So, you think you might be a Psychic Medium?

In life, it takes all kinds of kinds. Every person has unique and individual gifts and abilities specific to them and their path. By learning how to lean into it all, it can really help you understand, control, and access a deeper connection to your natural talent and ability. I’ll start this hub post off by stating all Mediums are Psychic. Not all Psychics are Mediums. And not all Psychics and Mediums are Empaths. These can be three separate buckets. They don’t have to all intermingle. You may have just one, or two, or all of these abilities. These aren’t the only three “abilities” you can have. These are just the three big ones. There is no such thing as being more evolved than another human because you possess all three. I personally believe the abilities you have come from your Soul, your Ancestral lineage, and whatever tools you needed in order to aid you in carrying out what you chose to help humanity with and what your Soul wanted to learn when it chose to incarnate on Earth . Every person is going to have a different reason as to why they are here on Earth. If you choose to subscribe. But each Soul that incarnated from Spirit is here to help the greater good, the collective. The question is, what magic do you possess? And how can you use that magic to help the community that surrounds you, and maybe even the world at large?

Honestly. If you think you’re a Medium. If you think you tap into something you don’t fully understand – but at a foundational, base level, you know that you are communicating, or being a conduit, from the Spirit world to the living world – I would tell you to listen to your intuition. Your soul already knows the path. Every person has natural intuitive abilities that they can tap into. Every person is capable of accessing the Spirit world and intuitively leaning into it to help guide themselves, and maybe even others. Some people have the ability to access it in a way where they can be a conduit, a physical bridge between Spirit and the living. Living with one foot in the Spirit world, and one foot in the Physical world. Straddling the two. Some people are able to dedicate themselves to developing their abilities over time, and stepping into the Mediumship world. Others can either be a natural born medium, or have a high stakes experience occur in life that opens them up - propelling them into this role. All are beautiful and have unique medicine and perspective and lived experience to offer the world.

There can be a lot of fear around stepping towards being a medium. This could be due to a variety of reasons; conditioning and household beliefs can be two of the main players.

I can speak from my personal lived experience. I was raised Catholic. It was extremely taboo in my family to go to a psychic, to have your tarot cards read, to receive insights about your future, or to connect with loved ones who crossed over through mediumship. Growing up, I was made to believe we weren’t supposed to know. Now – I by no means am projecting this on every Catholic household. This was just my lived experience. And it wasn’t something that I recall being verbally expressed in the home – but it was this underlying “understanding” of the do’s and don’ts. I had this fear around all things esoteric. I also had this insane fascination and constant pull towards it. My nature always dominated over my nurture. And for that – I couldn’t be more grateful.

All of that to say, sometimes our conditioning can make us feel fear towards opening up to our natural psychic and intuitive abilities, gifts. And what we resist, persists. It doesn’t go away - and often times, it can become even more loud. A big part, I believe, of the later part of life is re-learning. Stripping the conditioning and beliefs away that you subconsciously, or consciously absorbed as a child. Questioning what you “know” to be true, why you believe it, and where did that belief stem from - and allow yourself to see things from multiple perspectives and viewpoints, formulating a new truth. I always say, one truth does not negate another truth. Two things can be true at the same time. It is sacred work.

I recently had a conversation with a beautiful soul where we really opened up and talked about those esoteric things. The conversation took many avenues and side streets – but really the overall theme was this woman questioning if she had abilities. There was no doubt in my mind that this woman was in fact a Medium and naturally connected to her intuition, knowing, and Spirit. The Spirit world tugs on her, regardless of if she wanted it to, or not. And I could really resonate with that.

My ultimate advice for her was, you do not have to step into this if you do not want to. It is here if you choose to. You always have free will and free choice to make your own decisions. No matter what you choose, you will be supported.

For the people who are Mediumistic and naturally inclined to be so – learning how to connect with your psychic is really going to help you control that Spirit door. You will learn how to have boundaries with the Spirit world. Picture those boundaries as your “office hours”. Feeling empowered with your abilities can really help you feel control over both yourself and the intel you receive.  Even if you don’t use your gifts further than that – which is absolutely ok to do – you can, at the very least, at bare minimum protect yourself and learn to take control. Rather than moving from a fear-based space, or a confused space, you can learn to move through this with understanding, deep insights, and reverence. By harnessing the understanding, boundaries, and control – you can learn to exit the head space of trepidation and uncertainty around your thoughts, fears, and confusion on the doorway to the Spirit world. The more you raise to meet the vibration and frequency of Spirit - to reach Spirit, the more you will find that it is unconditional, pure, supportive love. It is not a space of horror, panic, alarm, or fear-based foreboding. I think you’ll find it gentle, loving, filled with an all-encompassing light and warmth.

If you’ve ever had that inkling of “Am I a medium?” It is likely because you are. You’ve had experiences that are irrefutable; maybe confusing to you, maybe made you question your personal sanity, maybe had you wondering… how did I know that, maybe had you wondering… how did I just see that… and so on.

This is your validation. Not that you need it, because all the answers are already inside of you. As within, so without. But for those that need it – this is your validation. You are not crazy. Those “experiences” you had that maybe had you questioning if you were sane or if you just experienced what you think you experienced – you are not crazy. You are just a little more open to a world that our society doesn’t naturally teach us in traditional school.

If you feel like – ok, well I had that experience, but then it was another several months/year(s) before I had another experience – this is normal. We are very much physical human beings living a very physical real 3D life experience. We are filtering through all the things that we go through day to day, all of the interactions we have day to day, with all of the stressors, anxieties, emotions, and joys that come with being human. There’s a lot of emotion that we sift through moment to moment. On top of that – add the Spirit world. I want you to picture editing a photograph. And with this original physical and tangible photograph, I want you to overlay it with an image of whatever comes to your mind when you think “Spirit World”. You may see Angels, your loved ones, religious imagery, a cemetary.. you get the idea. Now with that overlay, you have combined the physical photograph of your 3D life, with an overlay image of your chosen Spiritual imagery. There is a lot going on in that photo now. It’s more complex, more layered, more distractions, more things grabbing at you. The physical vs the non-physical. The 3D vs the 5D. The tangible vs the intangible.

So now you are living your physical reality and also filtering through this overlay that is the Spirit world. At some point, you had to create “horse blinders” to be able to get through the day potentially. So that the day wasn’t so overwhelming. So that the day wasn’t so confusing and challenging to navigate. Maybe, so you would be easier and more palatable for other people to swallow and digest. Maybe you have the added on layer of people dismissing your reality as a child, maybe you have the added on layer of people telling you that what you were experiencing wasn’t in fact real. Maybe you have the added on layer of being disconnected to Self because you were told that you couldn’t be yourself, or made to feel like it wasn’t safe to be yourself with this ability, or gift. Maybe you were made to feel like you didn’t receive love if you embodied this way of being and moving in the world, so you intentionally tried to shut it down by creating horse blinders. Maybe the 5D world of Spirit was so intense, you just had to quiet it down to make it through the day. Regardless of the why - the horse blinders had to become even more cemented. At some point, you placed them there for protection. To help aid you to be able to get through your day. If this is the case - you may have noticed a lot came through to you during the nighttime hours - when your subconscious mind is more forward when you sleep. It is easiest for Spirit to communicate with us when our subconscious mind is forward. It takes less effort, less energy expelled.

In order for Spirit to get through those horse blinders – they really have to put in the work. They have to expel a lot of energy to get your attention. You have to expel a lot of energy to put into understanding their message and keeping the connection. Which is why these earlier experiences can feel intense, sobering, and brief. Leaving you with a “what the … just happened?” “Am I crazy?” “Did you just see that?” This is why these interactions leave such an impression. The energy had to be so loud, so big, so in your face that you could not dispute what just happened. Spirit is making it known that they speak to you. You are the conduit between the Spirit world and the living. So if you have ever had these moments of extreme clarity, knowing, presence – whether you audibly hear Spirit, visually and physically see Spirit, have pre-cognition where you psychically predict something perfectly before it happens, to name a few – you are being shown that you naturally tap into a world that is calling to you.

The more you learn to trust, surrender, build your boundaries – those “office hours”, and have faith in yourself and what you receive – the more those horse blinders will soften, the more those horse blinders will allow you to receive Spirit communication in a much softer way. Spirit doesn’t have to exert as much energy, you don’t have to exert as much energy. You raise your frequency, sometimes also referred to as “sitting in the power”, to allow an energetic reciprocal flow of consciousness back and forth. It is subtle. It isn’t loud or performative. It isn’t some Hollywood experience. Just this beautiful subtle flow of energy back and forth.

So if you’re feeling like you’re in the horse blinders phase – do not worry. Those are there for a reason. You had to protect yourself as a kid. You had to make yourself feel safe because you were filtering through so much information and you likely didn’t have someone to help you walk the path. It felt all too overwhelming and confusing, and your 3D reality did not support your 5D experience. So, please don’t hate the horse blinders. They were always intended to protect. And as you step into the path, the horse blinders will bend and soften as you need them. You will learn everything happens at the perfect divine time – never too rushed, never too lagged. This is one I can’t explain. It is one of those things you just have to experience. You may crave knowing more, understanding more, experiencing more – and then it happens and you feel overwhelmed. So trust – if you’re new to walking this path – everything will be opened up not a moment too soon, and all in perfect divine timing. This is done to both protect you, and hold you.

Ultimately, just know that you do not have to ever build this into being a full fledged Medium or conduit to the Spirit world. As stated before, maybe you study and practice just enough to build healthy boundaries and help you to establish a sense of control. You are the master of your seas and the creator of your destiny. What you see, you can quite literally create. You see it for a reason.

If you do choose to step towards your abilities and deepen them – just know it isn’t something to fear. It may take time to work through the conditioning and beliefs you have around the topic (either consciously or subconsciously created). This is perfectly normal. You have to be comfortable as you open each new door on this spiritual journey. This is the only way it is going to work. Spirit doesn’t communicate through fear. Not the Spirit world that I know so well. It is always with love at the center and emanating throughout. Love is always at the heart of everything. And the more you can tap into your heart center, trust, surrender, and have faith that what you receive is real – the more the path will unfold for you. Always in perfect divine timing.

Author:

Andie Hay - Owner & Physical Evidential Psychic Medium & Empath of By Breath & Bone