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Channeling Made Simple

Subscriber Episode Lizzy Sutton & Nikki Sucevic

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What if guidance was closer than you think—clear, kind, and available the moment you ask? Nikki takes you inside her channeling journey, from the raw ache of her father’s illness to the first gentle messages that arrived through a pen, and later, her voice. You’ll hear exactly how she set up a safe, repeatable practice with a simple invocation, why children so often “see more” in theta states, and how a one‑line nighttime protection can transform the quality of your dreams and your days.

We walk through automatic writing step by step: how to call in guides of the highest truth and compassion, keep the pen moving past doubt, and notice the unmistakable shift into warmth and clarity. Nikki shares how different “signatures” feel—guides, higher self, loved ones—and why trusting odd images or details often unlocks startling confirmation. She also explains how boundaries and “office hours” keep intuition clean, and how moving from journals to live channeling became possible by honoring consent and focusing on messages of the light.

To support clarity, Nikki leans on simple, tangible habits: clean, minimally processed food; water filtration that reduces fluoride; intentional cooking and meal blessings; and screen‑free buffers before sleep and after waking to protect the subconscious. We talk about raising baseline emotion to meet guidance halfway, using gratitude, breath, and gentle music. Dreams emerge as a shared meeting place for loved ones, a reminder that contact isn’t rare or reserved for a few—it’s a skill anyone can build with patience and care.

If you’re curious about connecting with your intuition, start tonight: speak the protection prayer, ask a loving question, and try the automatic writing prompt. Subscribe, share this with a friend who’s seeking clearer guidance, and leave a review with the first message you received—we’d love to hear what came through.

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Welcome back, everyone, to an episode of the Modern Zen Collective Podcast. This is a part of our Plus program bonus episode. Thank you so much for being part of the Plus subscription and you know being there for us. We really appreciate it. We are happy to share content that's resonating, and we are so happy to have you here. I am Nikki, your solo host today for all things that we're talking about. Today I want to talk about channeling, what it means, how I do it, how I began doing it. So take a deep breath in and let it exhale. Just settling into your body, releasing anything. And take two more like that. Just taking three long, slow inhales and exhales. Allowing yourself to receive and be here for the messages. And then you can just settle in, relax into your space. So channeling, what is it? How do you do it? Can everyone do it? Something that I've learned uh throughout my spiritual journey is that we all have this ability to connect with our highest self, our guides, our soul tribe, the universe, God, angels, ascended masters, you name it, you can connect from that soul-to-soul, third eye to third eye connection. So for me, my journey began when my father was ill in 2011. And I wanted to find something that I can connect with that was bringing me peace and helping me realize that there's uh something bigger than me out there, something that is supporting us, helping us to grow the through line, the unconditional love. And I also wanted to tap into my own magic with my father being ill and then crossing over and passing away. I wanted to be able to connect with him. And how could I do that? And I knew since I was little that I was able to have these tiny experiences here and there where I would dream about uh messages from my grandfather or have him come in and talk to me about something. I would have visions. I was, you know, more uh, I don't know if it's open to paranormal, but I definitely have plenty of stories about uh living in places or being around and and seeing and feeling and knowing uh what was there that was around us that wasn't in the physical plane. So I knew that I had some of this ability inside of us, and we all do. We all have it. There are many ways that this is repressed so that we don't access it. We talk a lot about ages zero to seven and how that's a being a completely downloadable state. We don't have a layer of the BS that society conditions us on of what's being a good girl or good boy and how to act in that way. So when we are in that theta downloadable brainwave state, kids can see and feel and hear and transmute many, many, many different things outside of the physical realm. So, some examples are my friend's daughter when she was little, was they had an old house in Pittsburgh, and she was upstairs playing in the old house in the playroom that they made the attic that was finished. And she asked if that little kid over there could play with them to her babysitter. And the babysitter, of course, at first said, per what typical, you know, us as adults and not seeing something and possibly freaking out, said, There's no one over there. We we can't, there's no one over there to play. And the little girl was like, No, there is, and she has on a dress, or he has on a suit this and he has on this. And he was she was explaining, I think, multiple children that she saw. And then in that same house, lots of other things were happening. Um, this is my friend's house, not mine, but uh, you know, doors opening, water turning on, the toys in the playroom turning on, etc. Uh, and I bring up this because children have this open connection, open conduit to be able to access and see. And we often, you know, downplay it, uh, say that's, you know, that's not true, there's nothing there, et cetera. And that starts to build who we are after we are past seven, right? Looking at the physical, if I can't touch it in my hand, it doesn't exist. Something else for for children, because they are an open conduit, uh, a few things. One is guardian angels come in as, and this is what my guides channeled to me, come in as imaginary friends. So I had an imaginary friend when I was little. And when I started channeling, I uh was channeling through and and getting messages and found that my imaginary friend was actually my guardian angel that was next to me. And it's quite interesting that children across the board call it their imaginary friend, whether it be their parents giving it a name, uh, because that's what's been in the collective and that we've talked about. But that is a beautiful gift that children have, that they, you know, you see children with these vivid imaginations and they're going all over the place with their imagination and they're traveling. They're really, they're actually really experiencing what they are talking about because they are in the theta. They're in that downloadable brainwave state. They don't have the goo and the gunk all over them that is keeping them from experiencing the magic that's all around us. So that's a beautiful, beautiful thing if your child or if you know someone, or even to you, if you remember having an imaginary friend, and then they kind of start to dissipate, you know, once maybe something, you know, you grow in school and you have a sibling, or you're just getting a little older. But that's just the physical part of it. Your guardian angel is always with you. Uh, you can call that your guide, you can call that uh whatever it would be for, you know, your interpretation of words and and meaning, etc., um, for religion, for esoteric, for spirituality. Um, so that's a beautiful thing. On the flip side of that, children are, as we said, an open conduit, right? So when they sleep, they're also an open conduit, which attributes to many of the nightmares that children have. I know I had them when I was little. So children are already open. They can see things here and there, and they go to sleep. And when they are asleep, they're an open conduit, and that means that anything light or dark can get into their field. You know, that's not great, right? We want to protect the, we want to protect and make sure that um during that time, that very vulnerable time that, you know, children are sleeping, or even our ourselves as adults are sleeping, that we are protecting ourselves. And with that something that you can do for your child or you can do for yourself. I do this every night, or you can teach your child to do is a little call upon and just say, you know, whoever you want to call in, if it's God, if it's universe, if it's guides, angels, ascended masters, call you, you I would like to call upon your protection of my spirit while my body sleeps. That's literally it. You're calling upon protection of your spirit while the body sleeps. I do this every night, and I can tell a difference of my dreams, my energy, my anxiety if I wake up a little angst, and and if I don't do it, I can feel it. So that's that's something that is so simple. And we can often throw aside something that's so simple and think, you know, how could that work? It's so simple, but it is so simple. It's free will. You know, we are our guides are there, our angels are there to help us. They guide us along the way, they give us signs, et cetera, but they don't step in fully, you know, with that huge impact, unless it's life or death, and they need to really, really help you. So for things like this, as you're navigating, your guides and the angels for your children, for yourself, are always there for you to be able to help and to be able to guide and protect. And I would say nighttime is a big part of that, to be able to help you as you are growing, as you are tailoring your intuition, as you are protecting your energy, everything that goes along with it. So those are some things just on the front end that I wanted to talk about with being a child and having this energy. So I felt that growing up, and you know, even if you feel like you didn't have spiritual encounters or things like that, little things, whether it be a vivid imagination or um having that imaginary friend, or just knowing something from, you know, another time era or a different location from where you are at a very young age, those are all showing you that spiritual connection that you have, that connection with something bigger than yourself. And it's something that we are able as adults to really tap into, lean into, and be able to discover on our own and trust it and feel the magic behind it. So I began this journey to really channel for myself when my dad was sick 2011 through 2012. Prior to that, I was speaking with psychics, intuitives, breaky, chakra balancing, all of those things, and which I still do. I still need tune-ups, I still like having opposite perspectives. I love that. So my first lean into all of this was with Gabby Bernstein, and I watched a video of hers. And one of her videos talked about how free writing is such a beautiful way to connect with your guides. At this time, I wasn't channeling intuitive messages. I wasn't channeling as I do now with the spoken word from a channeled source. You know, I was dipping my toes into it, but wasn't really sure how to do it. So the way that I started was this simple technique called automatic writing. And what I did was I took a journal and I wrote at the top of the page, thank you, guides of the highest truth and compassion, for writing through me and telling me what I need to know. So you're calling in guides of the highest truth and compassion. You can also protect yourself with that layer. Guides, please protect me. Only messages of the light, from the light, for the light for my highest evolution. So when you write this, you just start writing. And you can write, I don't know what to write, I don't know what to write, this is silly, I feel silly. It just keep writing and writing and writing and just let the pen go. Keep writing. And then before you know it, when you're writing, it might take you 30 seconds, it might take you five minutes, everyone's different. It could take longer than that. You might notice your handwriting start to change. I really enjoy doing this from a handwriting perspective to start to really get familiar with your guides doing that pen to paper. And you can lean into, you know, typing and anything like that. I would say after you get acclimated and into this wave. So writing that and writing things out, and how amazing it was to see the messages come through. And the messages that came through were absolute, abundant unconditional love. Love so much that I felt like I could cry writing out the messages. The love on the other side for us is uh unbelievable and hard for us to comprehend here on earth because there is so much strife and polarity. The unconditional love on the other side came through immediately once I started free writing. And I would write messages back like, Thank you for this message. I want to learn more, tell me more. And the message would start writing and writing and writing. And at first I started tapping into my guides. And then after my dad passed, a few months later, I started asking him questions. And I could tell when the energy was different, if it was my guides, if it was my dad, if it was my highest self, if it was my angels, if it was my grandfather. It was just little subtle, little subtle energies, little subtle shifts that I could tell the personalities, there are still personalities, even your personality is your soul. Did you know that? Your personality is your soul. Like how you show up in the world, that's your soul. So your personality exists when you're out of this flesh physical body. So feeling that personality come through from my dad, from my angels, from my guides, absolutely amazing, beautiful. And this was the start of my channeling journey. So I began writing notebook after notebook after notebook of all this channeling and getting messages from my dad. And if I was having a bad day or having a question, I would write a question down and let the automatic writing, you know, give me the answer. I actually had a friend who did automatic writing and she began writing in a different language that she did not know. She wrote in a different language that she did not know after she called upon her guides and called upon protection. It's just very interesting how this can remove that shadow, remove that block that we have with what's on the other side. So I began with free writing, and I recommend that for everyone beginning this journey. Handwritten free writing. After that, I stepped into typing my free writing. So getting into a meditative state. And then as I was in a meditative state, I would wait until I dropped in in meditation. If you meditate, you know this. It's not necessary. You can start automatic writing without doing the meditation or the dropping in. I felt for me that it was something that really helped me to open up. And I almost felt, you know, like reassurance. Like I feel reassured that these are my guides and not just my brain telling me things. So that was my own, my own hiccup, my own part of it. So I would drop in, haven't get in a meditative state, listen to music, listen to a guided meditation. Sometimes I drop in and just feel that total ease. Sometimes I would not. And I would just start typing. And the typing started coming so fast that my fingers couldn't catch up. And I'm a pretty fast typer. My fingers couldn't catch up. So we have the ability to tell our guides, oh, just a little slower, just a little faster, you know, help me out, help me to understand this. I noticed as I was going through this and accessing different areas of my intuition that I was really leaning into my Claire Cognizant that I have. We all have different Claire's. I was really allowing my Claire Cognizant to come in where I get out of nowhere a full download and then I start typing it out and letting it go. Sometimes I flow, sometimes I don't know what the next word's gonna be. But I would say often I get a full download and then I type it out. So how you feel and how you receive is gonna be different than anybody else. We all have different clairs. You might see images, you might feel them, you might get the download, you might smell. There's just so many, so many ways that you can feel. So I started with automatic writing and then I went into typing automatic writing after I would meditate and drop in. And this really opened me up so much. This is where I started to channel for friends and family, sending them messages. I was getting these downloads that felt like this ancient wisdom that was coming in and sending it to friends and family, and you know, being astounded by how profound these messages were. It was absolutely incredible. And from there, I started to dabble into live channeling with others where someone would ask me a question and I would answer it for them. And that was just the path that I decided to take was doing the channeling for myself. I type it up and I get these messages. I have a full journal of typed out messages. And for others, I speak it and record it for others. And those are the ways, the avenues that work for me for channeling. And when I first started to do the voice recording, it was a little scary. I didn't know what I was gonna say. I thought I was gonna trip up. I thought, how, you know, I usually type, should I type everything out and then read it? And then I started, you know, jumping in feet first and thinking, I'm just gonna talk. I'm just gonna talk and see what happens. And the way intuition works is things come up and they really don't make any sense. They, they really don't. And bringing those up for the person that you're channeling for or for yourself, and then rereading it or telling that person, nine times out of 10, you get confirmation on what you said. For for instance, I've I've seen a vision of a door lock. And I've brought that up in my channeling, and I've sometimes say, I don't know what that why this is coming up, but your guys are saying to fix the door lock. I don't know what door it is, et cetera. This is what I'm seeing. And my individual who I'm working with will say, Oh my gosh, yes, my front door lock. So if I used and, you know, pushed that down and overthought it from a mind perspective, I would have never said that and I wouldn't have, you know, given that information. So a lot of intuition, a lot of channeling is it's just like a relationship with a person. You are getting familiar with how the energy comes in, you are playing with it back and forth, you are trying to understand how that person operates and talks and communicates with you, how they receive information, how the information comes in. And it's like a muscle. The more that you work on it, the more it gets stronger. So I channel every few days, if not every day, to get messages that bring messages in, whether it's for myself, for my friends, for my family. And with that, I've been building this muscle and building this muscle and building this muscle. So now I feel as though I don't have to drop in. I feel as though I can tap into energy with my protection and my guides and receive the messages and the downloads on demand, pretty much, which has been such a blessing and such an amazing, amazing gift. And I've been able to create those parameters of when I do it. Because there are, we've we've talked with uh one of our practitioners, Angelica, and she's a channel, she's a psychic. And she also has said she does this, you know, she channels for people. She's such an open conduit and open psychic that sometimes spirits and individuals can come to her, like knock on her door. So she created these boundaries, just like on earth. This is when I channel from this time to this time, or when I put on this necklace, I'm open to channeling. So we get to create, again, free will, those boundaries of what's going on. I know I've been in um in places or sessions or things like that where I'll get, I feel like a knock on the door. I don't know how else to explain a knock on the door. And I'll say, Oh, not right now, or let's let's connect with this later, or, you know, is this energy of the highest good? Is it of the light, et cetera, and make sure that I'm in the light before I accept the knock on the door? Or I say, not right now, and say, let's revisit this later, because I would be in the session. Or it won't be the right time. Some things I do to help myself be in the right energy, right physicality, right mindset for channeling is I try to eat as uh clean as possible. Now, honestly, I get it. I won't go on a rampage, but there is so much as poison that's given to us. Seed oils, 500 ingredients and something. Um, don't even get me started on Trader Joe's. I went there because everyone talks about going to Trader Joe's and I looked at the labels, and every label had at least 15, 15 lines of ingredients in the label, and a lot of bioengineered ingredients. It's just so and there's bioengineered ingredients at Whole Foods, too. It's crazy. So I'm very conscientious. I would say about 80% clean, where I try to eat um unprocessed foods. I try, I cook at home. I I believe in fats. I believe fats help our brain chemistry. I believe that our cholesterol levels should be 200 or over. There's lots of studies and lots of uh, I would say, information that has been um changed. But I believe a healthy cholesterol level is over 200, so we can have our brain function and not um get into any uh Alzheimer's dementia state. Um so I eat clean, I eat healthy fats, even butter. I eat, I eat butter, I eat cream, I eat whole milk. Um, I have things that are clean with very few ingredients. If I eat out, that's my 20%, you know. If we have pizza or we go out or we or we do something, I still am on planet earth, I still want to enjoy, I still want to indulge. But I prioritize for myself about 80% of the time. I want to make sure I feel good in my body and I feel so much better when I'm feeding it. Feeding it food that it doesn't have to fight against, right? Feeding it food that's not 40 different ingredients that our lab created that my body that was meant to live off the land is trying to navigate and create it creates inflammation and my digestion's a mess and my acne's a mess and everything that goes along with it. You know, arthritis, all of these things that go along with eating things that are not in our highest good. So that's something that's very uh important to me. I also do a Reiki blessing for my food all the time. I'm Reiki level two. So uh I do a Reiki level one blessing on my food and anyone that I'm with's food. So and my my pet's food, anything so that that good energy goes in. Um, I cook my food with love, as Ayurveda says. You know, being very conscientious of what you're um putting into your body and having that home cooked food. Uh, everything is energy. Food is energy. So if you're cooking it in a bad mood or frustration or resentment, that's going into your cells. Uh, and you can look at Dr. Omoto's water experiment and see this for yourself and see how liquid or anything of that matter can be changed and how chaotic it looks when it's um given negative rather than positive. So eating clean is something that's really helped me. I also do intermittent fasting, and I know that's a hot topic, especially as a woman and different cycles and things like that. And I'm not a physician, I'm not telling you what to do or not do. I've just found for myself when I give myself time for my body to fully digest, and I I allow myself to fully process the food I had at dinner, whether my dinner is at 5 p.m., 6 p.m., 7 p.m., very rarely it's after 7:30 p.m. I do not eat again until the next day, probably at noon or one, and allow my body to relax. I'll have um coffee with some fat in it, and whether that be whole milk or um collagen proteins or a little butter or something like that. So that's something else that I do that I found that has truly helped me to be clear in my my uh my mind. And so I feel light in my um my digestion and and in my body. Uh some other things I I do, I use uh non-fluoride toothpaste and I use uh two different types of water filters, uh clearly filtered and santivia. Both of them remove about 99% of fluoride. Fluoride calcifies the pineal gland, and that is our direct transmuter, transmitter to the um messages that are um all around us. So I found and I definitely have seen and felt a huge difference since doing that and introducing that. That's been something that's been huge for me. Other things I do for my intuition, I do not look at my phone, email, TV, news, anything with um external stimuli right before bed or the first 20 minutes that I wake up. I absolutely honor that time as my theta brainwave state where I know I'm a downloadable program. So if I'm looking at something that is negative or even social media or anything, as I go to bed, whether it's six hours, eight hours, 10 hours, I'm embedding that into my DNA and that's becoming my story. So someone else's timeline is becoming my story. I don't want that. I want it to be my timeline. So as I fall asleep, I'll do my call-upon. I might meditate. I'll listen to subliminals that I'm okay with because those are programming me. I like to make my own subliminals as well. I'll listen to healing music, I'll listen to chakra balancing. I'll do different things to help myself. And also I use that time as Neville Goddard taught, um, you know, one of the um pioneers of manifestation, taught that that time before you fall asleep is magic. That time is the magic time for you to be able to visualize your manifestations and then allow them to bake for the time you're sleeping, six, eight, 10 hours, whatever it is. In the morning, same thing. If there's an emergency, it can wait the 10, 20 minutes until I look at it, right? Like I have the ability, you know, on my phone that my emergency contacts can get in touch with me through my DD. So I'm not worried about that. If someone really needs to get a hold of me and their family member, they can get a hold of me. But that first 20 minutes is vital to not receive stimuli. Like, that's why it just boggles my mind when people watch the news as soon as they get up in the morning. It's just like, I read something once and it was someone who asked um like a ch a student from China that was here, and and they and the student from China asked, like, why do you watch the news all the time? And they're like, Oh, it's just where we get our news. Like, do you guys not do that? And they're like, Oh, yeah, we have the news, but we all know that it's programming. We all know that it's um it's propaganda, it's not real. And once you start to peel the layers off and you step back, I guess, what I what I noticed was, wow, this is just not, this is this is trying to tell me a story and tell me how to live my life and tell me how to react to things. And I would rather do that on my own and use my sovereignty and use my own energy to be able to figure that out. So something else I do for my intuition is in the morning, I don't look at anything, no text, no even glance, no glance, text, no glance at the TV, no glance at the my email. I will listen to um a healing playlist or subliminals, I might do a visualization. Um, I have a slow and steady romanticized morning, and which I I did also when I had a full-time job. So it's just something that you can always with kids. I know Lizzie and I talk about that. It's a little bit more difficult, but you can try to fit it in, even if it's for a few minutes. So those are the things that really have helped me. And another thing that has really helped me to connect, especially connect with my guides, there are these different levels and different dimensions. Uh, you know, Ra talks about this. I'm really interested in the teachings of Ra and how, you know, it's the battle of good and evil, and um just the the energy of moving forward as a society, that you know, the light is already one and we're moving forward, and there's just some challenging times ahead of that. Um, but I really believe in in my soul that we are, you know, growing and evolving in this way to learn and to get to where we need to be. So protecting these times, protecting these times of our day is huge. And the reason why I bring up Ra is that we're all on these different dimensions. And if I'm living in chaos and lack and negativity and anger, you know, have you ever seen the emotional scale and how there's all these emotions from the bottom to the top? If I'm living in the lower emotions, it is very hard for an entity that is in the light on the other side that's five dimensions above me to come down and connect with me so that we can make that connection and I can get messages. I know that. You know, I've learned that through teachings from uh Abraham Hicks and from Louise Hay and many, many others. We, if we want to connect, raising our own energy. It doesn't mean that we're repressing, it doesn't mean that we're, you know, forgetting about the things we need to heal. Yes, of course we need that, but we don't live in that energy all the time. We allow it to pass through us. So, with that, I make it a point to be able to grow and evolve into higher frequencies so that it's easier for my guides, my dad, angels, ascended masters, the universe, you know, my connections that I want to have. I've also been connecting with the Arctorian Council of Light. I've been connecting with Toth. There's others that I've been connecting with while I'm on this higher frequency. And I remember when my my dad first passed away, and my mom was asking, why is he coming to you? Why is he coming to you and talking to you? Why not me? And I didn't know it at the time, but now looking back, I see my mom was obviously very understandably in depression and anxiety and stress and grief and anger and resentment, many, many things. And she couldn't really pull herself out of it all that much to live in gratitude and and and be thankful and rise up and have her practice of being okay, being with herself and not allowing the external stimuli to impact her, these different things. And I believe it was probably hard for my dad to go from level whatever, seven down to level two to connect with her. That's why we see loved ones and those that, you know, want to connect with us in our dreams. In our dreams, we kind of release those layers of the BS. We're here on planet Earth with our different levels of all the crap that we put on. And we're able to be in an area where we can meet together. I go on vacation with my family in my dreams, my mom and my dad who have both passed, and my brother, who's still here. We all, all four of us go on vacation together, which is sweet in my dreams. Or we'll go, we used to do that when I was when they were alive when I was little. So, like that happens, you know, different things like that. So accessing in your dreams, those aren't coincidences. Those are them visiting you if someone that's passed has accessed your dream in your dreams. And if they've access in your dreams, why not try automatic writing and try to connect with them while you're here, you know, awake outside of your dreams, raising your vibration, doing the things to make your energy light so you can connect with them and then start doing the free writing. So I bring this up because all anyone can free write, anyone can channel, and then you find your avenue for channeling. And to do so, there's just these little layers to be able that I found create the best vehicle for your body to be able to connect and get these messages. For mine, it's those physical practices I talked about, and then my mental practices, and then flexing the muscle, continuing to do it over and over. Thank you for being here for this long. Thank you for being interested in channeling. It's so important right now as we're moving from 3D to 5D, we're transitioning, transitioning on earth into the new era, the new earth, that as many of us as possible, hopefully all of us can connect to our highest self, our highest good, have our own sovereignty, our own discernment, and be able to create the life that we came here to create in this incarnation. Sending you so much love. Talk to you soon. Bye, everybody.

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