Episode #49 Kate West: Charting a Course through Reiki, Spiritual Mentorship, and the Integration of Healing Arts in Business

Reiki is a journey , not a destination , and on this ReadySet Reiki journey , we refer to ourselves as guides rather than hosts , as we too are traveling , supporting each other and learning on this Reiki journey as well . And with that said , I am your first guide , tracy C Wright .

I'm your second guide , millie Pampina , and today I am honored to have a wonderful guest . Her name is Kate West . She is an intuitive healer , spiritual mentor . She is deeply passionate about transcending consciousness through healing and personal growth .

She is a believing in our greatest elevation is found through comprehensive mental , physical , emotional and spiritual harmony . As a teacher of self-compassion and spirituality , she considers herself an ally for those who wish to transcend personal suffering to embody their highest potential and expression of self . Welcome , kate West , to ReadySet Reiki .

So I would go into the bathroom , which was one of the few places I had privacy , and I just learned how to open up my chakras and I immediately found a sense of peace and there was just something that always compelled me to keep that practice throughout my life .

It was meditation , was just this ally that allowed me to find grounding and harmony and balance during tumultuous and stressful moments of my life .

So throughout high school , I was just always sort of interested in exploring spiritual practices and consciousness exploration , especially during college , and that led me to becoming a , a holistic nutritionist , which is what I received a master's in , and as I was practicing so I received my master's in 2019 , I started practicing right before the pandemic , the beginning

of 2020 . And at that time , I was working with a naturopathic doctor who was referring her patients to me and I was developing these medical nutrition therapy plans to complement her treatment plans .

And so , as I'm working on a one on one basis with patients , I very quickly see , okay , there's a poor relationship to food going on and oftentimes a poor relationship with their physical body , which is creating , you know , bad lifestyle choices , poor dietary choices that have created a lot of these ailments are , you know , heavily contributing to them .

So , as I'm diving into helping people heal this relationship , very quickly begin to see oh , wait , a minute , that's actually a surface level like there's something deeper here . That's actually a symptom of an even deeper problem , which was a poor relationship with themself .

So , very quickly into practicing as nutritionists , I opened up my practice and pivoted and became more of a holistic lifestyle and health coach and from that journey that led me into the work that I'm doing now , which is much more about spiritual mentorship , channel guidance and energy healing .

And I was meditating one morning and suddenly this angelic being approaches me and in my awareness , and so I see this being of light , sort of abstract , out in my field of awareness and it's presented to me as this tunnel of light coming from this angelic being to me .

And I'm sitting in the presence of this angelic being and I'm just having all of this high frequency light just blasted into my aura . And as I'm sitting in the presence of this angel , there's not much interaction going . But I start inquiring like , okay , who are you ? Who are you ?

And she just continues to say I am you , I am you , and so then I asked him like what is your name ? And she says I'm Rebecca and I am you . And so I'm sitting with her for about 30 minutes and that was our whole interaction . And as I exited this meditation , I felt this profound sense of peace .

But also I saw all of this light emanating off of my hands in my awareness and it felt very obvious that this process , the light that I had received from this being was not intended for just from my own healing , but I felt very much like I was meant to give it to someone else .

So shortly thereafter I'm working with one of my patients or one of my patients because we're one of my clients , rather and she started , she'd been mentioning the concept of energy healing and something that her family practiced , and she referred to this book called Barbara Bread and Hands of Light and I got this like ding ding , ding , ding going off in my mind ,

like my guys were pointing me you need to look into that . So that was my first introduction to the , even the practice of energy healing .

Shortly thereafter maybe let's see that was in April , so by the fall of that same year I was sitting with my childhood best friend , who is a professional psychic medium , and she was reading for me , connecting with my team and spirit , and my guides were being very adamant .

They were like Kate , you're an energy healer you do energy healing and I had no training . I had no idea what they were talking about , other than this book that I had purchased that , admittedly , I hadn't really read .

So I believe that was in the fall 2021 , January of 2022 , I hosted a masterclass a free masterclass on TikTok , and I promoted it on a live that I had done said hey , I'm going to do this free training about how to become your best self , as that was really the primary focus of my practice at that time helping people heal more emotionally and psychologically .

And so there was an individual who had found me on my live . His name is David Riddle and he attended my masterclass . So I asked my childhood best friend , the one I referred to earlier , to also attend masterclass , and so when I went on zoom , they recognized each other and like oh hey David , oh hey Vanessa .

And I had decided as well that I was going to offer a free session to one person who attended my training , and that person was David . So David ended up being my mentor .

We did a session with each other where he had been shown that it was time for him to expand his practice and actually step into becoming a teacher and trainer of the specific type of energy healing that he practiced . And , of course , at that time , my guides had told me that I need to learn how to do energy healing .

So , you know , in a very divine , coordinated way , here's this mentor that shows up into my life Now . He didn't practice Reiki specifically . He practiced a modality called a Cauchic Blueprint integration , which is the practice that I do now .

each of these things . So coaching in particular . So I started as a spiritual coach . I consider myself more of a transformational coach this time . Most people don't know what coaching is . A lot of people , I would say just in general , don't really understand what coaching is pretty much at all .

So I've had to really I feel that most coaches have to illustrate the benefit of working with a coach and what it really means . So I would say , a lot of misconceptions surrounding that . Some people feel as though it's more like working with a clinical therapist , and now I don't have no , I studied psychology and undergraduate . That's not at all .

Within the room of clinical therapy , coaching is a very different modality , where a therapist is going to show you why you are the way you are and go really into the depths of the individual nuance there . Coaching does some of that , but it's much more about okay , we can uncover and create an expanded awareness around your patterning .

Now what do we do about it ? It's much more goal oriented . It's much more identity work based of allowing you to transcend any of your self imposed limitations , anywhere that you are subscribing to fear or holding yourself back , and step into a more expanded version of self . At least , that's how my personal this is .

So I would say there's just a lot of misconceptions around the coaching industry in general . Now it comes to energy healing , because the modality that I practice is so unique , most people associate it to Reiki and it is similar . It's not completely outside of the realm of Reiki .

But also sometimes , when they hear the word Akashic , people assume that that means that I do Akashic record readings , I'm doing past life readings or even past life regression hypnosis , which are all really awesome modalities , just not what I personally practice . I think that those are some of the more common misconceptions .

Overall , I feel like the work that I do has is so nuanced and has such a mysticism surrounding it that it's often very difficult for me to even really explain what it is that I do , since each individual session is very much tailored to the person .

So I'm really being guided with a variety of different healing tools based on whatever it is that that personal , that individual person needs to evolve .

Many of us , when we first set on this journey of building a coaching practice or offering our services online , will spend a lot of time studying the industry and comparing ourselves to the way that other people are showing up and taking actions that other people are taking that are not actually aligned with our authenticity and will often take us out of our heart

space , which is very felt when you're doing this kind of transformational , healing work .

It's deeply personal , and so if you're showing up and you're much too concerned about the logistics of running a business and getting caught up in all of the , as we call them , vanity metrics of posting on social media , right Of , oh , I put so much time and energy into this post , into this offer , and I only got five likes on it .

Now , does that mean about me Just making it so , about you and not about the heart and soul of what it is that you're here to do , which is to be in service of other people's healing and well-being , to help other people find balance and harmony within themselves ?

And so I would say , number one , just stop comparing your journey with anybody else . Your journey in my opinion this is a spiritual teaching that I work with is the idea that life is simply a mirror reflecting back to you yourself in many different aspects , and so it's your business . My business has by far been my biggest mirror .

It's the thing that has allowed me to evolve in ways that nothing else in my life has . However , as a result of that , I spent a lot of time comparing my journey to that of someone else's , but because I have deepened my awareness and understanding that my business is simply a reflection of me , there is no comparison .

No one's journey is like mine , because we are all one-on-one , right . We are all just unique in our vibrational expression , and so stop comparing yourself . Just because somebody else has a podcast or they're running a YouTube channel , or they have a success showing up on Instagram in a very specific way , does not mean that that will work for you .

And so when you're trying to copy and paste approach , strategy , approach to business in particular for those of us who are practicing and running businesses as well that will be felt and that will really just detract you from the heart of what it is that you're doing Now , when you're leading from the heart , when you're leading from a place of service , when you're

focused on how can I bless someone today ? Right , can you just even for the listener now receiving those words , can you feel how much more expansive that is to be navigating from that place , rather than what can I get ? How can I be successful ?

However , she thought that that came through the lens of being a doctor and a lot of you know my family is also in the medical field , the Western medical field but I was not connected to the fact , or I wasn't very conscious at that time , where I was really governed by ego consciousness .

And so at that time I aspired to be a doctor because I thought that that was like the highest echelon , highest status that one could attain in our society , and I felt really motivated for that reason .

If you had come to me when I was applying for graduate level programs and told you , told me , hey , kate , you're actually a spiritual healer I probably would have laughed on your face . I was completely unaware of inner work , of emotional healing at that time , actually because I'd had such a tumultuous upbringing .

I'd actually dissociated from my emotional body entirely and essentially didn't allow myself to grieve or experience negative emotions or even cry , really .

So my younger self , I wish that she , I would let her know that healing is so much more multifaceted than she has any idea and that the physical body , in my personal opinion based on my experiences of working with clients oftentimes our physical body is the last place where our ailments will present themselves , because for most people , it's not until there's

something wrong with you physically that you're willing to stop and actually look at yourself and be like wow , I really need to make time for myself . I need to prioritize self care . I need to let go of all of my beliefs that tell that , tell me that I'm not deserving of love , and these things , when they fester within us energetically , often become diseases .

Now , experience , of course is , is preferable , however , if it's someone that I really connect with as well , if I feel that soul bond . It's really obvious to me when I have a friend . It's really obvious to me when I have contracts with people , either through my own personal healing , my own personal experience of mentorship , or with my clients as well .

So I would say , just the intuitive connection with that person and an authentic dedication to what it is that they do .

Why do you care about this ? Why is this something that you want to pursue in the first place ? And get really descriptive about it . Recognize that as you navigate the journey of entrepreneurship , there's a lot of other factors at play that are going to be pulling your attention .

It could be things like I need to be successful in order to pay my bills and pay my rent next month , right , feeling that financial pressure . It can be things like really having to navigate your ability to be seen in the public eye . There could be so much insecurity that arises in the social media space .

So many facets of things as , again , understanding that your business is a reflection of wherever you are in your own journey of evolution at that point that you start entrepreneurship . So I would start with what is your why ?

And get really specific about it and let it just pour out of your heart space , because the more that you can stay connected to that , allowing that to be your beacon to move forward , the more successful you will be .

Every time you find yourself getting way too caught up in the minutiae of the logistics of being a business owner , I want to invite you to come back to that central . Why ?

Why is it that I want to be here , especially when you feel like you're not being successful , when you're facing failures , which , as we all know , in order to achieve a high level of success , that means you have to be willing to fail a lot , and I also would love to encourage your listeners to be very attentive to the meaning that they are ascribing to any

of the circumstance situations that they might encounter as they navigate owning a business or stepping into spiritual practice . You know , let's say , let's go back to the example of posting on social media . You put all this time into this Instagram post and it gets two likes and 40 views . You could make that mean that you're never going to be successful .

Then no one cares what you have to say . It can be a whole host of things and your job , as someone who is a shepherd to this knowledge , to this wisdom , who has been truly given this mission to carry out . I really believe that any of us who are in spiritual practice , it's so much more than a job , so much more than a means to an end financially .

It's about a duty that you have to fulfill , your soul's mission on this planet , and so I want to invite you to take a moment and just witness yourself . Witness all of the stories that are present , allow them , hold space for them lovingly , but then choose and really find a way to reframe this in your mind so that you can move forward with your mission .

So it's always good , as you're walking on this journey , when there is that turbulence or plans don't go the way you expected , to kind of look for that you know sign that says what is your why on that journey , and then that is your kind of pointing the direction of your true north .

So that's always good advice to have to those because you can get easily frustrated . But I look at it is kind of like a test . You know , are you ? You know really , are you meant to do this ? And if you can't get over that hurdle right , then you got to do , you got to do some more of the work .

That's always the gift and all of our obstacles . And when you're able to really see that gift , see the lesson and integrate it , now you have a new vantage point to propel yourself forward .

Now you can use that opportunity , as I like to say them , as leverage to propel you forward rather than as a roadblock to stop it , and all those roadblocks can just be stepping stones right to boost you a little higher .

So for those of you that are really interested in the relationship between physical health and energy healing practices , that's a great place to start . It is more of a textbook read but for those of us who like to have that more sort of research oriented perspective , that's a good place to start .

But as far as the personal development path , some of the books that really shaped me was the untethered soul by Michael Singer . That was one of my very first introductions to the idea that we are not our minds and he just unpacks it in such an accessible way . Definitely a wonderful read .

One of my mentors who I went on to work with has a book called the Magic , the Magic of Surrender , by Coot Blackson , also very enjoyable read , mostly shared through personal story , really talking about the practice of surrender , and that was something that was very foreign to me at the time that I encountered him on a podcast actually talking about the book and

I was like , oh , this guy's brilliant , got to go find his book immediately . His story is really interesting as well .

His father had like 75 or something several hundred churches in Ghana and he was a miracle healer where people would come to him in wheelchairs and he would tell them to stand up and they would walk , or people that had crippling diseases that would be crawling on the ground would like wipe the dirt on their face of the ground .

He walked on and stand up and be healed and cured . So his lens is really , is really interesting . So the Magic of Surrender was also an incredible read . Anything else that's standing out at this moment . Oh man , there's just been so many books throughout the time .

You know I also was really guided by Abraham Hicks' body of work , so her early books around the law of attraction were also really impactful for me too .

So I'm very active on TikTok these days . The bulk of my following is there and , as I connected with Tracy , I do host these live healing experiences roughly four days a week , so that's where I'm the most active . I'm also pretty active on Instagram stories in particular .

The stories are a fun way where I can drop in and give you a little bit more , you know kind , of the backgrounds of my life , get to know me on a more personal level and share my little daily wisdoms and insights of things I reflect on throughout my day .

Because , you know , those of us who are practicing regularly spend a lot of time at least myself having a Sagittarius moon . I spent a lot of time considering Sagittarius or not Sagittarius spiritual philosophy . So if you're interested in that kind of thing , instagram stories is a good place to connect . And then also YouTube . I have a budding YouTube channel .

I have a lot of plans for my YouTube channel . I'm very passionate about traveling and you know all the things related to consciousness expansion , of course , and so I have a lot of really exciting plans for my YouTube channel . So TikTok , instagram and YouTube . You can find me at Guiding Light Healing Studio on all of those platforms .

Because I know that all of us are , I want to say , drawn to it , but then become involved in this healing field For various reasons , but there's always some similarity and underlying . And you know , I worked in the healthcare field for many , many , many years and I used to have to .

You know , I'd worked with a lot of folks who , honestly , the burnout rates and everything were very high . And I would say to them I know , sometimes when you forget why you're here or why you first got into this in the first place , it's difficult to step back and adapt to something new or different .

I said so , thank you always for having us here , you know . So thank you for , thank you for emphasizing that . I really think that that's very , very critical and important in not just this field but many fields . That's something good to take across . You know a lot of life's experiences . So , as Tracy said , thank you so much .

We have three social media questions . These are . You know , she gets these from our website and Facebook pages and they're from our audience and we boil them down and take the three top that are , most you know , interesting at the time for our guest and for our listening audience . And the first one we have is what about your journey ?

Makes it satisfying and exciting or exciting ?

So I'm deeply passionate about what it is that I do . As I said , it's so much more than a job . It's so satisfying for me Anytime I get the honor of witnessing someone have a breakthrough .

Now , that can come in many different ways , but specifically in my one-on-one work , when I'm offered some sort of perspective that I share , I really feel that everything that I offer to my clients it's , yes , of course , coming from my own personal research and experience , but really it's spirit I truly feel that I'm just a channel right .

I'm simply the messenger .

So anytime I'm offered some sort of reflective question that facilitates a breakthrough , and just seeing that aha moment or watching people just release emotionally things that they've never been able to access , never had tools to manage with them themselves , and I know that that's going to create more balance in their life , more peace , a sense of lightness , happiness ,

and fuel them with the confidence to really achieve what it is that they came here to do . Nothing is more fulfilling than that , truly truly so fulfilling , and I always feel that it's such an honor that I was given this mission . As I said , it's really my duty here to be in service of other people . I will do this for the rest of my life .

I'm sure it will appear in many different forms and fashions , as my journey has already taken so many turns , starting as a clinical nutritionist and becoming a spiritual healer and spiritual teacher , I really see myself taking my work into doing live healing , retreats , big group experiences , writing , books , things of that nature , and so , knowing that anything that I

can offer to really allow people to unburden themselves and be an ally to help in their suffering , nothing in this world is more fulfilling than that moment .

When I see it it's such an obvious shift and then just to hear in the coming days and weeks how much that's benefited their life in a really significant way in all areas of life , because I truly believe the way that we do one thing is the way that we do everything .

So if we're struggling in one area of life , you may not be aware of this right now , but it has tendrils reaching into your relationships , reaching into your career , reaching into the way that you perceive yourself , your self-concept , right .

So we start with one little kernel , one little tendril where you can see that there's a problem , and very quickly I'm able to illustrate to people .

Do you see how this is actually the format , the platform for the rest of your life , the foundation in all other areas of life , and so , when you are able to heal it at the root , I just , oh , I'm just getting chill , stocking about it .

What I've seen my clients be able to achieve as a result of doing their healing work is so inspiring to me as well People who are willing to take this journey , who are willing to look at themselves very honestly , confront things with them themselves that maybe they've been avoiding or swept under the rug or didn't even know existed most of the time .

You know , it's not always an easy path to learn how to step into the light of compassion with ourself , step into the light of forgiveness for those who have wronged us .

You know as just some small examples of the work , but those who are willing gives me a reason to show up every day and gives me a reason to deal with all of the nuances of running social media accounts and running a business right Like if I could just show up and work with clients all day , every day . That would be great , you know .

So what feels me is the moments of transformation , and so I believe I would say that those two things truly excite me , and also just having these kinds of conversations with people like you as well , who are interested in this work , who want to create a platform to open up these conversations .

I could talk about healing , personal development , spiritual philosophy all day , every day , and I often do it , just never gets old you know , no no , well , it never runs out of what I .

So everything that comes my way , no matter how it is or how it settles or where it's leading , gives me an opportunity to learn and to adjust and to deal . So thank you so much . That's a beautiful approach . So well . Okay , now number two . This is gonna be right up your alley here .

What are some of the strategies that you believe have helped you grow as a person ? Oh man great question .

Like I mentioned when I read the Untethered Soul , and also working with Koot Blackson , one of my mentors , he was so wonderful at defining ego consciousness and allowing me to recognize and really even put words to these internal processes , these thought patterns that were really consistent , that I started becoming aware to .

So number one was being the witness of myself .

Now , this is one of the really wonderful tools and why I feel like meditation has been also very fundamental to my healing journey and something that I cannot recommend enough , and I always really press on my clients as well to have a meditative practice , because meditation , though it is about slowing down the mind , most people feel like they can't meditate because

they're like my mind is going million miles an hour . I can't stop , silence my mind , but in truth , it allows you to connect to the witness , which is what you really are right . You are the space between your thoughts .

You are the infinite awareness that is observing the entire inner process , and so , once you learn how to self-reflect and pull away your consciousness to observe yourself .

Now you have the agency and authority to make changes right , because my mind is this incredible tool that , as also one of my casual mentors , a creator that I absolutely love his name's in hindsight . Check him out on YouTube . He's incredible . He says your mind is a tool , but your tools become obstacles when you don't know how to use them .

And many of us are being run by our mind rather than governing our mind . Right , we're being controlled by our mind rather than controlling it . And so , very first , fundamental thing , develop some kind of a way to witness yourself , and I always recommend meditation . There's so many ways you can meditate .

You can meditate while you're washing the dishes , as the great Ram Dass would say . Can you just be washing the dishes ? Can you just be driving the car , not thinking about what you need to do later , not ruminating on what happened yesterday , but just being fully present ?

And if you can start to just start there , that's going to give you the ability to at least switch into that space of being the witness to yourself . Number two was the alchemy process .

So I started recognizing how much my mind was simply a collection of all of my stories from my past , all of my conditioned beliefs , and what I truly see is I just see our mind as a computer and I just have all of these programs that are running on default all of the time , unconsciously , before I became aware of them , and these programs are the frameworks

that we use when we navigate life . So any sort of uncertainty in the future , let's say so . I'll use a specific example to myself . I grew up in a poor family , and so my family was always , always in a constant state of fear , of lack , fear that there wasn't going to be enough .

And my mother and my grandmother were external processors , so they just spoke out loud of all the times that there wasn't enough money , wasn't going to be enough money .

So I was deeply , deeply programmed with that scarcity consciousness and I wasn't aware of it until I actually funny story in 2021 , I , separated from a long-term partner of nine years , moved in with this random girl on Craigslist who actually was building a coaching business at that same time , and she turned out to be a money coach , and so she showed me how

much I was governed by poverty consciousness and scarcity consciousness , and I started witnessing myself doing the same things that my mom and my grandma did when it came to approaching money . I would notice the stories and realize , wow , that's verbatim , mom .

And so I started recognizing I have this program of scarcity that is triggered every time I think about my future financial landscape . I gotta do something about this , because we are creators based on what we focus on , and I was constantly focused on the gap , the lack of money , and this is still something that I've had to heal tremendously .

I've done leaps and bounds on healing my wealth consciousness , but as an example of what a default program looks like when we are unconscious of it , and this can appear for a lot of people as fear of abandonment showing up in relationship issues . You name it right . So number two is the alchemy .

It's when I started really having the agency to recognize my programmed and conditioned beliefs and develop tools to navigate these stories and rewrite new ones . This is the concept of identity work that I spoke to , that coaching really allows us to be , because when I started thinking about who is it that I want to become ? I have this mission in this life .

Who is Kate West ? How do I want to present myself , carry myself , what is she thinking about ? What is she focused on as she's carrying out this mission ? And poverty consciousness had to go . So step two is the alchemy process right , having tools to do the deep transformational healing work and truly change your self-concept .

Right , I was no longer the girl who was focused on lack . I became the woman who knew that she was the angel of abundance . Right , these are beliefs that I'm still an identity that I'm still nurturing and fostering . Right , but the work truly is lifelong .

And then three is the integration right , where it becomes second nature , where you're no longer having to reach for this idea and really convince yourself that this is a belief that you believe in right , where the inner critic isn't constantly telling you like no , no , there's still not enough . Right ?

It's when it becomes just so fundamentally ingrained in you that we live in an abundant universe and there is always enough , and you don't even have to think about it anymore than that step three . So that was the process that I took myself down and that I continue to take myself down , and that I have the privilege of taking other people down as well .

That has allowed me to become the woman I am today Wonderful . Thank you for receiving all of that . Like I said , try to keep it short .

And I saw that and said I'm going this way , I want nothing to do with this , so I will do whatever it takes to create a better foundation for my children going forward , for whatever reason

. I remember being , in like sixth or seventh grade , motivated to get good grades because I wanted to get into a good college and get a good paying job , so I could basically just do my family life all over again . Holidays were always really troubling . My family was very just a lot of conflict , a lot of blaming .

We didn't really get along with each other whatsoever . We were all very different people .

A lot of trauma that was never really addressed and would just come out in these inflammatory moments , often at holidays , and so I always really longed to have a peaceful and harmonious household and to have the relationship with my family and children that I did not have so throughout . Oh , jill's talking about that .

So , growing up I was motivated to be successful because I wanted to give my children the life that I didn't have . There were so many opportunities that my peers got to explore that I didn't get to explore and I feel completely I don't blame just to be clear , I don't blame my family or feel sorry for myself at all .

I also believe that we purposefully choose our family lines to work out the generational trauma . So I know I have a contract with my family .

I know that I chose to alchemize a lot of this poverty consciousness because , as we do our own inner healing , we learn this from somewhere , often our families , who learned it from their families , who learned it from their families . So it's ending in breaking generational curses . It ends with you . So that's how I see it .

I just take full responsibility over the whole landscape and again , when we take personal responsibility for our life , that allows us to step into personal freedom and sovereignty . So that was my central motivation .

So , going throughout graduate school and I thought I wanted to be a doctor and I always was the person in my friend group that just made people feel really safe and comfortable . Very quickly , upon meeting me , people were always just going deep into their deepest , darkest secrets .

And I recall I think this was freshman year of high school I was friends with a couple of people and they were dating and it was just like all of this drama and my friend Austin was really eaten up by it , and so he would call me in tears and I would just go on these long .

I remember just pacing outside of my apartment I lived in this one bedroom apartment with my grandmother and uncle and I would pace outside and I remember it was like a nighttime and the stars were out and I was just telling him all of this really wise stuff that I felt was beyond me and I would just say that it was just flying out of my mouth .

And looking back , I can see I was channeling . I was channeling higher wisdom that would allow people to move past whatever it is that they were struggling with , even at a young age . So I'm continuing my spiritual journey , right , I'm continuing my pursuit to college , and for the same motivations I described .

And then , in 2017 , I went to a sound healing experience probably one of the first ones I've done , and it was a 432 Hertz two hour sound healing meditation . And so I sit down and I get into a meditative state and I remember thinking like , ok , what do I want to focus on ?

And before I even had the opportunity to decide , I'm immediately taken into a scene where I'm observing from a bird's eye view and I see myself sitting on a beach and it's very like 2D , almost claymation . I can still see it very vividly , like , ok , this is interesting , what's about to happen ?

And then the sky opens up and this beam of light comes down and scoops up my consciousness , my light body , and takes me out into outer space and I'm given the biggest download of my life learning about our relationship to the sun and how it's helping our consciousness on the planet evolve .

Now , keep in mind this is about three years before the start of our 3D to 5D ascension . People were not talking about this and I received so much information about it At the end of this whole dialogue that I'm having with one of my higher , I can now recognize it's one of my higher selves . I'm taking down on this little planet like where's this ?

And I get out of my little light beam and I'm walking down this corridor and it's a stone corridor with a gold hieroglyphic script and I'm running my hands and it's shimmering what is happening .

And I turn a corner and the room opens up and I look down and I'm wearing all white robes and there's a half stone table with other beams filing around it , also wearing the same white robes , and my higher self says you are part of a council that's overseeing the raising of your collective universe's frequency back to source , back to love .

And when I came out of that meditation , everything just clicked in . I was like no wonder I have always cared about helping people be the best version of themself . And in fact I remember I think it was like my bio on my space or something when I was really young I would always tell people my greatest passion was being the best version of myself .

Now I didn't have any spiritual mentorship , my family was not into this at all and it just all made so much sense , made so much sense why I always was interested in raising consciousness and spirituality and so that just seeing what my mission was from that vantage point gave me so much purpose and so much duty where I truly feel that I came here with a

really significant reason and a responsibility , truly so that is what propels me forward , I think that answers your question . I actually forgot what the original question was . What motivates me ? Yeah , so it was the tandem of all of that . Wow , and the name of your book is yeah , and then the process of writing it right now .

Actually , It'll be launched in the next few months .

Thank you so much Now before I move on to closing out , because that's the end of our social media questions , is there anything else you thought about while we were talking that you might want to bring up , or any other contact information or anything for our listening audience ?

Right , because our individual journeys and experiences , it's a metaphor for the collective experience that we're having as one one globe , one humanity .

Right , and really , what we're seeing is the great collapse of the old paradigms , the fear based ways of navigating the world , the greed right , the control and removing into a space of unity , consciousness , and so something that who chills talking about that , something that my team has been communicating to my audience , is the need to really be so aware of what

it is that you want to see in this world . Right , if you want to see peace , it's about being the peace yourself , right ?

And something else that the great Ram Dass would say , as we move towards this idea of being a more loving and conscious and connected world , is that you know , being able to anchor compassion in this world through the lens of you know it's not their suffering , it's not his suffering , it's not the , you know homeless person that's having a mental health crisis on

the street . It's not their problem , it's our suffering , right , it's our suffering because until all of us are able to really heal and evolve , then none of us do right .

And I just want to offer that perspective of how could you maybe integrate just a little piece of that as you navigate throughout your day , especially during the holiday season , when there's always so much just heightened energy , and also because the state of the world is in such a disarray right now , doing your best not to focus on the fear , not to focus on

the negativity , not to focus on the lack , not to focus on the stressful thoughts and just to become a little bit more aware of . Am I engaging in this in a daily way ? Yes , and if so , you know how could I become a little bit more peaceful internally ?

Right , because as you anchor that vibration of peace that's going to affect the person in line in front of , in line at Starbucks , right in front of you , even if you say nothing to them , if you're standing there harmoniously and you're just offering a beacon of peace around you , that will vibrationally benefit everyone and maybe , like the pay-out forward effect ,

right , constantly it has a ripple effect . Maybe that person who was stressed now suddenly is washed over this feeling of peace for some reason that they can't explain . And wouldn't that be such a beautiful thing for you to be a participant in ? Absolutely Thank you . Yeah , I think .

I'm already set Reiki and , part of now , a wellness Feather , sister Wellness . So again , thank you , and I have a small tagline I'd like to leave people with . It may resonate with you , and that is to see beauty in everything is a choice , so please choose wisely . And with that I'm going to send it over to back to my other co-guide , tracy .

See you , right . Thank you .

We also are on Feather Sister Wellness , which offers a variety of classes including yoga , meditation , reiki and Reiki training , so check us out . So thank you so much . I have been Tracy Searite and this is Ready Set Reiki . Thank you .