Sitting in the Power vs. Meditation: What’s the Real Difference?
Many people assume that Sitting in the Power is simply a type of meditation. While the two share surface similarities, their purpose, intention, and energetic effect are completely different.
Understanding this distinction can transform your mediumship development, expand your intuitive abilities, and strengthen your relationship with Spirit.
What Meditation Really Does: A Journey Inward
Meditation is one of the oldest and most widely practiced methods for calming the mind and regulating the nervous system. Its goal is inner stillness.
During meditation, you typically:
Settle into the body
Observe thoughts without attachment
Return to emotional and energetic balance
Meditation centers your energy. It grounds you and brings you into deeper harmony with your inner world.
This is wonderful for spiritual wellness, but it’s not the same as Sitting in the Power.
What Sitting in the Power Is: Expanding Into Spirit
Sitting in the Power is a mediumship-specific practice, made widely known by pioneers like Gordon Higginson.
Its intention is not relaxation—it is energetic expansion. It builds the power a medium needs to connect clearly with the Spirit world.
Where meditation draws your energy inward, sitting in the Power expands and elevates your energy outward.
In this practice, you:
Sit in the power of Spirit
Blend with the presence of the Spirit world
Feel the power stabilize and strengthen
Sitting in the Power is a quiet communion with Spirit—deep, subtle, and transformational. It forms the energetic backbone of clear, evidential mediumship.
Why Sitting in the Power Strengthens Mediumship Development
Whether you’re beginning your mediumship journey or refining your abilities, Sitting in the Power is essential for growth. It helps you:
Strengthen your link with Spirit
Expand your intuitive and mediumistic sensitivity
Recognize subtle energetic shifts
Sustain stronger, clearer connections during readings
Improve accuracy and clarity
Develop trust with the Spirit world
Many working mediums consider it the single most important practice in their development.
What Does It Mean to Be “Sat For”?
In development circles, you may hear the phrase being sat for.
This is a dedicated practice where your mentor or circle focuses on your energy as you blend with Spirit.
Being sat for includes:
The teacher observing your power as it expands
Sensing the quality and depth of your blending
Offering guidance on what they experience from your energy
Helping you understand your strengths and areas to refine
This process is invaluable because it reveals:
How Spirit feels when blending with you
How your presence shifts as your power builds
Where you are growing
Where you can deepen your practice
With this feedback, your development accelerates—because you’re no longer learning alone, but with awareness and support.
Final Thoughts
Meditation brings your awareness inward.
Sitting in the Power expands your power outward and blends you with Spirit.
Being sat for offers guidance that helps your mediumship grow faster and with greater clarity.
If you're feeling called to develop your intuitive or mediumistic abilities, Sitting in the Power is the foundation that supports everything else. It is the doorway to trust, connection, and deep spiritual awareness.