Aging with Purpose and Passion

Michele Blood: Embracing Healing and Spiritual Awakening Through Music and Affirmations

• Beverley Glazer • Episode 107

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What happens when a rock star turns their life around after a near-fatal accident? Join Beverley Glazer as she speaks with Michele Blood, the former Australian rock singer who transformed personal tragedy into a journey of healing and spiritual enlightenment. This episode offers a compelling tale of resilience, as Michele shares how the power of affirmations and music not only aided her recovery but also led her to become a spiritual guide and empowerment figure. From performing with bands like In Excess and The Pretenders to captivating audiences with her teachings, Michele's story shows how music can be a profound tool for personal growth.

Discover the science behind singing affirmations and how they can influence the subconscious mind, as told by someone who turned her life around through these very practices.

Michele's quest for spiritual awakening led her across the globe, where she  worked with and shared the stage with Bob Proctor, Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, Jack Canfield, just to name a few.  Her journey emphasizes the transformative power of music and meditation, highlighting the importance of personal belief and resilience. Tune in to hear how Michele's unique blend of creativity and spirituality captured the attention of millions of others, offering a message of hope and empowerment to all who face life's adversities.

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Welcome to Aging with Purpose and Passion, the podcast designed to inspire your greatness and thrive through life. Get ready to conquer your fears. Here's your host psychotherapist, coach and empowerment expert, Beverley Glazer psychotherapist, coach and empowerment expert, Beverly Glazer.

Beverley Glazer:

How can one quick moment in time completely alter your course in life? Well, welcome to Aging with Purpose and Passion. I'm Beverley Glazer and I empower women to overcome challenges in business and in life with renewed sense of purpose. And you can always find me on reinventimpossiblecom. Well, michelle Blood was a successful singer and songwriter in Australia, but a near fatal accident sparked a journey from a rock singer to a spiritual guide. Michele discovered the power of affirmations and transformed them to music, healing herself and inspiring millions of others. Michelle has worked with and shared the stage with people like Bob Proctor, Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, Jack Canfield, and that's just to name a few. So if you've ever wondered how to turn adversity into the catalyst for growth, let's just dive right in. Welcome, Michele, welcome.

Michele Blood:

Thank you, Beverley, Je m'appelle Michele for all the Quebec people.

Beverley Glazer:

And, yes, from Australia, with your delightful accent, to California, which is where you are now. Not to mention, you spent time in Asia. It's like you're a woman of the world and you started when you were just a child of five years old. Your mom already said you know you were born to sing. What was that like for you back then, Michele?

Michele Blood:

Wow, I haven't been asked that before. Good question. Yeah, apparently I was told that I could sing songs. You know verbatim lyrics, perfect by the time I was two and my family didn't really ever take much notice of it. But the nuns because I was in a Catholic school, beautiful Irish nuns. We lived in the countryside in Sydney, blue Mountains in Australia, and they would always put me on the school of Stedfords because they wanted to win. And I always won the school of Stedfords from the other Catholic schools singing.

Michele Blood:

You know, since I was four I wrote into a TV station. When I was five I wrote it myself a letter and I said I would like to come and audition to be on the show on this kid's show. And they called my mother and they said this is obviously to come and audition to be on the show on this kid's show. And they called my mother and they said this is obviously a child's handwriting but it's beautifully done. And mum said what are you talking about? Who are you talking about? Michelle, michelle Blood, your daughter. She wrote in asking for an audition and we'd love to audition her and mum was just incredulous. She couldn't believe it because she always thought I was just this quiet little thing, but when I got on stage, it was a whole other story, and so that's how that started. So I didn't have any musicians in my family. I didn't have anyone pushing me to be on stage ever. The opposite was true, actually. So that's how it started.

Beverley Glazer:

You were already a promoter, that's what I think. Five years old, you were promoting yourself. Yeah, what was life like in the world of music? Okay, you were a girl, you were a rock singer. I mean, what was that all about?

Michele Blood:

That was challenging but I loved it so much. It took me years to get the right band together because sometimes I'd be a singer in someone else's band and not treated very well. And on the road in Australia it's very, very tough. The Australian, the Aussies they used to have in the 80s huge venues. You know, the smallest would be like 2,000 people, the largest about 10,000 people. I don't know why Australia did that, but every city had a huge venue for live music. So at one stage we travelled seven years non-stop we didn't have Christmas breaks or anything and toured non-stop. You know, working getting to as a support act to start with for bands like In Excess and the Pretenders and Georgia Satellites from America, until eventually we headlined everywhere we went because we had our own videos and everything happening.

Michele Blood:

But it was very tough because I was the lead singer and one of the main songwriters and the manager of the band as well. So I had to get the record labels interested. I had to get the right road crew, get the right sound equipment and not talk during the day at the same time and we had no mobile phones back then or Googles or anything, so to speak. To my agent I used to have like a tapping on the phone so that they would know it was me. I'd like a Morse code thing so that they knew yes or no. Or we don't like this venue Because I couldn't speak during the day.

Michele Blood:

Because when you have to because some of the gigs we did were like five 45 minute sets and that's you know, you're dancing on stage for that long plus singing all night. So the only way a lot of singers do that, a lot of singers do not speak during the day ever. You know, I was just hearing who was it. Wendy Matthews and somebody else were saying you know, they were doing these big Broadway things and they were interviewed and they said well, how do you look after your voice when you're doing?

Michele Blood:

You know, even Bruce Springsteen said this to Wendy you know eight shows a week, you know, because she's doing Somerset Boulevard or whatever. And she said I just don't talk to her in the day and I was like, well, duh, don't you know that? Bruce Springsteen, yes, he talks during the day. I guess he's just got a voice that just goes and goes and goes, because Bruce Springsteen concerts sometimes he'll go up to five hours, you know, and I know what that's like, but during the day, no, you can't whisper either. A lot of people that are speakers or singers don't realise that whispering actually hurts your vocal cords more. But anyway, let's get off that subject.

Beverley Glazer:

Let's get back into the bad stuff. Everything stopped, and it stopped radically. Tell us what happened.

Michele Blood:

Well, what happened was I was driving home with the truck driver from Brisbane to Sydney, which is about a gosh in a car 12 hour drive in a truck, I guess 14, 15 hours and just as we arrived in Sydney the truck driver fell asleep at the wheel and I'd just been doing a gig you know long gig and then we had to pack everything up and go all the way to Sydney, which is a long way to the next gig, and we always had someone drive with the truck driver because they were always new people that we didn't know to make sure that our equipment got there. And as the passenger he fell asleep and went into a telephone pole which was right across the road from one of the best hospitals in Australia for bone surgery. It was unbelievable. That's where we crashed because I had broken bones all throughout my body. I was in the hospital for months and months and months and months.

Michele Blood:

But it didn't stop my singing career. I still do albums nearly every year and do gigs and stuff like that. But now it's different. Now it's with mysticism and motivation and meditation and lots of different things. But that's how I started writing my affirmation music because I was attempting affirmations in the hospital because I was prepared to do anything to try to heal my body. But they don't work. They don't work if you're in pain.

Beverley Glazer:

But you told me also that you were also told you'd never walk again, which meant that you would not be able to sing, and you loved singing and singing was your life. I mean, you started it at two. You know, like that must have hit you. I mean, I can't even describe that Well.

Michele Blood:

They didn't say I wouldn't walk again. They said I would have a severe limp. And because my back was fractured as well, they weren't sure how well that would heal. And because I had so many steel plates put in my body, you know, it's just unbelievable pain. And yeah, I, you know it was interesting because I was in denial to start with, because I could not imagine not being able to do all the dancing and amazing stuff I did on stage really good entertainer, I mean, I've had enough experience. At the same time it made me super depressed. But I couldn't even feel depressed because I was in too much physical pain to really know what was going on.

Michele Blood:

When you're in that much pain, passing out every few minutes from the pain, it's hard to acknowledge what is actually going on. But when I started doing the affirmations, I am healed, I know I am, I love myself, I am my friend. They didn't work, beverly, because the doubting mind spat them out immediately. When you are looking at, no matter what your circumstances, it doesn't have to be a car accident or a truck accident, or it can be. You know you lose a loved one or you haven't got enough money that month, or whatever pain emotional or physical you're going through, it's very, very challenging to put a positive affirmation into your mind and to believe it, because the doubting mind is working with all of the senses and it's like I can see that that is not the truth. I can feel it's not the truth, I can smell it's not the truth, and so it spits out that positive thought. And so I asked my brother to go and look for affirmation songs and this is in the 80s, remember. So we had to actually physically go out to the record stores and he said there's no such thing. So I had a little cassette player and I just started singing I am healed, I know I am, I love myself, I am my friend. And I sang it over and over and over again onto a blank cassette and I would just listen to it. Then I didn't have to sing along anymore, I just listened to it every day. I had miraculous healing, to the point where they had me on TV because it was so miraculous. Even the doctors were gobsmacked. They were like what? I mean, I still had the.

Michele Blood:

I ended up not having the physical limitations. They said I would. And I'm only five foot. I've always worn very high shoes. And one of the things I did, as soon as I could sort of limp or whatever I put my high shoes on and I said I don't care, I'm going to wear my high shoes because I want to get used to wearing high shoes and being on stage. And I started visualizing that and when I went to the doctor for my back he said you should not have been wearing high shoes, but there's an interesting thing that's happened. He said because you've worn high shoes all your life. And I said, yeah, practically. You know people think I have a shower in high shoes. My brother used to think my back straightened because of wearing the high heels straight away before the back was completely healed. So all the things that happened were just miraculous and weird and totally you know like I am weird and totally wonderful.

Michele Blood:

So that's how the affirmation songs, that's how I end up working with all of those great people, because their promoters that have brought them to Australia to tour wanted me, because I was known in Australia. They wanted me to be doing the affirmations in between these speakers. I'd never been to a motivational seminar. I didn't know who any of these people were. For an example, beverly, the first gig was with Deepak and Wayne Dyer and a couple of other people was in Adelaide and it was during the day and there were three and a half thousand people who paid $350 each and I thought it was insane. And they were paying me $5,000 per gig, which is how much I would be lucky to make in a year. No, we made a lot more money than that the band. But it all went out to the agents, to everyone else road crew and so I said to my band look, I'm just going to do this because it's really good money and I can buy a lot of stuff for us. You know, and I just couldn't believe this, you know that it could be so popular. And Deepak said you've got to do this, you've got to do that Wayne Dyer did.

Michele Blood:

And then when I worked with Bob Proctor, he was hysterical. He said you have to. When I worked with Bob Proctor, he was hysterical. He said you have to leave Australia and come tour the world with me and my wife Linda. He said I don't want anyone else on stage with me anymore, you've got to be at everyone. He said the audience are up on stage with you singing the affirmations. He said I can't get them out of my head and no one's ever done it before. So I worked with Bob for seven years straight in Kuala Lumpur. I ran his business from there. I wrote new songs from there, we wrote books and products and did events from there to other Asian countries. It was just a. You know, it's crazy how it all happened so fast through the oscillation of the positive songs and my willpower as well, I have to admit. But when you put those positive affirmations, your life changes. Those thoughts do create your reality. It is incredible, absolutely incredible.

Beverley Glazer:

Another thing that I also think is incredible that you got that inspiration in the hospital from Napoleon Hill. Tell us about that, because you were not somebody that would be into. You know the spiritual realm, positive self-help. You just discovered that and what did that do to you and how did you get there?

Michele Blood:

Well, people started sending tapes and my auntie, jan, is a psychologist and a teacher and she said I really think you've got to listen to some of these positive tapes. They're audio books that I've loved for years, like from Ogmandino and all these different people, and the one that changed. I liked all of them but the one that changed me was Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, because the chapter. I didn't care about any of the rest of the book. I know a lot of people. It means a lot to them, but millionaire entrepreneurs in the 1920s why would a female Australian rock singer care about that? But what I liked was the fact that he did the affirmations, the auto suggestion and when I heard about, when I heard this from the audio book, that his little son ended up getting 30% of his hearing because of Napoleon going into his room and saying you can hear perfectly, you know just all these great affirmations.

Michele Blood:

And in the core, because I've always been like this in the marrow of my being, when I hear something, whether it's a song I've just written or something I know 100%, it's going to be a hit or it's going to it works. And so I believed that I could feel it within me and I had been a very spiritual person, though I went to Mass every morning, every single morning, before I was a rock singer and because I didn't know, I always had a love of God, but I thought it was Jesus. I didn't know that there was any such thing as other enlightened beings, because, you know from the West, we don't know about Yogananda yet or any of those things. Because you know from the West, we don't know about Yogananda yet or any of those things. But I was introduced to those other things through Stuart Weil, through Bob Proctor, these other spiritual books.

Michele Blood:

That just absolutely changed my life as well, because I realized you can actually awaken. You can awaken and I had what I used to call heart glow, because when you listen to those affirmations and you're singing them all the time on stage and you're in this high frequency, they get you into a high frequency. It's like with my students. It's always the starting point I say just listen to them, get you know. We've got tons of apps with my music on it as well, that people can get notifications and even if they don't remember to listen, the Magnet to Money song can come on every hour and you'd be like, wow, I am a magnet to money, so I love technology. I love to be able to do those sorts of things.

Beverley Glazer:

Yeah, I'm hearing you. But with all this success and all this, this, this vibrant energy that you have, you decided to stop and you went off the grid. Tell us about that.

Michele Blood:

Yeah, as I said, I had this heart glow. And I was talking to Bob Proctor one night and I said I've got this heart glow. It's just incredible. I literally feel like my heart's out of my chest. And he said your heart chakra is probably slightly activated. If it was fully activated it would be even more harassing the love. He said you've got to find an enlightened teacher. That's what you need. You've got to. You want to find God. And I said I do. I want to find what it is, that spirit, that enlightenment. And I said I do. I want to find what it is, that spirit, that enlightenment. And I said so, are there enlightened teachers in the world? He said very few at any one time. But put your feelers out there, meditate on it.

Michele Blood:

And I searched for 14 years in so many different countries and finally, when I came to America, because I decided to start from scratch and come to a country where nobody knew me, because I wanted that challenge to reawaken I love a challenge to become successful where nobody knows you yet, which I did, you know, and I travelled to a different city every month and did events and concerts and things, but it took another. I think it was like altogether. It was 14 years before I found my enlightened teacher in America and it just blew me away. So I went off. I had huge social stuff back then and I went off everything social. I didn't do events anymore, just occasionally, and I toured the world with her and studied with her and meditated for hours every night and every day and just did whatever I could.

Michele Blood:

And eventually I awakened and now I teach it. I teach it to people from all over the world how to meditate and transmit light and do prayers for people and all that stuff I adore because I will not put up with one person suffering in any shape or form and people don't have to suffer. But if they don't know how to get out of that rabbit hole they're stuck and that is suffering and it's just not necessary. Beverly, and I know you know that.

Beverley Glazer:

But I love the way you say it. So tell me about singing those affirmations, because I can see that that could be so much more effective than saying those affirmations. Tell me about that.

Michele Blood:

Yeah, thanks Beverley. It's because, well, neuroscience have now proven it, thank God. Because Bob and I used to always say can't the scientists catch up with us? Buddha's been talking about this for thousands of years how your thoughts create your reality. When is science going to allow it? So, because my father used to call me his wondersome woo-woo girl. You went from rock and roll, he said, to meditation and church and loving God, and he's like you're just weird, but in a good way, and I think thanks, dad, anyway.

Beverley Glazer:

So where was I Affirmations and singing?

Michele Blood:

Affirmations and singing yeah. The left side of the brain is where the lyrics, the affirmations go, and the right side of the brain is the music. If you've got music with it, not just our acapella and voice, and you have a whole brain experience and it goes into your subconscious mind 300 times faster than any other method, faster than visualization even though I love visualization faster than writing them, because you don't have a moment or a chance to doubt it. But don't get me wrong. I had books and books of affirmations. I would write them down every day and you know my new life self and you know I did.

Michele Blood:

I love all the modalities, I love every, everything. That's why I've got products with the visualization manifestation, video books, you name it. Because everybody's different, beverly, and everybody is attracted more to a different type of something. Some people are more attracted to my slower affirmation songs, more spiritually sounding to them than rock and roll. It just depends on what the person likes or doesn't like, and I think we've got everything for everybody, because I think that's why I've got students from over 26 countries that I'm on Zoom with every week.

Beverley Glazer:

That's wonderful. Let me also ask you, though, about the book that you wrote. This isn't music, this is a book.

Michele Blood:

I've written many, many, many books. My latest book has just been released Stop Thought and this is Proven Methods for Deep Meditation and Enlightenment. And it is 14 years of teachings that were transcribed and then edited down. So I didn't realize with my teachings that I share what I actually went through for my awakening, what the spiritual experience was, and everything about meditation and awakening is about stopping thought. And so one of my students, holly Fala, she started transcribing from years back all of my talks, you know, and she said oh, michelle, I've got to thank you. I transcribed all these chapters from years ago from the website and she said and it's really, really helping me. And I said we should make it a book. But anyway, that's the latest book, but I'm giving away a book to all of your wonderful people today.

Michele Blood:

I love my book, affirmation Power. I rewrote it a few years ago and I did an audio book version, and the reason I'm giving this away to everybody is because it talks about meditation, affirmation, music, some of my experiences way back when, and it was actually the first book I ever wrote. But then, as I said, a few years ago, I rewrote it, just updated it a bit and I added tons of affirmations and free gifts. Six-week mystical experience course, which is a best-selling course. All of that for free, for your listeners, if they just go to, or watchers or viewers or viewers fans michellebloodcom forward. Slash with purpose.

Beverley Glazer:

Sorry, aging with purpose, that's the one because the podcast is aging with purpose and passion. So remember. One last question, Michele what advice would you give to someone who just doesn't see it, like your dad, very woo woo, like they don't see it. What would you tell them?

Michele Blood:

Well, if someone doesn't see, the one thing I do not do is I don't talk about what I do or who I am, unless somebody sincerely asks the question they really want to know. Because I don't interfere with people's business. I don't tell them what I do, where I live. I stay very anonymous with the neighbours and everybody, and so even if I'm on a plane for 16 hours going to Sydney, I don't talk to people about who I am or what I do. But if someone sincerely comes to me and they want to know, I do everything I can to assist them, everything and I always recommend they become a student because they can become a student. What? For just $20 a month, is it, johnny? I don't know. And when they're a student, for the mystical experience. It's michellebloodcom forward slash gold, I think it is. Is that it the mystical experience? It's michellebloodcom forward slash gold. I think it is. Is that it michellebloodcom forward slash gold?

Michele Blood:

When you become a student, you don't have to practice meditation to start with. You just get a whole lot of free products and you get light transmitted to you with prayers. You can come on the Zooms and meet all these people from all over the world. We've got celebrities, doctors, dentists, musicians because everybody my opinion is everybody wants change. They want to have a better life. They want to be loved and to love in return. They want more money, they want to be healed of depression, they want to have fun. Girls just want to have fun, hey, girls. And so that's what I recommend.

Michele Blood:

But even if you don't do that, at least download this audio book and just listen to it, because you've got nothing to lose, it's free, and just know that you're not alone and that everything is possible for you. Even if you don't believe it now, you are never alone. You've got this higher self, this beautiful diamond that animates your very being, and you can shine from the inside out, no matter what your age. I'm 67 and I feel 27. Honestly, and I'm not lying, it makes you meditation practice and positive thinking, makes you younger. It makes you happier, healthier. Your blood pressure's low, you know. And, of course, I always recommend cleaning your house so that your mind isn't chaotic if your house is chaotic, and exercising every day some form of exercise and for those of you who remember Casey and the Sunshine Band, maybe just do a little dance.

Beverley Glazer:

Thank you, Thank you, this is perfect. Thanks so much. Michelle Blood was a successful rock singer and a songwriter in Australia, but a near fatal accident sparked a journey from a singer to a spiritual guide. Fatal accident sparked a journey from a singer to a spiritual guide. Michelle Blood has worked and shared the stage with Bob Proctor, Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, Jack Canfield, just to name a few. And so give us a list. Now, Michelle, where can people find you online? I know you mentioned a bit, but you know michellebloodcom where? Yeah, michellebloodcom where yeah, michellebloodcom forward.

Michele Blood:

It's michelle, with one l m-i-c-h-e-l-e, and blood is a real name. My daddy is an irish descendant. Uh, forward, slash aging with purpose. And if you want to learn more about, uh, the mystical experience, you just go to the mystical experiencecom and I to themysticalexperiencecom, and I'm on iTunes, amazon, barnes, noble. Our product page is magnettosuccesscom and even if you don't get all the wonderful visualizations and things that we've got on our apps, we sell them for just $5 each on our website. But if you get the app it's really cool because it's only the price of a cup of coffee a month to have access to everything. It's incredible. So I love apps, I love them.

Beverley Glazer:

So easy. And for everyone out there that didn't catch this, don't worry, because all of these show links are going to be in the show notes and they're also going to be on my site too, which is reinventedpossiblecom. And if you've enjoyed this episode, you may also like Don't Be Caged by your Age with Ande Lyons. Check that out. That'll be in the link below as well.

Beverley Glazer:

And now, my friends, what's next for you? Are you really going through the motions or are you really passionate about your life? Get my weekly self-coaching tips to empower you through your journey, and that link will also be exactly right in the show notes below, so you can connect with me, beverly Glazer, on all social media platforms and in my positive group of women on Facebook that's Women Over 50 Rock, and if you think I can help connect the dots in your life to find your purpose, please schedule a quick Zoom with me in the show notes below. Okay, so I wanna thank you so much for listening. I really do, and have you enjoyed this conversation? Please subscribe so you don't miss out on the next one, and send this episode to a friend, and always remember that you only have one life, so live it with purpose and passion thank you for joining us.

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