1676 Steve Harper Interviews Barbara Ann Strassman Spiritual Teacher/Guide - Author at Heart and Soul Holistic Healing Center

0:00This is the Global Podcast Network where executives and professionals connect, share, and inspire. Stay tuned for the conversations that drive success. Welcome back everybody. We are going to talk about something today that is, I'm pretty sure, going to make you think, maybe process. This is the thing. Every time we get together with her, sometimes I have a slight bit of apprehension. I love her, but here's the thing, she's the mirror. She holds the mirror up to us and the things that we've been thinking, the mirror actually magnifies. Like, when you're in a car, you look in the side view and it says objects may be bigger than blah blah. This is what happens when this conversation begins, but it's a good thing because this is the stuff we should be considering today, faith and trust.

1:01How do you have faith? How do you trust the universe, signals, signs, whatever comes your way? She is a healer, spiritual teacher, a guide, an amazing author, and offer so much insight. Great to have her back here. Barbara Ann Strassman joins us on the program. How are you today? I'm great, my dear friend. How are you? Good. Good. We're sitting in the car. I'm wondering where the car is going to go with this whole thing, faith and trust. Now, I thought I had asked you, when we got together last time, maybe the time before, are they the same thing, faith and trust? You did ask that. Yeah. I think we said they are very similar. Yeah, I think they're similar. I don't know if they're the same, I don't know, I don't know what our viewers think. What about this?

2:01What about this? Faith is that very much hope and then trust is the feeling of it's the right thing. And then trust we surrender. When we truly faith is I hope, like you say, maybe that's it. I hope I wish trust is like, okay, I surrender, I let go, I believe whatever is to be is to be. Yes. I feel the same way. What was coming up this morning was some of us maybe don't have that relationship growing up that we don't have maybe a family that is solid and grounded and maybe we can't trust the reactions and the responses. This is what's been coming to me since last night. So then do we turn to the unknown?

3:02Do we turn to the universe? Do we seek outside of ourselves when we don't feel validated in our everyday life? And then again, is it faith, is it trust, is it just we're not comfortable in our own skin? Hmm. I'd say most of us are not comfortable in our own skin. And many of us keep ourselves busy and have so much going on. In reality, we just don't want to face us. And that's what we were talking about before, how busy we are, all the stuff that we do right. Because then we have to stop and feel like I'm going 24 or 7, even in the dreams. So what are you running from? Exactly. I think we're running from the feeling, from that connection, where and who are we

4:07safe connecting with? And what came up this morning? I have this beautiful, huge, green, calcite crystal that I decided to meditate with and it represents the ocean and the waves. And I was thinking of every little brain of sand as a thought. It's maybe a belief. It comes in and it goes out. And then the song, you've got a friend, Kingman, James Taylor. And I googled the words. And I'm like, oh, my God, is this really about God or universe? You call out my name wherever I am, I'll come running and just so you know, it took me back in the second book, which I appreciate you mentioning my books. A friend of mine, we were at my house in the Hampshire and she decided to call out to Mother Mary. Now I had no relationship with Mother Mary.

5:08She called out to Mother Mary because she wanted someone in our group to have a healing. And oh, my God, that invocation, if you will, when we ask, when we call out, this energy of Mother Mary came in and I had an incredible experience, but yet I didn't have a personal relationship with Mother Mary. So that takes me into that whole trust and faith and how do we have these experiences with the unknown that feel safe and feel beautiful and is totally different than the relationships with those in our everyday life. We're trusting something that we don't even know. So you've got a friend, I never considered it might not be about a person, but it could be what you're saying because call out my name, et cetera.

6:14When you're down and out and need a helping hand, yeah, I never thought about it till this morning. Weird. I don't know why I never, you know, I always vision, you know, envision a person, a friend, somebody, a confidant, somebody there. And by the way, I got a share, Mother Mary comes to me. If you, in that office right there is on the wall with the thumbtack, the lyrics too, let it be. Oh, you're kidding. No, but here's a deal. I think it was three years ago, having something was going on, personal situation, and it was looking for the answer. But, you know, come on, I know there's an answer to this, but I'm not getting the answer. What is the answer? And not more than two minutes away from here as I'm driving to come here. I'm at a stop sign and that song starts playing in my head.

7:16They will be an answer, let it be Mother Mary comes to me, so being the words of wisdom, I walk through the door, the phone rings, with somebody I knew, and there was the answer. Yeah. It was the answer. And then I look at it another way, you know, I've referenced my mom before, her name is Rose Mary, and in that song written by Paul McCartney, it's not about religious figure Mary. It's about his mom, Mary. It is? It is. Oh, I didn't know that, so look at how the two songs have weirdness and I believe his mom passed when he was 14 and came to him in a dream. Oh my God, I just got chills, wow.

8:19It's on the wall, because I was like, oh, okay, all right, yeah, I'm going to put that up there and keep that there as a reminder, you know, but that goes to everything we've been talking about all these weeks, the let it be to just sit with it, to again, to trust whatever needs to come to us is going to come. So you might get it in songs, we might get it in a vision, all the different visions and messages in my book, I mean, they're beyond, I mean, there's so many, and when do they come? I think maybe people want to know that, how do you have this happen people say all the time? And it's the letting be, it's the letting go, when you just can't control anymore, when you're down and out, right? Isn't that when the miracle occur? Well, you know, years ago, somebody very intuitive said to me, when you're at your lowest

9:23point, and I was, I was making a, a career shift, they said it, when you're at your lowest point, you are your most humble, and I guess that's when that comes through, I'm going to share two, Barbara, last day or so, it's been coming up for me to ask, that's been the message. Others have said it. You want an answer? You need some of your shurns? Just ask. Ask. Whatever you want to call it, pray, meditate, ask, you know, the asking, like my friend, ask Mother Mary to come in, you got an answer, you ask, and then you let go, asking you shall receive is in the Bible, I mean, isn't the Bible just repetitive stories if you will, patterns about getting answers? I don't know.

10:25I, I, here's the thing though, we are so wired in our society nowadays. You click the button, Amazon shows up at 2 p.m. with whatever you need, or want. So we don't have patience, and all of this asks stuff is on universe time, not your time, my time. So you got to exercise some patience there, it's not like you're going to get an instant answer, although, you know, I did with that song, but yeah, I was asking for an answer for, you know, a while before that, like there's got to be an answer, like what is it? And eventually it showed up, but I guess we got to be patient, and then I guess we need to be aware of it, open to it. Right. So in, when I teach my I am meditation classes, we've talked about the I am, it's disconnecting, we say this all the time, but we have to pull those antennas back in.

11:29If we're constantly relying on artificial intelligence, if we're relying on Google, where's that inner connection? And like you say, it's instantaneous. So it's almost like we're giving ourselves away, we're giving away our power, and in healing we talk about calling back our power to trust ourselves or trust universe, it can be instantaneous, but it can come from inside of you. So in the I am meditations, we talk about just allowing for that possibility of a feeling of bliss, of realizing that life doesn't just happen to you, that you're part of it, like you put out the question, it comes in that you can really have perfect health within when you keep your focus within. Is all these possibilities without those outside forces of drugs, or media, Facebook,

12:38or somebody telling you you're wonderful, all of that stuff outside of you, you can find inside, but it isn't necessarily immediate, as you said. You want immediate feedback. We're conditioned, we're conditioned, if you went back 100 years, 150 years, we wouldn't be thinking that we would be having a thought, I believe we can back that, and people just throw it to the universe or ask for a sign or something and then just lean back and just did their life, and then I'm sure that they got it. We do get it eventually, don't we? If you're open to it, yeah, if you're open to receiving, yeah. So notice like last week we were talking about the vision board, notice how you felt, right? When we put something out, how do you feel? Are you anxious? Are you holding on? Right? As you said, we have to let it be.

13:39We get back to the faith and trust you have to let it go and say, okay, when it's supposed to be, it will be. I told you earlier, I've been looking for someone to help with my website. I've been online with you for how many weeks, and then I found out last week you have other avenues, other businesses. So this is the answer. You've been sitting in front of me all this time and I didn't know it. And there's probably deeper things there that we don't, I've said it before, it's probably more that we don't realize we're probably connected in some way. We don't realize it. Yes, we do. Well, yes, to a point, but there's probably more that we don't know is what I'm saying. Yeah, you know that. You know, you know, I'm going to say that. I know that because that's why I'm saying it. Right. What is it? I don't know. It'll reveal when it needs to be revealed. Although I will say this and somebody said this to me.

14:42Having a traumatic personal time, a few years ago, it will all be revealed. Everything is revealed. And they were right. And they're not intuitive or anything like that. They don't claim to be or anything and they would just, yeah, it'll be revealed. And along the way in the situation, things were, things were revealed. Oh, there's that. Oh. Oh, there it is again. Oh, all right. Everything got revealed. Barbara, what's your suggestion for someone? Let's say they're, they have a goal. Maybe they want to start a business. Maybe they want to change career. Whatever it might be. And they may keep moving forward with it. Maybe they're trying different things, throwing things up against the wall. See if this sticks, the event, you know, gives them a little more traction in the direction they want to go. And let's say they're pretty sure. They're certain, you know, this is not just the pion of sky.

15:44This is whatever direction they want to go in, you know, they can do it. They got it. It's all there. But it's not happening. So faith and trust, how do you, how do you deal with a situation like that? Now, we've talked about that. I always say everything we've been saying, you have to stop and look at the signs and messages. We can think we're supposed to do X. I thought I was supposed to open a specific healing center, and I did, and I found out it is later. Oh, well, that was your thought. That isn't exactly what the universe was saying. So when something isn't happening, it's, it's that let it be, it's that discernment. You can think it's right, and you just don't know, is it timing? Is it yourself blocking it? So I invite people to watch the signs and messages. Like go with what they think is right, and tune in.

16:45You have to tune into the signs, the messages, however they come. So be it through a song, be it through something somebody says, a dream. It can take time for all that to be revealed, as you say. So it takes that patience, but if you don't really listen in on the different levels, you can go down that road. You can be really good at whatever it is you think you're supposed to do. But at some point, you're going to hit that dead end. You're going to hit that wall because it is in what universe said. So I teach a lot of classes on the signs, symbols, and messages. Again, that's what the second book is about. I would have followed that actual guidance, and that's what I'm teaching. I just finished the workbook, it'll be printed soon, but how to follow all the information that's coming in from other sources other than your head or AI.

17:48How do you listen in, because the thinking is the ego, that's the small self versus the higher consciousness. And so the first thing I would say in addition to signs and messages is learning to meditate, learning to connect with your higher consciousness. And I think I said this to you, and this came up this morning too, right? Whenever we get messages that seem out there or seem like a challenge, or you know it's not your thought, you know it's true. Say that again. I want to make sure that you get messages that are like really challenging. Like, oh, you should do X, or you get a message out of nowhere, like when you were driving, when something comes in that you know isn't your thought, that's when you know it's universe. It's source, and you have to listen. So in the meditation, those ah ha's come in, those unusual, like this morning, for whatever

18:53reason that song just came in. So I always start people with the meditation, with the breath work, because with the breath work, you're stopping the monkey mind. You're tuning it out, you're letting go of the stress, the anxiety, because that winds you up, you're coming down, you're letting go, and then you can hear. But then you need those tools. So I believe you need to be taught how to integrate them, how to listen. Maybe it's a totem that comes in. You need to know how to engage with it. So how do you know the difference between your intuition and a message coming from the universe or spirit? Is there a difference? I don't know. Why did I ask that question? Because you haven't experienced this.

19:56Well, I have a wondering. I've experienced and understand, or hear from others as well, that when you get something from your intuition, it's the easier answer. It's like it just comes to you, it's instant, and then the logic gets in the way, I can't be. That can't be the right answer. No, it's too easy. And then we make it harder, and then we're wrong. But you said when something comes to you, it'll be challenging, or it can be challenging. So that goes against what I'm thinking in terms of the intuition coming to you. Well, good point, right, intuition that gut feels, right? So you're right. So it can be two different, exactly. Yep. I didn't think of it that way. Like the, I'm not saying everything needs to be easy, like, oh, just listen to your intuition, it'll give you the answer, and hey, no, no, the spiritual answer may not be the one you

21:03want to hear. Exactly. And that may be the, you have to take the challenging road to get to your goal, but that's what you're supposed to do. And based on what we're talking about here, you'll know. Yeah. Well, and again, my book is like, I wasn't going to write a book. I have no intentions. I'm not an author. I'm not a writer. I'm not great with the English language. I mean, all those thoughts came in, but the messages could come in. So this is the book. This is it. You're supposed to, all these different messages. So I resisted for many, many years. I was told, I think it was 2004 by a shop and I supposed to write four books, but I did resist because that's not in my wheelhouse till I kept getting pushed. And I think I told you messages came in from my mother messages came in from when I

22:06call some ascended masters. And it literally was like that energy pushing me. And then when I was in India, I got the message to write the I am meditation book. Okay. And that came through a guru of the leader of the class. So it's like, am I just going to keep resisting? But that is not something that I thought I was good at that I was supposed to do, but it is like spirit saying, it doesn't matter because we're just going to write it through you. So step out of the way it's not so that's the other big thing. It's not about you. And so we have to step out of that ego in that mind again, right? It's not about you that message was coming in this week. It's whatever, whatever we are channeling, if you people can go there and believe that you have your gifts and talents, everybody does. I 100% agree with you.

23:08It's, and we were given those gifts and talents, whether it was whatever you want to believe, God universe, whatever. And you were given them so that you can help others. You can show others. You can teach others. And in a way, like as you're saying it, it's as you said with the book, you're just the conduit for all that stuff to go through you during the, you know, the purveyor going away. We're showing the way I was told you're showing the way you're letting people know that we're all the same. We have the same struggles. Our lives are really the same story. And my next book is about that or what I've been told to write. I haven't started it, but every life really has stories of the same, which is changing the names and the details. And if you read, if you read my book, it's a nice, okay, it's a nice little story, starts

24:09with a love story. It goes into the struggles, whatever. But really when you start breaking it down and looking at the different chapters, it's a soul journey. And that's what we're all doing. Yep. Now, was that your second book is the IAM book, right? No, I am is the first book. Oh, that's the first book. Yes. Yeah. And the second book, right, is the way of God's love. Wow. Okay. I had it reversed. Interesting. That's okay. Well, you know why? Because I started the way of God's love before I was told to do the IAM. The IAM came in quickly, very quickly fast. It's simple. It's just the meditation. And then I found out how it was interconnecting with the way of God's love. And I couldn't make this up to the two books because they're both about really connection to that higher self, the higher dimensions.

25:10They're really saying the same thing. But the IAM is that preparation teaching you on that level to meditate, to connect in. And then the way of God's love is literally the journey and how to look at the patterns, how to look at the signs and messages. Do I use my life to help you look at your own life? How interesting that went. Because I, in speaking with you, thought that the way of God's love, which is, includes the story about your son, I thought you had that goal. Like, this is my story. I want people to know it. I want to share it. But how interesting you started with the IAM book. It sounds like, you know, you started with this book, then the IAM book came in or the other way around. You started with the way of God's love and then I am came in. It's almost as if the universe was saying, oh, wait a minute. We need to get this other one out here too.

26:12And that might help people better understand what you talk about in the way of God's love. Exactly. Exactly. And the IAM, it's also inviting them to the possibilities that we just mentioned of how you can live. So it is a precursor in its simple, both the books, you know, are very, they're simple. They're easy to read. It's, they're written as if I'm just talking to you as a friend. Because that's how I do communicate or that's how spiritual it is. It depends on what's going on. But don't we need, I shouldn't say don't we need some of us need the guidance and people are looking for peace. They are looking for calm. Most of my work is helping to release the anxiety, the fear, the anxieties we've talked about this. And you can't do that unless you stop and breathe.

27:15Almost once a week and minimum in my gratitude journal where there's fields, yeah, I bought it. They box Amazon, best of you'll ever last year or more. There's three fields to fill out. What am I grateful for your IAM statement? What would make today great? I probably once a week in the in the gratitude of those three fields is I'm great. What am I grateful for? I put down peace. If you didn't have it or once it shows up, then you realize, oh, I didn't have that. So there's gratitude. Yeah. We're out of time. Whoa. Like I was stuck on that and you just said you wrote that book as a friend. You've got a friend. Yeah. Hmm. You've got a friend. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You offer so much in terms of answers, healing, how to interpret signs that you get connecting with oneself and more and great books, too.

28:18If we want to reach out to you, what's the best way to do it? Well, go to my website, heart and soul holistic.com. You can sign up for my emails, get my classes, my retreats and new retreats are coming out because the workbook is now done that accompanies the way of God's law, it'll be printed soon. We do a lot on Zoom and in person and again, it's just that sharing from the heart and helping each other and then my email is there. So just reach out. It's easy. And your retreats are done up in the Massachusetts area where you are? I'm a mess, but mostly I do them up in the Hampshire on Lake Winnipezaki. Great spirit. Lake Winnipezaki means great spirit. Tempting. Thank you for today, as always. I think the takeaway here is let it be because you've got a friend.

29:20You've got a friend, exactly. All right. So thank you for being my friend. And likewise. Thank you. Same. All right. We'll catch up soon, all right? Thank you. Have a great day. Discover your inner light through heart-centered healing. I offer transformative therapies such as reflexology, cranial sacramial, fascial, somatoemotional release work in my signature healing therapy called divine matrix soul healing. Each session is sacred, it's personal and it's truly unique. Some Bobber and Strassman, please find me at heart and soul holistic.com when you are ready to transform. And together, we will help you to shine your light. Thank you. This is the Global Podcast Network where executives and professionals connect, share, and inspire. Stay tuned for the conversations that drive success.

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