Most mediumship practitioners who already have some experience aren't struggling because they lack sensitivity. They're struggling because something they're doing is getting in the way of it. In this opening session, Michael will introduce tension as the primary obstruction in mediumship, along with its three sources: desire, distraction, and expectation.

You'll also be guided through Sitting in the Power - the foundational technique that supports everything you'll explore throughout the course. You'll begin looking honestly at where tension shows up in your own practice, and discover why practitioners with more experience are often even more affected by it - not less.

In this session, you'll:

• Experience Sitting in the Power - a fundamental practice of mediumship development that helps you surrender, sense energy, quiet the thinking mind, deepen feeling, and strengthen your clairsentience
• Understand tension as the primary obstruction in mediumship
• Identify the three sources of tension and how they interact
• Begin an honest self-assessment of where tension shows up in your own practice

Surrender is the engine of mediumship, and most practitioners have a complicated relationship with it. They understand it conceptually but find it difficult to access consistently - particularly under the pressure of a reading.

You'll work with hard focus and soft focus as practical ways of learning to let go, giving you a direct, repeatable experience of the difference between trying and allowing. Once you can feel that difference in your body and attention, you'll have something real to work with.

In this session, you'll:

• Experience the Hard Focus/Soft Focus exercise to discover what true surrender feels like and learn the difference between trying and allowing
• Understand surrender as a technical skill, not just a philosophical orientation
• Begin developing the ability to move deliberately between hard focus and soft focus
• Discover how greater passivity and receptivity help you become more aware of what Spirit is communicating

Wanting to get it right, wanting to help, wanting to demonstrate what you're capable of. These are all forms of desire, and they all pull you out of a receptive state and into an outcome-oriented one.

You'll explore what indifference actually means as a working state. Not disengagement or apathy, but a genuine freedom from the result that many practitioners find surprisingly difficult to access - particularly those who care deeply about the quality of their work.

In this session, you'll:

• Experience Learning to Set It Down - a step-by-step exercise for recognizing desire, releasing tension, and letting go of anxieties and worries that interfere with your mediumship
• Identify the many forms desire takes in experienced practitioners
• Understand the difference between caring about your work and being attached to outcomes
• Recognize desire as it arises during a reading, and begin developing the ability to set it aside

Distraction has three distinct sources, and each one requires a different approach. The first is internal: your own thought activity during a reading. The second is bias: the assumptions you make about a sitter based on how they look, present, or respond. The third is the sitter's reaction itself, which can pull your attention away from the communicating spirit.

You'll explore practical ways to work with each one - including the practice of treating every sitter as if you know nothing about them and the 90-10 rule for maintaining your focus on the communicating spirit throughout a reading.

In this session, you'll:

• Experience the 90/10 Rule exercise to strengthen your focus on the communicating spirit and reduce common distractions
• Distinguish between the three sources of distraction and how each affects a reading
• Develop the practice of approaching every sitter without assumptions
• Recognize distraction as it arises and learn how to redirect your attention

The more readings you do, the more patterns you accumulate: what a connection tends to feel like, what evidence usually looks like, and how a reading normally unfolds. These patterns can become filters, and information that doesn't match your template gets dismissed or reshaped before it's consciously registered.

You'll practice approaching each reading with fresh eyes, without importing what previous readings have taught you to expect.

In this session, you'll:

• Experience the Unpacking Expectations exercise to identify where your expectations come from, ease the tension they create, and apply this understanding during a mediumship reading
• Understand how accumulated experience can create filters that distort incoming information
• Identify the templates and assumptions you bring into your mediumship
• Begin integrating the resolutions for all three obstacles into a unified approach to your readings

This is where everything from the previous weeks comes together in your mediumship practice. Each piece makes sense on its own. The real challenge is holding all of it at once while actively reading. Michael will guide you as you apply the complete framework under real working conditions and begin catching tension as it arises, rather than only recognizing it after the fact.

In this session, you'll:

• Experience the Putting It Together exercise by applying all three approaches - to removing the sources of tension while working through any challenges that arise
• Apply the complete framework in live reading practice
• Identify which obstacle is most active in your own work
• Receive specific feedback about where tension patterns are showing up
• Begin developing the ability to self-correct during a reading, not just afterward

Desire, distraction, and expectation don't get resolved once and stay resolved. They return, particularly under pressure, after a period of strong work, or when the stakes feel higher than usual. This final session explores what it takes to maintain the quality of your mediumship over time, how to use Sitting in the Power as an ongoing self-diagnostic, and how to continue working with your own tension patterns long after the course ends.

In this closing session, you'll:

• Experience the Letting It All Go exercise to practice surrendering into the power and the energy, rather than focusing on what seems to be going wrong during a mediumship reading
• Understand tension management as an ongoing practice
• Develop a clearer picture of your own recurring obstacle patterns
• Learn how to use Sitting in the Power as a long-term diagnostic and maintenance tool
• Define practical next steps for your continued development