Psychic Readings & Predictions: Can You Change the Outcome?

Over the years I’ve re­ceived tons of emails from peo­ple ask­ing for my thoughts on pre­dic­tions they’ve been given by dif­fer­ent psy­chics. Some of the com­mon ques­tions are: What do you do if you get a neg­a­tive pre­dic­tion? Are pre­dic­tions ab­solute or can you change them? Why hasn’t a par­tic­u­lar pre­dic­tion come true yet?

I’ve read for over 50,000 peo­ple in 29 coun­tries over the last 22 years and have seen many pre­dic­tions come true while oth­ers have changed due to free will. I’ve ob­served again and again that the fu­ture is a mu­ta­ble (or change­able) place and isn’t writ­ten in stone for any of us. When I do a read­ing with a client, I see an out­line of prob­a­ble re­al­i­ties at the time of the read­ing. I look at the story of your life—the past, pre­sent, and po­ten­tial fu­ture—at that mo­ment.

I be­lieve we all have a blue print that draws out the story of our fate and des­tiny, and that cer­tain events and life ex­pe­ri­ences are pre­or­dained, but you still have the pen in your hands. If I tell some­one that they need to stay con­scious or they’re going to slip on a ba­nana, and then they don’t stay con­scious, they’re going to stum­ble on a ba­nana.

The fu­ture is like a mov­ing holo­gram that morphs as you evolve or don’t evolve.

Once we get the ini­tial pre­dic­tion, it seems we all want to know when it will hap­pen. I al­ways have to brace my­self for this ques­tion be­cause time is very dif­fi­cult to pre­dict. In the fu­ture, time is like a spi­ral not a straight log­i­cal line. Re­gard­less of what is pre­dicted you still need to be pre­sent to your life as it un­folds from the “now til the now” as you also run the risk of being too at­tached to a fu­ture that has not yet come to be. That’s al­ways a haz­ard of cling­ing to the de­tails of what some­one says about your fu­ture.

Many peo­ple have also called my weekly radio pro­gram, The Co­lette Baron-Reid Show, for feed­back about neg­a­tive read­ings that have left them feel­ing hope­less and freaked out. Read­ings should em­power you, not leave you wor­ried about your fu­ture. Even if dif­fi­cult in­for­ma­tion is being shared, it should be de­liv­ered with com­pas­sion and the reader should be able to show you an al­ter­na­tive path if there is one, or con­tinue the read­ing to show what tran­spires after a dif­fi­cult cycle ends.

Also re­mem­ber that when­ever you get a read­ing from any­one, you’re get­ting that psy­chic or in­tu­itive’s per­spec­tive from a num­ber of sources. The per­son using their psy­chic abil­i­ties on your be­half is going to read through a fil­ter of their own life ex­pe­ri­ence and per­son­al­ity. And, the read­ing is only as good as the con­nec­tion be­tween you and the reader. I al­ways en­cour­age peo­ple to get ref­er­ences for a psy­chic and to pay close at­ten­tion to their in­tu­ition.

If you don’t feel a connection with the psychic or you have a bad feel­ing about the read­ing, then trust your inner voice.

For ex­am­ple, I once had a very pop­u­lar psy­chic tell me I would never have a re­la­tion­ship with a faith­ful man. In my heart, I knew that was not true, but it upset me so much it took me ages to shake it given my his­tory. And, as you prob­a­bly know, I’m now in a lov­ing, very hon­est, trust­ing re­la­tion­ship with a com­pletely faith­ful man. He also told me that I had reached the height of my ca­reer, and I should ac­cept my path as some­one who would never at­tain much. That was a year be­fore I signed a record deal with EMI music fol­lowed by meet­ing Marc, then be­com­ing a Hay House au­thor. So was he wrong, or was it that his read­ing forced me to make changes in my life that aligned me with where I am today? I be­lieve whole­heart­edly in the state­ment “the act of ob­ser­va­tion changes that which is being ob­served.” What he said was im­pact­ful and a great im­pe­tus for deep inner work, which I did do. But I know about these things and many peo­ple do not, as they give power to the read­ing and ac­cept it as fi­nite.

Some­times pre­dic­tions are meant to wake you up.

Or­a­cles can at times be like trick­sters, es­pe­cially when you aren’t lis­ten­ing to them and keep going back to get read­ings. I call this or­a­cle abuse. In fact, as a gen­eral rule I won’t do more than two read­ings a year for my clients. When you get too many read­ings, you’re ba­si­cally giv­ing your power to the reader. If you keep ask­ing for more signs and guid­ance through read­ings about the same sub­ject over and over, the en­ergy be­comes des­per­ate and all you see is what’s not there yet. You move from the read­ing em­pow­er­ing you to the read­ing fos­ter­ing lack in your sub­con­scious.

Read­ings should be treated with re­spect. Look to a read­ing as a means to track your course and to sup­port what you al­ready know or re­veal what you may not know on your path. Re­mem­ber the psy­chic is see­ing what is po­ten­tial and prob­a­ble, but you still have to stay in the pre­sent and you can’t be a pas­sive couch potato. You must take ap­pro­pri­ate ac­tion and have faith that Spirit has a plan for you that may or not be re­vealed to you through a read­ing with a psy­chic. In the end, Spirit has the last say… not you or the psy­chic.

Ex­er­cise:
Are you get­ting caught up in a read­ing you had? Do you find your­self doing or­a­cle card read­ings over and over about the same things? Even if these ques­tions aren’t true for you, most of us have times when we need to let go and live more in the now. So, set an in­ten­tion this week to go deeper into each mo­ment and take ac­tion in the pre­sent. Then write down five steps to take this week, in the now. The ac­tions don’t nec­es­sar­ily have to be about your fu­ture. You might need to clean out your closet and do­nate old clothes, start using sun­screen, or begin eat­ing a healthy break­fast. Or, it may be time to get back to writ­ing, sign up for a class, or do re­search on a ca­reer move.

Written by Colette Baron-Reid

Colette Baron-Reid is an internationally acclaimed intuition expert and host of the TV show Messages From Spirit. She’s also a bestselling inspirational author published in 27 languages, keynote speaker, recording artist, and entrepreneur.

Voted into the Watkins List as one of the Top 100 Most Spiritually Influential People in 2013, her reputation as a noted contemporary thought leader was firmly established. In person or on paper, Colette delivers her message of perspective and hope with her trademarked compassionate candor peppered with a pinch of infectious personality.