Tips for managing your gift of mediumship

Tips for managing your gift of mediumship

by: Templo Fraternidade Aymoriana

13.12.2021

There is a great misunderstanding about the mediumistic faculty, when mediums assume that it is the protective Spirits or even the leaders of the Spiritist Houses/Umbandistas -if they participate in any- responsible for conducting and directing their mediumship.

This mistake, outsourcing what belongs to it, causes a lot of disgust and facilitates negative interference in the mental field of the medium-person; because in this case, he needs to pay attention to what is incumbent on him in terms of observing what he feels and thinks and the consequences, often disastrous, reflecting on all aspects of his life, including, of course, mediumship.

We are all individualized individuals and no one is responsible for taking care of what is ours. They can only help us. And mediumship, being a heritage of humanity, belongs to everyone who is human, to the degree that they have already developed it, and it is only up to you to take care of it and give it the direction you want.

When we think of the medium using, administering and living with his mediumistic faculty, we are thinking of a human being similar to the others, but with a slightly more developed sensitive capacity.
The difference between the medium and those who do not have ostensible mediumship is the same between a musician and those who are not, between a biologist and someone who is not. That is, the medium can perceive, understand and feel the action of the Spirits more than other people. Otherwise, it is like all the others, full of flaws and ignorance.

The development of this potential does not represent better morals, more spirituality, a better human being or a conscious person. And it's not synonymous with good, high spirit connections.

But it can represent, for some, an unequaled resource of self-knowledge, of understanding how life works in the light of Spiritual Principles and of living these same Principles, as values of personal renewal. In this case, there is a great opportunity to learn to live in a healthy, natural and constructive way with one's mediumistic resources.

Here are some tips to exercise your Gift of Mediumship with Peace and Joy:

• Be as discreet as possible.
• Avoid personal comments about the faculties you are a holder.
• Directly or indirectly, do not provoke words of praise to you.
• Do not want to anticipate the experience that only time will give you.
• Trust the action of the spirits through you, but submit everything to the scrutiny of reason.
• Do not remain in the expectation of good results without persevering work.
• Even when well intentioned, beware of sycophants.
• Vaccinate yourself against vanity, not admitting any situation that puts you in evidence.
• Do not stray from activities that, doctrinally, many consider insignificant.
• Never claim privileges.
• Be concerned about setting an example of devotion and love for the Cause.
• Choose, in the practice of Charity, your point of continuous syntony with the Higher Plans.
• Learn to listen more than talk.
• Always have a word of optimism on your lips.
• Do not condition your presence on the task, making your opinion prevail over others.
• Avoid exercising dominance over anyone.
• Don't put your words into the mouths of the spirits.
• Convince yourself that Darkness has a thousand ways to make you fall.
• All vigilance on your part is still little.
• Whoever accepts the first bribe starts selling himself in full.
• Choose to walk between landmarks that can really give you safety on the journey.
• Don't consider yourself completely immune to fascination.
• In favor of your mental balance, don't ignore your status as a mere instrument.
• Study, but not to show that you know, but to better appreciate the extent of your ignorance of the Truth.
• With your condition as a medium, don't run over your condition as a spiritist.
• The medium who receives the most is the one who gives the most.
• Say, in private, the prayers you usually say in public.
• Dignify your home and your family.
• Don't forget that no one is a better medium than a person.
• The foundation of the mediumship building is called character.

The more the medium-person feels good about himself, confident and secure, the better his mediumistic performance will be, because, unconcerned about personal prestige and self-aggrandizement, he will also be moving away from the vanity and pride that create the fear of err, the expectation of being more and the blindness to the value of their fellow workers.

Source: Book – To the Beginner Medium
Carlos A. Baccelli, by the Spirit Spartaco Ghilardi