ABOUT PSYCHIC MEDIUMSHIP

By Natalie O’Connor

Thank you for joining us, Elissa. Could you briefly describe who you are and what you do?

Hi, my name’s Elissa Markovska, and I am a psychic medium. I connect to people that have passed over. I connect to spirit. I can see them, or feel their message. I just pass on messages to people from their loved ones that have passed over.

What is a psychic medium?

I can only speak for myself as to what I do. Mediumship, is connecting to spirit, I feel it brings a lot of healing to people. People pass over and their loved ones, sometimes are left with unresolved issues. Just to be able to pass on that message that, hey, we’re still here. We’re watching you. It brings healing and comfort to know that their loved ones are still watching over them. They haven’t really gone. I do believe that we’re just all energy. Once we pass over, the energy of that person that was here, is still there. We can’t see them, but they’re still around.

What is the difference between psychic and Mediumship?

Mediumship is connecting to the other side, but you still tell the future by connecting to the ones that have passed, which is what psychics do – they tell the future. I give them messages from their loved ones. So, they tell me about their loved one’s future. I’m just the medium in between the two worlds. I get the message and I pass it over. Its talking about the past, the present and the future, because if you don’t say anything about the past of the person, if you don’t give evidence, how does the client know that you’re really connecting to them? It is giving information about what they look like, or what happened, or what was, or where they live. They give me the information about the past, so that people can know that is them. That is what I do – psychic mediumship.

Whereas I feel psychics connect to the person’s aura. We all have an aura, and psychics pick up intuitively on the aura of the person, and they give messages that way. They’re not necessarily a medium, they don’t necessarily connect to loved ones, they’re just picking up on their client’s intuition and picking up the person’s aura.

I can imagine you bring a lot of comfort to people, knowing that their loved ones are still safe and happy?

Yes. That’s what my clients really want to know. It’s interesting to see that we have issues here, but once they pass over, they’re not interested in the material things, it’s more about the wellbeing of their loved one, or their happiness rather than materialistic things. Once they pass over, it’s all love. So whatever issues they have here, they leave them behind.

Elissa Markovski

It’s amazing to see, I find it time and time again, if you weren’t a good parent or weren’t present with your child, and then it’s like karma, they end up being your angel, your guardian angel, or looking after you.

How did this journey for you start in psychic mediumship?

The first time I saw spirit, I was five years old, but I didn’t know what it was. I know now, but at the time I jumped in my parents’ bed. I could clearly see the shadow of a man. I still remember, even though it was a long time ago.

My grandmother was a medium, so that’s all she used to talk to me about that. A spirit lives on, we don’t die, and how she used to see them. My outings as a little girl, was at the cemetery with her. Where I grew up, in Macedonia, they used to bring food to the cemetery and talk to the dead. I would remember pinching her food and just going around to all of the graves in the cemetery and just talking to them. So, it was a normal thing for me because of my grandmother.

Was your grandmother teaching you how to connect, how to talk to spirit or was she just telling you, her experiences?

She was just letting me know the things that I have now read in books. Our soul lives on, we reincarnate, we don’t die. We have a contract about our life before we come here. Our life is mapped out. She told me about her experiences.

I didn’t take this up until later in my life, I guess all my knowledge still stayed with me. When I was reading books on mediumship, I thought wow, this is everything that she used to tell me. It kind of came back. I haven’t done much training as a medium, it was kind of natural for me.

It sounds like your grandma was an amazing teacher. Did you do a lot of training as a child?

My grandmother would teach me by simply talking to me. I lived in a different city to her, so three months at a time during the school holidays, I used to spend time with her. I used to sleep in her bed, and that’s all she talked about.

The funny thing is, I was never afraid of spirits or the dead. I always wanted to find out more, but when she’d take her teeth out, and I’d go, “Ahh!” That’s what frightened me!

Oh, poor grandma. That sounds like you had a beautiful relationship with her and that connecting with spirit was passed down from grandma to granddaughter.

Well, yes. I feel I’m honoring her by doing this work, because she couldn’t do it. She used to have ladies in the back of her house, or she used to hide to do this work.

So, it is your passion? Or why do you feel the calling to do what you do?

It’s my passion, but I feel it was my purpose. It’s what I came on earth to do. There’s a lot of people maybe that don’t find their purpose. I was lucky enough to. I just feel this is what I was born to do. This is what I came on earth to do. Even though it took me a long time to do it, I was avoiding it. I didn’t want to be doing it. But once I started, I knew that it was my purpose.

What do you wish people would know about psychic mediumship?

I just wish, some people would be more open-minded, because there’s a lot of people suffering. People do suffer, and I just feel they really don’t need to suffer so much. I do what I do for my clients healing and to relieve suffering. Once they know that their loved one is not really dead, that they’re not gone. They just can’t see them, but that they are watching over them, and that love between the spirit world and here never ever dies, it just relieves a lot more suffering.

If someone had never been to a psychic medium, what would you say to them, what would be a typical consultation with yourself?

I would explain what I do. Now a days I get a lot of repeat clients. They know me, so they come for the mediumship, but at the beginning I would explain that I connect to spirit and that’s how I get my messages. I just explain to them before I start.

Do you see, feel, or hear spirit?

All of them. I feel, I can see them, because I described them. So, I see them, I hear them, and also sometimes it’s just a knowing. I just know who it is. It’s like they use all my senses.

That’s what the spiritual world does. They use all your senses, wherever they can get through, they get through, in whichever way.

I suspect it can be quite overwhelming at times where spirit can just come to you. Are you able to tune that out, when you’re not working?

Oh definitely. Yes.

If I don’t switch it off, then I wouldn’t be able to function, or I wouldn’t be able to do this work, because it does take a lot. It’s like operating on a different vibration frequency. I need to look after myself and switch off.

What are the things that you do to switch off and to look after yourself?

I do a lot of bush walking. I really try to look after myself with my diet and I do meditation.

Is your work taxing or draining?

It can be draining. I mean, I’ve been doing this now full-time for about 10 years, and I can’t do as much as I was doing.

I know my limit. I know what I can and can’t do, and that’s what I follow. Otherwise, I would have been burnt out by now, and wouldn’t be able to do it at all. It’s just a matter of learning what works for each individual.

Is that something you’ve learned over time, or is that something your grandma would teach you as well?

That’s something I learned the hard way for myself.

Has there been a situation where you just couldn’t get in contact with anyone on the other side?

Never.

When I first started, that was my fear. I used to go, “What if no one comes?” I mean, I carried on like that for years. Then I thought, what am I worried about? There’s always somebody that comes.

You have a strong passion for what you do and for being of service to others.

I don’t do this for myself. It is to be of service. That’s why I think you’ve actually got to do it for the right intention. The intention of just pure love, and you do it for the love of the work and the respect of the client. There’s no other intention for me, than that.

I can imagine you would be bringing a lot of families and friends back together with the work that you do. Reuniting them and letting them know that they’re safe and they’re loved, and just bringing that love back together, once someone’s past.

Yes. I see this especially when someone has committed suicide. There’s a lot of unanswered questions, the why and how, and what could I have done? I really like bringing those spirits through, because I think if your son or daughter has committed suicide, that’s a never-ending pain, or it would be always questioned, why did they do it? I’ve seen the pain of losing them doesn’t go away, but they’re more at peace, because they don’t feel as guilty as they know that they’re okay. There’s a lot of myths about suicide that they go somewhere else, or they go to hell, but I don’t believe that. I still believe that when we exit this world, it doesn’t matter in which manner, we’re just meant to go. Just to let them know that they’re okay, it’s okay, that you couldn’t have stopped it. I can just see a lot of relief with those cases.

I saw a YouTube video with you doing a reading at an event. A man came through who was the husband of a lady in the audience. He was telling her that she’s been going out a lot after he’s passed. A lot of holidays and such. All of her friends started laughing. She replied with “Yep. I’m on holidays next month.” It’s so nice to see that the humor still comes through.

There’s a lot of that, and that’s what I love. I do love that part of it, because it’s not all doom and gloom, because they are funny from up there.

Is there anything else that you’d like to share about what you do with people?

I guess, just to let people know that their loved ones can see them and they do watch over them, and they really can assist in their life. They can assist in making things happen. Just because they’re on the other side, they are still very much a part of your family, and they can assist in helping with you here.

So, if we wanted to, we could still talk to them, even though we’re just talking into an empty room? Would they hear that?

They hear and can see you. Yes, you can ask for things, because they tell me that, they tell me ‘my family talk to me, they chat to me’. So, they actually know, if you are talking to them, they would know that.

Could you even ask for a sign to know that they are there?

Yes, I used to do that all the time to my grandmother. I would ask her, ‘which way should I go? If you can’t tell me, just let me dream about it’. Then I would dream about the answer of what I was asking about. So yes, you can ask them.

So, we can connect, and if we need more clarification, we can always come and see you?

That’s correct.

You can do this yourself but sometimes seeing someone, like myself, who is not connected to either of you can be easier, as there is no emotional connection and it can be easier to receive their message instead of second guessing what you believe they are telling you.

If someone was interested in learning more, where is a good place to start? Are there good books out there?

Yes. I’ve nearly finished my book. I’ll be having a book published soon. It explains a lot about mediumship and about my work. But that’s not as yet published. I will also be running workshops again shortly.

Where would be the best place for people to reach you?

Just on my Facebook page, Elissa-Psychic Medium.

Thank you, Elissa, for your time and sharing your story with us.

Thank you for having me.

NATALIE O'CONNOR

eYs MAGAZINE MEDIA EDITOR