I first manifested psychic abilities during my early years, but did not pursue them, then. In later years, a friend told me I was psychic, and guided me to attend a meeting of psychics. There, I was surprised to discover that I was able to articulate two words, which I articulated as 'lorry' and 'car', from claircognisance, or inner recognition. When I shared these with the other attendees, I was further surprised that they identified the spoken words as names: the first name 'Laurie', and the surname 'Carr'. This taught me that a psychic is not the one to judge the message they are given, but simply to give it.
I spent some time trying out various different psychic skills at the same meeting of psychics, and was surprised, and sometimes shocked and taken aback, at the phenomena and accuracy these meetings produced. At the same time, people started appearing in my life spontaneously, asking for readings and sometimes healings, and again, I found every session produced surprising, and sometimes startling, results.
I looked around for an organisation I could join, which would perhaps offer a 'formal' training, attest to my abilities, and perhaps offer me a suitable qualification and professional membership, but every time I tried to do this, the organisations tried to impose restrictions on me which I could not perform. One asked that spirit guides not appear, and that had already happened, and was not something which I felt I should try to control, personally. Another wanted me to refrain from talking about health conditions. I feel to this day that if I am given such information, I should pass it on. This kind of thing went on for some time, and I was guided to join no such organisation. I'm very glad now that I didn't, as no psychic who is being Truly Guided should bend to the will of another human being, or rules of human organisations. In doing so, they cannot speak what is Directly Given, to them.
I went on to work through various agencies, and some of these tried to impose rules on me, also. One, for example, asked that I didn't mention anything about pregnancy. I found through working through these organisations that I wouldn't be given the information or style of presentation they preferred I didn't use, so it wasn't a problem. I guess you could say that this was a step further in trust that the Spirit would guide me past any such apparent difficulties, and on out the other side.
I then went through a relatively brief period of giving healing sessions to a large number of people in a relatively short space of time. I was sometimes flabbergasted at the results, although I knew I had those abilities, from the outset.
I continued to give thousands of readings over a period of some 14 years, until finally I reached a point where the flow of each reading had become natural to me, and confidence developed into mastery. I found I could shuffle the cards twice, and get the exact same message. I could throw them in the air, and let them fall and then read them, just as successfully as carefully shuffling them, and laying them out on a table. I also found people occasionally telling me that another psychic, or other psychics, had given them the exact same reading I had. This left me with the impression that the readings were indeed not coming from me, but from a higher source of Inspiration, and left me feeling able to Trust them, completely.