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June 12, 2024 45 mins

In this week’s episode, Nicole Harp joins us to discuss the benefits of being in a relationship with spirit. What is spirit? Spirit is the energy of the earth and its inhabitants, our spirit guides, higher self, higher power, ancestors, and highly evolved beings. When we develop relationships with spirit, we learn a great deal, namely about trusting them so we can trust ourselves and the lives we live. We can connect with spirit through prayer, meditation, intuition, mediumship, energy healing, and more. Our relationship with spirit also teaches us that we are never alone. We have their support, guidance, and love. Additional benefits of being in a relationship with spirit are healing trust issues and old emotional wounds, learning valuable life lessons, and having access to their wisdom to know our true potential so we can manifest the magic and wonderment of living a human life. Enjoy! Much love, xoxoxo.

Show notes:

Learn more about Nicole Harp at www.harpspace.org. Nicole is an animal communicator and soul painter. She is offering a course in animal communication in June. Go to her website to learn more about her course and other offerings.

You Are the Answer by Michael Tamura is a book filled with wonderful visualization exercises to develop your intuition and build a relationship with your spirit.

Learn more about Arthur Findlay College and the courses that they offer in mediumship at www.arthurfindlaycollege.com

In this podcast, I am inspired by Sandra Ingerman to use the term initiation when referring to my chronic physical condition: a condition that has taught me many life lessons. Sandra Ingerman is a well-known shamanic practitioner, teacher, and author. She explains her use of this term in several of her podcast episodes co-hosted with Renee Baribeau in The Shaman's Cave. Learn more about their podcast at www.theshamanscave.com.


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Kristen OMeara (00:00):
Hello everyone and welcome to intuition talks.

(00:02):
I am Kristen O'Meara and I amhere with my good friend, Nicole
Harp.
Nicole, how are you doing today?

Nicole Harp (00:10):
I'm excellent.
Thank you for having me.

Kristen OMeara (00:13):
Yes.
Nicole, you've been on, um,intuition talks several times
and for folks who don't know youand your work, can you just
share a little bit aboutyourself?

Nicole Harp (00:25):
I will.
I am, professional animalcommunicator.
And I paint, I'm an abstractpainter and I paint the energy,
emotional and energetic imprintof energy, whether it be an
animal, human.
Okay.
A tree.
So, um, I think the energy ofthings.

Kristen OMeara (00:43):
And then for folks.
Oh, sorry to interrupt you.
And for folks who are watchingthis on YouTube, you can see
behind me two of Nicole's soulart paintings.
One is of my soul on, uh, it'swould be on my right.
And then one of Austin, thebeautiful green and yellow.

(01:08):
And I just love having them.

Nicole Harp (01:10):
Thank you.
Thanks.
I'm glad you love them.
I paint souls.
We will just leave it at that.
Yeah.
Yeah.

Kristen OMeara (01:17):
I'll put your information in the show notes.
I'm a little distracted cause Ihave two kitties on my lap.
I have three now.
And, um, so I'm going to be alittle distracted, I think, as
we did in a good way, in a goodway, who doesn't love kittens.
So what we're going to talkabout today is working with

(01:38):
spirit and how working withspirit, whether it's our
ancestors, whether it's ourspirit guides, ascended masters,
higher self, even our soul, howworking with them really can
help heal ourselves.

(02:00):
By trusting them and learningfrom them,

Nicole Harp (02:06):
not only healing, but it's just information.
I mean, you can ask anything.
That's right.
That's right.
So

Kristen OMeara (02:16):
we have like what you just said, we have
incredible teachers and sourcesof information, sources of
information, and they arewilling and able and wanting to
work with us.
Yeah.

Nicole Harp (02:29):
Just before we were talking and I'm so excited just
talking about, I was talkingabout how Amy and I tap in one
or two, once or twice a day andjust information we found out
that we didn't know about ourancestors genealogy.
Um, that, you know, that youcan't find on 23 and me, that's
right.
And just things that we alwayswondered and, you know, ask that

(02:50):
we can, you can ask yourancestors questions.
You can ask, you know, whoeverfrom spirit to come in, um,
doesn't mean they will, but youknow, but, but sometimes you get
ones you don't ask.
But like all there's a milliondifferent exercises you can do
on how to, um, like if you wantto do more of a spiritual, um,
connection, you know, if that'ssomething like if you're more

(03:11):
mental intuitive, but you wantto do a spiritual and you want
to feel, I mean, there's soemotional intuitive.
There's so many things.
There's a million differentexercises.
We used to Sherry Dillard books,but, um, cause I was taught by
Sherry Dillard, but yeah.
Yeah.
You, you do, um, Arthur Finley.
Right.

Kristen OMeara (03:29):
Arthur Finley.
Yeah.
So there is, there's so manydifferent ways, like you said,
and I've been thinking a lotabout this since I've, uh, been
taking trans healing and transcommunication classes, which is
learning to blend with yourspirit guides or spirit team,

(03:53):
whatever you want to call it.
And, uh, tuning with them andallowing them to hold you and
what the tutors Arthur Finleytalk about is creating a hold.
So when you're learning to dotrans communication or trans

(04:14):
speaking.
You are allowing one of yourspirit guides to speak through
you.
So you have to learn how toblend with them and allow that
energy.
They work with the mind and theaura and have that communication

(04:34):
come through.
So those words aren't yours.
They're theirs.
But there's a lot of trust thathas to happen.
So it's a, it's a skill thattakes time to develop.
And it's the same with, but indifferent ways, developing your
intuition so you can trust inyour own truth, your own

(04:57):
information, uh, activemediumship, which is when you go
to medium and you want to hearfrom a deceased loved one.
The trans healing and transcommunication is more passive
mediumship, but it's all thesame in that we're working with
the spirit world.
And when I say spirit world, I'mtalking about beings that are

(05:24):
either have never incarnated.
Or they are beings that havebeen in bodies and that's where
their consciousness or theirenergy is, is so we can call it
heaven spirit world.
A lot of times that ArthurFinley you'll hear tutors talk

(05:44):
about spirit blending withspirit.
So, I can go more into thedetails later, but I just wanted
to have a conversation with you,Nicole, about how amazing it is
when you are able to go throughthat initial process of learning
to be still, learning to sit,learning to be quiet and develop

(06:09):
that skill and develop yourintuition To a degree in which
you are able to discern what youare intending or the intention
you're having to connect with ahighly evolved being or a spirit
guide or a higher self or asoul.

(06:32):
So I believe that there aresteps, you know, if you, if you
don't know how to sit and bestill, it's going to be really
hard to do mediumship.
So there is a progression or anunfoldment

Nicole Harp (06:44):
and it all evolves, right?
Like you're right.
It all evolves.
So there's a lot of.
Yeah, that's authentic for youwhat you do, like I don't do
that doesn't mean I won't everdo that but it.
That's what's authentic for youand that's where you kind of
you.
Right.
Yeah, so that was my path.

Kristen OMeara (07:01):
So I thought it would be a really nice
conversation to have, even if wetouch on it a little bit about
how developing a relationshipwith.
A higher self or spirit guidesand spirit, albeit not an easy
thing to develop for some of usbecause they're not physical

(07:24):
bodies in a room.
And we have to use our intuitionto know how we're connecting
with them.
For me, I'm clairvoyant.
So I can see some folks willfeel or hear or know, um, but
how that can really heal trustissues.
It can really heal.

(07:44):
And we can have a differentexperience about being cared
for.
Um, it can be a reparative andeven a reparenting experience
for some of us, but it can bevery reparative because we can
work with and be in relationshipwith and allow these wonderful

(08:04):
beings.
To love us and to take care ofus and experience their

Nicole Harp (08:11):
wisdom.
Yes.
I mean, because they are thislight, right?
This, as we came in this ball ofgolden light or, you know,
there's a million differentpeople say how we came in, but
you know, the consciousness,their consciousness, right.
Right.
Without all the pretense and theheaviness of the physical form.
So, um, you know, they're, whatI explained in my book about my

(08:31):
mom and how she, you know, shewas that, and therefore made me.
um, you know, I, I, I see thatexperience that reminded me of
myself.
That's how soul paintings cameabout.
Of that.
Like we come in.
So, um, You know, there's somuch wisdom.
So, and, um, you know, and see,um, It's it's exciting.
I was in my meditation.

(08:52):
Talking to we usually sit.
I know you probably do too.
Sit.
Rarely do I go in just kind oflike whatever, because it's, it
could go anywhere.
So you'd like to have some kindof, you know, uh, some
structure.
But, um, so we went in with justasking for a message.
I'd have to read it, but, um,okay, now I'm really getting
excited.

(09:13):
So a couple of, but, well, acouple of things, because, um,
you know, how do you knowyou're, um, you know, that
everybody's, when they say, howdo you know, but you're,
everything's calm and it's just,you know, subtle and matter of
fact, but when you go back toread it.
I can read and then I get soemotional, but during it, I'm so
calm.
It's that kind of, you know,space between, you know, um, you

(09:36):
know, it's that, um, it's atrance.
It's a

Kristen OMeara (09:37):
trance.
It is light trance, but you're,you know, what's going on, but
it's all in the happening in themoment.

Nicole Harp (09:45):
Yeah, I've got so many, so many books of every,
every day, two, three times aday doing this.
But, um, and then you canexperience so many things you
can go into.
I actually, my mom and my Nanatried me, to bring me into their
space.
Um, you know, and it's funny howlike, you know, you'll know,
and, and the audience will know,like where, how you, when you
meditate, like I usually havesomeone, I have chairs in front

(10:09):
of me, like a visual of chairs.
And it depends who sits in thechairs, you know, that's how you
connect with your mom

Kristen OMeara (10:14):
or

Nicole Harp (10:16):
something.
So you have to sit in the chairin front of you in your mind.
Yeah.
If they want to come and sitright.
And then anyway, they brought meover to this light with this
door that I went in, but that'sall I didn't get to go.
I didn't go any further, butwith them, like, you know, so
amazing the different thingsthat can happen.
Right.
Yeah.
And one of my students came inpop their consciousness popped
in there live, but I was talkingto people that passed over.

(10:38):
But and I was like, everymorning we'd we would have the
smile in this connection andsay, good morning.
And I know that that studentneeded my.
Attention.
Yeah, in a positive way.
I remember giving her a oneyear.
I, uh, it's okay if I like,okay, so one year I bought just

(10:59):
dollar store stuff, but Istarted making and I'm like, I
have 100 something students.
I can't make cards for hundredsof students.
So anyway, I bought like dollarstore cards.
Right.
And every, every, every singlestudent.
And that's 160 something I gavea birthday card to and then
something like, you know, candybar or something.
It was expensive, but I wroteand I wrote something and, um,
her mom said it changed.

(11:21):
Like, like she was like, youmade my daughter's day.
Anyway, ever since then we hadthis bond.
Well, anyway, she popped herlittle consciousness and said
like, like I miss you, you know,cause we're not, we're not in
school anymore.
And then, um, another littlebaby that my friend's grandson
popped his little consciousnessin.
And then I just got.
A handful of things about themthat I shared with them.

(11:43):
Um, babies are the new thing.
I'm like connecting with, butI've always loved babies, you
know, I've always loved animalsand babies when there was always
like adults happening.
Where would Nicole be with thekids or the babies?

Kristen OMeara (11:53):
Oh, I mean, I'm

Nicole Harp (11:54):
sorry.
The animals or the kids.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Animals and kids.
But, um, anyway, but yes, it's,it's, and you're not alone.
This is like, I was thinking, Itold, we talked about this
before I said, how

Kristen OMeara (12:06):
could,

Nicole Harp (12:06):
how could we have, um, live like this.
How did I live like this withoutthis?
Right.
I can't imagine life before thisand it's just going to get
better and better because themore you do it, the better you
get, right?
Practicing that muscle.
And then it's exciting.
You never know what you're goingto get.
And they think you've, you know,well, let's, let's do something
new for you today.
Let's, I mean, they, they justtake you to the next level.

(12:27):
They

Kristen OMeara (12:27):
do.
Yeah.
And that's what I really wantto, um, I don't know if I just
said anything, but go ahead, youdid, and

Nicole Harp (12:33):
you're like, what are you talking about?
Yeah,

Kristen OMeara (12:36):
no, no, I love it.
And it's, it just.
It's a reminder every time I gointo meditation and I set the
intention to connect with, say,a deceased loved one or a higher
self or my higher self, it'ssuch a, I'm reminded constantly.

(12:56):
It's almost like peeling awaylayers of distrust and, uh, this
limiting or false belief thatI'm alone.
And I'm continually letting gomore and more and more and
believing to my core that I'mnot alone, that I have this

(13:18):
incredible spiritual team grouparound me.
What also I found is that themore we connect with our higher
self, our own soul, um, causeI've had conversations with my
own soul.
Um, I believe you can channelyour soul.

(13:40):
There's so much wisdom justwithin us.
Right.
That is so powerful.
But the more I do that, and themore, uh, readings I give myself
or more channelings I give, youknow, for myself or others,

Nicole Harp (13:55):
the cats are making your,

Kristen OMeara (13:56):
I know I'm watching the cast.
The more I'm aware that, youknow, I don't need to go to, uh,
a psychic for this.
I don't need to go to a teacherfor this I've learned how to
access that information formyself.
And it takes more patience forme.
It takes more.

(14:17):
Um, when I'm trying to answer myown questions, I have to go
through those layers of feelingsand emotions and doubt and, uh,
and all of that.
But the thing about it is it'sworth it.
Because when we can rely on ourown information, our own truth.
And when we can work with ourhigher self or our spirit guides

(14:40):
to help us navigate ourchallenges, we won't be so
dependent on, you know, otherpeople's, because even when you
go to a psychic or medium,there's a filter, and the better
the psychic and medium, The lessof, of a filter.
They're really like whatthey're, what you are, what
people call like a hollow bone,you know, but I think that

(15:04):
there's nothing wrong going to apsychic or medium or a
channeler, but I really feellike the gold mind is within us
and it takes practice.
It takes patience.
It takes courage and it takes,um, Trust in ourselves to

(15:30):
develop the skills to, to reallytrust that our information is.
Valued and quote unquote,correct.

Nicole Harp (15:42):
Who better than ourselves to answer questions
about ourselves.

Kristen OMeara (15:45):
Yeah.
And we can always, you know, gothrough other people at some
point, but I think the more wenot, when I say that, I mean,
like, you know, there's thisreally big, hefty issue and it
involves multiple people.
Like of course, we're going togather information, we're going
to use our analytical mind.
But when it comes to actuallymaking a decision, I really feel

(16:05):
like And believe a hundredpercent that it has to come from
our intuition.
And, um, the more I use myintuition in that way, it's
interesting.
It's like, that's my go to like,I'm not even either.
I'm not even really botheredwith all the ramblings.
And, and stuff happening in myhead.

(16:28):
Do you know what I mean?
It's like the most,

Nicole Harp (16:31):
and the more you do this meditate and do the
connecting, connecting will calmcommunications, whatever, um,
better you are at quieting themind, the better you are at the
no chatter.
And the, um, this, you know, allthat, I feel like all that, that
self doubt and all thatnegative, it just, it just falls
away.
The

Kristen OMeara (16:48):
volume just gets turned down way down, way down
to the point where it's like,it's not even an issue.
I think the more emotionallycharged problems perhaps will
take more time.
And it's so much easier to callsomeone.
It's so much easier to ask forsomeone's advice or opinion.
It's so much easier to call yourfriend.

(17:08):
Who's a medium or psychic.
But if you just give yourself.
A moment

Nicole Harp (17:13):
to

Kristen OMeara (17:13):
just really take the risk and try to see what
that answer is within yourself.

Nicole Harp (17:20):
Well, you always know what it is anyway.
Yeah.
You know, I mean, you'll getpsychic work and they'll say the
same thing you were alreadythinking.
And it's okay.
We'll psychic.
I mean, you'll get a psychicreading from someone and they'll
say, and you would just stuff.
You're like, well, all right.
I knew that.
Yeah, you know, it's justreaffirming or it's validating.
Sometimes it takes some stuffyou

Kristen OMeara (17:35):
don't know, but and the validation is really
healing because then that saysto ourselves, I think that, oh
yeah, I'm really, I'm reallyable to tune in now.
How can I do that for myself?
Right.
And it's really just a matter ofsitting.
Practice and making the choice.

Nicole Harp (17:53):
And, you know, it's like, I wonder, I'm thinking
when it became, you know,remember when meditation was
work where you're like, um, whenyou thought meditation had to
be, um, you know, like, oh, if Ididn't do, if I don't do it for
20 minutes, it's not reallymeditating or, you know, but,
but actually just trying to, youknow, just like trying to get
quiet and quiet your mind.
And you'd have a couple of thosemoments where you like those

(18:13):
highs, where you felt like youwere.
Yeah.
Somewhere else.
And you're like, Oh, it'samazing.
But then it was all struggle,right?
You know, it's like going to thegym or some the gym, the half of
it is just showing up, right?
She just show up, you meditate.
And then throughout thespiritual practice, it changed.
And I'm just, I don't know.
Um, uh, you know, and then it,for me now, it's like, I can't

(18:34):
get enough.
Right.
So, um, you know, being able tocommunicate with my mom who's
crossed over, you know, that'swhere it kind of started, even
though I didn't communicate withher right away, but.
Um, my loved ones knowing,which, which leads me to, I
don't know if I've said thisbefore, but for me, Um, or for
anybody, everything, what Iwould say to everybody is, um,

(18:55):
if you can get clear on how youfeel about death, what happens
when you die, when your physicalform is no longer here.
And I think that, which has mademe want to connect, connect is,
um, it's a lifesaver.
That's me being cheesy.
It does.
It changes your, it changes you.

Kristen OMeara (19:14):
Well that's the thing.
And that's, that's the bigblessing about for me,
spiritualism and.
Learning about mediumship.
What one of the most healingtakeaways other than learning to
trust and and feeling the trustand the love and the care from

(19:35):
from the spirit guides and inthe beings that I connect with
is Really coming to a deeperawareness about death and that
we don't, um, our consciousnessdoesn't end with death and life
is a cycle and our consciousnesswill continue.

(19:58):
Our soul will move on.
And that is, I think that thereisn't enough.
Talk about death.
We don't talk about death enoughbecause we're all afraid of it.
And it's, you know, and I get itbecause that's the culture that
we live in.
I think that we need to reallychange that.
I think we need to start talkingabout death when we're very

(20:21):
young.
So it's not this big loomingthing.
Um, but mediumship will reallyaddress that and it will bring
so much peace.
about death, especially whenlike you with your mother, you
can connect with your mom.
I've had several experienceswith my dad who passed away last
November.
And, um, sometimes it's like, Iknow that we don't die.

(20:46):
I know we move on, but when youhave an experience where you're
connecting with your loved onein spirit, or you get a message
or you have this sign orsynchronicity that you go, Oh,
wow, that's my grandmothercommunicating with me.
It's like.
It's it's magic.
It's magical.

Nicole Harp (21:05):
It's transforming.
It is it is and then almost likethat's the gateway to like
anything's possible, you know,thinking, um, isn't that

Kristen OMeara (21:14):
true though?
It is, but just what you saidthat anything's possible,
anything is possible.

Nicole Harp (21:19):
I'm thinking today, like, how many artists would
like really if they could dowhat I do and, and tap into the.
Basically, artists would kill ordie to, um, to do this.
I can teach you to do this,right?
I can teach creatives how to,um, how to get past all this

(21:39):
physical stuff and into whatreally makes the art, right?
Which is, which is, um, which isthat love and light that really
makes the art.
Or that, it's that energy that,um, I mean, I've never really
said this before, it's just kindof feeling it now, but, yeah.
Thinking, like, you know, um,because talking, um, to my mom
and my dad about my art and, um,my guide who travels with me

(22:03):
through, uh, who's been with methrough making art in another,
um, country before in anotherlifetime, um, and you know how
there's guides that are with youfor temporary and for a long
time, but, um, and thinkingthat, um, I could, I could help
other artists, you know, really.
see art in a different way andhave art come from a place

(22:25):
that's That's that's that'sthat's this pure, like this
essence of, um, it's just somuch deeper realm that I could
help them tap into that anycreative actually I mean, I've
created things that weren't wereart related but that but ideas
engineering and ideas to which.
You have to ask when people arereally coming up with these

(22:46):
ideas, right?
I mean, because it's a, it's anincredible realm of inspiration.
Yeah.
Yes.
No, you know, they're tappingin.
They're going beyond being inthe flow.
Yeah.
They're there.

Kristen OMeara (22:58):
That's right.
They're already doing it, butthey can go to another level.
And I think that's what peopledo.

Nicole Harp (23:04):
Oh, sure.
All the time.
Oh, I need an idea for that.
You know, wireless, whatever.
Okay.
Let me tap in and get some,because you know, when you do
communications for people,whoever I get, I, I did this for
my friends all the time, um, butthey're like, what job should I,
whatever.
And I'll tap into, um, spirit ortheir higher self and they'll
come up with like 12 differentideas and you couldn't have
imagined or tried to come upwith 12 different amazing ideas

(23:27):
that you're in, that your higherself or consciousness or spirit
or who the heck, whatever gaveyou it.
I get confused, Esther, and I'm,um, like, who am I talking to?
We've talked about that.
So yeah, we just say spirit.
You just say spirit.
But the ideas that they come upwith are like, I could not have,
I couldn't have, you couldn'thave paid for ideas that are
that good.

(23:48):
You know, I can't make it up.
You cannot make this up.

Kristen OMeara (23:50):
It's so true.
I'm just, it's a, and you know,people think that, Oh, I can
only get to those States takingmushrooms or psychedelics or
blah, blah, blah.
And I'm not, I'm not, I'm notpoo pooing that stuff.
Cause I know some people likethat's, that's what they want to
do, but gosh, it is, uh, youdon't need to.

(24:12):
Yeah, it comes from openingyour, uh, but there is, you
know, you've got to go throughthe steps.
You've got to go through thedevelopment or unfoldment and,
um, and some folks, you know,it's more difficult for them,
but I have to say for, forpeople who are listening, who
are thinking about, wow, youknow, I really feel like I'm

(24:33):
intuitive and I, but I haven'tsat and meditated and I'm really
concerned, like, Meditation forme was not an easy thing.
I had a panic attack the firsttime I did it, but I stuck with
it every day.
I stuck with it.
And it is now just like what yousaid, I can't get enough.
It's yeah.

(24:54):
So it can be done.
It can be done.

Nicole Harp (24:57):
I wonder if you, uh, I was talking to a friend
the other day and I thought, uh,You know, she's got appointment
with Sherry Dillard and she, youknow, appointments with Sherry
Dillard are life changing.
But I thought really every, Isaid to her, everything you need
to do is within yourself.
She was talking about, and I,but I said, well, let me think
back.
How could I get her where I am?
I'm not trying to change her oranything, but I just know that

(25:18):
getting quiet and every answerto everything she's going
through is within herself.

Kristen OMeara (25:22):
Yeah.

Nicole Harp (25:23):
And

Kristen OMeara (25:24):
yeah, and I think that whatever stages we go
through, um, to get to the pointwhere we really trust.
And I'm still working throughtrust issues.
I'm still working through like,you know, can I trust this
decision or can I be in a, in aplace of not knowing and
tolerate it for a period oftime, which I think is probably

(25:46):
one of the hardest things forall of us.
How can I tolerate not knowingright now?
That's what you

Nicole Harp (25:52):
never know,

Kristen OMeara (25:53):
right?

Nicole Harp (25:53):
Life could change in a split second, you know?
So the worry Right.
And trusting.

Kristen OMeara (25:57):
And trusting that, right?
Right.
The answers

Nicole Harp (25:59):
will

Kristen OMeara (26:00):
come.

Nicole Harp (26:00):
Yeah, and stop asking.
I'm always asking the samequestion and my spirit's like,
when are you going to, what dowe need to say that, you know,
what do we need to say thatyou're going to believe this,
you know, all the time or I'lluse my tarot cards.
But what I was going to say toyou is, and maybe you can help
me with this.
And I think that's the problem Ihave is I'll get to a point and
I'm like, how did I get here.
And so if I was going to say, Istarted to say all my friend

(26:23):
needed was to be, um, is to getquiet and ask these questions to
herself.
But then I said, well, it's notjust that easy because I did a
lot of stuff where I got here.
Yeah.
So if you had to do bulletpoints for someone, and they're
just starting.
Today, what would they do?

Kristen OMeara (26:37):
Well, what I

Nicole Harp (26:38):
would recommend is

Kristen OMeara (26:39):
bullets to get where we are today.
The only thing I can recommendis what I did and having been
quite dissociated and notconnected to my body for so many
years.
And I started meditating at 38,39.
Um, what I did is I.

(27:02):
Learn a very simple groundingpractice and the practice will
be in my book when it comes outin the fall, but it's also in
Michael tomorrow's book.
You are the answer and I'll putit in the show notes, but it's a
simple grounding practice and Ijust practice grounding.
As many times as I could untilit was comfortable for me, but

(27:23):
it wasn't comfortable to start.
And some folks, it won't beuncomfortable, but for me, it
took a long time to get into mybody.
Quote unquote.
Um, some people, uh, just forthat first bullet point, it
might just be making a cup oftea or your favorite drink,
obviously not alcohol.
And.

(27:45):
Sitting down and listening tocalming music just to get into a
practice of sitting and it couldbe 10 minutes and you can work
up to 20.
There's no, I have to meditatefor one hour every day.
That's baloney.
Um, you meditate for as long asyou can.
Um, and you, I think repetitionis more important than the

(28:06):
length of time.

Nicole Harp (28:09):
And I think following some kind of
structure, like I used to openmy chakras and now I do the
light coming through energycoming through my head and down
in my body, the white light willchange, you know, but

Kristen OMeara (28:22):
yeah, but even like a guided meditation might
be helpful for some peoplelistening to music.
But I think it's more aboutcreating a habit.
For you, for about 14 years.
Yeah, for 14 years, I had achair that I never sat in unless
I was meditating and I made itreally, really beautiful.

(28:42):
I had a beautiful blanket.
I had a side table.
I had beautiful things on thetable.
I made it so it was welcomingand I like to be here, but I
think just trying differentthings.
And then the next thing is.
It's

Nicole Harp (28:59):
like you all are having tremblers there.
Oh, yes.
The cat.
Yeah.
I've got three.
Oh, my God.
Chewing on the

Kristen OMeara (29:06):
cords.

Nicole Harp (29:07):
There's a semi earthquake.
I know.

Kristen OMeara (29:09):
Oh, my God.
Yeah.
Good.
Then I think just.
Taking intuitive developmentclasses, um, learning about your
chakras and your aura, maybejust learning about that.
You're a spirit in the body.

Nicole Harp (29:21):
Yeah.

Kristen OMeara (29:24):
And then taking it from there.
I mean, there's so manyresources out now that I think
it's not a difficult thing.
Some people will be drawn moreto mindfulness, mindfulness
practices.
Some people will be drawn to,um, like you said, you know, the
whole chakra work.

Nicole Harp (29:42):
I'm going to

Kristen OMeara (29:42):
interrupt

Nicole Harp (29:42):
you, but I do want to say this, because there's not
one way.
Anybody who takes a class wheresomeone says you have to do it
this way, that is such crap.
You, there is the way that worksfor you, and that, that is the
way.
This is what's beautiful aboutit.
Everybody's got a book about,you know, there's this, like you
said, what works, what happenedfor you, and then, of course,
what happened for me.
So there's a million differentways.

(30:04):
Yeah, up your heart, you know,and that's

Kristen OMeara (30:06):
right.
It's so true.
I think if I were to be, I thinkif I were to be like a stickler
about anything, it would belearning how to ground your body
to the earth.
But, but that's only becausethat was a big thing for me.
Just like what you said, youknow,

Nicole Harp (30:25):
um, the beautiful thing is everybody can do this
we came in telepathic.
We're going to be going out to,we're going to do go, you know,
when you're over there, my dadsaid, you communicate, said, we
communicate with animals overthere, just like we could hear,
but, you know, well, you have tolearn things there.
Not everything is easy overthere.
You don't just like leave yourbody and then because

(30:46):
everything's easy.
You still have to learn how tobe telepathic over there and
learn how to communicate, youknow, there's, it's not like you
all of a sudden have all theseskills.
You don't have all the andeverything and you see yourself
in a different way, but.
You're still learning

Kristen OMeara (31:01):
continues.

Nicole Harp (31:02):
The learning continues, baby.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's right.
Oh,

Kristen OMeara (31:07):
I really, I just had a, um, I had a dream.
It was my first dream with mydad and he was in a bed.
Was it a

Nicole Harp (31:17):
visitation dream or just,

Kristen OMeara (31:18):
yeah, but I was there.
So my dad passed in November andwe had an estranged
relationship.
We hadn't talked in, I don'teven know how many years, like
at least 10, 12.
And.
I was in a room and he was in abed and he was having a hard
time keeping his eyes open.
And there was a guide there.

(31:39):
And the guide said that he is,uh, needing to sleep.
He needs to rest.
And I can't remember anythingelse.
I wish I wrote it down.
Um, but the reason why I bringit up is that I believe that the
more we Are in tune, even withourselves, even with our body

(32:05):
connected to the earth, feelingour feet on the ground and tune
with our heart and our, and ourintuition will naturally be
more.
I, I, the only word I can thinkof is will be more, uh, we will
awaken to.

(32:27):
All of these experiences that wewould have had if we weren't, do
you know what I'm saying?
It's like, we'll be more awareof like the dream we had.
We'll see something outside thatwe perhaps if we weren't tuned
in, not see.
So our day to day, what we wouldconsider mundane life will

(32:47):
become more magical.
The more tuned in we are.

Nicole Harp (32:52):
Absolutely.
And that goes back to beingpresent, having presence, trying
to be present, which issomething even different than
what you're talking about.
But you know, um, my mom told mein one of my communications that
it's understanding your, youwere just saying, understanding
yourself and this, but it'shaving, understanding your
emotions.
She told me.
So important.

(33:15):
Um, that she, she realized theunderstanding her emotions, um,
you know, like with your dad.
Yeah.
Yes.
Well, she's told me so manyamazing things that, and it's,
this is what I wanted to tellyou too, or I wanted to talk
about too, not tell you, buttalk, um, and then, you know,
then I want to, well, maybe youshould talk about your dad and
the sleep.
Maybe that is what he needs todo is sleep.

(33:35):
Um, I've heard

Kristen OMeara (33:36):
that from, from reading, I think journey of
souls or destiny of souls byMichael Newton.
Yeah.
I read, I read those books, uh,gosh, so long ago.
And I remember some of somesouls who've had a really
difficult, you know, um, healthissues before they pass needed a

(33:57):
lot of sleep.
He was in a wheelchair, neededoxygen and all sorts of stuff.
Yeah.
So, um, but yeah, I didn'treally have, um, there's really
not much more to say about thatother than I think if I hadn't
been tuned in and more selfaware and more aware of spirit,
I would have just, you know, Ihave blown the dream off,

Nicole Harp (34:19):
but, but yeah, so, so writing down your dreams is
important.
Oh my goodness.
Yes.
Yeah.
Writing down everything you getfrom meditation, dreams,
whatever, but, um, you know,understanding our loved ones on
a different, um, in a, in atotally different way, um, than
we would have, um, known themhere because they're different,
um, you know, how they presentthemselves and who they really

(34:39):
are.
Um, so many things that Ithought my mom was here or she
was here.
She's not there.
And my dad too.
Um, and my grandmother, when Ibrought my grandmother through,
was saying, yeah, getting toknow them.
And they're like totallydifferent, not totally
different, but their essence isthe same, but, but they're
knowing them in a different way.
That's not, here's, it's likethis amazing, you know, awakened

(35:02):
relationship that you have.
And it's so, uh, you know, soendearing and it's so fun and
it's, you know, curious and youget to see them in this totally
different way.
And.
You know, it's, it's just sohealing, um, for the physical
form, right.
To, to see them that way.
Yeah.
They're not playing that role.
They don't have the ego, right.
There's it's this, we didn'tknow their essence.

(35:24):
Yes.
No, like I knew my mom's as shewas in the end with the
dementia, because she showed mesome of it.
She showed me that like youngkid, like when she came in, but
I didn't know all the other.
So just seeing my mom, thisdifferent person, you know,
having different needs and adifferent personality or, you
know, then she had here.

Kristen OMeara (35:44):
When I first learned mediumship, I think it
was like 2017 or so I did areading for my mom.
I brought her mother and fatherthrough and my grandmother was
not a kind woman.
She, it was very, I had a verydifficult relationship with her.
And when I brought her through,she said she apologized.

(36:09):
And she also said that that'snot me.
That wasn't really me.
Right.
And I, I think of like, I, I,what you said, I didn't know her
essence.
There was so much, um, about mygrandmother in this lifetime
that was, uh, wounded, you know,and she wanted to be a

(36:31):
professional dancer and she wasnot allowed to be, and she was
just this amazing, creativewoman.
And she was stuck in her, Youknow, her, uh, social role of
being, you know, a housewife.
And there was something, um,that essence, I didn't get to
know.

Nicole Harp (36:50):
Right.

Kristen OMeara (36:51):
And then you didn't

Nicole Harp (36:52):
even get to know everything you just said.
And that's why it's so healing.
And then, you know, just goingto go back to the soul painting
behind you, because that is whatit's supposed to do.
Remind you of who you, yourreal, your true essence and, you
know, how, what you came here todo and how you came here to do
it with all the colors,excitement, adventure, and
confidence that, you know, thatwe forget that the chattering

(37:15):
mind, that the physical form,that the, Um, you know that life
kind of TV structure, thedistraction.
Yeah, all that

Kristen OMeara (37:26):
stuff.
Yeah, yeah, it's so true.
I have like a really big corkboard and I have, um, spirit art
on there.
I've got a amazing sketch of oneof my spirit guides that a man
did for me in a class that Itook at Arthur Finley.
I just have, it's just spiritualstuff, like stuff I found on the

(37:47):
ground.
That's important to me.
And I think that that in likewhat you're talking about with
the soul art, I think is reallyimportant to have in our house,
because.
And we can call it an altar,whatever you want to call it,
but having pictures,inspiration, spiritual stuff

(38:11):
that we see daily to remind usthat we're more, that we're more
than our, like you were saying,our thoughts in our head were
more than the aches in our body,that we have a very strong,
capable spirit soul, that

Nicole Harp (38:29):
Yeah.

Kristen OMeara (38:30):
And we have this treasure chest inside of us and
having those reminders arereally important for us humans.
You know, it's just, it's reallyimportant.
Visuals are super important.
Yeah.

Nicole Harp (38:41):
Uh, aches and pains in your body.
Well, if you want to flush thatout, that, you know, meditating
and asking, visualizing that,what does it feel like?
What does it look like?
What's the emotions behind itand clearing it out?
You can do that.
I mean.
Yes.
Yeah, I mean, yes, you can healyourself, you know yourself 101.
I know sometimes you can.

(39:01):
Yes, you can emotional shit.
We've taken all the emotionalstuff.
I'm sorry for saying that word,but it's all the emotional
stuff.
Yeah, that would, um, That we'vetaken in and

Kristen OMeara (39:13):
we have health, we can have health issues to
like I, I was talking with you,Nicole earlier about, um, a
chronic health issue that I havethat may be healed one day.
I don't know, but I've had itsince Austin was born.
And.
There's a purpose for it.
It's an initiation for me.

(39:33):
And I, I really believe that.
Um, would I like to be free ofit?
Sure.
But I think that we, we doexperience health issues too,
that are forms of likeinitiation.
Um, we can learn a lot from ourphysical issues and I've healed
a lot in meditation.
With, you know, physical stuff.

Nicole Harp (39:53):
That's what I'm talking about.
Healing yourself.

Kristen OMeara (39:55):
Absolutely.
Right.
Clearing that out.
Yeah.
When we've got all thisheaviness of emotion, like you
were saying, fear, anger,regret, bitterness, my goodness,
that does a lot to your body.

Nicole Harp (40:07):
Yeah.
And then if you're empathic andyou start to take on other
people, you become a dumpingground.
That's right.
And things do, things domanifest physically.
I feel like after 25 years ofteaching in the public school
system, I've collected a lot ofmy students.
It's a lot of kids coming in andout with all their emotional
stuff.
Yeah.
And I know I collected some, youknow, I mean, you do your best

(40:28):
to protect and to Yeah.
You know, surround yourself withwhite, but.
Michael

Kristen OMeara (40:33):
tomorrow's book has a lot of good exercises and
and how to clear for folks whowho want that information.
It's I've in my clairvoyantreading program.
I, I learned, I studied with hiscolleagues and a lot of those
exercises are really easy, easyin that some of them may take
time to learn, but they're notsuper complicated.

Nicole Harp (40:57):
It's the battle of people who've inspired us.
You're Michael Tamora.
I'm Sherry Dillard.
It's the battle of Sherry.
I'm just kidding.
I'm just kidding.
There's a million differentpeople, but you know,

Kristen OMeara (41:08):
well, and over time you kind of create your
own, like you create your ownlittle techniques that you can
visualization techniques andmeditation.
You can there are a ton.
So you can use your owncreativity and meditation to
clear stuff out.
Yeah.
So I'm going to start sayingthat Nicole Harkway's.

Nicole Harp (41:27):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Oh, harp exercises.

Kristen OMeara (41:30):
But we all, we all, I guess, have to start
somewhere.

Nicole Harp (41:33):
Exactly.
Yeah.
And you have your go tos and,uh, yeah.

Kristen OMeara (41:37):
Oh, so nice talking with you.
Do you want to share a littlebit about the class that you're
offering and what you've gotgoing

Nicole Harp (41:44):
on?
So yeah, anybody who lovesanimals, just like loves
animals, feels like you canconnect with them almost maybe
better than you can humans, oryou've always loved your
animals, be protective of youranimals.
Always, you didn't have toconnect as a child, but you do
now, or you could have.
If you love animals, I can teachyou to communicate with animals.
And it can be taught.

(42:05):
Anyway, I'm just teaching ashort, uh, small, um, kind of
intimate class, three classes,starting at the end of June and
then the first, it's, uh,Saturdays.
Um, it's just an hour and itstarts at the end of June and
goes to two weeks in July.
And yeah, she's getting started.
I usually do one person at atime, but I really, I'm looking

(42:27):
forward to like a small group.
And I think you learn so muchfrom the group.
Um, just, you know,communicating with Amy every day
about what she gets for hermediumship, um, uh, reading
communications.
It's so, I was like, you knowwhat, I really need to do a
small class because you'rehearing people's questions, what
they, you know, their, theirdoubts, their fears, their
successes.

(42:48):
Um, it, I think is just, um, youget so much more bang for your
buck, so, yep.
Animal communication's,inexpensive.
Um, well, I think it'sinexpensive, but,

Kristen OMeara (42:57):
and it's harp space do work,

Nicole Harp (42:59):
right?
You get recordings.
Yep.
And you don't even have to bethere.
You can just do the recordingsand the exercises.
It's harp space, like headspace,but harp space.

Kristen OMeara (43:07):
Mm-Hmm.

Nicole Harp (43:08):
S P A C E dot org.
Yep.
Awesome.

Kristen OMeara (43:13):
Talking with you.
Thank you so much.
Well, when's your book comingout?
I'm expecting it to be out inNovember.
Oh, you're birthing it.
I'm

Nicole Harp (43:21):
expecting.

Kristen OMeara (43:22):
Yeah.
In November?
Oh, I love November.
It's a great month.
Well, you know, that's thething.
Every big thing in my lifehappens in November.
Austin was born in November.
I bought my first house inNovember.
I finished grad school inNovember.
There have been so many bigNovembers, and it just makes
sense.
Makes sense.
It's exciting.
I want to talk to you some moreabout that.
Yeah, yeah,

Nicole Harp (43:41):
yeah, we will.
so much for, um, Allowing me totalk about spirit with you and
share experiences with spirit.
And, um, thank you so much.

Kristen OMeara (43:51):
Oh yeah.
And thank you everyone.
Who's listening.
We hope you have a wonderfulweek and much love.
Take care.
Bye.
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