Spirit Contributes to Your Life - Believe It or Not

What if the most important part of your spiritual journey isn't your beliefs—but your connection to Spirit?  In this thought-provoking episode of TNT SpiritWorks, Tom Shantz and Teresa explore the one connection every person has available, regardless of religion, philosophy, or spiritual path: the connection to the positive Spirit.  Those Master Souls ready to share with you at any place and time "Spirit shows up everywhere in our lives."

While beliefs can inspire us, real transformation comes through personal experience. Tom and Teresa discuss the difference between collecting intellectual spiritual knowledge and living from your own true feelings and inner awareness. They share how through intuition, Spiritual Helpers, offer creativity and their wisdom, transforming everyday experiences.  They are practical guides for living with greater peace, purpose, and authenticity.  "Allow emotions to surface, then move through them."

Whether you identify as religious, spiritual, both, or neither, this conversation invites you to look beyond labels and discover the deeper presence of spirit already working in your life.  "Growth often comes from discomfort, not comfort."  It's the fulfillment experienced when following through your desires through involvement in challenges.

In This Episode You'll Discover:

• Why spirit connects us beyond our belief systems.
• The difference between spiritual knowledge and spiritual experience.
• How intuition and spiritual Guidance show up for you in everyday life.
• Why your greatest answers come from within.
• Practical ways to trust yourself and live with greater peace.
• How shared human experiences reveal universal spiritual truths.
• If you're looking for grounded, practical spirituality that helps you navigate everyday life with greater awareness, this episode offers timeless insights you can begin applying today.

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Transcript

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No matter what you believe or your belief systems are, this one thing shows up for all of us in many different ways. So stick with Tom and I for a few moments as we share what this one important thing is for your life. So, Tom, we just had our reawakened regrouping this week, which is something we do every month on a Friday evening, our time, Central Time, and then on a Saturday morning.

So we kind of hit different people around the planet. And every time we do a regrouping, so many things surface for where people are at, what we're all experiencing at one time. Yeah, sure does. So this month was interesting because one big key that I noticed is how many times we're all going through a variation of the same type of reality, same type of trying to get clarity, same type of thing coming up. Did you notice that too?

The spiritual lessons that the the synchronicity or the almost coincidentally working on the same concepts that are holding us back or limiting thoughts or having those same stimulating experiences and looking for solutions. It's there's always, you know, variation between all of us. But I was surprised at just how we were all going through the same thing.

Yeah. And the thing that hit me too is the same things that we were all experiencing and going through, we were doing it in different aspects of our life. So, you know, this podcast is about obviously waking up and embracing the spiritual part of yourself and being practical with it as you move through your days. And, you know, I shared a few things and sort of other people about how we've experienced really moments of clarity in the most kind of mundane.

moments of life and I'll share one right now. So I I'm going on a retreat with my office, my whole my whole office, there's like nine offices in the Midwest. And so we go on a retreat twice a year. I almost said that retweet. A retreat twice a year. And the one coming up in September, it's about 12 hours from here. It's a special event and then 12 hours back to go for like a day or two. And we were going to drive it and

I looked at air flights maybe about two months ago and they were so expensive. And so I'm like, no, we'll just drive it. We'll make it over two days and, you know, make an event out of it, right? And then maybe midweek is about Wednesday, I got an insight out of the blue to check air flights for the retreat. And I'm like, hmm, okay. So I just get on, I start looking, I'm like, my gosh, they're like a th two thirds less than they were two months ago.

And, you know, I talked to my some of the people in my office who, you know, were going together and we decided to fly. So it's stuff like that that just pops up and kind of like us, you know, at work. I mean, like this spiritual stuff, the unseen parts of us show up in all aspects. What have you noticed lately for yourself, Tom? Well, yeah, I that I can pick up impressions from spirit, from my spiritual helpers.

And you know, that positive spirit, master souls, are giving us suggestions all the time. And it's not even always around quote spiritual growth or spiritual business. Sometimes it's just creativity or how to enjoy the moment in you know, more thoroughly, you know, how to get really involved in life. And that to me is one of those great experiences where like all of a sudden that flash of intuition, you followed it.

And the timing was right. You know, obviously you must have set a goal that, you know, in for yourself that, you know, you wanted to you know, not suffer as you drove 12 hours for one day and then drove another 12 hours back. You wanted to fly. So it was just all about, you know, working with your sensitivity and the timing. Yeah. Another thing I've noticed too with the people that showed up and the things we're all experiencing at this moment is that.

There's a level of awareness and clarity that's almost like we've we've risen up a level. And I know you and I've talked about this in our, you know, as we group almost every day every day or every couple of days, right? About things and how there's there's just more insights coming in. There's more knowings, there's more things that are just like aware there's just awareness that of a of a different level of of consciousness. Have you noticed that too? Well, you know, you were talking about the reawakened membership regroupings that we were doing.

This weekend. And one of the areas that's stood out for everybody was an aspect of be we be all became we're becoming more aware of how we try to control things instead of flow with it. And everyone, you know, we have a lady in Ireland, we have folks in New Zealand, you know, there's people around the world and locally that, you know, get involved in all this. And it's amazing, you know, that we had similar insights

what was going on and the pearls of wisdom that come from each of us as they have their aha moments as I like to call them. Yeah, I think that's a key aspect is that, you know, like people come together and then there is a commonality. There's a there's a thread that actually all of humanity has. So, you know, we always often say how things are mirrors to what we're actually experiencing within us, the outer side. So and recognizing, especially coming together, how

These like especially the control thing, because I've been working on that and layer upon layer of it for my whole life, really. When I look back, I've always wanted to control things. Do you think that's true with me, Tom? Maybe a little bit. Yeah. And you know, there's that balanced idea or, you know, the balanced way of being in control of your your energy. we tend to want to control the outer.

you know, to make us feel better because the outer's in control kind of you're, you know, you're in control of it. But, you know, we were discovering like ways we put pressure over, over exert pressure on ourselves, you know, and anyways, it's these aha moments, this like I didn't even realize it until I'm working with this lesson about peace, that look, I'm I'm trying to control this situation rather than

discern what's my opportunity, or discern what's my part in helping this, you know, flow smoother. So it's not like we're doing anything wrong, because we're all learning and growing from these opportunities we have. And if we do exert trying to control something more than going with the flow, well that that's all going to be a part of my soul's growth and learning. And as the great thing is is that we're here involved

you know, in life on planet earth. Yeah. Well it seems to me with around control is that that is something that we're we we're grown up we grow up in that like realm of like my my mom and dad tried to control things and then I then I move into, you know, I was in school controlling things and the military controlling things. So like this ability or I should say inability I guess within myself to feel that I'm

that I'm relaxed and at peace, since that's one of the words this the word this month for July, it really helps me recognize, you know, how how can I let go of that? How can I be at peace when things around me do seem out of control? And I know, especially for a lot of people out there, in looking at the world and and what's going on and how can I control what's going on in Iran and control the president, control that president and control we can't. It starts with us.

It starts with our own inner. Yeah, the main thing that I have control over for me is is how I'm feeling or for me to operate from my true feelings, you know, and then organize what I pick up in my feelings or what my feelings are telling with me. For example, if I desire something, I want to accomplish something, you know, organize myself to do that and then follow through and then come back to my feelings. You know, we talk about that a lot.

But when I know that I'm over controlling things, I'm probably caught in my emotions. You know, I I'm getting stimulated and I want to change someone or something. And again, there's, you know, there's a balance there. There's I I of course we need to control our environment. You know, of course we need to, if you're raising children, be somewhat in control.

of those children or if you're working in an office, you know, and your your opportunities to manage, you need to be in somewhat, you know, there's aspects of control. But I think what you're referring to is and I'm referring to is I beginning to realize, you know, I'm disappointed that people behave a certain way, or I want things outcomes to be different. So I'm trying to control things.

rather than allow people to have their journey. And then and for me, like the big insight is I don't have to feel responsible that people are going to go through their learning experiences. I may have gone through that learning experience. So that area I'm more clear about, you know, I don't have a fear of success in that area. But you know, it's important that I let allow others well, for me, they're going to go through their experiences one way or another.

It's more I was getting a heightened awareness about, I feel responsible for that, rather than just allowing, you know, people to have their experience. Of course, sharing, you know, how I would go about things or give, you know, gentle hints and suggestions. So But it's really allowing especially during, you know, the sessions we have in the reawakened membership, it's really allowing each person to get

their own insights. Yeah. There's so many people that want to teach people how rather than allow them to get their own insights through their guidance. Like that's what our programs are all about. Yeah. And I think that's why I've really gravitated towards them for the years, for years, you know, years ago, I guess nine years now, I've been involved in the Wayshores, the way the Wayshores College and this work and and in recognizing that before I did this work and really came to a place of clarity for myself.

I was always looking outside and I was wanting to control it. And that's not for myself and what I've realized that that didn't it was okay where I was at because I did the best I could with what I knew at that moment. And that's something that, you know, is is for myself a a big deal. But in recognizing that I'm much more clear now and I'm much more able to flow with when things come up and how to work with those. So here's another example for me is last week was the new moon. And

I was at work and there were some people there that were pretty stirred up about situations they were going through in their life and I personal situations. Personal situations. I picked up on that energy. I brought it home and I was, I will say a hot energetic mess. I like that because I have that in my Soul Quake survival guide. That was one of my one of my my key key things I said in the Soul Quake survival guide is when I I was a hot energetic mess. So yes, I was a hot energetic mess on the new moon. And

But then it but then it moved through me and then I was able to regroup what was this about? But allowing those it was really emotions, but allowing those to surface is key, not holding them in and and then recognizing, okay, so what was that all about? Yeah, I th I like that acknowledging those emotions, you know, because there's areas that I get stimulated in and boy, you know, I can be feeling really great and relaxed, and then, you know, a recurring experience working

usually without someone else. There's someone else that will just be themselves and it will stimulate me. And it stimulates like a a fear. And I feel like, I'm really in this emotion. You know, like I don't I don't want to feel this way. I I don't like what's happening. So, you know, what's the solution? And the only way I can really move through it is is when I, you know, we learn how to tune in. In fact, we we share about our sea of tranquility and

a way that almost almost an instant type way to relax and get clear insights from your guidance as to how to best move through a situation, you know, and really discern what what's a solution for you so that, you know, there's more ups than downs. It's more of a smooth ride. But that was a great example. What I, you know, noticed in your experience was just, and I'd had similar experiences earlier in the week, like

Wow, I'm way more sensitive than I even realized. And you know, I I watched you check with your guidance, you know, how much of that was you and how much of that was these other folks. And it's amazing, like that you it wasn't even the people around you you were picking up on their turmoil, you know, the energetic messes they were in. It was people around the people that you were

And so one says, wow, you know, and so today people go, you know, I'm a struggling empath. I feel all this stuff. No, that's great. Like, okay, let's what's the solution? So all you have to do is just discern, you know, and you know, work, discern, you know, like interpret that feeling, communicate, go back to your feelings, organize or interpret that feeling, work, but you know, it's really feel, think, act, feel, think, act in that rhythm.

But it's amazing, you know, like that particular example you're talking about, like that was I got a lot out of it because I went, my God, how do I do that? Really, I'm Yes. I yeah, how do I do that? That and how is it, you know, it's a reality of my growth as a soul. As I'm evolving, my sensitivity is expanding in new areas. Right. And I'd had some recent dreams where that had

that it kind of happened. And, you know, the age there's age old ways I've handled things in the past. And I will keep doing the same old thing until I have that inner awareness and start changing that habit. Absolutely. And in recognizing that whenever we come together with others and and you know it and regroup kind of what we're going through and what experiences we've been having.

That's when the penny drops. Yeah. And, you know, we've said it before too. And that's when, like, you know, something you say or someone, someone else in the group says, like, my God, I so needed to hear that. They went through that example and and I did too, but in a different way. And that really helped me solidify and clarify exactly what I've experienced in the last, you know, few weeks that we've met between me, you know, meetings.

Yeah, we always come back to this, that you know, there's a lot of theoretical spiritual knowledge out there, you know, or it's all intellect. And it's great that people are beginning to awaken to, you know, new ways of thinking and so forth. But really, when it comes to my growth and and for me to have my life be more powerful in my own life and more relaxed and more that good, kind, loving, sharing part of me, the part that does feel with

One with all things. It's up to me to get the answers. There's no one that can give me the answers because I'm always gonna have my you might spin on it, so to speak. Yeah.

I forgot what the one thing was that shows up in our lives no matter what I believe. What is As for a key word? Spirit.

Just spirit, that's what it is.

Mm-hmm. It's just the spirit. Yeah. yeah. That's really where you started with it all. The one thing so so the okay. So you can obviously you can put a commercial in here or something, huh? Yep. Okay, hold up.

I mean they were gonna go with this now.

So back to the one thing that shows up in our lives no matter what you believe. What is it, Tom? Spirit. Mmm, that's a good key. Spirit, no matter what you believe. And that came out with some of the things we were sharing in our then the live reawaken regrouping is that it it shows up at work. It shows up in in our home. It shows up at the a grocery store and those insides, hunches, and impressions. And so how to work with it.

Yeah. That's a that's a good key, huh? So that was the the one thing is is spirit. The one thing is spirit. Well, we're intelligent energy. Mm-hmm. We're light, and more people are saying that. So, you know, what you and I love to share about is more, okay, so how am I experiencing being an intelligent light? Right. How am I experiencing being a soul that's incarnated in previous incarnations? What am I working on? You know, it's it's great to

share the theory of it all, but how do I make it practical? Like how do I tune back in? And for those folks who are really interested in, you know, really transforming their lives and and turning everyday experiences into million million dollar learning experiences, I like to say. There's a lot, you know, we were talking earlier about I'd listened to this fellow who channels aliens, you know, supposedly, and he was talking about the university of planet Earth.

And what struck me was in the sharing that this soul was doing, they were talking about how, you know, kind of like the old Rolling Stones song, you know, you may not get what you need, but you'll you may not get what you want, but you'll get what you need. You know, kind of a line and that everything and we've been sharing a lot with Tiger about that, you know, it's like really we're in the perfect situation.

For what I can, I'm in a perfect situation, perfect challenges for what I came to learn spiritually and move through. So in other words, it might not always be comfortable. So comfort's a good thing. There's nothing wrong with it, but we get a lot of growth out of sometimes when things are uncomfortable. But I have to find, I have to work with myself and my guidance to really discern how that works for me.

Because once I have the feeling of being different or I have the aha moment, it's a lot easier to change. Yeah. And so, you know, we have a really good episode about four months ago, I guess it came out about how to grow spiritually if you're feeling like you're maybe not really tuned into what's going on, or you feel like you might lose yourself. And so it's about trusting timing. So check out that link below for that episode because a really great one on amplifying and understanding and embracing more of that feeling so that way you

do understand and feel that you're in the right place in the right time. Yeah, it reminds me of, you know, we all have four spiritual gifts, you know, prophecy, vision, intuition, and feeling. And it's my visionary part that's in the right timing and that just has a natural ability to be in the right place at the right time or or work with the right timing of things. And so that's what's great about working with other people, sharing with other people is that

You know, you get to share with a visionary and another person's a prophetic and they have inner knowings and you know that that insight that they get, which is their primary means of communication, really, like you say, clarifies for me, it clarifies the picture, it clarifies the whole feeling behind it, you know, what I'm experiencing. It's a win win-win when we come together with others. That's all we can say, right? Yep.

So thank you so much for listening into another episode of Enthusiastically Spiritual. We hope you gain some insights on that one thing that shows up in all of our lives, no matter what you or any of your loved ones, or any of your neighbors, or any people you work with believe in. And remember that life life is too short to not be enthusiastic. Enthusiastic about your unique journey.