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Hi, psychic listeners. Welcome to another episode of a psychic story.
For this episode, I have Dr. Scott Garen back on and he's going to be a regular featured guest, not just for the listener episodes and where we talk about angel stories and other stories, but also just because we're partnering on a lot of things, the book included.
For this episode, we thought it would be really lovely to talk about the event we were just at the other weekend, the victory of light, but also to take the time to answer a lot of your questions.
You submit questions to us through voicemails, through emails, sometimes through the reviews that you post and just wanted to take the time that is due for you guys and address those directly.
But before we get into that, I just want to welcome Scott back.
Hi, Nicole. Good to be here and glad we're working together on yet another project.
Yes, exactly. And it was really, really nice to see you in person last weekend or this past weekend.
And I think that would probably be the best way to start off is, you know, what we thought of the event as a whole and why is it important? Why are we sharing that with listeners?
But I'd love to share my thoughts in a second, but would like to maybe have you share yours first.
Yeah, it was great to meet you too. You know, in this age of Zoom and video conferencing, it's always nice to meet people you've worked with for a few months in three dimensions.
So it was good. It was a good time.
Yeah, it's kind of surreal to see somebody when you see them on a screen and then in person like they're a real person.
Yes.
Yeah. So the two things that I came away with from that event, one was the size and scope was just tremendous. I mean, I was in one other event like this in New Jersey last fall.
And this is what this was like three times the size of it. There's like 400 vendors. The first day there was 2,500 participants.
The second, I didn't hear a number, but it had been close to that. So, you know, 4 plus 1000 people came through.
And real quick, this is the victory of light festival in Cincinnati, Ohio. It's the largest metaphysical event in the United States.
And so, yeah, just so you're like, what? That's the event we're talking about.
Yeah. And the event had all kinds of things. Crystals, oils, tarot card readers, mediums, Reiki, massage therapists, and not too many vendors about angels, which several people told us about.
So that was kind of cool. And I had wonderful conversations with many people throughout the two days.
The second thing is it's a little bit related to the event, but it was more witnessing how Nicole worked during the days. And I mean, worked. So, for the listeners, what we had is that 8 by 10 booth, we had two tables.
I mean, there's a corner booth. We had two tables making the L shape, and then a smaller table behind that, where Nicole could sit with people and conduct readings.
And you did not advertise it at all. You just put up a sign and used. I remember you just told me, like, I don't know what's going to happen.
I didn't say this, but I'm going to just put up a sign up sheet and see who shows up.
So within the first couple hours that it opens on Saturday, the day was filled with 15 minutes back to back to back sessions for you.
And it was just amazing to see how maybe I'll just kind of flock to this. And then what I did during the day was I would talk to the family members and friends of people who were getting a reading, kind of answer questions around the table, and then visit other booths and vendors there as well.
Now, I was exhausted at the end of the day, and I did nothing, right? And I remember telling you, like, how do you even do this to be present with these people with literally no breaks?
I did get to go to the bathroom once. That was good. Yes. Yeah, once, I think. Yeah. And then the next morning on Sunday morning, I said, how did you sleep?
And you said, oh, I didn't get to bed until one. And I joked, like, well, what did you do? You went home and watch TV and Netflix? What did you do?
And you said, no, no, I had to disconnect from all the people that I met with that day. And you then described to me the process of disconnecting.
So maybe you could just take a minute and explain that to those that aren't familiar with the concept.
Yeah, I can't even remember what I told you, to be honest, because it was so interesting, right? I don't do a ton of sessions during the week because I have this full-time job, but I, or a full-time job, I should say, as everybody knows, for the most part.
And so just a few evenings that I do those in the non-Saturday's. And it doesn't, you know, take me that long to disconnect after each of those sessions, because again, it's maybe one person, two people max.
On Saturday, you know, sometimes there can be five people that I'm having conversations with, and healings, but overall, it's a little bit easier. But as Scott mentioned, both on Saturday and Sunday, there were back-to-back.
So I think there were like 12 or 15 on Saturday and same on Sunday. Saturday in particular, it took me a lot of time when I got home to disconnect and decord and really reground myself.
I felt high, not that I get high, but that's what I felt like it would be. And it just was like your heads in the clouds, you're vibrating at such a state.
It feels almost like you're physically disconnected. And so, you know, there's a lot of things that you guys have heard me about doing on the podcast, which is you take a shower, you ground, you clear, you protect yourself.
I did a lot of prayer work. I also did some Reiki. And by the time I was done, yeah, it was about one in the morning, and then finally I blissfully fell asleep.
And I got one of the best sleeps, too, that I had. But it was a lot of process. And normally, again, it takes a short period of time. But what I did notice, Scott, is that I forgot on Saturday to do a lot of my disconnecting and decoding between each person, because it was like a rotating door.
It was so quick that that was what I realized on Saturday. Sunday, it was a lot easier because I was doing it more real time. And so that was a lesson learned.
But yeah. Yeah, maybe you can schedule in some breaks next time. I mean, anyways, that was the couple takeaways for me. Just it was just a great place to be with like-minded people, certainly greatly appreciated that.
And the reason why we wanted to share it with you guys, too, is right. So we had a presentation about angels. That was primarily the reason why we did this. It wasn't necessarily to have a booth and for me to give readings, but to talk about angels had a connect with them who is part of your angel team, your spirit team.
And so we did a presentation on Saturday, and that was really the guiding light or for me, the reason why I wanted to do it. Now I've done it twice before, twice last year in April and November with Katie from Everything Aligns.
But this was the first time for the presentation. So that, for me, I think, was extremely eye-opening and would like to hear from you, Scott, what you thought about the presentation as a whole. And then I'm also going to share a little bit about my viewpoints about the event itself and then the presentation.
And then we will get to the listener questions.
Yeah. Well, the first thing that I was surprised about was the people that showed up. We both checked out the room before. And like, wow, this like 60, 70 chairs, it's not going to look good if five people show up.
But I was very pleasantly surprised what we packed that room. I mean, there was maybe just a handful of seats left. So just showing that there was interest in the topic of looking for angels and connecting with them.
It was really great to see. And so that was a big part of it. And then I think the questions that came up during the session about the book and about what we had been talking about explaining parts of it was also very encouraging.
We made some connections there as well.
Yeah. And so I would say that for me, the biggest kind of takeaways from that is, so first of all, I talk to you guys regularly, every week, right? And sometimes more than once a week through bonus episodes, audio extras, that sort of thing.
But also through the kids podcast, but it was definitely different to have such a forum in front of you. Again, it's surreal when we used to have so much FaceTime and be in front of people throughout our lives, whether it's for personal, you know, professional, that sort of thing.
And to actually see people in a room altogether and then listening and wanting to hear about angels was phenomenal. But one kind of side note is that I, you know, I can connect and feel my angels and guides a lot.
But at one point, I was like, I can't feel you with all the energy of everybody else in the room. I know you're there, but I can't feel you. I can't see you.
And Scott was actually up on the podium and he was talking at that point. And I saw this huge flash of light. It almost looked like a firework. It actually pretty much was like a firework just going straight off right at the top of the ceiling.
And it was so amazing because it came right at the time. I was like, I don't feel you guys. I don't like, show me that you're here. And then all of a sudden this huge light that went off, which was really phenomenal and cool.
And then Scott, you had a particular experience as well through the exercise that I was giving to the group in which I ask people to close their eyes to take some deep breaths, like calling an angel in particular, an archangel or two.
And then I ask people to describe what they experience. And I don't really say, and I do this in sessions sometimes too, but I don't say who it is.
I pick different ones at random. And then I ask people what they experienced and order for there to also, especially when you're a group, for there to be either similarities or consistency, synchronicity, that sort of thing.
And you and my mom who's in the audience and a couple other people experience the same thing without me saying what it was. So do you mind sharing?
Yeah. Well, so that was what that was the thing is that you said, I'm not going to tell you what the experience may be. And we could share that later.
And this is clear as a bell in my mind's eye. I was these feathers came down and hugged me and just for a minute or so.
And I just felt very comfortable and just very supported in that. And then afterwards you said that that's, you know, well, that's what your mom said.
And a few others said, you know, being hugged by an angel, being hung by feathers. And so that was a really, it was a cool thing that happened to a bunch of us.
Yeah. And so those were kind of, I guess, some two big, two big things I wanted to share. But also the reason why this event in particular is really important to me is my grandmother who has one of my grandmothers, my mom's mom, who had passed over several years ago.
Actually, now I think it's closer to like two decades. She used to take me when I would come and visit around the holidays because again, there is one in April, one in November, but we would always go to the November one.
And I just remember being little and going and visiting and thinking it was so cool. So it's also just a surreal experience to be there as an actual practitioner and look at how everything came full circle and never having thought that, you know, in 42 plus years or so that this would have happened.
So that's kind of cool. And I also want to give a shout out to my uncle who had provided. I don't even know if he listens, but I know my aunts do.
So I would say thanks to Uncle Dave for producing the sign in the backdrop. We also got a lot of compliments about how the booth looked. I'll share those on social so you guys can see.
But it was really phenomenal because we highlighted the book. And also, we didn't get a lot of listeners who listened to the podcast as I have in the past.
It was all about people for the most part that had seen the presentation and heard that we were going to be talking about angels, which was great.
However, there was one person, Mary Beth, who swung by who she as she was walking by, she goes, Oh, my gosh, are you Nicole of a psychic story?
And she had had a friend in Austin, Texas, who told her about the podcast. She had only been listening for a few days and had heard a couple of the episodes and walked back and we were able to make that connection.
And she has a coaching business, the law about the law of attraction. So that was really cool to just make that connection. And I share that because there's so many amazing synchronicities about how the universe works and connects us, whether it's through our friends, our angels and guides.
So that was pretty much it about what I wanted to share. And unless there was anything else, I think we can pivot to the questions, right?
Yeah, let's go.
Okay. So our first question via voicemails from Cila from Montana. And she has recently been opening up and getting messages about others around her and was wondering what to do next.
Let's take a listen.
Also getting messages so clear with such urgency for people.
You know, and in this instance that I'm talking in a lot of these situations, it's like they're saying, tell them, tell them, tell them, you know, they're about to leave. It's like a perfect stranger at a restaurant sitting at the table next to me.
And so, I'm like, what's my path to these people? Like, I feel like I'm letting these people down that are asking me to give them these messages. And I feel like, like with their attitude, now that I'm aware of this, I feel like I've been letting them down for a long time.
And so it's like, okay, they want me to give these messages.
And I would like to give them, but I don't see a clear path to them. Like, I'm being so bombarded, like, I'm being pushed, pushed, pushed, like, tell them, tell them, tell them. What are you doing? Get up and go tell them this. And I'm sitting there thinking in my head like all these different scenarios that would not cause this person to have her reaction to me coming up to them and saying, hey, there's this lady, she looks like this.
This is what I just thought her due to you. This is how I feel. This is what she's telling me. And this is what she wants me to tell you. And then I don't do it because it just seems totally nuts to me.
So, I'm just curious, like, I think I know the answer and the answer that I got was practice.
And that means you've been experiencing this whole life, but you just have this awareness where you recognize what's happening. You're not just letting it happen and then go, holy cow, you're really nuts. Don't tell anybody.
So, I just wonder how to deal with not getting these messages to people or getting these messages to people.
Or do I just need to really step back and build this information first in practice, which I think practice is my answer practice, right?
All right. So, what do you think, Nicole? What suggestions you have? Well, first, I would definitely recommend in getting a mentor if that's possible. And that's not just for for for Celia. That would be for anyone else out there.
And I do offer spiritual sessions and packages on my website. So, there's that, but you don't have to go through me. Second, I would say, and this is for everyone listening to this, that you need to set clear energetic boundaries.
An example of how you can do this is really to truly state out loud that you will only receive messages from your higher self or your spirit team. If it is for your best and highest good or somebody else's best and highest good.
But also that you are open to receiving those said messages and when you want to receive those. When we first start out, we tend to get a lot of information coming in.
We may not necessarily be able to distill it to understand it and also when it's kind of almost as if you're setting office hours for the most part.
You know, you may not necessarily want to receive messages when you're out in public, right? When you're kind of at work or in going about your day.
So, there's that. Also, I say to people, like if you're at nighttime and you're about ready to go to bed, a lot of people tend to get information at night, right? So, again, setting clear energetic boundaries is really important when you're starting out because when you're getting information from the universe at first,
it can seem like it's kind of coming in from all over the place.
And then I would also say to ask your higher self and spirit team that when they send you messages from them or for somebody else to have it be clear and succinct.
Any time I'm trying to connect with my guides and angels and especially if it's somebody that I'm doing a session with, I always ask for that incoming information to be clear and succinct to me so that I can relay the information.
I don't always have to necessarily understand it. So, for example, if I saw something like there was a symbol and it just has a really important meaning to you, Scott, right, me just sharing about that symbol or what that sign is may have meaning.
I don't have to understand that part. But if it's fuzzy as far as what I'm seeing or what I'm getting and I can't even clarify that. That's where you can have some hiccups, right? So there's that.
But also, you know, and this is really important as well, is that it's not every time we get information. Does it mean that we're supposed to pass it along? Now, this isn't the beginning, especially for people.
Usually what happens is our spirit team is just trying to show us that we have the capability to receive information. It doesn't mean again that we're supposed to pass it along.
So I recommend in these instances that if you're not sure that you're supposed to pass the information on, right, you don't necessarily what people would say have quote unquote permission, that you just kind of keep it to yourself.
Now, that's why setting those boundaries in the beginning are really important because when you say, I'm going to receive messages that are clear and succinct that are for my best and highest good or for somebody else's best and highest good.
That means that you are supposed to then share that information. But if you haven't set those boundaries in the beginning and again it's coming in.
It's more like I just said, it's because you can or not that you can't, you can get the information not necessarily because you're supposed to share it.
And I think that once you begin to set those firm, clear, energetic boundaries, the messages become clear. You know how and when to pass the information on.
And that just helps you to continue to do that and to receive.
Great. That's good. And it's good for people like myself who are in the process now and wondering what the next step is going to be and where is this journey taking us.
Yeah, because you see on television all the time, right? I mean, again, maybe not all the time, but used to be where Teresa Caputo or others would be going into the grocery store and receive a message and go up to somebody and say, Hey, I'm getting this message and I need to pass it along for you.
That's a little bit of dramatization, but also staged probably that they've obviously gotten the permission from the person to give that to be on camera, but it's the same concept in real life, right?
That you are again, getting the information when you're supposed to for either yourself or someone else.
Okay. The next question comes from Kelly H from Colorado and she asked, can we combine Catholicism and Christianity with spiritual work like crystals?
Is there a smooth transition? And then she makes a statement later on that she had a cranial sacral therapy session and a therapist told her it was the work of the devil.
So how do we answer that?
Well, I sort of I had to kind of get out of judgment and my own ego when I heard the voicemail because I thought it was really ironic that she went to somebody for cranial sacral therapy and then they said that other types of things were the quote unquote work of the devil.
First of all, you know, to answer the first part of the question, absolutely you can combine any religious or spiritual practices together, make it your own whatever you feel led to learn about or bring brings you excitement or joy.
I think is a great thing. It's not just a good thing. It's a great thing.
Again, if we're interested in certain things and we're feeling led to go in a certain direction and it makes us happy or there's a healthy level of curiosity.
That's because our spirit team and our higher self are pulling us in that direction and really cheering us on for it.
So I would say that, you know, having been baptized Catholic, not a practicing Catholic, but also loving crystals and learning about Lianus and all that kind of stuff.
It's just part of my repertoire and how I learned and what I grew into growing up and obviously it shifted over time.
But there's that and to the person who's judging you, whether that's the therapist, whether that's a family member, whether that's a friend or whatever else, you know, I would just say that that's based on fear.
There's deep programming from society, you know, that comes to us and to just not allow someone else's opinions to sway you if something truly resonates with your soul.
Yeah, and I think an important thing to add and to realize is that there's approximately, they say approximately 4,200 organized religions on the planet at this time.
And 80% of them are groups and subsets of the four main ones, which is Judeo-Christian, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism.
Within all those religions, there's levels of acceptance and openness to other things other than staunch doctrine of that church or the synagogue or whatever group that may be in.
And so part of this is that you have to realize what group you're looking at and engaging with and to what level they're open to other things other than what they may adhere to, you know, very strictly or less strictly.
In my experience, talking to a lot of people, a lot of religious leaders over the years, those that are closest to God and spirit, whatever faith they come from, the ones that are closest and walk the walk in spirit and light and love, they tend to be the most forgiving, judgement-free and open, yes.
So, yeah, there's a wide range and if you run into a group that, you know, if you say, well, I'm thinking about crystals or contacting my spirit guides and you get hammered, you just have to evaluate it and just see if this group is for you if you want to continue on or what your next step may be.
Yeah, no great ads, I appreciate that. But I would just say, yeah, if anyone ever tries to put their own doubt or fear on you, that's their opinion and that's their judgement, which is coming from a place that they're not open.
And yeah, that's just kind of to stand in your own truth, your in light.
Okay, and this next question, very common question that I've heard, and I heard a few times at the conference from Adriana S, and she said that she took Reiki classes and became attuned to levels one and two, and as a result of them, she started to get messages, but it's hard for her to distinguish between what's her voice, her guide's voice or her angel's voice.
How can we help her decide that? Yes, so this is actually a question. Hi Adriana, from someone who she submitted a question and didn't get around fast enough so she ended up booking a session.
So I walked with her in more detail, but for everyone that wants to know about this is that spirit speaks to us in our own voice.
And so what that means is it tends to hear a lot like us. If we're visual, we'll almost, and we'll see visuals that are from us.
It'll sound like our voice, almost our, what I call our own inner narrative, that sort of thing.
So that's first and foremost, that's why sometimes it can be a little bit hard to distinguish, but the best way I can describe to people where when you're starting to become more open, you're starting to receive more information, it's really not as important in the beginning to distinguish
if it's yours, if it's your higher self, it's what have you, as long as you know that it's coming from a place that's higher or the divine and it's connected.
Number one, number two is that when you do start to figure out and distinguish what's what the best way, again, I can describe it is that our inner voice, our higher self feels familiar.
So it's going to feel like a place from home. It's going to resonate on a certain level, you know, that it's just, hey, this is from me and what that looks like.
Something that's a little bit more, I would say, dramatic, but something that just feels like it's from that higher place, that it feels celestial, that it feels divine.
It's a little subtle at first, but it starts to show up in bigger ways. And so just to start to, first of all, when you get a message, how does it come across?
Secondly, how do you feel? Does it feel familiar? Does it feel more right? A celestial divine angelic, that sort of thing?
And it may again be subtle at first and over time, you start to equate it to tone, to energy, to everything else. But really at the end of the day, if we remember, we're all connected.
Now we all kind of come from that same source, as long as we know that it's in that love and light where it's coming from. That's really the most important part and the most important part of that message.
I don't know if you've had any experiences, Scott, where you've turned you a curveball here, where you've like, oh, this is probably coming from me and my higher self versus, you know, Shira, your spirit animal or your angel team.
But you started to distinguish that a little bit, right?
Yeah, well, interesting that you mentioned that because I'm going to mention this in a couple stories from here. But I've been recently connecting with extremely important person in my life growing up, my high school teacher, photography, graphic arts, mechanical arts, wrestling coach, photography, printing teacher.
I was very, very involved with his life. And he would take us a bunch of us on biking trips during the summer. And he just made incredible impression on me growing up.
And I recently been connecting with him in ways that freaks me out, which we've talked about a little bit, that it's a personal presence and remembering things and also getting some messages from him about the way that he's been connected with him.
About things reminded me of things in the past reminded me of things that I'm doing, and I could do better, which is interesting. But the other day, we're driving by a restaurant that one time he came out.
We lived an hour. We live an hour from where he used to live. He passed 10 years ago and went by that restaurant. And I heard in the back of my head, I went there.
And I remember this story he told me years ago, he goes, Oh, is that by restaurant by you? And I got kind of upset. Like you were a half a mile from my house and you didn't come in or you didn't stop by or call.
And so it was just interesting that he, that that came out at that time.
Yeah, but I would say that when you got that message, if you go back to what I explained, it shows up for people. It didn't feel your voice familiar. It just, it, there was a kind of came out of nowhere. And it was information.
And then you probably were like, all right, how does that feel? And it felt like it was him, right?
Yes, absolutely. 100%.
That's how you start to distinguish. Is it this, my voice, how does it feel? Is it feel familiar? And when I say familiar, I don't mean your mom's voice, your friend's voice isn't going to feel familiar. It's going to feel familiar of them, not familiar of you, right?
So that's a good way of starting to learn how to distinguish.
Okay. So next up is a voicemail was left by Victoria from Charleston, South Carolina. And simple question. She's looking for a mentor and a guide. Where come she start?
Yeah. So as I mentioned earlier, I definitely offer spiritual sessions and packages and that's meant to provide this very thing. I think it really depends on when you, when someone asks, are they that they're looking for a mentor? It's to what extent, right?
Sometimes when people ask for a mentor, it's because they want a deeper level of understanding and guidance related to something going on in their life. And so that's where I would recommend you're looking for someone, whether that is a therapist, whether that's a spiritual practitioner,
what have you, there's a lot of free resources out there. So you don't have to buy sessions with people or buy packages or anything else like that. There's Facebook groups, Marty Rosson, who's on, for example, he has a Facebook group that's primarily designed for people that are interested more in that intergalactic.
But there's also a lot of other Facebook and private groups that are free. Some also practitioners offer certain circles and communities. So I would just say that if there's a guest that resonates with you on the podcast, take a look on their website, take a look on their social media channels.
But also if you have someone in your life that is spiritually evolved and can provide you guidance that way, ask them for more of a friendship mentorship with them and, and or even create groups around in your own communities.
There is a group that actually somebody came to a session at the event speaking of this very things got his name is Dan and he invited me because they do a spiritual get together every month with a bunch of people and they asked me if I wanted to join.
So I'm going to go to my first one next week. And that's just for community, right? So you can find different ways and also ask your spirit team to drop the right person in your lap and you'll feel that either social media content tends to pop up or somebody recommends somebody or what have you.
So I would just say for the most part, wherever that resonates with you and whomever that resonates, reach out and ask them to help guide you and if they're open to being a mentor for you.
Now this next one is from Alison S.
As I just turned 30 this past year and as the listening to all these podcasts and have been trying to develop myself and understand myself.
And in this process, I understand that there is a mind body and a spirit and I just don't know how to do spirit.
I hear about angels and people that I trust talking about angels and I say, oh gosh, I resist it so hard.
I still have prayed in the past just that like, okay, maybe if this is real, please help me.
And it's so hard to not receive it in the way that I understand it.
So one day I was just looking, angels just kept coming at me left and right, left and right, left and right.
I'm like, okay, I'll just Google this a little bit. Here's one feeling. Here's one thinking followed by angel.
And I literally Googled it, learn about Gabriel, who is, I know it's I have written down the heavenly physician.
And I just meditated on it for a moment and I laid down and I said, I am not here to ask you for help.
I have been and I know that that doesn't work. So all I want to do is say her. This is who I am and I'm open to learning about you.
A lot of my messages or understanding come through metaphors or songs or something that I can relate to that I've already experienced.
And I was given a song. I was screaming, see more, see more, see more.
But I was like, okay, I'm trying to see more, I don't understand that.
And I Googled it and suddenly see more from Little Shop of Horrors came up. This isn't a show that I'm super familiar with and I just stopped and I looked at the lyrics and I know that I've heard the song before.
There are different ways, but I didn't really read it. And so I'm reading the lyrics and I get it.
I'm told, okay, I know that you pushed me away, but here I am and now you can suddenly see more.
So we are telling me he don't take no orders, he don't condescend. He's here to provide you with true understanding, we're friends. And just like that, I got it.
And so that for her was the emotional part of connecting with Gabriel and her spirit guides. And it was really moving in that sense because for me being, you know, attachment styles, kind of again the psychological slide of things.
We have three general type of attachment styles, a secure anxious and bivalent and avoidant. And I'm on the anxious and bivalent and avoidant. I tend to keep people away so getting involved with someone or, you know, a spirit guide, something else other than me.
I'm a little hesitant with that because I haven't had good experiences with relationships on that end. So I think kind of what she might have experienced as well is a confirmation and maybe an experience of someone that provides is non judgmental unconditional love is there for you without a doubt.
And experiencing that was transformational. So that was what resonated to me. So the question to you is, what can we do if we start feeling anxious about new feelings or experiences that are happening to us in our spiritual journey.
And that's a big question. I kind of first want to go back a little bit about the song itself, right, and that spirit or angels are guides are going to give us messages in a variety of different ways and one of the biggest ways that they give it to us is actually through song and through
and, you know, I'm sure everybody listening at some point has woken up in the middle or not in the morning, or there's all of a sudden a song that like pops in their head and those lyrics and or, you know, I know I've heard songs before and then they just will not get out of my head, right.
Sometimes it's because there's a reason for it. You have that in the sense that you've heard something and then it just stays in your head and other times it's just a way for your angels and guides to get your attention.
But I also feel that they've been really showing up in songs and in lyrics a lot more for us lately because energetically, it gets us to pause and to really listen to the message and to listen to the energy and the sounds that are emitting from it.
One example I've had recently is I have not, this is an old song, well older in a few years, but I had not heard it and it was the greatest show.
So you guys can tune in and listen to it later, but all of a sudden it just kept popping up everywhere. I had not heard the song. So I stopped and listened to it.
And the lyrics just super were super relevant and resonated with me and it was specific to the podcast. And so I think that that just first of all, I want to take some time to talk about that.
And to your point about the fact of starting for her to feel comfortable, it was the way her guides and angels, Gabriel in particular started to help her become more comfortable with that.
So I think that's really it is going back to one of the answers that I had, which is a different question, but kind of similar in the sense of asking your guides and angels to provide you with messages that are succinct and clear, but also you can ask them for ways that just help you feel more comfortable to connect with them, right?
And it could be, you may not know the answer and how that is, but they're certainly going to know the answer and the best way to help you feel more comfortable and guided and connected.
But then also to build on the other part of that question is that, you know, anytime we're in doubt or fear that is really our ego taking over.
That is our logical part of our brain and or programming by society.
And to get into, you know, also the other part of that is that we do have multiple energetic bodies or layers. And you've heard me say this includes the spiritual, the mental, the physical and the emotional.
We don't have to distinguish in the beginning what all of those mean right away.
All energy comes from source.
You've heard me say that before on the answer and we're all connected to source.
So in that way, we're all one.
And then however we experience our lives from those individual perspectives, is why sometimes it's hard to feel that connection. So that first step is really realizing this and that whole thing.
And then that second step is accepting who you are and where you are in that process.
So really respecting that you're having that doubt or maybe that uncomfortability and connecting, right?
And then being grateful for whatever it is that you're experiencing that gratefulness is a vibration and energy that allows us to shift our vibration and energy to be in that connection with ourselves and with our spirit team.
So that's really how it starts to unfold.
It sounds simple.
It's harder to do in practice sometimes.
But when you are loving that part of yourself and respecting that part of your experience, each and every time and every moment it happens, it becomes easier to trust that should be a part of your life.
And then you're able to trust that strength and being able to build that up with your spirit team and your guides and angels become stronger.
And that's also when our intuition starts to perk up and become more fine tuned, right? It's again subtle at first, but then we start to get okay with how we're receiving the information.
So that's a long, winded, detailed answer of like how, but all of it's very important and really it's just recognizing where you are in the process.
And it's simple in a sense, but hard. Like you mentioned some big words like loving yourself and trust, which can be a lifetime of working out things from your past, upbringing, family, relationships, etc.
So, yeah, so simple, but can be done.
And when I say simple, it's like every time it happens, you take that moment to respect where you are in the process and to accept that part of what you're experiencing and who you are.
It can take a lifetime to learn to love yourself.
But if you do it in each moment or as many moments as possible, it builds up and that's when it happens, right?
Yeah.
Okay, what else? Where are we going now?
I know I was thinking my mind is going while you're.
So another question that came in was, as I begin to open up spiritually, how can I manage others negativity and skepticism?
Yeah, so this is a build on from what we were talking about before a little bit, right?
And it's, it's all about setting those healthy energetic boundaries once again, not just with your spirit team, but also with people that are in your life, whether you ask them for their opinion or not, right?
So I always like to say something that's loving, which is, but respectful, which is that your opinion and I respect it, but this is my approach to life.
What I feel in my heart, we don't need to agree, but I do ask that you respect who I am as a human and as a spiritual being.
And it doesn't have to be exactly those words, but the point that you're getting across in a loving way is that that's your opinion.
And, you know, I don't have to agree, but I respect it. You need to respect mine.
They may or may not want to do that, but if you feel that people push back, then that means that, again, they're coming from judgment from a place of fear and doubt themselves, and they're trying to project that on to you, and that's not your problem.
And then to build on that is that you can also ask your spirit team to energetically block anyone's negative energy or thoughts that are sent your way by surrounding you in love and light and diffusing things.
And I share this because sometimes people come into our lives or say things and it's in the moment or it's just a one off, but then there are people that are in our lives that we aren't necessarily going to be able to separate from, right?
Think about it as a spouse or another partner type of relationship, somebody in your family, a coworker, you may not, it might not just be in the moment, it may be repetitive.
So if you feel that constant skepticism or the negative energy towards you, then that's one way is that you can ask your spirit team to help block that.
One time when my mom was alive, she'd come over to my house and I have this kind of wall of books, you know, a small bookshelf.
And she knew I had gone away from the family religion, moved on from that, and she would look at them and I go, what's the matter, mom?
And she said, I kind of think you're going to go to hell.
I'm like, no, no, mom, I'm not going to go.
I don't know. There's a lot of other things in these books that aren't like what we're used to.
I'm like, no, absolutely not.
And she would say, okay, as long as you're okay, I'm okay.
Yeah, right.
She said it in a nice way.
She always said it in a nice way.
Yeah, it can be hard, and tricky, but I think it's all about respecting and, again, having those boundaries.
Okay, here's another question that came up during the conference and I get this all the time.
How do I know if the psychic I'm considering is fake or after my money?
There's a couple documentaries out about people, like reeling people in for hundreds of thousand dollars.
They start off nicely and then ask for more and more money.
How can we handle that situation?
Well, first I'm going to say there's scammers in every industry.
I mean, there's catfishers when you're dating.
There's all kinds of scammers across the board, but I feel like in the psychic community or in the spiritual community,
they tend to just be even more prevalent because they can't hide behind things that aren't always tangible, right?
But I would say also that, first of all, if anyone reaches out to you proactively, they are 99.9% of scammer,
and they're just looking for money.
Period, end of story.
That happens if you're on social media and people send you a message and say, I feel your energy and what have you.
But also, if anyone tries to upsell you during or after a session, then they are more likely just in it for the money.
They're not legit, but their heart is in it for something else other than helping you reach your potential and empowering you.
That's first and foremost.
We've talked about it on the podcast before.
It stinks, but it's out there.
During a session that I'm having with someone, if I feel led to say that you probably need another healing or you need something,
it's not because I'm intentionally trying to get money off of that. That's just what spirit wants me to share, right?
You can't just go to someone and all of a sudden they wave a magic wand and everything's all done.
But it is the job of the practitioner and the person you're going to give you things that you can be doing on your own
to either heal yourself, to empower yourself, to start to learn.
There's, again, a lot of free resources out there.
The podcast is one of them, obviously, but there's books. There's all sorts of things.
I would say to ask, it's also your responsibility when you're talking to someone to ask,
what are some other things that I can be doing and that sort of thing?
There's that.
I would just say, really, ultimately, it's our responsibility as far as making sure if somebody approaches us
and or we're going to someone, whether or not we are going to be giving them our, quote unquote, power away
and to just be eyes open when you are going into this type of thing.
Okay, this message came in from Scott G from New Jersey.
A medium messaged me on Facebook saying they have important information for me from a loved one.
It sounded important, and should I believe them, asking for a friend?
Yeah, well, it goes back to what did I say if somebody reaches out to you and 99% they're a scammer.
I should probably change that to 100%.
But I also say that because it goes back to remember when we talked, if you have a message for someone
and then you just give it to them at random, that's also, there's boundaries there, right?
In terms of, do I want you reading my energy?
Do you have permission to read my energy?
And it's the same thing with these people that are, and I say these people on social media in particular
because the best thing you can do in that instance is honestly, don't even alert the practitioner
that if there's in a personator account or something, there's so much out there right now.
Just don't reply to who contacted you and just report them to whatever social media platform
and block them.
That's the best thing you can do.
And I would say that no, I wouldn't give them any time of day or energy.
All right, and then the final question is a little more serious.
How does free will fit into learning more about my life's path and things that might be predicted to happen to me?
Okay, so there is this, I believe this and I feel it and I know it in my heart to be true,
but also because I've learned about this just over the course of my lifetime
and that there's a universal or spiritual law and that states that we have free will and choice
and we as spiritual beings, we have so many choices.
There are certain things that happen to us or we are designed to experience.
You know, I'm born, for example, I'm born here as a female on this earth in certain things,
but I still have choices that I can make throughout my life.
And that is just part of what God universe gave us.
What that means though is that as you have these choices and I'll give an example,
you know, there are some, a lot of people sometimes that they get predictions
or they have certain things when they go to a practitioner or they may even believe something themselves,
right, in their own minds, but we still always have choices to make.
Example I'll give is there was a mentor that I had when I was starting out more in my actual spiritual practice,
and I was getting my Reiki certification.
I was learning more about how to just take things more seriously.
And she said to me, one time, you know, Nicole, that's, you know, really congratulations that you got this one job
and it was a certain salary that I had wanted to hit at some point.
And she said, I just want you to know you're not going to be getting any more in the next, you know, few years.
You've kind of hit your ceiling and just want you to get okay with that.
And there was a part of me where I was like, okay, this is coming from someone.
I don't believe that's true because I was like listening to my own intuition.
And second of all, I don't accept that.
So what happened was that gave me the motivation to almost have it not happen and to create a different set of circumstances for myself that I intention,
my intention was I am going to make more money.
And not because it was the money part, I wanted that career growth challenge and opportunity, right?
So I changed it. I changed the trajectory.
You can get a reading from someone and they can say, oh, I see X, Y, and Z in your future.
And I've said before, I don't accept that.
And I ask my guides and angels or my higher self to change it.
There are certain things that were destined and were fated to experience.
But at the end of the day, we absolutely have the power and the free will to make different choices
and to ask for additional guidance and support and direction throughout our lives.
That's what they're here for.
Yeah, there's a lot of different theoretical answers to that as well.
I heard recently, and I think it was some of the conversations with God series on Neil Donald Walsh.
And I think he was told that if any major decision, if you come to a major decision in your life,
and you choose one way versus the other way immediately, whatever path you choose,
there's another parallel path that goes on with the choice, the other choice.
And then it gets into multiverses and multiple life paths and things like that.
And you can think yourself into a believer with these things.
But you just have to go kind of what you said, go to the other side.
You just have to go kind of what you said.
You know, go with where your heart is leading you and just go on that path.
And kind of a build on to that too, is I've said this to people because this is what I've been told by Michael
and my guides and angels too, is that when we come here, right, we definitely have a certain design in mind
for what we want to accomplish and where we want to go and how we want to get there.
I don't want to say right or wrong, but there are some ideal scenarios and pathways we can take to get there, right?
Sometimes we make it harder on ourselves versus allowing it to be a little bit more easier and in flow.
And that's part of the choices, right, that we have within that free will.
And so I firmly believe we get to where we need to be because we have that goal, most of us will, right?
We have that goal and we have that drive and that heart, that's part of our purpose.
That's where we feel that things resonate with us so much.
But that goes back to again, the how you get there and those choices that you're offered.
And just when I say those choices, it's really the intention of what you want to experience and how you want to accomplish it.
You also have the free will and choice to decide, you know what, I don't want to suffer anymore.
I don't want to experience these things.
Or my higher self, or I may feel like I should have been doing X, Y, and Z, but I want to change it up and shake it up
now that I'm here on earth.
And you have that ability as well, right?
So just, you know, for example, I had gotten a message that I was supposed to be doing some other things
and a lot more.
And I was like, you know what, I think I'm good now.
Like, I'm going to accomplish what you set out in front of me right now, but I'm good right now because I can't keep taking on more and more and more right now.
It's where I'm at, that level, right?
So again, that's, that's part of our free will and choice.
And so if you have additional questions, feel free to email us, contact at acysticstory.com, that's two S's in the center.
Or you can also leave a voicemail at 1-800-880-1881, that's 1-800-880-1881.
There is a 10-minute limit when you call, but if you want to share more, you can pick back up.
But I also share that number because that's where a lot of people have been submitting stories, angel stories in particular.
We're also looking for stories related to spiritual awakenings or anything else that you would want to share.
And speaking of, if you have a story and you don't want to leave a voicemail, you can also leave the information at acysticstory.com
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And you can submit it that way or also email it to us, which I already shared that.
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There's an option to select book as a check mark, but also you might want to check all the checks because then you'll get all the information.
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Congratulations.
Anything else, Scott, that you want to share?
No, that's it.
Look, a lot of stories we went through today.
Those are fun.
But yeah, they are fun.
And we look forward to keeping it going.
Look forward to hearing from you folks.
And we'll see you next time.
It's one of my favorite parts of the day now is getting a new voicemail and people are sharing an angel story.
I feel like listening to a whole new podcast.
I'm like, who are these people?
And what are their stories?
So thank you for sharing.
All right, Scott.
Well, as always, I appreciate you being on and look forward to talking to you more.
Thank you.
Take care.
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