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Episode 97 Tamara Liz's Healing Journey: From Psychosis Struggles to Seventh-Level Initiate – Embracing Spiritual Healing, Art Therapy, and Emotional Balance
How does an artist transform from battling a mental health breakdown to becoming a seventh-level initiate and ascension guide? Join us as we uncover the remarkable journey of Tamara Liz, a Puerto Rican artist residing in El Paso, Texas. Tamara explores her path from her artistic endeavors and art therapy studies to her role as a spiritual healer and homeschool mom. She shares the profound significance of being a seventh-level initiate and how she channels higher energy to serve as a portal for spiritual growth.
Tamara's story is one of resilience and transformation, navigating through the struggles of psychosis and emerging stronger with the help of art and spiritual healing. We discuss the critical role that finding the right energy healer plays in one's journey and the importance of vibrational alignment in healing. Through her experiences, Tamara illuminates how every challenge shapes us, fostering personal growth and contributing to our professional lives and community impact.
In this episode, we also delve into the esoteric, exploring the evolution of chakras and the intricacies of spiritual practices. Tamara provides insights into her process of clearing karma and the role of authenticity and self-awareness in spiritual work. Additionally, she offers a unique glimpse into her creative process as she prepares for a solo art show, highlighting how art can be a profound tool for self-discovery and emotional balance. From channeling divine energy to creating "portal art," Tamara's journey is a testament to the powerful intersection of art, energy, and spiritual growth. Don't miss this inspirational conversation that emphasizes the accessibility of spiritual and emotional development for everyone.
Tamara Liz is a Puerto Rican artist, 7th level initiate, and ascension guide based in El Paso, Texas. With over two decades of experience in the arts, a master’s degree in Art Therapy, and having left the samsara cycle, she helps people discover their inner wisdom and fosters spiritual and emotional growth. Tamara's transformative offerings, packed with energy healing, provide tools to empower individuals on their journey and unlock their creative and spiritual potential. Her paintings, a blend of spiritual exploration and artistic expression, will be featured in her solo show “Spiritual Growth” in November 2024 at Zephyr Gallery in El Paso, TX, and is available on tamaraliz.com.
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This is Ready Set Reiki, a podcast about Reiki, the universal energy life force, from the curious beginner to the seasoned master teacher, welcoming all systems, all lineages and all levels. Reiki is a journey and not a destination, and on this Ready Set Reiki journey, we refer to ourselves as guides rather than hosts as we tour, traveling, supporting each other and learning on that Reiki journey as well. And with that said, I am your guide, tracy Seawright. And today, what a wonderful opportunity I have to interview an amazing person who is out there elevating the 9-1-5 in El Paso, texas, tamara Liz.
Speaker 2:She is a Puerto Rican artist, a seventh level initiate and ascension guide, based in El Paso, texas Now. With over two decades of experience in the arts, a master's degree in art therapy and having left the Samara cycle, she helps people discover their inner wisdom and foster spiritual and emotional growth. She offers transformative offerings packed with energy healing, provide tools to empower individuals on their journey and unlock their creative and spiritual potential. Her paintings are a blend of spiritual exploration and artistic expression and will be featured in her solo show, spiritual Growth in November 2024 at the Zemford Gallery in El Paso, texas. Tamara, welcome to Ready Set Reiki.
Speaker 3:Thank you for having me here. It's an honor and thank you for the audience for also being here.
Speaker 2:Now I'm going to give you an opportunity, because it was so beautiful before we talked, before we began here our journey together, but say your beautiful name.
Speaker 3:Oh yes, Tamara Lise.
Speaker 2:How beautiful is that? I can, I could not do it justice, but let's begin our journey together here and let's find out about you. So tell us a little bit about yourself.
Speaker 3:Yes, well, I am a little bit of everything, right, that's what we are, right, and I do have my master's in art therapy, but I've always been, first and foremost, artist. It's who I am. I breathe it. That's how I live. It's needed for me, right? It's how I process life in a lot of ways, and I'm also a homeschool mom, so I'm in that community as well and I have done many offerings since, let's see, I've arrived here maybe 2021. And I've been in the community. I had the studios in Socorro I had. Later on, I won a grant and I had another studio so that people could just go there and create. So I've been trying to, you know, live life and make a little bit of a positive impact.
Speaker 2:Wonderful, wonderful. When I first came to El Paso two years ago, I had never been here before and my husband came out for a work opportunity and he had been out here a little bit before I was able to come out. And there's something magical about Socorro. I really loved it, it was. I came out, I was here maybe about two weeks and I had an opportunity to teach yoga out at the community center there, and so there's something about it. I don't know what it is, it's just to me feels magical. It is.
Speaker 3:It is magical. I always had this idea that spirit well, spirit bring us wherever we're meant to be, right, the divine is always working through us and for us, and I feel like there are a lot of artists in el paso and it's because there's something so ancestral, like we are so connected with powers beyond right, and I I feel this in el paso special. It's very special. The people are very special, the community. I know that it isn't perfect, nothing is our perception of what perfect is, but I absolutely love the community.
Speaker 2:Wonderful. So tell me about your energy work as a seventh level initiate. When did this come into your life?
Speaker 3:level initiate. When did this come into your life? Okay, so let me explain a little bit of what is being a seventh level initiate. Right, there are several aspects to it. First is that at the fifth initiation, you end the samsara cycle, which means that you no longer reincarnate, you no longer have to come back for more lives, more lessons, you have paid all of your karmic, whatever, so all of the karma is clean, which means that at the fifth initiation, all of your chakras are just pure light right, are just pure light right, and then, as you move further along in the initiations, then your higher selves becomes a part of you. It's like you think, as sand is going up, but it's actually higher self is coming down to live in your heart and you become a portal for your higher self and that's like a vibration. Right, it's not something like oh, I'm an ascended person, I'm just a normal person. Right, it's just me, tamara da-da-da-da, but it's his energy, is what lives within me. So I'm a portal for his energy and it's just amazing. I just live, live normally, but he's working in ways that I couldn't even comprehend and and that's basically being a seventh level initiate, you know, just being this portal for your higher self.
Speaker 3:There are more initiations and with it comes, I guess, more understanding of everything you know and and it is, it is beautiful. It is meant for all of us. This is the journey. You know what I mean. It's not we're all going to be doing this. You know what I mean. It's not just me. I'm not a guru, I'm not. It's the journey that we're all called for. You know, nobody wants to come back to the endless suffering, right? So it's something that I also do as a guide. You know. Help, because the journey in the beginning it was lonely. I started in 2018.
Speaker 3:And I mean started with the group that in many lifetimes before too right. When does it begin? Right, just when we were created as a soul. But the journey where I begin to learn all about ascension and really come into the understandings and really what I understood then is not what I understand now either. You keep changing your perspective. It's internal, it's not something that you can maybe manifest outside, it's something that is happening within. Right, and it has changed a lot for me. Things do get better in life. There's more flow and just the understanding and the growth that happens within you because you know everything is happening for you. You know, and when you stop living like, oh, why does this happen to me? Why me? You shift right and that's all about the journey. Just little shifts, little shifts that help us manage our emotions better and help us master life in well, spiritual and normal ways too.
Speaker 2:Very good, very good. So when did you know your purpose was an Ascension guide?
Speaker 3:Well, let's see, I think that forever I felt like, okay, I'm just, I'm an artist, like I resonate with being an artist, but and life has been good through that journey, right, it has helped me live and understand what's happening to me and everything. And then, you know, therefore, I went to art therapy because I knew how powerful art was for me, but then I understood that art is a spiritual tool as well, so there's so much more to that. And as I went through, you know, I was like, okay, so in therapy I cannot be fully me. You know, like I couldn't necessarily like I did. Thankfully, I always had supervisors that were really cool and I never had a problem if I took my tarot cards out and whatever.
Speaker 3:So whenever I did documentation, it just looked like alternative healing therapy. You know, like you just kind of don't say directly what it is, because you know insurance companies are whatever, um, but I was able to to still do the work that was needed and I realized that I wanted more expansion. And ascension guide covers more of what we're really here. Even if we don't understand, that's what we're really here for. It does cover the whole as the life experience that we're having. So it's kind of how it went.
Speaker 2:Very good. So what is a common misconception about energy, work conception about energy work.
Speaker 3:There's so much about it. It's crazy because if I always, you know, I was like mind boggled by this, because in psychology is the study of the soul, it's not even the study of the mind, it's the study of the soul. So it's always been there, but hidden. It's like everything about spirit is hidden in religions and everything what really it's like on, like that side, even all like, say, the jewish religion, the torah, oh well, the cavillized hidden. You can only do this after 40 years. And then they try to to like I was raised Catholic. They're like, oh, the saints, the this, and they don't explain to you, I mean the whole totality of what it means. It is beautiful, all of these saints, yeah, it's real, they're here to help us. The angels, all of it, it's here. They're all here to support our journey.
Speaker 3:But spirituality it's always something that people want to not be associated with because woo, woo, just like the alien thing or stuff like that. They're like it's gonna take away from my professionalism or something like that, is it? They're going to think less of me? Not at all, I mean, I haven't embraced this. There used to be a time where maybe I, you know, even with my identity and everything. I was like on the down low, like I just didn't want to.
Speaker 3:But this is who we are, this is how we're meant to live, and spirituality should be our number one focus, not just something on the side you know what I mean Just like when I used to talk in the mental health realm like self-care. Well, self-care should be the everything. Everything we do is self-care is not enough. We have to learn about our bodies, about our minds, about our emotions, and we have to take care of us and our responses to life. And so, when it comes to spirituality, there's people that will always feel like are you crazy? Because they don't fully understand. They don't fully understand period, and that's something that they may not be ready for yet in this lifetime, and that's okay. So, without judgment, for any of the parts is how we need to move forward.
Speaker 2:Very good. So you have helped people discover their inner wisdom, foster spiritual and emotional growth and help many as they are facing struggles on their healing journey. But what has been the biggest challenge, or rather struggle, you faced in your own healing journey?
Speaker 3:Okay, so there's not like the one thing right. There's so many events that we've gone through, but I feel these events, anything that we experience, is part of a lesson or something card make that we needed to learn, that we needed to do. And so I've signed up for a mental health breakdown and it changed my life in so many different ways. I think after I mean while I was in it it was because I went in and outside of psychosis. Like psychosis, like I was like gone, like it wasn't just a little bit, it was like I wasn't there. And where I went, I went to so many different. It was like a journey, Like I don't know if it's like being on drugs or not, but I would say that is very similar. But it wasn't during that period of my mental health breakdown.
Speaker 3:One could easily perceive that as a spiritual experience, but it was negative. That was not a spiritual experience, but it was an experience that I needed and that it was important for me so that I would become who I am today. You know what I mean like everything is serving you and and I I use those experiences. That's actually through art how I heal, because I didn't have a mental health counselor that could help me. There were psychologists. They would see me and they would say, like but you look good, like, even though I didn't have my master's in in art therapy yet, I knew enough that you couldn't judge somebody's mental state out of how they look. You know what I mean, and I I've come to so many different therapists that were judgmental or it was not, it was not great, but again, all of these things to inspire me to look for the profession that I will eventually take, so it sparks that beginning of not only a career in the arts, because I was stating, right then and there, like I was telling them well, I just want, in my art world, I just want this recognition or want, uh, in my art world, I just want this recognition or like being this in this art world.
Speaker 3:And I went ahead and just did it.
Speaker 3:I went and I was exhibiting and selling my art in Puerto Rico and I was known in the sphere of art and and everything was, I mean, seemingly well in that aspect, you know, but in you know, I was just porging all of these, pouring all of the emotions, all of the unprocessed things, all of the chaos that was within me, to the art which made it fascinating for people, you know, because they love to see, like the stories of others, and and so that's why maybe, you know, I had some success in that realm because they were like, oh, she's got this diagnosis, she's the bipolar, this, this, and she has psychosis.
Speaker 3:They just and so just maybe that kind of thing opened up so that they could see within. You know, because when you do abstract art, when you do all these things, you are putting yourself out there, you are being vulnerable, really, because they can see, it can be seen, you know, and at that point in time I was just pouring all into it, even when I didn't understand really energetically what was going on. Later on, I understood, like, oh my God, like this was telling me all about this yes, that looked like a blocked chakra Like, oh my God, and my security was lost, all of this. So everything that I was painting, you know, had a message for me that at that point I wasn't aware of and neither could I comprehend it, but the messages and the support were always there, you know.
Speaker 2:So wonderful. It's like you're putting all the different pieces together of your puzzle. Yes, to be able to see the image. Wonderful. Yeah, so you are an artist. Master's degree in art therapy, spiritual healer. What do you wish your younger self knew about your current profession, your current work?
Speaker 3:That's interesting. When I was young, I always knew that I was going to be an artist. Like I said, I'm an artist. I was going to be an artist because that's what I did, right, like it was very uh, evident, but I would have never imagined the turns that it would take, uh, and there's no way that I could really tell my younger self anything that would. Because I need, I needed everything. You know what I mean. There's even the, the wounding, all of the things like not feeling good, not believing in myself or whatever. It is all part of the story that we're meant to heal, you know, and if I didn't have that, those traumatic events, then I couldn't find the light, you know, I couldn't find the light.
Speaker 2:Very good. So you are out there helping others. You provide offerings packed with energy healing. You give tools to empower individuals, but when it's time for you to get that energetic tune up, what are some qualities that you look for in an energy healer?
Speaker 3:that you look for in an energy healer. Well, as a seven initiate, they always told us like, oh, you are in this high level. You shouldn't get services from somebody that is not at your high level. However, I felt like really that doesn't matter, like I've ascended, but there are people that haven't ascended, but they still have gifts, you know, and people that have gifts or you know, even if they're not like just gifts, like I just came with them, if they develop them and train for them, well, they might not be higher vibrational or be at my level, but they still provide a that can see the energy and and can guide it through their life and they see how it's coming from the divine and they're just like guiding it.
Speaker 3:And I absolutely love that because they also see you know my thought forms and when I'm losing concentration, they would be like, hey, pay attention. And then I would go back to the divine, you know, back to the third eye, back to the divine, and it helped me hone my skills, my own skills, right. So I need people that know that have this kind of skills and I would love to continue to learn more about those skills because, as of yet, I can feel energy. I intuitively know what's happening. It helps me read the environment, it helps me read situations, people, what's going on. But it is all an intuitive process, right? I'm not necessarily and yes, I can guide, like oh, channel this energy and I ask for it, but it's all about asking really, and the in, two, three, four. It's all about just asking. But I like when people have that extra sense that they can see. They can see so that I can actually get back into focus.
Speaker 2:Very good, Very good. So what advice would you give someone who's just entering the path of spiritual work path?
Speaker 3:being authentic and just knowing yourself. You know what I mean. You have to see within. You have to see not only who you are, but how you respond to life, so that you can see yourself and how to navigate things better. Where are your things that you need to improve? Because it's all about that inner improvement, that inner journey and growth, and it's a step-by-step process. There's no way of jumping ahead. You have to go through the steps and it is beautiful, but it is like you mentioned with the Reiki it's a journey. It is a journey. It's not a destination and you never can say like, oh, I have arrived. I mean it is.
Speaker 3:Oh, there's always something that will come to you to see how your lessons will get repeated, and repeated, and repeated until you have mastered them, until they no longer trigger judgment, until they no longer trigger anything you know, except unconditional love, just pure love. You know what I mean. So that's why sometimes it can feel very exhausting for people in the spiritual path, because things will come again and again and again in layers to build different meanings, and I'm a person that I need understanding. It is important for me to ask the whys, the hows, the questions, because that brings new levels of understanding. For me, right, and that's why I also help people.
Speaker 3:Do you know? You have to understand yourself. Why do you do this? Why do you? And sometimes, and that's, do you do this? Why do you? And sometimes and that's one of the ways that you can use art, um, so there are things that you might not even comprehend how they happen, how they work, but the hands don't lie. So you put that into artwork and the symbols will show up, the colors, things that will guide and will help you not only interpret but really understand more about yourself, and I feel that that is just beautiful, right, because it's teaching you how to be with yourself and learning the tools that can help you in your growth.
Speaker 2:Beautiful and talking about helping you with your growth. What books do you recommend?
Speaker 3:Well, I have way too many books. That's okay, that's all right. Yeah, and they have all. This is what I do. I don't do the front to back reading. I do bibliomancy and it has helped me in so many different ways when I need guidance, when I even doing research.
Speaker 3:You know you have to write papers and it has to be based on what somebody else said. You cannot say it on your own. You have to have basis Like somebody else has said this too, it's not me. So you always have to find evidence right. And sometimes, when you're looking for this evidence and you're like, well, I would be intuitively guided to find the books and, opening it at random and I would find the information, I would always look not only on the page, but three page before and three page after, and I kid you not, the answer's always there.
Speaker 3:It is amazing how much support we really do have. You know, if we really look for it and are mindful about it, we have to be present and because the support is always there, it's always there, we're always being guided. It's just that we're too blinded. The veil is on and we're just in the story. The story Like we want to do the things and we want to achieve the things, but it's just a story in the story. The story like, we want to do the things and we want to achieve the things, but it's just a story, it doesn't, doesn't. Nothing really else matters, right?
Speaker 3:But um, I do recommend, um, a book that I wrote a chapter in. It's called divine healing and um, well, it, it's a longer title. It's let me see, do I have the? No, I moved it. It's Divine Healing and the author is Carol Ann. She compiled all of our stories and it's Divine Healing, stories of I can't recall, my memory seems to be wiped out. And she also has actually both books by Carol Ann I would recommend, because the first one she compiled is the stories of ascension of different initiates and it's about 13 stories. It's called Modern Ascension and it's about 13 stories. It's called Modern Ascension and I absolutely love it.
Speaker 3:Because, you know, we always see in the Bible or these saints, like it's always like forever before somebody gets level saint, or you know what I mean. Or they always back in the past, these gods, this goddesses, everything is in the past and there's nothing like, well, who's doing it? Now we're here, now, like what do we get? Where's the stuff, and there is stuff happening now. There's many people that are, yes, guided.
Speaker 3:There's many people doing different things, but the ones that I trust the most, and it's just because they have embodied their higher self, which is a master. It's the master, the people that we dream about, that we wish we could, you know, meet. They're a portal for these people. And don't get me wrong, we still have personality. We still have, you know, whatever issues we came with, the trauma, we're all in the healing journey together, but the vibration of the master is there. So you're getting this healing that you don't even, you may not even recognize right now. Healing, it's happening, but we, you know, you might feel it, you might feel the thing, you might not, you might feel a little thing. You don't know how it's happening, you don't know where it's working. We are not always conscious of the things, how it's working. That's why I love people that have the sight, because they're like, oh yeah, it's healing this and right there, but otherwise you just have to trust okay, this healing is happening, right. So yeah, carol Ann Halstead and her two books I definitely recommend those.
Speaker 2:Wonderful. So what other services do you offer? Do you offer sessions, classes, events?
Speaker 3:trainings? Yes, yes, I do have. I usually do workshops and offer one-on-one sessions, and I have new services that I've been adding because this is the journey the more I embody my higher self, the more I'm being asked for new things to offer. And I am offering now a house clearing. And I am offering now a house clearing. And you can yes, you can do yourself the palo santo the things. You can do all the things, but there's new layers of healing and integration that can happen. Then you're healing the land, healing the, everything, finding where the vortexes are, like there's so many different things, uh, that you can tap into and and and get in your home. And an additional thing is that, uh, the masters that I'm working with and my higher self are choosing art that they recommend like they be like, okay, these artworks, they can help increase the, the frequency, the vibration of your home. You know what I mean Like it's beautiful. I'm surprised sometimes. I'm like this painting, I like this painting, I want it, it's mine. I'm like, yeah, sure, and I do have other services where I do create paintings for people. There are either a higher self or maybe they want, you know, an aspect of divinity. You know like they really resonate with Archangel Michael and they want an artwork to work with them. Or, you know, because the art is a tool. They don't replace your connection with higher self, they don't replace your connection to your heart, but they are just a tool to help you be not only in protection, because it's a space you know that they send protection for your spiritual work and on another layer of that, the artwork emits energy. Just like everything has an energy signature, a frequency. Well, they emit vibrations that are healing you, that some people that have gifts, some gifts or can sense energy, they can feel the energy coming through their you know, their chakras. Other people might not necessarily feel, but they may be. They see the artwork that I created for them and they're like, wow, like this, like this resonates with me, like I'm. This symbol means that for me and I'm like, oh, I didn't know why it happened, right, but it's there because it means something for them, so that they know that they're being supported through this service. And let's see, I have the. I have different services when it comes to the sessions. I have sessions. I used to have my studios and I would host sessions, workshops, even for the children's summer camps and stuff like that. But I decided to close the studios and went into, you know, so that I could create in my office. I homeschool my kids, so I cannot be like far away, so I but I decided that we're doing Like there's one of the services that it's called Servicio I mean not Servicios, it's called Retratos del Corazon, and so this means portraits of the heart and this is a healing service where I actually go into the home of the person and there's a questionnaire, a big session, you know it can take up to two hours and it's just letting the person tell their life story.
Speaker 3:I receive and work with their energy and once after that, you know, after I have sensed everything and enjoyed their presence and their story, I go back and do a portrait. Not a portrait, it's not like it may happen if a face comes up or something, but it's really an energetic portrait. So it's about their energy. So it's mostly abstract form, shapes, colors, and it's just a retell of their energy to kind of synthesize and heal all of those past wounds that are so hard to get past for many people. It's a painting that heals all of their past and leaves, like this legacy of their energy imprint for their families. You know what I mean. So it's a beautiful. I have a website for that, it's Retratos delcorazon as well, but I will also integrate it into my website, tamaralizcom, so that people can just get it through there, because it is a beautiful.
Speaker 3:I thought at the beginning that it would be just mostly for elderly people. You know that they want to heal and it could be just like a, uh, living this legacy for their families, uh. But lately people were telling me but that's I want, I want that. You know, I don't, I don't think that that's just for this demographic. Like I want in, like it could be younger than that, and, and so I've opened that up for whoever needs the session, whoever needs, and the artwork is it's pretty big, it's an oil painting and it does take time. So minimum three to six months, uh, but yeah, it is. I don't know, I find everything beauty in everything, but it truly is beautiful.
Speaker 2:Very good. So where can we find you, online or in person, if someone's interested in a session or service that you provide?
Speaker 3:I'm doing the sessions online. You can find me on healme, tamara Lise. You can find me at my website, tamaralisecom, my Instagram, tamaralisart. I'm pretty much on all the platforms TamaraLisart on Facebook, or just TamaraLis actually on that one. I have two profiles one with the blue check on Facebook, like Facebook has two profiles one with the blue check, which is my personal profile, and then another one that I also have shared throughout the years. In there it's also Tamara Lee. So, tamara Lee, and you Google that and you'll probably find it.
Speaker 3:I also have a group on Facebook. It's called Art that Transforms you Art that Transform you, and in that group what I'm trying to do is build like mini courses that people can use to learn their own healing, to do like a step-by-step guide, not only to learn different types of art that they could use, like I did a session on journaling and how it helps. It's just so that they can get to their own knowledge within. You know, because we can do it on our own. It's just really, really hard, you know, because if there's support, doing it alone it's not impossible. We can, but it's better when we have somebody you know helping us.
Speaker 3:Well, although I might not be, you might not be able to do one-on-ones with me, or maybe you cannot get the sessions you cannot afford it right now, you'd be like but you join the group and in the group I will have a guide that people can do on their own and step-by-step. So that's in the works. I have already one training there, so I will continue to add more training. So if you're live in there and you want to join the trainings, I will, you know, tell people oh, this is going to be this, and then, but yeah, that is something that I started to work on and people can join in and enjoy the process there too.
Speaker 2:All right, wonderful. Well, this ends the first part of our journey and I'm going to continue on with the journey with you with three social media questions. So listeners and energy healer students reach out and send in questions. So here we go. Number one can you tell me about the seventh level, initiate?
Speaker 3:Can you tell me about the seventh level initiate? Yes, as I have mentioned before, a seventh level initiate is somebody that has left the cycle of reincarnation and they embody fully their higher self. When you're at the seventh level already and the sixth is, the higher self is downloading. The seven means that 100% of your higher self is within your heart portal right Now. The system, the energy system. For a person that's on the seventh level, it's different. So our seven chakras? They no longer work. So our seven chakras, they no longer work, right, they're not. They're just like floating in nothingness, like they're still potentially there but they're not really there. They're not there. So if people check them, they can like, if I go and get an aura reading, because their software only reads that it will show those chakakras. But I don't have those chakras anymore. What I have are three different chakras, it's uh, eight, nine and ten, and it's a whole, I guess a whole different energetic system. I don't fully understand it. That's the way I just we've been told. This is what happens at this level. These chakras are different and I have felt. I have felt the difference when I receive, like energy healing, if I'm doing a meditation and I feel, I feel the energy just on those three centers, like I no longer, and if they're sending energy, healing energy, to the throat, I no longer feel it in the throat, I still feel it in the new chakra, which is the heart center. Um, it's interesting because I'm still getting used to the the thing. You know, I only been a seventh level initiate for a year and there's still so much for me to know, to understand. Uh, in on earth.
Speaker 3:So far, we know that people can, can get up to the ninth level of initiation, and how that looks like, I have no idea, right, I'm not, I'm not there just yet. Uh, and, and this is just, you know, clearing the karma. There are different people that believe in different things, like enlightenment, or this thing with the manifestation, or this thing with the other. This is just the clearing of karma and being one with your higher self. I'm sure that there are many other forms, many different initiations in different groups of study and whatnot, right, and? But this is just particularly from the Ascension. It's the website that that I've used to get my products and my things and where I learned. It's called Alpha Imaging and it's a New Zealand website and that's how I I learned the majority of the information that I've gathered, because out there there's a lot of information, a lot. I mean.
Speaker 3:We have gained access to pretty much everything, but sadly, with pretty much everything, there has been misinformation collated with it, right? So, people being misguided, they change things to accommodate whatever their needs were, whatever they believe, right? So everywhere you look, every sacred book, every sacred anything there has been changes, there have been manipulations, and that's just one level of the human manipulating the thing. But there's also the astral level in the astral that people love to play in the astral and it can be fun. But at the same time we have to be very careful because in the astral, if we don't have the correct protections, if you don't ground, you don't do the protections, the thing, then you're exposing yourself and it's very easy to get on with pretenders, and so people will channel pretenders. And then there's teachings that while they might say they have some truth in it, you know they have some truth. But not everything is accurate, right. Everything is accurate, right. So we have to really learn our inner system, our inner guidance, to be able to discern all of these things.
Speaker 2:And this is out of a curiosity for myself Is the levels that you get? Is it something you're attuned or does your higher self have you shift?
Speaker 3:The levels are something that, depending on what level, right the the levels from one to five. It's all about you clearing karma, so everybody can do this. It's it's about positive words, actions and thoughts, words, action, words, actions. I mean thoughts, words and actions. Right, it's all about shifting that, because we oftentimes just can gain karma from berating ourselves when you believe I'm not good enough, I suck at this, it's terrible, you're like karma, karma, karma. Because you need to be compassionate and love for yourself too. So a lot of the time, many healers even are not aware and they gain karma by not treating themselves well, and you have to also pay past life karma and you have to also pay past life karma. So what happens is that you have to clear all of the past lives, all of the things and all of the lessons that come with it. Right, but we used different products from the same source. Like, we have the violet flame, right. Many people that are in. They understand what the violet flame, right. Many people that are in, they understand what the violet flame is right. Well, I have been able to use a whole new level of violet flame. That is not only the level that I can reach through a meditation, but the highest level that is available on earth through products. I don't have my violet flame in the desk, but I do have this spray. So I use this spray, I use some oils and they bring the energy of the violet flame in the purest form and that transmutes the karma in the chakras and help you shed that light. So it's way easier than ever before, because before you only had you and your thoughts and your thing and it's super hard. But now we really have the tools. Oh, actually, I have the violet flame over here to the little oil and I love the violet flame. I even have the candle. So this candle transmutes the spaces and negativity everywhere, so it's very, very powerful. The violet flame is really amazing. So you do get that help right.
Speaker 3:But it is a lot of the work that you have to do because you have to change your thoughts pattern, how you talk and you have to be very mindful of all of that. Right, how you talk, and you know you have to be very mindful of all of that, right, uh. But then there are steps where this is still a combination of me and higher self and and we're working together, right, and that's six. Well, he's downloading seven. He's already in, but there's like we go through like different things that we're um processing, so there's like a whole, a whole bunch of that I will not even get into uh of things that are happening energetically for us to go through the lessons and it's a combination of us and higher self eventually in the higher initiations is just for higher self, so it's just him, because he has his own things to go through. You know he has his own lessons and things that they have to learn. So after, I think I would believe is the eight is higher self lessons and you just go for the ride. So it is interesting because I still am early in the journey of the seventh and I see when the they're coming ways, like there's the lessons you have to go through all of the race and just kind of go through these lessons in each ray. Oh, and that's a whole, nother thing that before.
Speaker 3:Let me explain just a little thing about the rays. There are eight rays of ascension and each ray there's masters that go with each ray right, but the rays are really like expressions of God, right Attributes, so they just it's like a color right Attributes, so they just it's like a color right, they're color, and that's how they know us and see us. In the spirit world we're just colorful blobs or something I don't know. And so these rays are color, right, and they embody certain aspects of the divine, or you know, um, the divine feminine, the divine masculine or just the divine, and um, and everybody has before ascension, everybody has five rays within them, right, and five masters too, uh, or, unless you have like two rays repeating, then the same master would probably be with you, or something like that.
Speaker 3:I was on the before I ascended. I'm a fifth ray now, and the fifth ray is the ray of knowledge, truth and healing, and it is I mean, it is an honor to be in this ray, for sure. But I ascended on the fourth ray. Now. The fourth ray is the ray of harmony through conflict, and it's not for the faint part. It is really really, really hard, because you are meant to be a teacher for others and you're meant to be the conflict that teaches. Like you either are in conflict, you create the conflict, it's just all about conflict and you are in the middle of it, and usually people get to blame you, because people sometimes have trouble to recognize what is within and whatnot, so they'd rather be like no, it's you, and so it's a teaching race. So it was lessons for other people through me and I had to bring you know the harmony.
Speaker 3:So, again, as a mediator, through my therapy too, you know, I learned even more skills to be able to manage the situations right, and it just became part of me to see everybody's perspective. You know what I mean, because that's the only way that you to see the whole and I could be I'm able to tell, I can see how to solve the problem. You know what I mean. But you cannot tell people just how to solve the problem. That's not going to help. They have to see it and it has to come from them. So you give them options and options and things, but it's up to each person to do their the inner work Right. But yeah, it's uh, it's uh.
Speaker 3:The rays are very beautiful. They it's like, almost like, like getting a, a reading of who you are, just like numerology and all of these other um, uh access that we have the personality based tests or whatever. The rays tell you so much about who you are. It's like you're looking into a mirror. It's like oh, my God, yes, yes, it's incredible. So the rays are just beautiful like that and I definitely anybody that's interested in this. I do recommend that you read some sort. There's a lot of information out there. I would only recommend the Alpha Imaging website in New Zealand because, again, it has to be from the purest source and so far that has been the place where I have found the most reliable and close to truth Very good.
Speaker 2:So what has an Ascension Guide taught you?
Speaker 3:Well, as Ascension Guide. When I started, there were no people that could do that were doing one-on-ones with you, that were doing one-on-ones with you. There was no, like a guide in the sense of let's, you know, do this together or I'll do this session with you. So, but I did have I still consider them or my guides Wairiti and Berna they're, you know, the ladies that I've pretty much learned everything with and and I've learned so much with them through them, and even also it's not in this journey you also have to be like, okay, there were things that they had this knowledge base too, but that knowledge base was also sometimes outdated. So you know what I mean. You have to trust these things and and they later on, like I see their content has updated too, right, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3:So it's we're all growing together. It's one of the things that, yeah, we're in this together and, while there are hierarchies, you know, and there's definitely people that are in higher initiations than I am, but you see, everybody has personality biases, all of all of the things that we all haven't worked through, all of the things, and and it's just about being really honest with who we are, but, more importantly, to love ourselves as we are, and they always put the positive words, positive thoughts and actions, and this is a concept that it's even in the religions. Like I remember, I studied a lot of religions, and when I studied Judaism, it was one of their core things too. You know what I mean. So I, through the process, and all of the people that I met I guess in a way, they were also guides. We just didn't recognize them as such. So it is something just to consider and honor everybody that is in your journey.
Speaker 2:Wonderful. So the third question your paintings will be featured in your solo show, spiritual Growth. Can you tell me a little bit about how you blend your spiritual exploration with your artistic expression?
Speaker 3:Yes, that's one of my favorite things. Like I explained before a little bit with my story, I have used art for healing healing difficult trauma and things. But through that process I learned that you can get messages right, and so that was a portion of my life. I would make art to receive messages and whatnot. But then as I grew in this spirituality and this path, I understood that not only can they send you message through the art, but they can send healing and you can.
Speaker 3:I don't like to use the word channel because sometimes they've, you know it's. I don't know, I rather use other words, but in essence that would be what it's fun. You know, you're kind of just tuning in to an energy and then expressing it on canvas and then that energy is there and then it shines through. You know, and I've learned all of the process to to do that. You know, I learned how to use it, um, it as a self-expression tool, just to self-express whatever you're feeling inside, as a messaging tool, and then as a divine tool and in spiritual growth. That's my solo show that is going to be at Saphir Art Gallery in downtown El Paso. I'm still on the preparation of it and how I really wanted to look, because I wanted to be like a mini retrospective. So that's why it's spiritual growth. You got to see where I started, right, and see how it has changed, right, but at the same time I will have changed the energy in all of the artworks, because some of the energy when I've made the art, we can channel. Whatever pain, whatever suffering, we can channel that. You can have the most beautiful painting in the world and it may have negative vibrations, right. So you really have to see who's making your art. Where are they in the world, and it may have negative vibrations, right. So you really have to see who's making your art. Where are they in the state of mind, you know, it may look beautiful, but that doesn't mean that it's vibrating in a, in a good um or positive things, and not to put down anybody or anything like that. It's not the but I'm just saying because I've done that myself. I have created art where it was just like just vomiting all of this pain and suffering and all of the things, right, um, so, but I still I don't know what paintings I will end up choosing, or you know, I want to make sure that everything is guided in a way that you could see the whole process, even the pain and the suffering, because it is important and we have to honor that. However, we don't want that energy necessarily exploding everywhere, so it's no longer there as such.
Speaker 3:And then the spiritual growth, where I tell all of the different experiences, of not only how I'm receiving these messages that keep me spiritually connected, because I didn't have, I don't see, I don't have that thing and for a long time I couldn't. I didn't know that, being an empath, and I was feeling energy, but I didn't understand what it was, how it worked or anything right, and I didn't know that I was really working with these energies or whatever. So it was not, I was not conscious of all of those process, so I just had art to connect me to the highest point. You know, I didn't have the tools back then. Now that I have the tools, I can connect and create with that energy, which is fantastic.
Speaker 3:I'm like doing portal art. Oh, let's connect with this portal energy, and you know, and then that the day of the portal, I create the art and that is, in essence, created with that portal energy and it's just, I don't know. It's beautiful and I just words, words. How can you put into words when everything is vibration? You know what I mean it's like. So, and through the journey, I've tried to understand that and be like okay, well, let's use the Doss and Ross and let's check the energy or let's check the thing, cause I wanted also the evidence that I'm saying, oh, this is doing this. Well, I want the evidence to go with that and and I've tried, and I've got the tools and I've done the thing but at the end I had to learn that I just need to trust that. You know, whoever is coming to me for a service, whoever is coming to me for that, the divine is working and I just have to step out of the way and let the divine do the work.
Speaker 2:Very good. So that was our last question and maybe, as we were talking, is there something you might've forgotten about, something that you want to share with our listeners. You can take this time right now.
Speaker 3:Okay, there could be so many things right, and then later on and be like I really expressed everything, so many things that we could say I just want to, that we could say I just want to reiterate that there are many tools and we need them all. You know, in this journey sometimes this tool won't work when we need it, like we need another tool. So maybe we won't feel like our feelings will block us, the emotions, right. I actually, when it comes to energy, I always do want to say this and I always talk about that in my journey. So that's good that it came through like that.
Speaker 3:Emotions are energy in motion, right, we know this. But there's a difference of our emotions and what we attach to the emotion. So the feelings, the feelings are for me the story. In Spanish, feelings is called sentimiento, sentimiento and those it's like a compound word that says feel and lie.
Speaker 3:And I'm just like because, honestly, feelings, you're lying to yourself, because you don't know what you're feeling and you know you get maybe stressed and anxious and you don't know what it is and you attach meaning, environmental meaning, that you know associations that may have nothing to do with what you know you're expressing. So you have to trust the emotion yourself you're expressing. So you have to trust the, the emotion yourself. And you have to be very careful, because sometimes we attach stories to to the emotions and we make things worse for ourself that way, because that's why the, the inner critic, comes in and it starts telling you the most terrible things and that's not the truth.
Speaker 3:Feelings and what we live is a story. The emotions, they are energy and they can affect all of our bodies, which is why it's so important for us to manage and understand our emotions so we can regulate ourselves. So I find that spiritual work goes hand in hand with, well, everything holistic. You know that you have to really have everything in balance to be able to fully thrive, to be able to fully thrive. So I think that I can close it there just a balance in love.
Speaker 2:Very good, very good. Well, thank you, tamara, so much for taking time out of your very busy schedule to take this journey with me on Ready Set.
Speaker 3:Reiki. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2:Wonderful. All right, my wonderful listeners. If you would like your question featured on the podcast, reach out at wwwreadysetreikicom, also on social media as well, and perhaps your question can be featured on the show. Also, check out Feathers Sister Wellness that offers a variety of yoga, yoga trainings, reiki and Reiki trainings online and in the El Paso area. My name's Traci Seawright and this has been Ready Set Reiki. Thank, you.