To my great surprise, I recently learned how to do channeling.

And in case you’re wondering what channeling is, it’s when you go into a deep meditation and allow a spirit guide to communicate through you. You may speak their words, or write them. (I spoke.)

One of the most popular channelers today is Esther Hicks. She channels a spirit guide named Abraham, and their main theme is the Law of Attraction.

Now I say “to my great surprise” because I’ve never been totally interested in learning how to channel. After all, I’d already been communicating with my spirit guides for over a decade, what could channeling offer me?

It offered me a lot, actually…

For a few months now I’ve been bumping into a spirit guide who looks like a nun.

I mainly feel her presence when I’m applying healing energy to one of my daughters many boo-boo’s. She stands behind me in a solemn prayerful position, helping me direct the healing energy properly.

In fact, when she initially came around, I thought for sure it was a sign that I was to become a healer. I even journaled about it, questioning my inner self, “Am I really to become a healer? I thought I was meant to give readings.”

It was a bittersweet entry. I enjoy healing, but I love readings.

On the other hand, sometimes the Universe is trying to ever-so-gently show us our intended path – which is why I took the appearance of the nun so seriously. Was this a sign of another shift in my life?

Yes and no

When I did the channeling, the nun was the spirit guide who came through. I relaxed, cleared my mind of any preconceived notions, and felt her warm energy.

And then her message began…

Apparently we’ve known each other in spirit form for many centuries. I was once a nun in France and that’s when she and I became familiar with each other.

As a nun I loved God, but I also believed and engaged in many esoteric topics as well. Which is probably why I enjoy solitude, quiet time and esoteric topics so much in this lifetime.

She went on to say that I am indeed a healer in this lifetime.

Aaaack! My rational mind thought…

Here it was – the big lowering of the boom on my head! Or so I thought.

She went on to explain that I was a healer through my words. The words that I write (because I am a writer by trade) were to be a healing force in many, many lives.

My words would offer transformation. They would help others to find themselves. They could heal – if I allowed them to.

I understood her message completely.

I’d always looked at healing as a physical act. Your body is ill, you take or do something to get better, and your body gets better.

But healing, in its purest form, is all about change. Changing from a place of pain or confusion to one of peace and clarity.

It’s not necessarily a physical occurrence. And if you’re called to be a healer, it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re supposed to be a doctor or a Reiki practitioner.

For example, you can help heal someone’s self esteem by offering them a kind comment. You can heal a rift by forgiving. Or you can provide healing to a situation by simply walking away from it.

Why the nun said what she said – this is important

To be continued in my next entry…

Being in business for myself over the past 15 years has taught me a lot about the Universal Mindset.

One month I’ll have few consultations – just a handful smattered here and there. And the following month I’ll have 10 clients a day.

Likewise, for six hours of the day the phone won’t ring at all. And then during that seventh hour, the phones will start ringing nonstop. I’ll barely have a moment to breathe!

Just yesterday I laughed about this very topic with a client of mine who’s a career consultant. And not surprisingly the same thing happens to her.

One month she’ll get a dozen attorneys who are going through major changes. The next month all IT people. The following month everybody seems to be moving the California or out of the country.

Since I began giving readings I’ve noticed a similar phenomena.

I’ll do a reading in the morning, and pull the Ace of Wands as a center card (I normally pull three cards). Two hours later after thoroughly shuffling the cards – multiple times – I’ll pull the Ace of Wands yet again, as a center card.

Later in the day I’ll be doing another reading, and I’ll shuffle the cards like a mad woman. Without missing a beat that Ace of Wands will pop right back up as the center card.

In flexing your own intuitive muscles you might’ve noticed this too. Maybe the same symbol will keep popping up in your mind while you’re doing a reading. Or you’ll keep seeing the same word or phrase being mentioned in different places.

Either way, you might be wondering…

What the heck is going on???

It’s very simple actually.

Each Friday my daughter and I have movie night. She’ll pick a movie and I’ll pick a movie. We’ll make some popcorn and commence to snuggling on the sofa while watching our flicks.

For 3-4 weeks straight (at least) she’ll pick the same movie to watch each week. I moan about it all the time. But does she care? Ummmm NO.

It’s the repetition that she enjoys. Children soak up information through the process of repetition.

And that seems excessive to most adults, because we tend to pay more attention to shiny, new experiences. But early on in our own lives, repetition is what made us who we are today.

So when you see the same card over and over again, two things are happening.

1) The Universal Mindset is kicking in across several seemingly diverse clients, at the exact same time. It’s just like when the phone is dead for six hours, and then rings off the hook during that seventh hour.

Birds of a feather are flocking in together. And the Universe is showing you that by giving you the same bits of information over and over again.

2) The Universe is making you a more proficient reader by repeating the same message. There are some cards in my tarot deck that I’ve only seen in studying during my free time. In other words, they don’t ever show up during my readings.

When a new card does show itself in a reading, it almost always repeats that same day. I’ve come to realize that the Universe is educating me on that card. Kind of like a foreign language teacher making you write new vocabulary words ten times each.

Though it’s funny because once a new card is added to the fold, I may not see another repetitive card for several months.

So the message for today is-

Learn to love repetition.

When it comes to you, welcome it with open arms. In the end, it is YOU who are learning from it.

“My wife died a few months ago and I was wondering – can you connect with her?”

I’ve never considered myself a medium, in the sense that I could connect with the deceased friends and relatives of my clients, on demand. But here I was – doing a reading – with this heartbreaking question resting on my lap.

I quieted my thoughts for at least a minute. I thought I would start getting nervous. But somehow for that minute I managed to stay in a calm state-of-mind.

Slowly the images began to come through. And then that damaging thought occurred…

What if I’m wrong?

With such a delicate situation underfoot I hesitated a bit to relay what I was seeing. What if the images I was getting were off? Do I really want to launch into a scenario and be terribly mistaken, possibly hurting this man even more?

Before I could contemplate any longer I started to speak. I began describing the woman that I saw. My leg started to tingle, and I inquired why.

Turns out that I had indeed connected with his deceased wife. She apparently had a limp, hence my tingling leg.

When I got off the telephone with him I was both excited and shocked. Excited because I’d just done a “John Edwards” move. And shocked because the images that came through were so plain and matter-of-factly.

I always thought when I connected with the deceased it would be some kind of glitzy inner production. You know like some kind of flash you see on shows like Ghost Whisperer.

But it wasn’t ANYTHING like that.

And that’s why TRUST is such a big deal for us.

Psychic thoughts are almost like chameleons. They’ll blend in with whatever’s going on in your mind – to the point that sometimes you’ll barely recognize them.

For example, while I’m giving a reading I might have a passing thought about a conversation I had with a friend earlier in the week. I used to ignore those fleeting thoughts. After all, what does my private conversation have to do with my client?

I quickly realized that that’s the way your psychic mind works.

If a conversation I previously had pops up out of nowhere during a reading, the basic message of that conversation almost always applies to the person I’m reading for.

It’s just a matter of trusting what you see, hear or feel when you’re in that psychic state-of-mind.

And it’s actually a lot easier than it sounds.

You simply have to be open to trusting what you see, feel or hear. And if you’re doing a reading for somebody else, you have to be trusting enough to relay those thoughts.

So if you were looking for the whiz-bang method, there is none. There’s only TRUST.