For Clairvoyant Medium Ruth Phillips, working from home is a whole new crystal ballgame! Ruth talks to Work From Home about how working from home works for her.
Primarily, I do my Readings using psychometry, which means holding a piece of your jewellery e.g. a watch or a ring, and “picking up” the visions, feelings, sensations and precognitions associated to your own particular energy. Personal articles hold the energy of the owner or wearer and can be read as easily as one’s own auric field (the energy that surrounds every living and sentient being). This may sound extremely difficult to do for those who have no experience in this arena, however for someone trained and attuned to subtle vibrations it is a matter of clearing one’s mind and allowing the information to flow through.
Being a Clairvoyant means that my strongest psychic gift is that of psychic vision, i.e. I see clearly into other “dimensions” including the environment into which we “pass” when we exit this physical existence. In fact, I can describe the type of person I’m “seeing”, many of their personality and physical traits that they possessed when alive, their relationship to my client, and quite often their manner of passing. We have a two-way communcation which means I pass on their messages (no matter how trivial, like their cooking skills) and am able to ask them questions on behalf of my client. Sometimes in my little apartment it’s standing-room only (remember the scene from “Ghost” with Whoopi Goldberg!).
If you came to me as a Client, I would be able to help guide you on your life path, assist in your decision-making processes, and provide you with information and proof of survival from your relatives and friends on “the other side”. There are many in the world who doubt the veracity of what I do, but more so these days I find overwhelming numbers of clients who gain such peace of mind, serenity and healing from a session focussed on themselves. As I say to all of my clients, “For the one hour that you are with me, you are the complete focus of my universe, and my wish is for your higher good.”
When my Client arrives, I greet them warmly, invite them to sit down, and nurture them with a warm drink. This is all part of the healing service I provide as a prelude to their Reading.
In order to make my client feel peaceful and comfortable in my home, I have had to create a special space. The considerations of this special space are vitally important and usually the optimal requirement is to have a separate area that one can devote to this sort of work. However, with space restrictions in a small apartment, in my case it’s necessary to see clients in the family living area.
A prerequisite for a successful Reading is an area of quiet, tranquillity and serentiy, which put the Client at ease. Having childrens’ toys, dirty clothing and last night’s dinner dishes adorning the area detracts from the ambience needed to allow the clients to relax into their session. I tend to be a bit paranoid with regard to cleanliness being associated to godliness and therefore end up like a whirling dervish 10 to 15 minutes prior to the arrival of my first client. It’s amazing the hiding spaces one can find when you’re desperate!
Working from home means you have to be very organised as well as being able to draw a delineation line between work and play. Appointments at specific times are vital, not only for the business like organisation of my day, but also so that those in “Spirit” know when to gather too. (This may sound a bit weird, but some of us do jobs which others have never ever heard or thought of.)
Many clients and friends who come to my home for readings just never want to leave because of the beautiful relaxing and comfortable energy they feel envelop them whilst there. This I achieve by regularly “clearing my space” on an etheric level and dedicating my work to the Light (burning essential oils and candles is much easier than finding vestal virgins).
Essentially, whatever line of work you do from home needs to have a space allocated so that you can feel that you have two separate lives – home life and work life. The space could be a desk, or a corner of a room, depending on what your are doing. Whatever means you use to create a separate space, don’t forget to uncreate it again at the end of your working day prior to using that area once again for family needs.
This is not as hard and time-consuming as it seems – you just need to be a little more organised and mindful of your business requirements alongside those of your family’s.