Issues or Tissues?

People may come to a psychic for various reasons. Curiosity, searching for an answer about someone who has passed on, making a choice at the fork in the road. How can a reading be most effective for both the psychic and the client?

My experience tells me that a potential (here, I stress the word *potential*) client is often not ready for a reading. Indicators include: closed-off chakras, too recent a passing of a loved one, being hurt after a long relationship ends, or determination to forge a path without any sense of reasoning.

As a former member of a community of anthroposophists, I always emphasize free will in a reading. Therefore, I watch clients go completely against the advice I have received from the spirit world, and take a wait-see approach. I am not sure how I can become an enemy of a person who has made the wrong decision--but sometimes it has happened. Sometimes I wonder if I should be giving any advice at all. Sometimes the spirit world offers conflicting messages.

When I have offered free advice to friends, they have usually insulted me by making their own decisions anyway. So I am gradually withdrawing spirit-given advice and may come from a place of personal experience, which keeps it safe for both of us. I state, "I am just a regular shmo when it comes to the same issues you are going though, so I will advise you as a regular shmo." It seems to work. And being middle-aged only helps when a younger person is in a place to accept that there is wisdom that comes with age. Otherwise, I allow for the inner-wisdom of the client to unfold.

It is harder to work on these issues with baby or younger souls. I am not talking chronological age here, but I think you what I am talking about. Baby and younger souls often grab the spotlight and have a narcissism that is not present in older or ancient souls. Often ancient souls are gardiners, clean toilets, do housekeeping, etc. Pay attention to them.

Are you really ready for a reading? It takes humility on the client's end as well as the psychic's. But, first and foremost, it takes open-ness and allowing for a sense of vulnerability. Otherwise, I will probably give you a pretty mediocre reading.