'How Did I Get Here?'

I regularly receive readings from Belinda – I have not experienced anything quite like them! They provide me with information that brings me into a closer healing connection with myself, my Angels and my Spirit Guides ... this has not only provided me with deep healing at the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels, it also always results in me feeling supported, guided and 'on track' at the end of each session.

J.L. Sydney, July, 2004

"Have you always been Clairvoyant?" "When did you first realise you were Clairvoyant?" or "How did you become a Clairvoyant Healer?" These are the most common questions people ask me when they find out what I do for a 'living'. All very reasonable questions given that most people don't meet a Clairvoyant Healer every day and it is an area shrouded in a bit of mystery. But the other reason, I believe, that people are so interested in the answers to these questions, is because everyone is naturally intuitive and clairvoyant, and it excites them to find out how they might develop these skills. They recognise something of themselves in me or what I do.

I often liken clairvoyance to an artistic skill. Anyone can paint, draw or learn a musical instrument if they really apply themselves. Even if you are musical or artistic by nature, you still have to take the time and make the effort to refine and develop your raw skills in a meaningful way. You want to be able to be creative and productive 'on demand', and becoming well practiced in your techniques will help you with that.

Being clairvoyant is the same. It is an innate skill that we are all born with, there are no exceptions. Some people will have more of a flair for certain techniques than others, and some of you may have to practice more or persevere until you find the instrument or technique that works best for you. But with practice and a positive attitude your clairvoyant and intuitive skills will reawaken in you once more.

When I was a child and a teenager growing up, any information about the so-called supernatural or metaphysical fascinated me. I occasionally had dreams that would show me, in a general or allegorical way, events that would then happen a few days later. I sometimes felt that I could see or hear 'ghosts', and I used to astral travel in my sleep so frequently and so clearly that I would sometimes wake with a jolt, feeling air-sick from the up and down motions I had been making in the skies.

One night when I was around ten years old, I woke up to see my grandmother floating in the bedroom at the end of my bed. I saw her long, flowing grey hair and her nightdress, but I was not afraid, even though I knew she lived thousands of miles away in Switzerland! Having just awoken from a deep sleep, I blinked and looked again, but she was still there. She waved, but she seemed to be looking off somewhere into the distance and after waving for a while she simply drifted out through the wall.

The following morning a telephone call from Switzerland came to advise my mother that her mother had passed away.

Twenty years later another interesting event on my mother's farm prompted a discussion about 'spirits' and what happens to people after they die. It was then that I told my mum about what I had seen the night my grandmother had died. Mum was amazed because it had been reported to her that minutes before my grandmother drew her last breath, she had sat up in bed as best she could and waved to something or someone seemingly off in the distance.

By now you are probably thinking "Well she was obviously born with this ability, I can't do this kind of thing". But I never thought of myself as clairvoyant or as having some sort of gift. Take a few minutes to think back on your own childhood and you will probably find that you too had some interesting experiences or dreams that were usually explained away by your parents as being just your imagination.

Many of us had invisible friends and believed in ghosts or spirits, or just knew things in advance when we were children. These experiences are a result of our natural intuitive faculty, which sadly gets shut down in most children as they grow up, because we live in a world that does not know how to help us explore and expand on these natural gifts.

For me back then, these were seemingly random events and certainly didn't happen at my beck and call. They happened to me and I often could not predict or even make sense of them. As my teens turned into my twenties I became much more concerned with the 'real world' and most of these kinds of experiences became a thing of the past, with one notable exception.

In 1985 I was travelling in California with my boyfriend. We had very little money and decided to try hitch-hiking from Los Angeles to San Francisco to save on the cost of bus fare. We had intended to only accept rides that would take us along the coastal roads, but one very kind fellow said he would take us all the way to Santa Barbara if we didn't mind an inland diversion through the desert. We agreed, and settled back to enjoy our free and scenic ride.

After some time of driving up a long, gentle slope in the vast terrain, we came up and over the crest, revealing a large shallow valley spreading out before us for miles. My heart jumped, because even though I had never been there before physically in this lifetime, I recognised this place as somewhere I had flown over numerous times in my astral travels! It was an amazing experience to be there again, this time on the ground.

Once again, even though that experience excited and shook me up somewhat, there was nothing I could really 'do' with it, I just accepted it and moved on.

After graduating from high school and studying fashion design for three years, I headed out to travel the world. My intuitive connections had already shut down; ignored as I concentrated on the demands of everyday life. I remained in London for three years; enjoying the life of the consummate party girl and took to drinking, smoking, and the work hard/play hard lifestyle with gusto.

If anyone had said to me that I would be a Clairvoyant Healer with a thriving practice one day I would have considered them crazy.

In London I worked as a sales rep for a great company in Convent Garden, full of young people, many from other countries just like me. The friends I made there are people who I treasure and stay in contact with to this day.

My life was all about business, money, travel and most of all,...