Are you psychic or a psychic medium?

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Ways to Know If You're a Psychic Medium by Tana Hoy

To some degree, everyone on Earth is psychic. Every person is born with an innate psychic gift, but most of us are just not aware that somewhere within, lies an incredible source of power. Who knows - you could be able to reading minds, see the past, present, and future, or perhaps you might even be a psychic medium who's powerful enough to convey with the spiritual dimension!

Knowing you could possibly be psychic with extraordinary abilities is already something mind blowing; what more if you find out that you're a particular type of psychic like a psychic medium? Now that would be very cool! Imagine that, you have a unique special gift of communicating with the spiritual realm on top of the other psychic abilities you've got!

Psychic Medium Defined

By definition, a psychic medium is the term used to describe a person who is psychic and a medium. Psychic mediums possess the unique ability to communicate with spiritual entities -- spirit guides, guardian angels, and spirits of those who have passed away. Aside from the gift of mediumship, these special psychics can also possess other gifts like the abilities to see into the past, present, and future, among numerous others.

Three Sure Signs That you are a Psychic Medium

How is it possible to know if you are a psychic medium? Well listed here are 3 obvious signs of being one:

1. HEARING VOICES

There can be situations that you hear what others don't. It's just like as if you are hearing another person whispering in your ear. There could be times that you could really hear voices or spirits speaking, and from time to time these are just sounds like ringing in your ears, echoes, laughter, or even cries.

2. SEEING SPIRITUAL ENTITIES

Now this is one very strong sign of being a psychic medium. The gift of mediumship comes with a very strong sixth sense. Therefore you are able to see spiritual entities -- see them face to face, passing by, as part of your dreams, etc.

3. YOU PICK-UP UNEXPLAINABLE VIBES

Are there instances wherein you get sudden goosebumps for some unexplainable cause? Well the explanation might be because you are picking up the energies of spiritual entities. If you have psychic medium gifts, it is very common that your clairsentient psychic abilities are extremely strong; and this makes you feel energy vibrations of those who are in higher realms.

Yes, You're a Psychic Medium... So What Now?

There is this concept that goes: all psychic mediums are psychic, yet not all psychics are mediums. Basically, being a psychic medium is something unusual and special. When you find out that you are a psychic medium, it is best that you take hold of your unique ability and develop it.

But you might ask, why will I want to accept a gift that will make me capable to see, hear, and feel things out of the ordinary? Well yes, it could seem scary at first; but then, if you think about it the gift of mediumship has a lot of advantages too. The best part about being a psychic medium is that you'll be able to help others in addition to being able to help yourself to get a better outlook in life.

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Random Internet Tidbits -

• Psychic abilities can be developed, while becoming a medium cannot--it is purported to be a gift an individual is born with.
• A medium may have psychic abilities, but a psychic may not be a medium.

• A psychic works at an intuitive level.

• A medium has the ability to communicate with the spirits of the dead.
  
  
• A psychic may be able to foretell the future in many areas--love, money, career, or travel
  
• All people have some degree of psychic or intuitive ability, mediumship is very rare.
  
  
• A medium is a person who is able to make paranormal contact with the invisible realm around, specifically in making contact with the dead and with other spiritual entities.
  
• Mediumship, or channeling, is the practice of certain people—known as mediums—to mediate communication between spirits of the dead and other human beings.
• Spiritualists classify types of mediumship into two main categories: "mental" and "physical" - Mental mediums allegedly "tune in" to the spirit world by listening, sensing, or seeing spirits or symbols. Physical mediums are believed to produce materialization of spirits, apports of objects, and other effects such as knocking, rapping, bell-ringing, etc. by using "ectoplasm" created from the cells of their bodies and those of seance attendees.
  
  
• "Mental mediumship" is communication of spirits with a medium by telepathy. The medium mentally "hears" (clairaudience), "sees" (clairvoyance), and/or feels (clairsentience) messages from spirits. Directly or with the help of a spirit guide, the medium passes the information on to the message's recipient(s). When a medium is doing a "reading" for a particular person, that person is known as the "sitter."
  
• "Trance mediumship" is often seen as a form of mental mediumship. Most trance mediums remain conscious during a communication period, wherein a spirit uses the medium's mind to communicate. The spirit or spirits using the medium's mind influences the mind with the thoughts being conveyed. The medium allows the ego to step aside for the message to be delivered. At the same time, one has awareness of the thoughts coming through and may even influence the message with one's own bias.
  

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Wikipedia

Psychic senses

In Spiritualism, psychic senses used by mental mediums are sometimes defined differently than in other paranormal fields. A medium is said to have psychic abilities but not all psychics function as mediums. The term clairvoyance, for instance, may be used by Spiritualists to include seeing spirits and visions instilled by spirits. The Parapsychological Association defines "clairvoyance" as information derived directly from an external physical source.

Clairvoyance or "clear seeing", is the ability to see anything that is not physically present, such as objects, animals or people. This sight occurs "in the mind's eye". Some mediums say that this is their normal vision state. Others say that they must train their minds with such practices as meditation in order to achieve this ability, and that assistance from spiritual helpers is often necessary. Some clairvoyant mediums can see a spirit as though the spirit has a physical body. They see the bodily form as if it were physically present. Other mediums see the spirit in their mind's eye, or it appears as a movie or a television program or a still picture like a photograph in their mind.
Clairaudience or "clear hearing", is usually defined as the ability to hear the voices or thoughts of spirits. Some mediums hear as though they are listening to a person talking to them on the outside of their head, as though the Spirit is next to or near to the medium, and other mediums hear the voices in their minds as a verbal thought.
Clairsentience or "clear sensing", is the ability to have an impression of what a spirit wants to communicate, or to feel sensations instilled by a spirit.
Clairsentinence or "clear feeling" is a condition in which the medium takes on the ailments of a spirit, feeling the same physical problem which the spirit person had before death.
Clairalience or "clear smelling" is the ability to smell a spirit. For example, a medium may smell the pipe tobacco of a person who smoked during life.
Clairgustance or "clear tasting" is the ability to receive taste impressions from a spirit.
Claircognizance or "clear knowing", is the ability to know something without receiving it through normal or psychic senses. It is a feeling of "just knowing". Often, a medium will claim to have the feeling that a message or situation is "right" or "wrong."