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When Your Body Tells You What Your Mind Can't: Recognizing True Alignment

• Justina Sharp • Season 1 • Episode 4

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Have you ever noticed how your body speaks to you when something isn't right? That unexplained nausea before a dreaded meeting, the tightness in your chest in certain relationships, or the overwhelming sense of peace when you're exactly where you're meant to be? 

Your physical sensations aren't random—they're powerful guidance systems helping you recognize alignment in your life. In this soul-nourishing conversation, we explore how nature serves as profound medicine for our overstimulated spirits. I share my spontaneous park bench meditation and how the energy of trees, water, and emerging spring grass can instantly calm our nervous systems and reconnect us to our intuitive wisdom.

As we heal internally, our perception expands—colors become more vibrant, sounds clearer, and we begin sensing the energy flowing through everything around us. This isn't mystical imagination but a natural shift in consciousness that occurs when we quiet our minds enough to experience life without filters.

We discuss the womb meditation practice that helped me discover true embodiment and why spiritual expansion actually requires grounding deeply into your physical form. The universe constantly supports us through intuitive nudges—that gut feeling to choose one orange over another, to turn left instead of right, or to reach out to someone specific. When we listen to these subtle messages, we strengthen our intuitive abilities and live more aligned lives.

Ready to experience this for yourself? I challenge you to dedicate just five minutes daily for two weeks to meditation. Like tuning a radio, consistent practice helps you find that clear signal of inner wisdom that's always broadcasting beneath the mental noise.

Connect with me on Instagram @AngelReikiJourney or visit AngelReikiJourney.com to learn about my upcoming Reiki classes. Together, we're creating a community of sacred souls remembering their innate wisdom and power.

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Justina:

Hello there, I'm so happy you're here. Welcome to my podcast, sacred Soul Sisters. My name is Justina. I am an Usui, holy Fire and Angel Reiki Master with over 20 years of practice, and I'm your host. I can't wait to let others feel the love of community and remind us of the importance of coming together instead of coming apart. Now let's take a deep breath together in through our nose and a long exhale out of our mouth. This is my intentions in a poem to set the tone for our sacred soul sister community. Here you go. Welcome, dear soul, to this sacred space where all are embraced with love and grace, From every land, from near and far. No matter who you are, you're a star. Feel the warmth, the light, the peace. Let your spirit find release. Here we gather hearts aligned To uplift, to heal, to realign, breathe in deeply, feel your glow, let your light expand and flow. As I pour into you with love, so true, your cup overflows, your soul renews. Together we rise in love. We stand Lifting vibrations hand in hand. A mission of light, a journey divine. Thank you for sharing your soul with mine. Welcome to the Sacred Soul Sisters space, a home of love and sacred embrace. I'm so glad you're here. Hello friends, here we are.

Justina:

Episode four oh, I had to take a minute and go to this nearby park and it's got a beautiful lake and just kind of feel the nature. There are like cars that drive by at a distance, but I'm surrounded by trees and water and quiet. Once in a while you hear a little bird chirp, but it just feels good. It's so calming. I feel like sometimes nature is the best medicine. Not to sound completely cliche, but it really is. I had to run to the grocery store for this and I found myself like I was in there for a couple of minutes and I knew I needed to get a couple of things and but I just couldn't like even finish my whole list. You ever have one of those days where you're just like I just don't want to be in here at the pharmacy part and people announcing stuff overhead and just this overstimulating situation. And I heard Spirit say, even in all that commotion, like just go to the park, just go to the park. I'm so glad I listened, because there's this little bench here, it's right by the water and there's like little green stuff starting to come up out of the ground, which is known as grass. I feel like it's been a year since we've seen it. I'm so glad spring is coming. I'm so glad spring is coming, anyway. So I'm here to kind of remind you the medicine that nature can give you.

Justina:

I don't know if anybody else is a tree lover or a tree hugger, as I get called sometimes, but there's truly something about the trees, especially like the enormous big Oak trees. Oh, oh, oh, and I get to go see. Um, oh, what are those trees? Uh, are they red? Oh, I can't remember. They're in California. Um, I live in the Midwest so I've never been to California, but I do get to go to California in September and I can't wait. Redwood Forest or something like that. Anyway, I've seen pictures of them and I can't imagine what that energy feels like. So I am ecstatic to get to see them. But, yeah, they're so stabilizing for me.

Justina:

Maybe it's my earth sign, maybe it's because I'm a Virgo, I don't know, but it just it feels so good to be near the trees and I'm even finding now like even looking at the dirt and the rocks and watching the water go by. There's something about the more you heal on the inside, and I know I sound like a broken record with that, because I say it over and over. But the more you heal on the inside of you, the more all of this stuff comes into your awareness, the more the beauty is shown to you. Or maybe it's that your shade over top of your perception is lifted and things just seem more vibrant, like it's almost like you can see and feel the energy coming off of the ground, coming out of each little blade of grass. It's just beautiful.

Justina:

And I find myself sitting here looking at the water and just starting to kind of rock back and forth to the rhythm of the waves. It's just slowly gliding. It is a little bit windy out here today, but it just feels so nice, so nice. So I just wanted to share that energy with you, no matter where you're at right now, to kind of bring it to your awareness. And you can close your eyes and just kind of feel into sitting next to the trees, looking at the grass underneath the beginnings of grass coming through the mud and the dirt, little pieces of tiny branches that have maybe fallen off of the way, the water kind of rolling by, a bird chirping here and there Just kind of take a deep breath and feel into that. I wanted to share what that felt like with you so you can come back to this, you can rewind it and close your eyes and take a deep breath and kind of feel into it and be able to experience.

Justina:

That's the amazing thing about energy is you can tap into it. It doesn't matter where you're at. You know you could put, I guess, if you wanted to put headphones on inside of the local grocery store and crawl in a corner somewhere and I don't know, hide yourself by food or something, and even amongst all of the chaos, really, you could close your eyes and, in your mind, travel to where I'm at right now, at the park, by the trees, looking at the new little blades of grass growing up, watching the water go by, hearing a bird chirp. That's how easy it is, and when we do that, our hearts just warm and widen and grow Again, bringing us back to our intuition. We can hear it then, when we're able to feel into everything this universe has to offer us, this earth has to offer us. Okay, so I guess I'll get out of my chillin'. I really need like a hammock out here.

Justina:

I don't have one of those that would be great to kind of swing back and forth of the previous podcasts about the womb meditations and I uh, I think I mentioned maybe in all of them, but where I was introduced to that was this amazing healer. Her name is Kris CazNeri. She is in California. I um came across her, uh, on a podcast and then I had followed her on Instagram and she had this program called "Roots of Renewal and it was kind of wrapping up the end of winter, which was great, because I feel like being in the Midwest I don't know, I feel like the older I get, I start to get almost this seasonal depression or or something to that effect, because I am just like town, when I can't like get outside and have some type of warmth, like feel the warmth of the sunshine without, like, the ice and snow we're taking, um, it just starts to bring me down and like the getting dark early and all of those things. So, anyway, I was so glad to come across that and I joined her program and she had this group like an app that you could kind of connect with the other people that were in it too, and then she had different meditations and like little teachings and it was phenomenal. So I highly, highly, highly recommend that and it was perfect for that time of year. I feel like really it would be perfect for any time of year.

Justina:

That womb meditation, like one of the initial ones I feel like I have already re-listened to about I don't know 12 times, and it's so helpful. Every single time I gain some type of wisdom or make some new spiritual connection with one of my guides or get some profound guidance in my life throughout it. Sometimes it's simply this feeling of well, it's mostly this feeling of being safe in my body and how much I never knew like, how much I guess I still felt that fully. So, feeling safe in your body and really being able to embody. The first time I did, um, that meditation hopefully I didn't already mention this, sorry, but the first time I did it I heard we have to ground you, we have to get you fully in your body to be able to assist you to expand more, and I thought that is absolutely insane. That doesn't even make sense, right? Because when I think of expansion, I think of it outside of me, like out, where you know where the cosmos are, and out, where all the woo-woo is, and they're like no, you're looking at it wrong. All of that resides within you. The deeper we go inside of you, the deeper you connect and fully embody your soul and your spirit, the more we can just expand and expand and expand. You can bring heaven to earth like you can be at peace, even in your body, even in this 3D world. So I highly recommend looking into her, even if you didn't want to sign up for one of her courses or anything like that. I can only imagine how amazing a healing would be. She's phenomenal, a healing would be. She's phenomenal.

Justina:

So the other thing Spirit wanted me to talk about today was how do we know that we're in alignment? What does it feel like to be fully in alignment? Well, if you're somebody that's always in your head like 24 7, it's not going to be easy to to know the difference, because you just can't get yourself calmed down enough to hear what spirit is saying. And when I say here, I don't necessarily mean like audibly hear which I rarely audibly hear a message from Spirit. It's almost like it's like a thought dropped in or something and I'm like, oh, where'd that come from? But that's why we talked about last week or last podcast, I should say, about showing yourself love and finding things to do for you to allow yourself to feel that love and to feel that nurturing and to feel that nourishment to remind you of how valued you are and that you were created for a purpose, and all of those things. Because the more we do that and then the more we check in and do the meditation we talked about and those kinds of things, we can quiet our mind enough to be able to feel what it feels like to be in alignment. So some of the things that, um, you can start to feel when you're not in alignment is well, for instance, like my current day job. Uh boy, I feel like sometimes spirit like starts talking out of me, and then I'm like Spirit starts talking out of me, and then I'm like, oh, that was totally directed to me. Thanks a lot, anyway.

Justina:

So my day job I found myself the other day we had a meeting and I think I talked about the increasing expectations and as the meeting went on, it just I started to feel more and more nauseous. And then I thought back over the last several weeks and how often I feel nauseous and gross, really, like I don't even know a better word to say. I feel this, like I don't even like being in my body. I feel this, like I don't even like being in my body, like I don't even like being in the surroundings. It's just this really uncomfortable feeling and those are things that start to happen. And does that mean that when I first started this job like I don't know seven years ago or so that that I wasn't in alignment then? No, it doesn't. I didn't have. It was genuinely perfect for me. When I got this job, it was absolutely perfect and it was an alignment. Perfect and it was an alignment. But that's the thing with as we evolve, everything around us starts to evolve as well. So that's also why sometimes it's a hard journey as you're on the healing path, because it starts to ask of you to walk away or to limit or to disconnect from things that are no longer serving you or serving the greater good, for that matter, and that's a hard pill to swallow sometimes.

Justina:

Over the last several years in my healing journey, with all of my inner child healings and everything like that, I found myself no longer being able to fake friendships, which I didn't even realize at the time I had been. I just started to feel different in certain friendships and I was like well, what's wrong with me, like, am I a terrible person? Why am I like not resonating with this person anymore, and and these kinds of things. And I was realizing that I had a lot of quote friendships unquote, that were very superficial, very, oh, hey, yeah, what'd you do today? Cool, cool, yeah. Uh, where'd you go for dinner? Oh, cool, yeah.

Justina:

Um, and the more, the further you get on this healing path, it's really hard to have superficial conversation. It's almost like the nails down the chalkboard, you know, because it's kind of like I want to know, like, how you got to where you are. I want to know what makes you you. I want to know about the struggles you've been through and how you've got past them and what were tools that helped you. And I want to know, like, what's your favorite podcast to listen to and why, what's your favorite meal to make? And and why? Is it because your grandma used to make it? Is it because it just tastes really freaking good? Um, I want to know that you're not perfect, because the truth is, none of us are.

Justina:

And I look so often. You know, I have a teenage daughter, I have like a million kids. I always say, but one of my children is a teenager and it breaks my heart sometimes, with all of the social media and everything, I see her becoming so self-conscious and she's an absolutely beautiful human being. She has the biggest heart in the world, she is absolutely gorgeous, she is, um, a phenomenal person, and yet I can feel her comparing herself to these picturesque things that get shown on social media sometimes about you know, you know everything's great and my life is perfect and my hair always looks perfect and my makeup always looks perfect and I always say the perfect stuff. And so I try to tell her sometimes that it's not real. That's not real.

Justina:

I had the opportunity one time to do a uh, I didn't know it at the time, but um, a Reiki session on someone that was an actress, and I didn't know that at the time. I thought she looked familiar, but I, I was like oh, whatever, I'm crazy, everybody starts to look familiar. I feel like after a while, um, and speaking of that, everywhere I go, people are like yeah, how's the kids? I'm like, I, I'm not like, I don't live here. I used to always like explain my, you know, be like oh, I'm sorry, you must have me confused. And I think, like two years ago, all of a sudden I was like just stop, just ask them how their family is. I'm just like I'm good, I'm good, the kids are good, how's yours? And just kind of try to put a smile on their face, which is probably terrible, I don't know. But everybody says I just have one of those faces where I look like somebody.

Justina:

Oh okay, so I was doing this Reiki session and it was a beautiful session. Her late husband had come through and it was absolutely beautiful. Anyway, we get done with the session and and we're all talking, and someone else came over to me and was like you know, that's an actress, right? And I'm like, oh, I thought she looked familiar. And then I had this moment of like freak out, like oh gosh, that's like an actress, like oh, my God, she's been to like Hollywood, like I'm this Midwest person and like we have a bunch of cornfields and like cows and stuff. And oh God, I, oh, oh, and I was like I'm so glad I didn't know that ahead of time. Well, after all of that crazy nonsense, I kind of stepped aside for a minute and just kind of thought through it and went to spirit for a minute and I felt spirit so strongly and be like this is.

Justina:

This is about the stuff that you tell your daughter, justina. This is your reminder that we're all human beings in this lifetime. We're all doing the best we can and there's nobody, no matter their profession, no matter how famous they are, no matter how much money they have in their bank account, no matter how much they don't have in their bank account, no matter if they've taken a bath in the last 10 years or not. We're all fighting something. We've all been through something. We're all human and it really gave me sort of this sense of peace that like, okay, okay, maybe I really did, you know, maybe I really was able to be a vessel for healing for her, even though she's an actress and she's probably you know, I'm assuming been to Hollywood and all of these kinds of things and maybe I did still offer her something and she was so kind and so considerate and she came up to me later and told me what a wonderful experience she had and which is so great.

Justina:

But again, it's such a reminder to, even as adults and even though I tell my kids all the time that you know, the things that we see portrayed on social media a lot of times are not real life Some are, don't get me wrong, but most people aren't 100% perfect that, even though I tell my kids that I'm not exempt from getting in my head about that, you know, I feel like it's such a good reminder to know that we're all here. We're all here, we've all been through something and our true purpose is to be here for someone, to be here to help lift someone up, to help encourage somebody. You know, there are a lot of people in the healing profession that get very concerned about ever mentioning another healer or ever mentioning how good of a session they had with their own healer, right, and I don't understand that. I've tried every which way to understand that. But I am telling you, there are so many people in this world, in this world we we on our own can't, can't get to everybody right, like, and people resonate with different people, right, so they resonate with. You know, somebody may not resonate with me. They may be like I don't know, I just don't care for her energy or whatever, which is okay, because there's somebody out there that they do resonate, and maybe somebody that I've mentioned on the podcast, or maybe somebody I'm going to mention in future podcasts, would be somebody that they would resonate with and be able to learn from and be able to feel loved from, and that's the whole point. That's the whole point, point. That's the whole point. So, alignment, as we circle back around, we talked about the ways that it didn't feel in alignment. You know like sometimes you'll get nausea. You know like I was referring to my day job, right, and sometimes it's this feeling of just like utter anxiety every time, um, you know you may be going to.

Justina:

I talked to a lady one time and uh, she was like every time I go to my bank, like the people in there and the energy in there, like I don't know what it is, but every time I'm just I'm nervous wreck, I'm a nervous wreck, and then I'm a nervous wreck for like two hours after and I just feel like all this anxiety and like they just never smile and they're just kind of rude to me. And and I was like how long have you been going to that bank? And she said, oh, I don't know, like 17 years or so. And I said do you know you don't have to go to that bank? And she said, well, I've always went to that bank. I mean, that's where, like, all my family goes and I'm like, okay, but do you know, you don't have to go to that bank.

Justina:

And she's like, well, I never really thought that. I I mean, but what if I go in there? And I'm like, hey, I need to send all this to another bank and they're irritated with me and I said so, you're worried about the people that made you uncomfortable for 17 years. Okay, I get it. I mean, you're a sweet person, maybe just drop in a couple other banks, just walk in and you know, ask them like, hey, you know, what kind of checking accounts do you have? Do you have free checking or do I need to pay like $50 a month to have a checking account here? You know these kinds of things. And then just feel out the energy at them. But, yeah, you don't have to stay there. That bank isn't in alignment with you. That energy at that bank, I should say, is not in alignment with you, and that could be the energy anywhere. Right, that you're going, okay, so flip side.

Justina:

So what does it feel like when something is in alignment? Well, like I mentioned on my last podcast, it's the feeling of being in alignment. Is that feeling like when I was like okay, spirit, I hear you. All right, I'm going to do. I'm going to teach Reiki the first weekend of May. I'm going to do it. And this like bursting out of my chest, energy of pure happiness and joy. Now, is it always like that ecstatic? Maybe not, but it does have a feeling of peace. It does have a feeling of, like, this feels good, this feels like this is where I'm supposed to be, this is awesome.

Justina:

So when we get to moments like that, what happens is when we the spirit's kind of guiding us, right, they're like, okay, hey, knock, knock, like do you feel what you feel like right now? Okay, just embrace it. Okay, you like it? Yeah, okay, okay. So if you do something that makes you feel this way, we're going to give you another something that makes you feel this way, and then, before you know it, there's a lot of feeling this way, there's a lot of living out of your heart and a lot of gratitude, and the universe just starts to surround you Like that's all. Like you know what they talk about with manifesting and all of those kinds of things, the greatest frequency is joy. So if we're doing things yes, spirit, I hear you so if we're fully doing things that are in alignment, right, and we feel joy inside of ourselves for that and we feel like we are living our purpose and we are feeling like we're having the time of our life actually, yeah, we need to embrace it. And if we feel like that feeling is dropping a little Easter egg no pun intended, with Easter coming up, but you know to turn right instead of left feel that right, okay. So all of the self-love stuff, all of you know, meditating, all of that kind of stuff helps us to start to feel what it feels like to be in or out of alignment. What also starts to happen. So I feel like that. All of it kind of plays with intuition, right, but weird things start to happen.

Justina:

Like you are in, you know, the grocery store, right, and you want to get ranch dressing, which seems to be a staple at our house I don't know about y'all, but anyway and you're standing in front of the ranch dressing and there's, like I don't know, 30 bottles of ranch dressing and you go to grab the one on the right and all of a sudden you have this weird feeling for a second, like not that one, the one behind it, or no, not that one, the one to the left and you're like, oh, that's, that's crazy. Why would I want to get the one to the left? Like that's, are you kidding me? Like that one's in front, like isn't it rude to pick the one from behind, or isn't it? You know why can't I just pick the one? Anyway, when you start to follow that and you listen to it like it just gets louder, and the next aisle you go in and you know, let's say you're by the produce and you're like, oh, those oranges look good. Okay, you go to grab an orange. No, not that one. You go to grab an orange. No, not that one. Why not that one? Just the one to the left, okay, you know. And then you find, like every aisle you're going through, you're being guided to which one to grab.

Justina:

And I did a meditation about this because I was like I'm pretty sure I've lost my mind, like I don't know what's going on, guys, right. And in my meditation spirit was like so the orange, for instance, the one that I initially went to grab, and they told me no, grab the one to the left. Maybe it dropped off the truck or the train coming into town eight different times, maybe it. Maybe it dropped, somebody kicked it. Maybe it rolled in like dog poo, somebody rinsed it off, maybe. Then somebody picked it up, it fell again and ended up being kicked. I mean like, and I was like, wow, that's kind of a lot for one orange. And they were like, well, we're exaggerating for purposes, you know. So you get it because you argue with us all the time.

Justina:

Basically what they said, but anyway, then I got to think about it a little bit more, because everything is energy, right, everything. So then it got me thinking about the importance of, like, praying over our food. When we're praying, we're putting loving intentions into what we're praying for, right? So maybe it really is a good idea to pray over our food. Maybe it really is a good idea to pray over our food. Maybe it really is a good idea to maybe, you know, do like an aum towards our food, or to do the Reiki symbols over our food, or to just simply say a prayer that this food nourishes us, that whatever happened to this food before it got here, that it's now filled with loving, healing energy and you know this and that, right.

Justina:

And because food carries energy, right, like, even the processed food, I feel like probably carries some type of energy, probably not necessarily great energy. And I'm not saying I eat only healthy food and only food of the earth, because, um, yeah, I've been known to put away a box of cheese or two anyway, um, but really we don't always know if it's not growing in our backyard where it came from. So it just fascinates me how much the universe is supporting us, how much we know, deep in our soul, with our highest self working with us, with our spirit teams working with us, with everything feeding our intuition and trying to guide us. I mean, they're constantly doing it. Most of the time we just aren't quiet enough to hear it. So I'm challenging you to test it, to prove me wrong.

Justina:

Really, dedicate at least five minutes a day for two weeks, 14 days straight, of just meditating right, five days a week. Just start there and let me know like, do you feel like something's changing? Do you feel like you're picking up more? Do you feel like you're being able to tune in no pun intended? Feel like you're being able to tune in no pun intended, because I'm telling you, once you get all this meditation stuff, it is, it's like on a radio station. You're just like fine tuning, fine tuning. And the more you do it, the more fine tune it is, and then all of a sudden, like that radio station signal is so strong that you can't miss it, even if you tried. So strong that you can't miss it even if you tried. So I hope that that works.

Justina:

I hope that this information was helpful for you. I hope that you can find instances in your life to check in and see if certain things feel in alignment, and I will continue to work on mine as, uh, as I'm being very strongly guided to um and, yeah, we'll, we'll see how that goes. So, anyway, please reach out to me on Instagram. You can DM me if you would like. Um at AngelReikiJourney, you can email me um at Justina at AngelReikiJourneycom, and my website, of course, is AngelReikiJourneycom. And I am so excited. I'm still like busting at the seams about my Reiki class at the beginning of May and um, and the fact that virtual classes will be coming soon after and maybe a couple of other things. Um, so are in the works and uh, yeah, so I'm going to continue to work on me and do my meditations, get my button gear and you do the same.

Justina:

Okay, we got this man. We're together, we're community. I'm here for you. I love you, I am rooting for you and we'll talk soon. Bye listening to an episode, if you could please just take a second place your hand on your heart and take a deep breath in through your nose and a long exhale out of your mouth, and just set the intention to send love and light to every single person listening right now, yesterday and in the future. I think together we just might be able to raise the vibration of this world. I'm so excited and please follow me on Instagram at AngelReikiJourney. Visit my website to book an appointment with me at AngelReikiJourneycom and please follow this podcast. Sacred Soul Sisters, thank you so much and I can't wait to talk to you again soon. Have a great day.