Let’s Talk Spectrum

Air Date - 14 August 2024

I’ve had the pleasure of being around some of the most fascinating people in the world.

From 2 year-olds to some of the most brilliant creative successful adults in the world.

And so many of them have a unique gift that doesn’t fit the spectrum of business plans or business schools, isn’t practical, logical, or linear, and doesn’t fit the norm – for all of you out there searching to fit in – don’t. Your uniqueness is what creates success, joy, aliveness, and everything in between.

Especially for those of you who spent your lives trying to fit in a didn’t or for those of you who are raising amazing-spirited kids – listen up! This one is for you!!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Be bold, be brave, be extraordinary, be vulnerable, be real,
be curious, be true.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Be you.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Welcome to Trusting your gut with world class energy Intuitive
Katherine Macintosh, a show designed to awaken you to enjoy
the process of evolving, have fun along the way, and
learn to listen to those silent in between moments. You
are the expert of your own life and nobody knows
more about the next steps to take in your journey

(00:40):
than you, So please listen to your gut and discover
what's waiting for you to explore. Here is your host,
Katherine Macintosh.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
All Right, my magical friends, so welcome to today's show. As always,
we have interesting topics to talk about, and it's really
revolving around intuition, life and this crazy adventure we're all
on because it's pretty rare to have a human body

(01:14):
here living on the planet, and I think sometimes we
take it for granted, and so today I wanted to
kind of do a topic that may come across as
a little controversial. As always, I'm not a medic, I'm
not a doctor, I'm not a psychologist. I do have
training in some of those things, especially in psychology, but
this is really just my opinion, and so please take

(01:38):
the information as such and hopefully it contributes to you
wherever you are on your journey, wherever you are in
the world. So didn't to talk a little bit about spectrum, right,
And it could be a topic of controversy because of
the label that it's given. So when we say somebody's

(02:00):
on the spectrum, sometimes it's referred to as autism or aspergers,
or maybe somebody just doesn't quite fit the bill. It
could also be you've been diagnosed with add or ADHD. Right,
And here's sort of my own sort of philosophy on it,
and it's probably a conglomeration of a lot of things.

(02:22):
I've spent my life being fascinated by the human condition,
being fascinated by the mind body connection, being fascinated by
the psychology of what makes us tick. And every single
one of us is very different. For example, I wouldn't
label myself as autistic, but I definitely am on the spectrum,

(02:46):
especially when I'm doing my intuitive readings, when I'm channeling,
there's always this information that kind of comes at me,
especially when working with somebody or working with a group
of people. Never explain where the information is coming from.
But it's like I have this channel open, and it

(03:07):
allows me to see what somebody, never meeting them, never
seeing their face, not knowing what they look like, kind
of be able to pinpoint some of the things that
may be going on in their life or in their
childhood or their stock traumas, and I'm able to unlock it.

(03:28):
And so the spectrum is really just it's an ability.
And we've labeled people as if their label right, their
diagnosis is a hindrance or a problem, and the only
reason it's a hindrance is because they don't fit into

(03:50):
normal society in the way that they should. And so
kids get diagnosed all the time with ADD or ADHD,
and then they get put on medication when in fact
they're just not big fans of the way that our
current school system is operating. Because our current school system
tells a kid to be quiet, tells a kid to

(04:12):
sit still, tells a kid to pay attention, but pay
attention to one thing. And so most children have these
sort of optic capacities to broadband and receive a plethora
of information all at once, and if they're being told
they don't pay attention, well, the question we need to

(04:33):
be asking is what are they paying attention to? Are
they daydreaming, are they doodling, Are they, you know, sort
of fantasizing. Are they really smart in the world of energy,
but not so smart in the subject of math. Are
they really brilliant with colors or sounds, but maybe they're

(04:58):
not so good at geograph feet? Right? And so I
think that there's a different conversation that we need to
be having about not just children, but us as adults
in general. And we're so quick to throw a diagnosis
and throw a medication at it, right, And I think

(05:18):
that's also what creates a lot of diseases, is that
we're not allowing our sort of natural state, our magical world,
our miraculous energy.

Speaker 4 (05:30):
Right.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
So, if you think about it an elephant, you know,
I have an elephant tattoo, and people are always asking
me what's what's with the elephant? Like this weekend, I
was I was at a party on the East Coast
and you know, someone said, oh, are you a Republican?
I this one, No, definitely not. And so but I've

(05:55):
had a lot of people ask me because I have
an elephant tattoo, if I'm Republican. A lot of people go, oh,
you like elephants. Yes, So elephants are aware of up
to ten thousand miles around them at all times. Right,
maybe it's eight, it's eight to ten somewhere in there.
And so in two thousand and four, and I've given
this example several times, but in two thousand and four,

(06:15):
there was a tsunami that hit Indonesia, and three days
prior to the tsunami hitting the island, all of the
elephants went to high ground. Now, if the humans would
have gone, ooh, what did the elephants know that we don't,
a lot of more lives would have been saved because
the elephants, through their feet, could sense the vibration of

(06:41):
something coming. Whether or not they knew that it was
specifically a tsunami is yet to be determined, right, but
they did know having hair day issues, but they did
know that something was coming and to seek high ground, right,
pretty fascinating. And so I believe that as humans we

(07:02):
also have these sort of radars and these energetic capacities
to perceive frequencies, to perceive sounds, to perceive energies that
we can't yet explain. And so before I knew that
my body was so tapped into the energy of the

(07:23):
earth to the energy of people. Right, I would have
these anxiety or panic attacks, and then I'd find out
that the moment I was having the panic attack was
the exact time that there was an earthquake happening, or
there was a natural disaster happening, or there was war happening.

Speaker 4 (07:42):
Right.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
And so so often we have these sort of intangible
gifts that can't be seen, they don't fit into normal
societal rules and regulations, right, and then we want to
not only able and diagnose it, but our society has
been entrained to then put a medication with it. And

(08:08):
so when I was in my early teens, I was
going through a very hard time because it was a
time that I was coming into a deeper layer of
my sort of intuitive psychic you know, healing sort of
channeling gifts, but I didn't know it, and so I

(08:31):
was being bombarded with this information and I started to
get really angry and act out and lash out on
my family. So they sent me to psychotherapist. They you know,
they sent me to a psychiatrist, and the psychiatrist basically
said that I have a psychotic disorder that would probably

(08:54):
need medication for the rest of my life. And so,
at thirteen years old, this very sense at a very
in tune, very confused teenager who had no frame of
reference for what was happening to me, even though I'd
had it as a little girl. But when we sort
of increase our hormones when we go through puberty. I
didn't hit puberty until I was seventeen, but at thirteen

(09:17):
it started to happen. Right, The portal was kind of
coming in in a really massive way, and I had
no frame of reference for what was happening. So I
started to feel insecure. I started to have anxiety. I
started to have pretty intense anger outbursts, right, and I
would take it out on my family in the form

(09:38):
of yelling. Right, My brothers and I would get into fights.
It wasn't the best experience, and it created a pretty
toxic environment for all of us. And look, I wasn't
the only one, but all of us were going through
some form of something challenging, and none of us had

(09:58):
the tools to know how to deal with it outside
of going to a psychologist or a psychiatrist. Right, And look,
there's nothing wrong with seeking support in all forms, but
we want to make sure that the form that you're
seeking is supporting your gifts and supporting your brilliance instead

(10:22):
of suppressing it. Right. And so for all of you
out there that may be listening, right, and if you
are listening live, you are welcome to call in. You
can ask me any question, right, and I'll do my
best to sort of channel and answer for you. And
I always tell people you can, you know, to take

(10:44):
it with a grain of salt. Right, I'm still human.
I definitely make mistakes. I mess up my life pretty good.
But if you'd like to call in live and ask
me a question today, specifically about the energy of being
on the spectrum, and we're going to get into it
for any of you out there who are parents, for

(11:05):
any of you out there that work with kids on
a on a daily or weekly basis, right, But if
you want to call in live and ask a question
related to this topic, you can dial to zero two
five seven zero seven, zero five seven. I'll say it
again to zero two five seven zero seven, zero five seven,

(11:28):
and be happy to answer any question that you have
that you would like answered live right live. That's right.
So the point is is that you know, especially as parents,
so I just had the pleasure of meeting this two
and a half year old recently, and he reminded me

(11:48):
so much of my son, so much of my son,
and so, you know, I was having a conversation with
the mother and I was like, he's fine. He lives
on a different planet, he functions from a different place,
so he's a little late to speak, and my son,
I'll talk about my son. So my son didn't really

(12:11):
speak until he was three and a half or four,
And for the longest time, my son and I had
sort of this non verbal communication going on, so I
could hear his requests. He wanted to go outside, he
wanted to hug a tree, he wanted to lay in
the grass, he wanted to, you know, jump in the water.

(12:32):
He wanted milk or food. I kind of always knew
what my son needed before my son would ask for it,
and so he learned. You know, maybe by fault of mine,
but really I think it's a great I think one
of the greatest forms of communication that we need to

(12:54):
sort of teach in the school systems is the language
of land. Right. We're not taught, and yet kids come
in with this innate ability to speak right, energy it's
their primal form of communication, and so it might be auditory,

(13:15):
it might be it might be like with visual They're
constantly trying to communicate, and sometimes as adults, right, we
might be mute or not aware as to their form
of communication. And so my form of communication is the

(13:39):
world of energy. I've been able to travel around the world,
go to countries where I don't speak the language, and
I get along quite nicely. I am fluent in Spanish,
which helps in a lot of sort of Latin like
the Latin root languages. But I've gone to other countries
where I don't speak the language, but I speak energy,

(14:01):
and so I'm able to communicate, I'm able to get
what I want. I'm able to sort of function quite
well when when I'm traveling because my energetic field, it's
my sort of my natural and innate language, and it's
it's the language that I think that we all came

(14:22):
in with. But as we sort of age, as we
try to fit into the school systems, as we deal
with teachers and tons of kids, it's like that innate
capacity starts to get squashed, it starts to be made wrong.
Like my son is definitely like his genius is he's

(14:45):
physically intelligent with his body. Some people are energetically intelligent,
some people are emotionally intelligent, some people are school you know,
sort of facts intelligent. Some people A I like, we
all have these different gifts, and are we both as

(15:06):
adults and as parents, are we encouraging that in ourselves
and in our children? And so when my son started talking,
he would say the most fascinating things, right, And he
had no insecurities, no shame. Most children don't until they're

(15:28):
either have a serious trauma or it's kind of beaten
out of them through parenting or schooling. And so, you know,
when he started speaking, he would say the most fascinating things.
And I was like, where did you come from? And
he's like, Mommy, I told you, I came from the mountain.

(15:51):
And I would get these visions and visuals of literally
like my son coming out of the middle of a mountain, right,
and he was born entirely in the call. For those
of you that don't know what that is, the call
is when your amniotic fluid, your sack doesn't break, and

(16:14):
so you're still in that sort of sort of film
that they get carried in when they're in the womb.
Most people, it's called your water breaking, right, the water breaks,
the baby comes out. Sometimes they'll have like some of
the skin on their shoulder or over their head, which
is called a veil. And they're all psychic goments. Well

(16:34):
in Tibet, right, they look for children born entirely in
the call to make them the next Dali Lama. And
so I knew that my son was special. I knew
that he was special when he was in the womb
because we had these very vivid, visual, energetic exchanges. And
we'd have these conversations right that weren't necessarily verbal, right,

(17:00):
with physical words, but they were definitely auditory. I could,
I could sort of there were visual and it was
really fascinating, and my son would show me these images
of what he wanted his life to look like. And
I was like, and I remember looking at him at

(17:21):
my belly one day, I think it was like five
six seven months pregnant. I was like, you do realize
where we live, what I do for a living. If
you want that to be the vision of our life,
I'm going to need your help. And so oftentimes I
don't think that we invite our children right to help us, right,

(17:44):
I don't think that we invite the universe to help us,
Nature to help us, our animals to help us. But
as we sort of get off of labeling this energy
of being on the spectrum, some of the most brilliant
minds in the world, if they were to believe the diagnosis,

(18:07):
take the medication, they might stifle their genius. Einstein probably
on the spectrum, right, Thomas Edison probably on the spectrum, right.
And so it's not a bad thing to be on
the spectrum. It's when we try to fit in to

(18:28):
sidle norms that it becomes problematic. And then we start
seeing diseases, or we start seeing you know, mental disorders,
or we take you know, our kids to the doctor,
we take ourselves to the doctor, and then they diagnose
us with maybe add or ADHD or maybe r matarathritis.

(18:50):
Like I believe, a lot of diagnoses come from us
not living our natural state of existence. And I have
the pleasure of working with people all over the world
who are some of the most brilliant, fascinating minds, and
they all have a gift that could have easily been

(19:12):
squashed in childhood. But here's the deal is, I think
that we need to bring back the idea of daydreaming.
I think we need to bring back the idea of inspiration. Right. So,
in the book Think and Grow Rich, he talks about

(19:34):
that the biggest wealth creator in the world is imagination. Right,
And yet in a lot of school systems we are
not encouraging imagination. In a lot of corporate settings, we're
not encouraging imagination. And yet imagination is probably one of

(19:56):
the greatest vehicles towards personal success, right, towards life changing
ideas that could support the planet. Right, there's some kids,
these brilliant kids that are coming up at twelve eleven, twelve,
thirteen years old, they're coming up with these incredible ideas

(20:20):
on how to make our planet better, to make our
world better. And I believe that now more than ever,
we need to encourage our own imagination as well as
the imagination of our children. And so when your child
gravitates towards right, for example, video games, they might be

(20:44):
a programmer. And so we're so get off the screen,
graph screen. I'm not promoting that a kid should sit
on a screen for ten hours a day. If my
son does too much screen time, he gets grumpy, and
we set a boundary right, no screen time during the
school week, right, No Xbox for sure, but he is

(21:05):
allowed to use his screen to watch things that he's
fascinated by and topics because Google and YouTube are amazing
resources where we can encourage our kids to develop their
imagination instead of try to fit into the societal norm. Right,

(21:28):
And so I think it would be fascinating. I haven't
really been involved in it, but what if we brought
back like what do you want to be when you
grow up? And it's more like what do you want
to be now?

Speaker 2 (21:41):
Right?

Speaker 3 (21:41):
Most children, when they're two or three, they wouldn't say
they want to be an attorney. Now, maybe someone does.
Some two and three year olds know they want to
be singers, they know they want to be dancers, right,
They just do it because they absolutely love it. My
son was basically came out of the womb physically adept

(22:03):
with his body and ways that we're quite surprising. And
so one of I think the greatest tools that you
can give yourself and you can give your children is
this idea and this concept of be aware. So instead
of be careful, be safe, right, be aware because awareness

(22:28):
is the greatest tool that allows us to keep our
sensors open, so we can keep our channel for imagination,
for inspiration, for our brilliance, for our gifts, and for
our greatest form of communication, which is in the language
of energy. Right, And so you want to invite yourself,

(22:51):
I like to be aware where where do you gravitate
your energy? For me, it's the human condition, right, Fascinated
my body, human condition. I'm fascinated like when I travel.
I was just on several planes in the last week,
and I'm just fascinated by striking up conversations and being

(23:17):
curious about what people do for a living. And I
am always shocked at people's sort of career paths, at
their jobs, and I ask, how did they come about that?

Speaker 2 (23:29):
Right?

Speaker 3 (23:30):
And when somebody is doing something that they absolutely love,
the way that they most likely came about it is
that they followed their innate wisdom, They followed their intuition,
they followed their imagination, and they followed sort of the expansion.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
Right.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
So there's always when we're going towards things that make
us come alive, there's this moment of expansion and all
of us pay attention to it. We just might not
label it. And so it's about being curious about what
your children gravitate to when they are on their screen time, right,

(24:14):
What are they watching, what are they scrolling? And maybe
help them sort of guide them into places where they
come alive, right, instead of places where they start to
contract their energy. Same for adults. Maybe you're watching a

(24:35):
movie and your energy starts to contract, turn it off, right.
Maybe you're watching a Netflix series and your energy starts
to contract, Turn it off. Go towards the people, the conversations,
the lifestyle, right, the magic in what your energy starts

(24:58):
to expand.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
Right.

Speaker 3 (25:01):
And so sometimes we can get obsessed with material possessions,
We can get obsessed with the status, right, we can
get obsessed with you know, cars or homes or clothes
or purses or you know, brand names or whatever it is.
But what happens if you start to pay attention to

(25:24):
are is your energy expanded around this topic, around this person,
around this group of people. Where does your energy and
your fascination and your mind go to That expands your world.
Because what happens is if we don't sort of actively

(25:46):
pursue the curiosity of where our energy expands, we by
default will put our attention to where our energy contracts. Right.
And that could be stress. It could be anxiety, it
could be weight, it could be a diagnosis that you're
trying to fight or change what happens if your body

(26:12):
is just trying to give you the signal that you
are in a contracted state instead of expanded state. And
so these children and adults that function from a different
set of energetic principles, right, they don't want to regurgitate

(26:32):
certain geography or they don't want to regurgitate certain math.
Now I'm not saying that people don't need these skills,
but encourage the skills that they love, and then give
them skills they need. So when my son was three
and a half, four, four and a half five, right,

(26:54):
people are like, oh, my god, he has a speech
problem we had and I was like, no, he doesn't.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
Right.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
It was very adamant. Now, he did develop a little
bit of a lisp. He had a hard time with
thhs and sp and you know other my pH he
had a hard time with those. But and we did
put him in speech therapy and they just encourage him.

(27:21):
And now my son, you know, is pretty good with
his words. But he definitely has a way of being
in the world that doesn't necessarily fit into the way
that schools are educating him right. And that's not a
cut on his teachers. It's just an observation that if

(27:46):
your kids are in a regular school system, you want
to take the time outside of that school system to
encourage them to be their guide, to witness where they
expand their energy, where they get curious, where they get excited,
where they spend their time right, and encourage it every

(28:10):
step of the way. At a conversation with someone or
the weekend, and they basically said, you know, I believe
that I got to where I got to because at
a very young age, my mother said, you can do
anything you put your mind to. If you believe it,
you can make it happen. And I believe that we

(28:35):
need to start as a whole encouraging belief, encouraging right,
trusting in yourself, encouraging sort of the mental capacity, because
it doesn't matter where you are in the world, what
you do for a living, who you are, right, whether

(28:56):
you're a household name or not. Every single person that
I've ever come across has some insecurity, and that's not
a wrongness. We're taught to get rid of the insecurity,
but the truth is you might not ever be able
to get rid of the insecurity. What you want to

(29:16):
do is change your relationship to the insecurity. Right, So
recognize when that insecurity arises, you're prepared with tools to
seek the expanded energy of possibility instead of focus your
contracted energy on the insecurity. Right. Because what we do

(29:39):
we go, oh my god, that's my security. Let me
go to the therapist.

Speaker 4 (29:42):
Right.

Speaker 3 (29:43):
Oh there's my insecurity. Let me call my mom or
my best friend. Well, there's my insecurity. Let me hide
in a hole and eat bond bonds to deal with
my anxiety around my insecurity. Right. And that sort of
method of focusing your energy in the contracted space, or

(30:04):
focusing your attention on contracted energy, it sets us up
for mediocrity, It sets us up for failure. It sets
our kids up for failure. Right, they're saying that now
more than ever, kids aren't not that great at spelling.
Why because the phones do it for them, right, Because

(30:27):
chat GPT does it for you.

Speaker 4 (30:30):
Right.

Speaker 3 (30:31):
And so there's basic life skills that are being compromised
because of technology. Right. And yet look, I'm all for technology,
I'm all for AI, and yet we want to encourage right,
the expanded places, not just focus all of our energy

(30:54):
on the contracted places. So we're going to take a
quick break, will come back with more on this topic.
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All right, so, welcome back to the show. We are
talking about I think a topic that is probably affects
more of us than we know, and it's about being
on the spectrum right or just the spectrum in general.
And I truly believe that if you or anyone you

(34:28):
know has been labeled, it's actually a really big gift.
But what happens is when we label it, when we
diagnose it, when we throw medication at it, what we're
telling somebody intrinsically in their world is that who they
are as a being isn't enough. But the truth is
that people sort of on the spectrum this also includes

(34:51):
add ADHD is that we try to tell them that
they don't fit. And so if they start to intrinsic
internalize that they don't fit, that they're not like anyone else,
it starts to create their self esteem suffering. And when
somebody self esteem suffers, guess what their sense of I

(35:13):
am starts to suffer. Maybe there, you know, their bones
might start to not be as strong, they might feel
insecure about standing up for themselves. Maybe they have thyroid issues. Right,
A lot of people and women in particular, but men

(35:33):
as well, who deal with with thyroid issues. I believe
one of the root causes is a severe lack of
self esteem, lack of confidence in themselves, feeling like they're
not enough. And I deal with a lot of women
who struggle with weight and have been diagnosed with thyroid issues.

(35:53):
But in reality, when we start to work with the
root cause, which is self esteem, which is sense of self,
which is security, which is also awareness and knowing thyself
a member, because we don't want to contract our energy
and make ourselves small, which then creates panic attacks, creates stress,

(36:16):
creates anxiety puts our nervous system in fight or flight,
which also affects digestion. And when your digestion is compromised,
your sense of self and who you are in the
world can also start to get depleted or diminished or suffer. Right,

(36:37):
And so for all of you out there listening, you
are not wrong. There is nothing wrong with you. Right,
there's no problem to solve about you, and there's nothing
to fix. What we need to start paying attention to
is how do we encourage the genius, How do we
encourage the gifts? How do we encourage and get back

(36:59):
to the imagination. Right, We were not born to fit in, Right,
we were not born to make ourselves less than by
comparing right by contrasting, we were meant to celebrate everybody's
unique gift. And if we start to sort of encourage

(37:22):
those people right that are on not fitting the norm
right as society likes to call it on the spectrum,
if we started to encourage it, I believe that we
would have a better planet, a more sustainable planet. I
believe that far less people would suffer. I believe that

(37:44):
we'd have far less medications. But you know the big pharma, right,
the pharmaceutical companies, they like they like when people are
suffering because they make more money. Right, And so for
all of you out there, if you have a diagnosis,

(38:05):
that is totally fine, but filter it through your own awareness,
filter it through your own intuitive system. Does the diagnosis
does it expand your energy or does it contract?

Speaker 2 (38:20):
It?

Speaker 3 (38:20):
Right, most people when they get a diagnosis, their energy contracts.
And so what we want to start to look at,
if we truly are going to live longer, live healthier,
and live more vibrant, more connected, more sort of aligned
with ourselves and with our genius, we need to start

(38:43):
encouraging this conversation around what expands your energy? And most people,
if you get them out in nature for more than
a day, or if you get them out in nature
for a couple hours, their energy changes. Their nervous system
starts to regulate, the parasympathetic nervous system starts to relax.

(39:08):
And when we are walking around in a relaxed state,
we're more open to our energetic awareness. We're more receptive
to the messages and the signal. So next time you
want to have a panic attack, you go, oh, what
is my body aware of? And you might still have

(39:28):
a panic attack, but then you can take the pressure
off of assuming that it's a problem, that it's a
wrongness now my body when there are natural disasters, once
in a while, it'll shake, it'll shudder, it'll go through something.
And most of the time I'm like, Oh, something's happening

(39:50):
on the planet, something's happening in our government, some war, right,
And this excuse me isn't because isn't always for like,
I'm not necessarily always connected to every place on the planet,
where I believe that every individual has certain geographical places

(40:14):
in the world in which they have an energetic connection,
and that energetic connection might be a past lifetime that
you need to release out of your body, that energetic
connection might be just a knowing or a genius or brilliant.
So a couple of years ago, I had the pleasure

(40:34):
of being in Budapest, one of my favorite cities in
the world, and I was told that in Budapest, in
this particular region outside of Budapest, was this heart center, right,
And I went there and I was thinking, Oh, yeah,
it's gonna be so light and open, and it was.

(40:58):
There was a little bit of a darkness there. There
was a little bit of an energy where I had
probably been in that land on that land at a
different time period, in a different lifetime. And so sometimes
our bodies, when we fly and travel to different places,
we have different physical or energetic responses to that place

(41:21):
in the world. Right. When I used to go to Rome,
I used to get really puffy and swollen, because my
body knows that if it gains weight, if it hangs
onto inflammation or water weight, right, or gets puffy, it
gets my attention immediately because I don't like that feeling, right,

(41:45):
And so there were times I was going to Rome
two to three times a year, and every time I
would go, my body would get bigger before I would go.
And we're talking like one time. It was like the
day before leaving, and I'm trying on all my clothes
and all of a sudden, my baggy loose clothes are

(42:05):
really tight. I have no room all a ate that
day was like an apple and some cheese, right, so
no reason to be completely inflamed or hang on to
a bunch of water weight. But yeah, my body was
giving me a signal that I needed to pay attention to.
And I called a friend and I was able to

(42:28):
recognize and sort of put the pieces of the puzzle
together and go, oh my gosh. Every time I got
a Rome, my body does this. Okay, let's get curious
about it. Let's be you know, educated and informed and
curious instead of this is the answer. And so I
had this and I'm even getting goosebums telling this story.

(42:51):
I had this really profound experience and profound awakening that
I was supposed to do something specifically and Rome specifically,
at a at like an institution right at that sort
of a famous iconic place that people go visit when

(43:12):
they go to Rome. And I went and I got
a ton of downloads. I got a ton of information,
but was also able to release some stuck energies some
past lifetimes. Now I didn't need to know exactly what
they were. I just needed to like let the density

(43:34):
of the thickness in my body go. And after I
did that, my body calmed down and went back to
its normal size within a day. So we're talking in
a day, my body the equivalent of gaining ten pounds,
and then in a day the equivalent of losing ten pounds.
And so when your body isn't losing weight, it doesn't

(43:57):
feel like you're connected to it. It's probably not because
it's about food necessarily, but because it's about what the
language of energy, the language of being aware, and the
curiosity of tapping into sort of an invisible, unseen, sometimes

(44:20):
unspoken world. You know, sometimes I feel like speak a
different language because my form of communicating is an energy.
And so people always like, well, do follow up politics
and you know what's happening in the world. And yes,
I get aware of certain things when I need to,
when I want to, when I'm curious for my own

(44:41):
and informative, you know, I want to inform myself. But
I kind of my sort of genius is tapping into
topics right that I get curious about that fascinate me
and then downloading the information. I didn't study, right, I

(45:04):
didn't spend years in university around certain topics. I just
got curious and I started to open up the channel. So,
if you're on the spectrum, if you have a kid
that's on the spectrum, you want to invite yourself to
open up your own channel of curiosity, right, so you

(45:26):
can inform yourself, educate yourself. You want to encourage your
child's right. So, my son is going in the sixth
grade and he's got a law of school work this
year that he is not looking forward to, and I
am going to do my best as his mother to
encourage right thought about homeschooling. But he thrives on connection.

(45:50):
He thrives on the sports that they offer. He thrives on,
you know, interactions that he gets skined. He thrives in
Jimmy thrives and Arty thrives in music. And so you
want to be aware of where are if you do
have children, if you work with children, where are they

(46:14):
being drawn to, right, where is their connection and their
aliveness and their excitement, and then sort of educate them,
encourage them to go down a path that maybe no
one else can see that excites them, right, maybe get curious, right,

(46:34):
ask them some questions. Where they spend their time daydreaming,
if they could wave a magic wand what would they
want their future to look and feel like? Where in
the planet would they like to live?

Speaker 2 (46:46):
Right?

Speaker 3 (46:47):
What sort of people do they want to hang around with?
Much more, you'll get much more information out of your
children and out of yourself and out of the people
in your life that you adore or by asking those questions,
not necessarily what do you want to do? Right, but

(47:08):
more like where do you spend your energy? So I
was talking with someone who is in her mid twenties.
She's feeling a little aimless and a little lost about
what to do next. Right, She's also dealing with some
life circumstances. But I just had this conversation with her
and I was like, and I just said, what would you?

(47:28):
And this is a question you can ask all of
your kids, you can ask yourself, especially for those of
you who are like I wonder how I could make money.
I wonder if I could start my own business. I
wonder what I could sort of do as a career
if you could, right, if what would you spend right?

(47:49):
All day long doing for free. And when you do it,
time disappears. When you do it, you forget, you're hungry.
When you do it, like things start to open up
in your world. What would you do all day long
for free? And when you start to get curious about it,
it will begin to give you information about the next path.

(48:12):
So to recap some of the things that you can
do is if you could spend all day long right
doing what you love for free, right, time disappears, you forget,
like you're hungry. Right, what would you do right? Some
people say, well, I would hang out with this person.

(48:33):
I'm like, great, spend more time with that person. I
was talking to someone this weekend. They're like, yeah, when
I'm with this person, it's like time disappears. And it
wasn't a romantic relationship. It was sort of a business relationship.
And they're like, time disappears. It's like we could go
days and not look at the clock, and it's like that.

(48:56):
That is where I believe that we need to be
sort of incurg uraging both ourselves and others to spend time.
And I think that our bodies would get healthier, our
digestion would improve, our nervous system would be more calm
and more regulated. And when our nervous system is common regulated,

(49:17):
what it reduces stress, It reduces cortisol pump, it reduces
the adrenaline pump. Right, It releases trap trauma, It can
reallyase stuck emotions. There's so many benefits. And so for
all of you out there that might be pretty quick
to label or diagnose, I want to encourage you instead,

(49:39):
maybe ask a question, right, So inviting you and your
children to be aware, right, inviting yourself to seek what
expands and kind of move away from what contracts your energy, right,
and see what is available to you when you start

(50:01):
to pay attention to how things make you feel. Right.
And So I was watching a TV program and the
guy kept going, I have ADHD. It was like a
reality TV show, right, I have ADHD. And you could
see his You know, this grown man, very adept, very smart,

(50:26):
very brilliant, but not necessarily brilliant in a way that
this society sort of puts a metal on or a
ribbon on, or gives a trophy to a different kind
of brilliance. And you could see his shame, you could
see his insecurity. Guess what that affects his relationships that
affects his self esteem to encourage his imagination. So he

(50:50):
has this and look, I'm just reading his energy, right,
I was reading his energy. It's like, Wow, this man
has such an incredible imagination. And guess what, he gets
overwhelmed in crowds. Right, he doesn't like big social interactions.
He loves one on one. But these are clues that

(51:11):
if you're somebody who doesn't like a lot of social interaction,
it drains you. Might you might have a gift or
capacity that you might be making wrong. Right, if you
are an introvert, if you don't like big crowds, if
they do drain you, if you get anxiety and you

(51:33):
notice you start to shut down, or your fight or
flight nervous system goes smoke alarm goes off, right, ringing
the bell like a bear's chasing you. When that's happening,
we can't be our best selves. We can't receiver intuition,
we can't allow that broad spectrum of energy and information

(51:54):
to come our way. So next time, perhaps you will
start to look at this differently, you start to be
curious about it, and you'll start to notice that there's
a different world out there. So for anyone listening, you know,
you can go to my website for just poke around.

(52:16):
I've got tons of interesting content. But if you would
like a free download on some nervous system regulating movements
that you can do by yourself. You can teach your
kids this, you can bring it into the classroom. This
will help people relax. And when people are relaxed, they're

(52:39):
more apt to live in their genius, be open to
the world around them, and one by one we can
change the planet. So I just want to thank you
for listening. If this conversation inspired you, if you would
like more, you know, please send us an email, leave
us a comment, go visit the website, reach out in

(53:02):
any way you'd like to, and I look forward to
seeing you next time. Bye for now, and I hope
you all have a magical, magical, magical day. So website
Katherine macintosh dot com. Free download and we'll see you
next time.

Speaker 1 (53:23):
Catherine is not a medical practitioner nor a licensed therapist.
She has strong opinions and will express them and truly
believes that you are your best advocate for any and
every area of your life. If you need medical advice,
please consult your physician