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This is a statement that credits the client with both a certain quality and its opposite. For example: You have a very strong personality that will stand up to people when confronted. On the other hand you can easily look back and remember times that you wish you had been more resolute and faced certain people and situations head on.

2) Fine Flattery

This is a statement that is designed to flatter the client in a way likely to win agreement.

Something like You are wonderfully hard working or my favorite You're a real flirt!

3) The Psychic Credit

A psychic credit tells the client that they have some latent form of psychic ability or unrecognized divine power. A psychic once told me "you are an ascended master".

4) Sugar Lumps

The sugar lump relates to the clients willingness to be open to the idea of psychic phenomena and it used as a reward for accepting the reading. Example: You have your own very strong sense of intuition and this is why this type of reading can work especially well for you.

5) The Jacques Statement

These are statements that reflect the various stages we go through in life. These include, times like adolescence, rites of passage (anything from first job, first kiss, first relationship, etc.) and crisis that are common to people (lost love, job, death of loved one, dropping out of school). Jacques statements are often vague enough for the client to put their own meaning to. You have found yourself wondering about what happened to your hopes and dreams. or You have a definite strategy for your career but you'll find that there have been more

unforeseen things in your path than you could have predicted.

6) Greener Grass

A "Greener Grass" element focuses on the an option that the reader did not take. This is something that we all find ourselves pondering at time yet seldom speak about. Example You are very focused and try to firmly keep your hand upon the wheel, nonetheless, you find yourself wondering about certain options, in career and especially in relationships, that you

thought weren't best for you at the time.

7) Barnum Statements

Barnum statements describe aspects of the client that, in fact, would apply correctly to most people. Examples:

You tend to feel you have a lot of under utilized ability.

When you are bothered by someone you make a point of holding your tongue and give them the first option to set things right.

When considering your mistakes you give yourself a harder time than anybody. You are your own best, or worst, critic.

8) Fuzzy Fact

A Fuzzy Fact is stated as factual and contains two qualities. First, it is very likely to be accepted as fact and secondly, is general enough that it leaves room to be developed into something more specific. Example: I see a very meaningful event that happened to close to a birth day or holiday. or Job or career transition is going to be considered.

9) The Good Chance Guess

This is a guess that has a better-than-normal chance of being correct. Example You were quite active as a child and people were concerned about your well being. You have a scar on your left knee. (BTW, you would be surprised how accurate that guess is!)

10) The Lucky Guess

A lucky guess is sometime nothing more than a name, location or date that the psychic is guessing has some meaning for the client. There is no subtlety to a lucky guess. It's just what is seems, guess without strategy behind it.

There is a name, Robert, Bob or Rob that has some meaning for you.

11) The Stat Fact

A Stat Fact is a statement that is based on statistical information and demographics. This is where the Internet, a library or a commercial database come in VERY handy.

12) The Trivia Stat

Different from a stat fact, a trivia stat is personal and relatively insignificant. Ian Rowland offers these that he has collected over the years"

• There is a box of old unsorted photographs that you would like to go through

• you have expired medicine in your bathroom

• you have a single earring as the partner to it is missing

• you’ve had problems with your car - left rear wheel/tyre 13) The Cultural Trend

Cultural trends can be used in a psychic reading by simply being aware of what is happening

in popular culture.

14) The Childhood Memory

As the name implies this is the simple description of something that happens as a child.

I'm getting the impression that when you were young you had a particular interest that you devoted a great deal of your time to. This reading is indicating something that is artistic or perhaps athletic.

15) Folk Wisdom

The is where you need to study up on your folksy cliches.

Two heads really are better than one

There's quite definitely light at the end of the tunnel.

Don't let the idea of there being skeletons in your closet slow you down.

16) The Seasonal Touch

Here the psychic offers statements based on the time of year or other seasonal factors.

These obviously vary according to the country, culture and society in which the psychic is giving the reading.

Nearing Christmas the psychic might say "You find yourself pondering decisions regarding friends and relatives and how to best interact with them."

17) The Opposites Game

The Opposites Game is a very wise strategy and by "wise" I mean sneaky.

The psychic first suggests to the client that there is someone in her life whom she does not get along with, or with whom she feels some friction. The psychic then proceeds to describe this 'awkward' or 'unhelpful' person in some detail.

To do this, the psychic simply endeavors to describe someone who would be the exact opposite of the client!

For example if the client is fun and lighthearted and you describe the opposite as serious and stern it's more than likely the client knows someone who fits the description.

18) The Push Statement

A Push Statement is difficult to describe but can be very powerful when done well.

While most to these element are designed to get a "hit" the push statement is designed to elicit a "miss" from the client ... at least at first. If the psychic delivers it with confidence and then expands the context it can usually be made to fit. The result is the client agrees and says

"Oh yeah! I do know what you're talking about now!"

According to Ian Rowland, Push statements are hard to make up and will tend to evolve over many readings and should be used sparingly.

The key is to give enough elements that eventually something begins to fit for the client.

Elements 19 through 26 are about extracting information in a cold reading