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Dawn McLaughlin - Spirit Allies & Healing Guides · Destination Unlimited with Victor Fuhrman

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My name is Victor Furman. Some call me the Voice. I've always been
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fascinated with human nature, spirituality, science and the crossroads at which they meet.
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Join me now and we will explore these topics and so much more with
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fascinating guests, authors and experts who will guide us to Destination Unlimited. Are
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you ready to build a team of spiritual allies and guides to support you through
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healing and life's challenges. My guest this week on Destination Unlimited, Don McLaughlin,
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says that you can create your divine support system. Don McLoughlin is a
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writer, reiki master, teacher, vibrational sound healer, astrologer, and yoga
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and meditation to She's the author of Everyday Reiki, a self healing routine for
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mastering the teachings and practice of reiki, and she enjoys nothing more than sharing
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reiki with others. Her website is intuitivedash hearts dot com and she joins me
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this week to share her path and new book, spirit Allies and Healing Guides.
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Create your divine support system? Please join me in welcoming to Destination Unlimited.
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Don McLachlan. Welcome, Don, Oh, it's a pleasure to be
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here, Victor, thank you for having me. Don please share with us
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your early path and how reiki and all of your other gifts came into your
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life. Well. I was a very imaginative child. I love to read,
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play, pretend, and spend hours and hours talking with my imaginary friends.
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Even spent time looking for nomes outside of my backyard and mermormaids at the
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beach. Yeah. I was really sensitive and I had an uncannedy uncanny ability
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to know what adults around me were feeling and sometimes even thinking. But as
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I grew up, my focus shifted to college and my relationships, and I
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married early and I had two boys with my first husband, and I really
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enjoyed my role as a mother in focusing on my corporate career. But you
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know, when my boys left for college, when I was about forty,
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I found myself with this big empty hole in my heart. So I began
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to reconnect with myself and I attended my first yoga class and learned about the
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mind, body spirit connection. And I really enjoyed yoga. I felt a
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deep connection to it and to meditation and the breath work, which piqued my
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interest in my own healing. Journey and that led me to reiki. And
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what other modalities in addition to reiki do you offer in your healing practice.
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Well, in addition to reiki, I practiced vibrational sound healing with crystal and
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Tibetan singing bowls, as well as other healing instruments. And I'm certified in
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hypnotherapy, which is a wonderful way to break habits, change behaviors by getting
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the subconscious mind to actually cooperate with your conscious mind. And I love astrology.
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I use it often. It's a great tool for self knowledge. And
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I'm also a yoga meditation teacher. Wonderful I think I shared with you that
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yoga was my path to raking way back when. We'll talk about that later.
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Though. In an article last year, you shared that there are nine
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unexpected side effects of reiki and that these are very positive side effects, including
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developing our psychic sensus. Please tell us a little more about the wonderful nine.
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Sure. Well, In addition to the tangible benefits of reiki such as
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stress reduction and pain relief and just overall improved well being, I noticed that
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myself and my reiki clients experience additional changes that aren't often noted as benefits of
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reiki, So, for example, you might find yourself gaining access to new
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perspectives. Since reiki helps promote relaxation and energetic balance, it sets the stage
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for seeing life differently, and as your perspective shifts, you have unique opportunities
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for healing. In personal growth, biases and judgments are often eliminated, and
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these changes lead to a deeper understanding of challenging situations. You can gain new
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insights, You can have increased compassion for others, stronger personal relationships, and
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just overall increased happiness. And what about greater love and care for the self?
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Oh, isn't that wonderful? I personally have always found myself to be
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compassionate with others and that was easy for me. It was easy for me
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to love others. It was much more challenging to love myself. And I
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really do believe that with the help of reiki, I was able to access
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greater self acceptance in greater self love now. Last November also marked the publication
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of your wonderful book, every Day Reiki. What inspired this book and what
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do you share with your readers? Oh? This book was created during the
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pandemic. So I used that time, you know, the downtime we all
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had to turn my attention inwards, and I realized that I really wanted to
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understand reiki more deeply. So although I was a reiki master at the time
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and I had my own reiki clients, I wanted to see if I could
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develop a more meaningful personal experience with reiki. So I went back to the
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beginning at Reiki level one, and I created for myself a forty day practice
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where each day I explored a different reiki concept and then developed a meditation and
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a journaling practice to enhance my own understanding of that particular topic. And I
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repeated that process because I liked it so much for Reiki level two and then
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the master level. And really that's how my book Every Day Reiki was born.
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And what were some of the concepts that you shared in that book.
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Just everything. We go through the chakra system in depth, the energy body.
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We focus on each chakra each day. We went through the reiki principles
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and got into each one one per day, and really you know, focused
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in on that. We work on things like grounding, how to clear energy,
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all sorts of different concepts. It was really a profound experience for myself,
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and I've gotten such tremendous feedback from it. As we discussed earlier,
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I was drawn to reiki in the early nineteen nineties and it was life changing
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in so many ways. What would you share with someone who was interested in
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experiencing and even learning reiki but might be a little hesitant. Oh, that's
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a great question. Well, I would say that if you're interested in experiencing
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reiki, I'd encourage you to try it. Reiki healing is gentle, it's
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non invasive, and it has so many benefits. Like we just discussed.
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By learning reiki, though, you can gain skills to enhance your own well
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being through self healing, which is an incredible experience, and you can use
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it to potentially help others if you feel called to do so. And reiki
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has truly transformed my life and it can transform yours as well. Regarding any
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feelings of hesitancy, I would say that it can be extremely beneficial to get
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out of your comfort zone once in a while. I know many people who
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are very devout in their faith, and when I talk about reiki, they
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seem to shy away. This can be practiced by anyone from any faith.
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Absolutely, and I've run into that as well. Even my mother, for
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a personal example, who's a devout Catholic, was hesitant to try it at
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first, but since she's seen the benefits of it and her hesitancy just disappeared
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and she really allowed herself to receive the healing energy and it's helped reduce her
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pain a great deal. And not perhaps reiki, but the famous Padre Pio
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was known for hands on healing. Yes he was, and he was a
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stigmatic as well. I enjoy working with him. I've worked with his energies.
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He was a big fan. And even not to say it's the same,
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but Jesus laid hands on people for healing as well. Absolutely, so
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there is a tradition there in various faiths of hands on healing. Congratulations on
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your just published new book, Spirit Allies and Healing Guides Create your Divine support
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system. What inspired this new book, Well, the inspiration for the book
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came from my curiosity and working with my guides during reiki healings. It brought
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back those memories of my imaginary friends from childhood. These imaginary friends which probably
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weren't as imaginary as I originally thought had superpowers when I was little, and
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they lived above my canopy bed. So now as an adult, I began
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to learn all I could about spirit guides and other spirit allies that could help
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me and others with personal healing, whether that be physical, mental, emotional,
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spiritual, or financial. And I spent a lot of time in meditation
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and doing other practices to deepen my connection to my own guides. And I
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felt really strongly that others would benefit from my experiences. So I created this
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book, of course, with the help of my group of spirit guides,
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absolutely the writing team that worked alongside you, the invisible I had shared with
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you that I too was connected to spirit and spirit guides as a very young
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child, and throughout my life have been blessed with messages of import at various
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times depending upon the situation, including life saving situations. You share that when
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we are born, we're assigned a team of spirit guides. Who are these
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guides and who does the assigning? Again another great question. I believe that
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these guides that assist us throughout our lives. They protect us, inspire us,
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and comfort us. I feel that the answer to as who assigns us
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our guides is twofold. I think that spirit guides that were born with our
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original group of spirit guides chose to work with us, that they feel an
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affinity towards us and want to guide us on our life path. However,
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I believe that a higher spiritual force, whether you call that force the Creator,
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a higher power, God, the universe, whatever you choose to call
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this higher power assigns us our spirit guides to help us as we journey through
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life. Do these guides change during the course of our lives as situations warrant
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well. I feel that certain guides are with us for our entire lifetime,
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from birth all the way through death. But other guides come into our circle
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of spirit allies for brief periods of times, such as like perhaps during a
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challenging relationship or an emotional loss. And other guides come in when we learn
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a new skill or take up a new interest for example, such as reiki.
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It's really dynamic circle of spirit allies that surround us. I had cheered
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with you that my mother had passed away in January of twenty twenty, and
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at the time after her passing, I began to see a series of circles
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and rings and My sense from what came to me was that my spirit guide
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was delivering age. And because of that message, a poem came through me
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called Circles and Rings. May I share that with you? Oh? I
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would love that. Thank you. The path of great beauty in so many
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things, from atoms to galaxies, circles and rings, natural wisdom that dwells
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there within from not to three sixty, that magical spin. We circle each
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other in gravity's dance, as gay a circle's soul, the solar romance as
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Luna circles us in life giving motion, drawing the tides and inner emotion.
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And the age of the oak is found in its rings, as in woman
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and man and all living things. And when the ring stop and life comes
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to an end, will all circle back and dance once again? Wow?
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That's absolutely beautiful. Have you published that? I am actually in the process
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of putting together a book of all of my spiritual poetry and I will be
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publishing it hopefully later this year. So thank you for asking that question.
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Well excellent. Well, I can't wait to get my hands on that sounds
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very powerful. Thank you. As with every practice in life, the collaboration
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begins with intention. How may we set this intention well. Setting an intention
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for me is a very personal, heartfelt process because intentions can direct our energy
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to produce a particular result, and it can provide a great structure that can
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guide our thoughts and actions. So if I were to set an intention to
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collaborate with my healing guides, I would suggest first setting a really nice calm
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space and silencing your cell phone, take a few deep breaths, and then
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determine what your goals are for connecting with your guides. For example, you
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may be in need of healing, whether that's physical, mental, emotional,
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spiritual, or financial. Or perhaps you're facing a challenge in your life,
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or you want to understand your life purpose on a deeper level. So based
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on your unique goals, you can craft an intention. Would you like to
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meet a give an example of an intention, please do? Okay? So
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a simple intention, if I were to write one for my personal healing,
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would be I, Domiclaughlin wish to develop relationships with my guides, angels,
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ancestors and deities to assist me along my life path and for deep healing on
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all levels of my being. Therefore, I will say yes to activities,
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choices, and thoughts that align with these goals of learning the tools and techniques
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to connect with these powerful energies. Today, with a grateful heart for my
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unique journey, I'm ready to commit myself to cultivating relationships with my spirit guides,
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angels, ancestors, and deities, forming my own personal divine support system.
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That's beautiful. And I think there are two key words in addition to
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all the other wonderful words. One of them is a gratitude. Gratitude is
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so important correct in everything that we do, everything we do, I practice
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have a gratitude practice. I practice every day. I start my morning each
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day listing three or four things I'm grateful for, and at the close of
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the day, I express gratitude for three or four things that happened during the
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day. And the other word is ready readiness, Because when we're ready,
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the power starts coming, doesn't it absolutely? When we're ready? What is
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it when we're When we're ready, the teacher appears. Well in my experience,
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when we're ready, the spirit guides appear. I had a wonderful teacher
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in the New Seminary of New York back in the nineteen nineties, and he
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used to share a song that says, I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm
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ready. I'm ready for life to do the good and the beautiful. I'm
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ready, I'm ready, I'm ready. That's wonderful. I'm gonna have to
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write that down. What are some of the other steps in building our divine
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support system? Well, there are several ways that we can improve our ability
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to connect with our divine support system. For me, one of the most
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important ones is quieting the mind. Our minds like to chatter all day,
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and with all that noise, sometimes it's difficult to feel that connection, to
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sense that connection with our spirit guides. So I would suggest meditating even as
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little as ten to fifteen minutes per day to really help quiet and settle the
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mind. Imagination is another important step, so that we can picture our spirit
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guides or imagine a meeting place where we can meet our guides. And I
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started exploring my imagination simply by daydreaming and let imagees form in my mind's eye.
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So that's a great place to start. What about dreams? What about
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dreams? Oh, my goodness, dreaming is one of my favorite I have
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very vivid, dynamic dreams and spending time and setting an intention to meet your
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spirit guides, or receive messages from your spirit guides during your dreams. It's
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called a dream incubation technique. That's a wonderful way to connect with guides.
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If you're going to choose that, I would suggest keeping a dream journal by
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your bed can really help capture those insights. And all of these practices should
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be journal, shouldn't they. I keep a healing journal. I highly suggest
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everyone keep a healing journal or a spirit guide journal if you prefer, just
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to track what your experiences are, what's working for you, what's more challenging,
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and to record any messages and insights that you receive, because we're only
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human and we can forget, and it's wonderful to go back and say,
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hey, three months ago, I received a message and it seems important today.
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What is it. If you're writing it down, then you'll have a
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way to go back. And for those who have challenges with pen and paper
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or pencil and paper, there's always recording it on your phone, isn't there?
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There is? There is. I haven't tried that personally, but I
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love that suggestion. I'm going to write that one down. And the other
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aspect that we're talking about now in creating our divine support system is the willingness
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to accept it with the knowledge that we're worthy of receiving worthiness is a big
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question for a lot of people. Well, yes, and people think they
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have to be quote unquote special in some way to receive this guidance and to
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have these connections. But really, I feel it's our divine right as beings
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on this planet, as we are spiritual beings, We're spirit having a human
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experience. So really this connection is available to all of us if we're ready,
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like you said, ready and willing to take the leap of faith to
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connect. And how do we imbue ourselves with that worthiness? What do we
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do to find that worthiness? I think it comes back to that self love
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and self acceptance to accept where we are right now and love ourselves in spite
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of our limitations. For me, that was really one of the keys to
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realizing that this is work that I could do, that this is communications that
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I can have right now just as I am. Absolutely, just as I
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am, I'm ready and I'm worthy just as I am. One of the
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other things you touched upon, and something that all of us practice that are
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involved in these healing arts and yoga is meditation. Now I have friends who
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say I can't meditate. What do you say to people say I can't meditate?
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Oh, there are different forms of meditation, and just as we're all
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varied beings, there are a numerous So sitting in meditation does not have to
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be although I do practice. This is sitting down on the ground, you
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know, in lotus position with your hands, and that works for a lot
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of people. But there are so many options. Even a walking meditation,
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preferably without your you know, your earbuds in just silently walking along, being
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mindful of each step, not focusing on anything else except for being right here,
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right now as you take each and every step. That's a wonderful way.
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Also meditating outside, so if you're feeling scattered, go outside, sit
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against a tree or sit on a rock and just feel the energy of being
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out in nature is an extremely meditative experience. So you don't necessarily need to,
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you know, sit for an hour cross legged, unless that calls to
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you, in which case, go for it. I have friends who are
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absolutely wonderful cooks and chefs, and they can make just about anything and make
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it delicious. And for them, they've told me that the act of being
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with the food and preparing the food is their form of meditation. My grandmother,
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who never meditated, quote unquote meditated in her life, would fall into
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the same state crocheing. So doing repetitive practices like that, cooking, anything
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that takes you into the now, I feel can be a form of meditation
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when you're deeply involved in what you're doing, focused on it and not having
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your mind skip off into a million directions. My guest is Don McLoughlin her
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new book Spirit Allies and Healing Guides Create your Divine Support System. Don please
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share with our listeners where they can find out more about you and your work
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and get your books sure well. My books are available on Amazon, or
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you can go to your local bookstore and ask them to order it. Llewellen
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is the publisher, so you can always order a copy directly through them.
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And if you'd like more information about me or my offerings, my website is
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intuitive with the Dashhearts dot com. And we'll be back with more of Dawn
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this week is Don McLaughlin. Our new book Spirit Allies and Healing Guides Create
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your Divine support system. Don. Our connection with our Spirit Allies and Guides
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comes through our subtle psychic senses. Some of us are born with these senses
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wide open, and others become aware through a process of awakening. What are
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the steps to awakening and recognizing these subtle senses. Well, our psychic senses
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are our inner senses, and they mimic our physical senses. So I'll go
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through the psychic senses and then how we can how we can connect with them.
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So clairvoyance is our psychic sense that relates to our sense of sight,
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and is our ability to receive information through this second sight, either as a
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vision with our mind's eye or externally through our physical eyes. So you might
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be naturally clairvoyant if perhaps you see orbs just in your field of vision,
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or you have vivid daydreams that might be visions, or you experience vivid or
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prophetic dreams. Now, if you want to awaken your clairvoyantabilities, you can
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try different visualization techniques. A favorite of mine would be simply to close your
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eyes and recreate an image in your mind's eye. And you can start with
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an easy, uncomplicated one like a circle or a square, and as you
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become more comfortable, then you can start creating more complicated ones, like a
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flower or a building. Clairvoyance is one of the more popular of the psychic
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senses. What about Claire sentience, Oh, Claire sentience' that's a really good
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one. So Claire, sentience relates to detecting the energetic signature or vibe of
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people, buildings, and objects. So for people that are naturally clear sentient,
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you might walk into a room or a building that just felt off.
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So, for example, an argument or something may have just have happened in
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the room and you weren't aware of it. But when you walk in,
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the energy just feels different. It might feel darker or charged in a way
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that isn't pleasant. But if you're looking to awaken these abilities, you could
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consider sitting with a crystal or a stone from your yard. Just pick up
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a random stone and just try to sense the vibe of that crystal, because
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in my experience, each crystal has a unique vibe and they're easy to work
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with. I've had the occasion to walk into a room where there's nothing there,
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no fragrance of any kind, and within a couple of minutes I smell
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roses. What's that about. Oh, that's your clear alien's ability. That's
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your ability to smell or perceive an odor or scent of something that's not there.
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That's happened to me to common sense that you may experience our flowers,
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perfume smoke or even decomposition. If I were to come up with an exercise
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to awaken this sense, if that's what you're interested in, I would practice
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conscious smelling, which is taking different sense. Essential oils are great to use,
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and as you deeply inhale the aroma, notice how you feel physically,
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mentally, emotionally, and energetically. Notice if any memory surface. A lot
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of times, Claire aliens is related to mediumship, so you might get the
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scent of perhaps your grandmother's perfume wafting to you out of nowhere. That's a
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common one that people mention often. Absolutely, you know. One of the
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things I used to do, and I would teach classes. I used to
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teach classes and people developing their psychic senses, and I would say, very
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simply in the beginning of the class, how many of you see what I'm
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saying? And they would raise their hands. I said, you're clairvoyant.
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How many of you have you hear what I'm saying? And they would raise
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their I said, you're clare, audience, how many of you feel what
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I'm saying? And they would raise their hands, and I said, you're
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close at the end, So just the way that you would identify information that
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you're receiving by sight, by hearing, by feeling, by smelling, whatever
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it might be. That's a way to determine which of your clarees is turned
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on. You could have more than one player turned on. But then you
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can work to develop these right. Absolutely, and I found that Let's say
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you have a strong sense of vision, that you might naturally be more clairvoyant,
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and someone who has a strong sense of hearing learn, someone who might
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learn by listening, they might be more claire audience. It's actually it mimics
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what our strengths of our actual physical senses are in many cases, and every
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sentient human being has the ability to open up one of these claires, don't
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they Absolutely and experiment. If you're not familiar with this experiment, be curious
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and be open to the experience. So you've developed your psychic abilities, your
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claires. But there are three common blocks for some folks to receiving messages from
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our spirit allies and healing guides. What are those blocks and how may we
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overcome them? Yes, these these are important to now, especially since many
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of us unconsciously do these all day long. So, for example, spending
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your day on autopilot. It's a natural state of our mind to go into
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autopilot when we repeatedly do the same behaviors day after day. And sometimes that's
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a good thing. Like if you were tying your shoes, you might not
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want to have to spend time each day remembering how to tie your shoes or
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even brushing your teeth. But when we go into this autopilot mode, this
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habitual manner, we're not really in our environment. We're not really feeling what
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we're feeling. We're sort of numb. Our perceptions are dulled, and it's
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difficult for us to receive messages from our spirit guides that can be obtained through
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our intuition and our psychic senses if we're not in tune to what's going on
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right now. So we can turn off this autopilot and live in the present
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moment, my suggestion would be to meditate that helps break the change of habitual
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behavior, or simply changing up your routine and adding more spontaneous more spontaneity into
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your daily life can help keep you more engaged. So, for example,
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if you're driving to work, take a different route to work, change up
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the order of how you do things during the day keep things interesting. Also,
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having preconceived ideas about how your spirit guides should communicate with you as another
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roadblock, and movies and books have added to this. You know, they
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can make spirit guide communications really dramatic and theatrical, but really my experience with
31:02
spirit guides is it's a lot more subtle. Our spirit guides might use signs
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in our environment and our dreams to communicate with us. Our physical surroundings may
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contain messages, so for example, seeing the same number repeated over and over
31:18
again is a common one, or even seeing feathers float down from the sky
31:25
is another great one to pay attention to. So just be aware that spirit
31:30
guides can communicate with you in various ways. And if you notice a sign
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and you feel it might be a message for you, pause and reflect on
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what it means to you and just spend time observing your surroundings. Also,
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being disconnected from your intuition is another major roadblock. So your intuition, your
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inner knowing that quiet wisdom that's full deep within us. A lot of us
31:57
have suppressed this gut response, us preferring to focus on the logical or the
32:04
analytical, and by disconnecting from our intuition, we lose a wealth of information
32:09
from our internal insights as well as our spirit allies and guides. So to
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reconnect with your intuition, just relax, check in with yourself and become aware
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of your gut reaction to circumstances and listen to this internal response, act upon
32:25
it, and as you follow your instincts and internal guidance, your intuition would
32:31
develop and you'll gain additional access, even to those psychic senses we were just
32:37
talking about victor, which are really born from your connection to your intuition.
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We had an offline conversation about as children. In my specific case, whenever
32:50
I would manifest something some information that I had no other source for, I
32:53
was labeled as a child with an overactive imagination. In your situation, you
32:59
had a very religious family. You were told basically not to say what you
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were saying, not to say what I was saying, not to think what
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I was thinking, just to be like everybody else. What advice would you
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give to parents who have children who are manifesting psychic abilities sharing information? What
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would you suggest they do? Oh, empower your children, listen to them.
33:22
Children can be teachers too, so I would sit with children and listen
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to what they're saying. Don't dismiss it. Just be with them. Let
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them share with you, and you share with them. I love children as
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teachers. I learn so much from them. When I was seven years old,
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I was very close with my paternal grandfather. When I was seven years
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old, I was sitting in my room reading a book and I looked up
33:47
and my grandfather was standing there and I said, Grandpa, when did you
33:51
come in? Didn't say anything, just smiled at me, and then gently
33:54
disappeared. I went into the living room and I said to my mother and
33:59
father. Grandma was here, and I said, you're imagining things again.
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And a few moments later the phone rang with word that he had passed away.
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For me, that was an awakening, but again I was told I
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was suppressed. I was told this in nineteen fifties. I was so don't
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talk about it. Oh. I had the almost exact same experience when I
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was almost eight. I lost my friend. She died suddenly, unexpectedly,
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and she had just been playing with me a week before, and it was
34:28
about three or four days after she had passed. I saw her, saw
34:31
her with my physical eyes in my room at night, right by my bureau,
34:37
and I went into my parents' room and I told them that my friend
34:42
Trisha was in my room and they told me, no, obviously, she's
34:46
not in your room. And I said, yes, yes she is.
34:49
And it was the one and only time I ever slept in my parents' bed,
34:52
not because I was scared, but because she wouldn't leave my room.
34:55
As a child, you know, I didn't know what was happened, but
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my parents wouldn't let me talk about it after that night, And in retrospect
35:05
she came to say goodbye. She did, she did, and I wish
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I was little. I didn't know, but yes, in retrospect, she
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came to say goodbye, and I'm glad I got to see her that one
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last time. Absolutely, there are many types of spirit healing allies. How
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may we identify them and tell us about a few of these? Sure?
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Well, our spirit guides have specialties such as like healer spirit guides which can
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help with our personal healing. We have teacher spirit guides which can assist up
35:37
in obtaining knowledge and wisdom, Joy guides which can help us find more happiness
35:42
in our daily lives, and protect our guides which can help keep us safe.
35:46
There are an unlimited amount of guides that can assist us with all aspects
35:51
of our life. I also expand though my group of spirit allies to include,
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let's say, ancestors, which are another powerful group of spirit allies we
36:00
can call upon. You might think of ancestors as just your blood relatives,
36:05
such as your grandma and your great grandfather, and this is correct, but
36:09
we can also expand our concept of ancestors. So for example, if you're
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adopted like I am, or you're in foster care, we're also connected to
36:19
the ancestors of our adopted or foster families. And I believe you also have
36:23
access to the ancestors on the land on which you live, and I personally
36:28
think that's why many individuals in the United States receive Native American guides. And
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you can also have got ancestors by affinity or interest. So for example,
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if you're a reiki healer like we are, we have ancestors by affinity to
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our reiki healers of the past. It's fascinating as well as you know,
36:49
spirit guides can also include deities, which are divine beings you know with their
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own mythology, and there are angels and archangels, beings of here a light
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who are available to assist us too. And you know, you can identify
37:05
your spirit guides by using your intuition and trusting the information you receive. So
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for example, you might hear the name with your interhering, or you might
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just simply know, and you have to trust the guidance that you're getting.
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Is there one or two that you have as favorites? Yes, absolutely so
37:29
I would say my favorites, Oh my goodness. Well, I'll share with
37:35
you a very personal story. When I received my Reiki two attunement, I
37:39
was driving into my corporate day job and I had a vision of an elderly
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Native American man. It was very powerful, very moving. I had an
37:51
emotional connection to that and I heard with my hearing my inter hearing, he
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said Ancestor, and I knew that he was a guide to work with for
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healing. And it wasn't until years later, when doing my ancestry DNA that
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I found out that I'm actually part Native American, which was very special to
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me. The fact that I remembered that that vision and working with him,
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it's been exceptional. Also, different kind of guide I have Celiac disease,
38:30
which is an autoimmune disorder, and my body has issues absorbing nutrients from food.
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So Karna is a Roman goddess of the physical body and healing who can
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assist with the absorption of nutrients. So I work with her often. So
38:46
unlike Ancestor my healing guide, who came to me spontaneously, Karna is the
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guide that I've called on into my circle of guides to help me specifically with
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Guides. Create your Divine support System and Spirit Allies and Healing Guides. You
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offer a number of ways of communicating with our guides, Please share one or
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two. So there are numerous ways that we communicate with our guides. So,
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for example, if you enjoy meditation and visualization, you can set your
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intention to meet your spirit guides or specific guide by quieting your mind and then
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visualize a meeting place. I prefer a garden, but any place that where
42:34
you feel a sense of peace, visualize it. So for example, maybe
42:37
a beach or a chapel. Bring in as much detail as possible, perhaps
42:44
place a bench there for you and your healing guides to sit at, and
42:47
then invite your guides in and be open to your experience. That's my favorite
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way because I can actually, because I can use my inner hearing and visualize,
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I can get great messages from my guides using that for me, So
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that would be my number one. But another favorite technique we talked about it
43:08
would be that dream incubation technique. That's a wonderful one. The ancient Greeks
43:15
and Egyptians you use dreams as a way to gain guidance for healing, so
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it's a wonderful tool to use. You would simply set your intention to meet
43:27
your guides and your dreams before going to bed and allow yourself to simply drift
43:30
off to sleep. If you're using this technique, I do suggest keeping a
43:35
dream journal next to your bed, or if you want to use your approach
43:38
Victor, you can use your phone recording afterwards and you can record any sensations
43:45
that you have upon waking, recording your dreams, how you felt when you
43:49
wake up, any insights that you might have, and if you didn't have
43:53
any dreams, don't worry, just record that as well, but pay attention
43:57
to your feelings. So whatever my bit of communication you select, be patient
44:02
and consistent. As with any new technique, it can take time for it
44:06
to develop. I had shared with you offline that I'd been listening Claire audiently
44:12
to the Spirit Guide since I was a child. And I'll share with you
44:16
one remarkable personal story that happened when I was stationed in Korea in nineteen seventy
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five. I regularly exchanged letters with my mother. I had no reason to
44:27
know that anything was wrong with her, and one morning the voice came and
44:30
said, you must call your mother. She needs to hear from you now.
44:36
And whenever the voice spoke to me, I would always respond, So
44:39
I called my mother back in New York. And in those days, you're
44:42
old enough to remember, I think that we had extension telephones, that you
44:45
could pick up one extension and pick up another extension. Maybe not, maybe
44:49
not. No, I had those kind of telephones absolutely, So in any
44:53
event, I called, and my mother and sister picked up the extension simultaneously,
44:58
and I said, Mom, is there anything wrong? And my sister
45:00
goes, oh my god, how did he find out? And it turned
45:04
out she was scheduled for major surgery the next day, and the voice told
45:07
me to tell her the operation would be a complete success, she'd have a
45:12
full recovery, Everything will be fine. She needed to hear those words from
45:15
me, those words of assurance. And that's just one example of so many
45:22
things like that that have happened throughout my life. And I'm grateful for each
45:24
and every one of those pieces of information and the way it enabled me to
45:30
support my family and my friends. So I'm grateful for that you have one
45:34
in particular you'd like to share, aside from seeing your friend, well,
45:38
speaking of the voice, I also sometimes hear a loud voice, and when
45:45
that voice speaks to me, I too listen. One of the more dramatic
45:49
times that the voice has come was I was driving on Interstate ninety five going
45:55
from Rhode Island to Massachusetts with my two boys in the back. We were
46:00
in a truck and out of the blue, going about I want to say,
46:07
maybe slightly under seventy miles an hour. Right approaching an s curve,
46:14
the tire of the truck sheared off for no reason and the front of the
46:17
truck smack down of the tire actually popped across the medium hit another car,
46:23
but no injuries from that. But my initial instinct when the truck slammed down
46:30
was to slam on my brake, but the voice told me not to.
46:32
It gave me step by step instructions. Reduce speed, put on the hazards,
46:39
wait for two cars to go by on your left or on your right
46:44
side. Then there'll be a space. Move over now, and then i'd
46:47
move over, make your way to the brakedown lane. Made my way to
46:51
the brakedown lane. It was so clear, and it kept me calm instead
46:57
of panicking as cars were flying by on the side. So yes, I
47:01
do hear the voice as well, and I always listen. It's helped save
47:07
my life. In fact, I credit the voice for saving my life in
47:09
my children's life. That day, I shared with you offline a similar story
47:14
that my wife and son and I were on a local highway. It was
47:19
full traffic, but everybody was moving at the speed limit, and I was
47:22
in the extreme left hand lane, and the voice came and said, you
47:25
must leave this lane, go to the center lane now. And I always
47:30
always observed that voice. And what I did was I carefully moved to the
47:32
center lane. And within five seconds after that, there was a multiple car
47:37
collision in the left lane, and had I not moved, we would have
47:40
been in the middle of that multiple car collision. And my wife looked at
47:44
me and just shook her head. You said, amazing, absolutely amazing.
47:47
Yes, it really is truly amazing. And the beautiful part is that others
47:52
have access to this kind of divine guidance. Oh, everyone does. Just
47:58
open yourself be ready to receive it. You share seven keys to success in
48:02
working with our divine support system. Please share one with us. Well,
48:08
it's hard to share just one because I well, I strongly believe that everyone
48:15
should keep some type of journal to track their practices in progress. However,
48:22
I feel that curiosity is such an important yet underrated trait, So I would
48:28
suggest be curious about approaching your guides, be curious about how your guides communicate
48:32
with you, and be curious about what may be possible for you. And
48:37
as you lean into your curiosity, you open yourself up to new possibilities and
48:43
areas of exploration for personal growth and for additional healing opportunities. So yeah,
48:50
curiosity my favorite key. You offer more than one hundred divine beings that we
48:57
may connect with. When I had my first reiki attuonment in early nineteen ninety,
49:02
the reiki master teacher told us after the attonement to place our hands over
49:08
our heart center and close our eyes and see if anything came to us.
49:13
And as soon as I did that, I did not have angel consciousness before
49:17
that, but I saw what I believed to be as an angel. And
49:21
when he asks what do you see, I said, I see an angel.
49:23
He said, ask the angel its name, and without asking, I
49:28
immediately heard Gabriel. That night, I went home and my daughter, who
49:32
was in her early teens at the time, said, Daddy, would you
49:35
show me this reiki stuff? And I said, of course, since she
49:37
sat in a chair, I placed my hands behind her head and she closed
49:40
her eyes and she said, Daddy, I see people who have passed away
49:45
members of our family, including her grandfather who had died before she was born.
49:49
In others, she said, Daddy, there's an angel flying above our
49:52
family. I said, ask the angel its name, and she said Gabriel.
49:57
So she confirmed for me exactly what I had experienced, that they can
50:01
you relate to that experience, I can't. Well. I mentioned, like
50:05
my Native American guide, my healing guide, and how I had no idea
50:12
that when this guide appeared to me that I actually did have Native American ancestry,
50:16
and he called himself an ancestor, which at the time made no sense
50:21
to me. I appreciated it, but I didn't have the sense of connection
50:27
that I had after I found that DNA test and I got back to that
50:30
experience and I was like, wow, you know, that's that's uncanny,
50:36
incredible, And I have had, you know, instances with angels, and
50:43
they don't appear to me the way that they appeared to others. Like Metatron
50:47
is an angel that I've worked with because of my work with crystals and healing
50:53
Medatron is fabulous to work with with crystals and healing. And when Metatron appears
50:59
to me at LEAs the sense that I get of Metatron, it's more of
51:01
a geometric shape rather than a traditional angel. So that was incredible having that
51:10
experience. So be open. The key is to be open to what your
51:16
intuition is guiding you what you're seeing and feeling with your inner senses. In
51:22
addition to the Indigenous American healer and Medatron, what are some of the other
51:29
guides that have manifested divine guides that have manifested for other folks. It was
51:34
interesting speaking of angels. One of my dearest friends was telling me a story
51:39
of her son who saw what he said, well, he was saying what
51:47
he saw were angels, but he told his mother, my friend, that
51:52
these angels aren't what you think they are. And what he was describing,
51:57
and he was only six at the time, was eyes. They have lots
52:00
of eyes, and there are wheels. And she actually checked the Bible and
52:06
there are descriptions of angels in the Bible that resembled that. So that was
52:10
fascinating. Another dear friend, her guides are her grandmother and she had several
52:19
strokes where she was incapacitated for periods of time in comas, and when she
52:27
awoken from them, she was describing conversations she had with her grandmother about her
52:31
own personal healing and how she was going to get better. Even though the
52:35
doctors said that she would never be able to recover fully and probably wouldn't walk
52:38
again, her grandmother told her she would, and you know what she did.
52:43
These are some examples, but there are so many. The angels who
52:47
look like eyes I believe are the seraphim. Yes, they are mm hmm,
52:52
amazing, absolutely amazing. I'm going to share a personal, very very
52:57
realistic, lucid dream that I had a few months ago, and I don't
53:02
think I've shared this on this program before, but I dreamed that I was
53:07
an angel attending an angel academy, an angelic academy, and we came to
53:14
the day of graduation and assignment, and we walked into this huge temple and
53:20
there was a U shaped table around the temple, and at each position along
53:25
the table was an angel a teacher, and we were instructed to walk before
53:30
each of these teachers, make eye contact, and when they nodded their head,
53:35
move on to the next, and all of us did that. When
53:37
that was done, we were told to go to the front table where there
53:42
were three main angels sitting there, and they gave us our angelic names and
53:46
our missions. The name I was given was a vi l, which in
53:52
Hebrew means the Lord is my father, and my mission was to be an
53:57
angel to other angels. And I woke up in years. Oh, that's
54:01
absolutely beautiful, and I recognized that. I recognized that that you know,
54:06
in my in my life form, not an angelic form, but in my
54:08
life form, I've been an angel to other angels. Yes, it's I
54:14
have vivid dreams too, and they're exceptionally profound. I'll share a quick one,
54:20
but it's it's it's not as quite as spiritual as yours. But I
54:24
dreamed, oh, relatively recently, that I was in an elevator and it
54:30
was an old fashioned kind of elevator, you know, the ones with a
54:32
doormen. I was going up, up, up, and I got out
54:37
of the elevator and all the beings it was a huge library, huge and
54:44
there were beings there, and there were beings of light, and they weren't
54:47
paying attention to me. I would go up to them. But they were
54:51
busy and they were they were, you know, doing their thing. And
54:55
I was with all these books and I felt such a sense of being home.
55:01
It was amazing. I felt so fulfilled there. I started skipping in
55:07
this library saying I'm home, I'm home. You can't make me leave.
55:10
And as soon as I said that, bam, I woke up. I
55:15
have a feeling that that was the Akashak Records. I was just about to
55:19
say that it sounds to me like the Akashak Records. My guest is Don
55:23
McLaughlin hearn rand new book Spirit Allies and Healing Guides Create your Divine support System.
55:30
Don, one more time, please share with our listeners where they can
55:32
get your books and find out more about you and your amazing work. Oh
55:37
thank you. So. My books are available on Amazon, or you could
55:40
go directly to the publisher Llewellen Publishing or your local bookstores and ask them to
55:45
order it for you. And my website where you can reach me is intuitive
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with a dash hearts dot com. Don, thank you so much for joining
55:54
us and sharing this wonderful experience and wisdom and inspiration for others who are looking
56:00
to find the path Well, thank you so much. It's been an absolute
56:05
joy, Victor, to be here with you, and thank you for joining
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us on Destination Unlimited. I'm Victor, the voice perman of a wonderful week