Embrace Your Psychic Abilities with Brandi Van

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Women’s Dream Enlightenment | Episode 54

Welcome, dreamers, to the Women’s Dream Enlightenment podcast—where we delve into dream decoding, deep discussions, and spiritual stories of self-discovery. I’m your host, Megan Mary, founder of Women’s Dream Analysis, here to inspire your journey toward enlightenment. Today, I had the pleasure of welcoming Brandi Van to the show. Brandi is a psychic medium mentor dedicated to helping highly sensitive individuals discover and embrace their psychic abilities, empowering them to live authentically.

Discovering Enlightenment and Authenticity

In our chat, I asked Brandi what enlightenment means to her. For Brandi, enlightenment is about having the emotional intelligence to handle life’s challenges while maintaining calmness and a peaceful center. It’s all about rising above difficulties and seeing them as opportunities for growth. This resonates with me, too, as I’ve found that shifting our perspective from “why is this happening to me?” to “what is this teaching me?” can make all the difference.

The Dynamic Dance of Intuition and Reason

Our conversation on the balance between intuition and reason was both enlightening and relatable. I shared how important it is to surrender preconceived notions to truly develop intuition. Meanwhile, Brandi emphasized the value of staying present to recognize signs and guidance from the universe. Together, we acknowledged that balancing intuition and reason allows us to live peacefully, even when life takes unexpected turns.

Understanding the Clair Senses

Brandi and I discussed the intriguing world of clairsentience, clairaudience, clairvoyance, and other psychic senses, known as the “clair senses.” As Brandi described her clairaudient abilities—hearing messages from spirit in thoughts that aren’t her own—I found myself reflecting on my experiences. It reminds me that each of us connects with spirit uniquely, and that’s what makes our journeys so personal and profound.

Dreams: The Gateway to Subtle Awareness

We also touched upon the powerful role dreams play in enhancing psychic abilities. Personally, I’ve found dreams to be a gateway into subtle realms of awareness, helping to uncover one’s psychic potential. By recording my dreams and emotions before and after sleep, I’ve built a bridge between my conscious and subconscious mind, enriching my psychic journey.

Debunking Myths About Psychic Abilities

Together, we debunked some common myths about psychic abilities, such as the notion that one must be born with these gifts or that they’re inherently frightening. Brandi reassured listeners, sharing that psychic skills can be cultivated at any point in life. With the right mentorship and understanding of energy protection, she believes there’s nothing to fear from the spiritual realm.

Mediumship vs. Psychic Abilities

Another essential part of our discussion was about distinguishing mediumship from psychic abilities. I’ve learned, as Brandi explained, that while every medium is psychic, not all psychics are mediums. Understanding mediumship’s capacity to communicate with the deceased, versus a psychic’s connection to guardian angels and spirit guides, helps us recognize our spiritual experiences with clarity and openness.

Brandi’s Personal Journey

Brandi shared her personal story—one that deeply resonated with me. Overcoming childhood fears to embrace her gifts, she narrated a profound spiritual experience during her grandmother’s passing. Her journey highlights the importance of mentorship and validation in developing psychic abilities, something I’ve cherished in my path as well.

Conclusion

In a world often dominated by skepticism, Brandi and I offer a fresh perspective on the legitimacy and transformative power of psychic abilities. Embracing our spiritual selves has led to lives filled with purpose, alignment, and authenticity. Whether just beginning this exploration or already diving deep, I encourage you, dear listeners, to unlock the mysteries of your consciousness and embrace your own inner gifts.

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[amy robeson: Women’s Dream Enlightenment Guest Recording Session

Megan Mary – MeganMary: [00:00:00] Welcome! Today we have Amy Robison, Akashic Record Master Teacher Healer and Founder of Sacred Awakening. She empowers individuals through her powerful Akashic Records program to tap into their inner potential for transformation by cultivating curiosity to live their best lives. Amy speaks light codes and light language, plus she shows you how to be courageous enough to walk your divine path. Welcome, Amy.

Amy Robeson: Thanks for having me. I’m excited to be here.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Oh, it’s wonderful to have you here. And there’s so many things that we’re going to talk about today. I’m really excited for our conversation.

Amy Robeson: Me too.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: So I’m going to ask you the first question that I ask everybody. And that is, what does enlightenment mean to you?

Amy Robeson: That’s a good question. So enlightenment means to me is to enter into light. So you’re embarking on this journey of [00:01:00] embracing all the dark parts of yourself and healing them throughout your lifetime. So it’s like you’re bringing yourself into light because we were both equally light and dark.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes. And that’s true. It’s important to not discard the darkness. A lot of people think, Oh, we need to dispel the darkness. We need to get rid of our shadow, but we really have to embrace them both. We have to integrate them into that wholeness rather than discarding or trying to push away that darkness.

So I think that’s important.

Amy Robeson: Yeah, I, I agree. It’s this radical honesty with ourselves. And when it comes to enlightenment too, it’s a self discovery journey. Like when you are discovering something new about yourself, either good, bad or neutral, it allows you to have an understanding of where your frequency is vibrating at. [00:02:00] And do you want to vibrate at that frequency or do you want something different?

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes, and I’d love for you to talk a little bit with the listeners about your journey. And how you came to discover all of these things that we’re going to talk about today, we’re going to talk about light language and Akashic records and spirit guides and crystalline energy and all these amazing things, but how did you discover all of this yourself?

Amy Robeson: It, was because I was in a dark place. So I was in a place where I didn’t want to be here anymore. And I started receiving intuitive downloads. At the time, I didn’t have that languaging. And I just kept hearing go to hot yoga. I’m like, I don’t even know what that is. But I looked it up finally one day and there was a brand new Bikram studio.

Down the road from my house. And I was like, okay, I’ll go check this out. And when I went, it was like the first time, in a very long time that I just felt. [00:03:00] happy and at peace and in my body and I didn’t feel like I was disassociating. And that one step led me to the next step, led me to the next step, led me to the next step.

And I’m a big believer. Just follow the energy that your heart is guiding you to say yes to, and you will be taken down paths. You’ve never imagined that you would be taken down. That is for the better of your soul. And so from that place, I started having this desire to learn how to meditate and I moved I, I’m from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and I moved to Charleston, South Carolina to be with my now husband.

And when I moved there yoga got taken away from me because I got injured. I cracked my tailbone for the second time in my life. And so I was in constant chronic pain and I was depressed. I was homesick. I didn’t have my usual schedule. I was going through an identity crisis. I was definitely going through a dark night of the soul.

And I just. [00:04:00] I didn’t know what to do. And so I sat down and I was like, what are the things that I’ve been wanting to do that I’ve been putting off? And that was to learn how to meditate and to do dream interpretation. And I know you’re really into dreams as well. And because at the time I was having nightmares for years and years of people killing me.

And so I wanted to understand what my dreams meant, because I’ve had prophecy dreams since I was a little kid. And so I wanted to have a better understanding of that landscape and what my subconscious was trying to tell me or where I was at in my dreams. And so I found my first teacher and my first teacher had channeling abilities like Edgar Casey, she was a trans medium and she would do these life soul readings.

And at the end of that reading, I was telling her how I wanted to learn how to meditate and how I wanted to learn how to do dream interpretation. And it was literally everything she taught. She taught people how [00:05:00] to do these things. And so that led me down this path of. Discovering healing abilities and the Akashic records and it just one thing would lead into the other, lead into the other.

And now I’m here talking to you. It’s just insane. Like, it’s insane. What one decision can make on your entire life.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yeah, I love that journey. I’ve also injured my tailbone, so I know how horrible that can be. And yes, and I used to do Bikrama yoga a lot, a long time ago, so I also know how freeing that can be. So yes, and meditation actually was one of the doorways that got me into my whole spiritual remembering as well.

Amy Robeson: That’s awesome.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yeah, it really was what Call was called for at the time that seemed to quiet my mind enough to let that, that information start coming through. Like you said, those downloads and the directives because they were a lot of directives and [00:06:00] they were pretty emphatic. Like, you have to do this and you have to do it now and you better hurry.

That was really how

mine

Amy Robeson: taking you out the door.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: It was just, it was like, it wasn’t like you have a choice and it wasn’t like when you’re ready. It was like, oh, no, go, go, go, go, go.

Amy Robeson: Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. For, me, meditation killed my chronic pain. I was able to get off pain pills within a month, a month and a half, because it was so long. I don’t remember the exact amount of time, but within a month and a half, I was no longer limping. I limped for over a year.

I was in chronic pain for over a year because it was the second time I cracked my tailbone. It wasn’t the first time it was the second time. So, and when you’re in pain, you get just sucked into the tornado of pain and it consumes you when you don’t have an outlet for it.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes, absolutely. It’s so distracting. It’s all your brain can focus on and it’s, you can’t think of anything else but that pain. I also have [00:07:00] had chronic pain, and I know exactly what that’s like. I’ve had some guests on that have talked about overcoming chronic pain with meditation. And it’s very powerful, the power of the mind.

And people don’t necessarily give it enough credence, I think, particularly in the medical field, because they throw medications at it. And yes, sometimes you need those in the short term, but. At least in my journey, you find out in the long term that you actually have to really bring your mind into that healing scenario that you can’t just address what’s going on in the body without addressing what’s going on in the mind.

Amy Robeson: Yeah, absolutely. And the, the thing about pain is most pain is emotional pain. You are experiencing it physically, but when you work on the emotional components of it, you can untangle some of the mess with it as well. And then there is pain. Physical pain. So we’re not like discounting physical pain, because if you break your ankle, you crack your tailbone, you [00:08:00] fracture something, you go through a medical procedure, there’s real pain, physical pain there, but there’s emotional components as well.

Just like I had a friend that had a hysterectomy, but she was still having pains down there. I’m like, you got to work on the emotional component of it. Cause if you don’t, you’re going to have those phantom pain still there that is causing you, your body signaling your, your soul is signaling. There’s something here that’s been buried in the past.

That’s time for you to take a look at.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes. And that’s how dreams work too, isn’t it? They signal to you, Hey, there’s something buried here that we need to uncover, that we need to bring to the fore and that you might not be a top of mind. It might not be something you think. Even consciously know are aware of,

but once you start to decode that language and you start to understand the messages that it’s sending you, you realize, oh, yeah, okay, I do.

[00:09:00] I need to do something about that.

Amy Robeson: definitely.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: So talk a little bit about activating our DNA.

Amy Robeson: So we have trillions and trillions and trillions of cells in our body. And when our consciousness fell, there were some dark forces that place certain seals upon us to make us forget to not allow us to connect to our unconditional love to access our dream states to their fullest capacity to feel that we might be punished for our sins.

This is called like the wrath of God or God guilt. And there’s many things that were placed upon our DNA and we have the ability to activate our DNA and restructure our DNA. We have, I believe, over 13 trillion cells in our body. Majority of those have DNA strands. And don’t quote me on the exact number because I [00:10:00] can’t remember and I haven’t looked it up in a while, but we have trillions and with that it’s, we take our lifetime to activate our DNA and so we can activate our DNA through spiritual practices, through experiences, through meditation.

And we can also go in and purposely activate the DNA. And this is where I come in and I’ll I do it inside of the Akashic Records. We activate a certain amount of strands of DNA and within that particular activation, because we don’t want to activate all of our strands all at once. One, we wouldn’t be able to handle the frequency or the energy.

We would have a massive identity crisis and it’s just not good, but we can go in and we can activate a certain amount and depending on what DNA is activated at that time will depend on what experience you get to have with that activation around where The last activation round I did, like I had a massive, massive shift in my light [00:11:00] language and my channeling with the light language and my understanding of light language.

And then there’s times where you’re accessing new gifts, or there’s times where you’re letting go of old patterns or beliefs, or it could be working on some sort of health issue a disease within your body. And so it just depends on you and what’s being activated and what serves the highest good at that moment in time, because it meets you where you’re at in that particular time.

And so it’s really neat because I’ve had students that are like , I’m downloading this new knowledge that’s very esoteric that no one’s taught me and I’m looking it up and it’s like very on point with other concepts.

And so it’s, it’s really neat when it happens because I never know what’s going to happen for each student because it’s, I’m not picking what’s going to happen. It’s their soul. That’s picking what’s going to happen and what serves the highest good at that time. And [00:12:00] we want to work on our DNA throughout our lifetime.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: That’s so interesting. And how does that tie in with activating the crystalline energy?

Amy Robeson: There’s like a through line for me in all of my work. I, I use crystalline energy and DNA activations. I use it in all my healings and meditations and downloads. And I teach the Akashic records. How do people, how. To open your Akashic records using crystalline energy and so crystalline energy and light language and the Akashic records are all are my 3 through lines for everything.

Those are 3 tools that I’m constantly utilizing and we’re carbon based beings. We’re moving to a crystalline being. And so with that, we want to work with the crystalline energy. To assist in shifting our frequency and up leveling our frequency we have tons and tons and tons of crystalline energy within the earth.[00:13:00]

And just like if you go to Arkansas, it’s in the riverbeds, it’s in the water. And we can access that and. They want to support us. They want to connect with us and they want to assist us. And I’m going to use this blanket term like X, Y, Z, depending on what it is you’re working on, there’s a crystalline energy that can support that.

So if you’re wanting to get better sleep or you’re wanting to amplify your intuition, or if you’re wanting to get more heart centered, or if you’re wanting to heal your emotional body, or if you’re wanting to balance your root chakra, there is a crystalline energy that can support you and bringing that into balance or support you in coming into that frequency.

Cause at the end of the day, we’re all frequency.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes, absolutely. And that’s why sound frequency is so powerful

Amy Robeson: Yeah, absolutely.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: There’s so many ways to help raise our vibration. I think a lot of these healing modalities really just work in that method that they really help us to move [00:14:00] out the old energy, bring in that new energy and keep us vibrating at that higher level that allows us to tap into that spiritual intelligence, allows us to connect with that greater source that has all that information for us that we have been separated from, detached from, or we just kind of decided not to listen to anymore.

Amy Robeson: Yeah. And the, the cool part is, is you get to choose your path. If there’s a tool that doesn’t resonate with you, then don’t, don’t utilize that tool. That tool is not the end all, be all tool. It’s what tools work for you and what do you really connect with? Because just like with meditation. That’s a, generic form of saying, to go within, right.

But there’s different types of meditation and not every type you’re going to resonate with. The main thing is to [00:15:00] utilize that tool in a way that resonates with you. And for, me these are the tools that I really enjoy that have really changed my life. And I’ve seen other people’s life gets changed by that, but.

It’s not a tool for every single person. And, like, just where you were talking about sound healing, like, light language. Is one form of sound healing because you’re making sounds and every sound or tone holds paragraphs of information that your higher self completely understands, even if your mind doesn’t understand what it means, but your higher self completely understands how to utilize that cosmic language of your soul to support you in healing.

And not everyone’s light language is or. You as well. So it’s like you got to be really you have to use a lot of discernment to [00:16:00] understand does that align with my path in this moment in time, because not everything that everybody shares and it can be good, bad or good. Neutral, not everything that everybody’s sharing at any given time is in alignment with you.

They could be offering something so awesome. That’s so high vibe, but it’s not in alignment with the frequency in which you are moving into, and it can really distort some things. And so this is the spiritual practice of discernment is so important on our path because. You have to understand that you are solely responsible for your enlightened path.

You are solely responsible for your awakening. And when you understand like, Oh, that person’s offering this, will this help me hold full time? If it does, and it’s in alignment, perfect. If it doesn’t, or it didn’t work for you, Ask why and there has to be some [00:17:00] form of accountability on your own and on why it didn’t work.

And if the teacher showed up and did everything they were supposed to do that, they promised if it didn’t work, why, why didn’t work? And, or if it did, why did it work? Because what did you do to allow it to work? Because a healer, and I consider myself a healer, I’m not healing anybody. I’m showing up with a particular frequency for my clients to meet, and they are the ones that open the door to allow that frequency to meet them where they’re at, so they can raise their frequency.

They are the ones that are healing themselves. And they are their own guru. They are their own answer to in which they are seeking whatever it is that they are seeking freedom from or enlightenment or healing or whatever it, it may be.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: I agree with that a hundred percent, especially with the dream work that I do. It’s not [00:18:00] something that you really can sell per se. It’s something that someone has to find and be drawn to you because of your vibration and know that you have a way that you can help them help themselves because The way that I work with it.

I don’t put a on a person. I don’t say, well, this is what it is. I help them draw out the meaning for themselves. Someone called me a midwife of dreams. And that’s, that’s kind of how I. Look at it that I’m just the guide. I’m just the assistant and that they’re really the ones doing the work.

They’re the ones finding me. They’re the ones being willing to do that work. And I’m, I’m glad you also brought up the light language because that is something I really want to talk about today. You’re the first guest that I’ve had on that is really focusing on that. And I, I like what you said about, not all of it being right for everyone, because when I first discovered it, of course, it was [00:19:00] fated.

And what I heard just shot up my chakras, just all of a sudden I was like, whoa. And I was like, this is so powerful. This is so amazing. And then when I went to listen to a few others, I was like, okay, that’s not the same. And I wouldn’t have known that at the first experience. I would have thought, oh, it’s all like this.

Amy Robeson: No. And so language assists with bringing someone out of a trance. We are in many different trances in our life. And what it does is it speaks higher self to higher self. It’s a cosmic language of your soul. And what the channeler is doing, the light language person is doing, either they’re speaking it, signing it, moving with it or writing with it. And so with these different forms of light language. We’re tuning into a particular radio station that where we’re [00:20:00] channeling information from not every radio station for this channel is of light and so in some people knowingly or unknowingly are channeling something that they shouldn’t be channeling.

Or have someone that’s channeling this high vibrational light, but it is not a frequency match for your soul’s evolution at that particular moment in time. It might be at some point in your journey, or it might not be. And so everybody’s frequency is matched and what your higher self and your physical body experiences, because it’s also really important to understand that your physical body has to hold the frequency.

And if your physical body. Is not in a place to [00:21:00] hold it, or it’s just a complete frequency mismatch, because you might have this super high vibrational frequency you’re listening to someone that’s channeling, it might not be. darkness, but it’s a lower vibrational frequency than what you are vibrating at, it’s going to be a mismatch.

And so it’s really important to use discernment when it comes to connecting with someone that is speaking light language. And my guides, They told me I was going to start speaking it publicly and I’m like, no, I’m not doing that. I don’t want to do that. And they’re like, no, it’s, it’s really an alignment with your path and get comfortable with it.

And I’m like, I don’t want to do that. Please don’t like, I don’t I was really resistant because it’s super weird. Like, I’m the 1st 1 to admit it and I sneak it it’s very, very, very weird. And but it’s fun. It’s so much fun. And [00:22:00] once I started doing it, I was like, okay, I understand it. And then I remembered, oh, I used to do this when I was a kid, I used to speak light language when I was a kid, my sister and I would have this, our own language that we would speak to each other and, and we knew exactly what, what we meant.

And once I started speaking, I was like, okay, I get it. Oh, I remember now. Okay. Totally remember now. And so I have been speaking my language, I think since like 2000 as an adult since 2018. And it’s like, again, I still think it’s weird. And it’s funny because anybody that I, that I’ve worked with, they’re like, we can’t get enough of it.

Like, it’s just something that. Just changes what is being channeled because there aren’t human words that we can put in to articulation that wants to be [00:23:00] shared because it’s a frequency that’s being shared and we can describe the essence of it, but still we cannot put it into human words. What is fully.

Transcribed Being shared. And I think it’s just really neat, like super, super neat. Mm hmm. Mm

Megan Mary – MeganMary: it’s like trying to describe to someone that can’t hear what a song sounds like. It’s very difficult to put into words. something auditory. And I know myself when, when mine was activated, it really came in the form of song, but it was almost like it was self soothing is the best way I can

describe it.

Because when you hear others that are on your frequency speak it, it’s incredibly soothing.

It just takes you immediately to this other level and you get lost in it. And it’s like being held. I don’t know. I can’t describe how it [00:24:00] feels to me, but, for myself, it felt like I was doing that for myself.

Amy Robeson: Yeah, absolutely. And some people, it’s like one of my friends, he described it the best to me. I was doing a healing and he’s like, I was dozing off. And the second you started speaking, it was like my higher self was like, Hey, you know what? Listen, pay attention. This is important. And so, like, it snaps me into this new reality of wanting to receive.

And so, to me, it’s really fascinating. And the more that I utilize the tool and the more that I have more open discussions about it, The deeper my practice goes and my deeper the understanding goes as well, but I just, to me, it’s like. It’s such a weird thing, but it’s our birthright to speak it.

It’s our birthright to perform it. And some people are more comfortable [00:25:00] drawing. Some people are more comfortable moving with it. And some people are comfortable speaking with it. So it just depends on the student of the practice. What they’re drawn to. And with my light language, magic students, , it’s always fun every round because some of them are like, yeah, I really like doing the movement, but I, I’m really scared to do the sound.

And so we go back and forth on what we’re doing and how we’re doing it. Cause all of the forms are important because sometimes people need to move with it to get really in their body. Well, others they might not be used to speaking up. So speaking, it’s really powerful to have that to assist you in speaking your truth and honoring your truth.

And then well, well, written takes you into this really deep vortex of knowledge with it. And so everybody has a different form on what they’re. Gravitate towards and some some sing it some sound like a foreign [00:26:00] language and some it’s toning.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Right. And what would you suggest in terms of discerning whether it’s for you or not? For me, I would just say you’ll know immediately because it’s kind of like if you get in the car and there’s a song blasting and it’s, you don’t want to hear it. It’s not on your vibe, quote unquote, and you know right away, but are there other levels to that? Yeah.

Amy Robeson: So it depends on how people receive. So to me, it sounds like you have very strong clear cognizant, which is a clear knowing. And so someone might. a feeling where it’s like a gut feeling of like, no, I don’t like that or it might be a feeling of like expansion while another person might hear a yes or no, or feel a yes or no in their body, or it might have a particular taste or smell to it, or you [00:27:00] might see a sign that it’s a yes or no.

Or no for you. And so it’s really understanding how you receive information through your intuition. , if you ever got that gut feeling and that you were like, I shouldn’t have done that after you did it, even though you got the gut feeling beforehand, that right there gives you an idea of like, Oh, that’s kind of how I receive.

And I should have listened to my intuition at that moment in time. And so it’s important to not glamorize intuition, but utilize intuition in a way that allows you to fully understand how you’re receiving. And that’s where doing things in meditation or doing with the, Akashic records or anything that allows you to really utilize your intuition.

So you understand, how you receive is helpful.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes, I was just having a conversation online yesterday with another woman that she had gone into a bookstore and she had touched a particular book and started getting a [00:28:00] ringing in her ear. And, and she was wondering if she was, receiving some information. And I was like yeah, you are. Cause that’s definitely, I mean, I have so many of the Claire’s, but that’s another one is Claire, Claire audience for sure.

And everyone has all of them, but everyone starts out with certain ones being stronger.

Amy Robeson: that’s more, yeah, one’s just stronger. and if you’re an empath, typically you have a very clear knowing. Like, that’s the strongest Clare. Like, you identify as an empath, like, that’s usually typically the strongest Clare.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: In so many ways that dream state for me comprises all of those clairsenses, because it’s, it’s I have this space where I, that I call the middle world and , I get middle messages and they’re basically when I’m going from that dream state to that waking state and I like to hang out in there as much as possible.

And I know there’s famous inventors that used to actually try to induce that state over and over again so that they could

stay in that state.[00:29:00]

Amy Robeson: yeah. That’s cool. Would you consider that like lucid dreaming then if you’re

Megan Mary – MeganMary: No, it’s because it’s not actually dreaming. it’s transitioning from theta to beta, so

it’s this weird half half

Amy Robeson: I got what you mean. I know exactly

Megan Mary – MeganMary: where I’m not actually controlling it, I’m receiving,

Amy Robeson: But you’re aware that you’re there to some degree?

Megan Mary – MeganMary: but you don’t have all the faculties of judgment ready. So what you’re receiving if you’re trying to, if you’re trying to analyze whether you’re going to write it down or not, which is what I do a lot I’ll say, Oh, well, it’s just this.

I don’t need to write it down. And then as soon as I wake up, I go, wait a minute. What was that? Oh, I should have written it down because it’s very much then once you have all your faculties and then you go, Oh, okay. Okay. That was something major. And so

that’s why I constantly, constantly writing down everything I receive, whether it makes sense to me at the moment or not, because it’s really that, that space is where I get the most information, it seems. [00:30:00] But I would love if you would be willing to, if you would like to communicate a light Language message to the audience in closing today. I’m sure that they would really enjoy that.

Amy Robeson: Yeah, so we can do like a little mini healing transmission because the way that I use it is just within healings. So is there something you are working on right now that you would like support with?

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes. Well, my debut novel is about to come out. So it’s definitely something that I’m working on and just really charging out into the world and bringing everyone that needs to receive it in.

Amy Robeson: Okay, perfect. So we’ll do something with the fear of the unknown. So just letting go of the fear of the unknown. So we’ll just kind of make that the first thing I heard when you said that with your book coming out, which I’m really excited for your book to come out.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Awesome.

Amy Robeson: Okay. [00:31:00] So please do not drive or operate heavy machinery.

I know that sometimes people take that as a joke, but it’s a very serious comment because some people do fall into a deep trance while these transmissions and so don’t drive, you can come back to this later or operate heavy machinery. And wherever you are in a safe place, you can go ahead and close your eyes, bring your awareness into your heart space.

And just receive a breath, taking a nice deep breath in through the nose, cleansing breath out through the mouth, yourself permission to ground down into mother earth. Another nice deep breath in, cleansing breath out, allowing your grounding cord to root into Gaia, Mother Earth’s heart chakra. So your grounding cord is going to go to the core of the earth, which is a crystalline ball of energy.

You’re just going to plug into Mother Earth’s heart [00:32:00] chakra. You’re going to receive a breath, pulling her energy up into you, allowing her to love on you, hold you, and cradle you. And then you’re going to feel the crown of your head stretch up towards the great central sun.

And you’ll take an inhale. And on the exhale, you’ll feel the great I am creation, God, universe, whatever sacred title you give that being just wrap its arms around you and hold you. And then I want you to sense, feel, see, or imagine that in the center of your heart space where you sit, There’s this beautiful green emerald energy that’s surrounding you, and as it surrounds you, it lifts you up out of your heart space and brings you across all space and time where you land in a beautiful place in nature.

It is [00:33:00] the perfect time of day and the perfect temperature. You’re going to notice that there is a bonfire nearby and a body of water. You’re going to make your way over to the bonfire first. And as you stand before the bonfire, you’ll notice sense for. You’ll see or imagine that there’s a beautiful violet flame and then it’s the yellows and the orange and the reds within the flame as well.

And as you’re staring at this flame, you’re being invited to let go of any fear. Any habits or patterns or beliefs that are no longer serving you from

from a place of continuity with your aligned path. And so what [00:34:00] that means is you’re letting go of fear of the unknown. So whatever’s holding you back. From stepping onto your aligned path, we’re going to let that go. And so you’re going to step into the flame. And as you step into the flame, the violet flame, the oranges, the reds are going to engulf you.

You are safe. You are safe. You are safe. And you’re just going to dance within this sacred flame. And as you’re dancing, you’re going to start releasing and the flame and this beautiful element is going to. Full and transform anything that’s no longer serving you.

And I want you to really stomp your feet into the flames, and as you stop your feet into the flames, there’s gonna be like this. Energy and it could be like [00:35:00] sludge or oil or dense energy or even flakes that are just like falling off of your body and being and what’s being extracted are these fears of the unknown, these beliefs, these patternings that may be from your soul lineage or your ancestral lineage.

It’s being cleared across all space and time portals and dimensions seen unseen known unknown. And I want you to just breathe. And as you’re breathing, I want you to give yourself permission to just surrender because the flame itself does not destroy. It transforms.

Through through. And then there the flame is gonna help remove protection mechanisms from the heart [00:36:00] system.

And you’re gonna take one nice deep breath and cleansing breath, and you’re gonna just stomp into the fire. And this is gonna send shock waves into your aligned path, letting the universe know that you are ready to take the steps. On your aligned path with a place of empowerment from a place of gratitude and most importantly from a place of non fear because you’re entering into a path of unknown territory that is powerful and magnificent and you have the ability to create what your soul desires for you to create.

At a very successful level, and once you just take a nice deep breath in a cleansing breath out, and there’s going to be three crystalline energies that are going to come in to support you in aligning with this beautiful path. [00:37:00] Emerald rose quartz.

and green tourmaline.

And when you’re ready, you’re going to step out of the flame and you’re going to jump into the body of water that is infused with crystalline energy. And it’s going to act as an elixir for your soul. And it’s going to bring in beautiful messages from your team, from your high vibrational team, which is creation, God, universe, and any of your Master’s teachers and loved ones that serve your highest good.

It’s going to bring downloads in and these downloads are going to be messages that you’ll receive at a later date, and you might receive a message right here. And if you don’t, that’s okay. But I want you to just open your heart to receive that. I see what a hot [00:38:00] hot. There’ll be a moment of silence while this downloads.

And then when you’re ready, you’re going to take another nice, deep breath in. Cleansing breath out, feeling your energy drop back into your heart space. Another nice, deep breath in. Cleansing breath out,

wiggling your fingers and your toes, bowing your chin in towards your chest, blinking your eyes open whenever you are ready.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Thank you so much, Amy. That was amazing. I really enjoyed that.

Amy Robeson: Awesome. Well, I, I wish you the best of luck with your book launch.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Oh, thank you so much. I really appreciate [00:39:00] that. And I know you’re a big audiobook fan, so I will definitely let you know when that’s ready.

Amy Robeson: Awesome.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes. Yes. Well, thank you so much for being here today. Tell everyone where they can find you.

Amy Robeson: Yeah, you can go to theamyrobeson.com. That’s t h e a m y r o e as in boy is an edward s as in susan o n And if you put it in backslash free, there’s, we have 20 plus free healings on our website called sacred gifts. We have I have a weekly podcast that’s called awakening with Amy Robison. So there’s all sorts of different places you can find me.

So thanks for having me.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Oh, absolutely. Thank you so much for being here. And I just really, really appreciate all that you do and for sharing it with us today.

Amy Robeson: Yeah. Thank you so much.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Thank you.

Transcript

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[00:00:00] You’re listening to Women’s Dream Enlightenment. Dream decoding, deep discussions, and spiritual stories of self discovery to inspire your personal enlightened journey. I’m your host, Megan Mary, founder of Women’s Dream Analysis. Let’s bring in the light.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Welcome, today we have Brandi Van. She is a psychic medium mentor who helps highly sensitive people discover their unique psychic gifts so they can empower themselves to live their life authentically. Brandy’s passion is to help people to discover their psychic abilities so they can fulfill their higher purpose to help others live with intention in their interactions.

and listen to their [00:01:00] intuition. Brandy knows how alone and lost it can feel when you have abilities and no one to turn to, and has made it her mission to help you develop your gifts so you can live your most authentic life. Welcome, Brandy.

Brandi Van: Thanks so much for having me today. I appreciate it.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes, this I love that introduction and I love how it emphasizes authenticity because those are really my pillars of that authenticity to gain that alignment to come into abundance. with your purpose. So I’m really excited for our conversation today and really for the listeners to hear your story too.

So my first question is what I ask everybody and that is, what does enlightenment mean to you?

Brandi Van: Enlightenment to me, I would say, is when you feel like even if a challenge comes to you, you can handle it. You have the [00:02:00] emotional intelligence to be able to get through any situation so that you’re always like calm, centered, at peace, and grounded. So I think that’s enlightenment for me is whenever you can just kind of rise above and.

Look how we’re all connected and say, like, even though I’m going through this, what is this teaching me? When am I learning from this? Instead of letting it basically, bring you down. So when you can just kind of rise above.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Right. So perspective, why is this happening for me instead of to me, all those types of reversals in the mindset, right?

Brandi Van: Yes, absolutely. Absolutely.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: and that’s really important, when we’re working on developing our intuition as well, because we have to open that doorway, set aside a lot of preconceived notions.

and essentially surrender to what is being offered to us that we might dismiss [00:03:00] otherwise.

Brandi Van: I definitely agree. And if you’re not living in the moment, and if you’re not paying attention to signs around you and how the universe is interacting with you, then you are going to miss out on that. So, it’s very important, I think, to become spiritual and to recognize those signs. So that you know that you’re on the right path, and so that you can become at peace.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes, one of the things I look forward to each day actually is, how am I going to get led Today, and how is it preparing for the fact that it’s not going to be what I think right so you have your list of what you’re going to do, and you start to do that, and then you get pulled over here, and then you get distracted over here, and I feel like that’s okay.

I feel like it’s important to allow that distraction and that pull because you can set out with your plan, but you have to be open to going down this rabbit hole when you weren’t planning on it and you were supposed to be doing [00:04:00] something else. Because I think when you do that, that’s when the domino effect of the synchronicity starts to happen.

Brandi Van: Yeah, and I love that you said you’re supposed to be doing this instead, right? So it’s like, even though in your mind you think this is what I’m supposed to be doing, then the universe throws something at you that really you’re supposed to be doing, so. And you know, it’s okay if those aren’t congruent. So, like you said, you can always do those things tomorrow.

But as long as you’re looking out for them and that you’re okay with it, it’s not like you’re getting frustrated or stressed that it didn’t go the way it was supposed to because that’s life, right? And so we need to be okay with those challenges that come up.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes, absolutely. And that’s a, Daily practice. I always talk about you can talk about these idealist notions of how you’re going to approach the world, but you have to reset and practice that every single time. It seems every single day, every single [00:05:00] time because you have your right brain and your left brain and they’re, they’re arguing for that top spot.

And one is like, no, we said we were going to do this today. And the other is like, but this, we just saw this, we just came across this person. We just heard this interesting thing. And so I mean, obviously you got to get your work done and stuff, but I think it’s important to be.

And

Brandi Van: and allow yourself to let go also, just let it go and but let it guide you, So that you don’t always have to be in control. That is the left side of the brain It always wants to have that control and it is always that battle going on between the left and right side of the brain So I totally understand that And they can work together, So you just kind of have to quiet the left side down say let the right side come in or you know And let your heart come in or whatever’s being thrown at you and kind of let them work together versus [00:06:00] one always winning, I guess.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: when we’re developing our intuition, it’s important to give it space and breathing room, but it’s also a delicate balance learning. How do we with intuition and the reason? How do the two things work together in a way that they are benefiting us and not challenging each other?

Brandi Van: Yes, and that’s a hard battle, because, the left side, your ego really wants to always be in control, keep you in that comfort zone wants to keep you safe, which is a good thing, right, like, of course, we want to have it there, but then the right side of the brain comes in and says, no, I want to listen to my heart and my soul, and I want to be, led by my inner guidance, and the left side of the brain doesn’t like that, it wants to always have that ration and that, those facts, right.

And so it’s a beautiful thing when they can work together, say, Hey, like, you know, let’s say you go to a doctor and they’re giving you medical advice. You want to [00:07:00] listen to that. You want to listen to that left, left side of the brain. But, you know, maybe there’s a situation where, even though there are no facts, you just need to kind of let go and believe in it.

I think that the ego or the left side of the brain is like having a good friend, but they’re giving you bad advice today, so like you don’t want to completely get rid of them. They are a great friend. They are trying to help you, but maybe just in this instance, I’m just gonna not take your advice today and I’m going to go with what my intuition says.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes. And I was listening to a meditation this morning that said that almost in a nutshell, but it was about fear it was about how fear is a companion with us through our lives and it’s there for a reason, but sometimes we don’t need its advice. Sometimes it really stops us it puts blocks and in the way of things that don’t need to be there, there are unnecessary fears, I guess, making that differentiation between reason to be fearful and you’re [00:08:00] just worrisome, right?

And you’re projecting. And so it’s an agreement, I think, where you’re saying, okay, I really appreciate you, you being there for me. I know you have my best intent in mind, but this time I need you to back down a little bit because this is actually something that could be good for me, right?

If you weren’t so fearful,

Brandi Van: Yeah. And the fear and worry and anxiety that is all part of that left side. So whenever you do have those ruminating thoughts or, you get that those anxious moments, that’s when you have to really look at it and say, is this something to actually be fearful of?

Or is it just in my mind? Am I afraid of the what ifs? So what if happens, so that’s whenever it’s not your intuition, because the right side of the brain, the intuition is really a place of calm and Knowing and an excitement almost versus that fear and worry and anxiety.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: So there’s so many topics I want to cover today with you. We’re going to talk about the clair [00:09:00] senses. We’re going to talk about dreams, and we’re going to talk about developing the senses and the psychic abilities and how to position yourself so that you can step into those and what you can do with them and how they can really improve your life.

So where do we start?

Brandi Van: we’ll go in the order that you mentioned. So we can talk about the clair senses first. I feel like that is a great first step. So for people who don’t know what the clair senses are, we all have our five physical senses, but then we also have our sixth sense. Which is our intuition, which is also called your gut feeling, your instincts, your inner guidance there’s so many different names for it, but whatever you want to call it, that is your psychic sense.

And so a lot of people think that they aren’t psychic, but we’re all born with that. We all have that intuition, that inner guidance inside of us. [00:10:00] The clair senses are when you can have your five physical senses, but then you’re also using that extra sensory perception, that intuition, along with the physical sense.

So for instance, I’m clairaudient, so I hear messages from spirit, and the way that I hear them is, it’s in my mind, but it’s not my thought. So it’s my voice, but not my thought. And so you really have to differentiate, wait a second, did I just think that, or did that thought just get put into my mind? And so that’s how I had to recognize at a very young age that that was spirit talking to me.

So you could also be clairvoyant, meaning you have clair visions or images or symbols that come to you, whether they’re in your naked eye and you’re seeing the spirit, or whether they’re coming to you in your imagination, in your mind’s eye so that could be your clairvoyance. There’s also claircognizance, which is like, a lot of people will say, I know something, but I don’t know how I know [00:11:00] it, I just know it, so that would be claircognizance.

There’s also clair sentient, which means that you just feel something. So there’s a lot of different Claire’s, but the most important thing I think about the Clairs is that I say to envision that they’re each a sport. So let’s say their audience is baseball, if their audience is basketball, don’t need to be good at all the sports, right?

You just need to be good at one sport at one Clair go with that. That’s the one you want to win at, because if that’s the way that spirit communicates with you. Then that’s the way. You don’t need to be good at all of them. As long as you’re getting a message, that’s what’s important. So if you’re learning that you’re a clairaudient, like myself, do a lot of clairaudient exercises, because that’s what’s gonna get your clairaudient the strongest it can be, and you’ll win at it.

You don’t need to necessarily be clairvoyant or be any of the other clairs, as long as you know that one that you are.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes, and I have all of the five and [00:12:00] there’s, there’s more even beyond that. But,

Brandi Van: Yes.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: But I also want to add that one of the other things about Claireaudience is, if you’re like me and you’re very musically inclined you may get messages in song lyrics.

Brandi Van: Yeah, I’ve

heard of that as well. Yeah.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: yeah.

Brandi Van: So some of my clients will, yeah,

they’ll say, you know, I like, they won’t even hear a song on the radio. All of a sudden, the song will just pop into their mind. And when they listen to the lyrics, they’re like, Oh my gosh, this is totally for me. But

like, how did it just pop into my mind?

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes. And it will not necessarily be a song I even like. It could just be a song that I know because I know a ton of song lyrics, and then I’ll hear this song that I don’t even necessarily like telling me something. I’m like, okay.

Brandi Van: Well, that’s good that you can recognize that

and listen to it because that’s something that some people might miss. So that’s

Megan Mary – MeganMary: exactly. Yeah. And there’s so many subtle things like that, that I think people do miss for sure. And that’s why it’s [00:13:00] mystified, I would say, the senses, because they feel there’s something ethereal that they can’t access. And there’s so many ways I like to talk about where they are accessing them, and they just don’t even realize it.

Like when you’re when you’re thinking about a memory, and you start to smell. or taste the food that was in that scenario. So, you know, if it’s a fall setting, you’re all of a sudden thinking about pumpkin or if, you know, it’s some other setting, you’re, all of a sudden you smell popcorn or whatever it is.

I think that’s really interesting that that happens. And a lot of people say, Oh yeah, that’s, that’s happened to me before, but I didn’t know it was that.

Brandi Van: yes,

Megan Mary – MeganMary: So coming up with the ways to demystify the experiences so that they are more accessible and recognizable to the general public is the first step, I think, in normalizing [00:14:00] it in a way, making people see that they do have them and they are experiencing them and they just didn’t know what to call it before.

Brandi Van: yes, I 100 percent agree because if they don’t know what to look out for, then they could be having psychic experiences every day and just not know it. So, to go along with what you said, like telepathy, maybe they think of someone and then that person calls them that later that day or get a text from them that’s a psychic sense or, you walk into a room and you just get a bad feeling, but that’s your intuition.

That’s your psychic sense telling you something, or, you feel like someone’s looking at you, but you turn around, nobody’s there. Like there’s so many different ones that people just don’t realize, you know, that that’s the term for it, but that’s a psychic experience. But yeah, if you don’t recognize it, then.

You don’t realize that you’re having them, which

is so important for the first step.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes. And I find sometimes that paying attention to your dreams makes them more accessible because [00:15:00] you start to pay attention to things that aren’t concrete in the 3D world and you start to pay attention to corners of your mind where information is coming from that are more subtle and when you practice the art of subtlety and recognizing those things in your existence that are in the periphery, That bolsters that awareness and can allow more to be noticed.

Brandi Van: Yeah, absolutely. When you’re dreaming, you know, your guard is down. So, there is no ego or intuition there, right? Like it’s just these, these images or these experiences happening to you while you’re sleeping. And so your guard is down and so you allow it more. And so then when you wake up, if you can remember your dreams then it really gets you to look at it because that guard is down.

Yeah.[00:16:00]

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes, and even the practice of trying, of learning to remember them is a very beneficial practice in terms of tuning in to your abilities because we all have dreams and most of us are ignoring them and just like our clair abilities, ignoring them and so taking one avenue and turning it on is a really good way to activate.

That awareness as well.

Brandi Van: absolutely. And you know, that of course is the first step. If you don’t remember the dream, then how will you ever incorporate it into your life? So you do want to start remembering your dream. And there’s really, I don’t want to say easy, but like there is a way to do it. So when you’re awake like every half hour or hour or even just like give your full of like 10 times a day to say right now I’m awake.

So that way that you’re just kind of training your brain to say, right now I’m awake. So then when you go to bed [00:17:00] at night, you can start to realize, wait a minute, I’m not awake. Because if you start to keep saying that over and over in your mind, you’re actually going to recognize in the dream when you’re not awake.

So that will help you to start remembering your dreams when you wake up. But that’s how people say to keep a dream journal, right? So you want to remember those dreams, but you need a second journal. So that’s the biggest thing there is you actually need a dream journal. You need the dream journal to remember the dreams, but they also need your waking life journal because you have to start to see if there’s a pattern.

What’s going on with my life during the day while I’m awake? And then what message did I get at night from spirit? And once you can start to see a pattern of This is the stress I went through, or the meeting I have coming up, or whatever it might be, and you can start to put that pattern together of what’s going on during the day, and then what message am I getting at night, that’s going to give you the truest message or guidance that you’re getting from Spirit at night.

So it’s, yeah, people are always like, you need a dream journal. I’m like, actually you need two,

to really be able to [00:18:00] figure it out.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yeah, I actually encourage people to write down in their dream journal, you know, to, it’s kind of a two in one, to write down in there before they go to sleep, events of the day, mood that they were in,

Brandi Van: Perfect.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Recording that emotional state first so then, then recording the dream.

And then recording the mood after so that you have the mood before, during and after to really examine and then it’s right there and you can, you can see it all. And of course, the reality checks are really important for the lucid dreaming practice, but they’re also really important just in terms of cultivating an awareness that has to do with the illusion of reality.

So the more that you ask yourself, am I awake? Is this reality? Is this reality? Then you start to notice that there’s multiple [00:19:00] layers to that.

Brandi Van: Yes. Yeah. Which is amazing. It’s a lot, but it’s amazing.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes. So what do you feel are some of the myths? I mean, we’ve talked about them a little bit, but what do you feel the myths are that are holding people back from developing their psychic abilities?

Brandi Van: Yeah, some of the myths I think, like the biggest ones I think are, people think they can’t be developed later in life, like they just think, I either have this when I was born, and I should have ran with it then, and if I don’t now, I can’t, develop it, which is just like anything else.

If you want to play an instrument, or you want to learn to do yoga, or whatever it might be. You can do that anytime in your life. It’s just like any other skill that can be developed. But I think a lot of people see, mediums or psychics on TV and they say, Oh, I’ve been doing this since I was born.

And I didn’t know other people couldn’t do this. So it kind of gives them that misc onception that if they didn’t do this since they were young that they can’t develop it, which is 100 percent not true another thing I think is that People think [00:20:00] it’s scary because they do watch tv or the movies and the poltergeist and all of that And they think that they’re going to open to something that’s very bad , you know, There are negative entities out there, but if you know what you’re doing in a safe and wise way, you do get a mentor, even if it’s not me, right?

Like, as long as you have someone that can teach you how to protect your energy, what to do correctly, so that you know what you’re having enter into your energy field, there’s really nothing to be afraid of, because you’ll know that you’re in control, and you won’t let anything come So I think that’s another big one as well.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes. And talk a little bit about the difference between mediumship and psychic abilities, because there is a difference there, a pretty big difference in terms of what your allowing in and how you’re participating, I would say, in that experience.

Brandi Van: Yeah, so [00:21:00] every medium is psychic, but not all psychics are mediums. So, a medium is someone who can talk to a deceased loved one, if you are missing someone, they can give messages by being a conduit of that person’s energy, and just becoming a channel so that they can give messages of comfort and grieving and love.

Where a psychic is someone who might not necessarily be able to talk to someone who’s passed away, But they can talk to guardian angels, they can talk to their spirit guides so they’re able to talk to the spiritual realm, they just might not be able to talk to a deceased person. And so in my experience, I found that you really can’t teach someone to become a medium.

They either have that ability or they don’t, but I’ve talked to other mediums who said that they think anyone can talk to them. So there’s kind of mixed signals or mixed messages out there, but I’m just talking about my own experience. So that’s what I found. So I am a medium and I’m also psychic, so I can talk to spirit guides.

Guardian angels. Anyone who’s deceased. [00:22:00] So yeah, so I’m considered a psychic museum.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: So talk about your experience. Did you, as you were saying some people do, know all about this before, when you were a child and did your parents encourage it or did you struggle with it or when did you start recognizing that you’re a medium? How did you step into that role?

Brandi Van: Sure, so I was like, probably 10 or 12, and I didn’t tell anybody. I was so afraid that people would think I was like, crazy, or making things up for attention, and like, I was just so afraid to tell anyone about it. But, same thing, I was hearing these spirits talk to me, and I knew it wasn’t me. I knew it wasn’t my thoughts.

And I also thought a lot of guilt because it was like, I knew these spirits want me to give a message to someone, but I don’t know who the message is for. I don’t know how to give the message. And so I learned basically how to turn it off for many years. And I just basically ignored them, told them to go away, leave me alone, not going to give your message.

So I, [00:23:00] it was really coming from a place of fear fear of judgment from other people, fear of what do these spirits want? I’m very young. I don’t know what to do with it. But then I was in my 20s and it changed on a dime. I had such a profound spiritual experience. My grandma was passing away. My family and I were in her hospice room.

She was laying in her bed and we were all holding hands around her. And as she took her last breath, everyone starts crying, but I literally felt her spirit rise above the bed. It was like there was a magnet in my stomach that was telling me to look above the bed. And so when I did, I saw those, like, magnificent colors.

I don’t even think they’re in this world. And they were forming a star, and it was beating in and out like a heartbeat. And I knew, without knowing how I knew, that she was at peace, that she was going on to another place, that death was not final, I knew I’d be talking to her again, I knew that her angels were there to [00:24:00] welcome her, all this was happening, within just, like, two minutes, as everyone around me is grieving, and It really changed everything for me in that moment.

I actually left the room because it was so like, I’m not religious. I didn’t know what was going on, but my cousins thought it was too sad. And so they came out to the hallway to get me and they thought I couldn’t handle how sad it was. And it still took me years to tell them what was going on because Even though that was comforting to me in the moment, like, I didn’t know their belief system, or if they would even believe that that’s what was going on.

And by the way, I was seeing this all with my naked eye. This wasn’t even in my, like, imagination, it was in my naked eye, it was just like right there in front of me. So from there I realized, okay, this is amazing and beautiful. This is nothing to be afraid of. And that’s what started my journey.

I was like, this is something that I want to explore that I just kind of eliminated all fear for me. When I did finally tell my family, probably 10 years after that they were not surprised at all. [00:25:00] Apparently my mom is psychic, my aunt, my cousins, like everyone’s psychic, but nobody ever talked about it.

And so nobody is surprised that this is what I’m doing. And,, I wish they would have talked about it. And that’s why I now want to talk about it because I don’t want anyone feeling that way, like how I did. Thinking they’re all alone with this when there are so many people. They’re just not talking about it.

So yeah, I’m gonna be like the spokesperson

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Oh, yeah. Well, that’s an amazing story. I think that’s a case with a lot of people. A lot of people they may or may not find out that their family members have those abilities or know or not surprised or that kind of thing. But, Regardless, they may find out that their lineage had that obviously these, these things are DNA related and the experiences were multi layer spirits and we’ve had multiple lives and we’ve had multiple different things happen along the way we’re not just [00:26:00] who we think we are.

We’re, a combination of all the things that have come before and. It’s so fascinating to hear each person’s turning point and, of course, then all the doubt. All the doubt. Like, well, okay, yeah, this was incredibly amazing, but now what?

Brandi Van: Yes

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Now what do I do with this?

Brandi Van: Yes, you’re right

Megan Mary – MeganMary: and that’s really the beginning of that whole spiritual awakening journey is now what and, and how do I tell those around me?

How do I now be me who I thought I was because now I’m not me anymore because of my experience. Now my whole view has changed. Now I feel different about the world. Now I feel different about why I’m here and I don’t know how to move forward. So it’s very destabilizing as much as it is inspiring and fulfilling.

It really causes a whole shift.

Brandi Van: [00:27:00] it does. Absolutely. Even after I had that moment it was like Exactly. Like now what? Right. So I went on my journey of reading a ton of books and watching a lot of shows and listening to podcasts, but nothing was really developing it. And so I actually gave up for a while. It was like, okay, I guess I just had this one experience and maybe it’s never going to happen again.

And so my friend who’s actually the life coach, she mentioned, if there’s any mentors out there and it was so hard to find one. Actually. The medium that helped me. She wasn’t even a mentor. I just asked her, could you please take me under your wing? Like I need someone to help me. And I only worked with her for maybe like an hour a month for six months.

And she just had my ability to skyrocketed because I had someone who could validate what I was going through. You know, if I was doing an experience or trying out an exercise, she would tell me like, no, try it this way, or try it that way. And she just basically took me through her exact. She’s what she learned through her life.

It was like her lifetime. And how she [00:28:00] got to be where she was and just taught me all of that. And now I put that into the mentorship program along with all the homework that she gave me to do. So that now somebody just has it. My clients actually have abilities that I don’t even have and so this program Which I thought was gonna get people to become mediums is becoming people who are telepaths people who are angelic healers that you know They’re doing all these different things that I can’t even do but just by learning these steps that my mentor taught me They’re now finding out what a unique ability they have which is astounding and I

never thought it would get there But yeah, it’s great to just like that the person that has the journey before you for them to just hold your hand and say, you can do this and, and, Yeah, by far, doubt is the biggest thing because of that left and right mind battle. So, to have someone that says , no, you’re not crazy. I had this too, just to hear that validation of, keep believing in yourself. I believe in you. You have a whole team of spirits who believe in you, and just hearing that over and over, it starts to like take a [00:29:00] while, right?

Like I think it took me probably a year and a half. I even had people validating, I would give a mediumship reading and they’re like, no, you’re a hundred percent right. And. still in the back of my mind. I’m like, am I making this up? Like, where is this coming from? Because, we’ve been conditioned our whole lives to listen to the facts and the rationality, the critical thinking.

So when you have to like switch it over, it’s very hard to be able to do that, especially by yourself.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes, absolutely. That validation is really important I’m sure that you know this yourself, the way these abilities work. from your experience where you saw that with your real eyes, it’s all very subtle. And you do almost sometimes feel like, did I just make that up? Did that just pop into my head?

Oh, I don’t know why I’m thinking that. And you doubt yourself and you say, well, that has no relevance. Where did that come from kind of thing. But, and so you dismiss it. And many times when you’re in. In a reading [00:30:00] situation, you’re saying you’re just delivering, right?

What’s coming. And that person may or may not even react in the moment to it and validate it for you. They may never. And so later, later down the road, they may or they may not. And you may not get that. And so. That’s part of the reason I think a lot of people dismiss it is because the subtle nature of it is very slippery and you feel it’s very easy to go, well, I don’t know where that, I don’t know where that came from.

That must mean nothing. Which is kind of how people are about their dreams too. I don’t know where that came from.

Brandi Van: Yeah, totally dismiss It Yeah, exactly.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes, and I even do that myself when I’m in that in between stage between sleeping and waking, and I’m remembering the dream, I’m recalling it, I’m deciding whether I’m going to actually physically move to write it down, and sometimes I’ll just say to myself well, that one doesn’t really matter, no, that, that, but [00:31:00] that’s just, that’s just me.

And then because I’m not really fully comprehending it. Right. And so I’ll go, oh, okay. All right. It’s out anyway. And then the next day, when I go back and look, I go, my God, of course, and the light bulb, because your conscious mind is working on it now. But when you were coming into that stage,

You have the ability to receive, you don’t have the ability to analyze, it’s not the analysis state, so you have to allow just that receiving, and then you can go and figure it out afterwards, but if you dismiss it too early, it’s gone, and you won’t have that chance.

Brandi Van: Yeah, absolutely. And it takes so long to, to really trust yourself. And once you can trust yourself, that brings on a whole nother world, right? So first you go through this world of everything just changed every time you just changed everything, which is amazing, by the way, I would never want to go back.

But then once you have this trust, you just like, Start to release it and say, you know what? I, I’m going to trust spirit. Spirit is [00:32:00] never going to be wrong. It’s only our minds that are telling us that maybe it’s wrong, but spirit’s never going to give the wrong message. So when you can just release and let go and just be like, I 100 percent trust spirit, whether I get validation or not, I’m just going to give this message.

That’s a whole nother awakening in itself of like, amazing, beautiful, I don’t even know what words to put to it, that it’s so real that nobody can tell me that it’s not real, right? Like, you get to this point of, I almost feel bad for the skeptics out there that think it’s not real because they’re missing out on this amazing, guidance and all these messages to help through.

So, yeah, it changes your life again, but all for the better, I believe. I think it’s just all just makes you so much Like you said, more authentic because if I would have hidden my gifts like I was when I was younger, I never would have gotten to this point. I really had to own it and, take responsibility for it and say, this is what I want to do.

I’m going to do it. Don’t let myself stop. And now I’m at this place of just completely trusting in myself and in spirit. And it’s an awesome place to be.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: It [00:33:00] is. It is an awesome place to be because then you’re not feeling lost. You’re not feeling out of alignment. You’re not feeling without purpose. You’re not feeling depressed, right? You’re feeling supported. You’re feeling, that guidance. It’s hard to, it’s hard to put into words because our words don’t, they’re not big enough for what that feeling is.

But I guess that’s where. the the term spirituality comes from because you’re really starting to live with the spirits, living a spiritual life. And I think that word is very loaded and it gets confused sometimes and it gets misused. But at the basis of it is really that word spirit. And, and it really is recognizing that we are spirits first, not humans.

And it’s living from that place instead of putting all of the basis of our operandi on the human [00:34:00] basis.

Brandi Van: yeah, absolutely. Yeah, we’re definitely spirits with this human physical body, not the other way around, which a lot of people see it as.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Fabulous. Well, thank you for sharing your story today and just having this great discussion that I know will be useful to everyone out there who’s on their journey.

Brandi Van: Thank you so much for having me.

Kris Ashley: Women’s Dream Enlightenment Guest Recording Session

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Welcome. Today we have Kris Ashley. Kris Ashley is a dynamic coach, author, speaker, podcast host, and television host with a passion for personal development, spirituality, and science. She has spent over two decades immersed in the research and teachings she shares. In 2022, she published her first book, Change Your Mind to Change Your [00:01:00] Reality, which received endorsements from spiritual and self help heavyweights Michael Beckwith, Marcy Shimoff, Bob Dole, John Gray, and Anita Morjani. Today, Kris is a regular panelist at personal development events with the Los Angeles Tribune and is the director and lead trainer of their Leadership Academy. She is also the host of the television show Beyond Reality on the Ethereal Network. Welcome Kris.

Kris Ashley: Thank you so much for having me, Megan. I’m really excited to be here.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes, this is a wonderful exchange because I was just a host on your podcast and I love really just doing these, these guest exchanges. It’s so much fun.

Kris Ashley: It’s really fun, and I was just telling you before we went on air, you completely changed the way that I interpret dreams now, the way you interpreted my dreams, so I was very blown away by the work you do.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Ah, wonderful. [00:02:00] Well, I will put a link to that in the show notes so everybody can listen to that episode as well. So the first question I’m going to ask is the one that I start with everybody. And that is, what does enlightenment mean to you?

Kris Ashley: Yeah, you know, you said that you were going to ask me that about a minute ago, so I’ve had about a minute to think about it, and the first thing that popped into my head was knowledge, because I’m a truth seeker. And I’ve been a truth seeker since 2002, which is funny because we had a little blip where you said something 2002 instead of 2022.

And I was thinking, I was like, oh, wow. That, that year is so significant to me. So you somehow intuited it. But I’ve been a seeker of knowledge ever since I had a spiritual awakening. And to me, enlightenment is that knowledge, but not just like book knowledge, but also embodying that knowledge and. [00:03:00] For me, it’s been learning about the higher realms and the other side of the veil and my soul purpose here and all of the things that it encompasses., and I think that that’s as close as we can get to enlightenment in our human body is really understanding that we’re, we’re vast and expansive and interdimensional.

And we’re so much more than this meat suit that we have on and that we’re all connected to each other.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes, that knowledge of the worldliness, the expansiveness, the vastness of our existence and of the universe is definitely what I think of as enlightenment. It’s not really an end point. It’s a journey.

Kris Ashley: Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I view Earth life as a school and it’s one of many schools. And when we leave this incarnation, we go on to the next one. And, and I think it’s far from the end point. I think it’s just one [00:04:00] little. One little grade one little level.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes. So I’d like to share with the listeners today, your spiritual journey on the show. We always have other women come on and talk about their stories of spiritual awakening and what led to their unique experience. So tell me about yours and where it began.

Kris Ashley: Yeah, absolutely. So my journey began in a place that you’ve probably had other guests also say, and that is my own trauma. So when I was 12, I was sexually abused by a family member. And I had this really big, tight knit, extended Italian family. Like, if you’ve ever seen my Big Fat Greek Wedding, we were like the Italian version of that.

Everyone’s big and loud and in each other’s faces, and we would sing anytime we were around each other. And the sexual abuse went on for four years. And when this big, tight knit family found out what happened many of them disowned me. [00:05:00] And people who had been like second mothers to me were writing me letters and leaving me voicemails telling me they didn’t love me anymore and I wasn’t their family anymore.

And as you can imagine, this left me with a lot of low vibration emotions, like anger and guilt and shame that as a young adolescent, I didn’t know how to cope with. You know, most adults don’t know how to cope with those types of emotions. And so I was in this downward spiral. I was, I turned to drugs, I was cutting, I was getting in trouble in school, I was in a really dark place.

And then my world totally changed when someone handed me a book. And what this book did is it showed me that there were other ways of thinking and being and kind of processing life on earth and that there’s so much more going on than what our eyes can see than we’re aware of. And I remember turning the pages and it was just like, it just felt like truth.

And it was kind of like a sleeper agent, right? Like something inside of [00:06:00] me just woke up. And when I finished that book, I started reaching for more and I just became insatiable. I started devouring every metaphysical, spiritual, new age, personal development book I could get my hands on. I started going to retreats.

I found teachers to study under. I was doing all these healing modalities. I was really doing the hard inner work, but I thought I was just, unlocking these mysteries of the universe that no one knew about, right? And this all, this all started in 2002, when someone handed me that book. And my life did a 180.

I was starting to manifest things. I was really changing my perspective, changing my mind about the nature of reality. But the other part of my story is as my life was starting to change, my mother started to get worse because her family had been ripped down the seams and she didn’t have these healing modalities in books and teachers that I did.

And so it manifested as physical illness for her. She got cancer. She got [00:07:00] a bunch of other really serious illnesses, but she also got a bunch of really bizarre afflictions that her doctors like had no idea. And so they did what they do. They gave her pills and then they give her pills for the side effects of those pills.

They’re just kind of throwing everything at the wall, hoping something would stick. And at the height of it, she was on a fentanyl patch. She was on 11 different pills, including Dilaudid, which is another narcotic. And she would fall down all the time, she would nod off at the dinner table, she would forget conversations we had the day prior, she slept for all but a few hours a daylight.

And that lasted almost 15 years. And I had this compounded guilt that I had destroyed my family and broken my mother. But I believe everything happens for a reason. And I realized that my mother was my biggest teacher because for every step that she took deeper into depression and illness and victimization, I climbed in the other [00:08:00] direction out of that dark tunnel because I was seeing firsthand, right in front of my face, what happens to a human body and spirit when we make that choice, because it’s always a choice.

And then I was seeing what was happening to my own life as I was simultaneously on this other path, right? And, I was seeing my world change. And so I made myself a promise, and it’s a promise I’ve kept to this day, that I would always do everything I could to heal physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and I would always prioritize my health in those categories.

And I’m still reading a book a week, and like, I’m still going to every retreat, I buy every course, cause the learning never stops, you know, I’ve already been talking about knowledge, and Eventually I wanted to give back after a couple decades and took a life coach training with Mary Morrissey, who’s wonderful and wrote my book, started my podcast, started my coaching company.

And now I’m just on this other path and it’s really [00:09:00] beautiful.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: That’s an amazing journey that you’ve been on and it’s not unlike a lot. Yeah. Like you said, a lot of Stories that I’ve heard, a lot of women in particular working in this space, we are all wounded healers, essentially. We’ve all had something that we’ve gone through that has forced us to look within and to realize that we are the ones in charge of our health and that our health isn’t just our medical bodily health.

That a lot of our medical bodily symptoms manifest because of our spiritual health and our emotional health from traumas and from held energies and emotions and patterns and experiences. And that it’s really up to us to take that initiative to [00:10:00] start to do that healing beyond the traditional, here’s a pill for that and then another pill for that pill.

Kris Ashley: Yeah, I think that you, a lot of people get to a point where they’re like, I have like a crossroads, right? Like I can either reinvent myself and heal and forgive and get better, or it can fall into this resentment and this illness and this blame and this victimization and you know, that’s not a life, right?

And I think so many people are in the healing arts because it takes going into the darkness to like really see that much light. And when you’ve gone through it, you’re like, I don’t want other people to suffer for decades like I did, right? You’re like, hey, let me show you what took me so long to learn so that maybe you have an easier time of it.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Absolutely. And or walk with you in the darkness, right? Which is what I always say, [00:11:00] because the dream world is that other side and it’s that other side that a lot of people. I don’t know how or don’t want to access because they’re afraid and many times they just need someone who’s been there and someone who can walk between those worlds to accompany them until they can do it themselves.

Kris Ashley: Yeah, absolutely.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: So one of the things I really. I’m fascinated by myself and then I’d love to talk a little bit more about on the show today is quantum physics and quantum healing and all of the aspects of the quantum. So tell me how that is involved in your work and how that’s influenced your journey.

Yeah.

Kris Ashley: Yeah, I love geeking out about it. And one of the things I really love to do, I do it in my book, I do it on my podcast, is To back all this spirituality up with science and the personal development [00:12:00] of a science. And I think we are living in such an exciting time because science is finally saying what mystics and spiritual teachings have been saying for eons, right?

Whether it’s epigenetics or neuroscience or quantum physics and quantum physics is the scientific explanation for a lot of spirituality for a lot of what we talk about with the law of attraction or this interconnectedness. So it’s such a great way to teach the work too, because Sometimes spirituality can be off putting depending on someone’s background, if they come from some sort of religious background or some sort of belief system.

And it’s kind of that common ground that everyone can get behind. And also it can get those more left brain people too. So, I mean, there’s so many aspects to quantum physics. I guess the first one that jumps out is that quantum physics says that, you know, there’s the many world theories that says, there’s [00:13:00] infinite number of timelines and spaces that are happening at the exact same moment as ours.

And all possibilities exist in this cloud, in this realm. And they exist there until you choose, right? When you make a choice, that timeline kind of opens up before you. And we talk about that in spirituality all the time. And, there’s entanglement that talks about how we’re all connected and how one particle can influence another one that’s light years and light years and light years away, instantaneous, without a second between them.

And. You know, I mean, like pick your poison, pick which way you want to go, because it’s so fascinating because it’s like all these things that we’re saying are true and provable and we just live in this incredible world. There’s there’s this statistic I love that says the human eye can only see 0.

0035 I think percent [00:14:00] of the visible light spectrum. So 99 percent of our world is invisible to us. There’s so much more going on than when, but we’re aware of, and it’s so exciting to explore. Okay.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes, I love that. And on the same path, there’s Tons of frequencies that we cannot hear as well. So, and this has proven both of the things, and so when we consider those things, Just like Wi Fi, everybody knows it exists, but you can’t see it, and everybody uses it, and it’s just an assumed thing. But, yet, there is such doubt about so many other things.

And, as we’re sitting here today, it is the full moon, harvest moon, super moon, lunar eclipse, and we have had X class flares. All week, there’s a lot going on celestially, a lot of electromagnetic [00:15:00] frequencies coming down to us. And there is a lot of interaction going on there that a lot of people might also dismiss.

They can see that. Oh, yes, we can see this on TV. We can see it’s happening. Oh, isn’t that interesting. But I think that in everyday life, there’s a real separation between the celestial influence in our spiritual life and our connection to the spiritual realm and the interdimensionality of the galaxies and all of that.

I think that’s really dismissed in a way, and we can scientifically quantify it, but where spirituality and science meet. Is yet to be determined.

Kris Ashley: absolutely. Absolutely. I mean, it’s, it’s interesting because, when you look back at history, no one believed in gravity or no one believes in electricity or whatever it was until it was really proven and harnessed and the awakened [00:16:00] community knows these forces exist. Of course they exist.

Right. And countless, countless people have had interactions with them, whether it’s even, people who have had past life experiences, or people who have had NDEs, or people who have done dream work, or energy healing so we all know what’s out there, I feel like, People are starting to wake up, back in 2002 when I had an awakening, like I couldn’t find other people to talk about this kind of stuff with.

And now it’s everywhere, right? Like, Law of Attraction is like a hashtag on Instagram that has who knows how many hits on it, right? So I do feel like people are starting to wake up and there’s I don’t know I just I’m just thinking like the medical community even like I just went through fertility treatments Not that long ago and the clinic was like you should get acupuncture that was part of their treatment.

So it’s slowly starting But I think the world is waking up and I think 2020 had something to do with it too. Right. People were home and [00:17:00] starting to realize like, wait, it was like a forced pause and it was like, okay, wait, there’s more to life than just work, eat, sleep, entertainment.

Money like, oh yeah, there’s this connection with nature and there’s this connection with each other and we can, we can go within and find stillness and or be in community. So I think it’s happening slowly, but surely, but it’s definitely, the rest of us that have been on this journey for a while are just kind of sitting back watching like, okay,

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yeah, so it was definitely a wake up call and it was also, like you said, an opportunity. It’s interesting to see what people did with that space people were consuming content.

Books and learning and creating and, really doing things that they would never have had the opportunity to do that were really expansive activities. I think that was a chance for a lot of people who were part of that ascension that. Expansion that’s happening and not everybody can [00:18:00] be part of it that everybody wants to be part of it.

But there are a lot of people who are having that awakening that are part of it. And that was just maybe 1 of those times that. The earth cooperated with us to say, okay, we’re just going to destabilize everything for a little bit, and it’s not going to be easy, but you’ll see that there’s going to be a lot of opportunity in it, right?

There’s like a silver lining.

Kris Ashley: Totally. I mean, I, I say the same thing all the time. I took every course I could because everything went virtual. I wrote my book. But other people had a really hard time and that’s okay. Right? Like we’re not here to shame anyone. And, and you made a good point when you said, you know, not everyone is going to be on that spiritual awakening.

Like there’s that whole idea of like 5d and 3d earth splitting. And it doesn’t mean that anyone’s left behind or people are less than or anything, like people are on their own soul evolution and they recycle back into, maybe another incarnation [00:19:00] here and another 3d space and it’s, it’s fine.

And there’s, millions of souls on the path ahead of you. There’s millions of souls on the path behind you. Your timing is perfect and it’s all just part of it.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes. It all happens when it’s supposed to.

Kris Ashley: Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: The universe has its own, I would say timeline, but it’s not really, it’s not a timeline because there is no timeline.

Kris Ashley: Yeah. Right. That’s when it gets trippy.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yeah, time and space don’t really exist.

Kris Ashley: It’s all happening right now.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes. So on your podcast, I had the opportunity to interpret one of your dreams and I love to integrate the discussion of dreams on my show and talk about how that’s been influential, if at all, for you on your journey because a lot of people have very much had profound experiences, whether they be lucid experiences or [00:20:00] premonitions or visitations.

And for me, that was really the gateway for my awakening. So did you find that dreams played a role in yours as well?

Kris Ashley: Yeah, and I think it was you actually who told me the other day, you’re like, you’re clairvoyant and after our call, and I’ve been thinking about that ever since, but I, for as long as I can remember, I’ll have a dream about someone who I haven’t seen in like years and the next day they’ll call me or I’ll find out that they had a baby or got married or some big life event.

And I lost my, my heart dog and my dad within the last like year and a half, and I have visitation dreams all the time. And I, I mean, they’re not like dreams, right? It’s a visitation. Like I know my dad is dead in them. And We’ll just be sitting and talking and I’ll just look at him and just be like, God, I miss you so much.

And he’ll be like, I know you do, but I’m going to keep dropping in from time to time. And he’ll give me a big hug. And like, we have these [00:21:00] conversations like that. And I have them somewhat often. And I actually had like a real visitation from him. It was like, it was one of the coolest experiences ever. I get sleep paralysis and I’ve had it, I’ve had it forever.

Maybe you have some spiritual thought on that, but I’ve always gotten it and it always happens. When I’m falling asleep and it used to like really scare me. And sometimes it still does kind of freak me out. Cause it’s that idea of like, I’m awake, but I can’t move. But I had this crazy experience where I was in sleep paralysis and I had this dog, like sniffing my face.

And at first I was so annoyed. I was like, ah, Shane, my husband, let our dog bully in the room. And I told him I was going to take a nap and why is he in here? And I realized it wasn’t woolly. And then I realized it was my parents, old dog Casey. And then I looked on the floor and it was my old dog soda, running around.

And then I looked next to me in the bed and my dad was right there. And he was like, hi. I got the impression that he had been trying to like break through. And it was [00:22:00] such a, him thing. He was like, brought the dogs, right? We’re animal lovers. I can just see him being like, come on guys, let’s go visit her.

So I’ve had a lot of really kind of clairvoyant moments and dreams and yeah, and it’s interesting. Like I, I never really thought about it much as something like unique until I was talking to you actually.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes, I mean, we all have all of those clear senses, right? We just need to activate them. Many times when we start paying attention to our dreams, that can be the catalyst for us to start, not just. receiving information, but sensing it in our waking life, seeing the synchronicities and the subtle symbolism in things in our waking life.

Once we start looking at it in the dream, all of a sudden we go, Oh, isn’t it weird that, and we’re still so prone to dismiss [00:23:00] it. Nevertheless, very significant and we have to pay attention. So, I was editing my second book this morning, and there I am writing my beat sheet, and I get to September 17th. I’m like, isn’t that funny that that’s today? No, it’s not just a coincidence and, and even I can find myself brushing it off. Yeah, of course, because you’re writing and it’s based in September and that’s just a coincidence, but it’s not. All of those things that we notice that we think, Oh, isn’t that funny?

Isn’t that weird? Those are the little breadcrumbs from the universe pushing us along our way.

Kris Ashley: So what do you think that breadcrumb was trying to tell you? Like, little signs like that. Like, what’s, what’s the significance of that? Is it that you’re on the right path? You’re doing things at the right time? Like, what is it?[00:24:00]

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yeah. Yes, and it’s the same when I see the, people call them angel numbers, but really just numerologically with the time, because you can look at the clock at any time, but if you happen to start seeing them multiple times throughout the day, certain days I do, and it’s always, oh, it’s 1111, it’s 333, it’s 555, you know, you just happen to just always see that throughout the day.

That’s not a coincidence either.

Kris Ashley: You know, what’s funny about that? I mentioned my dog had died. Since the day she died, twice a day, every day, without fail, for almost two years, I’ve seen 555.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Thanks.

Kris Ashley: And I finally talked to a pet communicator about it. She’s like, oh yeah, it’s her. But yeah, no, totally, totally the numbers for sure.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes. So, I just love looking into my dreams and looking for those things [00:25:00] also throughout my daily life. Just, I think being cognizant of it allows more in. The more that you kind of go, yeah, okay, and you acknowledge it, the more, yeah. You get the more it just keeps coming and coming and coming and I, I find it supportive and comforting.

Kris Ashley: You know what’s been popping up for me the last week too is smells. And smells that remind me of my dad. And it’s like, Are you there, dad. And that’s kind of a new thing. That’s kind of come on.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Now that’s another one of the clair senses is being able to smell something that you associate with someone or that has passed on for sure. Or even being able to smell something that’s associated with. [00:26:00] If you’re picking up someone else’s energy, or you’re doing a reading or whatever it might be. So that’s called clairalience .

And so the, the integration of the regular senses, so clairaudience being able to hear something, but then being able to hear from the beyond, being able to smell something, being able to smell from the beyond, being able to see something, but being able to see something from the beyond, all of those things are part of that.

Clairsense activation, really.

Kris Ashley: Yeah. It’s interesting that you said like dreams can be the kind of portal to turn that on and as you tap into it, other things awaken. So no, honestly, I feel like it was you saying that I was like, Oh, okay. And now it’s in my head and now other things are happening. So it’s kind of a cool journey. It’s kind of fun to see what else happens.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes. I love that. Have you been writing down your [00:27:00] dreams since the episode?

Kris Ashley: I haven’t had a dream since the episode, actually. Yeah, no, it’s interesting. I haven’t, but I, I always, yeah, I always write down my dreams.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yeah. The full moon for me is high volume dream time.

Kris Ashley: Really?

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes. And just as, as women, we cycle, but we also are so affected by the cycle of the moon and we don’t really notice that until we start paying attention. So eventually I’m going to produce a dream journal that actually allows you to track the moon phase at the same time, because I think it’s so fascinating to the parallels that happen there.

Kris Ashley: Yeah, that’s super cool.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: So tell me a little bit about your book, Change Your Mind to Change Your Reality. I love the title.

Kris Ashley: Thank you. Yeah, so it’s kind a little bit like it sounds , when we [00:28:00] change the way that we look at things, when we change our perspective, entire worlds can open up before us. And, part of Changing your perspective is a lot of what we’ve already talked about where there’s so much more going on than what we’re aware of, right?

And I back it all up with quantum physics and all these different stories. So it’s whether we’re talking about soul contracts or whether we’re talking about being able to heal yourself, right? Or heal relationships. If you can change the way you think about pain or illness or the things you’ve gone through, then your story changes and your life can completely change too.

And I also talk a lot about the law of attraction and, and give little journaling exercises and to help people get really clear on their vision and then help them navigate that gap between where they are now and what their dream life looks like and, and removing the things that block all of that from [00:29:00] working,

things like your belief system that you’ve had since childhood or holding on to grudges, there’s a whole chapter dedicated to forgiveness holding on to repressed emotions, you know, just having a specific story, being in a victim mindset. It’s really completely transforming your life.

And a lot of it is rooted in the journey that I went on to. So there’s a lot of like personal little anecdotes sprinkled throughout too.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: I love that. That’s really what makes it feel so much more accessible to people. It’s when you really tell your own personal story, which is, which is why we podcast, right? So that we can really deliver that conversation that feels like it’s happening in a vacuum and allows the audience to just be a fly on the wall in our personal, very deep conversation about all of these ethereal concepts.

So it’s important to. [00:30:00] Allow space for that vulnerability, because in that authentic ness of sharing your very personal story, that’s where people connect and resonate with you and really start to feel, one, not so alone on their journey, but two, validated in their experience.

Kris Ashley: Absolutely. And you’re right, it happens in a vacuum. You know, people, especially with trauma, people don’t want to talk about it, but sometimes they don’t even know to talk about it. Like I think back on my own self, when I was 12, 13, 14, 15, I was really angry. And I had all of these feelings of guilt and anger and all these things and depression.

But I didn’t tie it back to like, oh, it’s because I went through this thing. You know what I mean? Like, it took a long time you open up, any, psychology textbook and it’s like trauma victim PTSD [00:31:00] 101, like every symptom I had, but , I didn’t know that.

I thought I was just alone and I didn’t understand what I was feeling. So I think the same thing goes with, with spiritual awakenings too. The more we can talk about it. And I think you’re absolutely right in being vulnerable because then you’re authentic and people connect with you.

When you’re, not authentic, people can sniff that out. Right. And we don’t need any more fakeness in this world. We need authentic healers and people living from their heart. Right. That’s, that’s what this world needs.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes, absolutely. Because when you step into the path as a healer, you have to let go of everything you thought you were anyway.

Kris Ashley: Hmm.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Or you cannot embody that path truly. You cannot be truly in alignment if you’re trying to be something. You have to let it all go and become the vessel for the message, which is really the process of that [00:32:00] spiritual awakening.

It’s really what allows. You to become the messenger.

Kris Ashley: I love that. Yeah. You’re just a channel for it. Right.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes. Yes.

Kris Ashley: that’s a great way to put it.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: the only way it can happen.

Kris Ashley: Yeah, you have to be of service, right? It has to be greater than you. Because people can sniff that out too, right? If you’ve ever been to like a talk or listened to a podcast or seen a speaker and they’re just up there because it’s like an ego thing versus like really wanting to be in service of the audience.

I can totally feel that.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes. Yes. And so at some point that message isn’t gonna resonate with people and isn’t going to be received because it’s not coming from a place of authenticity. So energetically, it’s. on a different wavelength, let’s say, and it’s not really going to have the power that something else [00:33:00] would that was coming straight from the heart and that was really genuine.

Kris Ashley: Yeah, absolutely. And I think that just takes us full circle to, a lot of people who are on this path have walked through the fire themselves and they can just speak to it on a different kind of level.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes, absolutely. Well, I appreciate you coming on and telling your story and sharing your book and sharing what you do so that yet another story can be out there for other women to really identify with and hopefully the message resonates with them as well. And if people would like to find you, where can they find you out in the ethers?

Kris Ashley: Yeah. Thanks for giving me the opportunity. So Krisashley. net is my website and change your mind with Kris is my handle everywhere. I’m on YouTube, I’m on Instagram, I’m on Tik Tok. Change your mind with Kris [00:34:00] Ashley is the podcast beyond reality is the TV show that’s going to be launching on the ethereal network and change your mind to change your reality is my book.

It’s available in paperback, ebook, audio book, anywhere you get your books.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Excellent. I love having it in all different formats. That was definitely one of my requirements for mine because people need to be able to receive it in whatever way they prefer. So

Kris Ashley: Did you record your own audio?

Megan Mary – MeganMary: I did not. I had an amazing award winning British narrator, Pearl Hewitt. I wasn’t going to attempt to do 13 different characters, a talking cat and a British turtle.

I’m just not an actress. So,

Kris Ashley: Oh, that’s great. Cause your book is a fiction book.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: yes.

Kris Ashley: Okay. That’s fair. That’s cool. You got a British person to do it. I recorded mine and it was super fun to be in the recording studio and it was, that was a fun experience by itself.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes. Yes. For my nonfiction, I will. But for this time, I had to leave it to the [00:35:00] pros.

Kris Ashley: yeah, yeah. That makes sense for fiction. For sure.

Megan Mary – MeganMary: Yes. Well, thank you so much again for being here, and I will put all of your links in the show notes as well so that people can come find you.

Kris Ashley: Thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate your time.

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