1
00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,480
Speaker 1: And you're here. Thanks for choosing the iHeartRadio and Coast

2
00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:06,760
Speaker 1: to Ghost Day and Paranormal Podcast Network. Your quest for

3
00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:10,640
Speaker 1: podcasts of the paranormal, supernatural, and the unexplained ends here.

4
00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:13,520
Speaker 1: They invite you to enjoy all our shows we have

5
00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:16,440
Speaker 1: on this network, and right now, let's start with Chase

6
00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:18,680
Speaker 1: of the Afterlife with Sandra Champlain.

7
00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:25,200
Speaker 2: Welcome to our podcast. Please be aware the thoughts and

8
00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:29,240
Speaker 2: opinions expressed by the host are their thoughts and opinions

9
00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:34,480
Speaker 2: only and do not reflect those of iHeartMedia, iHeartRadio, Coast

10
00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:38,960
Speaker 2: to Coast, AM employees of Premiere Networks, or their sponsors

11
00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:42,159
Speaker 2: and associates. We would like to encourage you to do

12
00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:45,840
Speaker 2: your own research and discover the subject matter for yourself.

13
00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:55,240
Speaker 3: Hi, I'm Sandra Champlain. For over twenty five years, I've

14
00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:58,320
Speaker 3: been on a journey to prove the existence of life

15
00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:03,040
Speaker 3: after death. Episode will discuss the reasons we now know

16
00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:07,039
Speaker 3: that our loved ones have survived physical debt, and.

17
00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:08,800
Speaker 2: So will we.

18
00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:12,480
Speaker 3: Welcome to Shades of the Afterlife. Today is a very

19
00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:17,160
Speaker 3: special episode because I turn one year older. Yes, today

20
00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:20,920
Speaker 3: is my yearly birthday episode, So would you join me

21
00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:26,120
Speaker 3: in celebrating my fifty nine years here on planet Earth.

22
00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:29,360
Speaker 3: I've got some good things in store. Before I get

23
00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:32,800
Speaker 3: deep into the episode, I figured something out that you

24
00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:36,240
Speaker 3: might want to know. Did you know you can listen

25
00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:41,840
Speaker 3: to Shades of the Afterlife from episode one forward. If

26
00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:45,520
Speaker 3: we watch any TV show on Netflix or Amazon Prime,

27
00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:49,160
Speaker 3: you would never consider going to the most recent episode

28
00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:51,640
Speaker 3: and then going backwards. No, we like to start at

29
00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:55,120
Speaker 3: the beginning. While Shades of the Afterlife is certainly something

30
00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:58,240
Speaker 3: that on every episode there's something good. I know many

31
00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:01,640
Speaker 3: people have requested, how do I start from the beginning,

32
00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:06,000
Speaker 3: So I've got some simple steps. Whether you listen on iHeartRadio,

33
00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:10,480
Speaker 3: Apple Podcasts, or Spotify or whatever app you use, you're

34
00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:13,000
Speaker 3: going to be able to find the same thing. Let's

35
00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:18,400
Speaker 3: go to the iHeartRadio app. Now you'll see just below

36
00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:21,760
Speaker 3: the episode an arrow going up and down. Just click

37
00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:25,280
Speaker 3: that and you can easily click most recent episodes first,

38
00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:29,720
Speaker 3: or oldest episodes first. If you're on Spotify, where it

39
00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:33,200
Speaker 3: says all episodes, just click sort and you can go

40
00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:37,240
Speaker 3: from oldest to newest or newest to oldest. And on

41
00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:42,360
Speaker 3: Apple Podcasts, just beneath the episode, you'll see episodes with

42
00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:45,760
Speaker 3: a little down arrow. If you click on that, you

43
00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:49,960
Speaker 3: can sort it oldest to newest. There's so much that

44
00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:52,480
Speaker 3: I have talked about in the last four and a

45
00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:56,840
Speaker 3: half years, and I don't want you to miss a thing. Also,

46
00:02:56,960 --> 00:03:00,200
Speaker 3: as my gift to you on my birthday episode, you

47
00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:03,560
Speaker 3: can always go to we Don't Die dot com. Go

48
00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:05,480
Speaker 3: to the bottom of the page and to your name

49
00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:08,440
Speaker 3: an email address. Not only will it give you a

50
00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:11,920
Speaker 3: free copy of my book, but there's some really good

51
00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:15,919
Speaker 3: bonus gifts that I think you will enjoy having one

52
00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:18,800
Speaker 3: of the PDF files in. There is a list of

53
00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:23,799
Speaker 3: shades of the Afterlife episodes, but broken down into different categories.

54
00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:27,680
Speaker 3: For instance, if you're someone who likes to learn about

55
00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:31,040
Speaker 3: near death experiences, it's a list and you can click

56
00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:34,840
Speaker 3: on the different episodes to listen to. If you're interested

57
00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:38,720
Speaker 3: in children and the afterlife, click on that. If you're

58
00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:43,800
Speaker 3: interested in trying your own experiments like electronic voice phenomena,

59
00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:48,480
Speaker 3: you can click on that, or deathbed visitations, or if

60
00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:51,520
Speaker 3: you're looking for ways to communicate with your own loved ones,

61
00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:56,160
Speaker 3: there's an area to click with things like automatic writing.

62
00:03:56,800 --> 00:04:01,720
Speaker 3: In past episodes, I've done some really nice visualizations that

63
00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:05,400
Speaker 3: are almost a hypnotic journey to slow your mind down

64
00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:08,680
Speaker 3: to be able to reconnect with your loved ones. There's

65
00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:12,760
Speaker 3: much to be discovered there on our episode today, there's

66
00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:14,960
Speaker 3: a few things I want to just share from my heart.

67
00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:17,960
Speaker 3: I want to tell you some stories of course, also

68
00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:21,719
Speaker 3: some things that help me stay plugged in, helping me

69
00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:26,000
Speaker 3: to remember that we're each soul's having a human experience

70
00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:30,120
Speaker 3: and that our life matters. Also at the end, my

71
00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:35,000
Speaker 3: dear friend Brian Smith, author and podcast host of Grief

72
00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:39,840
Speaker 3: to Growth podcast, has a simple strategy he uses every

73
00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:44,080
Speaker 3: day to get back into the driver's seat of life. Now,

74
00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:47,720
Speaker 3: when I say driver's seat, I'm sure you're fully aware

75
00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:50,600
Speaker 3: that we each have this little voice that's talking to

76
00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:54,799
Speaker 3: us non stop in our heads. Don't know about the voice.

77
00:04:55,080 --> 00:05:01,240
Speaker 3: Let me be quiet for just a second. Perhaps your

78
00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:04,480
Speaker 3: little voice said, what little voice? What is she talking about?

79
00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:07,359
Speaker 3: How long is she going to stay quiet? Well, that's

80
00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:10,640
Speaker 3: the voice. It's not our champion. Most of the time.

81
00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:14,960
Speaker 3: It's our inner critic, it's our inner skeptic. Everything that

82
00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:18,279
Speaker 3: we do gets filtered through that voice. Is it true?

83
00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:21,320
Speaker 3: Is it not true? Is this real? Is this fake?

84
00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:24,839
Speaker 3: That voice is not our champion? How do I know

85
00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:27,680
Speaker 3: that just wake up in the morning and look in

86
00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:30,640
Speaker 3: the mirror. What is the first thing that voice tells you?

87
00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:34,560
Speaker 3: For me, it picks out the gray hair, the extra pounds,

88
00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:38,400
Speaker 3: the wrinkles, will tell me I can't believe you're fifty

89
00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:42,159
Speaker 3: nine already. The voice is quick to want me to

90
00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:46,400
Speaker 3: worry about something, or have me procrastinate, or tell me

91
00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:49,680
Speaker 3: I'm not good enough or I'm not smart enough. This

92
00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:52,680
Speaker 3: is important when we talk about the afterlife, because I

93
00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:56,800
Speaker 3: think that voice is something that connects us to being human.

94
00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:01,240
Speaker 3: I call life the game of life, and I have

95
00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:03,799
Speaker 3: to be honest. And you know this all too well.

96
00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:09,159
Speaker 3: This game is painful. Yeah, there is some joy, absolutely,

97
00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:14,680
Speaker 3: but a lot of it is suffering, stressful, worries. Some

98
00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:19,480
Speaker 3: people say they're opportunities and adventures, but in the moment,

99
00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:23,120
Speaker 3: they may occur as struggles. The voice inside of our

100
00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:26,640
Speaker 3: head keeps us playing this game, and is there an

101
00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:30,320
Speaker 3: ultimate way to win this game? Well, we're all going

102
00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:33,240
Speaker 3: to win it because at some point we are going

103
00:06:33,279 --> 00:06:36,280
Speaker 3: to migrate to the unseen world. If this is your

104
00:06:36,279 --> 00:06:39,159
Speaker 3: first time listening to Shades, well you don't know about me.

105
00:06:39,279 --> 00:06:42,120
Speaker 3: It's been well over twenty five years that I've been

106
00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:46,440
Speaker 3: investigating the afterlife. We're here on episode two hundred and

107
00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:50,919
Speaker 3: thirty three. But my first podcast, doing only interviews with

108
00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:55,240
Speaker 3: great people about the afterlife, is called We Don't Die Radio,

109
00:06:55,800 --> 00:07:00,240
Speaker 3: and between the two podcasts, I now have well over

110
00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:04,720
Speaker 3: seven hundred hours of episodes. I am somebody who really

111
00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:08,039
Speaker 3: wants to deliver the best reasons to believe. But why

112
00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:13,240
Speaker 3: do I want to do that? Well, I've experienced grief firsthand,

113
00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:17,400
Speaker 3: and it sucks. It is the worst pain we humans

114
00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:20,000
Speaker 3: will feel. I know many that I'm speaking to right

115
00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:23,000
Speaker 3: now have a loved one who has passed and you're

116
00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:27,520
Speaker 3: desperately looking for reasons to believe. I always encourage you

117
00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:31,200
Speaker 3: to go on your own investigations. If you hear something

118
00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:35,239
Speaker 3: like automatic writing, get involved with it. Try it out.

119
00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:39,320
Speaker 3: Don't believe what I have to say, but experience your

120
00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:42,920
Speaker 3: own results to know how close your loved ones truly are.

121
00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:46,240
Speaker 3: There is a certain amount of trust saying, hey, this

122
00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:49,480
Speaker 3: fifty nine year old gal, well, she has over seven

123
00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:52,560
Speaker 3: hundred hours of episodes. She's given her life to this.

124
00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:56,800
Speaker 3: Maybe she knows something I don't know. Maybe there's some

125
00:07:56,880 --> 00:07:59,320
Speaker 3: journeys that I've been on that maybe you won't go

126
00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:04,520
Speaker 3: on but you'll find in the episode's really interesting topics

127
00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:09,000
Speaker 3: and reasons why you may be open to the afterlife. Now,

128
00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:11,040
Speaker 3: that little voice inside your head is going to be

129
00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:14,240
Speaker 3: very quick, very very quick to look at things from

130
00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:17,720
Speaker 3: a skeptical nature and to say that can't possibly be

131
00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:22,360
Speaker 3: We as human beings, I feel, are designed to forget

132
00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:24,920
Speaker 3: who we really are. How much fun would a game

133
00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:27,600
Speaker 3: be if we knew it was a game. But someday

134
00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:31,360
Speaker 3: we will all cross the finish line, our loved ones

135
00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:34,720
Speaker 3: who have played the game before us, We'll all be there.

136
00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:38,319
Speaker 3: It'll be like crossing the finish line at a marathon,

137
00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:42,760
Speaker 3: everybody jumping for joy, clapping and screaming. Our loved ones

138
00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:45,360
Speaker 3: will be there, our pets will be there in a

139
00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:48,640
Speaker 3: world that is so much similar to Planet Earth, only

140
00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:52,920
Speaker 3: a little cleaner and brighter and more colorful and more vibrant.

141
00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:55,960
Speaker 3: So as you listen to Shades of the Afterlife, or

142
00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:00,440
Speaker 3: any podcast or any book, we have to filter through

143
00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:05,280
Speaker 3: that skeptical mind. I ask that you're open to what if?

144
00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:09,200
Speaker 3: What if this is real? What if we are divine

145
00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:12,400
Speaker 3: souls having a human experience. If you look at your

146
00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:15,160
Speaker 3: hand right now, and yes, look at your hand, looks

147
00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:18,480
Speaker 3: pretty real, doesn't it. Well, on a quantum level, if

148
00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:22,599
Speaker 3: we go down through our cells and the molecules and

149
00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:26,240
Speaker 3: all the atoms that make us up as a human being,

150
00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:30,000
Speaker 3: did you know to our tiniest little piece, well, it's

151
00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:33,480
Speaker 3: not a piece at all. All we are is vibrating energy,

152
00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:38,719
Speaker 3: invisible vibrating energy, I might add, down to our tiniest

153
00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:46,040
Speaker 3: we are something called quarks qua rks, invisible vibrating strings

154
00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:49,559
Speaker 3: of energy that make us up. That's hard to believe

155
00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:53,600
Speaker 3: because everything we see, we can touch, we can feel.

156
00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:56,920
Speaker 3: But down to a quantum level, we are all made

157
00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:00,920
Speaker 3: up of energy. I like to remind my myself that

158
00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:04,480
Speaker 3: we are on a planet in an ever expanding universe

159
00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:08,480
Speaker 3: that we can't possibly get our minds around. Why I'm

160
00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:12,800
Speaker 3: telling you this is because thinking this way helps to

161
00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:16,600
Speaker 3: calm that skeptical mind that I have. Just say, hey,

162
00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:19,920
Speaker 3: you stay quiet for a little while. I'm going to listen.

163
00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:23,560
Speaker 3: What if I am a soul having a human experience.

164
00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:28,600
Speaker 3: What if everything I'm experiencing will help my soul on

165
00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:32,040
Speaker 3: my journey. Another tool that I use is just look

166
00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:37,600
Speaker 3: at everything around you. Just take a glance and think

167
00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:41,640
Speaker 3: about all of these things somehow came from planet Earth.

168
00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:47,160
Speaker 3: Our Earth being made of rock and dirt and plants

169
00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:51,640
Speaker 3: and water, and somehow we have electricity, We have computers

170
00:10:51,679 --> 00:10:55,000
Speaker 3: and iPhones. You may pay attention to what's happening in

171
00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:59,240
Speaker 3: space and the International Space Station, and it's easy to

172
00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:02,800
Speaker 3: get caught up. Wow, those people are so far out

173
00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:07,880
Speaker 3: in space. Well, don't forget you're in space right now. Two.

174
00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:10,680
Speaker 3: You just have gravity that is connecting you to the

175
00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:14,400
Speaker 3: home we call Earth. So as we go on in

176
00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:19,480
Speaker 3: our birthday episode today, I just ask you to consider

177
00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:24,120
Speaker 3: that you are so much more than that little voice

178
00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:28,000
Speaker 3: in your head tells you you are. You are a divine,

179
00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:32,640
Speaker 3: one of a kind, miraculous soul. The energy that makes

180
00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:36,920
Speaker 3: us up can also be manipulated to have wonderful things

181
00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,680
Speaker 3: happen in our life. We'll get to some of my

182
00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:44,440
Speaker 3: favorite tips and tricks during our episode today, along with

183
00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:47,559
Speaker 3: some of my top reasons for believing in the afterlife.

184
00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:50,400
Speaker 3: A big part of all that I do is to

185
00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:54,560
Speaker 3: remind you of who you really are. Theologian William shed said,

186
00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:57,560
Speaker 3: a ship in a harbor is safe, but that is

187
00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:00,800
Speaker 3: not what chips are built for. My friend, you are

188
00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:03,600
Speaker 3: the commander of your ship, and in the past you

189
00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:06,200
Speaker 3: may have felt all alone in your journey and that

190
00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:09,640
Speaker 3: you don't have the tools. Through Shades of the Afterlife

191
00:12:10,280 --> 00:12:14,160
Speaker 3: my book We Don't Die, a skeptics discovery of life

192
00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:17,680
Speaker 3: after death, which I call a handbook for being human,

193
00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:20,840
Speaker 3: I want to give you those tools on our birthday

194
00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:23,400
Speaker 3: episode today, I want to just give you some tools

195
00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:26,480
Speaker 3: to help remind you of who you are, how powerful

196
00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:29,559
Speaker 3: you are, that your loved ones are around you, that

197
00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:32,800
Speaker 3: your life matters, that you can create some really good

198
00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:35,520
Speaker 3: stuff in your life and have that ability to love

199
00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:39,440
Speaker 3: and to share. Mark Twain said, twenty years from now,

200
00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:42,080
Speaker 3: you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't

201
00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:45,080
Speaker 3: do than by the things you did do. So throw

202
00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:48,839
Speaker 3: off the bow lines, sail away from safe harbor, catch

203
00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:52,720
Speaker 3: the trade winds in your sales, explore, dream and discover.

204
00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:56,640
Speaker 3: Let's head off to the break and we'll discover together

205
00:12:56,840 --> 00:12:59,640
Speaker 3: when we get back. You're listening to Shades of the

206
00:12:59,679 --> 00:13:03,880
Speaker 3: after Life on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast am

207
00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:28,200
Speaker 3: Paranormal Podcast Network. Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife.

208
00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:31,280
Speaker 3: I'm Sandra Champlain and once a year I like to

209
00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:34,400
Speaker 3: do what I call is my Birthday episode. All that

210
00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:37,840
Speaker 3: really means is me speaking from the heart to you.

211
00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:41,800
Speaker 3: No interviews, not reading from books. I'm not telling other

212
00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:45,480
Speaker 3: people's signs from loved ones. It's just my stories and

213
00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:49,040
Speaker 3: again speaking from my heart. What I'd like to do

214
00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:51,800
Speaker 3: now is share with you some of my experiences that

215
00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:56,320
Speaker 3: brought me from hoping that there's an afterlife to really

216
00:13:56,480 --> 00:14:00,240
Speaker 3: believing and knowing there is. Some of the things that

217
00:14:00,559 --> 00:14:04,520
Speaker 3: started happening early in my journey was having psychic experiences.

218
00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:06,840
Speaker 3: Now you have to know I was the skeptic who

219
00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:09,559
Speaker 3: didn't believe in any of this, So when I started

220
00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:13,880
Speaker 3: having these weird experiences, I knew that there was more

221
00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:16,840
Speaker 3: to life than meets the eye. I had gotten a

222
00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:20,960
Speaker 3: deck of angel cards from a friend who believed in

223
00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:23,560
Speaker 3: this stuff, and I kind of laughed at her. But

224
00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:26,880
Speaker 3: I brought these angel cards with me to work, and

225
00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:29,360
Speaker 3: at the time, I was a chef catering for race

226
00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:32,480
Speaker 3: car teams. Every day I would pick out a card

227
00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:36,160
Speaker 3: just to say, Okay, Angels, what's my inspirational message for

228
00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:40,800
Speaker 3: the day, thinking that any card would apply to the situation. Right,

229
00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:44,600
Speaker 3: That's what we humans do, our skeptical voice says, But

230
00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:47,560
Speaker 3: for most of the days, I got the same exact

231
00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:51,360
Speaker 3: card and it said music. So what I decided to

232
00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:54,040
Speaker 3: do was have music playing in the kitchen as I cooked.

233
00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:57,720
Speaker 3: And the weirdest thing happened. I started knowing of the

234
00:14:57,800 --> 00:15:01,400
Speaker 3: songs that would come on the radio before they were played,

235
00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:05,360
Speaker 3: before the DJ even announced it. Sometimes the radio was

236
00:15:05,400 --> 00:15:07,280
Speaker 3: off and I'd hear a song in my mind and

237
00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:09,920
Speaker 3: as soon as I turned on the radio it was playing.

238
00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:12,640
Speaker 3: Then there would be times that the phone would ring

239
00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:16,000
Speaker 3: and I know exactly who was calling, even if it

240
00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:19,440
Speaker 3: was a telemarketer. I knew the name. I hailed a

241
00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:22,280
Speaker 3: cab once and in my mind I knew the cab

242
00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:26,120
Speaker 3: driver's name, and sure enough, that was the name. One

243
00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:30,200
Speaker 3: of the freakiest experiences early on was catering at the

244
00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:33,040
Speaker 3: races and we had a gal who was helping me

245
00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:36,320
Speaker 3: cook in the kitchen. She made a delicious fish recipe,

246
00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:39,640
Speaker 3: and earlier she told me that she was adopted, but

247
00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:42,280
Speaker 3: she had met her birth mom, and out of my mouth,

248
00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:45,240
Speaker 3: I said, well, which mom taught you the fish recipe?

249
00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:48,040
Speaker 3: And I named the two names, and she just looked

250
00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:51,080
Speaker 3: at me with that blank stare. She never told me

251
00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:53,800
Speaker 3: the names of her mom and her stepmom, and of

252
00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:58,440
Speaker 3: course both of them were deceased, so that stuff started happening. Well,

253
00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:02,000
Speaker 3: that very first experience that I took my own medium

254
00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:05,840
Speaker 3: class is I wanted this to be real, believing in

255
00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:09,560
Speaker 3: the afterlife, but it was still rather far fetched to me.

256
00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:13,200
Speaker 3: But I was investigating all this just to kind of

257
00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:16,560
Speaker 3: quench that fear of dying. And we were given very

258
00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:20,280
Speaker 3: basic instructions, and we were told that we weren't really

259
00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:22,200
Speaker 3: doing a medium reading. We were just going to do

260
00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:25,400
Speaker 3: like a trial run. And so with my eyes closed,

261
00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:27,920
Speaker 3: I was working with a nice lady and I simply

262
00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:32,960
Speaker 3: described who I thought that I made up standing behind her.

263
00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:35,920
Speaker 3: I knew her grandfather's name was Yon. He was a

264
00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:39,360
Speaker 3: fisherman in Denmark. He died of lung cancer. I described

265
00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:41,880
Speaker 3: him with blonde hair, blue eyes, that he had a

266
00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:45,120
Speaker 3: big gap between his front teeth, and that he never

267
00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:48,440
Speaker 3: told his daughter, which is this lady's mom, that he

268
00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:51,440
Speaker 3: loved her. And I thought I made it all up.

269
00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:54,080
Speaker 3: I simply opened my eyes for her to take her

270
00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:57,120
Speaker 3: turn to make up somebody behind me, and the lady

271
00:16:57,200 --> 00:17:01,440
Speaker 3: was crying. I got every detail correct about her grandfather.

272
00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:05,320
Speaker 3: Name was Jon Fisherman in Denmark died of cancer, never

273
00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:09,639
Speaker 3: said I love you. Those kind of experiences you can't

274
00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:12,840
Speaker 3: help but start thinking, there's so much more, and that

275
00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:17,840
Speaker 3: comfort of that fear started happening. I've had many other

276
00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:22,480
Speaker 3: medium experiences since then, so I always encourage people take

277
00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:26,200
Speaker 3: a class in mediumship and psychic abilities, just to see

278
00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:29,560
Speaker 3: how it works, because, my friend, we are all psychic.

279
00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:33,280
Speaker 3: We are all mediums, just like somebody learning to play piano.

280
00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:36,040
Speaker 3: Though there are people that are naturally gifted in it

281
00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:39,320
Speaker 3: and there's others that need to practice, practice, practice, But

282
00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:41,320
Speaker 3: that's one of the gifts we have. As far as

283
00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:45,959
Speaker 3: being human. We have this intuition, we have this gut instinct.

284
00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:51,040
Speaker 3: Electronic voice phenomena something I learned as well. There. I

285
00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:54,399
Speaker 3: was in a retreat center in upstate New York holding

286
00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:58,760
Speaker 3: a digital tape recorder after hearing a weekend full of

287
00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:02,879
Speaker 3: lectures and example of how the dead can manipulate sounds

288
00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:05,639
Speaker 3: within a recorder and put their voices on it. I

289
00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:10,960
Speaker 3: sat there in a cabin recording raindrops, talking to who

290
00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:15,120
Speaker 3: I thought was nobody, but pictured my grandmother, grandfather, aunt,

291
00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:17,360
Speaker 3: and uncle at the end of the bed, and I said,

292
00:18:17,359 --> 00:18:19,200
Speaker 3: if you guys are real and I'm supposed to help

293
00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:21,960
Speaker 3: people believe in the afterlife. I really need you to

294
00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:25,120
Speaker 3: talk loud and then I'll say goodnight. So I recorded

295
00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:27,639
Speaker 3: for just a minute and I said good night. And

296
00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:31,040
Speaker 3: when I played it back, somewhere around second number forty

297
00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:35,159
Speaker 3: six on the counter, it says good night, Sandra, and

298
00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:38,640
Speaker 3: a man's voice, two women whisper good night, good night,

299
00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:42,120
Speaker 3: and then another male voice saying good night. I went

300
00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:45,560
Speaker 3: on to doing hundreds and hundreds of these recordings, and

301
00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:48,920
Speaker 3: at this point I started doing them with other people.

302
00:18:49,119 --> 00:18:53,119
Speaker 3: Because I had the confidence that people could put their

303
00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:55,760
Speaker 3: voices on these recordings. I didn't have to rely on

304
00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:59,920
Speaker 3: my medium abilities, which I have to say were pretty poor.

305
00:19:00,359 --> 00:19:02,439
Speaker 3: Every time I was trying to be a medium and

306
00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:05,080
Speaker 3: trying to get it right, I would be wrong, which

307
00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:09,040
Speaker 3: goes to show we need to turn off that analytical

308
00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:11,920
Speaker 3: side of our brain and be okay with being wrong

309
00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:15,240
Speaker 3: and use our imagination and that's when it flows. I

310
00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:19,360
Speaker 3: had a great opportunity to go to a spirit artist.

311
00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:24,080
Speaker 3: Her name is Reverend Rita Berkowitz in Massachusetts. Even though

312
00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:26,720
Speaker 3: I believed in the afterlife. At this point, my dad

313
00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:30,119
Speaker 3: had just died and I so desperately wanted a reading

314
00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:35,240
Speaker 3: with someone I trusted. And not only did she describe

315
00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:39,600
Speaker 3: my dad and give me words from conversations a dad

316
00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:43,560
Speaker 3: and I had alone that not a single person could know.

317
00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:47,399
Speaker 3: She pulled out her notepad and she drew a picture

318
00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:50,440
Speaker 3: of my dad, similar to what he looked like when

319
00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:53,119
Speaker 3: he was in his twenties in the Air Force. I

320
00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:57,240
Speaker 3: really felt that she had my dad with her. Also,

321
00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:00,000
Speaker 3: a couple of years ago, you heard on an episode

322
00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:04,760
Speaker 3: my former boyfriend Michael passed. He drove himself right into

323
00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:08,320
Speaker 3: a telephone poll. It is thought he had a heart attack,

324
00:20:08,359 --> 00:20:11,760
Speaker 3: and that's what happened. But after he passed, even though

325
00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:14,240
Speaker 3: we had been broken up for a while, I was

326
00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:17,040
Speaker 3: still grieving. And there's a beautiful medium by the name

327
00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:20,000
Speaker 3: of Cath Shirley who her and her husband to run

328
00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:23,480
Speaker 3: our free grief cafes once a month, their mediums and

329
00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:27,399
Speaker 3: their grief specialists. But I did reading with her over zoom,

330
00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:31,919
Speaker 3: and there's no place that I've had posted pictures of Michael.

331
00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:37,720
Speaker 3: This lady certainly didn't know, and she delivered such wonderful evidence,

332
00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:41,119
Speaker 3: as if he was whispering all these things into her ear,

333
00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:45,040
Speaker 3: all these journeys we had been on together. I helped

334
00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:48,399
Speaker 3: him write two cartoon books. She knew about them. There

335
00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:51,080
Speaker 3: must have been forty pieces of evidence that I could

336
00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:54,000
Speaker 3: relate to, and it just felt like he was there,

337
00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:57,399
Speaker 3: in fact, a good medium reading. That's what happens is

338
00:20:57,440 --> 00:20:59,879
Speaker 3: you feel the joy and you feel like that person

339
00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:04,800
Speaker 3: right there, Sonya Andaldi the great researcher that we just

340
00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:10,720
Speaker 3: did a live event on Zoom with her latest experiments. Wow,

341
00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:13,840
Speaker 3: was that incredible. You can still find that on my website.

342
00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:16,920
Speaker 3: I had spoken to my dad in the afterlife and said,

343
00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:19,239
Speaker 3: if you want to find this lady in Brazil and

344
00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:22,240
Speaker 3: put a picture on her computer, I would love that.

345
00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,240
Speaker 3: And I don't know how he did it, but Sonia

346
00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:28,160
Speaker 3: sent me a list of what she calls the unknowns.

347
00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:31,560
Speaker 3: She has an unknown catalog, and lo and behold, there's

348
00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:35,359
Speaker 3: a picture of my dad looking very similar to again

349
00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:37,639
Speaker 3: those days when he was in the Air Force in

350
00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:41,359
Speaker 3: his twenties. We get to pick our best age. Don't

351
00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:44,080
Speaker 3: you love that? When we go to the other side.

352
00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:47,440
Speaker 3: Not too long after Michael died, I asked Sonya if

353
00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:51,680
Speaker 3: she might do an experiment, And now her experiments have changed.

354
00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:57,320
Speaker 3: She's using vapor steam and she'll ask a person for

355
00:21:57,480 --> 00:22:01,000
Speaker 3: one photo of their loved one, put all kinds of

356
00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:04,439
Speaker 3: steam around it, and she'll film the steam not in

357
00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:07,800
Speaker 3: front of the picture, but aside from it. She says,

358
00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:11,960
Speaker 3: those in the afterlife need to have the colors to rearrange,

359
00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:17,080
Speaker 3: and rearrange they do. She shows pictures of maybe working

360
00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:19,160
Speaker 3: with someone who had died when they were gray hair,

361
00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:23,480
Speaker 3: and lo and behold the photo that comes is them

362
00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:27,600
Speaker 3: younger with dark hair. And so in one of her experiments,

363
00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:31,040
Speaker 3: she brought through a whole bunch of different pictures of Michael.

364
00:22:31,359 --> 00:22:34,120
Speaker 3: So that made me happy. On one of our free

365
00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:38,160
Speaker 3: Sunday gatherings, medium Dominic Bogue, who didn't know me at

366
00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:41,920
Speaker 3: the time and nobody knew about Michael, he said, I

367
00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:45,800
Speaker 3: have a man here named Michael, showing me that he

368
00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:49,080
Speaker 3: drove right into a tree or a phone pole, saying

369
00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:52,400
Speaker 3: his girlfriend is in the audience, and also that your

370
00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:55,199
Speaker 3: father's name is John and he is with your father.

371
00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:58,720
Speaker 3: On the Sunday gathering, we have about two hundred people

372
00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:01,640
Speaker 3: from all over the world, and I always request from

373
00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:04,399
Speaker 3: the other side that let the reading go to the

374
00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:07,800
Speaker 3: person with the greatest need. And nobody raised their hand

375
00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:10,520
Speaker 3: to take this information. So I said, I can take

376
00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:13,720
Speaker 3: it all, and he gave even more information about Dad

377
00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:17,479
Speaker 3: and Michael and how they're together in the afterlife, and

378
00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:21,280
Speaker 3: that made me really happy. I've had some incredible dreams.

379
00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:24,160
Speaker 3: I have talked to you before about lucid dreaming how

380
00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:27,600
Speaker 3: to do that, and I've seen my dad. I've hugged him.

381
00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:31,280
Speaker 3: But not only that, he's talked to me. I can

382
00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:35,960
Speaker 3: remember my dad's voice. But in this dream, which I'm

383
00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:39,240
Speaker 3: convinced wasn't a dream, he spoke to me with clear

384
00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:42,720
Speaker 3: words and I could hear his voice. Also in this state,

385
00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:46,000
Speaker 3: I saw my grandmother. I called her Grammy. I only

386
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:49,239
Speaker 3: saw her face, but it came in with almost like

387
00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:53,000
Speaker 3: beautiful piano music, heavenly music, and she had a big

388
00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:55,919
Speaker 3: smile for me, looking younger than she did as I

389
00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:59,199
Speaker 3: remembered her, but oh so real. I was on a

390
00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:02,119
Speaker 3: cruise once and the cruise line paired me up with

391
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:05,480
Speaker 3: another single lady. I ended up telling her this medium

392
00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:07,960
Speaker 3: story of taking the class, and she says, who do

393
00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:09,800
Speaker 3: you see around me? Who do you see around me?

394
00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:12,320
Speaker 3: And I was so scared. I didn't want to do it,

395
00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:14,560
Speaker 3: and she says, who cares if you do it wrong?

396
00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:18,520
Speaker 3: You'll never see me again. So in my mind's eye,

397
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:21,640
Speaker 3: I saw these four people, which I thought were her grandparents,

398
00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:24,959
Speaker 3: and I gave her the names that I heard, and

399
00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,119
Speaker 3: the one name I couldn't get right. It sounded like

400
00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:32,880
Speaker 3: Meggie or Maggie. And she'd said to me med Jay,

401
00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:35,919
Speaker 3: that was the name of her grandmother. And then after that,

402
00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:39,520
Speaker 3: I saw a man with a tan showing off a

403
00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:43,600
Speaker 3: bright gold watch by the name of Rick or Ricky.

404
00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:46,000
Speaker 3: And she says, well, that's where you're wrong. I don't

405
00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:48,960
Speaker 3: know anybody like that. And after the cruise was over,

406
00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:52,480
Speaker 3: she called me crying. She said, while we were on

407
00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:55,639
Speaker 3: the cruise, her friend Rick died. She called him Ricky,

408
00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:58,879
Speaker 3: and she had given him that gold watch, proving that

409
00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:03,679
Speaker 3: he survived physical death. My how time goes by fast.

410
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:06,439
Speaker 3: As I'm sharing what I love. It is time for

411
00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:08,600
Speaker 3: a break, And when we get back, I'll tell you

412
00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:12,800
Speaker 3: a few more experiences that brought me from believing to knowing.

413
00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:15,359
Speaker 3: And I'll also let you know some of the tools

414
00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:19,359
Speaker 3: I use to remember that we are souls having a

415
00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:22,919
Speaker 3: human experience and that there is a much bigger picture.

416
00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:26,199
Speaker 3: So we'll be right back. You're listening to shades of

417
00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:30,240
Speaker 3: The Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM

418
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:55,720
Speaker 3: Paranormal Podcast Network. Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife.

419
00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:59,600
Speaker 3: I'm Sandra Champlain and we're celebrating my birthday this episode.

420
00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:05,000
Speaker 3: But another big anniversary this week is my parents. They

421
00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:09,000
Speaker 3: would have been married had they not gotten divorced sixty

422
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:13,240
Speaker 3: one years this week. My mom and dad met when

423
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:15,440
Speaker 3: they were in the Air Force. They got married when

424
00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:19,120
Speaker 3: Mom was just twenty two, Dad was twenty seven. Nine

425
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:22,080
Speaker 3: months later, they had my older brother and sister, which

426
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,840
Speaker 3: are twins. When Mom went in for her three month

427
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:28,720
Speaker 3: check up, she found out she was pregnant again. This

428
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:33,400
Speaker 3: baby unexpected, but this baby was me. Little did they

429
00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:36,960
Speaker 3: know that I would be with them in their later years.

430
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:40,119
Speaker 3: Of course, I was by my dad's side most of

431
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 3: his last five months on planet Earth, and no doubt

432
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,879
Speaker 3: he's by my side right now. And my dear mom

433
00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:49,879
Speaker 3: is going to turn eighty four in a couple of weeks,

434
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:53,280
Speaker 3: and she's in her bedroom not too far away from

435
00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:56,720
Speaker 3: me right now. I feel so grateful that I could

436
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:59,920
Speaker 3: spend time with my parents and be with my mom now.

437
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,480
Speaker 3: We sure do laugh a lot. You Know, what I've

438
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 3: noticed is as I'm recording this episode, I'm feeling good.

439
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:11,199
Speaker 3: That's one great thing that I have learned. When we

440
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 3: share what we love and we tell stories, we can't

441
00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 3: help but feel better. So that's just a little clue.

442
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:19,960
Speaker 3: If you're ever having a down day or you're with

443
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,600
Speaker 3: somebody in a bad mood, get them in a conversation

444
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 3: about whether it was a great vacation they had, or

445
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:29,560
Speaker 3: time they really laughed hard, or maybe when they met

446
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:32,959
Speaker 3: their significant other or had the birth of their first child,

447
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:37,760
Speaker 3: and see that person transform. Did you know that I'm

448
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:42,399
Speaker 3: not this peachy, rosy, happy, wonderful Sandra twenty four to seven,

449
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:46,720
Speaker 3: even though I've been investigating the afterlife this long. It

450
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 3: is part of our human DNA. I think to forget

451
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:54,640
Speaker 3: who we are. So I work hard. I'm busy, I'm

452
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:58,960
Speaker 3: with mom full time. I've got bills to pay, responsibilities.

453
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:03,320
Speaker 3: Sometimes I worry about getting things done. There's guilt that

454
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:08,280
Speaker 3: still sneaks in, there's procrastination, and I forget who I

455
00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 3: really am. I don't think we're meant to remember. I

456
00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:14,800
Speaker 3: said it before, I'll say it again, but we need

457
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 3: to be reminded of who we are. In a little while,

458
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:20,400
Speaker 3: I'll tell you some of my favorite tips and tricks

459
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:23,679
Speaker 3: to stay plugged in to the greater reality. But let

460
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:26,159
Speaker 3: me continue with some more things that have taken me

461
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:30,560
Speaker 3: from believing to knowing the reality of the afterlife. Although

462
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:34,480
Speaker 3: I personally have never had a near death experience, nor

463
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:37,359
Speaker 3: do I want one because it probably would involve pain,

464
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:42,840
Speaker 3: and I have not had a deathbed visitation, However, I

465
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 3: have interviewed enough people and talked to people that I've

466
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:49,800
Speaker 3: come across in my own life that have told the

467
00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:53,640
Speaker 3: same story over and over and over again that I

468
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 3: know we go on. Near death experiences are fascinating and

469
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 3: a shout out to my friend and Ramona. Anytime she

470
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:04,440
Speaker 3: hears a good story, she'll send it to me and

471
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:07,880
Speaker 3: I often share them with you after that. But there

472
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 3: are what's called verritical near death experiences, and these are

473
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 3: the experiences that can be verified when people float out

474
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 3: of their body and they witness things that happen elsewhere.

475
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,800
Speaker 3: Of course, ken Ring did fabulous studies after working with

476
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 3: doctor Raymond Moody, studying near death experiences in blind people

477
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 3: who could see for the very first time. I'll be

478
00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:38,040
Speaker 3: interviewing a fellow in a couple weeks time I think

479
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 3: who has just written a new book about these vertical

480
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 3: near death experiences, So I'm excited to share that with you.

481
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 3: But science has proven that near death experiences is not

482
00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:52,400
Speaker 3: our brains shutting down. I used to always think that

483
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:55,800
Speaker 3: the white lights, the tunnel feeling has to be our

484
00:29:55,840 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 3: brains shutting down. Nope, there's too much evidence that our

485
00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:05,400
Speaker 3: consciousness survives, and plenty of doctors and scientists are involved

486
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 3: with this. So to scroll back a few episodes and

487
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:13,400
Speaker 3: you'll hear more about that. Deathbed visions. Oh my gosh,

488
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:16,600
Speaker 3: I never get sick of hearing them. Friends, you can

489
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:21,800
Speaker 3: write me anytime with your stories of signs being with

490
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 3: a loved one when they passed, if you've had a

491
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:27,080
Speaker 3: near death experience or something different that tells you that

492
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:31,560
Speaker 3: the afterlife is real. Deathbed visions close to when we

493
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 3: pass and it could be within a month's time. Even

494
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:38,760
Speaker 3: people come to get us people meaning dead people, people

495
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:42,280
Speaker 3: that we knew, often at somebody we really love. It's

496
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 3: not uncommon for people to see their parents or brothers

497
00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:50,080
Speaker 3: or sisters if they had passed first, or friends, all

498
00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:54,640
Speaker 3: looking healthy and radiant, looking as clear to them as

499
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:58,000
Speaker 3: someone alive would look, and the message is the same,

500
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,640
Speaker 3: pack your bags, we're going on trip, so no one

501
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 3: dies alone. I am fascinated by the world of physical

502
00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 3: and trance mediumship. Physical mediumship is something very rare, and

503
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 3: also I'm convinced there are a lot of people that

504
00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 3: don't have integrity who say they are physical mediums. And

505
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 3: this is a case where you get a group of

506
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 3: say thirty people sitting in a dark room, holding hands,

507
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 3: singing songs, building up the energy and voices of loved

508
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:32,960
Speaker 3: ones seem to come out of the dark. This kind

509
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 3: of mediumship was in its heyday in the eighteen hundreds

510
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:39,680
Speaker 3: and early nineteen hundreds, but because of the Great Wars,

511
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 3: too many frauds came into the picture, claiming you could

512
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:47,600
Speaker 3: talk to your loved ones hold these seances, and people

513
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 3: were conned out of their money. Even though that form

514
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 3: of mediumship is no longer widely available on planet Earth,

515
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 3: I know people are still sitting for physical mediumship and

516
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:02,600
Speaker 3: what they call home services, but that gave rise to

517
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:05,960
Speaker 3: what we now have as evidential mediums. Those are the

518
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 3: mediums that you go to, Like I was talking to

519
00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 3: you about my experiences with mediums giving me verbal evidence

520
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 3: that my dad and Michael live On. Scott Milligan is

521
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 3: one of the rare physical mediums on planet Earth, and

522
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:25,800
Speaker 3: I have sat in his groups probably three dozen times,

523
00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 3: hearing the voices of loved ones, being with people that

524
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 3: think this sounds too good to be true, only to

525
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:36,880
Speaker 3: have their lives change. Trance mediumship is something I'm grateful

526
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 3: that I get to witness almost every week. You've heard

527
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:44,960
Speaker 3: me interview Scott Milligan, You've heard the words of mister Eric.

528
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:49,640
Speaker 3: This is someone with their eyes closed, blending with their

529
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:53,480
Speaker 3: spirit team, allowing someone who has once lived on planet

530
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 3: Earth to speak through them. Messages of love, compassion, empowerment,

531
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 3: philosophy come through. And often on Fridays we host what's

532
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 3: called in the Arms of Eternity, which we send healing

533
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:13,040
Speaker 3: to the world, and then Scott Milligan will go into

534
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:17,880
Speaker 3: trance and we have an extraordinary conversation with mister Eric

535
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 3: talking about life, death, in the afterlife. While being part

536
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:27,160
Speaker 3: of these Fridays has me go from believing to knowing

537
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 3: in the afterlife. I've had my own experiences as a

538
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 3: trance medium in training. It is the weirdest experience I

539
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 3: can tell you. To get into that meditative state that

540
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 3: if I'm to be used to give words of inspiration

541
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 3: work through me, and of course this is all done

542
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:50,640
Speaker 3: in a very loving and safe space. But with my

543
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 3: eyes closed in front of a group of people. I

544
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:57,200
Speaker 3: went into that state, with that prayer in my heart.

545
00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 3: I got the ball rolling, saying spirit wants to say

546
00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 3: as that was the instruction, and then more words kept

547
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:10,800
Speaker 3: coming out of my mouth. I was aware that words

548
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:13,480
Speaker 3: were coming out of my mouth, yet I was not

549
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:18,040
Speaker 3: controlling it. I was not inventing the words. When I

550
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:22,240
Speaker 3: tried to listen to the words, the voice stopped speaking

551
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:27,520
Speaker 3: through me. However, the moment I relaxed, concentrated on my breathing,

552
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:32,600
Speaker 3: the words started flowing again, and the voice continued to speak.

553
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:38,240
Speaker 3: I felt the presence of a rather stately man. After

554
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 3: it was over, I was told I was giving a

555
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:45,520
Speaker 3: very detailed story about life is like crossing a great

556
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:50,759
Speaker 3: ocean and how there are waves and uncertainty and eventually

557
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 3: we arrive at the shore. But during the experience, I

558
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:58,759
Speaker 3: kept speaking although I was not conscious of the words.

559
00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 3: And during this experience, I felt like my body was

560
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:06,040
Speaker 3: turning to the group and I was moving my arm

561
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 3: as I was explaining about crossing the ocean, and when

562
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:13,360
Speaker 3: I opened my eyes, people were drawing their tears, saying

563
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 3: the words that came through were so inspiring. They asked

564
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:19,960
Speaker 3: how it was for me, and I said it was

565
00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 3: weird because I felt the presence of someone with me.

566
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:26,760
Speaker 3: And I said what was really weird is how much

567
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:31,640
Speaker 3: I moved, And they said, Sandra, you remained perfectly still.

568
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 3: Holy cow, what was that? Well? Friends, we all have

569
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 3: guides and inspirers with us, and when we practice quieting

570
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:44,719
Speaker 3: the mind and with a loving heart asking for assistance,

571
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,719
Speaker 3: they can work with us. I think they often work

572
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:49,799
Speaker 3: with us when we get into the zone, but we

573
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 3: just don't realize it's them. We all have a team

574
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:56,680
Speaker 3: that work with us. Can you tell I love this stuff?

575
00:35:56,760 --> 00:36:00,759
Speaker 3: I really do. Sometimes I have journaled sitting in that

576
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:04,480
Speaker 3: same state, and I've had some great words of philosophy

577
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:07,360
Speaker 3: and great advice come out of my fingertips into my

578
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:11,800
Speaker 3: computer through my pen. That's automatic writing with my soul

579
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:15,520
Speaker 3: or perhaps a deceased loved one. I don't know. I'm

580
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:18,640
Speaker 3: pretty lucky that I've been part of all of these

581
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 3: trance demonstrations online over the past five plus years and

582
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:27,399
Speaker 3: have recorded all of them. You can listen to them

583
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 3: all on my website, of course. But what always blows

584
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:36,400
Speaker 3: my mind is how mister Eric could answer a question

585
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:41,040
Speaker 3: that someone has before the question was even asked. People

586
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 3: type their questions into a Q and a box on zoom,

587
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 3: and I'm the only person that can read them. Scott

588
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 3: has his eyes closed and very often I say like

589
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 3: to ask a question, and Eric will say, is this

590
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 3: from Lois? A question about her son who has recently passed?

591
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:02,879
Speaker 3: And it's like, how does he know? He also says

592
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:06,719
Speaker 3: we don't need to wait until Friday to talk to him. He,

593
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 3: along with our spirit helpers, are always around, always available.

594
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:16,080
Speaker 3: When we get a response from them, it sounds like

595
00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:20,480
Speaker 3: our own voice. So that's the thing. Pay attention when

596
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 3: you have some wise words coming in your own voice. Well,

597
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:27,320
Speaker 3: we're getting close to the break here on the birthday episode.

598
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:29,600
Speaker 3: When we come back, I want you to hear some

599
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 3: words from dear Brian Smith, author, podcast host of Grief

600
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:38,680
Speaker 3: to Growth. He's got a good method for us to

601
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:43,840
Speaker 3: remember who we really are and be empowered in our life.

602
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 3: So don't go anywhere, We'll be right back. You're listening

603
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:50,920
Speaker 3: to Shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast

604
00:37:50,960 --> 00:38:16,280
Speaker 3: to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. Welcome back to Shades

605
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:20,120
Speaker 3: of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlaine and I've decided to

606
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:23,799
Speaker 3: bring a special guest on my birthday episode. It is

607
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:28,040
Speaker 3: author and podcast host Brian Smith that you first heard

608
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 3: way back on episode forty two. Brian's beloved daughter Shana

609
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:35,880
Speaker 3: had passed. Not only did he go out looking for

610
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:40,040
Speaker 3: evidence of her life beyond physical death, he learned so

611
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:44,880
Speaker 3: much about grief, being instrumental and sharing, helping parents heal,

612
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:49,120
Speaker 3: and so much more. His book is Grief to Growth,

613
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:53,440
Speaker 3: and his podcast and website same names. It's the number

614
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:58,200
Speaker 3: two Grief toogrowth dot com. Everything I do has a

615
00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:02,080
Speaker 3: foundation of helping people through grief, giving powerful words about

616
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:05,359
Speaker 3: the afterlife and how to live a powerful life while

617
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:11,320
Speaker 3: we're here. Brian has a practice he calls gems gems

618
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:15,720
Speaker 3: that I know will empower you today. Here's my dear friend,

619
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 3: Brian Smith.

620
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:23,200
Speaker 4: So I have a technique I called gems. Gems for gratitude, exercise, meditation,

621
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:27,200
Speaker 4: self care. Those are four things I practice every day,

622
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:29,840
Speaker 4: and I encourage all my clients and everybody else to

623
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:33,240
Speaker 4: do so you can really keep your energy high. After

624
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 4: several years of going through this and trying all different

625
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:38,359
Speaker 4: kinds of things to figure out what's going to work

626
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 4: for me, there are basically four things that I found

627
00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:44,400
Speaker 4: that are really really easy to do that everybody can

628
00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:47,879
Speaker 4: do every day. It starts with gratitude. And every time

629
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:49,520
Speaker 4: I say that, I remember how I used to roll

630
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:52,560
Speaker 4: my eyes and people talked about gratitude practice. I'm like, again,

631
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:54,719
Speaker 4: very practical guy, how is this going to help me?

632
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 3: Right?

633
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:57,720
Speaker 4: There's nothing great going on in my life right now.

634
00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 4: Everything sucks, And that's a natural human tendency. Our brains

635
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:04,680
Speaker 4: tend to focus on what's negative. If that's you, if

636
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:07,359
Speaker 4: someone's going through that, there's nothing wrong with you. That's

637
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:09,719
Speaker 4: our default mode. But we can get out of that.

638
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:12,640
Speaker 4: So just really simply, I was talking with the client

639
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:16,319
Speaker 4: yesterday whose son passed away very recently. I'm a little kid,

640
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 4: and she's like, so, how do I do this gratitude thing?

641
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:21,359
Speaker 4: You know, how do I make it a regular thing?

642
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:23,719
Speaker 4: So I gave her a little tip as a free

643
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:26,160
Speaker 4: app on your phone called journal if you have an iPhone,

644
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 4: you can journal it something really easier members before you

645
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 4: get out of bed, when you wake up in the morning,

646
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:33,919
Speaker 4: before you even open your eyes, think of three things

647
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:36,520
Speaker 4: you're grateful for. And for me, a lot of times,

648
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:39,000
Speaker 4: it's like it's warm because I hate the cold. So

649
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 4: in the winter I'm like, I'm in my bed and

650
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:43,880
Speaker 4: it's warm. Or maybe that I'm having dinner with friends tonight,

651
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:46,920
Speaker 4: or it may be I was sitting in my office

652
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 4: one day and I was giving someone an example. I said,

653
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:51,719
Speaker 4: I've got electricity. We don't even think about it. We

654
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:53,239
Speaker 4: just turn on the lights and they come on. And said,

655
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:56,080
Speaker 4: but do you think about the time there's a power outage?

656
00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:58,840
Speaker 4: That feeling you get when the power comes back on

657
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:02,000
Speaker 4: and the lights come on and the refrigerator starts running.

658
00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:04,240
Speaker 4: You get this feeling of like it's like a jolt,

659
00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:07,400
Speaker 4: right because you're grateful for having the power. So what

660
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:09,640
Speaker 4: if you had that feeling when it hasn't gone off.

661
00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 4: This is what the gratitude practice will do for you.

662
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:15,439
Speaker 4: So I walk pretty much every day and I'll think,

663
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 4: I'm grateful that my feet are okay, I'm grateful that

664
00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:21,319
Speaker 4: my back feels good, you know, stuff like that. So

665
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:23,960
Speaker 4: gratitude is what I start with exercise because of mind

666
00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:27,000
Speaker 4: body connection is really important. A lot of times it's

667
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:29,600
Speaker 4: spiritual people. We can tend to bypass the body, but

668
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:33,120
Speaker 4: our body influences how we feel. There's a feedback loop

669
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:35,960
Speaker 4: between our body and our mind and our spirit. So

670
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:38,600
Speaker 4: keep your body as strong as you can. So for me,

671
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:41,719
Speaker 4: it's walking by Tell people find what works for you.

672
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:45,319
Speaker 4: It might be yoga, it might be gardening, it might

673
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:48,239
Speaker 4: be whatever works for you. I interview one woman on

674
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:50,959
Speaker 4: my podcast and her mother passed, and people are giving

675
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:54,080
Speaker 4: us all this advice, like, try yoga, try this, try that.

676
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:57,759
Speaker 4: She got into powerlifting, and it's like powerlifting was a

677
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 4: thing that just like really turned her on because she

678
00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:03,239
Speaker 4: could shape her body. It made her feel strong. She

679
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:06,799
Speaker 4: liked the repetition. So I'm like, yeah that, you know,

680
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:09,839
Speaker 4: find what works for you. So that's the exercise piece

681
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 4: of it. Again. Try to find something you can do daily.

682
00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:15,319
Speaker 4: It could be walking ten minutes after dinner. It could

683
00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:17,840
Speaker 4: be very helpful, getting out in the sun, vitamin D.

684
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:21,360
Speaker 4: There's a whole lot of benefits into it. Mindfulness or meditation,

685
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:23,439
Speaker 4: which a lot of people push back on. They say,

686
00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:26,480
Speaker 4: can't meditate. And I say to people, if you can't meditate,

687
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:28,759
Speaker 4: you just haven't found the right technique. Yet you can

688
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:31,640
Speaker 4: do it any way you want, so get out of

689
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 4: your mind. You can be sitting on a cushion for

690
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:37,360
Speaker 4: thirty minutes without moving and shutting off your mind, because

691
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:40,560
Speaker 4: you're never going to shut off your mind. So again,

692
00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:43,920
Speaker 4: I love technology, so I use insight Timer on my phone.

693
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:46,160
Speaker 4: So I like the app because it keeps track of

694
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 4: what my streak is. So I'm a very competitive guy.

695
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:51,040
Speaker 4: So I took a three inches and sixty five day

696
00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:53,720
Speaker 4: challenge to meditate every day for three inch and sixty

697
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:55,400
Speaker 4: five days. I ended up sticking with it for like

698
00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:58,719
Speaker 4: four years and it missed a day. So whatever mindfulness

699
00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:00,720
Speaker 4: technique works for you, and I work people to figure

700
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:03,680
Speaker 4: out what works for them. And then the s is

701
00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:06,399
Speaker 4: for either sleep or self care, and it's actually both.

702
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:09,640
Speaker 4: So when it comes to sleep again, our bodies we

703
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 4: need sleep. I think our spirits need sleep too. This

704
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:16,240
Speaker 4: world is hard, and I think why do we sleep?

705
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:19,959
Speaker 4: What's the point of like zonking out and not being here? Well,

706
00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:22,239
Speaker 4: there's just physical need. If we don't have sleep, we

707
00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:25,280
Speaker 4: will literally go insane. We will die with that sleep.

708
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:27,600
Speaker 4: But also I think our spirits need that release, and

709
00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 4: I believe that we leave our bodies you know when

710
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:33,360
Speaker 4: we sleep, so getting good sleep habits. I try to

711
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:35,839
Speaker 4: get to bed about the same time every night during

712
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:37,720
Speaker 4: the week when I have to get up the next day,

713
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:40,359
Speaker 4: keep in the room dark and cool, all those things

714
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:44,560
Speaker 4: everybody knows, you know, do those things. But also self

715
00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:48,520
Speaker 4: care because people in our society don't practice self care enough.

716
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:52,560
Speaker 4: You have to really prioritize yourself. So that can involve

717
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:55,799
Speaker 4: not just sleep, but also during the day. I work

718
00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 4: from home, taking breaks and building breaks into your day,

719
00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:03,640
Speaker 4: not working too much, have a good work life balance.

720
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:05,920
Speaker 4: A lot of people I know that are people pleasers.

721
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:08,680
Speaker 4: They'll do everything for other people, but they don't take

722
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:11,920
Speaker 4: care of themselves, you know, putting yourself as a priority.

723
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:14,239
Speaker 4: So I really help people go through that. So those

724
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:16,440
Speaker 4: are the four steps, and as I said that, the

725
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:19,479
Speaker 4: great thing is you can literally start doing them all.

726
00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:21,920
Speaker 4: You can start today. You can wake up and do

727
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:24,799
Speaker 4: your gratitude. You can take a short walk, you can

728
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:27,479
Speaker 4: practice a little bit of mindfulness if it's just two

729
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:30,080
Speaker 4: minutes sitting at your desk, close your eyes and just

730
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:32,759
Speaker 4: count your breath for two minutes. That's the gems thing

731
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:35,560
Speaker 4: that I really encourage everybody to do.

732
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:44,200
Speaker 3: Thank you Brian, that's gratitude, exercise, mindfulness or meditation, sleep

733
00:44:44,719 --> 00:44:49,640
Speaker 3: and self care. And I might add another s service.

734
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 3: Anytime we make a difference for another person, it comes

735
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:58,480
Speaker 3: like a boomerang plus right back to us. I'd like

736
00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:01,360
Speaker 3: to share some of the things that I do to

737
00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 3: keep me motivated and connected that there's a bigger picture

738
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:12,520
Speaker 3: one shades of the afterlife. There's no way I can

739
00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:16,719
Speaker 3: create a podcast episode and not be inspired. It's just

740
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:21,040
Speaker 3: impossible because I have my eye on you. What are

741
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:24,560
Speaker 3: some stories that'll make a difference for you? In turn,

742
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:28,360
Speaker 3: they make a difference for me. We have our weekly

743
00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:33,359
Speaker 3: free Sunday gathering with medium demonstration included. If you haven't

744
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:37,880
Speaker 3: attended yet, please do. It is the best. We're going

745
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:42,120
Speaker 3: into our sixth year two o'clock New York time every

746
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:46,839
Speaker 3: Sunday on Zoom details that we don't die dot com.

747
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:50,000
Speaker 3: No matter how I feel prior to a Sunday gathering,

748
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:53,920
Speaker 3: I am filled with so much joy during and after

749
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:57,640
Speaker 3: every week, one hundred and fifty two hundred people. It's

750
00:45:57,719 --> 00:46:02,000
Speaker 3: non denominational. It is fabulous. And did I mention the

751
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:07,600
Speaker 3: medium demonstration included? Also Fridays with Scott Milligan come sometime

752
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:10,960
Speaker 3: to in the arms of eternity. Ask your questions to

753
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:16,320
Speaker 3: mister Eric. Monthly, we offer great classes with Scott Milligan

754
00:46:16,719 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 3: and myself. We have what's called Trance and the Altered States.

755
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:23,239
Speaker 3: You never need to be a trance medium, but you

756
00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:27,080
Speaker 3: learn how to quiet that busy mind and blend with

757
00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:30,920
Speaker 3: the love from the unseen world, your soul, your guides,

758
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:35,160
Speaker 3: and your loved ones. We also have a very gentle

759
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 3: way for you to nurture your natural psychic and medium abilities.

760
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:44,279
Speaker 3: My dear friends Carrie McLeod and Phil Dyke's are the

761
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:48,560
Speaker 3: top medium tutors that I recommend. In fact, they're the

762
00:46:48,560 --> 00:46:54,040
Speaker 3: only ones I recommend. You'll learn how spirit communicates through

763
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:58,440
Speaker 3: your feelings. Yes, you might get some pictures through clairvoyance,

764
00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:02,719
Speaker 3: but you pay attention to that gut instinct and it's incredible.

765
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:06,719
Speaker 3: New classes begin every month. Even if you join late

766
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:09,359
Speaker 3: or don't want to join live at all, you can

767
00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:13,520
Speaker 3: watch them buy video replay. I keep myself connected with

768
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:19,880
Speaker 3: books and podcasts and YouTube videos. My room is filled

769
00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:21,799
Speaker 3: with books all over the place, and I'll read a

770
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:25,160
Speaker 3: chapter of this, one chapter of that one. I stay

771
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:30,920
Speaker 3: plugged in with reminders all over the place, of afterlife stuff.

772
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:35,640
Speaker 3: I have regular conversations and meetings with people that are

773
00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:40,280
Speaker 3: important to me that know me as Sandra Champlain, divine

774
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:43,760
Speaker 3: soul having a human experience. I have a weekly call

775
00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:46,840
Speaker 3: with my good friend Greg. Monthly. I talk to my

776
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:50,680
Speaker 3: dear friend Darla several times a week. I'm on with

777
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:55,839
Speaker 3: mediums and friends Darren and Scott, Carrie and Phil. There's

778
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:59,520
Speaker 3: others in our community that reach out quite often. Facebook

779
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 3: message works for us. I meet a few times a

780
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:07,839
Speaker 3: year with podcast host and author ROBERTA. Grimes. I get

781
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:12,080
Speaker 3: regular emails and on the lists for tut dot com,

782
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:17,120
Speaker 3: victor zammit dot com and others. One thing is for sure,

783
00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:22,000
Speaker 3: if you stay connected with people who talk the same language,

784
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:26,000
Speaker 3: it stays strong for you. If you stay connected too

785
00:48:26,080 --> 00:48:29,520
Speaker 3: much time with people that don't believe and complain a lot,

786
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:33,279
Speaker 3: it doesn't work so well. I'm not saying get rid

787
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:36,799
Speaker 3: of these people, but do more to stay connected with us.

788
00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:40,280
Speaker 3: I have a few other little tricks, like a daily

789
00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:44,799
Speaker 3: motivational calendar in my bathroom so I start the day

790
00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:49,200
Speaker 3: with positivity. And there's an oracle deck of cards that

791
00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:53,680
Speaker 3: I really like called postcards from Spirit. Those are pretty

792
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:59,360
Speaker 3: cool too. Remember, We Don't Die dot com is my

793
00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:02,960
Speaker 3: home base. Don't forget Fill in your name email address

794
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:05,760
Speaker 3: at the bottom of the page. Go to the store page.

795
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:10,160
Speaker 3: Check out what's coming up. Sunday gatherings are listed there

796
00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:15,200
Speaker 3: medium classes. There's tons of things to investigate on that site.

797
00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:19,200
Speaker 3: If you have questions or you have a story, I

798
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:22,319
Speaker 3: would love to hear it and with your permission, share

799
00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:25,520
Speaker 3: it with others on Shades of the Afterlife. Email me

800
00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:30,840
Speaker 3: please at Sandra Champlain at gmail dot com. As we

801
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:33,400
Speaker 3: close out this episode, I want to read some of

802
00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:36,879
Speaker 3: my favorite quotes from my book We Don't Die. This

803
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:42,040
Speaker 3: is from Norman Vincent Peel, writer and clergyman. Physical death

804
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:46,280
Speaker 3: is a transitional step and the total life process. The soul,

805
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:50,240
Speaker 3: which does not die, having finished with its earthly body,

806
00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:53,440
Speaker 3: moves to a higher level of life where it grows

807
00:49:53,520 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 3: under greatly enhanced circumstances. And you remember this from childhood.

808
00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:06,520
Speaker 3: Row row, row your boat gently down the stream, merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily.

809
00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:10,399
Speaker 3: Life is but a dream. With that, my friend, thank

810
00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:13,680
Speaker 3: you for celebrating my birthday with me, and thank you

811
00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:17,720
Speaker 3: from the bottom of my heart for listening to Shades

812
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:21,440
Speaker 3: of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast

813
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:24,719
Speaker 3: am Paranormal Podcast Network.

814
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:33,439
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the iHeartRadio and Coast to Ghost

815
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:36,520
Speaker 1: Day and Paranormal Podcast Network. Make sure and check out

816
00:50:36,560 --> 00:50:39,799
Speaker 1: all our shows on the iHeartRadio app or by going

817
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:46,279
Speaker 1: to iHeartRadio dot com