Character and Personality Elements

Question 0

Minor themes

Answer 0

Travel
Education
Ambitions

Question 1

Major themes

Answer 1

Love
Money
Career
Health

Question 2

Major theme: Love

Answer 2

Pertaining to romance and relationships

Question 3

Major theme: Money

Answer 3

All material comforts

Question 4

Major theme: Career

Answer 4

Pertaining to Upward mobility and progression

Question 5

Themes and elements

Answer 5

Theme: what the psychic talks about
Element: what the psychic actually says

Question 6

What is a theme? What does the theme do?

Answer 6

Themes provide the underlying shale and structure for a reading and ensure that it is relevant to the subject’s life.

Question 7

Minor theme: travel

Answer 7

Can be interpreted literally (a journey across water) or figuratively (a voyage from loner to lover)

Question 8

Elements concerning personality and character:

Answer 8

1) Rainbow ruse
2) fine flattery
3) the psychic credit
4) sugar lumps
5) the Jaques statements
6) greener grass
7) Barnum Statements

Question 9

Rainbow Ruse

Answer 9

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,

Question 10

Rainbow ruse links

Answer 10

“When the circumstances are right”
“At other times”
“ yet you have the potential to be”
“At the same time”

AVOID THE QUANTIFIABLE

Question 11

Fine Flattery

Answer 11

Character and personality element.

Not blatant, but subtle and compares the client to “people in general” or “most of those around you”

Question 12

Fine flattery examples

Answer 12

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

Question 13

A Fine flattery must:

Answer 13

Flatter the client as being “open minded” to ease the cold reading process itself and further set the client at ease

Question 14

The psychic Credit

Answer 14

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”

Question 15

Male and female psychic credits

Answer 15

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.

Question 16

Sugar lumps

Answer 16

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.

Question 17

The Jaques statement

Answer 17

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”

Question 18

Greener Grass

Answer 18

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.

Question 19

Barnum Statements

Answer 19

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”

Question 20

Forking

Answer 20

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.