How to Prepare for a Mediumship Sitting

Preparation matters more for a mediumship sitting than for most readings, and the preparation is mostly about expectation. Come with a general openness rather than a specific target. Sitters who arrive determined to hear from one particular person often leave disappointed, not because nobody came through but because they were listening past whoever did. Communication does not queue politely in order of emotional priority. Do not feed information. A good medium will ask you to hold your responses to yes, no, or I do not know, and will be explicit about it. This is not a trick — it is quality control that protects you. If a reader is asking leading questions and building on your answers, you are not getting evidence, you are getting a performance. Expect fragments. Evidential mediumship tends to surface small, oddly specific details — a nickname, a broken watch, a particular chair, a smell — rather than flowing paragraphs. The specificity is the evidence. Grand statements that would apply to anyone are not. Write things down or record if the reader permits it. Sitters routinely forget a third of the sitting within a day, and details that meant nothing in the moment often land a week later when a relative confirms them. Understand that not every sitting connects. Any medium claiming a hundred percent rate is not counting honestly. A reader who tells you today is not working and stops the session has more integrity than one who improvises to fill the time. Finally, grief is not a problem to be solved in an hour. A sitting can help. It is not a substitute for the slower work, and a decent reader will say so.