When predictions don’t matter
October 4th, 2009 by jim1537
“So what actually is a psychic reading,” one might question? If you were to ask most people, I would bet that the majority would respond with the following: “A reading is supposed to predict the future: offering times, dates, and events that are going to happen.” (That sentiment might be further emphasized by the idea that a reading is only good if those things are predicted accurately!)
This presupposition assumes that life is a pre-written script – as if we were all actors in a cosmic play acted out on earth; presumably written by a higher power, where all we do is say the lines and act out the scenes given to us. With this mindset, a psychic is merely there to predict and parrot these supposed pre scripted future events. “When am I going to meet someone? When will I get married? When will I be rich? So what’s going to happen in my career,” clients ask? These are the type of questions that fit this very limited concept of a reading.
However, our journeys are not only based on pre-written dates, times and events. (Just think if our lives were only that simple!) The truth of the matter is that our journeys are far more complicated than what can always be answered in a reading merely through time, date and event predictions. If a psychic consultation is truly going to be valid and helpful to anyone, it must reflect these complexities. Therefore, there are times when predictions in a reading don’t matter – in fact, they don’t matter at all. “What does that exactly mean,” you might wonder? “Isn’t the very idea of a reading supposed to be about predicting the future?”
Our Spiritual Lessons
What are spiritual lessons – what exactly are they? Spiritual lessons are lessons which we agree to (while we are still on the other side in our spiritual bodies) before incarnating into a physical lifetime, where the lesson or lessons are to be learned.
These lessons cannot be predicted in a reading based on time, dates and events or the future. They are taken on by us on a soul level for our own spiritual growth and the nature of these lessons can literally entail anything. It all depends on what we’re supposed to learn on a spiritual level; not necessarily what the personality desires, which would presumably be to always get what we want. These lessons are not easy for us to learn, as they take time, effort, and often involve struggle, pain, difficulty, persistence, and patience.
Think of it like an assignment without a strict time limit – a task you have agreed to do, and then it is your job to do the work. We may perhaps agree to a wide and open time frame to learn the lesson or lessons we’ve taken on, but probably one that encompasses at least several years, even decades. Often, we have an entire lifetime to learn these lessons, meaning that we will deal with it for an entire incarnation. If we don’t learn what we’ve agreed to in a given lifetime, we then carry it over into future lifetimes, as we can choose to resist learning the lesson, for however long we choose.
It is not unusual for certain lessons to take multiple lifetimes to learn. That can be because we’ve resisted learning, or because we have actually agreed spiritually to take on the lesson for numerous lifetimes. Sometimes a lesson may actually take multiple lifetimes to learn as it is that deep, transformational and complex. In fact, we have all of eternity to learn our spiritual lessons. Therefore, it is impossible for a reader to offer time, date and event based predictions regarding these outcomes and conclusions. Why? Because it is all based on the growth and choices of the client.
If you want to quickly be able to possibly identify some of your spiritual lessons, take a look at the areas of your journey that you may have struggled with for an extended period of time – something most of us might call baggage. It isn’t necessarily baggage, but what the soul needs to learn which still hasn’t been learned yet. It can be called a work in progress. (However, just because it is baggage, does not necessarily mean that spiritual lessons are involved. Some times we just choose our way into our own difficulty; like recreationally cheating on a wonderful spouse, and destroying a marriage.)
Let’s look at two examples of these types of lessons and how predictions in a reading don’t matter. I’m sure you will be able to relate to, or know someone who has experienced one or both of these lessons, as they are universal.
Self-esteem and prosperity
All of us in one lifetime or another will take on the lesson of learning to manifest positive self-esteem and financial prosperity. Since self worth so strongly ties into our ability to manifest money, often these two dynamics go hand in hand in our spiritual growth and lessons.
If one is to learn this lesson, they may architect and set up a personality (on the other side before incarnating) that has low self worth, and feel undeserving of money. They would enter into this lifetime with these qualities. Most likely, they would attract experiences which reinforce this negativity in life.
This creates the foundation (the personality) and crisis (negative experiences regarding self worth and money) for the lesson to be learned. This person has agreed to take on the challenge of purging that negative pain to eventually work through it to manifest a good self-image and prosperity as their spiritual lesson.
This person’s environment will contain people who reinforce to them that they are no good. They may also have to struggle to get a good paying job for a very long time and find that they never have money. So with these struggles, the work begins, in a sense, going from darkness (low self worth and poverty) to light (positive self esteem, prosperity and financial wealth). The choices and the way they handle it along the way will determine whether this person moves closer to their goals, or further away from them.
Keep in mind, this could take years, decades, an entire lifetime or several lifetimes. Part of that has to do with how the person in question learns and progresses or not, and also, what they have agreed to on a soul level. Have they agreed for this lesson to take years, decades, an entire lifetime, or multiple lifetimes? Perhaps there is no time frame at all — but just a lesson to be learned.
So this client might ask a reader, “When am I going to finally have money?” As you can see, this question cannot be answered through a time, date and event prediction. A reader should explain to the client what the lessons are, what they need to do to feel good about themselves, manifest money, and what course of action they should take to work toward completing this task.
This particular client needs to heal their relationship with their mother and father within themselves, as it has fostered and helped to create a very negative self-image for them. By feeling good about themselves, that also puts them in a vibration to be able to attract money. This may sound neat and tidy in a few sentences right here, but much harder to achieve in reality, as there are deep reinforcements of a poor self-image lodged in the subconscious. This dates back to childhood, so the healing of these issues will take time, persistence and diligence.
Most of us mentally know what we need to do, but still fall short in our efforts. Mentally knowing is only within our conscious mind, which is merely the tip of the iceberg of who we are. Knowing mentally does little or nothing to complete these lessons. That is because we don’t yet emotionally know, which means that we must proceed deeper, till we reach the core of our being, and reprogram the subconscious mind. This allows us to emotionally know – as in us getting it on a deep, unquestionable gut level.
So the idea here is that this client needs to work on these tasks, and not look for predictions regarding their question, as predictions would be null and void and render themselves meaningless, as this clearly is a lesson driven situation. In time, they will complete their goals – it is just a matter of them making the journey of growth and completion.
Manifesting our perfect divine life partner
Many of us have struggled with meeting that right person – the one who is truly our perfect divine life partner. Let’s look at an example of how this ties into our spiritual lessons and where predictions don’t matter.
A woman agrees (on the other side before incarnating) that her lesson is to go through two bad marriages which will damage her life, then for her to transform her journey through internal healing, which would then allow the right person to enter her life. She needs to heal and truly be open to meet that right person, which is what allows that new individual to come into her life. Her internal healing creates the open door for her perfect life partner to come to her: not a dating website, not meeting new romantic prospects, or taking risky chances to try and make it happen.
At a certain point in her internal healing, or while simultaneously working on her issues, it may be time for her to be open to meeting new people and begin dating. But there is a time to simply work on healing, and then (while meeting new prospects), still work on healing and learning to discern who’s not right, and cut them loose. The success or failure of her future love life is not based on time, date and event predictions. It is based on her needing to learn what she is supposed to spiritually learn and making the correct choices that are for her highest good. Think of it like being in grade 12 and needing to pass your classes and final exams to graduate and get your diploma.
If she is having a reading after her second divorce, is angry, bitter and frustrated, she may ask a psychic, “So when am I going to meet my soul mate? I have had two horrible marriages and I want to meet him, so where is he?” This question may seem utterly straightforward, as if any qualified reader should give her that date. But it cannot be answered at all with a date. Why? Because, again it is her spiritual lesson, a lesson of the soul.
This client is chemically drawn to bad men: men who are cocky, unavailable, arrogant, cheat and won’t commit. So when she feels the pull or the “connection” to a man, she immediately needs to ask herself, “Is this the same type of guy I was married to twice,” as opposed to just wanting time, date and event predictions about “the one.”
What a reader should do is to tell her what her lessons are, how to work through them, which will then open the door for the right person to come into her life. This entails spiritual insight, wisdom, and the ability to understand the nature of the lesson. A psychic should advise her to completely break this pattern of being with these type of men, as connecting with them will keep her repeating the same relationship patterns from her past – the ones she is supposed to be getting beyond, in order to meet the right partner for her. If there is an instance where she is not sure upon meeting a new man, she could give it a time frame without emotional attachment, to let it unfold. Always remember, though, it won’t be hard for this client to see it clearly – it’s more of the question of whether she wants to see it without blinders on.
However, when one is caught up in painful emotions while trying to deal with their spiritual lessons, it can be difficult. “How come you can’t give me the answer as to when this will happen for me, as I am so frustrated,” she questions in a reading? With this mindset, it is important for the client to step away from her feelings, and hear the counsel that will help her to get there. That guidance focuses her to heal the issues from her two divorces: not just surviving the experiences, but coming to a sense of forgiveness, peace and learning all she needs to learn to be able to successfully move forward with her romantic life.
Remember, it’s not just a case that if she waits it out, Mr. Right will come into her life. Sometimes, for some of us, our love lives are just a matter of that. But for this client, learning her spiritual lessons directly ties into her manifesting a successful love life. Once again, we see exactly how time, date and event based predictions will absolutely do nothing to help her get where she truly wants to go, but learning what she has agreed to before incarnating into this lifetime will.
To predict or not predict — that is the question
Readers have many clients who express the same frustration as the female client mentioned above, because they want a prediction – and one that is tidy, with no ifs, ands, or butts about it. Again, if life were that simple!
Breaking an old negative pattern is not easy, as negative emotions are like adrenaline: loud, pushy, impatient, impulsive and out of control. It’s important for clients to sit back, allow their higher selves to take control and make the choices that help to complete the spiritual lessons involved – not just repetitively asking readers the same time, date and event based predictions.
Some clients try to limit and restrict the insights of a reading, by continually bringing it back to the same redundant question, “But when is it going to happen? I hear what you’re telling me, but when is it going to happen?” You might ask, “Why would a client do this?”
Because it’s a way for the client to avoid growth, take responsibility and put in the effort to learn their lessons. If a time, date and event prediction can be provided by a psychic, that means that the client’s question is answered and things will simply just work out. Therefore, it’s only a matter of time. This way, the client then doesn’t have to do anything to make their dreams happen for them. This type of “boxing in the reader” process is terribly harmful to the client, as it will never bring legitimate or valid answers in a reading. In fact, it will prevent the desired outcome of the client from happening, as the question is based on an area of the client’s life that is lesson driven — meaning a spiritual lesson must be learned. There is no other way around it.
Then there are readers who don’t understand these complex spiritual lessons, and simply make predictions that don’t come true. I have had many clients say to me in complete frustration, “Jim, every psychic keeps telling me I’m going to meet the one within 3-6 months, and it never happens!”
For me, I always know if a question can be answered by a prediction or not. When it can’t, I clairvoyantly receive what the client needs to do to get there. However, many clients refuse to do the work. They want instant gratification, as if a reading is supposed to answer life’s biggest questions in a few quick minutes: Date when soul mate enters the picture, time when there will be a new job, event where there will be more money and exactly how much – then, the reading is over.
So as we can see, answering questions that tie into one’s spiritual lessons are impossible to do by time, date and event predictions, by any reader. It is not a question of the ability level a psychic possesses; meaning how good they are or not. It cannot be done.
Getting tired of it all
It is so easy to feel utterly overwhelmed by the process of learning our spiritual lessons. By the very nature of these lessons, they are not easy, and are not learned quickly. Asking a psychic for predictions regarding these lessons becomes frustrating when either predictions don’t come true (even my multiple readers), or a reader of higher insight explains what needs to be done to complete the lesson and it is realized by the client – this is going to take time and effort.
However, when getting tired of it all, never forget that through despair, it’s easy to make the lessons take longer and actually become harder. After a certain point, any of us can lose hope, enthusiasm, the desire to keep moving forward, and openness. Therefore, the very lesson we’re supposed to work through becomes like an abyss that we feel we’ll never get out of.
The pain cannot become our foundation and our conclusion. For example: We agreed in our spiritual body to learn the spiritual lessons of breaking the cycle of bad relationships that are destructive. But instead of doing so, we continue to get involved with negative partners and choose the same, if not worse lovers to connect with. It can destroy one’s life and retard one’s growth on a spiritual level.
Don’t give up
As mentioned above, it is so easy to become frustrated, disillusioned and ready to throw in the towel when things don’t work out – especially when there has been struggle for years, or even decades. While going through these difficulties, don’t let the emotions trick you into self-pity, bitterness, resentment, or making the same negative choices over and over.
Remember that you have agreed to take on these lessons. Lessons are never forced on us by a higher power. We always made the choice to have this experience, so we are actually in the driver’s seat, even when we have lost sight of that fact. Just like when you sign a contract here in the physical world, the exact same thing happens on the other side before we incarnate. We do sign on the dotted line, so to speak, as the soul wants to grow, evolve and learn! So we are compelled to learn what we have agreed to. It is not as if God is punishing us!
If it is a spiritual lesson you have agreed to take on, it has to be learned. You can postpone it, make it harder or take longer, but in one lifetime or another, it will absolutely and unequivocally be completed.
And when having a reading, realize that it is these lessons – call them spiritual lessons or lessons of the soul, that cannot be answered by date, time and event predictions. What a reader can do, though, is to offer the overview, guidance, counsel, direction and suggestions to guide you down the path of completion, not one of self-denial and destruction.
So in this instance: “how” becomes “when” — meaning that how we direct our lives, how we do things, how we choose, and how we learn, answers the question of when – when we will complete our spiritual lesson or lessons. By learning what we have agreed to, the when we seek becomes a reality. If spiritual lessons are involved, the date, time and events we ask for are not answered by predictions in a reading; ever. But rather, by how we make choices in our lives and how we learn what we have contracted to. By learning our spiritual lessons, there is absolute completion (like the reality of graduating from school with diploma in hand). This fulfills the destiny of our soul’s higher journey and growth — and that completion remains with us not just in this lifetime, but also, for all of eternity.
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