Intuitive Connection

There is no one right way to connect with spirit.

Mediumship is a natural ability, but how we experience that connection is uniquely our own. Learning to recognize how spirit communicates with you can make all the difference.

In this episode, I sit down with psychic medium and Reiki master Francie Soito for a fascinating conversation about what mediumship actually feels like from the inside. Francie shares her unexpected journey from a self-described left-brained data scientist who didn't believe in anything woo to discovering her own ability to sense, feel, and communicate with spirit.

We talk about why communicating with spirit isn't like having a regular conversation, how different mediums receive information in completely different ways, and why understanding your own natural strengths can help you open your connection. Francie also shares practical ways to connect with loved ones in spirit, recognize the signs they're sending, and become more receptive to the messages that are already around you.

Key takeaways from this episode:

• Mediumship looks different for everyone. Some people see, some hear, some feel, and some simply know.


• Spirit communication can be subtle. Rather than expecting a clear conversation or unmistakable sign, notice the impressions, feelings, words, and images that come through.


• Start with your strongest intuitive sense. Work with what's already natural for you, while staying open to how your abilities may change and expand.


• Connecting with spirit requires surrender. You can ask a question or set an intention, but then you have to let go of your expectations and allow what wants to come through.


• Our loved ones often reach us when our minds are quiet, including when we're falling asleep, waking up, or doing familiar activities that don't require much thought.


• You can ask your loved ones for specific signs, but stay open to how they appear. If you think something is a sign and it makes you feel good, trust it.


There is no one right way to connect with spirit. Your gifts are uniquely yours, and the more you honor how they're already showing up, the more they can grow.

Join me and Cirak for Amplify Your Intuition, a 4-day immersive retreat at Cactus Blossom Retreat. Find the latest event details here: https://cactusblossomretreat.com/upcoming-events-two




Join me and Dr. Larry Farwell for The Science of Creating Miracles retreat. Find the latest event details here: https://cactusblossomretreat.com/upcoming-events-two




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Meet your spirit guide and receive a message.




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Activating Your Intuition

The Journey of Your Soul: Understanding Reincarnation

Spirit Guides: How to Connect to Your Spiritual Support Team

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Abundance isn't something you chase. It's something you are.

On a recent beach walk, I got to thinking about a friend, a fairly well-known spiritual teacher who has struggled a lot around money. It got me thinking about a disconnect I see all the time: so many deeply spiritual people, tapped into spirit and doing beautiful things in the world, still experience a sense of lack around monetary abundance. So I turned the question over to the guides, and what they shared blew me away.

In this episode, we explore where the belief that spirituality and wealth don't mix comes from, why money can pull us out of the natural flow of giving and receiving, and what keeps so many of us stuck in a sense of lack. Most importantly, the guides offer a way through: a shift in how we hold money, a practice for clearing the old wounds and beliefs beneath our relationship with it, and a reminder that money is only one expression of a much larger flow of abundance already available to us.

Key takeaways from this episode:

• Spiritual connection and financial abundance are not opposites, though many of us were taught to believe they are.


• The idea of noble poverty runs through much of our spiritual history, and it still shapes how we relate to money today.


• Money is only a representation of abundance, and clinging to it can actually take us out of the flow.


• When we focus on what's missing, we stay stuck in scarcity.


• Abundance is energy, and money is just one of the forms it can take.


• Many of our beliefs about money were formed in childhood. When we bring love and awareness to these limiting beliefs, they release.


When we stop treating spirituality and abundance as opposites, both are free to flow.

Join me and Cirak for Amplify Your Intuition, a 4-day immersive retreat at Cactus Blossom Retreat. Find the latest event details here: https://cactusblossomretreat.com/upcoming-events-two




Join me and Dr. Larry Farwell for The Science of Creating Miracles retreat. Find the latest event details here: https://cactusblossomretreat.com/upcoming-events-two




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Meet your spirit guide and receive a message.




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Activating Your Intuition

The Journey of Your Soul: Understanding Reincarnation

Spirit Guides: How to Connect to Your Spiritual Support Team

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AI can think. But does that mean it's conscious?My friend and returning guest Chris Niebauer is a neuropsychologist and the bestselling author of No Self, No Problem, The No Self, No Problem Workbook, and his new book, The Abstract Mind. He has spent years exploring the relationship between the brain, the thinking mind, and consciousness, which makes him the perfect person to join me for this fascinating conversation about AI.In this episode, we explore a question that is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore: Can artificial intelligence actually be conscious? The answer may depend on something even more fundamental: whether thinking and consciousness are the same thing.Our conversation challenges the enormous value our society places on the thinking mind and considers what AI might be revealing about our own consciousness. If a machine can think faster and perhaps even better than we can, what does that tell us about who we really are? We explore consciousness as something far greater than thought, intuition as a deeper form of knowing, and what becomes possible when the mind stops running the show and becomes a tool for something greater.Key takeaways from this episode:
Thinking and consciousness are not the same thing. AI's ability to manipulate language and information doesn't necessarily answer the question of whether it is conscious.
We have spent centuries defining ourselves by our ability to think. AI may be forcing us to reconsider whether thinking is really what makes us who we are.
The thinking mind is an extraordinary tool, but we may rely on it far more than we need to.
If consciousness doesn't originate in the brain, we may need to rethink what it means for AI to be conscious.
Intuition comes from a deeper place than thought. When we quiet the thinking mind, we create more space for that deeper knowing to guide us.
The mind doesn't have to lead. It can become a tool for intuition, allowing us to move through life with greater flow, ease, and trust.
Maybe the rise of artificial intelligence isn't just asking us to understand machines differently. Maybe it's inviting us to understand ourselves differently too.

Explore more of Chris Niebauer’s work on the mind, consciousness, and the science of self at ChrisNiebauerPhD.com
What if the way we think is also what keeps us stuck? Dive deeper into that idea in Chris Niebauer’s new book, The Abstract Mind:https://chrisniebauerphd.com/books/the-abstract-mind/  
Join me and Dr. Larry Farwell for The Science of Creating Miracles retreat. Find the latest event details here: https://cactusblossomretreat.com/upcoming-events-two
Join me and Cirak for Amplify Your Intuition, a 4-day immersive retreat at Cactus Blossom Retreat. Find the latest event details here: https://cactusblossomretreat.com/upcoming-events-two 
Book an intuitive reading or coaching session with me wherever you are in the world!
Meet your spirit guide and receive a message.
Join the Intuitive Connection Premier Community 
Experience a one-of-a-kind in-person retreat experiences at Cactus Blossom Retreat in Escondido, California 
Connect and learn with me here:WebsiteInstagramFacebook
Connect with like-minded souls in the Intuitive Connection Community Facebook Group
Download a copy of my Free Activate Your Intuition Ebook
Discover My Online Courses:Activating Your IntuitionThe Journey of Your Soul: Understanding ReincarnationSpirit Guides: How to Connect to Your Spiritual Support Team
Find the books mentioned in the episode here!Disclosure: I am an affiliate of Bookshop.org and I will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase.

This podcast is a part of the MindBodySpirit.fm Podcast Network
Visit us at www.mindbodyspirit.fm

AI can think. But does that mean it's conscious? My friend and returning guest Chris Niebauer is a neuropsychologist and the bestselling author of No Self, No Problem, The No Self, No Problem Workbook, and his new book, The Abstract Mind. He has spent years exploring the relationship between the brain, the thinking mind, and consciousness, which makes him the perfect person to join me for this fascinating conversation about AI.

In this episode, we explore a question that is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore: Can artificial intelligence actually be conscious? The answer may depend on something even more fundamental: whether thinking and consciousness are the same thing.Our conversation challenges the enormous value our society places on the thinking mind and considers what AI might be revealing about our own consciousness. If a machine can think faster and perhaps even better than we can, what does that tell us about who we really are? We explore consciousness as something far greater than thought, intuition as a deeper form of knowing, and what becomes possible when the mind stops running the show and becomes a tool for something greater. Key takeaways from this episode:

Thinking and consciousness are not the same thing. AI's ability to manipulate language and information doesn't necessarily answer the question of whether it is conscious.

We have spent centuries defining ourselves by our ability to think. AI may be forcing us to reconsider whether thinking is really what makes us who we are.

The thinking mind is an extraordinary tool, but we may rely on it far more than we need to.

If consciousness doesn't originate in the brain, we may need to rethink what it means for AI to be conscious.

Intuition comes from a deeper place than thought. When we quiet the thinking mind, we create more space for that deeper knowing to guide us.

The mind doesn't have to lead. It can become a tool for intuition, allowing us to move through life with greater flow, ease, and trust.

Maybe the rise of artificial intelligence isn't just asking us to understand machines differently. Maybe it's inviting us to understand ourselves differently too.Explore more of Chris Niebauer’s work on the mind, consciousness, and the science of self at ChrisNiebauerPhD.com

What if the way we think is also what keeps us stuck? Dive deeper into that idea in Chris Niebauer’s new book, The Abstract Mind:https://chrisniebauerphd.com/books/the-abstract-mind/

Join me and Dr. Larry Farwell for The Science of Creating Miracles retreat. Find the latest event details here: https://cactusblossomretreat.com/upcoming-events-twoJoin me and Cirak for Amplify Your Intuition, a 4-day immersive retreat at Cactus Blossom Retreat. Find the latest event details here: https://cactusblossomretreat.com/upcoming-events-two Book an intuitive reading or coaching session with me wherever you are in the world!Meet your spirit guide and receive a message.Join the Intuitive Connection Premier Community Experience a one-of-a-kind in-person retreat experiences at Cactus Blossom Retreat in Escondido, California Connect and learn with me here:WebsiteInstagramFacebookConnect with like-minded souls in the Intuitive Connection Community Facebook GroupDownload a copy of my Free Activate Your Intuition EbookDiscover My Online Courses:Activating Your IntuitionThe Journey of Your Soul: Understanding ReincarnationSpirit Guides: How to Connect to Your Spiritual Support TeamFind the books mentioned in the episode here!Disclosure: I am an affiliate of Bookshop.org and I will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase.

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Is communicating with spirit reserved for a gifted few, or available to us all?Recently I came across a post from a well-respected medium pushing back on the popular idea that everyone is a medium. Her concern was a fair one: not everyone is trained to receive clear, accurate messages for other people, and treating mediumship as universal can gloss over the real skill and responsibility that professional work requires. I understand that completely. And I still believe we're all mediums.We're all spiritual beings having a human experience, and we're all innately connected to the spiritual realm, including our loved ones in spirit. Whether you train to receive messages from spirit professionally, or simply communicate for your own edification, the ability belongs to everyone. In this episode I share my own unconventional path into mediumship, why I resisted the word for years, and why I've come to believe that integrity, love, and a genuine desire to serve matter more than proving anything or doing it someone else's way.Key takeaways from this episode:
Connection goes both ways. You can reach toward spirit, and spirit is always reaching toward you
Mediumship doesn't look the same for everyone. It might come through dreams, signs, words, feelings, or a simple knowing
We often feel blocked because we're expecting too much, or waiting for the information to arrive in a certain way. Start with what's already flowing
Stay curious and playful. Spirit isn't serious, and forcing it only gets in the way
Grief can cloud our ability to sense a loved one's presence. You're still connected even when you can't feel it
If you feel called to do this professionally, follow that call with integrity, love, and a real desire to serve
You don't have to become a medium. You already are one.Show Notes Space: 

Book an intuitive reading or coaching session with me wherever you are in the world!
Meet your spirit guide and receive a message.
Join the Intuitive Connection Premier Community 
Experience a one-of-a-kind in-person retreat experiences at Cactus Blossom Retreat in Escondido, California 
Connect and learn with me here:WebsiteInstagramFacebook
Connect with like-minded souls in the Intuitive Connection Community Facebook Group
Download a copy of my Free Activate Your Intuition Ebook
Discover My Online Courses:Activating Your IntuitionThe Journey of Your Soul: Understanding ReincarnationSpirit Guides: How to Connect to Your Spiritual Support Team
Find the books mentioned in the episode here!Disclosure: I am an affiliate of Bookshop.org and I will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase.

This podcast is a part of the MindBodySpirit.fm Podcast Network
Visit us at www.mindbodyspirit.fm