Followers

Thursday 9 June 2016

Teaching and Training

Teaching is an important part of being a Medium especially educating people when they have preconceived ideas about what a Medium is and what Mediums do:

A Medium is exactly that - he or she 'tunes in' and becomes a mid point in a 3 way connection between their client and those in spirit - using their senses, the Medium acts as an open channel or link.

There are different ways of being a Medium and developing the ability to consciously tune in to each of your senses is an important part of your training.
As you develop your ability to tune in you may find that you are receiving information via one sense more regularly, or using two senses or more.

I didn't set out to be a Medium or consciously to train as one. It happened as a result of me trying to make sense of my life. I tried a class called Personal Development and as soon as we started the first session it just felt like I was in the right place and I belonged. After this introductory course I seemed to be guided to the next course and and then a class called Mediumship for Beginners.

When I started to develop my senses I would 'see' spirit as blobs of light and then started to  'hear' single words or a phrase and became quite comfortable in working this way and started to give information to my fellow classmates and invited guests.
I thought that these would be the only senses I would work with but spirit had another plan!

I continued to go to class and one day I could no longer 'see' or 'hear' spirit and was quite distressed until I realised I was 'sensing' or 'feeling' them instead.
This was interesting - it was not me who was choosing which sense to use; spirit choose the sense by which the medium receives the message!

Further on in my development I was able to 'see' and 'hear' spirit again but this time the images and sounds I received were much clearer. I continued to develop my other senses and practised asking for information to be given to me as clearly and concisely as possible.

When I work I use whichever sense feels strongest at the time and  sometimes find I'm using two or three senses or more.

When I talk about seeing, hearing, sensing, smelling, etc. it's all from an inner perspective, so I'm using my inner ear, my inner eye and my inner sense but the feeling, scent, image etc. feels, looks or sounds real at the time I receive it.

The names that have been given to the different ways a medium receives information are:

Clairvoyance - inner seeing
Clairsentience - inner feeling, emotion or physical sensation
Clairaudience - inner hearing
Claircognisance - inner knowing

Claire means clear and there are names for the other senses that are less commonly used by a Medium:
Clairgustance is clear tasting
Clairalience is clear smelling

A Psychic is not the same as a Medium but a Medium can work psychically as well as with direct spirit contact.

Spiritualism is a registered and legal religion with churches or meeting places and is based on the belief that our spirit lives on after the death of the physical body but you don't have to be a Spiritualist to practise as a Medium unless working in Spiritualist churches.

I'll be writing more soon about the imortance of education in Mediumship and
I've also invited other Mediums to write a guest post. Watch this space!