As you may recall from my last post, I recently began channeling a nun. A nun who, upon our second session together, referred to me as a healer, and told me that my words would heal the people who needed to hear or read them.

Well there’s a reason why I believe she revealed this information to me. And that reason applies to almost everybody reading this blog.

Zen

The other day I was giving a reading to a woman who had a lot going on in her life. There were issues with relationships… issues with her health… issues with choosing a life path. Emotionally her energy felt all over the place.

I went about giving her information about these various issues in her life.

But I kept telling her that I felt like there was one itty-bitty issue that was stunting her growth. I intuitively saw it as a flea penetrating a small, open space in her armor. Once it got in it was making her itch – so to speak – in many parts of her life.

Midway into the reading I started seeing the word “Zen” in my mind. I saw symbols that to me represented the concept of Zen.

I stopped my client from talking and told her that I was getting a very important message. And then I told her, “It’s Zen.”

“To me,” I explained, “Zen basically represents a state of quiet mind.”

And with that she breathed a sigh of relief.

Silence was a concept that she’d been trying to embrace for a long time. Unfortunately her conscious mind kept telling her that it wasn’t necessary. So even though she felt like quieting her mind was important, she never truly put her heart in it.

My vision helped her see the flea that had gotten into her armor. And now she was prepared to handle it.

Your destiny is in the details

When I got off the call I thought about the smallness of her message, and the magnitude of its meaning to her.

It was very much like the nun telling me that I was a healer. Such a tiny piece of information – yet so dead on for my particular situation.

And that brings me full circle to what this means for your own life.

We often see change as requiring some kind of big, sweeping motion. But that’s not necessarily the way it has to be. I’m growing to see that the foundation for even the BIGGEST changes in our lives can be as simple as acknowledging a seemingly minor detail.

For my client it was “quiet.” For me it was “healing.” For you it might be “comfort” or even “exclusive.”

The point is, pay attention to what looks like the little details in your life. If you’re receiving a reading, don’t allow your mind to glaze over what you perceive as an insignificant point.

Spirit will often wrap the most shocking revelations in the teeniest of boxes.

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.

Friends and family who know what I do often ask – “What’s it like when you realize that you’re picking up an intuitive impression? Do you feel differently?”

It’s a valid question. When you’re watching these television shows and movies it sometimes looks like the psychic is going into some kind of over-the-top trance. Their head starts jerking around, or their eyes shut really tight. And not surprisingly they only pick up impending disaster or gloom.

My impressions aren’t quite so dramatic!

When I close my eyes to get into my heart chakra I sometimes see a hand. And that hand might start drawing a picture for me.

I find that when the hand starts drawing a picture it means the situation the person is asking about is still unfolding.

One of the most frequent pictures I see is a house being built. Sometimes it’s just the outline of the house. On occasion I’ll see entire pieces of the house being put together – kind of like a puzzle. Or I’ll see the house being outlined in various colors. I’ve learned to interpret each one differently.

Although there is a Hollywood-esqe quality sometimes…

Sometimes a scene from a movie will pop into my mind. It’s often something totally off the wall, but meaningful. That’s how I know it’s my intuition – it will be totally random.

I once got a scene from the movie Kung-Fu Hustle. (Not one of my personal choices, but my family loves this quirky movie!) I saw a lotus pen-type dagger going into a persons body. The man who did it had actually tricked the other fighters into believing that he had given up the fight.

To me, this scene was metaphorical. Like letting your guard down and then being tricked or being hurt.

And they tend to be very behind-the-scenes.

I find that I pick up a lot of the hidden agendas or the inner emotions and thoughts that my clients aren’t discussing. That’s the one aspect of giving readings which amazes me.

During a recent reading someone asked me about money. They wanted to know whether it would start flowing in.

When I pulled the tarot cards I saw a woman who looked like she had a lot to do with the money situation. I saw her spending a lot of the money that was already coming in – but that she wasn’t exactly proud or happy about it. She wasn’t doing it to be a gold digger, it was more out of necessity… or at least what she perceived to be necessity.

The client cut me off while I was giving him what I saw. But later in the reading he admitted that there was a woman in his life who was, in fact, bleeding him dry.

Sometimes it’s hard for people to hear the messages. Sometimes it’s hard for me to get certain messages about myself and my own situations! So I can understand when people cut me off. Most times they need a few days just to slowly soak it all in.

But the bottom line is-

My intuitive impressions almost always appear as regular thoughts. And that’s what makes them so hard for people to pay attention to. You might be swear you’re having a normal thought, and it’s really your intuition.

So if you’re someone who’s exploring their intuition, the most important thing you can do is to pay attention to those seemingly out-of-place thoughts that zip through your mind. Especially if you’re in a meditative state or you’re intuitively asking a question.

You’ll quickly find that your intuition really is constantly giving you hints.