Well, I do have to say I am curious, to say the least, about reading auras.

Most of my experience through my life has been my tools to help others in different ways, like just feeling the energy. Then, as I am feeling the energy I will get a feeling from my own experiences, and be able to assist that person like reaching in my tool box of my life trials.

I kind of look at it as a VERY simple form of reaching out to others, and sense this is how I am meant to help.

Everyone is made differently, and has different skills. But in reality I have found I cannot absorb complicated things, so instead of going around feeling stupid like I did when I was young, I embraced the fact that I am a simple person and I can help in simple ways, but have a huge impact.

I have found sitting down for any period of time and just reading is never been my strong point, so off I go.. to experience some more lol

This is a great article too! I was very fascinated by it. *Hugs* to all!

CindySue (Mystic44)

I’ll bet every lurker at this blog has an opinion about talent vs. formal training, and probably it’s a strong opinion, too. Inviting you to add your perspective, and thanking everyone who has contributed to this conversation so far (Oh, Tamara, blush!), I’ll chime in here.

Actually, this will be my first remote blog comment ever, since I’m in Massachusetts now on a book tour, sponsored by http://www.CirclesofWisdom.com.

To me, talent unquestionably matters most. When strongly present–one of the signs for this being satisfied clients–as for CindySue and Tamara and Colleen, how wonderful! Why would training be needed? Often it isn’t.

Yet training may help to protect the practitioner in tremendously important ways. Many of my students are psychics or healers or counselors of one sort or another; for them, it made a huge difference when they received training to stop picking up other people’s pain.

Yes, they were talented as empaths, along with their other talents. Without this particular kind of training, they could help other people just fine, only they still suffered in consequence.

Many a gifted practitioner grows more stressed during the years, plumps up extra, or cannot stop smoking… simply because all the training received in his/her specialty never included the training that empaths need.

Another point about training was brought home to me yesterday, when I gave an all-day about Aura Reading Through All Your Senses®. One of the students, “Claire,” already saw colors and interpreted them fine; she simply came to the workshop out of curiosity to find out if I could teach her any little extras. By the end of the day, Claire told the class: “All I did before was just the tip of the iceberg.”

Everyone else in that workshop went from “No reading” or “Failed attempts at reading” to powerful, informative aura reading, which was great. But that first student may have gained the most.

Claire is already an enormously talented psychic and healer. She had taught aura reading herself, and had already augmented her gifts with an eclectic, and perfect, assortment of training. But never had she thought that she might require the kind of skill sets I taught.

On the surface, there would be no point to this extra kind of training. Yet Claire did benefit. In fact, today she’s taking a workshop for empaths and I can’t wait to find out the difference a little offbeat bit of training can make.

Thank you.