istenin8 to the Readees Questions

Some readers prefer to have their clients state any questions or issues they would like addressed prior

The answer to this question is complex. All of the clairvoyant training schools in the United States offer student readings to the public. These readings are structured readings that follow a particular template or format (see chapter 16) and often run anywhere from one-and-a-half to two hours. Some which could eliminate countless other points. New students can easily get stuck in answering a readee's question when that question may not really be what the readee is truly longing or needing to know. Clairvoyants see all kinds of things, in cluding spirits and energy blockages, that many people are not conscious of, but that may be playing an enormous role in a person's life. A clairvoyant student will be more likely to spontaneously see and talk about these energies if they are not limited by questions. More experienced readers are often aware of this problem and can allow readers to ask questions while keeping an open mind and allowing themselves to access and talk about information that may not have anything to do with a readee's question.

Often in my readings, when a client asks a question that seems rather shallow or unrelated to herself (for example, "Will my great niece finish college?") I will quickly attempt to answer the question ("Yes, I see a tall girl with red hair wearing a graduation hat and drinking champagne"), but then I will silently pose this question to myself: "Why is my client asking this seemingly unimportant question?"

The answer I get might be in the form of images that show my readee stealing her niece's graduation hat when she is looking in the other direction, and then trying to take some steps, but then her feet get all twisted up. When I ask this image to show me what it means, maybe then I'll get another image, this one of a man dressed in an army uniform towering above her, handing her a mop.

The readee might then affirm that her father was in the army and he didn't feel girls needed to go to school.

I may then become aware of the depression this woman has been feeling. I'll see her standing in front of a mirror and her clothes are too tight. She looks so exhausted that she can barely walk. I will

talk to her then about how she has been stifling her need to learn, to experience life, how she has ignored her desire to go to school or to get a more challenging job. She may think that the reason she doesn't make any changes is because of her depression, but it's actually her father's energy and programming that she bought forty years ago that told her to forget those dreams and remain a housewife. Her depression is just a symptom of ignoring her inner voice. So, as this example illustrates, this readee's question about her niece actually turns out to be the starting point that will let me get to the real issues. Her question in this case is almost a symbol, a key that I can use to help illuminate the real question.

A beginning clairvoyant student who is not yet adept at working with questions might just answer the question about the niece, saying, "Yes, she will graduate," and go no further. Another student might attempt to look at the niece's future but instead pick up information about the readee's unhappiness and desire to go to school herself (because this is really what her spirit needs to know).

This is fine. I'd much prefer that a reader get to the real issues. However, if a reader has a particular question swimming around in their head, they may become confused and discouraged to the point that they cannot seem to get a direct answer to the question. Some of the staff at one of the clairvoyant schools I attended would not even permit the question about the niece to be addressed. Instead they would tell the readee, "This reading is for you, so ask us a question about yourself, one that really matters." This would sometimes alienate and invalidate the readee, who would not understand what was wrong with this question.

Some clients need to get warmed up and form a bond of trust with a reader before they feel comfortable discussing personal issues, and so by asking seemingly unimportant questions or questions about people other than themselves, they can determine whether or not you are truly psychic and whether they can feel safe with you. Many people will hide their true questions in more benign questions. I feel that it really is not the readee's responsibility to ask the right question (although it helps!), but rather it is the clairvoyant who needs to learn how to work with the readee's question (or lack of questions) so that the readee will receive the communication they really need to know. This is similar to the relationship between a psychotherapist and a patient. The patient may come in with initial complaints, issues, or problems, but it is really up to the therapist to decipher and redefine the true issues. If patients could do this themselves all the time, they would not be in need of professional help. The same could be said of the relationship between a clairvoyant reader and the readee.

I know that some of my clairvoyant teachers would disagree with the above statements. One of my teachers, who is very brilliant and successful and one of the most talented healers I know, has every readee fill out a questionnaire about themselves that includes information about their family background, current activities, and present issues and concerns. This questionnaire lets clients know of their spirituality and are truly working on themselves, and if they don't want to fill out the questionnaire, he has no interest in reading them.

This approach is certainly a valid one. However, as I already explained, for the purposes of

clairvoyant development and neutrality, I believe that beginning students should have as little information as possible about their client so they can prove to themselves (and themselves only) that whatever information they are receiving is coming from their clairvoyance rather than from their logical mind. After you've been reading for thirty years (actually a lot less), you can use any approach you like!

Most people do have some questions and they may feel frustrated with the reading if they are never given the opportunity to ask them. If clients are told upfront that they can ask questions later in the reading, they will relax, knowing that eventually they will get the answers they are looking for. Often, most of their questions will be answered during the course of the reading, so by the time they are given the opportunity to ask questions, they may not have any more. If you are using a predetermined template, it is always a good idea to at least give the readee the option to ask one or two questions at the end of the reading.

Some clairvoyant training schools that offer student readings permit readees to ask questions only at the end of the reading, while others let them ask questions at the beginning. Personally, I have found that the readings where I ask my questions upfront feel more satisfying to me as a readee in that I immediately feel relieved and confident that my concerns are going to be addressed. It also seems, with this format, that readers tend to focus on topics that are of more interest to me. However, the overall quality of a reading does not seem to vary greatly with either approach. In professional readings, many times a readee will not have any questions or will want to wait to see what you come up with before asking their questions. For the sake of your training, the more people you can read, the more opportunities you will have to experiment with your own format and ordering of events, and you will find what works best for you.

You Area Detective

It's important to understand that clairvoyance works by giving you clues in the form of images. Every time you see a clue, you must ask this clue to show you another clue. Don't expect the entire answer to be revealed in a single thoughtform. You may occasionally get thoughts or auditory messages and that's great, but even so, you will always want to back up any nonvisual information with further clairvoyant investigation. Images rarely lie, while auditory messages are less reliable because they may come from a source other than yourself or the readee (clairvoyant images can occasionally come from other beings, but this happens far less frequently-see chapter 24). Also know that you are often not going to know the meaning of your images. The moment you realize you are trying to interpret the images with your logical thoughts, stop, turn down your analyzer, create and destroy a few roses on your reading screen, and tell yourself that you are just going to look for further visual clues.

As we discussed in previous chapters, there will be many times when you will never know what your clairvoyant images mean because they are symbols that have significance for your readee only, and perhaps your readee doesn't wish for you to know the details of their life. That's okay, because it's not your business to know everything about the person you are reading. The important thing is to wait for an image to appear or for a change to happen with your viewing receptacle/rose, and to communicate exactly what you are looking at. This is your job and you don't have to do anything beyond this.

Also keep in mind you are not responsible for what you see. When you get into making interpretations with your logical mind, then you become responsible because these interpretations may or may not be accurate. After performing a few readings, you will be better able to determine when your knowingness is giving you revealing insights and when your logical mind is drawing conclusions. Leave it up to your readees to draw their own logical conclusions. If you feel they have life, and whether changing careers would be a good idea. These two questions are related and I suggest focusing on the most specific question first, since it may reveal information about the more patiently watch the rose. You can also watch to see if the rose changes in any way. Does it open or close, shrink or get really big? Does it move, disappear, or grow brighter? Does a petal appear or disappear? Do you see more than one color in the rose? Any change, image, or minute detail you suddenly notice is the springboard for more explicit information.

When you notice one or more changes, pick one of these and make the decision to investigate it further. There are two ways to perform further investigation. The first is to just watch the clue of most

is really something. Destroy the rose, create a new one that represents the nothingness or blackness, and ask it to show you an image that will illuminate the situation. Continue to do this until you see something. Know that the moment you see any change to your rose, you have just used your clairvoyance! When this occurs, you can never again say or even think that you are not clairvoyant!

After you are satisfied with the information you see and communicate regarding the readee's career, put the images you have been looking at into a receptacle and blow it up. Now create a new receptacle that will reveal the sought-after information regarding the readee's path in life. Most likely you already touched upon some of these issues when discussing the readee's career, since a person's career has to do with the larger picture of their life, but you can still look at this specifically to see what else comes up. You might also choose to use part of the "life path reading template" taught in chapter 16 of this book as a guide to help you with this particular issue.

Knowin8ness

Sometimes information will come in on a knowing level or auditory level. It will just snap into your head, like "this person is a nurse," and it will be so clear that you will feel compelled to talk about it.

When this happens, I do encourage you to talk about it. You can let your readee know how the information came in. This is not your clairvoyance but rather an ability in your crown chakra called knowingness. It is instantaneous information. Some people are more adept at this than others. I had a good friend in my clairvoyant training program who often received instant bursts of information as the readee was saying their name. The information was very straightforward and turned out to be quite accurate. My friend was more comfortable receiving information through his crown chakra than through his sixth chakra. Personally, I like to back up information delivered in the form of thoughts by asking for confirmation in the form of a clairvoyant image. Then I can be sure that it's not just my logical mind generating thoughts, or spirits giving inaccurate information, which can happen.

Communicating the Image to your Readee

Some readers prefer to watch their viewing receptacle/rose and see the images for a while before talking about them, while others will talk about everything they see the moment they see it. I have found that students who take the latter approach tend to progress faster, because they don't have time to analyze every single thing and judge whether or not it is worthy to talk about. They censor themselves less and therefore allow the information to flow. You will find that as you talk about whatever you are seeing, more and more images will appear.

What I discovered was that the more I talked, the more images I saw. I even feared that if I didn't talk, the images wouldn't come. By talking uncensored in a stream of consciousness about every single detail, the clairvoyant information does flow more easily. After eight years of reading, I still prefer to talk simultaneously as I read, and I encourage you do to do the same, no matter how insignificant or silly your images seem to be.

The only time I censor myself is if I think my words might have a very strong impact on the

readee's life. If they ask me when someone in their family is going to die or if their husband is having much and the other students were getting irritated with me. Sometimes I would worry that I was saying the wrong thing, or that what I might say would upset the readee.

Furthermore, every time you talk about something that you are afraid to talk about, you will become a stronger reader and a stronger person and the energies in the room that made you hesitate will have less of a hold on you. After a few years of reading, there will be very few times when you will hesitate to talk about anything you are seeing. Until then, there of course will be times when you will fail to communicate what you are seeing, and that is all right because inevitably you will later find out that you were 100 percent correct. If this happens, don't kick yourself too hard, but instead resolve to speak up in the future.

Avoid Oettin3 Validation from the Readee

During a reading, you must not fall into the trap of trying to get validation from your clients. I cannot overemphasize this! There are several reasons why seeking validation through confirmation from your readee can be problematic.

First and foremost, your readee is not there to make you feel good. It's not fair to put that burden on them. You are there to give to them, not the other way around. You will benefit from the reading by using your tools, blowing your matching pictures, exploring, discovering, and learning-not by getting warm fuzzies from your readee.

Secondly, the feedback of your readee is often not accurate. Many people don't initially know what you are talking about. They may say, "No, you are wrong, that's not how it is," when in fact you are

right on. For example, during one reading I was seeing images of the readee in which she was getting thinner and thinner. I saw her pushing away food and even vomiting into a toilet. When I said to the woman, "It appears that you have an eating disorder," she vehemently denied this. I let these images go and went on to answer one of her questions. But within a few minutes, the same images were appearing again. So once again I suggested that she was suffering from an "eating disorder," and this time she became irate. I was reading with several other student readers and I could sense that they were feeling uncomfortable and wondering why I did not just shut up, but I could not. I had enough experience under my belt to know that if these unwelcome images were continuing to intrude upon my reading screen, then there had to be a reason for this; they had to hold some significance.

Suddenly after my third attempt to discuss the subject, the woman blurted out, "I don't have an eating disorder, I have a digestive disorder!"

During another reading, I clairvoyantly saw the readee wearing a white uniform and carrying a tray of medical instruments. I told her, "It looks like you are some kind of doctor's assistant." She immediately snapped, "No I'm not, you are wrong," which threw me off and shook my confidence. It wasn't until an hour later that she said, "You know, I think there was something to that image you saw, because I am actually a dental assistant." Had she not said this, I might have wondered for the rest of my life why I saw that image, except for the fact that I had already been reading long enough to know that the only reason I would be seeing images that clearly was if there was something to them. Both these examples also demonstrate the importance of describing images without drawing logical conclusions. Leave that up to your readee.

Your readees will actually respect you more if you don't seek out their confirmation because it will be clear that you are really picking up your own information rather than manipulating them into revealing things about themselves. In a reading, you tell your readees about themselves, not the other way around. Of course every person is different. Some people will be so excited when you "get something right" that they will share with you exactly what's happening in their life and how you just described it so beautifully. But a lot of other people will remain silent, which is fine. I know that

Your readees will actually respect you more if you don't seek out their confirmation because it will be clear that you are really picking up your own information rather than manipulating them into revealing things about themselves. In a reading, you tell your readees about themselves, not the other way around. Of course every person is different. Some people will be so excited when you "get something right" that they will share with you exactly what's happening in their life and how you just described it so beautifully. But a lot of other people will remain silent, which is fine. I know that