Mediumship and Beyond

We could become quite satisfied with ourselves

because we are sitting in meditation and are endeavoring to practice the spiritual path.

Such satisfaction with ourselves is not the same as contentment.

Contentment is necessary, self-satisfaction is detrimental.

To be content has to include knowing we are in the right place at the right time to facilitate our own growth.

But to be self-satisfied means that we no longer realize the need for growth.

All these aspects are important parts of our commitment and makes us into one whole being with a one-pointed direction.
Ayya Khema

It is important to remind you that I do have a regular  ’Healing List’ on my website: www.barbarabiggin.com

People from all over the World send names of those loved ones in need of healing, to me via my website email. These names are listed on my site and there are healers around the world who send out absent healing to them on a regular basis.  There have been very positive results in many cases.

Thoughts are living things and along with your prayers they are carried on the cosmos to where they are needed. It matters not if you are religious and if you are, it matters not where your religion takes you.

Suffice it to say that there is a higher source at work and healing is possible through prayer and kind healing thoughts. Even when a person’s time on this earth plane is coming to an end, healing can help ease the pain and the suffering of their passing.

Names remain on my list even when they pass over to the brighter side of life, as I believe we can still give the Spirit, or soul, some healing vibrations to help with their transition to the higher side.

Please keep sending in the names and those on the list will continue to receive our love and support every day.

My plea to Healers everywhere is to join in our events.  Believe that everything is possible.

Mediums and psychics have a vocabulary of their own. If you are not in the field, or don’t frequent Spiritualist churches, they may confuse you with some of their terms.

For instance: what do they mean when they talk about clairvoyance?

: what do they mean by ectoplasm

: what does a psychic artist do?

: what is a development circle?

For all these and more explanations, there is a glossary of ‘paranormal’ words and terms. It is right here on my blog. You only have to click the word ‘Glossary’  in the category list at the side of this post.

If there are other terms or words you would like to know more about. Or if you want any psychic or medium’s world explained, then please email me and I will share.

Whilst you are spending a lot of time developing your mediumship, you may notice quite a few changes in yourself.  This may be apparent to others or just to yourself at first.

Mainly you will tend to become a little calmer and more chilled out.  You have to learn to be patient, so this helps chill you.  Things don’t happen over night.

Development is not meant to make you more religious, but you may find you have a little more reverence when sitting in church or when you are talking about spirit. Spirit deserve your respect and reverence.

You will find yourself having great respect for your spirit guides. This is as it should be. But you will find your guides also have respect for you.  This mutual respect makes for a good working relationship. Trust comes into it of course.

You may also find you are starting to become to be a good listener. This is really important when you are talking to those who are in  mourning.  The bereaved often like to talk a lot after a reading.

What must not change is your ego. Sometimes, during development,  the ego can take over, NOT GOOD AT ALL!  The ego should be left behind. Becoming a medium does not make your a wonderful person. It is the way you use your gifts and how you treat people and help them, that make you wonderful.

Enjoy your development and enjoy the changes which come along.

I have just finished a private reading with a lovely lady. Her spirit loved ones were eager to come through and prove to her that they are still around her and watching over her and the family.

What was really nice was the way on which they proved who they were by letting me have their character and the essence of them selves.

That may not seem like much. But, if I told you your mother was here, wouldn’t you want more about her to believe it. Her name maybe? What she did for a living? Or something else?

If the loved one gives you their character and all about how they behaved and were treated, wouldn’t that be so much more proof.

As mediums we must strive to give as much proof as possible. Buying shoes, paying bills, having worries, can apply to us all.  It is no proof on its own. Character and essense are individual! Thats what we need to give our seekers and sitters.

Clairsentience helps you to feel their essence and to feel how they felt about things. It helps bring you their emotions, hopes and fears.

We should strive hard for this. This is the way forward. Don’t just accept the same tidbits that a psychic accepts. We don’t need to. We have spirit there with all their individual knowledge.

My sitter was left happy in the knowledge that her loved ones had visited her today. They gave their knowledge and their advice. What more can you ask from a sitting.

Yes, you are spiritual if you risk your own life to save that of another.  This story:  http://uk.news.yahoo.com/roofer-dives-into-vat-of-acid-to-save-colleague.html – tells of heroism and courage.

It is about a workman who fell into a vat of acid. He would surely have died. But, his workmate jumped into the acid himself to drag out his mate and save his life.  With no thought for his own well being.  What a hero. What a brave and compassionate human being.

It warms my heart to read such a story. May the badly injured man receive all the healing he needs, and the hero, all the blessings spirit can bestow on him.

As a medium, it is very important to give what you get. Say what you see. Tell what you hear.  Do not add, take away from, or embellish what spirit bring.

I tell you this because so many of us change in someway waht we are being given. it is not done purposely or to confuse, it is just the human way. We think it means this or that, so we say so. It can ruin wonderful evidence.

An example  for you came in a reading I did for a chap who was from abroad. Although I did not know where he was from when I first met him.

I kept seeing lots of sails. Lots and lots of them. I changed this (don’t ask me why) and asked him if he had a lot to do with boats or yachts.  He said no he didn’t. And it was nothing to do with his work either. Eventually he asked what I was seeing. I said well, just lots and lots of sails. He laughed and told me he was from Aukland New Zealand. The place is called the City of Sails!

So you see, I almost ruined what was really good proof from spirit. I am hopeless at geography and know nothing about NZ or most accents.  I did not even realise spirit were telling me about his home town. Lesson learned.

My most famous gaffe came when I was working in an open circle.  I kept seeing a magpie and decided to give what I thought was the symbolic reason for seeing a magpie.  So I went ahead and the recipient of my message hadn’t a clue what I meant. So, after the circle the man came to me and asked what I thought I had seen.  I told him it was a magpie. His laughing response was ‘ Oh I could have taken a magpie. My brother used to keep one in a cage’.  The message had been from his ‘dead’ brother! Big lesson learned.

I have tried ever since not to do it. But I know occasionally there maybe a lapse. It spoils it for the recipient of the message, for spirit, and fro the medium. We must keep our tendencies to ‘know better’ in check.

Mediums are generally very honest and do try to give what they get. But when you are receiving a message in dribs and drabs, words, pictures, feeling and thoughts, it is not an easy task to put the jig saw together for it to make sense to  a spirit’s loved one. We are not perfect.  Just humans with compassion.

As you may remember, I started you off on my Psychic Development Course, on this blog, back in January. The 11th of January 2012 to be exact. So, if you are new to my blog,  then you need to go back to January’s posts for the beginning.

Those of you who have been following it regularly, are now emailing me for help and advice when you need it.  And I am emailing  you personally to help you move on with your development.

The idea of my course is for you to work at your own pace and develop gradually. Not to quickly and not too slowly. This way it is tailor made for you.

I trust you are now reading for friends and maybe going to Open Circle’s to practice using your gifts.  If not then do please go. It will help you move on. Practice, pracitce, and more practice is what you need.

If you have not already emailed me with your progress, then please do get in touch. I am here to help you get the most from development. Enjoy!!

This is my 810th post on this blog.  I  always enjoy writing the posts but I am also very grateful to those of you who ask for information and advice.

I find your emails inspiring and get new ideas for topics from some of them.  I am always happy for my readers to suggest topics for me. So please keep them coming.

The psychic and mediums’  world is a cool place to be. I am grateful for my God given gifts and intend to work hard on them in the coming months.

So here’s to the next 800!

Even our personal virtues,

such as patience

and our sense of ethics,

are all developed in

dependence upon others.

Dalai Lama