When a psychic or medium tunes into a person and starts to give a message, it is often known as making a link.
When medium is working in a large room with many people, or in a church with lots of people, it can sometimes be difficult to place that link with the correct person. Trial and error eventually lead the experienced medium to a preferred method.
There are of course, many names which are familiar to us all. We all know of people who passed to the spirit world with certain ailments. We all have a lot in common. Loved ones and friends may well ahve had very commonly used names.
In a large group sitting, when a medium says there is a Fred calling his name, lots of people in the room could think it was their very own Fred. There may be 5 or 6 hands go up in response. If then the medium says this particular Fred passed over through a heart condition, the number of hands may be down to 2 or 3. They may then say that this particular Fred was a postman. This may be the clincher, the piece of the jigsaw puzzle that helps all the other pieces fit together. The medium has found the message recipient.
The medium now knows who the message is for and the rest of the information coming in on that link can be given directly to that person. This means that the person will get a personal message.
Mediums with lots of experience at working with large groups of sitters usually know who their link is with, and will not need to go through this procedure to whittle the numbers down. Though there is nothing wrong with working this way.
The important thing here though is that a medium makes a link to the spirit world. Whilst the psychic makes a link to an earthly person. So the psychic makes a link with a person in the room whilst the medium goes direct to spirit for their link.