Read You Are a Medium: Discover Your Natural Abilities to Communicate With the Other Side Online
Authors: Sherrie Dillard
Tags: #General, #Body; Mind & Spirit, #Parapsychology
nificance of the small acts that we take each day. The physical world is a dim reflection of the beauty, love and magnificence of our eternal nonphysical reality. Let go of your expectations, preconceived
ideas and biases, be curious and open. Receive, pause and do not
jump to conclusions. This perspective accelerates your growth in
leaps and bounds.
Although it is important to be reverent and respectful of the
other side, develop a sense of humor. Don’t take the spirit realm
too seriously. The other side certainly doesn’t. They laugh, tell
jokes, drop things in our path and even at times try to scare us,
just for fun. Laughter is expansive energy. It loosens the energy field and lifts the consciousness to higher levels of clarity and truth.
When doing the following exercises, do not take yourself too se-
riously. This limits and restricts your ability to receive. Sometimes in-between especially intense medium sessions, I try to take a few
minutes to watch a short online comedy video or go to my favorite
humor sites. I search for a laugh. It lightens up the energy and allows me to become more receptive. Stress and tension act like sand
bags that keep an air balloon tethered to the ground.
I have a friend who was getting ready to begin a new career ven-
ture. The night before she was to launch herself into her new work
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she had a humorous dream. She knew that it was significant but
she was not sure exactly what it meant. In the dream she was the
lead singer in a band with four musicians who called themselves
the “Call on Us Gang”. The band was getting ready to perform in
front of a large group of people and although she had never sang or played an instrument before she was excited and ready. When she
asked me about the dream I immediately saw her band mates sur-
rounding her. They were her spirit guides who wanted her to know
that they were her back-up band.
“Tell her to, call on us, we are always here to help her.” They told me.
Remind yourself that even though you are not always aware
of it, your spirit guides and loved ones on the other side are your band, singing and playing along with you.
Pay Attention to your Earth School Lessons
When you engage with the spirit realm your earth school lessons
intensify. Developing your medium abilities is not an escape from
your everyday mundane responsibilities and challenges. It does
not excuse you from participating in the ups and downs of life. As
much as we would like it to be, it is not a magic formula where
problems and issues immediately disappear. Although you must
still meet your challenges, medium development enhances your in-
sight and ability to learn and participate in your earth lessons. You still engage in everyday issues such as relationship, career, financial and health concerns, but with a renewed understanding of the significant role that they play in your soul plan. As you do this your life begins to transform.
When you develop your ability to communicate with the other
side, you begin to receive the higher vibrations of divine love and wisdom. This is the energy that your loved ones on the other side
reside in. When you open yourself to their energy the divine flows
in. You are refining yourself from the inside out. The conditions
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and circumstances that do not support your highest self fall away.
This might at times feel like loss and the opposite of what you de-
sire. Yet, like a snake shedding a skin, this is only temporary. Eventually you integrate the compassionate cosmic flow of spirit energy within the circumstances of your life. Without effort you create
new conditions and positive experiences. What you need sponta-
neously comes to you before you even ask. You naturally attract
people who can support, love and respect you. Your physical body
is rejuvenated and made healthy by the inflow of vibrant spiritual
energy. Love fills your heart and mind and you are never alone. De-
spite the ups and downs of physical reality, your bathe in an inner knowing that you are safe and loved. Fear evaporates and you become a light of strength and guidance to others.
Know that you are Worthy
Love yourself. If you have low self-esteem, habitually engage in
negative self-talk and lack confidence, you unconsciously sabotage
your attempts at developing your medium abilities. Do all that you
can to heal past wounds and love and take care of yourself. Close
your eyes breathe and ask your angels for help and healing. Do this every day.
Developing your medium abilities requires patience, practice
and trusting yourself and the spirit realm. If you lack confidence
in yourself you will have a hard time trusting the intuitive impressions, thoughts and feelings that you receive. Even if you receive
clear and accurate information and guidance, you may doubt and
disregard your abilities.
The source of your intuition and your ability to communicate
with the other side is your spirit. Your loved ones on the other side, your spirit guides and angels want to connect with you and they
will do all that they can to reach out to you, love you and facilitate communication.
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Meditation
There is no getting around it. To develop your medium abilities
you must have a regular meditation practice. If you have read even
one book or taken a class on developing intuitive or medium abili-
ties, you most likely have heard of the benefits of meditation. I too, believe in its importance. Think of meditation as opening the door
and welcoming into your home friendly and loving company. Your
loved ones, angels and spirit guides respond when invited. Medita-
tion allows your mind and heart to open and receive their energy
vibration.
Despite its value in inducing an inner state of calm and intuitive
receptivity, many people are frustrated in their attempts and give
up. Like others, you may have a difficult time settling your mind
and releasing constant inner talk and tumultuous emotions. In
this busy, multitasking world that we live in, it can be at times be difficult to go from full speed ahead to relaxed. I have found that before settling down to mediate, engaging in a transition activity
can be beneficial to inducing a more ready state. You might want to read a passage from an uplifting book, light a candle, listen to relaxing music or nature sounds or write in a journal before attempting
to meditate. These activities prepare your mind and emotions to
wind down and receive. Sometimes it can be helpful to engage in
a physical activity like running, yoga, swimming or walking your
dog. To get the most from a meditative state it is best to gradually slow down, shift gears and relax.
When you are ready to meditate find a place in your home
where you can be undisturbed for a period of time. Sit on the same
comfortable cushion or in the same chair and try to meditate at the same time every day. This has a couple of benefits. You train your
mind, emotions and body to relax each time you sit in this spot and you increase its psychic energy. Then each time you meditate you
can tap into this energy and add to its potency.
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When I teach classes in my office a student often sits in the chair that I use when I do readings. I have been using this same chair in the same spot in the room for many years. For the student, it is like sitting in a psychic vortex. In no time they are the class star amazing others with their psychic ability.
I suggest that you meditate without the thought of communi-
cating with the other side until you are comfortable with achieving a relaxed and quiet state of mind.
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Meditation to Prepare for
Communicating with the Other Side
• Begin by closing your eyes, slowly inhale and notice your
thoughts, then release them through the out breath. Continue
to breathe in relaxing breath. Move the breath through the
body and exhale any stress or tension through the out breath.
You might want to set a timer for five or ten minutes to begin
and then slowly increase the time that you spend in media-
tion.
• As you become comfortable with this relaxing process you will
begin to look forward to this quiet inner space. In meditation
you enter an interior world. In this inner realm your intuitive
senses awaken and you can tune into subtle sensations and the
soft presence of spirit.
• Once you are comfortable with simply breathing and relaxing,
strengthen your meditative state by imagining that you are
breathing white light down through the top of the head. Move
this breath through the body. White light energy originates in
the higher vibrations of love and peace. It is the divine breath.
When you visualize white light you invite unconditional love
and blessings into your body, mind and spirit.
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• As you breathe white light energy down through the top of
the head, move it through your body and exhale it through
the heart. Continue breathing in white light. Allow it to circu-
late through your body, loosening and relaxing any stress and
tension. Then exhale through the heart.
• Feel your heart begin to open. Release any negativity, old
wounds and hurts through the outbreath. Bathe your heart in
the divine breath.
• As you continue to breathe in white light, imagine your mind
and heart opening. Feel your consciousness expand as your
mind merges with the divine mind. Feel the presence of love
as soft energy filling your heart. Continue to breathe in this
energy. Rest, open and allow love to fill you.
• When you ready, send warm thoughts of love and gratitude to
the spirit realm. Open your eyes.
It is helpful to have a journal or tape recorder close by. Quite
often you will spontaneously receive impressions, images, hear
voices or feel sensations. Even though at the time these kinds of
inner occurrences may seem insignificant, I suggest documenting
whatever you receive. Many times we disregard what we intuitively
obtain as unimportant. Then days or weeks later we begin to ob-
serve a pattern or understand the significance of what we are expe-
riencing.
Preparation for Connecting to the Other Side
Having a loved one pass over to the other side can be one of life’s most painful experiences. The grief can be overwhelming and last
for weeks and months. Your world can feel like it has been turned
upside down. When someone that we love leaves the physical world
we can feel like we are torn in half. In energetic reality we are as loving another creates an energy bond. When the energy field that
love creates shifts due to the passing over of one person to the spirit
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realm, we can feel raw and vulnerable. Even when we have the assurance that our loved ones are alive and well on the other side, we still miss their company and physical presence.
Most people want to communicate with those on the other
side that they most love and miss. Yet, for the beginner it is these beloved spirits who may be the most difficult to initially connect
with. Strong emotion, grief, sadness and mourning create an emo-
tional barrier that can diffuse and create static in your attempts
to feel a connection. For this reason, I recommend that in the fol-
lowing exercises you pick a relative or loved one to communicate
with who has been in the spirit realm for several years and one that you no longer are actively grieving. It can also be helpful to have a friend or more than one person to develop your abilities with. You
can tune into one of their relatives and they in turn can tune into one of yours. Once you are feeling more confident in your intuitive receptivity you can invite other loved ones into your practice.
As your medium abilities develop it will be easier to tune into and clearly communicate with those whom you share a deep emotional
connection.
Loved ones on the other side like to communicate with us.
Sometimes people ask me if they might be disturbing their rest
or interfering with the activities of those on the other side. I have found those in the spirit realm are eager to connect with us. Remember they have free will and choice to refuse our invitation. We
can never force or make someone become available to us. At the
same time, be open to the possibility that who comes forward in
these exercises may not be the person who you are expecting. There
may be someone on the other side who shares similar strengths in
intuiting and is better able to communicate and help you to de-
velop who will be present.
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Develop Exercises by Medium Type
The following exercises are designed for each of the four intuitive medium types. To be able to connect and communicate with the
other side you will need to develop the skills of all four of the types.