Meet Kate Bishop, a clairvoyant who uses her skills to help people recognize the qualities that make them unique. Let’s find out what that means in a healing context.
Cheyenne: Could you tell us what it is to be a clairvoyant in your experience?
Kate: I see images on a non-physical plane. To understand my work, it may be helpful to know what I can’t do. I can’t find lost objects. I’m not a psychologist. I am more like a psychic portrait painter. I see images around you which are generated by your energy. The images tell a story about you that may help you see yourself differently or more clearly.
Cheyenne: How would knowing how we are different be healing? Many people are embarrassed or defensive about their differences.
Kate: I’ll give you an example of why it is important to show people how they are different from everyone else. I had a client whose sense of morality is based in his second chakra. It is a very fundamental part of him. He can only act from a moral standpoint. Almost everyone else’s morality is located in the fifth chakra at their throat. Morality is something that they aspire to, but don’t necessarily act from. This man needed to know how he was different, so that he wouldn’t be taken advantage of by assuming everyone had the same fundamental morality.
Cheyenne: That is a real perspective changing gift you gave that man. Can you give us another example of why it is important to recognize our differences?
Kate: People often come to a reading to discuss their “faults” which I often see as their strengths. For instance one woman was worried that she was the dabbler that her friends accused her of being, always exploring new projects, but never staying with them long enough to excel. I tend to think of us all being part of a wagon train and offering different skill sets for the success of the journey. When I looked at this woman closely I realized that she was a scout. It is her job to explore and discover new paths that the wagon master will get the credit for following. It’s not her job to stay in one place or with one project until completion.
Cheyenne: I can imagine many of our readers having an “ah hah” moment about now as they identify with that scouting drive in their own lives.
Cheyenne: You have been of great assistance to my Reiki team at a children’s clinic in Nogales, Arizona. Could you describe your work there?
Kate: I communicate with children at St. Andrew’s Children’s Clinic who are too severely disabled to be able to speak or sign. My work there is to help the healing team understand their clients by identifying and describing the spiritual condition which manifests on the physical plane as the child’s physical disability. Sometimes I simply relay a message from the child which may be as simple as, “tell my mom I want more potatoes in my diet”.
Cheyenne: I remember one of our client’s who has Rett’s Syndrome being very distressed one winter clinic when her mother had dressed her warmly in a fuzzy yellow outfit that made her look like Big Bird from Sesame Street. She was starting to whimper and you solved the problem by telling us she didn’t like yellow she likes pink. That was a few years ago and she has come dressed in pink ever since with a shy smile for our team.
Kate: The girls with Rett’s Syndrome are fascinating because they are really one being, much like aspen trees connected to one mother root. Very different from the children who have cerebral palsy and are quite distinct individually. It’s one of the reasons it is easy to identify a child who has Rett’s, they all have a similar beauty.
Cheyenne: I stated in the Introduction to this blog that many healers embody the wounded healer archetype. Does that resonate with you?
Kate: I don’t know, I hadn’t thought about it so I don’t have an opinion, explain.
Cheyenne: Well, for instance, when I first studied Reiki it was because I had a hand injury.
Kate: Oh, okay. Actually, clairvoyants tend to develop their skills as a survival technique. We have to read beneath the surface because the situation can’t be taken at face value. It wasn’t until I was in college that I discovered that some people actually mean what they say. When I was young I was always looking for the non-verbal symbols to decipher meaning. Part of my coming to maturity as an adult is to not read people without permission and I’ve had to learn the lessons of respecting privacy. Because, it’s really better that I don’t know what’s in your underwear drawer! But that didn’t come easily and I had to come to terms with taking people at face value, because they weren’t prepared to deal with the intimacy of their non-verbal signals. If I responded to their non-verbal context, then they would deny those truths, which would just reinforce my experience that people don’t say what they really mean.
Cheyenne: How would you like to develop your skills as a clairvoyant?
Kate: I don’t know enough about anatomy and physiology to be a medical intuitive, so I want to take a course in that at the local college. I’m also really interested in how a person can affect healing change through nutrition. I’m very interested in other healing modalities. We are all so specialized, but now I want to find out what others are doing. For instance, I’ve experienced a sound therapy session, but I’ve never observed one. I’m interested in discovering how dowsing is used therapeutically. There is just so much to consider and learn.
Cheyenne: Thank you very much, Kate, for this glimpse into your work as a clairvoyant. You have given me so much information that we will continue this conversation in future posts.
Kate: Thank you. I’m really interested in the conversations you’ll be having with other healers.
To our readers: more of this conversation with Kate Bishop is published in the on-line magazine 2bAware.
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