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Have you ever had a gut feeling so strong you just knew it was a message? Or a “coincidence” so perfect it felt like a wink from the Universe? We talk about these spiritual connections all the time, but today, I’m bringing you the scientific proof that they are real.

I am so honored to share this live conversation with my dear friend, Dr. Lisa Miller. Lisa is a brilliant neuroscientist from Columbia University who has dedicated her career to researching the “Awakened Brain.” She has found that spirituality isn’t just a nice idea—it’s a biological necessity that helps us recover from depression, build resilience, and manifest our desires.

In this episode, we dive deep into the neuroscience of intuition and why “forcing” a manifestation actually shuts down the very parts of your brain needed to receive miracles. We explore how to move from the “red door” of struggle and control to the “yellow door” of divine flow.

You’ll learn:

  • The Bonding Circuit: Why your brain is hardwired to perceive the Universe as a loving, protective parent.
  • The Science of Letting Go: How shifting your attention networks allows the brain to see opportunities you would otherwise miss.
  • The 3 Spiritual Bridges: Why “sophomore slumps” and “midlife crises” are actually biological signals for a spiritual upleveling.
  • Hosting Your Council: A 90-second practice to connect with your higher self and spiritual guides in real-time.
  • The “Yellow Door” Method: How to stop head-butting obstacles and start allowing what is meant for you to find you.

Lisa and I even share an incredible moment where we integrate Internal Family Systems (IFS) with neuroscience to heal the protective parts of ourselves that feel attacked or unworthy.

If you’ve been waiting for a sign that you are on the right path, this is it. Spiritual connection isn’t a gift for the chosen few—it’s a biological capacity hardwired into your very DNA.

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This podcast is intended to educate, inspire, and support you on your personal journey towards inner peace. I am not a psychologist or a medical doctor and do not offer any professional health or medical advice. If you are suffering from any psychological or medical conditions, please seek help from a qualified health professional.

dear gabby #301 Jan 26, 2026 spiritual connection

loved, guided & never alone: a neuroscientist explains spirit guides & awakening | gabby bernstein & dr. lisa miller

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Hey there. Welcome to Dear Gabby. I'm your host Gabby Bernstein, and if you landed here, it is absolutely no accident. It means that you're ready to feel good and manifest a life beyond your wildest dreams. Let's get started. 

Welcome back to Dear Gabby, my friends. Today's episode's something really, really special.
It's actually a live conversation that I did in a room at the Eudemonia Summit, and I did it with a brilliant Lisa Miller. She's a neuroscientist, she's a spiritual teacher. She's kind of like a spiritual witch like me, and we. Fell in love from the minute that we met. We literally fell in love, and we talked about spirituality and neuroscience.

This is gonna be one of the coolest topics I brought to you in a long time. I mean, you're gonna lose your mind. It's so freaking good and I can't wait for you to listen to it.[00:01:00] 

Have you ever felt a spiritual connection so deeply, you just knew it was real? That flash of intuition, that gut feeling, that sign from the universe, that was too perfect to be a coincidence. We talk about this connection all the time. We know in our hearts that we are guided and that we can co-create our reality.

But today we're gonna dive into the scientific proof behind it, which I'm so excited because I'm now here with my beautiful new friend, Dr. Lisa Miller. She is a neuroscientist from Columbia University who spirituality under an MRI scanner, and found that a spiritual life literally changes the structure of our brain for the better, which I can testify to.

Lisa Miller is a New York Times bestselling author of The Awakened Brain, and as I mentioned, a professor at Columbia University and her research is, in my opinion, the most important work being done today to bridge the gap between science and spirit. Lisa's gonna be here to explain the science behind why forcing a manifestation fails, why letting go actually [00:02:00] works, and she's gonna give us neuroscience of intuition, and she's gonna provide us with proof that we are all quite literally wired for miracles.

This is my conversation with my new friend Lisa Miller. Welcome. I'm so excited. Gabrielle 
Lisa made a really great suggestion, which was both of us like to lead with practice because the practice can then give you the experience, which can then help lock in the understanding. And so I'd like to, just before we get into the dialogue, I wanna have the spiritual experience.

I'm gonna invite you into a 92nd practice, and once you've established this space, you are welcome to return to this inner space anytime you want. It's called hosting your council. I invite you to clear out your inner space with five breaths. If you wish. Close your eyes. I'm gonna close mine. And in your inner chamber, I invite [00:03:00] you to set before you a table.

This is your table. And to your table, you may invite anyone living or deceased who truly has your best interest in mind. Anyone living or deceased who truly has your best interest in mind. And with them all sitting there, ask them if they love you. Ask them if they love you. Now you may invite your higher self, the part of you that is so much more than anything you may have or not have, anything you may have done or not done your true, eternal, higher self and ask you if you love you.

And now finally, you may invite your [00:04:00] higher power, whatever your word, however you know God, the universe, your higher power, and ask if they love you. And now, with all of these people sitting here right now, what do they need to share? What do they need to tell you now? What do you need to know? When you're ready, I invite you back.

This is your counsel and they always are there for you. Who shows up? May change depending on where we are in our journey, and we can ask counsel, what is on our heart? Those who truly have your best interest in mind, your higher self, your higher power. These are transcendent relationships. We are built to be in an authentic lived relationship with everyone in council.

We are designed for [00:05:00] transcendent relationship and it is real. We sat down and Lisa saw me, you know, and you feel so seen, and she said, your courage is faith. And I looked at her and I was like, yeah, yes, friend. Yes. The ability to stand in the seat and the truth of what you know to be real, or the vulnerability and the authenticity of who you believe you are, and to be in the service of the divine, to speak for a God of your own understanding only can come from the courage that comes from true faith.

And. What we just experienced just now with our team, our, what do you call them?  Council? The council. So do you wanna know who my council is? Yes. 

So Dr. Wayne Dyer, my late mentor and dear friend Louise Hay, my late mentor and dear friend who I with all the time, my grandmother. And those are the deceased.

And then my vice president of brand who has been [00:06:00] working with me for 12 years and who I believe her soul and my soul have a contract to come together to do this work that I won't do it without her. And so that was my council. And they kept saying, strap on your seatbelt, Gabby. We got stuff happening here.

And it's like they kept being like, it's time to rise up. It's time to rise up. It's time to rise up. First of all, how cool that we have a teacher of neuroscience, Columbia University, talking to us about our spirit guide.

That is your awakened brain, right? So the science is a lens, it's a witness. And what is so awesome and jaw dropping is that this is how we are made.

So who here felt loved? Every single person felt loved, who here felt guided that there was a message delivered or a sense, some affirmation, or knowing who felt that, knowing that counsel is real. And you are built to be awakened to your counsel every day. You will never be alone. [00:07:00] 

You are loved, you are guided. You are never alone. That is your birthright. To know that you are built with your awakened brain to see into the deeper nature of life, the force who I call God, we use your word, the universe. That force, of course, is real. And so every day of our lives, we have the opportunity to be in a lived, vibrant, daily relationship with force.

And I call that faith. Yep. Yep. The courage of faith is that knowing that you are loved, guided, and never alone, that knowing is where we come from and then we forget. The work of a spiritual student is to unlearn the fears of this world to remember. We are loved, guided, and never alone. We're here on that.

I wanna dive in with a big question [00:08:00] I've been channeling my whole life. I've always felt spirit physically, like my, if you can see, my left hand is numb right now. So I'm channeling in this moment because I've chosen to, because it's with you. Your guides are here. My guides are here. Your guides are here.

I feel this container in this room that's very safe, and so I'm deciding to open up. So my left hand goes numb, so that's a cue for me that I'm channeling. Sometimes I'll hold the energy with this hand and then I can hear just an inner knowing, a sense of guided direction, a sense of wisdom that says yes.
That's why I often feel that I can have words that may not be my own. What's happening in my brain, what is happening in your brain are three things. The bonding network, which is the same bonding network engaged when we're babies in the arms of our caretakers, your parents, but says, no, not just believe, but perceive that we are loved and we are held, we are cradled.

So the bonding network of the brain is where, so the bonding network is [00:09:00] the frontal temporal network. It's the circuit, right? And it lets us perceive that sense, you know, in the worst moment we don't fall through an abyss. When everything outwardly falls apart, we're caught. That is our capacity to perceive the universe, who I call God, catching us.

As you're caught when you're four and you're in a tree, your parents pull you out. You are guided. So the message that came true, that felt sense that came through in your council, that direction, that is a shift in your attention network. I've gotta have it. This is what I wanted. Here's what I had planned.

I'm gonna aid him or her. I'm going to go to this school. I want this job. That's the apriori plan. Our big vision is often based on archival information. Things I wanted when I was seven. I wanted to be a cheerleader, that things I wanted, that I was told were valuable. [00:10:00] But where you're going, when you shift from, I've gotta a habit it to what is life showing me now?

Ventral attention network has information that has yet to unfold before us. It's a shift from, I've gotta a habit it to what is life showing me now? The dorsal to ventral attention network. 

And so when we make the shift from, I've gotta have it to, what's life showing me? What's God showing me is that shift? Available to us when we activate the bonding circuit, when we use our awakened brain. 

Yes.  This all happens at once.  At at once, right. They train together. We know that we're the council, that we're loved, and in this holding loving consciousness field, the universe. Yep. Yep. 

There is inherent information and guidance.The bonding network that is the same. Activation in the brain that we feel when our mother holds us and we feel [00:11:00] safe. Is that correct? Yes, exactly. But that's the same network that can be activated when we're with our counsel and Exactly. As we sat with council, the bonding network came on. Yep. And so too, as we sat with council, came on a shift in our attention network.

Two, what does council need to let you know? What do your transcendent relationships. Yep. God, your ancestors. Yep. Tell you now, right? Yeah. And the third was the parietal region. That is so beautiful. You'll love this, Gabrielle. It puts in and out hard boundaries so that you know you're sitting here and I'm sitting here, and I might be from Dallas and you might be from St.Louis or New York. It doesn't matter because while we are a point, we are also a wave.

While we are distinct, we're also part of the oneness. So who here has felt that sense of oneness at some moment of all life? Yes. That is our capacity to perceive the deep unit of reality at the same time that we've come in this life as Gabrielle.

Mm-hmm. Or as Lisa. So loved held bonding [00:12:00] network, guided shift from dorsal to ventral attention, never alone. The parietal putting in and out heart boundaries. We're all tracking right. Totally,  and it's probably likely, I don't know how many of you came in with a spiritual knowing, but not with the brain awareness, like knowing that this is my experience in life.

I know I'm being guided. I know I'm loved, I know I'm never alone, or even I know there's a tinge of that and I want more of that. So you have that. That's why you're here. You came to Gabrielle Bernstein, then Lisa Miller is here. And we're getting this, like I've lived for 46 years with this love knowing and never alone, but never really understood what was happening in the brain until I read this book and really began this dialogue with you.

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Dear Gabby, after you purchase, they'll ask where you heard about them. Please support our show and tell them we sent you.While we are, I believe in my knowing spirits having a human experience, that we are souls. We've sat at a table like this before we came in and we said, what am I gonna learn? What do I wanna learn this time? Beautiful. And in that learning, what am I gonna remember? And in that remembering, what am I gonna teach and what am I gonna deliver?

And those of us who end up in rooms like this. Sign that sacred contract in a big way. Okay? And many people may not have the remembering part, okay? The human experience is also part of this. It's very easy on a spiritual path to leave behind the human experience. And that's where you, my sister, come in, I'll tell you a cool story and then I want you to unpack this, okay?

This is what I want you to unpack from a neuroscience perspective, but also just loved, guided and never alone. Okay? So Grammy died, she fell, she had an injury. She [00:17:00] was either gonna live with a lot of pain or she was gonna hopefully pass. And weeks have been going by with a lot of pain, and I was leading a workshop at Kripalu, and I'm there and I'm late, but I sit down for some reason, I said to my team, I need to go meditate.

I don't know why, but I gotta go sit. I'm in my bedroom. My hands go up and I see this light. It's almost like I feel like I'm sending someone off. Seconds later, my husband's knocking at the door. Your mom's on the phone. Your grandmother just passed. I said, oh, I know. I helped her like I was helping her.

And then they say, Grammy, show me a sign. That you are good. Like let me know a week goes by. No sign because I was busy. Whatever. We're busy, we don't get the signs. I wanna talk about that. And so I come and I sit down finally with a girlfriend and she says, Gabby, before you leave my house, I want you to pull this card from this tarot deck.

I really want you to pull this card. And I was like, I'm busy. I gotta text my husband, find out what's for dinner. Gabby, I really want you to pull this cart. Okay? Okay, fine. I pull the cart. It's an image of an elderly woman crossing a bridge and underneath it says, grandmother [00:18:00] ensures safe crossing. Unpack that baby.

Beautiful. Unpack that. Yeah. Beautiful. So what's primary in the world? Is it the material reality or is it sacred consciousness that can at times take the form of the material reality? 

It's sacred, right? Just that. Exactly. Yeah, exactly. This is a view of reality that is absolutely aligned with the beautiful, profound story of your relationship with your grandmother.

Right. We are expressions of sacred consciousness. You could use the word spirit, use whatever frame of reality is yours. This vision then of who we are, we are extensions. We are part of consciousness like the ray of the sun, and yet in dialogue with consciousness, a dialectic, and every day we are raised of consciousness in relationship to consciousness.

The story you told is very similar [00:19:00] to a story I experienced when I conceived. Sure. In light. Yep. So at the edges of life and death, have you felt more attuned to the sacred consciousness just now? 

So then who are we for each other and as fellow rays of the sun? I would call us ambassadors. I would say that we are trail angels.

May we do another practice? Yes, please. Okay. This practice involves you as a trail angel, but also you as a journeyer. Again, this is a 92nd practice in the language of life. I invite you to locate a time where you wanted something so badly. You wanted that job, that opportunity, Kim or her or them to say yes, and you did everything right.

A plus B plus C. Strategically, you researched it. A plus B plus C. That red door was yours. You [00:20:00] go for your red door, you grab the handle, but it's stuck. It makes no sense. You've done everything right tactically, strategically, you've kicked the door. You're stunned. Maybe even so disappointed, depressed. Only because that red door stuck.

You have no choice. You pivot, you pivot thirty, sixty, a hundred and twenty degrees, and over there is a wide open sparkling yellow door. You've never heard of yellow doors. You may have not known they exist. On the other side of the yellow door is someone who makes you feel worthy. Is a job that makes you feel alive is a mentor who sees you beyond.

You've ever known yourself. That yellow door was not what you had wanted. It was far better and better for you. And as you sit back now and you think of the stuck red door and the hairpin turn taking you to [00:21:00] the wide open yellow door, was there anyone there at the hairpin turn? Pointing the way to the yellow door, giving you direction.

It could have been someone you met for two minutes at the coffee shop. It could have been a mentor, a counselor, a guide, a grandparent who for the first time told you a story. A trail angel. A trail angel, pointing you to the wide open yellow door that has everything to do with who you are and where you are today.

And finally as you sit way back, stuck red door hairpin turned trail Angel in wide open yellow door. How are the most cherished profound parts of our lives found? Is it narrowly through hard work and planning? Of course, we have to do our part, but are we less ultimately makers of our path and we're [00:22:00] discoverers of our journey?

Hmm. Have you been on a spiritual path all along? And where in your path is your higher power? Is your higher power in the wide open yellow door and the stuck red door is your higher power God, the force in the trail angel and your capacity to be an open system in dialogue with. God, the deepest force through life.

I welcome you back. Where in your road of life is God? A force is your higher power in the open yellow door, and the stuck red door is your higher power in the trail angel and your ability to be an open system in dialogue with the deepest force of life. [00:23:00] We've just been speaking of the sacred consciousness field.

You might use the word spirit that is in us, through us and among us. We are built to be an open system in dialogue with the deepest force of life. The sacred force of life. 

Do I call God? And then we detour. There's a beautiful message from the text, of course, in miracles, the dissent from magnitude into littleness and the detour into fear.

And so as we detour into fear, we choose the red door. Is that what you're saying? Even when it's stuck. Even when it's stuck, we're banging on that red door. Yeah. Head  butting the red door. 

Head butting the red door, which creates resistance. This brings us actually to this conversation around people wanting to co-create in their life.

But I think a lot of times we walk around thinking we create, right? Yeah. It's my will, it's my way. The more I do, the more I push, the more I bang and headbutt that red [00:24:00] door, then I can get through it. But the living with courageous faith is knowing that no matter how hard I butt my head there, if it's not meant for me, it will not find me.

And I must just enter that yellow door and be guided, loved, and know I'm never alone. And the yellow door's out there. And the yellow door is, is actually the natural door. I would even say suffering and depression and suffer stuck on the red door. 

yes. We've just been going to the other one. Right. So how different would your life be if you were leaning, if you were walking towards that yellow door with courage?

I would even say suffering and depression. And suffer. Stuck on the red door? Yes. Suffering, depression is stuck in the red door. Yes. 

Okay. So Lisa. You say that depression can actually be a knock at the door for a spiritual awakening?  

Suffering depression is often when we have blinders on and don't feel and know the presence of the transcendent relationships immediately before [00:25:00] us.

When I as an apriori planner. Want my red door, and I want that red door so badly that I'm gonna kick it and I'm gonna rattle it and I'm gonna say, Hey, what could I do differently? What strategically, tactically have I done wrong? What if I'd said it this way? What if I try again? And that is a gift. It is an announcement that there's a yellow door out there for you.

There's a shift in a way of being towards opening to the deeper force of life. Towards going from closed system. I planned it archivally based on everything I knew from today backwards, that red door and I to ah, what is life showing me now? What does God reveal to me now? What is my higher power say?

That is a pathway out of depression because many depressions, about two thirds, not every two thirds of [00:26:00] depressions are developmental depressions. They are awakening emerging. So I have lived with mental illness, undiagnosed anxiety disorders. I've experienced extreme postpartum depression, which also now I understand was perimenopause as well.

'cause I was birthing at 39. So I am having a biochemical condition, but I'm also having a repressed trauma condition. And so there's a lot of things unpacking there. So when we're having a biochemical condition in that depression, how much is that the blinders on versus the chemistry in the brain? 
Right. It's very, very important because about one third of the time, it is the chemistry in the brain. 

Yes. Right. Okay.  But whether or not, but it also could be impacted by the blinders as well. Exactly, yes. Okay, got it. Exactly. So whether or not I'm running a chemistry in the brain. Yes. Right? Yes. Which can very often be a medication.

Effectively, yes. But from other practice. There is also for every human journey, the developmental depression, which is banging on the red door as a sign that there is [00:27:00] a yellow door for us. That there is a time to open to the road of life to feel and know that we are loved. To widen the lens and see the light that we're guided, and to know that everyone who shows up counts and you count.

A trail postpartum. I am going into this extreme depression, insomnia, anxiety, agoraphobia. Didn't know what was going on, but I'd been brought up homeopathic. I'd never fulfilled a prescription in my life. I only took little pellets, right? And I did. Was throwing every spiritual practice, every medium, every acupuncture, every herb at this problem.

But what my brain needed was probably progesterone and estrogen, which I didn't get to, but it needed it in that moment. It needed a antidepressant. Okay, so this is something that I think God gave me this gift, this gift of this horrific experience. Why? Because sometimes I believe God works through the doctors.

I believe God works through the medication. And I think that there are times in life that these [00:28:00] medications can actually be seen as symbols of support, right? A support system. And for me, I just wanna speak for this because when we're talking about the brain and we're talking about depression and anxiety and mental illness.

We are in that, what was it, a third you said, or a third. A third of the time we're in a biochemical condition that the actual experience of taking the medicine, whatever it might be, is actually also creating a safer baseline for you to walk through the yellow door potentiate and move ahead. Yes. 

Yes. In the spiritual space is not in your space, but in spiritual spaces, and I know I did this, Lisa.
Was probably for decades shaming mental illness unconsciously, because people would come to me and say, I'm deeply depressed. And I'd say, try this meditation. And when you're telling somebody that has a biochemical condition, try this meditation. That's like saying, go yourself. Right. Excuse my language, but you know what I'm saying?

Because in that moment I understand that now. And I know God said, we need you to know what mental illness is, Gabby, so that you can speak for this. And now there's the other side of [00:29:00] that, which is that I'm just gonna numb it out and I'm not gonna walk through the yellow door. So if you're gonna take the pill, also walk through the yellow door, but it'd be a vehicle.

And that's very important because very often many providers will offer a pill, but not the journey through the, the majority of the time, the majority of time, the awakening, right? The yellow door is just another passage in your narrative, but the soul's journey. A deep walk in life is one of awakening, and we awaken again and again.

May I ask a question? Yes. Who here felt an emerging adulthoods, say at 19? It's often called sophomore slump. A sense of what is the point of this all? 

Yeah. Existential crisis.  Existential a hundred thousand percent, right? Existential crisis. And is there a to it all? What if there's not? That's a chilly wondering, right?

That's hardwired. Just as we have growth spurts physically and cognitively, we have growth spurts spiritually, a hundred percent. We are naturally spiritual beams, and that is the first of three bridges, an awakening in [00:30:00] emerging adulthood, the developmental depression. What is the point? And who am I on earth?

And who are you and is love real? The first time we got our heart broken? It's very easy to ask. Is love real? Wait a minute, if love's not real, is anything real? That's the existential crisis of the heart, and through it is the opportunity to gently open, feel the light, start to feel the guidance, and know that that guidance is real.

Know that the love built into life itself, the golden tread is real. This comes back in midlife from what is my meaning and purpose, to am I living my meaning and purpose? Hmm. How am I treating my family, the people with whom I work? Right? And finally the elegant ascension to elderhood. It comes back again.

There are three bridges. They're hardwired and we have really cheap names for them. Sophomore slump, midlife crisis. It is not about Ferraris, right? It is about an expansion [00:31:00] where the not a good enough feeling that I might have at midlife. Uh, it's not that my spouse isn't good enough. It's not that my job isn't good enough.

It's that yesterday my way of being was okay. I'm being called to a bigger way of being an expanded capacity to perceive the deeper nature of life that requires a growth. So Gabrielle is on the other side of that spiritual growth moment. I'm 46 years old, and the last year I've been really having a reckoning of where I am and feeling like I'm not for the first time ever, like.

Am I fulfilling what I need to be fulfilling fully? Am I good enough? Like this is conversations that my, that's hardwired. That's hardwired. It's hardwired. Hardwired in a specific moment in life. Yes, in a middle aged moment of life, yes. 

Am I really fulfilling this life that I'm here to fulfill? And then [00:32:00] right here, right now, today, when I announce that I'm Gabrielle, I'm telling you I am ready to fulfill it.
That's the other side of that reckoning, is that correct? This is the expansion. Yeah. 

Right In your deepest seat of being in your non narcissistic sacred power. Yes, yes. It's so much more fun right here. It's extraordinary and it's so exciting. To be able to feel the sensation of almost like these invisible wings behind you, like these angel wings behind you.

And throughout my life, I've felt it in moments. I felt it on stage or I felt it when I'm writing or I felt it, but I wanna live in that. Another message from of courts of miracles, there's a way of living in the world that is not here, though it seems to be. And you do not change appearance, but you smile more frequently and your eyes are soft and your forehead is serene.

So it is a complete ego death of the first half of life, and it is an awakening to something so much more grand and so full of [00:33:00] inspiration and promise, which is the expanded Gabrielle, but deeper perception of being loved, held, guided, and never alone. And in your vision, Gabrielle, and in that which you've always walked to show up for others as the trail angel.

Mm-hmm. To be loving. Guiding and never leave anyone alone. Both are forms. They both use the awakened brain to be loving, to be guiding and never leave anyone alone. I call that prayer in action. I call that the deepest form of the sacred walk. And in the second half of life, that is the walk that. Is what we are being prepared to offer into the world.

Yeah, we are made so much more Developmental. Depression does not shrink us. It is the banging at the door. It is a good sign. Hey, I'm feeling not enoughness. Hey, I'm feeling that without ness. That is a good sign. I'm lost. And without bearings, there's an awakening on the horizon for [00:34:00] expanding a more inspired life.

I don't mean doormat, I mean love. Right? 

And, and, and in that work, in IFS work, internal family systems therapy, we would talk about that as self, right? Self and awakened brain, and God, and higher power. It's all the same thing. And in that self energy, it's being able to be more of the witness and to be able to not feel the effect of the thing that otherwise would've triggered us for so long.

Real. I have an idea. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So I've been listening and enjoying and really appreciate your internal family systems work.  Yeah. Putting that into the center of society and I had a thought. 

Which is perhaps, could we bring one of our parts as you put it? Yeah. Right. Perhaps one of the most pressing at the moment.Yep. 

Let's do it. Would you help people locate apart and then I'll do the council Done work together. So just a little brief awareness. When we speak of [00:35:00] parts, we're speaking of aspects of ourselves. We have lots of different parts inside of us. They're young, they've been around for as long as we can remember.

We might call them controlling, we might call them people pleasing. We might call them addicts. We might have lots of different names for these protection mechanisms. Is anybody familiar with these protection mechanisms in their life? Is anybody familiar with one that you have that's kind of always around and every day you're like, oh, why did I do that?

People pleasing again, or Why did I fall back into that feeling of being inadequate? We know who they are. We're gonna bring that part to our council today, so let's shut me, close our eyes, making sure that it's a part of us. That's more of a day-to-day protection mechanism, which is what we call managers.
We're not going to the traumatized little children inside of us today for the sake and the safety of this room. We're gonna go to a part that's just around, and it's managing our life. It's a controller, it's a ranger, it's a part of us that wants to be perfect. 

And let's just gently [00:36:00] check in inside focusing your attention inward towards that part, and just take a moment to just tap into where you feel that in your body.

Give it a little breath. Ask a few questions with curiosity. What do you know about this part of you? Are there any thoughts or images, an image of who they are? An image, an image or sensation? When you have a little bit of access to that part, just gently place your hand on your heart and breathe a little bit more.

Into that part, and as we prepare to introduce this part to our council, gently ask the part, what do you need? We'll, let Lisa introduce [00:37:00] this part to the council. What do you need?

And now I invite you. As you're in your inner chamber to set before you, your table to your table, you may invite all those who truly have your best interest in mind and ask them if they love you living or deceased. Ask them if they love you, and now you may invite your higher self Are more than anything you have or do. Your eternal higher self and ask you if you love him.

And now finally, your higher power God, the universe, however you know your higher power, and ask if they love you. Ask if they love you. And with all of those people sitting there right now, [00:38:00] introduce now to your protector, your part. Introduce them to reduce broad before then
how it feels, and perhaps the image.

And ask what say you, what say you, what might they share? What might they tell you Now, the divine message. You're ready. I invite you back.

They invited my part to pure light. Yeah. And release of judgment and ego. So Gabrielle, I had an image. Yeah. Which was my protective. I've been attacked for my past. Hmm. Often in my life. The image for me is that I've put my hand out here. I've gotten attacked a lot in my journey. 

And [00:39:00] so I've had a handout. And what council showed me is to bring it back and a delight from within in all of us.  Hmm. 

God's light. Yep. Infinite light is beyond protective, so the practice is meeting the council regularly. You can go to council at any moment. If you're at a horrible meeting and you don't wanna say something you don't wanna say, you can step out for a moment and go to council.

Everything is reshuffled. The meaning that speaks to a deeper, wiser part of ourselves. The sacred response, the strife, conflict, suffering to the fractured heart, yeah, is right there for you. The more we develop that relationship and that trust in self, the courage begins to emerge naturally because self-energy is courage and that faith.

Delivers you that courage. You are born spiritual. You already are [00:40:00] spiritual, and every moment, particularly the tough ones, are an invitation to awaken your birthright to the real divinity thread through life to God's ultimate presence. 

Let's close this out gently close your eyes, calling on the guidance of the highest truth and compassion or counsel Self. Self with a capital S welcoming in this presence. Now to hold us in this conversation to awaken our brain in this moment to the consciousness of walking through that yellow door and trying a little experiment today of consciously choosing that door. Knowing as long as we're walking through that door, we are loved, divinely guided, protected, [00:41:00] and directed.

Holding the energy in this room that was created today, all the beautiful. Council that came here together to bring you into this room at this time, in this moment. And we invite this council to knock on the door regularly and to give us little gentle reminders to tune back in and to give us little winks from the universe to remind us that we are divinely guided, loved, and protected, to give us direction and a sense of knowing and safety inside.

Today we invite this council to protect us with a golden shield of of light. That's what's meant for me, will find me and what is not mine will be removed, and that I can call back to me any energy I may have lost and I can release any energy I may have picked up. And in this moment right now, I'm walking through the yellow door and allowing myself and my day to be divinely guided, loved, and protected and directed, and take a deep breath in.[00:42:00] 

Allow yourself to be in the presence of that energy for a moment, letting it go and smile on the inside. Allowing that courage of your faith to guide you today and know that we love you. Oh yes. Take one last deep breath in and let it go. Lisa can leave us with a last word. You are trail angels.

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