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Ep 105: Psychic Side Effects: When Your Intuition Changes Your Body

• Candace, Jennifer & Rose • Episode 105

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Have you ever walked away from a meditation, energy healing, or intuitive practice feeling completely off—like the room is spinning, your emotions are raw, or you’re suddenly wiped out? You're not broken. You're just expanding.

In this episode, we’re pulling back the curtain on something that doesn’t get talked about enough in the spiritual space: the very real physical, emotional, and mental side effects that can come with intuitive development and energy work.

Rose opens the conversation by sharing how a full day of channeling left her feeling dizzy the next morning—not in a scary way, but like her energy field had stretched beyond her body and her system was still catching up. Jennifer and I (Candace) jump in with our own stories, and honestly? These experiences are way more common than you’d think.

When you're working with energy and higher frequencies, your body becomes the conduit—and sometimes it needs time to integrate. You might feel crown pressure, waves of exhaustion, bursts of energy out of nowhere, disrupted sleep, sensory overload, or chills and temperature shifts. Emotionally, things can get intense too: mood swings, old wounds rising to the surface, amplified empathy, and a craving for solitude. Mentally, expect everything from racing thoughts and brain fog to heightened synchronicity and even moments of telepathy.

These aren’t signs that something’s wrong—they’re signs that something’s working.

In this episode, we talk about how to navigate these “psychic side effects” with more grace, understanding, and self-trust. We’ll walk you through tools we use in our own practices to stay grounded and supported—like energetic hygiene, boundary setting, journaling, and leaning into conscious community.

If you’ve ever wondered, “Is this normal?”—this episode is for you. You’re not alone. You’re not going backward. You’re expanding.

Let this be your permission slip to honor your body’s wisdom and see your sensitivity as a superpower. Tune in now and transform your ‘spiritual hangover’ into a powerful sign of growth.

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Speaker 2:

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Speaker 1:

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Speaker 2:

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Speaker 1:

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Speaker 3:

Hey everybody, welcome back to Awakening Souls podcast with your hosts Rose, candice and Jennifer. So I had an experience that I want to share with you. Not big or exciting, but it got me to thinking. So we recorded on Monday, we recorded a podcast. Today is Wednesday, so it's two days later. So on Monday I did tons of intuitive work, way more than I typically do in a regular day. I started the day off with a channel with my spirit guides. I then did a remote viewing practice, then we recorded a podcast which was all about channeling. After we were done with the podcast, I did two energy readings for Patreon members and then that evening we had our very first Patreon card reading session, which was also another channel thing.

Speaker 3:

So I mean, whenever I'm doing intuitive work, it's a channeling and I don't normally channel that much in one day, at least not in this phase of my life. So and then I I went to bed that night and I did like a major meditation. I did like an hour long meditation where my energies just got really huge, really tingly, really big. It was awesome. I love that kind of meditation and I'm sure the reason I had that was because I had been so intuitively connected all day long. So I woke up the next morning and, I kid you not, the room was spinning. I could just feel all of it, felt like my energy really big and expanded, spinning all around me, and I'm just and it's not uncomfortable.

Speaker 2:

That was my question, yeah.

Speaker 3:

It's not like doesn't make me nauseous or anything like that, but it was like and that's what happens to me whenever I do a lot of intuitive work and it's not my normal, okay. And so I just and I I kind of just sit there and I feel the spinning all around me and I think I'm like feeling my energies and I think my energies are bigger, but I'm feeling more of them at the same time and it just I feel all this, like I'll feel my chakra spinning, but I'll also feel spinning going on my, in my auric field and then even, you know, outside of that. It's cool feeling. So I just laid in bed and just kind of like enjoyed the buzz for a while, but you know you can't do that all day long. So I got up and during my whole day yesterday I was like just a little bit floaty and a little bit of pressure in my head and it wasn't bad, it was comfortable and I've had this happen before, so I'm kind of used to it. But I thought that'd be a really good topic to talk about that.

Speaker 3:

As we build our intuitive muscle or when we use it more often, there are side effects. There are things that can happen to you mental, physical, energetic that are just part of the process. And I know for me, when I was doing more intuitive work day in and day out, I wouldn't have had that kind of an effect. It's like I build up the endurance or I build up the muscle and that's like my new normal. But when I don't use it for a while and then I go back to a really strong, intuitive day, then all of a sudden my body's like wait a minute here.

Speaker 3:

And the other thing that happened is that night, after that deep meditation, I slept for like 10 hours. I know my body was like okay, Rose, we've had enough now to. It's like a timeout, and I almost feel like your body like shuts down and says okay, we need some integration time. So we're just going to take you offline, we're going to behind the scenes, we're going to get some, some work done and then we'll wake you up when, when you're, you know, ready to go again after you've had your rest and they've, you know, the energies have had a chance to integrate and really, you know, calm down a little bit as well. So have you guys had some?

Speaker 1:

experiences like that, oh my God, just Monday, actually, you too, oh, tell us all Same thing. I mean, it was a day full of channeling. And then, you know, after we recorded, candace and I worked a little bit with remote viewing and then, after she went home, I worked more with remote viewing, and then that night, after you know, we settled down from our channel and stuff from our Patreon. I went to bed and I did the same thing. I meditated for like a whole hour and I was just buzzing. But then yesterday when I woke up, I didn't have the magic you had. But you know, still, monday was a beautiful, magic day. But, um, yeah, that beautiful energy, I love it. I was in it a lot Monday. How did you feel Tuesday when you woke up? Tuesday's a different story. Okay, I started my period Tuesday. We're not putting that in there. Okay, I just about died yesterday. I was so sick.

Speaker 3:

Oh yeah, I'm sorry, that's sucky.

Speaker 1:

How are you doing today? Uh, okay, so I have not taken Tylenol in about five years. Last time I took it was when I went to Florida. I took it three times yesterday and one time already today.

Speaker 2:

You don't think that has anything to do with all the energy work that you did Monday I am. When you're on your period, you're shedding. When you're on your period, you're releasing, and it does come with emotional release and physical release. So, okay, maybe that's why it's so intense.

Speaker 1:

Well, yeah, First of all it was 15 days early or 15 days late. Oh, so cause I didn't have my period last month? Oh, I don't know, I haven't.

Speaker 3:

It could have been a menopausal thing, I don't know, but it could have, but it also could have been all this energy work and your body's like oh, and that's why you started your period.

Speaker 1:

And I shut down. I had to send my granddaughter home and I shut down. I went to bed for a couple hours.

Speaker 3:

Interesting.

Speaker 2:

What you don't want to add that in the podcast that's so juicy.

Speaker 3:

Okay, I gotta ask can a possible I'm talking to chat gpt side effect um impact one's menstrual cycles? Let's see what she says on that. Yes, of course, intuitive and psychic development can absolutely impact the menstrual cycle, since psychic abilities involve shifts in energy, brain function and emotional processing. These changes can influence hormonal balance and cycle regularity. Here's how Hormonal shifts from increased intuition and energy work. It activates the pineal gland, the third eye chakra, which regulates melatonin and interacts with the hypothalamus, your body's hormonal control center. Deep meditative states, energy work or increased dream activity can shift the melatonin, the cortisol and other hormones, possibly affecting ovulation and cycle timing. Okay, I'm not going to read every bit of this, but I'll give you the main points Increased sensitivity to lunar and cosmic cycles. Heightened energy flow in the sacral chakra. Nervous system adjustments. So yeah, sacral chakra, nervous system adjustments. So yeah, at least according to chat gbt, which I know is not you know a medical doctor or expert or anything but right can at least give you some general possible information interesting why does this topic make me so excited?

Speaker 2:

I love it.

Speaker 2:

I love it.

Speaker 2:

I love the effects that energetic work or intuitive work or meditation can have on our bodies, our lives and our minds and our emotional state, with, like, without the intention of it. We're not trying necessarily for that to happen, but it like infiltrates into your life in such amazing ways and it's like pushing all of this energy around and making you expel whatever it is you need to expel, making you look at whatever it is you need to look at so that way you can balance your energies back out, because every time you're tapping in, you were channeling energy into your system and your system has to integrate this energy. That is when we're channeling, for instance. We're channeling and we're hearing words, we're seeing pictures, but we're not just getting that, we're also getting all of the energy from it. And the energy is encoded with a bunch of information that we're picking up on a non intellectual level, like it's not something we're consciously understanding or knowing is happening, it's just happening, and then it it really does affect our personal lives by accident or as like a by-product of it.

Speaker 3:

Yes, and sometimes it can feel really good, and sometimes it can feel really crappy.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I'm in crappy. Are you in crappy right now? Oh no, today is great. Today is great. No, um, but we know I started this 365 day channeling journey, which was something that I was given by my guides um to start doing, and I was resistant against it Cause I was like, dude, that's a lot of channeling. That's a huge commitment. I don't know if I'm up for that and I don't channel every single day because I'm busy integrating energies every time I channel.

Speaker 2:

Anyway, I took on this challenge and I've been doing the channels, but I'm doing it when I feel like I need to do a channel and then, every time I do a channel, the following days are integration or extreme emotional release, or like the podcast episode that we shared last week about this big vision that I had with the book and the dark forest. That all came because I'm doing these channels. Like it is pushing stuff to the surface that is forcing me to let go of things that are really bogging my energy down, that aren't necessary. Every time I tap into a channel, I'm raising my vibration and I'm like expanding. How often I do it, I'm getting used to holding bigger energy.

Speaker 2:

So, yeah, there's a lot of shifts that are happening in my personal life. Every time I do it. Ooh, baby, but today's a good day. Today's a good day. Today. I woke up feeling really empowered and noticing like how this inner boss-like lady is coming out and she's advocating for me and she's really like speaking her needs and doing it in a way that's not people-pleasing or worried about how I'm being perceived and I'm like I need to keep her Cause. She's fun. I like that version of her, yeah.

Speaker 1:

I like that version too.

Speaker 3:

Does she have a special name? Oh, she feels like she needs to have a special powerful name and I don't know. I'm just throwing that out there.

Speaker 2:

I've been calling her my big sister, which sounds weird, like no, this, this is a part of me, but I'm not used to having this part of me come out. So when she starts to come out and I'm noticing her, I'm like, ooh, who is she? I like how she advocates for me and sticks up for me and speaks her needs and does it like in a way that isn't like, oh, excuse me, is this okay, can?

Speaker 1:

I would you mind, unapologetically, oh my God, unapologetically, oh my God.

Speaker 2:

Unapologetically. Yes, it's like just just this higher self respect that I have that has come as a result of all of this channeling work and how many days are you in to this channeling experience, or how many channels?

Speaker 3:

have you done? Okay, yeah, I've done 13 channels, a possible 365. So can you even imagine what it's going to be like when you're, you know, up in the 300s?

Speaker 2:

I have no idea, and I have to do maybe one to two channels a week at this point because there's so much happening in between each channel. So, much energy integration.

Speaker 3:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

I just can't wait to see where you go after that, you know.

Speaker 2:

I'm excited too.

Speaker 1:

I love watching all the doors open and just watching us excel at everything. It's neat.

Speaker 3:

It's super neat.

Speaker 1:

And then you get back and see how far you've come. Go ahead.

Speaker 3:

Well, I think about when we've done Reiki attunements. That's another example of big energy shifts that can really have some side effects as you're going through that integration process. I remember my first Reiki attunement when I did Reiki one, and this was back in 2004. So a long time ago. And I remember the day after the attunement it was a cold winter day. I had the fire going in the fireplace and all I could do was lay in the couch and watch the fire.

Speaker 3:

I was so. I felt like almost like I was on drugs, like I was tripping. I was like vibrating and buzzing and very floaty. I know, looking back, that I needed to ground, but back then I didn't know anything about grounding other than what I'd learned in the Reiki class, and so it didn't even dawn on me that I needed to ground. But and it was just like, and for several days after that first attunement, it was just I was so floaty and so buzzy I couldn't focus on anything was just, I was so floaty and so buzzy I couldn't focus on anything. Um, people would tell me something and I'd forget it like in two minutes which I sure had to be frustrating for my family.

Speaker 2:

All faculties are not online. No, we are down for shifts and changes.

Speaker 2:

I had that the first time I had Reiki when I found, when I found you and your um uh Ashley, our old business partner when I I she was the first person to do Reiki on me and it was one of those things that, like you, kept hearing the word weight Reiki. I kept hearing, like reading books about it and it kept popping up on podcast episodes and I was like I gotta try this. I think I think I need to try this and I did, and it was the most magical experience I had ever had. It was an hour long session and about 30 minutes in like my mind wouldn't shut off. And then, right at that 30 minute Mark where I flipped over from the front of my body to the back of my body, I passed out. I swear I was looking down at the ground and I could see everything around me become black like tunnel vision. And then I was out.

Speaker 2:

And I wasn't passed out, it wasn't like a bad thing, I didn't lose consciousness, I just fell asleep. And when I came out of it she was saying like okay, time to come back to your body and I was like what? But I just closed my, I blinked. It was the coolest experience and then for several days after, we're probably about three days, it seems to be like a common pattern. For me is about three days afterwards. It was like whoa, that floaty feeling, that like people trying to talk to me, but I'm spaced out, looking far off into the distance and it's creeping my family out.

Speaker 2:

There was one point, my husband was like are you okay? And I was like so good.

Speaker 1:

I know that feeling so well.

Speaker 2:

It does look like you're high. It does look like you're on drugs.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, you can't even move your eyes. You can't even be bothered to move your eyes to focus on something else, just like I'm good.

Speaker 3:

Oh man, it's a natural high, isn't it?

Speaker 1:

So, nice. I love it.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and one with all the benefits mental, emotional, spiritual health benefits of of doing it. Yeah, no side effects, no bad side effects at least yeah, no.

Speaker 3:

So if you're doing the any kind of energy work whether it's Reiki, whether it's intuitive work or it's anything that requires you to raise your vibration, to work with higher vibrational energy, your body most likely is going to have to do some shifting to make that connection.

Speaker 3:

And so as you make that shift over and over again or more often, it's like your vibration is raising higher and higher and your body has to get used to those changes.

Speaker 3:

So there are some physical, some mental and some emotional things that you may notice. So we're just going to go through some of the things that you might notice and some of them you might label good or bad, but really all of them are helping you to raise your vibration, helping you to integrate this new energy so that you can work with it more, helping you to be a more authentic version of yourself, letting go some of those old things. So it's very healing, even if it can be sometimes uncomfortable. Even if it can be sometimes uncomfortable. So some of the physical symptoms that I've experienced headaches or sometimes just a pressure in the head, or sometimes I'll even get like a pressure or a tingling in the very top center of my head, that crown chakra, central point that will sometimes just feel really tingly, and I've also gotten tingling sensations on the back of my head, right where my spinal cord is. Look at you, they're both just nodding their heads.

Speaker 2:

Yes, yeah.

Speaker 3:

So it's like all of that can have physical effects. You can have either being really tired or bursts of energy, or sometimes it's like a roller coaster and you're like manic for a while and then all of a sudden you hit the wall and you crash. Yep, you know, it sounds like you're going crazy, doesn't it? But no, that's just. It's like that energy. You get all that high vibing energy and you're like riding that for a while, but you're not used to maintaining that.

Speaker 3:

So, once you get to the point where you can't maintain that vibration anymore, then you crash and you're really tired or sleepy and the best thing to do is don't fight it. If you can just sleep when you're tired, rest when you're tired.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, when you're sleeping too, it's a safe way for your body, your nervous system and your brain to process the energy on a subconscious level.

Speaker 3:

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2:

So, yeah, that's why I fell asleep during that first Reiki session. I had my body needed to process all this energy and kind of like, get my logical mind out of the way to let my body and my nervous system soak up the energy that it needed. So, yeah, it's really good to sleep and I often get very, very, very tired after a lot of energy work because I need that integration time.

Speaker 3:

But on the other hand, another thing that can happen is you can sometimes have difficulty sleeping, so that can also be a side effect. Or the wake up at three in the morning, wide awake, and just you're done sleeping, and so it's like it. It disrupts your regular sleep patterns. Eventually, once you get level out, then you go back to normal, so it doesn't last forever usually.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, it's usually like a few days after an energy healing when you have these side effects, these weird things that happen, and then, yeah, it balances out and you go back to kind of a normal, new normal, a new balance level.

Speaker 3:

Heightened sensitivity. So as you raise your vibration you're becoming more sensitive to all vibrations, and so sounds may be more intense, the feeling of touch may feel more deeply Seeing things, you see them with more clarity and more crispness. I remember one day I had done energy healing all day long, and then I started driving home and every little thing looked so sharp. I could see all the needles on the pine trees, and the blue in the sky was so intense and I just really noticed all the visual details. So everything becomes like heightened or more vivid in all of your physical senses. And then the other physical thing that can happen is fluctuations in the temperature within your body. So I know, for me, when I'm doing energy work or sometimes I'm doing a meditation, there's a point where all of a sudden I get really hot and it lasts for just a little bit and then eventually I kind of normal out again.

Speaker 2:

Oh, go ahead, candice. Well, you remember when we worked together. If I do energy work like I would, I would literally have pit stains, Like I would have it's. So it's disgusting. I'm so sorry, but I would have like sweat dripping from and I had to be careful about what kind of clothes I wore or if I wore sweaters, because I would get so hot during energy work. And then I would go through like the next 30 minutes after an energy session and just shiver and just be freezing. It could be 90 degrees outside and I'm shivering because my body is like okay, new balance, let's come back to level.

Speaker 3:

Yep, so those are some physical sensations. Are there any others that you guys can think of?

Speaker 2:

One thing that we used to get a lot earlier on is this clicking sound in the back of our head yeah, I still get, still get it yeah, weird.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, especially when I'm like in tune and I'm like channeling or whatever. I get it a lot, especially when I'm like asking a question and I feel like I'm getting an answer and I'm like, oh, is that the answer? And then I'll get like, yes, that's the answer isn't it weird that one we don't have an explanation for oh, that is interesting

Speaker 1:

so you need to see a doctor okay, you know, it really could be sinuses. Oh, because I mean, if you're expanding your, you know, energy in your pineal gland or whatever, whatever's going on in there, it could be making movement well I think we are activating different parts of the brain too when we're, when we're opening up to intuition, and maybe it's decalcification. It could be decalc.

Speaker 2:

That's interesting that is interesting yeah, because I I get um, like rose was talking about, the vibration or the pressure feeling at the top of her head where your crown is. I get that in different parts of my skull when I'm doing energy work, so sometimes it'll be towards the front, sometimes it'll be that crown center, sometimes it's like either side of my head or even like the occipital bone in the back back through there. And it really. It just depends on what we're channeling.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, chet GPT says that. Yes, that is a possible sign. Oh or click. She said uh, cranial energetic shifts, activation of the alta major chakra, pineal gland and brain activation, cerebrospinal fluid and skull adjustments, as the energy that your fluids are, you know, moving around nervous system adjustments, kundalini energy is a possibility. It could be.

Speaker 1:

Because it definitely is for me, because it's always during a moment where I feel like I'm tuned in.

Speaker 3:

Okay, okay. So there are also some emotional side effects that you can have from energy work. The first one is mood swings, changes in your normal emotional landscape, and a lot of times this can be bringing up old traumas that need to be looked at and cleared for release. It's like the more you do any kind of intuitive or energy work where you're raising that vibration, you can't hold on to that stuff anymore and maintain a high vibration. It's like an anchor pulling you down. So every time that lovely divine energy comes in, that's an opportunity for healing, and so those things are going to keep bubbling up until you look at them and work through them.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and you know what? They bubble up to a point almost where they're tugging on your short sleeve and they're like excuse me, excuse me, I demand, I demand attention at this very moment. That's how, that's how intense they've gotten for me over these last couple of weeks. It's like, you know, I used to be able to go okay, hold on emotions, we're going to, we're going to put a pin in you. I'll visit you later.

Speaker 1:

And I can't do that anymore. It's like nope. I feel it right now, excuse me family, family.

Speaker 2:

I need to go have a good cry or journal. I love that you can do that, though, and your family's like, oh okay, yeah, I let mom go. You kind of do have to build, like that normalcy in the house.

Speaker 3:

Yeah but isn't that a great thing for your daughters to see?

Speaker 2:

yeah, yeah, I hadn't thought about it that way, but I hope.

Speaker 3:

I hope it is that they see, okay, mom is taking care of her emotional needs, and that gives them permission, when they're adults and mothers, to take care of their emotional needs exactly and not hide it in the closet, you know? Yeah, I think that's really valuable. Another emotional side effect is increased empathy.

Speaker 1:

Oh gosh yeah.

Speaker 3:

You feel everything, you feel everyone. It's like you're raising your vibration, you're expanding your energies and your empathic antenna is going to get stronger.

Speaker 2:

Yep, yep.

Speaker 3:

And that can be uncomfortable.

Speaker 1:

It's beautiful. I love that part. It can be uncomfortable, though, because you're feeling like just the other day, when we did the reading on Patreon and I pulled the happiness card out for one of the ladies and inside my gut feeling was like I could feel sorrow from her. I could feel that sorrow in the pit of my stomach and it did not feel good. So that's where I think you're going with that, right?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yes, it definitely can be uncomfortable, but there's also we are so good at knowing when that's coming up. It's not something that's happening to us and we're unaware of it, it's something that we are picking up and we're like, yep, I know this is not mine, but I feel like it gives us so much more compassion when we tune into it, and it's the recognition of it that kind of allows that feeling to dissipate. It's not something we're supposed to hold on to, it's just something that's helping us understand and empathize with the people around us, and I think that's what's beautiful, because it creates way deeper connection on an emotional level with the people that you're working with and the people that you love, that you care for your family, your children, your spouse, and so that's where I find it to be beautiful.

Speaker 2:

And if I have somebody who's crying with me, you bet your damn ass I'm going to cry with you because I'm feeling it I am like honestly feeling it wholeheartedly and it feels good to a conversation with somebody and they ask me a question and I start giving them an answer and I can feel they don't really give a rip about the answer.

Speaker 3:

I can feel that they're small talking or just making conversation, but I can sense that they're not really interested or they're not listening and that can be a little painful, you know, and it depends on who it is and what the relationship is. Your truth meter is much better the more you expand your intuition, and that is a bonus.

Speaker 2:

Yes, yes, there was a girl I was watching on Tik TOK today who who was actually talking about how she can hear energies in people's voices, and she says it's so frustrating and she doesn't know any any other people who really do this, but she knows what's really going on in their energy when they're speaking. It's as if, like her, their voice is telling her everything that's really going on, but their words might be saying something different. I do that all the time. We do do do that.

Speaker 1:

We do, do, we do, do, do. I do it to my husband all the time and he hates it Cause he'll answer one way. I'm like all right, what's wrong? He's like nothing's wrong. I'm like, yes, there is something wrong. You got to tell me what it is.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, you're screaming it, even though you don't realize it.

Speaker 1:

I can hear it in your voice.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, Our voice carries a frequency and we're really attuned to to sensing frequency shifts and changes and reading them.

Speaker 3:

And this goes right into the next possible side effect, which is a need for solitude which is a need for solitude.

Speaker 2:

Oh, my God, I am not looking forward to summer. I got to tell you where will my solitude be. Yeah, 24, seven kids. Mom, can the girls come over? Sorry, honey, I have my solitude.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, it's like you're bringing in all this new information and sometimes you lose yourself within that. You're like what's mine, what's somebody else's, and it can be overwhelming. So you have this need to go and just be by yourself so you can figure out what is you and you can have some rest, a break from all of that input. So, yeah, if you're definitely wanting some alone time, see if you can find that. I know that that is hard in this busy world.

Speaker 2:

That kind of goes along with having this increased sensitivity to like noise and touch. I feel like there's lots and lots and lots of times where I'm like no music, I can't do the music, it's physically hurting my ears and that's not meeting everybody's desires. When you have a household, they're like we want music and I'm like, no, no, no, no, Mom's had enough. I need silence for at least three hours.

Speaker 3:

Thank God they've invented like earbuds and headphones and things like that, so there are alternatives for people who do want to listen to things, and not everybody wants to hear that. I swear that has saved our marriage.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 3:

Because my husband likes to have noise in the background all the time and that's just what's comfortable for him. But the noise that he likes, I don't like. So you know, noise that he likes I don't like. So you know, with headphones and earbuds we have peaceful living.

Speaker 2:

It does require you to to have stronger boundaries around your needs and and advocating for yourself and saying like, okay, this is this, has been too much, too overstimulating. I need to go seclude myself for a little bit and giving yourself that permission to go take time, to go spend by yourself and setting up some sort of way to have the kids taken care of or the house to be taken care of, or just not having the house taken care of for that time that you need to, to go sit in that solitude. It's so important.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, trust that you need it.

Speaker 2:

It's important.

Speaker 3:

And then there are some mental side effects as you are connecting with that divine energy. One is racing thoughts All of a sudden with that all that energy. Sometimes you can get your mind moving really, really fast, because it's almost like being fueled by that higher vibration. But the opposite can happen as well, where you feel like you can't remember things and you're spaced out and you know simple things are hard to think about what's the next step? When it's something you've done a million times, it's like your mental body is rewiring itself and it's maybe you know offline for a little while, and and that's okay. Another mental side effect can be questioning your reality.

Speaker 2:

Oh tell me more Rose.

Speaker 3:

tell me more rose well, it's like, as you're awakening up, as you're raising your vibration, you're perceiving any everything much more deeply and it's like what is real, what is not real, and it kind of can cause dissonance in your mind. It can be very uncomfortable and it's like you go through this phase of where you totally question reality, yep, and it's like you're adjusting your view of what reality is, but it's an uncomfortable process.

Speaker 1:

Yep Frustrating, very frustrating.

Speaker 2:

I'm going through that.

Speaker 2:

I think I've been going through a big bout of it Me too.

Speaker 2:

Which is what has started this, this channeling journey that I decided to go on was me questioning my reality and and this channeling journey was one way for me to like really understand my intuitive gifts on a very, very, very deep level so I can use absolute with absolute certainty, my discernment of what is real, what is coming through intuitively, and no longer have them blend the realities together and confusing me.

Speaker 2:

And I've been questioning so hard like what is this and what am I doing and why, what has made me want to do it this way? And and is this real? And then even questioning other creators and other channelers in the same way, and it is uncomfortable and I feel guilty about it. And then I fight with myself and fight with my guides about like well, I don't understand what's real anymore. I had a big meltdown with my husband and I was like I'm not crazy, right, I'm not crazy, I'm not like this is not a psychotic break, I'm not crazy. This is really happening, this is real, these are real things I'm experiencing, right, and of course, he didn't have the answer.

Speaker 3:

That's what I had to decide, but I, yeah, I'm going through that and you question your own mental thoughts as well, and that can be uncomfortable.

Speaker 3:

So, as your mind is just reacting to the normal things that happen to you during the day, you know you start questioning that, which can be a good thing, because if I have a mental thought pattern that is saying I don't belong, I don't belong and I go to a gathering and I start thinking that, then I question that and I'm like no, that's false.

Speaker 3:

So it's like you start really dissecting your mental patterns and trying to shift those which is going to shift your inspiration, which is just a lovely one. And for me, these things happen when I'm not expecting it. I may come up with some ideas, but but now that I've, on a regular basis, connected with that divine energy, I am more open to mental downloads, and so what happens a lot of times is something will just drop into my mind at the most random of time and it'll be like the answer to a big question that I've had when I'm doing something totally unrelated and total, for an instance, like total understanding, total clarity, understand, yeah, it's usually while I'm cleaning or when I'm totally lost in an activity.

Speaker 1:

that that's when it will happen. Yeah, when you're in that focus zone.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, and the other thing that happens mentally is you start to notice synchronicities. You start to notice signs and symbols and they almost just pop out at you, Whereas once you've been doing this for a while, you're like how did I not see these before? Because they're so freaking obvious. You know, one good example is the angel numbers. When you're seeing a repeated number, I see that all day long, every day now, and it's like how did I not see see this before?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, how am I, how am I looking at the clock at the right exact time at two, 22 and three, 33 and four, 44, every single day for the last few days, like, why is that happening?

Speaker 2:

44, every single day for the last few days. Like why is it happening? You know, when we first started going through our awakenings, I kept looking at the time at 1234, one, two, three, four. And I looked it up once and it was like climbing the ladder. It was like an awakening that was happening, it was an Ascension that was happening and, I kid you not, I have been seeing that number for the last two weeks straight.

Speaker 2:

I only look at the clock at those times it feels like it anyway. Yeah, so I'm not surprised. Right now it is 10 51. So I'm not being totally honest. I don't always look at the clock at 1234, but it is a number that pops out at you. Okay, it is ironic when you look at it every single day. Yes, yeah.

Speaker 3:

And then the last mental side effect is you either know somebody's thoughts or you know what they're going to say, either as they're saying it or before they're saying it.

Speaker 1:

Or you say it at the exact same time. That's my favorite, yeah.

Speaker 3:

And you're making that mental, telepathic connection. Yeah, I have a hard time or at least I used to have a hard time not finishing people's sentences for them, because I always know what's going to be said. Yeah, and a lot of times I'm like a step ahead of them and I'm listening energetically rather than just with my physical ears. So I'm like a step ahead. But I taught myself not to do that because it's really rude. So those are all the side effects that I have. Are there any? Are there any others that you guys can think of that you've noticed?

Speaker 3:

any others that you guys can think of that. You've noticed? What about increased appetite? Yeah, yes, that's another one, because a lot of times, yes, food is grounding, and so a lot of times, after energy healing, you'll be hungry because that's your body saying I need, I need some grounding, and sometimes you lose your appetite too.

Speaker 2:

Not my problem. You don't have that problem, Candice.

Speaker 3:

That's hilarious. Yeah, sometimes I won't feel like eating or I'll feel like eating different foods than what I normally do. Yeah, yeah, those are also side effects, okay. So if you're having some of these side effects and it's getting uncomfortable, what are some things that you can do to help soften the effects so that you can regulate yourself and still live your regular life?

Speaker 3:

The first and very important one is grounding finding ways to ground yourself. Some easy ways is barefoot on the earth. That's the most effective way for me is just getting myself grounded and connecting with earth's energy. Now you can ground also by placing your hands on the trunk of a tree. That's another really instant way of grounding. So, if you've got your shoes on and it's not convenient, just putting your hands on the side of a tree is another great way of grounding. Now, if you're inside, it's a little bit harder, but you can just visualize tree roots growing from your feet or your root chakra deep into the earth and that will ground you. So it's an energetic grounding, even if it's not a physical one, but it will also have the same effect. You can use grounding crystals. You can hold a big, heavy rock. That will ground you as well. Eating food is also very grounding, and also doing everyday tasks like cleaning or what other everyday tasks, oh, cleaning, or like doing something with your hands building or working in the garden Anything like that can also be really grounding.

Speaker 2:

Exercise is really grounding or anything that's getting you back into your body. So even sex can be really grounding. Oh gosh, yeah.

Speaker 3:

Another thing that can be really helpful with these types of side effects is energetic boundaries, energetic protection, taking time to clear all of that stuff that you're picking up from other folks. So you can do that by visualizing yourself in the white bubble, setting the intention that only higher vibration energy is allowed to come in. You can also do that by setting physical boundaries. So, like we were talking about before, sometimes you need alone time, setting some boundaries with the people in your life that, okay, I need to have this alone time so that you can reset and recharge. So, energetic, physical boundaries, people boundaries all of that can be really helpful for you to regulate yourself as you're going through these kinds of side effects.

Speaker 3:

Another really good one is journaling and reflection writing things down that you are experiencing. That is one going to help you to release some of that so that you're not holding on to all of it. It's also going to be another way you can process everything that you're feeling and experiencing. It's a great way if you're having things that bubble up traumatic things, painful things, old patterns journaling is a great way to help process and release those as well. So journaling is so, so valuable for so many reasons, and so if you're really having lots of side effects, taking some time to just journal them really helps, and that's a grounding activity as well. So that's kind of a win-win.

Speaker 3:

Let's see what else have we got Balancing rest and stimulation. So know yourself and know what your needs are. If you're super tired because of the energetic shifts, get plenty of rest. If you're super energized, find some way to go out and use that energy. So it really is about tuning into yourself and seeing what it is that your body and your energy and your mind needs at the time and honoring that as best you can.

Speaker 2:

That's the big one is honoring it, because there have been so many times that I have felt the need to rest and I have tried to push through and just get by and just go be productive and actually creates more of a burnout much quicker, where then your body is forced to do more resting than you originally would have needed.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, yeah, taking a little bit early on will prevent the major crash later on.

Speaker 3:

Yep, yeah, we've all been there more than once, okay, okay. And the last thing that you can do is seek community. Talk to other people that are that may be going through this and it may not be the people in your immediate family. You may have to go outside that to find others that are going through awakenings or working with energy like this, and just talk to them and say, hey, I'm experiencing this, is that normal? Am I crazy? What's happening? And doing research that can also help to know, help you to know that I'm not crazy. This is part of the process and when you see these things happening, you understand what's happening. You know that it's a sign of you raising your vibration, other than thinking that something else is going on that could be problematic. So just know, if you're experiencing some of these side effects some of them, all of them, whatever that it is a normal part of the awakening process. It's a normal part of raising your vibration. It's a way for your physical, emotional and mental bodies to integrate the new vibration, make adjustments so that you can move forward with this new energy. It's so healing and it's part of the journey.

Speaker 3:

Before we go, I wanted to remind you that we have just launched our new Patreon membership and we had our very first card reading a couple of days ago. It was amazing. It was so beautiful and exciting, and so if you are on the fence about it, give it a try. We have lots of different kinds of group online activities. We have an intuition workshop that's coming up in just a couple days. We have channel guidance and mediumship, we have card readings, we have reiki healing. So if you're wanting some community, it's a great place, and you can find more information about it wwwpatreoncom. Slash awakening souls. Links will be in the show notes. All right, everybody. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Oh oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

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