A brief excerpt from Amazing Intuition...
                    Chapter 3, Tuning In
Picking up psychic messages is a lot like receiving radio signals.  If you have one of those old radios where you turn the dial to tune in the stations, you can probably relate.  One day your favorite station comes in perfectly clearly, the next it's a little fuzzy.  Two days later, you have to move the dial to get it tuned back in.  Intuition can be that way, too.  One day you know every call before the umpire says, “strike!”  The next, you can't find your car in the parking lot.

Sounds a lot like life to me.  One day it's sunny and warm, the next the fog is so thick, your four-year-old daughter looks out the window and says, “Look!  It's blurry outside.”  In short, there is a large portion of this over which you have no control.  So you work on what you can, and realize that you won't be perfect. 

 I have been asked how it is that my guidance is so accurate during readings.  I suppose practice and longevity has a lot to do with it.  I've been reading for other people since that first automatic writing for Dad in December of 1988.  That's a lot of readings, a lot of practice, a long time learning how to tune in, a lot of learning and listening and trust. 

 And I'll confide a little secret.  It helps to have your back against the wall!  While working my first psychic fair in Albuquerque in 1990, I was the “automatic writer.”  Others used tarot cards or crystal balls, or read palms.  I used a pen and legal pad.  People sat at my booth and I wrote down their messages for them.  Once, after I handed a woman her writing, she asked if I could answer another question for her.  She genuinely had something she wanted to know; I could sense she wasn't testing me and she would be okay if I said no.  I thought to myself, if you're really a psychic, you ought to be able to do this.  So she asked her question and I closed my eyes (it seemed like the thing to do!) and 'looked' for her answer.  I shared with her the images that showed up in my mind's eye.  And that was the start of my doing readings without the aid of a pen and paper. 

 The concept of having your back against the wall is why I assign partners in my classes and require readings to be done for one another.  People will often be more willing to take a chance when someone else is relying on them.   Human nature says we meet others' expectations of us, or at least try.