WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.840 --> 00:00:04.719 Hi there. It's Will, host and producer of the Skeptic Motipositions. Our 2 00:00:04.759 --> 00:00:08.439 show is proud to be a part of the Ethereal Network of Shows, a 3 00:00:08.480 --> 00:00:13.560 group of people that have banded together so that collectively we can amplify our individual 4 00:00:13.640 --> 00:00:18.079 voices in the hopes of raising the vibration of the planet. Now, from 5 00:00:18.079 --> 00:00:20.960 time to time, we'll be releasing episodes of some of our sisters shows here 6 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:24.839 on our feed as bonus episodes in the hopes that you will enjoy them as 7 00:00:24.920 --> 00:00:28.079 much as we do. If you do enjoy them, we hope that you'll 8 00:00:28.079 --> 00:00:32.320 also consider subscribing to their shows as well. The more we align ourselves with 9 00:00:32.399 --> 00:00:37.600 like minded people, shows and energies, the Quicker will collectively help raise the 10 00:00:37.640 --> 00:00:44.920 consciousness of the world. That when you are starting to do spirit baby communication, 11 00:00:45.479 --> 00:00:51.439 it's really difficult to start with connecting with your own babies in a really 12 00:00:51.960 --> 00:01:00.079 deep way because there's emotional there's an emotional tie, intense emotion to your babies, 13 00:01:02.399 --> 00:01:07.840 and so when there's heightened emotion, the access to intuition isn't as strong. 14 00:01:07.480 --> 00:01:14.640 Intuition is not emotional at all, it just feels like fact. And 15 00:01:14.680 --> 00:01:19.640 so when you are highly emotional, it's pretty difficult to connect with the other 16 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:26.079 side. Welcome to the Reluctant Medium, where we cover the gamut of out 17 00:01:26.120 --> 00:01:30.640 their conversations with an open mind and a curious heart. We want to talk 18 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:36.200 about it all, from psychic phenomenon and energy medicine, to beings from other 19 00:01:36.239 --> 00:01:41.280 star systems and out of body experiences. You'll find a great balance between grounded 20 00:01:41.319 --> 00:01:45.120 science, back topics, and others that science hasn't quite caught up to yet. 21 00:01:45.760 --> 00:01:49.879 I'm your host, doctor Maria Rothenberger, a psychotherapist by trade and a 22 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:53.079 reluctant spirit baby communicator. And hey, even though I'm a medium, I'm 23 00:01:53.120 --> 00:01:57.319 not buying everything folks are selling. I just have a voracious appetite to know 24 00:01:57.480 --> 00:02:00.959 more about what I call the world. Are the Weird? 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Hundreds of like minded souls were growing and expanding their consciousness at 34 00:02:43.240 --> 00:02:50.599 Skeptic metapysition dot com discovered the Skeptic Metaphysician, your new metaphysical obsession. Hey 35 00:02:50.680 --> 00:02:55.759 everyone, doctor Maria here, Welcome to the Reluctant Medium podcast. It's been 36 00:02:55.800 --> 00:03:00.879 a bit since I've done a solo cast for you, but here I am, 37 00:03:00.919 --> 00:03:06.240 and for the next several weeks it'll just be you and I because we 38 00:03:06.319 --> 00:03:09.960 are going to be talking about spirit baby stuff, which is my specialty. 39 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:17.360 I have gotten to interview some beautiful souls recently and they just keep coming with 40 00:03:19.000 --> 00:03:23.039 topics that I have no expertise in, and I just can't wait to dig 41 00:03:23.639 --> 00:03:31.159 more and more and more into these esoteric topics like galactic things and star seeds 42 00:03:31.199 --> 00:03:38.319 and spirit baby star seeds and the future of wellness and it's crazy energy medicine, 43 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:43.919 Like it's amazing the stuff that's out there to learn, and so I've 44 00:03:43.960 --> 00:03:47.879 been lucky enough to interview a lot of folks. Already more are on the 45 00:03:47.919 --> 00:03:52.840 horizon, but I thought for now, I'm going to take a quick break 46 00:03:52.879 --> 00:03:59.879 from that over the next few weeks and teach you about some tools for communicating 47 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:05.159 with the spirit baby realm. This is such a topic near and dear to 48 00:04:05.199 --> 00:04:15.199 my heart because I find that it is my pleasure and my duty to teach 49 00:04:15.240 --> 00:04:18.959 people to do what I do, because I feel like we are all psychic 50 00:04:19.079 --> 00:04:26.920 to a degree or just educated out of it. And you might not be 51 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:31.920 like the equivalent of Mozart, like a prodigy psychic medium like I'm not, 52 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:38.360 but you know, we all have varying degrees of psychic awareness and may as 53 00:04:38.399 --> 00:04:45.439 well learn some tools to begin doing this now, whether you would like to 54 00:04:45.759 --> 00:04:50.560 communicate with your own spirit babies or the babies of others, the tools are 55 00:04:51.279 --> 00:04:57.519 the same that I'm going to be talking about. So quickly, though, 56 00:04:57.800 --> 00:05:00.959 let's check in with what's happening with the reluctant medium. I've not done that 57 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:05.480 in so long, Oh my gosh, checking in with you if you haven't 58 00:05:05.480 --> 00:05:12.560 already. I still have the Miracles happen community. That's from my previous podcast, 59 00:05:12.600 --> 00:05:18.279 the Miracles Happen Fertility Podcast. We talk heavily about spiritual stuff, a 60 00:05:18.319 --> 00:05:25.160 lot of spirit baby realm stuff. So head on over to Miracles Happen community 61 00:05:25.240 --> 00:05:33.480 dot com or download the Mighty Networks app and search for the Miracles Happen Community 62 00:05:33.920 --> 00:05:40.480 and join. It's free, free, yep, free, go join. 63 00:05:40.839 --> 00:05:45.360 We're having fantastic conversations over there. And every month, the first Friday of 64 00:05:45.439 --> 00:05:50.240 every month we have a live Q and a alive meet and great and I 65 00:05:50.279 --> 00:05:56.560 do mini readings during that meetup too, so and it's free, my God, 66 00:05:56.800 --> 00:05:59.639 Like what's free in this world anymore? Right? Come on, come 67 00:05:59.639 --> 00:06:04.120 on and join us. That's still happening the Reluctant Medium. I still have 68 00:06:04.600 --> 00:06:11.680 lots of interviewees on tap for you. I am curious what you would like 69 00:06:11.759 --> 00:06:18.240 to know about. Email me please at info at doctor Maria Rothenburger dot com 70 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:26.160 or Maria at the Reluctant Medium dot us. I would love to hear from 71 00:06:26.199 --> 00:06:30.959 you. I would love your suggestions, topics you're curious about, praise, 72 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:34.160 feedback, thumbs down, thumbs up, whatever you want to tell me, 73 00:06:34.879 --> 00:06:39.199 I'm open to hearing it. I love it all. Thank you. In 74 00:06:39.439 --> 00:06:46.040 advance. All right, So today we're going to start a series on spirit 75 00:06:46.040 --> 00:06:54.839 baby communication, and I want to address first the fears that people have usually 76 00:06:55.360 --> 00:07:00.199 around first learning these skills. And I understand it. I understand you're opening 77 00:07:00.199 --> 00:07:04.079 yourself up to a completely different world, which can be disconcerting at times. 78 00:07:04.399 --> 00:07:12.480 Right, So let's talk about that. The very biggest concern that I get 79 00:07:12.519 --> 00:07:18.639 from people is what if I open up to the other side and I'm met 80 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:25.480 with some crazy evil thing? What do I do? Okay, there are 81 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:29.439 two things I want to say about this, and the very first thing is 82 00:07:30.879 --> 00:07:38.480 before doing any kind of work with spiritual stuff, you always want to protect 83 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:43.879 yourself. So you're going to create a ceremony of sorts, a meditation, 84 00:07:44.160 --> 00:07:50.480 a practice of some kind to protect yourself. I personally use crystals, and 85 00:07:50.600 --> 00:07:59.000 I communicate with my guides and angels, and I visualize a dome of light 86 00:07:59.439 --> 00:08:03.800 protecting me and my space, my loved ones, my animals because they work 87 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:11.160 with me too, and that is usually the trick for me. I will 88 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:16.879 be talking about crystals and things like this in the future in this series, 89 00:08:16.920 --> 00:08:22.600 so we'll be talking more about that. But there needs to be some kind 90 00:08:22.600 --> 00:08:26.639 of practice in advance of your work. That is protective. You must, 91 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:30.879 must, must practice. Even if you get here's one crystal, we can 92 00:08:30.920 --> 00:08:39.320 start with a selenite wand or even a selenite stick that purifies the energy around 93 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:45.840 you. Just move it through your aura and that will at least cleanse your 94 00:08:45.879 --> 00:08:50.440 aura and get the get your energy clear. But I'd like to protect my 95 00:08:50.559 --> 00:08:58.159 space as well, so I would recommend saging, using burning sage or rosemary 96 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:03.799 or some other kind of cleansing herb and burning that or you know you're going 97 00:09:03.879 --> 00:09:07.320 to light it on fire and then blow it out so that it smokes and 98 00:09:07.519 --> 00:09:11.679 smoke out the room, open the windows and let any stagnant energy out of 99 00:09:11.720 --> 00:09:18.519 your space. That helps cleanse the energy in the room too. So you 100 00:09:18.679 --> 00:09:22.519 always always always want to start with that, right, You're always protecting yourself 101 00:09:22.840 --> 00:09:30.960 first. The second thing is that when or if you are met with a 102 00:09:31.279 --> 00:09:37.639 nefarious spirit, a soul that is not so good, you will be able 103 00:09:37.720 --> 00:09:43.519 to do the same thing. Call in your spirit guides your angels use some 104 00:09:43.559 --> 00:09:50.120 crystals, and that energy has no choice but to leave. They have no 105 00:09:50.200 --> 00:09:56.759 choice but to depart. Now, you could also be connecting with somebody who 106 00:09:56.840 --> 00:10:03.320 has a connecting with a person who's a life and they have some negative energy 107 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:07.360 around them, you might be connecting with that, and so you help them 108 00:10:07.559 --> 00:10:13.240 cleanse as well with their permission. Always. I actually was in a spiritual 109 00:10:13.279 --> 00:10:18.639 group once where a psychic picked up on a negative energy from somebody, and 110 00:10:18.759 --> 00:10:24.960 the woman actually liked this energy. She had a great time with that energy, 111 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:30.080 and so she would not give permission for this energy to be expunged from 112 00:10:30.080 --> 00:10:33.600 the premises. Right, So you always, always always want to ask permission 113 00:10:33.639 --> 00:10:39.320 of the other person. Okay, when you do work like that, but 114 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:46.120 with permission, you can also call in your angels, your guides, their 115 00:10:46.200 --> 00:10:52.279 angels and their guides to help this energy move along. Now, I don't 116 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:58.759 like the the I don't like to match energy for energy. I like to 117 00:10:58.919 --> 00:11:03.240 soften because love beats fear every single time. So you don't want to say 118 00:11:03.840 --> 00:11:07.919 kick them out or make them leave, or you're not doing that. You're 119 00:11:09.039 --> 00:11:15.679 just creating a space where they just can't exist. Well, so it's like 120 00:11:16.759 --> 00:11:24.960 forcing a human to be in water without breathing apparatus. It's just not you 121 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:28.399 can't do it. You need air, you need to breathe. And so 122 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:33.759 when you have an energy that a nefarious spirit cannot exist in. They have 123 00:11:33.799 --> 00:11:39.120 no choice. They must go, and so you're letting them know I'm going 124 00:11:39.159 --> 00:11:43.200 to be doing this and you need to go, and they will. They 125 00:11:43.240 --> 00:11:46.879 have no choice. So I'll explain this happened to me one time. It 126 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:52.159 has not happened again because I have not made the same mistake. You're welcome. 127 00:11:52.480 --> 00:11:56.600 I'm telling you about my mistakes so that you can learn. Every single 128 00:11:56.600 --> 00:12:00.519 time I make a mistake, I'll tell you about it. So I prepping 129 00:12:00.559 --> 00:12:03.679 for a spirit baby session, and usually I don't know a day or so 130 00:12:03.759 --> 00:12:09.159 in advance, I will start connecting with somebody's spirit baby that I'll be meeting. 131 00:12:09.879 --> 00:12:16.600 And this didn't happen this time. But I was prepping about five minutes 132 00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:18.519 before the session was to start. I had run out of time and I 133 00:12:18.559 --> 00:12:26.000 could not do my normal protecting ritual, and instead I just reached out and 134 00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:28.600 I was looking to connect with the spirit baby realm. And I'm used to 135 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:31.799 connecting with the spirit baby realm. It's all love, all of it. 136 00:12:33.279 --> 00:12:37.879 So in pops this entity and he looks like a baby, totally looks like 137 00:12:37.919 --> 00:12:41.799 a baby, and I started asking him questions, Oh, are you this 138 00:12:41.879 --> 00:12:48.480 upcoming clients baby blah blah blah blah. And the way that he's responding. 139 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:54.000 Because I'm clairvoyant, I can see. I could see the expression in his 140 00:12:54.120 --> 00:12:58.200 eyes and on his face, and he was almost answering with like a sneer, 141 00:12:58.919 --> 00:13:01.879 like I'm pulling the wolf over this one's eyes. Ha ha. It 142 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:05.039 felt like that, and I went, wait a minute, You're not a 143 00:13:05.039 --> 00:13:09.480 baby, and he says, oh, yes I am, and I'm like, 144 00:13:09.720 --> 00:13:16.799 oh no, you're not. And I set about right away protecting my 145 00:13:16.360 --> 00:13:22.679 energy my space. I saged my whole room, I saged my animals, 146 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:31.919 I broke out the crystals, and I invited that soul to leave just before 147 00:13:31.159 --> 00:13:33.720 the session was to start. This will happened to a matter of minutes. 148 00:13:35.799 --> 00:13:39.480 Just before that session was to start, I received an email from that client 149 00:13:39.759 --> 00:13:46.080 that something terrible had happened and she had to cancel last minute. Now I 150 00:13:46.120 --> 00:13:50.559 don't know what the thing was, but clearly there was some negative energy around 151 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:56.279 her, and that energy had come into my space. And that has never 152 00:13:56.320 --> 00:14:03.679 happened again because now I always make time to protect. That is a lesson 153 00:14:03.759 --> 00:14:07.360 learned on my part, and I hope that you take that lesson to heart 154 00:14:07.399 --> 00:14:13.720 as well. Always always, always protect yourself and your space. Now, 155 00:14:13.840 --> 00:14:18.000 what happens if, for whatever reason, a soul does pop in. Who's 156 00:14:18.039 --> 00:14:20.799 a nefarious soul? You didn't invite them, You protect your space, You 157 00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:26.639 did all the things, and yet they still manage to break through. Not 158 00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:31.080 likely, but okay, rare things happen. Right, You're going to do 159 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:35.720 exactly what I did. You're going to reset the protection in your space. 160 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:39.799 And sorry, my dog is sneezing right now. You can probably hear him. 161 00:14:41.279 --> 00:14:48.480 That's dexter. You will. You can save your space or use some 162 00:14:48.559 --> 00:14:54.240 kind of cleansing herb Rosemary is really good and crystal, you know, use 163 00:14:54.279 --> 00:14:58.200 crystals to cleanse your space, meditate, calling your angels, and you can 164 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:03.039 break out, break out all the things that we'll be talking about. And 165 00:15:03.080 --> 00:15:09.639 that soul has no choice but to leave because it's like a human trying to 166 00:15:09.679 --> 00:15:15.840 breathe underwater without any breathing apparatus. It's not possible. They have to go. 167 00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:20.559 So no matter what, protect, protect, protect, So that is 168 00:15:20.600 --> 00:15:26.000 the biggest concern that people have around connecting with the other side. I'm happy 169 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:30.600 to hear your other concerns and answer them on future podcast episodes. Too. 170 00:15:30.639 --> 00:15:35.840 Please email me Maria at the Reluctant Medium dot us and I will answer them 171 00:15:35.840 --> 00:15:41.080 for you in a future podcast episode, hopefully in this series for you. 172 00:15:41.080 --> 00:15:46.799 All right, so let's talk about why why would you want to connect with 173 00:15:46.840 --> 00:15:52.600 the spirit baby realm. Why. Well, the obvious answer is to connect 174 00:15:52.639 --> 00:15:56.360 with your own babies. But I will tell you that when you are starting 175 00:15:56.399 --> 00:16:03.840 to do spirit baby community, it's really difficult to start with connecting with your 176 00:16:03.879 --> 00:16:12.600 own babies in a really deep way because there's emotional there's an emotional tie, 177 00:16:12.759 --> 00:16:21.559 intense emotion to your babies, and so when there's heightened emotion, the access 178 00:16:21.559 --> 00:16:27.000 to intuition isn't a strong intuition is not emotional at all. There it just 179 00:16:27.120 --> 00:16:33.559 feels like fact. And so when you are highly emotional, it's pretty difficult 180 00:16:33.840 --> 00:16:41.000 to connect with the other side. I actually encourage folks to consider reading for 181 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:47.279 somebody else first and just playing around and seeing what it's like, what it 182 00:16:47.320 --> 00:16:48.919 feels like, what their responses are. Did you get it right, did 183 00:16:48.919 --> 00:16:51.600 you get it wrong, did you get it half right? You know, 184 00:16:51.679 --> 00:16:56.159 like really making this a playful exercise, and it's really hard to be playful 185 00:16:56.200 --> 00:17:03.039 when you're trying to connect with your own spirit baby. But why Well, 186 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:08.680 to connect with the other side in general offers some kind of hope for their 187 00:17:08.720 --> 00:17:15.880 being life beyond this life, beyond this plane. But connect but to connect 188 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:22.000 with spirit babies specifically, you know, we're talking about hope that these babies 189 00:17:22.039 --> 00:17:26.319 are going to come earth side, which is difficult for folks who are especially 190 00:17:26.359 --> 00:17:30.759 folks who are having a hard time conceiving. But you know, even for 191 00:17:30.799 --> 00:17:36.799 folks who are not sure they want to be a parent someday, this is 192 00:17:36.839 --> 00:17:41.319 a great way to get confirmation or to get information from the other side as 193 00:17:41.359 --> 00:17:45.039 to who's there and what do I need to prepare for and should I be 194 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:51.200 preparing or is it okay if I choose not to have kids. What about 195 00:17:51.799 --> 00:17:57.519 the person who had an abortion and feels concerned or worried about that soul and 196 00:17:57.559 --> 00:18:03.240 what happened and are they okay? And some folks are they know that that 197 00:18:03.319 --> 00:18:07.400 was the right decision for them, and other folks don't, or they worry 198 00:18:07.599 --> 00:18:11.400 that it wasn't the right decision, And so there are questions to be had, 199 00:18:11.400 --> 00:18:15.440 and there's a lot of comfort when you're able to connect with the other 200 00:18:15.480 --> 00:18:21.039 side in this way. So it really is just like going to a therapy 201 00:18:21.079 --> 00:18:23.839 session. You know, you're connecting with another being to help process some of 202 00:18:23.880 --> 00:18:29.400 the things that you would like to process. It's wonderful. There are a 203 00:18:29.440 --> 00:18:33.720 lot of other benefits, but I think that we'll keep it at that for 204 00:18:33.799 --> 00:18:40.839 now and probably cover a lot more benefits in future podcast episodes around spirit baby 205 00:18:40.880 --> 00:18:47.400 communication. I'd love to know from you why you want to connect with the 206 00:18:47.440 --> 00:18:49.640 other side. Why do you want to connect with the spirit baby realm again, 207 00:18:49.720 --> 00:18:55.960 Maria at the Reluctant Medium dot us send me an email, might read 208 00:18:56.000 --> 00:19:02.839 it on a next podcast episode. All right, let's talk about your very 209 00:19:02.880 --> 00:19:08.079 first tool, and this is going to be really useful when you start trying 210 00:19:08.079 --> 00:19:14.000 to communicate with your own spirit babies. We're trying to help settle the nervous 211 00:19:14.039 --> 00:19:19.079 system, reduce the emotional reaction that you have to the potential of communicating with 212 00:19:19.119 --> 00:19:27.279 your spirit babies. And meditation is the number one tool, absolutely hands down, 213 00:19:27.400 --> 00:19:33.640 that you must start doing today. I don't care if it's thirty seconds 214 00:19:33.640 --> 00:19:40.519 of mindfulness. You must do it. Please, start building a habit, 215 00:19:40.839 --> 00:19:44.599 start building a practice around it. It is the very first thing that I 216 00:19:44.640 --> 00:19:48.559 talk about in Spirit Baby Foundations training for folks who have worked with me, 217 00:19:48.640 --> 00:19:55.000 trained with me in that course, they know exactly when I'm talking about spirit 218 00:19:55.039 --> 00:20:00.960 baby communication, it's not possible. I'm going to go so far as to 219 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:07.559 say it's not possible without meditation. At least true, true clarity is not 220 00:20:07.680 --> 00:20:15.160 possible without meditation. Okay, So let's talk at length about your first tool, 221 00:20:15.799 --> 00:20:21.839 meditation, and then we'll talk about how to do it. So meditation 222 00:20:22.400 --> 00:20:29.960 is and I should say I started my practice with mindfulness based stress reduction. 223 00:20:30.480 --> 00:20:37.559 I wrote about it in my book Transcending Infertility. I hated it. I'm 224 00:20:37.559 --> 00:20:42.200 just gonna keep it real. I like to say that I went into meditating 225 00:20:42.559 --> 00:20:45.799 kicking and screaming. I didn't want to do it, but I was in 226 00:20:45.880 --> 00:20:52.720 such a depressed and pained state. It was to me the last thing that 227 00:20:52.839 --> 00:20:56.400 I could try, the last ditch effort. This is I just have to 228 00:20:56.400 --> 00:21:00.559 do this in order to feel better. I think it was more. It 229 00:21:00.599 --> 00:21:03.799 was actually more bitter than that. I went into meditation to prove it wrong. 230 00:21:04.640 --> 00:21:08.319 Nothing works for me. I'm going to do this thing too and show 231 00:21:08.319 --> 00:21:11.480 that it doesn't work either, ha ha ha. I have nothing else to 232 00:21:11.480 --> 00:21:15.279 do with my time. I was in a I was in a bitter, 233 00:21:15.720 --> 00:21:19.440 bitter state at that time in my life. Well, surprise, surprise, 234 00:21:21.160 --> 00:21:26.480 it fucking worked. What can I say? It worked, and I was 235 00:21:26.519 --> 00:21:30.119 surprised. I'll tell you a brief story about that. I was living in 236 00:21:30.119 --> 00:21:37.160 New Jersey at the time, and in New Jersey drivers are absolutely terrifying. 237 00:21:37.480 --> 00:21:41.000 They cut people off, they're rolling down windows, they're flipping each other off, 238 00:21:41.039 --> 00:21:45.799 they're cursing at the window. Mamma, you know, always like yelling 239 00:21:45.839 --> 00:21:48.240 at somebody for cutting them off or going too slow or I don't it doesn't 240 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:53.359 matter what it is. They're just yelling expletives like crazy. I blame New 241 00:21:53.400 --> 00:21:59.119 Jersey for my current way of speaking. So that's how I drove. I 242 00:21:59.160 --> 00:22:03.400 was just part of the jury, the crowd. Well, after ninety days 243 00:22:03.440 --> 00:22:08.480 of meditating, that was my commitment. I committed to meditating for ninety days 244 00:22:10.039 --> 00:22:11.880 most days of the week. I was aiming for thirty minutes by the end 245 00:22:11.920 --> 00:22:17.200 of that ninety days, and I hit that. And so at the end 246 00:22:17.200 --> 00:22:19.680 of ninety days, I was driving and somebody cut me off. And my 247 00:22:19.799 --> 00:22:23.839 very first thought, I'm telling you reflexive. My very first reflexive thought was, 248 00:22:25.319 --> 00:22:29.599 oh, I hope he's okay, And right after that, I went, 249 00:22:30.279 --> 00:22:33.599 oh shit, who am I anyway? I can't believe I just said 250 00:22:33.640 --> 00:22:38.240 that. It's crazy. I'm like, I guess this meditating thing is freaking 251 00:22:38.279 --> 00:22:44.720 working. Oh my god. And the rest is history. I have been 252 00:22:44.759 --> 00:22:48.160 in and out of a meditating practice since then. I am not perfect, 253 00:22:48.359 --> 00:22:51.559 that is for sure. I've gone months sometimes without meditating, and then I'll 254 00:22:51.559 --> 00:22:56.880 pick it up again daily. It's imperfect, and that's okay. That is 255 00:22:56.880 --> 00:23:03.519 what I want to talk about, is that I highly recommend that you meditate. 256 00:23:03.720 --> 00:23:06.559 But you don't have to be sitting on a cushion for two hours a 257 00:23:06.599 --> 00:23:11.039 day. In order to start, you must start somewhere though, at least 258 00:23:11.079 --> 00:23:15.839 thirty seconds one minute of mindful breathing. That is a place to start, 259 00:23:17.279 --> 00:23:22.920 and especially if you start the same time every day or most days, then 260 00:23:23.000 --> 00:23:26.880 that begins a practice, that begins a habit. Okay, that's what we're 261 00:23:26.880 --> 00:23:32.640 trying to do. But so what happens with meditating, Well, gosh, 262 00:23:32.640 --> 00:23:37.880 there's so much research now about what meditation does. It's going to regulate your 263 00:23:37.920 --> 00:23:42.279 nervous system. It's going to re engage your parasympathetic nervous system, which is 264 00:23:42.319 --> 00:23:47.920 that very calm state, the state of being where all is well, there 265 00:23:47.960 --> 00:23:53.119 are no threats on the horizon, nothing to worry about. It's sitting on 266 00:23:53.279 --> 00:23:59.799 the duca the bay. It's that you know that song, you know it. 267 00:24:00.400 --> 00:24:08.519 That's what it is, watching the town way. That's the parasympathetic nervous 268 00:24:08.519 --> 00:24:17.559 system. That's what you want. But what it does on a brain level, 269 00:24:17.799 --> 00:24:26.319 it literally grows new synaptic connections that match with I am peace. I 270 00:24:26.359 --> 00:24:33.240 am peace right now, your state of being. Maybe I'm a whole freaking 271 00:24:33.400 --> 00:24:37.680 ball of nerves right now and I'm about to lose my shit. That might 272 00:24:37.720 --> 00:24:41.559 be where you are one hundred percent at the time. That's where I was 273 00:24:41.559 --> 00:24:48.079 one at the time. But what meditation does is it teaches your brain that 274 00:24:48.160 --> 00:24:56.039 you are actually chill. You are actually in a parasympathetic nervous system state, 275 00:24:56.799 --> 00:25:00.160 you are calm. That does not mean that you don't have stressful moments. 276 00:25:00.680 --> 00:25:07.079 That's meant they're human, that's meant to happen. The difference is that instead 277 00:25:07.119 --> 00:25:15.240 of constantly being in this epic state of sympathetic nervous system like you're gonna go 278 00:25:15.599 --> 00:25:22.200 nuts, you're meditating helps you get over that hill a little bit. Faster. 279 00:25:22.640 --> 00:25:29.680 So when you teach your brain that you are mostly a peaceful person I 280 00:25:29.759 --> 00:25:36.559 am peace, then the emotional charges that come when you are attempting to connect 281 00:25:36.599 --> 00:25:41.480 with the spirit baby realm, especially your own babies, they tend to come 282 00:25:41.480 --> 00:25:47.839 and go more fluidly and you don't get stuck on them. I have personally 283 00:25:48.160 --> 00:25:55.319 definitely gotten emotional with connecting with other babies, other people's spirit babies, but 284 00:25:55.400 --> 00:26:00.000 it's more like I'm observing what's happening. My body does have a reaction, 285 00:26:00.240 --> 00:26:06.440 I get tearful, I will have an emotion in my heart space, but 286 00:26:06.480 --> 00:26:11.799 it's more like I'm the observer of these things rather than I am the experiencer. 287 00:26:12.079 --> 00:26:15.400 I am feeling all the things. It's more like I'm watching them happen. 288 00:26:17.359 --> 00:26:25.200 So you wind up being more objective when you teach your brain to be 289 00:26:25.599 --> 00:26:33.640 I am peace. Through meditation and communication with the other side becomes that much 290 00:26:33.680 --> 00:26:42.079 easier. You are just far more open and observant and not attached to anything. 291 00:26:42.640 --> 00:26:48.759 That is one thing that you are going to learn through spirit baby communication 292 00:26:48.960 --> 00:26:52.440 is that your ego gets checked at the door. It's just gone. It's 293 00:26:52.480 --> 00:27:00.039 like you are just a being. You are not your name, talking to 294 00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:04.559 other people about their spear baby stuff or connecting with your spirit baby. You 295 00:27:04.599 --> 00:27:11.279 are neutral and you are the observer. So start and we're going to talk 296 00:27:11.319 --> 00:27:15.160 about why in the future, but for now, what you're trying to do 297 00:27:15.400 --> 00:27:21.519 is cultivate a sense of I am peace and then that opens up this observing, 298 00:27:21.920 --> 00:27:27.359 observing capability when you connect with the other side and there's far less emotional 299 00:27:27.440 --> 00:27:33.240 charge. There is emotional charge that comes later, there is that, but 300 00:27:33.359 --> 00:27:37.839 in the beginning, the things that you are intuiting don't come with an emotional 301 00:27:37.920 --> 00:27:42.240 charge. It's all just fact. It feels like fact. I'll give you 302 00:27:42.279 --> 00:27:49.480 an example. There is a fantastic book called E Squared and E Cubed is 303 00:27:49.519 --> 00:27:56.960 also I think the second book two in that series, and one of the 304 00:27:57.039 --> 00:28:03.960 experiments in war it is called the Jetta principle, and I love it. 305 00:28:03.039 --> 00:28:08.000 I The book is a set of experiments that you can do to prove that 306 00:28:08.039 --> 00:28:12.440 the universe listens to your intention. And so the Jetta principle is that you 307 00:28:12.519 --> 00:28:18.559 think of a particular car and it'll show up everywhere. Well, I'm skeptical, 308 00:28:18.799 --> 00:28:21.599 right, So I'm skeptic. I'm a healthy skeptic by nature, I'm 309 00:28:21.599 --> 00:28:25.200 not picking up everything that people are putting down. And so I was like, 310 00:28:25.279 --> 00:28:27.880 Mom, I mean, all right, so I can think of a 311 00:28:27.880 --> 00:28:30.480 car, but lots of people probably have that car. I'm going to think 312 00:28:30.519 --> 00:28:34.920 of an orange car. I'm going to think of that. Well, in 313 00:28:36.119 --> 00:28:40.680 about a week's time, seven orange cars. I saw seven orange cars. 314 00:28:40.720 --> 00:28:42.599 I'm like, who has freaking orange cars? There's all these cars around me. 315 00:28:42.640 --> 00:28:45.680 I lived in a small town, Like this doesn't make any sense. 316 00:28:45.720 --> 00:28:49.319 Well, all right, you know what, maybe there are just more orange 317 00:28:49.359 --> 00:28:53.279 cars than I thought. I'm going to redo this experiment, and I'm going 318 00:28:53.319 --> 00:28:59.319 to choose pink cars, because who the hell has a pink car? Nobody? 319 00:29:00.240 --> 00:29:04.960 Guess what. In a span of two days, I ran into three 320 00:29:06.440 --> 00:29:12.440 pink vehicles. One was a limousine, the second one was a cable van, 321 00:29:12.960 --> 00:29:17.839 and the third was a classic car like a not It was like a 322 00:29:17.880 --> 00:29:22.680 model T like an old old Ford that was repainted in like cotton candy pink, 323 00:29:22.799 --> 00:29:27.160 Like who the fuck? Like what how does that happen? All right? 324 00:29:27.279 --> 00:29:33.039 So, initially though, when I saw these cars, it was like, 325 00:29:33.200 --> 00:29:34.720 oh, there it is. It felt like fact. It was like, 326 00:29:34.759 --> 00:29:37.079 okay, I'm just gonna do this. But the emotion came later, 327 00:29:37.240 --> 00:29:41.000 it was like, what, Oh my god, I can't believe that just 328 00:29:41.079 --> 00:29:45.359 happened. So there's an example of how the in the intuitive thing or the 329 00:29:45.400 --> 00:29:52.200 intuitive hit will just feel like fact and then the emotion comes later. Okay, 330 00:29:52.039 --> 00:29:59.400 all right, but that all starts with your very first tool of meditation. 331 00:30:00.279 --> 00:30:06.720 Now, let's talk about how how to start meditating. I'm going to 332 00:30:07.160 --> 00:30:11.519 suggest to you a few ways to start meditating, and pick one. Just 333 00:30:11.640 --> 00:30:17.000 pick one. It doesn't matter what you choose to do. Just pick one. 334 00:30:17.759 --> 00:30:22.200 The very first meditation that I started with, as I already mentioned, 335 00:30:22.279 --> 00:30:29.839 is mindfulness based stress reduction. Now, this is just mindfulness, and mindfulness 336 00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:36.599 is paying attention on purpose in a particular way without judgment. That's what the 337 00:30:36.640 --> 00:30:41.079 particular way is. You're not judging what you're experiencing as you're meditating. You're 338 00:30:41.079 --> 00:30:45.759 paying attention to the present moment. Now here's the biggest complaint. I can't 339 00:30:45.759 --> 00:30:49.599 shut my brain off. I keep thinking, thinking, thinking thinking, I 340 00:30:49.640 --> 00:30:52.519 don't know what to do. I just can't meditate. I'm crap at this. 341 00:30:52.720 --> 00:30:56.680 I'm never going to do it again. All right, Well, in 342 00:30:56.720 --> 00:31:00.680 that statement, you have forgotten that you are a human being. And you 343 00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:06.319 are allowed to have thoughts. You have a brain that is functioning really well, 344 00:31:06.480 --> 00:31:10.480 and so it's creating thoughts. That's what happens. We have sixty thousand 345 00:31:10.599 --> 00:31:14.720 some odd plus thoughts a day. Yeah, your brain's gonna think. It's 346 00:31:14.799 --> 00:31:19.319 okay. The problem is that you're judging it. I once I did the 347 00:31:19.400 --> 00:31:25.279 eight week training for mindfulness based stress Reduction, and you have to take notes 348 00:31:25.319 --> 00:31:30.680 about your meditation practice. And I remember in one note I wrote, I'm 349 00:31:30.759 --> 00:31:33.960 judging I'm thinking, and then I'm judging the thinking, and then I'm judging 350 00:31:34.079 --> 00:31:37.359 the judging of the thinking, and then I'm judging the judging of the judging 351 00:31:37.759 --> 00:31:44.440 of the thinking. Oh shit, what'll I do? Well? Over time, 352 00:31:44.799 --> 00:31:48.000 you begin to find humor in this experience and you let it go. 353 00:31:48.680 --> 00:31:52.200 You're able to you know, they say, watch the thoughts. They call 354 00:31:52.240 --> 00:31:56.079 it a monkey mind, constantly flipping from tree to tree to tree and swinging 355 00:31:56.079 --> 00:32:00.559 and moving and moving and moving. It's okay. Learn to appreciate the monkey 356 00:32:00.880 --> 00:32:06.559 and you watch it and you don't cling onto the monkeys back. You just 357 00:32:06.640 --> 00:32:12.799 watch it go. And it takes some practice. That's mindfulness. You're paying 358 00:32:12.799 --> 00:32:16.599 attention to the thoughts that come in and watching them go, and sometimes it's 359 00:32:16.599 --> 00:32:22.279 helpful to label them. That's a thought, that's a thought, and that's 360 00:32:22.319 --> 00:32:28.240 okay, thinking, thinking, thinking, whatever it is that you need to 361 00:32:28.279 --> 00:32:31.279 do to notice that that thought came in and then watch it go. The 362 00:32:31.400 --> 00:32:36.559 main objective here is to stop judging that the thoughts are coming in and that 363 00:32:36.599 --> 00:32:40.640 you're a human who's supposed to have thoughts. Okay. So I recommend mindfulness 364 00:32:40.680 --> 00:32:46.640 based or just mindfulness mindfulness. You can even google up mindfulness a mindfulness practice 365 00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:52.599 and see how that works for you. But sitting and paying attention to your 366 00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:58.440 breathing, noticing when thoughts come in, and then letting them go, refocusing 367 00:32:58.440 --> 00:33:01.400 back on your breathing, start for one minute a day, start at the 368 00:33:01.480 --> 00:33:07.599 same time every day. And I would even encourage you to have a journal 369 00:33:07.160 --> 00:33:12.279 by your side so that after you meditate you can write down your experiences. 370 00:33:12.319 --> 00:33:17.000 Sometimes it's just a note, a quick note, no notes today. Sometimes 371 00:33:17.119 --> 00:33:22.599 it's a crazy amount of like I'm so frustrated. I couldn't meditate, I 372 00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:24.359 couldn't focus, I couldn't blah bla blah blah, I couldn't watch the thoughts. 373 00:33:25.160 --> 00:33:29.599 It's fine, whatever your experience is, just write it down. Over 374 00:33:29.680 --> 00:33:34.640 time, you're going to find that this gets easier. Okay, So that's 375 00:33:34.680 --> 00:33:37.400 one way that you can do that. The second way that I talked about 376 00:33:37.440 --> 00:33:43.960 with people is moving meditation. So this is yoga or going for a walk 377 00:33:44.400 --> 00:33:49.960 or running or something that really focuses your attention. Now, there are some 378 00:33:49.960 --> 00:33:52.559 people who poo pooh this. They say, Nope, that's not meditation. 379 00:33:52.039 --> 00:33:57.400 I find different. That's my experience, and I encourage you to find out 380 00:33:57.440 --> 00:34:01.440 what your experience is and what your opinion is. You're trying to quiet the 381 00:34:01.480 --> 00:34:07.880 nervous system, and so when you are, for example, taking a walk 382 00:34:07.360 --> 00:34:12.599 and counting your steps, you're only focused on your steps, and your nervous 383 00:34:12.639 --> 00:34:15.719 system feels like, oh it's safe because I'm just counting my steps. Fine, 384 00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:22.519 and so your parasympathetic nervous system kicks in. Walla meditation. It's another 385 00:34:22.639 --> 00:34:27.760 form of mindfulness. Okay. Another way that you can start meditating. I 386 00:34:27.840 --> 00:34:32.119 loved this in the beginning is guided meditations. Guided I have a lot of 387 00:34:32.159 --> 00:34:37.159 guided meditations on my website at doctor Maria Rothenberger dot com. You can check 388 00:34:37.159 --> 00:34:40.000 out some of those, or there are a lot of free ones on the 389 00:34:40.079 --> 00:34:46.559 insight Timer app. Totally recommend checking out that app. There are a ton 390 00:34:46.639 --> 00:34:52.320 of great meditations on there, and they're all free, or you can pay 391 00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:55.000 for some too. You can up level and pay for some, but they're 392 00:34:55.079 --> 00:35:00.039 all free. You can donate to the teachers if you would like. I 393 00:35:00.119 --> 00:35:01.840 have a couple of meditations on there as well. You can check out. 394 00:35:02.920 --> 00:35:07.960 That's a great app. Totally recommend downloading that. Get rid of one of 395 00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:12.039 your social media apps and download the Insight timor app. It's so good. 396 00:35:14.159 --> 00:35:16.719 But guided meditations, especially in the beginning, are really great to help you 397 00:35:16.760 --> 00:35:22.559 refocus back to whatever the subject matter is on the meditation. If you need 398 00:35:22.599 --> 00:35:25.440 help sleeping, if you need help focusing on your breath, if you want 399 00:35:25.480 --> 00:35:30.920 to do a shamanic journey, whatever it is that you want to focus on 400 00:35:30.039 --> 00:35:36.400 in your meditation, it's really useful to have a guide. Sometimes, especially 401 00:35:36.440 --> 00:35:39.679 in the beginning, you'll find that guidance is not necessary. When you start 402 00:35:39.719 --> 00:35:45.760 feeling annoyed by the guide, that's when you know, oh, okay, 403 00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:49.519 it's time for me to attempt to meditate on my own. And sometimes that's 404 00:35:49.559 --> 00:35:55.039 with certain kinds of music by neural Beats are great or Selfeggio frequencies are really 405 00:35:55.079 --> 00:36:00.599 great. I'm going to be talking about that in a future episode or Silence. 406 00:36:00.199 --> 00:36:04.480 All of it's fine. You have to really find what works best for 407 00:36:04.559 --> 00:36:10.880 you in order to engage that sense of I am peace. Okay. I 408 00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:17.159 encourage you to pick one of those ways of meditating and start doing it every 409 00:36:17.280 --> 00:36:24.079 day. Build a habit by starting tiny. Tiny habits dot Com another great 410 00:36:24.079 --> 00:36:31.079 website. Start tiny and tie it to something that you already do. If 411 00:36:31.119 --> 00:36:35.119 you want to tie it to brushing your teeth, for example, I hope 412 00:36:35.159 --> 00:36:37.559 you brush your teeth. Say that you're going to focus on your breathing for 413 00:36:37.639 --> 00:36:44.119 one minute after brushing your teeth. It's that simple. That is a meditation 414 00:36:44.159 --> 00:36:47.920 practice, okay, and you can build up from there. Okay, I'm 415 00:36:47.920 --> 00:36:53.199 going to focus for two minutes on my breathing the next day, three minutes 416 00:36:53.239 --> 00:36:55.840 on my breathing the next day. And always tie it to something that you 417 00:36:55.960 --> 00:37:00.920 already do every day without even thinking, because that's already a So when you 418 00:37:00.960 --> 00:37:04.760 tie it to something that's a habit, you create a new habit just by 419 00:37:05.079 --> 00:37:09.159 piggyback in the thing that you want to put into your daily practice. Okay. 420 00:37:09.199 --> 00:37:15.719 That is the A number one tool that you're going to start doing before 421 00:37:16.639 --> 00:37:24.719 Spirit Baby Communication start to day, okay, or at least start planning today 422 00:37:25.599 --> 00:37:31.159 for when you're going to start meditating, okay. In future podcast episodes, 423 00:37:32.239 --> 00:37:36.400 we're going to be talking about various things. We're going to be talking about 424 00:37:37.559 --> 00:37:45.199 the Claire's clairvoyance, Claire audience, Claire sentience, all these lovely Claires meaning 425 00:37:45.480 --> 00:37:51.320 clear in French for connecting with the other side. We're going to be talking 426 00:37:51.360 --> 00:37:54.400 about crystals. We're going to be talking about tarot cards oracle cards. We're 427 00:37:54.440 --> 00:38:00.039 going to be talking about connecting with angels and ancestors. Things like this. 428 00:38:00.800 --> 00:38:07.039 Dreamwork. Dream work really really helpful. The pendulum. A pendulum is so 429 00:38:07.480 --> 00:38:12.719 fun for a lot of people, and that's actually probably the next easiest tool, 430 00:38:12.840 --> 00:38:16.159 or the first easy tool, because meditation is not that easy. The 431 00:38:16.199 --> 00:38:22.800 pendulum is so easy and gives such clarity when communicating with the other side. 432 00:38:22.840 --> 00:38:25.360 We're going to talk about that as well. Lots of tools to pull into 433 00:38:25.400 --> 00:38:30.800 your tool belt to start communicating with the other side. Now, if you 434 00:38:30.840 --> 00:38:37.239 are interested in going in depth with Spirit Baby Communication and have one on one 435 00:38:37.280 --> 00:38:43.360 time with me and your fellow learners, consider joining the Spirit Baby Foundations training, 436 00:38:43.400 --> 00:38:46.840 which will start in September twenty twenty three. I usually run it twice 437 00:38:46.880 --> 00:38:52.239 a year, and maybe going down to once a year in the future, 438 00:38:52.280 --> 00:38:55.559 but for now, it is slated to begin again in September twenty twenty three, 439 00:38:55.639 --> 00:39:00.360 and after that in April twenty twenty four. If you are interested in 440 00:39:00.760 --> 00:39:06.400 joining that training and having one on one time with me and your fellow learners, 441 00:39:07.039 --> 00:39:13.119 head on over to doctor Maria Rothenberger dot com slash Spirit Baby Training to 442 00:39:13.159 --> 00:39:17.000 sign up for the waitlist to know when we start. It's slated for September 443 00:39:17.079 --> 00:39:21.559 twenty twenty three, but you'll get all the details if you're on that waitlist. 444 00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:25.400 All right, Hey, I really hope that today has been helpful for 445 00:39:25.440 --> 00:39:30.599 you in starting to think about Spirit Baby communication. Please do not hesitate to 446 00:39:30.639 --> 00:39:34.840 send your questions to me. I'm happy to answer them in a future episode, 447 00:39:35.440 --> 00:39:39.000 and I look forward to seeing you again soon. Speaking with you again 448 00:39:39.079 --> 00:39:44.480 soon. May you take care and be well as always, I'll see you 449 00:39:44.519 --> 00:39:44.920 next time.