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You all know that Mother Earth has an electromagnetic field, but did you know that all beings have one too? And did you know that you can cultivate your personal electromagnetic field to align with your soul's purpose and honor your personal way of connecting with Gaia? It is all true, and here to tell us about it in Season 2, episode 13 of Give a Fuck, presented by Spark Consciousness, is Transformational life coach Kevin Carton. Join us for this enlightening conversation. Welcome to season two, episode 13 of Give a Fuck, presented by Spark Consciousness. We are dropping knowledge bombs and answering your burning questions about nature, animals, spirituality, mental health, women's empowerment and other profound topics.
Speaker 1:This podcast probably won't change your life, but hopefully it will give you some food for thought, some guidance on this twisted path we call human existence. My role as an award-winning story keeper and catalyst for healing humanity and Mother Earth is to help you reawaken your own connection with nature and, through this reconnection, reacquaint you with your intuition. What you do with it, how you incorporate that into your life, is up to you. I hope you'll make changes that benefit both you personally and Mother Earth as a whole. I hope you'll share what you learn here with others and that they'll make different, more compassionate and enlightened choices too. Either way, take what works for you, leave the rest. Always work to be the best version of yourself and try to leave the world a little better than it was when you arrived.
Speaker 1:And so, without further ado, I want to welcome Kevin to the show. I am super excited because I have known about Earth's electromagnetic field forever and have always. You know, I was playing with my aura before I knew what an aura was or that you could play with it, because it was just very instinctual for me. But I'm super excited to bring this electromagnetic field concept to my listeners because I think that they're going to be completely excited. So jump on, introduce yourself and go ahead and ask me a question if you want.
Speaker 2:Sure Well, thank you so much for having me, Sarah. I'm excited to be here and have this conversation with you and, just as you said, my title I'm a transformational life coach. Although I have a feeling you have a very similar experience to that.
Speaker 1:One label just doesn't do it, it does not.
Speaker 2:But yeah, it's easy enough to just say a broad overall term. But I'm a speaker, I'm a teacher, I'm a writer and in many ways I'm just here to help people remember who they are. So that shows up in many, many different ways. But well, I'm sure we'll get into that. But anyway, my question to you, sarah I'm always curious about people's take and viewpoint on God.
Speaker 1:Oh, I love this. So I was actually raised Jewish and so that sort of narrowed my interpretation of God from the very beginning and, logically, the whole Trinity that much of society believes in never just never made sense to me because you're saying it's one God but then you've got this trinity. So growing up Jewish and then the logic of it I always struggled with. But even with all of that, and even though my mom was raised Jewish and converted to Christianity, after she married my dad and had a Jewish wedding sometime between then and when I was born, she converted to Christianity and had a Jewish wedding. Sometime between then and when I was born, she converted to Christianity and I wound up, me and my sister both kind of wound up, being these pawns in their battle for souls. But even with all of that, I always just had this very strong sense that like there is a larger creator, a larger source, something bigger and higher or whatever words you want to use than all of us, and I kind of had that confirmed for me in very tangible ways throughout my life. I don't want to go into all of the huge stories, but I'll just say the one that I think was the most normal life. I guess I didn't seek out a special experience. I had cool experiences in Israel and Jerusalem, but one would hope you would. So the one that was kind of the most normal life was I was like a preteen, I think, and I had been begging my mom to let me pierce my ears for years and she finally agreed and walked me into the store to get it done and they pulled out the piercing gun and I had. I was terrified of needles, but they pulled out the piercing gun, which was unlike anything I had ever seen. All I saw was sharp and wow, and I total panic attack, couldn't do it. And so my I was like but mom, I still really want my ears pierced, and what can I do? And she says, well, you've got to pray to God for the courage. I was like but mom, I still really want my ears pierced, and what can I do? And she says, well, you got to pray to God for the courage. I was like, okay, and so I was laying in my bed in my messy teenager's room and my bed was like next to my desk and my drawer was not all the way pushed in because I was a messy teenager and I had my hand, like on the edge of the drawer, that wasn't pushed in, while I was laying on my stomach on the bed praying Like I just can I please give me the strength and the courage to get my ears pierced? And I don't know why, this particular night, when I had been praying for this for like weeks, but this particular night it felt like I was levitating and like or the bed fell away, the room fell away.
Speaker 1:The only thing that had me rooted to the fact that I was on earth at all was the fact that I was holding onto that desk drawer and I heard this voice, and it wasn't male, it wasn't female, it wasn't loud, it wasn't quiet, it was just there and it filled the whole space and it said you already have the courage, you just have to find it. And now I'm getting those chills, yep. So that was like as a teenager and it was like so even you know, throughout life we all have those moments when we're questioning. I would come back to moments like that, because I had several of those, and it was like, of course there's a God, I don't care what we call it. Call it God, call it Jesus, call it the universe, call it source, call it creator, pick a name. It exists, they exist, he exists, she exists. Again, pronouns are irrelevant, right? So that's kind of my take on it, yeah.
Speaker 2:That's amazing. Thank you for sharing your story. That's really beautiful.
Speaker 1:Thank you. Yeah, I'm actually going to flip that one back to you. I would love to hear your take on God and your experiences with that. I would love to hear your take on God and your experiences with that?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'd be happy to share. Much like you in my religious upbringing, I was raised Catholic, but there was always something that just didn't feel right, and in particular whenever they would quote scripture and say how Jesus was the only son of God. It just didn't make sense to me. It's like something's not lining up, because then other times they're saying that we're all children of God, Right?
Speaker 2:It's like yeah, it doesn't make sense. Yes, so I had a skepticism throughout my entire, uh, time or phase of life in religion, uh, more organized religion, until I discovered spirituality, which is my term. I use it where there's the awareness or the belief, or I like to say it's even a knowing, that there is a creator, but that it's not just alone to one particular path or practice like.
Speaker 2:Christianity or Judaism or Islam, like it doesn't matter. Actually, there is one creator, it's created all things and that these are different systems that can be used by humans to help, but it's just gotten so misconstrued, and so I think that's why a lot of people are opening up more to spirituality and not particular religion. Religion is still very powerful and useful because if you align with it and use it in the right way or allow it to support you, then it's fantastic. But where it gets into control and power dynamics, that that's that's where it gets. You know, a bit of an issue for me.
Speaker 1:Can I just have a quick amen from everybody right there, and that was pun intended, but I agree, religion has its place, but it's not supposed to be about controlling your life or telling you how to live.
Speaker 2:Anyway, Exactly, yeah, but you know my experience with it I would say with God, with building a personal relationship is that it developed through science. Go figure, I run a podcast with my brother which, Sarah, you will be on. Anyway, I run the podcast with my brother and we love to blend the two because it's been so integral for our path and our awakening that science is now proving a lot of what spirituality has been saying for centuries, millennia.
Speaker 1:I love watching that all happen too.
Speaker 2:Same, yes, so that started to spark my interest, or awareness, that there's some intelligence going on in the universe. There has to be, otherwise it's impossible for us to even exist. If you just even take the odds of being born literally from sperm to egg, it's one out of 400 trillion opportunities. It's so rare. You're more likely to win lottery 10 times in your life than to actually be born on planet Earth as a human. So that alone, let alone all of evolution that has brought us to where we are today, it's incredible. So to me, there's an intelligent designer and we are just blessed to have an individual expression or experience of life that is connected to that divine source. So anyway, that's my point of view, that's my take.
Speaker 1:I love it. It sounds like we're coming from a very similar space, so I love that, and I'm not surprised either that we're coming from a similar space. So let's dive into the really good stuff, what I call the seitan of the show, because, being vegan, that's what we go with. Tell me all about this electromagnetic field thing because, like I said, I you know, I've obviously known about earths for a long time and I personally have understood the one on our bodies, but it's not something I talk about really on my show, because I come at it more from the.
Speaker 1:You're kind of coming at it from like human to earth and I'm going at it from earth to human perspective. So I want to hear all about this. This is very cool.
Speaker 2:Well, you know, it's fascinating. Actually, I love your approach that you you take it from earth to human Gaia, to our individual self, because really the only way we actually have a personal electromagnetic energy field is from the blessing of earth, from our mother, and so we would not have our electromagnetic energy field if it wasn't for earth. This is vaguely bringing up a memory that, yeah, I believe there's even been some research that shows that, like when astronauts go to space, they're away for too long, that their energy field starts to deplete because we're not being filled up by our mother.
Speaker 1:I mean that makes all the sense in the world Right.
Speaker 2:It's like if you're not connected to source, then eventually you'll die, it'll die out. Like you know, a battery if it's not recharged, then it's not going to continue to work forever.
Speaker 1:But so you need, you need water, you need air, earth, yeah exactly.
Speaker 2:Yes, it's like uh, you need to be plugged in. In essence.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I love this. This is super cool, keep going, but anyway. So our personal electromagnetic energy field. It has two very important components that then can start to reveal how we can start working with our field and strengthening it, programming it even for benefits of what we want to create, how we can benefit mother earth, give back to her. But it starts with our mind, our thoughts, and then it goes down to our heart and that's the magnetic energy field. So it's, the two parts are electric and then magnetic. That's why we call it the electromagnetic field. But so the two parts in our body is our brain and the electrical impulses that go many, many times, I mean hundreds and hundreds of times, every, pretty much every second, when we think the connections in our brain through our neurons, and then after, if we think dominant thoughts, certain dominant patterns of thought, then that forms or influences the way in which our heart functions.
Speaker 2:And the more recent research is called um, oh, my God, I'm blanking on it for a second. It is, there's a certain rhythm. I'm forgetting the exact term. I'm sorry, but the heart math Institute is a fantastic research Institute that proves all of this and um, it it's called uh, there's, there's a coherence. There we go, it's a word for it. It's a mind, a coherence. There we go, it's a word for it, it's a mind, heart coherence that you can develop, that if you get in tune with your heart enough, then there's a a more clear channel from your mind into your heart so that you can then influence again your energy field more specifically for again what you want to create. But that's the basics of it and at least currently, right now, our science can measure about six to eight feet from our body the energy field that we have. I personally believe, and many spiritual teachers believe, that it goes way beyond that, up to 50 feet and beyond. I personally actually believe we're connected to the entire universe through our energy field.
Speaker 2:However what we can measure is actually, yeah, still pretty vast and pretty large. So that's the basics of it, at least like the structure of what we're talking about.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I just want to jump in and say that as a Reiki master teacher, I know that I can feel it stronger as I'm closer, of course, but then as I back up, I still feel it, and I still feel it. And the further back I get like if I'm not in a room by myself and just that one other person the further back I get. I start to notice, oh, that, that, oh that and oh, and there's more. So they have to all be connected, even though our scientific instruments can't figure it out yet.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yes, exactly, I think the key is that it's yet. Yeah, exactly, yeah, that's the key, but yeah, so it's. It's a fascinating approach to life Most of us have never been introduced to or, uh, known about, but when you become aware of this field, then you honestly I really believe this is a proper term for this but you could start creating magic in your life.
Speaker 1:Oh, totally, yeah, it's absolutely the right term for it. Um, yes, and and I not so much on podcast, because, again, I'm not necessarily approaching it from that perspective, but like in my own life I will refer to people's personal magic, and really, those people that I'm talking about, they're the ones who have figured out how to be aligned, whether they've intentionally done it or not. They've figured out how to be aligned, whether they've intentionally done it or not. They've figured out how to do that alignment thing, and whatever they touch is just it's like the Midas touch, right? So, yeah, it totally is magic, yeah.
Speaker 2:Right, I agree. So how does a?
Speaker 1:person start to actually make that alignment happen if this is a brain using for them.
Speaker 2:Well, first, I personally believe this is an essential practice. Is meditation Essential? And the big part of it is because if we cannot learn to control our thoughts, our mind, then we actually can't really strengthen our field to the degree that it's meant to be strengthened, or at least developed, Because it's not just a one and done thing and it's it requires maintenance, much like our physical body, right, Like you don't expect to eat well for one week and then be healthy for the rest of your life. Same thing with our energy field, I know. But if we learn to control our mind and work with our thoughts more consciously since we're thinking thoughts 24 seven, whether we realize it or not, even when we're sleeping, we're actually technically thinking, it's just at a subconscious level. So we must learn to control our thoughts, because then we can influence and control our energy field more effectively, more efficiently, more masterfully.
Speaker 2:So it begins with our thoughts, but then it also dives into our emotions and our physical body Because, as I mentioned, the heart is the magnetic force and the heart is the centralized point of our magnetic energy field.
Speaker 2:However, our entire body carries that magnetic energy that goes out and expresses out, and so the second part of this is honestly also regulating our emotions, which you can't really regulate your emotions if you're not able to control your thoughts or your mind. Because if we learn to meditate and actually focus our thought, then we can allow our focus to be settled on our emotions and allow ourselves to feel work through any of the more difficult emotions that we experience as humans. And then that's where we start to develop more of the magnetic field that is more in alignment with what we want to create more positivity, more love, more joy, whatever experiences we would love to have more of in life, which most people want more positive experience. So that's how we work with and again, there's so many steps and depth that we can go to each of these parts, but this is again the basics, the foundation of this energy field that we have.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So, being the sci-fi geek that I am, I'm, of course, in my head going this is Spock, right? This is Yolkins. This is Spock. This is very cool.
Speaker 2:Exactly but.
Speaker 1:I personally find the word control when it comes to thoughts and emotions difficult, because I don't to me at least, the way that's been successful for me is it's not so much that I am controlling them, I bring awareness to them and I say, okay, this thought is not beneficial right now, it's bringing me down, it's not helping me move forward, it's freaking me out. Whatever it is that is not actually useful in some way, shape or form. A negative thought can be helpful sometimes if you don't dwell in it, right, and so it's bringing awareness to it and saying, ok, is this useful for me? And if it's not, how can I shift that? How can I reframe that? And it's the same thing with emotions.
Speaker 1:If you know, just because you're feeling terrified doesn't mean that's bad. That can also be a sign that you're going the wrong way. Don't go down that street because it's bad, right, don't put yourself in that danger, girl. So again, to me, it's not so much going, don't be afraid. Don't be afraid. Or don't worry. Don't worry, don't worry, because then I actually feel those things more. It's going. Is this feeling, thought, whatever, situationally appropriate, does it make sense for right now? Is it helping me in this situation, in this moment to get to where I'm trying to go, and if it is, then we keep going, and if it's not, we have to reframe it somehow.
Speaker 2:I appreciate you adding that because you know it really is. In some ways it's semantics, but I think semantic in this way it does matter, because everyone has a different interpretation or connection with different words that align with them. I use the word in control, exactly what you just spoke to. So I appreciate you clarifying because that's exactly what I mean.
Speaker 1:Perfect, it's not about forcing.
Speaker 2:It's more about the awareness. But then the control, quote, unquote. Control that's the word I'm using, but I hear you that it does not resonate exactly with you. But that's what I mean is that you have to have that ability to choose a different thought when you're in that awareness. That choice sometimes can feel difficult or it's not like, oh, the easiest thing to do. It's actually, I believe, the most difficult work in the world. So that's why I do use the word control because, there's a certain level of rigor that is required.
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah, it's not. It's not like super simple, but it's also the most amazing thing you can ever do.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:So can you give, can you give us a couple of like real life examples whether it's from you or clients or whatever on on like how this, this method of changing your thoughts when necessary, changing your emotions when necessary, has has like been some big out, changed some big outcomes potentially.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'll give you a perfect example of this. So I worked with a client, uh, his name is David and he was early on in his career, his early twenties, just uh, it was like a year out of graduating from school and getting his film degree, and his dream was to become a videographer. And he also loves sports, grew up playing football, watching football, living in Pittsburgh, so he was a Steelers fan. He had a dream of being the videographer on field for his favorite football team. He had that dream, sure, but when he came to me, he had his focus on three different opportunities. He had job offer or not job offers, but job interviews for these different companies, and he was feeling excited. So we worked together because he wants to just continue his personal development, grow in his own spiritual awareness.
Speaker 1:I mean, 20 is just like the perfect time to undertake all of this anyway, so yeah, Definitely I mean sooner the better, of course to undertake all of this anyway.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, definitely I mean sooner the better, of course, for anyone. And so when he came to me, we got started. Within a few weeks he actually found out that he got rejected from all three of those opportunities. Difficult situation, right, because he had that set and also not to mention also he just moved. He was living in California, he just moved back home and he was looking for a new job in his field so that he could earn money, be able to pay his bills, to go forward in life. But then he gets these rejection notices and he signed up for coaching with me and part of him was feeling like something was going wrong.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and on the surface it looks like that.
Speaker 2:Right, exactly and honestly. Anyone would have certain thoughts of like, oh, what did I do wrong, I could have done better.
Speaker 2:I should have said something different in that interview, or what's wrong with me, exactly. So I supported him in quote unquote, controlling his thought to focus on what's the good out of this, what is going back to your vision, what would you love, and is this the end for you, or are you willing to persist until you succeed? And so it took him some support to actually really align his thoughts with his vision of what he really would love. And I kid you not, it was within a month. It wasn't immediate and it took some time like, honestly, daily reframing of the mind to stay open to possibility. And it was a random opportunity, somehow out of the blue, it seems, but I believe it's because his energetic field was aligned. His electromagnetic energy field was aligned through his thoughts, through him saying open, staying positive. He got a ran. It seemed random, but I believe it was actually aligned with his energy field he was putting out.
Speaker 2:A friend of a friend reached out and said hey, I've remembered that you're looking for a videographer job and I have a friend who works for Fox News and they're actually looking for someone new. And so he got this random opportunity. It was again a few weeks after those rejections and seemed like it was the perfect fit and within just a few weeks he got that job. And what do you know? Before, just before the end of our coaching of just three months, he had the opportunity to be on the field of his favorite football team and he actually got to meet some of his childhood heroes, for who he watched play from when he was a young boy.
Speaker 1:That's so cool. I love that. I love that and I feel like that is so true. It can seem like it's all going wrong, even though you're trying to do all the right things. I've been through that situation more times than I can even count, but what really matters is staying focused on well, what do you really want?
Speaker 1:And just because you know, just because this didn't work out doesn't mean nothing's going to. It just means this was not the right path, not the right situation, not the right whatever. And it gets easier with practice, for sure. But I also hope that you know people have fewer opportunities to practice than I've had.
Speaker 2:So do you have another example Maybe, like maybe something from your own life, where this oh yeah, well, this, actually I think this will be a great story to introduce then the topic of how we can align our energy field with our soul's purpose Perfect. So this is just like my quintessential story because it changed my life when this happened and this is actually even technically before I started really being aware of my electromagnetic energy field and working with it more consciously. I was introduced to this before this had happened in my life, but it wasn't like a conscious practice of me aligning my thoughts, my emotions, with something I wanted to create. It's what kind of cracked me open in a way. So when I was younger my speaking of my twenties again early twenties I was in school to get my doctorate in pharmacy and that was my original path, because I love science I still do to this day, of course and I also wanted to help people, and so I went into college to get my pharmacy degree because it aligned with that path and also it seemed like a good salary that you can get and it was prestigious.
Speaker 2:There was a lot of reasons behind it, but it was more aligned with logic and what seemed right than what I was ultimately put here to do, why I believe I'm here on planet earth at this time in human history, and how I've incarnated in this personality as Kevin Carton. I say those words for a reason, because I believe it's a choice.
Speaker 1:Oh, it is totally a choice Everything is a choice. Right, including your parents, and there were times I questioned why I chose mine's a choice?
Speaker 2:Oh, it is totally a choice.
Speaker 1:Everything is a choice, right Including your parents, and there are times I question why I chose mine, but anyway I agree.
Speaker 2:So yeah, so ultimately, I guess my soul knew I wasn't aligned in that path. But it took me about three and a half years to realize that. So it was almost toward the end of my four-year undergrad degree to get that. I got interested in personal development, go figure, and that started to open me up to just some even spiritual practices, like I got interested in yoga and meditation at that time. So I was starting to become aware, but it was at a somewhat still a surface level of awareness.
Speaker 2:But the shift that happened for me was that after a while I started to realize that I was not in the right path. And a big reason why because I started working at a community pharmacy. I started to see patients come in for getting their medications and it didn't seem like we were helping them at all. It just seemed like we were treating symptoms rather than the underlying cause of people's actual diseases and illnesses, and I felt horrible about that. And so one of the biggest things that I started to really tune into and this could be a key for anyone is to really honor your discontent, honoring the discontent that you actually experience in life. Like you actually said this before, sarah, not all negative thought is bad, it could actually be a really good redirection and help for you. So for me, I knew deep in my my, my heart. I knew to my bones that this path was just not for me. But it took me several months to actually make the very scary decision to not continue to get my doctorate.
Speaker 2:So I ultimately did get a four-year degree, but that is what was my major shift in my. It was in my career, but it shifted my entire life because if I knew what I didn't want, then there had to be something else that was something that aligned with what I really would love. I didn't know it yet I just I really honestly built up some trust and faith that there was something. Because I started to study like life purpose and again I mentioned I was getting into personal development. So everything I was reading was saying a different teacher saying or writers or coaches saying that we all have a purpose here, and even I love this point of view.
Speaker 2:I've heard this that we all have a unique soul purpose as unique as our thumbprint. We all have a unique thumbprint that is unlike any other human being on the planet at any other time in human history. It will never be the same thumbprint as you, and so that is related also to our purpose. We all have a very unique purpose here on planet earth, and so I started to open up to that and realize, all right, there's got to be something for me, and I just now know what isn't it, and so it was a bold move. But me choosing that was ultimately me being aware of my energy field being out of alignment. So sometimes it's actually not bad. It seems like it's bad on the surface.
Speaker 1:And it can feel bad. Yeah, it feels really bad yeah.
Speaker 2:Exactly, but it's like a signal, like you said. So, that was just my personal journey of that and that opened me up and I can tell story after story of me aligning my energy field. But I also believe something.
Speaker 1:Well, to me it's like peeling an onion right, Like it's this ongoing journey, Because even once you are kind of in that slot where you know what it is and you know what your thumbprint is, to use your analogy right. You know what it is and you know what your thumbprint is, to use your analogy right and you know there's still this unwrapping that has to be done of how do you put it out in the world in ways that are accessible for other people, how do you let other people know that you exist in this lifetime and how you can help them, and that continues. And then there's more personal growth that happens as you unwrap that. And so it's still this ongoing thing. It's just less icky feeling.
Speaker 2:Yes, that's actually a really good way of putting it. It does just get less icky.
Speaker 1:Right, I mean it's funny you were talking about in your 20s, and I think the 20s are very transformational for a lot of people. 20 and thirties were certainly very transformational for me, but even before that, like I, people who've known me like a long time will say Sarah is the only person on the planet who has a midlife crisis, like every 15 years. And I see what I do, it's not intentional, but like my 15th birthday, I'm in high school, okay, nobody's accomplished anything. We're 15. We're in high school Okay, nobody's accomplished anything. We're 15. We're in high school. We're lucky. We get out of bed and eat breakfast in the morning, right. But I am here in my, it's my birthday and I. Somebody walked into my classroom, my English classroom, and said happy birthday, sarah, and I burst into tears Sorry, what's the matter? Are you okay?
Speaker 1:And and I'm like I'm halfway to 30 and I haven't accomplished anything with my life, and I was like devastated and so and that was like I I immediately and? But rather than dwell in the fact that I hadn't accomplished anything, I immediately said about well, how can I start accomplishing something even though I'm only 15? And then I got to college and, much like you, I picked a major that turned out to be not the right one, but it was interesting because it was still sort of aligned. I majored in, I went to school to be a teacher and I chose high school special ed, mainly because nobody else was doing it, which turned out to be a mistake. There was a reason nobody else was doing it. The school didn't know how to teach you to do that. Other schools did, but the school where I was didn't know how to teach you to do that.
Speaker 1:So I was basically set up to fail, unintentionally, but some part of my soul knew and purposely set me up to fail. I look back on it, but at the time it was just massively frustrating. Set me up to fail, I look back on it, but at the time it was just massively frustrating. And then it was a bunch of life changes and permutations and marriages and divorces and moving around back and forth across the country with cats and toting my stuff, you know, in a U-Haul and all of this. But eventually I realized I am here to teach but not that way. That's not the way that I teach. That's not what I teach. I teach about connecting to Mother Earth and what Mother Earth teaches us about life. I'm here to interpret, basically right, that's what I teach, that's how I teach, and so I totally get how you had to go on this basically almost completely wrong direction to get in the right direction.
Speaker 2:Right. I think it's beautiful what you brought up to that Technically. It's funny how I actually learned this. It was a moment in in Indonesia that I was on a spiritual pilgrimage, went off with a friend. In Indonesia that I was on a spiritual pilgrimage, went off with a friend, we got lost and this message dropped in within. It was like the first half an hour of us being lost. We were lost for like three hours. It was funny. Now looking back it's funny, but we were scared At the time.
Speaker 1:it was scary yeah.
Speaker 2:Exactly, but a half an hour in this message just dropped in, it felt like a download or a message from God. It said when you think you're lost, you're not. And I was like what kind of paradox is this? And my left brain was like where my logic was going, like this is ridiculous, that means nothing. But actually we found some beautiful things which enhanced our experience in that travels. But anyway, the point being that, again, when you think you're lost, you're not, that there's breadcrumbs that you can find you can say oh exactly.
Speaker 2:That will lead you to your life's purpose, or your soul's purpose, if you follow it.
Speaker 1:That's the biggest key, it's a big. You actually have to pick them up and follow them. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Exactly, and there's. Are you familiar with the hero's journey, sarah?
Speaker 1:Of course yes.
Speaker 2:So that there's that, that a whole concept came from the writer Joseph Campbell, who did research on thousands and thousands and thousands of different mythologies, stories, real life examples and then codified it as what he called the hero's journey. And in the hero's journey there is the refusal to the call. So we get called by life or source or gods for an adventure to grow, to move toward our life purpose, and then we'll refuse it.
Speaker 1:Like no, no, thanks, actually People do and I've done that and at least in my case and I think this happens to most of us who actually want to be aligned with it and are just maybe scared or whatever when you say no, you keep getting whacked over the head with it.
Speaker 2:There's no saying no to God.
Speaker 1:You really can't. No, you're not allowed, exactly, and I have a quick story about that for me. So I spent most of my adult life in Southern New Hampshire and I owned a house by myself in Nashua and I thought that was my forever home. I thought I was going to not morbidly, but I thought I was going to die there and that was peaceful to me, like that's what I wanted. And more and more I kept feeling this like no, you need to move, and I was refusing, like I was having severe attachment issues with this house, basically Like I and I kept refusing and things just kept getting worse and worse and worse and worse, until one day I woke up and I was like I guess I'm moving and I just sat down on realtorcom and I was like, show me where I'm going.
Speaker 1:And. And I had had a dream during this whole thing that took place in Westminster, colorado, which I did finally wind up in there for a little while, but that wasn't where I first went, because that felt way too hard to move that far across the country at that point in time. So again I was saying yes, but no right. I was like, well, maybe, but it was interesting. So my again, I was raised Jewish and so my Torah portion was the story about how Abraham and Sarah who at the time were called Avram and Sarai, because the H means life and that's important later they're called to go on this journey and God basically says go forth, and if you trust me and you go on this journey, you will be a blessing to the world.
Speaker 1:And your Torah portion is not picked by you. It's based on your birth date and where that lines up with where you're at in the Torah scroll that's reset on the same day every year. So that was like predestined, that that was going to be my Torah portion. My name on my birth certificate initially did not have the h. My mom left it off. They legally added it on my bat mitzvah because I was. I was insisting on spelling it that way from as long as I could spell basically I without knowing that it meant life.
Speaker 1:I now wear that on my around my neck because it's that important to me. But there's a song that goes along with that tour portion. That's all about you know, you will be a blessing. And throughout this whole process of having to give up this house that I thought I was going to live in forever, I kept hearing that song in my head and so I knew it was the right thing, even though it was the hard thing. And ultimately I went to Vermont at first, which was the very wrongest place, not that nothing good happened there, but it was the very most not aligned place. But it needed to happen, also because it made me go. Okay, fine, wherever I'm supposed to go, I'll just go. I don't care if it's the freaking moon, I will figure out how to get me and the cats and my stuff there. Just tell me where the hell I'm supposed to go, right, right. And ultimately it was Westminster, colorado, for about a year and a half. And it was. It was great, it will. That will always be so special to my heart.
Speaker 1:It wasn't my final destination, if you will, but that's where everything started to come together. That's where everything started to make sense. That's where I finally started to understand here's what I'm supposed to do, here's why I've incarnated this time at this place as this person. Okay, and then, once I kind of had all of that figured out, I actually got really stuck, because the mountains, as gorgeous and amazing and phenomenal as they are, are incredibly fixed energy and I also, in my astrological chart, have a lot of fixed energy. So fixed and fixed wasn't moving life forward. At that point it was like, okay, I've gotten the insights I needed, the blessings I needed. The mountains taught me to think big and to get out of my own damn way, without really knowing even where I was going to go.
Speaker 1:I was actually set to sign a mortgage on a house in upstate New York and at literally 24 hours before I was set to leave to drive across the country, I was like that's not where I want to live and I backed out of the deal. So I hit the road with a driver. This time I had a second driver. I didn't have to tow my car, which was great, but it was like I don't know where we're going, but we're going, and that turned out to be amazing too.
Speaker 1:And ultimately, where I am living right now, I know, is not my final stop, but it's the next to final Because the next stop I know where that is and I know that that is the soul aligned place, but I had to be where I am right now because I'm across the street from a river and it had to. It needed the river to get me moving again. After the end, after the mountains, it all makes sense when you open yourself up to it making sense. I hate where I'm living right now for everything except the river. I hate it. It is awful, but I can be okay with the fact that it sucks right now because I know it's serving a purpose. You know A hundred percent.
Speaker 1:That's how life goes sometimes. So what else? What else do you feel like it's really important for people to know about aligning their electromagnetic field, tips for how to get? I mean, you said meditation, but what about people who really struggle with that whole meditation thing?
Speaker 2:Ah, yes, great question. Struggle with that whole meditation thing? Ah, yes, great question. Well, meditation doesn't have to always be sitting down and trying to focus or quiet your mind.
Speaker 2:There's many different forms of meditation, like one of my my, um, my brother actually really enjoys walking meditations. So it's in essence you're allowing yourself to have just a different focus. Because, at least in my interpretation and basic at least view, like a simplest view of meditation is the focusing of the mind. So the focus of the mind doesn't have to just be on your breath or on just a mantra, or even like just your body. Those are more of the traditional types of meditation.
Speaker 2:But meditation could be you walking outside and my brother, he has a great walking meditation where he focuses on nature. So he'll move around his attention, but it's very mindful and intentional. He's not just looking around and just like having random thoughts about things. He's focusing his attention so that he's developing that skill or that ability to choose the thoughts that he wants to choose. So it can. It can range, but ultimately I really believe meditation is essential because you get to notice and realize and have a visceral experience of you not being your thoughts. You're the one who can control or choose your thoughts. And then same thing with the body that we have a body. We are, not our body.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:And so-.
Speaker 1:It is a meat package, as one of my friends calls it.
Speaker 2:Yes, I like to call it, it's our earth suit. Yeah, exactly, you need a space suit to live in space you have an earth suit to live in.
Speaker 1:Exactly.
Speaker 2:Exactly, yeah, but other than that, I really I think another very important thing is to make sure you're asking yourself the right questions, because questions really open up new doors. I actually believe that questions are portals into new experiences, and so when we learn to ask more empowering, uplifting and expansive questions, then we are literally ushering into, ushering ourselves into a new phase of our life.
Speaker 1:So give me some examples of those types of questions.
Speaker 2:Yes, I was about to go into it. So the first question, my favorite question, simplest one, and you can honestly use this daily and you'll never run out of new and exciting answers for yourself. It's a very simple question, but I like to say it's a deceptively simple question because its power is very, very deep and it's only revealed when you actually practice this and work on it. So the question is what would I love? What I love, not what do I want, what do I think I should have in my life, or what should I go for? What's my purpose Although that's a good question to that last one. But but what would I love actually leads you to your greater, greater purpose.
Speaker 2:And I I want to highlight and really focus on this question because, sarah, you asked before and before we hit record, and I think it was actually when we were scheduling this that you're curious if our conversation on the personal electromagnetic energy field aligns with and supports Mother Earth's electromagnetic energy field. It does, and here's why, when we focus our thought on the question, what would I love? And we allow ourselves to discover answers that really align with what we feel called to bring forth, that will be a blessing to all life, all life, always. A little quick nuance here that can be misconstrued, because when we ask the question what would I love? Sometimes our programming or our conditioning kicks in. It's like desires that we've been programmed to want. That might still be like a remedy.
Speaker 1:Like if you had said, I want to be a pharmacist, I would love to be a pharmacist, that would not be. That's a programming answer, not a sole answer. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Exactly yes, and I doubt that my parents actually asked that exact question, like what would you love they were getting in the right ballpark? That's why we are very much clarified. It's not what do you want? Right, because wants still do deal with our human experience. There's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1:No, there's a place. There's a place, but what do you love is a deeper soul level question.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly Because love is all deeper soul level question yeah, exactly, cause love is all there is. I believe we are actually loved into existence. God created us and so that had to come from love, just like a loving father would love their son or daughter or their child, so it's. It's a, it's a form of connecting with, literally, the impulse of life everywhere, and life itself wants growth. That's why we're alive. That's why you look at anything in nature, any plant, it's always seeking greater growth for itself.
Speaker 1:And animals too. Like look at wild animals. Same thing.
Speaker 2:Exactly, yeah. So it's life itself that is wanting expansion or growth, and that is just the impulse of all life you cannot refuse that they talk about this on Star Trek all the time too.
Speaker 2:Just saying that's awesome, yeah, so it's in essence you're honoring that life force within you, seeking greater life. Now here's one other point to this too, and this is where, like, it just gets nuanced or like. This is why meditation is my first recommendation to really get to know yourself. Because when you ask the question, what would I love? Sometimes those answers actually deal with our human life. We have human experiences and human results, in our health, in our relationships, in our work, in our vocation, in our time and money, freedom and that desire, that true, authentic love for what you want to create in your life. It may be material things, it may be improving your human life, but that doesn't mean it's not aligned with your soul's purpose, and so it really gets nuanced there. But if you just learn to ask that question and you could use that question daily, you can ask it about big things, you could ask it about small things.
Speaker 2:I'll often think to myself when I'm out at a restaurant having dinner with my wife, I'll ask myself what would I love, not what do I think I should have if I want to be healthy, conscious, or what should I have if I want to save money. It's nothing about that, it's what would I love, and I may make different choices based on oh, I actually want to save money today, or I want to eat more healthy than Cheryl, and I'll actually align my thought to what would I love that aligns with that. That I really want, sure, but it's not coming from a place of need to or should Right. It really comes from a heart centered opening like what would give me life right now which is so powerful.
Speaker 1:So I God, how long ago now 10-ish years ago now, I guess I was working towards my black belt in Muay Thai, and I did it mainly not because I love martial arts I mean, there's nothing bad about them, that's just not something I ever thought of myself as being a martial arts person. But I was coming out of a really bad relationship and that was how I took my power back, was was I did this martial arts thing. And now, like you touch me and you're flipping over my back like we're done, but I was as I was, working through my black belt. You know, there's people of all ages in the dojo, even like the adult classes still have like teenagers and stuff in them.
Speaker 1:And so there was this one girl. She was graduating from high school and, you know, getting ready to go to college and having those big questions that you're somehow supposed to answer at 18. Like, what do you want to major in and do with the rest of your life? And she's looking to me for some advice. And, and I said to her, I said you know, megan, you're probably hearing a billion different things from a billion different people right now your guidance counselors, your teachers, your parents, your sister, everybody thinks they know what's best for you and they mean, well, they do. They love you and they want what's best for you. But only you know the answer to that I said so what I'm going to. My advice is not going to be I think you should do X, y, z thing with your life. My advice to you is look at what you're passionate about. And that can mean you get pissed off. That can mean you're. This thing gets your blood so fricking, boiling, that you want to punch that bag harder than you've ever punched it before in your life. It can also bring mean it brings you the most amount of joy you've ever experienced. But figure out what your passions are and do that.
Speaker 1:And and she's like I never thought about thinking about what makes me angry before and I'm like but I was in. This was long before I had fully even understood all of this myself. But I said but I was like Megan, some part of me just understood. I was like but, megan, the thing that makes you angry is the thing you could be here to fix. It could be the thing you're here to solve. And it was just. It was like somehow I was speaking. This wisdom. That obviously was not coming from me because I hadn't figured it out even at that point.
Speaker 1:But it's so funny to me because I look at what I do now and and people will say, god, everything gets Sarah riled up. It kind of does, but that's because what really at the heart of all of it and this took me a long time to drill down and figure out what is the commonality between all of the things that I just get so riled up about? And I'm a Scorpio, I get riled up easy but at the heart of all of it is what riles me up is people who are not living aligned, and that's aligned with themselves, aligned with Mother Earth, aligned with the universe, and so, of course, it seems like everything is pissing me off because most people aren't living that way, and so I love that there are more and more people like you coming around to do this hard work of helping people shift into that aligned place. It gives me hope in this really scary world that we're living in right now.
Speaker 2:Right, I agree.
Speaker 1:Any final thoughts, other tips, suggestions, important information.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think a certain level of grounding is also very important when it comes to our energy field, cause, like we talked about and we began with this whole conversation, is that we're connected to earth and that we cannot live without her, or there's that very strong connection that is important to cultivate.
Speaker 2:Part of my meditation practice that I'll imagine or at least just visualize, because this is, this is actually a reality of what's going on, but we may not be in tune with it because it's a subtle energy. But we have a direct connection with mother earth through our heart. And if you can imagine that there is a uh, uh, like a shaft of light or an energy field that is going from your heart straight down into the core of mother earth, then that is really what is happening when we're connecting with earth. And you could do that consciously, or usually, for most people it's unconscious that they're not even aware that there is that connection, but you can cultivate it. So in meditation I'll just visualize that for a few moments. Uh, send energy down to earth, send gratitude to mother earth, because, again, I wouldn't be here, I wouldn't have the blessings I have in my life if mother earth wasn't around. So I think it's important to send energy, send gratitude, send love, because um for all that we receive, then we want to give back.
Speaker 1:She needs us. She needs us very badly right now. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:I love. I love that you use that heart visualization. We've we've talked on this show before about intuition and how do you tell the difference and follow your gut and all of this stuff. And people ask me all the time when they and they understand what I do. And I'm like you know it's different for everybody, right.
Speaker 1:But I do believe it's a somatic experience and for me, my gut is constantly anxious. I live with anxiety. So listening to what's actually happening in my physical gut is useless because it's always going to be anxious. It's not telling me accurate information, it's just conveying. There's something about this that's anxiety causing. It doesn't mean it's actually the wrong thing, but when I listened, when I figured out how to listen to my heart space, that's when I know I'm getting the truth. So you know my heart if it expands and feels open, that's the right direction, even if it's also terrifying. If it closes, that's not the right direction, even if it seems easy. So I love that you made that connection between our hearts and Mother Earth's heart, because for me I think that's why that's how that works for me.
Speaker 2:That's awesome. I love that and I think it's exactly how it works. You're right, and I also really appreciate you emphasizing how works.
Speaker 1:You're right and I I also really appreciate you emphasizing how important it is to to love on mama earth, because she really she's hurting, she does, she needs us. I think of like the giving tree, which is like the saddest book ever written and and that's basically what we have done to all of the planet and it's devastating. So I love that you're focusing on that because, yeah, she needs us very much. So if people want to work with you, how can they find you?
Speaker 2:So my podcast, for sure you could definitely tune into, uh, and it's free. There's so many episodes we have that are available. It's called science and spirituality. You can find us anywhere Spotify, uh, apple Google podcasts we're soon to be, actually probably by the release of this, will be on youtube, uh, so yeah, we've got tons of episodes, or? Uh, if you want to actually go directly to my website, it's kevin cartoncom perfect and anything else you want us to know no, I think that's it awesome.
Speaker 2:This is this is a great conversation. I really appreciate it I loved having you here.
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