1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:14,400 Hello everybody and welcome back to the Awaken Together podcast. I'm Kat. I'm Jen. And today 2 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:20,320 we are talking with you all about energy. We're going to share a bit of the esoteric 3 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:25,460 and hope to make it really approachable as to what energy is and how to protect your 4 00:00:25,460 --> 00:00:31,720 own. So Jen, do you want to start us off with just a little high level definition intro 5 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:38,360 to what the heck energy is? Yes. So if energy is something you've never viewed the world 6 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:46,760 through, welcome. Welcome to it. So yeah, there's really a belief system. I think the 7 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:52,880 more you get into the spiritual world that everything is energy. And as foreign as this 8 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:59,080 sounds there is, yeah, it all really starts to come together and is so beautiful. So if 9 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:04,040 we think of ourselves as energetic beings and that everything around us kind of has 10 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:10,760 an energetic quality to it, then we really start changing the way we move and interact 11 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:15,840 with the world because a lot of it is coming from an energetic standpoint. So when we're 12 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:23,560 talking about protecting our energy, there's a lot of different ways to shift and change 13 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:29,280 your energy. But we're really going to be going into thinking of it as energetic beings 14 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:35,840 and thinking of ourselves as having this aura around us that projects our own energy out. 15 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:41,060 So the aura is going to be just surfacing around your whole body. It's believed that 16 00:01:41,060 --> 00:01:48,240 there's a kind of an aura involved in everything, an energetic field around any object, a person, 17 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:53,040 and that when we're coming into close space with someone's aura, we're picking up on a 18 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:58,760 lot of their energy itself. And so this is what protecting your energy is going to have 19 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:05,400 so many fun points that will go down. But looking at your body as being with this beautiful 20 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:11,360 aura around it and that aura as a projection of what's going on on the inside, that is 21 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:15,960 a beautiful first step in perceiving yourself as being an energetic being. 22 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:22,680 Yes, I love that. Put so well. And energy exists in all sorts of different forms. This 23 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:27,560 is one thing that my husband Kyle and I can actually agree on when we get into the woo. 24 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:30,400 The woo-woo touch, the woo-woo touch. 25 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:39,000 Exactly. Energy is neither created nor destroyed, and it exists in potential, kinetic, thermal, 26 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:45,960 electrical, chemical, nuclear, and all various different forms. So you can trust that it 27 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:50,400 is everywhere around us and within us, which I think is pretty cool. 28 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:55,320 Yeah. And I think that there is definitely, yeah, there's so much resistance sometimes 29 00:02:55,320 --> 00:03:00,640 to fully accepting us as energetic beings. But one of the things that me and Kat have 30 00:03:00,640 --> 00:03:06,320 really delved into is we are both Reiki practitioners. So if you haven't heard of what Reiki is, 31 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:13,680 Reiki is universal energy. We're tapping into that universal energy when we perform Reiki. 32 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:18,360 Or if we're a Reiki practitioner and we go and get attuned and set to that. So me and 33 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:25,040 Kat have both done that training. And Reiki was actually what changed my belief system 34 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:30,240 around energy in the first place. Because what the practitioner is doing is they're 35 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:36,840 tapping into your energetic fields or that aura and really doing a scan and seeing what 36 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:46,440 has projected out from your body outward and what they can feel. And I was so skeptical. 37 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:51,560 Because I've gone through my spiritual awakening, everything has come in layers. But accepting 38 00:03:51,560 --> 00:04:00,280 us as energetic human beings was a little weird to me. But before we dive into Reiki, 39 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:05,880 there are so many things that you do that are reading energy that you don't even realize 40 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:12,680 you are doing. And once you have started believing in energy and you start diving into that world, 41 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:19,200 you'll go, wow, I was picking up on energy all along. So when we are hanging out with 42 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:24,760 a group of people and we pick up on someone's vibe. So if someone has a really good vibe 43 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:31,040 or really bad vibe, something feels either good or bad. A lot of times that is our aura 44 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:38,260 picking up on their aura. And we're receiving all this unsaid feedback and that happens 45 00:04:38,260 --> 00:04:39,260 all the time. 46 00:04:39,260 --> 00:04:45,960 Yeah, exactly. Picture someone who is just sitting in a chair, kind of slouched down 47 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:51,060 with their arms crossed, maybe head tilted to the side. Think about what kind of energy 48 00:04:51,060 --> 00:04:56,440 they're giving off. Maybe a withdrawn look, maybe a tired look. Their body language and 49 00:04:56,440 --> 00:05:02,680 what you're receiving from them is louder than any words that they would speak to you. 50 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:08,920 And on the flip side, if there's someone right next to them, standing up, taking up space, 51 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:17,520 the arms up overhead, just like open, their feet are pointing in opposite directions outwards, 52 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:22,800 their whole body language is saying, I'm open. Which one is going to be more approachable? 53 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:23,800 Right? 54 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:31,680 There is so much we do to read the unsaid, but then some people can still be so skeptical 55 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:38,280 of what energy is in the first place. Another example is when you go into really crowded 56 00:05:38,280 --> 00:05:45,600 public spaces where you're at a social event, like a big party, there can be so much going 57 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:50,560 on around you, but you're also picking up energetically on so many different people 58 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:55,200 that it can be extremely draining. So if you notice that after social events, there is 59 00:05:55,200 --> 00:06:01,120 that sense of like, whoo, that was really heavy. I need a lot of downtime now. I need 60 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:06,920 to be by myself. A lot of that can come from the fact that you picked up on so many people's 61 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:14,160 energy and now you are drained because you gave a lot of your energy away and also interpreted. 62 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:18,520 And yeah, it kind of took in a bunch of the people around you's energy. 63 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:23,200 Exactly. And what's so difficult, I think, about energy reading, like you were just saying, 64 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:27,320 how it can be really, really hard and not approachable for many people is that it's 65 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:33,840 like a language in its own and it's invisible. It's not one that has a set vocabulary because 66 00:06:33,840 --> 00:06:38,920 it's one you need to feel into. It's a language we're supposed to be speaking. 67 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:44,640 Yeah, and it's a language we all know at our core. Like babies know it. We're all born 68 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:49,800 with it, but life can cloud it and get in the way and this veil of illusion can form. 69 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:56,000 So it's all about like chipping that away and getting back to what we know at our core. 70 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:05,840 Yeah. Yeah. And I think one of the other examples that I like to give for if, yeah, if you hadn't 71 00:07:05,840 --> 00:07:10,760 believed in energy, looking back at some of the things you did that were energy related, 72 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:16,240 whether you knew it or not, they're one of the funniest things. I went through yoga teacher 73 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:21,720 training and I started learning more stuff. I learned a bunch about our chakras, which 74 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:25,880 we're going to go into a lot more depth in the next episode of, cause that is a whole 75 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:31,720 world of its own. But looking at you have these energy wheels just kind of moving through 76 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:36,800 your body and each one has different qualities to it. But the goal is that all of the wheels 77 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:43,280 are kind of turning, turning and working together. But you know, before I even believed in all 78 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:48,600 the chakras and believed that there were these energy wheels and that I had this aura, I 79 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:56,640 remember so often I've had issues with speaking my truth and my, my throat space. And so whenever 80 00:07:56,640 --> 00:08:01,800 I would say something that was very vulnerable, I would literally have my hands like covering 81 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:09,520 my throat. And if I spoke something out loud that made me feel very scared, like it was 82 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:15,160 a bold statement, like I decided to talk back or say something brave, I would literally 83 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:23,080 have an entire red circle over my throat and my chest, like truly just a giant ball of 84 00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:31,080 energy there because I had so much dysfunction in that area. So if you notice that, you know, 85 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:35,120 when you're, you're talking with someone, do you put your hand on your heart? Do you 86 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:39,600 put your hand on your belly? Do you put your hand on your throat? Do you tend to keep something 87 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:46,960 pressed against your head? There's just so many little, little gestures we do that really 88 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:52,320 can be kind of a map to our energetic world and what we're struggling with. Because if 89 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:56,840 we're physically protecting something, there's probably a little bit of dysfunction underneath 90 00:08:56,840 --> 00:09:03,880 all of those, those little, little tiny details that yeah, you could really dive into. 91 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:11,720 Exactly, exactly. And I mean, thinking about protecting your own energy, right? This is 92 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:18,760 something that I feel like it's a hot topic these days because people are awakening to 93 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:27,480 the paradigm shift and caring about this kind of stuff. So ways to do it. One is Sage. This 94 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:32,640 is probably a really common smudging agent that many people have heard of by now. Another 95 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:37,560 one is Palo Santo. Other ones that are a little bit less endangered that you could use are 96 00:09:37,560 --> 00:09:44,920 Lavender. But really the idea of a smudging agent is you can use this, you burn something 97 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:51,480 in order to remove the energy that you no longer want. So this can be within your home, 98 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:56,840 this can be around your body, just like going around your arms, around your outline, around 99 00:09:56,840 --> 00:10:02,360 your legs, your head, to really clear that. And there are different ways that you can 100 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:06,920 use smudging agents. Jen, what would you say your favorite one is? 101 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:12,920 Yeah. So I look at, I love using rosemary and cedar and different herbs because they 102 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:17,160 really do make tons of different types of sage. So yeah, as Kat said, you always want 103 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:23,040 to be careful and make sure it's sourced to where you're not, yeah, you're not crossing 104 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:31,160 the line into taking a very sacred traditional plant and then abusing it or just using it 105 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:39,360 without that intentionality and appropriating a very close and sacred practice. But yeah, 106 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:47,320 we are taught that in Reiki training. You have to have a sacred intention of clearing 107 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:54,120 a space, whether you're using one of those agents or even incense can work. Smoke clearing 108 00:10:54,120 --> 00:11:02,720 is a huge way to reset and collect the space to clear out anything that's negative. Crystals 109 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:09,840 as well is a whole other fun, fun topic, but there's so many crystals that have the same 110 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:14,540 energetic property as we were saying our bodies do in different objects and each of the crystals 111 00:11:14,540 --> 00:11:20,120 can kind of have their own properties. And there's a lot of beautiful crystals that you 112 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:27,760 can add in to protect your space. And even if like all of that does sound very like foreign 113 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:34,880 or a little too out there for you, I think another good way to like view it is when you 114 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:42,280 come at anything with the intention of I really want to release, I want to reset, I don't 115 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:48,400 want any of the feelings that I've been stuck with. I want them out. You're putting that 116 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:55,080 out there and that is already a form of letting go. So even beyond all of these different 117 00:11:55,080 --> 00:12:02,460 practices is also this, it's making the space sacred and also putting that intention into 118 00:12:02,460 --> 00:12:07,360 being conscious and removing anything that hasn't been working. 119 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:08,360 Exactly. 120 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:11,360 Such a beautiful like ritual element as well. 121 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:15,920 Yes, for sure. So that is one way to protect your energy. It's with a smudging agent, it's 122 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:21,960 with burning. It's a great way to do your space. And if you choose to do this way, here's 123 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:29,080 a little tip. Along with the intentionality, there are some practices that are passed down 124 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:35,040 from time to time that help us understand like how to really take this further. So if 125 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:42,040 you're smudging, I was taught to make it in a counterclockwise formation with your tool. 126 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:48,880 This is closing a portal. So if your intention is to remove negative energy from the space, 127 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:54,200 that is what you're going to be bringing to mind as you counterclockwise use your smudging 128 00:12:54,200 --> 00:13:01,280 agent. Now, you always want to replace that energy with something positive and high vibrational. 129 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:08,880 So this is where you come in with your affirmations of this space is cleansed, this space is pure, 130 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:15,720 this space is safe, and you move your hand with the stick in a clockwise space, a clockwise 131 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:23,040 formation to replace that energy with something healing. So that is one way to protect your 132 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:29,280 energy from your and really cleanse your space. Another one, when you're talking about your 133 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:34,960 body and your physical being, another one I was taught is brushing. So this is when 134 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:42,720 you take your hand to your arm, for example, and like, like brush your shoulder off, literally. 135 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:47,920 Your shoulder, your arms, your legs, just pushing everything. I'm like doing it to 136 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:48,920 my body right now. 137 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:49,920 I love it. I love the sound. 138 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:57,520 Yes, yes. Just like shoving it off you and putting it down into Mother Earth, and she 139 00:13:57,520 --> 00:14:04,560 can take it all. So brushing it down and getting rid of your physical body, that energy that 140 00:14:04,560 --> 00:14:11,800 you're talking about is a way. A third way that I'll offer that is a really simple way 141 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:18,000 to get into it is simply visualizing. So if you are talking with someone who you can feel 142 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:24,200 your energy being drained, minute by minute, the more they talk, we've all been there, 143 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:25,200 right? 144 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:26,200 Yes. 145 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:31,200 Right? It's visualizing a barrier between you and them to keep you safe and to keep 146 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:36,320 their energy on the other side. I've shared a little bit about this on Instagram, but 147 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:42,720 it's called the psychic rose, and it's imagining that there is a floating, beautiful red rose 148 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:48,080 or whatever color you decide between you and the person. Your attention and your energy 149 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:55,480 stays focused on this rose. And as a communication continues, the conversation deepens, the rose 150 00:14:55,480 --> 00:15:01,160 can move around to help you keep your attention on it, stay really focused and aware on that 151 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:08,200 and maybe as the conversation progresses, a leaf falls off, a petal falls, just to keep 152 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:13,880 you really engaged with what's happening on that rose. So you're still there for the conversation, 153 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:18,200 especially if you want to hold space for this person, if you're not putting that boundary 154 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:24,040 there, this is your energetic way of putting a boundary between you. 155 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:31,880 Beautiful examples, love every single one. And yeah, doing that right before you leave 156 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:39,360 the house, setting that intention of like, I need to keep my aura close by, protect it, 157 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:44,440 not just going out without some kind of intention built around it. You will notice the difference. 158 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:49,360 So if you are still on the fence on if that's something that even makes sense in your belief 159 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:54,960 system, give it a try and you will be shocked when you set that intention of I want to protect 160 00:15:54,960 --> 00:16:01,240 myself, I want to make sure that I'm honing in on my own space and only inviting in what 161 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:05,960 I want to invite in. When you set that as an intention before you do something big, 162 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:11,600 the difference you're going to feel and energy without doing that energy when you do that 163 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:14,120 is going to be a huge difference. 164 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:22,960 Absolutely. So, so true. And one way that I was taught about what Reiki is that I really 165 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:26,640 liked, it's always stuck with me through the years. First of all, it's a Japanese healing 166 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:31,460 modality, right? It's kind of interesting that it's made its way out here. So grateful 167 00:16:31,460 --> 00:16:36,960 for that. But it's that it's like a massage for your energetic field. So think about like 168 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:45,120 a massage in your body, right? How it opens up, releases tension, massages out any knots. 169 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:51,100 It's that same thing for your energetic fields. It moves stuck energy and can help bring more 170 00:16:51,100 --> 00:16:54,680 flow into that whole aura, like you were saying. 171 00:16:54,680 --> 00:17:01,560 Yeah. So as the cat gave us like little practices we can do, but there's some there's really 172 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:08,280 a beauty to going to a Reiki practitioner and having someone else go into your aura, 173 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:15,400 scan it, feel it, remove anything that's not serving you and really work on kind of realigning 174 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:23,360 everything to all those different chakra wheels working together. And I remember I was so 175 00:17:23,360 --> 00:17:29,680 skeptical I'll share my first Reiki experience because here I am going, okay, well, I heard 176 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:35,800 that this is like a massage for your aura. I've clearly been struggling with consistent 177 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:43,400 energy. That was my like thought behind it. So I'd go try it and I go to a practitioner 178 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:51,640 and I do physical therapy as my day job before, yeah, before all of it. So I'm so used to 179 00:17:51,640 --> 00:18:00,000 treating the physical body and I had this like annoying pain in my shoulder. So for 180 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:04,400 months before going to this Reiki appointment, I started doing all of the exercises I would 181 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:10,800 teach my patients, really hyper focusing on that shoulder so that I could heal this issue. 182 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:15,440 I was doing a lot of self massage, all the exercises and I couldn't get it. And I was 183 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:19,920 so frustrated and I thought I must have like a little micro tear or something. I must have 184 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:26,440 tore my shoulder. And anyway, that was not even thought about going into this Reiki session. 185 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:33,880 So I go, I'm relaxed, I'm getting in this meditative state. And she's, first of all, 186 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:38,680 telling me stuff that I was shocked by. She knew things already from the get go that I 187 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:44,560 was like, how would she have known that? Just like speaking a lot of truths about, about 188 00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:50,040 things in my own life. And then she said, I really feel like I'm supposed to put my hand 189 00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:56,460 on your shoulder, which sometimes when you go to a Reiki session, some of it's not any 190 00:18:56,460 --> 00:19:01,360 hands on some of it's all just kind of hovering right over that aura. And other times, yeah, 191 00:19:01,360 --> 00:19:06,680 there'll be actual physical touch. So she connected to my shoulder and immediately I 192 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:11,720 started crying my eyes out and I was like, oh my gosh, where did that come from? Like, 193 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:15,880 and I was sitting there and I was like, I'm gonna let this out, but I don't know why I'm 194 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:22,480 crying. And she was like, oh, this is needed. And she's like, you were storing so much in 195 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:29,320 that in and around your shoulder blade. And after I did my session, I literally had no 196 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:34,960 pain in my shoulder, like ever again. And I, I even tried to like make the pain happen. 197 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:39,000 I was like lifting a heavier weight at the gym the next day, like shots. Like I was like, 198 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:44,200 I wish I'd not been there anymore. I was so skeptical. And then that was like huge for 199 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:49,840 me. And I think that made me really reflect back. I've treated thousands and thousands 200 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:55,880 of patients over the years. And so many of the time when I make physical contact with 201 00:19:55,880 --> 00:20:02,520 my patients and physical therapy, so often they'll have emotional releases come up, like 202 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:07,960 start telling me a story that they were, they're like, sorry, I shared all that to you. You 203 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:15,480 know, there's just such this universal, beautiful energy when we fully tap into somebody else 204 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:22,160 and whether you're trained, Reiki training is only to help you get better at moving that 205 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:26,640 energy and reading that energy and tacking, tapping into your psychic abilities and your 206 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:34,600 spiritual gifts. But we all can work with that energy. I believe too. Um, yeah, Reiki 207 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:40,800 energy is so similar. It's the same thing. It's described through a different lens of 208 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:44,880 beliefs. But when we think about praying for somebody, or if you were raised in church 209 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:49,040 where, you know, you extend your hands out, there's definitely been miracles that have 210 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:55,240 happened when people have focused in on somebody else and sent them that healing. Um, but not 211 00:20:55,240 --> 00:21:01,320 everyone has their energy cleared and, um, they're not always working so connected where 212 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:06,680 it's coming from, uh, up your place. And I think you become more powerful the more you 213 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:11,720 really start seeing as energy and protecting your energy day to day. Then when you send 214 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:16,560 this out as a gift, it's coming from this beautiful place and everything can align at 215 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:21,080 a higher frequency. So that's a huge reason it doesn't work sometimes for people. 216 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:27,000 Got to get ourselves in check first in order to be able to share it out. And totally reminds 217 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:31,920 me of, um, something we have in Greek culture called the evil eye. Have you ever heard of 218 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:36,560 this? Yeah, a little bit. Tell me more though. Oh my gosh. Yeah. So it's so funny because 219 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:42,520 my, my mom, my grandmother, uh, very, you know, always grew up going to church. My grandmother, 220 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:48,360 we call her Yaya. It's Greek for grandmother. Uh, she's the daughter of a priest. Her father, 221 00:21:48,360 --> 00:21:55,280 my great grandfather was a priest in Greece. And, um, so of course, super religious upbringing. 222 00:21:55,280 --> 00:22:00,000 And there's something that they practice even within the church called the evil eye. And 223 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:06,500 the idea of this is when there's someone who wishes bad upon you, whether it's jealousy, 224 00:22:06,500 --> 00:22:12,080 whether it is, you know, malice, any negative thoughts that someone else places towards 225 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:17,880 you, you're going to feel that. And oftentimes this can manifest in the way of headaches, 226 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:23,760 of just a bad mood, of being tired. And so what my grandmother does, it's like, I always 227 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:30,280 say it's modern day witchcraft. We're moving back into that. It's beautiful. Right. She, 228 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:34,360 she can check you for the evil eye. And my mom has her own way of doing it, which is 229 00:22:34,360 --> 00:22:38,840 separate from my grandmother. But what she does is she takes this cup of water and she'll 230 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:44,280 take olive oil in a spoon. She will say a little prayer and say the person's name, think 231 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:49,620 of them, bring them to mind. And then she'll drop a little droplet of oil into the water. 232 00:22:49,620 --> 00:22:55,640 And based on how that oil separates in the water, she will be able to tell if this person 233 00:22:55,640 --> 00:23:05,100 does in fact have the evil eye or not. Wow. I love that. I know she can then clear them 234 00:23:05,100 --> 00:23:11,840 from the evil eye by saying another certain prayer. And my mom's way of doing this is 235 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:16,740 she will say the person's name, do the sign of the cross, and she'll yawn if they have 236 00:23:16,740 --> 00:23:23,760 it and she won't yawn if they don't. So I love it. I love it. It goes back, man. This 237 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:30,840 stuff is not new. It's not new at all. And we are becoming, you know, all of this collective 238 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:36,000 change is happening, but we're going back to so many old cultures, old roots, things 239 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:41,500 that were working that once, yeah, once the ego got strong and money empowered became 240 00:23:41,500 --> 00:23:48,000 the goal. We shove so much of this beautiful, intentional, sacred practices deep down. Now 241 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:53,220 we're rebirthing and bringing it all back. And it's so beautiful. Yeah. I wanted you 242 00:23:53,220 --> 00:23:58,060 to share the story about your mom with Reiki too. That was such an interesting one you 243 00:23:58,060 --> 00:24:04,720 told me as well. Absolutely. Yeah. So my mom is how I have been really turned on to like 244 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:10,680 Eastern healing with always going to a chiropractor since I was the age of three just for like 245 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:18,340 preventative care, natural healing. We saw reflexology. We got that as children. We had 246 00:24:18,340 --> 00:24:23,480 someone come to the house every week. I think it was Tuesday nights or something and we'd 247 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:27,540 have our feet, you know, a little massage on our feet. And there's more I could say 248 00:24:27,540 --> 00:24:32,740 about that. But to keep a really high level, my mom, she was diagnosed with breast cancer 249 00:24:32,740 --> 00:24:38,240 when I was in college. It was really early stage. She had to get some surgery to get 250 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:43,940 the tumor out of her breast and it went in through her armpit. So after she had the surgery 251 00:24:43,940 --> 00:24:50,380 done, it was taking a long time for that incision to heal in her armpit. And she was doing all 252 00:24:50,380 --> 00:24:54,660 the right things and it just wouldn't heal for some reason. It wouldn't fully scab over 253 00:24:54,660 --> 00:24:59,120 and heal. And she was still having a lot of pain there. So she was getting reflexology 254 00:24:59,120 --> 00:25:07,160 done one day and the woman recommended that she try Reiki on this spot. She'd never had 255 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:13,400 it done before, but she had heard of it and so she was open to it. So she got it done 256 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:19,080 and just keeping an open mind, but you know, a healthy level of skepticism, like anyone, 257 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:25,340 I think, first time. And after that first session, much like your story, Jen, so funny 258 00:25:25,340 --> 00:25:31,960 that it was like shoulder as well, armpit shoulder. But after that first session, her scar began 259 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:38,320 to heal. It finally scabbed over and that healing that was done in one session, she 260 00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:44,360 couldn't believe it. It's like whatever was stuck there, whatever trauma, whatever was 261 00:25:44,360 --> 00:25:51,560 going on in order to prevent that from progressing was just taken away. And she felt some warmth 262 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:58,560 in that spot as it was happening, even though no touch was done. It got hot. And then it 263 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:05,040 just she could feel it like draining away. Wow. Pretty. Yeah. And that's such a good 264 00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:13,160 example of the physical, not only the emotional stress that we take on via traumatic events 265 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:19,240 or just, yeah, little tiny moments of shame or not being able to fully express our emotion, 266 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:26,040 our energetic body holds on to physical elements as well as so much emotional. But it is, it's 267 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:33,080 really beautiful when you, from a practitioner eye, the people I've gotten to work with, 268 00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:38,280 feeling over their aura and feeling where they're holding physical balls of energy, 269 00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:45,240 whether that's from a car accident or yeah, a previous over people's scars, you can often 270 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:52,300 feel like a little hole in their aura. There's so much that we project out and the more in 271 00:26:52,300 --> 00:26:58,840 tune you get with checking in on that, that outer body or that outer aura, the more you 272 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:04,160 can learn stories about what the body is holding and moving. And when we move that energy out 273 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:13,160 and we give it room to, um, yeah, release it's yeah, the such a big physical and energetic 274 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:18,920 difference and also emotional difference. You feel lighter, you have less physical pain. 275 00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:25,040 This really makes you wonder how much is all energy in the first place and it just manifests 276 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:31,440 as all these other, you know, very concrete, um, diagnoses, but it's really good to look 277 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:38,000 at things through all the different, all the different layers. I so agree. Yeah. And what 278 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:44,840 the last thing I wanted to, um, close on for this episode was why hurt at once. And I thought 279 00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:51,120 this meant like this was a really good wording for me to hear it, but think of yourself. 280 00:27:51,120 --> 00:27:57,440 Um, we talked about that protection layer, but when you are discussing or talking to 281 00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:01,960 somebody or you're having like a one-on-one connection or even a group connection, when 282 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:06,680 you are looking outside of yourself and you are paying attention to what someone's doing, 283 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:12,440 like we said, reading the room, you are, you are creating an energetic cord with the people 284 00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:17,960 around you. So being mindful of it as, as being these little energetic cords that we 285 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:23,440 are tying to and thinking of that as either adding to our energy or taking away from our 286 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:29,480 energy. I think it's really good to think of everything that we give awareness and attention 287 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:35,400 to is also pulling our energy in that direction. So we already know this, what we put our energy 288 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:42,440 to is what we focus on, what we, you know, how we move forward through action, but that 289 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:48,360 also has so much to do with our boundaries and our guidelines and how much we're overextending 290 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:52,720 ourselves because we're thinking of these things as being energetic cords that we're 291 00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:58,000 trying, or we're tying ourselves to. So when we're letting go, we're working on protecting 292 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:02,600 our energy, we're also paying attention to how much we extend our energy out and knowing 293 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:08,120 that we don't have to necessarily use our power to read other people's energy every 294 00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:14,620 single time we interact with somebody. Sometimes it can just be about dropping in and not memorizing 295 00:29:14,620 --> 00:29:19,320 everyone around us out of fear and wanting all the information and wanting to know what's 296 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:25,200 going on with them. That is where we really can fall into that overextending. So we talked 297 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:32,240 protecting ourselves, we talked about how to cleanse and reset our space and our body. 298 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:38,920 We've talked about the Reiki and adding that in as a beautiful practice to use a practitioner 299 00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:43,680 to help you get ahead if you're really struggling with, you know, releasing and letting go on 300 00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:49,920 your own or with, you know, some of these different practices. So good talk. Loved it. 301 00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:56,240 Loved it. This one was action packed. I loved it too. Thank you, Jen. Yes. Thank you guys 302 00:29:56,240 --> 00:30:03,240 for talking. We will see you next week for another episode of Awaken Together. Bye. Bye.