What To Expect In A Mediumship Reading

In this episode I share how stepping into my passion fully has helped so many people find peace and connection with their loved ones on the other side, and what to expect if you are thinking of receiving a mediumship reading. 

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Welcome to House of Sovereignty, a space for women who are ready to come back to themselves in love, relationships, and life. I'm Marla Martinson, matchmaker, coach, and intuitive. And in each episode, I'll be sharing stories, insights, and a little bit of magic so you can start seeing things more clearly, trusting yourself more deeply, and experiencing love in a different way. Welcome back to House of Sovereignty. This is episode four. And I'm so happy to be here with you because I want to talk about something very near and dear to my heart, one of my passions that I have recently in the past few years stepped into and acknowledged that this is a path forward that I'm taking in my life, and that is mediumship. For some reason, I've been enthralled by mediumship for most of my adult life. I think the first uh inkling was when I used to watch James von Prague on TV back in the 90s. He would be on Oprah, Larry King, and have being interviewed, and I just I saw him giving readings to the audience, and he had books out and everything. I thought, oh my gosh, isn't this the most magical, incredible thing that he's doing? And I used to say to myself, gosh, I wish I could meet him. How can I get a reading with him? Well, back then we didn't have the internet, there were no websites, there was nothing. We were both living in Los Angeles, but I didn't run into him. And as the years went by, I got into matchmaking and um working in Beverly Hills and then writing books and, you know, into metaphysics and everything. But um late 2013, which I chronicle in my book, The Buddha Made Me Do It, A Field Guide to Enlightenment, I kind of had a different kind of spiritual awakening. And I talk about it in that book, how my friend Julie and I went on a quest uh to find our magic and delve into all sorts of um magical, well, practices. We we took classes on pendulums, we used the talking board, we I got uh certified or attuned to Reiki, uh, learned crystal healing, took class, and then I did start taking some short little classes on mediumship, and later down the line I realized that I really need to study. I need to learn how this works, the mechanics of it. And so I started studying with James Van Prague. I got to study with him and meet him in person and do an in-person workshop, and I study with Tony Stockwell and Suzanne Giesman and some of some of the greats that that work that I I highly admire. And the thing that I admire most about these teachers is their commitment to this work and their ethics and the love that they have for it and treating it so sacred. And um I also studied a year of evidential mediumship uh through the Shift Network with some people from England associated with Arthur Findla College. And so so I've been doing this and uh doing hundreds of readings and practicing and offering readings now as a paid option. Um I'm keeping it very very accessible. Um and uh I wanted to talk about what to expect from a mediumship reading and if you're going to um book a uh a session or if someone's going to gift you a session, how you can go into it uh and get the most out of it. And something that I noticed, which almost had me, you know, giving up because when when you're mastering something, and we'll never master it. I I want to put a caveat there. With mediumship, we're always developing. Even the greats James von Prague, Tony Stock. Well, they still say I'm a developing medium because you're never gonna say, hey, I've got it down, I'm perfect, uh, that's it. You know, it's it's we're always learning, we're always developing, we're always deepening more because it is such a an endless, um, it's an endless practice, it's an endless study. There's always more to to deepen into and open up to. And so, um, all right, where was I? Okay, so what when what I came to the conclusion was because I was wanting to get a lot of practice, and I'd ask people, for instance, uh, when I was doing the one-year Evidential Mediumship Academy, which was about two years ago, I I needed, uh, I thought I'm gonna be doing many, many sessions per week, and I need, you know, guinea pigs, I need people. And I put a notice on Facebook and I said, hey, you know, I I'm practicing, I'm I'm practicing my mediumship. If you want a complimentary reading, uh contact me. And I had about 40 people contact me. And so I got to as many people as I could, gave them readings. Some were really good, some were great, some hardly anything came through. Um, and then, you know, I I as the, you know, the next year came, the next year came. I still felt, you know, I don't know if you feel this way, but with me as a Gemini with so many interests, I'll hop into something and then I'll think, okay, uh, this is with coaching with everything. Well, I don't know. I think I just need one more class, one more certificate, one more certification, one more. I don't know if I'm quite after years of studying and be doing it, you know, feeling like, oh, maybe I'm just, I just need to get a little bit better. And my husband Adolfo is like, what are you doing? You know, you get out there. It's time for you, it's time for you to offer your services. It's time for you, instead of paying all these people for years for classes and workshops and this, you need to step into it. And so this year, this is what I've done. I've stepped into my it's service, it's really a service. And what I want to accomplish with this is to help grieving people, grieving humans, have a little bit of relief. When we lose someone close to us, we are never going to just get over it or okay, well, it's been a year now, or five years, or ten years. We'll never get over it. You know, my mother passed to the spirit world two and a half years ago. I still cry on the yoga mat. I might find myself at Trader Joe's breaking down. I miss her so much. See, when I talk about it, I start to cry. I'm a big cry. And uh, I'm gonna give you permission to cry because it is very healing. And I think that's why I've never had any major, I've major health problems at all, because I've always let it let my emotions out. I've I've cried and cried and cried, so that's okay. But my point here is when we really get some messages from them and we know that they're okay, we have some evidence, it is so beautiful because we we know, okay, they're just in the spirit world, they've gone back home. It is beautiful, they are safe, they are loved, they're in no pain. Um, we're always going to miss them and grieve, and it changes our life, you know, forever on the earth. But it but it is there's nothing more magical to me than uh watching mediumship, um facilitating mediumship, also channeled channelers, channeled messages where they bring in the channeler kind of leaves their body, you know, steps aside and then lets a spirit guide come in and speak. And um I've had a lot of experiences with that. And you can read about that one in The Magic Seeker, my book, my memoir. I talk about channeling a lot and my experiences. But what I've come to uh realize with with a mediumship and m me giving readings is the best readings that I give when the spirit really comes through and there's tears and there's realizations and there's you know, it's a thrill to hear from and it really works and it really feels you know magical and sparkly, is when the sitter, the sitter is the client, the person that I'm giving the reading to, has a great need, has a great need to hear from someone. And those are my best readings. When I'd asked someone, so an example, I asked a friend of mine, uh his name was Ray, and uh I said, hey, you know, I hadn't talked to him in a while, and I said, Hey, can we, he's in another city. And I said, I, you know, I want to pre- I want to practice my mediumship because if I'm not doing it every week, you know, it's something that you it really has to be a lifestyle. You really have to be doing it. It's not like, well, you know, um maybe I'll give a reading once a month, or no, it's it's it's like going to the gym. You don't go once a month, you know, you you gotta I I go five four to five times a week to my yoga, right? Or or else when I come back, if I've if I've missed a couple weeks, I was on vacation, I'm coming back, I can barely, you know, withstand it. So I gotta build back up. So anyway, so I said, Hey Ray, can I give you a re- Oh yeah, you know, he's into all that stuff. So one evening we got on Zoom and you know, I did our little meditation and and all of that. And then he was just sitting there with his hand in his in his with his chin in his hand, just like, all right, whatever, let's do it, you know. Needless to say, nothing came through. I a couple of people I came, I he says, no, I don't recognize them, I don't know, nothing, you know. Um, and I just said, Oh, screw it, let's just chat and catch up. And we had a wonderful cozy chit-chat together. But I was really frustrated and I thought, oh, I'm crap, I don't know what I'm doing. And and then I talked to, you know, my teachers, I talked to uh James and Tony about it, and they're like, you know, Marla, you are this is what we say, this is all of us. We're only as good as our sitter. And then James said, because then I had a oh, an amazing reading with with uh a woman who lost her beloved uh soulmate, and um it it was just they were so connected, and she really wanted to hear from him, and she was very open, and it was we got together on Zoom one night and the it flowed through and it was amazing, and there was evidence, and it was just incredible. And I told James and he says, because she had a great need, she had a great need for it to hear from that person. So if I'm reading somebody that's just like watching me, okay, well, what can you do? Who can come through? It's not they don't have a need, maybe they don't have maybe a lot of people over on the other side, or there's nobody in particular they want to hear from, or they they're just you know, they're fine, they don't they really don't need it. It could happen, it could definitely that that people could be coming in and flowing and all that, but what I find is when it's a co-creation, it's a co-creation. So when the sitter is open and we do the you know chakra meditation and they are excited and they're kind of participating, you know, like oh yes, verifying, yes, yes, he used to do that exact same mannerism, or yeah, oh exactly, we you know, oh I see, you know, a picnic right at a lake. Yes, we used to do that every you know, every Sunday, you know, that kind of thing. It the energy, this is all energy, and so the medium has to bring up out, we have to bring up our energy, our frequency, and then the spirit has to bring theirs down because they are at a higher frequency than we are, and so they're out of the body. And so they have really have to work to bring theirs down into this dense, you know, it's more dense, and then we bring as a human, as a medium, we bring, try to bring our frequency up and keep it up there and keep that connection, that link and bringing through. And so after um quite a few amazing readings that I've done lately, I said, yes, this is it. This is my calling, this is my path. And I always knew it. I mean, I've known it in my heart, it's just tugging, but that doubt, I don't want to disappoint anyone. I don't want to um, you know, have it come and sit and then say, sorry, that nothing. So, but hey, you know, with things like this, if something doesn't, if there's not a link, you know, you can say, hey, let's try next week or you know, whatever. But so what I want to say, if you're gonna come into a a mediumship reading, um, I would say come with excitement, with an with a need. If you don't have a need, then you might not want to, you know, get uh spend your money on getting a mediumship reading. You may want a soul-to-soul reading, which is more of a psychic reading, reading what's best for you now. And I do what what I do in mine is I blend soul-to-soul with mediumship, and so I will tap in and at and get into the energy field and into and then ask the spirits, okay, what is, you know, let's say it's let's say I'm reading for Jane. What does Jane need to know now? And I'll just start channeling and riffing and bringing things through, and then the loved ones will just start flowing through. The last reading I gave was so beautiful, and there was like a lineup of of different uh um family members that I was describing, and and they want they, you know, they'll come by. They usually uh spirit won't come in alone, they'll come in with some other people. Pets come in as well. And uh recently I did a uh reading for a woman who had lost her son. He was an adult in his forties, and she had given him up for adoption as a as a baby, but uh when he was in his twenties, she did get to reconnect with him, and he had a rough life, and anyway, he he passed away, uh had passed away a few months prior, and she just had a lot of guilt. Did I do the right thing by giving him up? Did I, you know, a lot, a lot of uh pain around it, and that he died and that he didn't have a great life with the adoptive parents, mother, and everything. And uh boy, did he come through and his best friend on the he uh he described his best friend, I described him exactly, and I said his name right away. He says, Yeah, that's his name, and uh a few names came through. And I'll tell you something with names. So names, uh names are not so easy to get. Um, some some mediums are great with names and others will never get a name. Um sometimes I'll hear a name and it'll come through. So it's not uh so don't always expect expect a name, but but sometimes they will come through, and when names come through, that is it's powerful. That is, it is really powerful. Sometimes uh past lives will pop in or or different uh timelines. I mean, it's so magical. Maybe uh if you're interested in ETs or galactic energy, you know, I can tap into that and go into the galactic because um even though these galaxies and planets are so far, energy is right here. Everything's right here and now, and there's no time and space, and it's it's just it's all it's all freaking incredible. So I guess what I want to share is a couple of things. Um the first thing is because if I this is something I'm if you're if you've booked a mediumship reading with me, I will probably be sending this to you so that you can hear this beforehand, so that you know, um, just to come in um, you know, before we get on the zoom together. You may want to ground yourself if it's um in the evening, you know, don't have any alcohol, um, hydrate yourself. You may want to set the scene, light a candle, maybe sit for 15 minutes beforehand and invite your loved ones in. Um, center yourself, you know, kind of get ready for it because it is magic. Set a little magical scene for yourself and then have some excitement and participate in the reading. And it's not a test, you know. Some people will sit there with their arms crossed and say, Oh, okay, you you, you know, let me see what you can do. No, that's that'll cut choke it off, you know, because no one wants to be tested and and then it gets very tense. And so you just want to be open and and uh excited and see what see what happens. There's no one can promise. You know, we can't just call in spirits on demand. Um we wait for them. The medium will wait for them to come in and appear. We can't just grab them. But um it's interesting because I'm just seeing a horse right now. If somebody's listening to this and there's a horse in spirit, a horse, a brown horse came in, and the horse is like shaking its head, yes, up and down, like, yep, yep. That's exactly right. Because the animals, our animals are with us as well, and I get animals in the spirit world a lot, coming in a lot. So, anyway, that's what I wanted to share about mediumship, and um now I want to just touch on when I spoke about that. That's my passion, that's my calling. Um, this going forward, you know, time is you may have noticed that time is really speeding up. It's like my husband and I go out to a special Mexican, well, we say breakfast, we go around noon, but uh a place in LA that we go every s uh every Sunday. We all you usually have the same thing to eat, and it's just so authentic, you'd think you're in Mexico, even the way it's decorated and everything. We just love it. And so, um, and my husband's originally from Mexico City, so we really we really like that that you know that flavor there. So, but it's like we were just here, you know, it it's every Sunday, it's like it's Sunday again, we're going out to breakfast again. It it really when you have some when you have a routine that you do every single week, and then you're like, oh my gosh, it feels like we were just here, it really doesn't it? It feels like it's like time is speeding up. And so we only have a finite time on the planet, and and let's just go. And I've been using this this term that my acting teacher back in the 90s used to say, go balls to the wall. It's like if you're gonna do something, go ahead and go balls to the wall, just do it and do it, do it your best. And so if you have something inside of you that's that's just can't you can't shake it that you keep thinking this is what I want to do, but can I? Do I have the time? Do I have the skills? Do I have the how am I gonna make it happen? If some um something's been put in you, if a desire has been put in you, there's a reason for that. And it's because it you are meant to do it. It's it's there. You wouldn't it wouldn't have that desire if you weren't meant to do that. And so I just want to encourage you to go ahead and um, you know, share your gifts with the world. And so that mediumship would not leave my essence, my mind, my energy field. I just kept thinking about it over the years, over the over the past 15 years, and finally I said, okay, and I'd I'd read books about it, and I'd take a little workshop here or there, but I'm like, no, no, no, no. This needs to be something I really, really get into. So huh, so here I am, and and I'm turning 64 on June 11th. So um, and and and I was in a nine year. This was a nine year, and now I'm it's it's which is completion, and it's going resets now at one new beginning. So, you know, what what more what what more perfection can that be? The universe is always uh co-creating and conspiring on our behalf. And with that, I leave you until next time. Sending you much love and stay in your magic. Thank you so much for spending this time with me. If this resonated, I'd really appreciate it if you left a review on iTunes and hit subscribe. And if you'd like to go a little deeper, you can explore my private audio experiences and one to one sessions inside House of Sovereignty at marlamartensen.com. Everything is linked below in the show notes. I'd love to connect with you.