Medium Judy

I often have people contact me who wonder if they too, could receive messages from spirit.

The first thing they ask me is how did I know I had this ability, and did I have someone teach me to do it.

First let me explain about the different types of awareness.  Each of us have the gift of intuition and we can strengthen that and use it to help us in our daily lives.  That gift is already in all of us. 

Some people have psychic ability.  The “third eye” which is the gift of special knowledge.  The ability to see past present and future.  Most psychics use tarot cards or crystal balls or even pendulums to help them with their readings and in giving answers to their client’s questions about their health, love or financial situations.

Mediums on the other hand, not only have the same gifts as the psychic, but Mediums are able to communicate with the deceased.  Instead of needing tarot cards or reading palms or astrological charts, a Medium uses images they see to give descriptions of the person as well as significant and private information given to them by the spirit for validation.

While both above are considered a sixth sense, they are very different abilities.  Those who have these gifts are born with them.  Some Mediums have reported that they don’t remember having the ability until they were gravely ill as a child or had an accident of some sort when they were young, and the visions started shortly after.  It is not known if the illness brought about the change or if the ability was already there and illness brought it to light.

I was born with my gifts and although it took until I was an adult to understand it, I can still remember with clarity the visitations from very early in my childhood.  Beings of light and faces in orbs that moved across the room and images of the spirits standing near my bed at night.

I kept my visions and feelings secret until I was in my thirties except for a childhood friend who teased me about things I heard back when we were teenagers.  It was a joke to her, but it was very real to me.  I started slowly, telling my husband and a sister and a few close friends.  They knew me well enough to know that I wasn’t making it up, it wasn’t a play for attention.  I wasn’t crazy.

Friends would often ask my advice on situations because they knew I had a sense of knowing and they trusted it.

After reading as much as I could to try to make sense of my visions, I didn’t know exactly what I could do with it.  I knew no one like me.  I had no one who could relate to what I was telling them.

One day I received an email from a Medium I had a reading with a couple years before.  He was coming to town to do a workshop for people who were gifted.  My husband told me I had to go.  I needed to meet people who were like me so that I had someone to talk to.

For three days, I spent time with this medium and 10 other people who wanted to learn more about what ability they had. Some of them were psychic, some were healers, and some didn’t have anything more than human intuition.   We were tested for three days.  We were given photographs and asked to tell about the person in the picture.  Could we get a name or even an initial?  What details of their life could we see and was the person still alive on earth or had they passed.  We were handed objects and asked to describe the person they belonged to.  We did energy readings.  Could we read the emotions of other people in the room?  Could we see auras?   There were telepathic tests that we did at night after we left the workshop and then compared notes the following morning with the other person we connected to.  I was excited and terrified at the same time at the strength and accuracy of my gifts.

I made some wonderful friends who understood my ability, even if they didn’t share it.  But I still didn’t know how to go about using it to help others.  A few weeks later I heard from this Medium again when he called me to ask me how I felt about a personal situation in his life.  I gave him my feelings and asked him if I could hire him to mentor me.  At the time, he didn’t offer that service yet, and said that I didn’t need mentoring but that he would give me some suggestions to help me clear my head and meditate more effectively.  He gave me a few days to try his suggestions. 

The following week he told me that the best way for him to see my strengths and weaknesses in how I read, was for me to do readings.  He set up four different people from across the country for me to read.  I knew nothing about them other than their first name.  We worked out a date and time for each of the readings and I was to call the person and give them a reading for as long as I could receive messages from spirit. They would then report back to him with their opinion of the reading, and on my accuracy in the details. What I didn’t know at the time was a few of these people were gifted as well and knew what to listen for and how to test me during the reading. 

My very first reading was one of the best of my life and my visions and messages were very detailed and clear.  No one was more surprised than me.  Each reading was 30-45 minutes.  I nailed every one of them with details that surprised me more than it did him.  I got names, dates, detailed images of those in spirit and even what caused their passing.  I had details of their life and details of the lives of the person I was reading. 

He couldn’t wait to call me and tell me what they thought of the readings.  He told me I was ready and to jump in with both feet.  I can’t describe how I felt.  It took me days to stop smiling and I had such a feeling of relief, that someone understood, and I wasn’t crazy.

So basically, instead of charging me money for some “mediumship course” or mentoring me and giving me a paid for certificate that says; “congratulations you are now a Medium”, instead, he just threw me into the water and let me sink or swim.  He knew it was the only way I would ever find the confidence to do readings.

Although there were several of us at the original workshop, not everyone was a medium and those who were not a medium going in, didn’t come out of it as a medium.  Some learned how to meditate better for clarity in their own life.  Some learned how to recognize energies to do reiki and energy work but if you don’t have the ability to start with, it doesn’t matter how many crystals and tools you use, you can’t offer anyone more than a placebo effect.