reading.  If you bring your own recording device you will know for sure it has not been tampered with, and it's under your control.

This next indicator can go either way, but I list it anyway as just something to be aware of.  If there are two people and the reader says the other person cannot stay in the room, be sure it is for a legitimate reason.  In my sessions I will allow someone to stay as long as the client is okay with, and they are not concerned that something may come up that they do not want anyone else to hear.  Sometimes when there is more than one person in the room a second fee will be charged because something could come up for the other person, this would be true in a psychic medium reading.  It would not be the case for a tarot card reading, or a palm reading.

If you are in your reading and you are told that you have "a black cloud over you, negative energy following you, a curse on you", any of these types of statements are a lead in to begin the scam.  Another one is if you are having a relationship issue and you are trying to get back together with someone, or even get someone to leave you alone and this psychic can help you with it, can fix it, can heal it, these are all things that are indicators of scams.  Sometimes they will tell you to put a certain amount of money in a white envelope and then pray over it, sleep on it and then bring it to them.  In one case you will be told that they can do candle magic to fix the issue and the candle is an enormous amount of money.  There is no amount of candle magic, or you giving someone a large sum of money that is going to fix any of the above listed "issues". 

When anyone is having things go wrong in their life, be it in a relationship, job, or however they are effecting you, no one else can fix it but you.  It means there is a life lesson that you must learn in order to move forward.  No one can learn your lessons for you, you must walk that road yourself.  You must take the class yourself.  When you learn the lesson you then begin to move forward.  Sometimes that lesson is patience, sometimes it's tolerance, or communication.  It's always a life-lesson. 

In closing for today, remember psychics and psychic mediums can be very helpful when they are real and operating in the light.  When they are not real or just scamming, they can do more damage than good.  Be aware of that when you are looking for a psychic or a psychic medium.  Do your research or get a referral from someone else who has had a good experience.

Until next time, I send Universal Love and Light to you.

Monday, January 30, 2012

What to Expect in a Psychic Reading.

When you decide that you want to get a psychic reading you should have an idea of what to expect.  As you know from reading the prior posts, not all readings are alike. First, make sure you have done your research.  Now that you have done your research you've read my blogs, the testimonials on the different sites, you have chosen to have a session with me.  You can call to set up an appointment, or send an email.  We then go through whether you want a daytime, or evening appointment, and we set a time that is convenient.  Sessions can be done in person, or over the phone.  Many people wonder if the session is over the phone, will that effect the messages that come through?  The answer to that is, no.  When I am communicated with Spirit, be it loved ones that have crossed over, or Spirit Guides, or Angels they are already crossing dimensions to communciate with us to begin with.  They really don't care if the person is in front of me in the same room, or if they are thousands of miles away, the messages will be the same.  It then becomes a personal preference for you/the client.  As the appointments are set up, we take a first name and a phone number, payment is done through the website.  Sometimes people may want to share right then what it is that they are looking to connect with.  In these cases I always stop and say, please, do not tell me what you are looking for.  It makes the reading cleaner and clearer.  And you will have no doubt where the information came from.  I will tell you, however, please, think about what it is that you would like to connect with during our appointment.  We will start the appointment with me giving you all the information that comes through, and then I will leave time at the end for you to ask quesitons, in the event that I haven't covered something that you are looking for.   When you set an appointment you set an intention, and this basically puts out a call to your loved ones and your spirit guides that this is their chance to connect with you.
  Now to explain how the information does come through in a reading, I would like to start with someone who is hoping to connect with a loved one who has crossed over, and I used crossed over, because my feeling is that when someone dies on earth it is merely crossing to another dimension.  They die here and are born in the new dimension.  Meditation is a key for connection.  On a daily basis I meditate before my sessions with clients.  There are times that loved ones will start to come through to me before the day of the appointment.  It can happen as soon as you set the appointment, they get anxious sometimes.  So in cases like that, I make notes so that I may share it with you when it is the set time.  When you arrive we have a seat and begin our session.
  Information is given to me in a number of different ways.  One of the ways is by virtue of me being empathic.  They will make me feel something.  Let's say someone died in a car accident and they had a head trauma, I feel a momentary blow to the head.  Or if they there was Alzheimer's, I may feel like being here and then  not being here, like a sort of confused feeling.  A heart issue could come with a chest pain.  These feelings are momentary for me and as soon as I relay the message, they leave me.  Another way to convey things is by sight.  I will actually see them standing in the room with us, or they will show  me a little movie in my head.  When I convey this scene to you, and as we go through the movie scenes they will make sense to you.  Spirits can also make themselves heard by me.  And the messages that they will come through with will be things that will make sense to you.  Because while they have moved  to another dimension they come through with the same personality and looks that you knew them to have.  They do this so that you can and will know that it is them that is coming through.  Their purpose is help you heal your grief and let you know that the love goes on.  Their Spirit/Soul lives on, and so does their love for you.  They may bring through things that happened while they were alive, and they will also bring through things that have happened since their passing so that you know they can still see what is going on in your life.  After I have give you all the messages that they have for you, it is then that I give you an opportunity to ask questions.  I may periodically ask you in the session, does this make sense to you.  When I do, it is merely to make sure that I am interpretting what I am seeing or hearing properly.  I am looking for a yes or no about whether it does indeed make sense.  No elaboration is needed at that point. 
Besides psychic medium readings, I do psychic readings as well.  All mediums are psychics, but not all psychics are mediums.  When I do a psychic reading, the ability to see the past, the present and what the possibilities are for the future.  You may be dealing with a situation in our life and you want some insight as to what may happen with it.  I say possibilites, because not all things are set in stone.  We as humans have the ability to change the outcome of something that is yet to come in the future by our freewill.  And again, I remind you here, if anyone tells you that they can make something happen for you, get you back together in a relationship, or something of this nature, this is not the kind of psychic reader that you want to deal with.  They are running a scam and will end up hurting you.  No one has the ability to make anything happen in your future, but you.  While I can see what possibilities are, you are the one in control, always. 
  I hope that this entry is helpful to you.  And until next time.  Universal Love and Light to you.

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Best Psychics



     In my last posting I talked about the different types of readings.   For this edition I would like to talk about how to pick a psychic, or psychic medium to do a reading for you.  Choosing the person to do your reading is an important decision.  There are a number of factors that go into making the right choice.  Sometimes readers will offer a free question, or a test reading, this can be good, but not everyone will offer free readings.  Don't let this be the only factor that you use in making your decision as to who will do your full reading.  Another part of the decision is sometimes based on price.  What you can afford plays in, but if you have a choice between a reader who charges a little bit more than you can afford, and one that is less pricey, but is not a good fit, you would be better off waiting until you save enough for the reader that charges more.  There are readers who will draw you in with a low price reading, say $5, $15, or a $20 reading.  After they draw you in, they gain your confidence and trust, and will tell you something along the lines of you have a black cloud of negativity following you, or you have a curse on you, and they can get rid of it for you.  First, if anyone ever tells you something like this you need to run, not walk in the opposite direction.  Second, if you do have negative things going on in your life, you have a life-lesson to learn, and when you learn the lesson things will turn for you.  No one else can remove a cloud of negativity for you or a curse.  You do not need to pay anyone to do that for you.  You have to look at what is going on in your life and figure out what you need to learn from the situation.  If someone tells you they can reunite you with a lost love, this is another sign they are running a scam.  No one has that ability.
  It's also a good idea to do a search and look at the readers' websites.  If there is a picture of the reader, look at that and see if you feel a connection.  Look at all pages on the sites, see how professional they are, and read about the readers, learn a little bit about them.  If they have done radio shows, listen to the archives of the radio shows.  Read testimonials, in doing so don't just read them on the readers' sites, also look at other sites, like google reviews, city search reviews, yellow pages reviews, and bing.  These types of reviews are usually done by people that have been read by the psychic or the psychic medium and can be very helpful in making your decision as to who will be doing your session.
  These are just a few of the factors that you should consider when choosing a psychic or psychic medium to do your reading.  I hope that these hints help you make a good choice in having a session.  Always remember there are good psychics and psychic mediums, and there are bad ones, just like all other professions.  Do not let one bad experience completely turn you off.  There are time when having a reading can be very helpful, but if you have had a bad experience you may be wary of trying it again.  Do your research first, and listen to your own internal guidance about who is the best fit for you to have a reading with.  And if you know someone who has had a personal session with someone, ask them about it.  Word of mouth referrals are always good.  People will tell you if they have had a good session with someone, or it's been a bad one. 
  Until the next time I wish you all Universal Love and Light.

Monday, December 12, 2011

Types of Psychic Readings

First I'd like to give a description of some the different kinds of services are available.  I believe it's important to have a good understanding of what the services that are out there in order to make the right choices.  I'd like to give a brief list of what they, and it is not meant to be all-inclusive.  There are tarot card, angel card, palm , numerology, astrology, rune stones, psychic, and psychic medium readings. 
Tarot cards were originally used for games in the 15th century.  It wasn't until the 18th and 19th century that they were then used to foretell the future.  In readings they are broken into two groups, the major arcana and the minor arcana.  They major arcana has 22 cards, and the minor has 56 for a total of 78 cards.  There are many different designs of tarot decks, nad far too many to be able to list here.  The most popular is probably the Rider-Waite deck.  Psychic readers who use tarot decks are not necessarily born with the gifts, or should I say have their intuitive abilities open.  One can be taught the meanings of each card and can then do readings from the decks of cards by laying them out for a person who wishes to have a reading.  Angel card readings would be another form of card reading, but they usually have only positive meanings in them.  As with tarot decks, angel decks can be varied, and there are many different ones.  The most popular angel cards are probably the ones made by Doreen Virtue.
The next type of psychic reading I would like to talk about is the palm reading.   Palm reading is the art of reading the lines in the palm of the hand.  Each line has a meaning, and as many lines as the hand has, there are equally as many different interpretations of those meanings.  I have been asked often if palm reading is real.  The reading so of palms is real, and the lines do have meanings.  Now whether or not the person doing the reading is real or not is another question.  It is believed that the lines are linked to our past lives, and what is to be in the current life.  There are many cultures that use it and believe it in quite freely.  Like tarot and angel card reading, palm reading can be taught, and in fact, is taught in different cultures.
Numerolgy readings are done by the use of numbers and letters.  Each number has a meaning and what it represents.  Letter have a number that is associated with it.  The numbers have meanings for both positive and negative qualities.  It is believed that before we incarnate into a lifetime we sit down with a guidance counselor (so to speak) and determine what life lessons we wish to experience.  And in doing that our date of birth is determined, as is our name, and with the numbers it adds together to give us personalities to create those lessons.  How we live and learn those lessons is up to us.  We have freewill to make the choices of how to handle them.  But if we do not learn the lesson at first they continue to come up over and over again until we do learn them.  I will leave that for another day.  The name we are given at birth is coverted into numbers, then the numbers are added together, and reduced to a single digit, unless the number is 11 or 22, which are considered to be master numbers.    There are four core elements in numerology.  The Life Path, which is determined by the date of birth.  The second of the core is Expression, which is determined by your full birth name.  Soul Urge is the third element, or your inner motivation, and is determined by using the vowels in your birth name. Your Birthday is considered the sub-lesson to be learned in your life, and that is the numerical day of your birth.  This is merely an overview of what a numerology reading entails and in now way inclusive of everything involved.  An astrology reading is closely compared with a numerology reading as your month, day, and year of birth is used, along with the hour of birth.  The way an astrological reading is done today is by typing all the data into software and computer puts together a chart showing the things that have gone on, and what's to come.  As with the other types of readings, numerology and astrology are also a form of reading that can be taught.  Before software was devoloped for the readings all the charting was done by hand, and was very time consuming.  Numerology and astrology are very good tools, and when someone does them for a person it can be very revealing in that a person that is adept at it can tell you a lot of things about your personality and how you handle situations, and relationships.
Rune stone readings go back to ancient times.  The stones have runic alphabet on them.  Each letter or symbol has a meaning.  It's a matter of the person interpretting that meaning and delivering it to the person who wishes to have a reading done.  Reading runes is something that can be taught.
Psychic readings is someone looking at the past, what's going on in the present, and what the possibilities are for the future.  I say possibilities, because not all things are set in stone and must occur.  Sometimes those things can be changed.  A psychic uses his or her senses to do readings.  Clairaudience is hearing things.  Clairvoyance is seeing signs.  Clairsentience is feeling something.  Claircognizance is knowing, (gut feeling).  Clairalience is smelling.  Clairgustance is tasting.  Not all psychics have or use all the gifts.  Now there are those that say we all have a psychic sense, and there are those that say it can be taught.  My answer to this is we are all born with an internal knowing, but we do not all have it open and use it.  We can be taught to open it up and use it.  The  more you use it, the more it opens up the clearer it becomes.  And that is yet another subject for another day.
Psychic medium readings are communicating with people that have died or crossed over.  I personally like to say crossed over, because my belief is a death from earth is birth in another dimension, if you will.  That would be the difference between a psychic and psychic medium reading.  And to finish it up for now, all psychic mediums are psychics, but not all psychics are psychic mediums. 
I hope that this article has been informative and helpful.  Please share it with your friends and join our group for continued discussions and education on all things psychic.