Doing A Psychic Reading
(This is an excerpt from a University Of Metaphysical Sciences course at www.umsonline.org, please feel free to visit the school website)
A good rule to follow is that if people don’t ask for your intuitive hits on their issues or situations, don’t offer them. Only if people ask you for a reading, or agree to one, should you do so. Don’t minimalize these abilities by offering them up to people who are not really interested. You must be sure that you are acting appropriately if you want to maintain integrity in your reputation as a psychic. You must also keep everything confidential, no matter what. Do not discuss what you discover with anyone but the person who the information was for. No one else should ever be told anything that came up in another person’s reading. What you discover in readings is private, and possibly very sensitive, information.
Have your clients prepare questions before coming to you. This gives a person a chance to frame questions correctly. Give a few pointers on how to frame questions correctly. These questions also help as a focus for the client so that he or she does not leave thinking, “Oh I wish I had asked that question, but I forgot.” Having clients prepare questions ahead of time helps them make sure that they've got all their thoughts in order and won't forget things that they wanted to ask, especially if they become emotional during the reading.
Before you give a reading it is important to let your clients know how you work. Let them know:
- you only need the question, no other information or background story
- you aren't always right, and sometimes the answer is right later but doesn't seem right now
- you're client still needs to exercise judgment and is welcome to embrace or discard anything you say
- you're not a therapist, and you are not licensed as a psychologist
- you are not a medical doctor and any information you give is not based on medical knowledge
If people become reading junkies, running to you every time a problem comes up, you might need to ask them not to come for a reading for a while. They should not become dependent on you, ignoring their own lessons and life decisions. It is important that you do not become the deciding factor in all of a person's life decisions. If a person comes to you more than a few times a year, he or she is becoming too dependent.
Report everything during a reading, for even though it may not make sense to you it might make very clear sense to your client. If you do not get anything and draw blank, this in itself might be the answer. However, this is not always the case. Sometimes this information is veiled, and it is being veiled by the clients higher self. Some things are things the client is not eager to know, or shouldn’t know. Sometimes the person being asked about, if the client is asking about someone in particular, is doing the veiling. Do not be afraid to say that you are drawing a blank. For instance, if this someone has asked if they should move to New York, and you are drawing a blank, you can tell them the you're not sure if it is that you're not getting anything, or that you are just not seeing this person in New York.
Speak right away after the question is asked. Don’t let your reasoning mind have time to interfere with the intuitive images you are getting. Don’t pause very long either, unless you maintain an “empty alert waiting space,” or your reasoning mind will have a chance to kick in again. Also, don't worry about using proper grammar, or even making sense, just let it flow.