There’s a lot of people who start their experience with a psychic with a free psychic reading. Psychics usually offer free readings to give clients an idea of what a psychic reading is all about and how one can benefit from it. Most of the times, you will be surprised at how much lighter things seem to be after your first reading.

Any concerns you may have regarding your relationships, work, finances and other issues can be viewed from a clearer perspective each time you have a session with a psychic.

When you are given a fresh and a clearer view of your life or any concerns bothering you, you will be able to make wise decisions along the right path.

Your psychic reader will be able to give you an idea on what to expect in the future and will keep you on the right track so you can achieve your goals. Can a psychic give you sound advice to achieve your goals and dreams? Psychics are individuals who have the mental ability to guide you make decisions towards the fulfillment of your goals.

When you ask a psychic how you can achieve your goals, she will make an assessment of your overall state of mind and what you have done so far to achieve your goal. She will show you what you need to do and lead you to the right direction.

After a psychic reading you will be stunned to realize that your goals and dreams are within your easy reach. You will have a better perspective of your life and will have the right positive mental attitude. With the right positive mental attitude, you will be able to achieve everything you wish for, including your ultimate goals in life. A psychic can show you how to achieve your goals. It is up to you to take her advice and work for your own betterment.

Psychics have become in-demand these days, because more and more people are realizing that they can provide helpful advice and insight.

The psychic is also seen as someone who can help people determine their destiny, and help them make simple yet meaningful life-changing decisions. The reasons for consulting with a psychic are aplenty, and the methods for interacting with them vary (face-to-face, live chat, video call, email or telephone). Let’s discuss how a reading can help you achieve your goals, and shore up your self confidence.

A Reading Can Enhance Your Confidence

One of the advantages of getting a reading from a psychic is that the reader can mentally prepare the individual for big changes in their life. The psychic reader can also help enhance your confidence, because the reading can provide the individual with a lot of perspective and insights. If done by a competent and experienced reader, the consultation can equip the individual with a lot of valuable and meaningful predictions. By knowing, and understanding your future, you will become extra prepared in making decisions, and in conducting your daily activities. And by getting a good glimpse of their future self, the person will also better understand his or her current self as well.

A Psychic Reading Can Tell You What You’re Capable Of

Another benefit of getting a reading with a psychic is that you will learn what you are capable of doing. Remember that psychics are not just well-versed on predicting the future, but they’re also good at interpreting and analyzing your future, as a direct result of your own actions and power. An ethical psychic reader will also put more focus on positive outcomes, instead of the negative ones, so that they could give meaningful and productive advice, which can help shore up the person’s self-esteem.

A Reading Can Help You Determine The Spiritual Purpose Of Your Experiences

A psychic reading will not mean that the reader can provide specific, or very detailed, information about what your future will look like. Instead, the reading can help you explore, and determine, the spiritual purpose behind your everyday experiences. The reading will allow you to look at your life as a “continuum” of experience, with past influences and events and present occurrences or circumstances revealed in an enlightening and empowering way.

To get the best out of a psychic reading, make sure you come to the reading with an open mind, and a willing heart. By doing so, you help create a condition wherein you gain quick access to the purest aspects of the divine, within your own subconscious. And when getting a psychic reading, always keep in mind that the psychic is just there to serve as a guide, a facilitator, and a portal for you to discover yourself, and gain meaningful insight. Thus, take advantage of the reading, so that the insight and knowledge you get will have a very positive impact on your self-esteem and confidence.

        A lot of people look for psychics regarding advice and guidance, especially when they feel that they are unsure, sad and vulnerable. Unfortunately, many individuals take advantage of this and offer false psychic advice in the hopes of making a quick bucks here and there. While psychic scams can rob you of your money, they do more than just that because they can also harm your spiritual and emotional well-being.  This page lists down the most common types of psychic scams to look out for, and how you can tell if you are dealing with a scam or not.

Something To Remember

Before delving into different kinds of psychic scams, it is important to remember that there are legitimate and ethical mediums and psychics out there. These are individuals who have spent years practicing and developing their gifts in order to help other people. Today, we will not be talking about these people, but instead, of unethical readers who exploit their clients and fraudulent individuals who possess no gifts but claim to do so. Let’s take a look at some of the most common scams you would typically come across.

1. Spells and Bad Luck Curses

Spells and bad luck curses are the oldest scams in the book, and have been done by “psychics” for centuries. This scam usually starts with the psychic telling you that they feel a dark presence or curse surrounding you. They may even do a vague reading and even fish out information, like people whom you think you may be at odds with. Then, they would usually proceed to telling you that this curse is the main reason why you have been having plenty of bad luck recently.

At this point, you would be thinking:

Yeah, I did experience a string of bad luck lately, and this psychic is probably right!

This is definitely a legitimate train of thought because we do experience bad luck from time to time, even without curses. Nevertheless, the psychic has already succeeded in making you feel frightened and insecure, and by now you want them to do something to lift the bad luck curse off.

What they do next is to offer a cure to this negativity. They have charms, prayers and rituals that can lift off these spells and make sure that you are curse-free. Of course, this would require a hefty fee, which you might be willing to pay for right away. They may also sell some artifacts and objects that you could take home and insist that you come back for a second appointment to make sure that the curse is completely gone.

It doesn’t stop there though. Sometimes during the succeeding appointments, they will tell you that the spell is still there, and eventually require more readings and more objects to take home. This can lead to hundreds of dollars spent on paying for sessions and purchasing objects like crystals and candles alone! There are many individuals who have lost thousands of dollars on scams like these.

2. Cures for  Illnesses

Energy work is great, and it is legitimate: we all love our share of reflexology, acupuncture and Reiki. These types of energy work are all legitimate, especially when they are done by  legitimate practitioners.

However, some fake psychics take advantage of people when they are at their most vulnerable, promising to heal them and make them 100% sickness-free by charging a hefty fee. Remember, it is unethical to guarantee a 100% cure and legitimate energy workers do not even do that. The second part of this scam is that they charge very outrageous fees for the promise of healing. Energy workers put a price on each treatment for their time and expertise, but the rates are always reasonable.

3. Email Scams

Email scams work two ways.

The first happens when you pay for an online reading, and you end up getting an email that’s contains vague content. Most of the time, you’ll end up getting basic information that works for everyone. An example of a vague reading would be something like:

You have a friend who secretly does not like you, but things will eventually become better soon. Today, it’s good to let go of your past because it is holding you back, and take time to embrace your future, because good things will surely come.

Have you noticed how general and vague the information is? Because it is so general, most of the contents can apply to just about anyone. This means that you’ve actually paid this psychic to just send you a copy-paste of an email that he or she has probably sent to hundreds of other clients before you.

The second type of email scam is known as the scary email message, where a psychic or medium reaches out to you with a message or an email, telling you that they have a very important message that you should know, oftentimes from a spirit of a beloved departed. This short message will often spark your attention and will leave you wanting more, but then you have to pay them to get the whole message.

There are occasions when a real psychic or intuitive, especially someone you have already worked with before, will be moved enough to contact you with a message. Genuine ones will do so without any costs and will ask permission from you if you want to hear the message or not. Psychics, however, who rely on scare tactics and request payment for you to get your messages are scams and should be ignored.

4. Good Fortune or True Love Spell

This is in connection to the first scam, which is when a psychic tells you that you have been cursed by someone. This scam, however, is the opposite of the first. This is when a fake psychic tells you that he can cast a spell to bring you good fortune or true love. He or she may claim to do things like helping you find your soul mate, making your ex love you back, getting you out of debt or helping you land a new job.

A lot of people fall into this trap because con-artists are so good at letting people what they want to hear, and they seem to provide solutions to problems that are longstanding. To keep you at ease, they may also tell you that they are working with “white magic” which is safe and will hurt nobody.

Don’t believe this. While the spells will definitely not work on anyone (and will not hurt anyone, too), this scam will definitely end up hurting one person: you. Not only will you be throwing your money away, it will also lead you to have your hopes up only to have it broken when the psychic tells you that they need to perform a stronger and more powerful spell.

Additional Tips To Protect Yourself

1.  Choose a Reader with a Good Reputation

The simplest way to protect yourself from a psychic scam is to do your research ahead of time and choose a psychic or psychic medium that has a true, verifiable reputation for being authentic and reliable. Avoid psychics that claim to be “the best” or “the top of their field”. These are catchphrases that are used to lure in people desperate for guidance, but unwilling to put in the time or energy to find a genuine professional. Get recommendations from friends or family members who have used the services of a psychic or specifically request references from professionals you are considering. For even further verification, don’t hesitate to check with the Better Business Bureau to see if there are any recorded complaints against the psychic.

2. Be Wary of Cheap Readings

Saving money is something that most people try to do whenever possible. Choosing an extremely low-cost or “free” psychic reading, however, is the beginning of an emotionally draining and financially devastating scam. Immediate requests for large amounts of money are a red flag for almost anyone. An offer of free or highly affordable services, however, seems like the opposite of a scam. It is more difficult to see the deceit when you are being offered services with no expectation to pay. Be aware, however, that this free or low cost reading is the first step in a manipulation that could lead to costly consequences.

3.  Never Share Personal Information

In some ways, protecting yourself from a psychic scam is the same as protecting yourself from fraud in other situations. One of the key concepts is staying vigilant about what is going on around you and making wise decisions. Just as you would never share your social security number, bank account information, or other sensitive information with a doctor, mechanic, or other service provider, don’t share it with a psychic. Don’t let yourself be convinced that this will more closely connect them to you or that paying more gets you a better reading. If at any point you feel uncomfortable with what you are being asked to share or do, err on the side of caution and remove yourself from the situation.

Final Thoughts

While there are genuine and gifted mediums and psychics around, they are also surrounded by con artists, frauds and unethical readers who care more about making money more than anything else. If you are looking for advice or enlightenment, make sure that you do so with care, you do not want to fall pray to these most common psychic scams today.

There has been dozens of questions about angelic and spirit connections that we answered over the years but this is one of the most confusing… Why is that? because angels and guides play similar roles in our lives, the rules for connecting and the reasons for working with either or both groups are basically the same. Still, there is a difference…

Angels are essentially messengers, conduits between us and our Source. Angels may have manifested here on planet earth, but always as angels, never as humans… Many Spirit Guides have lived here on planet earth as humans… some are ancients, carrying the wisdom of the ages, making it accessible at various times in our evolution as a species, as we have needed it, and been able to receive it… some guides are healers, intent on helping us relieve our pain and clear the fears that get in our way in life, some guides are entities from other dimensions who have chosen to participate in the transformation of planet earth… perhaps they are the representatives of our future selves. Or our Higher Selves.

There are countless different kinds of angels and guides at work with us at any moment. So, how do you know whether you’re connecting with an angel, a guide or your Higher Self? While this site will help you understand the differences, at the end of the day, I don’t think it matters… I don’t know about you, but I’m open to loving support from any direction….. while I find it useful to get a name, and to understand the purpose in a particular guide or angel’s presence in my life, this is just so I can more easily tune into their vibration and recognize them in the future… Most often I really don’t know who or how exactly they have intervened, I simply see a prayer answered.

The angels and guides around me, my family, friends and Global Psychics have answered so many of my prayers, in so many astounding, at times, miraculous, ways that we knew it was important – and so very worthwhile – for you to make your own connections. So, in addition to some inspiring messages from the angels, you’ll find lots of information in these pages on working with your angels, contacting your guides, and channeling.

     Negativity is never good as it will always lead you down and make you miserable. If you’re like most humans, you sometimes hear a little voice in your mind that says things to you that aren’t really all that positive, friendly or helpful. Call it self-doubt or low self-esteem, maybe some fear or anxiety, sadness, shame, guilt.

In our family we refer to that voice as the Ego Imp, and we characterize him as a little imp sitting on your shoulder whispering into your ear things that lower your vibration.

The Ego Imp will say things like:

• “You’re stupid. You can’t do anything right!”
• “You’re going to fail. You have no idea how to do this.”
• “No one will ever love you.”
• “You can’t pull this off. You have no chance at success.”
• “You may as well just give up now.”

When my kids come to me and they are in a low vibration state, one of the first things I ask them is “What are you hearing in your mind? What is the voice saying?”

When I ask them that they tell me what they are hearing, and it’s usually something similar to what I described above. It’s a statement or phrase that is very low vibration and is not remotely helpful. It tears you down instead of lifting you up.

Then I ask, “Is that the voice you want to be listening to or is there another voice you want to hear?”

At first they believed the only voice they could hear was the one they were already hearing. But this is not the case. If you can metaphorically flick that Ego Imp right off your shoulder, you will find out that he is not the only voice broadcasting information at you. “No Luke, there is another!”

Where the Ego Imp comes from inside your mind, there is another voice you can hear if you tune in to a higher vibration. You have a cadre of spirit guides and other unseen helpers on the other side who are just as tuned in to you and your needs as the Ego Imp. And if you can quiet the Ego Imp, you can begin to hear your guides.

Guides sound like this:

• “Try one more time. But this time try it this way.”
• “He’s angry with you because he’s afraid. Don’t respond to what he’s saying, respond to what he’s fearing.”
• “You are about to have a huge learning experience. Don’t be afraid to fail or succeed. Just let it happen.”
• “You are awesome, beautiful, and gosh darn it, people like you!”

When I can get my kids to recognize that they are being internally assaulted by the Ego Imp, I can get them to consciously tune him out so they can tune in to their guides.

It takes a little practice to become aware that it’s the Ego Imp tearing you down. Try noticing him whispering in your ear the next time you are berating yourself or feeling like a failure. Flick him away, rocket him into the sun, put him in a little tiny box and step on it.

Then tune in to your guidance. It will always be helpful, practical, motivating, encouraging, and friendly. That’s how you’ll know the difference.
The Ego Imp strikes when we are at our most vulnerable. If you let the Ego Imp blather on in your mind, you will find yourself in a downward spiral which will lock you into a low vibration. You have the power to flick him off your shoulder any time you want, and he has to go.

Be consciously tuned in to the beings who can help you, and kick Mr. Ego Imp to the curb. Life only gets better and more empowering when you do this.

Intuition is often experienced if something is not right or something that must be done. At one time or another, we’ve all had some intuitive experience in our lives. Most of us know what it means. How many times have we heard someone say, “I’ve got a hunch that . . .” or “My instincts are telling me to . . .” or “I have a strong gut feeling that . . . .” These are all forms of intuition. It’s those gentle nudges that frequently just come out of the blue, the ones that we so often ignore or try to wave off as being simply our imagination — only to find out later were correct.

We’re all born with this ability. It’s one of the ways that our soul constantly tries to speak to us, and it’s as much your birthright as anybody else’s. This natural soul ability isn’t purely limited to transcended masters or to people who have devoted a lifetime to studying and practicing meditation. It’s not about fortune-telling, crystal balls, or predicting the future. To be intuitive or psychic isn’t just something we possess . . . it’s more a way of being. It’s the language and navigator of the soul, as well as the path to the Divine wisdom within.

Intuition: Language of the Soul

We’re all born aware, with a deep sense of inner knowing. It’s one of the greatest gifts we possess, keeping us connected to our higher selves, the Universe, and the Divine spirit. We’re all equipped with an intricate and highly tuned inner guidance system, which we can regularly tap into using our intuitive abilities. Receiving psychic information is all about energy. Everything is made up of energy — people, places, and even objects store it — so we can receive and read information by means of our intuitive senses.

Being intuitive is similar to the way a television works: We all know that we can’t actually see TV signals beaming through the airways, yet we’re aware that they’re being transmitted. Our TV sets receive these signals, and they’re decoded to form a picture on our screens. The same rule applies when it comes to intuitive energy: We receive information constantly through our psychic senses, and the result, once this data is descrambled, is an impression or feeling that we didn’t perceive through our usual physical senses. Now you’ll understand why I love the words written by Yogananda: “We are electrical beings with intelligence.” As we learn to recognize when our intuition is speaking to us, we hone our skills in deciphering the signals that push us forward to follow our soul’s guidance.

Your intuition is actually speaking to you always, but most of the time you may not even be aware of it. Ask yourself the following questions:

1. Have you ever thought of someone you haven’t heard from in a while, and out of the blue you receive a surprise phone call or suddenly bump into him or her on the street?
2. Have you ever had a hunch that you didn’t follow, only to regret it later because it turned out to be correct?
3. Do you know on the spot if you like or dislike someone?
4. Have you ever been certain of the outcome of a situation or event before it happened?
5. Have you ever simply guessed a person’s occupation, as opposed to allowing the conscious interpretation of how they look or speak, or their mannerisms, affect your opinion?
6. Do you have vivid or prophetic dreams?
7. Do coincidences and synchronicities keep appearing in your life?

If you answered yes to some of these questions, it shows that you’re already aware of your intuition. It’s important to realize that these are just a few examples of what being intuitive is all about. Most of the time people don’t acknowledge this power when it’s trying to get our attention because we simply don’t trust our inner guidance without facts or logic to validate it. For many of us, we still look upon it as something totally mysterious or even ethereal.

A reporter once asked me, “John, with all the negativity that exists around the world, why would I want to be intuitively sensitive and pick up on these things?”

I nodded in recognition of such a thoughtful question and replied, “I totally understand where you’re coming from, but don’t you see that by choosing not to learn and accept that we’re all sensitive beings, capable of living with our soul’s higher awareness, we’re choosing to shut off all the good and beauty that can be felt within the world and each other? We are, and always will be, connected to everyone and everything.”

A few weeks later, I was teaching one of my regular workshops on developing your intuition and psychic strengths, and I noticed that the reporter had registered and was sitting right there at the front. I guess I wasn’t too surprised!