Natalie Namaste on How to Tap Into Your Solar Plexus Power | EP 580

0:00Coming up next on PassionStruck. conflict arises deep within the solar plexus chakra so connected with the stomach with there's a fiery energy there it's the element of fire and one can hold opinions and really believe in their opinion and it's their identity it's who they are one comes into contact with someone else who holds a different opinion it creates such a trigger they feel like it's poking at them and who they are and what they believe. And you can physically feel it. Welcome to Passion Struck. Hi, I'm your host, John R. Miles. And on the show, we decipher the secrets, tips, and guidance of the world's most inspiring people and turn their wisdom into practical advice for you and those around you.

0:48Our mission is to help you unlock the power of intentionality so that you can become the best version of yourself. If you're new to the show, I offer advice and answer listener questions on Fridays. We have long form interviews the rest of the week with guests ranging from astronauts to authors, CEOs, creators, innovators, scientists, military leaders, visionaries, and athletes. Now let's go out there and become passion struck. Hey, passion struck fam. Welcome to episode 580. Whether you're a longtime listener or tuning in for the first time, I am thrilled you're here. You're now part of a global movement dedicated to living with intention unlocking your full potential, and making what truly matters matter most.

1:33Now let me ask you this. What if the reason so many of us feel disconnected isn't because we're lost, but because we've forgotten how much we matter? How do we reclaim a sense of purpose in a world that often leaves us feeling invisible? And how can we align our lives with the deeper truths that bring fulfillment, clarity, and lasting joy? That's exactly what we're diving into today with Natalie Namaste, a globally recognized intuitive healer, Reiki master teacher and channeler who has worked with everyone from high-profile leaders to everyday seekers looking to reconnect with their true essence.

2:07Natalie's life took a profound turn at the age of six when she experienced a spiritual awakening that set her on a lifelong path of helping others remove energetic blocks, heal past traumas, and step into their highest potential. In today's episode, we explore why so many people feel unseen and how to rebuild a deep sense of belonging in your life and relationships, how tuning into your inner guidance system can help you break free from inherited patterns and self-limiting beliefs. We discuss Natalie's approach to releasing emotional and energetic blocks that prevent you from living fully. And then we dive into how to integrate meditation, breath work, and daily rituals to cultivate self-trust, peace, and purpose.

2:50If you've ever struggled with self-doubt, felt stuck in patterns that no longer serve you, or wondered how to create a life that truly aligns with who you are, this conversation is for you. Before we dive in, let's take a moment to reflect on last week's episodes. We had some incredible guests sharing insights that could change how you approach your life. On Tuesday, I sat down with Eddie Fishman, author of Choke Points, to discuss the hidden power of global supply chains and how economic warfare is reshaping the world around us. We broke down how control over critical infrastructure impacts global stability and why understanding these dynamics is crucial in today's interconnected world.

3:27And on Thursday, Dr. Sandra Mats joined me to explore the fascinating world of digital psychology, how the data we generate every day is being used to influence, predict, and even manipulate our behaviors in ways we don't always realize. We examine how personality insights are extracted from online behavior and what that means for personal privacy, decision-making, and the future of AI-driven an influence. If you haven't checked those out, I highly recommend going back and giving them a listen after today's episode. And if you haven't already, make sure to subscribe to the show and sign up for my Live Intentionally newsletter at passionstruck.com for exclusive insights on living with purpose, clarity, and deep fulfillment.

4:07Now, let's get into it. Here's my conversation with Natalie Namaste. Thank you for choosing Passion Struck and choosing me to be your host and guide on your journey to creating an intentional life. Now, let that journey begin.

4:24Hey, PassionStruck family. I am so honored today to have Natalie Namaste with us. Welcome, Natalie. Thank you. It is wonderful to be here. One of the questions I love to open episodes with is this one. We all have moments that end up defining us. Some of us get those moments younger in age, some of us get those older in age. You and I happen to share something in common. When we were both five or six years old, we both experienced something profound in our lives. And I was hoping you might talk about the profound spiritual experience that ended up shifting your consciousness. Oh, yes. And when I share it, it's not only with the words it's also an energy transmission you may feel it when i was about five or six i remember this really strongly energetically that i was in the back of my mom's car and i was looking out the window at all the things the schools the people the trees houses life on earth and i had this question come into my mind if there wasn't all of this if there isn't all of this what is there and this incredible feeling like it was dark and felt light at the same time I felt like the warmest embrace love and I feel like it's that feeling that's driven me or inspired me my whole life to explore beyond the physical to deeply experience and understand the dimension the energies, God, source, truth that is holding the mental structure, the beautiful mind, which in we are creating this reality.

6:24And so from that age and that profound, deep, like energetic experience throughout my life, I have been channeling light and so much light. I remember when I was younger saying to my mom, this is so strong. And I just knew that it's healing. I knew that if I sent it in a direction or with the intention for it to touch other people and help other people that it can and it does. And I knew also at a very young age that I'm here to help to guide or inspire or show direction to people so that they can find and remember the light that they are. And so at 18, I found my teacher, she took me under her wing, and she taught me to develop my psychic abilities and to become a holistic healer.

7:19And it's just grown and grown. I mean, another thing that comes to mind now is when I was working in a coffee shop, and I was just gazing out in the shopping mall, and I'm watching all the people and I was like, wow, wow, everyone's glowing. Everyone has this golden ore, this beautiful auric sheath and light around them. And it became more and more. It's never ending the way in which I can see and hear and feel beyond this dimension. But when that happened, I wanted to double check that my eyes were okay. So I went to an optometrist and he said, I have 20-20 vision. So I felt comforted. And then I went to a psychic chiropractor and he said, Natalie, you're seeing auras, you're seeing energies, you're psychic, this is natural for you.

8:10Just surrender, allow what is. And it's that advice that's truly allowed the process to open and expand wider and wider. Yeah, it's incredible. I wanted to ask, how do you think children are naturally attuned to source energy? Because sometimes I think as we get more and more into our lives, we lose connection oftentimes to ourselves, so much so today. And I think when we're children, we're more open in many ways to the universe? When we're born into this world, we're so conscious. We're still in God. We know we're God. We know we're truth, light, universe, source. I really resonate with the word God.

9:03I'm just using other words because just to make sure everyone understands when I say the word God, it means source, universe, consciousness. So at that pure young age, we are still in that vibration and we have a mind. And what starts to happen is we start to use the mind to understand how to function and work and explore in this 3D world. And so what happens with the mind is it starts to fill up with mental structures. We start to then have emotions that are activated created as the mind develops and creates beliefs. So in the beginning, we're pure, we have a very focused mind, we can just use the mind for what we need to be able to walk, to be able to speak.

9:59And then the mind starts to take over because it fills with belief patterns and structures. And then we start to believe that we are the mind. And we believe that we are the character that the personality and we believe that we are the beliefs and what happens is the consciousness that we truly are all that awareness gets focused on the mind so the mind gets more attention more energy and the more energy the mind has the more it grows and the more beliefs it creates so it just creates more and more beliefs and so it's got hundreds of thousands of beliefs and then we're quite far away from that pure truth which is god but it's never gone it is always there it's like at the depth of the ocean that is god that is consciousness it's always there but what happens is we start to live at the surface of the ocean in the waves in the beliefs and we start to feel every feeling and emotion and what i've noticed is there's like a ping of electrical magnetic charge that happens a lot in the solar plexus, which is directly connected to the ego, to the mind.

11:15And we'll have it, some people might experience this as anxiety, as strong, like a stress or tension or like a strong energy to make you act. And so it's that pinging, that energy that happens inside that then creates us to react and creates more mental structures. It's like here we are this beautiful, pure, crystalline being. And then we form layers and layers of the rock around it. And we can disconnect from the truth. And it's so beautiful because this miracle of life is that we lose ourselves because we get caught up in the mind and we believe we're the mind. And then the way back to come back to truth, God, is to come back through the mind, through all those layers back to the core being that's never been gone.

12:05We don't seek God outside of us. It's within us and it's never gone. So here in the present moment and babies and children live so present in the here and now that they're just, they are experiencing here and now. And so it's easier to be in that God energy. And I feel like more and more souls are not falling asleep. So So they're coming into earth and being conscious and they're never closing their eyes. They keep their eyes open. They stay aware and they remember always that they are God, that they are consciousness, that they are this beautiful energy, having a momentary human experience and that they can use the mind when they need it, pick it up, put it down and stay awake.

12:55And this is happening. And we have the opportunity. those of us that have fallen asleep but then we start to have a wake-up process where things become uncomfortable it's most often we start to have discomforts like strong emotions like depression or feeling stuck in life and like our outer reality is just stuck we don't have enough money or we attract the partners that abuse us or don't help us to shine and they're all just mirrors of these patterns that are running in the mental layers. And so we start to awaken, we start to realize this is not what I want. There must be something more. These questions are so good when we start to ask, who am I?

13:43Where am I observing life from? And that's where we come back into this conscious awake state as the observer. Thank you so much for sharing all that. And I mentioned earlier that you and I both had defining moments in our lives. For me, I had a traumatic brain injury when I was that same age. and it unearthed something in me that for decades I kept hidden from the world because it made me different and I didn't know how to process it. After that incident, I began to see auras, but I didn't see them necessarily in the same way that you describe. Although at times I can see a glow around people, what I would tend to be able to see is to see the field that surrounds not only humans, but animals or even objects.

14:52So I would start seeing things related to chakras, such as I would see red. And I know that person was self-aware and courageous and passionate. I would see orange, which is like the sacral chakra. And I would see it that right now they're creative or maybe they're brave. I would see yellows and greens and blues. And I thought as a kid, I was losing my mind to tell you the truth. And I wasn't, I grew up Roman Catholic. So I wasn't spiritually in tune to these types of things. So I just suppressed that I had this ability. And it's interesting, Natalie, because I found through different periods of my life, the capability comes and goes at times, depending upon how aligned I am with spirituality and mindfulness, things like that.

15:49Is that kind of normal? yes it's a beautiful ebb and flow it because we are truth we are god we are universe and that can never be taken away so we're never not in the light is us and it's not that it goes away it's there but what happens is our attention our awareness gets drawn into the mind and the human experience. And so what it feels like is that we've disconnected or that we're not experiencing as deeply or strongly, like seeing colors or feeling the tingles and the goosebumps and the energies that run through us. There are moments in our life where we feel less and that's okay. Whatever you are experiencing is meant to be.

16:48It's a divine perfection. So never to worry or be concerned. All that needs to happen is to have the awareness of it. So you notice, ah, so I'm not seeing or feeling or experiencing as deeply as I once did. And just by having that realization, something's going to shift and it's going to start to come back and you're going to experience it in a different way and open up for it to come back deeper. What it is, the awareness. Awareness is meditation. So we can sit and meditate, but we can also eat and meditate. And right now I'm meditating as I talk to you because I am aware of Natalie and the body, and I'm aware of this channel of light that's flowing through and these words that are speaking through.

17:43There's a profound awareness here. So the more we expand into the awareness of all that is, the more we just allow what is and we're okay with sometimes not feeling and experiencing it as deeply as it was before. It's all perfect. I, through the periods of my life when I've been really immersed in my yoga practice and things like that, I find have been the times that I've been able to see the colors most brightly. And when I'm not as in tune to my inner self, I tend to lose the capability, like for a period of time when I think my life got out of balance and I was chasing the wrong things and experiencing burnout and other things.

18:33And this kind of leads me back to your early life. There was a book that came out in 1993 that perhaps many of the people in my audience have never heard of. It's called The Celestian Prophecy by James Redfield. And you discovered this when you were in college. So the interesting thing about this book is that in it, it explores this idea that humanity is on the cusp of a major shift in consciousness. And I was hoping you might be able to explain this and how it resonates with your own work. it feels like more and more people are awakening and remembering truth the light that they are and when there is a global and mass awakening on the earth frequencies higher frequencies more light can penetrate the third dimension and what this is seen and experienced as is more love.

19:45It's a natural, authentic connection to others. People feel less separate and they can genuinely feel the connection to others. And what this book awakened in me was to see and experience beyond this dimension. and it's like when you read something you can read the words and understand a concept but there's something different that happens when you understand energetically what you're reading when something just clicks into place there might be something that you and I channel today and we share today that someone goes whoa I feel mind blown like that's landing and it changes the way you show up in the world.

20:44So recently, like just last week, I was teaching Reiki Masters Holistic Healer. And it is such a deep and powerful course to teach. And when I was teaching, I started vibrating so much light, so much current moving through me. When one of my students was talking, her hands turned transparent, her energy went violet, It was incredible. And then as I was reading the manual, I've channeled the manual, so I know the manual. It's from my heart. So I'm reading it to make sure, like we stay on course, because I want to make sure that they receive everything. And also the words, the pages, everything turns into light and energy.

21:28And everything starts to turn into fractals, to really turn into energy. and with such a profound experience a day later after the course had finished my I was so open to the vibration of love that I was sitting on the sofa and I just looked at the wall and there was a spider and I started crying tears of love because I could feel my heart cracking open for how much love I held for the spider and how much it's not a thought wasn't there there wasn't a thought of I love the spider, it's a feeling. So what happens is we can intellectually understand concepts through the mind. And then we can deeply integrate those concepts, energetic understanding in the body.

22:20And then we naturally vibrate love and compassion. And we naturally have such an incredible gratitude and appreciation for the miracle of life. There's no mind there. There's no thought of, oh, I need to wake up and think, what am I grateful for? You wake up and you naturally have this overflowing energy of, I'm awake for another day on this planet. Wow. And you are just grateful for everything, the whole experience. And the way to get to this state where there's less and less mind is to observe the mind. So to observe what patterns, what programs are running within your system. And some of them are dark, some of them are intense, and they bring up a lot of emotion.

23:23for me the way that I've got into the space of where I can truly sit throughout a day and do things throughout my day and I'm so at peace within because there's hardly any mind there like sometimes the mind is just going and now we're eating now it's like a little commentary but it's hardly there and it's not all the time because sometimes it gets very involved and I feel strong emotion and energy. But the way that brought me to this space was, I used to feel sad, very sad. And I didn't know if it was like, being such an empath and sensitive and feeling the weight of the world. And so it was a bit of that.

24:01And it was a bit of that I was carrying sadness inside of me. And I existed it was such and it felt like a void, like a black hole inside of me. and I didn't want to go there. I wanted to get to happiness and just be happy. And so I would get to happiness and be happy. I didn't feel sadness every day. It was just sometimes. But when I felt it, I could really just lie and cry. And so the way to deep healing and wholeness is through the feeling. So I decided to embrace sadness and I sat with it. And I said, sadness, you've clearly got something to teach me. and I'm no longer going to run away. And I sat with it, and I felt it, and it was like a whole day of just writing and feeling and being, and something happened, something so profound that at first it became heavier and stronger, and I felt the blackness take over me, and I felt it in my body.

25:02It felt like pins and needles, and I felt scary. And then I heard this deep voice from inside. You are coming home, my child. Come home. Come back to truth. It's safe. Go through the darkness. Walk through the tunnel. You are being held in it. And I just felt held and loved and it got deeper and stronger and then I broke through. And it was past lives. It was past life energy and it was ancestral energy and it was beliefs that i'd held in this life it was so much it was layered and the liberation and the light that i started to feel afterwards felt so comforting and so good and then i realized oh i've been trying to chase happiness and that is an illusion as well that's not a truth it's not about trying to be happy or avoid the sadness it's about being with whatever is and being okay with whatever is and giving permission for whatever shows up and from that moment onwards I felt so content with life I can be in a chaotic situation something what one would normally say is awful happening and I just know there's a sense deep inside that this is a divine this god's creation is so perfect that there is no wrong it that it everything is exactly how it's meant to be it's so comfortable to be with whatever is thank you for sharing that and it goes right into a follow-on question that came to me in the celestian prophecy the book also talks a lot about energy how we give it and receive it and you were just talking about some of that energy.

26:58Why do conflicts arise when people try to control it?

27:09Conflict arises deep within the solar plexus chakra, so connected with the stomach. There's a fiery energy there. It's the element of fire. And one can hold opinions and really believe in their opinion. and it's their identity, it's who they are. And so when one comes into contact with someone else who holds a different opinion, it creates such a trigger. They feel like it's poking at them and who they are and what they believe. And you can physically feel it. Sometimes it'll create like acid reflux or like problems with your bowels or in your stomach. And it feels so strong and it feels like you're being attacked.

27:52And so when you feel like you're being attacked, what do you want to do? And naturally, you want to defend yourself. And energetically, what happens here is there's a cord that is created, an energy cord from the solar plexus. So from your solar plexus to their solar plexus, and it's a power struggle cord. And so every time you think about them and you think about the situation, you get agitated and you get angry and you make those fiery emotions start to well up. and that cord that starts to send energy to them. And so then you feel depleted. You might notice that one moment you have a lot of energy and then one moment you feel very drained.

28:31And that's a sign that there's a power cord that's connected with you too. So they'll have a moment where they feel elated or they've got a lot of energy because they've got your energy. And then they'll have moments where they feel depleted. These cords are unhealthy cords because they're connecting you mentally. You'll notice the mind will keep going back to think about them in the situation and so as an energy healer one of the things that we do is and and you can do this yourself it's a practice that anyone can do you can ask archangel michael to he's a beautiful blue archangel who works to protect clear energies and heal and he has a golden sword and he you can ask him to come in and cut that cord so that you are released from that pattern and that attachment because what's actually happened here is you've created a belief and attachment to an opinion and you believe it's so strong.

29:26So it actually helps you to release that opinion, that belief, and it helps you to release that situation and that person and it will help to open your mind so that you're able to be more comfortable with an understanding that it's okay for them to have their opinion and for you to have your opinion. And it's all just energy. When we're having an interaction with a person, and say we have a lovely interaction, say we have a conversation, oh, even if I start to talk about I can feel tingles from the top of my head and goosebumps through my body. When we have a positive conversation with someone that is about something inspiring, we feel really good.

30:08What it does is it raises your frequency and you can feel it. And then when we have a good confrontation, something that's challenging and it triggers us, it can lower our frequency because it can drain our energy out and it can cause us to go out of balance in our chakras and our energy. But this is okay. It's just pointing and showing us, ah, there's something to learn here. There's something that we can grow from and then just being aware of how you're feeling how you are energetically so the other day someone said to me oh natalie you sense and you feel so much because i was telling them how i can eat something and i can feel where it affects the brain white chocolate it's i really can't eat it it affects the brain so much in the front and oh it's such an interesting feeling because of that sensitivity of being able to know exactly what food does to the body and what crystals do if I hold a crystal I can feel it so I'm very sensitive to all all of life and the energies and so someone said to me oh well how do you go grocery shopping and my answer was well you don't really go my my beautiful husband does most of the grocery shopping and but if I do go grocery shopping I enjoy it because I am grounded and so I'm grounded and when you're grounded it means you're very present in yourself which means that you are at the highest frequency of your being and it means you are naturally protected because you are in this beautiful frequency.

31:40And so I don't go out there and pick up on everyone's energy and read their auras. I only do that when I'm in session with someone. And so having the awareness of the self helps you to create these beautiful rituals and ways of protecting yourself. So when you are interacting from the level of the soul, the mind, you're a separate being having a human experience, then you can use tools like asking Archangel Michael to wrap his wings around you and protect you. Or you can visualize yourself in a blue ball of protection so that you feel safe. And when you go out there, you don't pick up other energies.

32:22But the outer world, it's not an unsafe place because that which enters into your aura is always meant for you. And that which doesn't was never meant for you. So put your protection around you go out there and, and enjoy life. And then if things that are not part of your learning experience, they'll bounce off your blue ball of life back into the cosmos, turning into energy and you'll never have the lesson or growth from it because it's not meant for you. And then that which comes through, you'll feel it, you'll sense it, and then have the curiosity to go, what is that? What am I feeling in my body?

33:04Our soul consciousness is communicating through our body all of the time. Don't be scared of it. The more you expand, so the less and less mental activity there is, the more light can be in your body, which is the expansion, and then you'll start to have really interesting experiences. Like some people say, oh, they're having tinnitus. I'm like, well, wait, let's not label it. You're hearing different frequencies. And so we can hear things beyond this dimension, or it might be that you get headaches. And instead of going, oh, this is a problem, we've got to fix it. How about having a curiosity and going, there's something in my head that's communicating.

33:45I'm going to bring awareness to it and just notice what I sense. And each one of us has the answers within us. We are God, we are truth. So we have all the answers within us. It's just a matter of coming back into the stillness to receive that wisdom and use the body as the greatest tool that it is. Every time it feels pain, pleasure, sensation, vibration, instead of judging it for what it is or labeling it, just be curious. And there's energy, a lot of energy in this one area, I'm just going to breathe and be in the space. And that is where you get a deeper and deeper connection to the truth of you.

34:31It's the portal is through the body. It's one of the greatest portals because the more and more you go within, the less and less you're going without. out and within is where God consciousness is vibrating moment by moment. And the body only exists in the present moment. So what does it do? It brings you into the here and the now. So I think that is a great lead in to where I wanted to start taking this discussion, and that is into our soul's purpose. So over the past year, I've been trying to get gradually more and more experts in spirituality on the show. And I've had Rebecca Rosen, Amy Lee McCree, Dr.