The Point of Psychic Work

Having explored the meaning behind the work of a Medium last month I thought it would be helpful to look at the point behind Psychic work this month.

If you’ve been a regular visitor to this site or are a worker in the field, you will know that Mediums work with the Spirit World and Psychics get their information from you and your energy field. For those who know why they go for Psychic Readings the results can be extremely helpful and uplifting, yet why would someone who has never had a Reading before seek the help of a Psychic? Surely there are experts out there on just about every subject that anyone might need help with, and seeing a Psychic is just plain weird?

Absolutely not.

I feel that broadly speaking a Psychic has two main roles in supporting a client, firstly confirmation and secondly inspiration.
Any Psychic will tell you that for financial, legal, medical and other professional advice you should seek the services of a trained professional in the field, and that is absolutely correct. However, you the client have two choices as to how you live your life, within rigid boundaries constructed by society long before you were born, or in an open and more inspired way that allows you not only to get outside the box, but to jump up and down on it and burn it. A Psychic Reading is a good way to achieve that open-minded approach to your life.

Problems and issues in life come in two forms, physically and emotionally. For physical problems you should most certainly seek the advice of an appropriate professional. You must always take practical and sensible action in your life by seeking the correct advice.Yet having the required practical advice does not always help you to see your way through a situation. Knowing what we have to do makes not one iota of difference to the way we feel about things.

This is where a Psychic Reading can be most helpful.

When you go to see a Psychic you will initially be meeting a complete stranger who knows nothing about you. Yet within minutes of entering the room you should feel that this stranger really understands who you are and what you’re feeling. They will also be able to sense things about your past. Whether they just read you or whether they use divination cards such as Tarot or Angel cards, they will be able to look at your past, present and near future and provide guidance and advice as to how you can move forward and resolve your problems.

Having a Psychic accurately identify issues in your life and confirm your thoughts and feelings can be extremely empowering, and prove to you that you’re not going nuts! Some Psychics also provide prediction and will tell you exactly what is going to happen and when, but if you are going to ask for or accept prediction you must take responsibility for that. If a Psychic tells you what will happen two things can occur as a result, firstly you may make it happen and secondly, subconsciously, you may prevent that thing from happening.

Also, even if you are told that something is going to happen it’s up to you to decide whether you want that thing in your life.
I have known many people who have received predictions from Psychics with mixed results. Some have been very happy with the outcome, but others have found that the predictions just didn’t come true. Naturally they blamed the Psychics but actually it may have been they who prevented the situation from occurring through fear or through not feeling ready.

If a Psychic predicts something 6 months into the future you may actually not be ready to receive that information, you may feel unprepared or that it isn’t right for you. As a consequence you may subconsciously take steps to stop it happening. Yet in six months time you may have been well prepared for the event if you hadn’t known it was going to happen.
Let me give you an example I have permission to talk about.

A friend of mine once went to see a Psychic because she was hoping to meet Mr Right. The Psychic picked up a man coming into her life within 6 months. She told my friend his name, his occupation, his family situation, his past career, where she would meet him and what his character would be.
My friend met this man and everything was exactly as the Psychic told her. They did get married and this man almost destroyed her life. She owned her own home when they met but he took out loans and credit cards without her knowledge and ran up huge debts. She ended up losing her house and everything she’d worked for in the past 20 years.
The Psychic was 99% right about this man, the only point they missed was that he lived in a dream world. He told my friend everything the Psychic said, but none of it was true. I asked my friend if she felt that she would have married him if she hadn’t seen that Psychic and she said no. She felt that she chose to overlook things because the Reading had been so accurate. However, she takes full responsibility for her own choices and I admire her for that.

Seeing a Psychic should not make you abandon all commonsense and practicality, and virtually every Psychic I know will tell you that. However, some Psychics provide Guidance Readings, and these will identify future possibilities but there is a vast difference between Guidance and Prediction. A Guidance Reading will identify possibilities that may be in your future and provide you with advice as to how to approach that future. It will also become clear during the Reading that if you don’t look out for the signs and indicators, if you don’t take sensible action, if you try to run before you can walk, then the Guidance won’t be any use whatsoever.
Because the truth is that whether you receive Guidance or Prediction no one is in control of your life except you however much you may wish it were different or choose to give away your power. Even if you abdicate all control you make a decision to do so, in which case you have created that situation and are, by default, still in control.

Taking all the pitfalls and positives into consideration the real points of having a Psychic Reading are firstly inspiration. Because the Psychic doesn’t know you or the limits placed on you in the past they will be able to see your true personality and potential.
Because Psychics are people who have stepped outside the box and live their lives in an inspirational and open-minded way they are ideal people to bring open-minded inspiration into your life and help to release you from the shackles of past programming.
Secondly, a Psychic will identify and understand your feelings about your life on a Spiritual level. They will see why you find it hard to move forward despite all the practical advice you have received. They will understand blocks and know why you have them. They will sense your hang ups and they won’t judge you for them, they will simply look to the cards or to their Guides for inspiration to help you past that block and into a new future.

Finally, life is lived on three levels: physically, emotionally and Spiritually. Seeing a real life expert is the sensible, practical thing to do in the real world. Seeing a counsellor is the sensible emotional thing to do in the real world. Seeing a Psychic is the sensible Spiritual thing to do in the real world. Besides which, if you do what you’ve always done you will get what you’ve always got, so when extra inspiration is needed do something different – see a Psychic.

© Deb Hawken - First published in Silent Voices 2010