Once you have acquired the spiritual understanding needed to become a well-balanced Medium you will need to learn your trade. There is no substitute of going where it hurts; depending on what type of medium you are going to be. Are you going to be a Platform Medium, a medium who trains others or perhaps you will just give private readings. The other option is a mixture of two or all three skills.
If you are to be a Platform medium will that be Clairvoyance, Clairaudience or Clairsentience or a mixture of two or all three. It takes practise to learn the skill of delivery to a large audience, rather than the cosy confines of a closed circle. In circle you get to know everyone you feel comfortable and relaxed. Go to the platform and you will notice the call of the loo several times before the service or demonstration starts. Your stomach may well be in your mind as it grinds away. Once the service has started these feelings become distant memories and you should relax. Then someone says no way to something you are sure is right, do you fight to get them to believe or do you just skip on to the next item one of the many things for you to learn through experience.
Will you be a physical or trance medium and give public demonstrations of these gifts. This can mean physical appearance of spirit or the voice of spirit or physical things being affected in some way. In the past these things tended to be done in darkened rooms or red light, but now moves are afoot to bring it into the light of day. Which should be no surprise as things used to happen in full daylight many years ago. One medium used to have people pop their heads out of his body for a few seconds while he walked round his garden. Others have had water jugs fill up mysteriously. Susan and I have seen Christmas tree lights come on when the were not even plugged into a socket and during one service in a church in North London we had the stereo switch on playing a sea shanty when we were giving a message from a trawler fisherman. Then there are those rare mediums who do full transfiguration, they tend to give public demonstrations, this has proven to be very physically tiring for the medium. We tend to think that physical demonstrations in public should be limited to, at the very most one per month. Mediums in the past have found themselves in great difficulty when they were unable to keep up with a heavy schedule
While you can choose to use these abilities if you have them, you cannot choose to have them in the first place, well not just like that anyway. People have sat for physical mediumship for years and nothing has ever happened for them. For others the whole process has been there from day one, it is natural to them. We beleive you have to be developed enough to be able to control the power and not be overwhelmed by it. Your personality must be strong enough to cope with the pressures that will come with physical mediumship. We are not physical mediums so we cannot tell you from knowing only beleiving and someone out there will disagree with us.