Hello and welcome to the Awaken Together podcast.
I am Jenn.
And I'm Kat.
And today we are getting into all things woohoo.
So we're sure getting a little weird today.
And if honestly if these topics are extremely foreign to you or make you even a little bit
uncomfortable know that that's okay.
We've both been there.
We're stepping into this all of this stuff with you.
We're going to be talking about spirit guides, synchronicities and psychic abilities or what
we call the clairs.
And yeah, I remember if I would have heard about this even two years ago, I would have
thought this was the most crazy podcast going into this stuff.
This has really been newer on my journey as well.
It's new wave stuff.
So it's new for me as well.
I'd say the past like, yeah, same thing, like two, three years have really been when I've
started investigating and being more open and learning and becoming intrigued and testing
my handout as well.
So we're really excited to share with you all a little bit about our journeys and give
you some some tactful tips so that you can try your hand as well if you're feeling called
to.
Yeah.
So I think for me, you know, I had stepped into my spiritual awakening really through,
yeah, obviously heard our big stories for me and Kat personally.
But as I got into yoga and I started feeling the improvement in my body, I knew that there
was, you know, something more.
I was also raised in church, so I did have some of these more spiritual moments.
And I remember growing up really being taught that some people are given spiritual gifts.
But if you would have mentioned the word psychics to me, I would have thought that that was
either really crazy or really evil.
And I was very thrown off on this mindset that we have these guides near us.
We have ancestors we can connect with.
We have other spirits we can connect with and that there's this whole other dimension
and realm that we can tap into to get higher level advice or maybe even get really clear
messages on how to navigate and move through our current life and what's going on around
us.
And so we call the gifts that the way we receive information is called technically the Klairs.
We're going to go through the five main ones.
And so these are these are known as psychic abilities.
And when I learned about this, when I entered into Reiki, that's when I really was taught
how to train these up, how to get clear on which one was stronger for me.
And I was like, wait, these Klairs, these psychic abilities sound really close to what
I was taught in church as spiritual abilities, perhaps two things are just talking about
the same thing, which continues to happen over and over again as I unfold this.
But I'm going to go into just some clear cut definitions to start our conversation out.
So the first clear I want to go into is called clairvoyance.
Clairvoyance is also called clear seeing.
And it's the most visual of all the Klairs.
So you might receive pictures in your mind's eyes, that third eye space.
You might have very vivid dreams, visions, mental images, maybe little mini movies.
You might see colors.
You might see people's auras.
If you're more inclined to have this clear, you probably consider yourself more of a visual
person.
So we'll just cut through all of them.
Then we'll go a little deeper.
Clair audience is also called clear hearing.
This is being able to hear voices or messages from the spirit realm.
An example of this would be to all of a sudden know to do something like turn left.
You might be more inclined to be like a sound music person.
You are really more in touch with that sense of hearing.
Clair cognizance is also called clear knowing.
It is experiencing a sudden sense of knowing.
You know it to be true in your mind's eye, even though you did not hear or see it.
This can also manifest as really strong instincts.
Then we have a Clair sentience or clear feeling.
You actually are feeling physically into your body and you can experience what others are
feeling in their body.
An example of this would be someone is having a stomach ache and you either feel pain or
sensation in your own stomach too.
You may also be able to feel emotional injuries.
If someone is feeling a certain way in your near them, you can sense that feeling as well.
There's also clear smelling, clear tasting, and newer clear touching.
These are the main Clairs I was trained on in my Reiki training.
We're going to stick into that boat.
So yeah, Kat, you want to talk about some of what has come through for you on your journey
into the Clairs?
Yeah, I'd love to.
Much like you, Reiki had a big impact and influence on just how I finally learned about
these and put them into words for the first time ever.
Yeah, growing up I experienced two of them more than others.
Four are really common out of the five that we shared as well as the tasting, the hearing,
those are a little bit less common.
So I experienced some of the really common ones, clairvoyance, the clear sight, and claircognizance,
that deep sense of knowing.
Now claircognizance comes through for me more often than anything.
I have this deep knowing when I'm faced with a major life decision, more often than not.
I used to get really torn between decisions and I'd have to ask someone else what I should
do and now this sense that I'm more plugged into my intuition and more used to it, it
comes with practice as well.
You're able to sharpen these abilities.
It just comes as a deep knowing for me.
So my move out to Colorado, that was a claircognizance moment for me.
A clear yes.
Once I sat with the decision, I knew it was going to be the right one.
And talking with Kyle about this, it's really funny because he says that I come off just
as such a confident person, which of course is really nice to hear.
But I don't think it's a confidence in the traditional sense.
Like sure, I love my body, I love myself, but it's not like I'll just list off.
A few things that I love about myself easily.
I will have to sit with it and all of that.
But I think my confidence comes from this sense of deep knowing because when I make
a decision, it's not like I'm just wavering on about it.
I know it, I'm good with it, and I trust myself in that decision.
So that self trust has developed from this psychic ability as well, which is pretty neat.
The other one is the clairvoyance.
So in Reiki, my first session, I saw colors.
I called them my color friends.
I loved you sharing that because that's huge.
And so now the way that I see this transpire in regular life is I have a really great sense
of directions.
It's practical as well.
So if someone's asking, which way do we go, I remember that pretty well.
And I also just have a sense of where I'm going visually.
Very cool.
Yeah.
So that's a little bit about me.
I also think this is hereditary because my mom and my grandmother are also really on
that clear cognizance road.
But how about you, Jen?
Yeah, so cool.
So for me, when I got into Reiki, the one that was very clear right away was actually,
I'll even take it a little bit further back.
I remember going to tons of yoga events, actually.
And when I would be in the space where a lot of people are letting out all kinds of emotional
releases that you see at these yoga retreats and workshops, I would deeply know what someone
is feeling.
I'm like, that person's about to cry.
They would cry.
I would feel it in my body so strong, like what my neighbors were feeling.
And another thing that would happen where my hands would get so hot, like burning with
energy all the time.
This really started as I dabbled into the spiritual world.
And I even had asked a couple teachers.
I remember going to a cacao ceremony and my hands were so hot, like it felt almost like
flames.
And I talked to the lady after and I was like, do you have any thoughts on that?
And she was like, oh, you have tons of energy coursing through your body.
You need to probably use that.
I bet you'd be very talented and gifted at doing reiki.
And I was like, okay.
Noted as a little seed.
And then later down the line when I went into training, my clear sentience was so strong.
So not only being able to feel, often when I'm in someone's aura, I can feel their physical
pain.
Like if something's bothering them, it often hurts in my own body.
I become like a match to their body when I tune into them.
But I also can feel where a lot of emotions are stored.
Like if there's anger stuck somewhere in the body, my whole chest will get really, really
heated and I'll feel like tons of heat over that area on their body.
Yeah, it's a really, really wild thing.
But we talked about this a little before.
So even beyond energy work, yeah, you might have one of these things that kind of pops
through whether, yeah, one of those maybe felt kind of familiar.
But I think it's really important to look back to when you were a kid because kids are
so in tune with the spirit realm.
I think they take this information from spirits just so lightly and hardly give any second
thought to it.
And I think as a kid, my clear sentience was very strong.
I used to know, like I used to put my hands on people, especially in church, and I felt
like I knew exactly what they were experiencing.
I think this came through also as I treated patients, taking a little more forward again.
But as a kid, I really would feel a lot.
I would feel like someone was close by me.
It never creeped me out, but I would sometimes look over because I felt like someone was
near me.
I had this really strong sense that, yeah, through touch that there were people close
by even sometimes connecting to me, but it never scared me.
I just thought of it as being like, okay, this is just a thing.
And I look back to that.
And yeah, I think you can really, if you hang around kids or even think back to your own
experience as a kid, maybe really see some of these things a little more clearly.
Yeah, definitely.
I was such a stubborn kid, like really, really stubborn.
My mom and dad still remind me of little things I used to say.
I used to make it into one word, I want that.
I'd say, I'm dat.
And just this clear cognizance that deep knowing-
You're like, I know, and no one's going to tell me otherwise.
Exactly.
I know what I want.
This is my decision.
You cannot sway me otherwise.
I love that.
Yeah.
And it's such a really important point to make that kids are so much more open to the
spiritual world.
I like to think of it this way.
So rather than the veil, the wall between the spirit world, the afterlife, whatever
you want to call it, and where we are now in the mortal world, think of it as like a
plexiglass wall for people who are intuitive.
You can kind of see on the other side, sometimes maybe it's a little dirty, sometimes it's
more clear, sometimes it's thicker or thinner.
And then maybe for people who choose not to listen to it or who are a bit more closed
off for one reason or another, it can be like a concrete wall and it just feels like it's
not even there.
There's impossibility for it even existing.
Well, for kids, it's more like a sheet blowing in the wind.
It's almost non-existent for some kids.
And that is just where the confusion, all these questions come when kids say they have
an imaginary friend or that they've seen things and we're so quick to dismiss, right?
It's just different.
Yeah, it's so rationalizing.
Perfect illustration.
I love that.
I love the sheet that's so spot on.
And kids are really vibing at a way higher frequency because they've had so much less
taking them away from being in tune to that side.
They don't have the traumas, the hardships, the busy life, the responsibilities, the things
that keep us so out of tune to connecting inward.
They don't have those kind of issues.
And another huge population we see this in is elderly people.
I have 13 years experience between being a CNA and then going into physical therapy.
I started working in a nursing home when I was 15, really young, and I've been really
in a space of people that are very close to death, really being able to see loved ones.
They see, they have this whole right there.
It used to creep me out to be quite honest, but I was in those years where I would be
with someone close to their end.
They would be able to see family members.
They'd be talking to them or they'd say, who's that boy next to you?
And just very in tune to the unseen.
And they're not nervous about it.
They're just, it's way more comfortable.
The veil has been kind of lifted or it's very close and it's been really wild to see that.
I have countless stories of this.
Yeah, them tuning in.
Yeah.
And it's people who are close to death, like you're saying.
So whether they're old or near death experiences, NDAs, I think immediately of the show, The
OA.
Have you seen that?
I have not.
Oh my gosh.
Add it to your list.
I really messed with me for a little while, but in a good way.
It really just makes you think it makes you like a little bit more open to things.
But yeah, near death experiences, it's been proven.
There's countless shows on this with statistical findings backed by science of what happens
when you are close to death.
And a lot of it is inexplainable because the people who come back from it, it's a fleeting
moment.
Usually they're not in a hospital where they're able to get tested in those moments because
they're come back, but they were healthy before.
So it's just fascinating.
So many share the same stories too.
It sounds like so much of it matches.
So yeah, I watched that show, Near Death Experiences.
It was like a series on Netflix and they really talked a lot.
So many people's encounters have so many parallels to them and they really come back with that
clear sense of knowing and feel very in tune to the spirit world because they have been
near it.
They really learn to drop all the stories that have kept them from that, the rationalizing
and are way more in tune to a spiritual life track.
So we definitely need to note that these near death experiences can give us insight on what's
close by, not so far away from us.
So we talk about, yeah, our Claire's coming in, but it is also believed we really have
this spirit team around us.
So it's really cool as you delve into maybe meditating or connecting with your guides
in some way.
So maybe setting that intention that I'd like to know who's looking after me, if you can
give me some clarity on that.
So a spirit guide can just be a guide on the other side of the veil.
Maybe it's an ancestor, maybe it's just a spirit that chose to stay and be a guide for
other little souls.
I love the movie Soul from Disney, by the way.
It puts this into such a cute little perspective on being a guide.
And yeah, I think it's really neat.
I remember if you have a pendulum or you've ever heard of that where you can ask really
clear yes and no questions.
I've asked before, how many guides do I have?
Ask yes and no questions to get an answer.
Your guides might be there for certain periods of your life, so maybe a guide comes through
to really help you through a current circumstance and then moves on.
I think it's really good to continue to try to connect in with this.
And then we talk about synchronicities.
I think this is a huge conversation once you've gotten into your spiritual awakening or you're
on a spiritual life track where you really start to see things that really are like,
okay, I think I have a higher force working with me.
Whether that's your life just really starts to connect in or you feel like everything
kind of is attracting into your life.
It's looking at angel numbers.
So we can talk a little bit about that.
Like these are repetitive numbers coming through or you always look at the clock and it's always
11 11 or you always look at the clock and it's two, two, two.
So many cool angel numbers can pop through and these synchronicities are really telling
us often that I think we're on the path we're meant to be on.
I think the more synchronicities we see, the more we're probably living in that intended
life path.
That's at least how I like to look at it.
Yeah, that's how it's been told to me as well.
So I'll know that in my life when I'm looking at a clock or looking at a car and I'll be
seeing a lot of angel numbers, kind of smile to myself and be like, oh, okay, cool.
Like things are going well.
Thanks.
You feel supported.
Yeah.
And so going back to spirit guides, I'd love to dig into this a little bit more.
I'd love to hear your experience.
Are you familiar with who your spirit guides are?
Yeah.
I've done multiple meditations where I've definitely had this strong connection with
a being.
I really think I had this one woman at one point, her name just kept popping through,
but I remember asking my pendulum once and I really had two guides.
And then I had actually gone to my first psychic in Sedona.
This is earlier on in my spiritual track and she's like, you have two guides close by.
She told me you listen to one and you don't the other.
And the other one's a little upset about it.
I was like, okay, noted, noted.
So yeah, I think it's something I check in periodically, but what about you Kat?
Yeah.
So in at least one intuitive session, it was a Reiki healing session and I think my Akashic
Record readings, I'll have to look back on that video, that recording, but I've been
told that my most prominent spirit guide, the one who's closest to me, who watches over
me all the time is a strong female energy.
And I resonate with this really closely because I've always felt like my grandmother, one
that I'm named after, who I never got to meet.
She passed away before I was born, that I've always felt like I have this connection with
her even though I've never met her and I don't actually know her on this plane.
So I've always felt protected.
And even in times where it's kind of a scary situation, I've known that I'm looked after
and that I'm safe and that I'm held.
And it's really hard to explain, but there you go.
It's a clear cognizance.
It's that deep knowing that she's there protecting me.
And I've had some really wild situations in life where things could have very well gone
the other way and I could have died.
Car accidents, just so many different things.
Even skydiving, it wasn't an accident, but who knows?
Anything that involves risk, it's like you ask that little, you say a little prayer of
like, please keep me safe to whoever it might be.
And my prayers go to my spirit guides as well as the universe, but it goes to her, to my
grandmother and I've seen her in different animals before.
So I've recognized her being, her presence in, this is going to sound really will, but
in my cat, my cat that I used to have, her name.
Oh my gosh, her name was Jennifer.
I just put this together.
My cat's name was Jennifer.
I can't cat.
Oh, this podcast was so beyond destined.
Our guides are having a party every time.
They are laughing harder than we are.
I cannot.
Yeah, but oh my goodness.
So freaking good.
So good.
Yeah.
So a few of my stories with the spirit guides, honestly, it's definitely worth sharing for
me.
I had a patient that I was so close to.
It just was levels deeper.
She was 99 when I started treating her.
I had her for three years.
We were just very close.
It was so beyond patient.
I used to go in on my days off and just hang out with her.
She was the most intuitive woman, knew every single thing.
It was unreal.
The energy with her was so strong.
She would tell me, oh, I lived this long just to be with you.
Trust me.
And just so confidently looked after me.
She ended up in the hospital.
Yeah, obviously was really old.
It was her time.
I remember I went to visit her at the hospital.
She had a bunch of tubes in and was pretty in and out of consciousness.
And I just started crying.
It was a lot to see.
And she smacked me for crying and had her eyes all big, like looking at me.
And I was like, oh my gosh, I'm allowed to be upset.
Okay.
And she was just this awesome spitfire woman.
And she told me they ended up bringing her back home.
She asked to talk to me privately before she passed away.
And she told me she looked after me and that she really feels like she was here to meet
me, which was just, yeah, obviously tears were pouring down.
And yeah, it was, I really felt like she did look after me like a lot.
I felt that.
And then one of the craziest things, talking synchronicities, I moved to Denver, which
I felt the same thing, very clear knowing that I was supposed to go in that area.
And I was talking to a friend one day and I was telling her about this patient and just
saying, you know, this lady was just, she told me so many stories about her life and
I just felt so in tune to her.
And I felt like she looked after me and we ended up looking up her obituary and she was
buried 20 minutes from my house in Denver.
And I thought she had been buried in Florida because we had her ceremony down there, had
no idea she had been transferred.
So that shocked me obviously.
And then I was able to go and visit.
I had this real spiritual moment and so many freaking beautiful things beyond even that
story.
But really, regardless of what your experience is with spirits and if it is a more negative
view, which has been very taught to us in the movies, the scary movies, that some of
this spirit stuff can be a little bit uncomfortable.
I think it's really important to remember if we think of it as more of a frequency that
we're, when we're more in tune to that pure higher frequency of love, that is also where
we can attract that higher frequency being like our spirit guides.
If we are in a more negative state, a more fearful state, then there could be a way more
negative charge.
So I think it's really important to think of it.
We're going to talk in the next episode a lot about trauma blocking you.
But I think that's another really deep thing to get into because that can keep us from
understanding these higher connections.
Yeah, definitely.
And one other thing to mention that's worth noting here is dreams.
This is one area that spirit really likes to come through on and it can actually be
a bit more accessible to people who aren't familiar with the Claire's.
So if you're listening now and you're like, I've had a dream where I woke up feeling all
sorts of way about making a connection with someone who either passed away or, you know,
it's even really common to have a dream about someone who you haven't heard about, seen
about, thought about in years.
And then you wake up the next day and you either see them or you hear something about
them or even they passed away and their presence was more made known on the other side and
was just open to come into it to visiting people in dreams.
So it happens to me all the time.
It happens to my best friend.
It happens to my grandmother.
She's predicted, you know, she didn't know when I had a car crash and woke up the next
day called my mom said she had a dream that I was in a car crash and asked my mom and
my mom had to say, yeah, we were in the hospital last night.
How did you know?
So like very specific things.
And I'll share one more story of this because I've clearly inherited this from my grandmother
and my mother.
She's had this too.
But I was in Japan in 2018 for a work trip and I had a few days left on my own where
I took a little vacation.
My mom called me while I was over there telling me that my grandfather had taken a turn for
the worse, my papu.
That's how we say grandfather in Greek.
And he was not expected to make it much longer.
So obviously me being on the other side of the world, this was very, very hard information
to hear and to process where we were really close.
So I had my flight back to Denver a few days later where I flew to Boston.
But while I was still in Japan that night after my mom told me I fell asleep after a
lot of time crying and being unable to sleep.
But once I fell asleep and entered that REM state, I had a dream where this I was in Japan
still and this little old Japanese man came to me.
He seemed like a sage, like he had a lot of wisdom.
And he told me that my papu was going to cross over on a Wednesday.
And I woke up not really knowing what to do with this information.
I called my mom and I said, hey mom, I had this really crazy dream and this was a Tuesday.
So when I received that information was a Tuesday and he told me it was a Wednesday.
So I was kind of freaked out that it was going to be the next day, that it wasn't going to
make it.
And she said, okay, huh, well, that's interesting.
It seems okay right now, but just come as soon as you can.
So flew back and by the time I made it there, it was a Monday to Boston.
And I got to see him one last time.
He had waited for me.
My my Yaya, my grandmother kept saying he had stayed awake, stayed alive.
He was, he was unconscious, but would kind of come back.
And his last word was to me and he kind of popped up out of being in this unconscious
state for at least a day.
And he said, hi, with his eyes wide open, he saw me, he knew I was there.
And then right after that, he sunk back down, eyes closed back to his unconscious state.
He wanted me to know I was there, that he knew I was there.
And so this was a Monday.
We're kind of just waiting for it to happen.
And it was a Wednesday when he actually passed away.
And I'll never forget that.
Wow.
Powerful story.
Wow.
Yeah.
So it's really, really so beautiful that there's so much more depth to us doing, you know,
what we're doing, why we're here, there really is layers that we can keep peeling back.
To give us some more practical homework.
So if you're really trying to connect with your spirit guides, all of this is very foreign
to you.
I think a really awesome way, a few practical ways to tune in is I love getting decks of
cards.
So whether you get an angel card deck, you start working with maybe tarot or goddess
cards, but the more you use a consistent deck to ask questions, the more you start seeing
commonalities and what comes up.
I think this can help really give a way for that, that those higher beings or your guides
to send you clear messages.
I also love to go on my phone, my Apple music account, ask a question and then shuffle my
songs and pick a song.
And it's always like so spot on, like what song comes on.
It has something in it.
That's exactly what I'm needing to hear.
And then another way is to perform meditations that allow you to connect with your guides
or maybe even starting the conversation with family members on maybe what some of your
gifts were when you were younger, if that's a safe conversation you can have, and then
really trying to focus in on that gift.
So centering your meditation, maybe around visuals, if you think you maybe tune more
into that or clear audience, if you feel like you hear more, just really finding a way to
tune in and something that's more personal for you.
And the more you develop multiple of these, the more all of them kind of start coming
through.
Like it really starts, it's hard to just have one because if you have a really strong one,
you're really going to start seeing the other ones pop in more and more into your life.
That's right.
And one other tool to share is there's an audio book called How to Become a Medium,
a Step-by-Step Guide to Connecting with the Other Side by Maryann Kennedy.
I listened to this on Audible and I'm not trying to become a medium.
I don't necessarily feel called to do that, but it still gives you a really tactful step-by-step
guide on how to refine the clairs and how to practice this because that's all it really
is at the end of the day is bringing more awareness, more practice, and you can sharpen
anything that you'd like to.
Thanks, Kat.
Thank you, Jen.
This was great.
Thanks for hanging out with a little bit more woohoo.
Promise we'll keep delving into some of the woohoo, some of the practical, and continue
to blend it because that's what this spiritual journey is all about.
That's right.
We'll see you all next time.
Bye, Kat.
Bye.