Definition of a Psychic Medium and Mediumship

Channeling, or psychic mediumship, is the ability to receive and translate information, energy, and communication from higher-frequency consciousness.

A psychic medium uses their intuitive senses—often called the Claires—to perceive messages from spirit guides, higher beings, loved ones, nature consciousness, and other non-physical intelligences.

These messages don’t usually come through as clear spoken language. Instead, they are received as images, feelings, knowing, sound, or symbolic impressions—and then translated through the human system.

What psychic gifts do you need to be a Psychic Medium?

Psychic Mediums use several types of psychic clairs to connect with Spirit Beings. Clairvoyance, Clairaudience, Claircognizance, and Clairsentience are the most common types of psychic sense—to see, hear, know, and feel, respectively. 

The Psychic Medium may use these gifts together as well. For instance, I may, all at once, see an image, hear a message, feel an emotion tied to it, and receive a strong sense of knowing in my body. Because all of my clairs are open and I use them every day. This happens often for me, and it’s incredibly helpful in sessions.

Sometimes, the being communicating does not use anything resembling human language. Instead, messages are transmitted through images, sensations, or energetic impressions, which the medium interprets.

Are people born psychic mediums or can they learn it?

Can anyone be a Psychic Medium?

I absolutely believe that anyone can open their psychic senses enough to be psychic and to get messages from Spirit Guides and helpful entities. Perhaps not everyone has the capacity to give messages to others with compassion and clarity, but everyone can at least learn to open their senses to get their own messages and advice.

And I especially believe that anyone who wants to be a Psychic Medium should definitely learn to work with their Spirit Guides. This desire comes from your Higher Self, to motivate you to take this path!

👉 You can begin learning how to connect with your Spirit Guides here:
https://www.soundwavesheal.com/skool

Can psychic mediumship abilities be blocked?

Can someone else block them?

Yes, if a person has emotional or past life blocks to be healed that are interfering with their mediumship, this is a safety precaution their Spirit Guides have put into place for them. The person must first work on Shadow Work and deep healing before they are truly ready to open up this much to mediumship.

Perhaps they also need to learn self-protection so they can practice mediumship safely. Fears about safety and channeling might also block someone from using their mediumship skills. Developing understanding and awareness of channeling can naturally reduce fear and increase clarity.

How do you know if a spirit is safe or aligned?

Can you pick up messages from negative spirits?

A clear channel works with aligned, high-frequency beings and maintains energetic boundaries.

Like any intuitive practice, discernment and energetic clarity are important. When a medium is grounded, self-aware, and working intentionally, communication remains clean and coherent.

Practices like Reiki, energy awareness, and personal development can support this clarity. Understanding discernment is important and can be built with a trusted mentor.

Is psychic mediumship harmful or dangerous?

It is not a good idea to channel without a proper understanding of what they are doing, proper protection, or if the Medium is not clear, grounded, and in a stable emotional state. While this sort of activity isn’t physically harmful to the Medium, it can be mentally harmful and can also render the Medium incapable of getting clear answers from pure source energy/ high vibrational beings. In other words, if the Medium is not clear, then the Medium might be channeling negative spirits.

Psychic Mediums need to watch their protection and understand the difference between high vibrational beings and lower vibrational beings.

Just like any human, a Medium can get bogged down by life, feel low, and attract psychic attachments. But this is no different than anyone else. A medium can seek another psychic healer for an energy clearing session and re-dedicate themselves to self-work and self-spirituality, which can help them stay clear.

How do psychic messages come through?

Messages come through in many different ways, depending on how the medium receives information. That depends on the way the Psychic Medium receives messages. Messages can also come from a specific Spirit Guide, like a Joy Guide. The Joy Guide is an Inner Band Spirit Guide—meaning a spirit guide who is in a person’s inner circle since birth and is part of their closest group of Spirit Guides. One of the more important jobs of the Joy Guide is to retrieve messages and bring them to the Psychic Medium. 

A person can also have more Messenger Guides to retrieve information in a variety of ways. This could be as simple as getting goosebumps to let them know they are speaking the truth, or a sense of knowing something is right or true. A more advanced Medium can get clear messages from their Joy Guide about themselves or about a client or friend they are asking for information about, as well.

What is a Trance Medium?

Trance Mediums can let a being speak through them. The difference between this and regular or relay channeling is that the channel does not repeat the message as we normally see Psychic Mediums do. Instead the Being is using a 3D body (the channel) to speak to you from their Spiritual Realm. This type of channeling requires a lot of protection and guidance to learn to do safely. Trance Channeling can be fun and enlightening, once a person knows how to protect themselves while letting the messages flow through them. This is also a great way for the Medium to receive clear information for themselves, which is often hard to do.

👉 If you feel drawn to trance channeling specifically, you can explore a step-by-step training here:
https://www.soundwavesheal.com/tag-trance

What other ways can a psychic medium share messages?

Channeling healing energy is a powerful part of mediumship.

A Channel Medium can also pass healing energy on from the beings they are tapping into. This can happen with any type of channeled healing, such as Reiki, Light Language, or similar healing modalities.

Channeled Healing is one of my favorite types of healing, and you might be surprised that I also consider Light Language and Psychic Reiki Healing to be psychic healing. I feel it is so beautifully accessible because a person doesn’t need to have a lot of knowledge or take many courses to become a great Sound Healer. They only need a great connection to a beautiful being who can help them heal themselves and others.

Can messages come through without permission?

How does a psychic medium control this?

A Psychic Medium can bring through a message from different types of beings in different types of ways. When I bring through a message as a medium, I either have a being ready and waiting for me to deliver the message, or I am reaching out to a specific being (loved one) or specific type of being (angel, unicorn, galactic…etc) to ask if they will. There are also plants, crystals, and wildlife that “grab the attention” of a person who is sensitive to receive their messages psychically.

Generally speaking, the entity or spirit the Psychic Medium is communicating with wants to make contact with humanity or a specific loved one in order to pass on a message/messages. Some people seek out a Psychic Medium to communicate with a loved one who passed on or a pet who is having issues. Some people just want to get a general message from their spirit guides on their path in life.

Some spirits actually bug Psychic Mediums until they channel their messages, too! This happens to me sometimes in sessions, if the being needs me to add something and it's very important to them. This can happen regularly to mediums with less psychic protection. Psychic Mediums have to learn to put good spiritual boundaries in place so that spirits know when they are working and when they are off, kind of like office hours.

But yes, if a Medium isn’t trained correctly, or doesn’t know how to protect themselves or have spiritual boundaries, then a Spirit can come into them — just like anyone else. This is why mediums need strong boundaries and energetic clarity.

When people learn to channel psychic messages safely, they will have spirit guides who protect them and help them to receive and interpret messages. They also have gatekeeper spirit guides who will help the spirits who want to communicate abide by the Psychic Medium’s rules. With this protection, the messages will not come through without permission. This is how a psychic medium learns to control these types of intrusive messages. They can also construct extra protection with Reiki, waiting rooms, learn to turn off pesky human spirits, and more.

How do you know if it’s real or your imagination? 

It is important for a Psychic Medium to keep their Ego Mind out of the messages they channel. With practice and discernment, a Medium can learn how to tell the difference between what they think and what the Spirit is informing them. This is part of the training.

As Mediums, we learn to put into practice certain procedures to know the difference or to figure it out when we are not sure. An advanced Medium will know how to work with their Spirit Guides to know a real “hit” or message versus one that is just something they think.

On the other side of the coin, this question is what holds most people back from practicing mediumship. It is essential for someone who is learning to be a Psychic Medium to know how to trust their gifts and know that the messages they receive ARE messages, not just their imagination. We work a lot on learning to discern the difference in my channeling classes.

Just a note: I don’t believe Imagination is fantasy. In fact, I believe that Images, impressions, and inner experiences are part of how information is received from your Spirit Guides. With practice, discernment develops—and what once felt like imagination becomes clear communication.

🌿 Developing Your Channeling Ability

Everyone on earth is capable of being a Psychic Medium—to receive messages from Spirit Guides and Beings of Light. People who work as Psychic Mediums have opened their psychic clairs and learned to understand how to use discernment to create a foundation of self-belief.

Channeling is a skill that can be developed with structure, practice, and guidance.

Many people begin by learning to recognize how they naturally receive information—whether through images, feelings, knowing, or sound—and then strengthen that connection over time.

If you feel called to explore this more deeply, there are spaces where you can practice, receive guidance, and expand your abilities step-by-step.

👉 For those ready to deepen their practice with support and mentorship, you can explore TAG here:
https://www.soundwavesheal.com/tag

 🌿 Continuing Your Path

Everyone has the ability to develop their intuitive senses and connection to higher guidance.

For many, this begins by recognizing what they are already receiving—and learning to trust it.

If you’d like to go deeper, there are structured ways to explore and develop your channeling:

✨ 5D Channels & Chats (Skool Community) — a space to begin, practice, and receive guidance, including the Channeling Spirit Guide Foundations Course
👉 https://www.soundwavesheal.com/skool

✨ TAG (Mentorship Membership) — for expanding your intuitive abilities, connection, and multidimensional awareness
👉 https://www.soundwavesheal.com/tag

✨ TAG Trance — for those ready to explore trance channeling and mediumship with guidance and support
👉 https://www.soundwavesheal.com/tag-trance