There are many different ways of doing a reading.   My personal favorite is using soul paintings and ribbons.  Soul Paintings allow you to get a greater picture of the past lives, present day and future. 

A Soul painting is something that you create yourself.  You ask your guides, angels or helpers to help you to choose the colours which are suited to you at that moment.  Once on the paper, a unique painting will be created which can then be interpreted for you.  The paintings may look elaborate but are actually very simple to create just by applying the paint to the paper and folding in half.  A similar technique to the butterfly paintings children do in schools.  The difference with these is because you are asking your guides to come through, the detail is much more informative with intricate detail. 

See paintings for examples:

This is when I was working with a Zulu guide.  If you look closely in the centre you can see the guide himself with a hat on and the whole thing is within a Zulu shield.

This is when I first started to work with the Pleiadian Emmisaries of Light.