Why I Disappeared (And What It Taught Me About Mediumship) - The Break I Didn’t Plan… But Needed

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Hello, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Soul Sync podcast. It's me, Jason Paul, and I'm back. Now, I know what a lot of you might be thinking, where have you been, Jason? Well, I've been here, there, and everywhere. I did think about recording for a moment, but then I remembered that Mercury was in retrograde. And obviously, I want to respect chaos when it's astrologically justified. Obviously. But in all seriousness, I've been running all over the place trying to contain things at my business, uh, which has been absolutely bloody full on. I have been contending with a court case, which took me out of action for two weeks, and I've also had an awful bug, but I'm back. And it's a brand new season, it's season eight, and we're gonna be talking about so many different topics because season eight is all about trust, surrender, getting out of your own way, and reconnecting with what actually matters. And I want to talk about mediumship in even more detail because trust is something that I tell you what, well, firstly, actually, I'm trying to evermore trust the spirit world because I know that they are so much more intelligent than down here, but I'm wrestling with the ego at Time Soul Sink, just like the rest of you can be. So, um, there's some beautiful interviews, I will say, in this season, and I have been honestly having so many interesting ideas and things I want to talk about. Um, but I've let the inner editor in my head get the better of me to think, well, actually, you know, perfectionism is a problem, and even for me too, because sometimes I want to get an episode just so perfect, and actually the inner editor in my head stops me actually saying anything. So I'm back, I'm talking, I'm here, I'm ready to listen to all of your spiritual questions and uh life woes, and uh it's lovely to be back. So uh this episode is a short catch-up, and then we're gonna get stuck back into it. Welcome. Hello to you, my darling listener. It's me, Jason Paul, and you're listening to the SoulSync podcast. And firstly, it's an absolute delight to have you here with me. And for you avid listeners that listen in regular, you're probably going to be wondering where the bloody hell have I been for the last few weeks? Well, I'll tell you, firstly, I was very unwell with a sickness bug, and that took me out of action for a week. Then I had a court case which I've been absorbed in for a good number of weeks on the run-up to the court case, and it's something that's just been dragging on for weeks, where I had to give evidence, and that ended up being a whole load of nonsense. So that took me out for another week, and then I've been, you'll be excited to hear, my dear listener, I have been on a mediumship week as well. And I've been really excited because I've been I've done that thing as well, where I've got a bit of imposter syndrome, and that's probably added into part of why I haven't done an episode because there's a lot of things that I've been thinking I want to do with the SoulSync. And you know, sometimes in life where you're just struggling to get that oomph or you're sort of doubting yourself, and lots of you listening to this might be thinking, You, Jason, Jason Paul doubting yourself? That doesn't sound like you, but that's kind of fed into things as well because and it was when I was on a course recently at the Arthur Findlay College, I went on Eileen Davis's week in March, and it was a prophecy week, which is a really interesting aspect of mediumship, and a side of mediumship that I'd never really had a load, well actually I'd had some exposure to. Prophecy is when the spirit world obviously makes predictions and kind of talk about the future, and it was quite quite funny this week. So I went along with Eileen, and I must say, the weeks running up to the course, as they always seem to be in my hurricane of a busy life, especially with all things work, of just kind of taking up so much of my time. And my business in the last year has just been so stressful, and I've been sort of fighting an internal tug of war because my business at times has gone, you know, massively, it's gone really, really, really well. And if considering I just started it with my savings, I started a legal recruitment agency with my savings. I grew that to be a multi-million pound business. But in the last year, it's just been a really tricky time. And I can't quite put my finger on why that is. I think part of it is market conditions, part of it is the state of the economy, the world, and the cost of living pressure. And working in recruitment, we want a market that is absolutely bustling, you know, lots of corporate deals, lots of property transactions. That's a really good market for us. And in the last um year, it's just been really difficult. And, you know, I think a lot of people, and I probably would have done when I was in my early 20s, you look at someone who owns a business and you think, oh, it's all sunshine and rainbows, it's all you know, good to be. And I'm really grateful, don't get me wrong, I'm so grateful for everything I've got, but it's really tested me in a lot of ways. And I think with you know, my dad passing away at the end of last year, that rolled in with the challenges of this year, and do yeah, I just felt I'm one of these people that I know I was put on this planet to help people in every way possible, and you know, I really go heaven and earth to be a force of thunder to help people in my life who are struggling with things, and I think you know, a big part of my character, I kind of look at this as my granddad having passed this down to me, and he's definitely passed me that strength for character because he would just solve everyone's problems out, and we'd all go to him with our problems, our legal problems, our legal woes, things that are going on in our life. And he just used to be so great at sorting them. So, since my dad went away, my brother's had a very challenging few years, a really challenging few years, actually. Um, he's been through the mince meat machine, and really difficult to watch someone that you love going through such a difficult time, especially like my brother is, he's the kindest soul in the world. So I went on to this prophecy week, and it was funny some of the things that came up. My nan came through to tell me that, and this has been prophesised actually a few weeks before the course, but apparently I'm going to have a new love come into my life, a new man, which is going to be very exciting because I have been wanting to manifest a relationship for a long, old time now, but I do think I've definitely got some kind of block when it comes to relationships because I just believe it's not going to happen, or you know, maybe it's just not meant to be for me. And I know that's such a pessimistic way of looking at it, and in so many other areas of my life, you know, I under I understand what it takes to kind of manifest things, to kind of put that out with good vibration, good intent, and to kind of get that back. But you know, sometimes what stops us from manifesting is you know, a block that we have ourselves, you know, for instance, like this, I want to find a nice partner, but deep down within me I don't fully believe it. Well, let me tell you this, Sol Sink. My Nan made that absolutely perfectly clear on the week where I'm away. She came through to say, not only would I find a man, I would find a very nice man, very different to myself. But what I need to do, and she told me this ill in good humour, my nan bless her. She said to me that I need to be let them see the softer side of me. I need to not go rushing in so much, I need to just take my time with it to find out about them. And it wasn't just my nam that came through with this, it was my granddad as well. It was another family member. So I think I had five predictions about this relationship and lots of advice, and it was just funny the way it came through. So, you know, the course taught me a lot as well because where am I up to with my mediumship? Well, I know that I need to sit for spirit more, firstly. That's an ongoing, ever ongoing thing that I know I need to sit more often, and I'm trying to really incorporate that into my routine. I think a big part of why I haven't really done a podcast recently is because I've been so hard on myself in recent times, you know. Even when I had this break from the podcast, I was almost saying to myself, I should be doing this and I should be doing that, and I should be getting this out. And it really made me think a lot as well about just how hard on ourselves we can be at times. And it's just such the wrong way to go about things. And I think that when I even when I look back at my business and the success that I had when I built it, even in the early days, a lot of that really came about as a result of being so hard on myself, holding myself to really high, punishingly hard standards. And that's another behaviour that I am trying to, you know, work on. Like we all are, we all have things that we need to address in our lives. And mine is being kinder to myself, and you know, I'm a lot kinder to myself these days than I was, and I think my mediumship really helps me with that, but I've definitely still got a way to go. So, you know, I'm coming at this podcast, this new season, season eight SoulSync, with an air of being kind to myself, but also wanting to talk as authentically as possible about some of the struggles that I've had in my life in recent times because I actually think they're struggles a lot of us have, and you know, how they have an impact on my mediumship, but you know, not just that, but my life generally. So there's gonna be a lot to unpack in this season, A, and I'm really excited because you know, so many people actually, when I was up at the college, came up to me to say that they listen to the podcast and it helps them, which has really inspired me to want to get back on with things because I'm never going to give up with this podcast, and I will do it till the very end because I believe in it. I believe in the podcast more than I believe in myself at times, Soul Sync, but there we go. So I went on this course, it was good for me because I really do, like I've said, um, in recent times, my mediumship has kind of unfolded, and you know, the mission I'm on at the moment is to everm step into that power and to fully trust the spirit world, and it did make me reflect the week that I had about trust and about the role of trust in general, because you know, once you go on this journey of mediumship, and my journey was obviously wanting to know that life after death was actually a thing, was it was actually real. So I spent a lot of time searching for that proof, and once I got that proof, it's okay. Now I know life is eternal, and I know that all of this is just a illusion, birth and death. You we continue as we are, and it's what do you do with that? And you know, it's about stepping into your life as authentically as possible, living, being the person that you truly, truly are. And I'm really starting to just evermore discover who the real Jason is, and you know, who is the real Jason? He's a kind old fellow with a kind heart and who uses humour to try and lift the vibration and bring joy about, and you know, we've done a lot of exercises on the week when I was away of sitting in our own sitting with our own spirit, and exercises designed even to bring about trust, and it made me realise that I do trust the spirit world, and it is an ever ongoing uh kind of thought process, and I this week tested me a lot because sometimes it's made me look at my own mediumship and realise that sometimes I don't necessarily always trust myself, and actually, the first step to trusting the spirit world is to trust oneself, soul sink. So I spent a lot of time really sort of digging deep into that in the week, and we did lots of really interesting experiments on the Eileen week where we had blindfolds out and doing readings not knowing the person in front of you. And I must say, I actually find it a hell of a lot of easier to actually do readings with a blindfold. I tend to find that actually my mediumship tends to unfold very naturally when there's a blindfold on because I do find that a lot of my attention often gets taken by the reactions of the sitter, and I am trying ever more not to sort of get too absorbed by the sitter, the make too much eye contact with the sitter. I try and just fix my gaze sort of as somewhere else, not because I'm rude and I don't want to look at the person, but because you know I want to try and keep my attention and I want my not even to try, I don't want to use that word try because trying creates resistance, but I want to just flow with the spirit world, and it can be very helpful for me to not you know make too much eye contact and to fix my gaze in another place. Um, it just helps me to stay in the energy, in the power of the spirit world. So we didn't only do things with blindfolds, we also did an experiment which was fascinating, whereby a chair was placed in the centre of the circle, someone would go out of the room, the medium, and a sitter would come and sit in the chair for a few seconds and then go sit back in the circle. And then the idea was the medium would come in and connect with a communicator for the person that was in the chair. Now I was selected to be the first person, I came in unknowingly. Normally, I always know when I'm gonna get picked because I just I can feel it before, and sometimes I'm really silly as well. In the past, I've almost got the feeling knowing I'm gonna be picked, and then in two true Jason style, kind of almost gone, Oh god, I'm sure I won't be. And then I am when I could have been using that time very wisely to get myself in the right space, so to speak. So I was taken up, I managed to get a communicator who came straight through, but it turned out that Eileen was going to sit in the chair, uh, the tutor, and then at the very last minute, someone else, a man, came and sat in the chair, and actually my communicator was for the original person, and actually it worked every single time when every single medium went up, it would work in uh true form. A communicator would come through that that person understood, and it just really made me think about just how clever the spirit world are. And it often makes me think because I had such a beautiful message come through from my granddad, and even the medium who brought it through was the very personality in person I feel that my granddad would have gravitated to most, and it coming through that person with the way that she would talk the medium and the beautiful way that she would articulate her words. She was very big on language, this medium, so much so, actually. I spoke to her a few uh days after the course, and I was saying to her, Oh, I really want to get better. Nicola was her name. I really want to get better at uh you know getting out my head. And she said to me, Jason, if you want that, I'll give you a very simple experiment. I said, Go for it. And she said, I want you to ban yourself from using the word think for two weeks. You can feel, you can know, but you cannot think. And well, I've broken it just now because I'm in the two weeks and I'm saying it, but it's something that I'm really trying to live by, actually, because there's something really in that, even the practice of trying to sort of uh vacate uh that word from one's vocabulary is very powerful because it I'm trying to use it myself rather than thinking things now, even decisions, what I want to do with work or whatever. I'm just trying to feel it. So that's the journey that I'm going on, and I did some really beautiful pieces of mediumship in the week. I still am finding that evidence does go up to my mind defaults, and you know, I do find that my mind tries to place it, but I do find that I'm definitely, definitely getting into better flow and finding that it's happened less. So, on this new season of SoulSync, I'm gonna be doing some practical exercises with you and episodes designed to help you because so many of you lovely souls get in touch to ask me questions about mediumship, and I'm gonna tell you it absolutely 100% straight on what you need to do in order to make a connection, how mediumship unfolds, and it's all gonna be through my own lived experience. And like I do say on this podcast, I always encourage you to you know take what resonates with you, but you know, not surrender your power, go with what you feel and take what resonates and just leave the rest at the door. So, yes, I want to be talking about trust as well, and you know what does total trust live look like? And there's a very interesting episode coming up with a lovely medium, even called Natalie, and she's gonna be talking a lot about trust and surrender and what it really looks like when you're living in that real flow of authenticity, being truly who you are, and the work that goes into sort of making that discovery. We're also gonna be talking about things on this series like the Acaci Records. We're gonna be doing more episodes with Christine Morgan as well on the art of mediumship curriculum. Also, in terms of mediumship, I also wanted to talk in this season as well about symbology and my experiences of how the spirit worlds are communicating through me and readings. I did it at some absolutely mind-blowing readings, and they really were mind-blowing when I was at the college, so I'm excited to delve deeper into those over the course of this series. But I'm back, I'm not hiding under a rock anymore. I'm here, SolSync, and I just want to say it's a p privilege, as it always is to be able to talk to you directly, and I'm gonna try and help you as much as I possibly can. But I'm back, it's great to be back, and I welcome you very much to this new season eight.