What if life is simply a mirror, and every frustration, delay and setback is showing you exactly what you believe?

In this conversation, I sit down once again with Brian Withers, author, life coach and creator of Higher Vibrations Now, for our third conversation together. This time, we move from theory to practice: where action actually fits into manifestation, and real stories of people who have changed their lives by changing their energy.

Brian is quick to clarify that he doesn't teach manifestation at all. He teaches alignment, with manifestation as the natural byproduct of the energy flowing from you. From there, we unpack the difference between inspired action and joy action, why we are receivers rather than makers, and how something as ordinary as sitting in traffic can become a conversation with the Law of Attraction.

We speak about thought options, the simple but radical idea that we are never obliged to think the thought that arrives first. Brian explains where our thoughts actually come from: generational faulty beliefs, inherited voices passed down from parent to child, running on auto-repeat in the subconscious. That these beliefs, not our genes, are what we truly inherit.

We also explore the difference between empathy and compassion, why jumping into the hole with someone helps no one, and the practice Brian calls reparenting: giving ourselves, as adults, the vibrational guidance we never received as children.

This is a conversation about energy, patience, momentum, and the stages between wanting a different life and living one. It's about why joy is the currency of abundance, and why the timing of change is different for every single one of us.

Feelings with Strangers

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/@FeelingswithStrangers/videos

Socials

https://www.instagram.com/feelings.with.strangers/

Brian Withers

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/@brianwithers357

Socials

https://www.instagram.com/theknowledgeoflife/

Site

highervibrationsnow.com

Water isn't just something we drink when we're thirsty, but a living, conscious element that carries memory, frequency and the history of everything it has ever passed through.

In this solo episode, I explore why water may be the most fundamental and most ignored element of vibrant health. Before we can understand water, though, we need to understand consciousness itself. So this episode begins with a wider inquiry into animism, the reductionist worldview we've inherited over the last 150 years, and what the ancients and many Indigenous cultures have always known: that everything is alive, and nothing exists in isolation.

We are, quite literally, water. Anywhere from 50 to 70 per cent of the body is water, and molecularly it is by far our most abundant molecule. So it follows that if we want expanded awareness and a body capable of full, authentic expression, the state of the water we take in matters enormously.

I share my honest experience with the many waters and devices I've tried over the years: benchtop filters, Berkeys and reverse osmosis, and why I no longer use them. Spring water, why it was once my favourite, and the heartbreaking reason I stopped drinking it. Distilled water, the arguments against it, and why I still drink it. And finally, hydrogen water, the most impactful addition I've made in the last eighteen months, and why I believe it produces such profound results across body, mind and spirit.

The body is the instrument through which we express and experience consciousness, and the simplest practice of all, one that costs nothing: bringing gratitude, love and intention to every glass of water before you drink it will make the most significant difference. This is an episode about remembering that water is not out there, separate from us. It is us. And how we treat it is how we treat ourselves.

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My Method For Alive Waters

Carbon Distillation

https://www.megahomewaterdistillers.com.au/

Medical Grade Hydrogen

https://holyhydrogen.com/products/lourdes-hydrofix-premium-edition-new-24-grey-model-complete-bundle

Quinton Hypertonic

https://www.quicksilverscientific.com/products/original-quinton-r-hypertonic-3-3-ampoules

Shilajit

https://realhimalayanshilajit.com/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21583369198&gbraid=0AAAAA-FwMI0H0mcid3CrhTgbdzssRjc-x

MORNING PROCESS

750 ml of distilled water and 1 Quinton vial into the Holy Hydrogen. Set for half an hour.

250ml of distilled water with 1 serving of Shilajit.

Give gratitude to the water. Most IMPORTANT.

Drink the hydrogen water as soon as it's ready. Do not let it sit for more than 10 seconds. Add hydrogen water to the shilajit and drink.

What if the past isn't fixed? What if the moments that wounded you could be revisited, unravelled, and given a new ending?

In this conversation, I sit down for the third time with Jan Engels-Smith, shamanic practitioner, teacher, and author, and one of the most generous and grounded voices I know. If you'd like to hear Jan's founding story and the origins of her work, you'll find our earlier conversations linked below.

Jan explains that every event is a matrix of energy that stays in motion until it's interrupted, and that through journeying and attention, it's possible to return to the moment something happened, unwind it, retrieve what was lost, and choose a new ending. The healing is instantaneous in the energetic, but it lands on us to bring it through our thoughts, our words, and our behaviour, until the old story no longer runs the show.

We speak about blind beliefs, the ones handed to us at birth that we don't even know we're carrying, and the three places they tend to hide: our beliefs about ourselves, about God or Source, and about money. Jan makes the case that belief systems are choices, nothing more, shaped by culture, era, and family, and that if a belief causes you distress, you're free to put it down and choose one that brings you happiness instead.

I also share some of my own experience with this work, including the soul retrieval Jan guided me through, and what's changed since: the practice of catching the old patterns, asking "is this even my belief?", and the slow return of self-love that follows when you stop running and simply look.

This is a conversation about the past, and our freedom from it. About choice, belief, self-love, and the quiet army of help that's available to every one of us, if we're willing to ask.

If you've ever felt trapped by your story, or suspected that the life you're living was authored by beliefs that were never really yours, this one is for you.

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Jan Engels-Smith

Site

http://www.janengelssmith.com/

Courses

https://www.lightsong.net/

Book: Becoming Yourself

https://www.amazon.com.au/Becoming-Yourself-Journey-Head-Heart/dp/1500854395

Previous conversations with Jan

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/decoding-reality-how-your-mind-and-heart-create-your/id1737944971?i=1000652799451 https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/shift-your-emotions-shift-your-reality-how-to-create/id1737944971?i=1000667885142