Meg Kearney (00:00)
Hello and welcome to the root to rise seeds for spiritual weakening podcast I'm your host Megan Kearney and today I want to talk about the origin of this podcast and the inspiration behind it and the purpose if you will of putting this podcast into the universe Because I realized I did not do that
prior to releasing my first episode, which if you haven't listened to it and you're interested in learning about quantum healing hypnosis technique, I would definitely recommend giving the episode a listen. Joanna Rue was the guest on it and she has so much wisdom and knowledge from her own spiritual journey, from her practice of QHHT. So yeah, definitely give that a listen.
Basically, wanted to talk about, first of all, I wanted to define what I meant by spiritual awakening in the title. What does spiritual awakening mean to me because it's different for every person and before I had my spiritual awakening, I wouldn't have necessarily known what that meant in a felt sense. So...
What it means to me is this feeling of being ultimately connected to our spirit, our source. It's this deep knowing of what we are, which is love, and what everything is, which is love, and this feeling of intense connectedness and oneness. And I had that experience about...
I would say the first time was about four years ago. And I have had my fair share of ups and downs as every human being does. And I was in a particularly down period of time four years ago. And I sort of had this rock bottom moment. And at the time I had been drinking alcohol a lot and making really destructive
decisions and just doing a lot of things that I would never be doing today. So what happened was I had my rock bottom moment and I realized that I wanted to take a break from drinking alcohol. I couldn't remember the last time that I had gone without drinking alcohol. It had become
such a staple in my life, in my friendships, in my weekends, in my activities. And so I took a break and I went about two and a half months without alcohol the first time. It's now been almost two years of being alcohol free. And when I went through that first two month period,
I was reading a lot of self-help books and I was meditating. I was using the Calm app and I was just meditating for 10 minutes a day using a guided meditation. And a friend of mine knew that I was on the spiritual path and she was also on a similar spiritual path. And we're all on a spiritual path at the end of the day. We're spiritual beings and we come here to learn and grow. And she lent me the power of now.
by Eckhart Tolle and that book just made something click in my brain. And I remember reading it one night and I had been struggling to turn my brain off, to fall asleep. And I just remember how that book resonated with me so much to make me realize that I was a different being than my thoughts. I was observing my thoughts.
And I actually had the final say on whether or not I let those thoughts take hold of me or if I regained control of my reality, so to speak. And so I remember so vividly this one night, I just had this intuition, this voice, this inner me that just said, no, I'm not engaging with these thoughts tonight. I'm going to sleep.
And in that, I completely disconnected from my thoughts and reconnected with my essence, my being. And it was almost as if I was nothing. I was floating in the abyss, if you will, but the most comforting abyss imaginable. And I remember at the time, I had made a lot of decisions that had negatively impacted people in my life.
that I was close to and I didn't know, but I was carrying a lot of guilt in my heart. And in that experience at night, I remember having my beingness examine and say to me, what are you feeling? What is this sensation in your heart?
And I just knew that it was guilt. My intuition is more wordless. It's more of a knowing. Some people have a very specific voice. Some people see images. Sometimes I see images, but it's more of an image and then a knowing. So I had this knowing that it was guilt. And my higher self said to the guilt, I forgive you. And I felt energy rush up through my body and release through the crown of my head.
And I had a couple other experiences similar to that with other emotions in the following months. And I'll never forget how light I felt after releasing those emotions, how connected I felt, how peaceful I felt, how loved I felt, how held I felt by the universe. And so when I think of awakening, I think of that sensation and
The way that I got to that feeling of awakening was through seeds that had been planted in my head from books, from podcasts, from music, from other people, from teachers, anyone you can imagine. We're always collecting these seeds that, whether we know it or not, are seeping into our subconscious and bringing us along on our journey.
My goal and my hope for this podcast is to connect with people who bring so much wisdom in different subject matter. And I'm hoping that in listening to this, the teachers and people that I bring on will plant seeds for you to bring you closer to that sense of knowing oneness, connectedness.
love and you'll just know it when you feel it. I know that's so cliche and I'm sure that I had felt it maybe as my younger self and didn't know that that's what it was but experiencing it as my adult self after going through a period of operating unconsciously for so long I just
I'm constantly wanting to reconnect with that feeling and yeah. So that's my little tidbit of why the podcast is called what it is and what my hope is for each episode. I'd like to think of each episode as a seed to plant in your mind for your own.
spiritual awakening, spiritual experience. And then the other component of the name, which is Root to Rise, comes from, for those of you who practice yoga, it's a very common cue when rising into a mountain pose from a forward fold. And I've been practicing yoga for a couple of years now, but
I had never really given much thought to the cue. I always knew that I liked it. I liked the thought of rooting down to my feet and grounding to get to the mountain pose. But then I started thinking about the pose as a symbol and that cue as more symbolic of how important it is for us to root down into our sense of self and into our
sense of being so that we can rise to higher consciousness so that we can connect with our higher selves, our intuition, and root comes in so many forms. It's important to ground yourself physically with movement and breath. And then it's also important to ground yourself emotionally by regulating your nervous system in any way that
calls to you. really, just thought that Root to Rise just encapsulated everything that I've been wanting to do, that I've been working to do in the past few years. And yeah, so I'm hoping if you're a yoga practicer or
even if you're not, I'm hoping that maybe RooTorize will take on a new meaning for you. And I'm just really excited to see where this podcast goes and I'm excited to see who listens to it, who it might help. And yeah, so thank you so much for listening. Feel free to reach out to me on Instagram.
My handle is Megan with two N's underscore Kearney and you can listen to this podcast anywhere, Apple, Spotify, YouTube, Amazon, you name it. And thank you all and I hope you have a wonderful week and I hope you had happy holidays and stay tuned for the next episode. Take care.