One of the questions I am asked regularly is: “Do I have a spirit attachment?”

I receive a lot of messages from people who are worried that something may be attached to them. The difficulty is that almost every case is different. There isn’t one obvious sign that tells me immediately whether someone has an attachment or not.

When somebody contacts me about this, I will often ask them to send me an email explaining what has been happening, along with photographs that I can look at. When I do this, it is very important that I don’t allow my own mind to jump to conclusions. My role as a medium is to sense what is actually taking place.

And sometimes, what initially appears to be a spirit attachment is something quite different.

Darkness Doesn’t Always Mean an Attachment

I recently had a lady contact me because she believed she might have an attachment with her. Like many of the people who contact me, she had been through a very difficult time in her life.

When I looked at her photograph, I could sense a great deal of darkness around her.

If somebody without experience or training sensed this, they might immediately assume that something nasty or evil was around the person. But that isn’t necessarily the case.

Sometimes people have been through so much hardship, unhappiness and negativity that this can be what I am sensing around them. It doesn’t automatically mean there is a spirit attached to them.

In this particular case, I could find no attachment whatsoever.

What I was sensing was the negativity that had built up around her as a result of everything she had been through.

I was able to send love and light into the situation and remove the darkness that I was sensing around her at that time. I could then speak to her about what I felt might help her moving forward.

But there is an important distinction here. I cannot automatically change somebody’s life or take away everything they have experienced. What I can do is work with what I am sensing spiritually and offer guidance based on that.

Sometimes simply being told, “Yes, I can sense this negativity around you, but no, you do not have an attachment,” can provide someone with a great deal of reassurance.

Sometimes Sensing Nothing Can Be Significant

Then there are completely different cases.

Occasionally, I can look at a photograph and sense absolutely nothing.

That might sound like good news. But from my own experience as a medium, sensing nothing at all can sometimes make me suspicious that something isn’t quite right.

I am normally sensing something.

Over the years, I have come across situations where I believe a spirit has been able to hide itself. It may be aware that somebody is looking into the situation and therefore becomes more difficult to detect.

These cases can be considerably more complicated because initially there may appear to be nothing there at all.

This is one of the reasons why I never assume that every case will present itself in the same way.

The Danger of Blaming Everything on an Attachment

There is another side to this subject that I think is extremely important.

I sometimes speak to people who are absolutely convinced that they have an attachment. From their point of view, everything that goes wrong in their life becomes connected to it.

Something happens and they think:

“It’s the attachment. It’s not me. It’s what’s with me.”

That can become a trap.

There are certainly occasions where, in my view and experience, somebody does have a spirit attachment. But we also have our own lives, decisions, difficulties and responsibilities.

Not every problem is caused by spirit.

This is why I believe we have to approach these situations carefully rather than immediately deciding that every difficulty somebody experiences must have a spiritual cause.

When There Really Is an Attachment

At the other end of the scale are people who contact me because they aren’t sure whether they have an attachment at all.

Sometimes they genuinely do.

In certain cases, I believe an attachment can have a significant effect on somebody’s life. When it is identified and removed, the difference for that person can be considerable.

Removing an attachment isn’t necessarily difficult when somebody has been properly trained to deal with these situations. The more difficult part can sometimes be understanding exactly what is happening in the first place.

I have mediums from around the country, and sometimes from other countries, pass cases on to me because they have found them particularly difficult to resolve.

This isn’t something I ever planned to specialise in. It is simply an area of mediumship that, over many years, I have found myself being led towards.

Never Jump to Conclusions

The most important message I would give anyone worried about a spirit attachment is not to automatically assume the worst.

Darkness or negativity does not necessarily mean there is an evil spirit around you.

Problems in your life do not automatically mean you have an attachment.

Equally, somebody may be completely unsure about what is happening and there may, from my perspective as a medium, genuinely be a spiritual influence involved.

Every case is different.

That is why I always try to approach these situations with an open mind, sense what is actually taking place and never decide what the answer is before I have properly looked into it.

Sometimes there is an attachment.

Sometimes there isn’t.

And sometimes what a person really needs is reassurance, understanding and some guidance about how they can begin moving forward with their own life.