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Nearly a decade ago I started to connect in my meditation with a female angelic presence. She told me her name was Lily. I could see her in my mind’s eye—her long blonde hair and porcelain skin. I felt deep peace whenever her energy entered my meditation. 

One week after my first encounter with Lily, my friend and medium, Rebecca Rosen, came over to do a spiritual reading for me. 

We tuned in to Spirit and the first words out of Rebecca’s mouth were, “There’s someone here with you. She’s quietly on your shoulder, ready to support you when you need it. She doesn’t interfere—she gives you space and grace to make your own choices. Her name is Lily.” 

My jaw dropped to the floor! Rebecca validated the guide I had sensed in my meditation. 

Rebecca is a master at connecting with the other side and using their infinite wisdom to guide us and improve our lives.

And on today’s Big Talk episode of Dear Gabby, you get to hear Rebecca share all about angels, guides and the afterlife. Get ready for some major chills!

Dear Gabby podcast: Angels, Guides & the Afterlife

When it comes to connecting with angels or spirit guides, I get this question a lot:

“How do I know I’m hearing spirit guides and not my own thoughts?”

Don’t worry … it’s normal for doubt to creep in and make you question whether you’re actually receiving messages from something other than your own imagination. 

Throughout my spiritual practice, I’ve learned that there are trusted signs to look for when you are connecting to spirit guides.

5 signs that you’re connecting to your guides:
  1. You feel a sense of inner peace and calm. When you receive messages from your guides, you’ll often experience a deep sense of peace and calm. This can feel like a warm, comforting presence that surrounds you and helps remove any fear or doubt.
  2. You see repeated signs or symbols. Your guides may communicate with you through signs and symbols that have special meaning to you. If you keep seeing the same symbols or signs, this could be a message from your guides.
  3. You get sudden insights or inspiration. Your guides may also communicate with you through unexpected insights or inspiration. If you suddenly have an idea or a solution to a problem, it’s possible your guides are directing you.
  4. You feel guided to take specific actions. If you have a strong urge to take a specific action, even if it doesn’t make logical sense, this could be a message from your guides. Trust your intuition and follow the guidance you receive.
  5. You experience physical sensations. Some people report feeling physical sensations when they receive messages from their guides. This can include tingling in the body, a sense of warmth, or pressure in certain areas.

Everyone’s experience of receiving messages from their spirit guides is unique. What’s most important is to pay attention to the signs and messages that resonate with you, and trust the guidance you receive.

If you want to learn more about tuning in to the wisdom from your angels, listen to this week’s episode with Rebecca. 

Remember, your spirit guides are here to help you on your journey, so don’t hesitate to ask for their assistance. Trust in their wisdom and guidance, and know that you are always surrounded by their love and light.

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dear gabby #125 Mar 20, 2023 spiritual connection 44 min

angels, guides & the afterlife

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Welcome back, my friends. Welcome back. I’m so excited about today’s episode, and some of you might already know this about me, but if you don’t, here you go. About 10 years ago, I started to connect to this female angelic presence through my meditation, and she revealed a name to me. She said that her name was Lily.

And I could see her vividly in my mind’s eye. She was blonde and she had this beautiful porcelain skin and her energy was so peaceful whenever it entered into my meditation. And about a week or so after my first encounter with Lily, in my meditation, I had a coffee with my very close friend who’s a medium, and her name is Rebecca Rosen.

And she came over to actually do a reading for me, and we tuned into spirit. And the first words out of her mouth were, there’s someone here with. She’s quietly on your shoulder, ready to support you whenever you need her. She just gives you this really nice space and helps you with a lot of grace. Her name is Lily.

Boom. Oh my God, my jaw dropped to the floor. It was so wild. And Rebecca really in that moment, validated to me that this guide was there and that I could really sense into this in my meditation, and that it was indeed happening to me. And Rebecca is the absolute master at connecting to the other side.

And on today’s show, you’re gonna hear Rebecca talk all about Angels and Guides and the afterlife. She’s just the best. And I know that you guys love these episodes and we talk about spirit guides and mediumship and psychic nature. And so, get into it, get psyched. When I was first starting out on my spiritual path, I would have flipped out for an episode like this.

So just get psyched. Enjoy the show. Major chills on the way.

GABBY: Rebecca Rosen in the house. So Rebecca’s in the house. Rebecca!

REBECCA: I’m so excited to be here.

GABBY: I know, baby. I can’t even believe that you’re here. So you’re here with me in New York. We’re gonna have dinner tonight. This is our big night out. Yeah. Our big mom’s night out. Right. We’re gonna have a really nice time and we’re gonna be joined by Maryanne DeMarco, who is a beloved love, beloved friend.

REBECCA: You introduced us. Yes.

GABBY: Like loved on this podcast. Some of our most popular podcasts are with Maryanne, and it’s her energy, it’s her vibe, but it’s also the topic and it’s so exciting to have you come on the show, talk about mediumship, talk about your new book, but also dive deep because we’ve got some heavy spiritual folks out there listening to Dear Gabby.

REBECCA: I feel right at home. This is so refreshing.

GABBY: These are your people.

REBECCA: Yeah. These are my people.

GABBY: So I wanna start with what does it mean to be a medium? Because some folks talk about being a psychic and some folks talk about being a medium. What’s the difference?

REBECCA: So the difference between a psychic and a medium.

Everybody’s psychic, right? To some degree. And a medium—it’s taking it one step further and you are relying on outside discarnate energies to feed you information. Okay, so psychic readings, you basically use your intuition to tune in to somebody’s energy and you read the past, present, future. Mediumship is downloading spirit messages—whether it’s from departed loved ones or pets or angels or guides, it’s all the same. And so mediumship is a lot more involved.

GABBY: Mm-hmm.

REBECCA: I do believe everybody can communicate with their loved ones, their team in spirit themselves and for themselves. But some of us have, what I say, have an satellite and we are able to more easily do it for other people.

GABBY: So with that in mind, are you also giving psychic greetings at the same time?

REBECCA: Yes. Yeah.

GABBY: Okay.

REBECCA: It’s, you know, all mediums are psychic. Okay? Not all psychics are mediums. That’s the difference.

GABBY: Big time.

REBECCA: Yeah. So what I like to do is, rather than somebody coming to me for me to predict their future, I know you’re in line with this…

We are co-creators of our future. The future’s not set in stone. And this is all about, we do have soul contracts. This lends into the book I just wrote. But we have a loose blueprint of what we’re here to do. But the future is really dependent on you being in alignment with that and choosing it every day.

If you show up and go at the flow, your future will unfold the way it’s destined to, but you have free will and so it can change.

GABBY: So we have a loose blueprint.

REBECCA: Yeah. So let me break this down. Before we’re born, we choose the lessons that we need to come in and work on. And what I have heard is most souls have anywhere between two to five lessons they’re actively working on in any one lifetime.

Okay? So for those of us who are more ambitious, we probably chose five. But the point is, these lessons give us opportunities to grow, to evolve, and that’s where I always say, it’s not happening to you. It’s happening for you. If you’re struggling.

GABBY: Right.

REBECCA: If you’re going through a challenge or a trauma that you’re trying to heal. It is imbalanced karma, either from other lifetimes that you need to come and heal. Or I also talk about it’s passed down. Intergenerational.

GABBY: Yeah. A hundred percent.

REBECCA: Right? So you have this loose blueprint and you come in and if you go at the flow and you’re in alignment with your higher selves’ guidance, your team in spirit.

Life can be easy and fun, even though you’re still doing the work.

GABBY: Mm-hmm.

REBECCA: But for most of us, we have the ego, right? And so, we get stuck in ego and then it’s pain and struggle and suffering. And so that’s where I like to remind people. So the minute you recognize that, you have the power to change it.

GABBY: Right.

REBECCA: You can recreate.

GABBY: You could also change it by even seeing it as a learning opportunity.

REBECCA: Exactly.

GABBY: Seeing your life as a learning opportunity.

REBECCA: Change the lens through which you see it. You’re not a victim.

GABBY: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

REBECCA: You actually chose this. Right? It’s not happening to you. It’s happening for you. And there’s a gift in it if you choose to see it through that lens.

GABBY: I remember that beautiful story Wayne Dyer shared in one of his books about how his soul chose to come back into this life to learn forgiveness and self-reliance—and, I think it was self-reliance. I hope I’m not misquoting him, but it was the whole story.

So he was born into this household and his father was an alcoholic and left the mother and all this stuff. And through that journey with his father, he learned forgiveness. And he also, through living in all these different foster homes, learned that self-reliance. Yeah.

REBECCA: That’s exactly it. And so when you can recognize the why behind your struggle, it takes you out of victim and it puts you into a really empowered place where you can then be the co-creator of what comes next.

So you can renegotiate if you don’t like your soul contract and the way it’s going, or your soul contract is fine, it’s the choices you’ve been making in shadow. Right? That have gotten you stuck or repeating patterns or in victim.

GABBY: So you could have your soul contract, but you could be making choices in shadow.

Right. So choices in fear, I suppose, right?

REBECCA: Yes.

GABBY: That are definitely probably keeping you from the growth.

REBECCA: Exactly.

GABBY: And the life learning. Yeah.

REBECCA: So yes, sometimes we are our worst enemies. We get in our own way. And it’s usually because we operate from our head and not our heart. And I always am told by spirit- our intuition, our guidance, our truth comes from our heart, not our head.

So our feelings are our guidance, but so many of us have gotten out of touch with our feelings. And so, we’re making choices from fear or shadow, not light and love. And so, the key is how do you come back to your truth and really get in touch with why you’re here? And for each person, that’s different.

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GABBY: So how do I know? Thinking right now, I’m like, okay, well what is my soul contract?

REBECCA: So I have witnessed in thousands of readings, there’s about 30 different universal themes you’re working on anywhere from greed and scarcity consciousness to kindness and generosity and self-worth and self-love. There’s a lot of ’em, but you can figure it out.

And that is my book. My book—it’s like a roadmap to help you get in touch with what is it, what are the patterns you keep recreating? Where are you stuck in your life? Right? A constant loop and you’re like, why is this happening to me? Or why isn’t this happening for me? Right? It takes you out a victim when you step back and you can identify the struggle, and then you can figure out the feelings that go along with that, and then you can change it once you’re clear. So I talk all about the I am.

GABBY: Yeah. First of all, this is so cool because people can actually take themselves out of victim from a perspective that’s spiritual perspective, not just from a therapeutic perspective. Right?

REBECCA: Yeah. Stepping back and recognizing from a higher self or soul perspective. Oh, so my issues with, you know, money issues, let’s say.

It’s not really about money. It’s about worth. It’s not financial worth, it’s self worth. And I don’t feel worthy. Therefore, I always sabotage, or I give all my money away. So when you can step back and say, oh, I signed up for this and I’m testing. And the lessons keep repeating themselves over and over until you figure it out.

GABBY: Right? Until you figure it out. So one of my life assignments I think I just figured out, is to really live in authentic truth. To know authentic truth.

REBECCA: That feels so right.

GABBY: Because I’ve been in the pursuit of it for a long time.

REBECCA: You’ve integrated it.

GABBY: I’ve only integrated it like last week.

REBECCA: Because… no. It wasn’t last week.

GABBY: No, but fully integrated it. In areas, it was there. Some big areas, it wasn’t.

REBECCA: So it’s because you had the courage to be vulnerable and go deep and share in this last book that I just finished, which is brilliant and so much overlap to what I just wrote in this, What’s Your Heaven book?

That spirit is talking through many of us right now because it’s all about being authentically you. And unapologetically you and imperfectly you.

GABBY: Right. That’s a nice phrase, and it’s a nice truth that we know, and it’s a nice, beautiful, spiritual conversation in rooms that we may host and be in your authentic truth.

Be in your authentic truth. But I think a lot of people walk around wanting that yearning for that, but have no idea what that means.

REBECCA: Yes.

GABBY: And that… It really rings true for me. I think that for my lifetime I have been in pursuit of releasing all of the pretenses of who I thought I was or should be to come back to me.

REBECCA: Yes. You and I both and. Wow. That’s a big one because with most clients, the theme, and I dedicated a whole chapter to this in my book on worth. So many of us don’t feel good enough or don’t feel this enough, fun, enough, smart enough, wealthy enough, successful, whatever it is. And the truth is, we are enough for just being born.

And it goes back to you are perfectly imperfect and we don’t need to pretend or wear masks, but we all do. And so, it’s just really getting comfortable in your own skin and really leaning into, what is my homework to do in this Earth school? Because we all have it. And I always say, be glad you have it, because if you didn’t, you wouldn’t be here.

GABBY: Right, right, right. Now let me ask you this. So if we learn these assignments, we master these assignments in this lifetime, do we not come back as a human again?

REBECCA: So there’s no one case fits all. So basically, if you are that enlightened, you may choose to stay in spirit and continue to grow and evolve on the other side.

And a lot of times those more evolved souls choose incarnated soul group members to guide, so they become spirit guides.

GABBY: For specific people. Wow.

REBECCA: Or they will choose to reincarnate, to balance and heal their unfinished business or karma. And so for the case with me, my grandmother, Faith who died by suicide when I was 10 years old. Fast forward, 10 years later, I’m 20. I’m struggling with depression, and she comes to me and that was my introduction to mediumship. I was in college studying advertising, and my dead grandma comes knocking, saying: Hey, I wanna help you. Because she, instead of reincarnating, decided from the other side to become my spirit guide.

But she didn’t just die and all of a sudden become all-knowing she had work to do to heal. Hmm. And so she did her work and then to balance and heal karma, she said, let me help you. And I was receptive because I was truly struggling and it transformed my entire being over 18 months. That’s the basis of my first book.

GABBY: Yeah.

REBECCA: Mind, body, spirit, do the work. And so I did it and then she’s like, oh, by the way, you’re here to do this for other people. Right. You know? And so that’s how that began. So that’s an example of a soul who said, I have homework. You know, cuz when we pass away, we pick up where we left off. So that’s why I like to remind people.

GABBY: So you pass, so a human passes away. They’re in the spiritual realm. They pick up where they left off there?

REBECCA: Yes. So it where you left off in life? Yes. With your to-do list of your lessons and the choices you made. Whether you die naturally or you take your life, you pick up where you left off. You have to be accountable and continue to do the work.

GABBY: In spirit or in the human form?

REBECCA: Either. So in the spirit world…

GABBY: …you do have to do it through somebody else.

REBECCA: Well, so it’s kind of like, okay, so we’re in Earth school, and then let’s say you fail to complete your karma and you have unfinished business. You’re gonna go to summer school in the spirit world versus on vacation.

GABBY: Okay.

REBECCA: And nobody’s meant to get it right. Nobody’s meant to do this perfectly or get it all done. That’s the whole point of reincarnation. But it’s your intention to show up and do and be better each time. And nobody’s keeping score except you.

GABBY: Hmm.

REBECCA: And so, when we pass away, we do a life review. And in that life review we are playing judge and jury, but we do it with the help of our council of elders or our spirit guides.

GABBY: Okay.

REBECCA: And then we’re taking inventory when you cross over taking a life review, taking inventory, and deciding do you wanna reincarnate and come back and do it all over again and get it right this time?

Or do you wanna do your work in the spirit world? But it’s always easier to come back and heal and balance the karma in the environment in which it was created. It’s faster, it’s easier, and that’s why we would reincarnate.

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GABBY: So what happens if you’re in the body as a human and you become enlightened?

REBECCA: So that is where you would either stay and continue like I look at Wayne Dyer.

GABBY: Yeah.

REBECCA: He was enlightened. Yeah. And he was an ascended master, he was a teacher and he stayed on the planet for however many years to… as he was a, you know, this spiritual being, having the human experience with all of us.

But he did his work and he integrated, as we were just talking about. He walked his talk. Yeah. And then he became this amazing teacher and master for all of us until it was his time to transition.

GABBY: Right.

REBECCA: So you can choose to stay for a period of time and do that, or you can, if you’ve mastered it and you feel complete, you can exit.

And that’s where an exit point or a death opportunity shows up.

GABBY: Do you think Wayne is staying in the spiritual realm?

REBECCA: I have actually had dreams of him and I’ve read some of his family members, and he is definitely still in spirit according to my connection with him. Whether or not he’s going to reincarnate, I don’t know.

GABBY: So what I heard from him, was that he’s in spirit and he’s working through those who want to speak on behalf of the light.

REBECCA: Okay. That, just gave the chills because that is what I texted you the other day.

GABBY: What did you…

REBECCA: …when I, I said to you, he came to me in a meditation. Along with my dad. And he’s been coming and that’s why you and I picked back up after a few years.

GABBY: Yeah. Yeah.

REBECCA: And they’re using us amongst many Yes. As messengers.

GABBY: That’s correct. Yeah.

REBECCA: Oh my gosh.

GABBY: It was in my journaling to work with those who are gonna speak on behalf of the light. Yeah.

REBECCA: I love that. And I love that man. And I’m so honored.

GABBY: Yeah. So we’re spirits having a human experience.

Can you unpack that? Because I believe that, I know that, but I wanna hear that from you.

REBECCA: So yeah. So everything is energy just vibrating at different speeds. Whether you’re in a… physically focused in a body, or you’re in spirit, right? Energy doesn’t die, it just changes form. So here we are, we have this amazing gift of being alive, and our soul or our spirit is here in our body and we’re all part of the divine.

That is the I am presence in us. Right? And so we are here to actualize that higher self or that I am presence in everything we do. And we also have an ego. And so an ego is, it’s not entirely bad. We need an ego to have that confidence and that identity, but we don’t wanna be run by our egos.

GABBY: Yep.

REBECCA: Because the ego oftentimes gets, again, influenced by fear. And so that’s where we end up making choices in the frequency of shadow and fear. Okay. And so our goal is to become one with that I am presence and show up and make choices each and every day in that frequency of light.

GABBY: Mm-hmm.

REBECCA: And again, that doesn’t mean being perfect. Nobody’s perfect. But it’s with the intention of learning and growing and evolving. And one of the reasons we’re here is not only to learn our lessons, but we’re here to teach others, it’s pay it forward. And I write a whole chapter in my book on this. One of the important lessons is I am here to learn from others and I am here to teach others.

GABBY: Exactly. Now, some of us that are listening to this show or reading your books or on a path of personal growth or a spiritual development or a yogic path, has a even a mustard seed of a desire to learn and serve. I think I know the answer to this, but there’s people out there that just are like totally not on that path.

REBECCA: Oh, for sure.

GABBY: Fifty percent of the world.

REBECCA: And no judgment. Everyone’s at where they’re at.

GABBY: What is the deal with that soul’s journey?

REBECCA: Usually these are beginner souls. These are souls who are in service to self, not in service to others. Or in service to source. And so the Wayne Dyers of the world, the more evolved souls, the Mother Teresas are here truly humbly to serve others. How may I serve?

GABBY: And to balance out. Balance out the chaos.

REBECCA: Exactly.

GABBY: And we’re in a lot of chaos right now, right? So…

REBECCA: There’s a lot of chaos and it’s real easy for well-intentioned, you know, more advanced souls to get caught up in that if you’re not using your tools.

GABBY: Okay.

REBECCA: This is where it’s imperative every day to find a practice that works for you, to use your spiritual tools to come back to that I am presence.

To remember, we’re all connected. We’re all one. And to get out of ego and to come back into that kind of unity consciousness, and not only how may I serve myself to do my work, be accountable, be a good human, make good choices, but then how may I use that to better the world to serve others?

And that’s what we’re seeing more and more of these light workers waking up and becoming more conscious. And I really noticed, I’m sure you did too, during covid. It was like a universal timeout. And we all, we all had the opportunity to step back and reevaluate our lives. And what really matters at the end of the day.

And I had, I was marathon reading. I had like 40 readings a week for two years straight.

GABBY: Oh, I can’t even imagine how busy you would’ve been.

REBECCA: I was so busy and I was so grateful. Got me outta my house. Focused on the light, helping others. In a really interesting time.

GABBY: Just so my listeners know, when you say a reading, you were giving these mediumship readings?

REBECCA: I was doing mediumship readings remotely over the phone. Um, you know, I’ve been doing ’em for 24 years now. Talking to the dead and loving every minute.

GABBY: Yeah.

REBECCA: Because when I get to do my work.

GABBY: Oh, you are so into it.

REBECCA: Well, I love it so much and it, it lights me up cuz I’m funneling this amazing energy through me. And I leave feeling better. I love what I do. And so anyways, client after client coming to me like in the struggle, like, Rebecca, I am so frustrated. I’m so stuck. And why, why? Why is this happening to me? And spirit after spirit would come through and say, why is it happening to you? Because you chose it.

GABBY: Yeah.

REBECCA: There’s a lesson in this. So ask yourself, what is this here to teach me? And how do I do the work to transcend this? There’s a gift under the messiness, and it’s there for a reason. And so that’s what I’m really excited to help people identify that because it takes ’em out of victim, puts ’em back in the driver’s seat of their life.

GABBY: Right?

REBECCA: And then recognizing, okay, I’m not alone. I have a team of energetic, you know, support here of my guides and departed loved ones and angels.

GABBY: So how would you define the guides? The angels? Loved ones? I wanna hear the Rebecca Rosen explanation of guides and angels.

REBECCA: Yeah. I actually put this in a chapter in my new book because it’s so, people are curious and people need to understand.

So there’s a hierarchy of what I call team spirit, and at the top you have the archangels. Most powerful universal beings of light. And I’m sure many of your audience have heard of Archangel, Michael, and Gabriel. Raphael and Uriel. There’s all sorts of Archangels. Okay. And they have different attributes from areas of expertise you can call on them.

Then you have ascended masters. And some people really identify with Mother, Mary or Jesus, or Buddha or Guan Yin.

GABBY: Would Wayne be an Ascended Master?

REBECCA: Very likely, yes. Yep. He is right up there with the Mother Teresas and…

GABBY: Louise Hay.

REBECCA: All of these great masters that walked the planet that are now in spirit continuing to help us, just like you and I have tuned into Wayne, there’s others that we can dial into.

And so, in the spirit world, there’s no limitations. There’s no time or space, so they can be of many people at once.

GABBY: That’s right.

REBECCA: And so you have that level of ascended masters, and then you have your own personal team of guides. You have senior level guides, you have junior level. So think about like the school analogy.

You have your teachers and then you have the student teachers, right? And then you have the principals of the school. And that would be like your guardian angel. So some guides are with you every single moment, every single day. Others like the principal, your guardian angel, is quietly in the background, only touches base if you’re in a life-threatening situation or you’re in desperate need of some guidance.

Okay, so there’s different levels, and I do break this down in What’s Your Heaven?

GABBY: I’m gonna go through this cause I wanna know who’s with me all the time. Like who’s my day-to-day homeboy?

REBECCA: And so you, you typically have one. I wanna call her Lulu.

GABBY: Lily.

REBECCA: Lily—double L name.

GABBY: So crazy because this is a good story.

So, at one point, I was channeling for my husband years ago, and you know this story, but I channeling for Zach and I started channeling this angel essence guide, Lily. And letting this energy come through, words that were not my own. Days later you come over, you give me my first reading with you and you say, who’s Lily?

Right away. And it was such a moment of wow. Like it was I needed to know that I channeled her first. Yeah.

REBECCA: Exactly. Well, that’s what I get to do. I am here to read the energy that you’re pulling in, and I’m here to validate you so that you have greater faith and trust in yourself, in your connection.

GABBY: Why did I think that Lily was Zach’s guide?

REBECCA: Because your dominant guide is intricately and intimately involved in your soulmate relationships.

GABBY: Oh, okay. There we go.

REBECCA: And so she is not his guide I’m guessing, but so in tune with you. Of course she’s gonna be so in tune with the person closest to you.

GABBY: Okay.

REBECCA: And so it can get very blurry and confusing and that’s why it’s even I go get readings because sometimes it’s hard to be objective when you’re doing it for yourself.

GABBY: I think I need to talk to her more cuz she shows up at all of my readings and and I kind of just like expect that she’s there, but maybe that’s a deeper relationship I can establish.

REBECCA: Well, she is there and so it’s almost like she’s quietly on your shoulder letting you be you and make your own choices.

So a really good guide steps back and doesn’t interfere and gives you space and grace to make your own choices, even if they don’t agree.

GABBY: You can also know guides are with you if you feel like a masculine or feminine presence essentially.

REBECCA: Exactly.

GABBY: Because I do feel a lot of masculine presence around me.

REBECCA: Mm-hmm. And so that, I feel like that’s a different guide. And so we can have, just like if you’re in high school, you have multiple teachers for different subject matters. You can have multiple guides at any one time. And they come and go based on the assignment. Back to that soul lesson, you’re learning.

GABBY: Right.

REBECCA: And so, I don’t know why I just wanna say this. Does Zach have a guy named Max? Max as a guide.

GABBY: Okay.

REBECCA: So I heard that earlier and I’m getting to tell you that. To tell him to tune in and have him ask Max, who are you? Why are you here? What are you working with me on?

GABBY: Max. Great. Love it.

REBECCA: We can go into that more another time, but…

GABBY: Zach’s reading.

REBECCA: Yes. Yes.

GABBY: On Dear Gabby. I’ll have him check in with Max. Great.

REBECCA: So anyways, we have all these guides and then we have departed loved ones who can be either trained as guides like my grandma was, or cheerleaders. So like for instance, my dad, he’s my biggest cheerleader.

He’s not necessarily…

GABBY: Like my grandmother.

REBECCA: Exactly. Yeah. And they show up to comfort you or to validate you, support you.

GABBY: In the delivery room, my grandmother was everywhere.

REBECCA: Oh, I love that. Giving you the strength and love that you needed.

GABBY: That’s right. Yeah. Totally.

REBECCA: And so we’re not alone, right?

And so, once you suspend disbelief long enough to open to the idea and say, I’m open, show me, put them to the test. Say spirit, I wanna believe, show me a sign, gimme a breadcrumb. And then, magical things start happening when you are open. And I always tell people, don’t go look for it. Don’t force it.

Let it be organic.

GABBY: I like what you just said. When you suspend disbelief long enough. That’s when you meditate, the more you align in whatever way you do.

REBECCA: It’s get outta your head. Get into your heart.

GABBY: That’s right.

REBECCA: Make space for the stillness.

GABBY: That’s why some people, I think, can channel when they’re running or exercising, you know, it’s like they get these messages.

REBECCA: Moving meditation, it’s the best way. And so we all have the capacity. It’s just some of us have more static in the line. And so what I have found since I started cleaning up my diet and you know, really getting back to yoga, using my tools, my readings are so much clearer.

GABBY: Uh, cool.

REBECCA: It’s not that I couldn’t do it, it’s just they were dimmer and harder.

GABBY: It’s effortless now. Yeah.

REBECCA: It is. But it takes constant, like I have to be conscientious and it’s about balance. I don’t live in any extreme. But you really do need to walk your talk. Like I, I know there’s times I slack and I’m not meditating, and

I’m like, okay, it showed in my work today.

GABBY: Well, you’re an instrument and so you have to tune the instrument.

REBECCA: Exactly.

GABBY: You have to practice.

REBECCA: You do.

GABBY: Now, if somebody wants to get to know their primary guide, what might they do?

REBECCA: The simplest and easiest thing is to close your eyes. Go within and say a prayer or write it out. Talk it out, whatever feels right.

But please reveal yourself to me. I’m open. Okay. Show me who you are, tell me why you’re here. Whatever it is, to just open that door again, suspending disbelief, opening your mind to the possibility this is real and that they are there. And then, letting go.

So whether you’re about to go to sleep and say, I invite you into my dreams, that’s a great way because your mind is quieted and it’s easier. You’re not resisting.

GABBY: I’ve had some crazy ass dreams lately, Rebecca. Oh my God. Dreams and then waking up and then them being revealed to somebody else and someone else saying, you’re in my mind. You know, it’s, it’s amazing.

REBECCA: So there’s something going on on the planet. Yeah. Where we’re moving from the 3D frequencies to 5D.

GABBY: Oh, shoot.

REBECCA: So what that means is the veil is lifting, it’s getting thinner and thinner between heaven and earth. And so, 4D is the astral plane. That’s where we go when we dream. 5D it’s heaven. It’s the other side. But we can, and this is my book. You can bring heaven to earth now. If you operate in the higher frequencies and feelings of 5D.

GABBY: So feelings of 5D, joy…

REBECCA: Joy, connection. It’s neutrality and above. So David Hawkins. Power versus force. Wayne Dyer. That’s how I learned about David Hawkins. It’s amazing. I included his scale of consciousness in my book. So 5G feelings are oneness, connection, peace, joy, freedom, relief, ease, grace, all of that.

3D feelings are pretty obvious. They’re all fear-based.

GABBY: Yeah.

REBECCA: It’s competition. Lack, scarcity, doubt, fear, all of all that. Anxiety, we’re all human. You’re gonna be at different places on that scale, depending on the day. I have days I wake up in anxiety. .But then I’m like, time out, I’ve gotta shift. And I set the intention to shift to 5D.

Okay. Or heavenly feelings. And so I’ll meditate, and when I meditate, at least I go up a few notches to get neutral. Neutrality is really where we wanna be. That or above. And it’s gonna vary day by day.

GABBY: So what’s neutral?

REBECCA: So getting neutral is getting out of judgment. It’s getting to that place where you’re not judging yourself or others.

You’re not in competition energy or any of the doubt or scarcity. You’re really just even, just kind of an even kind of like, you could go either way, just kind of indifferent. And so when we get there, you know, it’s a place where you have something to work with because then you can get a neutral read.

Whether I’m reading somebody else or myself, because I’m not attached to the outcome.

GABBY: Yes, I need to incorporate more neutral in certain areas. Yeah.

REBECCA: It’s, it’s hard, man. I mean, that’s part of this human experience. It is so easy, myself included, getting caught up in the doubt and the anxiety and the fear on the planet.

Right now it’s real.

GABBY: From a psychic perspective, medium perspective psychic, medium perspective, what would you say? What the f*ck is happening right now, Rebecca?

REBECCA: I know! What’s happening is, is that everyone’s over the BS. Right. Covid was like a timeout. And then you can’t go backwards. You cannot undo what just happened.

And it was, again, a universal timeout that forced us to stay, take a step back and reevaluate personally and just universally what is going on and how am I contributing to all of this? It’s about accountability and we’re only in control of our own choices.

GABBY: Now, do you think that with all the chaos that’s happening, in the world that there’s more people waking up to balance it out?

REBECCA: Yes.So it’s an opportunity to either wake up or check out.

GABBY: Yep. So when we go into the spiritual realm, we still have that ego?

REBECCA: We still have the fragmented parts of the frightened personality.

GABBY: Wow.

REBECCA: And so, our body dies. Our mind dies, but our consciousness is what lives on. And that consciousness, if you’ve done your work, you’re gonna evolve and graduate to different levels.

But if you haven’t, you again, you pick up where you left off. And so, wherever you’re at, you land. And so then you have to work on healing the fragmentation and the disconnection.

GABBY: In a spiritual realm. So how do you do that?

REBECCA: Yes. It’s like go going to summer school in spirit form. Instead of graduating from your life and then taking a summer vacation.

GABBY: Are you with other spirits having experiences? So what the hell is going on there?

REBECCA: Yes. I know it. This could take a whole 10 days to unpack. But we have soul families or soul groups. Okay, so you have your people, it’s Zach, and it’s maybe your child and maybe…

GABBY: Oh, Oliver for sure.

REBECCA: Maybe it’s your favorite aunt and there are certain people that are part of your primary soul group that you keep reincarnating with over and over.

So when you cross over, you’re going to your home, your primary soul. But then we have secondary and tertiary groups where that could be a thousand different people that we come into contact with maybe once or twice in a lifetime. Maybe not every lifetime, but you’re gonna go back to your core pod of people.

And then in that classroom, that’s where you regroup and you sit with them and say, okay, our soul family or our soul group’s lesson was worth. And we take inventory. Did we personally, and did we collectively as a group learn that lesson of worth? Okay? And then we have individual counseling with our guides on doing the life review.

So in this book, I have the do the life review before you die and have to do your life review. It’s a list of 20 questions that you can go through, whether it’s with yourself or with others on taking an inventory. Like, what’s the one regret I have? Or who do I wish would apologize to me? Or it’s just a laundry list of really forcing you to review your life and see where you have work left to be done and where you’ve succeeded and accomplished.

GABBY: What do you want the reader to get most out of this book?

REBECCA: I want the reader to be able to identify their biggest struggle. Recognizing their top, you know, handful of soul lessons or assignments, and then lean into it. It’s like you gotta feel it to heal it. Lean into it, whatever it is, it’s gonna be uncomfortable and messy, but it’s okay and nobody’s judging you.

It’s all about doing the work. And embracing it. And then figuring out what tools will work for them to start to raise their consciousness. And live an awakened life and move those feelings up that scale of consciousness. So that you can live with more grace, ease, and joy, and less pain and struggle.

Because life is meant to be enjoyed. And so what spirit is always saying is, heaven is here, right here, right now. It’s a state of being if you choose it. And we choose it through our feelings. Right? And so I hope people walk away feeling just a little bit better, more hopeful, and remembering that they’re not alone.

I know I’ve heard you speak to this. We know we have a higher consciousness. We have a team in spirit available to comfort us, hold our hands, support us to do this work.

GABBY: We can live in this world, but think with the thoughts of heaven.

REBECCA: Exactly

GABBY: Rebecca Rosen. I love it. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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