The Printer, the Psychic and the Song

My book is still at the printer and I am waiting for my single copy known as "the proof." What should have taken a week to 10 days, has already taken three weeks. But this isn't a blog about book publishing, this is a blog about psychic ability and reality. Here's what happened:

A week ago, I was wondering what was happening with my book and why the printer couldn't produce the proof. I was meditating and wondering. An old John Denver song came into my mind, "Lost and confused on some forgotten highway; traveled by many, remembered by few." What stuck in my mind was "Lost and confused" and I wrote down, "Lost and confused at the printer."

On Saturday, I went to see a psychic who I had never met. She didn't know my story at all and this is what she told me:

"Gail, you're kinda on a roller coaster right now. That first hill is a nasty one. It's like this roller coaster goes around real fast then you hit that hill. It's like going in circles now, and you keep hitting that hill."

I explained that I had a book at a printer and I was waiting for it to be printed. 

She said, "The people who have the book have overwhelmed themselves with their to-do lists. They are not real logical. It's like a slapstick comedy act. They keep thinking they will do it tomorrow. It's tomorrow already . . . It's a good solid company, but people are left independent and they don't know how to keep the ball rolling. It finally gets to someone else, then they sit on it. They don't have priorities. They are scared and they don't know what to do so they are slow . . . They are not doing it on purpose. They look at your book and it's bigger than the one which just came in so they look at books which are smaller and think, 'Oh, this will go faster,' and they work on the smaller book.

"I feel like this is the only one which has this stall. Others that come out of you will not have this stall."

So, the psychic had much more information about a chaotic work environment than my simple, "Lost and confused . . ."

Now, let's check in with reality and see what happened. According to my tech guy who works with this company, the company revamped their ordering and proofing systems in January and they have had the usual problems associated with changes to a very large computer-based system. The changeover took place during a busy time of year. The complications created by both the customers and the workers having to learn the new system created a lot of confusion. This confusion, combined with the unexpectedly heavy workload, resulted in the slow down.

Ah. We all got the same basic concept of confusion. I had a lyric, the psychic had an invisible source of information, and the techie had a formal explanation. This is how psychic ability works. Not complete information, but the gist of it. The feeling of it.

I am so pleased whenever I have the opportunity to compare psychic information with physical reality. Comments? You can always reach me at gail@MyPsychicSearch.com.

Gail

Quotes from Psychics:

I am responsible to the Cosmos and to the Divine for the information which I give. What a client does with the information is their business, but I am responsible for the utmost clarity and for making sure that my clients understand the information to the best of their ability. I take that responsibility very seriously.

To-Ree'-Nee' Wolf

Some people think that the work I do looks easy, but they don’t understand that people are asking me about things which will shape major decisions in their lives. It is a huge responsibility.

Gigi Sample

Book publishing is a process of "hurry up and wait." Since October, My Psychic Search book has been close enough to "done" that I have had Preview Editions for sale. Since October, I have been working with my technology guy to get the manuscript into the correct format for printing. He does his work, sends the book to me, I proof-read it and find things which need to be re-worked, send it back, he make the corrections, sends it to me again and I proof it again. We went through four rounds of proofing and correcting. A process which I had thought would take about a month took three months.

Once I was happy with the book, he sent it to the printer so that they could print a single "proof" for me. This process should have taken 7-10 days . . . but it's already been two weeks and I don't have my copy. The book which I had hoped to have on January 1, 2012, doesn't yet have a proof copy and may take another month or so (who can guess?!) to be printed.

While waiting for my book, I have gone through periods of apprehension, anticipation, excitement, boredom, and demoralization. I like to keep things moving along so I know there must be a lesson for me in this period when nothing is happening.

In the meantime, I am catching up on lots of things which need to be done. I have printed my 2011 photos and put them in albums. I have finished my 2011 Quicken so I'm ready to do my taxes. I am cleaning out old magazines and art supplies. I'm not wasting time, but I'm not able to get the book to the people who are waiting to read it.

When I try to understand why things are going so slowly, two answers come to me: patience and purification. Perhaps the Universe is trying to teach me about patience. But I don't understand what patience is. Is patience a real attribute (something positive), or just the lack of a negative attitude? Is patience the intention not to let yourself get bored, angry or depressed when nothing is happening?

To me, the test of patience is waiting in the doctor's office with nothing to do; no TV, no magazine. Just sitting there and not stewing about how the doctor is running 40 minutes late. I'm not one to play on my phone (and I'm afraid to touch the germy magazines in the doctor's waiting room). I just sit there and try to think deep thoughts. When I have deep thoughts, this is fine. When I don't, I think I am wasting my time - why didn't I bring a magazine?

So, is patience making the most of a quiet period of time? Is that what I am doing when I clean my house and read blogs about how to sell books on the Internet? Or, am I completely missing the point about patience?

The other idea which came to me is "purification." Perhaps there is some sort of a purification process in place whereby I am letting go of old stuff so that new stuff can arrive; physically and mentally. I am physically cleaning out old magazines and art supplies to make room for boxes of books. I am also letting go of old dreams and hoping that life will bring me new adventures. Perhaps, I need a month to allow old ideas and stale energies to drop away. I am getting rid of unused stuff to unclog my flow of energy.

Or maybe, I am philosophizing and romanticizing the meaning of life when all that is happening is that the commercial printer is backed up and will get to my book when he gets to it. Period. I like to think that there is a reason for how things happen in our lives. I like to think that I am waiting for something good to happen because the Universe needs the time to click things into place. Perhaps, it takes a moment for the Universe to get everything aligned for success. I have a wish for success. However, just like the psychics tell me that they can't force anything to happen, they can only allow things to happen, I can't force the book to arrive in my mailbox. Okay, I'll take a deep breath, allow the Universe to do its work, and check my mail this afternoon hoping that the proof arrives.

Wait! I think I hear the mail truck! Gotta go! :)

Gail

gail@MyPsychicSearch.com

Nearly two years ago, on March 4, 2010, I wrote a blog entry answering the question: "What happens at a reading?" I was fascinated by the unique way that each psychic accesses clients' energy and information. You can read that entry by clicking here http://www.mypsychicsearch.com/id70.html and scrolling down. All of the information in that blog post is still current. Today I want to add some new information.

The March 4, 2010 post explained that psychics and intuitives have many ways of connecting with clients. To begin a reading, some psychics may say a prayer, ask to hold hands or ask to read a person's palms. Some readers use Tarot cards, crystal balls, or other tools to open the energy. Once the reader has accessed the client's energy, information will come and the psychic will share the messages. Then, people can ask questions.

A few months ago, Cecilia Nemmers provided a more-complete explanation of how she works with clients. She said:

"When I read for someone, I look at the person's palm and actually go into the person's energy stream. People have many streams of energy. Some are focused on home or jobs or life purpose. I generally ask the person I am reading to ask me a question. The question gives me a direction as to which energy stream to follow. This opens up other streams and doors and gets into that one energy that people are asking about. The energies are made up of feelings. It is my job, I feel, to disconnect my feelings from the person's feelings and just tell them what is there. I have had people call me when they are in crisis mode and I'm picking up on their energy. If I just shot back a quick answer, it would be wrong because it is connected to their fear. I have to pull myself away from their energy then, aha, I can see what is happening. The person in crisis mode is so involved in what is happening from their perspective that they can't see the whole picture. I try to give them the whole picture. I can do this by going into their energy stream. Nine times out of ten, when someone is looking for a psychic reading it is because they have a question which they cannot figure out themself. They want more clarity. When I talk to someone and they are panicking, they need to calm down so things can be discussed. People don't see the patterns in their life and what throws them into panic mode.

"During readings, I receive information through my Guides, the client's energy field, and the spirits for whom the client has questions. My gifts are multi-faceted. I can see, hear and feel any Beings who are around at the time of the reading. The information comes through clearly and the readings are never rushed."

Fascinating.

During readings, psychics may connect to intermediaries such as Spirit Guides or connect directly to their client's energy. This direct connection allows the psychic to perceive the client's situation and access their information. The sense of separation between people dissolves. When psychics connect with the energy system of the person whom they are reading, their energies intertwine. The psychic knows what the client knows because they are in the same energy field.

There are many intriguing books about people with psychic abilities. One of these books is Extraordinary Knowing, by Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, Ph. D. (Bantam Books, NY, 2007). Dr. Mayer interviewed several psychics and asked how they accessed information. For those of you who are interested in how psychic ability works, Dr. Mayer's book provides detailed examples. Here are a few quotes from the book.

On page 52 of "Extraordinary Knowing," John Huddleston discussed his psychic readings and explained why he considered them to be "ordinary":

"For instance, an important key to this state of mind is ‘no effort.' And that's quite ordinary, because if you think of a time when you tried hard to remember something, you know the more you tried to remember it, the more you pushed it down within you. However, when you relaxed and allowed it to emerge, it bubbled right up. You accomplished that with no effort. That's how intuition works. Effortlessness. It's easier than you think. Doing a reading is as effortless as opening a garden gate and stepping into a new landscape. I simply observe the garden; I don't have to create it.

"Another state of mind is discrimination. A reading is like observing a huge, moving, transforming mural: the client's health, relationships, family, joys and challenges, future - they're all there. So discerning what's important among all that is essential. Think of it as talking to a friend at a noisy, crowded party. You're able to screen out fifty other voices and hear the voice that's important. How do you do it? Well you just do. On a deeper level, spiritual discrimination is also what allows a mother to sleep through noisy trucks rumbling past, but awaken when her baby cries in the next room."

He goes on to say (p. 68):

"It's ordinary because it's just there, all that information about the other person. All you have to do is get yourself out of the way. We're all connected, that's the point. We don't know it most of the time because we think we'd rather feel separate."

Helen Palmer (p. 53) was also interviewed for Extraordinary Knowing. She explained how she accessed intuitive information:

"Maybe 75% of the process lies in getting empty enough to watch the different inputs of my mind. I follow my abdominal breath until thoughts and feelings recede. The emptiness feels very nourishing, very soft and intimate. You lose awareness of the room, your body, your face. That all goes, but there's a separate awareness that stays. I need time to get empty, so I'm not anticipating, not resisting anything that wants to appear, before I focus on anything. Otherwise I get confused about where I am inside and can't tell the difference between an accurate impression and my own fantasy projections.

"Once you're internalized, you establish a focal object, not trying for anything. The focal object is an imagined representation of whatever you need to contact. It could be a meditation symbol that you want to unite with, or an inner picture of some real-world event. You focus, then wait. You doubt and you stay there anyway. You just keep shifting attention back to the focal object, until it starts to capture your attention. Then you're ready. The process is the same if you're focused on a ‘world' question or knowing about spiritual matters, but it takes very precise concentration for spiritual knowing."

She continued (p. 54):

"Meanwhile, you are so far removed from the room and yourself and the passage of time that you become whatever that focus is, so you know it from the inside. You participate with whatever you're reading in a certain sense. You read another person accurately because you are them; you know them from the inside because you've stopped being separate. Then the thing is to track how you yourself get in the way. You have to make sure your placements of attention are precise so you're not projecting. That's why my teaching is so focused on knowing yourself and what you're likely to project into a reading; that's the only way to get reliable with intuition.

"Intuition operates from a different state than ordinary consciousness; quite decisively different from ordinary consciousness. If you don't know that, if you don't know how to shift back and forth between states, then you can start to feel very crazy, especially when you can't immediately verify what you know. You need a conceptual framework that keeps you feeling normal. That's essential. I did feel unstable early on, not about the states I went into, which were comforting actually, but I felt such a terrible loneliness. I felt like a freak. As I learned more, I realized the amazing thing was to be so located. My clairvoyance could locate people at a distance or at different points in time, so any accuracy on my part automatically located us both in a greater reality that people need to know is kindly and real. Clairvoyance isn't a mind-to-mind thing, like reading people's thoughts. It lets us see a much larger pattern of existence."

People with psychic ability report that even though our ego tells us that we are separate from each other, on a deeper level we are somehow connected.

In Dr. Mayer's book, Extraordinary Knowing, Deb Mangelus (p. 138) talked about moving between two states of awareness:

"Over time, as you go in and out of seeing the way I see, you get better at it. When I was a child, it was just natural; it just happened. I didn't work at it. But when you start calling on it in a way that's more disciplined, it's different. You have to begin recognizing what helps get you there and you have to deepen that. But while you can work at it; you can't overthink it. Thinking about it gets in the way. It's a funny balance, I have to let go of thinking while I'm seeing the way I see. Ordinary thinking, that is.

"So I actually forget the things I see - I mean, I'll forget in my regular life. In my regular life, I'll even be friends with people I've done sessions for. I'll be with them and I won't remember what I've seen about them. It's like it comes from somewhere else. But then if we have another session - even ten, fifteen years later - what I saw before comes back, vividly. My mind switches back."

According to these psychics, they switch between rational knowing and intuitive knowing. As they practice shifting between these states, the shift gets easier.

If you are intrigued by the information in Extraordinary Knowing (Bantam Books, NY, 2007), you can order the book on Amazon. I just bought a new copy!

Did you like this blog post or was it too detailed? Please let me know what you thought at gail@MyPsychicSearch.com.

Gail

The big winner from January 5th's book drawing is (ta-da): J. Gilson. As soon as My Psychic Search book is available, I'll get one to her. Congratulations!!!!

Calm News - Aura Photography

Things are quiet around here. Sunday's Psychic Fair was fun, but quiet. It was held on the one-year anniversary of the shootings in Tucson and I think that there was a solemn/subdued energy at the fair. It just wasn't as crowded and lively as usual. However, I had some interesting experiences with several people who were set up at the Fair. In fact, I had aura photography done by April Kressley.

What is aura photography? People have subtle energy fields around, and through, their bodies. People who see auras are seeing these personal, subtle, energy fields. People who want to know what their aura looks like, but can't see it themselves, can have aura photography done. I don't know exactly how this process works, but when a person sits down in front of the camera and places their hand on a special machine, the machine reads body energy and translates it into a photograph. According to April's website (www.AprilKressley.com), "AURA photography simply measures your electro-magnetic field via the meridians, or energy pathways, in your hands." Even though I don't understand the photographic mechanics, I had a fascinating experience.

In July of 2011, I had an aura photograph taken and the colors were gold and green, signifying compassion, joyful teaching and healing. On Sunday, January 8, 2012, I had a second aura photo taken and it was surprising similar to the first photo. So, my aura is not a random thing: it is consistently green and yellow. That's good to know.

After I had the photograph taken, I sat at the Psychic Fair for an hour or so. There wasn't much happening at my table so I started playing with a clear quartz crystal pyramid. Ever since I began working on My Psychic Search, I have had pyramids appear in my meditations so I am drawn to them. I was moving this crystal from hand to hand, almost like rolling Play Dough. I wasn't thinking about much, but I was very calm.

April asked me if I wanted a second photo taken so I could look at my chakras and I said, "Sure!" When I sat down at her booth and placed my hand on the mechanism, I saw that my aura had turned from yellow/green to pink/purple. This is a completely different set of colors which indicate cosmic knowledge, meditation and spirituality. It seems that playing with the clear quartz crystal had increased my vibrational frequency and brought me to a much higher level. Psychics say that clear quartz crystals enhance meditation and connection. They change our frequency. And, here, I had physical evidence of this change.

At the time, I felt quite calm and content. I didn't feel like I was receiving intuitive messages, although a couple of songs kept going through my brain and I always listen to lyrics for my messages. I didn't have a lightning bolt of intuition, but I had a wonderful sense of calm . . . and my aura turned purple. You can see both of these photos at the top of this page.

If you are interested in having a photograph of your aura, search on-line for a place near you which provides this service. If you are going to be in Tucson January 28 - February 6, April will be providing aura photography at The Clarion Hotel at I-10 and 22nd Street. The huge international gem show is coming to Tucson at the end of January and April will be part of the Metaphysical Gem Show. You can check out her work at www.AprilKressley.com.

That's all for today. Keep calm and centered. Breathe. Ah . . .

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to send them to me at gail@MyPsychicSearch.com. 

Gail

We are in the new energies. What will 2012 bring? According to the psychics, the period of time around 2012 will bring a series of climate catastrophes, but will also bring a change in the way we think. We will have the opportunity to move forward while looking out for each other, or to move forward in self-centered ways which make life on Earth more difficult. Our choice.

I am choosing optimism. Why? As long as I have a choice, I might as well choose something which brings me happiness. How about you? I think that this will be one of the most-interesting years of my life. My book is about to be published and I am looking forward to offering the psychics' insights to the world. If the psychics are correct, the book will be successful and will change my life. I will travel, talk to new-to-me psychics, and sell books. If it doesn't sell well, I'll have to re-evaluate the last few years of my life to see if I missed a message somewhere or if "success" has more facets to it than just sales numbers. Of course, there's always "in between" - somewhat successful, but not as well-received as I am hoping. So there you go, lots of potential, personal, futures for me. Lots of potential energy for all of us!

If you want to know more about your personal future, come to this Sunday's Psychic Fair at the Windmill Inn. I'll be set up with my Wild Girl! pins and cards, chakra-balancing pendants, and Preview Editions of my book. I had hoped to have the formally-published book by now, but proof-reading (and more proof-reading and more proof-reading), has taken longer than I had thought it would take. However, I am still hoping that the book will be out by the end of January. I am really looking forward to having a book full of wisdom to share with you. In addition, there is still time to put your name in the drawing for a book. The drawing will be tomorrow, January 5. Just send your name, e-mail address and phone number to me at gail@MyPsychicSearch.com.

The Psychic Fair will be held on Sunday, January 8, 2012 from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. at the Windmill Inn in Tucson, AZ. The Windmill Inn is on the southeast corner of River Road and Campbell Avenue.

Now, I'll share some quotes from the psychics with you. I hope these ideas help you look forward to 2012 and your own personal future.

Shirli Millmond says:

"You may not be born with it, but if you are experiencing life and are learning your lessons, and you have the right teachers and coaches, you can learn to be more intuitive.

"If you have the right person next you at the moment when you need it, your life can be different. People shouldn't be afraid to ask for help. When people talk to psychics, coaches or teachers, they need to listen to a different perspective. They don't have to change their lives right away, but if they listen with an open mind, the seeds can grow.

"People keep getting the same lessons in G-d's universe in order to give them the opportunity to change. If they don't change, they keep getting the same lessons. They have to stop for a second and try to get the lesson. If they can't get it on their own, they should get help. A reader can provide a different perspective on the situation."

And Cherie Fraine believes:

"There are a lot of things that you can do to change the future. You can turn situations around. You have freedom of choice. Everything you do is a choice which lays the groundwork for another choice."

Delphina Nova thinks that:

"People need to live in trust instead of living in fear. They need to see this beautiful world as a benevolent place. Be love on the path."

And Kat Riegel remarks:

"If I had one wish for humanity, I would wish that people could be more open-minded about things. It doesn't mean that people need to change what they do or how they act, but I would like them to be able to accept other people's ideas and think about them."

Have a wonderful new year full of peace and prosperity. Let's make 2012 a pivotal year for humanity.

Comments or questions? I love hearing from you at gail@MyPsychcSearch.com. 

2012 and Ascension

The year 2012 is nearly here and, according to most of the psychics, it will bring changes in the way we think and act. I have been told by Raquel Spencer, Gigi Sample, Delphina Nova, April Cunningham and other psychics, that we are already in the 2012 energy.

2012 will provide the opportunity for people to move forward in spiritual evolution. There are many things yet to accomplish in this physical realm, and there may also be the opportunity for ascension. Ascension is the concept of awakening to a higher level of consciousness. At the ascended level, people understand who they are and what they have been learning on Earth. Some people liken ascension to entering Heaven alive, with a body. Death is normally the end of life. Through ascension, people will no longer need to go through the pain and fear of death in order to reconnect with the spiritual world.

A few months ago, Cecilia Nemmers shared her thoughts on ascension with me and, today, I want to share this information with you. According to Cecilia, humanity is already in the ascension process and 2012 will accelerate this growth. Ascension will provide the opportunity to become conscious of who we are, what we are, why we are here, and how we can help other people.

Cecilia believes that:

"The ascension process is just a matter of going up into your Higher Self and opening yourself up to the higher realms. These realms give you all sorts of answers and memories, as well as the awareness of who you are. You started out as a magnificent Being, total love. You started out as a powerful Being who could manifest everything you wanted and needed at the time. Loving. Giving. Being."

She added:

"It's like you are an all-knowing Being and then you come into a body and you don't know anything. It's like you have a constant state of amnesia. We go though this life as we know it in an amnesiatic state. Once you leave the body, you come out of that state."

She explained that ascension provides the opportunity for people to understand who they are, without having to go through the difficulties of physical death. People just wake up and reconnect with greater realities.

On the other side, we understand that we are powerful, eternal, Beings. However, for generations, there has been a darkness held over this planet which has kept us from remembering who we are while we are here. We have lost contact with that reality. Now, with the help of Ascended Masters, angels, Archangels and spiritual Beings, the darkness will be lifting. With their help, we will find our way home.

Cecilia continued:

"The awakening process is the awareness that you are more than just a servant to be born, to work, and to die; just to exist. Our understanding that we are more powerful than that, more magnificent than that, and eking out an existence, doesn't make any sense. We are trying to make sense of this whole thing. In the process of looking for that answer, we have found out that we have been held at this low level, the lower vibration, for a long, long time and we have had to fight our way out of this lower vibrational level into the higher vibrations."

How will Ascension work?

Cecilia explained:

"You will go into another part of your Higher Self and that will take you into this knowledge of all of your past lives and everything you are and you will realize that there is no right or wrong, good or bad. It is all just experiences which have made you who you are. They are part of you. They are not part of your actual makeup, but they are part of the experiences that you carry with you and you relate to.

"We are all creators and we all create as we go. We create marvelous things as we go. We are linked to G-d. G-d is also the creator. Because we are all linked to G-d, we are all creators. It gets confusing, it gets involved. Just understand that the ascension process is to take you to a higher level of being, to where you are extremely ecstatic and euphoric all the time and your sole purpose of being is to help others. There are those of us who are going to help the people who are not quite ready to ascend yet. We will be there for them, as other Beings have been there for us, to help them through the ascension process."

At another point in our discussion Cecilia said that people who go through the ascension process will wake up, move up a level of consciousness and remember who they really are and the journey that they are on. The most gentle description she provided was that people could be sitting at a table talking to each other then, suddenly, they would wake up, realize that they were powerful, magnificent, spiritual beings, understand how all of their past lives worked together, then keep on talking. Alive, in a body, knowing things. After that, each person could lift into his or her Higher Self and decide where to go and if he or she wanted to take the body along. There would be choices. No one is quite certain what the ascension process will be, but it is nice to think it could be as easy as just waking up and knowing things.

According to Cecilia, we are already in the ascension process and people are waking up. This process is available to everyone and is not based on religious belief. People who are on a spiritual path and who are ready for ascension will go through the process first. People who are wondering about ascension, but who aren't quite ready, will have the opportunity to live on Earth and learn more about who they are and why they are here. They will have the time and choices they need to determine what they want to do. When they are ready, they will go through the ascension process.

The people who have no idea that there is a spiritual component to life, and who are not interested in spirituality, will have other opportunities to continue their lives and may not even be aware that things are changing.

As we move into the new year, I wish all of you peace, prosperity and freedom. These are exciting times to be alive. As Gigi Sample often reminds me, "This is the lifetime we have all been waiting for."

Happy New Year!

Gail

P.S. There is still time to pre-order My Psychic Search book at the reduced price. The price will go up on January 1. You can pre-order on The Book page of this website. I am trying to get a count so I know how many books to order. There is also still time to enter the January 5 drawing for a book. Just send your name, e-mail address and phone number to me and tell me that you want to be in the drawing.

Quote from a Psychic:

"I realized that spiritual evolution doesn't always have to do with psychic phenomena. I think that some people are good at math, or running; I think it is like that with intuition. It doesn't say much about you as a human being, but some people just have the talent. And some spiritually-evolved people are not psychic; for example, they can't see the future or talk to the dead. They are just very evolved."

 Leah Taylor

My Reading with a Pet Psychic

In last week's blog, I said that I would share with you what happened when I talked to a pet psychic early in December. It was a wonderful reading. As an adult, I have had several dogs and cats. Right now, I have an adorable dog, Maggie, helping me with my work. Until last August, Pepper had also been by my side as I worked on My Psychic Search Project. However, he passed away last summer.

So, I went to see Kat Riegel at the Psychic Fair. I brought photos of both of my dogs so she could see who they were as she attempted to contact them. Interestingly, as I sat down (and before we started the reading) Kat had a flash of an orange/yellow dog with a message. She asked if one of the dogs in the photos was the color of an Irish Setter or a Yellow Lab? I said, "No." However, one of my first dogs had been a red Cocker Spaniel named Ginger. She was one of my beloved animals and had passed more than 15 years ago; right before Pepper came into my life. Kat said that we might come back to the mystery dog later.

Kat began the reading by looking at the dogs in the photos. She said that Maggie had a higher energy level than Pepper. I told her that Maggie was alive, but Pepper had passed last summer. That made sense to her. She started communicating with Maggie and she told me things about Maggie which were true, but which Kat wouldn't have known because she had never met my dogs. She told me that Maggie was an excited dog who never liked to sit still. She liked to be in the middle of things and to know what was going on. She loved going outside.

I told her that Maggie had slowed down since Pepper had died and Kat told me that Maggie was going through her own grieving process. She really missed Pepper. In addition, Maggie knew that her job had been to run out to the yard, keep track of things, then run into the house and inform Pepper. Now that Pepper was gone, she didn't need to keep running in and out of the house; there wasn't anyone to tell when something was going on. Kat also said that Maggie was healthy and that Maggie thought she was about 8 years old. Maggie said, "I'm not an old dog." Having adopted Maggie from a shelter, we don't know her exact age, but we know she is older than 6 ½, so 8 makes sense.

After talking to Maggie, Kat connected with Pepper and found him to be very contented in an energetic "holding space" above the Earth. She told me that he had loved his life and that, although dying had come as a surprise, he felt that he had accomplished all that he needed to do on Earth. He didn't have any regrets. In addition, his spirit was visiting Maggie and trying to help her bounce back.

Does this sound crazy to you? I've come a long way because it all makes perfect sense to me!

Finally, Kat connected with Ginger, my Cocker Spaniel who had died many years ago. Ginger was my dog in my single days so we were devoted to each other. In fact, Ginger had saved my life one time (but that's another story), so I had repaid her with snacks and love. Kat reported that Ginger was acting as a Spirit Guide for me, helping whenever I felt discouraged about writing the book. In those moments, Ginger was able to "bump" my thoughts to happy memories and remind me why I was working on this Project. In fact, there is a story in the book about how Ginger had helped me through a particularly stressful week in my life so Kat's message reinforced my feeling that Ginger was with me. What a wonderful connection we had!

If you have pets, you know the joy of a life companion and the sorrow of losing your love. The idea that we can communicate in words with our living pets and re-connect with our deceased pets, is very comforting. Thank you Kat for being the connecting point for this wonderful experience!

If you want to know more about Kat and her work, I posted a "Meet a Psychic" blog about her on September 9, 2011. Check it out at http://www.mypsychicsearch.com/2011.09.01_arch.html (just scroll down the page). Her e-mail address is kre8ivekat@aol.com.

Before I finish this post, I want to let you know that My Psychic Search book is coming along . . . slowly. I have created "The Book" page on this website and it has an image of the winning book cover from the contest. Thanks to all of you who voted on a book cover at the Tucson Museum of Art Show! The actual book should be available in January and it will sell for $24.95 (it's more than 350 pages!). If you pre-order a book by December 31, 2011, there's a $5 discount. I am encouraging pre-orders so that I know how many books to print. To pre-order, go "The Book" page and click on the "Buy Now" button. Yes, I finally have PayPal on my website! Woo-hoo!

That's all for now. Have you had a great pet/psychic experience? I love hearing about our pets! Send your story to me at gail@MyPsychicSearch.com. Also, there's still time to enter your name in the January 5 drawing for one of the forthcoming books.

Gail

What does it feel like when you connect to Spirit?

Last Sunday, I went to the psychic fair and had two wonderful readings. These readings brought through interesting information and also helped me understand what the connection to our Spirit Guides feels like.

Psychics tell me that when they work with Spirit Guides, there is a unique feeling to the information. They know that they are not imagining the information because of the unique energy associated with the thoughts which come to them.

Most mornings, I try to meditate and connect with my invisible helpers shortly after I wake up. I am in that state of being half-asleep and half-awake, just before the coffee kicks in. When I make a connection, it feels very calm. Like waves of calm. I communicate how much I appreciate the life I am living, then I ask questions and wait to see what happens. Often, I am filled with this lovely calm feeling, then answers come to me. Laurie Hays once told me that she knows she is receiving outside information when she hears things she couldn't imagine. I experience the same thing. Sometimes I have a thought which makes me laugh out loud. I know it's a message because it is not the way I think. Those Guides . . . they have a sense of humor!

So, what happens when you sit down across the table from a psychic hoping to get a reading? Years ago, when I rarely had readings, I was so excited I could barely contain myself. I wondered what would happen? What would I hear? In retrospect, I can see that my heightened energy (excitement mixed with skepticism), may have influenced the readings. Readers work in a world of energy connections and they pick up energy from the people whom they are reading. I used to get so excited about a reading that it was overwhelming. And if it overwhelmed me, it probably affected the psychic too.

Now when I sit down, I know to take a few deep breaths and release the excess energy, the excess excitement, of anticipating a reading. It's taken me a long time to get to the place where I can feel calm and warm and inviting during a reading. What I've found is that when I am in that calm space and the reader is making a clear connection, the energy moves between us. My openness allows the reader to make a clear connection and her connection helps me to remain open. It's an energetic orb encompassing her, our Guides and me. Whether or not the information is what I want to hear, there is an underlying calm. It feels great.

In all the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, do you ever have a quiet moment when you feel love in your heart? That's what it feels like to connect to Spirit. That warm glow in your heart is the same feeling you get when you and a psychic are connecting to your Spirit Guides and bringing through information for your highest good. At least, that's how it feels to me.

So, what happened at the readings last weekend? At the first one, I heard many things which I had already heard from my Guides. I'm always wondering if I really am hearing their subtle messages so it was empowering to hear the same messages from a psychic who was talking to my Guides. She repeated three things which I had thought I had heard, so it gave me confidence that the other 20 things I thought I had heard were also correct.

What about the second reading? We connected with my pets, including my recently deceased dog. It was wonderful to talk to my living dog, my deceased dog, and one of my dogs who had died many years ago and had been waiting for a chance to come through to me. I'll write more about that reading next week.

In the meantime, breathe in the calm, release the stress . . . repeat. Ah . . .

Gail

gail@MyPsychicSearch.com

P.S. There's still time to enter the drawing for my book on January 5, 2012. Just e-mail your name, phone number and e-mail address to me and I'll put your name in the drawing. I'll also add you to the e-mail list so you will know when a new blog has been posted.

Chatting and Learning at the Tucson Museum of Art Show

Welcome to December! Lots going on around here -- I am working on my book, selling artwork, and celebrating the holidays with my family and friends.

Two weekends ago, I was at the Holiday Art Market at the Tucson Museum of Art. The show was so much fun! I put up six potential covers for My Psychic Search book and had people vote on their favorites. It was a great opportunity to test-market the covers. I listened to everyone's comments, put aside my ego when people did not select the covers which I had personally created, and used their opinions to finalize the book cover. Interestingly, several people looked at the book cover choices and said, "If you were psychic, you would know which cover to use." This is my audience. These people don't really understand how psychic ability works and that it is not always so simple. They were quick to mock psychic ability (although I admit, I probably would have made the same joke!). I am writing about psychics, not claiming to be a professional psychic. I enjoy asking for opinions from potential readers.

I want to thank everyone who stopped at the Museum Show to talk to me about my artwork and My Psychic Search Project. It was a cross-section of America. I talked to people who had experiences with psychic phenomena, I talked to skeptics, and I talked to people who made a face when they saw my subject matter (yet still voted on a book cover!). It was so much fun to hear about people's psychic experiences.

Here's a contrast in conversation: I talked to one guy who was very nice, had interesting insights and was soft-spoken. However, something about our conversation sucked the energy out of my life. After he left, I felt completely deflated. A few minutes later, I talked to a woman who knew about psychic lives, was curious about my Project and helped me to remember why I was doing this work. She reminded me how lucky I was that this Project had been channeled to me. The Universe had taken the time to find a psychic to suggest this Project to me. That's how the Project had begun and that's why I have to keep focusing my energy on listening to people with psychic abilities and sharing their information. In talking to her, I told her that my goal was to interview psychics and bring their stories and truths to the public. I remembered that I wasn't working on this Project just to sell books. The book will share the psychics' wisdom with interested readers and it will be the financial vehicle which will allow me to continue my interview and writing work. The book is not the focus, it is the facilitating product. The focus is on what psychics do, what psychics know, and how all of us can benefit from their gifts.

This woman and I hugged and I felt completely renewed. The thing that struck me was the remarkable difference in talking to two people in a row: one who left me feeling deflated and one who left me feeling wonderful. All of us have the to opportunity to influence each other for good or for bad. Our choice. It is wonderful when we meet someone who leaves us feeling great!

In addition to chatting with everyone, lots of people signed up to follow this blog. Having new readers is very rewarding. If you are one of my new readers, "Welcome!"

In January, I will be giving away one of my soon-to-be-published books. If you would like to participate in the drawing, e-mail your name, phone number and e-mail address to me and I will make a slip of paper with the information so you can be entered into the drawing. In addition, if you are not already on the e-mail list for this blog, I'll add your name so you can receive an e-mail whenever I update the blog.

So, I've been writing about my book and the people I have met, but I haven't posted anything about psychics in a few weeks. This Sunday, I am going to the Psychic Fair so I can talk with psychics and have new insights to post next week. I'm also going to have a reading. I haven't talked to a psychic about my life for several months and I miss the fun. Along the same lines, I've been too busy working on the book to interview any new psychics and it leaves me wistful. I miss the interviews. I am looking forward to having the book in hand so I can start interviewing psychics again and sharing their worlds with you.

If you are also interested in meeting a psychic this weekend, the Mystic Messengers Psychic Fair will be held on Sunday, December 4 from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. at the Windmill Inn in Tucson, Arizona (on the southeast corner of Campbell and River). I hope to see you there!

If you have any questions or comments, send an e-mail to me at gail@MyPsychicSearch.com. I love hearing from you!

Gail

Thanksgiving Gratitude

I want to take a moment to thank all of you who have been following my blog. This has been a delightful activity and I'm so pleased to see that people are interested in what I have to write. Thanksgiving reminds us of all the things we appreciate. I am so happy to be with my daughters who have come home from college, my adorable husband who supports this research and writing project, my mother who recently moved to Arizona to be near us, and my dog who recovered from a rattlesnake bite early this summer. This is a time of joy and it is always my wish that people around the world experience the same kind of joy in their lives that I am experiencing in mine. Spread the love.

Gail