The Different Types of Mediums.

Lately people have been asking “What is a Medium”? So as a result I felt that I needed to find a clear answer. Mediumship is the ability of a person (the medium) to experience contact with spirits of the dead, and angels. The role of the medium is to facilitate communication with spirits who have messages to share with non-mediums. Mediums can listen to, relay messages from, and relate conversations with spirit, to go into a trance,and speak without knowledge of what is being said, to allow a spirit to control their body and speak through it, perhaps using a writing instrument.
There are 2 types of Mediums. They are Physical and Mental Mediums. People often attach Psychic to Medium but they are two different labels.I have read over and over that all Mediums are Psychic however not all Psychics are Mediums. Mental Mediums receive information from spirit in their minds through thoughts, feelings, visions and words. Physical Mediums can physically see apparitions, can have spirits move things and the client being read can actually hear and see the spirit too.
There are some Mediums that can go into Trance with the purpose of spirit taking over the Mediums body to communicate with the living. While doing research I saw conflicting resources. Some say this is Mental Mediumship while others say this is Physical Mediumship. Having seen a number of people go into Trance, I would say it is very physical. I have seen people take on traits of the spirit. The persons voice and body movements change drastically.
There is also conflicting information about those who channel. I believe that this is Mental Mediumship because the Channeler goes into a meditative state and gathers information and comes out of Channeling to deliver the information.
I am a Mental Medium. When I first began to develop about six years ago, I was taught to go into a meditative state to made contact with spirit. About a year into my development, my teacher wanted us to just take a deep breath in and then a breath and out clear our minds. At that point, he wanted us to gather information from spirit through paying attention to our thoughts and changes in our body. I am so appreciative of my teacher Martin.
As I said before all Mediums are Psychic. Through my life experience I have decided not to focus on telling people about their future. I am not a Fortune Teller! I have done it, and can do it, however I have seen that telling people their future can cause issues. Telling people about their future when they tend to self sabotage does no good for them. I have also dealt with a couple of people who are bent on “Proving the Psychic Wrong.” These people are annoying! Why ask me about your future, if you try to make sure I am wrong? My job is to help people heal after experiencing a loss by reconnecting with the past loved one and letting people know that they too can keep that connection!.

The Life of a Medium

I have a typical life I would say. I wake up in the morning, shower, work, go to the gym, go home and sleep and wake up in the morning and complete my routine all over again. The difference between me and the average Joe is that I have experiences that are not typical for everyone else .
I am a healer and a Medium. My day can also include taping on my shoulder from non physical people, and tingling on the right side of my head when spirit wants to talk to me. I also hear music when there are no radios or speakers present. I see pictures in my head and wonder “what the heck is that about?” and a few minutes my question is answered through conversation with people who have no idea I have had a vision.
Just recently I drove to Northern California to facilitate and Angel Communication Class. On my drive in my two seater truck, I had adjusted my reaer view mirror and saw a Native American man sitting behind me. I took a double take and he was still there. He told me that in my class the next day that I would have a very ethnic looking woman in my class, and I did. Why I needed to know this info? I am still not sure but I do know he was correct.
I am a Massage Therapist and at work while working on people, I see spirits come into the room and deliver guidance to my clients. Fortunately I get clients that love to talk. Usually what the guide or Angel discussed with me , the issue will come up in conversation with the client. So without seeming odd, I can still deliver messages.
The other day I was working on a client and all of a sudden in my head I heard the client crying but the woman in front of me was presenting herself as happy go lucky. I asked her if she cried when she was alone often. She said that she does when she is alone. She gets sad.
Mosts night I get messages as I am falling alseep, or in the morning as I am waking up. As I am about to go to sleep at night I turn off the lights, and I see my guides surround me and green light through out my room. I feel very comforted. This has been occuring or at least I have been aware that it occurs for the last five years. Sometimes I hear my name called in the distance and no one is around.
What I like about my life is that when something is going to happen, I know. When something is out of the ordinary with my friends or family, I know. The annoying part is when I know and others won’t admit it. I know, I know, thats my ego talking.
I love getting visits from spirits just to say “Hi”. For one week I was caring for a dog. I was about to take the dog for a walk and she started barking at the sofa. I looked over and in my third eye, I saw my grandfather sitting with his legs crossed. Out loud I said “grandpa, leave the dog alone.” I heard him laugh and respond with a “what?’ and him shrugging his shoulders.
I know this is a short post but it has been too long since my last post. Thanks for reading and I will post again next week. The next post will be about how to do a Mediumship reading.

What is my Purpose as a Medium?

Recently I read a book by John Edwards called After Life. As I read the book, it made me think about 2 things. The first, this was the 2nd time I read this book with 3 years in between and WOW, my mediumship abilities have developed tremendously since reading the book the first time. The second, and most important, what are my reasons behind being a Medium? Why do I do it, and like it above all other parts of being a psychic. I am also a healer, but the serge of energy I get from connecting past loved ones with the living is indescribable.
Answering ”why” is far more complex the longer I think about it. WHY???? Where should I begin? I want to start with my own experience with loss. If you have read my previous posts are have looked at my website, you know about the loss of my brother. My actual start with loss and mediumship was when I was 5 years old, when my grandfather, Jose Cervantes, died. I would first like to talk about what I remember about him. Many adults don’t understand how much a child understands and remembers. My grandfather was an awesome man. I remember he would give me lots of chocolate. That would totally explain my chocolate addiction. I remember he was in a wheel chair and my uncle, German, would drive him around and would place his wheelchair in the back of Germans old school metallic blue truck. I remember that after his leg was amputated that I would still approach him and sit on his lap. My sister is younger than me and I remember she was scared that he only had one leg. I also remember eating watermelon and cherries with him. To this day, I absolutely love watermelon. I could live off of it alone. He was great. I remember that a lot of our communication was almost telepathic; there was almost no real need for words.
As his health declined I remember that his bed was moved to the dining room. I remember that his bed was like a hospital bed and it could move up and down. I remember that the last time I saw him was in the hospital. I thought he was sleeping, but as I became older, it was explained that he had been in a coma. I remember walking by his house with my mother and expecting him to come out and greet us at the door but he didn’t. My next memory was being at the cemetery in a building where a person was talking to my family and that counseling was an option. That is where my memory ends about my relationship with my grandfather on the physical plane.
Throughout my life, memories would be triggered in my mind that would remind me about my grandfather. My uncles, aunt, and mother would sometimes talk about him. To this day, 28 years later, my mom still sometimes cries reminiscing about her dad. One night when I was about 10 years old I had a wonderful dream. The setting was rolling hills with green grass. There was a gate. All of a sudden I saw a man walking up to me. It was my grandfather. He had both of his legs again, and was wearing his signature hat. He sat on the fence and began to talk to me. I am 33 years old now, so I don’t remember what we discussed. I do remember how happy I was to see him. This was a visit, I was sure of it.
After that I didn’t have a visit again until I was 28 years old. It was about a month after my brother died. I was having a really hard time. At this point in my life I was being awakened to the idea of an after life because I started feeling like people were present but I could not see them. One night I was awaken in the middle of the night by an unseen person caressing my left arm. I was completely awake and continued to feel cold skinny, long fingers rubbing my arm. This didn’t feel like my brother but the energy felt very familiar. I had a feeling it was my grandfather. Some time later I spoke to my uncle, Flavio, and I asked what his dads’ hands felt like. He described his hands as being cold, and his fingers being ling and skinny. This was the confirmation I needed.
For me, being able to make contact with my passed loved ones made me feel better. The pain I felt was still present but as painful as it could have been had I believed that death is the end. For me, my passed loved ones make their presence known by a sign, a song that pops into my head or comes on the radio, a dream, or a random thought.
Back to the question, “Why am I a Medium?” What is my purpose? I would have to say to help the living understand the process of death, once the person leaves their physical body. It would also be to help relay messages to the living from those who have passed to help console the living. Lastly, my purpose as a medium is to teach other that they can communicate with passed loved ones by themselves without the use of a medium.
So, what does happen to us after our physical body dies? Well, let me back track. Let’s think about the living. How the heck does that work? We are all made up of energy. The energy we are made up of facilitates the action and movement of our living bodies. Without our energy or spirit, we would be bones, skin and organs. Isn’t that amazing? When we are severely ill, have been in a bad accident; whatever it may be that hurts the body. Our body can deteriorate or for some reason no longer functions, so our spirit must leave the body. So, we literally shed a layer our existence. My understanding is that through the shedding, we also release unnecessary thought patterns and negative belief systems.
Through my readings I have learned that our loved ones continue to live and have everyday experiences with us and on their own. They have jobs, thoughts and their input into what we do. Our spirit does not have a structure like we do in our physical body. They flow and move freely. In a reading setting, they will come to me and show me traits of how they looked in their physical body. They do this for identification purposes.
I love to do Mediumship readings because to me it feels more concrete and real compared to doing a reading about some ones future. In a mediumship reading I come up with facts like what the person looked like, their personality traits, and key phrases they would use. A lot of the time the information comes in seeming odd, or insignificant. My entire job is, is the spit out the information as it comes into my mind. What may seem as insignificant to me, may mean the world to the person I am reading for. I love doing mediumship readings because I love helping people on their road to healing from their loss. Those of you who have lost someone know you never totally heal. You are forever changed but you learn to adjust to living again. I want people to understand that they can continue to have relationships with those who are not physically present.
The last purpose I am going to mention today is that as a Medium my purpose is to teach others how to communicate with their passed loved ones on their own and teach others how to be a medium for clients of their own. I used to be a Social Worker and one principle that I have taken with me is allowing people to be independent, and giving people the empowerment to do for themselves. In the future I want to see people having open communication with those they love and miss. I also wasn’t to teach people to communicate with their guides and Angels. These beings are here to help us on our path. Our direct communication with these beings help us get in touch with our higher self.

How to Meditate

In a few of my blog updates I have mentioned the necessity of meditation in the key to developing your Mediumship abilities. I absolutely love guided meditation. In my opinion guided meditation for me was originally to relax. As time and I progressed guided meditations were to help expand my imagination. Since intuition comes from the same place as imagination, it was also helping my intuition.
People often tell me that meditation is difficult and that they don’t know how to clear their minds. Meditation definitely takes practice. Meditation can be simply five minutes or two hours per day. It is totally up to the person meditating. As for clearing ones mind, I feel that meditation is used to set an intention and then focus on it. If another thought brings the focus away from the original intent, just bring your thought back.
To meditate, I sit my with my hands in my lap and my palms faced up. I also close my eyes. When I meditate I start off by imagining I am surrounding my body with white light which helps clear the energy around me. Then, I take a deep breathe in through my nose, then breathe the air out through my mouth. I continue to do this for some time. Again I will breathe in, then breathe out the unnecessary thoughts. I imagine that all my thoughts are being release through my exhale. Next, in my third eye I see the word or scene of what my focus is. An example my focus can be clairvoyance. I would continue to breathe in through my nose and out through my mouth and focus on the word clairvoyance. If the grocery list or anything else that is not significant in that moment enters your thoughts, simply with your next deep breathe out, allow the grocery list to leave your mind with that breathe. With the next inhale, return your focus to clairvoyance. Continue this process until you feel you have had enough. Once again, meditation can be as short or as long as you want. You will be amazed how quickly your goals will manifest.

Meeting Your Spirit Guides and Angels

Hello everyone. I hope you have enjoyed the previous blogs. I last wrote about testing out your intuition. Now, I want to write about spirit guides and angels. Some people prefer to work with guides, while others prefer to work with angels. I prefer to work with both however I tend to work more with my guides.

For me, my guides are my pals, protectors, and my everyday guidance. Angels are like my big guns. If I want to manifest something really quickly or clearly want to see if I am on the right path, I will communicate wit my angels. Not everyone will agree with me or do as I do it. For me, this is what works.

Many people ask me if I can communicate with and identify their guides. The answer is yes, but my question is “what good would it be for me to do this for you?” Part of your wonderful journey of discovering who you are and your potential is to meet them yourself.

“How do I meet my guides and Angels?” you might ask. Well, the first step, like everything else is the desire to find out. The second step is like the rest of your development is to meditate. While in meditation ask who your guides are? When I was starting out on this quest, I would meditate and ask over, and over, and over again. Finally, I saw a face. It was a tall woman with read hair and fair skin. Thinking back now, I am very surprised she presented herself first. She is very nice, and comforts me when I need it. When I was first developing I was very fearful and wondered if I was doing the right thing. Now, thinking about it more, it does make sense. When she showed up it was perfect timing because I was dealing with loss and she was the least pushy and a good transitional person prior to meeting my other guides. She would often massage my head when I was feeling sad or ill.

As I continued to meditate I knew she wasn’t my only guide. I could faintly see others in the distance. Later I met a young man. He seems a little taller than me, about 5’8”. He wears a blue shirt and has brown hair. He calls himself Nathan. As time passed I learned that he helps bring information in and passed loved ones. He is an interesting character. He seems to be bit of a jock. Before we do readings, I can hear him in the back of my head saying “let’s do this”, or something like “let’s get ready to rumble.”

Next I met an Asian gentleman. For some time I had health issues. He helps me care for my health. All I can say is that there are times I listen better than other times. He tries to persuade me to be a runner and become a vegetarian. My down fall is sugar. What else can I say about that? He is a cool guy. He doesn’t say a lot but is a strong individual.

Lastly, I have a guide that I call the Leader of the Pack. I have a large Native American male for a guide. Yes, I am sure you’re thinking “who doesn’t have a Native American guide?” I swear I do! I met him through a meditation group at a friend’s house. The point of the meditation group was to meet a guide. In the meditation we were asked to open a door and on the other side we would find a guide. I saw a tall man with very light brown eyes and his arms were crossed. He looked very familiar to me. Then I realized that he had been with me my whole life. I don’t have a name for him. I just refer to him as guide. I have a few other guides and they have their specific tasks in helping me in my life.

According to my previous teachers we all have two Angels. One Angel is to comfort us and console us. The other angel is a bit pushier and tries to have us reach our potential and get us out of our comfort zone. The difference between an angel and a guide is that guides have once lived on this earth, while Angels have never lived on the earth plane.

I have realized that I have a feminine Angel. My Angel is very loving and positive. I feel like when I tap into the angelic realm that I really do hear beautiful music. I feel that when tapping into my guides the information is coming from a place parallel to me but outside of myself. Information from the Angelic realm seems to come from above myself.

Guides and Angels are here to guide us to be the most positive and loving beings possible. The love we as humans can show each other is limitless. The only limits we have are those we place on ourselves. In every thing you do express love to yourselves and those around you. Don’t judge others for your not judged but loved unconditionally by the non-physical support around you.

 

Sandra Navarro

Let the Fun Begin!

How is everyone doing? In my first blog I discussed how important meditation is in developing your Mediumship abilities. The next step was to pay attention and write down thoughts that didn’t seem to originate from you. The next level in development involves discovering who exactly you are communicating with. This is where the fun truly begins.

What do I do next you may ask? Simply ask their name and wait for an answer.  Yes, it is that easy.  What people need to understand about Mediumship or doing readings is that you must go with your first thought.  What ever enters your mind first, just spit it out.  Don’t double or triple think it.  What ever comes to mind first is the answer.  Sometimes it is not for you to understand or decipher, it just is.  At the beginning of our development people tend to override their intuition and allow the logical mind to take over and negate the information.

At the beginning of my development, I had a muscle injury. One evening I took a muscle relaxer to stop the spasming in my muscles.  I was lying on the living room sofa and all of a sudden I saw a young woman enter the room and she sat next to me on the sofa.  I let her know I was tired. She got up and left the room. I should note that at the time I lived alone. The woman looked very familiar to me. She looked like a younger version of my mother. I then realized it was my grandmother. My grandmother died when she was 27 years old. My mother was 6 years old when she died.

A few days later I was in a store and heard a familiar voice call my name. The voice sounded like my sisters voice. I looked around and there was no one there that I knew.  I talked to my mother about it and she indicated that her mothers’ death anniversary was that day.  A few days later, I realized that I wanted to gather information from my grandmother, and then confirm the information with my mother. I was lying in bed and in my mind I asked “Are you my grandmother, and what is your name?” In my minds eye I saw “Maria” and “yes”. I also asked ‘If you were alive, would we get along?” I received another “yes”. Then I asked when her birthday was.  The first number I received was “8”, then another “8”, and then “58”.

I visited my mother and let her know I communicated with her mother. I asked my mother if she knew her mothers birth date.  She expressed that she didn’t know. I let her know I received a date and that it was 8-8-58. My mother started cracking up hysterically. I asked what she was laughing about. She let me know that when she was a child she thought her birthday was 8-8-58. Her father let her know when she was 13 that her birthday was not August8th but actually July 13^th. He wondered why she ever thought her birthday was in August. I also confirmed with my aunt that my mother actually thought this. My aunt also began to crack up.

My point here is, my grandmother didn’t give me the information I asked for but I did get information relevant to my mother. I would like to think that I was an instrument used to help these two women connect after 44 years.

This would be a good time to discuss the different ways to gather information from “the other side.” I will explain it in the way that I understand and gain information. When I first started realizing that I had expanded senses, it was in my dreams. I would have dreams about events that hadn’t occurred yet, like fires, dreaming of places I was going to live even before I thought about moving, issues others were having without them expressing their issues to me. After some time of the dreaming occurring, I had a teacher express that it was time to bring my abilities to the next level and receive information while awake. As soon as the decision was made to move to the next level, I began to receive the thoughts that did not seem to be mine very often. I also became very aware of how people around me were feeling both physically and emotionally.

After some time I felt stagnant in my development. I then wanted to become clairvoyant. This means to be able to see visions and get information from my third eye. As described previously I meditated and asked for that ability. For some time it was very hit and miss. Clairvoyance was not consistent. I had been told multiple times that I am a healer and really wanted to become consistent in being clairvoyant. I heard about Reiki and was given a treatment. It was awesome! I understood that I could help people and while being attuned that I could raise my vibration and help my abilities. The day I was attuned to Reiki 1 and 2, I became clearly clairvoyant.

I had gone to visit my mother after the attunements. My mother had a little black Chihuahua at the time. It was time for dinner so I went upstairs to wash my hands. On the way up the stairs I noticed the dog lying at the bottom of the stairs. As I was washing my hands I saw the dog walk by the restroom door. I though “wow, that dog is a fast little sucker”.  I looked over the banister and realized that the dog was still where I left her at the bottom of the stairs. I then realized that the dog walking by the restroom was a black Chihuahua that the family had owned previously.

There was another occasion where I was at a friends house and was letting her and her husband know that I could now see out of my third eye. My friends’ husband indicated that he had many cousins that had passed on and would like to connect with them one day.  He would name a cousin and I would describe them physically and their mannerisms, and their personality. I was able to connect and describe five of his cousins.

Another sense that I am working on is clairaudience.  This means to be able to hearing in other realms and spirits. Just like with seeing out of your third eye and hearing, these senses are not done out of your physical eyes and ears. It’s like having a second set of eyes and ears. SO, when I see a spirit sitting next to me or a client, I see my surroundings with my physical eyes but the spirit with my third eye at the very same time.  As for hearing, spiritual communication is more inside my head, while hearing with my ears are coming from the outside world.

Recently, I was meditating to prepare for a reading I was to have in fifteen minutes. All of a sudden I started to hear mumbling. I was confused because it sounded like a real person was in the room. I looked out the window to see if my clients had arrived early. They hadn’t. I went back into meditation and I heard the mumbling again. When my clients arrived the mumbling occurred again but so did the spirit. I was able to see her in my head, describe her personality, the way she sat and expressed what she wanted to say to her family.

I feel like I did a lot of story telling today. Through my experiences, I hope to help you in your development. Feel free to suggest where you would like to go next.

 

Sandra

 

Next Step to Mediumship

In my previous writings I expressed the importance of meditation in development of you Mediumship abilities. Meditation needs to continue daily. The next step in Mediumship is to pay attention to the thoughts that enter your consciousness. You will find that some thoughts will enter your mind and you will think “Wow where did that come from?” Those thoughts are often messages from your guides, Angels, or spirits. Those foreign thoughts come in quickly and sometimes leave just as quickly as they came until a situation occurs where the information is recalled where you may think “I knew that was going to happen before it happened.”

An example is one day when I was visiting a friend in Phoenix, AZ, and I had driven from San Diego, CA. As she and I were chatting in her dining room, I suddenly saw an image in my head of my car with smoke coming out of the exhaust pipe. I drove back to San Diego safely, but the very next day I jumped into my car and it wouldn’t start. Typically I would have been frantic and scared. In this case I wasn’t because I had received a “heads up” that there would be an issue with my car.

On another occasion, I was riding in a car with three other co-workers. In my head I saw a baby girl with blue eyes and blond curly hair. At that moment I asked my coworkers if any of them were pregnant. They had all indicated that they were not. About a month later one of those ladies announced that she was 3 months pregnant. When her daughter was born I had recognized her instantly as the child I saw in a vision.

A few years ago, at work I had met a new male co-worker. I’ll admit that I thought he was attractive. One morning when I was half awake and half asleep, I heard a voice in my head tell me that he has one son. When I got to work I saw that male co-worker and I asked him if he had children. He indicated that he has 2 boys. I was a little confused because I heard one son. In his next sentence he said that he has one son and a step son but he claims them both as his sons.

While paying attention to the information being sent to you, I would suggest getting a journal or notebook to write down the information you receive. Then, when the information becomes relevant to an event that occurs, write that information down too. Track to see how often you receive intuitive messages from the energies around you.

Believe me…… at first you might think your imagining things, or that your mind is playing tricks on you. The more you listen and then verify the information that comes in, and then you will become more confident. It’s important to know that all intuitive information comes from the same place that your imagination comes from. The way to differentiate between intuition and your imagination is that intuitive information is not there and then it is in an instant. The information comes in like a blink of an eye and comes in very quickly. Your imagination is what we create in our mind through thought and creativity, and we build on the thoughts. Imagination is our own thoughts and desires.

I will stop here today, but my guides are urging that I get this information out. Do expect another entry within the week.