As you develop your ability to sit quietly and listen to the promptings of your inner or higher thought’s you’ll start to develop your extra sensory perception (ESP) sensibilities and begin to try to connect with those who have passed over.

Occasionally, the information we receive through our psychic senses is completely at odds with our rational mind. Our rational mind has been trained to think and act in a certain way by various social institutions. We have all learned appropriate modes of behaviour from our school, family, workplace and society at large. Furthermore, we have been taught about the things that society holds valuable, such as a 'sensible' job, a house, a car etc. We have perhaps been taught that our psychic abilities are nonsensical or flights of fancy. We are trained to override them and trust our rational mind instead. Most of us have learnt to ignore the information we receive through our psychic senses.So, when you receive those random bytes of information, sit up and pay attention! Let’s say you want to improve your powers of clairvoyance. The first thing you can do is practice visualization. Just by focusing on specific pictures, scenes or images in your mind’s eye, you can begin to refine your powers of clairvoyance. These programs are not cheap and require a lot of time commitment, but some definitely allow you to work with experienced psychic mentors who can guide you during your psychic development and training. Physical mediumship: A physical medium relies on etheric world intelligences to perform physical psychic feats. Again, the physical medium works cooperatively with Spirit to perform these feats, and everyone can witness these feats. In this form of mediumship, spirit uses the energy of the medium.Examples of physical mediumship include automatism, trance voices and the appearance of ectoplasm. Discover how mediums work in our online mediumship courses.

A medium has to be a clear channel for other energy to connect with them and then they need to translate that energy into meaning that the person they are reading for understands, without projecting their own thoughts, beliefs and emotions onto the messages. If you are somebody who finds they have to work hard to develop their skills you are going to need to be patient and trust that you will get there but that you might have a few extra things to learn or sort out before you can progress. They will describe the vision to the recipient, and the medium may help them interpret it. Training to be a Medium No matter what your motivation, you can develop as a medium. I don’t want to oversimplify the process. It starts with the decision to learn, grow and communicate. This energy education is a process that starts with curiosity and should lead to benefits in soul evolution.

There are also people that are aware that they are psychics and have developed and fine-tuned their psychic powers. Some psychics develop mediumship as a natural growth in their soul evolution. It is essential for your wellbeing as a spiritual medium that you learn how to manage your increased sensitivity. The answer? Protect yourself. Rest assured, protecting yourself won't inhibit the expansion of your aura. However, it will consciously insulate you from the atmosphere around you. It is one of the most important tools you can learn at this stage of your psychic mediumship development. Psychic mediums use various techniques for protection. For example: We are all born with intuition. It is our sixth sense; our gut feeling; our inner knowing. Whatever you want to call it, it's that internal radar that alerts us when something feels right or wrong, safe or dangerous, an opportunity or a dead end. And every psychic medium knows that this intuition is our superpower. How do I know if I am psychic? Lucid dreaming is when you wake up in your dream state to realize you are in a dream – essentially it is when you become aware of your awareness.

Perhaps you’d like to learn about symbolism, astrology, numerology, ancient folklore, or other spiritual topics. The more you learn, the more you will be aware of what you need to do to make things happen and what to do with it when it does occur .

The College of Psychic Studies is the world authority in mediumship training and development. Our mediumship classes guide our students from their first steps in psychic mediumship right up to a professional standard. NOTE: every medium is a psychic, not every psychic is a medium; we are not all mediums, unfortunately. If you feel the call, and the interest is niggling away at you every day then this is your calling. Cheryl, I wanted to let you know that of anyone I have ever mentored psychically, you have gotten the most compliments from my clients by far. I have had about 10 people write me specifically to tell me how much they LOVED their reading with you….on that note…Another great way to develop your psychic abilities is to practice scanning your environment. This helps you to project your energy out and essentially read the room. You can do this by either moving through the space or standing still. Observe the sights, sounds, and scents and note your reaction to them. What you are doing in this exercise is learning how to read energy. At the end of our incredible mediumship demonstrations, we are often asked: 'How does a medium work?' Well, The College of Psychic Studies is a good place to ask! Our expert tutors train our students to be the very bestpsychics, mediums and intuitivesthey can be. And part of that training is, of course, learning the steps of how mediumship works. But before we explore that, let's first get clear on an all-important question... What is a medium?