Connecting with Your Spirit Guides & Creating Heaven on Earth w/ Rebecca Rosen

What's up, you guys? Welcome back to the podcast. I've got an amazing episode for you this week. I am joined by Rebecca Rosen. Rebecca is a spiritual medium and a bestselling author with more than 20 years of experience working as an ambassador between the spirit realm and our day-to-day world. Over the past two decades, three books, readings, and online courses, Rebecca continues to empower people to explore their own intuition and make the connections for themselves. In her new book, What's Your Heaven? Rebecca offers a powerful, positive answer to the eternal question, why are we here? And offers prompts, exercises, and thought-provoking questions, some of which we're going to get into today in this episode to help push through the roadblocks that impede your success and lead you to your own heaven on earth. In this conversation, we chat about why we are here, what happens when we die, the number one lesson we are meant to learn here on Earth as humans, how to diffuse those negative emotions when they come up and return to a neutral state, the role that your guardian angel plays in your life, how to communicate with your spirit guides and spirit team, and strengthening your intuition. Rebecca also shares some personal stories from her journey as a spiritual medium that will give you those undeniable goosebumps. So whether you are spiritually curious or already obsessed, I think you're really going to enjoy this conversation. Let's dive in. Welcome to the Makeshift Happen Podcast. I'm your host, Samantha Daly, entrepreneur, life coach, and your no BS bestie here to bring you all things mindset, manifestation, and personal development. This podcast is designed to help you expand your mind and uplevel your life, so turn the volume up and roll the windows down if you're coming along for the ride. Let's go make shift happen. Welcome to the show, Rebecca. I'm so excited to have this conversation today. As I was just kind of explaining to you offline, I feel like there's a lot of people in my audience who are very well versed in the spiritual space. And there's also some people here who are spiritually curious, meaning they're finding their, finding their footing in the, in the spiritual realm and trying to uncover and understand what they believe and what it means for their life and how it can support them to live a better life here on Earth, which is why I'm so excited to have you on the show because you are such a beautiful force and an expert on what you call Earth School and just have so many beautiful lessons to share with our listeners today. So welcome to the show. I'm so excited to have you.

Oh, thank you. I love being here. I love your audience. You know, so many people are waking up and it makes me so excited. And that is what this book is about. So I think what we'll talk about may resonate with those listeners.

Yeah. So I started reading Rebecca's book the other day on the beach. Some of you may have seen it on my Instagram stories. It's called What's Your Heaven? 7 Lessons to Heal the Past and Live Fully Now. And I'm excited to talk about some of the concepts in the book because there's so much in here that I'm like, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. People are going to eat this up. But also just to have like a fun spiritual chat because I know so many of us Enjoy that. And maybe there's not a lot of people in our lives that we can have these kinds of conversations with, or maybe they don't understand it on the same level. So I know lots of people listen into the podcast for that sort of connection of feeling understood and having an experience of like, oh yeah, there's other people out there that feel this experience, that get it. So you are— you're a really experienced medium. But I'd love for you to share maybe the story of your introduction into mediumship. And I've heard this, the really interesting part about how your grandmother played a role in that, if you wanna share that, cuz I thought that was so interesting and cool.

Yeah, I love that you're asking. This is a great story to share because it shows how initially with— this began for me when I was about 20 years old. Okay. That was 26 years ago. And I was a skeptic. I mean, I— well, let's just say this. I didn't know what I believed. I wasn't brought up in a household where we talked about spiritual stuff or psychic or paranormal at all. I was raised as a conservative Jew. I believed in God, but I didn't really know what that meant. And so I was going through a depression, and at that time, it manifested itself in what was called sleep eating. So, I mean, talk about a nightmare. Every night, sleepwalking to the kitchen and carb loading. And like, after a minute, I would wake up and be like, what am I doing? And I felt out of control. Well, back home, my father had attempted suicide. So I was down at the University of Florida. I'm from Omaha, Nebraska, so I was really far away from home. My parents were trying to protect me. They weren't telling me a lot, but I was very intuitive. I was very empathic, and I was feeling all the dis— dis-ease back home, but I was stuffing my feelings, okay? And that was my drug of choice. So after 6 months of this, my grades were slipping. I was a zombie. I, I could hardly think. I had gained 40 pounds. I was a mess. So I was praying to spirit. I was praying to something, help me. Well, one day I was at a bookstore and I was journaling my feelings, and all of a sudden this energy started talking to me. I could hear it in my head.. And then it started dragging my hand across the page for an hour in my journal. I had so much information downloading so fast, I thought my head was gonna pop. And it— and basically it was a guardian angel. And again, I'm thinking I'm crazy. And my dead grandma. And my grandma had taken her own life 10 years before that. So she was not warm and fuzzy in life. It kind of freaked me out. But the way she was coming through was so loving, supportive, and kind. And they said, hey, We hear your prayers for help. We watch you unsettled, you know, at night. We are here to help you find the healing you need from the inside out. Let us help you. So what happened was in that channeling, she said, ask your dad these 3 things only he would know to prove to you this is real and you're not crazy. Ran out of the bookstore, called my dad. One of the things was how my dad found his mom after she shot herself. Nobody knew. It's very dark. And I asked him and he said, how could you know this? You are talking to my mother. So bottom line, I made an agreement with them in spirit to work with them every day. And what that looked like was it's the basis of my first book, Spirited. I talk about how we can all do this for ourselves. And basically it's tuning, it's going within and tuning into your higher self and your connection to your team and spirit. And every day we would journal automatic writing. They would download., and they gave me a self-help prescriptive program to heal myself. Fast forward 18 months, I did the work. I graduated, um, got a degree in advertising. I was trying to get a job, couldn't. And I'm a big believer, if things don't flow, there's a reason. Okay? And so I just surrendered. I said, God and guides, like, if you want me to use this gift for others, I will. Because my grandma kept saying, you're not supposed to go into advertising. You are supposed to go help others the way I've helped you. Well, back in— this was back in 1999, and this wasn't really talked about like it is today. So I thought, oh God, it's like coming out of the closet. My family already thinks I'm crazy. But I said, okay, God, you are my publicist. If you want this to happen, you bring it to me. I'm not going to go hunt people down. So a friend of mine said, hey, how about we test it out? How about— oh, and I guess I missed a very important piece of this because it shifted me from total skeptic to total believer. When Grandma Babe said to me, go help others, use this gift for good, she said, okay, she also had promised me my soulmate. She told me his name, Ryan, that the clue I would know it was him is a rose and his birthday, 9/24. So fast forward a couple weeks later. Literally, my mom introduced me to this guy and his name was Brian Rosen. So I'm like, on our second date, it hit me. Maybe that's Ryan Rose. Drop the B, drop the N off Rosen, you get Ryan Rose. So I dug through my journal. I'm like, hey, is your birthday September 24th? And it was. Oh, so for me, that was the icing on the cake. Like, I couldn't know that. This is bad. This is pre— like, you can't— no Facebook, you can't Instagram, you can't look people up, right? So I'm like, okay, this is definitely real, and I'm going to follow her suggestion and go do this. And so from there, I surrendered. And then a friend sent me strangers to test it out, and it was working. And 3 months later, I got onto the COVID of a big magazine publication, and I started my business. And that was 24 years ago. So here we are.

Oh my God, I love that story so much. I was going to say, I'm in the mood for some goosebumps in this conversation. So I love those. Those like moments where it's just, there's no other explanation. And I think, I think all of us, like, there's a reason why we're so curious about those things and why the psychic realm and these stories where it's like there's no other explanation, why it's so fascinating. And for me, I think it's like, because we are these souls, spiritual beings having human experiences, it's almost like a remembering of what's real, of what's true. And that's why we get this, like, electric, like, goosebump feeling of, like, oh my God. And we all, like, go nuts for it, and we love it because it's like a remembering of coming back to what we know is true.

Exactly. It's like déjà vu. I actually talk about in the book that— because that is your soul re-remembering this is supposed to be happening. It's like a marker along your journey to kind of just give you that sense of reassurance and knowing that you signed up for this. This is happening And you're right where you need to be.

Hmm. There's two questions that I think every spiritually curious person wonders, and maybe just every person in general. The first one is, why are we here? And the second one is, what happens when we die?

Hmm. Yeah.

Do you think that you could provide any insight into these two impossibly large questions that humans have been trying to understand and explain for millennia through religion, through astrology, through all the things?

Yeah, you know, I started my second book, Awaken the Spirit Within, I started with, you know, who are we really? And why are we here? What's our purpose? But in this book, I do a big deep dive into this. And this is really why are we here? We are in Earth school, because we all signed up for very important life lessons or soul assignments that we are here to master. And there are what I have found 30 universal lessons, okay, that in usually most of us are working on anywhere from 2 to 5 really big ones throughout our life. So you might see like patterns, like I have to learn boundaries because I always get, you know, walked all over in my relationships. You start seeing patterns and then that's your clue. Your struggle is your clue as to what the lesson is, right? But there's a list on my website actually is a free quiz your listeners can take to figure out what their top assignments are and show them those— that list. But the point— yeah, the point is, is that we signed up for these lessons. Okay, we chose them. We are not victims. We are here to be in relationship with ourselves, with Source energy, and with others to learn these lessons. And the point of it is to grow and evolve our soul. So we want to— in the book I, I put in, David Hawkins has the scale of consciousness, and at the bottom they're all the emotions, and at the bottom are shame and victimhood and greed and fear and all the low ones. And that is a living hell, okay? That's the dimension of 3D Earth plane. Your goal is to evolve up that scale so that you start to move into the heavenly feelings, because heaven isn't a place, it's a feeling, okay? Heaven is a feeling, and you can have it now, just like you can be in the living hell. But why would we if we know there's a way out? We can learn our lessons with grace and joy and ease and not pain and struggle. And so that is the goal, is helping people really feel into what's coming up for them. Not like me, I was numbing my feelings with food all those years. And instead, you know, put away your drug of choice, whatever it is, feel your feelings. You gotta feel it to heal it. And then from there, you raise your vibration, you lighten your energy, and that's how you create heaven on earth now.

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So this conversation around raising your vibration, this is a super, you know, everyone's talking about it now. I feel like with TikTok especially, everyone thinks that they, that they're masters in all of these things, law of attraction, manifestation, everything. But I'd love to get your perspective. And I think, you know, a lot of people assume, oh, what's raise your vibration? It's be happier. But I think there's an important point that you made there about like feeling your feelings and feeling it to heal it, in that a lot of times people that are approaching that in trying to raise their vibration or, or live in a better state or a living heaven, as you say, they assume that it means they just need to be happy all the time and they need to cancel out the negative emotions when in reality that can actually prevent us from accessing that state because like you said, you're stuffing it down, you're not actually letting it move through you. So what would you say to that point in, in terms of feeling it to heal it and the importance of actually moving through negative emotions and not getting caught up in, you know, what, what's called like the spiritual bypassing, I guess you could say, of like, oh, I just love and light, love and light, just be happy, just stay positive, like not allowing any of the negative thoughts.

Yeah, no, it's great. I talk about not spiritually bypassing in the book because you can't lie to the universe. You feel how you feel. You can candy coat it, you can put a mask on and pretend, but at the end of the day, like, your feelings, you're transparent to spirit and to the universe. And it— that's where the law of attraction comes in. So to really just without— get out of judgment, good, bad, right, wrong. Just acknowledge how you feel. Look, you can't go from miserable to ecstatic and joyful, okay? You have to be realistic. Neutrality is the goal there. Just get neutral. Try and step back and just let it be without projecting your— the shoulds. I should feel this way. I should be doing this. Like, all the pressure and judgment we put on ourselves and others, because that's coming from our ego, right? So if you can just get neutral, and that's really the goal of meditation, is to stop all those mind thoughts and just bring in stillness so that you can come back to your soul truth. And so it's really about lean into the feelings, whatever they are. The, the painful feelings are a clue as to what your assignment is. The struggle is a gift. It's a clue. So when you feel those things, you, instead of saying, why do I feel this way? Or why is this happening for me? Or why isn't this happening for me? You wanna say, what is this here to teach me? Okay, what is coming up for me? What is this here to teach me? Um, how do I find balance and healing in this? Because we are here to heal and balance our karma, our unfinished business, whether it's from past lives or early childhood or this life.. And so once you get curious and you stop projecting judgment and you let it be, the feelings usually neutralize on their own or dissolve. And from there, you naturally— it's like letting your cork float on top of the water instead of pushing it down. You naturally, your vibration will raise up and up and up. And from there, whatever you're vibing at, like, you— that's what you'll attract back. Okay? So that's the importance of this.

Any, any tips that you have for this idea of like creating neutrality, how to go from a lower vibrational state and bring it into neutrality? Obviously asking those questions of what is this here to teach me? What am I meant to learn? But you mentioned meditation. Is there anything else, any other tools that you like to use to kind of bring yourself into a neutral space?

Yeah. So I have a program in there. It's easy. You can do it 5, 10 minutes a day, every day. It's called Change It, Run It, Tap It. And basically you wanna shift from the false beliefs, from, you know, whatever it is, is I am not worthy, for example, to I am worthy and deserving for just being me, perfectly imperfect. You should— okay, affirmations are great and you wanna shift it, but affirmations alone don't work. So what I have found is you combine that with running your energy, and you can close your eyes and visualize, or just if you can't visualize a color and different colors of different frequencies. So if you're looking for neutrality, you would wanna call in like opalescent, iridescent, this color that neutralizes your energy. So you're working on a mind, body, spirit level to get neutral and clear. So you run your energy and then tapping, Emotional Freedom Technique. So you're bringing up all the emotional toxins and all the false beliefs. And literally as you're doing this 3-step process, you are changing your vibration and it works. So that's one example. Another would be— it's super simple, anybody can do this— get into nature, get your feet on the ground, go earth, go ground. Literally, like, when you put your feet on the earth for like 10 minutes, 20 minutes a day, you are attuning your frequency to the Schumann resonance. It's pure positive energy. It's all those negative ions, and it's going to drain you of the heavy, dark, icky feelings, and you will get neutral, if not like, you know how you are after a day of hiking or being outside riding your bikes and you just feel more childlike and light and playful. Truly, you're shifting your frequency and changing all the negative ions, which are positive, in your auric field. So those are just a few examples. But of course, meditation is real. And one more thing I just got, I'm hearing Spirit say, take a nap. Like, if you're really having a bad day and everything's going wrong, you are best serve. Stop trying to effort and change it and get— you're just going to get frustrated. Go neutralize. Take a nap, walk away from it, go meditate, go sleep, whatever you got to do to recalibrate, reset, and then come back into your day and try it from there.

I love that Spirit just comes in and he's like, it doesn't need to be all complicated.

Take a nap. That's right.

Yeah, I love that. But I think When I first learned about like the negative ions, which can be kind of confusing because you're like, it sounds negative, but it's actually— you want them. It's positive. It's like that electrical charge that like raises your vibration, knowing that you can find them anywhere in nature, like trees, waterfalls, any sort of body of water. The beach is a huge— I learned this thing once about the crest of like a wave. Apparently the highest concentration of negative ions is in that like crest of the wave. And that's why like surfers who do like barrels and things, they get like an actual high from it. And it's like so addicting. I just think that's so cool. But it's, it's so accessible to all of us. We can just get outside, ground, take our shoes off, be in nature, and you do, you feel, you feel revitalized. So I want to go back for a second to, you mentioned everyone is, you know, there's a, there's 30 lessons, I think you said, but everyone's kind of has like 2 to 5. I think I remember reading that one of the biggest ones is in worthiness, and it's one that you've heard a lot of people who have crossed over to the other side feel that it's the one they have not mastered. And I know that a lot of us struggle with worthiness in many different areas of our life. Could you speak to just a few of those, like, top-tier, like, really big lessons that we might be learning?

Yeah, self-worth and self-love is hands down the number one I hear from people. Why? My sense is because we have an ego. And when we disconnect from our higher self and our team and spirit, we— ego stands for edging God out. We feel alone and separate and like not enough. I'm not this enough or that enough. We all tell ourselves the stories because what I've noticed is in this day and age with all the social media and the, you know, just the energy of competition, and you compare yourself to others, what, what you have, what you don't have, what you look like, what you don't look like. And so you go into that frequency and it's diminishing, okay? And you start to feel like, you know, you— the absence of whatever is in your face all the time.

When—

and when you're not plugged into Source, the truth, you can buy into the illusions, and then, you know, you go into a state of delusion. So that is, I think, one of the big ones. Imposter syndrome. That's a really big, you know, thing going around. You hear all these famous successful people talking about they have imposter syndrome. I heard it on the Oscars a couple weeks back, and this guy's holding an Oscar and he's saying, I'm having major imposter syndrome, and he had just won the award for Best Picture, you know. So it— that's feelings of inadequacy despite evident success on paper. You know, you might have everything But internally there's a void, and, and you either came into this world with that or you didn't get the love you needed and deserved from your upbringing. So we all have that inner child that needs to be healed, and then that creates the shadow, right? And so we all have a shadow side, and the goal is not to ignore it or reject it. It's to hug it, embrace it, bring it in. That's that whole feel it. Right. So that you could, you know, it's like a little kid that just wants your attention, those feelings that are there that make you feel less than. So that's the really big one. You know, I think that plays out in— so the 30 lessons are just the ones I hear all the time. I'm sure there's more, but it's the obvious ones like you're learning forgiveness. Forgiveness is another really big one because a lot of people come to me, have lost a loved one, and then they want to blame, let's say, You know, there's a story in the book. Gosh, this is a crazy story, but a 6-year-old little girl was hit by the school bus driver, and that was 20-some years ago. And I've read this family multiple times, and the mom is still working on forgiveness. She's come a really long way. But as she said, it's, you know, it's not linear. Like, I think I'm there, and then I revert backwards like 20 years. I'm still angry at the school bus driver.. And so the whole goal is to remember, look, we all signed up to play out these roles to help each other learn and grow. So on some level, your daughter Lauren, who died, was an earth angel, took one for the team, died and gave you and your husband, your family, an opportunity to learn real forgiveness. Okay? So that's just an example. But, um, does that, does that help clarify kind of what the—

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And I think it's so hard, this idea of like, I mean, I love the reframe always of when I'm moving through challenging things, and it actually changed my life being able to look at things and instead of saying, why is this happening? Or what the hell? And instead say, how is this serving me? What am I meant to learn from this? How am I going to grow from this? You know, how is this molding me or helping me maybe, you know, tackle a similar challenge down the line, but it won't be as intense because I've passed this test this time around, and I've learned what I need to know so that I, you know, so that it doesn't happen in a bigger scale. But I think it can also feel— obviously when it's happening to you, it can feel insensitive sometimes to be like, oh, this is what you signed up for. So to come back to— you have this, this, this concept of soul contracts, right? Or like the, the blue— the blueprint of what we came to Earth with or to learn. How might you explain the soul contract to kind of shed some more light on that idea of you signed up for this?

Okay, that's great. So bottom line is this, um, with reincarnation, we don't— we come in to do our work, to learn our lessons, to grow and evolve, but we don't necessarily get it all done, nor are we meant to. It's an ongoing to-do list.. And so with each lifetime that you're reincarnating, you go back to the drawing board with certain people in your soul group. And I talk about soul groups where you have your primary, you're like your inner circle of people you're super close to and you keep reincarnating with over and over, but you change roles. So mother-daughter might flip-flop the next time around, or your best friend might be your child in your next lifetime. And so, and then you have primary, secondary, and so forth groups. Okay. And so you all agree, hey, this time I need to learn the contrast. Let's say one was the abuser and the other was the abused. Next go around, you might say, to really drive this lesson home and to integrate it, I need to be on the other side of the equation to fully appreciate it, what it felt like to be abused. So the abuser trades places and becomes the abused, the victim. Okay, in the next incarnation., and you do it because it's a lot faster and more powerful to do all of this in the physical 3D world rather than try and do it in the spirit world. So the environment in which it was created is where you want to come back to heal and balance the karma. And that's why we would do this, because, yeah, you can work through some of it when you die in the spirit world, but it takes a lot longer, and it's not as— it's like almost like reading about going to Italy versus getting on a plane and walking in the ground. Yeah. Right. It's a very different deal. So that is what we do. And, and once you realize, wait a second, I'm not a victim. I did choose this, choose this. You take your power back because then you feel empowerment. Like, oh, well, I can change this simply by starting to change my mind about it. And then by truly changing it based on what do I want to have happen? How do I want to live my life? What do I— and so your lessons keep circling back over and over and over until you get it. It's like what you said, it starts as a whisper and then it turns into like a pat on the back, and then it turns into a loud roar or a crash, God forbid. I write about this in the book. Well, let's get it right the first time. Why drag this out and have 50 horrible heartbreaks You know, if your pattern is allowing people to walk all over you, it's a boundary issue. Like, let's figure it out right away so you can get on to the good stuff and have a solid, healthy, meaningful relationship versus heartbreak after heartbreak. So that's why we want to wake up and see, oh, this unhealthy pattern or my trauma that I've stored in my body that I've never dealt with keeps creating my living hell. Like, let's get to the root of it, embrace it, learn from it, and move on. Let it go.

I love this reframe because it's almost like in— when we say, like, you know, we chose this, we chose these lessons, we chose to incarnate, to have this experience, to go through these hardships or traumas or whatever it is, rather than making that mean I deserve this, it's more just like I'm in the driver's seat. Of what happens next, right? So it's not my fault that these things happen to me or around me, but it is my responsibility to heal and to move forward and to find a path to my heaven on earth instead of just sitting in, in victim mode.

Exactly. And I think a really important point to clear up here is that when things happen, bad things happen to good people, it's one of two things. It's either because you signed up for it, because there are lessons in this for you to what we just talked about, move out of victim into that co-creator and change it, um, for your own soul's growth, or you thought it, you got it. And I write about this in my first book, Spirited, because it's basically the law of attraction. Whatever you swim around in, your thoughts and feelings become your dominant vibration, and that vibration attracts reflects back, you know, all the things, experiences. So everything in this 3D world is a mirror of your belief system. So knowing that, you're like, oh, I can change where I'm vibing, I can change my thoughts and feelings. And that right there is empowering. It's that simple. Flip it and then start putting that out there, and then you'll start seeing a very different reality.

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Love you guys, and thanks for supporting Makeshift Happen. Yeah, I love that. And the way that I kind of explain this through mindset work is also the reticular activating system in the brain, which we program ourselves through our thoughts. And so if we can choose to have different thoughts using affirmations, meditation, all EFT especially is incredible for that. All the things that you've mentioned, you reprogram that reticular activating system so that you start to see different things happening in your world around you. So I love that. And really looking at it through the empowered lens rather than the, you know, this is happening to you because you asked for it or because you deserve it. I think that's a path that sometimes people go down. And to just like reiterate again, it's not about deserving it or wanting it, but really about understanding that you have the power to influence it. You have the power to change it. You are in the driver's seat. And that's what we want to focus on there for sure. So you mentioned offhand the spirit team. So I think that would be a cool thing to kind of go into. I know there's a hierarchy that you talk about in the book, and I think this would be really interesting for people. So because we've all heard of, you know, guides, angels, archangels, all these things. What is— do we all have a spirit team? What is it made up of? What is this hierarchy?

Yeah, okay. So lesson number 3 is I am supported, I am surrounded, and it's about your team spirit. We all have it. So before we're born, we basically are assigned a team, and it's made— it's an energetic support system that's put in place to cover you while you're in the physical form. It's made up of archangels and angels and spirit guides and pets, um, and, you know, higher enlightened ascended masters. Everyone's is unique to them, and those come and go. I, I compare it to a school system. It's like, you know, when you're in grades K through 12, you have your teachers, and those teachers change out every year. And then when you get to middle school and high school, you have multiple teachers because you have a lot of different subjects. So at times we sometimes we have many guides working with us because we have many different lessons we're working on. And sometimes it's just one main guide, but we always have a guardian angel. Okay, so the guardian angel is with everyone, at least one, sometimes two, depends on how high maintenance you are, I guess. But everybody needs one, and that one is there. It's like the principal of the school system. You don't interact with them every day, but they're always there in the background making sure everything's running accordingly. And they're kind of that point person that knows to bring in if you need an archangel, Archangel Michael's help because you're in danger, or, you know. So the bottom line is they're there. And if you start to understand this and then invite them in, they will start showing you signs of their presence, and you will have connection through dream visitations and miracles happening and tons of signs, meditations. They can come to you. So we can all get to know this team, but because of the law of free will, you have to invite them in unless it's a life-threatening situation. If you're driving down the road and you're about to be run off the road and die and it's not your time, divine intervention comes in. So that is the role of the guardian angel.

Hmm. Okay, so how do we get to know— obviously we can invite them in. Can you give us some examples for people that are like, okay, I want to get to know my spirit team more, I want to lean on my guides and angels, I want to communicate with them. I want to know their names or like things about like, how do we— do we need to have a reading for that? Is there ways for us to connect on our own? What should we do?

I always say you never need to go outside of yourself, like to someone like me or anyone to get that information. You have it. Um, a lot of my clients, like, I'll validate it for them, but they're like, I got that on my own. And it builds their sense of confidence. Like, oh my God, you just said Sebastian, and that was the name I got too. So how do you do it? You start, you ask them, who are you? Show me your name. Give me a sign. So for me, in the early days, one of my guides came to me and her name was A-Y-A-Y. And I said, I'm going to call you Maya, okay? Because they really have a vibration. It's either color or sound, a tone. And then you can make up the name. So I called her Maya. And then like, I don't know, 2 days later I was driving and I was like, doubting, you know, my head— in my head there was a truck and it said Maya on it. And I was like, okay, got it. Then another guy came to me and said they were working with me, didn't have a name but had this energy and whatever. It was showing me sunflowers. And I'm like, okay. And they're like, we will show you sunflowers so you know it's me. The next day, a client walks in with sunflowers as a gift for me.. So you can put it to the test and say, I'm struggling. I want to believe. Give me a reason to believe. Throw me a breadcrumb. Okay? So you establish signs. You can, you can identify the signs, or you can ask spirit, show me what my sign will be, like I did with the sunflower.

Mm-hmm. I love that. I love getting signs from the universe. I think that was the—

so fun.

Yeah. And I know, I know you're friends with Gabby and she's been a mentor to you. A lot of the listeners of the podcast will be familiar with Gabby Bernstein, but obviously she's She talks about that a lot in her work, asking for a sign. And I think that was my first introduction to that process of asking for a sign. And it was— I highly recommend it just because I think it's a moment where you get to experience the magic of like, oh my gosh, wow, could this actually be real?

Oh, 100%. I have been doing this for so long, and I still get giddy like a little kid every time I get my signs. It's like a giant hug from the universe. You're not alone. When my book came out the other day on pub date, I woke up at 4:44 in the morning on my own. That's the sign the angels are with you. My sleep app said 10 hours, 17 minutes. That's my dad's death date because my dad is a big inspiration behind this book. Then I go to work and I'm behind a license plate with my dad's name on it, Shelley.. And then I had to run to Target to grab something, and I dropped my credit card, and on the ground are 2 dimes my dad signed for me. All in a few hours' time. Wow. And that is how it works. I just got into 5D flow. I said, thank you for this day. I want a day of miracles. And then you get your signs. Signs are meant to be common everyday experiences, except for most of us, we either don't believe or we don't recognize like that it's available and we don't invite it in.

Mm-hmm. So are you of the belief that like coincidences aren't real? Like, what's your— what's your feeling when there's no such thing?

It's—

I know.

Yeah.

I'm always like, is it a coincidence or is it a synchronicity? I'm just like, I feel like coincidences aren't actually a thing, which is why coincidences feel so magical because they are. But then the ego comes in and is like, no, it couldn't be. So we're just going to call it a coincidence.

No, there's no coincidence. It is 100% like synchronicity. Um, yeah, there's, there's things that you cannot even begin to explain how all this, the dots connect. I mean, beyond our wildest imagination. Like, that is spirit behind the scenes working its magic. That's how when you start living a heavenly life The synchronicities are left and right, and that's what makes life fun. Even though the reality is we have lessons. Life is messy. Do I— is my life perfect? Far from it. I am like the guinea pig. I have probably have more baggage than most people because I'm here to illustrate what it looks like, how to transcend it. Okay? And I've learned, and I have my off days, but when I go into victim and I get exhausted, I'm like, why? I'm so over this. I know to use my tools to shift back. And at the very least, just say, Spirit, help me change my mind about this because I am not feeling it today. Okay, we all have those days, but just ask for one little sign or miracle. And sometimes the miracle is a feeling. You just feel a little bit more like everything's going to be okay. That's a miracle right there.

Mm-hmm. Yeah, I taught my partner to ask every day and say, I'm open to receive miracles now. And he's been doing it every day, and it's just cool to like, see other people having this experience. And I have, to your point, I have had a lot of clients in the past, and you've probably experienced this as well, where they're like, oh my gosh, nothing has really changed in my circumstances that much. Like, I still have the same job, I still have the same relationships. Like, I'm still in these situations that have been challenging for me, but I feel better. I feel less burdened. And it's like once they start doing that work and leaning on those tools, of course you can then also change your circumstances. But initially there's that feeling of like it's getting better even before anything has changed, but because you're changing what's going on in your head and in your heart.

Exactly. Everything starts energetically and over time manifests physically. So whether it's your circumstances or it's health issues, you know, when we hold on to unforgiveness or anger or resentment, that disease over 10, 20, 30 years turns into cancer, turns into heart attacks. I hear it every day. So get ahead of it, change the energy behind it, and then you change the physical manifestation.

Yeah, yeah, I know. I so believe that, that our internal world affects our health, it affects our external, it's everything. So yeah, I love that. Something that I also love that you shared in one of the meditations in the book was, I ask for this or something more with ease and grace for the highest good for all. And I love that, whatever you want to call it, whether it's an ask, a prayer, whatever it means to you. But I loved, I loved that one. And I'm just wondering how we can ask for this. You gave some examples earlier, but for people that are like, how can I ask for support? To create this like heavenly life on Earth. Um, you mentioned asking for miracles or asking for a sign. Is there anything else that you recommend in terms of connecting with our guides to really call in, invite that support in?

So first thing in the morning, before your head even lifts off the pillow, make it a habit to state with intention, I am waking up in 5D. I am going to have a day of heaven on Earth. I'm going to have a day of miracles, grace, ease, flow, signs, synchronicity, whatever you want to say, but just call it in, okay? Intend it. And then ask your— the next step would be, guides, show me. Show me is one of the most powerful prayers. Show me, show me how to show up today in my life. Show me what to do. Show me what not to do. Show me where to go. So you, whatever you're struggling with, ask your guides for help and just say, show me the way. Help me feel you. Help me know you. And I promise you, because everyone's different, some people are very visual, so they'll see the signs. Some people are auditory, they'll hear the signs, like music on the radio or overhear a conversation, or the same author in 3 days, they hear it 3 times, you know. So some people are very clairsentient, they feel, they get the chills, they get overwhelmed with an emotion. They— some people are claircognizant, they just know, they can't explain it, but they're overwhelmed with an aha moment and they No. So you have to get in tune with your guidance system, okay? And usually your 5 physical senses correlate with your strongest dominant clairsenses. So again, if you're really auditory, you're likely going to get clairaudience and hear things and be a writer and download that way. So it's really about getting in tune with that, um, and you know, I, I like to put them, spirit, to the test. You know, like, and they love it. They want you to believe. They truly do. Like, my clients who struggle with doubt and— okay, so a lot of times they'll show you coins. Like, if you're really on the fence, you want to believe, but your head is in the way and you doubt yourself and you doubt the signs and all of it, you think you're making it up. Coins say on it, "In God we trust." So say, "Show me a coin," and maybe in your mind's eye you see a a quarter, or maybe for some people it's the pennies, pennies from heaven, okay? Or maybe it's any coin. Now, we all find pennies on the ground from time to time. I'm not saying go look for it, okay? But just say, put it out there, show me something, a breadcrumb, so that I have deeper faith and trust. And then let go. Don't go look for it. Live your life. I always say, just do you and be you, and the universe will bring it to you.

I love that. When I first asked for a sign, I got it in like a small way. And I was still a little bit skeptical of like, is this it? Or was it going to come to me in a bigger way? And then I saw it again. And then I saw it again. And then I got it in a different way. And then finally, a package arrived to my door, something that I ordered, but inside of it, there were these like decorative, like butterfly magnet things. I'd asked for a butterfly. And I was like, okay, it's delivered to my front door. Now I think this is the sign. So I also like that they kind of play with it where it's like, yeah, you can sense maybe the hesitation and they're like, okay, okay, is this enough?

Is this enough?

Here you go. Yeah, I just love that, that you've said that they enjoy the process of like helping you believe.

Think of it like a mother with a young child and they have so much joy watching their child start to learn from going from crawling to walking. And it's okay if the child falls down 50 times. It's so much joy for that parent to just watch their journey, their process, and they're fully unconditionally loving and supportive. That's what your angels and spirit guides are. Okay? There is zero judgment. They have unlimited patience. Okay? And at the same time, a responsible spirit guide has to honor your free will. And sometimes what happens is we self-sabotage because it goes back to shutting out this divine intervention, or we— that's the worth issue. We don't feel worthy and deserving. Okay, but eventually our guides know we'll come around, we'll wake up. Some of us are slow learners, but we can all get there.

And then the reincarnation process is everything that didn't get done this time around, you can just come back and pick up where you left off, essentially.

That's it. But honestly, why not come back upgraded, up level. Yeah, make it easier. Next go round, I want it to be more fun and less pain and struggle because I did a lot of my work in this past life.

Yeah, yeah, I think that's the vibe. That's the, that's the team we're all on. That's the vibe we're going for, for sure. Okay, the last thing that I want to ask you about, because I know so many of my listeners, I get a lot of questions about this all the time. What's the difference? How can I tell the difference between my— if it's my intuition speaking or if it's fear speaking? Is it my intuition or is it ego? Like that struggle to trust what your inner voice or your inner knowing is telling you. What would you say to someone who's still in, in that space of like not understanding when is it fear or ego versus when is it my intuition saying don't do this or yes, do this?

Yeah, I definitely talked about this in the book because so many people struggle with this. So a mind, a mind thought is a trail thought where a divine thought is an out of the blue impression. So a mind thought would be you think of your best friend, then you think about she was worried about like a lump under her skin, and then you think about, oh my God, she probably has cancer. And then you flip out to like, she's dying. Okay, that's a trailed story, false story you're telling versus you're driving to work and you're not thinking about your friend at all and she pops in your head and you're like, oh my God, I have to call her. Something's not right. She calls you 2 seconds later. Not a coincidence telling you, look, I have something they think is cancer and I have to go get it biopsied. So that's an out-of-the-blue impression. That's divine. So you really start to notice it. Like, our minds are chatty, um, ego. When we're making it up, it's complicated, it's a story, whereas divine is simple, it's quick, it comes and goes. You don't have it on repeat, um, and it's very direct, okay, in a very neutral way. There's no emotion, there's no drama. So you just have to start to kind of get used to, oh, I, I, you know, you start to know yourself. You're like, here I go talking, telling stories in my head again, um, versus out of the blue you get an overwhelming wave of emotion or thought that is truly divine. And again, it gets stronger. It's a muscle. The more you work it, the stronger it gets.

So this has been my experience, and I always talk about this, and I wonder if you can relate or you feel that this is correct in some way. What I've noticed is when there is an intuitive thought or feeling that comes in, like you said, it's just, it's out of the blue, it's direct. Right after that, then the mind chatter starts. So it's almost like intuition hits. The way that I kind of feel it in myself is like, what came first? Because for me, the intuition always comes first and then the logical thoughts come in right after being like, oh no, but that's not real because of this, that, and the other thing. And why would that happen? And if that did happen, then what would this mean? And how would we do that? And that's when all the chatter starts to happen. So for me, it's like the intuition, and then right away is like ego right after.

Yes. First thought is the divine thought before you have a chance to let your mind run with it and start, like you said, exaggerating it, dramatizing it, telling stories about it. Like, what you have to do is not get frustrated with that. Just expect it. That's just the chatty mind. It's part of the ego. That's whatever, but that's exactly it. And so you've got it. And it's really about, okay, you know, like when you meet somebody and your first impression, and then you like, let's say it's bad, like I can't trust this person, I don't like them, I don't know why. And then you talk yourself into, oh, but that's rude and that's judgmental and I should be more open-minded. And then you talk yourself into liking them and then you're friends with them and a year later they totally burn you and you're like, I knew it the minute I met So why learn the hard way? Trust yourself and don't go into, like, feeling bad about the hit you psychic or intuitive hit you get. Just be neutral about it. Say thank you. Okay. And then kind of like put it there, like, be mindful of it. You don't have to do anything with it, but it's good information and it's there for a reason to protect you, to give you knowledge is power, know how to be proactive, whatever that looks like.

Yeah, yeah. My partner, he's from Spain, so he grew up in a, in a traditionally Catholic country, but he's like very— so I guess he didn't ever have like the language around like the things that we're speaking of, but he's very intuitive with that exact thing. Like he always calls it like his sixth sense with people. Like he's really good at like first impressions. That's when his like intuition like turns on the most. And we've met people before where he's like, he just looks at me and it's like a no. And so for him, it was like an immediate like, no, this is, this is not a, you know, a person that we want to have a relationship with or go further with. And me trying to be the nice guy, being like, oh no, it's probably she didn't look at you that way, or that was, I don't know, but she's really nice. And then later I'm like, oh my God, that's you.

Yeah. Isn't that amazing? Yeah, I know, it's crazy. So are butterflies your sign?

I, I don't, I don't have like a sign that I ask for every time, but they were the first sign that I ever asked for.

So it's so funny because my daughter, um, handed me this butterfly the other day and it's been sitting on my desk and I'm like, this is for somebody and I don't know who it's for. For anybody in my group readings the last few days. So I think I was just like, wait a second. Oh my God. Yeah. I love that. The other funny thing is right over here, I have these 3 butterfly magnets a client sent me last week. And you just got, oh my God, the butterfly magnets.

Literally. Yeah. That's like what showed up at my door was the butterfly magnets.

Nice. Same with me a week ago. But those are for you. So I feel like I'm supposed to leave you with that. Like, trust your knowing, you know? And now, okay, say, okay, butterflies. You're open to many signs. Spirit needs options. Don't limit it to only butterflies, right? Yeah. Or whatever your sign is. For anyone listening, just say, show me what that is. And you'll have 1 or 2 or 3 dominant, but be open to all the magic available.

Yeah, I love that. I love that. So if anyone's listening, if you haven't asked for a sign yet, we highly recommend it's a super magical experience. I also encourage you guys to get Rebecca's book. It's out now. It's called What's Your Heaven? 7 Lessons to Heal the Past and Live Fully Now. I'll be reading it. It's amazing. There's so much good insight in here and even just like beautiful reminders of things that we know to be true. But we can all use that, that reminder of like, yes, I'm going back to this, this truth and living it in a deeper way or a fuller way somehow. So thank you so much, Rebecca. Can you let everybody know where they can find you and your work? Where to get the book, all those things. And then we will link everything in the show notes for you guys.

Thank you. Yes, it's RebeccaRosen.com, and you can get the book on any major retailer, Amazon, any bookstore. And my hashtag is @mediumRebeccaRosen. Okay, so on social. So RebeccaRosen.com.

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