I was told by a psychic that I am meant to become a medium. This feels really exciting to me, but I don't know where to turn to learn what I am supposed to do. I thought that mediums were born that way. Can one become a medium? If so, how do you go about it? I try to meditate, but I don't see how that will make me a medium. Thanks for your wonderful work, you two!
- Dana
Dreamchaser:
When a psychic or a reader of any kind tells you that you are to become something, it doesn't usually mean that you are to rush right out the door and chase it down. Instead, it's just an alert to open your mind to the possibility.
Right now you don't even believe that you can become a medium. You don't believe you have the gift. You wrote, "I thought that mediums were born that way." Well, why couldn't you have been born that way too?
There are quite a few people who don't recognize, accept, or allow their gift to come out until well after they are adults. I personally did not start this journey until just after my 30th birthday. I think that many of us have to do some living, learn some lessons, and come to some realizations before we discover that there is something BIGGER around and inside of us than meets the eye.
Being a medium is simply hearing the Otherside in your head. That is basically what all genuine readers do everyday, anyway. Sometimes I will just hear words from Source that I'm to tell the client. Sometimes I hear clients' loved ones in the form of my own thoughts.
I do not hear voices outside of my head, or see shadows of the dead standing on the other side of the room talking to me. I don't know how other "mediums" do it, but I just hear spirits in the form of my own thoughts. I then say what I "think," and it is always the person on the Otherside. I find it incredibly fascinating whenever it happens, because it seems so amazing that it is that easy, let alone even possible!
I suggest you stop trying to make this so hard and so mystical. Just listen to your own thoughts. Learn to turn off the endless yakking that goes on constantly in your head so you can hear past it.
Meditation can help you become a medium by quieting down your mind to a great extent. You "go away," the constant chatter stops, and then you can begin to hear words from Source and from your guides and spirits on the Otherside.
We all meditate in our own ways. I don't sit in a lotus position with Buddhist monks chanting in the background. Sometimes I go sit outside and just listen to the sounds of nature. Find the way that best calms your mind, and then do it regularly.
I also suggest that you talk to "God"/The Universe/whatever name you use, and ask that you be led in the direction that you should be going in. Then follow the signs that are clear to you. Sometimes it takes leaps of faith to change your life. Are you prepared for that?
I wish you power-full psychic hearing.
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Astrea:
When you were growing up, did you have lots of "imaginary friends?" People who had lots of imaginary friends as children are almost always natural mediums. Most of the time, this is accompanied by awareness that one has some ability, though it may hibernate for long periods of time.
Many people don't want such gifts, however, and avoid related experiences due to fear of the unknown. Others accept their gifts as essential aspects of their Karma. Even people who aren't born mediums can develop their abilities via years of study and practice.
There are hundreds of books written by real mediums, and many are available at your public library. Your first step is to explore what mediums really do. Read about the lives of other mediums for a while before you make up your mind. Once you've studied how the process works for others, you can decide if this is something you want to pursue.
Being a channel for the Departed is a full-time and sometimes very sad pursuit. I have never known an honest medium to say, "Oh yes, all of my life I have wanted to see and speak to dead people! What fun!"
The majority of spirits who work through me are considerate folks who didn't get to say a proper goodbye, or want to reassure the people left behind that they are all right. However, spirits are not always "normal" or "nice." They can be scary and intimidating, pushy, bossy, demanding and controlling. Sometimes they are downright rude, intrusive and inconvenient. Death doesn't instantly fix personalities or mental illnesses.
Many souls who are stuck speaking through us aren't the brightest who ever lived. Some speak only in languages we don't know, or with accents that are difficult to understand. Some hold grudges for hundreds of years towards family members out of sheer stubbornness. Remember that this is not something you can turn off and on like a lamp or TV - once you open that channel, it isn't easy to close it again.
On another note, if everyone believed what "some psychic told" them, we would ALL be psychics and/or mediums! This has become a popular thing for phony or inexperienced psychics to tell clients. Maybe they're projecting, since they're new to psychic matters themselves. So just because some "psychic told you" that you were "meant to become a medium," that doesn't mean it's true, or that it will be easier for you to achieve that goal.
If you weren't born a natural medium, and you know that's what you want to do, then I guess you've got some hard work ahead of you.
Good luck!