Mediumship

Many of us who are interested in mediumship have wondered at some point how to practice mediumship. It’s one thing to learn about it – it’s another thing to practice! We may start out wondering and researching about the spirit world. We do some of our own research and investigations, read books, or possibly attend a demonstration or a church. It is through this inquiring and investigation stage that we may then wonder, can I really become a medium?  If one has the draw and desire, then there is a good possibility that you can become a medium!  What does it take to improve spiritual communication? Becoming a good evidential medium that clients would be happy with takes time and dedication along with practical experience and learning about yourself in the process. What is interesting is that many experienced mediums still require regular practice to continually hone their amazing connection to spirit and improve spiritual communication. While practicing mediumship, one is constantly developing because no one is ever fully developed. I am a strong believer that we are never completely developed as a medium and can always improve our skills and connection to the spirit world. My 82-year-old teacher, Mavis Pittilla, indicates that her mediumship still continues to evolve by working and connecting to the spirit world.   Learning how to practice mediumship takes time, patience, lifelong commitment and research, but it is so worth it! Why is it so important to practice mediumship? Have you considered that the spirit world continually teaches and mentors us along our path in life? It is my belief and experience that this is true. For our development and learning, we must be open to gaining spiritual knowledge and understanding the spirit world and practicing mediumship when we can.    When we begin our journey of learning how to practice mediumship, we need to learn and feel our own sensitivity to the spirit world. These sensitivities we use are for improving our ability to communicate with the spirit world.  Therefore, by practicing mediumship, we become more aware of our own sensitivity.  Practicing mediumship is essential for most mediums, including beginner mediums. Not only does practicing mediumship allow us to learn about our sensitivity and how we feel the spirit world, but it also strengthens soul-to-soul connections. Let me explain. Mediumship is about using our soul to connect with another soul in the spirit world. This ‘soul connection’ is how the information flows from the spirit world to the medium. And so, it is through learning about our own soul that we encounter and strengthen the most important part of the relationship experience with the spirit world – a medium connecting their own soul to a sitter or person in the spirit world. This is what provides accuracy for the medium and the information to flow to the sitter, because a medium can relay information much more accurately with their soul rather than their mind; the conscious mind will struggle, become distracted, and will mainly interfere with inaccurate information. A medium will see the most improvement when they can get control of their own monkey mind, as the mind will not have the answers that the soul has. So, it is important to practice mediumship, because each time you practice, you will continue to improve that soul-to-soul connection. For anyone who asks me how to practice mediumship, this is an essential understanding to have first before practicing. How To Practice Mediumship I have explained a bit about why it is so important to practice mediumship. However, how to do it! That’s another thing. The practice and improvement of a new medium is in the learning and understanding of the soul; this allows mediumship to flourish. Learning how to practice mediumship doesn’t need to be daunting – I have a two main suggestions for how to practice mediumship and improve understanding of the soul. Try joining a circleA circle is where several like minded and developing mediums gather together, either online or in person, to do readings for each other. Essentially they are exchanging readings. Doing exchange readings can further develop a new medium’s skills and allows the awareness to strengthen without needing clients right away. There are many circles often found locally at spiritualist churches or through a medium that may offer services close by. In addition, you can try finding circles online, such as through Facebook groups. This is especially helpful during COVID times and these groups often have various levels of ability for a developing  medium to work with.  It may not be ideal in some situations to practice mediumship online, but I can attest that mediumship development and readings can certainly be done over the internet successfully! It’s the teachers you have that matter most; development of a medium can be achieved very highly with great teachers, regardless of if it’s in person or not.   In addition, online learning can be particularly helpful if a new medium lives in a remote area or does not know individuals that are able to practice with them. Finding the people to practice with is essential for feeling, sensing, knowing, smelling and visualizing the spirit world.  Circles can also be a great place for educational purposes and discussing theory and philosophy when learning how to practice mediumship. If the circle is managed by an experienced medium, then the medium will likely provide some teaching and encouragement. In addition, the teacher allows the participants to try different exercises to learn their particular style of communication.  I suggest finding a circle where there is sensitivity given to the teaching aspect and a positive communication style. Find a circle that makes you feel secure and safe in the environment.  Attempting communication takes dedication and effort is not easy, so having a supportive environment is critical to moving a medium forward. In a supportive circle, a new medium will easily gain knowledge and be able to practice soul-to-soul connection with other like-minded people. I can’t recommend it enough! Improve awareness and clear

I am fortunate to have clients and friends all over the world interacting with me for mediumship readings. One of the questions I often get asked is do I have any tips for mediumship beginners. For myself, developing mediumship was exceedingly difficult because I was isolated in the Northwest Territories of Canada and did not have a lot of people to communicate with about intuitive or mediumship practices. For those who feel isolated and unsure, know that you are not alone! It’s very common for many new mediums to come into mediumship and Intuitive work without people that understand. However, in this day and age with social media and communication through the internet, there are ways to stay connected and join like minded people who are also developing mediumship. Especially now because of COVID, there are many classes now available online that were not available before. The community has excellent tutors now teaching online, including tutors from the incredibly famous Arthur Findlay College in the United Kingdom. I attended the college several years ago, and it had such a positive impact when I was developing mediumship abilities. If you’ve been wanting to learn about mediumship, and are focused on how to become a medium, please enjoy my 4 tips for mediumship beginners below. Mediumship Made Easy: Tips For Mediumship Beginners If you’re wanting to learn for the first time how to become a medium, I do not want to claim that it will be easy or quick. But these are the tips that have helped me the most when developing mediumship, and I hope they will give a sense of mediumship made easy for those just starting out. Tip #1: Locate and attend mediumship demonstrations.I strongly recommend attending as many mediumship demonstrations as you can. There’s plenty happening online now these days. It is important to witness different mediums working with the spirit world, and what type of evidence and information they can each provide. Perhaps you’ll find a medium who provides you with inspiration and information that you can use to help you in your own development. Plus you’ll be able to experience the knowledge that the spirit world is so extremely near to us! A beginner can also look at some of the quality youtube videos that are available online. This has helped many people learn in their own time in their own space. Tip #2: Read books on the subject.There are some amazing books out there for learning about mediumship that I cannot recommend enough. I want to highlight one book in particular, Droplets of God: The Life and Philosophy of Mavis Pittilla by Suzanne Giesemann.   This is a recent book on the philosophy and time of my teacher.   There are many other books that I can recommend on development.  In addition,  you may want to consider reading some of the older books from years past.  The pioneers of spiritation have had a remarkable time in their era with mediumship development.  Books really do change lives, and they can open up the heart for those learning how to become a medium. Tip #3: Find a good mentor or teacher for yourself.When learning how to become a medium, it’s important to have teachers, take classes, and participate in demonstrations to find a teacher that suits you. Once you find that teacher, try to stick with them as your mediumship flourishes. I am fortunate to have Mavis Pittilla as my teacher for the past six years.  Tip #4: Participate in circles for development.There are many development circles in which to practice your connection to spirit. A development circle is where you would get together and practice with others who are also interested in their own development. Circles date back to the early ages of 1800s, and possibly before. Try searching for some online or joining some in Facebook groups. The connections you make there will last a lifetime and there’s so much you can glean when developing mediumship, plus you will probably find numerous other tips for mediumship beginners in them. Good luck! The road to development is a rewarding and also challenging one. If you have any questions about my tips for mediumship beginners, please contact me.

It’s always interesting to share details about how mediumship affects your life, because it’s different for everyone. While there are challenges, there are also benefits of being a medium as it can have a positive impact on your life overall. When we look at something new, we like to ask others for their reviews on anything new. It is in this research that we often become more engaged and interested in a given subject. With mediumship and the afterlife, it is great that we want to research it. It is through understanding how mediumship affects your life that we begin to understand and have an appreciation for the spirit world.   For myself, mediumship had a positive effect on my life. In the beginning of my development, I loved touching each book that I read; I loved googling information on the spirit world and mediumship, and attending development circles. What I appreciated the most was meeting new people and individuals who had the same interest as myself.   The individuals were all unique and interesting. We all had very different backgrounds, upbringings and interests.  However, we had one thing in common – a love for the spirit world. We were genuinely very interested in learning about our soul and spirit, and the soul in the spirit world.  It was during the learning process that I felt such a positive impact on myself and my mediumship development, and I began to understand how mediumship affects your life.  The thing that is most interesting and often what most mediums experience when it comes to the benefits of being a medium is, in the early stages of my development, I found myself questioning areas of my life and friends, which led to me questioning if I was on the right path in life. It is through this line of questioning that a shift occurred, and an appreciation of a larger, grander world of the spirit grew.  Through learning about spirit world communication and how mediumship affects your life, one comes to understand that there are many forms of mediumship such as healing, spirit art, demonstrations, private sittings, and trance, to name a few. These are some of the disciplines within the healing arts of mediumship. There was much soul searching that occurred for me when entering into the hearing arts of mediumship. And because of my mediumship development and knowledge, a lot of areas in my life have changed for the better. As I continued through my development of attending circles, church services, and practicing online, I frequently thought about mediumship and how to fit it into my life. I continued to expand my learnings and keep widening my knowledge about the spirit world. However, I must indicate that developing as a medium can be quite difficult mentally for some.   Challenges Around How Mediumship Affects Your Life Working with mediumship, psychic practices and development circles can be quite difficult. One of the challenges of how mediumship affects your life can happen when providing information to a sitter, and the response is discouraging.  For instance, receiving a ‘No’ from a sitter when the medium wanted a ‘Yes!’  Depending on the response, it may be off-putting, either to the sitter or medium, and it can also deflate a person. Humans want to be right. Our minds congratulate us on being right. However, when we are incorrect, it can be very taxing on your confidence and values.  Another concern that is often raised is the difficulty one experiences if one is very analytical or constantly seeking perfection. When doing readings, it’s not that easy to have a perfect reading every single time or to have excellent accuracy. You can imagine how it would make a medium feel to hear ‘No, that information is incorrect’ when the medium genuinely wants things to be perfect for the sitter. This area of development can sometimes knock a medium off their chair, but if a medium can get through these inner struggles, there is much reward. Slowly, the ‘No’ response will reduce and the ‘Yes’ response will increase. For myself, it was quite a rocky road to learning the different techniques, sensations and feelings because each one of us is different and we must all explore and learn about our own sensations and capabilities. This is all part of how mediumship affects your life in many ways. My capabilities and sensitivity are not the same as any other medium. A medium’s skills develop differently according to different teachers, and our sensitivity also varies from medium to medium. When faced with perfectionism and ‘No’ responses, a medium must work through those challenging times to become more professional and confident. If a medium is not able to work through the negativity or lack of confidence, there will be a negative effect on the reading and the soul.       The Benefits of Being A Medium There are so many benefits of being a medium. I love mediumship! I have gained so much respect for myself, the spirit world, and the Earth in general. Mediumship has provided me a much deeper understanding of the world of the spirit. It has shown me how much love there is for all of us on Earth, and it has shown me amazing evidence of survival after death. I have seen mediums demonstrate amazing spirit art, and witnessed healing trance demonstrations. In fact all forms of mediumship are healing, both to the medium and to the sitter.   In terms of how mediumship affects your life, mediumship has taught me more about the human soul and the power the soul has to carry us through the darkest times of our lives. It’s taught me about the spirit that ignites our beautiful soul and the beauty of life itself. I look at things much differently now, and my world is at peace. Mediumship brings peace for the sitter and the medium; there is peace when the sitter receives the evidential aspect of mediumship, and there is peace when the medium feels, sees

As a spiritual medium and psychic, you may wonder if I had any childhood experiences with the spirit world while growing up. This is always a remarkably interesting question because each of us is a unique individual and we will have all different experiences with spirit. For some, these experiences happen early in life while others happened quite late in life.  Each one of us has a varying different level of sensitivity to spirit, our own spirit, and the spirit world.  When gathering with some of my mediumship friends, we sometimes discuss what our first encounters were of the spirit world. For me, it happened much later in life. I was a busy mom and businessperson. I did not have time to digest or even consider a spirit world. The thought of a spirit world or a person passing over was so difficult for me, after losing my brother in 1990.  Years passed and I continued to be busy working and minding my way through life until several pivotal events occurred. Due to these events, I started down the road of mediumship inquiry and understanding of the spirit world.   Even though mediums can have childhood experiences with the spirit world, a large portion of my mediumship acquaintances give a consensus that their awareness and development of the spirit world started during their adult years, like myself. And in fact, these friends in particular expressed they did not have childhood experiences with the spirit world, also like myself. However, for some of my medium friends, they did have childhood experiences with the spirit world. But then, the sensitivity of spirit would often subside during their teens and young adult life, only to resurface later when the time was right.  What do I mean by ‘childhood experiences with the spirit world’? You may be wondering what exactly I’m talking about when I refer to childhood experiences with the spirit world. I’m not referring to any sort of paranormal experience in the pop culture sense, like seeing ghosts or growing up in a haunted house. I’m talking about experiences where a child has an increased sensitivity – seeing, feeling, and hearing through their senses. A child has the time and ability to relax and feel deeply, and these feelings can lead to the awareness of spirit.  Sometimes there is a correlation where individuals who come into mediumship often do so because of difficulties and loss in their life, sometimes from childhood or early adult life. Through these difficult and even traumatic events, it allows the spirit to awaken.   My daughter, around the age of six or seven, spoke of a young spirit lady who communicated with her. The spirit lady’s name was something like Aleasa. The guidance I was given by a Spiritualist minister at the time was not to overact, but to just accept and see what happens.  Over time, the discussions subsided which worked well for our family. Each family of course is different, and you must do what you believe is correct for you.      For those who have a child with sensitivity to spirit – maybe their grandpa or grandmother – it is best not to dismiss it and not to overreact either, as these situations may create overly concerned reactions from those the child trusts, like their mom and dad.   If you have a child who is sensitive, it is my suggestion just to accept that they have a beautiful friend, and they may talk about someone who has a name and personality. There is nothing to fear when it comes to the spirit world; it is a loving and caring world.

In life, we often think about scary movies that leave an impact on us.  We begin to wonder about scary moments or negative encounters with the spirit world after watching crazy horror movies.  Sometimes people ask me if I’ve ever had any negative encounters with the spirit world, and the answer may surprise you. We all have scary dreams, or sometimes even ominous experiences where one might believe the spirit world is to blame. But in my experience of being a spiritual medium, I have actually never had a negative encounter with the spirit world. Not before, during or after a reading. It simply does not happen because that is not how the spirit world works! When we pass over, it is hard to believe that we would want to come back and scare our living family members, cause distress, or create havoc to our loved ones.   Although – I am sure some of us with a more joking attitude would love to ‘haunt’ our family, but that is not how it works. My teacher, Mavis Pittilla, is a great teacher and mentor, and is well regarded in the spiritualist community. It is my understanding that Mavis has not encountered a negative experience while communicating with the spirit world – and she has been a medium for over 50 years. This information, along with all of my co-mediums who say the same thing, tells me that having negative encounters with the spirit world simply does not happen. Where does our perception of negative encounters with the spirit world come from then? This is a good question, because if you really think about it, why would a family member come back only to be violent? Your answer may be the usual things – the person was murdered, or had a violent life, or they want revenge. But these are merely cliches and perceptions created by the media. Pop culture, media and films have planted numerous ideas about negative encounters with the spirit world, primarily for entertainment value. In addition, some religious organizations also speak ill of this type of communication and portray it in a very negative light. But in reality, the way a person lived or passed on does not create a malevolent nature when they communicate from the spirit world. Being scared of having negative encounters with the spirit world is really about our own fears. As awareness of spiritual communication and love from the spirit world evolves and more people become accustomed to the consideration of life after death, the fear will reduce within ourselves.  The spirit world really is full of love, and it’s a universal love that has no part in violent, scary, or negative communications with us. I have no fear whatsoever when sitting down with a client and connecting. But I do have a belief that we sometimes manufacture a lot of fear. Fear is part of the fabric of who we are. Every human is afraid of something, especially if it’s ‘the unknown.’   We become fearful when we do not understand something, and it can lead one to think that negative encounters with the spirit world can happen. A good example is when someone gets on an airplane for the first time, not really understanding how they work or not really believing fully that they’ll be ok. However, over time and with enough flights under our belts, the fear reduces. This is very much the same when a person comes to a medium for the first time. We are a society that has a lot of fear, and I understand that. But remember that sometimes ideas of scary things get manufactured, just by our own thoughts, and our own unsureness of the unknown.  So, if I can leave you with a thought of love, it is that the spirit world is full of love, and if they decide to communicate with us, they are going to communicate that love and how much they miss us and care for us, and that they are still with us.If you have any questions or concerns about having a spiritual reading, please contact me.