Start uncovering now with the NextGEN Medium ‘Soul Ability Discovery Online Workshop!’

Get started on your soul abilities (psychic, mediumship, intuitive, healing) discovery and ownership with the NextGEN Medium ‘Soul Abilities Discovery Workshop’. This four-course instructional workshop has been designed to expose, enhance, troubleshoot and align you with your innate psychic, medium, intuitive, and healing abilities. Begin now with the first course ‘Discover the Soul Ability Mode (Psychic, Medium, Intuition, Healing) That Is A Best Fit for You, which includes a soul ability assessment to get you started in witnessing your soul abilities at work right now.

We’ve talked about getting to a settled state, sitting in your power (see blog post ‘The Art of Grounding). We’ve talked about opening up and observing (see blog post ‘Get to That Place: Opening Up to Observe’). Now it’s time to take in messaging, process it and concluding it’s meaning.

This process takes time to develop simply because you must also learn to let go of your learned behavior of judging and leading your thoughts with pain and fear. We are conditioned to exist in our suffering. Clearing your mind of what you can, minimizing it’s influence will give you the clearest understanding of messaging you receive through your soul senses via your soul abilities, soul modes.

We start where we left off with our last subject- Opening Up and Observing. Because observing initiates the messaging process, we’ll reconnect with this aspect to start this topic.

Observe Incoming Messaging Through Your Soul Senses

Once you’ve hit a place that is settled and you’ve shifted your attention to focus on the space in and around you, you open up to see what comes in. Through your clairs, your soul senses, your psychic senses, your meta senses, your mental senses- all the same thing- you take in the world, the energy and information that can not be picked up by our physical senses or with our physical body (See blog post ‘Time to Meet the Clairs’).

It is the information that you perceive in your mind and in your body that are the messages. You will witness it through imagery that flashes in your mind, sounds you here in your mind, words that are spoken to you in your mind, knowings that pass through your thoughts, feelings in your body.

This information is not used to being payed attention to so you might not notice it’s happenings at first. Do not let this deter you from continuing to be open. It is a part of acclimating to this suttle world.

Some people may have an easier time than others to see their messagings take place. Those who focus regularly by reading novels, creating artwork, writing in a journal are used to being in a place of quiet reflection, limited distractions.

Expand

Imagine receiving a message with one sense. How much information can be taken in with that one sense? Now, imagine you take in information with a second sense, then a third, then a fourth.

This is how you expand upon your messaging.

An image is seen. It is a beautiful woman. She has brown curly hair that is cut just below her ears, she’s wearing red lipstick and is wearing a pale green dress that bares her shoulders. How does she move? Watch her move. How does she smell? What is the sound of her voice? Take her in with your individual senses.

Just asking yourselves these questions in your mind will trigger you to pay attention to the answer in a way that triggers a soul sense.

The importance of expanding is taking what is immediately given and moving on to the next piece of information. If you sit too long pondering one message then the message will get distorted and your imagination starts creeping in to evolve what’s there.

Your first flash is what the information is.

Commit & Relay

I have these listed after expanding but, can actually follow either of the previous two steps of observing and expanding. There’s a regular process of taking in a message, then committing & relaying, expanding, then committing & relaying again, taking in a new message, committing & relaying the new message, expand upon the new message, committing & relaying again. It switches between these steps so fast you might not be able to recognize these as separate parts of the process because, it flows so seamlessly in your process naturally.

This is what you do when you are trying to give directions, when you are trying to teach someone long division, when you are telling about this funny thing that happened at work today.

However, unlike the ‘regular’ world of sensing you have lived in and are used to, you are not used to this world. And, you may not trust what you are getting as what was sensed or what was intended.

Committing & relaying is the point in your process that can cause the most difficulty for people to trust and is the point of accepting the meaning of the message and passing it on, either to accept for yourself or to verbalize to someone who is receiving a reading/doing a sitting with you.

This means there needs to be a conclusion to a meaning to your message received (just to clairify, I’m talking about a piece of information not the meaning of life). Concluding happens when you feel it’s received correctly. This discernment may take a ‘second look’ at information received but should not involve mulling, pondering or obsessing.

Our ego will surface here in many ways. Do not get sucked into wanting to be right or wrong- you want naked truth. Do not get sucked into fear of embarrassment- everybody can do this stuff, you’re the one giving a shot to prove itself.

Committing to a message is a way of letting go of what people think of you, the ego’s biggest hurdle in this process. Is my message right? Is my message wrong? Do you think I’m stupid? Do you think I’m gullible? Do you think this is fake? Do you think I’m delusional? Committing is gaining trust in your ability. Accurate or not, it gets you a step closer to understanding what is yours.

As for relaying, this is verbalizing your message. Writing down your messaging for yourself or telling a sitter what you’ve received. This is another part of the process where ego will have knee-jerk reactions either from your own judgement or the fear of the judgement of somebody else. That’s not your job. Your job is to speak your truth and relay your message.

Development Tip with Messaging Using Your Soul Abilities

When first opening and receiving messages, start with the soul senses that you can relate to in a physical sense, such as clairvoyance (seeing information) or clairaudience (hearing information). We’ll call these the primary soul senses.

There are a few reasons why I would recommend using the primary soul senses when just starting out and this is based off of my own experience of clairvoyance being a dominant soul sense for me throughout my journey so far.

First, becoming familiar with sensing in this new world can have an easier transition if we can work off of what we already know, what we are used to in experiencing our sensing which is using the physical senses.

Secondly, these primary senses seem to be more dominant senses, from my experience, that can ‘start the message’. Once you receive a sound or image, work off of this ‘topic’ by exploring the other senses, such as claircognizance (what do you just know about this piece of information?) or clairsentience (what do you feel- emotionally, physically- with this information).

With time I’ve noticed (what we’ll call) my secondary clairs (claircognizance, clairsentience, clairempathy) kick in and take my messaging to a deeper truth of information. They supplement the messaging with more breadth and a wider scope than just a visual can. These secondary clairs are not secondary in their value but perhaps more difficult for us to grasp in a new world of sensing and trusting information.

About the Author

Sarah Nickerson

Psychic Medium, Spiritual Life Coach

Sarah Nickerson is the founder of NextGEN Medium, the NextGEN Medium blog, vlog, and host of the 'NextGEN Medium Podcast'.

She is a partner at the spiritual center Angel Connection in Bangor, Maine as a psychic medium consultant and offers online and in-person workshops to guide others uncover their true selves, create the life they want, and help expose people to their own innate psychic, medium, intuitive, and healing abilities.

Her mission is to expose people to their true selves, their innate abilities, and to help them become the master creators of their lives.

Looking for validation and direction with your soul abilities?

Check out NextGEN eCourses and 1-on-1 Programs.