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If you are the listener, listen quietly without distracting or interrupting the speaker. Volunteering information could derail the stream of information or change its direction entirely. It’s better for the information to come from the intuitive reader, unless he or she seems stuck or unsure, in which case it may be helpful for the listener to supply a missing piece of information.

Despite this instruction, some listeners can’t help but respond to the speaker with a supportive “Mm-hmm.” This kind of agreement is human nature, but it is better for the listener not to comment. Besides breaking the speaker’s flow, the speaker may begin to listen for confirmation, and this delay could take the reading down a psychic alleyway that might be a detour from the soul’s original path.

When the reading is over, the listener is invited to give feedback to the speaker. The listener should report what resonated and what means nothing at present. Later on, the information may become meaningful.

I experienced this delayed understanding in my first psychic reading of someone else. A city magazine had assigned me to write a cover story on a well-known local psychic, so I attended her intuitive training class. Some thirty people sat in a circle in a large room, and during a psychometry exercise, each of us picked a name out of a basket. I unfolded the piece of paper and was astonished to get a clear, distinct impression of green leaves on a curving stem placed against a purple background.

The person who owned up to the name I drew said that image meant nothing to her. But later on, she took off her jacket and, lo and behold, her purple sweat shirt was decorated with a winding stem of green ivy leaves. This design was exactly what I had seen, but if she hadn’t removed her jacket, I would have assumed that I’d been completely wrong.

What does not make sense to the listener at the moment might become clear minutes, days, or even weeks later. So don’t worry about what seem like intuitive “misses.” They may turn out to be “hits.”

Extending the reading. During the feedback session, the listener may ask for details on certain aspects of the reading. Whether to go back for more information or not is the speaker’s choice. If the speaker is willing to give more, he or she may be able to do so immediately. There’s a simple explanation for this ready availability: the speaker and listener are still in the channel, much as the dreamer, immediately upon waking, is still in the dream.

The speaker may be able to answer questions by looking inward with the eyes open or may need to retreat inward by repeating the seven steps to get back into the channel.