Amy Leigh Mercree on Unlock the Power of Your Energy Field | EP 676

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2:36It's something I'm incredibly excited to finally share with you, so stay tuned. Today, for episode 676, we're going live to explore another invisible force that shapes how we experience the world, energy. My guest is Amy Lee McCree, a best-selling author of more than 15 books, including Aura Alchemy, A Little Bit of Chakras, and A Little Bit of Mindfulness. She's a globally recognized medical intuitive, spiritual teacher, and Hay House author whose work blends science and spirituality from subatomic physics to shamanic practices. In this live conversation recorded at the Oxford Exchange, we explore what auras actually are and the fascinating science behind them.

3:22How energy fields shape our perceptions, emotions, and interactions. Practical techniques to sense, cleanse, and strengthen your own energy. And how perspective and intention alter not just how we see the world, but the reality we project into it. Before we dive in, a quick reminder. Our new store, StartMattering.com, is live. It's built on a simple truth. You matter. Live like it. Every hoodie, tee, and hat fuels the ripple of the mattering revolution. Check it out at startmattering.com. Now let's step into this fascinating world of aura science, energy fields, and intuitive intelligence with Amy Lee McCree.

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5:16Amy, thank you for driving up from up south. Amy was in the car for about three hours coming up here today. I really appreciate her making the drive. And for those of you who are perhaps not familiar with my podcast, I had Amy on an episode 475, which I just hit 660. So that was probably 18 months ago. And we actually discussed this book. So we're going to expand on that today. I first kind of wanted to ask the room, when you come into a room like this and you see each other and the vibe of the room, do you all feel any energy presence amongst yourselves? Amy, when you come into a room like this, given this is what you've studied and practiced, what kind of energy do you feel?

6:07So when I come into any space with a lot of people, I tend to seal up my energy field, which I can teach you all how to do, only because there's crowds. Now, all of you, of course, have fantastic energy. You're here to talk to us. You've come in because you may have listened to Passion Struck, the podcast, which is fantastic. But when I come into a space with a lot of people, the first thing I like to do is just have a little bubble around me and then make sure I'm coming in with the spirit of joy. So I'm raising frequency. And as somebody who's been intuitive for a lot of my life, I tend to turn down the volume on the crowds.

6:54But when we're in a room like this, I get to relax and open up and talk to all of you who are here to talk to us about common things that we're interested in. Yeah so what really interested me to Amy's work is I am fortunate enough that I get to see the early releases from all the major publications or publishers what's coming out and Hay House happens to be one of my favorite who now publishes your books and i happened to to see your book coming out but what really caught my eye was that you mac you combined physics with spiritual practices and i wanted to kind of understand what got you interested in that diverse mix i've always been a science nerd um i've always been very into science physics all of that even as a child so as a child i was a member of the astronomy me book club and all kinds of things like that.

7:57So I was always interested in that. And then in sixth grade, we did a unit called Matter Matter Everywhere that was about atoms and what they're made of, protons, neutrons, electrons. And I was hooked. So even from a young age, I looked at things in this way. Over time, I trained with my late medicine teacher. I steeped myself in a lot of different traditions while I was in college. And then as I got the opportunity to be a writer, I got to combine that with scientific knowledge. Later when we talk about auras, we'll get to talk about the actual science of auras. But it's been an interest almost lifelong of mine.

8:42Yeah. And what led you to writing this book now? I mean, as the introduction just covered, I mean, you've studied and written about mindfulness. You've talked about crystals. You've talked about chakras. Why auras now? So Aura Alchemy is my 18th book. And it was a study in the work that I do as a medical intuitive, where I do combine the science of particle physics, quantum mechanics, with spirituality, clairvoyance, the systems of the body. So the aura is an extension of the body's energy system. So to write a book about that, it's kind of a gateway into how do we clean it, clear it, fill it with high vibrational energy.

9:31What do all these colors mean that people discuss? It was a really great entry point to get into the medical intuitive energetic side of things and you start out the book by uh telling a story about your brother yes and uh you you talk about natural sparkles yeah i was hoping because i think that sets up the whole book you could talk about that experience i love it and it'll be fun to tell my brother i got to talk about it too so when we were little we had this area next to our house that we called the stream and my brother was younger so for those of you who have younger siblings in the early years if you're the older sibling you maybe get to direct the little brother as they get older they can pick you up and it's a different story but when we were kids we would make this thing called the stream and we happened to just have a yard that was sloping in a pretty suburban area and it was dirt because my dad hadn't filled the grass in for a long time.

10:37It was kind of on the side. This was back before the days of water conservation. It was up north so it wasn't an issue and we would turn on the hose except there was just a faucet and water would come out and so we would manicure it into all these different tributaries and streams. We put the G.I. Joes and the Star Wars figures there. And through all of that time, it was a multi-year process. Our cousins did that with us. Our neighborhood friends were, everybody came over and made the stream. Like fall, summer, spring, always. The winter, the spring, the stream was closed down. But during all of that time, I was looking at what I thought of as nature sparkles.

11:22And so I would see, you know, sparkles and they would be moving, they would be moving with the stream, they would be around the stream. And then as it got closer to dusk, I would see more. And then I would even see what now we would call the aura or electromagnetic field of the tree line as we got closer to dusk, which is a great time to see all of that. Usually I would know to start looking for my friends, the trees, I would just think it was their glow, close to the time when my mom would tell us to come in for dinner. So it was kind of an early introduction and for a long time I just assumed everybody saw that.

12:03And I actually think a lot of people do. I've now over the years shown many friends, family members, you know, anybody I'm out in nature with, especially when you're hiking and you're in a less urban area, you can often see those sparkles if you kind of know how to unfocus your eyes and look for them. So it was something that I kind of thought everybody saw. It took me a while to realize they didn't. But that was, again, another point that was illustrative of me wondering, what were things made of? What were these? So that's what was very exciting when I started to learn about science. And then, of course, as I was an adult, you know, really a voracious reader, being able to sort of create ideas around what these things might be.

12:54And then what a privilege, as John knows, when we get to write books and share our ideas. No, it's awesome. And for those who haven't listened to the podcast, I have a lot of different guests on. And I've been fortunate to have a number of astronauts. I think I'm up to eight or nine now. And I have two or three astronauts who are very close friends of mine, including a Naval Academy classmate of mine and another who was my physics instructor. But you have an astronaut story, I understand. I do. So you took this concept of sparkles to outer space. I did. And not just with any astronaut, but with John Glenn.

13:41I understand when you were like fifth or sixth grade, you actually reached out to him because you had heard he had seen sparkles in space. I saw the movie, The Right Stuff. If any of you have seen it, it's a great movie. And they showed when he was in Friendship Seven, you know, he was in space. They depicted his account of all of these sparkles around the capsule. He was in the early space program for those who didn't see the movie or read. There's a book too. I think I read the book as well. So I think it was fifth or sixth grade and I was like, wait a minute. Sparkles in outer space because I see these sparkles in the stream.

14:24What are these? And plus I was starting to learn about matter and energy and thinking about what I used to anyways think of as the tiny universe. So I wrote a letter to John Glenn. So fifth, sixth grader writing a handwritten letter, which I had, I grew up with many learning disabilities, so my writing was not easy to read. So I really had to sit down and take the time to make the letter legible, first of all. Wrote the letter to John Glenn saying, I'm really wondering what do you think the sparkles around Friendship 7 were made of? And it was so exciting for somebody, especially, who was into science.

15:07And I wanted to be an astronaut, too, at the time. I got this huge Manila envelope back with signed pictures, all these different things about the space program, a letter, I'm sure, from his staff that appeared to be signed by him. It was my prized possession for years. It was such a fun thing to again keep igniting that excitement for science, which I did actually go to school for education. I was a teacher as well for years and I really felt that was so important to keep the joy and the spirit and the excitement alive in all of these topics. Science was an easy one for me, obviously. So I want to talk about auras.

15:53So this This is something that honestly I didn't necessarily believe too much in when I was younger. I thought it was a bunch of foo-foo stuff. When I was in the military, I unfortunately was hit from behind by a rocket propelled grenade which caused me to have a traumatic brain injury. and I was in a coma for a couple weeks and coming out of that I had weird senses that I had never experienced before suddenly come alive and it was very much freaking me out because I started to see energy fields and colors and things like that and had no idea what I was experiencing and I was in my mid-20s when this happened and I eventually started to do some research on it and found out that what I was seeing was was auras but it was weird and you and I talked about this the last time because sometimes I can see them and sometimes I'm unable to see them and and and when I'm kind of in the zone of seeing them and I think it's when I'm most in tune with myself they're really vivid and for part of my professional career it was when when i did have the capability it was a blessing because i was able to to very much read people yeah and their emotional state when i was in meetings but one of the things you talk about is that auras are dynamic and i yes and so that experience i had of them kind of coming and going sometimes being able to see because I don't think it's just my energy it's the other person's energy as well absolutely can you talk about that a little bit the science behind it yeah I mean so the way I define an aura is a biologically generated electromagnetic field it's made of subatomic particles known as photons which comprise light electricity and electromagnetic force so we're always emanating this even now I'm gesturing you know i'm mediterranean so i'm gesturing all over the place i'm speaking all of this is happening due to the movement of electricity in the body these photons and they do have their own electromagnetic field they're made of force so in aura alchemy you get a hopefully really fun science lesson in the beginning but the reason for that is so you understand that photons are force and charge.

18:36They don't have any mass, but they are always there. So when we are talking, John and I are talking, we're interacting with you guys, we're all exchanging, emanating these photons. The photons that are moving through our brains are actually what are triggering and potentially even comprise our thought process. So when we're interacting, we're moving in a different way but either way photons never stop moving. Electromagnetic force and charge never stops moving. So our auras are so mutable and changeable because we're sitting here but at the same time I could be thinking I'm not in this case I'm very comfortable but I could be thinking wow this light is really bright it's cold I'm feeling this I'm feeling that so there's this other charge around somebody so say in a meeting what a gift right to be able to a sense in a meeting like that.

19:34And definitely story of my life too. Sometimes it's too much and that's when we have to turn the volume down. But in a meeting, you know, it may give you insight into the state of the other person and say you're negotiating or something. So yeah, they're always moving, changing. And I'd love to hear, John, is that still common for you all the, you know, years after your TBI to see them? Like I said, it kind of comes and goes. I hope you've been enjoying today's conversation with Amy Lee McCree. We'll be right back after a quick word from our sponsors. Thank you for supporting the brands that help make the show possible.

20:17You're listening to PassionStruck on the PassionStruck Network. Now, back to my conversation with Amy Lee McCree. Before I was at Dell, I was at Lowe's Home Improvement, and I remember I would I've been working on this huge project and the way we would get these projects approved is ultimately we would have to brief the CEO and his staff and the CEO and the CFO would ultimately make the decision and so I came into this meeting so eager to have this and then I could just see that the CEO was inflamed in a just bright red. Yeah. And for me, alarm bells started coming up that for me to give the presentation in that moment, it wasn't going to land at all.

21:14And so it was discouraging because I knew I was going to have to punt, but it helped me realize that if I went through, it would have ended up in not the result that I wanted. Right. So did you not pitch? What did you do? Well, I still had to pitch, but I pitched it differently. I mean, because my boss was expecting me to pitch. Sure. You couldn't be like, hey, look at his aura. So, yeah. So I pitched it more instead of trying to get approval, as instead using it as an opportunity to educate him more about what we were trying to do and lay the groundwork for when we came back, we would have a better chance of getting it approved because it was not a tiny project.

22:01This was like a$75,$80 million initiative. Yes, so the perfect case of reading the room. Yes, and for those who shop at Lowe's, what I was pitching him is what Lowe's now calls my Lowe's, the whole loyalty management program. And at the time, the reason this was so controversial is Lowe's during that era said, we will never have a loyalty program. And so bringing a loyalty program to them under those circumstances was rough as it was. But it turned out we got it launched in a different way from a loyalty program. this the person who's the CEO now has turned it into a loyalty program. But a great opportunity to read the room since the energy of the person or people you're interacting with.

23:02Yeah you want to know how we ended up selling it? How? So at that at that time for any fans of NASCAR Jimmy Johnson was the driver for Lowe's and we got more information on our customers by Jimmy Johnson's fan club because there were like 15-20 million people in it and we had access to all that information so we sold this as an extension of the Jimmy Johnson fan club that my Lowe's was a natural extension and it would feed the bigger NASCAR piece. Perfect. Get around the no loyalty program idea, which I'm sure later everyone said, wow, that's a great idea to have a loyalty program. It was. They just didn't want it to be like going into a grocery store.

23:54Salesy. Yes, they wanted it to be more customer-centric. Yeah. But interesting story. What a fun story where an aura was able to help you ultimately close a business field. So I want to get back to science just one second. You say that matter and energy kind of coexist or intertwine. Yes. How does that matter, since we're using the word matter, to talking about auras? Great question. So we'll do a quick but really fun science lesson. So in the land of existence we have matter, energy, force, and charge. Matter and energy are called, the particles that comprise matter and energy are called fermions.

24:47So that means they have mass. So that's, you've heard of protons, neutrons, electrons. Protons and neutrons are also made up of smaller elementary particles, which means the absolute smallest particles called quarks. But so, those quarks, those electrons, the protons and neutrons, all that matter in energy, those are fermions. They all have some mass, even if it's a little bit. You may have also heard of a particle called a neutrino. That is also a fermion, which means it has a little bit of mass. Now on the other side of things, we have bosons. Bosons have no mass. All they are is force or charge.

25:27So photons, which are light, are under that category of bosons. So are a bunch of other particles called gluons, something called the Higgs boson, which is the result of something called the Higgs field, which was postulated to have come into existence seconds after the Big Bang, pervades everything and actually helps through something called the Pauli principle, give matter and energy its mass and its heftiness. But those are even bosons. So, quick fun, hopefully not too confusing science lesson, but to go back to auras, our body is made from the mass perspective of matter and energy. So, protons, neutrons, electrons.

26:18But then these photons, this light and electricity is running through our body. It's our thoughts. It's causing all of our functions, the involuntary functions like breathing, the way that our heart is pumping blood, that is an electrical charge pumping the heart muscle. Everything is the result of the movement of photons in the body. So because photons are electromagnetic force, they're an electromagnetic field, they emanate out and around our body. A really great example to describe that is if we were to take like the light that's coming through a lamp or the lights above us, if it were to move that electrical energy and electricity would move through an uninsulated copper wire.

27:05It's comprised of electrons, which as we know, have a little bit of mass and photons, which are just force and charge. So if we were to use a copper wire to power that light and have it not have any insulation around it, the photons, which are an electromagnetic force, would travel on the outside of the copper wire. So that's why they're prone to emanating. They're prone to creating a field because they actually are a field. So we're just a walking charge. We are a field of energy woven through, moving through the matter and the actual energy in our body. We're actually force and charge as far as the aura goes.

27:49So hopefully that was a decent explanation when I try to explain science. I like to keep it easy to understand, but there's a lot of particles involved. So I understand that you have some cleansing techniques. Yes. Is there a cleansing technique that we could have the audience try? Sure. We can do lots of cleansing techniques. So we can actually do a cleansing technique, and then we could fill up the empty space, too, with whatever frequency we want, if we want to try that. We'll see if these are in the book. You'll have to check, because there's a lot of... Gosh, I think there's like 20 or 30 techniques in the book.

28:30I'm going to have you use one that will actually get to benefit the space here too. So one of the things we do talk about in Aura Alchemy is do buildings, spaces, hills, oceans, have auras? Is there energy around areas, geographic areas? And a lot of times there is. So we'll also get to maybe benefit the space we're in just by filling it with good energy after. So should we do this? Yeah. Okay. I'm up for it if the audience is. Yeah. Why don't we do this interactively? So we're going to use an invocation first to make sure everything that happens is for the highest good. So I'll say it aloud and you could repeat it, call and response, or if you'd like to repeat it in your head, you can, but we may as well say it aloud.

29:21So we'll go ahead and do that and then I'll just take you through the process. So I ask. I ask. that all that transpires in the entirety of this aura cleansing be for the very highest good of all life and in accordance with universal natural law helping all and harming none. I ask I ask that I be protected fully during this process that I be protected fully during this process and I welcome the presence and welcome the presence of my highest vibrational my highest vibrational guides okay so now we have a nice intention so if you'd like to close your eyes I can take you through this or a cleansing process.

30:19So picture beneath this room about three feet a sheet of white light and you can picture it extending out around the edges of the room up to 10 feet. It's a huge sheet of beautiful white light. Picture it there and it's sort of just gently floating and undulating on a cosmic breeze. This sheet of white light will now begin to raise up and you can just watch it raise up through the aura area, the charge underneath you, which is your connection to the earth. Watch it raise up through where your feet are and then up through your legs, through your knees. Watch this sheet of white light moving up through your torso, up through your upper torso, up through your head, and then watch it go up above you, moving up through the space above you, all the way up, up, up, up, up, till it goes up above the ceiling of this room.

31:26And then we'll just watch that bundle into a little ball and go into the sun. We can just watch it go straight into the sun and be transmuted back into pure white light. And so now bring your awareness back into your body and notice how that feels. And if you would like to just popcorn style, say a word about how that feels, we'd love to hear that.

32:00Light and bright. Free. Free. Clean. Clean. Clear. Peaceful and calm. Peaceful and calm. Fulfilled. Fulfilled. Like an exhale. Like an exhale. Anything else? How does that feel, John? Kind of like took a weight off. Yeah. Lighter. Lighter. It's a real easy way to just clear things out. And then we'll refill now. So a great principle after we clear energy is we may as well fill it with high vibrational energy. And my work as a medical intuitive and just a human, I think of joy as the highest vibration in the known universe. And it's really helpful in medical intuitive work for raising vibration.