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On 24 December 2005, our old host’s server suffered a hard drive failure and the original For Your Benefit help site and support forum were lost. Although I had reasonably current backups of the data, the process of obtaining a reliable web host and recreating the site required considerable time and effort.

The original site included a number of features which had been added and developed over the years, but my observation was that few visitors were using them. Perhaps the interface seemed a bit too complex or intimidating to my less web-savvy readers. Therefore I am rebuilding the site with a simpler and easier-to-navigate interface.

Please read the About This Site page (click the link in the sidebar to your right) to see more about my vision for this site. Here’s hoping that this new version of For Your Benefit will bring even more benefit to all concerned.

If you have ever wondered how to get more from those precious minutes spent talking with an intuitive counselor or psychic advisor, please read on. Before logging in, a good reader spends at least a few minutes preparing themselves for the varied and often stressful barrage of upset and confused callers, but there is no denying that a better-focused caller is sure to have a better result from their reading.

All too often callers are stressed and in a hurry, thus creating a lot of psychic “static” that makes it more difficult for a reader to find the answers the person is so anxiously seeking. Another frequent problem is the caller holding a bias about what the advisor “should” tell them (thinking they know what form the answers should take). To save yourself and your reader frustration and wasted time, and to help you get the most from your readings, here are some important tips.

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Most of the questions and problems that I hear on a daily basis involve relationship issues. Even if a caller’s problem is not specifically romantic in nature, usually there is some human interaction that could be improved, to the benefit of all concerned. Although I address a wide diversity of problems and complications, it is clear to me that the same set of basic principles could be used to solve most of them. Would you like to know more about those principles, and how you might use them to improve your own situation?

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Have you ever received letters or emails from “psychics” who are total strangers, yet claim to have vital information for you? Up to recently I never realized how seriously some people can be affected by these unsolicited ploys. A few weeks ago, one of my clients was contacted by two different “psychic” organizatons which claimed to have “important information” to share. The tactics used were clever and quite distressing.

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