Welcome to the Angel Empowerment Healing Show with your hosts, Cindy Smith and Sam Bell. Join them every week as they share powerful tools, advice, and angel messages that will empower you to own your wellness. Welcome to the Angel Empowerment Healing Show with myself, Cindy Smith.
And with me, Sam Bell, and if you tuned into our previous episode, we were talking about allergic reactions and offering some tips for anybody who does have allergies. And we promised that we would talk to you about grounding. Now, for many of you listening, grounding sounds very, very basic, you know, and it's like everybody talks about grounding, blah, blah, blah, but this is so important.
Cindy, why is it important to ground? Well, Raphael, when I was... Anyways, Raphael said, talk about grounding with one of the episodes. And when he says, talk about grounding, the intuitive senses that happen for me is automatically, it brings us into the now vibration. And when we're working with the angelic realm, they are all about the now and it is healing in the now.
So Raphael, when they're working with us and we're stating the language and receiving the energy with the Angel Empowerment Healing Show or for as a practitioner, then it's about now energy. And the easiest way to bring yourself into the now is ground to Mother Earth because it puts us in that exact moment. So for our listeners, whether you're driving or you're walking or you're sitting or you're doing the dishes, you can be doing an activity, but still ground to Mother Earth because it brings you centered and in the moment.
And when I'm driving, I think of my root chakra has a cord and it's just driving. I'm driving right along, but my cord is connected to Mother Earth as I drive. And when I'm sitting at doing dishes or not sitting, but standing doing dishes, I think of tree roots going from the bottom of my feet right down to Mother Earth.
So to start with, it is really learning to be in the now. And then, you know, in a few moments, I'll go into more of the healing with Mother Earth. The main thing is when we are asking our team for assistance, if you can drop in to the now vibration and say to yourself, where am I? And get connected to Mother Earth at that very moment in time.
You are allowing. You're being present. You're open.
You're aware. And you are allowing it to happen. If you start to think about the future and will I heal in the future? You've just pulled your energy away from now vibration.
The angels work with us to make the shift and the change in now. It will affect our future, but there's no sending out the healing to the future. It's all about the healing that happens in the now to create the positive outcomes we would like for our future.
Am I making sense, Sam? Absolutely. Yes. And as you're talking there, I just keep thinking about that tagline for my own business, for Sunbell Inspired, and it's Stop Existing, Start Living.
And I was given that tagline by a palliative care patient. And just when you hear those four words, Stop Existing, Start Living, Stop Existing, that is exactly what you're talking about. How many of us actually stay in the now and experience everything now in this moment and then be able to recall it in the future? I think it's just such an important piece for us all to... We can only guarantee the now.
We can't guarantee the future. And the past is already gone. So the only place really for us to be is now.
It's such simple advice. And if we start thinking about the future, we usually start worrying, what if? What if this happens? What if that? And then we start projecting. And we know quantum physics, when you project, it comes back to you.
So to be able to stay in the now, quantum physics even encourages us to be in this moment and experience it right now. And there's so many different ways that we can ground. And I remember when I first started on my spiritual journey, I thought that I had to be sitting cross-legged, eyes closed, and grounding, and really being aware of my posture and my breath work.
And then I realized, no, I can ground when I'm walking. I can ground when I'm driving. I can ground when I'm doing the dishes, like you said.
But I think nature... You're out in Fairmont, BC at the moment. I know we've got a lot of rain here in Alberta at the moment. But you know that moment when you go outside and the rain has stopped and you can smell everything, that beautiful smell, like the rain has made everything fresh and clean.
And you can feel the grass on your feet. That's how I love to ground. Cindy? Yes.
Yeah, Mother Earth and grounding is key. And there are so many different types of teachings and doing grounding in different ways. And the main thing is awareness of whether you are grounded.
Because one of the ways to know... First, worry. If you're worrying, you're definitely out of the now and you're ungrounded. But if you're lightheaded at any time, ask yourself, am I grounded? Because lightheaded can also, without it being a physical thing, but lightheaded can also be that your energy is running higher and is less attached to Mother Earth.
And I'm teaching practitioners this all the time. If you're getting lightheaded, it's because you're running in a higher vibration. And Mother Earth brings us that calm grounding connected in the now.
I get lightheaded and I go, okay, where am I? What's going on? I start checking in. Now, the easiest... And as I'm thinking of, like I shared, I think of tree roots going from the bottom of my feet, or I think of a gold rope going from the base of my spine, right down into the core of Mother Earth. I feel connected to Mother Earth when I do that.
We'd love to hear from our listeners any other ways that you ground and that you can do, whether you're outside or inside. Because I think we, so many of us, when we do get outside into Mother Earth nature and we do our walking, or even when I got out here to Fairmont and I had to mow the lawn, I'm automatically in grounding energy because I'm walking on Mother Earth without any distractions between my feet and her, if that makes sense. I like to call Gaia her.
But the other thing that Raphael wanted to talk about is the combination of the divine vibration of healing and Mother Earth healing. And I remember before I did anything to do with the angels, and I was working with the Quahamin Nation, and we did so many amazing things outside, because it's their tradition, whether it be in a circle, working with cedar, doing sweats, but it's all connected to Mother Earth, and Mother Earth as our healer. And then if you get the combination of Raphael asking and Mother Earth, wow, there is some amazing, amazing experiences you can have.
One of the things that I suggest, and I used to do this before I worked with the angels, is I would pick a spot to lay outside wherever you're comfortable. And I would ask Mother Earth, you could sit, but I, me personally, I like to lay right down, so my full physical body was laying on Mother Earth, and I would ask her to cocoon me. And if you haven't ever had that experience, please do.
It is, you'll feel amazing. And I would just ask Mother Earth to cocoon me with their energy and remove any unwanted debris. Remove anything that no longer served me, and heal, and get that sense of healing.
And then if you want to amp it up tenfold, then you ask Raphael to work with Mother Earth and do the healing, and wow, wow, wow. Because that is an experience to really know that the vibration around us, the frequency, whether it's Mother Earth frequency or divine frequency, has that ability to heal our physical body. Also our emotional, spiritual, and mental, but we're focused on the physical.
And so that is one of the things that I love to do with Mother Earth and Raphael. Put my feet in the water, in the river, or in the ocean. Wherever you love to be at Mother Earth, just get connected and ask for the healing.
So I wanted, one of the things that I always do, Sam, is, and for listeners, this is, it's a grounding, but it's also a clearing thing, and I talk about it all the time. But when I drive the 93 to come out to Fairmont, and if any of our listeners haven't done this, you stop at Marble Canyon, because the, you got the bridges that are going over the river, and that's an automatic clearing. But I went to stop in there, and there wasn't an absolute parking spot.
It was so busy. So, and I've never experienced that. So anyways, I didn't get to do my Marble Canyon clearing, I call it, but there's a spot there that I also put my feet into the river, because it, that's another way to connect and be clear.
So my dear friend, Rose, from, again, from the Quahama Nation, one of their traditions was the spiritual bath with the ocean or the river. And it's, so there's so many different ways to be grounded and clearing at the same time. The key is to remember to get into the now, and then do your connection.
I mean, a couple of things just sort of come to mind when I'm listening to you there. The one thing is, you know, Western medicine. If you think about Western medicine, it's basically has come from Mother Nature.
When you think about the drugs, the medicines that we use, they've come from Mother Nature. You know, and you know, this is why when people talk about visiting their naturopath and herbalists, it's all come from Mother Nature. You know, so she's such an important piece of healing, no matter what modality we looked through.
And then the other thing was you were describing being at the canyon, and that you couldn't find a parking spot, and darn, you weren't able to do that. What if there are listeners here, Cindy, who aren't able to get out into nature, who aren't able to get to the places that ground them? What can they actually do to find themselves in the now and maybe be in the canyon? How would you ground without actually being able to get into that water? So great question, Sam. So if I, let's say you're sitting at home, and you're wanting to do some of that extra healing with Mother Earth, and you're just unable to get to certain locations, you could be in an apartment building, and you, here's what you do.
This is the main thing. Ask Archangel Raphael, ask Mother Earth, ask your divine team, creator, whatever kind of energy you work with, to create within your mind's eye or within your energy, a place that you hold dear to you. And it could be just a picture you've seen.
It doesn't even mean that you are physically there, but there's this place that you know can bring you into that now vibration, but also the healing, and you feel like your spirit is there. Now, what people would say to me is, well, if I allow my spirit to travel to the Marble Canyon, because I've been there, so if my spirit's going to Marble Canyon, and I can visualize myself standing on the bridge and doing the healing, is that still in the now? Absolutely, because where are you creating it? You're creating it in the now as if you're there. So please stop thinking that when you travel, spirit, astral travel, or any of that, that it's outside of the now.
It's just that you are allowing yourself to connect to Mother Earth's vibration at different locations, and bring that peace to mind that whatever you experience, because even if you haven't been able to go there, when you visualize and feel that you're standing at the edge of the ocean, and the gentle waves are coming up to your feet, it's happening because you are allowing it to, and you just keep in the now. Just say, Raphael, I'm in the now. I'm here.
I'm experiencing this. Boom, you're experiencing it. Because yes, can I go to Marble Canyon and visualize myself and do clearing? Absolutely, but I tend to be more of, okay, Raphael, let's clear.
Let's ground without specifically allowing my spirit to go to a certain location. I felt disappointed yesterday, but then I knew that I'm out here, and I'll have lots of opportunity to get my feet in the Columbia River, because we're right on the Columbia River. So I knew that I'd still do my clearing and connecting with Mother Earth.
Did I answer that question for people? If they know they can't get to a location, how they can imagine themselves there? Yeah, I think that, you know, and giving it another word, it's visualization. And if you Google visualization, you will see that there are so many modalities out there and techniques on visualization. That's exactly what you're doing.
As Cindy says, it's your mind's eye. You know, and I love to think of that, you know, as being my mind's eye. But I love, I just love that, how simple it is.
And I remember that one of the things that you taught me, the very first things that you taught me, Cindy, was that I could use my mind's eye, my clear sense, right? Yes. My visual. And I remember you saying to me, close your eyes and tell me what you can see on your kitchen counter at home.
And I can do that, and everybody can do that. You can see it, so you can actually create. It's like a movie in your head.
You can see the pictures in your head, you know? And it's just so powerful. I just love that you went there and you explained that. Thank you.
Well, and, you know, nowadays, you know, with our computer, we can pull up an image anywhere around the world. You know, you type in a, you want to stand at the ocean, type in an ocean picture. And you can then use your physical eyes to visualize it, then close your physical eyes, and then be there.
Be, just hear the sounds, feel, see, and know that you're experiencing it. So you are grounded, though, as you're doing it. Even though you're imagining yourself at another location, you're still in the grounding, in the now, and receiving the healing in the now.
Because as we know, the physical body, as soon as it goes into that peace, you know, and you feeling relaxed, and you feeling grounded, and you're asking for healing, what are we doing with the body? What, what's happening that things change? This is the medical part coming out, Sam. Yep. So we're going into our parasympathetic.
So you've heard Cindy and I speak so many times about the nervous system. You have a part of your nervous system, which is called the autonomic. And that is basically the piece that does everything automatically, without you actually saying, hey, take my next breath.
Hey, beat my next heartbeat. Your autonomic nervous system does that on its own. And I love to give gratitude to everything that my body does in the background, keeping me healthy and well, right? So when you're stimulating the autonomic nervous system, there is the vagus nerve, which is the soul nerve, we like to call.
And then there's also the parasympathetic and the sympathetic nervous systems. When we are in our relaxed, grounded state, we're in the parasympathetic. The Hawaiians said that that was the learning state.
We say, and Raphael has told us, that that is the healing state. So we know that when we're calm and we're relaxed and we're grounded, that's when the miracles happen in our healing. Now, our nervous system, and this is my little phrase, will always choose the most familiar place to go.
And if we don't ground enough and know what that grounded feeling feels like, our nervous system is gonna go into the sympathetic, which is our fight or flight. Anything, you know, we can so quickly go from being grounded and being calm and healing and learning state. One thing can then take us to where it feels more familiar.
Whoop, I go straight over to the sympathetic and my heartbeat is racing again. My mouth is salivating. I am ready to get into action.
And I'm in that sympathetic fight or flight. And it can also be fawning, freeze and fawn. So if you, I was actually talking with a client this morning about that, you know, you feel that you just can't get to do anything.
And you fool yourself into thinking that you're relaxing by watching another show on the TV in a series. You're actually avoiding, you're fawning. You're not in the now, right? So again, it is just so important that we do this continually throughout our day.
Little tiny things. It's so easy. Once you've grounded, just ask to go back to that place and ground.
Do it every hour so that your nervous system starts to realize that that's its familiar place. And that's where it's gonna go to more often and more over than the fight or flight. Make sense? Yes.
And I just got reminded to the other, the other tool that I use, and I talk about this quite often, but the other tool I use is certain crystals. Because I'm a, you know, I love my crystals. And I, you know, when I think about my, my root chakra and the gold cord traveling with me as I drive, because I do a lot of driving.
The other thing that I also have is I have a big, nice chunk of petrified wood in my car. And I always say to the team, this is to keep me rooted on the road, on the highway. But it's a simple grounding technique.
And when I know that I'm getting too high in vibration, because I work, we both work with the high vibration at the Angels team. And I know that my energy is getting a little too high. I grab my petrified wood, and it gives me that balance to be connected to Mother Earth and the Divine at the same time.
And then I'm in balance. So there are, petrified wood is my go-to as a grounder. But there are a lot of people that like Black crystals, like Black Obsidian or Black Tourmaline, Onyx.
Now I've just got the flash of the crystal. Now I got to remember what it, Septarian. There's, Black seemed to be another core.
But petrified wood is my always, when somebody asks me, Cindy, what crystal should I use for grounding? I'm going to say petrified wood. And the great thing about petrified wood is that it isn't that expensive. Okay.
Because there's a lot of it on Mother Earth. Okay. And they find it in a lot of areas.
And it isn't just in one location. Okay. Different colors of petrified wood depend on where it was found.
Okay. So petrified wood is the crystal that I love. But then of course, use the crystal you're drawn to.
Yeah, I'm drawn to Amber. Amber for grounding. Well, that's interesting.
I often go to Amber and I have a big chunk of Black Amber. Oh, Black Amber. Yeah.
And I don't even think I've seen that. Oh, yeah. It's in its natural state.
I'm actually showing it to Cindy now. Oh, yeah. But because it isn't a crystal, Amber isn't a crystal.
It is from the tree, the tree sap, right? Right. And a little like petrified wood, it comes from the tree. So I always think of a tree and wood as being grounding.
And of course, my Amber has come from the tree, right? So that's something that I love to use. It doesn't matter. There's no right or wrong.
It's what you feel. And you can take any stone and you can infuse it with the intention that it's going to ground you. Yes.
I've been having fun. Well, you know, the card decks that I created are Archangel Message and the crystals. But recently, I've joined at some of the rock and gem shows.
And I'm actually going to be in Calgary at the rock and gem show August 14th. It's four days. It's at the Spruce Meadows.
Yes. Spruce Meadows. Yeah, beautiful.
But one of the things I've been guided to do for clients is I'm actually, I've started doing crystal readings along with the other type of readings that I do. So it and I'm having a lot of fun with that because it's guided as to different crystals to assist with different areas. And then the angels tell me why, which I love.
So I've been having fun with crystals, Sam. And doing something new, which always brings in new vibration. So, yeah, in Calgary, anybody wants to come and see me in person to get a really reading or ask questions, you go to I think it starts.
It's a Thursday to Sunday. It's August 14th. I know that I'm just looking at the day.
Which would be. Yes, Spruce Meadows is fun. Yeah, Spruce Meadows.
It starts at the 14th and it goes to the 17th. Myself and one of our other angel empowerment healers, Deb Weinberger. She's one of our luminaries.
She will be there with me also. And so a great if you live in the Calgary area, a great place to come to connect with both Deb and myself. So it'll be a lot of fun.
I know you're away on holidays enjoying which. Yeah, so we've talked. Let's just recap.
We've talked about being in the now, connecting to Mother Earth, using Mother Earth, Gaia, whatever you would like to say, and Archangel Raphael together to be your healer. It begins, though, by being in the now vibration. And also, can we travel to those beautiful Mother Earth locations without actually going there? Absolutely, absolutely.
Sam, anything you would like to say before we close? Well, I'm going to tell you that I actually pulled a card while you were talking from your relationship inspiration deck, which, you know, I adore. And it actually ties in with a question that I'm going to share in the next episode about grounding. But it ties in with this this one.
So tune into our next episode. And it's not quite to be continued, but something has come to me that we really need to cover in our next episode. So please tune in next time.
This is Sam Bell saying bye for now. And Cindy Smith, thank you for listening. Thank you for joining us on the Angel Empowerment Healing Show.
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