[00:00:00] You are listening to Women’s Dream Enlightenment. Dream decoding deep discussions and stories of spiritual awakening to inspire your personal enlightened journey. I’m your host, Megan Mary, international bestselling metaphysical author. And founder of Inner Realms Publishing. Let’s bring in the light.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Welcome. Today we have Gwyneth Flack. She is an award-winning author of Limitless Transform Your Life with Intuition and Creativity. She’s a transformational teacher and coach. Passionate about helping people tap into their intuition, align with clear decision making, heal their lives, and cultivate deeper, more fulfilling relationships. Since [00:01:00] 2007, Gwyneth has empowered thousands of professionals through private sessions and courses offering beginner to advanced intuitive development tools to help people thrive and become more grounded in today’s fast-paced world. With the unique ability to bridge the gap between intuition and everyday life, Gwyneth specializes in guiding others to uncover their innate gifts. self-critical thinking and foster a life of harmony and purpose. Her work is rooted in authenticity, laughter, and a deep understanding of the human experience. Gwyneth’s love for spiritual exploration, creativity, and heartfelt connection inspires her mission to help others embrace their limitless potential. Welcome Gwyneth.

Gwyneth Flack: Thank you. It’s great to be on your beautiful podcast.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Thank you. So the first question I’m going to ask you today is, what does [00:02:00] enlightenment mean to you?

Gwyneth Flack: I love that question and to me we’re spiritual beings having a human experience, so how do we embody our spiritual knowledge? In the world in which we live, how do we live it and express it and share it? I think that’s really in so many ways what being enlightened is about and how consciously aware can we be walking around in the world and then continue to.

To practice being what I would call a soul body team, so a lot of times. We might get the impression that we need to go out to find enlightenment, but it’s really how do we become more of a team as the soul [00:03:00] presence we are, or, with our bodies in this world that we live in the more we become a team.

That really to me means that there’s communication happening between the soul and the body. And that’s actually what I love to do as a teacher is help people to get that more communication happening on that soul body level. So it’s not a separate thing where, oh, we have the body and we have the spiritual knowledge, and we have to go here for this one thing and there for this other thing.

It’s really how do we live? And bring the two together in, in a really embodied, unconscious way.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Integration of the two I feel is so important when they are disparate. We develop dis-ease when our body is separated from our soul and we stop paying attention [00:04:00] to the communication between the two, it will tell us, it will make us pay attention. And that’s what so many people discover as a result of that disconnect.

But when we can start to reconnect. Those, the mind, body, and the spirit, we really start your life.

Gwyneth Flack: I completely agree. And when we have that experience of bringing that soul body communication together in an embodied way. We can have those moments where we actually do experience being limitless or, we, we experience our limitlessness and sometimes the way we experience that is through feeling joy or through some kind of deep meditative experience.

But, we know it when we experience it and. And [00:05:00] it, that experience of limitlessness, of having that connection, that soul body connection or teamwork or harmony, really, there’s no words for it exactly, but it definitely brings us deep joy and peace. And and also, it lets us get in touch more deeply with our intuition.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: So I wanna give you a chance to walk the listeners through the path that led you. To this discovery, if it was obviously a series of things, but was there one moment that stood out amongst the others that really you to this?

Gwyneth Flack: That is a really great question. There’s several different really. Important milestones, I would say, or important junctures where I [00:06:00] realized that I had something to offer as a teacher or that I had knowledge that I really wanted to share. But so when I was four years old, I had a near death experience and so that was really, it was.

An amazing experience that I remember really clearly. I had I had been stung by a bee and I had anaphylaxia, and so my breathing started to shut down very rapidly. And my my mom quickly threw me in the car with my sister beside me, and we rushed to the hospital. And I got to the hospital. I had that.

What you might call classic out of body experience where I was up in the corner of the room and I was looking down and I was just in pure awareness and I was looking down going, oh wow. I bring life [00:07:00] to my body. I bring life to my body. And I realized that, that I could stay or go and that I was okay.

What I ident identified in my awareness is like even though my body wasn’t okay, my body. Was having trouble breathing. And I was turning blue and so my body wasn’t okay, but I realized I’m okay. And so I had this experience of neutral awareness just being in pure awareness that everything was actually okay.

And even though if you would ask my mom, of course, she would say, no, everything’s not okay. But for me, everything was okay. And I. And I realized that I, it was very validating experience to me because I realized that I wasn’t just the body and so I came back to my body and everybody was really happy.

But prior to getting stung by the bee and having the [00:08:00] anaphylactic shock and that whole experience, I had actually been walking around in the world going, wait, is the cosmic joke on me? Is this all there is? Because people, I realized people had been just seeing me as the body as a 4-year-old body and at, and that had made me feel very unseen, right?

And we live in a world where so many people do feel unseen. And so I was walking around and people were just treating me as a 4-year-old body. And so really that near-death experience helped me to see very clearly and to not forget, because really what happens is so many of us forget, and then we remember when we get back onto our spiritual path.

Later on we remember, but at that juncture, there was no way I was gonna forget that I really was more than the body. And to me that was a celebration. It was really. It was really wonderful [00:09:00] because, I realized that wow, I could share with people that they are more than just the body, that they have more awareness and more knowledge and more light, whatever you wanna call it, more, way more wisdom than whatever their.

Age is, or whatever their education is or whatever their, background is. We walk around in the world so often not seeing each other beyond the body. And so that was really the first, step, or the, that really laid down a very strong foundation. And then when I was in my twenties, then I started to get into the spiritual work and I did a lot of classes and a lot many years of.

Of training and had other amazing experiences at that point. That helped. But I never planned on teaching, [00:10:00] actually, when I got into the spiritual work, it was just for my own personal growth, my own spiritual growth. ’cause I just really enjoyed it so much. And then people started to ask if I would teach them.

And so I said, oh okay, maybe I’ll just teach one class. And so then I taught one class, and then another group of people said, oh, will you come teach us? And so that’s how I, I never really, thought of myself as a teacher, but that was what I was ended up being called to, to do.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: That is probably the youngest near-death experience that we’ve had on the show as of yet. So that is a very early awakening to all of that. insight and to be able to even remember that young and to carry it through like you said, a gift. And it must have just changed [00:11:00] total way you looked at your place in this earth versus people who’ve never had that kind of experience.

Gwyneth Flack: Yes, definitely.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: In terms of, I wanna talk a little bit about grounding, the concept of grounding. I’ve noticed that’s part of your teachings, and I don’t think focused on it specifically in the episodes, and it’s something at the beginning that. I really struggled with because I thought if I just realized that I’m up here in the corner, why would I wanna ground myself to here? And so I think that’s probably something that people are wondering, what is the purpose of grounding? Why would, why do we do it? What benefit does [00:12:00] it have? And I understand. Of course from a nervous system regulation, very important, but it is also a key piece of that integration that you talked about at the beginning.

Gwyneth Flack: Yes, it really is. Being grounding, being grounded allows us to connect to our senses. Certainly, and I mean our body does, just like you said, in terms of nervous system reset or nervous system communication. Even it, our body does love to be grounded and, but really if we’re grounded in our space we have these beautiful vessels, right?

Our bodies that we can express. Our divine self through, if you will. And so we’re, we are literally of the earth and cosmos, if you think of it that way. And so we’re really meant [00:13:00] to be present in our bodies and present is probably a good, good word to use because when you’re grounded, fully grounded in your body you’re able to be, it’s more, it’s much easier to be in present time.

We talk about, we all talk about present time a lot or being present, and it’s very easy for us to end up out of our bodies. Like for example, if we’ve been driving a car for 15 minutes and we suddenly realize, oh yes, I know this route so well, but I don’t remember the last 15 minutes.

Everybody’s had that experience or being at a meeting where we space out and we just missed something that was important and we have to ask somebody else. And so it’s the same thing when we’re looking for answers, when we’re intuitively looking for answers to those big, questions that we have, what’s my [00:14:00] next career step?

And what’s the next step for healing my body? Or should I move to a whole different state? Or, what’s the best next step for my child? Whatever it might be. How do I get from point A to point B in the most aligned way? In a, all those questions we tend to go out, out of our bodies on feelings and thoughts, we’ll have a thought about this and a feeling about that and.

And a memory that takes us into past time. We go out on a memory. They’re really images in our minds, right? They’re mental image pictures. In our minds, we tend to just go out, but really the answers are. So much easier to access when we just settle, let our, let ourselves settle into our bodies, and then boom, we’re in present time and we’re less likely to go out on all those images in our [00:15:00] minds.

The past experience that’s linked to let’s say even one word, like the word school. We have a thousand different images in our minds. Good experiences, bad experiences. And if we said that, let’s say we’re just trying to make a decision on behalf of our child at school, and we think about that and it’s an, and we know it’s something intuitive.

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Gwyneth Flack: We know we need to access our intuition. For an answer. If we just go out on those pictures, it’s hard to find the answer, but if we ground ourselves, then it’s much, we are [00:17:00] less affected. We’re basically less affected by what’s in the, out outside of Shakespeare’s theater, if you will. If the world is, Shakespeare’s theater, we wanna look out at the, at Shakespeare’s theater, we wanna sit in maybe a beautiful, comfortable chair and watch the world and observe the world and know that, oh, I’m watching a tragedy and oh, I’m watching a comedy, I’m watching a history. Right in, in Shakespeare, there’s the tragedies and the comedies and the histories.

Just like in any movie that we see, or any book or whatever. Being grounded allows us to observe Shakespeare’s theater, if you will, and have a little bit of space to just be embodied and to not react, but rather to have a pause. To respond. And that’s also where our [00:18:00] intuition shows up when we move into a space of observing, that then allows us to respond rather than react, and we become then more neutral.

We’re just, a neutral means we’re not just boom, reacting to everything or going out with every like worry or thought or experience. We’re just allowing ourselves to be, and we give ourselves space to be in that grounded space of the observer. Then we start to be able to more easily and efficiently, I would say, ask for.

First of all, maybe formulate what our questions are because asking, finding what our questions are is always a great space to be in, to then have our answers show up. Because really it’s about ask accessing our own answers, and we have those answers within ourselves. And those answers are different for [00:19:00] each one of us, and that’s why it’s such a beautiful.

Fulfilling kind of thing to access your higher self or your intuition or whatever you call it. Your inner guidance. People have all different words for the same thing but yeah, so it can be then much easier to ask and to receive ’cause really. Being intuitive is a receptive space, and so in Shakespeare’s theater, if you will, where you’re observing and you’re grounded and you’re in your body, then it’s a more receptive space than our going out and doing space.

We are trained from day one. As soon as we start kindergarten, whatever, get this done. Here’s your to-do list. Do. Achieve. And get the grades, and check all the boxes and don’t stop until it’s all done, which means you never can really stop, right? But but yeah, so we’re not taught to receive we’re actually not [00:20:00] taught to create that beautiful, receptive, intuitive space.

In which our intuition or guidance can just so easily show up in that pause that we’ve created for ourselves. And all that can really happen really quickly. So ’cause when we practice it and just decide, yeah, I would like to bring. Bring grounding into my life. And, as a regular practice, it can all happen in the space of a few seconds really as we start to just consciously make that decision that we would like to have that experience, bring it into our lives and practice it.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: I love the Shakespeare analogy. I just remembered that you have an English background and I have the Master’s in English as well and Shakespeare’s one of my favorites ’cause I specialize in british literature. So that being said I really like the analogy and I also like that, that underscored that we do have all the [00:21:00] answers. It’s just a matter of off the chaos to be able to hear them. And part of it is that emotional spiral. That we end up in when something happens and we have to make a decision and we start getting on that hamster wheel of, I do this and if I do this, then, projection and fear and all these things about making the wrong decision and all of that.

And we get up here in that. Spiral and we can’t make grounded decisions or hear the answers to what we should do because we’re freaking out over the situation. I know I find myself that way too, because like you said, the achieve and the productive and the do do.

That’s very much me. And sometimes I overwhelm myself with all the things that I need to do and I can’t make a decision to move [00:22:00] forward. it’s because I’m too f afraid. And then when I accept the fact that, okay. This is actually temporary. This is happening for a reason. I can, lean into this, let this happen one thing at a time, figure it out. Then that grounded, all of a sudden you start to get led in the right direction as opposed to just spinning around in a analysis paralysis. I call it.

Gwyneth Flack: Yeah, that’s such a great description. And the more we the more the sort of analyzing part of ourselves gets wound up and the overthinking part of ourselves gets all wound up. We even have a word for it. We say, oh I’m just really in my head right now. We recognize that. We get in our heads and it’s a, it is an ungrounded.

Space. And then as soon as we create the space to be grounded, it brings us that safety even. It even [00:23:00] creates safety for us to trust ourselves. But yes, and because when we’re young, we’re taught right away to be critical thinkers. And, critical thinking of course is really great, right?

It certainly is important intellectual training, but what happens is the, is that critical mind gets given too much seniority, if you will, within us. And so that, that critical mind ends up. With self-critical thoughts it turns on us because it’s the part of ourselves that breaks everything into little parts, right?

Critical thinking is, in a lot of ways breaking it into little parts and separating it out and analyzing it. And then there’s our spiritual self that’s really. Wants is experiential and wants to be in a state of oneness. And so when we so really it’s a matter of turning down the analyzing part of [00:24:00] ourselves when we don’t need it to be on full.

And so that, and then that does make it easier to get. Get back in our bodies and ground. ’cause you’re right, it’s a, and it’s a very wound up world. So we’re very sensitive. Anybody who is enjoying anybody who is a spiritual person is probably gonna be very empathic and sensitive. And we tend, the other thing that happens is we tend to match the chaos of the world and that gets our overthinking.

Sometimes overly critical mind over analyzing mind more wound up is we match, literally match the energy that we. We see out there in the world. And so there’s also this part of us that needs to unmatch from that so that it’s, and the unmatching is really a way of giving ourselves space amidst all of that.

Because otherwise we just end [00:25:00] up. Absorbing it and we absorb emotions that aren’t even ours, and so that can also make us feel really anxious. It can add to that, those feelings of anxiety and stress. And we absorb these feelings and we absorb emotions and we combine it really with our true feelings.

’cause our true feelings are really important and amazing, and we wanna be able to access those. But we end up with what I’d call mixed emotions. Where we, it’s a little bit of this and it’s a little bit of that. It’s all mixed together in a soup that, we didn’t necessarily. Choose all the ingredients for we didn’t, we, it’s not the right mix.

And so being able to ground ourselves once again, it allows us to release. I think that’s another part to this whole this whole journey of being a spiritual being, having this human experience is knowing how to be able to release and [00:26:00] let go very quickly. And so when we’re out, it’s hard.

We can’t really release anything ’cause where are we releasing it from? But when we’re embodied in our bodies, which is a practice it’s not about being perfect or anything like that. It’s just, a practice. It’s a, it really allows us to let go and release. So release that to-do list or release that whole stressful encounter that we might just have had, in our workplace or with a family member, something like that.

And it, and once we start to release, then we just go, Ugh, that feels much better. It’s like setting down a big, heavy. Backpack that we’ve been carrying around that we didn’t even know how heavy it got. That’s part of it too. We don’t even know how heavy that backpack starts to get. Something else gets loaded on from the world, something else, and we’re like, it’s okay.

I’m strong. I can carry it [00:27:00] all. And then we have that opportunity to become grounded and still and calm and we start to release. We go, oh my gosh. Wow. I have more space. I have more space to be, and that’s a very creative space. When we give ourselves space to be who we are and when we release some of the cares of the world, some of the way of the world, and, it opens up higher levels of creativity for us, which makes us be more excited about life.

Two, more enthusiastic, I would say when we then start to engage with our, whatever our creativity is, creativity in the broadest sense of the word. ’cause we’re creative beings so we can apply our creativity. Absolutely anything. Not just art or whatever,

Megan Mary – MeganMary: yeah, that’s a good quantifier. And I was thinking of a number of things as you were talking in terms of the unmatching. I [00:28:00] haven’t heard somebody describe it that way. And I equate it to that really being the authenticity piece because you are letting go of the things that have almost, let’s just say, gotten stuck on you in the metaphorical way

Gwyneth Flack: Yeah.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: outside that aren’t yours, but that you are wearing around. And you are not being your true self because eventually you’re covered with all the things that are stuck on you from outside. And so the unmatching is almost the shedding of those things. And when you, some people call it hold the light, or when you’re in your alignment with your own authenticity, that is that creative space that is that. It’s a space of even though it can be really scary to get there, [00:29:00] that so much part of the spiritual awakening is getting, releasing the ego, releasing the pressures from the outside world, releasing the definitions that you’ve put upon yourself, whether from other people or from yourself. And then that relief when you don’t have to do those things anymore, when you don’t feel the weight of those things.

Gwyneth Flack: Yeah, and it can be in some ways a little scary at that point because you’re releasing. The old, some of the old identities that yes they never were yours in the first place. They might have been put upon you by all the systems, our family systems and our schooling systems and all of that.

Basically, our. Identities to survive, even if that’s not necessarily true, but that’s how it translates, is have this identity and have that identity to [00:30:00] survive. Here’s the rule book, but it’s not really a rule book that works for us so often, maybe. And then less and less. As we get older, we tend to notice more and more.

That’s not really me, that’s not really working for me. And but a lot of times people sometimes might feel a little scared about opening that, like it’s Pandora’s box or something like that. But even though it’s not, and it’s really can be a very joyful process, especially if you do it slowly and gently for yourself.

Not, don’t approach it like it’s, you know what I mean? It’s not bootcamp, it’s.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: And that leaves me to my next question in parting, what would you say to the audience are some practical ways that they can start to do everything that we’ve been talking about?

Gwyneth Flack: I certainly would recommend buying my book because that has 20 different activities and exercises in it. Limitless, [00:31:00] transform your life with intuition and creativity, and then you can digest it in small pieces. I would certainly also say get, go out in nature and just sit on a rock.

Put your hand on a tree and really just put away the phone for a little while and even sometimes the music, and just let yourself be in the, the natural soundtrack of nature. Just allow yourself to be present and then also just intentionally start to. Align yourself or with your intention?

Just deciding I’m ready to grow in ways that are really healthy for me and I wanna be guided in really healthy, safe, spiritual ways that will help me to take my next steps and just start [00:32:00] to to focus how you would like to take your next steps and that you want to connect more with yourself as a spiritual being and start to greet that and welcome that with enthusiasm, because that always helps.

Don’t take yourself seriously and just bring in a lot of, give yourself a lot of self love. Yeah.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: and I will put your book in the show notes as well as on the Women’s Dream Enlightenment podcast book lists that are

Gwyneth Flack: Thank you.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: bookshop. Dot org. But let everyone know where they can find you as well, if they’d like to look more into what you have to offer.

Gwyneth Flack: One great way to find me is through my website, Gwyneth flack.com. G-W-Y-N-E-T-H-F-L-A-C-K. You can, yeah, finding me. Send me an email through my website. That’s really a [00:33:00] great way. I’m on the socials too, so you can find me on Instagram and Facebook and yeah, I’d love to hear from you if you enjoyed hearing me on this beautiful podcast.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes, let us know in the comments if this resonated with you. We always like to hear from our listeners. Thank you for being here today, Gwyneth, and sharing your experience and the work that you’re doing out in the world.

Gwyneth Flack: Thank you for having me. I really enjoyed speaking with you.

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