Energy Healing to Awaken Intuition with Sydney Campos

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1:27 Now let's dive into today's episode. I'd like to welcome to the show, Sydney Campos. Hi you doing Sydney, Hi, Alex.

1:35 It's so good to be here.

1:36 Thank you, Thank you so much for coming on the show. I appreciate you being here and sharing your journey and your experience and knowledge with us. And we're going to talk about your new book. I'm ascending that what which is a great title. You do a lot of stuff. As I was doing research on you, you do a lot of different things, and I wanted to before we get into your abilities and how you help clients and how you help people through your work, what was your life like before your spiritual journey began, because from my understanding, it was a little bit of a rough ride like we all go through.

2:15 Well, it's all a spiritual journey. Just living and being human, right is the ultimate spiritual journey. So yeah, I was born into a really awesome family that brought up a lot of perfect traumas for me to learn and evolve through. And that included you know a lot of trauma of alcoholism and different you know levels of emotional abuse and neglect, and yeah, just a really challenging environment for someone like me that's really sensitive, really sensitive being. And who knows if I came in sensitive or my environment also helped to make me very sensitive. Most people with you know, supernatural psychic abilities tend to come from upbringings of intense trauma.

2:57 So we like learn through survival to activate our multi dimensional gifts and psychic sensitivity is to really take care of ourselves. So that was definitely my experience. And yeah, when I was about fourteen, I started drinking and doing drugs because I just I really wanted to turn off my sensitivity.

3:13 It was overwhelming and just crazy and I didn't know how to live and it was just so hard to live and I wanted to turn that off. But then I think also a part of me really wanted to connect with God with spirit, and I you know, found drugs and alcohola a great way to do that effectively for a time. And I did that for about ten years, and then I reached a point of you know, choice did I want to live or die? And I think I had tried to die a few times. I really I didn't enjoy this, this body, this planet. I found it incredibly hard to just exist and live and had so much paralyzing anxiety and just really challenging, you know, and I wasn't allowed to leave. That's what it felt like.

3:54 I had a lot of near death experiences and attempts at kind of like ending my life, and none of them were successful. And then, you know, there came a moment where I was in a therapy session, actually in my therapist just it was a god moment really. It was an intervention of you know, like, okay, wait a minute, am I going to tell this person the truth of what's really going on? And it was in that conversation I was actually being diagnosed as having you know, bipolar like a mental illness basically by nature of the symptoms I was sharing. And I thought I was there to have career counseling, you know. I thought like, if I could just learn about my purpose, you get on track with my career so howardly focused, like, you know, if

4:31 I'm successful, then I could be happy and I could just start to relax, and she's like, you know, I think there's something else going on here. I think maybe we need to put you on this medication for anxiety and by you know, this disorder, I feel like, you know, this diagnosis. I'm like, well, actually, I don't think I can drink alcohol on that medication, so let me actually tell you what I'm really doing. And I you know, it was in that moment I kind of heard myself speak for the first time. I heard the truth of my reality that I was living, and it it shocked me genuinely and I and look on her face of shock also shocked me, and I'm like, okay, wow, I think if I continue the way I'm going, which was

5:08 like blocking out, drinking, you know, close to overdosing frequently, just hanging out with really dangerous people, doing really dangerous things, living a double life, I was going to die. And yeah, it was my moment of truth and I just chose. I chose at some level to live, and that would ultimately take me to choose to get sober shortly thereafter, not in that moment, but in a series of events.

5:33 I eventually you know, got sober, and then that's really started my awakening. Process which just began, you know, I began to take care of myself.

5:42 I love that you said that I was born into a perfect family, because that is something that so many people have a hard time dealing with when you're you know, when you hear on the show and I talk to other people that say that you choose your sole blueprint, your soul plan, you choose the parents you come in on, and I'm like, I did choose these abusive parents. I didn't choose these neglect cloth parents. But your perspective on it is beautiful because you know that they're exactly what I ordered, and they were exactly for what I needed in this life. And you look through all your traumas in life and they kind of are kind of set up who you become. Without those traumas, you aren't the person you're sitting in front of you. You know, I've

6:25 gone through traumas in my life. You've gone through traumas in your life. And you go back and people like, if you had a chance to redo it, would you do it again? Sitting here, I would say yes, because it's very easy to say yes from this point of me when you're in the crap. As they say, or in the trenches. It's a lot harder to say, yeah, yeah, this pain and suffering is amazing. We should kind of again.

6:48 But that perspective is really important for people listening and think that they look at things like that. So when did you start beginning to all these these abilities to come up and start you know, what abilities first started to flourish, and how did you deal with them psychologically when they started to come up?

7:10 I should say, it's it's sometimes harder for me to fully remember before a certain point. I feel like this soul that's talking to you now came into the planet actually only a couple of years ago. So I have this awareness of like my life up until a certain point, and then and it's like a memory. I have some memory, and I have some faint memory, and then I have a much more lucid recollection of my life the last couple of years, where I feel like I've come into a deeper embodiment and awareness of my abilities, my capacities, my journey, my path, so to speak, my purpose and so you know, I think I had some awareness of like being sensitive when I was younger, but I didn't really know. I didn't really have any examples around me

7:48 that were articulating these kinds of experiences. It was just my world. I think a lot of us are like that. It's like, I'm just in my experience and people are having their experience around me. And I don't know if these are sensitivities or abilities or path ethic sensitivities or whatever it is. And I didn't really have an awareness of being like different or having extra sensory capacity until after I got sober, and then I started to feel a conscious awareness of being incredibly overwhelmed by what I thought was anxiety and emotional energy. And that's ultimately what came, you know, I learned about being an EmPATH. I was guided into energy healing. And I'm like, I just feel so overwhelmed. I feel so anxious, and I don't understand

8:33 because my life, again from that external lens, it looks really good. So why am I not happy? Why do I feel so anxious? And you know, just this chaos and paralyzing like fear. It was hard to sleep at night. I was living in New York City at the time, so I'm in a really loud place and I just felt really overwhelmed. And I had two different people synchronistically send me to the same energy healer. I had my first race session Ricky Energy Healing, and I felt totally cleared out after that session, and I'm like, what is this?

9:07 Like what what just happened? It was the most palpable experience I had ever had of like an energetic clearing or even just an awareness of like energy in my body and then that clearing out of my body. And that's where I learned about this term EmPATH and that I had absorbed. It made sense to me at the time, like, oh, I feel so heavy and overwhelmed because a lot of the stuff I'm feeling isn't even mine. I'm taking on all this energy from other people and the environments that I'm in and the whole city, the craziest city on Earth, no wonder. And then I started learning more about energy and you know, energy healing and just self care and different like protocols and practices that I had no idea existed.

9:48 I had no idea how to even describe any of these experiences. And you know, just I had to start practicing to really learn about myself as an energy feel that requires different support.

10:01 So so you started to learn about energy and being an EmPATH. I understand because I feel very much that I'm an EmPATH as well sometimes because I feel energy and I feel you feel things a little bit more than most been sensitive like that most of my life. So I kind of understand that when did you begin your the psychic abilities and this information coming through? Because I always ask channels because you also kind of channel, but I don't know what kind of channeling you do, so you can explain the kind of channeling you do. We kind of talked about it before before the show. But you have psychic ability, you have channels. When those voices start coming in, or those images start coming in, or that

10:41 energy starts coming in, it could be overwhelming for people who are not ready for it. So I was curious when that first started happen to you. Wow, did, like I always say, did you think you were crazy? Because you hear voices and things like that? So how did how did it work for you? We'll be right back after a word from our sponsor and now back to the show.

11:09 Yeah, totally. I mean I thought it was crazy. I even thought before I but right before I got sober, I'm like I would, I mean, and I was doing a lot of drugs and drinking, so that will also make you feel really crazy. And by the way, alcohol that is like you know, for sensitive people. I've learned that that really just pokes tons of holes in your energy field and allows a lot of external entities and interference to come into your field, and it can create a lot of confusion. If you're really psychic and then you're adding alcohol to the mix, it's recommended to like really be aware of that and really take care of yourself.

11:39 And so you know, of course, my psychic ability is really amplified when I stopped drinking and doing drugs because finally I was like in a more stable field to you know, receive and start to process different energetic information. Now, let's see it probably around the time that I, you know, a big part of my journey was meditation, and I just started right away and I got you know, when I got clean, and I'm like, I have to I have to learn how to meditate. My mind would be like attacking me. It would be like just the loudest inner critic and just the meanest voice you've ever heard, Like I would never say to someone else out loud, horrendous, and I had no awareness of that I've just like, this is normal, this is the voice I've had my

12:19 whole life. And I started to meditate, learn to meditate and really sit with it. And that's also when you know, oh my gosh, that was a huge awakening of realizing that voice wasn't the only voice that I had access to, that I had other voices. I had my intuition, I had my you know, just like more of this self loving like inner parent. Again. I didn't have words to define these voices at the time, but I just started to feel I just started to feel relief, like oh wow, I don't need to be beating myself up all the time.

12:48 Like there's a different there's a different level of you know, peace I can I can start to access. And it's from there that I started to have more of an awareness of like intuition and like guidance or it presented more is like imagination or ideas, and it felt like, oh, this is like something coming from maybe not from me, from elsewhere. That's kind of how it started. And then I would start to see images and get different messages when I was doing energy healing. Years later, when I was seeing clients in person and doing like hands on body work and energy healing. I would often see, but not in the way you think like physically seeing, you know, like we look at a movie or a picture. It would always be through like a clear sentience, like a feeling.

13:29 But it's like through the feel, almost like a synaesthesia, like you feel a color, like you feel an image, you feel a memory. That's really how I've you know, usually received data that way, and then I could of articulate it, you know, to whoever I'm helping to serve them. And then later on I was guided to learn about the Acoshaic records. I was like magnetized to this term.

13:50 It was like on a newsletter somewhere, and I'm like, I don't even know what this is, but I just know I have to learn about this. And I signed up for this weekend thing and and I had a massive remembrance and it felt like just a soul retrieval almost of like, oh, I remember this from many lifetimes. I remember this energy, this work, I remember teaching this to other people. This feels so good. And it was huge.

14:13 And that was a really big awakening. That was in twenty fifteen, and that's when I started to learn the articulation the words to explain some of the experiences I was having. And I think this is happening for a lot of people right now on Earth who are having an awakening, who are just opening up to more energetic sensitivity.

14:30 We're all we all have the capacity to be umpathic, by the way, It's just part of being in a human body. And as you become more sensitized to presence, your empathic sensitivity and ability to feel the experience of other living beings because we're all connected, just increases inherently. And so yeah, I started to just have more words come through to describe these experiences I had been having for a long time. But I didn't I didn't know that they were psychic messages, or that I was able to connect with gods or master or loved ones or you know, all these different kinds of support basically that are here for all of us whenever we choose to access them.

15:09 So, what is your definition of channeling? Because I from YouTube, it's a little bit different than usual because you're not a trans channel. You don't go, you don't have an entity that comes in and takes over anything like that. What is your definition of channeling. What is your flavor of channeling if you will O.

15:24 Well, I love this question, and I you know, we're all channels, every single person. Your body is designed as a channel of energy, as a tuning fork, and we all can access so many different types of energies guidance and support. And this is like my favorite thing to explore with people. It's like, what do you channel? What do you do you have access to? It's different than me, like what are your gifts? How do they love to express?

15:49 So I would define channeling for me as the ability, or rather the capacity to bring through insight, wisdom, intelligence, wisdom, insight or direction from higher consciousness, and that consciousness can be. How I experience myself as a channel is that I am a channel for source. I am a divine being as we all are. I am. I am a divine being, and I'm in this body, but I'm just an extension.

16:22 I am an extension of source consciousness, and I have a unique articulation or transmission that I can articulate in a way only that I can of this one universal source that again we're all connected to. But the fun part is that we all have a different way of translating this energy and then it can land in different ways with different people and has different resonances. And you know, I think you see after you know you're on this path for a little while, it's like we're all kind of sharing similar things. At the end of the day.

16:55 Well, we're all in the same video games it called ye, just a different perspectives. We're all we're all playing in different perspectives. So when you do, when you've mentioned that you've channeled your spirit guides or your or sended masters or things like that, how do you connect with them? Do you just go, hey Buddha, uh do I have this channel? Or Hey Jesus, or hey you know Saint Germaine, or how does it work for you?

17:24 Well, it really it depends, especially if I'm in the context of like you know, supporting someone in a session, and then I will have this like maybe specific guidance as to what is needed to support them, and then you know, I will bring that through. But for myself and my own practice, everything starts with prisons, presence and deeper embodiment, so like really being present in my body, really inhabiting my body as deeply as I can. I like to breathe in through my fingertips and toes, really connecting in with the Earth. You know, it's like contrary to some of what we've been taught or what I had been taught previously about like you know, ascension is about being really you know, out of the body and

18:06 accelerating your consciousness up up up up to the higher realms and like ascending from Earth, sending out of the physical plane. And I feel that it's actually you know, the other way around, more and more, especially at this point. You know, it's like wait a minute. The deeper we go into the body and inhabit ourselves more fully and connect in with the Earth as extensions of also the Earth, Earth's consciousness, the more access I find we have to so much more beyond like this galaxy, this universe, like so many more dimensions, and then we're able to ground even higher frequency energy, intel, insight, guidance into this plane.

18:43 You know. So my practice is present, it's continuing to clean out parts of my body and field that are obstructions to presence, which can include trauma or just any kind of interference. It's like anything you know, clogging my circuitry from really receiving the full amount of light and this is an infinite, you know, process that we can all go through. And yeah, and you know, usually also in my practice, I find I'm guided to like detach so much from the like the personality of like I'm channeling the Palladians. That that happened for me a couple of years ago. I was really excited at the beginning of my journey when someone was like, you are a star seed or no, someone called me. I was at some healing event giving sessions to people, and someone like

19:27 singled me out and he was like, you're such an et and I was like, yes, I am, thank you for seeing me, thank you for finally somebody is just seeing me right now. And it feels so good and and you know, and that's a part of the journey maybe we all kind of go through. And then at a certain point I was like, I'm a Palladian, I'm an Arctorian. Okay, cool, And then I realized, like, I'm all of it. I've been everywhere, so have we all.

19:54 We've all had so many different realms of consciousness that we've inhabited and that we're connected, that we bring through. It's so limiting to be like I am a Palladian. It's like you're so much more. And then even beyond the last few years have been about exploring energies, even beyond this galaxy and beyond the name the known names that we have for different consciousness that works really intimately with Earth and working more in the realms of like sound and light and beyond, you know, the English articulation.

20:24 We'll be right back after a word from our sponsor and now back to the show. So would you agree that that our I love what you said. They are going deeper into the body and connecting more of the body allows you to ascend even more. My studies of the Yogis and the Yogi masters, to my understanding is they were able to start to vibrate their frequency at a high level of every cell of their body to be able to do some of the miraculous things that they did. But also the higher they started to vibrate themselves in the physical form, they started to access things on the other side even more.

21:12 So.

21:12 Yeah, so it's you can't do one without the other. You can't have a disease, tough rough body that's very low energy or low vibration and ascend in that in the way that we're talking about. At those levels, it's a process. You have to kind of bring everything up with you. Is that is that you're understanding as well, Yeah.

21:34 You totally got it, and yeah, thank God for yoga and that, you know, That's been a big part of my practice in my life and I love teaching yoga and guiding movement. And there's a detox process and ascension. It's huge and a lot of people are going through that right now. That's a lot of my client work honestly is helping people detox their bodies and their energy system of old thought forms, of old belief structures that you know, really to create dis ease, discomfort, pain, you know, just the addiction to like control. The people's fear of letting go of control is a big one. That we clear from the body, from the nervous system so that you can be at ease, you can feel peace, you can be present, and then from there your body can

22:17 really regenerate in incredible ways. And just it's miraculous what our body is capable of when the conditions are provided for it to do what it knows how to do naturally exactly.

22:29 So instead of going out and eating fast food. Eating a better diet will probably help that.

22:33 Situation even more than that, honestly, like the thoughts that you're thinking, because you can eat the healthiest food and if you're hating yourself all day inside and I'm eating that salad because you're going to be whatever the thoughts you're thinking and you're eating that, you're eating that energy and that's making you sick. So you can have this like esthetic healthy vegan whatever you are, your ident it is, But it's like, how are you being with yourself? How are you treating yourself all day long? How's the voice in your head actually speaking to you? Are you how are you taking care of yourself? And do you do it just to look cool on Instagram or to like take a story of yourself looking like a great person

23:18 or do you really like this is also a growing edge for me in my path. It's like integrity, you know, It's like how do you show up when no one is looking, when there's no validation, there's no attention. It's like how do you value yourself? You know?

23:34 Yeah, you're absolutely right, because the thoughts, it's all part of the package. I mean, if you don't eat a proper diet, it's going to hurt you, but the diet of your thoughts is even more important because I know a lot of people who come from the world of Hollywood, and I know a lot of people who look great but are absolutely toxic or absolutely destroying themselves. Or one doesn't.

24:00 One doesn't mean what it means. Just because it looks good on the outside doesn't mean the inside is really ascending. If you will, and we.

24:09 Can feel it, we can all something. I'm sure you've been seeing this too. It's like we're all awakening more sensitivity, no matter where you're at in your journey, Like we're all getting way more sensitive, those of us that have been practicing for a long time, those that are maybe more at the beginning of their awakening. And you can feel the truth, like our bodies are really designed to be very pristine barometers for truth. Like the way our vessel is constructed is to be like a magnet of truth or not truth. And the truth usually feels really good.

24:44 It feels welcoming, it feels inviting. It's like beyond the mind, beyond the condition concepts of like what you should want and these things. It's like, wow, we can really start to discern, like even if something looks a certain way, but you can feel under what's being sold or marketed to you or told to you, you can feel like something's a little bit off, you know, and it's so important to listen to that.

25:09 Now, what is the what role does the individual's spiritual awakening play in the collective future of humanity?

25:16 You know everything where there's no separation. And I make this point in the last chapter of my book about embodied dissension and to create the world that we really wish existed and the world that I believe we came in to enjoy. And this is triggering and for some people, but you know, try it on. What if all the problems and issues and challenges and that things are wrong you know out there that you see in the outside world are at some level operative in your own being and your own consciousness ways of being you know within oneself that are actually they're out here in the world trying to get your attention to remedy and resolve within you know, to what extent is you know, like the lack the amount of suffering that I see out on

26:08 this you know, everywhere on the suffering, loneliness toxicity, manipulation, all the all the things, infinite things. But what extent are those energies actually present in me? And how can I make it my practice, my responsibility to clean those up, to take care of what I can to resolve those energies in myself so that the outside world isn't having to like create experiences to try to get my attention to like wake me up and see, wait a minute, look inside. It's all mirroring back and inside. You know, it's an inside job. That's what I found. And it's really edgy. It's very like controversial, and people will be like, what about the starving people in Africa? And what about rape?

26:51 And what about all this? And it's been my practice understanding though, and also my guidance to be like, wait a minute, everything comes back to me. This is like I'm the epicenter of this movie or this video game or this reality. So if I'm seeing something out there, it's got to be there's got to be something like operative here that I'm meant to you know, address or acknowledge or bring into the light in some way, bring into consciousness.

27:17 It's it is a triggering thing because it's something that has been said by most about just the sole plan and the sole blueprint and how we create these things on a macro level, but on the micro level, this kind of day to day stuff of stuff is coming around you. At a certain level, you're bringing it to yourself, whether it's a person or relationship, a situation like that.

27:41 And I don't know about you, but the only way we learn and grow is through challenges. If everything's going hunky dory and you're you know, you're hitting three pointers all the time, you're not learning. You know, you're really not learning. So it's with these kinds of things that come across your path that are there to teach you, whether they're pleasant or not pleasant. Would you agree?

28:08 And it's really I agree, And it's really hard in the moment when it's going down and you're like, I'm dying right now.

28:15 I don't.

28:16 I don't think I created this, Like no, and I And it's not always you know that. And I'll just say a caveat too, is like when I'm supporting people through really deep initiations and transformation, and it's really hard, and it's like healing core wounds and going through the deep shame and the stuff you never wanted to share with anybody else, And and you don't say to someone like, how did you create this? You know, you know that's not what I'm trying to say, Like that's the time time, and that's not that's not helpful. It's it's oftentimes only later, it's like after the integration and the lesson where you're like, oh, and that's this is how we really we come into completion and we get out of these healing loops, you know,

28:52 where we're like I see a lot of people who go into the loops of like processing forever and you're looking for you digging for more of the like conceptual understanding of this problem or and it's like, okay, wait a minute. At some point, how do you interrupt the loop and complete it to say, wait a minute, what am I learning here? What am I learning? And yeah, is there a part of me that is creating this in my reality? Just for a thought experiment, if there's an issue or a challenge in your life, a way to like really come into observance of it and separate yourself from it so you can have some more like breathing room to like maybe learn. The lesson is to say, hey, just as an experiment, Like, is there a part of

29:30 me that might have created this, even if it's something I really don't like and I don't want to admit that I might have created it. Is there a part of me that kind of likes having this problem or this thing? Like I don't think it would be happening unless there was something in it for me? What if I looked at it like that? And you know, I love this term existential kink, which is a really great book by Carolyn Elliott, And it's just it's this really cool philosophy of like, you know, even the stuff we hate about ourselves and like you know, like poverty, consciousness or shame or victim mentality or whatever. It's like, yeah, but even how are these things that are not super sexy about us things? Actually at some level I kind of,

30:08 you know, I'm kind of getting something from doing that because it's familiar, maybe because the trauma or the chaos or the pain associated with this way of being. Even though I don't like it, it's familiar because it's what I grew up with my whole life, and so there's a part of me that stays in that to be safe.

30:24 It's comfortable it just provides a level of familiarity that I know how to operate in keeps me from growing and evolving that kind of thing. So, you know, we're just at such an exciting time in our evolution where it's really about full empowerment and taking our power back and realizing that we are creators and what are we creating?

30:44 What's the story that we're telling ourselves.

30:47 We'll be right back after a word from our sponsor, and now back to the show. In your work, have you seen any markers or signs that a person should look out for if they are beginning to spiritually awake? I mean, listening to the show or watching the show is obviously step one, but is obviously step one as well.

31:17 But but generally speaking, are there anything like if someone's watching this and like am I ready? Am I? Am I walking down this path? What are there? What signs have you seen in people to just kind of indicate that you might be ready to start opening yourself up to other things?

31:34 You know, what comes up, Alex is just this feeling that I've experienced a lot, especially being back in New York after I lived here for years. Is where my awakening started. And I just came back to see if I want to stay here for longer, and you know, being here, I've just been really noticing, like, wow, people, I can feel it, Like I can feel that people really are desiring connection. People want to feel connected, and they want intimacy, and they want nourishing like real connection, not just like social media like a fit, you know, this kind of superficial connection, but like real connection, like nourishing human attunement and presence. And that's why I love your show so much, because I can feel that authenticity.

32:19 People are like craving this, and so this is a real marker of awakening. Is like if you start to feel like, wait a minute, there's more. I want to feel more connection to myself. I want to feel usually we'll start as I want to feel more connection with other people. I want to feel like deeper presence with other people, maybe with your loved ones, or feel a deeper sense of connection to your purpose, feel more fulfillment, feel more connected to the meaning of living, like why are you really here? What are you here for? To feel grounded in a deeper sense of your purpose And so this inherently will guide you to connect in with yourself and really start to ask, like what am I about?

32:59 What do I really care about? What do I stand for? Why might I be here? Like what am I really living for? You know, and really sitting with like your values.

33:10 You know what's interesting is I'd love that you brought this up, that there is such a there is such a hunger for authenticity, and that is what people connect to more than anything else. You can't fake it, you can't construct it, you can't build it. It is something that comes through whatever you're doing. And I think over these last probably the last couple decades, there's been so much probably started in the eighties, there's been so much non authenticity, and then social media shows up and there's like I'm living my best instant life and that kind of stuff that people are just turned off. There's so much of it now, and so much of it that when people see something real, see somebody without makeup on

33:56 see a really real moment between a father and a daughter, or see on instagra, or they see something real and not kind of polished or painted or you know, constructed, they gravitate to it, and you start looking at things that go viral. Even now in social media, a lot of times it's things that are one hundred percent authentic.

34:19 Could be funny, could be not funny, could be something that's a little bit more negative and outgome, but it's authentic regardless of what era, what spectrum it is. Could be someone losing their crap on an airplane. It's gonna go viral, but it's authentic. It is authentic. It could or it could be a soldier coming home and surprising their parents that's also authentic, and everything in between. And I think that people are I think this is where everything is shifting to. I'd love to hear your thoughts that all media, including films, including television, even the rise of reality shows. Yes, some of them are a little bit not honestly, I don't think reality shows are not really having anything to do reality anymore, but because they're

35:02 literally scripted, they can't go because it was on strike for god's sakes. But generally speaking, people are starting to venture out into things that are authentic and even art that's authentic. When it's a movie that's authentic or a show that's a book that's authentic, that's what they're going to is do you think that's where people are moving towards and it's just a sign of humanities and humanity's consciousness kind of just ascending.

35:26 Yes, yeah, absolutely, I mean this has been my whole path. This is really you know that I wrote a long book, but the whole essence of it is like be yourself. How I'm ascending now? What how can I be myself? That's literally what my book is about is like I wrote a twelve It came through originally as like a twelve step. I have a background in like AA and you know, twelve step recovery. It saved my life, really helped me a lot, and then I was like, Okay, what's next though, Like I put the drugs and the alcohol down, and I don't want to die anymore and I really want to live, but I'm still it's still hard.

36:03 That's really hard to like be awake and this sensitive and and also I want to be fully in my body where all this memory is, Oh God, okay, how do I do this? And so that's you know, I was like, oh, there's a twelve step program, like there's there's kind of this, there's a guide, there's this, there's a step by step process, and it's recovering your true self.

36:23 That's like the next that's been my journey is like, how do I recover my true self? I'm awake, and now how can I actually be my authentic self? What does that even mean? How do I define that beyond all the jargon and the whatever gurus talking at me everywhere? And then the weird kind of like it's like an inverted reality type of thing of like all these people teaching about authenticity and it's like trendy now, but it's from this very superficial, weird marketed, like commercialized place, like you can just buy it in this product and.

36:52 It's like, this is all right, buy this product Authenticity by Cabin Kline exactly.

37:00 But it's like that and it's so weird, and our whole video game reality is like I see this everywhere. I'm just like what they're telling me?

37:07 What?

37:08 But it feels so off and confusing and blind leading the blind. And at the end of the day, I feel like this is why this is ascension. Ascension is the experience of awakening into your true self and that this is a self guided process. We can work with teachers and healers and support, but it's like you're the master.

37:27 You're the teacher that you're here to work with that. You're really here to remember and learn to deeply trust and have confidence in your power.

37:36 Now I'm going to play Devil's out, said Nate, because I care everything you say. I agree with you, so bring it on. But so many people have a problem with connecting with their true selves, not only connecting it in private, but for God's sake and public is so scary to be yourself. It's getting better from life the times of when I was growing up as a kid, you know, it was all like get in with the crowd.

38:06 You don't want to stand out if you're a nerd. Oh my god, look you're standing out like you've got it, you gonna be. And nowadays it's a little bit more of like be yourself, but it's in a very aunauthentic way. It's kind of like these are key words. It's not easy look in the mirror and saying, oh my god, this is me warts and all. What advice do you have for people who are having a problem, which I think all of us do. You had a problem going through that process. I've had a problem going through that process.

38:35 All of us, generally speaking, we don't show up and going I'm me. I'm perfect, I have no problem. If not, you wouldn't be here. You wouldn't be here. That's what's the point of this. This is what we're this video game is here to teach you. So what advice do you have for people who are having are at that stage in their development and their evolution where they can't really look themselves in the mirror, really can't connect with their true selves in private or in public.

39:02 This is my book is all about this, And I know I've I I used to hate myself when I when I first woke up and I became aware of that, my voice, my inner voice, I was like, I hate myself. I couldn't meditate, I couldn't sit alone with myself. I couldn't do that. I would just beat myself up all day. It was horrible, and I was so afraid. I was like, is this what I'm is this? It like, this is what I'm stuck with? It was it was really I'm like, no wonder. I did drugs Like no wonder. I wanted to shut off, No wonder. I wanted to nummelt. And I get it, like I understand, and I get that feeling of looking in the mirror and really not wanting to see what's looking back at you. And and yet, oh my gosh, I just think of at the beginning,

39:46 you know, I called in so much support. I couldn't meditate alone. I went to groups. I went to sit with groups of people around me that I could just feel safe to be with that first, just meditation, silence, eyes closed, never mind like eye gazing or anything like that. That happened like years later. But I mean I wanted to feel better. It felt better when I did certain activities like yoga, like meditation, like going to different you know, trainings and groups and energy healing and.

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40:25 And slowly, by slowly, it started to you know, open up a little bit more in that voice of the more loving self, the truth, my true self, which is loving. It's like loving and kind and more peaceful and not as talkative as that critical self. Actually it's like quieter at first, and we're calm. It started to become more accessible, you know, And so for people that are in that experience of like, oh my god, it's so hard, it's like it's so overwhelming to even imagine like I can't.

40:55 It's it's a fascinating process too. Like I I've had so many moments in my journey where I've just been like aware of the masks that I didn't even know I was wearing, and then feeling like, how am I ever going to be able to take this off? I'm so terrified of taking this off because it's all I know. I know conceptually there's just something else underneath it. But the process of imagining letting that go, like it feels like dying. It is kind of like dying, and the body registers it as a physical death. So it's like everything is going to come online to protect you from taking off that mask. So it's like this crazy paradox we're born into in this video game of like you're here to be your authentic self, but also all of

41:33 your reality and your body's operating system is designed to almost prevent you from really being your true self because of the survival. Yeah, so good luck deprogramming that matrix. But but you know, where you begin. Where I would recommend and where it worked for me is like asking for help. We're not meant to figure it out alone.

41:53 And really one of the biggest barriers to becoming your authentic self. And just again it's like I'm not a thing. I'm as long as you're alive, you're gonna have more layers to work on of, like deeper authenticity. I have crazy awakenings all day long. I'm like, I'm still working on this thing. Okay, like let's do it. And you know, but it's like the biggest anecdote to shame tends to be that I find that shame. A lot of my book is about shame. That's been a lot of my life experience, like being so ashamed to exist, like be who I am, shamed of, like what I want, what I stand for, just like really feeling, you know, so so ashamed of who I am. And this is a really cool thing that a lot of people have in common.

42:36 I find it's like the universal wound that we all kind of share. It's like this universal language and it's like this thing we're all hiding from each other. But once we start to let some of it out and reveal and share what it is that we're afraid to let anybody know about us, I find that that's the thing that we must usually have in common with other people.

42:55 It's like there's some unifying thread of like the things we're all hiding or the things we most have in common, and they're usually the things that really help other people to connect more deeply with us. So there's like this this alchemy and shame that I love. And so if you're at the beginning of your path, like who can you talk to and connect with and start to just share in a supportive way, like, Hey, I have some I have something that I feel like I've been kind of keeping to myself or hiding that I am aware of as like a heaviness might be a mask you know of some kind, or an identity something that you're just hiding. And what would it feel like to even just freewrite to yourself about it. Just start to like

43:35 bring these heavy things that you're hiding, bring them out into the light. Doesn't have to be some like big broadcast on social media like the live stream for the world or something like that, but just starting to share, even with yourself or with a trusted friend or guide or healers, so that you know you don't have to carry these things alone and this journey is not meant to be taken alone.

43:56 When you say shame What do you think causes that shame? That caused that shame in you and also people? Is it the programming that we're put up with when we're children that create that? I mean, obviously religion. I'm a recovering Catholic. I still feel guilty about it, you know, So is it that? Is it? Religion? Is a society?

44:18 Is it family? Is it just your group? All of that? What do you think is that the unifying factor that you're saying everybody kind of has this thing going on with them? What do you think it is?

44:30 All of it? Everything you said? Yeah, in my experience, it's been heavily oriented in my family and my lineage. So I picked the perfect parents, They picked the perfect parents, and so on and so forth for hundreds of generations, and there tends to be a really big pattern intergenerationally of shame and like worthlessness and you know, just like poverty and all kinds of things. And then that manifested in my not manifested in my DNA, just by born in this body, just because of my family's programming and all of their experiences of being my grant farm workers on my dad's side of being like, you know, kind of evangelical religious people on the other side, and all the different layers, and then shame can come from you know,

45:17 it's like feeling that you're bad, like you did something bad, you're ashamed of it, and it can really For me, it came into my awareness again after like doing work on this and looking at the root. It's like when I was younger and I felt like, you know, I didn't have the emotional attunement like my parents. And I love my parents so much, they're such amazing beings, and like growing up how they grew up, they never really learned to have an attunement. And what I mean by that is like to be present, to be present embodied, to be available, like to be really present and available with themselves, let alone with me, you know. And I didn't grow up with an example of someone with a healthy, at tuned nervous system to really create in myself to model.

46:07 And this is like I'm talking about from when you're in the womb. This all starts before you're even born, before you take your first breath, and you're in your mother's womb, and this is called the pre limbic birth imprint. To talk about this to my book and birth syncoisying. There's so much that happens that sets us up for our entire life before we even come out of the womb.

46:24 It's like it's all there, and you know, what was your mother like when you're in the when you're in the belly, was she in stress? Was she and you know, was she going through intense traumatic experiences? And this can have an impact on like chemicals in the body that you then get set up with for your life, you know, high cortisol and et cetera. And then this, you know, for me as a little one, I'm like, okay, it felt to me energetically like no one was there. Nobody was there for me, like in the way I needed.

46:51 I couldn't really sense that anyone was there. So I felt alone. This got wired into my consciousness as a belief structure. Later I just were just meaning me making machines. That's you know, that's who we are, where we make up meaning before we really understand, especially as children, before we understand all the details of everything that's happening. So I felt like, no one's there, I'm alone. I must have done something wrong to deserve this. How else am I going to make sense? Of this what's wrong with me, I'm bad. There's the shame. So there's that level, but then it was also set into motion by a long line of many generations of shame, not good enough, you know, a lot of abuse, a lot of abuse on both sides,

47:32 a lot of addiction, a lot of neglect. So we're up against a lot in these bodies again, and a lot of it is happening before we're even aware, before we even are like developed, and even just in the first before coming out of the womb and then the first seven years of our lives, a lot of our personality is just set up in the way that we're having those first relationships with our parents. What they're modeling to us in our nervous system is getting is getting wired in certain ways, and it's it's just fascinating. We all have so much complexity, and I just frequently remind myself like, just you know, you never know how much someone has really been through, Like we have all been through so much just by being born on this planet

48:16 in a body, and it's kind of immense when you really take that in, like, wow, this is like a whole in one person is an entire universe of experience and complexity and pain and also like capacity for love and like incredible abilities and you know, I love to nerd out on that.

48:39 Do you find it as well that that, you know, not the generation shame, but like our parents and God forbid their parents before them, there was a lot of like what will other people think? And that kind of starts like, oh my god, what will the neighbors think, what will the other family think? You know, all this kind of stuff, which is kind of the beginning of like putting on masks, the shame that like you know, oh my god, you know you and I are both Latinos, so it's like lapena you know, that kind of that kind of thing. Oh my god, with that, do you think that's where it kind of started? And then our generation, You're you're definitely younger than I am, but generally speaking, our generation is a little bit more open and our

49:22 kid are and like generations that came behind us, there is no privacy anymore. So like everything is wide open. Things that our parents would have never said publicly. They're just like insta and yeah yeah on TikTok, and they're like doing this stuffs. They would never have done that in other times, would you agree?

49:42 You know, you bring up a lot in that. What I first see when you yeah, But what I first see when you're talking about is you're talking about this. It's such a huge it's like a quantum leap and consciousness has been made between just like the last generation. And then even though I'm thirty, I'm about to be thirty six, which is so exciting. It's like number nine completion.

50:03 And then and then I look at people that are about ten years younger than me, and they're a totally different operating system. Like it's just they came into a different template, they are operating at a different frequency. They have a very different consciousness. Trauma is not as much of in their reality as it has been for my generation and those prior, and it's just things are not even if they were born into a really traumatic family dynamic, it's like the stuff didn't stick to them as much.

50:30 That's what it seems like. They have a higher capacity to kind of process that out of their being. And then I noticed, you know, I feel like my generation or my experience has been that I'm a bit of like in a transitional period between this like really more highly evolved template that the younger ones coming in. And then yeah, I look at my parents and I'm like, oh my gosh, like so much density that they is like normal to orient into.

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51:08 A familiarity with just like I would say, living in a more conceptual frame of reality, like three. I don't really love to give the assignment of the numbers, but it's like third and fourth dimensional consciousness of just like logical intellectual, like a little bit more basic, little bit less capacity to feel and to be emotional and to have intuitive awareness, and a lot of repression, a lot of more of the survival body really leading leading the way.

51:36 And yeah, it just feels like so much more density, you know, and then so much compassion because actually, like I know a lot of people were just talking about this at breakfast this morning, Like a lot of our parents are also having awakenings, you know, like even if they come from these generations of more density and heaviness and you know, their own traumas and things with the lack of resources and articulation to be able to share in a more heartfelt or like you know, self aware way it's like they're having their awakenings too, and they're starting to open up their heart and there they want to learn. And you know, I love to see this.

52:11 It's almost like my guides will just remind me to like look at everybody like a child, like to really can we see ourselves and others as children? Can we really see like beneath the mask?

52:23 Right?

52:23 This is the way that we help to unmask ourselves and then we help inviy other people to unmask is just to like welcome them into that childlike energy. And this is also where shame gets diffused immediately just in presence, just in that permission of like for me, it comes through as like silliness or just being playful, being in a child like state, and it just pierces that that mask of like the serious control freak adult that has to be perfect and is like holding all this stuff together in the background.

52:53 Yeah, exactly. And I think as a lot of the ascended masters have said, be childlike, you know they are when children come in, they're much closer to source than we are. You know, they're not covered up with all this stuff that we're trying to deprogram ourselves from. This has been such a beautiful conversation, Sydney. I would like to ask if can you ask your guides or whoever you're channeling, or whoever wants to come through in this conversation that could be of service to this audience that's listening.

53:27 What message do you have for the audience in regards to humanity's future, in regards to whatever they need to hear right now?

53:37 And I welcome everybody listening to also tune into your own guidance as well or to feel the like other subtle energy transmissions that come through in this sharing. And I like to do that by just really centering myself and my heart, connecting and consciously with the earth, taking some deep breaths, and then I love to ask what's most important for me to know right now? What's the most important of highest service to share in this moment we're all listening here and now or in the future now.

54:12 And I immediately just feel an overwhelming sense of joy and gratitude. And I feel the awareness of many beings watching your video game, this reality show that we're playing in together, and I just feel an immense amount of joy. It's like there's so much joy, there's so much joy and love and surround just surrounding us, really surround Feel the joy surrounding you, feel the love surrounding you, feel the light surrounding you. You are infinite resource, You are guided.

54:40 I see this image of like you know, Earth as part of this constellation of many other iterations of planets or Earth's you know, simultaneous dimensions, realities, have every want to play it. And then there's this reminder that like everyone listening now, like we chose this very specific moment, this very specific template, this very specific structure to complain in our body, as our body, as our true selves on this planet. That is like, this is heaven on Earth.

55:13 This is heaven on Earth that we came for. This is the most beautiful place that we could ever fathom. It's why we've come back. There's really nowhere else that we can feel. Remember that there's nowhere else that we can feel, period, full stop. I just feel this. I'm cracking up because the really the energy that I feel and receive when I tune in this way is like it's almost like a tickling sensation, and I just I feel wrapped with this love and this joy and this gratitude and this reminder of like to feel, to feel through the body, the sensation and the capacity that we have to really sense all of these different layers of our reality, all of these different layers of the insight and the intelligence that moves through each and every one

55:59 of us in such unique ways. And not remember we are the ultimate tool, that we are the technique. We are the technology, We are the infinite resource. And this being in this vessel, it is all encoded in us and through of us, as us and four of us, and that we are here to cultivate ourselves as the masterful beings that we are, as the embodiment that we are of such incredible light, of such incredible presence. It's meant to be light. We are meant to be as light.

56:24 We are designed to be as light. We are here for the light, as the light of the light. We are meant to be as light. How do you allow yourself and welcome yourself to be more of the light that you are? How do you allow more light to flow in and through your body, to flow in and through your channel to be the channel that you are, To allow yourself to receive all that you are. It is safe to receive all that you are it is safe to receive. Oh, I just feel the big emotional wave, really strong message for everyone listening. It is safe. It is safe for you to be It is for you to be here. It is safe for you to be in this body. It is save for you to be on this planet. You are welcome, you are invited, You

57:08 are welcome here. Your full presence is welcome here. You are welcome to be home here. This can be home here. You are free to be at home. You are safe to be at home. Ah. Yeah, Just feeling a heart healing coming through for anyone that would be open to receiving, feeling a light just starting to really expand through the center of your heart, melting away any layers of protection, any layers of resistance to receiving yourself, to receiving the love and the presence that you are, to receiving your own presence. For you, that this is maybe why you are here, is to receive yourself. That your presence is actually the gift that you give to yourself and then you give and share with all others. That it's you

57:58 first of your own presence to yourself. Just taking a deep breath and grinding that in giving gratitude to this beautiful planet and this body that is an extension of this planet, and all of our guides, master's, teachers, and loved ones always here supporting us in all moments. Thank you so much. Hmmm, yeah, I just felt like a big heart opening and I really feel an awareness, Alex of just the people listening in here, this field that you've assembled. It's like, there's so much love here. There's so much love assembled in this community. And this is why we're here, is to create more fields like this where love presidents authenticity can just can translate as wide and far as possible, and that more people are empowered

58:49 to be that like walking permission slip out in the world of like whether it's just a smile or a kind gaze or just like when someone asks you, how are you taking that extra to be like, well, actually here, here's how I am. I'm here, and how are you, and like really getting out of autopilot and really creating true connection in the world, even in really simple interactions, they can be life changing.

59:15 So beautiful. Thank you so much for that. I truly appreciate it, and I know the audience appreciates it. Said well, so thank you and I'm going to ask you a few questions, Sydney that ask all of my guests. What is your definition of living a fulfilled life?

59:28 Living a fulfilled life means being fully alive as yourself.

59:37 Fair enough, Now, if you can go back in time and talk to little Sydney, what advice would you give her?

59:43 Oh? I feel like what just came through was exactly that you know? Wow, I mean I would love to tell her now I'm telling her right now. You are welcome to be all the way here. It was exactly as you are, as loud as you are, as wild as you are, as playful as you are, as silly as you are. It is all welcome and you are safe.

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1:00:20 The feeling of absolute knowing that you are loved?

1:00:28 And what is the ultimate purpose of life?

1:00:31 Remember that you are all beautiful?

1:00:36 And where can people find out more about you? And pick up your new book? I am as sending now what?

1:00:44 Well, that's the website I'm ascending now what? And then my other website is Sydney Campbell's dot com. And thank you so much, Alex. I just I'm so grateful for connecting with you today.

1:00:53 And do you have any other party messages for the audience?

1:00:56 Yeah, there's any last message I could say. It's like, you know, how can you add some more fun and playfulness and even silliness into your life? Like this is really the medicine of our time, is like how we transmit all this heaviness and the shame and the intensity and the mess and like through play. I feel like play is the highest expression of you know, presence and where more of our purpose naturally gets revealed. It's like, how do you like to have fun? And it's so simple, but it's like, how can you add more fun and playfulness and adventure into your life even in simple ways and make it like a game for yourself?

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