What to Do (and What NOT to Do) to Prepare for an In-Person Psychic Reading

What you do before and leading up to a psychic reading is just as important as what you do during a psychic reading. Thus, here are three do’s and three don’ts for preparing for an in-person psychic reading.

Do’s:

DO be well rested before you go in. Trying to connect with a tired brain is like trying to use a ladder made of cooked pasta. The brain and mind of a person who would rather be sleeping is different from those of a well-rested person. A tired brain is focused on wanting to sleep and trying to stay awake. The mind is focused on the moment of relief the body will feel when it can crawl into bed. A psychic who has to make a connection with a tired person is going to have to wade through a thick river of exhaustion-related thoughts before they can even get to whatever the client wants from them.

Likewise, make sure you eat and go to the bathroom first. There’s nothing quite like trying to get impressions of a person’s future when that person keeps sending out shouting thoughts of how badly they can’t wait to go home and take a dump.

DO have a specific yes-or-no question or specific problem to discuss. As noted elsewhere on this site, vague questions won’t get you specific answers. The point of visiting a psychic is to get them to help guide you in some manner. Usually, people do have something specific they want to talk about. However, they may not actually say specifically what it is they want.

It may take a little time to hone in on the question one needs to ask, but by all means take the time. And make sure it can be answered with yes or no. The reason is for your benefit. An open-ended question gets you open-ended answers. A psychic doesn’t see a big, neon sign above your head reading yes or no when you ask for something.

DO respect the psychic’s mental and physical energy levels. Psychic readings can be exhausting and sometimes draining for the psychic. There is only so much they can do in one sitting. If you have them for an hour, they’ll give all they have for the hour, but lingering and trying to squeeze more out of them is not only rude but disrespectful of the psychic as a human being. Likewise, you wouldn’t expect your dentist to whiten your teeth for free while you’re in the chair simply because you came to her to get your wisdom teeth pulled. Yes, it doesn’t seem like a big deal to you since you’re already there, but it’s more work for them.

Don’ts:

DON’T record it without permission. First, it may illegal where you are to record someone without permission. If it isn’t a crime to record someone without their permission, it could otherwise open you up to a lawsuit for other reasons. Second, it’s rude to record someone without their permission when they have an expectation of privacy.

If you want a recording of the reading, ask the psychic if they allow recordings. There are many reasons a psychic may not want their sessions recorded aside from privacy issues, one of them being that running electronic equipment in the same room may interfere with their psychic abilities, or that having to fool around with a machine breaks their concentration.

DON’T bring others without permission. A psychic reading is intimate, and depending on the psychic, having more than one person in the room makes it harder to work. If you want a reading for yourself and only yourself, making the psychic deal with impressions concerning two or more people is going to make that very difficult.

Also, your psychic may not appreciate being treated like a freak show exhibit. They’re there to help you, not to be watched in wonder by your friends or your bae. And they really, really don’t appreciate it if whomever you’re with interrupts or tries to squeeze in time during your session. Imagine if you and your friend drove to an automatic carwash, but as you were entering the carwash, your friend tried to pull his car in, too. Neither of you, to say the least, would be getting a carwash.

DON’T have your heart set on any one outcome, ghost, or thing. This probably reads like a contradiction of a previous Do where you were told to be specific. It’s not though. Having a specific yes-or-no question doesn’t mean having your heart set on a specific answer. If you’re only going to a psychic to confirm an idea or notion you already have, then you’re wasting your time. First, if the outcome is actually what you think it is, then there’s no point in asking a psychic to go through the trouble. It’s wasted talent. Second, if the outcome isn’t what you think it is, you’re not going to accept it.

It puts a live psychic in an awkward situation to not only know that you want them to say something specific, but that this may not align with the truth that they perceive, you’re not going to get the full benefit of the reading.

Psychics are people too, with flaws and frailties. They may control their words, tone, and body language to get along with you. While they may not intend to sugarcoat the news, they may do so if you insist, even when what you’re about to swallow is quite bitter.