Some of the benefits of developing your mediumship abilities seem obvious: You get to converse with the “dead”! You can give messages to people. You might even be able to earn a living as a professional medium.
But there are also other reasons to develop your mediumship abilities, whether they are just beginning to slowly develop or are bursting out of control and taking over the rest of your everyday life.
Control
Developing your mediumship abilities puts you in the driver’s seat of your experience. Rather than connection with Spirit being something that happens to you, it’s something that you become in control of.
Not everyone who studies or teaching mediumship agrees with this viewpoint. Old-time Spiritualists often instructed that Spirit was in control and the medium was merely the instrument.
I’m a modern person who believes in free will and has an admittedly strong independent streak. I realize this may have something to do with my views on mediumship development. But I really do believe that we are each supposed to chart our course according to what’s in our highest good and that we get to have a say in the process.
Mediumship development allows you to understand what’s going on when you receive information from Spirit. It allows you to turn it on or shut it off (so you can get a good night’s sleep, or concentrate on work, or do whatever it is that you need to do during your everyday life).
Learning to control your gifts is a blessing to you and everyone around you. It allows you to be a medium at will, rather than by chance, and gives you a deeper understanding about how your abilities work and how you can use and maintain them in a safe and healthy way.
Personal development
Mediumship teaches you how to be in the present moment, as you can’t be worrying about the past or future when you’re receiving information and messages from Spirit.
Learning how to be present is an amazing gift that also benefits other areas of your life. You become less distracted overall and more able to engage deeply with life.
Mediumship also allows you to receive wisdom and information from loved ones and guides in Spirit. Whether this information comes through during meditation for development or while giving messages to other people, you receive a vast trove of wonderful insight.
There so many are times that I’ve been in the middle of giving a message, in the flow of the energy and the work, and a little voice will nudge me and let me know that part of the message I’m giving to my client is for me as well.
Developing your mediumship gifts also has the happy byproduct of developing your intuition. A finely turned intuition is something that will serve you well throughout your life, no matter how much you use your mediumship abilities.
An outlet for healing
Many mediums want to help other people and provide healing to the world. Mediumship is one avenue for doing that.
Hearing from loved ones in Spirit can be immensely healing for people and, when you deliver those messages, you’re a vehicle for that healing (you could say you’re being the medium of the healing).
That healing is also available to you as well. As you develop your ability to bring other’s loved ones in Spirit through, you also learn how to distinguish when your own loved ones are connecting with you. Knowing you have your own Spirit band behind you, always loving and supporting you, is incredibly healing for the medium.
Understand the nature of reality
Mediumship helps you live on a deeper level and understand the mysteries of the universe. When you bring through messages from loved ones in Spirit for your sitters, you’ll end up answering their many questions about life after death on a whole variety of topics you may not even be able to imagine right now.
This gives you a rich understanding of the nature of reality and how this thing we called life and existence is put together and works. If you want to get a look behind the curtain into the machinations of the universe, mediumship can be a great way to do that. It helps you understand your role in this universe and how you are connected to everything else. It helps you find clarity and understanding on your path—past, present and future.
In short, developing your mediumship skills allows you to live a richer, fuller, deeper, more satisfying life.