
This Crazy Little Thing Called Life
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This Crazy Little Thing Called Life
The Orgasmic feeling of spiritual awakening | Alise Shelman
Have you created a pattern of neglecting your soul’s wisdom which has left you over-worked, over-tired and just plain over it?
Man O Man am I excited to share this episode with you! Alise Shelman is a Akashic Record Teacher and Clarity Coach. She's the woman who taught me the Akashic Records and an inspiration to anyone who is struggling with trusting their intuitive wisdom.
In this episode we dive into:
- The Orgasmic feeling of spiritual awakening
- How shift happens and how it's not always graceful (Her personal story of her first failed business)
- Akashic records as a tool for grounding
- Cosmic nudges and lining up with that soul nudge so you don’t let self-doubt get in the way.
Alise also gets really real about what she did this past year to save her marriage and much much more!
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So before we dive into today's episode, I wantto one say that I am so grateful that you were here sharing your precious asset of time with me too. I just want to really be honest and say, I am so excited that we have a leash. Ellman, as our first guests on this crazy little thing called life podcast. I mean, I would not be where I am today. If it was not for a lease. She has been my coach. She has taught me how to become an akashic record practitioner. She has, most importantly, helped me to really, really trust the wisdom and the intuition that I have and use my gifts to be of service to the world. We dive in and touch on so much around this today, and I am just so excited for you. So I also want to just give you a little heads up. My Internet is like dial up out here in the country, and so I cut in and out a little bit. But Elise is good, so we're all good with her and enjoy. Welcome to the crazy little thing called Life podcast with your host, the lovely Megan Thompson. Meghan is a spiritual life business coach. Akash, It record practitioner and all things crushed. Velvet lover. If you're keen to create more than just a living but a life from business you love you're in the right place, bursting with practical and spiritual tools, tips and tricks that you can enact today to get out of your own bloody way to grab a couple and shield everyone's is. You can count on Meghan her guests to use cheeky adult language and inappropriate humor on this crazy thing called life.
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All right, so I am so grateful for elites because she of navigating all the Internet drama with me today. Thanks to lease for being here. Thanks for having me. Of course I love you. Um, so you all are super lucky that you get to spend time with this amazing woman today. She is the reason why I do akashic work. This recovering New Yorker who never thought she would do this. We was shit. Um, and she made it so easy for me to dive into my soul and a wisdom that was in me. And I'm just so honored. So thank you for being here. and sharing your magic with us today. Thank you. Yeah, of course. So before we kind of dive in and get all we want to talk about the Akon shit world, why don't you tell me a little bit about how you got started into becoming an entrepreneur and diving into this sole lead biz of yours? It feels like the answer is so ancient, right? Like it's something that started lifetimes ago and pre lifetimes. Um, but the thing that really kicked off the spiritual entrepreneur world for me was I worked with a woman who's very psychic, and she and I went into business together, and at the time, I was totally and finance very much in the business world. And so we opened up an intuitive arts studio together. She was to teach all the classes, and I was going to run the business. Right. So very left brain. Very logical. Very Lanier, not really into any of this spiritual stuff. And what started happening is the more time I would spend with her. Something would shift in me. Things would open up. And you know how you what can have like those really soft orgasms that just kind of like move throughout your body, this heat that radiates out to your fingers and toes. Um, so that kind of feeling started happening, and it's like this energy would move through me, and all of a sudden I had access to all this wisdom, and I would start telling her things about herself and about what's happening in the ethers and all this stuff would move through me. And it just fell glorious, right? They just walk around having these orgasms. Basically, I was like, I don't know what the fuck's happening. I don't know what this is, but it feels good and there's something here. And it was very much the beginning of everything spiritually for me. And from there I was just, like, so ready to dive in. And it was like, Ray Key. What's that? I don't know what that is, but I gotta learn with that ISS. And that kicked off at reading for me. Oh, my God, I can't. But I didn't know that about you. I just I just thought that you were this really, like divine, orgasmic spiritual woman. I had no idea about this other business. Oh, that's funny. No. My bad round isn't finance and business way before any of this. But, you know, I think we all need like that person that can wake us up, right? Like that person that knows how to hold space for us to just be us without them really doing anything. Oh, my God. Absolutely. All right, so here you are. You're this finance woman. And you started this business and your orgasmic Lee waking up and and then what? Shifted? How did you go from that? To really becoming the woman that you are now and doing the work that you do today. So it started with Ricky. Her had, um, on assistant, working the front desk, checking everyone into classes, and she asked if she could teach rake in class. And I thought, Sure, what's that? Sounds great. And it was one of those moments that without knowing what it was, I knew it was for me, right? I knew there was something there, and it woke everything up for me. Like the moment I started Breaky, I just dove in headfirst moon. Yes, yes. I feel the same way with Ricky. And you actually taught me Ricky, I love that. Nah, It's a good gateway drug. It really is. It's like the marijuana of spirituality. Oh, my goodness. So for me, you know, doing Ricky really helped me get into my body and ground the spirituality. I would love to know what it did for you. Did you ever navigator struggle being out of your body versus being in your body and really embodying this work? Absolutely. I still struggle with that today. Yeah, I've always been much more up in the ethers versus grounded, and I spent the majority of my life outside of my body. And so Ray Key initially was another way of surfing the ethers, which isn't something that I recommend, necessarily as a way of being, but it definitely did not provide the grounding for me. The akashic records actually provided the grounding for me. Yes, which is a great transition into talking about what you do now, because, um, I would love for you to tell. Tell us what the akashic Records are because I get asked this all the time. And, um, I would love it from your your perspective and how you've shifted into doing this work. And just like in layman's terms, you know, like, what is the akashic records, and why can it be helpful for you? Yeah, the easiest way for me to explain them is that they're like a Google search engine for your soul. So any questions you have about your soul, which the big questions are? Who am I? Why am I here? What do I have to offer the world? What is my purpose? That's all contained within the records. And essentially, they are in a lyric documentation of every choice you have ever made throughout every lifetime and all the way back from the moment you individuated from source. Uh huh. Yeah. So for somebody who's just like ears just parked up in there like Boom, that's exciting. What does that mean, Like head away. How did we do that? But how do I get involved in something like that? And I just share that because in my experience, I had heard the Akashic records probably 10 or 15 times before I decided. Okay. I need to contact at least because, like, I'm getting all these pings on this. Um, So how did you How did you shift from, you know, being this very type a linear finance person who's dabbling into all this, like fun new spirituality into really being this woman who supports other people to learn this modality that was so powerful with connecting to your soul. There were so many beautiful questions in there. I think the biggest thing for me was learning how to read the records for myself. That's what shifted everything. This really incredible thing happened when I learned Ricky I was in like I was all the way in. We ended up closing down our intuitive arts studio. It wasn't working, it was a mess, and I see it as being like Is cosmic nudge for me to move me on to this path? And I went full time into Ricky. Within a few months, I became a raking master, and I would be working with clients and neared shit would come through. I would start to have visions that had to be past lives. I wasn't really sure how to translate anything initially like this kind of stuff wasn't taught within the body of breaky, right and break is all about like we're just a channel moving energy through us, but I'm getting all this extra in front engine. And again I am received this nudge. I didn't know what the akashic records were. It was just like this is the thing. And it was actually a newsletter. My mom had forward it to me. This woman, she had been receiving his letters from for years that was teaching the records. And I was like, again, I don't know what the fuck this is, but I'm gonna do it. And once I learned how to read the records, I realized that with Ray Key, I was already accessing the records. I just didn't know what the heck I was doing. Like I didn't have the maps. I didn't have the understandings or a way to translate the information and really do anything with it. Beyond share and information is can be really helpful. But when we don't know how to integrate the information or how to really apply it to our everyday life, then it just becomes like a form of entertainment. And it's so much more than that soon really told. Yeah, The cave for me was learning it for myself. Absolutely. I think everybody should get a reading. Um, I didn't even get a reading before I learned how to read the records in the same way. Like I didn't have raking done on me. But for I'm like this is it? It was so much about just really lining up with that soul nudge right, being really centered in the heart space. To know like this is this is the next step and I need to take a media action so I don't let self doubt get in the way. Yes, totally. I know I wanted backtrack because that is such a beautiful piece of the puzzle. You talked about how this business just crumbled and you took it as a soul nudge. So can you kind of tell me a little bit what your experience was like, where you were, like OK, no, this is the move forward. Was there any part of you that was like that went into that? Like we're gonna do? Has everything's falling apart? Or did you just move forward with Grace? It was not graceful. Uh, it's so much so much easier to look back and say, Oh, of course, right. Hind sight. Of course, that was a cosmic nudge in Omei. There was a lot of pain around the process. There was a big falling out with my business partner, and it was very much the sense of like, Okay, here's this big thing that I went for a really big way, invested a lot of money into, and now it's gone. Um, but at the same time, there was such a poll towards raking like a pole towards diving into my own journey that my own journey wouldn't have been possible if I had this other business to take care of. He says, While it was heavy and sad and definitely had very little grace, if there have a process, there was also a part of me waking up as a result. Oh, yes, yes. Which makes me think about like the power of these rock bottoms, right? Well, we have we fall and we hit this rock bottom, and you mean for me, like I've definitely been in that space where, you know, it was not a graceful exit in my life, and I and I've navigated that deeply, but there is that hunger that starts when you're like, Oh, cool. But there's something calling me something bigger and I can feel it. And I, uh, start moving towards that. You know that feeling inside of you? Yes. Yeah, so for you, you know? So you Here you are. You're, like, moving out of the sadness of the difficulty of of your business falling and you're failing And, you know, whatever failing forward and moving forward with Ricky and tapping into the akashic records without really realizing it. And and then fast board no to you using the akashic records and and using this as your business. How did any of that linger from like your previous perceived failure? Was there any fear that you would fail again? Always. That's still there. That should doesn't go away. Yeah, even being completely rooted in knowing this is absolutely what I'm here to D'oh, I still have ego, right? The critter brain that shows up and is like, No, don't take that next step. Well, uh, there's still this sense of it. Could it could go away any moment. And I think part of the beauty of that is learning non attachment, learning to be in the flow and that, you know, destruction is a wonderful form of creation, and it's really easy to forget that when we're too caught up in what it's we think it's supposed to look like. Mmm, amen. Yes, yes. Oh, my gosh. So that that inspires me to kind of dive into of how run you your business Very intuitively, don't you? Yes. Can you just tell us a little bit about your last year and what you want? You and your family did. Well, last year's been a wild right. Hey, way spent 14 months living nomadic Lee. Which means that we did not have a home. We lived out of our suitcases and we went where we were called. And sometimes we went where we could most agree upon going together. So we went to England, Scotland, Greece, Italy, Germany, France, Mexico and explored some new parts of the U. S. So good you did this right when you were, like, Okay, have this huge planet. I have got everything order and knives and we're going to do exactly this way. Was that the case, or was that this happens? Oh my God, No, It was again one of those like soul nudges of. We have to do this like complete transparency. We went on this journey for my husband to save our marriage, we knew that beings weren't working, that living the way that we were living. This traditional conventional American lifestyle was not allowing us to have the healing that needed to happen. And we needed to break away from everything we knew. And we needed to stretched like, completely stretched and being nomadic and wondering every week. Okay, where am I gonna live next? What country am I gonna be in what foreign language lining to now the gate is like the best way to live in the stretch zone. There were very few plans. We knew the first country we were going to we had, like, the 1st 4 weeks planned out, and that's all we knew. Now, in retrospect, as you're looking at those 14 months, what are some of the big takeaways from that experience? And how is your relationship if you don't mind me asking now like how is it evolved? The relationship is so much better. My biggest takeaway is the time is incredibly valuable. And when we this is something that's still really integrating for me. We've been stationary now for two months, and you know this conventional lifestyle that we have in America. This is like a whole other podcast woman, but it's designed to traumatize us and to keep us stuck in our trauma. We are force fit into these molds and to push and shove ourselves into being a way that is not honoring who we are and our journey travelling was such a wonderful respite from that way of living and an opportunity to really fill into you. How does my body want to move through the world? How do I want to show up when I have nobody to tell me how I have to show up and how I have to move through the world? And we finally had space and breathing room and time to be together and initially like Oh my God, Get off of me! And then it was, I don't know how to be without my family 24 7 because we learned how to be together all the time and not have anyone else to talk to you because we didn't speak the language. Incredible to be ableto witness that from this day and we will, we'll have to have another podcast episode where we dive into that, Um, I know it's something that you work a lot with. Your client is healing these traumas that keep us stuck in patterns over and over and over again, where we just can't seem to break free. So can you talk a little bit about what that looks like in your work and what that looks like for you? Yeah, it really comes down to knowing who you are and honoring who we are when we know who we are. It's like our greatest power, right? It's the greatest magic that we can yield because it's when everything just like, makes sense and flows. And it's like you're just sitting on an inner tube on a lazy river, moving through life, enjoying the sun because you don't have to. You spend so much time pushing away the stuff that other people say about who you are and sifting through all the lock and sifting through all the programming, the limiting beliefs, the trauma straight, or wounding. Yeah, it's It's like this sense of, you know, you talked about regularly grounds you, Andi like, helps keep you in your body. They knowing who we are, keeps us in our body, and it cues us into when we're not in our body because it becomes so familiar what it's like to be here and what is like Thio fall away from ourselves. So the akashic records, or like this shortcut, right? We don't have to spend all the years the decades sifting through all the muck. We can go right to the route, we can look out. Okay, What's the root energy? The route programming were limiting belief here that's rippled out and caused all this fact in your life. And then we can remove that. And then what's left is you. Yeah, yes. And something huge that I have taken away from us. Or is that yes, you can remove the belief has left you. And also, what is left is you and the decisions that you make moving forward, right, cause you can have that awareness and you can remove that. But now you have to create a new You have to create a new belief if to create a new path that you order Jews cause, like anything, it always pops up again, right? Oh, there's nothing again where I feel super triggered by you. know, then or but, you know, whatever it is, it's like, Okay, what's my new What's my new pass? I don't want to take that old Warren pass. It always brings me down. Not feeling at home in myself, absolutely. But such a powerful and important thing to talk about is the action right? And taking a line action. Absolutely. And and it's and you're such a perfect example of that, right? With you taking your family and running your business intuitive lead. And you know I love how you've shared so truthfully and authentically here, like Chad. There's the fear is still there, you know, because I so many people in some Birtwistle connect with have had some kind of failure in their business. And they have that fear of rejection, right being rejected again, failing again. Right? And so the Akashic records really have helped shift that in me, and it sounds like it's health shift help shift that in you as well. For somebody who just starting out or is like listening to this music so excited by it all, what is some small practical stuff that they could take today that they could integrate into their life to start to see a little shift towards trusting and moving away from whatever that that cycle of fear is and more into themselves into more. Like you said, You know, being about Lazy River. No, and having this stuff on your face and like trusting who you are. Could you share 11 tip with us? Yes, there's a super super simple exercise that is the biggest change maker ever, so we'll just do not right now. Close your eyes on. Come into your breath with the big Exhale Cy out. Anyone who's listening, I expect you all just take a moment, see if you can tune into where you are. Showing up energetically in relationship to your physical body and you may receive an image or a sensation. Were a sense of being frazzled or scattered or knowing that I'm in outer space or I'm just next to myself. And as you tune into where you're showing up, energetically become acutely aware of what it feels like or doesn't feel like in your body. When there's this disconnection and then begin to call yourself in great, invite yourself back to your cell in your mind's eye. You can reach out and scoop up any collected pieces of yourself. And I like to bring my energy into my solar plexus just in the bottom of my sternum. And as I breathe myself into myself into connection and union with myself and I scoop up any of these scattered pieces, I feel this sense of concentration like this waited nous in my core and yet complete expansion at the same time. And if it doesn't work the first time, it's something that takes practice right. If you're new to really tuning into energy and tuning into just connecting with where you are, it can take a few practice runs to get the hang of it. But having this be a daily practice of coming back to yourself, coming back to the presence of right now allows you to be your most powerful version of yourself because when were present and we're connected, we're completely in choice when we're disconnected from ourselves and we have the sense of living outside of our body. It's all of our programming, our conditioning, our traumas that are running the show, and it's kind of like I think of, you know, you could be driving somewhere and you get to where you're going. And you're like, I don't even remember driving here because I was so disconnected. It's kind of like that. So we want to be here, here, what's happening, right? So that we can fully show up it make new choices because, like you said, it's knowing who you are and then taking action based on that. So when we're here connected to our bodies, we can powerfully take action based on that versus our conditioning or limiting believes running their normal patterns and habits that have created the majority of her life. Yes. Amen to that. Awesome. Thank you so much that I just felt so good to toe tappin that way to the eighth floor. Pinks for gifting me that to your level. Yeah. Oh, well, you have something very special that you're offering Thio some of the listeners today, um, I will drop the Lincoln below around what? That is. But we you sure are a little bit about these eight. These special eight people. Yes. I would love to extend a complimentary 20 minute clarity consultation to the 1st 8 people who sign up. If you're interested in learning more about the akashic records diving in, getting clear on what your next step is. I'd love to have you go to my website. Reitz, Elise showman dot com Sign up for clarity calls me and the 1st 8 people that do that I will mail you a copy of Coming home, which is a book that Meghan and I worked on together among the few other colleagues. That's all about the akashic records and using a partial records to come home to yourself. Yeah, so good. So good. So you are gonna wanna get on this just connecting with the least. I'm sure as you can feel it just in those last you know, 60 seconds is very powerful, so I be sure to just check out the link below, or you can go to her Web site. We Shellman dot com And our book was very fun to write and work with. So I hope you enjoy that as well. And at least I'm just so grateful to have you here. Thank you for showing up and doing the work you do, because if you hadn't, I wouldn't be doing the work that I do today. So I'm honored to be your friend and Thio have worked with you for so long and just be in your life. So thank you so much. You're welcome. Thank you. Absolutely. All right, everybody, make sure you check the show notes for any additional information about at least we'll have our website and the links on dhe and make sure you follow her. She is on Facebook and on Instagram as well. You know, she doesn't like to talk about it too much, but she's on there and she is doing things and making it fun. Um, yes. And thanks so much for being here. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Wow. Right. What a great episode. I just love a lease so much. And I was so grateful that you had the opportunity to join us in a conversation like this. I would love to know what inspired you. What has been awoken in you? What is tickling your fancy? Do you have that These? Do you have an experience similar to a leases? Have you navigated some deep? Um, failing forward as I like to say, that you were overcoming and working with and healing so you can create more success in your life. Leave a review, let us know what you think and make sure you head over to Lisa's Web site to grab that offer so you could get a copy of our book as well as a 20 minute session with her, which, honestly, it is so worth it. So I highly recommend connecting with her now, thank you again for being a part of this community that we're growing this crazy little thing called Life podcast and be so honored if you shared this episode with a friend, if it feels good to you and enjoy this crazy little thing called life.