Suzanne Giesemann: The Awakened Way

everybody's had what I call an no OE do you remember that term from the book oh no what was that one that's a no other explanation moment oh okay yeah yeah I have I've had several and once you tell yours everybody oh now it's like oh we can talk about this because I had this happen and and we all just want permission to to share these awesome experiences but we're so worried about what other people are going to think and we shouldn't be [Music] [Music] welcome to Beyond talking points from Little visionnaire bookstore I'm Bridget Jackson Buckley and today I'm speaking with Suzanne geesman Suzanne geesman Mystic medium and former US Navy Commander is the author of 14 books she joins us today to discuss her newest book from Hay House the awakened way making the shift to a divinely guided life Welcome Suzanne thank you so much for joining us thank you Bridget every time I hear that biography it still feels like a whole different world to me my background verses now I can imagine 14 books I mean US Navy Commander that that's amazing to have changed so much you clearly were following guidance no doubt so I read the awakened way there is a lot in this book Suzanne I mean there's a lot the tools and practices you have um the way you show our Oneness through stories and examples uh the practices to deepen your connection to the Divine and your higher self and of course the validation of our multi-dimensional nature there's so much in there I really like the sit in peace and noticing snags and pulling the threads I love that so much it's a resource that you can revisit more than once not not just one read but you can keep coming back to it that's the goal and you've really summarized it beautifully you captured all of it yeah that's what I hope that it's not just something that people read once that they will use it again and again because these tools that that I provide are meant to be used daily to transform you truly yeah yeah and I am a meditator I meditate daily and I have gosh probably several months ago I watched a video your bless me Method video and I had been because I like to experiment with meditation Beyond simply sitting in silence and I do use that but reading the book it just gave me some just two things like I was I wasn't saying shift and I wasn't saying come now but I definitely EXP experience connection when I practiced that method excellent yeah I've had people say they've been meditating for decades and they've tried the bless me method which is in the book and it it just took them to a new level which is always a go a goal yeah yeah okay so while I follow your work and I'm I'm familiar with with you know all the events and workshops and classes you have going on I'm I'm just not clear on how this all happened for you so I know you came into your gift of mediumship late in life after the sudden and tragic death of your stepdaughter and The Unborn Child she was carrying and in the book you talk about sitting in meditation trying to contact her so was that the beginning like when you started to study mediumship or like what prompted you to just to sit and try to contact her because if you were a Navy Commander that seems like a whir removed from sitting in meditation trying to contact someone who transitioned I know Looking Back Now Bridget that this is my path to be doing this work but I had no idea I would be a medium if anybody had told me that in the Navy it was as far from anything I could have imagined as anything I'd heard about mediums but I never saw Spirits I would didn't consider myself intuitive although as Aid to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs I had to be a little intuitive to know what to to always predict his next step that was part of the job but I didn't consider that intuition but Absolut absolutely it was Susan's passing that put me on this path but I didn't realize that's what I was doing what was the turning point for me was Susan's funeral when I saw her body in the coffin I had an absolute Epiphany an an undeniable knowing that there is this something that we now call a spirit or the soul that enlivens the body because her body that I looked at was so completely different from that vibrant young woman who we knew and loved that it was just like well duh were not just these bodies and so I somehow knew that Susan still existed and I was going to connect with her myself not to become a medium I just figured she has to be out here somewhere and this was 2006 and meditation was not as mainstream as it is now so to just intuitively know I need to start meditating to connect with her shows me I was being guided and didn't realize it okay okay well I can completely relate to that um because in the past several months we have dealt with a transition in our family and let me just step back for a minute I'm a student of a Course in Miracles and one of the main teachings is that I am not a body I am free for I'm still as God created me and prior to the transition we experienced a few months ago you know I I think no one had passed in our family for a couple of years but I remember attending the funeral and just not you know looking at the body and not thinking oh I'm not a body I'm Spirit but with this most recent transition it was actually my stepfather I looked at him and it was so clear to me it it it was so clear like it it that the spirit was gone and it had just animated the body and it was it was it was just not him I mean it that point was just completely driven home to me so I completely can relate to what you're saying yes and and then it's been years now since I realized that my meditative practice had this single Focus not to quiet my mind not to release stress but to tune in to Susan that was it my stepdaughter Susan I wasn't trying to connect with guides or Angels but the funny thing is that happened as a result but I realized that the singular focus of only watching listening scanning my awareness for her trained Me In Focus contemplation presence expanded states of awareness which are ideal for mediumship right right and that focus of attention that is such an important point so did so did she ultimately come through through meditation or was it like and an an outwardly contact like where you saw maybe an energy signature outside of you or how did she did you ultimately make contact and I'm surprised that you didn't have any fear around it well first of all I was raised with no religion so there was no instilled fear in me whatsoever just I knew my motive was pure and this was all about love so fear never even entered the picture perfect and then yes she came to me in meditation and I hesitate to tell people because I don't want them to make the mistake of thinking this is everybody's path but she waited three years and I and I say waited instead of it took three years because she came recently and told me I didn't come through earlier on purpose you needed training in a lot of different areas before I showed up if she had showed up right away that would have been it I would have been conversing with Susan to this day and that would be nice but instead during those three years my psychic abilities my intuition my ability to connect with guides and Angels just blossomed and the whole time I'm I'm connecting with these other beings I'm like that's nice but where's Susan you know I just stay okay goal okay that's that's exactly what I wanted to know like how did it come about because meditation usually when people hear the word meditation they may say oh I can't meditate thoughts are everywhere like there's there's resistance to it but it's a practice so that means you have to practice it and if you yeah you mentioned you like in my book The Practice called sit in peace I call that the sip of the Divine and I have a video how to do that on YouTube and the title of that video you'll appreciate this is no more meditation excuses because with this simple thre minute practice you know you just can't make an excuse that I can't find three minutes you know and I can't I can't quiet my mind that's the other excuse I don't have a time I can't quiet my mind well you learn it you're right you can't quiet your mind but you can lengthen the gaps between these thoughts that constantly arise just by watching the thoughts and asking a specific question each time you do the practice such as what is it I need to know right now that I don't know and now you're listening and that creates silence and space it's it's it's incredible and it's um it it it's just it's so important because like to increase the gaps that's absolutely what I experienced and as you increase the gaps you can have more uh states of peace throughout the day I mean throughout the entire day it's like your your ego is being quieted a bit so that contact guidance can come through so that higher level high vibration information can come through you know and you can be guided in the way that you're to be guided and then as far as like her not coming through for 3 years no it doesn't mean that everybody would have that experience because everybody's different like some people might have dream contact because when my father transitioned I knew that I was going to have contact with him because I had been having dream visitations from others and I knew he was going to come it was just a matter of when and what is he gonna be like and it was three days after his yeah nice nice yeah yeah but I just can one thing to that uh piece you said about we we create more space so we have more peace during the day the other benefit of creating that space between all the thoughts is now other beings your guides Angels your loved ones across the veil can slip in the cracks there during the day they can put their thoughts in and you notice them that's the key you allow yourself to be snagged and to to say wait a minute where that thought just come from because you're not overwhelmed with the normal monkey mine exactly that's exactly what I experienced there's something else that you say that um oh oh you WR in the book no amount of reading can substitute for the actual experience of your multi-dimensional nature um and understanding that this physical reality is not the only ex existence and M uh meditation is absolutely a gateway to that it is yeah okay so when you began to study mediumship like was it do you feel like it was act it was relatively easy for you to make contact or or did you experience that you had a lot of blocks it was very easy and here's why because I had been meditating daily trying to connect with Susan that's the training that I didn't realize I was actually undergoing training in when you set an intention to connect with someone now that you know how to instantly create a little space in your mind now the spirits can connect with you but I had no idea I was honing that ability I was asked to write the biography of medium Janet no havoc and she called me into her classroom to write about how she teaches so I'm sitting in the back as a journalist I'm just going to study how she teaches and I listen to her teach how the spirit world will give you specific types of evidence if you ask them they'll give it to you every time and I thought how interesting is that that's pretty cool like a system at this point I hadn't even connected with Susan but I had been meditating for two years every day and Janet says to the class there's a spirit here why doesn't somebody come up and connect with them Suzanne you come up here and she put me on the spot and this is all told in my book messages of Hope and in the documentary online messages of hope we recreated that scene and I stood up there in the front because you know the Navy officer says I I I can do this I'm not going to run out the door like I want to and just absolutely stunned Myself by Discerning evidence about a spirit who I couldn't see couldn't feel but the information came to me now over the years I've developed the ability to feel them sometimes I see them but that's very rare but I definitely feel them now but from the beginning it was pretty easy because once you just focus and trust that someone is here in response to an intention boom boom boom the evidence is present so I asked about the blocks because we're normally not aware of like you know our unconscious beliefs until a situation arises and those beliefs come up so if you were uh a Navy Commander that's a pretty logical world and then coming into contact that's an intuitive world but it seems like the situation with your stepdaughter passing unexpectedly just broke your heart open and made you so willing you know to to to communicate with those who have transitioned and so you found as you were studying you could you could feel the surge of energy when someone wanted to communicate with you as opposed to seeing no I didn't even feel them at first it was a matter of knowing that they would give us evidence so that's that left brain the very beginning was dominant but it's over the years of meditation that actually activated more of the ripe rain brought that online to a point where they're now very balanced so I went and studied with some of the best mediums in England and I I went over there and I said if I'm going to travel all this way and give my time and effort and money to this is I need to feel you guys in the spirit world so turn it up and I began at that point in 2009 to really feel when they come into my presence so to this day if I can't accurately discern someone's personality character traits to feel like I'm them when I merge with the spirit I will call off a reading because it's it's so critical to me to actually feel their presence okay so so like for like what exactly do you feel because I know when I meditating and when I set the intention to contact with spirit I feel a tremendous feeling of love it it feels like Bliss like it's it all sometimes it almost feels like a little too much to take it's it's so strong so when you're merging with a spirit what does that feel like how's it different oh my camera keeps going up I know but we can still hear you it's gota be a spirit thing I'm thinking the same thing when someone steps into a room if you're at a party and they were a force they big person everybody turns they can feel that energy they feel that so that's what that person would feel like to me if they had passed and they step into my awareness if somebody was shy and withdrawn but I I'm expecting them I'm expecting to feel a spirit I just sense who's here and oh there's just a feeling of somebody who's shy and a little bit withdrawn but I can feel their love now there are some people that come through who are still learning and growing on the other side and I will feel what they were like when they were here I think oh my gosh your your brother was not able to love at all when he was here he's showing me the side of him that was very angry and judgmental but he's not like that now so they show me and let me feel feel how we would recognize them and it's it's incredibly accurate okay so when you when you merge with them when you feel them do you also set the intention to disconnect from their energy field at the close of a reading or or at the close of any country yes and I teach all my students to say thank you very much you must completely leave my energy field now yeah yeah that's so important Okay so we've been talking so much about feelings and when you're dealing with the loss of someone the feeling of grief is very very strong so how how does that block communication with a loved one it is it's like any wave of energy it comes and goes and so I tell people if you're at a point where your grief is swamping you don't try to connect then wait until you're feeling a little more calm it will pass these these waves and and we overcome any lower vibration with love and gratitude so you just find in you some memory or regenerate the feeling of gratitude for having that person in your life you turn up the love and you send that energy outward and now that helps the spirit to connect with you okay so for so for okay so would you say then that the most cont the most pivotal contribution to your healing following the passing of your stepdaughter was meditation or was it something else or was it a contribution of things the most healing was a reading my husband and I had with the medium and that happened before I connected personally with Susan and it was so healing because there was Zero doubt in both of our military Minds that Susan was in that room with us the evidence that this medium brought through that she had no way of knowing the description of Susan things about her life were so clearly coming from Susan it just rocked our entire worldview in an instant we could still grieve her but to know that oh my God what we felt in our heart is true she's really still here it's the most comforting healing thing I can imagine and that's what I love about mediumship we can do that for people in under an hour that's amazing and had well have you ever had dream visitations from those in spirit or from your so then how do you okay so that's my question how do you determine if it's an actual visitation or if it's just your Consciousness working through something well you have had that visit from your father so you know what it feels like it's it's such a such a difference between an actual visit that's solid and real versus a dream when you wake up and you try to remember the dream and it just disappears it's just wspy it's like what just happened there the other thing besides the solidity the realness of it is that dream visits are always uplifting and loving whereas a non-visit can often be disturbing distressful and that's you working through the grief and un okay energy clear okay so let's say for people who normally have oh you there okay so for people who may have persistent dream visitations from their loved ones does it ever transfer over into the The Waking Life where they they may see their energetic signature or maybe hear them like have you have you heard of that like I don't hear Too Many examples of that and I actually don't he of people who have a lot of dream visits usually there are one to three visits and people just don't forget them it takes effort from those in the spirit world to make their presence known because we're like a radio dial we're operating at one frequency and those in the spirit world are different frequency and we have to bring them into resonance we do that through radiating love and gratitude as I said the spirit world has to adjust their frequency somehow so if they could come to us without a dream they'd be visiting us all the time they know we want to see them so they will come to each person in the best way they can but even when even sometimes when people have those experiences there's still there's there's just still doubt like was I making that up like am I imagining it why do you think there's there's so much resistance because there's so there's so much evidence that the soul lives on I mean it's it's just everywhere but there's still some resistance to it it's the way our brains are hardwired if I've really studied the left hemisphere of the brain versus the right and the left hemisphere is is is all about logic and rationalizing things and putting pieces together in a way that makes sense that we can believe and it will try to talk us out of what the right brain knows which is that everything is connected and we all flow together so we are trained by C culture and by our brains to only trust what we sense with our physical senses and that's a shame yeah yeah it's a it's an extreme emphasis on the material world when we're Spiritual Beings yeah so well meditation as we've talked about can be so pivotal but there's another practice that you talk about and I love this story that you write about um with Odin with through automatic writing I was wondering like what made you ask for that you asked for a gift and encounter with any higher being who could help you travel to their world like what even made you ask that question because i' had so many what I call Adventures in Consciousness after starting to meditate daily like I said it just opened my awareness to Worlds upon worlds that that to think that we are the only beings who exist who are conscious and senty and creative and clever and fun is so limiting and so I just learned well if if Spirit people will visit me and if we have guides and we have Angels which the Navy officer did not want to admit but the evidence was overwhelming I just said well let's just open it up to any benevolent being that's going to serve the greater good and insteps this incredibly powerful presence and so you learn in the book to engage whatever you sense so I just said who are you and he says Odin and I don't know who Odin is so I say tell me about you that's engaging and once you have this personal experience of interacting and receiving verifiable information from higher beings which we of course go and Google afterwards the Internet is just amazing to back up these adventures and Consciousness then you really start questioning reality which is another chapter in the book isn't it to question what we have just assumed is reality when it's so much more Odin's the one that helped me really take the lid off the box that was so interesting Susanne the second I read that name I thought about the movie Thor because I think his father's name was Odin I but I just thought oh my gosh but because I you know I meditate but I've never even thought about asking such a question but what I always do that you mentioned you use the word benevolent I always state to connect with uh beings who purpose is the evolution of humanity and because I have such a solidified spiritual practice I know that I'm connected to the Divine and that there's no worry about any any riff wff I'll say coming through but that's that's so important and it I don't know that's just so interesting I'm gonna have to do that in my meditation do yeah I I'll try it and and that again is also the same practice of just waiting and watching and listening and you just notice all of a sudden all the thoughts all the images that start coming in Awareness after you ask and you just notice well that's not a different being and you let that float through and well that doesn't feel like anything unordinary you let that flow through and then suddenly you become aware of an image that has no reason for being in your mind and so now you say why did that just show up but you don't just wonder you ask higher Consciousness why did that image just pop up in my mind now you watch and you listen and you just now you start start pulling the thread and it opens up and now you start to feel different things you notice what stands out from your normal experience andage it it's fascinating it is it is so fascinating I love it and that and what you just said it made me because you said you can notice something that maybe feels a little off and you just let it pass through and it's like what where's that coming from what is that that what just popped into my mind is to be cognizant of what you allow into your Consciousness because you and Ty I think you guys were you were on the RV and you were going to read a book and you had this entire experience where you chose this book and it ended up leading you to this questionable environment that appeared to be a cult and I love that so much because the whole point of spirit guiding you because it was just yes yes yes go let's stop was to be mindful of what you're reading your reading can take you off track that is oh it's so important to be aware of what we take in yes and and the meditative practice being super aware of your thoughts that's another thing that plays over into your daily life you become much more aware of your thoughts and you say is this serving me to think this way and then you let it go and you upgrade your thoughts and that's how we evolve absolutely absolutely so you write the better way is the awakened way of the of balancing Soul awareness with human nature instead of demanding that life go the way you want it you flow with what is and you are truly a living example of this of the you know our power to choose love or fear to use our free will to choose love or fear because when you started meditating that was a choice to go with the flow to follow your heart you could have chose to just stay in deep deep grief and just close your heart but you chose to open your heart and your life could have gone in a completely different direction because of the choice that you made so I just wanted to point out that it's so important that to follow these really strong callings these pulls that we have the Curiosities to look in things even if it will you know blow the lid off of our perception of the world because that that needs to happen to us because the perception that we've had of the world has not always been ideal I'll say and served our highest good or you know served in a good way and and I would say it's time for people to stop worrying about what other people think or say oh yeah the bottom line is is this helpful is this healing and once you start talking about these things you find out everybody's had what I call an Noe do you remember that term from the book oh no what was that one that's a no other explanation moment oh okay yeah yeah I have I've had several and once you tell yours everybody on now it's like oh we can talk about this because I had this happen and and we all just want permission to to share these awesome experiences but we're so worried about what other people are going to think and we shouldn't be no we shouldn't be but that's that's the point of having courage and you know I think we're getting into a time well we've entered a time where it's going to become much harder to suppress our natural selves and what really calls to us because I definitely experienced that you know talking about the this subject matter I would have a little lid on it I'd be very quiet and very censored but since I would say like the past couple years it's just so prominent in my life that I just have to talk about it and I've been for years a logical left brain person well read so if I'm talking about something like this there's there must be some Credence to it you know I'm not some crazy you know person so yeah just be who you are follow what interests you okay so what would you say is the most surprising or unexpected part of your spiritual journey the unexpected part is that I can now honestly say I can see sense know the soul in everyone and I love everyone never expected that I heard somebody say that in fact I wrote a biography the priest and the medium this was Wayne null the medium in that book he said that about people and I thought wow I can't say that at the time I just couldn't imagine being like that you know it was just normal judging other people and feeling different distant and then I I said to myself you know he's a model for that if one other person can feel that way I want to feel that that way and I set the goal of discovering what is it in me that wasn't allowing me to feel that way so now I go to airports and I walk around and I look at people and they all look so different from me and some look the same as me and I just walk around with my heart like I love you all and I know that sounds crazy but it is the most beautiful way to live and we have to train ourselves to live that way but once you do it just changes everything and and people will say well you even feel like way about a terrorist or a you know Murder or rapist I see those people and I see they are simply beautiful souls whose human role has so uded their awareness of the fact that they're Souls that I actually feel compassion for them do I condone their actions not at all but I can still love the soul and if we could do that for everybody there's no reason to come here anymore because we've evolved that much right right and of course there's always that we don't know what anything is for and it's the Judgment that maintains the separation and so I find like when you say something like that oh I love everyone um there's a tendency for people to give you the most extreme examples of people who they deem as Unworthy of love but if we're all connected if we're all one it's in a sense saying that we're Unworthy of love if we redeeming someone else being Unworthy of love so so it really I love this this this conversation is so delicious to me I could have these conversations all day thank you and so I so I really like that statement that you said what it what is in me that's stopping me from seeing the love and others from seeing others as simply beings of love and light walking around the world that is prominent in my thoughts these days to see everyone as the love and the light of the one infinite Creator because that's what we are and it and it and it is so true Suzanne like you we're not talking about syrupy love like yeah we're not talking about that it's Joy it's peace it's gratitude it's compassion you know and it's your day will feel so much better and so filled with peace when you look out into the world through a mind that's connected and steeped in love I mean it it's just wonderful and it's like when you because when you're looking through a mind that's steeped in judgment and I think I know what everybody should be doing and what everything it it's it's a totally different experience it is do because you sure get it well I would say that um I really hope that you enjoyed listening to this conversation with Suzanne geesman her latest book The awakened way making the shift to a divinely guided life comes out in April and Suzanne you have so much going on on your website can you talk about the pre-order uh details and gifts that you have there's so much going on well we we we like to work without hype I don't like that whole vibe of get this and that you know so we just love to balance that which is free with that which is not free and and give gifts when it's appropriate so yeah if you order the book now we we did create some beautiful gifts that that thank people for ordering the book no strings attached and then we're running a contest because that's fun so refer the book to other people you get a point for buying the book if somebody else buys it and says you refer them you get a point for them you like send it to your book club that's like 10 points and then the people that get the most points they're going to have a giveaway of some readings with me or a group channeling session with me so we're just having fun with the book promotion and then there are other things things like I um leading a cruise to the Mediterranean this summer you know 14 hours of getting together with Kindred Spirits on a to cruise around the Mediterranean these are things that have just literally Bridget fallen into my lap I don't go searching for these opportunities people have come to me because the the community is just so filled with love that we're attracting that kind of thing wow yeah the cruise sounds that sounds really fun I saw the email for that I mean there's so much like you are you going to the Omega Institute or you already went I'm teaching there this year next year um yeah I do a weekend Workshop there that's that's just really great for learning to connect with your loved ones who have passed and then you have the monthly connection what's the focus of the monthly connection the monthly connection is that spirit is teaching me new things every day and I get evidence from the spirit world every month from my readings that it it's meant to be shared so for seven years every month I've had two hours worth of new material from Spirit every month so people just gather and I share the latest Wows and the teaching from Spirit about how to connect yourself how to live a more peaceful life how to get over our challenges more peacefully so it's always a love filled event you can feel the we all do have a little trouble sleeping afterwards because it's a very high okay okay well for someone who may be new to your work um what would you say about the the awakened way book that can help them to become acquainted with your work and and just with themselves as a being of spirit and understanding Oneness and connection but just check out my podcast because this is just H or my YouTube channel hundreds of videos literally about this work but I would begin by following that Curiosity that we've peaked here today just pull the thread and say okay I want to know more and the awaken way talks about the three e educate yourself so watch the videos look look at the website and then experience for yourself that's really what the awaken way is all about it's it takes it Beyond Theory to to wow I'm coming to know I am a soul and I can make that shift just like that to the Soul's awareness rather than this really restrictive constricted human story that has held me back too long and then engage higher Consciousness by not just wondering how do I change my life for the better asking the source it's it's a very fun process that's not linear educate engage experience it's just onward onward onward and upward it it makes it fun to get up in the morning what is going to happen today right yeah I really like that I want to know more that's Spirit that's the key that's the way Spirit speaks to us through inspiration through curiosity and it's it's almost like we've left spiritual breaks for ourselves all we have to do is follow them that's right and do what I connecting the dots and then chronicity will show itself over and over in your life and you'll know okay this is working I'm in the flow wow thank you so much well remember the best way to support your local independent bookstore and the author is as simple as buying a book Suzanne gizman is a spiritual teacher author and messenger of Hope who guides people to the certainty that Love Never Dies and that we are part of a multi dimensional Universe living the awakened way does not mean your life is boring or devoid of emotions on the contrary by living consciously you can fearlessly take on greater Adventures knowing there is safe there is a safety valow a simple shift to the Soul's perspective where peace Reigns you can find out more about suzan's upcoming events workshops online classes and the wonderful book pre-order details at suzan gan.com thank you so much Thank You Bridget what a joy

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Published: Sat Mar 09 2024