Have you ever felt a profound sense of joy that seemed to elevate your entire being? In this episode our guide into tapping into this power is Pete Brandel, The Happiness Sage. Pete unveils the transformative power of his modality, which uses clear, simple phrases that can quiet the ego mind and connect us to our true essence. India and Pete explore societal pressures that tend to dim our inner light, and how shedding these layers can lead to an enriching life filled with authenticity. As Pluto transitions into Aquarius, these strategies for aligning with love and joy are more helpful than ever, especially as life hands us those inevitable heavier challenges that require fundamental shift and transformation.
To learn more about Pete and his work, visit petebrandel.com or thehappinesssage.com
Learn more about, book a session with or contact India Leigh at indialeigh.com
Have you ever felt a profound sense of joy that seemed to elevate your entire being? In this episode our guide into tapping into this power is Pete Brandel, The Happiness Sage. Pete unveils the transformative power of his modality, which uses clear, simple phrases that can quiet the ego mind and connect us to our true essence. India and Pete explore societal pressures that tend to dim our inner light, and how shedding these layers can lead to an enriching life filled with authenticity. As Pluto transitions into Aquarius, these strategies for aligning with love and joy are more helpful than ever, especially as life hands us those inevitable heavier challenges that require fundamental shift and transformation.
To learn more about Pete and his work, visit petebrandel.com or thehappinesssage.com
Learn more about, book a session with or contact India Leigh at indialeigh.com
Hi, it's India Lee, and this is the Guides podcast, and this time I'm talking with Pete Brandl. He is the happiness sage. He is someone that I had not met or connected to other than just an introductory email in any way before we recorded this, and it was so great to get to know him in the process of this podcast talk and to get to experience his gifts, which I really wasn't expecting. He did an energy shift on me. That was really something to experience, and then later in the episode you will get to experience an energy shift that he directs toward the listeners, and he's just a really fascinating guide to get to know. So this is my conversation with Pete Brandl and I would love to hear what you receive from it. Here you go, so for you, you guide people into more happiness and more high vibration, and I would love to hear more about how you do that.
Speaker 2:Groovy. Well, I like what you do. First off.
Speaker 2:Thank you, thank you Thank you, and what I do is I help people reconnect to the truth of who they are. Now that sounds big and a lot of people say that they do that. I do it in a very specific way. I find what positive emotion which I call inherent emotions, because they're inherently who we are I find what aspect, what inherent emotion they need to reconnect to in order to free themselves up from whatever burdens they're carrying. I can also tap into a situation if someone wants to do better at work or better in sport or better with a relationship, I can tap in and see what positive emotion they need to reconnect to to allow that to happen.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:A lot of healing modalities focus on clearing up negative emotions and that can be a tedious process and it can involve a lot of head work and emotional devastation, going back in time and reliving negative things. But with this we deal with playful and artistic and power and pleasure and accepting and ease and grace. We deal with these aspects of love, which is truly who we are and it allows negative stuff to go on its way, because part of the negative stuff's mission was to bring us back to our truth.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I love the way you put all of that. It's one of the things I love about having conversations in exchanges with people who basically do the same thing in all different ways. Is that, just like with everything else, with teaching, with any profession, the different way, the different spin, the different flavor, the different approach, the different energy that you bring to something is going to reach people in a different way, reach the people it's intended to. So someone could listen to, I don't know, eckhart Tolle all day long and it does nothing for them. And then they connect with you personally or me or someone else that just sort of is able to help them make that connection. And then it's like, oh, the fire just lights up.
Speaker 1:And I love how you just said that about peeling away those blocks, peeling away those layers, helping people to just see what's in the way, because it has become kind of trite to say, oh, we're all just this, we're all just spirit beings, and then all the other stuff is in the way and it's like, yeah, right, and it feels sometimes like, whatever, I'm an earthly being right here. But it is so true that, whether we're talking about the spirit body, the emotional body, the mental body or the physical body, the optimal state is inherent and everything else is just covering up on top of that.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, yeah, 100%. And one other aspect that this modality tackles is it allows the ego to dissolve. I developed a phrase it's really simple, that a person can say to improve the relationship to these aspects of who they really are, and the ego actually dissolves for some moments and the person feels a true essence and it's like this cathartic, like this is what I've been missing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. And how do you help people? Because, whether you're in a reading or a session with you or church or yoga class or whatever it is, you can feel that ego dissolving for a little bit. And then you go into your daily life and you've got the daily challenges and you've got the expectation and that ego gets it's footing again and oh, but you have to do this and you have to do that and it disempowers us through the daily stuff that isn't in that session, the stuff that we do get away from. So how do you help people in integrating what they experience? When they do experience that dissolving of the ego or that getting in touch with their true essence, how do you help them weave that into their real lives, their daily lives?
Speaker 2:I think a big part of it is just the understanding that who we are is good we are, is inherently positive emotion plus soul and all this other good stuff, and the stuff that doesn't feel good is it doesn't feel good because it blocks who we truly are. And just that understanding can help a person. When they're at the grocery store and somebody looks at them funny, they'll realize wait, I feel funny, but that's not who I really am. Another thing they can do is they can say absolute love. Absolute love is a healing frequency, but it's also a methodology that helps allow more of their truth to shine. Because if you think about the absolute value of something, if something's really negative and you take the absolute value of it, it's that much positive. So if you take the absolute love, that's taking the love that's shrouded and the love that's exalted and allows the truth of it to shine. So that's something that someone can say to themselves is just absolute love if they're experiencing any emotion or thought.
Speaker 1:And what is your practice look like? How have you come to work with people and how does your working with people now take shape?
Speaker 2:Well, it's usually a phone or a Zoom session and essentially they walk me through their life and what they're experiencing, and I'll find the aspects of love, the positive emotions, the inherent emotions that they need to reconnect to, to smooth these areas out, and I'll give them a phrase which is really simple. I choose to improve my relationship to love from the light of the light of me, and that phrase is like a golden sentence that allows the ego to dissolve and allows them to lift their spirits and allows these negative things to go on their way. And the word love is exchangeable for joy, peace, serenity. Those are aspects of love. So I'll use that same phrase and just substitute in the exact frequency that they're needing to free themselves.
Speaker 1:So it's like taking affirmation steps further by by making them very personal and very activating in what you personally need to access within yourself.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:And you know I'm finding through the messages that come through in readings and through the things that I'm hearing people say, it feels like our inherent relationship with happiness. I guess, as a state of being, as our, as our stasis is so woven in with the relationship between our physical selves and our spiritual selves and back in the day, you know, back in the certainly the indigenous people's time and ancient times, that relationship between the physical shell it's funny this card is coming out right now release, because I let spirit guide me on even what I'm talking about through the cards the spirit self. That's what I do you?
Speaker 1:do too.
Speaker 2:Well, that picture, oh, I know. So I wish it was amazing.
Speaker 1:So I wish everybody could see this picture. I'll post it. But yeah, it's this card that just has a spirit being taking off the shell of, you know, the physical self, all the expectations and what I was getting to is that there there was a time when we, as humans, lived in the state of integration, but now we're having to learn how to, how to kind of sew the, the physical self back on in a way, or I don't know, because you know, we can't just be the spirit beings on the planet. You know, I've tried it, it doesn't work. Your body doesn't let you, but we have to come into a state of being, in that physical form, that is in flow with the spirit self, and I guess that's what happiness is. Huh.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I guess you would say that happiness is the unfettered self, experiencing life through the physical body and through all of its senses, and through the spirit, and through life itself and through emotions, through all these different lenses. But the unfettered self, the unencumbered self, and the more we can take these layers off and allow the spirit to in the, in the actual self, to just flourish, the happier we are when we get bogged down by something. All of a sudden, our happiness can be gone in a minute. We're bogged down by something and you release that and all of a sudden you're happy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like being in a restaurant and there's someone sitting next to you that you feel like is sending a weird vibe to your way or just really uncomfortable to be around. When they leave, you're happy. It's like we're relieved, and that's the same thing with these aspects of these things that can weigh us down. Things are gone, we're free and we're happy. And rather than focusing on these negative things, getting rid of what I do, is I focus on what positive things do we need to embellish and accentuate, to allow these things to go on their way? Naturally, because part of their mission is to get us to reconnect to our light.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then when we're connecting to that, we can notice when the physicality comes in, like you said, and just interferes with that experience and we can see like, oh, this is getting in my way. I really want to, you know, and it just gets frustrating when we think that we are those things that we have to let go of, then it gets frustrating and we get anxious because we think, well, if we have to let go of this in order to be happy, then we don't know who we are without that, you know, and it's like, well, that's true, and that's what I think you mean by getting those moments of peace from the ego, like letting yourself not know who you are for a minute.
Speaker 2:Yeah, deep.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah. To sum it up yeah. And so I would love to hear about and I know everybody else would, about how you came to this, because you know, I only know through my own journey that if you got here to where you can connect with other people, connect other people to their joy, that you at some point were very separated from yours.
Speaker 2:At some points in my life yeah, absolutely yeah. And yeah, I got into some to marijuana before it was popular and that helped me connect to parts of who I really was, and it also led to some weird places. But it led me to see, like here, I am an adult male, I can't cry and I'm unintouchable feelings unless I'm smoking marijuana, and that led me to painting and expression, which led me to holistic medicine to help heal these parts of myself. And then the healing modality that I learned was all about releasing negative emotion from the subconscious, which is extremely powerful. But with a lot of attraction I saw all these really spiritual people carrying around all these negative emotions with them, these books and negative emotions to help do that. I was like what would this look like if these people were carrying around positive emotion? Yeah, so I spent a little time with that and I realized working with positive emotion is like a short circuit. It creates this immediate new connection that's really positive and vibrant and doesn't require all these steps.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, and it feels like we are almost, not almost. We are taught not to really trust the positive emotions in a way. Yeah, it's so much easier for us to trust the negative emotions and to trust that. You know. Yep, this is real, that's how it is. All right, that's life and you know, life is this way and we hear so much reinforcement of that, and then I think we don't realize that there's even more reinforcement of the story that happiness and joy and all that is fleeting and not real and you can't depend on it and you can't build your life on it, and that I mean there is so much sort of anti-joy propaganda that's been around for so many centuries.
Speaker 2:Well, it's a form of control. I mean, if people are happy, you can't fear them into doing things. It's just like a kid. If a kid's on cloud nine, you can't tell them not to cross the street, because it'll be like I'm happy, I can do whatever I want. When you're an adult, it's a different level of safety. If you're actually happy and you're doing what you want, it can run in the face of the status quo. So that's been a long, a long thing, a standing of not allowing people to be in their happiness unless they're following the rules.
Speaker 1:You can see that on a macro scale with that control issue. You can also see it on a micro level in relationships, whether it's parent-child or romantic relationship. I see everyone just emerging from these unhealthy negativity control-based dynamics and waking up and going oh wait, I have agreed to the rules that I'll be unhappy for you, that I will be controlled by you and your unhappiness, and we've just both been in this agreement to stay miserable.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:And it takes one person, or one generation, you know, just deciding okay, I don't want to do that anymore. Which is it really is a pioneering effort, you know.
Speaker 2:It is. I even work with sitcoms and shows sometimes and they always show the bad guys being very heart centered, like, oh, you're in your heart. They're the bad ones because they're trying to. They're trying to to misconstrue the situation and mislead us by utilizing this heart energy and it's like, well, they might be doing something wrong, but being in the heart is not inherently bad. Being in the heart feels good.
Speaker 1:So what's an example of that?
Speaker 2:I don't know, you see these cop shows and you see like all these people being very rigid and stiff and living by some sort of rule, and then you see the bad guy being like happy and like living on an island and it's like wait a second, right, just look at him, just look at him, just being all free and not having any rules.
Speaker 1:Look how horrible.
Speaker 2:It sounds out there, but just watch one of those for five minutes and it's like, yeah, and you think of like even people who don't have a lot and have the ability to get tasty food and good accommodations. It's like it's easy to believe the lore that having things that make you happy is somehow bad, but the truth of the matter is it's not Right.
Speaker 1:It's just not and yes, it does require more of you, I'll say, because it requires you to listen to your own inner voice and your own heart and your own inner guidance, rather than just sort of being part of this bigger structure. It requires you to be conscious and be aware and think for yourself and feel for yourself, which is hard. In some ways, we haven't been taught to do it.
Speaker 2:Never been taught to do it.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So now, what's happening? When these people are, you know, these people, every one of us, are awakening out of these old contracts, these old arrangements and going wait, I've been agreeing subconsciously to be miserable and to be in these enslavements, you know, emotionally, and I'm not going to do that anymore. Well, we're waking up into marriages or family situations or neighbor situations or coworker situations where it's like, well, I know that I have to follow my heart, but I'm surrounded by this dynamic already. What do I do?
Speaker 1:And the guidance from spirit has been well, you're calling in aligned souls, you're calling in on a vibrational level, people who are aligned with your vibration. I mean, you and I did it because we don't know each other, but we like called in vibrationally this match, you know, to talk about these things, and that's nothing that was really done on the physical level and it's just, it's sort of a big leap for people to make that transition, because they've been taught Well, if I'm I hear it so many times, but mostly by people who are wanting to meet someone romantically and they're like, well, unless they're going to just come in my house right now, I guess I'm not going to meet them because I don't go anywhere and it's like, well, that setup is not true. You know you don't actually have to leave your house anymore, you don't. You know you're agreeing in your mind to isolate yourself physically and say, well, this is going to protect me from calling in those that I'm aligned with, but it's not going to.
Speaker 2:Correct, I didn't hear that last part because you had me on a tangent in my mind, but you said something like it's not working if you just think that way, right?
Speaker 1:Well, you tell me what your tangent was saying, because that's just as valuable.
Speaker 2:Well, my big tangent is we believe these aspects of life and love to a certain degree. We believe that we can actually change our frequency and have a new life. Maybe 10%, and so what happens if we believe that 70%? We don't have to believe it 100%, but what happens if we believe it 70%? What if curiosity we believe it at 10% but if somehow we're able to jump it up to 70% in a healthy way, how does that outpicts for our lives? And that's what I do with this healing modality is I help people improve the level which they believe these positive emotions? Yeah, I'm happy to show you how it works if you want.
Speaker 1:Sure.
Speaker 2:Okay, so I'll pick one right now. 17 is coming up, okay, so I'm going to list it, and that's building. Building is an aspect of love. If you're going to have love in a dynamic, if you're going to have building in a dynamic, there needs to be love. It takes much more energy and love to build a building than it does to knock it down, and right now, for you, you don't have the best positive relationship to building, say, building out loud.
Speaker 1:Building.
Speaker 2:See, if you hear it being said, it's a little lower vibration, it's not very exalted, it's not very free, it's very grounded, but a little bit of a fearful like how is this serving way? And you can imagine that this is an aspect of love. We want it to be happy and free, we want it to be serving us. So the phrase that I'll have you say is I choose to improve my relationship, to building from the light of the light of me, and I'll say it part by part and you'll just repeat after me and you'll see what that does for you.
Speaker 2:Okay, I choose to improve my relationship my relationship building to building which is a part of who I am which is a part of who I am the light of the light of me from the light of the light of me. Good, now say deep breath. I can feel the shifts taking place. There's a little bit more work to do. We've raised it from about 5% to about 25%. Right around there. There's a little bit more work to do, and that's happiness Say happiness. Happiness Say absolute love.
Speaker 1:Absolute love.
Speaker 2:Deep, deep breath. Okay, so now say building.
Speaker 1:Building.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's some light there. It's not 100%, it's about 50%, but now there's some light there and you can imagine how that can transpire in your relationships and what you're working on when you want something to build. Now there's a little light there and you can allow spirit to come in, you can allow light to come in, you can allow your soul to work for you. Yeah, that's what I do. I feel it.
Speaker 1:And I feel it, I could feel. It's almost like you came in and I have this. You know, in your car you've got the sunroof and then you've got that little cover over the sunroof and it's like you like peeled that cover back and then you open the sunroof up and it's like, oh right, I forgot I had that sunroof, right. So when you're experiencing that lightness and that shift, what does it feel like for you? What are you experiencing?
Speaker 2:Oh, I just like my field feels lighter and brighter. I just feel this lightness in my heart. My mind sometimes clears, I'll feel different parts of my brain sort of like actually moving and like lightening up. And that was just one little thing that we did and that's just me being right away. During a session. We tackle a lot of these, yeah, and you can imagine how big the shift is.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, I can, and that's amazing. Thank you for sharing that with me. It's like the first thing we talked about, when we do have all of us these things in the way, these blockages, whatever they are, and we're sort of running around the planet helping each other open up those curtains, helping each other open up those sunroofs in different ways, and whatever way that is, it's as different as we are on purpose.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:I feel that, with all the modalities and all the techniques and all the things that we are all embodying, what we're running into, or what we've run into in the past, is some skepticism and some like oh, what's this or what's that? And, like you just did, you have to show, you have to demonstrate, you have to allow people to experience things so they can go. Oh, I may not understand it cognitively, but I know something just happened and we just had a big planetary shift with Pluto moving into Aquarius.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And this shift is going to last for 20 years, with Aquarius being that dominant energy in so many ways, and we're in the season of Aquarius and it really is just prime conditions, divinely, and for divine timing, for us to connect with these ways and modalities and techniques, and don't you think?
Speaker 2:It's super prime. Thank you. We're being supported by the astrology of life.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, and it's time. And I would say, because sometimes people experience things, you know, little cracks, like you're saying, and the light comes in, and then they again go back to their lives and they get a little bogged down. And I would just say, you know, it's also important to embrace that as part of the process. You know, just like we have clouds covering the sun, and then the clouds go in the sun's back, it's like not it not having the expectation on yourself that, okay, I'm done, I'm fixed and you know, pete fixed me and I'm not going to struggle with this anymore and then getting discouraged the next time you might, yeah.
Speaker 2:I think part of it. I like what you're saying and I think part of what you said which hit a big note for me is enjoying these shifts, because I'll get to a state that feels very great and I'll be there for a little while and then I'll get bogged down. It's like oh man. But then I realized part of the joy is getting back to that place, releasing this stuff and feeling good again because there's a big, there's a big gap there and that difference can be felt and can be celebrated.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and what do you do when you get bogged down like that? What's your own, for you, for you?
Speaker 2:I just, I usually will just say like joy, absolute love, peace, absolute love, wisdom, absolute love.
Speaker 1:And you'll just keep doing it until you get back to that place.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I'll name positive emotions and absolute love and it frees them up and then, like I just did that right now and I just feel a lot better.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it's. It's just that. It's just that, remembering that, oh, the light is here somewhere, I just have to get to it, I just have to kind of keep that connection going.
Speaker 2:Well, yes, and life is so dynamic that little things can feel sticky and cloudy. Just go into the grocery store. I'll use that as another example. Go in the grocery store, you walk down aisle and you come in contact with someone that's just not a match in that moment and you feel bogged down for a few hours even. Yeah, it's like how do I get out of this? It's like I got to find the positive emotion that this situation is trying to get me to reconnect to. That's what believe love, absolute love. That's what I do with my happiness work.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and so much of it, too, I feel, has to do with balance, Making sure you're connecting with yourself on all levels. I feel like when we start a day, our default can be if we haven't practiced this enough, our default can be disconnecting, you know, and disconnecting from different aspects of our experience. And you know, oh, I'm only going to stay in my little bubble this way, or I'm only going to. You know, we just kind of it's like if you went to a cafeteria and you're like, all I ever get here is just a roll. You know, I get a roll and I eat a roll and I'm fine, you know, and instead of going like what might they have today?
Speaker 2:And I'm going, to you know, oh wow, they have my favorite.
Speaker 1:You never see it because you're just going to go straight for that roll. So you know, my practice has become, because I tend to work with working with spiritual stuff and being comfortable with that and my heart, I tend to disconnect from my physical and my mental in a way. I let my mind just sort of do its own thing when I'm disconnected and I let my body just kind of drift off like a balloon. And so for me, connecting on all those levels intentionally every day, looking and going like, just like when you drink water, you're like have I drank my water? I go, you know, have I connected with my physical being today in a positive way? Have I, you know, felt what I need, feeling emotionally in a positive way?
Speaker 2:It sounds like you have developed something that shortcuts all of that, maybe Some of it, some of it you still need to take your hikes or walks, you still need to drink the water, but it removes the mystery, because it's always why am I feeling bad? How can I feel better? And I focus on again what positive emotion, what aspect of who I truly am Do I need to reconnect with? Because these negative emotions, these negative experiences are here to bring us back to our truth. And there's still love in there. There's still fear and doubt and worry. There's love there. We can also connect to the love there. I can say the love of fear, absolute love.
Speaker 1:Mm nice, nice, the love of fear.
Speaker 2:Yeah, an absolute love.
Speaker 1:Yeah, an absolute love Now, just like you did for me, letting me experience that shift. Can you do that? Can you tune into what those listening to this need most and help them shift in real time as they're listening?
Speaker 2:Absolutely. 42 is the emotion that's coming up. It's fun loving. It's about 855 on the consciousness map. Anything over 550 is absolute love. Fun loving is an aspect of love to be able to be playful. It's like if you're in a sad state it's hard to be fun loving. You know, fun loving is a good thing and to approach life from more of a fun loving place, to approach themselves from more of a fun loving place, can only lead to positive things. So I invite anyone listening to say these words. I choose to improve my relationship to fun loving from the light of the light of me.
Speaker 1:Mm.
Speaker 2:A deep breath. Oh, I feel my head releasing and expanding. There's an opening, there's like, oh my God, why have I been taking life so seriously? Yeah, mm beautiful.
Speaker 1:I love it. I love it so much. So if someone's listening to this and they just connected with that, with you, what would you suggest as their next steps in working with this energy and working with you?
Speaker 2:The next steps would just be to say absolute love anytime something comes up that doesn't feel good Working with me. You can go to my website, thehappinesssagecom, and reach out and book a session. But getting more in touch with these positive emotions because, like we did with building, like we did with fun loving, they can be improved. There's so much dynamic dynamicism to life we can improve power, pleasure, accepting of people, uplifted hope, joy, confidence, oneness All these can be better. So it's like taking a shower and, once a week, having a session with me to improve whatever aspects of light and love you need to improve can really make an impact on your life. It's amazing.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm. Well, I believe that because I do feel it, I feel the energy, I feel the shifting you helped me do and I'm grateful to you for sharing your gifts with me and everybody listening. I'm so glad we got connected.
Speaker 2:Likewise, indy, I'm happy to stay connected, and thanks for this time.
Speaker 1:Thank you, Pete.