My typical day normally starts with me getting up about 8 am. I'll answer emails that have arrived over night. I get about 10 emails a day and if I don't keep on top of it, it gets a bit mental. After I've done all the emails I return any phone calls. I often end up not eating because I forget, so by the time I get to town I've already run down my batteries and have to go into Pret A Manger and pick up a cappuccino and pastry.
Everybody has psychic abilities, not a chosen few. The word psychic means that you have an intuition about something and everyone has intuition. It's all about how you develop it. I discovered I had strong psychic abilities when other people found me strange. I didn't really think that what I was receiving was strange because that was always how it was. I think the most prominent memory was when I was at a sleep over at a friend's house, I must have been about seven, I could tell her mum was really upset and worrying about her marriage. I started what's known as channeling, which is connecting with a higher source, and started to give her advice. She didn't say anything. She put me in my coat; I was still in my pyjamas, and took me home. She told my mum she didn't want me playing with her daughter anymore because I was spooky. That's when I realised its best to keep my mouth shut.
I went to the College of Psychic Studies and learnt how to shut off the spirit world, which is brilliant. When I want to work I open my chakras and when I don't want to work I close my chakras. That's the rule. I now have an agreement with the spirits, they used to let me have information all the time, now I have to meditate and ask for it.
After breakfast I go to wherever I'm doing my readings. I see clients at my private office in Piccadilly or at Watkins, which is an esoteric centre at Leicester Square. I charge £40 for an hour or £25 for half an hour. You have to energise the space so that it has a neutral feeling when people walk into it. I set up the room, the table, the table cloth, tape recorder and tarot cards. I usually have a bank of clients and try to see one an hour. I then have a 15 minute break between each client. I try and fit in lunch but it doesn't always work out.
Everything is filtered through my spirit guide Marcus. If I'm in a difficult situation I put my left hand on my right shoulder and he puts his hand on top of mine, that's how I know he's there, I can physically feel him. If something's about to happen, he'll draw close. In one lifetime he was a brick layer from Essex, but in his celebrity life time he's from Atlantis. Spirit guides only ever present themselves in the lifetime you're going to have the most respect for.
I'm not religious at all. I have a very extreme faith. I believe in God and that Jesus and Mohammed were mediums but I don't believe in any one ethic because in my mind religion causes wars and interferes with free will. If God does exist, the one thing he gave us was free will. I tend to say nothing to people who don't believe because you can never prove life after death beyond doubt, so what's the point in worrying about it?
I did a spirit clearance on the Piccadilly line for the seven people who were lost in the London Bombings. If you're traveling on the tube and die suddenly, there's no explanations, your thrown out of your body thinking, what am I doing here, I don't know where I am. You might not go into the light because you might not realise what the light is for, so we did a clearance just in case and a whole team of mediums sent love into the tube system so people weren't traveling through negative energy. I think we did a good job
At the end of the day, depending on which day it is, I grab something to eat on the run. I teach psychic development for an hour and a half at the College of Psychic Studies then go home and crash out. I do have a social life and have lots of friends but a lot of my time is spent working or writing. For example I'm doing a live séance on talk sport and I still have to find a three legged table that tips. I don't really have time for it all!
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