Tonight is the second session of my new development class.
The students will be learning about opening up and closing down. This is the most important part of the development class.
There will also be meditation with Buddhist Chants.
It is never too late to begin development and never too late to join the class. All are welcome, although experienced mediums will find it too basic for them.
7 for 7.30 at Whitham Road Spiritualist Church Sheffield S10.
Healing is a wonderful gift. Although some people are trained healers, we all have the ability to to send out healing thoughts to those in need. You don’t need a certificate. You don’t need training. You just need to care.
What a wonderful gift healing is. It is a natural process, a God given gift. Although now, because of the EEC, healers need to have certificates to give hands on spiritual healing. Especially if you give the healing in a Spiritualist church. This puzzles me. Do they give healing in other churches and if they do, do they have to have certificates?
There is too often, bias towards Spiritualists. Especially where healing is concerned. It is impossible to harm anyone by standing with your hands on their shoulders, allowing yourself to be used as a channel for the healing power from spirit.
To send out Absent Healing, you need no training and no cerificates and it works wonders for the recipient. All you need is compassion. If you have this, it is easy to give. Here is my simple method.
Sit quietly in contemplative mood. Allow your mind to visualise a big blue cloud of healing energy. Picture the person who you wish to send healing to. See them lying on a bed in the centre of the room. Visualise your blue healing cloud going toward the bed. Let the blue cloud surround the bed and the patient.
Keep this image with you for as long as you feel relaxed. Then let the image dissipate.
I am not saying that the healing will cure. I am not guaranteeing anything. But, you may find that the patient benefits in some way. Some say they feel free from pain. Some feel relaxed and at peace. Who knows what help you may give them.
Remember, positive thoughts are living thoughts. Healing thoughts are healing! In whatever way the healing works, it is a step in the right direction. Loving, caring thoughts are never wasted. Give some today! You will find you feel wonderful after giving. You always get rewarded in some way, when you give unconditionally.
When you learn awareness, you may become aware of spirit drawing close to you, even when you are not tuned in. Sometimes, when you are afraid or worried, you may feel their comfort.
My friend often feels a sensation down his back if he is stressed at work. This same sensation often occurs when he meditates and gives healing. He does get other sensations too.
When I am giving readings and need proof from spirit, I feel them touching my hair. I also get certain sensations when two of my loved ones, in spirit, move close to me. They touch me to let me know of their presence.
Becoming aware of the presence of spirit is a wonderful gift to treasure.
As I explained in yesterday’s post, we can all learn awareness and develop our psychic gifts if we choose to put in the effort and dedication. We don’t have to use it to give others messages. We can benefit from it in many ways.
Any questions about this subject? Email me at the contact link above and I will do my best to help you.
Because I have just started a new development circle, I feel it is appropriate to discuss awareness.
At the very beginning of development you need to learn awareness. Awareness of yourself, your spirit, and of your surroundings. Hopefully, this will lead to an awareness of spirits who wish to communicate with you.
I always teach awareness first. Meditation is very helpful with this. Going into a light meditation, perhaps whilst listening to music, is very therapeutic as well as useful.
Finding the spirit within you and learning about yourself and what makes you tick is enlightening.
Whilst in meditation, you learn to become aware of things that are brought to your attention from within, rather than without. If spirit want to make you aware of something they will test you out to see if you are aware of them.
You will soon come to realise that a lot of what you are becoming aware of is not being put into your mind and vision by yourself. When following guided meditations, you will soon become aware of things that are not being told to you. You may think, Where has that come from, i wasn’t thinking about that and it is not part of my meditation.
These are the things that become important and the more aware you are the more information spirit can bring you. At first you will wonder what it is all about but it is well worth persevering. Without awareness, you cannot work with spirit as a medium.
If you are working as a psychic, you still need to learn awareness, so as to understand and recognise what you are ‘picking up’ and what is from your own mind.
More on this subject from time to time. If you have any questions please email me at th contact link at the top of this page.
It is always a pleasure to start a new circle and to meet the people who really want to learn more about mediumship and psychic gifts. Last night was no exception.
A lovely group of 24 people turned out for the first night and they all seemed to enjoy the evening. Many of them staying behind afterwards to tell me how much they had enjoyed it. I really appreciate that they took the trouble.
The vast majority of the group have had no experience of development, or of meditation, so it was a joy to see how they threw themselves into it. All of them appeared to enjoy the meditation. I am happy about that for it is meditation that helps with development.
As I have said here often, you need to meditate to get to know your guides and inspirers. You also need it to get to know yourself. There is a whole partnership to be learned about and make a solid foundation for your development.
I will write often about my sitters and keep you up to date with their progress. Maybe you will find that development is for you too!
My new development circle begins at Whitham Road SNU Church, Sheffield, 7.30pm.
Everyone is welcome and the donation is £3 each to the church.
I was watching another episode of The Ghost Whisperer last night on TV. It was quite an interesting episode, if a little daunting.
I liked the idea of Melinda helping the spirit (ghost), as usual, it felt right that she did. What did not ring true to me was the underground hell!
We are to believe that bad ghosts do not go to the light, but instead, go to a place under ground at Grand View – the place where Melinda lives. A giant underground place which is accessible through a wall, for Melinda! I know of course this is poetic license. It could never be.
As a Spiritualist, I do not believe there is such a place as hell. For me there are different dimensions to go to after death, depending on your spirit’s evolution. All of them are in the Spirit World. Just different areas. Those who have committed really bad crimes will find themselves in an area with like minded souls. Not hell though, and they will have a chance to atone and therefore, a chance to move on.
The hell of the Bible fame, is a place where there are fires and damnation. The devil is also supposed to live there too. He is supposed to poke the bad ones with a big trident. I don’t believe in such a place. Its farcical.
For us to know and to believe that we have different areas which to progress to in the spirit world, does it not make sense for us to prepare our pathway whilst we are still earthbound. Maybe we should atone now for the things we know we have done wrong. Sorry is still an underused word.
To enable yourself to meet up with your Spirit Guide, you need to learn to meditate. This is really the only way. I know a lot of you don’t like meditation, but maybe that is because you don’t know what to do. Here are a few tips and guidelines.
First, you must learn to relax. Close your eyes, and one by one, let each part of your body go limp. This can be achieved by first tensing your muscles and then letting go.
When your body is relaxed you can begin to take gentle breaths. Watching your breath as it flows in and out will help you relax further. This also gives your mind something else to concentrate on, apart from the weekly shopping.
Whilst you are concentrating on relaxing your body, your mind will become more peaceful. It will help you to drift off and to notice things that are being allowed to enter your mind without your own input.
I find it helps to play peaceful music or to listen to a guided meditation. Guided meditation is what I give to my students. They learn visualisation, which is needed for them to progress.
It will soon all come together, and you will be able to communicate with spirit in this state. You will soon be bringing back messages, from your meditation journeys, for your fellow sitters in the development circle.
Over the years, whilst running my development groups, I have often come across people who are afraid to meditate. Even if they are not afraid, they often feel that it is something they personally cannot do.
It seems the general feeling about meditation is that you have to be able to ‘empty your mind’. This of course comes from so called teachers, who don’t know what they are talking about.
Have you ever sat in a group, where the group leader has said to you, ‘Now empty your mind and meditate’? This puts off most people and we need to sort this out once and for all.
Most important is the fact that unless you are dead, you cannot possibly empty your mind. It is entirely impossible. There is always activity in your brain. Your mind never stops working while ever your body is alive.
To be able to meditate, needs lots of practice and you need to be gentle on yourself. Don’t push yourself, and take things slowly. You cannot do it over night. Be patient!
Practice for a short time to begin with. Each time you can add a minute or two. Learn to relax slowly. Don’t expect that to happen quickly either.
It all adds up to being patient and not hard on yourself. Learning to let go a bit so that you can allow your thoughts to wander, is important. Above all, remember, you can do it!
In my next post I will go into the subject of meditation further.
I have been asked if spirit will provide help when we ask. Not just help but sometimes actual things. It depends upon exactly what you want and how you are asking.
I have an old friend, a medium, who used to ask spirit to help with everything. She would set off in her car and say to spirit, ‘Make sure I get there in one piece’. Or even. ‘I need money so you need to provide’!
Not really a good way to go about things with spirit, in my opinion. She was never really polite and it was more like demanding. I don’t really know if she got the help she wanted as she was always pleading need.
To begin with, you should always be polite when communicating with spirit. It does not have to be prayer like, it can be as friend to friend. You should always respect them.
What you ask for should be for a real need. By that I mean something that spirit can provide. A need for healing, or a need for inspiration, is perfectly good reason for asking their help. Spirit are at their best when asked for healing for either yourself or for others. You deserve healing too.
Spirit are also really good at giving inspiration. If you go for an interview you might ask spirit to guide and inspire you to say the right things in order to shine. They cannot get you the job but they can help guide and inspire you when applying.
If you are unsure about a person or a situation, again spirit can guide and inspire you. If you listen to the ‘spirit within’, you will be guided throughout your life. This does not mean your life will be a bed of roses though. We have to make mistakes in order to progress.
Please don’t waste spirit’s time by asking to win the lottery or getting new shoes. Maybe you could ask for inspiration on how to afford new shoes. Maybe you could ask spirit to help you make sure you do not go hungry. But millions of pounds is a different matter.
Of course, if spirit wanted you to have lots of spare money, so that you could use it for the good cause you are sent here for, then they may just help inspire you with numbers.
Don’t use spirit. Respect them, love them, and be guided by them.