How To Balance Being Psychic And Your Daily Life

How to balance being psychic and your daily life? Thank you for asking this question!! No, seriously, thank you so much. I feel that many people struggle with their job and everything – whether they’re in the psychic profession or not. Their experience will be different of course.  It’s all about balance! What you will see in the following post is my advice to you based on my own personal experience. Feel free to pick and choose. What else can you add to my list?

1. START WITH THE BASICS – ACCEPT YOURSELF

Who are you? Trust me, you’re gonna need to be able to answer this quickly and precisely. You will feel more comfortable about the situations you find yourself in when you can do this. Bonus – people will automatically take you more seriously when you have no problem defining yourself. Let’s give this a try by using me as a guinea pig. Here we go:

My name is Caren and I’m an evidential medium, healer, scientist and author all wrapped up into one! See? Easy peasy…well not really.  Take some time with this.  Make sure it feels – and sounds – like you.  Now, is that all that I am? Nope. But it is one sentence that allows people a small, yet precise, glimpse into who I am. What’s my goal you ask? Well, do let me tell you.  As a Spirit translator, I connect you to the unseen world’s knowledge and capabilities while constantly staying grounded in reality. It’s my job to ‘see’ what’s up with you, and even if we’re tackling a hard topic, I’ll never let you fall! I’ll tell it like I see it, and I will always make sure you leave with the knowledge you seek as well as the inspiration you need.

For those of you who know me, you know this is true.  For those of you who don’t, I hope this lets you know who I am…did it?

2. ACCEPT DIFFERENT VIEWPOINTS

This is key. We’re all humans, and thankfully, we’re all different. Everyone has an opinion about pretty much everything. Some are very opinionated, while others are less so. Some keep their opinions to themselves and some don’t.  I’ve heard many different statements about what I do ranging from the oldie: doing the devil’s work, through: how can you handle all that, to (my personal favorite): are you sure you’re human?  I’m still not entirely sure what they meant by that last one.

In most cases, these questions come from a place of curiosity, not judgement.  The thing about words is that we use them everyday. We’re just so used to them that sometimes what we say can come out slightly hostile, even when we don’t mean it that way at all. You learn to develop a thick skin.  You learn to understand and accept people for who they are.  If they don’t accept what you do, that’s okay.  Let them live their life.

When I started reading for people, I was about 11 years old, and didn’t really know that people wouldn’t accept what I do.  As I got older, it was a challenge for me to find friends that I could feel safe telling them. It got to a point in which I felt I would explode. When that happened, I sat down and came up with that one sentence introduction written above. As you can see, the word ‘scientist’ is in it – that goes to show you how long it took me to be comfortable with defining myself.  But hey, that’s better then having other people do it for me right?

3. GIVE PEOPLE THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT

I have a career in academia, and I teach at the college level.  I used to have a fear of people in academia finding out what I do. It was a deep fear that my standing as a scientist would be questioned, if people knew what I did. Long story short, some found out and guess what? They thought it was COOL! Others think it’s kinda crazy – but in a funky good way, others don’t know, and some simply don’t care.  Science is growing by leaps and bounds, and certain abilities now have more credence.  People’s mentalities are expanding, and the curious human brain naturally asks: is this possible? Research is being done and I’m optimistic. Granted, I don’t use that one line introduction at academic conferences. That’s simply not what I’m there for.

As far as students go, they don’t really know unless they look through Google extremely well.  Leonie is not my last name, and my students don’t know of Leonie.  If they are particularly tenacious and find out, then oh well. I’m always happy to clear anything up.

4. LET PEOPLE UNDERSTAND IN THEIR OWN WAY

I’m Native American. Sometimes people hear that and automatically see my ancestry as an explanation for what I do. That used to bother me a lot. I mean, REALLY, REALLY bother me.  There are more than 500 Native tribes in North America alone. We’re not all the same, and there is no one Native spirituality.  Let individuals be who they are.  On that note, people come to read with me because I am Native.  That gave me street credit.  While I love me some good street cred, I wasn’t too thrilled about that.  I don’t want to be an exhibit, and I know sooo many AMAZING readers that aren’t Native.  I sat down to figure out a way to deal with that.  It wasn’t going to be easy, but I knew I wasn’t going to get up from the table until I did.

I’m not such an organized person, but I wrote out a list, about what type of people consult with me.  I’ve read for many different types from all walks of life, so I thought there would be plenty in common between them. Nope.  There was only one major commonality – all were nervous to speak with me, and most were worried their question would sound stupid. Let’s face it, if people are talking to me, they usually have something on their mind that’s driving them crazy for some reason or another. In most cases, they’re nervous to share it with people they care about. So to share it with a perfect stranger makes complete sense, right? It takes so much courage to seek out someone like me!!!! I have so much respect for that!!!! If it’s easier for someone to make a move they feel they need to make by knowing my ancestry, then let’s talk. Once they speak with me, they realize that I don’t embrace what I do because I’m Native, but because I’m me. If I had any other ancestry, I’d embrace Spirit just as much. On the flip side, they also learn not to put whole groups of people into one simplified box.

4. REALIZE NOT EVERYONE WILL ACCEPT WHAT YOU DO

I’m not going to lie…it completely sucks when this happens. But it will. We’re all individuals remember? We all have different ideas, passions, and judgements. Don’t try to force your ideas or values on others. That’ll backfire. If they try to force theirs on you, remain calm. I tend to nod my head, thank them for their opinion, but let them know that we’re not going to agree, and ask them to respect me the way I do them – by keeping my opinions to myself. No minds are going to be changed and you want to keep the situation calm.  On that note, I’m going to briefly mention something. Psychic mediums, tarot readers, Reiki masters, animal whisperers, and so many more, can follow a mainstream religion, a meld of several, one of their own and more. You’ll find many people are very passionate about what they believe in, with a very deep faith in it. Bottom line, people believe what they believe. Realize that. Accept that. Love that.

5. HAVE FAITH IN YOU

You are you. You are beautiful in your own unique way. You’re never alone. Find people you share common ground with.  Your confidence will soar and so will you. Can you see what I’m getting at? Can you hear what I’m saying? Good. Over and out.

xx,
~Caren
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