Ep. 10 | How I Prepare for A Mediumship Reading

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

In this episode, Claire shares her exact step-by-step process to prepare for mediumship readings—from energetic hygiene and space clearing to intuitive journaling and chakra alignment. Whether you're a developing medium or simply curious, this is a must-listen for anyone drawn to the unseen world of spirit connection.

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• Why energetic hygiene is the foundation for any reading.
• The role of Oracle cards as a spiritual “table of contents.”
• How intention-setting removes performance pressure and invites alignment.
• A visual metaphor that explains how Claire “tunes in” to spirit like a radio dial.
• Techniques to differentiate between ego-driven thoughts and spirit messages.
  
  

Instagram: @clairekellems_
Website: www.clairekellems.com

Transcript

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Have you ever wondered how a psychic medium actually prepares for a reading? So a great reading actually doesn't begin the moment the client logs on. It actually starts long before that in a sacred space with energy alignment and intention setting. I. So here's exactly how I prepare to connect with spirit when I'm giving a mediumship reading. Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Ultra Aligned Podcast. I'm so excited of course, to be back here with you guys today. I'm gonna go ahead and dive into today's episode. I wanted to touch base and kind of share how I actually prepare for a reading. Now again, this is gonna look different for everyone. Just like every person is different, every medium's different every. Football player is different. I don't know if that was the example I came up with, but everyone does things differently and I just wanted to share with you all today about how I prepare for a mediumship reading a few things we'll talk about in this podcast episode is why preparation is so important for energetic clarity, and accuracy and receiving those messages. How every psychic medium is different, how everyone has a unique process. I. And full transparency with you guys. So you know, whether you're curious, whether you're developing yourselves, whether you're wanting to book a session with me, I really wanna take you behind the scenes on how I operate and how I prepare for an actual reading. So first and foremost is energetic hygiene. So energetic hygiene is actually just clearing your energy and clearing out that debris that may be in your energetic field that's just cluttering and causing stress and anxiety. So. Getting that out of your energetic field is gonna be first and foremost the most important for me. So I like to really start by burning Palo Santo Sticks. You can do, um, sage, the Palo Santo sticks. I like the Palo Santo sticks. They're a little less smelly for me. And I just like how they, I like how they smell, honestly. So I use those. And I really start by clearing the energy in the room that I do the readings in. So. I'll use an affirmation or a mantra essentially to clear any negative energies or any. Any energies that may be lingering around that I may not want around for this reading. And it's really important to open a window or a door to make sure you can let that, that excess energy out somewhere so it's not just harboring somewhere in your house, just in a corner randomly. Um, so I always open a window and I always invite any negative remaining energies or any energies that were left from past readings or maybe past feelings or emotions that. I was experiencing. So I really invite those energies to just leave out the window and I set the tone that only positive, affirming and loving energy will be in the space. So. Something that I like to say, for example, would be I release any negative energy that isn't mine from past sessions or past feelings or emotions that no longer serve me and make space for only positive loving energy. And I'll kind of repeat this as I'm walking around the room, I always make sure to clear my computer, my keyboard, you know, myself. It's really important to take care of obviously, yourself as, as well as this space. So that kind of ties us into our second step, which is clearing the space. And again, I kind of touched on this, so making sure to cleanse the computer and just saying, you know, I cleanse this computer of any negative energies that may be harboring from, you know. From past readings, past experiences, whatever. And it doesn't always have to be negative. Sometimes energy is just lingering and it's a little bit, think of like stagnant water. Um, it's, it's just kind of lingering, you know? So we, we just wanna, we just wanna invite the energy to, to leave and invite in positive, loving energy. So I start there with cleansing the area, the space in myself. The next thing I actually like to do is to pull out my Oracle cards. So I'm sure I've mentioned this before on the podcast. If you've had a reading with me, you know this. I like to use Oracle cards in my session. I. Use them. I like to say they're like my table of contents. So they'll kind of gimme an idea of how the reading's gonna go or what might be brought up in the reading or, um, during a reading. Sometimes I'll pull the cards in the beginning and sometimes. In the middle of the reading, I'll pull a couple more and sometimes the cards don't make sense when I pull them and I'll just kind of lay them off to the side and sure enough, like 15, 20 minutes later, whatever, I'll, I'll look at that card and it makes sense out of nowhere and I'm like, oh, that's why I pulled it. Okay, awesome. So I really like to use Oracle cards. Tarot is a little more difficult for me. I like the Oracle cards'cause I like the pictures and the simple words and, and things just like pop out for me numbers, um, like certain things on the picture, certain shapes, whatever it may be, they pop out at me and I really like that. So again, I use Oracle cards primarily. I've used Terra before, but I'm, I'm an Oracle card girly. So When I have my cleansing done, when I have my Oracle cards set up, I like to get a notebook and I will actually, the notebook I have is really cool. It has like a name and a date, whatever, and like different like ideas, questions, whatever on the side. And I. I like to use that one specifically because I will write the name and the date of the client on top, and then information just starts coming through for me and I'll start writing notes down. I might get a, and they're simple notes I might get. The word mother or whatever, and I'll write mother down and I'll make a note that there might be come something coming up with mother or maybe I get the word lilies or maybe I'll get fishing or whatever it may be. I'll just jot down a couple quick notes and so I kind of have an idea of what might come up during the session, what emotions might come up, what feelings might come up, whatever it may be. There is a bird in the background who is doing the absolute most. I love birds, but I really need the, I really need this bird to like fly a little bit further away from the house because it is actually doing the most right now. So anyway. Those are kind of the few things that I get my physical space ready for. So, again, cleanse the area, bring out my Oracle cards and my notebook to start writing down notes. Um, jot down any information that might come through. So now we're about, mm, five minutes or so before the session starts. This is my time to really get grounded, really get centered in myself. So. One thing I love to do is to put one hand on my heart, one hand on my stomach, and I like to breathe in a very specific way that I can almost, I almost, when I breathe in, I almost imagine that I'm pushing my hands out. Um, and it helps me breathe deeper into my body. And I like to imagine that I'm literally breathing into every. Corner of my body. Every part of my body is receiving oxygen. Every part of my body is being lit up and expanded, and that is what I like to do. And then I really like to just set the intention inside my head. Sometimes I'll say it out loud that I'm just setting the intention for positive, loving messages to come through. And this is really important for me. I like to say every single time. I set the intention for Spirit to bring through messages for the sitter's highest good, whatever that may be, and I know that this session will go however it is meant to go in whatever way it is meant to unfold. It'll happen exactly the way it is meant to. And setting that intention actually takes a lot of the pressure off me to bring through this crazy, wild evidence all the time, or to get these crazy accurate messages all the time. Uh, because I had this problem a lot in the beginning, I was really stressed. I really wanted to make sure that the client felt that they were getting the most out of it, out of the reading. And I would, I would almost start to get panicked if I didn't get, like, just flooded with evidence all the time. And I started to recognize that. It was kind of overwhelming almost for the, for the client to receive all of that evidence. Like, all just like, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. It got a little overwhelming for them, I could tell. Um, I, I had a lot of people, like, they were like, I just really didn't expect to like, to get all this. Like, it was just a lot to have now all of a sudden. So I really just sit with it and set the intention that whatever comes through. Is meant to come through for the client's highest good, and however the session goes, that is how the session is meant to go. So again, tuning into the body. Doing a few breath work exercises, setting an intention. And the last thing I like to really do is I like to imagine all of my chakras. So you've got the seven main chakras, and if you don't know you have, I'll run through'em real quick. So you have your crown chakra, which is on the very top of your head. You have your third eye, that third eye chakra, right in between your eyebrows, you have your throat chakra, which is right. You know, again, where it's. Where you think it is in your throat, kind of where your thyroid gland would be. You have your heart chakra, you have your, um, solar plexus chakra, which is kind of like right where your stomach would be. You have your sacral chakra, which is about two finger tips below your belly button, and you have your root chakra. And your root chakra is basically like where your tailbone would be. So those are your seven main chakras. I had to make sure that I got'em all. I thought I left one out. I think I got'em all. So what I like to do is I like to imagine every single one of my chakras at the same time, kind of just opening up and releasing any energetic debris that may be in my chakra system. And. I just set the intention to use all of my chakras in any way that they may need to be used. Whichever one may need to be used more than another. Um, I always make sure my crown chakras open my third eye and my sacral. My sacral is a big one that I actually receive, believe it or not, a lot of messages through. Um, I use my crown and my sacral probably the most, so. I like to make sure my chakra system's open. I mainly just try to imagine that there is just this really beautiful, bright white light that just flows through all of my chakra systems in my body, my lungs, my heart, everything. I like to imagine this light just flows through every part of my being. And that combined with the breath work, it really just helps me feel more clear and open and better able to communicate whatever comes through. And so that's more or less how I get grounded and centered before a session. Now we've made our, we've made our way to the session. We made our way to the reading. So how do I tune in? This is something I like. I think I've probably mentioned it before, but I really like to use. A radio for this description to kind of use, have a visualization. So imagine a radio, radios have radio frequencies. We, we all know that's how radios, that's how radios connect. So I like to, I like to compare my. Mediumship abilities, my psychic abilities to a radio. The radio is never turned off for me because I've had a lot of people ask, do you walk around? And does, is spirit just constantly like talking to you? Like, is this constantly happening to you? And no, it's not because I learned how to turn my radio frequency down. I never turn it off. Um, I don't think I would ever want to turn it off just because I, I know I'm always connected. I don't wanna be not connected, so I never turn it off. But I, but I turn it down. So imagine the volume on a radio. You know, you can turn it all the way up and it's blaring in your car, or you can turn it all the way down and it's muted. So when I'm not in a session, I actually just turn the volume down. I just, I just simply turn the volume down and it's not. Spirit, it's not spirit just constantly talking to me. Now my team will constantly talk to me, so like loved ones or my guides or um, angels or whatever, they will, they will talk to me. I'll get downloads through my crown chakra but other spirits, other messengers, people's loved ones, whatever it may be, they aren't constantly bombarding me because I've turned that frequency down or that volume down essentially. But when I go into a session. I simply just turn it up and I know you're thinking, okay, how do you turn it up? So with a lot of work and a lot of practice, I've been able to kind of manage this, but it's something I. Something about when I start to look up to the right, I somehow just, it's just a natural thing for me to just flow straight into that, into that frequency and it, when I look up into the right, that's almost like my cue and spirit's cue to turn up the volume and, and allow for them to come in. And so. I will turn the volume up essentially for my radio. And when different spirits come in, when spirit guides come in, when pets come in, when angels come in, whatever it may be, all that is is just me turning the frequency. So like, do you know how like you tune a radio? So like sometimes you're on 94.3 and maybe you wanna go to 96.1. You just turn that little tune dial. So that's essentially what I imagine is I'm just tuning into different spirits. I'm tuning into different people, different loved ones, whatever it may be, and I can turn up and down the volume and I can tune to different stations. And so that's how I imagine how my abilities work for me. That's just makes the most sense for me. And so when I look up to the right. That's my cue. That's spirit's cue that, hey, like the doors are open, like, let's go. We can do this. And so when I get going in a session. I can start to discern between ego and spirit, and this took a long time and sometimes I still don't know because it's so subtle and it can be so close to one another. And so the way I have best been able to discern the two is my ego comes with a lot of emotion. When I'm connected to spirit, it doesn't, it's very direct. The, the messages are very neutral. It's very loving. It's very. Kind of just straight to the point. And when it's my ego, it's a lot of emotion. It's a lot of, not frantic, but a little bit more chaotic I guess I could say. And so that's how I kind of know, and I've been able to more or less train. My ego to kind of just settle down a little bit. I still need my ego to do their readings, you know, to be able to communicate with people and to be able to, um, you know, talk back and forth with them. We need, we need our ego still, but I've been able, I've, I've learned how to blend the two and allow my ego to just kind of step back a little bit and allow this connection to come through. And so that's how I kind of discern between the two. Ego comes with a lot of emotion. And spirit comes very neutral. And so in closing, just to kind of recap everything that I discussed on,'cause I know it was a lot of information. So first thing I like to do is to energetically clean myself, clean the area. So I, um, cleanse with the Palo Santo sticks. I like to pass it over my body and just say I clear my energies out. And you know, any residual energies that might be in my work field, any energies around the computer, at the desk, anything like that. So cleaning the area and cleaning yourself, and again, that example of that, uh, mantra that I use is I release any negative energy that isn't mine from past sessions or past feelings or emotions that no longer serve me. It makes space for only positive, loving energy. Then make sure that your space is clean, that your space is physically, energetically clean, whatever it may be. If you need to declutter, if you need to organize a little bit. Um, but just, and then also just smudging or waving your pallo santo stick, whatever it may be over your area. And then just setting that intention that whatever comes through is meant to come through for the client's highest good. And however the session unfolds. It is meant to unfold that way. And then making sure that we set time, you know, at least five minutes for myself to ground, get centered, check on my chakra system, clear any energetic debris out of the way. Take those nice deep breaths, maybe even do some short meditation, visualization, whatever it may be. And setting those intentions. So with that being said, if you have any questions at all about today's episode, or if you want to honestly just share with me how you prep for your mediumship readings. Feel free to send me a DM on Instagram, or you can send me an email to theultraalignedpodcast@gmail.com or book a session with me. On my website@clairekelms.com. And so yeah, I would love to hear about all the ways that you like to prepare for a session or honestly just prepare for, meditation or journaling, whatever it is. So with that being said, I am gonna clock off of here. I will see you next time on the Ultra Aligned Podcast. Bye guys.