What did I sign up for?

0:09 Hello, I'm Kimberly and I'm Laura and today we're talking about what did I sign up for? agreeing to walk a spiritual path Right don't don't don't boy. Do we ever know this one? Well, what did I sign up for? Which is the question you ask when things are not going so great, you know, so yeah That's the thing spiritual paths they sometimes they they challenge us and they push us and We're taught and we kind of are programmed as humans that when we're pushed into places that we don't like It's uncomfortable. It's bad, right? Well, and I think this is not bad. Yeah, and I think the thing we have to remember is that change is Inevitable it's constant a baby doesn't stay a baby crawling and never walk I mean it's part of what we all have to experience and what we sign up for that's right And I I got this idea because we were talking to Maureen last night Maureen Webb Who is coming all the way from Sedona, Arizona to our retreat, which I'm so Excited about yes, we have a retreat planned for October 2nd to 5th this year And it's called ignite your sacred flame so if you have been

1:26 Wanting to Release what you know, you don't need Release some things that you've been hanging on to that you don't know how to get past if you've been feeling stuck in your life If you don't know where to go what you know, your purpose might be this Retreat is what we we are zeroing in on those things. Yeah, and I think one of the things I love about the retreat And we were talked about it before we decided on how we were gonna go about this was you know Laura said well, what do you want and I said well, I want it to be like a big slumber party where we are in the presence of all the attendees and We're we're sharing we're sharing over breakfast and over all the different activities We we've got planned and stuff, but it's I want to be with our our people So this is a women's retreat We do feel the need to support our fellow females right now and so we are looking at a weekend of feeling like you belong Wherever you are in life is okay, and we have picked a beautiful location in Chester, Nova Scotia a Beautiful big I say home, but it's not really home. It's a church that has been renovated into in my

2:48 It is a retreat. It's a beautiful building So we're very excited and if you're interested in that, please get in touch with us You can contact us through our emails and so that's laurawarrenmedium.com or mksoulcoaching.com and Also, we have our circle of the sacred flame email circleofthesacredflame.com So any of those if you're interested and we have very limited space because this is meant to be a Healing journey that we have curated for a small group Mm-hmm, and Maureen is coming to speak about her her app her program Soul Star mapping, but she's also coming to share her journey through spirituality with which is very interesting and also She is going to offer some private sessions at the retreat. So we're very excited. Well, this is gonna be a Massive healing weekend. I'm I'm so excited to finally get going with this stuff Well, this year it really is about embodiment and embodiment is not Forceful, it's not pushy. It's not control driven You know embodiment is about taking all the pieces of yourself and giving weighing them equally and accepting them

4:09 Accepting who you are and loving who you are. This is who you came here to be. Well, I'm trusting I think Like the biggest thing for me is when we talk about these things is that I Feel like life is like the ocean. It's unapologetically itself and sometimes you're gonna get caught in a You know in a wave or a current and it might scare the beep beep idea But you're gonna you're gonna get out of it. You're gonna figure it out and that's that's the kind of thing I've always loved about life is that I've always trusted that I'm exactly where I'm meant to be now That doesn't mean I haven't been put in places where I'm very uncomfortable But and that doesn't mean that I've never not been frustrated But the thing about me is if I'm angry at the universe, I will be just like that wave coming at you You can't stop it mid-form. It's not gonna happen But I am very aware that if I feel frustrated I'm gonna let it out and that might look like being in bed You know stretching the day with a few screams and hollers all by myself and Frustration or you know, it could look like taking a shovel to some snow But I'm somebody who when I feel something and it's in me I need to find a way to release it in some way and I don't make any

5:29 Excuses for myself if it's a some if it's there then I'm gonna Respect my body and my energy by doing whatever I need it to do so and that is truly like And it's an aspect of your personality That's really important as a spiritual being because we have so many things thrown at us Once you agree to walk this path So let's talk about the agreement for a second because I don't know about any of you listeners But I did not know what I was signing up for and that's why we named this What did I sign up for? And I'd like to put what the heck did I sign up for in there? So this You know spiritual path for me in the beginning part of it was necessity because I felt like I was being You know kind of overtaken by energies around me and I was being pushed into a place where I had to stand in my own strength and my own truth and So part of it was necessity because nobody wants to experience voices in the middle of the night and people calling your name when there's no people no physical people there and You know hearing footsteps and seeing shadows and I really was pushed into a place where The universe was making sure that I followed through

6:46 And that I understood what was happening and that I started to follow my path But following that spiritual path brings with it a bunch of stuff That we don't think about because I don't know like about you but in the beginning it was like All these kind of fantastical things started to happen So when so, you know, you're first of all you're you feel Overwhelmed or you feel pushed or you feel called or maybe Something happened in your life traumatic that you want help with so that that thing happens So then you go, okay Well, I know I'm a spiritual being so I want to learn about my spiritual self And you make that agreement you open the door to spirituality and it's funny how Maureen described it because it's exactly how it's been for me It's like this agreement where you almost like turn over Your energy to the universe in service So you agree with that one. Yeah, you make this like this agreement where you just say Okay, uh, I'm in service of the universe. You're in control I know I'm not but I will listen and I will follow and I will honor you When you do that all of a sudden this door opens and all these fantastic things happen Because I think the universe is like trying to hook you Trying to keep you there. So it's like, which is annoying for Laura

8:06 Oh, you can all of a sudden you can see auras and you know all these things about people and you know, there's like fun There's like spirit animals around people and you know, maybe you Maybe you can like meditate and talk to your guides and like so some things happen, right on your path that are like exciting kind of pulls you in And then the reality Being a spiritual being can kind of smack you So like repeatedly, right? Yes, that's the thing we don't talk about enough And I wouldn't trade it for anything ever like I I feel very Um blessed and I feel very rewarded on this path But I wasn't ready for What it was gonna how it was gonna change my life And it's changed my life in beautiful ways But you know what it's like when you're struggling with something That's all you can see is the struggle. So when you're in the struggle, it's horrible And one of the things that really bugged me really bugged me And I didn't understand it at first was that all of a sudden I could tune in and I could help anybody with their life And I know Kim's been frustrated with this in the past because she's like, why can't you help me?

9:23 You help all these other people But the reason for that is because Kim is intertwined with my path And I am not Given all the information for myself So here I am because we have to learn to right right and if you're an evolved soul You've come here. You've already made the agreement. You're going to walk a spiritual path Whatever spiritual path suits you, but you're going to allow the universe to guide you And so you're walking the path and oh this cool thing happened that cool thing But then all of a sudden you realize you hit some kind of crisis and you need answers And there's no answers for you even though you could give it to other people yet Well yet That's what it that's what it is. Yeah so So it that was the most Frustrating piece for me was that Wait a second. I'm listening to the universe. I'm doing what they say even if it's uncomfortable But I don't get the answers for myself I got it. I can give them to other people, but I don't get them and that was really frustrating and then Probably frustrating for you because because I know a few times she was like, I don't you read other people Why can't you do that for me and I did try That was very rare for me too because one of the things about me is I kind of like not knowing things

10:43 Um, it's part of uh, I hate to say the game, but it is part of the game and for me You always had your gift For me, my gift was the way I love the world And it took me a long time to figure that out and I was so Angry at points in my life Because of the people that were in my environment. So that could be my family friends Whatever But what I've learned through my years and I I don't think I've ever been as happy as I am today At the age of 58. I'm very Comfortable in my skin in a way. I've never been before And I see people differently now as well and even the last six months It's been a massive shift inside of myself to really let go of Some of the things that I didn't realize I was holding on to, you know, people's The way people feel about me. I think I've always been that person that what people think of me is not my business And I I've been an overachiever all my life and no one's ever really made a big deal about it So I never made a big deal about it But I have to say that I'm in a place now where I look at my path I look at everything I signed up for and I've trusted um You have to admit though. Oh, yes that you

11:58 Coming like moving to helifax Away five hours away from your full-time client base And then being here And having an upward battle built building another client base You must have Excuse me You must have questioned The universe like why I absolutely because not only did I leave new Brunswick for Nova Scotia for my beautiful wife across from me right now but it was very challenging because my full-time work was in new Brunswick and I'll be honest. I've been in Nova Scotia You know seven years almost and going back and forth and I'm still not busy anywhere's near busy in in Nova Scotia And I have questioned that because in my lifetime I have never ever ever had a hard time Making money or finding work because I'm somebody that goes out there and I find it So like that's that's the piece like how do we trust?

13:01 That The universe is leading us to our highest good for us I think one of the things for me, um Is that recently because I've had more time And even yesterday I'm going in and out of the garage cutting some wood finishing a little project in the house I really am this person that I I quite enjoy different things But I feel like the gift for me or at least the new awareness that I'm having is that the gift for me and being in Nova Scotia is that I'm away from all the responsibility that I am somebody who believe me. I am So full of responsibility Because I feel like my kids and my grandkids I feel like I'm a very important person in their life and I take that serious I think that I have incredible things to teach them I think that who I am as a human being and what I've learned from My path are like so valuable. There's no price tag you can put on that um You know, so that that's a big a big thing for somebody like me that I'm starting to see that the gift in being here is that I feel almost semi retired in a way that And I've had to really be pushed to start to see what's the truth for me and where's my next

14:21 Where's the next path leading me and when I think about The one thing that brings me the biggest joy obviously other than my wife and my children and grandchildren is teaching the world about a love that I understand About the earth in the way it makes me feel Is is why having the space to not be so busy here Is such a gift for me and and this is this is something I've struggled with I really have because You know, you finally find a home and you know, then you got to pay for it and pay for all the new things That go with that and the upkeep and all that You know, we've been challenged on every level, but I I'm very grateful for the answers And for the calm that comes When you listen and stop well because it's easy to In that in that in your situation in our situation It's easy to go to the place where You think well, I was led To another place another province another city So Everything should I was led there and I'm trusting the universe and I'm following that path So everything should work out, you know, my business should be busier

15:38 But what happens is that you see that the spiritual path doesn't necessarily care about money But but does care about the fact that You have space for yourself and time for yourself to Experience your life on your terms and if you're in if you were near family Maybe you would give too much time to family and you wouldn't have the spiritual involvement that you're having I agree and so there's different values like different There's different rewards for following the spiritual path and I think we automatically connect What's happening with us whether we're successful or not with money But the universe doesn't really care about that. The universe cares that you keep going And you keep serving and you keep listening and trusting But it doesn't it doesn't care how much you have as long as you have enough I think the thing that's funny about that too is that There's so much truth in that statement because One of the things I've also observed Once I've let myself trust more and I'm somebody who trusts more than most Actually, but is that there's all these little gifts in the unknowing and

16:55 It's like I Have such a hard time sometimes You know when when you look at the checkbook or the the bank account You know, we're doing we're doing well But I feel rich I feel rich in a way and everything is about perspective. So it doesn't matter what the topic My perspective is you know, you can say oh god, it's been almost seven years I've been driving back and forth and you know working on you know, sometimes 32 to 48 people in the run of Sometimes a four day Week or four and a half days, you know, you're you're filling it and and then you have a weekend with your kids And you got to fit it all in and it's your kids and their partners and your your grandkids and sometimes it feels like Like it's this race, you know, you're go go go go go But the thing I've I've really realized in the last year year and a half since since I lost my mom Things have shifted for me And I really realized that all these little moments are what we're really looking for It's not the big things the big things are, you know, they're the challengers There's the things they're the ones that push you to grow Put you in the corner. So I feel really awkward and I almost feel like you're you're ready to

18:12 You know fight back but it it's in the release. It's in the looking at perspective Like I said the other day, I was like, man, it's been almost seven years I've been going back and forth and I'm you know, I I pride myself on being somebody who I have I have an incredible mind over matter And you know strong conviction who I am as a human being and what I came here for is Is probably the most important thing everything else is a a gift after that, but I really do feel Like I'm one of the luckiest people in the world that I get to be this person in this life So perspective is something I'm constantly shifting and looking at and saying, okay And I might feel that way in the moment, but if I change my perspective or If I just try to look at it from a different lens, then it might have a different story to tell me An abundance comes in all forms, right? And it's it's all I feel it on all levels and I know You know my poor wife. I am a busy busy lady. I I grow mushrooms and I grow herbs and I grow Vegetation and I don't think anything makes me happier than that It's it's like this gift of listening and paying attention to the earth and feeding You know my the people I love with

19:29 Energy In the food and and with everything we create to me that is like the most important job you can have I I just I truly love it. It's there's no This is very easy topic for me. I I've trusted my path Even though it doesn't mean I haven't had moments where you know, there's been stop signs and and road closures. Well, we all we all have those struggles and one thing that happened Just after like, okay, so I'm thinking Okay, I finally decided I want to follow this whatever this is spiritual path that I don't even know where this information's coming from It just felt like I was being fed these little like tidbits of wisdom and you know Guidance that didn't make a lot of sense at the time, but I'm like, okay. Well, I'm gonna listen. I'm gonna try, you know But then all my sensitivities like all my senses were heightened and that added another challenge because all of a sudden My the people in my life that were with me all the time Everything changed like the environment shifted the people shifted the food that I was eating shifted The way I wanted to talk to people shifted and so and then even

20:47 Like working because at the time I was still teaching And having to shift myself because all of a sudden I'm sensitive to a kid that walks in the door that had a hard morning Sensitive is like the understatement, right? I'm picking up on you know, the teacher in the classroom next door That had a fight with their spouse before they came to work or I'm picking up on the fact that The building I'm in was built on sacred land But nobody actually asked spirit for a blessing So spirits angry and the energy in the building is very tense and yucky because it's a brand new school But spirits not happy, you know And then so I'm picking up on everything in my environment You know, even the fact that it's a brand new school and all the plastic things in the school are off gassing So I'm like, this isn't fair. Here I am. I've decided. Okay, I'm going to follow the spiritual path. Yay And then and then it's like smack smack, you know, like you can't you can't keep up with how you feel and You know, Kim and I have a still to this day. We struggle with sense with You know pets and people's homes or or molds or whatever and it's just or even their vibrational Energy because even your children you're you've got two kids and they're with their dad a week and us a week

22:05 The energy shifts when they come home when we go to my daughter's house It's it's a different energy again when we go to my son's house I absolutely love my grandkids there's four of them, you know, and they did have two dogs and the cats and We call it the zoo. It is crazy. They have a sign on the wall. This is welcome to our zoo Exactly But the thing that's funny is there is a very there's a lot of static Energy in their home, which means when we go there We we are so full of love when we get there and that is the thing that feeds you the whole week because it's crazy It's chaotic But the love is eminent from the second we walk in the door the little screams and haulers and They're constantly loving you and giving you attention and I don't know about you But that fills me up massively it does and that's the thing So the heightened sensitivities or the heightened senses Yes, you get that end you get that end where you know The things are harder, but then you also have heightened compassion ability to empathy ability to accept love like that's a really big one that you start to see Something is happening and unfolding where you start to see your own worth

23:25 And you see your own connection with the universe and how your soul Everyone's soul has this divinity That is so strong And it's so connected to everything that is that you Open it's like you open dramatically to an unconditional love and whether that love comes from the universe or other people You just get it and you get you get emotional like in good ways like, you know, there's constantly There's some good cries, you know and We have to always like remember the balance and really be Appreciating when things are going well, you know and knowing okay things aren't going so great right now, but it's temporary Yeah, and it's it's funny for me too because even tv has changed for me I mean, we're very busy people and sometimes we just like to watch something that makes us laugh but Even tv has changed so much for me and we don't have regular tv So we don't have commercials and all that but when we're somewhere where they do it's it feels like Nails on a chalkboard to me. You know, there's so many things that because you're so sensitive. It's like I can't handle I can't handle the the dysfunction of

24:43 Of the the tv and the hurtful things and all that and social media and the news But you know what's happened to a tv? This is kind of off track But if you watch something that was that came out like 20 years ago You'll notice like how it almost feels like slow Like like the even the transitions between each scene or slower And you know, it's calming. You don't feel your heart racing or whatever And then you watch something that just like is new And they flip flip flip flip the screens and there's there's so many plot twists And there's so many like the climax is like, oh my god, this oh my god that cliffhangers And if you watch shows from even like like old episodes of law and order Well, that that show should be quite triggering But it actually isn't because of the way that they filmed it. So it shows how we've changed Like how humans have changed and we can't just sit and watch a story You know, we have to be constantly stimulated And that is a problem when you are in your energy self When you are on a path that you need to Have clarity and focus and not constant information and constant stimulation

26:00 So we are kind of in a weird place because I know a lot of people ask me and they're like Oh, did you hear this music? Did you listen to this? Did you go see this movie? Did you watch it? I'm like No, I don't know about that. I don't know about that. Um, especially even with, um There's so many like spiritual teachers now like there never used to be this many But now there's so many that people will say, oh, you must have heard so and so they're a channeler They're and I'm like, nope. Don't know them. Oh, you must know this reader. No, no, nope. There's there's So many people out there now doing this work The only thing that kind of gets me Is that we're not in a place where people are truly Being honest You know about what this path actually is And that's why Kim and I one of the reasons why we wanted to do this podcast because we're like This is not It's not a one hit wonder. No, it's a sacred calling and if it's a sacred calling It means you honor it you honor it no matter what and we know that A divine plan is quite different from what we think a human plan is and human plans follow Like our time so the time we know and they follow the things we know

27:20 Like we do these very solid earthly things to get the earthly things we want So I I kind of think about this like People on in a human sense they can make like a five-year plan So you can make a five-year plan you can say well, I'm gonna take this step and that'll lead to this And then I'm gonna take that step and it'll lead to this And you can't do that on a spiritual path There's there's no Timeline there's no five-year plan. There's no this leads to that You have literally One tidbit one bread crumb in front of you and you have to follow that And then see where the next one leads you Yeah, and I think like there's there's so many funny things about this life and I think about You know the way we process through things If I sit here and think about the last 10 years You and I've lived a whole lifetime in 10 years already. Yeah, but it's because we've we really have decided that Not only are we together because our paths lined up But who we are and what we signed on for I absolutely believe that's one of the biggest reasons why we're together for the work that we want to do In this world. Yeah, and how we want to affect people and how like

28:37 How does that really happen because we You and I we not only had to trust we didn't know what was coming We didn't we couldn't say well, we're gonna make this decision and then this will happen It was always very intuitively led like Feeling something within you is right And then moving forward and as you move forward the path Shows itself. I agree with that one and you can't say That you know where the path is going and you can't say you can't say to the universe like The most interesting thing about us I think is that we keep evolving and changing So that there's new things that we do and try so over the years You've taken different courses that you felt drawn to do We've gone to different places. We felt very drawn to Sedona You know, we felt very drawn to kind of travel around go to bc and places that we wanted to see And we were drawn there for specific reasons even when we went to Barbados It was like we were drawn there and we didn't know why until we were there So it's really funny how this happens in your life when you you just get a little like intuitive burst And you're like, I'd really like to blah blah blah, you know, I'd like to go to Italy or I'd like to

29:58 Learn how to Kim make sourdough bread Like we don't know where that's leading But the funny thing about this is everybody at the retreat is going to be really well fed because Kim and I have been Drawn to try all kinds of different recipes over the years and we are going to be cooking for you And I love that what I first told you that I wanted to cook you were like, you're crazy And I said, but wait a second This retreat is going to be very intimate. It's going to be very. Oh, you are now and I'm so grateful I was so excited about making the menu and putting yeah, but I just think that you know If we're going to do this then we're going to do it completely 100 percent Fully and we're going to own all of it and I think food is so important Because it's energy and what better food than food that's coming out of our yard and going into our You know, that's right. So I just think that's that's a pretty amazing thing So we we also because we talked a little bit about challenges We know that just because you've committed to this like to listening to the universe and to being of service And you understand So we'll just like take it from take it from where Kim is. She understands

31:13 I don't always but anyway She understands that the universe will always lead her in the right direction And so she just trusts and she follows it and it's there's an acceptance piece sort of like a surrender And then you just release what the oak come Should be you release that because you know, whatever oak come it is. It's the perfect one for you But along the way, there are a lot of hardships. There's some life And what I've observed and I know in my life and other people's lives that are in this work They have many hardships and I can think of I can think of quite a few readers That I've known that have gone through really difficult Life struggles and we could say that there just it's just life life just happens. We can say that But it seems like to me that people in this field of a light worker tend to get Faced with a little bit more And I say this because I think you have to understand the people that are coming to you You have to understand what they're going through. You have to understand a lot of different things and how it feels And there's something about

32:32 There's experience and learning but there's breaking down of resistance There's breaking down like a human programming and breaking down judgment So you can accept new information. You can accept new teachings and learnings and not everyone Can do this naturally like I feel like I've been kind of smacked a few times by the universe to Open myself up more and not be so stubborn and to be more teachable and to listen and to trust So I've seen this in a lot of people in this work And I think what's sometimes missing is The grounded Centered balance and that comes from trust Trust is the big one And that's the thing with with my journey is that I really have trusted and I think Something hit me not long ago. I was watching a show with something I'm always watching the inner outer worlds the profound consciousness stuff, but You know, I I was watching somebody and maybe Maybe I have no awareness that You know, I was gay because I don't actually believe I don't believe I am I believe I just love people and I don't see a difference I didn't have a problem being with a man and I certainly don't have a problem being with a woman

33:51 But I think we have all this judgment that we get stuck in and I But what I would say that I've learned recently is that I had a lot of anger towards my family And it was the way they behaved and not all of them obviously but uh, but many but it was the The racist homophobic chauvinist like all those things were they were Like painful for me. Oh my gosh, and don't you find now knowing what you know If somebody is talking that way, it's like it it actually hurts you like it physically hurts It hurts your energy field But then if you feel it almost in your body like an like like an allergic reaction Like I got to get out of here. Well, I'm the underdog girl too, right? I I always I see I see everyone's pain. I see everyone's hardship And I think that now I realized that at a very young age. I felt different And I didn't know it to the level. I understand it today But I I guess now I'm really grateful that they were all those things because It gave me the awareness and taught me and I was a fighter. I was like, I've always Stood up for what I believed in my whole life. I I do not have a hard time with

35:09 Anything that I am and I I'm totally comfortable with what you do and I've I've been your best advocate, you know I I go into places that people don't know me from anywhere and I have no problem introducing myself Who I am what I do and who you are and what we do together and I'm I'm so grateful that I can honor and own everything I am And uh, that has been a lifelong journey for me Because of the way I grew up because of the relationships I've had and and I still love is always the thing that Fills me in a way that I know what I'm connected to. Mm-hmm. I know the resources I have I know the pool I have the pull from Energetically and I use that to my benefit all the time and my biggest gift is that The more I can own that the more I can give that to the universe and help more people feel Internally like that they love themselves and they love their life and they love The way they choose to to walk it. But that's it. The thing is is What is actually holding us back because ourselves?

36:20 Well, because here's the thing The really is the really is nothing to be afraid of no if you know So here's what always gets me is Somebody out there who says that they're a spiritual teacher or a leader or a light worker of some type or a healer or whatever But they are so full of fear That everything they put out has that element of fear like somebody is out to get you Or if you don't do this, right that you're gonna suffer and I constantly am frustrated with this Because if you are truly connected to all that is Then you know that everything happens exactly the way it should in every moment. There are no accidents No mistakes and no coincidences So we knowing that you have this sacred plan and this the soul energy Knowing this okay, it doesn't mean there isn't space for free will It doesn't mean I do believe that we have a soul plan But I do believe that there's an intensity to each choice And you don't have to follow the intensity of each lesson You can learn the lesson with less intensity if you learn the lesson faster or if you're more teachable So

37:36 We know that there is a divine plan. We know that everything in some ways everything has already happened You know in in the energy sense We are experiencing it on a slower vibration So if we know that we are connected to oneness if we know that our job is to trust If we know there's a plan And the plan is playing out perfectly Then why are we inciting fear in people? Why are we saying to people? Oh, no, no, if you don't do all your spiritual work right now, you're gonna be in trouble You know, look what's coming and like and if you don't eat this and all if you eat that and and to me I find people My rule of thumb is whole food Right, so I try to eat whole food one like one food ingredient like if you want an apple eat an apple Right, you know, don't go and buy something that is apple like or has apples in it But it's not like just eat one ingredient Oh, and I'm from the age where we drank out of the garden hose You know and dropped our candy in the ground and wiped it off and ate it Oh my god, I think we even like licked it off Oh, listen, I spit out the dirt and still ate the candy because who wastes candy. Come on

38:53 As kids you certainly don't because you know, I don't know about you but we did not have a lot of candy when we were kids but I think the fear that I see in And not just like in everyone even the spiritual community and the other thing I see is that You know, I do treatments on people and and I'm I'm good at what I do because I can guarantee you the one thing You're going to feel when you come to see me is you're going to feel loved You're going to feel taken care of somebody listened and moved thing as much as possible out of your body But the thing I see is People want this one hit wonder they want to come and oh, it's all done and I see it in them They you know, they'll come and they have an incredible treatment But it's like they don't want to do the work and that's the gift. The gift is in the doing Yes, there's no time limit Right, there's no time limit and there's no there's nobody like if we know the time doesn't exist in the spirit world As it exists for us Then why are people wanting things in a certain time when it when it is a spiritual act, right?

40:01 And and this is the thing babies do not walk before they're supposed to right and a spiritual path You have many things that have to fall into place before you can move to the next step And so it's like when I'm teaching mediumship And I have a student who maybe they're struggling with something maybe they're stuck in place Maybe they feel like they can't move forward Trust that you can trust that sometimes You know, if you have thought about something inside note and you don't see a way forward Then maybe the choice is to let go of the energy of what you want to happen Just let go of the energy of the outcome and allow the universe to show you the way Because maybe you're not thinking about it the right way. Maybe you're not moving the right way Maybe you actually need to have more things fall into place before you can take that path And patience is okay. You know, it's okay to be patient. It's okay to wait We talk about how the universe loves action But we often talk about that because people have so many fears that when they get a message from the universe They don't follow it We're talking like if you feel like you're getting no messages Maybe the message is that you're supposed to rest and have patience and trust that everything will play out when it's supposed to

41:17 Because you don't know you don't know you could be waiting for somebody else's plan to unfold Maybe someone else in your life. You're only part of their lesson. Maybe it's not even your lesson at all And this is the place where I have to say that I Have to really restrain myself when we have people In the spiritual community that are coming forward as an authority Okay, they have they have power they have control because they're an authority in the in the work But then they say things like You know, oh Don't don't eat that thing because that is that's not good for you or don't do that thing because that will affect you Or don't talk to that person or don't listen to this or don't listen to that music Or don't it we could go on for days the power of thought is so so powerful right And it can it can take you out It can create, you know, I I feel sad that people don't know what makes them happy I it makes me sad when I talk to clients about mirror work where you stand in front of the mirror and make it And what's the dialogue going through and you know How can we say we're the spiritual beings when we can't even look ourselves in the eyes and say hey

42:35 I love you. Thank you for carting me around all this time. And you know, I'm You know that my dialogue is like I look at myself naked and go Wow, like Your body you put it through a lot And I have not always been in the awareness. I'm in today. So, you know, we've done a lot to ourselves We've had we've drank liquor. We've had the junk. We've we've done all of it You know, all of us we we go as far one way or the other way as we can possibly Allow ourselves, but where I've settled is I love whole food. I love color I I get excited about growing things and I get excited about Baking things because they're all natural, but I guarantee you I do not lose sleep over You know, uh baking a beautiful carrot cake full of to me It's healthy because it's got carrots in it. It's healthy because I made it full of love It's healthy because I chose to take my time to create something for somebody I love And share it with them and I don't care about the calories in it If your mind tells you it's terrible and oh, it's gonna hurt you then it will Love is the best ingredient and so here's the thing There are our thoughts are so important

43:52 And when you are in a place where you start spiraling and thinking the fearful things You can stop You can be aware and all you have to do is in a good moment I wouldn't do this when you are spiraling, but In a good moment. I want you to speak to your body speak to your energy field And say if anything enters if any energy enters my awareness That isn't for me and doesn't support me. I want to be alerted And then what happens is you're around a toxic friend and they start talking and saying terrible things and gossiping And then all of a sudden your energy field Alerts you sometimes it's like a feeling in your field and then sometimes it actually gets in To your body and then you start to get a little You know agitated a little queasy or a little bit like off You just feel off and you don't like it and you just want it to stop That's your signal. That's your signal to get out, you know get away and the This feeling that We can we need to commit To choose the better feeling which means we need to commit to choose the better thought It means that we also have to trust we have to trust that what's coming for us is in our highest good

45:10 It is in our learning And I was talking to Kim before we started and I said well, what do what do people do? Like if they're stuck in this feeling like in a feeling like well, I'm on this spiritual path but now what what am I supposed to do or this is too hard and I don't know what to do and It's like we come back to the same things all the time That you need to do the work You need to do the work and the work is Self-work and it's hard and people don't like it But you need to meditate and connect with yourself. So the mirror work is perfect Standing in front of a mirror and Finding all the ways you can speak to yourself in a good way And starting to shift all the negative things you say to yourself because the negative things you say to yourself inform your body Informs your body and your mind how to act, right?

46:01 So that that Getting in touch with yourself whether you do whether you do meditation whether you get out in nature But it's this listening. It's deep listening and awareness and then Changing the thought patterns. So the energy is better. Mm-hmm. And then you start to feel Like okay, maybe I can do this. Maybe I'm strong enough for this. Maybe this makes more sense now. Hmm, you know Well, and and one of the things that I love about life is that I actually don't mind being uncomfortable So if I'm getting pushed into a wall You know your first instinct is you're ready to fight especially if you're somebody like me because I've had to fight in my life many times but if you just hold off And kind of just kind of sink in The lesson usually is so much easier Than you think it is because we put all this energy on everything Lots of energy, right? But really It's it's the it's those moments where you go. Okay, wait a second. What if Or how how could I have done that differently or what kind of outcome am I looking for?

47:13 You know, we don't if I'm an observer of people and that's one of the things I do constantly is I observe people but what I'm observing is couples who aren't You know, they're not intimate enough I I do intimacy work in my practice as well And I have no problem with it because to me it's like this beautiful exchange of energy between two people that love each other And it doesn't happen enough and a lot of it is Women are working full time. They're you know, they're still doing the supper every night They're getting groceries or paying bills and we need to teach our partners whether they're male or female It doesn't matter our partners. We need to be on the same page. We need to be saying Hey, what can I do to make your day lighter or this moment lighter?

48:00 Oh, we got some we got some sirens going by her But I think that we stay trapped and we're not taught to deal with stuff We're not taught to be uncomfortable. We're not taught and the thing I love about our relationship and And I'm sure it wasn't always easy because I'm somebody who I want to unpack it I want to take it out. I want to put it on the table. I want to say hey What the hell was this all about because I want it done. I want to move on I don't you know, that's one thing you've said to me many times is how do you switch gears so fast? I love the feeling of love I love the feeling of hope Yeah, and I want to fill my life with it. So like I said in past podcasts, it's not that I've never been depressed I've been depressed I've experienced it. I've seen it, but it's not a feeling I like so in a moment of weakness I can feel any emotion I can be angry. I can feel anything But I love that I can then go It's very short But I can go to the place where I go. Oh, you're tired or you're in pain Or you're lonely you you miss your grandkids or your kids or you miss whatever it is Could be I miss the beach, but that's being in tune right with yourself, right?

49:13 And then you can identify What's not right and then you then you go to the place where what what's the better feeling thought here The better feeling thought is I can't see my grandkids today But I can call them and then I will see them in a week or so or whatever it is Like you switch your energy over when you can find that better feeling thought and There was always simple truths that helped me with this And one of those very simple truths is that And you said this earlier that we don't have to know it all right That takes the pressure off me. Yeah, like that's the kind of person. I am and I've always been that way is that You know when I was a little kid I could look around me and observe people and I would think You know, I'm so grateful for everything in my life and But I've known that there's better people than me that have been treated worse And you know, I really feel grateful that I can have the awareness that I do and I can You know, I can choose To to do and be the person I want to be each every day. That's it. And the thing is is you are here For your own purpose Your soul is here to find what makes your vibration sing what makes it the highest what you can offer to the world

50:32 But you're not here to be somebody that you're not right So you're only here to live in the vibration that you came with and to allow yourself to grow in it And to kind of work on yourself But you're not meant to go out and like drive yourself crazy trying to learn things When somebody comes to me and they say, oh, do you know about this or you know how to do this? And I don't I'm honest. I said no, I don't because I know a lot of things But I don't have to know everything right people you only vibrate what you know So people can only come to you in this work for what you know because you can't vibrate what you don't know Well, and to take it one step further When we realize that we are connected to divine consciousness and love Everything is possible because in that moment you're in a place where you're saying hey I am a piece of the whole And that means that whatever is possible for one is a is possible for all the only thing is your environment or your You know family your dynamics has taught you to believe the way you have Yes, and my our goal in doing this podcast and you teaching mediumship and me teaching Reiki is

51:49 To raise consciousness Well, your soul exactly elevate consciousness because your soul has many pieces and parts And it's not just the part that's focused into this human body So if you think about that you think you are here in this life for a specific purpose and You know we're going to go back to like you you know, we signed up for this We agreed to this you gotta trust you know We agreed to serve the universe and so you got to trust it But the thing is if you agreed to that then you already came here for a higher purpose Which means you're always going to be asked to to follow the higher calling and the higher calling Means that you must be more resilient Right means that you must rise to the occasion that it is going to be hard Nobody said this was going to be easy And if anybody tells you it's going to be easy because oh as soon as you are in the flow everything comes to you That's BS that doesn't work And we know it doesn't work and we know that the only thing consistent in this life is change And you have to be willing to move and kind of roll with it and Look at things and go okay. Well, I don't really like what happened, but what did I take from it?

53:05 What's the other side of this you can be angry? It's this isn't about not letting yourself be upset or angry or mad or depressed or whatever it is This is about Don't stay there. Don't take a vacation there Look at where you are and then try to move in the better on the better path in the better way Well, and the more you learn to trust The more you understand your true essence of who you are and what you came here for And that is that is the Most powerful thing, you know, you start you trust things more so you don't give things as much power They don't have the energy that they had before you didn't you don't have that awareness And that's the beauty of awareness is in a moment everything can shift You know everything can Evolve to a place where you go wow I thought that was so big But that is actually nothing Oh, that's just a bleep in time right and the the earthly things That we think we need or we're working towards Are not important unless they are part of your lesson Uh, listen, so so you as a you as a soul Yep, you know, you have many important things that you need to do

54:21 But what you're doing on earth is expanding your consciousness Elevating yourself learning and hopefully inspiring other people in the process And those are the important things So if in that sense We we are living in kind of like a simulation Because none of the physical things are actually important unless they are teaching you something on your spiritual path So we if we are in this simulation together and we're all here Then what's happening in the simulation is not as important as the deep spiritual learning So you know that if things aren't working out well And it's an earthly thing, you know, it's like a 3d problem Then you know that that problem it's not as important as how you feel It's not as important as who you are what you stand for and how you grow And that's one of the most important things to know Is yes, you you're supposed to trust and know like there's a plan and all that But you need to know that The awareness is that what some of the things that you think are important are not important at all

55:39 And sometimes you learn that through walking through it and you thought it was important But it's like wow that really wasn't such a big deal But then some simple like I'm always captivated by By little kids and how open they are and how loving they are and how easy they love and I mean They're as close to heaven as you can get I guess so they have this beauty about them, but It's it's always I just think about something that just happened when I was home where the kids were like really cranky at night And you know people give them too much sugar and don't think about the food they're feeding them sometimes and You know, they they get agitated and stuff. So My thing is I love to be silly and but I have to be careful because then I get them all read that before they're going to bed But then their parents are like, what did you do?

56:30 I always wanted my kids to go to bed happy and I'm still that person today Laura and I like if we had to talk about anything I hate talking at night because I I love I actually create an energy for myself every night And I'm a little bit strict about it because to me I want to go to bed With a fall heart and I don't want to feel Stressed and because that's this I don't like it sleep. Think about how much we sleep Yeah, it is pretty important that you set your energy before you go to sleep And all I want to say to kind of wrap this up is to say that Your goal as a spiritual being When you decide that you are on a spiritual path and you are here to honor it Your your goal is always to learn evolve And grow on this soul path on the spiritual path And so if you can look at everything is happening for your growth and understanding That yes, things are hard and sometimes things are not good And sometimes you don't know what's stopping you or what's keeping you stuck But know That you are a spiritual being first

57:45 And these things that are you know Earthly human 3d problems are not really problems to your spirit itself And we need to start to separate things and learn that Everything is happening for us so we can grow and change So we can move on the path the way that we decided to before we came here And if you're doing that you are a strong soul That has chosen this Path it didn't happen by accident Which means you already have everything you need to live this life And another really good sign is Pay attention to your anger and frustration because The more you trust and the more you walk On the path that that is the one that feels right for you You don't feel those things anymore or I should say you don't feel them very often Yeah, so pay attention to your feelings and what what is the fight in your head?

58:44 And how can you lessen that by paying attention and giving yourself space to just be Perfect We'll talk to you next week If you're interested in contacting Kim for soul awakening coaching Please contact her at mksoulcoaching.com If you'd like to check out my website and everything that I do, please go to laurawarrenmedium.com