Are you tempted to have a psychic reading? Would you like to find out about your love life, career, health or try and contact a loved one who has passed to spirit?

Many of us have at some time have thought about having a psychic reading, but haven’t for one reason or another taken the matter any further.

The main reason for not proceeding is usually fear of the unknown, religious beliefs or the way we have been brought up in our families. To allay this fear, it is helpful to understand just what psychic readings are.

Psychic energy is spiritual energy, so the process involves making contact with the astral planes (worlds.) By employing psychic energy, one who is ‘tuned in’ is able to psychically see, hear or sense the astral planes, enabling this person to give psychic readings.

It may surprise you to know that we are all able to use the psychic energy that would allow us all to do psychic readings. Unfortunately however, most adults have “shut down” this ability by allowing physical logic to intervene. Our conscious minds tell us that logically, it is impossible to contact people who have passed away, and so that is what we tend to believe.

However all children are able to employ their psychic senses quite easily and without question, that is before logic interferes. For example, how many small children have ‘invisible friends’ that they play with?

The two usual psychic abilities used are clairvoyance (clear seeing) and clairaudience (clear hearing.) The use of clairvoyance involves clearing one’s mind, tuning in to the astral planes and allowing visions and images etc. to flow in. Clairaudience is similar except instead of seeing images, voices and sounds are heard. There can, of course, be a combination of the two depending on the person tuning in.

The most popular way for people not possessing developed psychic senses to get psychic readings, is via a psychic medium or clairvoyant psychic. Mediums may offer their services in private individual sittings, group sittings or in Spiritual Churches.

If you attend an individual sitting, your mood and approach can have an influence on the psychic reading. However skeptical you maybe, try to be open-minded, relaxed and let the psychic energies flow freely. If you have specific questions to ask, it is a good idea to jot them down on paper. Don’t ‘test’ the person carrying out the reading as this tends to block the energy flow. Make sure that you note the answers given.

Some mediums and psychics tape their psychic readings or allow you to do so. This enables you to have a record of the psychic reading to listen to afterwards.

Group sittings sometimes use their combined psychic energies to enhance the medium’s energy to make strong contacts or carry out other work such as healing. Any contacts made during group sittings are obviously not private.

Many people’s first experience with a psychic medium is often during a visit to a Spiritualist Church. Here, the medium can tune into somebody who has passed over who wishes to make contact with a member of the congregation. If the medium obtains a name, then that name will be spoken aloud and the congregation asked if anyone can identify with it.

It is wise to ensure that the medium or psychic reader you employ, especially for a private individual sitting, has genuine psychic abilities. This can be via recommendations or through the Spiritualist Churches.

Whether you are a skeptic or not, always maintain an open-mind. After all, how would a caveman have reacted if told about electrical energy?

If this article encourages you to check out your own psychic potentially, then the best way to start is to join a psychic development group. Spiritualist Churches usually have psychic development groups you can join and who knows you may be doing psychic readings yourself within the next few months.