Mediumship Versus Channeling: What's The Difference?
Image of meditating Buddha in rainbow light, to represent the soft, gentle high frequency angelic energies that often come through with channeling. Image by DarkWorkX on Pixabay.
Updated 2022.01.08
Think of channeling as an umbrella term.
Mediumship is a form of channeling, wherein channeling, you invite a spiritual being to communicate through you, using your body as a vessel to deliver messages to those in the physical world.
As a Channeler, the Spirit steps into your body and uses your voice and body on your behalf.
As a Medium, the Spirit steps back and talks to you in your ear or transmits feelings to you, and you translate those the best you can to the person who wants to hear it.
In Channeling, a Spirit joins, merges, and meshes with the energy of you while entering through your body to speak. Channeling also tends to happen in a trance state, though it can happen consciously.
The reason why someone would choose to channel a Spirit consciously is to hear messages they have to say, which can help you in your life and the lives of others.
Spirit channeling can feel a lot like therapy, except all the beings are dis-incarnate. The beings you can channel are typically Angels, The Higher Self, or collectives of Ascended Beings.
The most famous current example of channeling, especially conscious channeling, is Esther Hicks of Abraham-Hicks, who allows a collection of energies to speak through her about the law of attraction.
All of these channelings have been published in a series of books, called the Law of Attraction Series.
In channeling, the person inviting the Spirit to speak through them is developing a single relationship with this Spirit, and they continue to build a mutually beneficial relationship over time.
In mediumship, you tend to have a variety of energies stepping in and out, and some of them only for a short time, as you bring through energies for other people.
So, if someone defines themselves as a Channel, there is likely one Spirit or a small set of Spirits with whom they’ve developed a trusting relationship. They then allow these Spirits to use their body, mouth, and energy to communicate with those in the physical realm.
Usually, channeling feels good, so this is why people continue to do it. It's different from possession, in that channeling is a willing, mutually beneficial relationship.
Channeling relationships are mutually beneficial, where the person who invites the Spirit to step into their body receives something of value from this Spirit in exchange, and vice versa.
Usually, this something of value includes life-changing messages, positive energy, and information that flows through the channeler, and the channeled beings get their messages of love, and truth, delivered.
From channeling, the person may receive good feelings, feelings of love, joy, and upliftment, and receive essential messages of guidance for themselves and others from the Spirit Speaker.
As mentioned above, channeling can occur while you are conscious as in the Abraham-Hicks speakers or in Trance, where a device or third party usually records the messages.
3 Main Differences Between Mediumship And Channeling
Mediumship versus Channeling, What’s The Difference? Image of meditating Buddha in rainbow light, to represent the soft, gentle high frequency angelic energies that often come through with channeling. Image by DarkWorkX on Pixabay with textoverlay of title.
Channeling involves a Spirit stepping into your energy and using your body and mouth for a vessel, where mediumship involves Spirit relaying information to you.
Channeling often involves bringing through one Spirit or a small group of Spirits over time, whereas mediumship often involves bringing through many Spirits over time.
Channeling may involve the channeler forgetting or not remembering significant parts of the connection, whereas in mediumship, the medium can generally remember significant parts of the connection.
Mediums may switch into channeling (Spirit steps in and speaks for you), and channelers may switch into mediumship (Spirit steps aside and speaks alongside you).
Mediums also often deliver more messages for one-on-one audiences, and channels often deliver messages for larger audiences such as in speaking events or writing books.
Mediumship, or controlled connection, is usually the gateway to more trance or open states of connection, like channeling.
How Mediumship Is Different
Mediumship is a form of channeling, though it tends to happen consciously, and multiple, new energies have the floor to speak.
In mediumship, when the Spirit who wants to speak comes in, it usually stands behind the body. It doesn't merge with the body as much as in channeling.
Meaning, in mediumship, you can usually discern your energy from the Spirit.
In mediumship, the person communicating with Spirit typically does not allow the Spirit to step into his or her body.
The Spirit stands alongside the medium's body. The medium listens, senses, sees, and absorbs the messages that Spirit speakers would like to translate to those in the physical world.
They then share that information with others.
So with channeling, the Spirit takes over the body, using the mouth and body to communicate.
In mediumship, the medium generally maintains control of his or her body as they receive the messages from Spirit. They then deliver those messages, ideally, at their discretion.
In either automatic or uncontrolled channeling, messages may be delivered spontaneously. Still, you can learn to manage how you deliver messages. I talk about that in this post:
Overall, many mediums maintain full consciousness throughout the connection. They can usually recall what was relayed during the union between them and Spirit.
Whereas with channeling, the individual may forget or not entirely recall what was said or done while being borrowed by Spirit.
But there is generally a merging of the two back and forth throughout the action of each.
Signs you're a natural channel may include
The rainbow light of channeling image by Geralt on Pixabay.
Drifting into daydream often
Streams of monologues speech or thought
Being able to and guided to write for hours on end
An affinity towards Angels and Ascended Masters
Being guided to raising your vibration and changing your life via non-physical principles of success
Both are alternating and complementary methods of Spiritual communication, and either method can be learned by someone adept at practicing the other technique.
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