THE INSPIRATION PLACE PODCAST
Allyson Scammell:
Everybody has an intuition, obviously, and everybody has intuitive gifts, real gifts, and everyone can exercise their intuitive gifts like a muscle.
Speaker 2:
It’s The Inspiration Place podcast with artist, Miriam Schulman. Welcome to The Inspiration Place podcast, an art world insider podcast for artists by an artist, where each week we go behind the scenes to uncover the perspiration and inspiration behind the art. And now, your host, Miriam Schulman.
Miriam Schulman:
Well, hello, my passion maker. This is Miriam Schulman, your curator of inspiration, and you’re listening to episode number 185 of The Inspiration Place podcast. Now, there has been literally thousands of new listeners to the show. So if that’s you, in other words, if you’re new around here, I just wanted to take a moment to welcome you and thank you for being here. And whether you’re new around here or you’ve been around for a while, I just want to let you know how grateful that I am that you’re here. I would love for you to come and say hello to me. I love connecting with my listeners over on Instagram, I’m @schulmanart, S-C-H-U-L-M-A-N-A-R-T over there, and I’d love to say hi. Okay. So today, we’re talking all about how to improve your intuition to unlock greater creativity. In this episode, you’re going to discover the steps that you’ll take on that journey to raising your vibration so that you can use spiritual guidance or the divine or whatever higher powers you believe in and use that intuition to increase your creativity.
Our guest today is going to share that journey with you that you take when you are on that road, and I also share a lot of my own personal experiences. I’ve been downsizing my home of 25 years and preparing to move to New York City. And taking a physical journey and decluttering has created huge shifts for me, seismic shifts, in fact, both internally, which have affected my creativity and my mindset and all things. So we are going to be sharing today with you a lot, both on the generic level, as well as on a personal level, how this all has been affecting me. Before we get into today’s episode, I wanted to make sure that you knew that I’ve curated a binge-worthy playlist of all my favorite episodes that focus on similar topics of today, so on mindset. Now, if you want to get your hands on it, and it’s totally free, head on over to schulmanart.com and Schulman is S-C-H schulmanart.com/playlist. You’ll be able to grab your binge-worthy mindset playlist over there.
And now, on with the show. Today’s guest is a master intuitive business coach, psychic medium, and energy healer. Her mission is to help soul guided leaders, influencers, artists, and entrepreneurs get sold out with soul clients by amplifying their spiritual gifts, activating their big soul mission and releasing the energy blocks tethering them down. She’s the founder of Soul Guide Academy, and well versed in the complexity of discovering one soul mission. Using her genuinely unique perspective of the world, she shares priceless wisdom and insight regularly on Soul Guide Radio, a podcast for soul guided influencers, ready to unlock massive soul aligned success. Please welcome to The Inspiration Place, Allyson Scammell. Hey Allison, welcome to the show.
Allyson Scammell:
Hi, Miriam. I’m so thrilled to be here.
Miriam Schulman:
We’re so excited to have you. Okay. I got my crystals out just for you. Are you a crystal junkie?
Allyson Scammell:
They’re behind me. I wish I’d got them out too, but they’re in the foreground. Ooh, loving it.
Miriam Schulman:
Do you know what this is?
Allyson Scammell:
What is that?
Miriam Schulman:
I have no idea.
Allyson Scammell:
Some sort of graphite something.
Miriam Schulman:
Okay. So for the people who can’t see us, I think it’s actually petrified wood. Would that make sense?
Allyson Scammell:
Yes.
Miriam Schulman:
It’s a rust color and it has a jagged edge. So my husband and I, we bought a farmhouse up in the country and then we always stop on the way at this small town called Wurtsboro, because they have a vegan cafe. So we pick up our food and they have a crystal shop.
Allyson Scammell:
Oh my gosh.
Miriam Schulman:
And the vegan cafe, they have no concept of time and they’re always late, no matter early we call it in. So I walk up and I’ll buy something for myself.
Allyson Scammell:
That is amazing. I have to tell you, I live in the Netherlands and I live near the largest pet store in the Netherlands.
Miriam Schulman:
What?
Allyson Scammell:
Yes. The story has a point related to what you just said. So there’s this huge pet store, there’s flamingos, there’s parrots. Yes. Flamingos just roaming around and you can get any animal supply you could ever need for any animal. And then at the end, it’s this metaphysical crystals, oils, all sorts of crazy-
Miriam Schulman:
Wait. I’m still confused by the flamingos [inaudible].
Allyson Scammell:
Flamingos. It’s the coolest store in the world. I just love, I can go there and I can get my doggy poop sacks and my crystals, all in one place.
Miriam Schulman:
That is awesome. What kind of dog do you have?
Allyson Scammell:
I have a Spanish Greyhound named Astrid and she’s the love of my life.
Miriam Schulman:
Yeah. Greyhound is one of the oldest dogs in art history. Oh, you know this. All right, go ahead.
Allyson Scammell:
Yes.
Miriam Schulman:
Share it to the conversation.
Allyson Scammell:
The Spanish Greyhound actually comes from Egypt, originally. It’s the only dog breed mentioned in the Bible and it is one of the most ancient dog breeds.
Miriam Schulman:
Yes. I did a whole Facebook live on that actually got all the greyhounds at the metropolitan. Well, I had a little help. So on the Metropolitan Museum website, they probably still have it, because they put a lot of effort into this. They have either their curators or art historians pick one very tiny detail like eyes or dogs or whatever. So this one curator picked the Greyhound and that’s how I learned all about it. And he went through every work of art where the Greyhound is featured and how elegant they are and then how it influenced fashion that people wanted to dress like a Greyhound.
Allyson Scammell:
Oh my gosh. I’m just liking you all the more, Miriam. I’ve only had this dog for a year, but now I’m a Greyhound groupie. I didn’t know anything about greyhounds a year and a day ago, but they are so elegant and they are so beautiful. She’s like a dainty lady. She’s my Spanish lady.
Miriam Schulman:
Okay. So we’ll make sure in the show notes and I have to write this down. Because I keep saying things like this on the air and then it’s like, “I wonder if my team is actually listening to me and following up.” All right. I will definitely send you the Greyhound video link from the Met.
Allyson Scammell:
Oh, please.
Miriam Schulman:
I will do my best to put in the show notes, and listeners, if I don’t have it there just message me and we’ll fix that. Anytime I say something and it’s not there, it’s not that I’m lying, I did an ADD thing and I forgot. All right. So is there anything magical with Greyhound? Sometime move it into the today’s content.
Allyson Scammell:
Well, I am a very spiritual person. I believe that these really ancient dog breeds and even muts, it doesn’t have to be an ancient breed. There’s a lot of consciousness inside of some dogs and animals. Yeah. And I think, I don’t know, I can’t speak on behalf of all greyhounds, but I can speak on behalf of mine that, oh my gosh, there is a high consciousness being inside there. Almost like you’re interacting with another human. That’s how it feels to me.
Miriam Schulman:
Yeah. We always think that cats are smart because they ignore us. But actually the research says dogs are smarter.
Allyson Scammell:
Well, it’s funny you should say that because Astrid acts like a cat, she’s very feline. She’s not the dog who wants attention all the time. I kind of wish she did. I wish she would always want to come cuddle with me, but she doesn’t. She’s like a cat. She lets you know, now is cuddle time, now is leave me the bleep alone please.
Miriam Schulman:
Okay. Good. Well, she has opinions and we respect that.
Allyson Scammell:
Correct. Very catlike. She likes to lay in the sun, she suns herself like a cat. She rubs her body on your legs like a cat and she’s 25 kilos, she’s over 50 pounds. So she can blow you over.
Miriam Schulman:
[crosstalk] those big dogs. I know greyhounds, not greyhounds, but Great Danes will do this, when they’re standing they’ll lean against you. Greyhounds do that too?
Allyson Scammell:
Absolutely. Yep. That’s very cozy.
Miriam Schulman:
That’s cool.
Allyson Scammell:
When she does that. It is cool.
Miriam Schulman:
All right. Okay. So let’s move into intuition, the intuition of the dog, intuition of the cat, and that intuition of artists. By the way, I’m not really a dog person…[inaudible]
Allyson Scammell:
Oh.
Miriam Schulman:
My cat acts like a dog though.
Allyson Scammell:
Okay. Well, I have a dog who acts like a cat. Yeah. There you go.
Miriam Schulman:
Okay. Before we get to what our artist to do, I have to ask this. Whenever somebody says they’re a psychic medium, so what even does that mean? Could you explain that? How did you discover you have some extra power? Or do you feel everybody has that?
Allyson Scammell:
I feel everybody has it, and it just like, everybody can play basketball. Some people are meant to play on the Olympic team or whatever. Some people are meant to play, some aren’t. Right. And so everybody has an intuition obviously, and everybody has intuitive gifts, real gifts, and everyone can exercise their intuitive gifts like a muscle. Everybody has the opportunity to go to the gym. I call it going to the gym of your intuition and exercising those muscle. And basically what you’re doing is you’re opening the door, if you look at yourself, if you will, if your experiences, you have your human self and your spiritual self, your being self, your nonphysical self, right? It’s that nonphysical self where the intuition comes from. That’s where that higher power, that higher knowledge, it has the answers.
It knows what your next step is going to be. Tapping into that is when we create at our fullest and highest. So if you see the door between your human self, which is more that egoic, it’s your personality, you’re here having an experience, not the bad part of you. It’s the part of you that can get up into your head and overthink things. It’s the part of you, who doesn’t necessarily know the next step and it’s that part of you, that’s always learning and trying to figure things out. So what we want to do when we go to the gym of our intuition is just open that door, crack it open wider and wider and wider, so that higher knowledge can come through with greater ease and clarity. So back to your question, I called myself a psychic medium.
It’s a funny title, but I want people to know that I have a really open channel. Why am I an open channel? I have a different story. A lot of people are born very open, I was not. I was born with a super closed up door. I didn’t know what an intuition was. I certainly didn’t know what a psychic medium was. And then I had a near death experience in 2009, and it blew my door open. So I went from completely closed off to completely open, open to nonphysical consciousness and wisdom overnight from this experience. And so that’s what makes me a medium, I can really with great ease channel the other side, if you will.
Miriam Schulman:
Okay. Now, this experience that happened before you had children, is that right? 13 years of it.
Allyson Scammell:
Yeah. Before I had children.
Miriam Schulman:
Do you feel that you have womb wisdom?
Allyson Scammell:
Oh yeah.
Miriam Schulman:
Yeah?
Allyson Scammell:
Oh yeah.
Miriam Schulman:
Yeah. Now, I have a friend who is also a psychic medium and she was worried because she had to have a hysterectomy about how that would affect her. I was like, well, there’s womb wisdom. First of all, the womb is just the physical womb. You still have that even when you don’t have the body part. But there’s also what I call Crone wisdom. I found when I turned 50, so I’m a bit older than at Allyson, when I turned 50, and my youthful years were behind me, uterus or no, I found I had an awakening too. There was a reaching a different level of consciousness. So you, as the expert of all of these things, me as just the layman, who just repeats things I hear. First explain to us what womb wisdom is.
Allyson Scammell:
Yeah. So this is how I would approach it. We have a physical body, right. Clearly. We have our human suit, but deeper than that, and it depends on how you look at it, but to me, it’s like a deeper inside of us. We have an energy body, right. And that energy body is really where our intuition comes from, it’s where our ability to connect to the divine comes from, our ability to connect to the universe or source energy, or however you would experience that all loving, all knowing, all wise energy that we’re connected to. And the womb wisdom, which I think we all have to some degree.
Miriam Schulman:
Even men? We have to clarify.
Allyson Scammell:
I think so.
Miriam Schulman:
Okay.
Allyson Scammell:
I think so. And the reason why is my belief is that we’ve all lived many, many lifetimes. And we’ve all lived as men and lived as women. And if we’re here in this more evolved, your listeners have all had many, many lifetimes. And they’ve been a mom in a past lifetime, even if they’re not a mom in this lifetime. And our energy body remembers that, our energy body remembers all of our lifetimes. However, if we’ve had children in this lifetime, that womb energy is going to be more powerful, it’s going to be more connected. And the thing that makes the womb so magical because it is the giver of life and it is one of the portals where nonphysical energy comes in. When the soul comes into the body, into the baby that’s growing in the tummy, that’s an open portal to the nonphysical realm.
That’s all intuition, that’s high vibey stuff, high consciousness stuff. So yeah, moms have that special thing and it is in the womb and like all things, some moms have more of a more open channel than others. It doesn’t mean one is better than the other, it’s just some of us are more open in certain areas than others. So probably the women who have really open womb energy, they probably, I imagine, might be working with other mothers. They’re the ones that are called to help heal mothers or work with mothers or work with children. They typically will be called into that type of work.
Miriam Schulman:
You were talking about intuition being something you can work on, like exercising in a gym. So I assume that you have exercises that people can start working with. Can you share a few of those?
Allyson Scammell:
I do. I have a beautiful exercise and it’s a hero’s journey. Our intuition evolves through our lifetime and it gets more powerful as we age. So I’m not at all surprised to hear that when you hit 50, Miriam, you felt like you were like, “Wow, I am more plugged in. My consciousness is higher.” Because I’m sure it was. It evolves over time, it gets powerful. That’s why, if you look at ancient cultures, it was the elders they looked to, not just because they had the human experience in this lifetime, the elders are often at a higher consciousness. So they are getting that higher wisdom coming through.
Miriam Schulman:
So that is Crone wisdom.
Allyson Scammell:
Ah, that is Crone wisdom. Aha. Yes. That is a thing.
Miriam Schulman:
It is a thing.
Allyson Scammell:
That is totally a thing.
Miriam Schulman:
Okay.
Allyson Scammell:
And I love how that’s called. I love how that sounds. Yes, yes, yes, yes. So our intuition grows, whether we mindfully with intention do anything with it or not, but why not? Why not try to amp up your intuitive gifts to its fullest? Because it’s only going to have positive effects on your experience. It only is going to, it’s not just a fun thing to do because spirituality is cool. It actually leads to more joy in your process. And when you have more joy in your process, you attract more buyers. You become that magnetic person, you’re creating at your best and absolutely leads to more sales, it leads to more abundance and from a place of joy. So how can this look? How can we with intention bump up our intuitive gifts, essentially? It’s you’re literally upgrading your energy and I’m going to explain what this means in a minute. And how it works in a lifetime is you have periods where you have an upgrade. When you turned 50, you felt this upgrade like, “Wow, I just up leveled.”
Miriam Schulman:
Yeah. And let me just say one thing about that. It wasn’t just the magic of the 50. I think I entered menopause at that time, so it was truly a physical shifting for me of both, not just a number.
Allyson Scammell:
Yes, totally. And that’s a super powerful time. So that was absolutely an upgrade for you. So sometimes we experience upgrades, obviously when I had my near death experience, that was a huge upgrade, right, from nothing to a lot. Sometimes in our human experience, it’s a tweak and refine, we’re just getting tweaked a little bit and both times are important. So how can we affect this upgrade, this up leveling or even this adjusting to opening our door to our intuition wider? Well, it mirrors The Hero’s Journey, if you’re familiar with the Joseph Campbell, Hero’s Journey. The first thing you have to do, there’s five stages to it, which I’m going to share with you right now. And they’re really powerful. And now this 2022, the 222 energy that’s on planet right now is a really, really powerful time. Mindfully with intention actually raise your energetic frequency, which is what these five stages will do. And whenever your energetic frequency is raised, you’re opening the door to the divine, to your intuitive gifts, to your spiritual gifts, to the other side of the veil. However, you experience that.
Miriam Schulman:
And all your artistic gifts.
Allyson Scammell:
And all of your artistic gifts, 100% and you’re opening the door wider. Okay. Stage one, pretty simple, all these stages are both simple and profound at the same time. You have to invite it in, it’s the invitation and it might sound like, oh well, that’s… Yeah, well, no, but the nonphysical world is a very polite world. And very high vibrational consciousness is not going to impose its will on you, unless you invite it in. It’s very polite in the nonphysical world, so you have to invite it in. And by saying, I invite in a deeper connection to my intuitive gifts, to the divine, to the universe, whatever words feel good to you. You’re also putting your energy into an allowing state. You’re saying, I’m ready for this. I’m ready for what may come, because I’m going to get in a minute that some of the stages can be a bit uncomfortable and I am ready and I’m prepared for an upleveling.
And you’re just saying that to yourself and you’re saying it to yourself and you’re saying it to the universe. So stage one is the invitation. Very simple. I intend to connect deeper to my intuitive gifts. I allow in my intuitive gifts to arrive to me more deeply more profoundly, for example. Any questions on stage one?
Miriam Schulman:
No, you’re a rockstar. Whoa. I can just sit back here with my coffee. I thought I had to prepare all these things, questions for you. It’s just like, Nope. Just go ahead. Take over. Pass to Allyson.
Allyson Scammell:
Now I know. Tell me if I’m talking too much, I get on a roll with this stuff [crosstalk] I get overly excited.
Miriam Schulman:
All right. So what’s what’s stage two?
Allyson Scammell:
Stage two is the calibration. And I like this stage because for listeners out there, and I know you’re out there that says, “Yeah, I don’t know. I think it’s my intuition, but I like to second guess it. I’m not sure.” Or “I need proof.” Right? Some of us really want proof. That’s okay. I get it. I’m with you. The calibration process gives you proof that what is happening to you is real. What is calibration? Well, as I said earlier, your intuition, your higher self is tapped in a really high vibrational energy. The energy in the universe, the divine, it’s vibrating at a super high frequency, there’s even a scale, it’s called the hertz frequency rate. And it goes from zero to a 1,000. So zero is essentially like trauma, right? Guilt, shame. And a 1,000 is essentially enlightenment, god consciousness.
So the higher we go up this scale towards a 1,000, again, the more our door opens to our intuitive and spiritual gifts. So calibration is literally the process of raising your energetic frequency and your ability to vibrate at higher and higher vibrations and resonances and by doing that, you’re opening again, that door to your intuition, cracking it open even wider.
Miriam Schulman:
Okay. So we got stage one, stage two. Stage one is your invitation, stage two is calibration. What is stage three?
Allyson Scammell:
Let me just say one other thing about calibration, so people know what it can look like. It’ll will arrive to you as physical sensations, and that’s what I’m saying that will give your brain, the evidence, the proof that what’s happening is real. What are some of the physical sensations you can expect to experience? Very common is an energetic tingling. Feels cool actually. You can feel it all over your body, you just feel tingly. Sometimes you feel it, I call it the banana. You feel it right at your crown chakra, that’s the area right at the top of your head, and you feel like it’s peeling back. It’s a cool sensation. You feel this tingling right at your crown chakra. Sometimes the sensations are less cool. In extreme situations, you can have nausea and vomiting, because you’re getting rid of some toxins inside of you, that’s weighing you down. You can feel ringing in the ear. You can feel just dizziness.
Miriam Schulman:
That happened to me actually, I was at somebody’s retreat. I would give them a shout up, but I can’t even remember whose it was, where they ended it with a sound bath. And I was like, “Oh my gosh, I don’t feel well right now, I have to get out of here right now.” It was at the end of the thing, and I normally would’ve wanted to linger and chat and I normally don’t transition well, so I don’t have that response, but I literally knew I had to get out of there immediately. Because it had brought stuff up for me and it was just too much for me. And it was just this, for anyone doesn’t know what a sound bath is, it’s really, they’re just playing on, what do you call it? Those metallic drums.
Allyson Scammell:
Yeah.
Miriam Schulman:
Yeah. And so it’s just making these tonal sounds that you would think it’s just like a concert, it should be harmless, but it really brought up things for me.
Allyson Scammell:
That was very likely a calibration. And it was bringing up things for you, which I’m going to talk about that comes in stage four, but the physical sensations were starting and you are in the process of getting ready to release some stuff. And in doing that, your vibration was going higher and you were raising up to the next level. So very, very cool.
Miriam Schulman:
Okay.
Allyson Scammell:
Even though it probably felt uncomfortable at the time.
Miriam Schulman:
It did. I wasn’t expecting it, and it was like, “Oh, weird.” I’d also, “I don’t want to do that again, but I probably should.” It’s like when you go to an exercise class and you’re really sore the next day, and so you know it’s good for you. It’s not like you want to be sore, but you do want to be sore because that’s how you know something’s working.
Allyson Scammell:
It’s a perfect analogy, again, with my gym analogy. Yes. It’s uncomfortable. And at times it’s very uncomfortable, like in your example, but you get rewards, you get rewards for showing up and doing the work. Just like going to the gym and getting sore, if you stick with it, right. Your rewards are nicer muscles, stronger. And the last thing I’ll say about calibration is you can experience interrupted sleep. Unfortunately, calibration likes to kick in about three o’clock in the morning to wake you up.
Miriam Schulman:
See, I thought that was my hormones.
Allyson Scammell:
Well, so it could be a mixture of both in there.
Miriam Schulman:
That’s what my doctor say.
Allyson Scammell:
Yeah, I wouldn’t be surprised if there was calibration happening there too, it kicks in the middle. It likes to get our attention, and during the day we’ve got so much going on that sometimes our calibrations kick in right when we’re sleeping and it’s just trying to get our attention.
Miriam Schulman:
It literally feels like my brain is waking me up to tell me something like, knock, knock, knock. But sometimes it’s like their anxiety thought, so I’m not sure it’s all in intuitive stuff [inaudible].
Allyson Scammell:
True. It could be a combination of both. But what you said is exactly how it looks in a calibration. It’s like, knock, knock, knock, knock, and you’re like, “Brain, why are you waking me up?”
Miriam Schulman:
Right.
Allyson Scammell:
Yes. That’s a calibration. Yes.
Miriam Schulman:
Okay. So I should not fight it and embrace it and listen. Because maybe the anxiety thoughts are coming up because I’m pushing it all away.
Allyson Scammell:
When you feel like your brain is trying to wake you up, I would not fight that. There is such thing as anxiety waking us up and whatever, that is a thing too. I don’t know, I’m sensing a calibration for you, Miriam.
Miriam Schulman:
I like that explanation way better [crosstalk] sexier. Okay. So take us to the next stage, Allyson.
Allyson Scammell:
Yes. Next age is a cool one. It’s a cool one, I think. And it’s isolation. And let me quickly explain what that means. So when-
Miriam Schulman:
It’s like the last two years.
Allyson Scammell:
Right. Right. Well, okay. So you probably are definitely going through an experience and an upgrade. So isolation, whenever we go through this process, just like in a Hero’s Journey, we really get called outside of our regular routine of working, plugging into our phones, our computers, responding to our business, et cetera, our family, all the needs. Right? So for in order us to really plug in and connect to what’s going on, we need some quiet, we need some solitude, we need new perspective outside of the normal routine. So what will happen normally after an invitation, you’re going to start getting calls for isolation, calls to isolation. It can be very subtle. Hey, wake up five minutes earlier in the morning and meditate. Right. Or it can be very extreme.
Miriam Schulman:
I haven’t left my house in four days, would that count?
Allyson Scammell:
That would count as isolation. Yes. Do you feel like you’ve been called to hibernate a little bit?
Miriam Schulman:
Yeah. Yeah. I just thought I was getting weird because of the pandemic, but I think I’m very hermity lately.
Allyson Scammell:
Yes.
Miriam Schulman:
It’s not that I don’t like people it’s just, I don’t know. Yeah. I feel like more like an animal, I just want to climb in bed with my cat and hunker down.
Allyson Scammell:
Yes. That is what a call to isolation can look like. It’s like, you’re going inside your cave.
Miriam Schulman:
Yeah. That’s exactly what it feels like.
Allyson Scammell:
Yes. Ooh, big calibration for you, Miriam. This is awesome. So again, your brain is going to come in and say, “Oh my gosh, get outside.” Whatever, maybe it’s not, but oftentimes our brains will kick in and fight this call to isolation and say, “You shouldn’t be isolating, you should be doing something else.” But I really invite you Miriam and listeners, when you feel this call to isolation, listen to it, allow it. I don’t feel like leaving my house. I’m being called to my inner cave. That’s your calibration talking to you.
Miriam Schulman:
So I shared with you earlier, my listeners know I’m about to move from my home in Scarsdale, to an apartment in New York City. So we have the home in the country and we’re getting rid of our suburban house and getting an apartment in New York City. And we’ve been packing up the house and all these layers of my house keep leaving, and it’s been very… Like all the things we’ve been talking about today, it is bringing so much up because I’ve lived in this house for 25 years and it’s like doing an archeological dig. Because as we keep removing layers, okay, now the book’s got to go, now the furniture we can’t take with us has to go, all these things.
And the more we do it, the less I want to leave the house, even though the house is less comfortable and less pretty, because I keep undecorating the house and getting rid of things. But it’s making me feel like I don’t want to leave. And Allyson, you’re the first one who’s explained it to me so well. Everyone else is like, “Well just leave the house. What’s a matter with you?” I don’t know. I don’t want to leave.
Allyson Scammell:
Well, Miriam, this is super powerful because I’m so glad you said that. Another really just pointing towards a calibration and upgrade is getting rid of things.
Miriam Schulman:
Yes. And I have to say, okay, so listeners listen up, listen up. So one of the things the real estate agent made us do was my studio was covered in paintings on holes and there was so much clutter and they said, “There’s no way we can sell the house looking this way.” So I had to a declutter everything and paint the walls. And as soon as I cleaned it up, suddenly I felt like painting and painting in a direction that I’ve never done before. So this is the first time I’m actually talking about this on the podcast, Allyson. So I’m known for very realistic watercolors, so ever since this happened, I can only paint abstract, it’s the only way. I can’t paint realistically, not that I can’t, can’t is the wrong word.
I choose not to. I’m just painting in this very abstract way. I haven’t brought it forward yet because I’m still want to work with it in a privacy of my cave right now. Not because I’m not proud of anything I’ve done, but just because it’s so new to me. But anyway, continue. This is so good. This is such a great conversation.
Allyson Scammell:
You are such a great case study for this because-
Miriam Schulman:
Allyson was taking notes, by the way. I was like…
Allyson Scammell:
No. Because what you just did is also such a characteristic of an upgrade going in a new direction. You’ve been upgraded, you’re in new energy, that new energy wants to play and dance very often. It wants to do something different that you’ve never done before, create in a whole new way. It doesn’t mean the old way you won’t return to it or do it again, but right now you’re in this new energy.
Miriam Schulman:
But I really felt exactly what all the self development experts say. When I painted the walls and everything was all clean, I was like, all these energetic blocks were released. It was like, ooh, okay. I’m so open. And then I just want to paint all the furniture white too. That’s the other thing that’s happened. No, this is a real thing. I will show Allyson and I will… This used to be-
Allyson Scammell:
Oh my gosh, that’s white.
Miriam Schulman:
Yeah. That used to be brown.
Allyson Scammell:
[crosstalk] literally.
Miriam Schulman:
Yes. Yes. That was not even for the real estate agent. After we got a contract on the house, I started painting the furniture. And then I said to my husband, “Would it be so terrible if I repaint the walls, now that we sold the house?” He said, yes.
Allyson Scammell:
So good.
Miriam Schulman:
Okay. All right. Take us the next stage.
Allyson Scammell:
We’ll bring it home now, because here’s just the perfect case study because you also are experiencing stage four, which is the initiation. This is normally the most uncomfortable part of the journey. It’s exactly everything you just said, Miriam, when we go through initiation, we’re getting called to a newer version of ourselves. Whenever there’s growth, there is always the discomfort associated with growing pains. Right? Well, normally this initiation is we’re facing some sort of fear, we’re facing some sort of resistance, like in your case, Miriam, you’re resisting right now, leaving the house.
Miriam Schulman:
Yes.
Allyson Scammell:
Yeah. Yeah. So this is your initiation and right now you’re facing your fears. You’re facing your fears every day. As you’re getting rid of things, as you’re decluttering, you’re making big decisions and you’re doing it. But with each stage, you’re facing some big emotions. And when you do that, when you face those emotions and experience them and get to the other side of them, you’re releasing.
Miriam Schulman:
Yeah.
Allyson Scammell:
You’re releasing that stuff, when you declutter the room.
Miriam Schulman:
Yeah. So for people who maybe are not ready to understand it on the woo level, it’s like, there’re things that I was getting rid of that represented parts of me that… Okay, so I’m going to not do it with my art so much, but it’s like when you get rid of your maternity clothes, you’re saying to the universe, “I’m never having a baby again.” So there were certain things I was getting rid of, certain art materials I was getting rid of, certain books I was getting rid of, and each time I got rid of them, I was saying, “This is not a part of who I am anymore.” That was huge, hugely powerful. And then also having this idea, well, I can’t take it with me to the next phase of my life. So therefore I’m letting go. Because moving on this next phase is more important to me than holding onto this past.
Allyson Scammell:
Oh, it’s so good. It’s so good. Yes. You’re going through the initiation process right now, and these stages aren’t linear, they come and go as they come and go, but you’re in this initiation of confronting certain fears and being in the fear, releasing it and getting to the other side, letting it go, so something better, higher, more aligned to you and your life right now can arrive.
Miriam Schulman:
Beautiful. Okay. We’re onto the fifth and final, right?Yeah. Okay.
Allyson Scammell:
Fifth and final is communication. What does that mean? So it’s not like this is a one and done process, unfortunately. Stage five is really going to the gym of your intuition. This is like, okay, I’m going through, or I’ve gone through this upgrade. Now let me with intention every day, if possible, or when it arrives to you to do, mindfully with intention connect into that intuition, talk to it, commune with it. Really powerful questions to ask your intuition is who are you calling me to be? Who are you calling to me be? And what are you calling me to do? And just be in that connection and really notice, how do you receive messages from your intuition? Everybody receives differently.
But I say most of us receive it from the neck down. From the neck down is where our intuitive voice really speaks to us through our heart, through our gut, that gut response. Right. And when we’re up in our head is normally when we’re too much in your head, right. I was just listening to the Olympics and I heard the announcer say, “Oh, they got in their head.” Right. It’s because somebody had fallen down, whatever.
Miriam Schulman:
Triple lucks didn’t work out.
Allyson Scammell:
Exactly, exactly, exactly. And that’s exactly right. They got out of their heart, they got out of their intuitive flow and they got in their head and the fall happened and we’ve all done it. Right? So when you want to connect into that intuition, it is connecting and being inside the body, listening to your feelings, tuning into your heart energy, tuning into your gut. Everybody connects into their intuition a little bit differently, but it’s in your body. Below the neck typically.
Miriam Schulman:
Okay. So I want to put a highlight through something you just said, because we just talked about this with another guest. And I’m hoping that episode is published before this one, and if it’s not, it’s a future, it’s with Alexia Vernon. And she talks about that same question, when her husband proposed to her, she asked herself the question, who do I want to be? And you just asked the same question, who do I want to be? And that’s the most powerful question that anyone can ask themselves? Who do you want to be in 2022? And then the other thing I always like to ask my clients is, how do you want to feel? Who do you want to be? And how do you want to feel? I think this is a great place to end, Allyson, don’t you?
Allyson Scammell:
I love it. Yep. If you ask those questions, you will connect to your intuition too. Yes.
Miriam Schulman:
All right. So if you liked what Allyson had to say here today, I’m sure you’re going to love her podcast. It is Soul Guide Radio.
Allyson Scammell:
You did.
Miriam Schulman:
Okay.
Allyson Scammell:
You got it.
Miriam Schulman:
Okay. Yeah. Okay. I’m sure you’re going to love her podcast. It’s Soul Guide Radio, you can check it out on all the podcast places and we’ve included links to all things Allyson in the show notes at schulmanart.com/185. We will also link to Lexi’s episode and we’ll try to remember to also link to the greyhounds at the Metropolitan, and if we can still find at the livestream, but that one may not be available anymore. Okay. And don’t forget if you like today’s episode, you’re going to absolutely love the must listen roundup of all my favorite episodes around mindset. So head on over to schulmanart.com/playlist and grab your binge worthy podcast playlist today. Again, that’s schulmanart.com/playlist. All righty, Allyson, do you have any last words for my listeners before we call this podcast complete?
Allyson Scammell:
Yeah. I would love to leave your listeners with an invitation, an invitation, and I invite you dear listeners to go to the gym of your intuition and get to know how your intuition speaks to you. Is it through your feelings? Do you get visions? Do you hear messages? Do you just get gut inner knowings? And I really invite you to just carve out five minutes, not more. I know personal development people are always asking you to carve out five minutes. So carve out about two minutes, carve about two minutes to ask these powerful questions that Miriam raised. Who are you calling? Who am I calling myself to be? Who are you calling me to be? How do I want to feel? And just see how your intuition responds to you.
Miriam Schulman:
All right. All right, my friend, thank you so much for being with me here today. I’ll see you the same time, same place next week. Stay inspired.
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