Reading a Human Being

Dear Readers,

Thank you for all the amazing signups for this blog site. They are up to about 15 new readers per day, and I am so happy about this.  I am also in hopes that you are experiencing the best Holiday Season ever, and that you are expecting and experiencing the miraculous in many ways, large and small.

My topic for today concerns the process of giving a “reading” for another human being.  By far the greatest majority of my clients for readings, are themselves therapists, ministers, and people who seek to help others.   Some do not call themselves by these names, yet function at a micro level, a daily level, as helpers, angels really, in their families, at work, and even on the highway, stores, streets, and other mundane day-to-day scenarios.

As you know, I have been giving Evolution Angel Life Readings for many, many years.  I would estimate I’ve given over 10,000 by now, even at places like Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E., Unity Village, and other fascinating venues.  Now, I give them from home, but limit myself to one per day in order to keep them fresh.  I would like to offer to you some advice as to how to do this, because I believe it will help you make you function even better when you are seeking to improve another’s life and state of well being.

The first thing I’ve always done to start a reading—and most of my colleagues who do this professionally do the same thing—is to start with a prayer.  I used to have this one great spiritual adviser that I would call when I had a problem I could not solve on my own.  His advice was so consistent that after a while I no longer had to call him because I knew what he was going to say.

He would always start by asking me very simply, “Have you actually invited the Universe into the situation?”  Often my response was, “Well, not exactly. I, uh, sort of just know he is there and of course helping me.”  His response was, “Then do it, exactly! Spirit is not a co-dependent being.  It doesn’t always go about helping people without being asked.  You don’t, as a physician, go around healing people who don’t ask you to heal them do you?”

So, the first step, and I cannot possibly emphasize this strongly enough, in reading another person, or helping them in any way, is to invite Spirit in, literally.  Stop and make a point of it.  I actually ask my clients if I may use, say, the Lord’s Prayer, and even lots of Jewish people, or those of other faiths, have no problem with this at all.  The mere recitation, out loud of this or a similar powerful prayer, begins the healing process automatically, and draw’s Spirit into the situation.  Would it be awkward for you to do something like this with a person who comes to you for help, even in a phone call, or a chance encounter? Although it might sound weird or awkward for you to do this, believe me, it’s not.  You would be amazed how relieved, and enthused people are to hear someone else say a prayer for them out loud.  Try it if you don’t believe me.

The next step is to ask the person you are working with to just let their thoughts flow freely about what they are concerned with.  Just listen.  Try not to interrupt too much, except to have them elaborate on certain points where you can tell they are blocked, or trying to avoid, because it is too painful to touch that area of their soul within.  It is often that very area where the problem–and the answer–lie.

As this happens, stay centered and keep your mind with Spirit, constantly evoking its wisdom.  This is an amazingly effective thing to do.  Because Spirit, once evoked, once asked, will kick in and start to bring in fresh insights and inspirations.  For experts, this happens very fluidly and abundantly.   But for even rank beginners, the process happens surprisingly well also.  Listen to the person talk and simultaneously listen to the “still small voice” within.  As you do, I assure you, answers will start to present themselves.

Often, at the beginning of a reading, there will be a period in which you will find yourself wondering, “I have no idea how to answer this person’s dilemma, I have no idea what I’m doing.”  Never fear.  This is entirely normal.  Just stay calm and give it time.  As you continue, your role in the process will naturally begin to “gel” and the reason you have been asked to help will become crystal clear.  Persist!

It is important, very important, to give this enough time.   This is why my own readings are “open-ended.”  This means that I never watch the clock and never charge by the hour.  My own readings take as long as they take.  When I was a physician for 20 years, I had to constantly watch the clock and keep moving from patient to patient rapidly, especially in the ER and Trauma bays, where so many people were waiting and needed help.  During those years I often caught myself wishing that I could somehow, some day, be in a position to just take…as long as it takes.  So, now, my own readings just go on until the client has gotten every single question, issue, problem, out of their soul and answered in an effective way.

The client almost always knows, at a subconscious level, at the level of Spirit, what the answers are.  Trusting in this, knowing this, staying conscious of this allows the client’s own wisdom to shine through—shine though both them and through you.  I have had almost no experiences in which satisfactory answers failed to appear if sufficient listening, sufficient time was given to allow the person you are working with to get everything out in the open

Not infrequently, I find myself working with people who are actually older, wiser, smarter and more evolved than I—not that that would take that much!  But even the oldest and wisest of us can benefit enormously from consulting with another sentient, caring soul, who has conscious contact with Spirit, with God, with the angelic realm.  I mention this in order to encourage you, all of you, to trust in the process.  Because if you follow these basic guidelines, it will not be you that is giving the answers, it will be Spirit.  You don’t necessarily have to be some kind of great guru or sage or credentialed expert to help someone else.  Just keep remembering that as long as you have evoked Spirit, evoked the angel’s help, that they will be there, they will help, they will answer.

There is so much more that I could tell you about this process, but I hope this may give you a decent boost in your morale and confidence to at least try helping others. Spirit always has an answer, always helps, always is motivated to get involved if asked, and will always come through. Trust in its power and love and all will be well.

Happy Holidays, and many blessings to you all.  Dr. Todd

Rev. Dr. Todd Michael is a retired board-certified physician, a metaphysician with books in seven languages, a degreed psychologist, and an experienced minister.  He now lives in his home town of Ames, Iowa, where he makes his living giving Evolution Angel Life Readings and editing others writing projects.  If you are interested in booking a reading with him, it is suggested you read the page about readings on this site, and also read his first book The Evolution Angel, A Physician’s Lessons with Death and the Divine, easily available on Amazon.com.  [note: This is not a requirement]  You can also listen to him read the first hour of the book for free by going to the “store” page and clicking on the audio book version.  It will begin to read out loud automatically and you can adjust the volume to your taste. The sequel to this book, The Evolution Angel, Book Two:  Gaia’s Vision is available for free, open sourced, by writing to the author at EvolutionAngel55@gmail.com.