Q: The psychic medium ship is about being open to communication from the "other side." Try the following methods for raising your awareness and opening your third eye: Pay attention to your intuition. Don't dismiss your dreams. Acknowledge the odd feelings and urges you feel. Recognize the various energies that affect you throughout the day. Spend quiet time by yourself every morning. After you wake in the morning, before starting your day, spend time allowing thoughts and emotions to wash over you. Don't control what comes; welcome and absorb it. Open your mind to the possibility of receiving communications from energies generated outside yourself. Try free writing. Write what comes to your mind the moment it arrives. Don't judge the words, and avoid editing them. Read back over what you wrote a few hours later. The messages you receive from other beings won't always be clear, but writing them down may help you find patterns. A good way to start is by finding a medium ship circle, a group of mediums who gather to receive messages from the other side. This will give you an introduction to the setting that should be arranged for effective communication. Once you're comfortable with the process, try it on your own, or invite other mediums to join you. Set up a room in a quiet part of your house. Dim or turn off the lights. A few candles may help create a spiritual setting. Say a prayer or chant to ready the space for communication and call on spirits to join the circle. Recognize the presence of the spirit or spirits that join you. Allow yourself to receive images, words, feelings, smells - whatever the spirits wish to communicate. Ask the spirit to identify itself. When you receive an answer, confirm it out loud. Continue communicating with the spirit by asking questions and receiving answers. Know that at this early stage you will not be able to control the effect the communication has on you. You may feel frightened, or you may experience pain. As you develop your skills as a medium, you'll be better able to control the way you communicate with the other side. Bookstores and spiritual centers in your area may offer educational resources. Do online research and attend psychic fairs and conferences to find out more about workshops, classes and even certifications for new psychic mediums.
A: Heighten your awareness. Try actively communicating with spirits. Consider taking a workshop or course in the psychic medium ship.

Q: Many people have a difficult time understanding gambling as an addiction because it lacks the chemical dependency of other addictions, like those to alcohol or drugs. As a result, you may need to explain to your family how gambling makes you feel and why you have been unable to stop thus far. You may really spell out what an addiction feels like. For example, you could say something like, "It may be difficult for someone who does not have an addiction to understand, but I feel unable to stop myself from gambling even though I know I shouldn't do it. I feel so happy and free while I am gambling, and then I feel bad afterwards, which makes me want to regain that happy feeling by gambling more." Try not to get angry with your family if they don't understand why you can't just stop gambling. Recognize that they do not understand the addiction and may need some more time. This conversation is your opportunity to come clean to your family about everything you have been attempting to hide from them. Some of the things you have to tell them may upset them, but it's important that they know the truth, so always be honest. Avoid minimizing the severity of your addiction in order to shelter your family. They need to know the true extent of your problem in order to help you. If you need to share something that will be particularly hurtful, you can prepare your family for it by saying something like, "You may already know that I have lost a lot of money, but there is something else that you don't know, and I know it will be very upsetting to you." If your gambling addiction has had a negative effect on your family in any way, you should acknowledge that and apologize for what you have done. While there is no way to change the past, it's important for your family to know that you regret your actions. Let them know that you recognize the impact your addiction has had on them by saying something like, "I understand that my addiction has caused you pain and I am deeply sorry for that." When you tell your family that you have a gambling addiction, they will probably have a lot of questions, so it's important to be open to answering them. Keep in mind that your family may have very little knowledge about addictions, so they may ask questions that seem to have obvious answers to you. They will probably ask you questions like when your addiction started, how often you gamble, or why you gamble. They may also ask you questions about your finances, which may be uncomfortable, but try to be open and honest.
A: Explain your struggles. Be honest. Apologize for hurting them. Be ready to answer questions.

Q: Choose a sweatshirt and sweatpants of the appropriate size for the costume wearer. You can go with white for a fully white sheep or a black sweatsuit for a black sheep. Choose a hooded sweatshirt for one version of the costume or a crew neck if you want to have a separate hat or headband. If you think you'll be too hot in a sweatsuit, you could go with a long sleeve shirt instead. Sweatpants are probably your best option for pants unless you want to choose some tights, leggings, or other simple black or white pants. If you use clothes you already have rather than buying new ones for the costume, remember that you'll be using glue that is permanent. Once you make the costume, the clothes are ruined for regular wear. For a small child's costume, you can use cotton balls because you won't be covering a large area. If the costume is for an adult, you'll want to use some kind of synthetic cotton or polyfill batting because it will attach more quickly, and cover more area, than cotton balls. You can use polyfill for a child's costume, as well. Cotton balls can be purchased at any big-box store or pharmacy. Batting can be purchased at big-box stores, but you might have to go to a craft store. Cotton balls give a more textured and authentic look, but cotton batting will attach much faster and cover more space. If you are in a hurry, don't use cotton balls. It won't be easy to wash the costume once it is fully assembled, so wash everything now if you want to. It is especially good to wash brand new clothes to break them in a little and make them more comfortable. It is not necessary to wash clothes that you've worn many times if they are clean already. Using hot glue or fabric glue, begin attaching the cotton to the shirt and pants. Bunch the cotton batting up as you glue it, so it looks like sheep's wool. Place the cotton balls close together so there aren't gaps. You don't have to cover the entire surface of the clothes with cotton. You can leave a few inches at the end of the sleeves and pant legs to mimic the way that a sheep's wool stops before the hooves.
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Select a black or white sweatsuit. Choose cotton balls or polyfill. Wash the clothes. Glue cotton batting or cotton balls to the clothes.