April 6, 2025 • 36 mins
Meet Maria Teresa Practico-Swanson, a modern shamanic healer who describes herself as arriving on Earth with "all sense settings on high." Her remarkable spiritual journey unfolds as she shares how she transformed profound personal trauma into healing power that now serves others worldwide.
Maria takes us behind the common misconceptions of shamanic healing, revealing a vibrant, multidimensional approach that incorporates poetry, dance, music, chanting, and crystals. "I am a multifaceted rainbow unicorn," she explains, challenging the notion that spiritual practitioners must fit a subdued, monochromatic stereotype. Her sessions become immersive experiences where anything goes - from singing and chanting to channeling light language and delivering poetic messages that clients often describe as "drugs in human form."
The conversation explores how Maria's brand "Emotional Musings" began as a poetry blog before becoming integrated into her healing practice. She explains emotions as "energy in motion" that her channeled poems help process and transform. What makes her approach unique is how she embraces both light and shadow, refusing to compartmentalize herself through labels or limitations.
For those beginning their spiritual journey, Maria offers profound wisdom: "Everything we seek outside of us is within us." She emphasizes that we are our own masters, with our souls as our ultimate guides. Through her story of overcoming abuse, addiction, and trauma, Maria embodies her motto "Triumphing Over Trauma" while reminding listeners that "we're literally love in human form."
Ready to explore shamanic healing through a fresh, authentic perspective? Listen as Maria shares her journey of transformation and the unique blend of ancient wisdom and modern expression that defines her healing practice. Your soul's journey awaits.
Maria Teresa Pratico is a woman walking the journey of life guided by the healing power of love. Maria is a practicing master shamanic healer and under the brand Emotional Musings, she conducts healing sessions in person and long distance all over the world. The poetry she channels is meant to inspire others on their own personal healing journeys and stands as a testimony of truth by her motto, "Triumphing over Trauma". Ms. Pratico has successfully overcome trauma and abuse, an addiction to drugs and alcohol and an eating disorder. She speaks to audiences of all ages and backgrounds as a spoken word artist and a motivational speaker. Her work in personal development and self-help can serve anyone on the spiritual path to a higher consciousness and enlightenment of the heart and soul. Maria is well versed in holistic health and understands the importance of obtaining and maintaining the mind, body and spirit connection.
In light and in shadow, always with love Namaste
Maria Teresa Pratico-Swanson
https://emotionalmusings.com
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
This is Ready Set Reiki, a podcast about Reiki,
the universal energy life force,from the curious beginner to
the seasoned master teacher,welcoming all systems, all
levels and all lineages.
Reiki is a journey and not adestination, and on this Ready
Set Reiki journey, I refer tomyself as a guide rather than a
host, as I too am traveling,supporting each other and
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learning on this Reiki journeyas well, and, with that said, I
am your guide, tracy C Wright.
Today joining me is MariaTeresa Practico-Swanson.
Now she is a woman walking thejourney of life, guided by the
healing power of love.
She is practicing Master'sShamanic Healer and, under the
brand Emotional Musing, sheconducts her healing sessions in
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person and long distance allover the world.
The poetry she channels is meantto inspire others on their own
personal healing journey andstands as a testimony of truth
by her motto Triumphing OverTrauma.
She has successfully overcometrauma and abuse, and addiction
(01:23):
to drugs and alcohol and aneating disorder.
She speaks to audiences of allages backgrounds as a spoken
word artist and a motivationalspeaker.
Her work in personaldevelopment and self-help can
serve anyone on the spiritualpath to a higher consciousness
and enlightenment of heart andsoul.
(01:44):
She is well-versed in holistichealth and understands the
importance of obtaining andmaintaining the mind, body and
spirit connection.
Welcome to Ready Set ReikiMaria.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Hello Tracy, it's so wonderful to be here.
I just love that music.
I'm like, ooh, I'm so entranced.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Wonderful, wonderful.
Well, let's begin this journeytogether.
So tell us a little bit aboutyourself.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Okay, well, I say that God sent me here with all
of my sense settings on high,and that was something that I
feel really set me apart when Iwas growing up, because I knew I
was different.
I just didn't know how tonecessarily articulate a lot of
this and it's taken me quitesome time to, I say, like learn
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the gears of this vessel.
And when I had a spiritualawakening in 2019, my world has
never looked the same.
Since awakening in 2019, myworld has never looked the same
since.
So I've just had a lot of livesin this one lifetime here,
overcoming, like you said in mybio, a lot of abuse, a lot of
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trauma, a lot of dysfunction,chaotic energy and really
learning myself and coming to aplace where my being is freeing.
That's one of the mantras I usequite often.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Beautiful, beautiful.
So in our journey today, youare a master, shamanic healer,
and with that, when did thiscome into your life?
When did healing work become apart of it?
Did it find you or did you findshamanic healing?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Well, I feel that nobody really says I'm going to
be a shaman.
That just is not how that works.
I believe that I have been ahealer in all of my lifetimes
and that was my journey was tolearn how to heal myself,
because I was doing this workjust in a really dangerous way.
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So when I met my teacher andmentor, I was ready.
I happened to be unearthing thepit of my trauma, which was
being sexually abused, when Iwas a child.
And I was just scrollingthrough Instagram one day and I
see Lindsay Luna and her, herlittle, like you know advertised
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post.
Um, talked about like a freeconsultation, and so I called
her.
We scheduled a session.
Um, it was over the phone andshe performed, uh, a soul
retrieval.
And my life has literally notlooked the same since.
That was just the mostbeautiful experience for me.
But prior to that I had been,you know, really immersed in my
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own healing process.
I've been in and out ofhospitals, I've been on
psychiatric medications, I'vebeen in some kind of therapy
since I was a child.
So there's been a lot of thingsthat I did prior to really
being able to journey with mysoul and and be who I am today.
So it's taken a lot of, a lotof different modalities, a lot
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of paths to get here, but I, youknow, I feel like this is doing
.
This work allows me to be me.
It's like when I first had myvery first session.
I said, oh my gosh, I've donethis before.
This is all so familiar and nowI understand why I am the way I
am.
You know, so it all made a lotof sense and it felt like coming
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home coming home to myself.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah, yeah, it's amazing when you know people
start dipping their toe, so tospeak, into the spiritual
modality and they've come tofind that many of these things
they have been doing their wholelives and it seems so familiar,
but they finally have a namefor it.
I mean even working, you know,with symbols and certain hand
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placements.
You could look back at yourlife and think like, oh, my
goodness, this is what I wasdoing before I even knew what
this word was, and it isabsolutely coming home so.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I'm glad you found.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
you're just right, you know, for everything that
you've gone through and thankyou for being so open and
transparent about your journey,because you know your strength
and your honesty and boldness isgoing to help someone out there
that's trying to find some typeof healing.
And and that you know nicely,goes into our next question
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about misconceptions about ashamanic healer.
What are some misconceptionsyou find as you're navigating
through this world where thisspirituality is seen in such a
different light than what weknow it?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Okay.
So I like I've had a lot offunny things happen along this.
You know the last six years ofbeing a shaman.
There's a lot of interestingconnotations that come with it.
People ask me oh, do you liveon a reservation?
I say no no.
I'm a modern day shaman.
You know, I've been trainedthrough my guides in spirit, so
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I wasn't trained by necessarilyan elder here.
A lot of my family has passedover.
My parents were both older whenthey had me, so my dad is in
spirit.
He actually passed over twoyears I mean, I'm sorry, two
months before I was anointed.
So I, you know, I just use likeeverything that is within me.
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When you were talking aboutlike handsome, I am a dancer.
That's how I was trained.
So I have always been somebodywho moved and talked with their
hands.
I said to you before, like youknow, coming on here, I like to
sit in a rocking chair a lot.
I am a mover and a shaker and soI feel that, like a lot of
times, people you know seespiritual people as like really
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quiet and sitting in meditationand it's like no fuck that.
No, like I, I am all of it.
I am like a multifacetedrainbow unicorn and so sure Like
I can be quiet and still andmeditate.
But I also love to dance, andthe channeling aspects of my
abilities, um, abilities comeswith, you know, the writing, and
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that is something that's landedinto my sessions, which is
really unique.
So when people ask me, like,what is it like to have a
session with you?
And I go back to what myteacher has said to me Maria,
you're like drugs in human form,because it's like anything goes
.
You know, I've got music going.
I sing, I chant, I channel lightlanguage, I drop in poetry,
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there's lots of crystals,there's things burning, it's
it's an experience within itselfand so, but that's really you
know people who know me well,that's what it's like to be with
me in general.
So I just bring everything I amto the table and we go on a
journey, and so it's likewhatever you're ready to explore
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is what we explore, and it'ssuper gentle and it's very
profound, it's very deep.
It takes, you know, weeks,months, years to process and
it's an ongoing journey.
So you know, weeks, months,years to process and it's an
ongoing journey.
So, you know, I always say topeople like, lay there, be quiet
, just don't like rush yourself.
This takes a while to process.
(09:14):
And yeah, I mean I don't.
I just I'm so grateful for theability to be this intermediary,
to be this channel for thespirit realm, and I know that
that's what I was doing prior toknowing that's what I was doing
.
And it was dangerous.
It was dangerous because I wasopening myself to a lot that I
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had to.
Yeah yeah.
So yeah, the misconceptions.
I mean, there's a lot of thingsLike you're maybe supposed to
like look a certain way, like Iam, I am very much an individual
, unique artist.
You know all of it.
I don't, I don't like stick toone, one label at all.
I feel like that's what most ofsociety wants to put us in.
(09:58):
But you know, even like youknow, growing, uh, growing up
like I never knew I was autistic, like I learned that as an
adult and it was like, oh okay,well, it makes sense because.
I'm so extrasensory and sothey'd have to like tag that on.
Yeah to, just to be able toexplain.
You know who I am and how Iprocess and I just that to me is
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a is a a big misconception.
Right Right Right Labels ingeneral you know labels in
general.
Like I, I like to empowerpeople I work with to say like
you're not, you know, likesomebody who is an alcohol like
you're so much more than that.
You're more than all of theselabels that get put upon you.
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You're love in human form.
That's who we are.
We're literally love in humanform, absolutely, and so it's
about like learning to justembrace that aspect of yourself
and just shine Right, right.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
That's what we're here to do is just shine in all
ways.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Instead of being dressed in head to toe and white
and you're carrying just a drumand that's your only tool.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Exactly, exactly, exactly dressed in head to toe
and white and you're carryingjust a drum and that's your only
, exactly, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
I love it and you're always loving like you know I
also I'm absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I mean like I am full of, you know, anger and shadow,
yeah, all of it like and.
I do wear white a lot.
I mean, it's like I do wearwhite, but I also like.
You see me right now and Idon't have my head wrapped, but
when I'm working I have my headwrapped.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Yeah, yeah, I might be in trouble because in my
wheelhouse it's all black, soand you know what, and that's
cool too, like that's.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
That's cool too I wear a lot of rainbow colors.
I live in.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Florida.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Yeah, I have a very like vibrant personality, so I
like to you know, wear a lot ofcolor to my hair.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I always tease.
I say that I'm like the JohnnyCash of yoga because I wear
black all the time.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I wear black a lot, too, when I'm in yoga.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Like that's another thing that I share.
I've been practicing yoga for 25years so yeah, when you
mentioned about you know notsitting down.
You know, and we talked earlierabout the synchronicities we
were already seeing I had justtold a client this morning.
I have a little yoga space, alittle intimate shala, and I had
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a reception desk there and itwas not too big.
But I decided one day, you knowwhat, I'm not sitting here, I'm
not behind the counter, I'm not, I'm always moving.
This needs to go.
And I took a picture.
It sold very, very quickly andmy client comes in and she's
like, oh, my goodness, whathappened?
Why did you do this?
I'm like you know what?
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I'm always moving.
I said I'm not sitting down.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I.
I said I'm not sitting down.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
I'll meet you at the door anyway.
Yeah, and it was just amazinghow that piece of furniture
being removed opens so much up,and I'm like whoa, and I put a
little table there instead.
And so, yeah, and I'm like,okay, this is good, this is
going to work.
So I know what you mean aboutbeing still and not being that
type of one that has to be inone spot, always walking around,
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always creating.
So very good.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Yes, because everything is energy.
Right, so that's another maybething that people tend to not
maybe understand.
But everything is energy and sowe're constantly these
energetic magnets and spongesand it's just all like this flow
constant.
I say it's like an energeticsoup that we live in.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
I just keep everything flowing Right.
So you're very well-versed inholistic health as a healer here
, helping many individuals,helping them maintain mind, body
and that spirit connection.
But what has been the biggestchallenge or struggle you have
faced in your own healingjourney?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Probably allowing myself to fully be me and to
shine.
Because in most of our liveshere as healers we were
persecuted, we were killed andthere's just been this feeling
of like, oh my gosh like andpeople have even said this to me
growing up like you're so much,like you're too much, and so I
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feel like that has beensomething to really empower me,
because I have turned pain,personal pain, into my power and
now I that doesn't you know.
It's like I know that I'm notmeant for everyone and not
everyone's meant for me, andthat's okay, because we all come
here with our own medicine andour medicine will find the right
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people.
That need it.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Yeah, you'll find your tribe.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
You'll find your tribe.
So what do you wish youryounger self knew about healing
and shamanic work?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I'd say that, for me, patience has been one of my,
you know, focused intentions inlife.
I have a lot of fast movingenergy and I really have a hard
time sitting still.
So, yeah, it is taken as apractice for me to slow down, to
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rest, to see rest as beingproductive and knowing that
whatever is meant for me isnever going to pass me by.
It's going to find me, and so Idon't have to push so hard.
I feel like that's alsosomething I've really and that's
like, you know, a part of oursociety here like go, go, go, go
and do, do, do, do.
And I was a dancer, I'm anathlete, I've done a lot of
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races and I'm a mother, you know.
So being busy is a thing, andso I would tell my younger self
to like slow down, slow down alittle bit more.
Yeah, now I would.
I would say that I mean I'm afree spirited person.
I've always been free spirited,yes, but I like, yeah, I think
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I would have told my youngerself to just like leave, slow
down, everything's going to cometo you.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Yeah, it's like that fast fire energy when I would
get like so.
In Reiki we have attunementsand then, like I have holy fire
Reiki with, that is called aplacement, and when I get those
experiences, placements andattunements, I end up falling
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asleep during the experiencewhere others I have trained with
.
Well, they'll go on magicaljourneys, right, I mean, they
see Jesus and all these magicalthings.
And I'm one of the last peopleto share in the group because I
went out like spirits, like girl, you're going down for the
count because I'm always going,going, going, going down for the
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count because I'm always going,going, going.
So but I know the second never,you know rests, and so it's
just interesting that becausethings are in my daily life are
so colorful and imaginative, Ijust took it as that was that
part, to slow down and relax.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
So well, I can relate to that too, because I mean you
touched on it exactly I havemostly fire energy.
I am a Sagittarian, sun andmoon, so I literally like, was
created to be at odds withmyself.
I'm a cancer rising, yeah, but Ido hold a lot of placements in
the fire signs, sure, so I'maware of that, and when spirit
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really needs to tell mesomething, I will be dropped
right out, like I just bloop,transcend and I am quiet and
like sometimes I go, what justhappened?
But it's all I know.
I trust that it all went in asit was meant to.
I just maybe am not, you know,as aware as maybe I would be if
I'm dancing.
(17:54):
You know what I mean.
Right, right.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
So, when it's time for you to get an energetic
tune-up, what qualities do youlook for in an energy worker,
whether it's a shamanic or othermodalities you have explored?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Well, you know, to be honest with you, I'm really
incredibly careful with myenergetic field, and the only
person who's really worked on meis my own teacher.
We've known each other for overfive years and so she's the
only person I really trust withmy energetic field.
Recently I actually did havesome Reiki from a dear, dear
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friend who is practicing Reiki,and so she's like learning to
like take her master, and so Ijust, you know, I felt
comfortable to do that, but thisis, you know, that's like years
into doing this.
Um.
I've actually done like somecolor healing.
This was years ago before I, Ilike, was really aware of my own
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purpose.
Um, and really interesting, andI before that I did have Reiki.
Like the first, I guess, energyexperience was with somebody
who was a Reiki master, and myteacher is a Reiki master, so
she is, like you know, has bothshe is a shaman, she's a Reiki
master and I feel like that alltranslates and comes through in
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her work Right, absolutely.
We all you know, we're all justdifferent.
We all have our own medicines.
Like I teach, I teach this pathand I tell my students like you
are going to do things the waythat you are going to do, that,
they're going to come throughyou very differently than they
come through me, because that isyour magic, so you need to,
like, cultivate your own magic.
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Um, we're very differenthealers, she and I.
We do things very, verydifferently.
And that was the beauty of oflearning this, because she
always turned it on me and said,well, how do you see this,
maria?
And like, how are you going totap in and what is what are you
going to use?
And it just built like that andthat's.
You know, when I was looking atyou and I like, well, we were
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going to talk about my writingactually came before the
shamanic healing.
So emotional musings was bornas a blog and me sharing my
poetry, and then it was like, oh, this is, these are like spells
, like this is, this isintentional, these are messages.
And then they all just startedfeeding themselves into
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different sessions.
So, yeah, kind of amazing howall that happens.
Right, it's just oh right,right, yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Yeah, that's what I mean.
This is another, you know, um,similarity is.
You know, even from a child, itwas always in rhyming.
I was always rhyming, doingthings like that coming up.
So you know, as you stand backagain and look back at your life
, the little clues, the littlebreadcrumbs that show you, okay,
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I'm going on a certain path.
Oh yeah, I do bring in littleand the poetry is set up as the
rhymes.
I can't stop, like I even my.
I wrote a children's book andthe whole book's in rhyme.
I can't stop Like I even my.
I wrote a children's book andthe whole book's in rhyme.
It was like years before I wasconnecting, you know, with Reiki
or even knew what it was.
It's part of who we are.
(21:04):
Exactly, exactly.
So what advice would you givesomeone who's just entering
spiritual work?
Hmm.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
To really not not make other people your guru,
your master.
We are our own masters.
Everything that we seek outsideof us is within us, and so
there's not like one specificway to do anything.
That's the journey of spirit.
It's like whatever lights youup is what is meant for you and
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just continue to follow that.
You know, like I just feel thatthis is such a unique
experience for everyone.
And your soul is your soul.
Own soul is the guide.
Soul is your soul, own soul isthe guide.
(22:01):
Yeah, it's, it's not necessarily, you know, um, a person.
It's like a person in form it's, it's like it's just there's so
much, I think, like to reallytry to quantify, like what is a
spiritual awakening.
It's when you can start toremember who you are and like
your own truth, and there'struth in so many, you know, in
so many layers.
We're constantly reminded of itlike nothing is a coincidence,
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nothing happens as a coincidence.
It's all purposely sprinkledinto your life.
I call them angel wings, right,um, where, like you know,
spirit's constantly trying toget our attention, and so just
follow those things, follow thebreadcrumbs, and once you do
that, like by remaining true toyourself, you can never go wrong
.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Right, all right, very good.
So what books do you recommend?
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Books like spiritual books.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Any books that have helped you along your journey,
that have guided you, supportedyou, encouraged you, enlightened
you, okay.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
I love Don Miguel Ruiz, the Four Agreements.
That book was given to me by mysister many years ago and I
make a point of listening tothat book at least once a year.
That is like a great you knowfor agreements to keep and make
with it.
Making keep with yourself.
Um, and I also got to meet hisson, jose, when I was living in
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Utah and just listening to himshare their shamanic uh culture
is just so enlightening andempowering.
I, being a poet, I love MarkNepo.
I've been reading the book ofawakening for years.
I actually share that with acurrent student of mine.
Like every morning is kind oflike our thing.
I'll just like screenshot itand send it to her and I've I
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really like to have that kind ofdevotional reading.
I feel like it's very importantto start your day like that.
What else I like?
A lot of art and music.
So for me it's like these daysI like a lot of audio.
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So Clarissa Estes-Pincola Imight be like transcribing that
name, but her books, the womenwho run with the wolves that her
storytelling was soenlightening for me and really
helpful when I was starting tojust like learn about my own
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inner strength and power andbeing told that like no,
everything you're experiencingis totally normal and you've
just been told to like behave acertain way and you really,
you're really just this wildessence and so go with that.
Um, I'm just trying to think of, like, some other books that
are on my uh, diana Cooper.
I've gotten into her books, um,about the dragon realm, cause I
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have dragon guides, and so Ifind her work to be really
enlightening and confirming umin so many ways.
Um, I just started reading abook by Carl Sagan, so like, I
mean, there's a lot of thingsthat inspire me.
Um, I have, uh, poetry books byBilly chapter.
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His work is is really beautiful.
It's about like inner, aboutinner strength, self-healing,
it's just beautiful.
I listen to a lot of poets andI have to throw in Gary Garcia
on a deadhead at my core.
So anything about, or by theGrateful Dead, I will consume,
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wonderful, wonderful.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
So what services do you offer?
Do you do classes, events,trainings?
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Well, I do mostly one-to-one sessions and they can
be over the phone or here in myoffice, in my home.
I do long distance ritualswhere I'll be like a long
distance energy session forsomebody, set based on an
intention.
I do tarot card readings.
I host a monthly live poetryevent in our yoga studio and
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that's every first Saturday ofthe month.
I do do trainings.
I do do trainings.
It's an eight-week journey withme and learning about the art
of shamanism and how to takeyour own magic and cultivate
that into your healing practice.
I create energy sprays.
I do that.
(26:38):
I'm pretty well-versed inchoosing crystals for people.
If I meet somebody and I know,I like say you know, you are a
desert rose, you are a tiger'seye um, that kind of goes hand
in hand with the energy spray,because I have to make those
right.
So, right, yeah, right, I doguided meditations.
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Um, yeah, I have a lot ofofferings.
Yeah, you can find me like on alot of platforms, like with my
meditations, yeah, I had ashaman tell me desert rose
actually not too long ago.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Probably why I'm talking about desert rose.
So if you're wondering why thatmight've popped into your head
Desert rose.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
And the light language is something that has
recently come in, actually onLionsgate in 23.
Light language started pouringout of my body and so on
Instagram and TikTok I'm nowdoing light language channelings
.
Very good Very good At thebeach.
So yeah, wonderful.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Where can we find you if we want to get a session or
a service that you provide?
Are you online in person?
How do we get in touch with you?
Speaker 2 (27:52):
The best way to get in touch with me is through my
blog, through my website,emotionalmusingscom.
I am very active on Instagram.
I post a lot of my stories.
I will record a lot of mypoetry and put that on social
media YouTube, tiktok, instagram, linkedin.
(28:13):
Yeah, I'm pretty easy to findand then, once you get on my
website, there's like links tobe able to reach out to me, like
through email.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
All right, wonderful, wonderful.
Well, this ends the first partof our journey and together I'm
going to guide you into the nextpart, which are questions from
energy worker students, reikistudents and listeners.
So here we go.
Number one can you tell me moreabout your brand?
Emotional musing?
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Emotional musings was born from me musing upon energy
and emotion, because, you know,emotions are just energy in
motion, and so the poetry for meis how I process the world,
it's how I understand life, andsomebody happened to just like a
(29:04):
random person that I connectedwith online said to me you, your
words are really lyrical, likewhen you send me messages, they,
they sound like a song.
Do you write poetry?
And I said, well, I do.
And she said you need to starta blog, like people need to
start like reading this.
And that was literally it.
It was like she was my humanguide to just like plant that
(29:26):
idea and I had no idea what ablog was, and so I started to
research it, I created it, andthat was it 2018, emotional
Musings was born, and, you know,at some point I'd love to turn
it into a book, because it is.
It documents my journey ofhealing.
You know my testimony of truth,and so I've got hundreds of
(29:46):
posts with like lots and lots ofmy poetry sprinkled in
throughout it.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
So that's what emotional musings is really.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
It's just like me.
It's me in words.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Right, right, Put it on your 2025 list to get it
together in a book Number two.
How has channeling poetrychanged your healing sessions?
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Well, like I said, the poetry came before the
healing.
And so when I started to reallylike build a session how that
wanted, how I wanted it to look,I was like, oh, I'm going to
start with my poem higher self,I'm going to start with this
mantra, and I just it all justnaturally landed right in the
(30:33):
beginning of session and then Ilike created a guided meditation
that connects my energy fieldto my client's energy field and
then boom, we're in and then wego from there.
So, yeah, I mean the poetry is.
It's really neat because when Icompile the manuscripts, I've
(30:53):
self-published six of my booksand I have six other ones that I
want to publish.
So when I put the manuscriptstogether and I read the poems,
I'm like huh, because they alljust come so quickly.
And so I feel like you know,depending on which ones and land
in the session, they become sopersonal to that person which
(31:15):
never ceases to just amaze me.
And I'm I always say, I'm nevernot in awe of this work that we
do and what we're told to sharewith people and how it touches
them.
So I feel that, like thesemessages are me just listening
to the divine, um, and that is,that is my, my, my mission here
(31:36):
is to just be a vessel fordivine messages.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Beautiful Number three.
When did your motto becometriumphing over trauma, and how
did this motto change thedirection of your business?
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Well, again, it all started before I became a
business, so I have alwayslooked at everything I do and
I've shared as me triumphingover the trauma that I've
experienced.
You know, I've like literallyexisted and survived hell,
anything that a human beingcould have experienced.
(32:14):
I have experienced and I'vewalked through it and I am here
to tell the tale of it.
So, yeah, I mean that's, that'sit Like?
Triumphing over trauma.
That is me in a nutshell, rightright.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Well, that is our last question and, as we've been
talking, is there anything elsethat you may have forgotten?
I know there's so many morelayers to you and you can take
this opportunity to share withour listeners anything that
you'd like.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
You can take this opportunity to share with our
listeners anything that you'dlike.
The floor is yours.
Oh my goodness, I am going toshare with you a poem that I
recently wrote called CosmicLove.
Stand with me on the startingline for where we're going.
There is no time.
Each rhyme reminds us of wherewe have been and where we are
now going.
(33:06):
Stand with me, united in thelight.
Hold my hand as we dancethrough the darkness of night.
The collective illusions areending.
Fear of one another packs theheart.
Useless energetics bending.
Love leads the way.
Harmonic tones begin blendingas our souls are ascending.
Psychic senses are mind bending.
(33:28):
Codes in our human, our soulsare ascending.
Psychic senses are mind bending.
Codes in our human dna strandsare mending.
Galactic connection ismulti-dimensionality, perfection
.
Body senses are heightened.
Detection, human beings,simulation and reflection,
transforming humanity'sconsciousness in a new direction
.
Welcome, warriors of the higherrealms.
Authority.
(33:48):
Unicorns, dragons and Pegasusare magical musings of gifted
prosperity.
Embrace what was once hiddenfrom a 3D reality.
The truth is spoken out of themouths of returning Aquarian
royalty.
The new golden era is upon us.
Timelines are collapsing.
Sacred essence of spirit.
(34:09):
Language speaks in tongueseternally bonded to source,
driven by a cosmic love.
Oh no, I lost you.
I lost you.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much for sharingthat.
That's beautiful, oh, thank you.
Thank you, and is thereanything else that you wanted to
add before we finish ourjourney together?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
I just want to share with listeners that your being
is exactly what this world needs.
So open your heart, open yourmind and share who you are with
the world.
Your unique essence is enoughand it's needed.
(35:03):
So enlighten and shadow alwayswith love.
Namaste.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Beautiful, beautiful, well.
Thank you, maria, for takingtime out of your very busy
schedule to be a part of thisReady Set Reiki journey.
I really appreciate it and it'sbeen wonderful to connect with
you.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Thank you, Tracy.
Thank you very much for havingme.
It's been wonderful.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Wonderful.
All right, my amazing listeners.
If you would like your questionfeatured on Ready Set Reiki,
reach out at wwwreadysetreikicom.
I'm Tracy Seawright and thishas been Ready Set Reiki.
Thank you you.
This is Ready Set Reiki, a podcast about Reiki,
the universal energy life force,from the curious beginner to
the seasoned master teacher,welcoming all systems, all
levels and all lineages.
Reiki is a journey and not adestination, and on this Ready
Set Reiki journey, I refer tomyself as a guide rather than a
host, as I too am traveling,supporting each other and
(00:39):
learning on this Reiki journeyas well, and, with that said, I
am your guide, tracy C Wright.
Today joining me is MariaTeresa Practico-Swanson.
Now she is a woman walking thejourney of life, guided by the
healing power of love.
She is practicing Master'sShamanic Healer and, under the
brand Emotional Musing, sheconducts her healing sessions in
(01:03):
person and long distance allover the world.
The poetry she channels is meantto inspire others on their own
personal healing journey andstands as a testimony of truth
by her motto Triumphing OverTrauma.
She has successfully overcometrauma and abuse, and addiction
(01:23):
to drugs and alcohol and aneating disorder.
She speaks to audiences of allages backgrounds as a spoken
word artist and a motivationalspeaker.
Her work in personaldevelopment and self-help can
serve anyone on the spiritualpath to a higher consciousness
and enlightenment of heart andsoul.
(01:44):
She is well-versed in holistichealth and understands the
importance of obtaining andmaintaining the mind, body and
spirit connection.
Welcome to Ready Set ReikiMaria.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Hello Tracy, it's so wonderful to be here.
I just love that music.
I'm like, ooh, I'm so entranced.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Wonderful, wonderful.
Well, let's begin this journeytogether.
So tell us a little bit aboutyourself.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Okay, well, I say that God sent me here with all
of my sense settings on high,and that was something that I
feel really set me apart when Iwas growing up, because I knew I
was different.
I just didn't know how tonecessarily articulate a lot of
this and it's taken me quitesome time to, I say, like learn
(02:36):
the gears of this vessel.
And when I had a spiritualawakening in 2019, my world has
never looked the same.
Since awakening in 2019, myworld has never looked the same
since.
So I've just had a lot of livesin this one lifetime here,
overcoming, like you said in mybio, a lot of abuse, a lot of
(02:57):
trauma, a lot of dysfunction,chaotic energy and really
learning myself and coming to aplace where my being is freeing.
That's one of the mantras I usequite often.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Beautiful, beautiful.
So in our journey today, youare a master, shamanic healer,
and with that, when did thiscome into your life?
When did healing work become apart of it?
Did it find you or did you findshamanic healing?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Well, I feel that nobody really says I'm going to
be a shaman.
That just is not how that works.
I believe that I have been ahealer in all of my lifetimes
and that was my journey was tolearn how to heal myself,
because I was doing this workjust in a really dangerous way.
(03:49):
So when I met my teacher andmentor, I was ready.
I happened to be unearthing thepit of my trauma, which was
being sexually abused, when Iwas a child.
And I was just scrollingthrough Instagram one day and I
see Lindsay Luna and her, herlittle, like you know advertised
(04:12):
post.
Um, talked about like a freeconsultation, and so I called
her.
We scheduled a session.
Um, it was over the phone andshe performed, uh, a soul
retrieval.
And my life has literally notlooked the same since.
That was just the mostbeautiful experience for me.
But prior to that I had been,you know, really immersed in my
(04:37):
own healing process.
I've been in and out ofhospitals, I've been on
psychiatric medications, I'vebeen in some kind of therapy
since I was a child.
So there's been a lot of thingsthat I did prior to really
being able to journey with mysoul and and be who I am today.
So it's taken a lot of, a lotof different modalities, a lot
(04:59):
of paths to get here, but I, youknow, I feel like this is doing
.
This work allows me to be me.
It's like when I first had myvery first session.
I said, oh my gosh, I've donethis before.
This is all so familiar and nowI understand why I am the way I
am.
You know, so it all made a lotof sense and it felt like coming
(05:21):
home coming home to myself.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah, yeah, it's amazing when you know people
start dipping their toe, so tospeak, into the spiritual
modality and they've come tofind that many of these things
they have been doing their wholelives and it seems so familiar,
but they finally have a namefor it.
I mean even working, you know,with symbols and certain hand
(05:46):
placements.
You could look back at yourlife and think like, oh, my
goodness, this is what I wasdoing before I even knew what
this word was, and it isabsolutely coming home so.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I'm glad you found.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
you're just right, you know, for everything that
you've gone through and thankyou for being so open and
transparent about your journey,because you know your strength
and your honesty and boldness isgoing to help someone out there
that's trying to find some typeof healing.
And and that you know nicely,goes into our next question
(06:21):
about misconceptions about ashamanic healer.
What are some misconceptionsyou find as you're navigating
through this world where thisspirituality is seen in such a
different light than what weknow it?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Okay.
So I like I've had a lot offunny things happen along this.
You know the last six years ofbeing a shaman.
There's a lot of interestingconnotations that come with it.
People ask me oh, do you liveon a reservation?
I say no no.
I'm a modern day shaman.
You know, I've been trainedthrough my guides in spirit, so
(07:00):
I wasn't trained by necessarilyan elder here.
A lot of my family has passedover.
My parents were both older whenthey had me, so my dad is in
spirit.
He actually passed over twoyears I mean, I'm sorry, two
months before I was anointed.
So I, you know, I just use likeeverything that is within me.
(07:21):
When you were talking aboutlike handsome, I am a dancer.
That's how I was trained.
So I have always been somebodywho moved and talked with their
hands.
I said to you before, like youknow, coming on here, I like to
sit in a rocking chair a lot.
I am a mover and a shaker and soI feel that, like a lot of
times, people you know seespiritual people as like really
(07:44):
quiet and sitting in meditationand it's like no fuck that.
No, like I, I am all of it.
I am like a multifacetedrainbow unicorn and so sure Like
I can be quiet and still andmeditate.
But I also love to dance, andthe channeling aspects of my
abilities, um, abilities comeswith, you know, the writing, and
(08:07):
that is something that's landedinto my sessions, which is
really unique.
So when people ask me, like,what is it like to have a
session with you?
And I go back to what myteacher has said to me Maria,
you're like drugs in human form,because it's like anything goes
.
You know, I've got music going.
I sing, I chant, I channel lightlanguage, I drop in poetry,
(08:30):
there's lots of crystals,there's things burning, it's
it's an experience within itselfand so, but that's really you
know people who know me well,that's what it's like to be with
me in general.
So I just bring everything I amto the table and we go on a
journey, and so it's likewhatever you're ready to explore
(08:53):
is what we explore, and it'ssuper gentle and it's very
profound, it's very deep.
It takes, you know, weeks,months, years to process and
it's an ongoing journey.
So you know, weeks, months,years to process and it's an
ongoing journey.
So, you know, I always say topeople like, lay there, be quiet
, just don't like rush yourself.
This takes a while to process.
(09:14):
And yeah, I mean I don't.
I just I'm so grateful for theability to be this intermediary,
to be this channel for thespirit realm, and I know that
that's what I was doing prior toknowing that's what I was doing
.
And it was dangerous.
It was dangerous because I wasopening myself to a lot that I
(09:37):
had to.
Yeah yeah.
So yeah, the misconceptions.
I mean, there's a lot of thingsLike you're maybe supposed to
like look a certain way, like Iam, I am very much an individual
, unique artist.
You know all of it.
I don't, I don't like stick toone, one label at all.
I feel like that's what most ofsociety wants to put us in.
(09:58):
But you know, even like youknow, growing, uh, growing up
like I never knew I was autistic, like I learned that as an
adult and it was like, oh okay,well, it makes sense because.
I'm so extrasensory and sothey'd have to like tag that on.
Yeah to, just to be able toexplain.
You know who I am and how Iprocess and I just that to me is
(10:22):
a is a a big misconception.
Right Right Right Labels ingeneral you know labels in
general.
Like I, I like to empowerpeople I work with to say like
you're not, you know, likesomebody who is an alcohol like
you're so much more than that.
You're more than all of theselabels that get put upon you.
(10:44):
You're love in human form.
That's who we are.
We're literally love in humanform, absolutely, and so it's
about like learning to justembrace that aspect of yourself
and just shine Right, right.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
That's what we're here to do is just shine in all
ways.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Instead of being dressed in head to toe and white
and you're carrying just a drumand that's your only tool.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Exactly, exactly, exactly dressed in head to toe
and white and you're carryingjust a drum and that's your only
, exactly, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
I love it and you're always loving like you know I
also I'm absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I mean like I am full of, you know, anger and shadow,
yeah, all of it like and.
I do wear white a lot.
I mean, it's like I do wearwhite, but I also like.
You see me right now and Idon't have my head wrapped, but
when I'm working I have my headwrapped.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Yeah, yeah, I might be in trouble because in my
wheelhouse it's all black, soand you know what, and that's
cool too, like that's.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
That's cool too I wear a lot of rainbow colors.
I live in.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Florida.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Yeah, I have a very like vibrant personality, so I
like to you know, wear a lot ofcolor to my hair.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I always tease.
I say that I'm like the JohnnyCash of yoga because I wear
black all the time.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I wear black a lot, too, when I'm in yoga.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Like that's another thing that I share.
I've been practicing yoga for 25years so yeah, when you
mentioned about you know notsitting down.
You know, and we talked earlierabout the synchronicities we
were already seeing I had justtold a client this morning.
I have a little yoga space, alittle intimate shala, and I had
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a reception desk there and itwas not too big.
But I decided one day, you knowwhat, I'm not sitting here, I'm
not behind the counter, I'm not, I'm always moving.
This needs to go.
And I took a picture.
It sold very, very quickly andmy client comes in and she's
like, oh, my goodness, whathappened?
Why did you do this?
I'm like you know what?
(12:38):
I'm always moving.
I said I'm not sitting down.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I.
I said I'm not sitting down.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
I'll meet you at the door anyway.
Yeah, and it was just amazinghow that piece of furniture
being removed opens so much up,and I'm like whoa, and I put a
little table there instead.
And so, yeah, and I'm like,okay, this is good, this is
going to work.
So I know what you mean aboutbeing still and not being that
type of one that has to be inone spot, always walking around,
(13:08):
always creating.
So very good.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Yes, because everything is energy.
Right, so that's another maybething that people tend to not
maybe understand.
But everything is energy and sowe're constantly these
energetic magnets and spongesand it's just all like this flow
constant.
I say it's like an energeticsoup that we live in.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
I just keep everything flowing Right.
So you're very well-versed inholistic health as a healer here
, helping many individuals,helping them maintain mind, body
and that spirit connection.
But what has been the biggestchallenge or struggle you have
faced in your own healingjourney?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Probably allowing myself to fully be me and to
shine.
Because in most of our liveshere as healers we were
persecuted, we were killed andthere's just been this feeling
of like, oh my gosh like andpeople have even said this to me
growing up like you're so much,like you're too much, and so I
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feel like that has beensomething to really empower me,
because I have turned pain,personal pain, into my power and
now I that doesn't you know.
It's like I know that I'm notmeant for everyone and not
everyone's meant for me, andthat's okay, because we all come
here with our own medicine andour medicine will find the right
(14:35):
people.
That need it.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Yeah, you'll find your tribe.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
You'll find your tribe.
So what do you wish youryounger self knew about healing
and shamanic work?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I'd say that, for me, patience has been one of my,
you know, focused intentions inlife.
I have a lot of fast movingenergy and I really have a hard
time sitting still.
So, yeah, it is taken as apractice for me to slow down, to
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rest, to see rest as beingproductive and knowing that
whatever is meant for me isnever going to pass me by.
It's going to find me, and so Idon't have to push so hard.
I feel like that's alsosomething I've really and that's
like, you know, a part of oursociety here like go, go, go, go
and do, do, do, do.
And I was a dancer, I'm anathlete, I've done a lot of
(15:39):
races and I'm a mother, you know.
So being busy is a thing, andso I would tell my younger self
to like slow down, slow down alittle bit more.
Yeah, now I would.
I would say that I mean I'm afree spirited person.
I've always been free spirited,yes, but I like, yeah, I think
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I would have told my youngerself to just like leave, slow
down, everything's going to cometo you.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Yeah, it's like that fast fire energy when I would
get like so.
In Reiki we have attunementsand then, like I have holy fire
Reiki with, that is called aplacement, and when I get those
experiences, placements andattunements, I end up falling
(16:33):
asleep during the experiencewhere others I have trained with
.
Well, they'll go on magicaljourneys, right, I mean, they
see Jesus and all these magicalthings.
And I'm one of the last peopleto share in the group because I
went out like spirits, like girl, you're going down for the
count because I'm always going,going, going, going down for the
(16:57):
count because I'm always going,going, going.
So but I know the second never,you know rests, and so it's
just interesting that becausethings are in my daily life are
so colorful and imaginative, Ijust took it as that was that
part, to slow down and relax.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
So well, I can relate to that too, because I mean you
touched on it exactly I havemostly fire energy.
I am a Sagittarian, sun andmoon, so I literally like, was
created to be at odds withmyself.
I'm a cancer rising, yeah, but Ido hold a lot of placements in
the fire signs, sure, so I'maware of that, and when spirit
(17:32):
really needs to tell mesomething, I will be dropped
right out, like I just bloop,transcend and I am quiet and
like sometimes I go, what justhappened?
But it's all I know.
I trust that it all went in asit was meant to.
I just maybe am not, you know,as aware as maybe I would be if
I'm dancing.
(17:54):
You know what I mean.
Right, right.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
So, when it's time for you to get an energetic
tune-up, what qualities do youlook for in an energy worker,
whether it's a shamanic or othermodalities you have explored?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Well, you know, to be honest with you, I'm really
incredibly careful with myenergetic field, and the only
person who's really worked on meis my own teacher.
We've known each other for overfive years and so she's the
only person I really trust withmy energetic field.
Recently I actually did havesome Reiki from a dear, dear
(18:32):
friend who is practicing Reiki,and so she's like learning to
like take her master, and so Ijust, you know, I felt
comfortable to do that, but thisis, you know, that's like years
into doing this.
Um.
I've actually done like somecolor healing.
This was years ago before I, Ilike, was really aware of my own
(18:52):
purpose.
Um, and really interesting, andI before that I did have Reiki.
Like the first, I guess, energyexperience was with somebody
who was a Reiki master, and myteacher is a Reiki master, so
she is, like you know, has bothshe is a shaman, she's a Reiki
master and I feel like that alltranslates and comes through in
(19:13):
her work Right, absolutely.
We all you know, we're all justdifferent.
We all have our own medicines.
Like I teach, I teach this pathand I tell my students like you
are going to do things the waythat you are going to do, that,
they're going to come throughyou very differently than they
come through me, because that isyour magic, so you need to,
like, cultivate your own magic.
(19:34):
Um, we're very differenthealers, she and I.
We do things very, verydifferently.
And that was the beauty of oflearning this, because she
always turned it on me and said,well, how do you see this,
maria?
And like, how are you going totap in and what is what are you
going to use?
And it just built like that andthat's.
You know, when I was looking atyou and I like, well, we were
(19:56):
going to talk about my writingactually came before the
shamanic healing.
So emotional musings was bornas a blog and me sharing my
poetry, and then it was like, oh, this is, these are like spells
, like this is, this isintentional, these are messages.
And then they all just startedfeeding themselves into
(20:17):
different sessions.
So, yeah, kind of amazing howall that happens.
Right, it's just oh right,right, yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Yeah, that's what I mean.
This is another, you know, um,similarity is.
You know, even from a child, itwas always in rhyming.
I was always rhyming, doingthings like that coming up.
So you know, as you stand backagain and look back at your life
, the little clues, the littlebreadcrumbs that show you, okay,
(20:44):
I'm going on a certain path.
Oh yeah, I do bring in littleand the poetry is set up as the
rhymes.
I can't stop, like I even my.
I wrote a children's book andthe whole book's in rhyme.
I can't stop Like I even my.
I wrote a children's book andthe whole book's in rhyme.
It was like years before I wasconnecting, you know, with Reiki
or even knew what it was.
It's part of who we are.
(21:04):
Exactly, exactly.
So what advice would you givesomeone who's just entering
spiritual work?
Hmm.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
To really not not make other people your guru,
your master.
We are our own masters.
Everything that we seek outsideof us is within us, and so
there's not like one specificway to do anything.
That's the journey of spirit.
It's like whatever lights youup is what is meant for you and
(21:40):
just continue to follow that.
You know, like I just feel thatthis is such a unique
experience for everyone.
And your soul is your soul.
Own soul is the guide.
Soul is your soul, own soul isthe guide.
(22:01):
Yeah, it's, it's not necessarily, you know, um, a person.
It's like a person in form it's, it's like it's just there's so
much, I think, like to reallytry to quantify, like what is a
spiritual awakening.
It's when you can start toremember who you are and like
your own truth, and there'struth in so many, you know, in
so many layers.
We're constantly reminded of itlike nothing is a coincidence,
(22:24):
nothing happens as a coincidence.
It's all purposely sprinkledinto your life.
I call them angel wings, right,um, where, like you know,
spirit's constantly trying toget our attention, and so just
follow those things, follow thebreadcrumbs, and once you do
that, like by remaining true toyourself, you can never go wrong
.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Right, all right, very good.
So what books do you recommend?
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Books like spiritual books.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Any books that have helped you along your journey,
that have guided you, supportedyou, encouraged you, enlightened
you, okay.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
I love Don Miguel Ruiz, the Four Agreements.
That book was given to me by mysister many years ago and I
make a point of listening tothat book at least once a year.
That is like a great you knowfor agreements to keep and make
with it.
Making keep with yourself.
Um, and I also got to meet hisson, jose, when I was living in
(23:28):
Utah and just listening to himshare their shamanic uh culture
is just so enlightening andempowering.
I, being a poet, I love MarkNepo.
I've been reading the book ofawakening for years.
I actually share that with acurrent student of mine.
Like every morning is kind oflike our thing.
I'll just like screenshot itand send it to her and I've I
(23:52):
really like to have that kind ofdevotional reading.
I feel like it's very importantto start your day like that.
What else I like?
A lot of art and music.
So for me it's like these daysI like a lot of audio.
(24:16):
So Clarissa Estes-Pincola Imight be like transcribing that
name, but her books, the womenwho run with the wolves that her
storytelling was soenlightening for me and really
helpful when I was starting tojust like learn about my own
(24:36):
inner strength and power andbeing told that like no,
everything you're experiencingis totally normal and you've
just been told to like behave acertain way and you really,
you're really just this wildessence and so go with that.
Um, I'm just trying to think of, like, some other books that
are on my uh, diana Cooper.
I've gotten into her books, um,about the dragon realm, cause I
(25:00):
have dragon guides, and so Ifind her work to be really
enlightening and confirming umin so many ways.
Um, I just started reading abook by Carl Sagan, so like, I
mean, there's a lot of thingsthat inspire me.
Um, I have, uh, poetry books byBilly chapter.
(25:20):
His work is is really beautiful.
It's about like inner, aboutinner strength, self-healing,
it's just beautiful.
I listen to a lot of poets andI have to throw in Gary Garcia
on a deadhead at my core.
So anything about, or by theGrateful Dead, I will consume,
(25:44):
wonderful, wonderful.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
So what services do you offer?
Do you do classes, events,trainings?
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Well, I do mostly one-to-one sessions and they can
be over the phone or here in myoffice, in my home.
I do long distance ritualswhere I'll be like a long
distance energy session forsomebody, set based on an
intention.
I do tarot card readings.
I host a monthly live poetryevent in our yoga studio and
(26:17):
that's every first Saturday ofthe month.
I do do trainings.
I do do trainings.
It's an eight-week journey withme and learning about the art
of shamanism and how to takeyour own magic and cultivate
that into your healing practice.
I create energy sprays.
I do that.
(26:38):
I'm pretty well-versed inchoosing crystals for people.
If I meet somebody and I know,I like say you know, you are a
desert rose, you are a tiger'seye um, that kind of goes hand
in hand with the energy spray,because I have to make those
right.
So, right, yeah, right, I doguided meditations.
(26:59):
Um, yeah, I have a lot ofofferings.
Yeah, you can find me like on alot of platforms, like with my
meditations, yeah, I had ashaman tell me desert rose
actually not too long ago.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Probably why I'm talking about desert rose.
So if you're wondering why thatmight've popped into your head
Desert rose.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
And the light language is something that has
recently come in, actually onLionsgate in 23.
Light language started pouringout of my body and so on
Instagram and TikTok I'm nowdoing light language channelings
.
Very good Very good At thebeach.
So yeah, wonderful.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Where can we find you if we want to get a session or
a service that you provide?
Are you online in person?
How do we get in touch with you?
Speaker 2 (27:52):
The best way to get in touch with me is through my
blog, through my website,emotionalmusingscom.
I am very active on Instagram.
I post a lot of my stories.
I will record a lot of mypoetry and put that on social
media YouTube, tiktok, instagram, linkedin.
(28:13):
Yeah, I'm pretty easy to findand then, once you get on my
website, there's like links tobe able to reach out to me, like
through email.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
All right, wonderful, wonderful.
Well, this ends the first partof our journey and together I'm
going to guide you into the nextpart, which are questions from
energy worker students, reikistudents and listeners.
So here we go.
Number one can you tell me moreabout your brand?
Emotional musing?
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Emotional musings was born from me musing upon energy
and emotion, because, you know,emotions are just energy in
motion, and so the poetry for meis how I process the world,
it's how I understand life, andsomebody happened to just like a
(29:04):
random person that I connectedwith online said to me you, your
words are really lyrical, likewhen you send me messages, they,
they sound like a song.
Do you write poetry?
And I said, well, I do.
And she said you need to starta blog, like people need to
start like reading this.
And that was literally it.
It was like she was my humanguide to just like plant that
(29:26):
idea and I had no idea what ablog was, and so I started to
research it, I created it, andthat was it 2018, emotional
Musings was born, and, you know,at some point I'd love to turn
it into a book, because it is.
It documents my journey ofhealing.
You know my testimony of truth,and so I've got hundreds of
(29:46):
posts with like lots and lots ofmy poetry sprinkled in
throughout it.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
So that's what emotional musings is really.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
It's just like me.
It's me in words.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Right, right, Put it on your 2025 list to get it
together in a book Number two.
How has channeling poetrychanged your healing sessions?
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Well, like I said, the poetry came before the
healing.
And so when I started to reallylike build a session how that
wanted, how I wanted it to look,I was like, oh, I'm going to
start with my poem higher self,I'm going to start with this
mantra, and I just it all justnaturally landed right in the
(30:33):
beginning of session and then Ilike created a guided meditation
that connects my energy fieldto my client's energy field and
then boom, we're in and then wego from there.
So, yeah, I mean the poetry is.
It's really neat because when Icompile the manuscripts, I've
(30:53):
self-published six of my booksand I have six other ones that I
want to publish.
So when I put the manuscriptstogether and I read the poems,
I'm like huh, because they alljust come so quickly.
And so I feel like you know,depending on which ones and land
in the session, they become sopersonal to that person which
(31:15):
never ceases to just amaze me.
And I'm I always say, I'm nevernot in awe of this work that we
do and what we're told to sharewith people and how it touches
them.
So I feel that, like thesemessages are me just listening
to the divine, um, and that is,that is my, my, my mission here
(31:36):
is to just be a vessel fordivine messages.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Beautiful Number three.
When did your motto becometriumphing over trauma, and how
did this motto change thedirection of your business?
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Well, again, it all started before I became a
business, so I have alwayslooked at everything I do and
I've shared as me triumphingover the trauma that I've
experienced.
You know, I've like literallyexisted and survived hell,
anything that a human beingcould have experienced.
(32:14):
I have experienced and I'vewalked through it and I am here
to tell the tale of it.
So, yeah, I mean that's, that'sit Like?
Triumphing over trauma.
That is me in a nutshell, rightright.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Well, that is our last question and, as we've been
talking, is there anything elsethat you may have forgotten?
I know there's so many morelayers to you and you can take
this opportunity to share withour listeners anything that
you'd like.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
You can take this opportunity to share with our
listeners anything that you'dlike.
The floor is yours.
Oh my goodness, I am going toshare with you a poem that I
recently wrote called CosmicLove.
Stand with me on the startingline for where we're going.
There is no time.
Each rhyme reminds us of wherewe have been and where we are
now going.
(33:06):
Stand with me, united in thelight.
Hold my hand as we dancethrough the darkness of night.
The collective illusions areending.
Fear of one another packs theheart.
Useless energetics bending.
Love leads the way.
Harmonic tones begin blendingas our souls are ascending.
Psychic senses are mind bending.
(33:28):
Codes in our human, our soulsare ascending.
Psychic senses are mind bending.
Codes in our human dna strandsare mending.
Galactic connection ismulti-dimensionality, perfection
.
Body senses are heightened.
Detection, human beings,simulation and reflection,
transforming humanity'sconsciousness in a new direction
.
Welcome, warriors of the higherrealms.
Authority.
(33:48):
Unicorns, dragons and Pegasusare magical musings of gifted
prosperity.
Embrace what was once hiddenfrom a 3D reality.
The truth is spoken out of themouths of returning Aquarian
royalty.
The new golden era is upon us.
Timelines are collapsing.
Sacred essence of spirit.
(34:09):
Language speaks in tongueseternally bonded to source,
driven by a cosmic love.
Oh no, I lost you.
I lost you.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much for sharingthat.
That's beautiful, oh, thank you.
Thank you, and is thereanything else that you wanted to
add before we finish ourjourney together?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
I just want to share with listeners that your being
is exactly what this world needs.
So open your heart, open yourmind and share who you are with
the world.
Your unique essence is enoughand it's needed.
(35:03):
So enlighten and shadow alwayswith love.
Namaste.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Beautiful, beautiful, well.
Thank you, maria, for takingtime out of your very busy
schedule to be a part of thisReady Set Reiki journey.
I really appreciate it and it'sbeen wonderful to connect with
you.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Thank you, Tracy.
Thank you very much for havingme.
It's been wonderful.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Wonderful.
All right, my amazing listeners.
If you would like your questionfeatured on Ready Set Reiki,
reach out at wwwreadysetreikicom.
I'm Tracy Seawright and thishas been Ready Set Reiki.
Thank you you.
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