The Benefit of Knowing the Reasons for Your Experiences – A Conversation with Two Mediums – Part III

And the conversation continues…Part III :

(if you missed the first two installments of this conversation, you can check them out as well. Part I & Part II)

Melissa Van Rossum – Share more with us about your gifts, how you experience them in your everyday life and how you decode your experiences.

Jamie, Reluctant Medium – As far as how I decode my experiences, well, I’m still learning to even recognize them and I know I miss a lot of things! But I’m catching many more than I used to. I finally realized that there is no such thing as a coincidence. Then I started really paying attention to what I was being guided to do and all the interesting ways I was being told. Sometimes I still get frustrated when I can’t quite figure it out…I often wonder when sometimes I hear their voices so clearly, why won’t they just tell me that way instead of making it a riddle! Ugh! Other times, when I do “get it”, I get quite excited with my accomplishment! A lot of the time it takes several “coincidences” and distance before the light bulb clicks on. I also find that if I put too much energy into figuring it out, it somehow hinders the process. Relaxing about it and just being quiet and listening is what it takes. I am certain I am now following the right path as everything is just falling into place as I walk down that path. I often wonder if those in spirit around me helping me along the way are like, “FINALLY! We’ve been trying to tell you for years!” Ha! I’m betting they’re pretty patient though. They’d almost have to be, right?

Melissa Van Rossum – I know what you mean.  When something that I’ve been focusing on for a while finally becomes clear … I actually hear cheering and applause…  I think they’re probably cracking open champagne on the Other Side.

Looking back it’s easy to see the multitude of signs, ‘coincidences’, stories and guidance that were available long before the clarity came.  In All You’ve Ever Known I write about how it takes an extraordinary amount of strength and patience to be a spiritual guide.

The signs they send us, the people that are put in our path who bring us guidance, all of these bits of information and intelligence hang in our aura like ornaments on a tree until we’re ready to reach out and accept them.

It can be frustrating to know that there are guides and others on the Other Side who already know the answers we seek.  But ultimately, I think that the process of figuring it out, decoding our experiences – psychic and otherwise, isn’t a process where the answers are held from us. Rather it’s a process that is set up in such a way that requires growth on our part — so that once we get it, once we receive it, that the wisdom can never be taken from us.

As psychics and sensitives, we need the kind of strength that only authentic wisdom can bring.

Information offered like pablum is easily forgotten and the preciousness of it is rarely valued.  But when we are required to grow and evolve in understanding, and to release our fear in order to get to the answers, the wisdom, and the inner peace, we have an undying respect for what we’ve learned.

Let’s talk next time about how you know it when you’ve successfully ‘decoded’ a psychic experience or the psychic meaning of an experience as well as the other types of gifts that you have.