Coping With Change With Laura Powers

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Hey everybody. Welcome back to another episode of the Conscious Pivot podcast. I'm your host, Adam Markell. I'm feeling incredibly blessed, as you probably are accustomed to hear me say, if you've listened to any of my podcasts previously, I really think that going to gratitude is the absolute end all be all of life and a good day. Life can be challenging on a great day. You know, it's just, it's glorious, it's divine. And gratitude is just something that constantly, constantly, constantly is a grounding device for me. And so I am going to gratitude in this moment for so many reasons. We, Randy and I had the experience of taking our youngest daughter to college yesterday. So going to a beautiful school and having beautiful experiences and thinking back to the time when I was having those experiences personally as a college student, and that's a while ago at this point, and one of those amazing experiences was actually meeting Randy, meeting my wife in college. It's shocking, shocking that that is just literally a second ago. It's in time and space collapse. I, I feel and to me, that is a minute ago. And I am, you know, can identify with that person. And so being there yesterday and seeing our youngest daughter getting ready to embark on those experiences, it took me back to that. It made me stop and take stock in the time that has in fact passed. And it gave me pause to even consider the transition, the transition into this new phase of our lives that we're, you know, that's known as empty nesting or we're empty nesting. I don't know what the heck that means other than we have freedom to do whatever we want. We're alone. And that's such a cool, cool thing in some ways. And it, and it's also one of these things where I go, oh my goodness, what will we ever do with all that freedom? So I'm sitting here taking that in right now, feeling, feeling really good to be able to share that with all of you because I know some of you are going through just experiencing different transitions in your life. And we have, our oldest daughter is getting married in a couple of weeks. So lots of transitions here. And I feel incredibly blessed that not only to be able to have an opportunity to share some of those things and find out from you guys what is going on with all of you. And when you leave your comments, when you leave comments on the website, when you leave comments, reviews and things, of course it allows us to connect with you and find out what's going on in your world. So I invite you to do that, to leave a comment, to share what transitions and pivots and things you are experiencing right now and what it is that you are doing in the process of that. How are you processing those things? I have a guest this morning that is she's an expert at that. She helps business owners and business leaders process a lot of things to be able to gain clarity. And she does it in a very different way. I don't want to say a unique way, because I think there are quite a lot of people these days who are more and more recognizing some of their own intuitive abilities. And this topic that we're going to dive into today is not something that's so unusual any any longer, although I still think it is definitely not. It's not commonplace and there's still a lot that's not understood about it. And there's a lot of room for people to explore and grow from it. So I will first tell you, her name is Laura Powers, and Laura is a celebrity psychic who's been featured on BuzzFeed and NBC and ABC and CBS and Fox, just to name a few. She helps people receive guidance and communicate with their loved ones. Ever since she was a child, Laura has seen and sensed ghosts and spirits. And she has learned how to manage those experiences and now uses her experience communicating with angels, spirits and other energy beings to help her clients better understand and change their lives. And just before we started the show, Laura and I were talking about how prevalent change is, not just the prevalence of change, but the velocity of change that's happening in the world and how people are in fact dealing with that, how they are transitioning. And either they're doing things to consciously create more resilience in the face of that kind of onslaught of disruption at times, or how it is that potentially they're feeling the pressure of that and being even maybe worn out and exhausted by it. And Laura helps a lot of people in that space, a lot of people in business, a lot of entrepreneurs, to get through some of those times and not just get through them, but really find clarity to thrive. So, Laura, thank you so much for being on the show this morning. It's a pleasure.

Oh, thank you for having me. I'm so happy to be here.

Yeah, way cool. So I read a bit about you from the bio and all that kind of thing. And usually those bios, they're prepared by our marketing folks and all that, you know, all true and the like, but is there something that's not written in that bio that you would love for people to know about you?

Yeah, I guess I would just say that I had a kind of a wild childhood growing up, you know, seeing and sensing things that other people didn't see. I thought maybe I was crazy because other people didn't experience things the way that I did. I tried to block it out for many years and was fairly successful in the sense that I stopped seeing and sensing things pretty completely and then ended up in a bad place in my life. I was unemployed, I was physically ill. I was in a bad marriage, just really lost. And I went to a psychic and of course I didn't tell her about all the things I'd seen growing up. And she said, well, when you blocked out that, you. You also blocked out your intuition, you blocked out the light, which made sense. So instead of learning how to handle all this stuff that was coming at me, I basically was like, you know, put on a blindfold and just try to figure it out. And that's when I ended up in this very bad place in my life. And then I set about opening back up psychically. I learned about angels. I invited them into my life. I had this incredible angelic visitation experience and just did a really big pivot. So bring that up because, you know, that's the topic a lot of times of your show made a huge change in my life. I've been working in politics and higher education and then went to working as a psychic. So in terms of world, you don't get much different than politics and psychics. So anyway, it's. So my life ever since then have been very magical. And I'm really passionate about how people helping people understand how to access their own abilities and intuition as well as understand, you know, how the sort of spiritual realm and the physical realm interplay.

Yeah. You had said to me just before we turned on the microphone that change is really fast paced right now. So, I mean, have you sensed that? Did you sense it beforehand? Is there, what's. What is it about change and the pace of change that's got your attention?

Well, I think, you know, there's a couple things. One, you know, are you Familiar with the idea of the, like the universe actually expanding, that it's growing, I've heard, like this, this is happening. And what's interesting is it's happening at a faster and faster rate, which is kind of mind boggling when you think about it. So that's literally happening. Like this is everything is expanding, you know, everything that is in our.

The physical universe.

Yeah, yeah, the physical universe is expanding. And then on top of that, we have, you know, this incredible change that's happening as a result of technology. I mean, you think about this from the perspective of communication or how long it would take, you know, something to transpire from even a few hundred years ago, you know, if you wanted to get a message from, you know, Europe to, you know, the United States, you know, you had to go on a boat. You know, that's a really long trip. And now it's like this microsecond, you know, with technology. And you know, as a result of that, change is happening faster. And as technology shifts, it's happening faster and faster. And so you see this in the kind of micro and the macro. People that maybe had one career in their lifetime before, and now people are changing multiple times, you know, and it's great. I think it's a wonderful thing because on the one hand, you don't have to be stuck in something that isn't what you like. But on the other hand, it can feel like a lot for us to, you know, kind of process, especially at a body level.

Yeah. So maybe we'll dig into that because I think to me, that's one of the things that is working in our experience that we aren't necessarily able to work with because we're unaware of it. And that thing that we're unaware of is how it is that our bodies and our spirits and our emotional body and all of that. How are we processing the speed of the change that's happening? And even as you just pointed out, which I hadn't been thinking about at all, is this ever expansion, the expansion of the universe, are we able to process that? Are we having difficulty processing that? And what have you noticed about that? And where do your own intuitive or your innate gifts, where do they show up to help inform people about that, that challenge?

Yeah. So I think it's important more than ever to be really grounded in our bodies. And I mean, it is interesting because I think it's been known for a long time through certain people at least that things like meditation and mindfulness are really helpful. But because change is happening more quickly we need to be even more conscious and aware than we have in the past because it's kind of like if you're moving really fast, then something that's slightly off target can like have a much bigger, like way further off track. Like, you know, you hit something going 10 miles an hour and it's slightly off, you're going to go not so far. You hit something like 1,000 miles an hour or whatever, 100 miles an hour and it's slightly off, you're going to be farther off track than you want to. So I think being really conscious and aware, calm, grounded, doing things. So regardless of whatever seems to happening, to pause consciously in our days and check in to make sure that we are going where we want to go. So that when we are moving so fast, we're going to the destination that we are intending to go to.

Yeah, I want to pause there both for myself to take that in and for others that are thinking to themselves right now, wow, that was really interesting what Laura just said. That if, let's say we're traveling down the road and we're intending to go one place and we're traveling at 10 miles an hour and we're a little bit off target, maybe 5 or 10 degrees off target. How far? At a certain point, let's make the Constant sort of 10 minutes, you travel 10 minutes in a certain direction that's off, that's not on target and you travel 10 minutes at a rate of 10 miles an hour, you're going to be a certain distance from that target. Now, math was never my strong suit, but I'm teasing, right?

But it's not going to be that far.

It's not going to be that far. But if you're going 100 miles an hour or you're going 1,000 miles an hour in that same period of time, that same 10 minutes, you just blown my mind, Laura, because seriously, because think about the difference in where you will end up, where you will be if you're off target. And I think that's a really interesting way to look at the fact that change is happening so rapidly now and with all of that and the fact that I think people are inundated with so much communication, so much information that they are just a bit dizzy anyway, so it's easier to get off target now than it was 50 years ago, I think when there was so much less to distract us. Is that fair? Do you?

I think so. I think, you know, everything that's happening now is kind of like a double edged sword. There's some amazing aspects, but there's also some extra challenging aspects. And the other thing is, I feel like in the past things would, you know, when there were issues, they would show up. But I feel like now, when again, you're kind of like off target, if you want to use that same analogy, it shows up really fast. And I've noticed this in my life, even say from 10 years ago or 20 years ago, if something wasn't aligned, it would show up, but it might take like several years for me to be like, wow, this really isn't what I want to do. And now it'll be like a day, a week, you know, where something will show up and the misalignment kind of pops up really fast. And on the one hand, that can feel frustrating, let's say if you feel like you're trying to gain traction and it's some things aren't working. But on the other hand, it's like you don't have to go for very long before you've realized if something isn't going to be in alignment with you and your energy. And so I think there's a good side to that too, which is you get. You have the opportunity to more quickly. Course, correct?

Yes. What I wrote down when you were speaking was the faster. The other piece of that is that you get faster feedback.

Oh, yeah. It's like almost instant sometimes. It's kind of amazing.

But here's the question, and this may be a great lead into what you do and what your very unique gifts are. And that is that if you're not present. So if you're not present, you could go off 10, 10 minutes at 100 miles an hour, be in a very different place than if you were going slower. Right. But if you complete. If you're not present to the fact that you're misaligned or there's a misalignment or something like that, then it could be 20 minutes, it could be an hour before you have any clue that you are misaligned, right?

Well, yeah. Well, I think maybe you might consciously not recognize it, but there will be signs in your life. And so if you, for example, feel like you keep running against a wall in something or you're not making progress in an area, then it's probably that there's something like this that maybe you're kind of going off in that direction that isn't the one that's really quite right. You're slightly off, but you just maybe don't have that understanding. So in my case, that's what happened to me, I had shut down my intuition, and I basically was just kind of running myself into this path that was really not the aligned path for me. You know, there was. There were lessons I was learning, and so it was valuable in that way. But it wasn't like, this is where. This is where your. Your kind of goodness in life is. And then things just seem to get worse and worse and worse because I was kind of continuing to go up on, like, going down the, you know, kind of broken path that's not really. Really not a well maintained road. Yeah, I went. Took a wrong turn and I'm going down this, like, you know, dark alley with a lot of, like, creepy stuff.

Around and your foot pressed to the press, to the floor.

Exactly, exactly. So I think we get signs. It's just sometimes you don't understand them. And that's what I want to help people understand is how to. How to pay attention to that, how to know we're off, how to get back on that, you know, that path, so to speak.

So I want to talk about it in two, with two words that start with S. So first of all, the signs and the solution. So I'd love to know what some of the signs are in your experience and how it is that you are able to sense or determine or discern the signs that other people are not able to. And that's where we'll. We can talk about exactly your role as a clairvoyant. What is a clairvoyant? How does clairvoyant see differ from mediumship, for example, etc. I would love to. Let's talk about signs.

Okay, so we receive signs, you know, so many different ways in our life. You know, that the universe is constantly communicating with us, which may seem like a strange idea to some people, but, you know, it's communicating with us through people in our lives. So things people say through things we see and hear. So, you know, something you hear on the radio or a bumper sticker you read or a book that's referenced or a place animals will communicate with us. There's communication through numbers that keep popping up, and then you can look those numbers up and receive a message. So this is happening all the time. And one of the things I've been shown as a psychic, that for every time we even receive a message, it's probably been sent to us like a hundred times, that most people just kind of aren't paying attention. They don't kind of speak that language. They don't know to listen. And then in terms of how I can help people with that is I can literally see angels and spirit guides and communicate with them directly. So that's something that most people have never cultivated. I actually believe that most people have way more abilities in this area than they know that they do because we just aren't taught this. I mean, I would love this vision of the future where, you know, when kids are learning the ABCs, they're also learning how to meditate and learning about psychic abilities and learning to tune in for themselves and pay attention to their bodies, because our bodies are communicating stuff with us all the time. So even if you're not using and understanding those signs, at the very least, pay attention to your body. Your body is so wise and has so much to share with you.

Are there some classic signs? I mean, I'm sure there are too many signs to possibly enumerate, but are there some classic signs that you think people don't pay attention to that they could? You mentioned the body as an example.

Oh, sure. So, you know, physical illness in the body is often trained to tell us something or aches and pains, and sometimes it's something we just need to experience through patterns and through time to understand. But I'll give an example just because it's so interesting. So I have had a couple of times where I had some pretty major back pain and would do what you would typically do, go to the chiropractor, whatever, and just wasn't getting better. And it wasn't even a situation where, like, oh, I picked something up and there was an obvious correlation of injury to pain. You know, something that triggered said feeling in my back. And then it was through paying attention to, you know, kind of what was happening in my life and then doing a little bit of research. So looking up, like, what? Because I do believe that different pains and physical illnesses often will represent a pattern of things in our lives. So what I basically came to realize is that when I was having this back pain, that there was some kind of pattern or relationship in which I was feeling unsupported. And when we're feeling unsupported, ultimately, the truth is we're allowing for that. So, yes, that doesn't mean that there isn't someone or something in our life that is having this unsupporting energy, but it's our lack of boundaries with that situation that is allowing that in. So in the first situation where I hurt my back, I was still continuing communication with an ex of mine where it was like I needed to just cut that off because it was Just toxic and unhealthy. And then when I did that, my back got better. And then the second time, it was a kind of similar situation with. With a client and personal contact where it was like. It was just interesting because I finally made this connection, like, why is my back hurting? And then I realized the pattern with this person was the same as the one with my ex. Some of the communication patterns, things were popping up, and I was like, oh, I just need to release this person. And then my back almost immediately started to feel better. So, you know, paying attention and learning that when there's something going on in our body, there is something that our kind of unconscious mind, our physical self, is trying to tell us. And, you know, what happens in most cases is people get upset. Even with their body. They get upset and they kind of send negative energy to their body. And maybe go to healers that are really just looking at the physical. And I think the best healers are the ones that are acknowledging that sort of emotional state, spiritual component. Yes, do take care of the physical. You know, I'm not saying not to go to doctors. Go to doctors, you know, maybe go to chiropractor, whatever it is that's happening with you. But at the same time, if you're not also addressing the other side, it's likely that you're not going to be getting the healing that you need.

Yeah, Laura, really important that I think we understand if there are signs, like language, like, if we can't read a particular language, then we need somebody to interpret that language for us. And so it seems like there are plenty of signs that we also ignore because we just don't interpret signs.

Yeah, we don't even know to listen, you know, and so that's. That's why I really want to help people understand this. So, for example, in terms of the body, body stuff, what is your body telling you with various illnesses or pains, things like that. There's a lot of online articles and things. And then in terms of a book, I recommend the book youk Can Heal youl Life by Louise Hay, which breaks down some kind of general terms. So, like, what does it mean if you have a sinus infection or, you know, skin issues or whatever? And at least then it'll kind of point you in the direction of maybe the general area. You will still have to pinpoint in your life, like the specifics that's triggering it. But I recommend for people to start paying attention to their body or even, you know, when you're around certain people, do you feel heavy? Do you feel light, do you feel a pain in your chest, you know, etc. All these things are really important to pay attention to. And then, and then there's this external sign. So how the world around us is interacting with us. And we are getting those signs all the time. And, and it's a conversation. So just, just like communication with us, the universe is communicating with us and we can ask for clarification. That was one of the interesting things when I started was learning how you can ask for signs and when and if you're getting them, if you're not sure, you can ask for clarification or it to be sent in a different way. And some of the ways that it will come in will be, you know, quite striking and profound and also sometimes really funny, but very direct. So I've had many, many experiences with this where the sort of answers that I received were so specific that it was kind of unreal.

Would you mind sharing an example of that?

Oh, sure. So one time I was feeling like I was getting the message to travel this particular trip and I just asked for a sign. And then I was driving and I was living in Burbank at the time, and I drove by this travel agency that I, by the way, had never seen before. And the name of the travel agency was Travel Laura. It was like, okay, well, I guess that's pretty clear, you know, so, you know, it can be so darn specific that it's, it's, it's hilarious. And the angels do have a very strong sense of humor. And, you know, I recommend paying attention to signs and again, paying attention to how things feel in your body. You know, one of the most powerful things we can do is, you know, do maybe like a meditation, you know, release any just kind of pent up energy that we have in our energy field and then to check in. So let's say we're trying to make a decision. I'm trying to decide between option A and option B. You know, just sit in your body. How does it feel to do the first option? How does it feel to do the second option? And basically, if you can access that and just pay attention to even the subtle feelings in your body, thoughts that you have, impressions, it can help you basically look forward into actually taking that step. What would that feel like? And if you can trust yourself, you can help use that to make decisions. So, for example, I got my certificate to, to teach English in Spain. And when I was looking at the different schools, there were like 13 schools. It was like, oh my gosh, how Would you even compare all those? There's just so many. And so all I did was like, I literally just tuned into each one, kind of felt the energy of each one. And through that I was able to pick one that was truly magical. I mean, some of the people that I met through that school, this was about 10 years ago, I'm still in contact with now. And it was really very synchronistic. Wonderful place. Because of course, any decision that you make is not just about that one thing. It's also about the people that you meet and, you know, the things that one fold from that one thing. So, you know, in a way where you eat, you know, the route you take home, you know, the school, you. All these things have this kind of ripple effect in a lot of different areas that you might expect. So I really recommend for people to use their intuition in all different kinds of life choices.

Do you, in your work, do you train people on some level to actually use their intuition?

I do, because of course, just like anything, it's so helpful to have someone walk you down that and help you understand the different things that are happening. So I teach group classes when I'm on location at various places, and then I do a lot of one on one training, which is extremely powerful with students, where we'll, you know, work through a series of times just learning, you know, kind of basic psychic tools, you know, how to do it safely, what their particular gifts are. Because like you mentioned, clairvoyance, like, clairvoyance is one particular psychic ability. And clairvoyance means clear seeing in French, and that means seeing psychically. So you see, you know, psychically in the spiritual realm. You know, it's believed to be in the pineal gland, which is in the third eye in the brain. And that could be that you see things in your mind's eye. It could be seeing things in the physical. Some people are empaths, which means they feel emotions and energies outside of their body, in their body. Some people have what's called psychometry, where you, you know, you would literally get information from like holding something and touching it, like through your, through your skin. Some people are clairaudient, where they hear. So and a lot of times these things are subtle until you've learned how to tap into it. So I think it's important to learn some general kind of psychic principles as well as, like how you in particular operate and then practice that. So, you know, what we have now is a lot of people with an incredible amount of natural ability, and they've never Received any trainings. They are essentially handicapped in the sense they just don't even know what to do. They just can't move forward in that particular area because they don't have the experience or practice.

It seems to me that in the world that we were describing, talking about earlier, one that's moving so quickly, where if you're off target, the sort of. The implication is that it could be pretty harsh or more harsh than it might have been when we were going slower. And obviously we said then the plus side of that is when we're dialed in or we can sense that we're off, that the feedback is coming so much more quickly that we can then course correct, which is so key in any area. Right. The linchpin seems to be this idea of being able to get that clear thinking, to be able to get that ability to sense. My dad gave me advice when I left for college. Start of the show, I was talking about going to college. My dad said to me, trust your instincts. This was his only advice to me. And it was. Has still been the advice that I refer back to again and again and again all throughout my life, is how to learn. My experience is that a lot of people don't trust themselves. I've had to learn how to trust myself. And more often, trusting my instincts has led to a better decision than almost anything that my head would have created for me or that other people, you know, other people's guidance or other people's opinions would have. Would have provided. So helping someone to trust their instincts or tune in to that, to those in. To the internal signs that would provide clarity. Clear. What was clairvoyance meant? Clear thinking or no, clear, clear seeing.

Yeah, right.

Beautiful. Wow. So what's the difference between. For those that might be thinking about, you know, I've heard about a medium like the, you know, the medical medium is a really wonderful book a lot of people have read and you know, so there, you know, mediums, etc. What's the difference between a clairvoyant or the work that you do and somebody who defines themselves as a medium, for example?

Yeah, so. So a medium, which usually is short for like psychic medium, is someone who can communicate with spirits and beings from the other side. And so I am both a clairvoyant and a medium or psychic medium. And clairvoyant is a type of psychic ability. So you can have a medium that is a clairvoyant. You can also have a medium that is maybe their primary way to receive information is their clairaudient, which Means they hear messages. You can have mediums that are telepathic, so I'm telepathic as well. So they're not like, exclusive of each other, but they are related to each other. Most people, I think, when they think of mediums, tend to think of clairvoyance or someone who sees. But again, you can be a medium and receive information in different ways.

Wow. Yeah. People in business, I want to just sort of dive into that a little bit. How is it that you are able to specifically work with somebody that's in business and is, I don't know, just either wants to gain higher ground for themselves, create better results, or maybe it is that they've just not been able to get the recipe right yet to create. So maybe the one instance there's somebody who's successful but certainly isn't satisfied with that, whatever level they're at. And then there are others that are still struggling on some level to find their. Their place in the. In the winner's circle, so to speak. How do you help those?

So, yeah, I work a lot with entrepreneurs and CEOs, business leaders, and basically just using my psychic abilities for business in particular. So psychic abilities can be used for anything you can use them for, you know, looking at health or relationships, you know, looking at your life path, like what we talked about life path would be like kind of your. Are you on the track of your road, the best road for you. And then with. In business, with. With business owners, what I do is I just use my abilities to help with targeted information for them. Anything that is maybe something to help for them, to help clear an obstacle or, you know, what are their goals? How can we work with their angels and spirit guides and make some changes in what they're doing to accomplish whatever it is that they're wanting to create? And I'm just doing it simply in terms of business. And I'll do that in two ways. One, I will ask the client whatever it is that's coming up, like, what are they looking for? You know, what do they perceive as their struggles, you know, what's going well, what isn't? And then also whatever it is that I'm getting psychically that maybe they aren't even aware of. Like, you know, I had a situation recently with a client where she's looking to grow her business. And she is. She's expanding much more into, like, national, you know, getting some really big contracts for business, you know, Whole Foods and, you know, some pretty major retailers, for example. And I came up that one of her top Employees wasn't a fit, and she was going to need to let her go. And it's always interesting when things kind of play out, because, of course, sometimes when I give someone a message, they may not, you know, kind of resonate with it. And in this case, she was like, I don't know, I really like her. And then six months later, she's like, yeah, I need to let her go. It just took a while for her to kind of see those things unfold, whereas I was kind of seeing the energy. And when there's a misalignment of energy, it's just a matter of time before the physical shows up. Right. And so I can tune in and sense that and help people with getting, you know, kind of more on track more easily and with people who aren't able to kind of tap into that again. I just really recommend learning to connect with your own inner voice, learning to connect with how you receive information psychically. You know, I have a book, Diary of a Psychic, where you. There's like, some specific exercises you can do on your own if you would just want to practice that. I also offer psychic training, and then I think the first thing is just starting to really pay attention, and that will do huge things. You mentioned paying attention to your intuition. The biggest challenge for everyone, whether you're working as a psychic, doing readings for other people, or even intuiting for yourself, is that the logical mind will often just completely counteract whatever it is that you're getting. And it's almost like this battle between the logical mind and your intuition. And the more you learn to follow your intuition and things turn out well, then usually the easier it is to learn to trust that and not get pulled into that kind of logical, you know, fallacies. Don't get me wrong, logic has its place, but there are many times when. When the logical mind is overriding spiritual truth.

And it's interesting, I think, that often that logical mind is associated with more of the male or the masculine energy and intuitive or the heart space is associated with the feminine. So on that score, you know, it brings to my. You know, I have a question. Are our psychic abilities more. More common in women than in men? Is that a fallacy that there's. Because there's certainly this prevalent thought that men are more from the head and women are more emotional or driven from the heart. So what are your thoughts?

I think that it can be easier for women to access that because maybe it's more potential in their nature, but I think it's more actually that it's just more accepted for women. And I think all of us have that kind of male, female, intuitive, logical aspect to us. It's just, I think with, with men, they're less likely to be taught to kind of accept their feelings and emotions. And like what I just mentioned, emotions are tied in and our bodies paying attention to our bodies are really tied in with intuitive information. So I think a lot of it's societal and we just have to learn how to move past that. I think we're in a time where thankfully we're starting to allow and accept. For example, it used to be kind of considered unmanly for men to cry or to show emotion, which is total bs, you know. And thankfully that's starting to shift where I think most people are recognizing that that's not okay, that's not a good idea. And as that happens, it allows for men to connect in more with their feelings and therefore their intuition as well. Because a lot of times intuition will come in through feelings. You know, it's like, you know, the whole thing with like someone who's, you know, a dangerous person. And like, often people will have a feeling about that person. They will have, but their lives.

Couldn't put my finger on it. I couldn't understand. I didn't know why I felt that way. But this person just gave me the, you know, the creeps or what, or just knew something was off or whatever. Right, right.

But everything appeared fine. Maybe logical mind was like, no, I should be polite or no, it's fine, there's nothing to be afraid of, whatever. So the more we tap into the feeling, then the more easily we're able to connect with that. So I feel like that's part of what's happening with male, female. But that said, there's a lot of, you know, very well known male psychics. So I certainly don't think that women have a hold on this area. I think we.

I'm glad you said that because I think there's, there's some level of just that whole programming aspect of it and the stereotypes that are applied that will keep people from thinking, hey, I could do that, or that would help me or, you know, any of that. So let's talk about resilience for a little bit.

Okay?

Yeah. Cool. What's your, what's your beat on resilience and its importance, if at all, to you?

Oh my gosh. I think it's so important and I think, you know, what I've learned as a psychic is how so much of.

Our.

Whatever may seem to Stop or block. Our resilience is exercise external, even though it might not seem that way, Meaning our thoughts are not just our thoughts. So I think one of the biggest challenges for people is the mind stuff that comes up. You know, when you're not in the place where you want to be, or you're frustrated or things are going well, you're having challenges. The biggest obstacle that I think we can overcome is our mindset, the thought processes, the sort of patterns that we get into in our head. And I had a huge light bulb moment when I was really just opening up to my psychic abilities. And I was reading one of Eckhart Tolle's books. I think it was the power now. But anyways, one of his books, and there was a big thought in there which was, you are not.

Your thoughts might have been the new earth, maybe.

I don't know. I have to. I need to reread it again.

Either way, Both great books, right?

Both great books. Yeah. It was just kind of a revelation for me because I think I'd associated myself with the thoughts I was having so much. And the problem with that is, especially if you're telepathic and psychic, which I really am, is that your thoughts are a combination of a whole bunch of things. Your thoughts and, you know, kind of putting that in air quotes here are a combination of a whole bunch of things. So, like, when you're talking and I'm talking, I can tell when you're talking and I'm talking, right? It's like, oh, Randy's talking and then I'm talking. But when with our thoughts, if you're telepathic, it's like all this information is just constantly coming in. It's like Joe over there is talking, and maybe there's a ghost over there and your angel is talking and you're hearing something from your mom, and it's all coming in. And it's really important not to take ownership of that. So when people are going through big transitions, shifts, and struggles, it's really important not to take ownership of all the negative mind talk that might come up. And as you learn to release that and really just engage with whatever it is that you want to engage with, then that can be so powerful in terms of pivoting and changing your life. And I found that a lot of times right before really positive, powerful things are going to happen, that mind chatter can feel so negative. And I had a recent example where I was having just a very triggered day where I was having a lot of negative thoughts. And I. I was like, what is going on? I didn't have anything particularly bad happen that would make me feel like, you know, it was a bad day or whatever. But just my mindset was not great. And I kind of checked in with my guides, and they're like, something's really good is coming. And this is just. There's two things that happen. One, anything that's not aligned with a new energy vibration will clear out, will come up for clearing, and it can be kind of like spiritual detox, kind of unpleasant what's happening. And there's also some beings kind of energies that will be resistant to change and try to keep this sort of status quo. So that happened, and the next day, I got reached out to by Will Ferrell's people to be on his. His podcast, his new podcast, the Ron Burgundy Podcast.

Right.

So, you know, if you have a bad day or if something's, you know, don't take ownership of it. Just focus on what it is that you want, you know, to have in your life. And keep in mind that when you worry or stress about things, it's like praying for what you don't want to happen. Don't take ownership of those navigators things. Ask for them to be cleared and keep kind of redirecting, and through that, really major positive things can happen.

Beautiful. So if you were giving a resilience tip, let's say something by way of a ritual, something to consciously practice so that it could become a habit at some point, what would that ritual be? And maybe you can even share something that you do yourself to keep you in that. That reminded space.

Sure. So doing a meditation or a thought activity that's specifically focused on clearing out energy that's not yours can be so powerful. So I have a grounding and clearing meditation available on my website or on my podcast, Healing Powers Podcast. I also posted on there, so you can listen to it there. But even just spending a few minutes, you know, close your eyes, find a place where you can be quiet for a minute and just visualize any energy that you've absorbed that's not yours or that you're ready to release, to go deep into the earth and just spend some time doing that. Usually you'll actually feel that energy shifting and releasing, and then after that, just focus on your breath. And doing that kind of releasing is so powerful. You know, we are very taught to be here physically. We learn to clean ourselves physically. We take a shower, we brush our teeth, we wash our face, those kinds of things. But our energetic emotional and spiritual cleanliness and Care is, I think, just as important, if not more important in some ways. It's really important to do that. And again, we're just usually not taught to do that. So just spending even a few minutes a day to do that can have some really profound effects in terms of our life as a whole.

So the washing not just being external washing, but what would internal washing look like for each of us? And yeah, how powerful? You know, again, Laura, that's a beautiful visual for me. I love, I'm a water science. I love to get in the water. So the cleansing piece is really profound on that side of it. And I realized that it's never just about, you know, I like how I like to smell good. So it's certainly no, no aversion to doing what's required to smell good. But there's something more going on for me in the water than just the physical act of washing or cleansing.

Absolutely.

So finding that thing that's yours, like, so not everybody's going to be into that. Like, you know, I'm going to go in the ocean, I'm going to go surf, I'm going to go swim, I'm going to take a shower. That is an act of. It's both a physical act of cleansing, which is so obvious, but it's also something that's much more on the inside. And meditation is one of those things that you just described, something where you could close your eyes and just think about, is there something that I'm feeling is either in my field that's impacting my energy or is a voice in my head that I'm even questioning whether that's even mine? And even if you don't know, and I'd say this is just personal more than anything else, if I don't even know what it is that I want to release, that's okay too, right, Laura? Because you can ask the question, you can ask for guidance about what is there. Is there something that might serve me to become aware of and choose to let go or release?

Yes, absolutely. I mean, yeah, you don't have to, to know specifically what it is. A lot of times if you just set the intention to release your energy that's not yours or energy that yours even, that's you're ready to release that alone right there is going to be really powerful. And you know what, if you like this sort of shower or, excuse me, light water aspect, doing a meditation where you visualize kind of a shower of light coming down on you can be very powerful or being in a waterfall of Light or something like that can be a very simple and effective tool to clear your energy fields.

Beautiful, beautiful. Anything else that you want to, you know, just. I don't typically end the shows, and I'm not going to end the show in this way anyway, but. But I want to give you an opportunity to share anything else that you might, in that space of how it is that people can cultivate more resilience. Is there something else you'd like to share?

Yeah, I just. I think a lot of times people are struggling because they are making themselves too small, they're aiming too low. And strangely, sometimes something much bigger like that we think of as much bigger to accomplish is actually easier to accomplish in our life. So I see that sometimes where people are like, they're struggling, and it's like another way to think about it is they're aligned. They're not in the right aligned energy. So then things are really hard. But if they pop up to that level where their kind of soul wants to operate, then things can unfold a lot better. So sometimes people are struggling like, it's because you need to aim higher, you need to aim bigger and kind of get up to that next level. And we are way more powerful than we've been taught to think we are. And so when we can release that and just really get out, like, what is it that really kind of sets our soul on fire? What is it that we are really passionate about and then move towards that, even if we don't know how that could unfold, but just set that intention and vision, you know, ask your angels and spirit guides in the universe for help and then just start to move forward, and it's amazing what can unfold.

Was the. Was the will. The invitation from Will Ferrell's group to join his podcast one of those answers to that kind of a. Of a, you know, meditative prayer?

Yeah. Well, I mean, I had. I'll be honest, I hadn't specifically said Will Ferrell. You know, I'd love to connect with him, but I had set the intention for, like, large scale. I want to reach a lot of people, and I also don't feel like we need to suffer for our work. So I was like, I want, you know, I want to do more fun work. And, you know, it's a comedy podcast. It was great. I was still, you know, answering honestly as a psychic. So even though it was comedy, it was still, I think, people learning from, you know, what I was saying. So, yeah, you can. You don't have to, you know, say you Know, super specifically, like, I want that particular opportunity. If that particular thing is important to you, say it. But you can list, like, qualities or parameters for what it is that you want to bring in, and then, you know, open up and see what transpires. And the cool thing is, like, I didn't pitch them. They reached out to me, and, you know, you just never know what's gonna happen.

Right. Playing bigger is such a relative thing, and it means so many different things to so many people. So, yeah, I mean, we've been getting calls a lot lately. It's for a very curious thing that just in the last month or so, since we'd helped a bunch of people to get on a TED stage to do TED talks and that kind of thing, that all of a sudden that the universe is bringing us people that that's their definition of playing a bigger game, which it really is, because to stand on that little red circle is like a trippy, mind blowing, amazing growth experience. And there's a lot that can come from that. So it's so interesting that you bring that up. Well, as we wrap up, I will share my waking ritual, which I love to remind myself of and remind as many people as I possibly can. So it's a part of my commitment in doing this podcast that this is a part of the way that we feel like we can have an impact and have it be positive. So my question, which I always ask every one of my guests, Laura, is, did you wake up today?

Yes. Yes, I did wake up today. And, you know, it's an interesting time for me because I'm very busy in my life. Like, I have, you know, a lot of interviews and clients and, you know, big things I'm working on. And so I have to. I think I have to work extra hard to, you know, like we were saying, like, moving really fast. You have to make sure you're working on the right things, so I have to check in periodically. But when you work and connect with your angels and spirit guides, I think it becomes a lot easier to do that because you're receiving this regular kind of download and communication all the time. So I think that's really helpful for me that I. I can access this team of helpers that helps me do that.

Beautiful. So I hope that the question. Now I'll put the question out to everybody else. Did you. Did you wake up today? And I mean that both literally and figuratively, you know, because there's a. There's no nobody that I've ever met that if I ask this question I say, so when you went to bed last night, were you guaranteed that you would wake up today? And everybody's always got the same answer, which is that no, there was no guarantee. So it. Regardless of whether what you woke up to, the kind of day, the kind of weather, both outside and inside, regardless of that, it was a blessing. It was an unexpected miracle, really, in many ways that you woke up, that I woke up today. So in the presence of. In the face of that type of a thing, of a miracle or magic or something unexpected and something that's even sacred, it's easy to be grateful. So there's sort of three parts to my waking ritual. One is the waking itself, because, again, we got to do that, and I'm hoping and praying that we all do it again tomorrow. Right. And there's the second part of just that acknowledgment of what a blessing that is, and to be in gratitude in that moment for that blessing. And the third piece are these. These four words that I've become accustomed to saying for many, many years and have shared now with a lot of people as well. And those words are, I love my life. I love my life. Laura, what are those words?

I love my life. Is that what you're saying? I love my life. And yeah, I hope everyone else.

I love the way you put that. It was. I love my life question mark.

Is that what you're wanting?

Because I think that's really the case in so many ways for a lot of people.

Yeah.

Do I really love my life? And the question is, can you love your life no matter what? That's the thing. And so 10 seconds tomorrow, when we all wake up, if you think about it for a moment, be in gratitude and give yourself a chance to. From the bed or from the floor or whenever it is. But you take those 10 seconds to say those words out loud and feel that energy and feel what it would be. What would it be like to love your life? No question mark. No question mark. So, Laura, thank you for being a guest on the show today. Really appreciate you.

It was my pleasure. Thank you for having me.

Awesome.

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