Episode 2

A little over a year ago, in October 2024, I was still doing hair part time (I was a stylist for 20ish years) and I had gone to see a client at her home. I can’t remember exactly how the conversation went but we spoke about how I was going to be moving the following year and was if my boyfriend was going to be moving with me. I told her some of my situation and how I didn’t think it was going to end up working out. I told her we were just on very different paths at this point in our lives and how I was getting back into energy and learning about the law of attraction. She is a very successful businesswoman and told me how she’d read “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne years ago and really put that into practice in her life, attributing a lot of her success to following some of the principals in the book. After this appointment I decided to read it again. I still had a hard time believing or maybe understanding how this really works and how it seems to be so easy for some people. I started researching and trying to learn and understand as much as I could about this concept. I knew I had manifested things into reality several times in my life but I didn’t really know how I did it. It sometimes seemed like a great coincidence to me (which I no longer believe coincidences actually exist) or it was something bad that would happen and I would call it a self fulfilling prophecy. I now understand it to be that we are always manifesting 100% of the time, the good and the bad things in our lives. I understand that we can consciously or unknowingly be manifesting our realities. I understand now the way our beliefs, and thoughts really do shape our reality but it took me until now to get there. I am still learning to put the things I’m learning into practice as well! It’s been quite the journey especially as of late!

The next book I read was called “The Last Law Of Attraction Book You’ll Ever Need To Read” by Andrew Kap but alas, it was not. I then signed up for the MindValley app in late December as a Christmas Present to myself. I have since done several quests, some I didn’t feel like I resonated with and I didn’t complete them which I will say is a major accomplishment for me. I know that sounds a little weird but I am the kind of person that HAS to finish something once I start it. A book, a class, whatever it is, I started it, I paid for it and I must finish it, even if I don’t like it. It might sound odd to be proud of the fact that I can start something and not finish it but it’s a win for me to be able to stop doing something I don’t enjoy or isn’t helping me to grow even though I started it and paid for it.

I started my MindValley experience by doing 2 quests at the same time (overachiever lol) I don’t recommend it. When I was first learning and growing spiritually I wanted to absorb as much knowledge as possible in as little time as possible so I was doing several things at the same time pretty regularly. It makes it quite difficult to remember and put into practice what you’re learning when you’re going back and forth like that. I must confess that I still do this but at this stage in my journey I know the importance of actually doing the practices and not just learning them. You can have all of the knowledge in the world in your head but if you’re not doing the things you’re learning about and really physically embodying the practices, the knowledge is more or less useless to you. At least that’s how it’s been for me. You can learn about changing your mindset, beliefs, and thought patterns until the end of time but if you put the book down or stop the podcast or whatever and go back to the same old regular thinking that’s gotten you to exactly where you are, nothing is going to change. I’ve noticed a couple of common themes across the board when it comes to manifestation. One thing is feeling the feeling of already having attained your goals. This is one of the things that’s caused the most struggle for me. I was just totally numb inside and the only feelings I could feel was basically nothing, or sadness/disappointment/the not good feelings. I certainly didn’t know how to feel joy or abundance or even gratitude on command if I’m being totally honest. I was and am grateful for so much in my life but I couldn’t understand the concept of just feeling the feeling. I had shoved down and suppressed my emotions for so many years that I didn’t know what they even felt like anymore. This is where energy healing and removing blockages comes into play. Literally everything is energy and when we suppress our feelings they don’t just go away. They get stored in our energetic bodies and become blocks to our growth, and eventually can become physical manifestations in our actual bodies. Those blocked and stored emotions need to be released from us in order to allow us to truly shine our light and be our authentic selves. It’s not always comfortable or fun but I will tell you that once the block is removed and the emotion comes up for release, if you let it out, let it flow through you, it really doesn’t last very long. You can cry, scream, punch your pillow, throw a tantrum and honestly it’s over very quickly and you feel a lot better. I’m not saying it’s a one and done. It’s a process for sure but I think a lot of the fear around releasing the stored emotions is that you have to feel it for a long period of time. I’ve found for me that’s not the case and as long as I truly let it out without trying to shove it back down, it’s over and I feel better pretty fast. Another thing I’ve found that helps it go quicker for me is to thank my body for bringing these things to my attention for release and ask my spirit guides, angels, God, higher power, Universe or whatever resonates with you, to help release it with ease and grace. You also don’t want to ruminate on the emotions or memories that may come up as this can keep you stuck in that energy for longer than necessary. This is easier said than done, believe me I know. It does get easier with practice and I find myself speaking out loud to my brain and body quite regularly. Your cells are always listening to you. Your brain is always hearing your words and thoughts. Your body just wants to do what it thinks you want it to do so the way you speak to yourself really and truly does matter. I can not reiterate this strongly enough. Imagine if you will, that you are the employer of your body and brain. Your body and brain are the ideal employee, the best you could ever ask for because it does exactly what it’s told to do just like how you would give commands to a computer. It listens to everything you say, always. What are your thoughts, feelings and commands to your body the majority of the time? If you don’t know anything about your reticular activating system in the brain or confirmation bias, I highly recommend learning a little bit about that. Try talking to your body the way you would speak to a small child that you love very much and want to see grow and thrive in every way. Give yourself grace and love and try to notice all of the good it does for you. Thank your body for all that it does to keep you alive without you even needing to ask. It really does feel better to be kind to yourself.

With so much love,

Katie

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