What is a psychic?
What is a medium?

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Hi..., newbie here.., name's AJ.

The difference between a medium and a psychic? Here's what I always tell my students and clients.
All mediums are psychic but not all psychics are mediums. It's comparable to that of the medical profession. There are general practitioners who specialize in treating the basic needs of their patients and then there are specialists who work in a specified field such as surgery, psychiatry, neurology, or pediatrics.

A medium (or channel/channeler) specializes in using their psychic abilities to facilitate in communicating with non-physical spiritual beings.

Something to keep in mind is that mediumship is a part of the psychic development experience and the actual act of being a medium presents itself as an opportunity once you realize that it's something you can do. Mediumship is NOT an ability in and of itself, but rather, it is something that you CHOOSE to use your abilities for.

If mediumship is something that you're interested in doing then make this your intention. But don't try to rush into it because if you do.., you'll never get there. Like astral projection, mediumship is one of those things you discover that you can do once you stop trying.

Any true psychic would agree that psychic development is a never ending process; there is no final point of maximum wisdom or ability to be reached. However, there are still levels of awareness within the development process that must be acheived before one can move forward. Communicating with spiritual forces is a consequential result of ones expansion into the higher realms of consciousness.

Part of what makes psychic development so much fun is discovering all the cool things you can do with them and mediumship is just one of them. Also, like I mentioned earlier, not all psychics are mediums but it is important to understand that this has nothing to do with their abilities or lack of experience. For them.., it's simply a matter of choice.

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LLJ.:

While mediumship certainly uses the psychic sensitivities, it also attunes to spirit realms.  Psychics generally work from the energies that are all around our world and the people who occupy it.  

Spirit guides is the topic that brings that some clarity.

The above write up was NOT from me.  As a matter of fact, some of the questions you posted were on my mind too.  I moved the post from the Q & A general board to bring it into the proper perspective.

All mediums begin with being psychic.  Psychics are not necessarily mediums.  Starting from that premise, when you do your psychic work, it could possible be, you are exercising mediumship abilities and do not even realize it.

Psychic work is about the energies around and about the client.  Being able to foresee the future is usually based upon the best prediction of the energies, as they now exist.  (If nothing changes, this is the outcome).

Attuning to the spirit guides of our mediumship is the important aspect.  Go into a meditation and set up the invitation to your own personal spirit guides in your place of peace, through a symbol and supplying a seat for them to commune with you.

Being consistent and constant in the meditation (same place, same symbol) is important and can set up the atmosphere to know the change of energies when the guide(s) are present.  The more you work with them, the stronger the partnership attunement.  The change of energies tells you it is time to listen to the thoughts of your mind.  That is mediumship.