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Episode #130 Live VOD with Brandi Van's Healing Journey: From Hidden Talents to Gifted Medium – Embracing Psychic Development, Mentorship, and Spiritual Awakenings
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What happens when you discover hidden talents within yourself that you never knew existed? Brandy Van, a gifted medium and psychic development mentor, joins us to share her extraordinary journey of embracing her psychic abilities. Through her transformative experiences, we explore the nuanced world of psychics and mediums, understanding that all mediums possess psychic abilities, though not all psychics are mediums. Brandi recounts the pivotal moment of her grandmother's passing, which led her down the path of developing her unique gifts, and emphasizes the indispensable role of mentorship in honing these abilities.
Our conversation takes a closer look at the types of clients who come to Brandi, each on their quests to connect with loved ones or unlock their intuitive potential. We delve into the common challenges they face, such as balancing intuition with rational thought and overcoming the misconceptions surrounding psychic abilities. Through anecdotes and reflections, we emphasize the importance of trusting oneself and the spiritual messages received, while maintaining an ethical and sensitive approach to delivering insights.
Mentorship stands out as a crucial element in nurturing psychic development, likened to the gradual building of muscle at the gym. Brandi's 90-day mentorship program offers personalized guidance, structured learning, and a supportive community for those embarking on this often solitary journey. From exploring the awakening of abilities through life experiences to the intersection of spirituality and religious beliefs, this episode encourages open-mindedness and a deeper understanding of the unseen wonders of the world. Join us as we uncover the beauty of embracing one's spiritual path with confidence and curiosity.
Many people struggle with doubting the validity of their psychic abilities. Through her focused 90-day Psychic Development Mentorship Program, Brandi Van guides and supports individuals to overcome their self-doubt, strengthen their intuition, and teaches them how to fully embrace and harness their psychic gifts. The results are transformative: clients gain confidence in their abilities, live with purpose and fulfillment in their daily lives, and become empowered to make a meaningful impact on the world.
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Speaker 2:This is Ready Set Reiki Live, a podcast about Reiki and all energy work, from the curious beginner to the seasoned master teacher, welcoming all systems, all lineages, all levels. Reiki is a journey and not a destination, and on this Ready Set Reiki journey, I refer Reiki is a journey and not a destination. And on this Ready Set Reiki journey, I refer to myself as a guide rather than a host, as I too am traveling, learning from others and supporting others on this Reiki journey as well. And with that said, I am your guide, tracy C Wright, and today I am so honored to have an amazing and wonderful guest here Now. Many people struggle with doubting the validity of their psychic abilities and, through this focused 90-day psychic development mentorship program, Brandy Van guides and supports individuals to overcome their self-doubt, strengthen their intuition and teaches them how to fully embrace and harness their psychic gifts. The results are transformative Clients gain confidence in their abilities, live with purpose and fulfillment in their daily lives and become empowered to make a meaningful impact on the world. Brandy, welcome to Ready Set Reiki.
Speaker 1:Hi Tracy, Thank you so much for having me today.
Speaker 2:Wonderful, wonderful Thought we would never get to this moment right today, wonderful, wonderful Thought we would never get to this moment. Right, we made it. So let's start our journey together. So tell us a little bit about yourself.
Speaker 1:Sure. So I know that your whole podcast is about Reiki. So I don't do too much with Reiki. I've never actually tried it myself, but I am. I do consider myself to be a light worker I work with energy, definitely. So I'm a medium, and a lot of people don't know the difference between a psychic and a medium. So a medium is someone who can talk to people who have passed away. So all mediums are psychic, but not all psychics are medium. So not all psychics have that ability.
Speaker 1:But you know, I was going through my journey of like when I was very young. I didn't know, like I knew something was going on, but I wasn't sure I was hearing spirit. But it was my own voice, it wasn't my thought, and so I was like, okay, I better not tell anyone, or they're gonna think, like you know, I might be a little crazy or something. So I kept it to myself. But then, when I was in my 20s, I had the most profound spiritual experience ever that changed everything. So my grandma was passing away. We were actually my family and I were in her hospice room and as she took her last breath, I literally felt her spirit rise above the bed. And when I looked above the bed, I saw these colors that like aren't even in this world, and they were forming a star and beating in and out like a heartbeat. And in that moment I just knew that death wasn't final. I knew that she was going on to a new, amazing place, that she was at peace, and it just changed everything for me in like that two minutes.
Speaker 1:So I really started to go on my journey of how can I? You know, I obviously have a gift, so what can I do here to make this more of a everyday thing versus like a once in a while thing? And I just read like a ton of books. I was listening to podcasts, watching YouTube shows and nothing was working. So I was like was like, okay, maybe this isn't for me.
Speaker 1:Um, but then my friend, who's also a life coach, said did you ever try to find a mentor? And I was like I don't think they exist. So I looked for one. I couldn't find one, but I had been going to a medium myself and I just asked her is there any chance you could take me under your wing and kind of show me the ropes of what you did to get where you're? You know, to be able to do readings and to be where you are. And she did. And I only worked with her for maybe an hour a month for six months and my abilities just skyrocketed. Like I could control my ability, I had it totally developed. I was able to do readings, call spirits on demand, tell them to go away if I wanted to. So now I'm a mentor, because, you know, I did readings for a lot of years. But now I want to help those people that are in the same shoes that I was in, where they just need somebody to pick them by their wing and show them the ropes.
Speaker 2:Beautiful Was anybody else in your family a medium or had psychic abilities?
Speaker 1:So it took me years to tell anyone what I had experienced in the room with my grandma because, like you don't know what other people's like thoughts and beliefs are and I didn't know if they believe me. So once I did tell them, nobody was surprised. Apparently, everyone on my mom's side of the family is psychic. So like when I announced it, my mom's like oh yeah, we kind of all have that. And then my aunt was like I have it and my cousin is my uncle and I was like talked about it, and so now I'm like a spokesperson and talk about it all the time so that someone doesn't feel like I didn't feel alone. Whenever we can just talk about it, it maybe there's a lot more people out there just aren't talking about it.
Speaker 2:Right right. It's like that family secret, but everybody has that ability.
Speaker 1:And then no one was surprised. I was like okay, Right, right, right.
Speaker 2:So as you're out, you've developed your abilities. You know you're working with someone who was a mentor. You've been out doing this for a while. What is a common misconception that you have found about psychic abilities, about being a medium?
Speaker 1:Yeah. So I think that some people think that you either have it or you don't like. This is something that I was born with. I've had it my whole life and it's just something like it's a part of me where it's literally like any other thing, like it's like a sport or an instrument, like if you want to play an instrument or a sport, you're going to have to learn, like the notes or the steps or whatever. And this is the same thing, as long as you have an open mind and if you have an interest in it. We all have a sixth sense, which is our psychic sense, which is our intuition. So they're all the same thing, but I don't think people realize that. So we all have that within us. It's just a matter of if you want to ignite it, if it's never been come to the forefront before in your life.
Speaker 2:What type of client do you get? Do they come through the door and or get in contact with you because they want to connect with a loved one, or are they wanting to seek guidance with a loved one? Or are they?
Speaker 1:are they wanting to seek guidance? They definitely want to seek guidance, and with that usually comes that they can talk to a deceased loved one, which is a great perk, right, um, but yeah, they're usually like you know, I know I have something, or I think I have something, but I'm not able to control it. I don't know how to develop it, and they've been doing it on their own for years and it's like not getting anywhere. There's so many classes out there that are like one hour of this and one hour of that, but it's like kind of like all these pieces of the puzzle, but you don't have all the pieces and then they don't tell you how to put all the puzzle together. So I was definitely there like trying to do it on my own. So, yeah, these are people that they know something is going on, but they just need some guidance on it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, these are people that they know something is going on, but they just need some guidance on it. So I remember watching an old clip of Sylvia Brown I don't know if you've ever heard of her, oh yeah, yeah, absolutely. I believe it was the one where she was on Larry King and Larry King's like do you play the numbers? And she's like I can't read myself. Larry, you know, do you find that for yourself where you're able to have things come through for yourself, or do you need someone else's you know kind of guidance to see things for you?
Speaker 1:So it's a little bit of both. Usually, if someone does a reading for me, I'm like, oh my gosh, why didn't I ever get that reading for myself, you know? But then I can also, like still talk to my grandma, I can talk to my spirit guide, so I can do it on my own. But yeah, lottery numbers usually greed is considered a negative energy and spirits don't have anything to do with negative energy, so they're not going to give us those numbers, my husband's.
Speaker 2:Like you know what are the lottery numbers? I'm like it doesn't work like that. Yeah, wouldn't that be nice? Wouldn't that be nice, right? So you have some. You know people come to you, you know who are dealing with personal matters, things from their family, challenges. What has been the biggest challenge or struggle you have faced in your own healing journey?
Speaker 1:So by far. At the beginning it was trusting myself, and you know that's what all my students have as well. That is the number one biggest obstacle, because you know, our whole lives we're taught to listen to the left side of our brain, listen to ration and critical thinking and analysis, and then all of a sudden it's like I can talk to a spirit, and so your left side of the brain is like there's no way. You know that there's no way this is real and it's a battle between the left and right side of the brain, cause now you're trying to listen to your intuition and to your spirit and what's inside of you, and that inner guidance versus it doesn't have any facts, it doesn't have any ration attached to it.
Speaker 1:So it's it's, I think, for everyone to gain that trust, that self-trust, that trust in spirit, to be able to give messages and to just kind of let go and entrust that the message that spirit's giving is the right one. Even if I do a reading right now and someone's like this doesn't seem right I don't, you know, I can't validate any of that I still give the message and it took me a long time to get to that point. But you know, maybe it didn't happen yet, or maybe they need to talk to their mom or grandma and then they validate it. So you just never know. So I just you know, as long as you believe that spirit is giving the right message, it's us that thinks it's wrong because we're trying to figure it all out. You just trust it and go with it. It's a beautiful place. It just takes a while to get there.
Speaker 2:Sure, sure, because I recall like in the early days you just get this feeling like, hmm, maybe I should get off on that exit instead of staying on where I want to go and I'll ignore it. And then boom runs into traffic or something. Yes, or that feeling like, oh, I better take my umbrella, nah, I'm fine. And then you find out you're caught in a downpour. So it starts as those little like spidey senses, so to speak, trying to tell you, and then it starts becoming a little bit of bigger things. And when you get that validation after a while you're like okay, like when these come up, now I really need to speak up and say things. And uh, know, and oftentimes I'll bring in, like I don't know if you bring in cards or anything. You know, people always think it's what's happening right now and I'll tell them take a picture of the cards, because it's it.
Speaker 2:Can things change? This might be something in the future, or maybe you'll think of something later, when I've gone to psychics, they'll bring up something like this in the family, and I'm like no, and then when you talk to somebody later it's like oh, so you know, take notes right, write things down because the information is coming and then, as it comes through you or me, we're having to decode it right and with our own experiences with that. Code it right and with our own experiences with that. So yeah, that's a struggle I have myself as well. Where do I tell people? Do you know? Are they comfortable enough? And trust me, is it? Are they still frightened or is it scared, or so? That's hard to navigate through.
Speaker 1:And it's also an ethical line to like. Unless someone comes to me for a reading, I'm not going to just like go up to a random stranger and be like, hey, your dead grandma's coming through. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Like, cause you don't know, that can turn them into like they could be grieving or maybe they think you're crazy, right, I recall, you know, I had a season where I had lost several, a couple of family members and a friend, and I had reached out to someone and I was in Pittsburgh, living at Pennsylvania. Yeah, so my family's there, my whole family's there. I just moved to El Paso here about almost three years. So Pittsburgh, pennsylvania. So I grew up in Munhall, pennsylvania, in Murraysville, you know, worked at Kennywood, I worked at the fish pond, the birthday, game Went to IUP.
Speaker 1:Yep, oh my gosh. My sister went to IUP. My family's still in North Allegheny, oh my gosh, love it.
Speaker 2:So you probably, you will definitely know this psychic. I'll tell you. After she saw she's like your dad is coming through, I'm like, okay, your dad has a message for you, okay. And she said he's showing me a coffin and I'm immediately, because we had so much death, oh my goodness, who's dying? And then I didn't hear anything else in the message because all I thought was someone's gonna die and I got myself so worked up that it was counterproductive of what I was going there to see her for. But it could have been a completely different message had I allowed her to decode it in a way. But as soon as she said cough in, I thought, oh my goodness, who's going to pass, who are we going to lose now? And called the kids. Are you okay? You know, in that rabbit hole called the kids, are you?
Speaker 1:okay, you know, rabbit hole, oh you know, and that can actually create like a block right. So if you're not relaxed and if you're stressed out or grieving, even, you know, it's going to create a wall, so it's going to be a lot harder for the medium.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, and so it was any like I said anything she said after that I didn't hear it and she might have had some important message, and then I had to do all the things that I needed to do to calm down, Right? So that just gives you an example of you know how someone can react to things, and a lot of people think that they're going to get something scary out of it. And it's all through light. Light and love with that as well. Yeah, so what do you wish your younger self knew about psychic abilities? I mean, you kept this quiet for some time, right?
Speaker 1:Oh, my young self would have just known, you know, if my family would have talked about it, if I would have even told them, right, if I would have just said, at 10 years old, this is what's going on, maybe then they would have said something. And I just feel like my. I think I would still be where I am in the journey, but it would have happened way longer and I could have helped so many more people. So I just feel like, instead of being lost and feeling alone and all of those things, I could have just been so much more confident and been able to help so many more people. So that's the biggest regret.
Speaker 2:So when you are out and you need to go I mean you said that you get a lot of help and support from the other side. You know, maybe you have gone to see psychic mediums or mediums, you know energy workers, so forth what are some qualities that you look for? You know you have the mentorship program. What do you tell your students, or some qualities that you look for in a medium?
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it's just like any other service, like if you're going to go get your haircut or you need a plumber, you know, look for the Google reviews, see if you can talk to a past client. You know you want to have those like testimonials and reviews, just like anything else, because unfortunately there are some people who commit fraud out there that just want your money you know a good medium.
Speaker 1:If, like, nothing's connecting, they're going to know within five minutes and they're going to tell you, like I'm not able to connect, they should refund you your money and reschedule. Try again, maybe in six months. So yeah, there's definitely things to look out for. But yeah, the reviews, the testimonials, I mean that's huge. And, of course, like, use your own intuition, right, Like, if you're getting a bad vibe from this person, like then don't go to that person.
Speaker 2:Right, yeah, it really makes a difference, even just connecting with the people to get that sense of energy. And there's a lot. I remember I was listening to Kyle Gray, who he's a practitioner and he does energy work and everything, and he had gotten on a call and of course you know he's from England, right, and so he had come to California and he said I can see why all of you are struggling. He had come to California and he said I can see why all of you are struggling. He said he went somewhere and there were so many different psychics and mediums Like where do you go? Where do you start? So that's some great advice to look for the reviews, kind of thing. I love that joke where you walk through the door and you're surprised I'm here. I thought you'd be psychic. You knew I was coming right, yes, and you know it's.
Speaker 1:You knew I was coming right. Yes, and you know it's not just for psychics and mediums, but even the mentors, right. So I mean that's why I have a 90-day program and I'm there with them every step of the way. They can talk to me every single day if they want. We have live Q&A calls over Zoom, like I want to be a part in their lives while they're experiencing this, to give them automatic feedback. Because, same thing, if you're going to take a class that's maybe self-study, you can't reach out to the teacher. I mean, there's different ways to do different exercises.
Speaker 1:So if a question pops up on an experience that you're having or an exercise that you're doing and there's nobody to ask it you're having, or an exercise that you're doing and there's nobody to ask, it's another rabbit hole. You know, like you're just, it's going to cause frustration, you're not going to trust yourself and all of that. So yeah, even with the mentors, it's great to have a good review, right?
Speaker 2:And I'm seeing a lot more now of you know 30 day, 90 day, one year mentorship apprenticeship out there now I guess you know with. One of the good things about COVID is that we were able to jump online and take opportunities to get trainings and modalities and and level up. But some people you know look at like okay, I can do this for $9.99. But it's so important to have somebody really guide you through this, like to have a physical person, and it's okay if it on Zoom, if, like you and I are connecting and talking so we can ask questions, and so a lot more opportunities are coming up because people just need a little bit more help and guidance. Like that you know online class that you took for three hours and you're going out there and trying to navigate it. You really need to go a little bit deeper.
Speaker 2:So spend the money in the beginning to get that connection, that teacher, that guidance, that support. It'll save a lot of frustration in the long run with things, because I think people aren't understanding that this is energy work. You know you're connecting, you know I'm, with Reiki, connecting with the clients as well and things can come through right and you need to learn techniques such as spiritual hygiene and things like that and when to have like your office hours right. Going back to Cal Gray, he says that he has like a little, a little knob on the back of his head or his neck. He imagines where he says Earth and Heaven, or his neck. He imagines where he says earth and heaven.
Speaker 1:That's awesome, yeah, and you know, when something is like let's say you were going to go to the gym, do you think that in three hours you're going to build muscle and change your body, or do you think in 90 days or longer you're going to change something? It's the same thing, like you're working on a muscle that's never been worked out before and if you think you can magically go to the gym and work out for three hours and have an amazing body, like wouldn't that be awesome? But it's just like this little everyday, subtle mindset shifts that need to happen and that's not going to happen in a three hour.
Speaker 2:Right, right. So you offer this 90 day mentorship? You know the support, the guidance to help people really harness in their psychic gifts. What advice would you give someone who is just entering the spiritual work?
Speaker 1:So I would give them the advice, exactly what you were saying like, make sure you find a mentor. Like even if it's not me, like, please find a mentor, because you know, if you can find that like minded individual who will guide you, it's just so much easier and it is gonna not only, you know, help you with guidance and support, but it's also going to make it a lot shorter, right, so it's going to accelerate that process and it's also going to be safe, Because if you just start opening your energy up without knowing what you're inviting in and you don't know how to protect yourself, I mean there's a safe, structured way to do this and if you
Speaker 1:just decide to dabble and kind of willy-nilly with it, like then bad things could possibly happen, negative entities could come in, and that's the scary part. Right, it's actually scarier if you don't learn how to develop and control it. That's when it's scary. But if you learn, that's what makes it a lot less scary, because you have control over it and you'll be able to only bring in that positive energy.
Speaker 2:Right, and I mean you also have to look at. You know, you're not only protecting yourself, but you're protecting your family. I had a situation where I guess whatever was coming at me and my dog intervened and my dog ended up getting sick and taking it. So it can affect your home. Yeah, chaos, little little pranksters, I call them right. Um, you can come in and wreak havoc also. So you know, as you continue to do this, as you work with more clients, as you gain students, you're going to have these abilities and things are going to start being attracted to the light, right, and you're going to need to learn how to navigate. Now you're not going to have all the answers, but that's why it's great to have someone like you as a mentor and I'm sure, beyond the 90 days, if something happens, you can connect with me on that.
Speaker 2:When I first did my Azui Rahiho, I got trained in Pittsburgh and Irwin and the Energy Connection. My two teachers there were Linda and Mia, and they both still teach Reiki today and at level three. That level three only made me a practitioner, so I needed to take like an apprenticeship or a year long to become a teacher and that really helped me understand how to create a class, you know how to structure things so that I could write my own manual, because then the lineage I came from you passed it from teacher to teacher and you tweaked it and modified it accordingly. But had I not had that experience, and even though I had a background, I had an education background, I taught in the school, so but that helped me go a little bit deeper versus you know some, that in a weekend, three days, we can get you ready to teach, or hey, like here's this class, you can take it in two weeks, and so it really helps to have that mentor. And even today, years later, I still reach out to Mia and ask her questions.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I always tell my clients that, like, I will be here, I'm not going anywhere. So if it's years later, like please reach out Because I know things are going to happen that didn't happen during those 90 days. So yeah, absolutely, they can always reach out to me. But I love that you guys for Reiki actually have that certification, because there's nothing like that here. You know, with UK they have it, but like we don't have anything to say, hey, I have this license or this certificate. So it does make it a little bit harder, like you were saying earlier, like who do you choose?
Speaker 2:then you know, that's why you have to go off the reviews, because you don't have a certificate or a license For sure, and I mean there's even like an international center of Reiki that you can become a member. There's different associations, like the Reiki Association. You can get insurance so we're able to insure ourselves. So that brings a little bit more credibility that you have and can show. And you have people that come in and ask what your lineage is so that you can show your little family tree of like, ok, why came from here and this is my line here and here's my training.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, now that you made that point, I can see how, like, oh, this is going back to the misconception that, oh, you must be born, that it can arise. You know you can have different experiences in your life. Maybe you had, like my one teacher, you know she had a near-death experience, right, and that can awaken that right. It doesn't necessarily have to be, you're born with it. It can develop at really any time, whether it's a trauma or a near-death experience with that, yeah. But yeah, you have like the psychic school, oh, yeah. So like doing a 90 day program and saying, hey, like I went through this and I, you know, have all this education and training and hours, because for my apprenticeship we had to do so many hours of Reiki. We had to keep it in a notebook, we had to document it. Yeah, wow, yeah. So what books do you recommend?
Speaker 1:so that's somebody who mentioned Kyle Gray, so I may as well throw his book out there. Raising Vibrations love that book. Yeah, so that's one. Um, but I absolutely love the spirits book by Alan Kardec. I mean, if you're into like hearing how it was back in the 1800s and how mediumship all became about in the 1800s, he basically was a skeptic himself and then he started interviewing all these mediums while they were in trance to be able to get answers from the spirit world, which was that was amazing. It's like spiritualism 101. Awesome. And then another book is Destiny of Souls by Michael Newton, phd, where he hypnotizes people and it's like 7,000 people or something and they all had similar experiences when they go back to the spirit world in between lives, like just mind blowing. So those are my three. I would say.
Speaker 2:Beautiful, beautiful. Thank you for sharing that. So what other services do you offer? You have your mentorship, do you do classes? Do you do events?
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I do on. I'm sorry. I do local in person workshops where I'm teaching them how to develop psychic abilities, but again it's like you're not gonna. I tell them right off the bat you're not going to be psychic after this hour and a half class, but at least I can give them some pointers to at least get started to open their mind and see if they would want to possibly get into a 90 day mentorship.
Speaker 1:I also do mediumship readings. I also do spirit guide readings. So if you wanted to communicate with your spirit guide and ask questions like the bigger questions about career or health relationship, those kinds of things, I can do that. And then I'm also an animal communicator, so I love being able to speak with like, if, like, live animals are so much fun, you know, mediumship readings are. I mean, they're very healing and you know. But like people are very sad and it's emotional, right. But then I switch it over to the animals and it's like so lighthearted and they're funny and they're great personalities. You know some of you are like wondering about their behavior, if they're in pain or something like that, or if they did pass over and you want to talk to them, you know. So I can do all that as well. I love it so much.
Speaker 2:Beautiful, beautiful, love it. So where can we find you?
Speaker 1:Do you do online? Yeah, I'm online at brandyvancom that's Brandy with an I and I actually have a free masterclass. It's the one that I do, the in-person one, but I actually have it on my website. So if you sign up for it, you'll get the hour and a half masterclass for free. Now, of course, you're not going to have me to be able to ask questions or anything. So I also recommend, if, even if you just need a like minded person like maybe there's no one in your life you can talk about this stuff I would love to be that person for you, just to show you that, like, hey, this stuff is real, you're not crazy, I've been there. So I do also offer free half hour calls, so that way, if you just need someone to talk to, I would love to help in that way. Also, even if you don't think, I'll ever become your mentor.
Speaker 1:Just let me be that person for you, Because I know this journey can make you feel very lonely and I don't want anyone to ever feel that way.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's really wonderful. I mean, that's what's great about you know you offering that. There's very few. There's some that do offer like the little 15 minute or 30 minute calls, but that's wonderful to offer that, just to have someone to talk to and kind of you know, know that you know what's happening is normal, right, it's, it's, it's part of the process and you know, as you learn and study this, like when I got into Reiki, it was like, wow, these are things that I was doing my whole life, but now I have a name for it. Yes, yeah, you're not feeling like so isolated with that, so wonderful that's. That's fantastic that you're offering that. Well, that ends the first part of our journey and we're going to continue on. I'll continue guiding you through the next part, which is social media questions. These are questions sent in by listeners and energy worker students. So, number one what are some of the signs of being a psychic? How do I know?
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it's. So there's a difference between having psychic experiences and being a psychic. So psychic experiences are, you know, you go into a room and you get a bad, bad vibe from it and you're like I just don't think I want to be here, like that could be something. Or maybe you think of someone that you haven't thought of in a long time and then they call you later that day or text you or you run into them. Something like that. That's like a telepathic experience. Or maybe you like feel like someone's like watching you, but then you turn around there's nobody there. That could be spirit or um.
Speaker 1:Have you ever get like a shadow out of the peripheral vision of your eye? If you think something's there, you look over and nothing is there. Um, I think it's some other ones. Maybe, if you get like tingling in your stomach, it's a good thing. Or like chills down your spine, things like that like little simple, like things that might be happening to your physical body. So there are things to look out for, but I think a lot of people don't know the signs.
Speaker 1:People are like no, I don't have any psychic experiences, I've never experienced anything. But then when you bring these things up to them, they're like oh wait, I did have that, or maybe they did have deja vu before.
Speaker 1:You know, things like that and they're realizing oh, I did have this experience. Now, that's different from a psychic, because a psychic is someone who's actually developed it, controlled, it, know how to use it in their lives. So that's the difference between the two. But, yeah, we all have psychic experiences and once you realize what signs to look out for actually there is, I have a blog post on my website, so I have a lot of free resources in my blog, on my website, and there's quizzes on there and tests. It will actually show you, um, different things and then you can like but like fun little quizzes that you can like add up to see how many experiences you had.
Speaker 2:So you might want to check that out as well to look out for the signs right and and going back to like a misconception, like someone may think, you know you've seen like when they do research to see if someone has abilities. They've done that testing with twins. You know you've seen like when they do research to see if someone has abilities. They've done that testing with twins. You know where they'll hold up a card and you have to tell them the number or the shape on the other side. Would you think if someone is psychic? Because if I hold up the card and you tell me the number on the other side, um.
Speaker 1:So when people ask me a question like that, I always say that spirit is gives me bigger messages than that, like I don't feel, like they're going to waste their time on like right, like fingers are behind your back or what number you're thinking in your head Like it's a lot more than that. So yeah, if someone thinks I'm not psychic because I don't know the number like that, that's not a misconception. Don't know the number Like that's, that's not. I think that's a misconception.
Speaker 2:Sure, there we go. Number two should I develop my skills instead of letting them unfold naturally?
Speaker 1:Oh, that's, I think, a case by case one, right? Because if they are unfolding, naturally I still think you need guidance, because, even if things are happening, you want to make sure you're doing it in that safe, wise way, um, but if they are and it seems like it's okay and you and you know what you're doing in terms of, like, protecting your energy, I think it's okay.
Speaker 1:Um, but if you're like struggling and it's like becoming bothersome and you know it's interrupting your daily life because you don't know what's going on, um, and maybe you're somewhere in between there, but yeah. So I think it's still always good to have some kind of guidance, um, but yeah, as long as you think you're doing it safely and maybe you've talked to someone who's done it before that can guide you if it is opening, naturally, but um, yeah, in the Reiki world there are some people.
Speaker 2:Traditionally it's something that's Azui. When he had his Reiki Rahiho, it was an initiation like an attunement from the teacher to the student. And then there are some systems now where it's a placement, say like holy fire Reiki, where it places the energy in you. Now there are some individuals that they had neither of them and say an angel attuned them or gave them that placement, as it did with the Zui. So he received it directly from source.
Speaker 2:So there are some masters, you know teachers out there that received all of those within somebody that he said it came in a dream, he got his achievement to Reiki in a dream and was quite interesting and he was explaining the dream with no real background of you know studying it as someone who studied it. And I'm like you got an attunement of you know studying it as someone who studied it and I'm like you got an attunement as we were piecing it together. So that's an interesting question. I agree it would take case by case with that, because there's just people. I mean you look at somebody like what's it? Tyler, tyler, henry, the one that so, and you know he even works on himself as well and practices and does all these things. So he's continuing to kind of hone in on his craft a little bit yeah so it's a yeah I'm definitely always.
Speaker 1:I feel like every day. I don't want to say every day, but a lot is still like growing and like even just a few months ago I didn't know I could do animal communication and it's like, oh, I can easily talk to animals.
Speaker 2:I didn't know until you start trying it right, yeah, and there's actually a system. I mean, you can work on animals and plants and everything in any system of Reiki that you do, but there's an animal Reiki and many you don't have to be, but there's some people that are animal communicators that blend both of it to bring the healing energy in and the communication side of it as well.
Speaker 1:To take a little bit deeper, so yeah, and you know, the other thing is I just thought of because you said, if, like, let's say that it just started developing naturally, okay, let's say, let's say my grandma says she's here with me, but like, how do you know for sure? Right, so they also, like you said, those tricksters, right. So it's like they might be saying something and they might be believing it, but maybe just even go to a medium and see if it's true, because that can be scary as well if you're believing it but you don't have the guidance to know for sure if it's that person that you're talking to, for example.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, when, when, now it runs in my family, my grandmother had the ability, my mother does, but my mother shuts it down because she's very, you know, bible based and I would color her a Christian. So she really shoots down a lot of this. And I have things that come in dreams and see things and kind of know things. And when my youngest was little she could see things and this was like seven, eight years old and I actually had to reach out to someone who, in Pittsburgh, is a psychic medium and we went to her and she talked with my daughter to give her some tips on how to navigate, because my daughter I don't know if with being in the Pittsburgh area, knowing there's a camp called Jamonville and in Jamonville there's a huge cross there and my daughter would go to camp for karate and it was every summer and she would go and she was telling me these, like there were kids outside in the dark and they were running around and playing.
Speaker 2:I'm like what are you talking about? And they were so detailed in what she said and we went up on like that last day, you know a celebration and I said, well, where did you see these things? Where was your window? Here's my window and I saw this monument that was there and it was all of, like, the orphans names on it and like she didn't even see that monument there, and so I'm like, okay, we need to go and talk to somebody about this. As long as she felt safe and that was my concern is, I didn't want her to be frightened by this. Yeah, so yeah.
Speaker 1:That's awesome that you believed her and you took action. You know some people might yeah.
Speaker 2:And I mean, when my eyes are closed, I can see it. But like, if she would see it, she could see everything. Wow, yeah, okay, there's there, there has to be something here. But yeah, like she didn't want to go to sleep by herself at night when she was little and she would see this and she would describe things and she was not aware that where we lived was a pole, I mean, it was, it was export, where we they exported coal out, right, and she didn't know any of that because she was little and she's like well, he's dressed like this and he has this and I'm like, oh, my goodness. So I mean, I believed her.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's great that you did, cause a lot of people they might not have that belief system in their family, so that's great that you did that.
Speaker 2:And then in my mother's version of it was just well, we're just going to pray, we're just going to ask god for help. You know, that was like nothing to pursue, right?
Speaker 1:it's like, no, we're not gonna believe in this so, number, you know the thing that you had said about your mom too. I always get that like people will say, oh, I think it's against my religion. Tell them. You know religion and spirituality are two different types of thought. It's basically like comparing apples and oranges. You know people can be religious and spiritual. Spiritual but not religious. Religious but not spiritual you know it's. You know religion is whenever you worship a god or whatever you might want to call it, whereas spirituality is your own personal journey. It's not a community journey, um, and it's to find yourself in words and to go on that inner journey, but they don't have the same goal. At the end, you want to help others and be your best self. So it's just like two ways of getting there. But yeah, so I feel like people confuse the two and it's really not against religion, it's just a different form of life, sure, and I think, like words, like psychic medium and even Reiki invoke something in people.
Speaker 2:And there's those that just automatically make that judgment that you can't be a Christian because you're doing this. You can't love God or spirit or Jesus if you do this. And I had some type of promotion up and someone reached out to me and said you know that they were a former shaman, psychic, et cetera, and this wasn't of God. And I, you know, responded back but I, I believe in God. This is my journey. He doesn't know anything that I do with my walk with Christ and you know it's just instead of and it was the idea of like, instead of you just kind of coming and trying to convince me or attack me. You know, just pray for me, then you know what I mean. Why do you want to come here and say things and you don't even have a conversation with me. You just see that word and you can do really anything that you want it to be. There's no dogma or you know any of that, any religion tethered to that. It's not like we have to sign a piece of paper. Oh, I'm going to be a psychic medium, let me sign right here and let me sign right here for Reiki that this is what I'm going to do. I mean, you can bring prayer in before you connect, right?
Speaker 2:I have been to psychics where they hold my hand and we pray. We pray to God, we ask for the light of God to surround us and only things through. Light enters so you can really make it whatever. Whatever you run, it's just finding that right person to connect with that. Okay, you know, yeah, I, I, you know, go to church too and I pray too. Let's pray together and we'll see what comes through. Right, yeah, yeah, absolutely so. Number three I saw you offer a 90 day mentorship program. Tell me about your program.
Speaker 1:Oh sure. So the 90 day program like I mean I knew I would love to teach, right, but I actually love watching the transformation at the end of the 90 days, Like it's so amazing. So basically I have six modules and I recommend that students only work on it for 10 to 30 minutes a day.
Speaker 1:So it's not like, oh, I'm going to college or something and I have all these hours of studying. Because just think if you were going to the gym for, like you haven't been there in years and you go for like five hours like you're going to be completely exhausted. It's not going to work right. So this is that same concept of like building that muscle. So, yeah, it's just 10 to 30 minutes a day. I have everything written out and then I have all the exercises on video so that they can play it, rewind it, pause it however they need to work it in. And then we also have the bi-weekly Q&A calls live over Zoom, to be able to give each other like experiences. I can give them feedback, we do exercises together, I answer any questions. Then there's also a free app on our phone.
Speaker 1:So on a daily basis, they can also reach out to me directly or they can also reach out to the other students in the program as well, so that we have that like-minded community and they also have that line directly to me to be able to ask questions. But everything is basically like in um in the program. You have access to it your entire lifetime. It's not like after 90 days it goes away and once you're in there and we're finding whatever ability you have.
Speaker 1:Maybe you're an angelic healer, maybe you are a medium, maybe you're a medical intuitive or a psychic detective. We all have these very unique abilities. So once you're in the program, you're going to tell me, basically, this is what I'm finding out about myself, this is what I'm learning, the ability that I have, and then I customize it. So let's say that we find that you are a certain Claire, like if you're hearing something, I'll give you more of those exercises. Or if you find that you're a psychic detective, I'm going to give you more of those exercises. So it's basically like a baseline of one-on-one. This is what you need to protect your energy, to learn. But then also, once you're in there, let's customize it, because everybody has a little bit different and so we need to get it more customized for whatever your ability is. Is that everything? I think so very good.
Speaker 2:Well, that was our last question and, as we've been talking, is there something that you may have forgotten to share with us or a message that you'd like to leave for the listeners?
Speaker 1:the floor is yours um, I think I just would like to remind everyone that there's so much out there that we can't see. So, you know, keep that open mind, because there is so much out there and it's really beautiful and amazing if you just allow yourself to be open to it. Um, so I think that's my main message.
Speaker 2:Beautiful, beautiful, Well. Thank you, Brandy, so much for taking time out of your very busy schedule to join me on this journey. I really appreciate it. It was a real joy talking to you and learning about all of the things that you've been through and how you're helping others navigate through their abilities here.
Speaker 1:Thank you so much. It was so great speaking with you as well.
Speaker 2:Wonderful, all right, wonderful listeners. If you would like your question featured on the podcast, reach out at wwwReadySetReikicom. I'm Tracy Seawright and this has been Ready Set Reiki. Thank you.
