Here's a great technique to use when you are talking about a sitter's/client's past: talk about their unfinished business.Bring up the sense, the impression, the sight (if scrying), of some sort of unfinished business in your clients' (or HB's) life. Let them fill in the blanks and tell you what it is.
For example, if I were to say to you, "Your Fate Line has a slight break in it towards your wrist; this tells me you have some sort of unfinished business... What does that mean to you?"
Upon hearing the "unfinished business" and the question, you might start a transderivational search for meaning. You might think of unfinished courses, unfinished books, appologies never given, forgiveness, no closure, something you wanted to say to a deceased relative, etc.
This technique is powerful and therefore it comes with a warning: for some people unfinished business has strong emotions attached to it, sometimes negative. If you are going to use unfinished business in your readings, you MUST calibrate your client's state.
Any sense of things going negative (sighing, down-turned mouth, getting misty eyed, immediate slumping of shoulders, etc.) you should immediately break state. You can do this by changing palms ("OK, let me see your other hand now."), having him or her cut the tarot deck, standing up, anything that changes their position or state. Then move on to something more positive.
This is an advanced cold reading technique. Use it carefully, and you will have a powerful tool in your psychic entertaining kit.
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