For the last 72 hours I’ve been madly scrambling to launch Paulymath.com, after making the decision to kill off Inspired Money Maker . com, Fitness Health and Healing . com, Inspired Psychic . com and Inspired Energy Healer.com and combine them all into one single Blog.

I decided to do this for a number of reasons.  Firstly, I’ve been working with  a number of coaching students that are scanners just like me and while coaching them through the process of launching their Blogs I found myself constantly advocating the idea of launching a Blog that explores many different topics instead of a Blog with a very tight niche.

Picking a broad topic goes against what most Internet Marketers out there teach and advocate, and I’m very aware of the benefits of picking a very specific niche to specialize and dominate in.

However, after four years of Blogging I am convinced that picking too narrow of a niche for a Blog is not a long-term strategy.  It’s more of an affiliate marketing strategy, or a niche-business strategy, but I don’t believe it’s a very wise decision for Bloggers and especially for Bloggers who are polymaths (Scanners).

Living life as a scanner is quite different from being a specialist or “deep diver” as Barbara Sher calls them in her book Refuse to Choose.  It’s been four years since I’ve read Barbara’s book and I’m so glad that it came into my life at the time that it did.

The book provided me with validation that I wasn’t alone in the world as a scanner.

Scanners are people who have many different interests in life and pursue them all, instead of focusing on just one interest like a specialist or “deep diver” would.  Career wise, scanners will get interested in a profession and dive into it with all the interest and desire of a specialist, but once they get to a certain level of proficiency they’ll just move onto something else.

Most of North American culture has been focused and structured to produce, honor and reward specialists above scanners since the 1950’s.  As the technology race with Russia became the highest priority in North American culture, the hero became the specialist.  The technology scientist who devoted himself to the study of one thing and one thing only became the hero, instead of the “well rounded man”.

When I first started doing my P90X workout last year, I searched all over the Internet for a p90x tracking sheet or p90x tracking software package of some sort.  However, I couldn’t find anything out there that was any good, so I created my own P90X tracking sheet in Excel and put it up on this Blog as a free download for everyone.

The P90X tracking sheet became very popular but I received many requests from people who were looking for additional features such as:

• Ability to track P90X Lean workouts
• Ability to track P90X Doubles workouts
• Ability to track P90X+ workouts
• Ability to schedule workouts on different days
• Tracking of P90X nutrition plan
• etc.

Unfortunately I was unable to add all those features into the excel spreadsheet, but I did finally find a really cool software package created by Workoutsoft called XtremeFit Tracker™ that does everything you need for tracking P90X workouts.

Here are a few screen shots and details about this software.

After taking my Shoden Reiki Training at the beginning of this month I wanted to create a background for my desktop to always remind me of the five precepts of the Reiki Healing Art.

There are slightly different variations in the words used for the five precepts in the different Reiki systems, but they all pretty much mean the same thing.

Here’s the desktop I created based on the Komyo Reiki Kai version of the five precepts in different resolutions.  The five precepts are shown right in the middle of your screen, and also repeated in the background in a darker gray color.  The darker gray color version works more on a subconscious affirmation level even if you don’t read it.

Here are the background in different resolutions:

Reiki Five Precepts Desktop Background ( 1900x1200 )

Choosing the right divination method is of paramount importance to your psychic development as a beginner.

Near the end of 2008 I found a psychic development course created by Andrea Hess, called Soul Realignment™.  I was drawn to the course after getting a Soul Realignment™ reading from Anna Conlan which I really liked.  The reading was very in-depth and just the possibility of being able to do readings like that for people got me very excited.

I purchased the course and was super excited to dive in.  However, after getting into the course materials and learning all the theory and background on the Soul Realignment™ modality itself, it came time to learn to actually do the readings themselves.  That’s when I ran into trouble.

The course uses a dowsing method using a pendulum to divine the information for the readings.  Prior to taking this course I have never used a pendulum or dowsing of any kind, but I was excited and optimistic to give it a try.

Discovering Dowsing

I bought a pendulum, cleared it and programmed it.  I then tried using it to do the readings for my practice clients, but immediately ran into challenges.

What would happen is I would try to ask a question and then would wait for the pendulum to swing in the predetermined manner which would indicate a Yes or No answer to the question.  For example, I may ask “Does this person have 6 spirit guides?” and then wait to see what the pendulum would do.

At first things were going along ok, and I was going through all the questions and just writing down the answers that the pendulum would show me, but after a while I started to notice something.  I started to notice that when I would ask a question, an answer would king of just pop into my mind and then the pendulum would swing in accordance with that answer.

For example, I would ask “Does this person have 6 spirit guides?” and in my mind I would hear “Yes” immediately.  Then I would wait a few seconds and watch the pendulum indicate “Yes” as well.  That’s when I started wondering if the pendulum was simply just indicating exactly what’s in my mind, and if so then how do I know if my mind is actually accurate?

I sat there for a minute and then I asked myself the question “Does this person have 6 spirit guides?” and I would instantly get a “Yes” in my mind and the pendulum would start to show a “Yes” as well, but then as soon as I thought to myself “No” the pendulum would start showing me a “No” as well!  This frustrated me because all I had to do is just think of an answer like “Yes” or “No” and the pendulum would just swing whichever way my mind was directing it to.

Of course this was happening while I was trying to hold the pendulum perfectly still.  I wasn’t trying to make it spin to indicate a “Yes” or “No”, it was just doing it automatically (subconsciously) as I thought of each word.

This put a big dent in my confidence in terms of the accuracy of the information I was getting with the method.  I tried to figure out a way to get around the problem, but at the same time I was also going through a career change which involved leaving my job and focusing on running my own business.  So I decided to focus on that instead and I put my psychic development on the back-burner.

Discovering Why Dowsing Didn’t Work For Me

Throughout 2009 I got to know a number of professional psychics and I was always amazed at their ability to divine information.  What was really cool was that each of them used a totally different method.

A year later I was once again drawn to pursue developing my psychic abilities and I started looking around at different options.  I wanted to see if I could find a way I could develop my intuitive abilities without the use of a pendulum as a divination method.

Near the end of 2009 I started working with Chris Landry and during one of my readings with him I asked him to ask my Spirit Guides why I had so much trouble communicating with them using a pendulum.  He immediately told me that for me a pendulum is not the best divination method because it’s way too slow.

Out of the four psychic senses (Clairvoyance, Clairaudience, Clairsentience and Claircognizance) my most developed one is Claircognizance.  Claircognizance is when you “just know” something without seeing, hearing or feeling it.

It’s been with me for as long as I can remember, but I just never really realized or labeled it as a “psychic sense” because the information just “appeared” in my head out of nowhere and I just thought everyone has the same thing happen to them.

It was only during a few life threatening situations in my life and in a few one-on-one coaching sessions I’ve done with clients that I started to realize that the information that’s coming to me is not coming from my mind, but rather from somewhere else.

For example, on one occasion I had a sudden “knowing” that I needed to change lanes while driving my car.  Switching to the left lane in that particular situation made no logical sense because the left was the wrong lane for me to be in on my way home.  Regardless, I just knew that I had to get into the left lane immediately and so I did.  Within seconds I came around the corner and just missed a car that was dead stopped in the middle of the right lane I was just in.  The car had apparently just hit a dog and the driver had gotten out of the car to look at the dog.  If I didn’t get into the left lane I most likely wouldn’t have been able to stop in time and very likely would have hit the car that was dead stopped.  I may have even ended up injuring the driver that had gotten out of the car.

In one instance like this it is easy to dismiss it as “luck”, but I’ve had numerous occasions like this where I just knew something that made no logical sense for me to know.  I’ve had so many of these situations now that the possibility that it was just a “lucky guess” defies statistical probability.

Anyway, what I realized after working with Chris is that I already had an open channel of communication with my guides, but I simply wasn’t tuning into it and listening on that channel.  I already had a divination method but I only used it in life and death situations and on occasion during coaching sessions with clients.  For my Soul Realignment™ course readings though I was trying to use a much slower and unnecessary “tool” that was frustrating my Spirit Guides.  The way I see it now is that it was as if I was attempting to communicate with my Spirit Guides using Morse Code (pendulum metaphor) when really I had a high-speed Internet connection with them (Claircognizence) that I just needed to turn on and learn to use more effectively.

My Spirit Guides knew that if they started speaking to me using the pendulum I would use it as a crutch and probably never learn to turn on and trust my much more direct and faster method of divination.

The important thing to remember is that there are many different ways and methods of divining information.  If you try using one and it doesn’ t work for you, don’t give up!  It may simply be a case of using the wrong method for you.  There are other students in the Soul Realignment™ program that are using their pendulums and they work great for them, so it’s not like I’m saying that dowsing is not a good system to use.  If it works for you, by all means use it!

What I’m saying though is that there are many different methods and it’s worth exploring and learning what the different methods are.  Even if you are getting results and making progress, maybe there is a better, easier and faster way for you to communicate with your Spirit Guides.  Even though I’ve really expanded and connected to my Claircognizant abilities in the last few months I’m still testing out and trying to develop other methods that will hopefully improve my Clairvoyant, Clairaudient and Clairsentient channels as well.  I don’t want to limit myself to just one channel, and neither should you. Try different methods out and see what resonates with you, always keeping in mind that everyone is unique and different in their abilities.

I’m currently using a combination of several different divination methods for the readings I’m doing in my Automatic Intuition course, and one day soon I would like to go back and finish my Soul Realignment™ training as well because I really liked the course materials and the Soul Realignment™ modality itself, but I just needed to sort out my divination methodology before moving forward.

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