Beginning My Practice
- Jake James Vanek
- Jul 15
- 3 min read
I recently received a consistent stream of Post-Reading Validations from my family members. As I always say, Post-Reading Validations are why I continue to do this work and they are also why I started my practice.
I remember in late 2017…I was sitting outside on a Long Island Summer evening…and I thought to myself how I could make money doing readings. My friends would provide me with consistent feedback during and after readings. I realized that I was actually good at something during a time when I was lost in a seemingly directionless state of existence. I knew that there were people who did readings and made money. People who chose to share their skills and were compensated for their services.
I wasn’t trying to do any get rich quick schemes. I wasn’t solely focused on making money. I needed a source of income to live on planet Earth. I knew that my psychic skills were developed enough for me to share them and I heard the Call. My mediumistic skills then opened up later in 2017 then really came into my awareness in 2018. That makes sense. I was actively developing my psychic skills since 2009 and mediumistic skills are just a “heightened” version of psychic skills.
2018 began and I launched my practice. Reading for clients is a different ball game compared to reading for friends and family. Essentially…clients are strangers. I don’t know them, I don’t know anything about who they are, their lives, their XYZ. I needed to have the many years of reading friends and family so I could learn PSI Mechanics and what readings really are as opposed to all the myths, misperceptions, and fictitious renderings presented in the world.
However, beginning my practice, reading for clients aka strangers, studying the readings, studying myself, and continuing my own inner work were all what really helped me to become better.
I learned better ways to help enhance the potential for a great outcome in a reading. What matters the most is for clients to have a basic understanding of PSI Mechanics, the process of a reading, and to ensure that their expectations and perceptions align with the reality of PSI and with what I can actually do for them…hence the lengthy Experience page in my website.
It’s not like I woke up one morning deciding to “become a psychic medium”. This was a long process over the course of my life. Now some could even say multiple lifetimes, but I like to focus on the current incarnation. It wasn’t me just deciding to pursue this then take an online course.
My practice was born from my life’s journey, my love for PSI, my actions on the inspiring Breadcrumbs leading me here-there-everywhere, and years of Direct Experience.
I think a lot of people choose to become content creators in the “spiritual” and “psychic” media because they want to make money fast, see the likes and clicks on various types of videos, and they aren’t working in real life with real people in real consultations. Get rich quick schemes and no respect for the Craft of Psychism.
Obviously I charge a fee for my services. My prices aren’t hidden on my website and there are no surprises. I view this work as a trade in the same level as every other profession. My fee reflects my time, my skills, my knowledge, and my experience. I don’t have to explain myself and I respect myself enough to charge a respectable fee.
My values have stayed the same ever since I began my practice in 2018. To read people. To share my skills. To help people in the way that I can. To maintain my integrity. To be honest, direct, compassionate. To show people what the Intuitive Instrument is by doing readings since I am just a reflection of my clients’ intuitive potential.
I know what I can do and what I cannot do. I know the ways in which I can help and how I cannot help. I regularly eat slices of humble pie and I continuously remind myself that there is nothing special about the work that I do. How PSI talents are not “spiritual gifts” bestowed upon a special person.
I really love to read for people who respect me, my time, my skills, and are genuinely desiring my help.
You can really learn much more about me, my journey, and what led me to my practice by listening to my chat with Niish on The Cosmic Salon. I linked the video to my About page. Just scroll down to the bottom.