Tips to improve communication with Spirit

When it comes to receiving direct information from your Guides, Angels and Loved Ones, it's all about clearing the lines of communication so you can receive information. To open the pathways, you can fine-tune your abilities with some easy exercises:

Increase your ability to focus.

Communication with Spirit is all about being able to hold your focus and concentration for a period of time. The more you can do this, the easier and faster the information will flow to you.

Try any of these activities:

Garden

Read for a sustained period of time

Do a crossword or jigsaw puzzle

Paint or draw

Increase your clairvoyance

When you go out in public, challenge yourself to remember what three people you see are wearing. See if you can close your eyes and describe them in detail. Picking up on detail is really important, so challenge yourself to improve the acuity of your observational skills.

Practice guided meditations and visualizations. Pick any that appeal to you and practice.

Create a special metal space just for informaiton from Spirit:

You can create a special room in your mind that you go to when you meditate, or connect with Spirit.  It could be an outdoor setting like your garden. It could be in the clouds, or on the beach or next to your favorite tree. It could be a beautiful room you decorate yourself with furniture, flowers or anything that makes it feel special and uniquely yours. This technique is all about making a unique place that you go to in your head that is just for your time with Spirit. This process relaxes you and also puts boundaries inside your mind so other thoughts are not intrusive.

Increase your ability to hear Spirit

 I have heard the below suggestions time and time again from Angels and Guides about how to increase your ability to hear them:

Listen-really listen to music, following the line of each instrument in a symphony. See how much you can notice in the music.

Practice listening in your conversations. So often when we are in a conversation we spend most of the time thinking about what we want to say while the other person is talking. What about trying to really hear what that person is actually saying? Next time, open your ears and really listen to each and every word. 

Increase your ability to sense energy

Picking up on the energy in things is called psychometry, and many psychic and mediums use this technique to tune into someone else's energy. Increasing this ability helps you notice when you are sensing energy that is not your own, like one of your Angels, Guides or Loved Ones. You can use this technique to fine-tune your ability to notice how you pick up information, what it feels like, what you see and what that process is like for you.

Try picking 3 different objects, like a feather, a crystal and a piece of someone else's jewelry. Take time holding and focusing on each one, and write down all your observations.

Looking for more personalized guidance on how to develop your gifts? We can explore that and more in a live reading or coaching session!

With love,

Ashley

What is a Psychic Attack and how do I protect myself?

Basically, psychic or energetic attack is when you experience the affects of someone else's negative, fear based thoughts about you. Most of time, when you are experiencing aggressive energy from someone, they are not necessarily trying to do you harm. Rather, they are calling up your energy by thinking about you, unfortunately in a not so nice way, and their negativity can be experienced as an energetic assault. Intentional or unintentional, the importance lies in recognizing when it’s happening and putting a stop to it.

Psychic attacks can occur when:

• When you are in an argument or conflicted situation with someone, the argument is happening on the energetic level as well as the physical. Since there is not time and space when it comes to energy, you can experience someone else's negative, fear based thoughts no matter how close or how far away you are from each other.
• When someone is thinking negative, fear based thoughts about you of any kind.
• Such as when someone is resistant to the changes you are making in your life, if you are involved in a dysfunctional relationship of any kind, or even when people are just jealous or critical of you.

What it feels like:

Psychic attacks usually come on quickly and suddenly. Sharp stabbing like pain in the solar plexus, back, neck, shoulders or head can characterize them. They also come on as heavy blanket like sensations that settle over you.

The solar plexus chakra is often the site where you feel an energetic attack, as this is the seat of the ego. Power struggles live here. The aggressive energy coming at you can feel like it’s wrapping you in knots, or stabbing through your stomach. You can feel it as burning, boiling, aching or twisting. When you feel this and you haven’t recently eaten something turning you inside out, you have to stop yourself and question where it's coming from. Is it yours? If it's yours, you can articulate why you are angry or upset. If it's not yours, it will just be raw emotion with no rationale behind it, or it can feel like physical pain. The sudden onset of these feelings can often mean you are experiencing psychic attack.

The head, (third eye or crown chakra) are where we receive Divine information. As you open to Spirit, these chakras become more sensitive as they get used to receiving energy. Psychic attack experienced through these chakras can feel like a sudden headache, like someone is squeezing or tightening or like a shooting pain through your head.

The back, neck and shoulders

Guilt and shaming often are experienced on the back, neck and shoulders. This kind of psychic attack can feel like a blanket, or an uncomfortable feeling settling on top of you that puts you in a negative state of mind/being. If you cannot locate within yourself the reason for these negative feelings, it is likely that you are experiencing someone else’s energy projected at you.

Do I need to know who is doing this?

Not necessarily. Sometimes you will know exactly who it is, and sometimes it may not be so clear. As you expereice the feeling, you can ask to see who is sending it your way. Warning – this may shed some light on some of your relationships! But whether you know who it is or not, what is most important is to be aware enough of your own energy to know when it’s happening and having the tools to deal with it.

How to deal with it

Method I

• Remove the object
• When the physical sensation is sharp, stabbing or tightening, you can imagine the object that caused this sensation. Was it a cord, knife or blanket? Identifying the object helps you to localize the energy and gives you a concrete way to remove it. If it feels stabbing, you can energetically remove the stabbing by envisioning pulling a knife out of the pain site. If it feels like it’s tightening or squeezing, imagine lifting the squeezing hands off your head. Archangel Michael is always available to assist with the removal of fear-based energies. You can ask him to assist with this process.
• Heal the site. At the site of the entry point, imagine thousands of silver/white gossamer threads sewing up the hole and filling it with white light. This repairs the energy and protects it.

Method II

• Release the energy. Instead of putting up shields that can take a lot of energy to maintain, you can release of the energy. When you feel you have received an energy attack, you can visualize the negative energy by giving it a color. Then you can see where in your body it is and you can see it releasing out your feet, draining out of your hands or even out of your energy field down into the earth. Then, check to see if that color has indeed completely drained out of your energy.

You can always...

Ask the Angels. Angels are great at protecting your energy, but you need to ask. Instead of requesting a white light shield, you can ask for pink or purple light to surround you, which will allow in energy of equal or higher vibration than yours, but keep out the lower energies. Archangel Michael is the one to call on for this.

Feel like psychic attack is a problem and you want more information than you can find yourself? We can look into this issue and more with your Angels, Guides and Loved Ones in a live reading!

With love,

Ashley

How do Spirits learn how to communicate?

We know the ways in which Spirit does communicate: clairvoyance, clairaudience, claircognizance and clairgustance. But, how do they know how to do it? Do they just automatically know how when they cross over? No, it’s not quite that easy. Generally speaking, the Spirits that were good communicators in life tend to have an easier time communicating once they are in Spirit. But regardless of whether they were good or not while in life, they still have to learn a new skill set that is in alignment with their new state of being as Spirits.  How do they do this?

There are three different ways Spirits learn how to communicate with us in physical life:

• Spirit Guides for Spirits .There are beings on the Other Side that assist those who wish to connect and communicate with their loved ones still here in physical life. These spirits help our loved ones learn how to communicate in their new state without physical bodies – they help them learn how to use energy to create visual pictures, sound through internal and external clairaudience, electricity, etc.
• Other Loved Ones in Spirit. Your Loved Ones, friends and family work together; not only with how to communicate, but what to communicate in a reading. Was our grandmother great at explaining things in life? Well, she will most likely help out with your shy Uncle as he gets ready to communicate with your at your reading. They will coordinate their timing  (who goes first) and their messages in order to serve your Highest Good at this time.

But Loved Ones can do more than this. Just the other day, a Loved One of a friend of mine showed up at my reading to learn how to facilitate mediumship communication on the Other Side. This Spirit was a great communicator in life and was interested in serving others on teh Other Side by leanring about what mediums do in order to facilitate Spirit/medium relationships. She just came to the reading and sat next to me as I worked –just watching and leanring. Pretty cool, I thought. She was working to be a Spirit Guide, and part of her training was to be present in some of my readings and learn how it all goes down.

• Mediums here on Earth. That’s right – mediums teach Spirits how to do it too. In sessions I often work directly with the Spirits trying to communicate and guide them into what they need to do in order for me to understand them.  I tell them how to show me pictures, and how to make words for me. I often have to tell them exactly what to show me so it’s clear enough for the client to understand. Sometimes Spirits are so excited to connect that they have trouble getting their messages across so the medium assists them. The medium is really the facilitator of the communication on both sides.

Moving into the Spirit Realm is like moving to a different country where you don’t speak the language, so Spirits often need the help of translators as they figure it out. These translators are both in the Spirit realm and mediums here in the physical realm.

Readings are Divine orchestrations, and there are many Spirits involved with your reading. Their presence and their messages are no accident. Everything has been planned and aligned from the perspective of what serves the Highest and Greatest good – this includes your good, the medium’s good and the Spirit’s good. This is why it’s important to honor and to have an open heart and mind at every reading, as a lot of work has gone into it – on both sides of the veil!

With love,

Ashley

Why didn't I recognize all the Spirits that came to my reading?

Generally speaking, 98% of the time when you have a reading with a medium you are going to be able to identify the Spirits coming through with messages for you. Spirits take time and effort to bring forward specific information and details that will help you identify them. After all, Spirits want to get past the identification part of the reading and on into the good stuff, which is the messages for you. This is what they come to do - to connect with you with messages. So if you have a reading and can’t identify the Spirits that come through, you really aren’t going to get to the messages and you need to look at why this is happening.

Consider these common reasons below:

Your emotional state

If you are in a frantic, emotional or grief stricken state it will be difficult for you to consider the information being presented to you in a calm and logical way. In order to identify Spirit, you need to have an open mind and heart and give them the opportunity to come forward with information for you. If you are blocked in by your own emotions or stress, it is hard to have an open and considerate mind and heart.

Are you dead-set on hearing from one or two specific people in Spirit?

This attitude can block out all other attempts from other Spirits to communicate with you. When your mind is fixed on a specific person or people, you are not giving Spirit the opportunity to appear to you as they choose to. It is quite possible that by fixating on that one person in a specific way, you are actually missing them when they are right there trying to communicate with you. Spirit comes as they choose to for very specific reasons. It’s possible that your father will show up looking healthy and fit as he did earlier in his life and not sickly and frail as he did at the end. If you are fixated on him in that ill state, you might not recognize the man who is at your reading trying to communicate with you and show you how he is back at his best health now on the Other Side. So, not only can fixating on one or two people in Spirit block out others, it can actually block out the very people you want to see by closing your mind off to any way they could appear other than the one picture you have in your mind about them.

Are you trying to force a reading?

Have you been trying to get a reading immediately but can’t seem to find a medium who is available? Did you set one up then have some circumstance come up that delayed or cancelled the reading? These are messages from Spirit that the timing is not quite right for you to have a reading. Spirit comes through best when things are aligned for you – these things include timing and finding the right medium. If you are trying to force it, stop, step back and give the situation to Spirit. Ask them what is best and you will be guided to the medium and timing that best serves you.

Have you done your part?

Most mediums have information on their websites about how to get the most out of your reading experience. I send my clients a full email with detailed information about how to best prepare for a reading and what to expect. I do this because a reading is not just about the medium spouting out information – it is about the client receiving that information. In order to receive well, you need to be prepared for the experience. Before your reading, ask yourself: Have I reviewed those I know in Spirit? Am I in a focused listening state? Do I have an open mind and heart?

Before blaming Spirit or the universe or the medium that you didn’t have the reading you wanted, think it through. Every Spirit that shows up has done so for a reason. Review the people who did come and ask yourself if you may know them after all. Did you honestly do everything you could to open yourself to the best reading experience you could have? There are no shortcuts to a good reading, just as there are no shortcuts to any experience that offers true growth, healing and transformation. Every reading has three participating groups – the medium, the client and Spirit. Each group needs to do their part to create the best possible reading experience. By taking responsibility for your part and showing up with an open and clear heart and mind, you are giving yourself and Spirit a real opportunity to connect.

For more information about Spirits coming through in readings, check out this article.

Questions? Please, ask away!

With love,

Ashley