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    Led by Light: How to Develop Your Intuitive Mediumship Abilities: Led by Light, #1
    Led by Light: How to Develop Your Intuitive Mediumship Abilities: Led by Light, #1
    Led by Light: How to Develop Your Intuitive Mediumship Abilities: Led by Light, #1
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    Led by Light: How to Develop Your Intuitive Mediumship Abilities: Led by Light, #1

    By Rev. Joanna Bartlett

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    Get in the driver's seat of your spiritual experiences

    Learn how to communicate with Spirit safely and naturally 
    Do you get sudden insights but don't know where they come from--or what to do with them? 
    Are you woken up in the middle of the night without knowing why? 
    Do you sometimes wonder if people in Spirit are hanging around you? 
    Does the idea of talking to people in Spirit fascinate you (but maybe scare you a little bit, too)? 
    Whether you see and sense Spirit and don't know how to deal with it, or think you might be able to but need guidance, you can learn how to safely connect with Spirit in a way that feels good. In this down-to-earth guide, you'll get a solid foundation for developing and controlling your innate mediumship abilities.
    Topics covered include:

    • What intuitive mediumship is, its purpose and history
    • How communication with Spirit works
    • Consciously opening and closing yourself to Spirit
    • Setting your intention
    • Creating and maintaining good boundaries
    • Meditation exercises
    • Raising your vibration while staying grounded
    • Your intuition and how to connect with it
    • How to meet and develop a relationship with your spirit guides
    • Symbols and understanding and interpreting messages

    Whether you want to become a professional medium or simply become closer to Spirit, your higher self and your guides, this book will guide you safely on your journey.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlight Press LLC
    Release dateOct 30, 2016
    ISBN9781945489051
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      Led by Light - Rev. Joanna Bartlett

      Led by Light:

      How to develop your intuitive mediumship abilities

      Book One: Unfolding

      Led by Light:

      How to develop your intuitive mediumship abilities

      Book One: Unfolding

      Rev. Joanna Bartlett

      ––––––––

      Copyright © 2016 Joanna Bartlett

      All Rights Reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher.

      Publisher's Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Bartlett, Joanna.

      Title: Led by light : how to develop your intuitive mediumship abilities : book 1, unfolding / Rev. Joanna Bartlett.

      Other titles: Unfolding.

      Description: Eugene, OR : Alight Press, 2016. | Series: Led by light, bk. 1.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2016917419 | ISBN 978-1-945489-04-4 (pbk.) | ISBN 978-1-945489-05-1 (ebook)

      Subjects: LCSH: Mediums. | Psychic ability. | Intuition. | Spiritualism. | Guides (Spiritualism) | BISAC: BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Channeling & Mediumship. | BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Spiritualism. | BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Parapsychology / ESP (Clairvoyance, Precognition, Telepathy).

      Classification: LCC BF1286 .B37 2016 (print) | LCC BF1286 (ebook) | DDC 133.9/1—dc23.

      Alight Press LLC

      Eugene, OR 97405

      www.alightpress.com

      Printed in the United States of America

      Contents

      Introduction

      How I became a professional Spiritualist intuitive medium

      What this book can do for you

      Chapter 1:  What is intuitive mediumship?

      Types of mediumship

      A brief history of mediumship

      What is a medium?

      Psychic, medium or something else?

      How mediumship works

      Chapter 2:  The purpose of mediumship

      What mediumship brings

      Benefits of developing your intuitive mediumship skills

      Chapter 3:  Set yourself up for success

      Know your intent

      Set your expectations

      Learn to set boundaries

      Find a class, church or mentor

      Create space in your life for  your development

      Take care of yourself

      Stay grounded, humble and in integrity

      Chapter 4:  Beginning your development

      Learn to ground yourself

      Setting your intention

      Setting and maintaining your boundaries

      Chapter 5:  Meditation

      The benefits of meditation

      Ways to meditate

      Other ways to meditate

      Meditation in everyday life

      Chapter 6:  Raise your vibration

      Accept responsibility for yourself  and your life

      Be aware of your thoughts

      Be aware of what you  expose yourself to

      Take care of your body

      Meditate

      Spend time in nature

      Heal your past

      Practice forgiveness and compassion

      Express gratitude

      Find things of beauty and contemplate them

      Laugh

      Listen to uplifting music

      Sing

      Stop gossiping

      Do acts of kindness

      Create a peaceful space in your life

      Set and maintain boundaries

      Chapter 7:  Developing your intuitive abilities

      What is intuition?

      How to develop your intuition

      First steps

      Awaken your intuitive body

      Awaken your intuitive senses

      Awaken your intuitive mind

      Awaken your intuitive heart

      Give yourself time

      Chapter 8:  Opening and closing to Spirit

      A prayer of intent

      Install and use a hatch

      Give Spirit signals

      Only being open when you want to

      Chapter 9:  Your spirit guides

      What are spirit guides?

      How many spirit guides do you have?

      Do spirit guides change over time?

      Can your loved ones become your spirit guides?

      Meeting your spirit guides

      Developing a relationship with your guides

      Signs and symbols from Spirit and your guides

      Chapter 10:  Interpreting messages and symbols

      How you receive symbols

      Working with and interpreting symbols

      Understanding your filter

      Knowing if a symbol is from Spirit

      Chapter 11:  Moving forward

      Acknowledgements

      More from this author

      Index

      Introduction

      How I became a professional

      Spiritualist intuitive medium

      Did I choose mediumship or did mediumship choose me?

      I never intended to become a medium. Most of us don’t. It’s just who we are. If I ever write a tell-all mediumship memoir, it’ll probably be called The Reluctant Medium. Because even now there are days I wonder why I do what I do. Every time I question if it’s the path I’m supposed to be on (I’m a bit of a questioner), I ask Spirit to show me the way forward. And this is the path I keep coming back to.

      My mediumship story starts out when I was a little kid, although I didn’t know it at the time.

      When I first began learning about mediumship, I’d hear experienced mediums talk about how they always had this ability, ever since they were a small child. Not me, I thought. I don’t remember talking to any dead people.

      But as I learned more about mediumship and developed my own abilities, the memories came back. I specifically remember someone I used to see in our breakfast room, often by the hallway that led to the downstairs bathroom and garage. He was familiar to me and I knew this person was male. I knew he was related. And he used to talk to me, although I no longer remember what he said.

      Looking back now, I believe he was my brother, Anthony, who died when I was 2 years old. He was 17, practically an adult, especially to a little kid. I’ve often felt him close to me throughout the years—and have received messages from him through other mediums. And, logistically, it makes sense. I was very young, so I was open to hearing and seeing Spirit and he wanted to check in with all of us.

      I soon learned, though, not to talk about ghosts. There’s no such thing as ghosts, was the forceful answer I received when I told my parents.

      And so, for the most part, I stopped seeing them. Or at least admitting that I could.

      As a teenager, I realized I sensed and felt things my peers didn’t. I could tell when someone was lying. I knew what people’s intentions really were. Did I listen to my inner knowing? Not often, but it still spoke to me. I knew where people hurt—and could relieve their pain by taking it on myself (this is not the recommended method, by the way). For the most part, I tried to ignore these feelings and knowings and push them away.

      When I was a young adult, I finally found a community ready and able to teach me about my gifts. In that sense, I didn’t choose to become a medium—I always was one—so it’s not a matter of wanting to be one or not. I did, however, choose to pursue developing my gifts, instead of continuing to repress and ignore them to the best of my ability.

      As far as actively practicing and demonstrating mediumship, that snuck up on me. The community I found to study and grow in was a small Spiritualist church. It didn’t have its own church building and instead met in a very church-like room at the Days Inn on the corner of East and Alexander streets in Rochester, N.Y.

      There were only a handful of people at some services, usually not more than 15. Getting up to give messages—after taking a church-sponsored mediumship class, of course—wasn’t terribly intimidating. It was a warm, inviting, supportive atmosphere. I also attended whatever mediumship classes and meditation circles the church offered and knew almost all the people, on some level, that I gave messages to. I also learned how to perform spiritual healing, which put me in direct contact with people I would then give messages to at the end of the church service.

      Over time, the church grew. We purchased a building of our own and I actively worked on public relations to increase our congregation and event attendance. We added more events, such as a monthly All Message Service, where mediums gave out readings gallery-style, offering short five-minute readings to each person in attendance. Our efforts were successful. People streamed in through the doors. But we didn’t have a whole lot of strong, practicing mediums.

      So I became a medium largely out of necessity—right at the time I began a mediumship certification course through Morris Pratt Institute (the educational arm of the National Spiritualist Association of Churches).

      I also felt a large push by my own loved ones in Spirit, who I swear were dancing around my home office the night after I received Lesson 1 in the mail. It was the same day I came back from offering healing at an All Message Service with the realization that the following month I’d be offering mediumship readings instead.

      That was the push I needed to begin regularly practicing mediumship at church services and special events such as All Message Services and psychic fairs.

      Demonstrating mediumship developed into teaching it. As I continued my mediumship and ministerial certification, I became a student minister, and, among other things, spearheaded the re-establishment of the church’s mediumship certification program. This certification program taught student mediums how to give out messages properly in a church service (we call it platform decorum) and helped them strive for evidential messages. I mentored student mediums and taught a yearly mediumship refresher course for all the church’s mediums.

      At that point, you’d think I was in it for life, right? Apparently not, or at least I didn’t know it yet.

      By the time I became a nationally-certified medium and an ordained minister, I had two young

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