You Don't Have to be Woo to Experience the Woo

Speaker 1: 0:01

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Speaker 2: 0:27

The other thing that I kept hearing was you don't have to be woo to experience the woo.

Speaker 1: 0:37

You don't have to be what.

Speaker 2: 0:38

Woo, you know everybody. They say what we're doing is cool stuff, right, but I kept hearing that and I'm like what is that? I don't know what I'm going to do with that, but I do have an idea. Right, you don't have to be like I'm a healer, I'm an intuitive, I'm this, but you're damn well sure that you're experiencing.

Speaker 1: 1:06

I'm going to share with you two things. These are very specific. I'm going to start with the most recent one. So my husband came. We're having an argument, we're having communication. It's just been just gotten married. So he came to me and said that he feels like he can't do anything right Now. I've got two kids, so it's the three of us who've come into his house and he's got a daughter who's here part of the time. So he says I don't feel like I can do anything right. And my ego self had a response to him and we're talking about the logistics of the thing, but doing this work. We know this is not really the logistics of it, is not really what the issue is.

Speaker 2: 1:43

Right.

Speaker 1: 1:45

I'm processing with that and I'm thinking, okay, well, I certainly didn't mean that.

Speaker 1: 1:51

And then, as I because I'm becoming more aware of my spiritual abilities it's the bottom line right that are coming out. And then, of course, as a mother, I'm like, ooh, my kids need to know about this, like they, I need to tell them so that they're aware, so that, if they had, because I know that my son has some of the things that I can do and I don't know about all of it. But so I'm actually messaging, trying to communicate with my kids about this, and as I'm doing that, the process comes through and I realize, oh, you know I was doing that, I was, maybe I was thinking something to the effect of that you're wrong about this husband, right, but I know that my kids were, because they had shared it with me. So and that's where it started I was like, okay, well, we need to talk about this, because he's sensing that, and I know that you have thought that and this is an issue, because I know this is something that I can do. And then, as I write it, I'm like, oh, I'm doing the same thing.

Speaker 1: 2:49

I didn't realize it. Well, so, again, it's a person who triggers. That comes forward right. So you? What were we just talking about? I've lost it.

Speaker 2: 3:04

The phrase was you don't have to be woo to experience the woo.

Speaker 1: 3:08

Okay, so my husband is not woo at all. As a matter of fact, I was doing a dream study session with somebody, and she was telling me what my dreams were telling me, which was I need to really genuinely rest more, and by that I mean like I'm I have always been somebody who's go, go, go, because that was instilled in me as a child. So go, go, go, do, do, do, do more, do more. Okay, well, so I'm not resting, I'm not, and I know I'm not resting because two of the biggest, one of the biggest things I have difficulty with is sleeping Like fundamental thing, right? I?

Speaker 2: 3:47

totally relate to that.

Speaker 1: 3:50

So, anyways, her answer was you know, it's your higher self is telling you that you really need to genuinely rest, you need to nourish yourself, you need to do all this self-care stuff. And I and I'm laughing because I'm like, okay, like if my husband was sitting in the room he would say well, so what are you going to do? Just lay around and do nothing? You know, because he's actually said that, because I had a healer who told me, after my mom died, you need to, not, you need to do this kind of stuff specifically, right? Which for an outsider translate, says you're not doing anything, you don't want to do, okay, well, so for a week I didn't do that. And so he was all well, what about this appointment? What about it? I said no, my higher self sent to live, like I got told don't do anything for a week. And I thought my mother just died, maybe you'll take that. My mother just died, I'm going to take a week to myself, right? So there wasn't any really pushback after I said that, but anyway, so that's one.

Speaker 1: 4:45

So he's experiencing it, and he's also experiencing it in the sense that he's telling me that he feels like he is doing. Everything he does is wrong, right, okay. Well, that is in fact what my children have come to the conclusion. They, through the interactions, they felt like what they were doing wrong. So then now they're starting to think about, well, what's he doing is wrong. So they're, they are kind of projecting it, right, and so he's seeing it, but he doesn't know that he's receiving it because he doesn't know about any of the stuff. Right, like what kind of conversation? So that's one that you, he's literally receiving it and actually responding to it because he feels like he can't do anything right. So therefore he changes his behavior. Right, right, okay.

Speaker 1: 5:31

That one was long and complicated, but the other one I'm going to share is I've done it. I've said it so many times, it's pretty quick. The first time I received Reiki, I had chemical burns on my hand, and I have this in a blog on my website. But I had chemical burns on my hand in college. I didn't notice that, I didn't know I was going to have it. I go into class, they're all swollen in red and I'm like, oh, yeah. Then all my friends are like oh, my gosh, your hands. And they start flipping out and I'm like, could you just quit, because I can't do anything about it. I didn't know what to do about it and we have class, so just leave it and they quit. And then this lady who was actually I would love to get in contact with her I don't remember her thinker person was Mary Frank. She was married to the guy who was the photography and the ceramics teacher and she was fun. She was older, she was like late fifties right. So for a 20 year old that's like really old.

Speaker 2: 6:23

Yeah, you're like, oh, your soul.

Speaker 1: 6:26

So she's in the class, she hears this whole conversation. I noticed that she was looking at me and part of it was I was kind of like, in a way, rolling my eyes at my friends because I was like, just drop it, yeah, I can't do anything about it, I don't want to keep talking about it. And so we sat with the teacher who was doing a demonstration. It was watercolor class and she sits next to me and she just looks at me and smiles and she's really nice, and she puts her hands on mine and I just smiled at her and he had already started the demonstration and she probably knew I wasn't going to interrupt the thing to say, why are you holding my hands? I didn't really get it. So she did her thing and then when we got up, she just squeezed my hands and she smiled at me and that was it. So we didn't have a conversation about it.

Speaker 1: 7:10

I thought, as the day went through, I started recognizing more of what was going on with my hands and I'm like, oh man, it's taken so long to burn, it's got to finish burning and then it's got to start healing. Ugh, so downtrodden, right, right. So by the time I go to bed I'm like it's going to take like three weeks for this stuff to be over. I don't know what other ramifications are going to come out, but I know it's going to get worse. And so I went to bed. I woke up and they were like 70, maybe 70% healed, and I was like whoa, I don't know, what that was, and I didn't have class the next day.

Speaker 1: 7:46

So the following day the first thing I did when I walked in is I, when I returned, said hey, what'd you do to my hands? So you know, like I didn't have any, like I didn't have any opinion about it, I didn't have any thoughts about it, she just did the work and it did help immensely. And so since then I just know that Reiki does work. I mean, it took me shoot, that was like probably that took me 20 years before I went into a reiki class, but I still took a reiki class and I didn't have any doubt about whether it was going to work, because I know. I know it's going to work. Right, yeah, so you can experience the woo without what did you?

Speaker 2: 8:25

say what was the expression? You don't have to be woo to experience the woo.

Speaker 1: 8:36

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2: 8:38

Yeah, well, and when I sat down and I thought about it and I was like, well, everybody experiences the woo, so a good example is right, I worked in public safety and it was always public safety and mental health, you know, switching back and forth. And now, like I do crisis work, which is mental health, working with public safety, like first responders. So you know, one of the things like, when you talk to like first responders, they're like they think, like they think you're out of your mind doing this stuff, right, and and like I always tell them I'm like, well, I'm like you're psychic too, like you're intuitive, and they're like, no, I'm not, like that's bullshit, right, they will not admit it. And you know, and I'm like I worked on public safety, I used, and even at first, like not even knowing, like I use my intuitive sense, right, so I always use the example. I'm like, okay, I said so.

Speaker 2: 9:37

You go to this house and I said what's the first thing that you do when you go to the house? And they're like, well, you know, you get, like you get that like first impression of it. Like you, you go in, go in, like listening to what your gut is saying to you and I'm all really, you listen to what your gut says to you. And I said and if your gut says, no, don't go in by yourself, I need to call back up, do you do it? And they're like well, of course I do. And of course they're like it's to keep me safe and I said so. Then that gut feeling you're getting, I said, is your intuitive sense telling you if I walked in here I could die. I need I, you know I need backup. And then they kind of stop and they're like and I'm like you use it.

Speaker 2: 10:27

I'm like you use it all the time. I'm all. It's just like when you're, you know, when you're driving down the street and you and you see someone and you're going, well, I should probably just stop and have a conversation with this person. And then you find out that, you know, two doors down, they committed like this huge crime. How would you know to stop and talk to that particular person? And then they always say, well, you know, it's gut sense. Well, yeah, your gut sense is your intuitive ability, right? So you don't have to be woo to experience the woo, right? Yeah, so I don't know where this is going to go, but I think it's really good, I think it's, I feel like it's a really good informative piece to let people know that, like, like you know, the difference between me and you is, I outwardly say, like this is who I am, this is what I do. I said you just don't, but we're both experiencing the woo, right? Yes, yes.

Speaker 2: 11:27

I don't like I said, I don't know where it's going, but it'll be interesting, yeah.

Speaker 1: 11:32

I really like that idea and I've actually thought that. I actually thought that about my husband because I was, you know, talking to all my woo people, right, like all my friends and things, and I'm like you know, I wonder if it's blah, blah, blah and you know the more seasons ones will say, you know, on a higher level, da, da, da, da, they, he knows okay, but what I'm experiencing, as I'm now married to him, is it really is that way? I mean, I do see people. I see his daughter, I see him. I see all kinds of people they do. They do have responses like that and sometimes like it doesn't make any logical sense as to why they would do something, but they're still doing it and they're having a response to it. They don't know why they're having a response, they don't know what it is, but they have one and it's very clear.

Speaker 2: 12:20

Right, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1: 12:25

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