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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I have finally finished the “theory” side of the Automatic Intuition course I have been studying for the last couple of weeks.  Automatic Intuition is a Professional Intuitive Training, Certification & Mentoring Program created by Slade Roberson of ShiftYourSpirits.com.

In short, the course teaches a format for doing professional psychic readings.  The process is taught through a home-study course that combines written text in the form of a work-book, an attunement into the Universal Collective Intelligence / Akashic Records, audio lectures as well as personal one-on-one mentoring calls with Slade himself who has been doing psychic readings professionally for several years now.

In the last couple of weeks I have completed my attunement, reading and digesting the workbook, listening to all the audio lectures and had my first mentoring session with Slade.

With the “theory” side of he process under my belt, I felt that it was now time for me to get my feet wet and to move into the practical side of actually starting to do readings.

So, this afternoon I sat down, did a short meditation and proceeded to do my first “official” full length reading.  I have previously done short “mini-readings” with another mentor of mine (Chris Landry) as a warm up and confidence builder, but this was my first full on focused reading as taught in the Automatic Intuition course.

I was slightly nervous, but mostly just excited at the same time.  I have to say I was pleasantly surprised as to how quickly and easily the information began flowing for me.  It took me about an hour to complete the first part of the reading where I just connect and write down everything that comes through.    I was amazed at how much detail and information came through.  I was able to get the client’s spirit guide name, gender and a description as well as many other details.

It then took me approximately another five hours to synthesize and assemble the information into a cohesive package which I sent out to my first practice client.  There is no way it’s going to take me that long to do future readings.  It just took that long because it is my first time, I had to refer to the course materials to double check specific references and to create the format and template for the written reading.

By the time the reading was done I was wiped, but really excited about what the finished product came out as.  Hopefully it resonates with my practice client as well.

I’ve got about half a dozen more practice readings ready to roll as well which is good.  Now it’s just a matter of making time to complete them all.

The launch of this new Blog is a big part of my decision to embrace and develop my intuitive abilities.

I’ve always felt I’ve had a strong intuition and it has helped me in various situations ranging from advancing my career goals to avoiding deadly car accidents.  However, until recently I haven’t really been using my intuition consciously for any specific reason.  I simply went about my life unaware of my intuitive abilities until a situation arose where they jumped to the surface and smacked me across the face.

The Traffic Accident Incident

One example of this happened about ten years ago when I was driving home with my Mom and younger brother.  We were heading towards an intersection down a two-lane street and all of a sudden I had this intensely strong feeling that I had to get into the left lane.  Getting into the left lane made no logical sense since the left lane had three or four cars sitting at the light all waiting to turn left.  Our destination was to go straight through the intersection, so it made logical sense to stay in the right lane so as not to get stuck in the left lane behind all the cars waiting to turn left.

This was a road I have driven every day on my way to work and every day I would be in the right lane when crossing that intersection.  On this particular day, however, I had a very strong feeling to get into the left lane and it was so strong that I just switched lanes immediately without even knowing why I did that.

Less than a minute later a pickup truck appeared behind us and I could see it in my rear view mirror.  It was heading towards us, driving erratically, but in the right lane.  Everything kind of went into slow motion for a few seconds as I watched this truck go past us in the right lane towards the intersection.

The light was red in the intersection and there was  a single vehicle stopped at the red light sitting in the right lane, and this pickup truck was heading straight for it.  I remember seeing the pickup truck accelerate towards the intersection completely oblivious to the fact that there was a stopped car in the lane ahead of it.

We watched in horror as the pickup truck slammed into the back of the stopped car, without ever hitting the brakes until after the collision happened.  As the pickup slammed into the stopped car, all the windows in the car blew out and I remember seeing little pieces of glass explode about thirty feet in the air and slowly come down like little glittering sparkles.  It all happened so quickly, just seconds after I got into the left lane but time seemed to slow down until after the accident.  I immediately called 911 and told them what happened.

Apparently the pickup truck was driven by a drunk driver who didn’t even realize he was about to smash into the car until it happened.  Luckily the lady in the car that was hit was alive, but her car was totaled and I’m sure she sustained long-term injuries.  She was driving a four door sedan, and the impact of the pickup truck hitting her car was so severe that the back seats of the car were crushed up against the front seats.  If there was anyone sitting in those back seats, surely they would have been dead.

In my car, I had my younger brother sitting in the back seat, so I’m sure you can imagine how “lucky” we felt afterwords that for some unexplained reason I decided to get into that left lane.

I’ve had other incidents similar to this that have made me aware of some form of divine protection that seems to show up in my life during situations where something like this happens.

However, even though this incident took place over ten years ago I haven’t really pursued trying to figure out exactly why I experienced this feeling and what it means until just a few years ago.  Three years ago I began working with a spiritual coach who told me that it was most likely one of my Spirit Guides coming to my aid in a time of extreme danger.  It was then that she also told me that getting help from my Spirit Guides is not something that’s limited to life and death situations.  If I wanted to, I could choose to connect with them a lot more and get their help, but it was completely my choice.

Spirituality and Personal Development

For the last 15 years I’ve been a student of personal development and I’ve read well over 1,000 books on various topics ranging from nutrition to time management to the law of attraction and everything in between.  The majority of my energy during that time was spent on the more traditional side of personal development, on topics such as finances, success strategies, entrepreneurship, etc.  However, the spiritual side of personal development has been slowly becoming a bigger and bigger part of my journey and in the last three years especially I have began to really take notice of spiritual teachings and related topics.

I’ve read numerous books on spiritual topics, worked with several spiritual teachers/coaches, had numerous Psychic/Intuitive/Spirit Guide readings, interviewed Psychics, and just generally been fascinated with everything related to Intuitive abilities.

The purpose of this Blog is for me to start documenting my journey to connect with and to develop my Intuitive abilities, and to hopefully help others who are on the same journey.

I know I’m not the only one out there hearing the call to connect more with their spiritual side so hopefully my journey can also serve as a roadmap for others as well.

I’m very excited to be launching the Blog and I’m looking forward to connecting with others on the journey.