Character and Personality Elements Flashcards
Minor themes
Travel
Education
Ambitions
Major themes
Love
Money
Career
Health
Major theme: Love
Pertaining to romance and relationships
Major theme: Money
All material comforts
Major theme: Career
Pertaining to Upward mobility and progression
Themes and elements
Theme: what the psychic talks about
Element: what the psychic actually says
What is a theme? What does the theme do?
Themes provide the underlying shale and structure for a reading and ensure that it is relevant to the subject’s life.
Minor theme: travel
Can be interpreted literally (a journey across water) or figuratively (a voyage from loner to lover)
Elements concerning personality and character:
1) Rainbow ruse
2) fine flattery
3) the psychic credit
4) sugar lumps
5) the Jaques statements
6) greener grass
7) Barnum Statements
Rainbow Ruse
Credits the client with both a personality trait AND it’s opposite.
“ you can be very considerate, very quick to provide for others, but there are times, if you are honest, when you recognize a selfish streak in yourself”
Variations: introvert/extrovert, shy/confident, responsible/irresponsible, quiet/life of the party,
Rainbow ruse links
“When the circumstances are right”
“At other times”
“ yet you have the potential to be”
“At the same time”
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Fine Flattery
Character and personality element.
Not blatant, but subtle and compares the client to “people in general” or “most of those around you”
Fine flattery examples
GOLD DUST:
-Being wise in he ways of the world, a wisdom gained through hard
experience rather than book learning
-knowing how to be a good friend
Other personality traits: Honesty Being hard working and diligent Conscientious Fair minded Warm and loving Independent
A Fine flattery must:
Flatter the client as being “open minded” to ease the cold reading process itself and further set the client at ease
The psychic Credit
Personality and character element
Credits the client with some form of psychic or intuitive gift.
Accompany with little “proofs”
Ex)
“ there is an indication that you have quite a well developed psychic sense in your own right. You’re probably the type of person who will be thinking about someone you haven’t heard from in a while. And then out of the blue they phone you at that very moment”
Male and female psychic credits
Female: innate psychic sensitivity which plays little tricks on you all the time.
Male: down to earth and pragmatic, you can read people very well, like a sort of sense that is more developed in you than most people, and whether or not you realize, It a lot of women find thievery appealing about you.
Sugar lumps
Character and personality element
Offer the client a pleasant emotional reward relating to their ability to embrace the psychic discipline involved
“Open minded” and “receptive to many different kinds of wisdom”
Also used to weaken resistance and to soften skeptical attitudes. To point out what a nice, love able person the client could be, if only she would be less skeptical.
Ex)
“I feel in some ways that you have become very defensive, almost as if you’re locked up in your own secure little castle. This is a shame, because you’re blocking yourself off from a lot of light, and love, that could be yours. There are indications here if a need to learn to take a broader look at life and to be more open to new ideas - even if they may seem strange at first. You know, you won’t come to any harm if you lower your defenses a little, and take a peak at the insights on offer. Who knows, you might find a few of the answers you’ve been looking for.
The Jaques statement
Character and personality element
Based on the different phases of life we All go through.
Frustrated talent:
“If you are honest about it, you often feel a sense of frustration that your own idea sandalwood and abilities aren’t given their full recognition. There have been more than one or two occasions. When you had to struggle to get people gilet you show what you can do. While you are mature enough to recognize that you have plenty to learn, and are willing to put the time in to learn new skills, you often find other people too set in their ways, and unable to appreciate the contribution you could make - if only they would let you”
Greener Grass
Character and personality element
Based on the urge that we all retain some fascination with the options in life at we did not take.
Urban/rustic, office job/artist, jet setter/stability, home maker/professional academic instincts.
Barnum Statements
Character and personality element
Generalized character statements.
“You have a strong need for people to like and respect you”
“You tend to feel you have a lot of unused capacity, and that people don’t always give you full credit for your abilities”
“Some of your hopes and goals tend to be pretty unrealistic”
“You are an independent and original thinker, you don’t just accept what people tell you to believe”
Forking
Giving a Barnum statement and then following up with one of two supplementary statements. Either to strengthen the initial idea or reverse it based on whether the client rejects or accepts the first Barnum statement.
