Episode 28 - Creating Framework that Honours Feminine Energy with Allyson Scammell
Ever wondered how aligning with your higher self boosts business success?
Dive into a transformative conversation with Allyson Scammell on integrating spirituality, making soul-led decisions, and mindful practices.
In this episode we will explore…
🌙 Spiritual Practice Integration: The importance of integrating spiritual practices into daily life, guiding listeners to align with higher consciousness, make soul-led decisions, and build a mindful routine for clarity.
🌙 Business Guidance from Higher Self: Why business owners should let their higher selves guide decisions, challenging societal norms around overwork, and promoting rest for increased productivity and success.
🌙 Discipline and Daily Practice: The importance of disciplined yet gentle daily mindfulness practices.
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Show Notes:
Hey sisters, welcome back to the Rooted Feminine Podcast. I am super excited for this episode today with Allyson. One of the things that I found really exciting about this call is, or this interview is that Allyson has a way of putting frameworks together. She's an intuitive channel and speaks directly with source, which I thought was beautiful. And we absolutely talk about her process. But it comes through in a very understandable way and in a framework that's easy to follow. So remember, you'll hear me say it a million times. We don't hate the masculine around here. We want healthy, healed, masculine. And some of these frameworks are just that; they give us the container. They hold the space. And when we follow the framework, we are able to allow our feminine energy to just flourish. Allyson talks about body wisdom, dropping down from the mind and into the body, which is exactly what we love around here. So I hope that you enjoy this episode as much as I did.
Marissa: Hey sisters, welcome back to another episode of Rooted Feminine. I am here with Allyson Scammell, and we are going to just share so much wisdom with you today, and I can't wait for our episode. Allyson, if you don't mind just giving us kind of a brief introduction and a little backstory, origin story, if you will, of how you got to be doing what you're doing and a little bit about your spiritual journey.
Allyson: Amazing. Thank you, Marissa. I'm super, super happy to be here. I can already feel the energy of your listeners—very beautiful, spacious, high vibrational energy. So it's a real pleasure to plug into that. I am originally from the United States. I grew up on a family farm and ranch in South Dakota. And I just, from the youngest age, I just dreamt of traveling the world. And my mother says I was born with a suitcase in my hand, and I didn't have next-door neighbors. So my best friends as a child were animals, really. And I did just that. I joined the Peace Corps right out of college and then did a 17-year career in international affairs and humanitarian response. And about five years into that 17-year career, I was like, "Wow, I feel so much more part of the problem than the solution. This is not how I want to give back. I feel like there's a lot of dishonesty in this work." And when I tried to speak that truth to my peers, I continually got shut down. And I'm just like, I can't take this. At a certain point, I just really couldn't take it anymore. And I also got addicted to life on the road and moving to the next place and thinking I was escaping my problems. And lo and behold, they traveled with me to every new site. So eventually, since this is a spiritual podcast, I did have a near-death experience in 2009. And when I came back from that experience, I had all of these channeling gifts, mediumship gifts. Like I didn't even have Marissa's vocabulary for it. I had no idea what had happened to me. So I went on a new path of relearning how to live and be in the world, literally relearning how to live and be because I'd lived a very 3D human physical life up until that point. And so that eventually got me on a path where I found life coaching first and I was like, "Wow, this is cool." And then I got certified in that, and eventually, I found my way to spiritual coaching, spiritual mentorship, helping people run soul-guided businesses. And I am just so excited to get out of bed every day to serve the people that I get to serve every day.
Marissa: I love that. There's so much about your story that I resonate with. My husband just retired from the military in June. So we spent 20 years moving around. And gosh, again, like recognizing that the system that you're part of that you thought you were doing service through or that you thought you were doing good through, you're actually doing a lot of harm through. We decided to stick it out and go ahead and retire because it was part of our plan. But the last 10 years of our military career, it was just like, "Oh my God, what are we doing?" And then also we said, like the moving around, we just moved home. This is the first time where I'm not leaving in 18 months or 24 months. And so that's been like actually more of a shitshow for me than I thought it was going to be, this idea of permanency, because I've always had the opportunity to just reinvent myself. "Oh, who do I want to be at this duty station? Do I want to be fun? Do I want to be..." And it gave me the ability to call out pieces of my personality, pieces of my soul, pieces of my Dharma, whatever, and really emphasize them in different ways, starting over with people who didn't know me at all. So it's almost like the way I see it. And I'm just saying this for the first time out loud right now, it's almost like false rebirths in a way. Like they weren't actually soul-grounded or soul-led rebirths. It was like, "Oh, let me just pretend to be somebody different." So I don't know if that gives you anything, but that's what came up for me when you were talking is just seeing some similarities there.
Allyson: Oh, Marissa, that gave me so much. One thing I didn't mention is my husband is retired military. He was in for 26 years. We did 20, and then we were out. So I wasn't married to him the whole time; we got married when we were both older. So I was, whatever, I don't even know what, maybe six years, I was the traveling spouse. And before that, I was doing my own hopping from duty station, duty post to duty post. And it's so exactly what you're saying. And I felt, "Oh, I would get into a fight or something with a friend, and we would just ghost each other." And I would be like, "Oh, okay, I'll just go to the next post and make new friends." And what really probably wanted to happen was like maybe an uncomfortable conversation. Or something wanted to happen for that relationship to maybe even heal or do something. But it was just so easy to just ghost it and be like, "I'm just going to move on to the next thing." And as you said, start over. And that just felt easier. But it was also for me, it was very false.
Marissa: Yeah, exactly. And it's funny with the concept of the show being about Roots and being rooted. It's a very unrooted life, and there's like such the cliche like "bloom wherever you're planted." But you cultivate really shallow roots that way. And so for me personally, and I'm sure probably for you as well, not to put words in your mouth, but that's what Spirit did for me. That's what spiritual connection did for me and tapping, in my case, on my practice, like into my feminine was it helped me have deeper roots in something that mattered more than that superficial surface level life that I was just part of.
Allyson: Yeah, I reached a milestone. We've been in this house. We just celebrated the three-year anniversary of being where we live now in the Netherlands. And I realize that I'm about to embark on living in one place the longest I've ever lived since I was 18 and left home. I grew up on the family farm 0 through 18, and then I went on a series where I was literally moving every somewhere between every 6 months to 3 years. But usually, it was more like every 18 months to 2 years. My whole adult life until now. And I'm telling you, for me, it feels good, and I'm ready. I have a daughter who's in the equivalent of the second grade in the United States, and so I'm ready to root and plant those roots and be here. But it's a weird sensation. Wow. We're really, like, we're really here. We're really not going to be moving in the next few months.
Marissa: And I imagine, so like growing up zero to 18 on a farm, it's again, just assuming and correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like that would give you not only a really deep connection to the land but also a really deep connection to seasons and to cycles and things like that, which is a lot about what we talk about here. And then to leave that. And to go to something that you had very little connection to the land or very little connection to the place that you were staying. I imagine that was jarring.
Allyson: It was. I think I grew up, I grew up in this rural place in middle America, and I rejected it as a small child because I knew I was this worldly person that craved diversity and multiculturalism. It was an idyllic childhood, and in many ways, but I rejected it. And I think some kids, some people listening to this might have craved to have the kind of roots and structure and stability I had. But for me, I was just like, I don't want this. I want to get on an airplane and go. At a certain point, and I wanted that. And in a way, it really did feed my soul for a long time until it didn't, and it didn't feed my soul for a while we were still doing it, and it took a while to like. Find that place. I think when you live, I imagine you guys lived in a lot of really fabulous places. I think when you live in—
Marissa: We didn't. The only, the coolest place we went was Alaska, and it's still like the U.S. Like we didn't get to any cool places. Okay, so you didn't do a lot of like overseas stuff. No.
Allyson: Okay. So we were, I was very lucky. Not so much in my job. I always because I worked in development. So when I worked in development, I did not go to a lot of places that were very unstable. I could never have a visitor or anything. But I always joke that I had to marry an army officer to live in these places because he got posted to nice places because of his definition of nice, right? It's all relative, but he got posted to places which I thought were very nice. And that was my running joke. But the problem with that is I got extremely picky and I started looking for Eden, Marissa. I started looking for, "Oh, I got so picky," and after a while, I was like, "Jesus, the place that I'm hungering to live in doesn't exist." Yeah. And I need to like, yeah, exactly. And so that was a big wake-up call for me.
Marissa: So you said something a moment ago where you said it served your soul. So I'm going to be talking a little bit about how to deal with emotional and spiritual ramifications of your soul until it didn't love to unpack that a little bit in terms of like, how do you know something is serving your soul? What does that feel like? What was it like when it didn't? Was there just a real disconnect? Did you feel physical ramifications of that emotional, spiritual kind of take us through that process?
Allyson: Yeah, you know what? Thank you for that question. I'm going to amend it a little bit. Yeah, because I actually think the truth is I thought it served my soul. And I think it could have served my soul. But I was, I believe those 17 years that I worked in international development was a shadow career. And that just means that it had a lot of elements that enabled me to thrive. I do like it. I like a little pressure environments like pressure cooker things. I like traveling, I like working with different people from all over the world and different cultures. So it like checked all those boxes, but it wasn't at all the work I really wanted to be doing in the world. It wasn't the way I wanted to give back. It didn't feel truthful to me. And truth is a really core part of my identity. And when I tried to, like I said, speaking truth to power and just being continually shut down. And I think it was just like a shadow, the shadow career and so that travel that new people new places. Yes, that scratched niche for me when I was in my 20s and 30s and I wasn't married and I didn't have kids yet, but I do think it was actually false in many ways, and I don't have any regrets and I learned I healed I grew from it, but I think I think that a lot of your listeners may relate to this, that you're on the right path, but not. Yeah. Yeah. So then when I had my NDE and I came back with all these spiritual gifts and I had to go on a whole new path of learning what the heck are these gifts? Like I literally didn't know back in 2009 there wasn't near the resources there are now. And I didn't even know who to talk to. I didn't really know what books to read. And, I think that's when I started to write the ship and I started to get on the path that yes included travel and all those things, but it also included me giving back in the way that felt aligned and I feel like I was getting a hopping on the path of my soul mission and how that felt for me. It's just you feel it in the body. And of course, at that point, I learned how to be led by the voice of my higher self, which before that time, I knew about intuition, but I sure as heck didn't know when my intuition was speaking to me. And I just, I learned how to be heart led and, and I really started having my heart guide all of my decisions. And at a certain point, my heart started guiding all my decisions, both big and small. What am I going to eat to dinner for dinner tonight? No, I let my higher self decide that.
Marissa: No, I love that. Okay. I want to pull on that thread, but before, I'm not an astrologer by any means, I, I pick up things right and it sounds like it's like there's there was this south node or this karmic thing like it still was part of your destiny but almost that like destiny that kind of drags you down or keeps you stuck in patterns versus a north node or a dharmic path that's truly where you want to go in, in terms of progress and progressing in this life. So it definitely feels like there was this like connection there, but a connection almost in the wrong direction. And I love how you call it like this shadow experience because the shadow reveals what's hidden, right? And the shadow can serve the ego. So it was serving that ego and in a way, but it was also revealing these patterns or these choices or these, whatever that were hidden. And I feel like. We as humans, we have to go through those experiences for you. It was quite a long one for some of us. It's maybe a week or a month or whatever. It doesn't, the length of time doesn't matter, but it's that experience that feels almost like karmic. And then allows it to open up into something that's more Dharmic or something that's more purposeful and more soul led. So I don't know if that resonates at all, but that's what I'm gathering. It's like it was meant for you, but meant for you to teach you or meant for you to show you a different way, almost.
Allyson: I think a thousand percent. You summed it up beautifully. Are you familiar with human design at all? Yeah. Yeah, so I'm also a human design practitioner and I'm a projector. Okay. And so we have three phases in life, all the projector listeners. So our first phase is really our 20s, our 30s, and we're meant to be out of alignment. And that's where we're gathering all of our lessons and figuring it all out. And then we go, Oh, I'm sorry. I am a projector. This is actually my profile line. This is the 6 2 profile line. So if anybody. Any listeners out there have that six line, which is the role model, right? You go through three phases. So the first one, you're actually meant to be off track, in the shadow. Scratching a few of your itches, but not all of them, and not in the right way. And then you go into the second phase where you start to get very contemplative, you start to heal, you start to figure things out, you find your gifts, you're like, wait, this isn't what I wanted in life. And then you go to the third and final stage which starts around 50 and I'm 47. Yeah. So I do really feel like I'm. Rounding out one phase and about to start my third and final phase, which is actually the role model where you find that thing that you're actually meant to be role modeling, which 20 years ago. Oh, my gosh. If you asked me, if you told me what human design was, which I would have had no idea. And you said, Oh, Allison, you're a role model. What are you meant to role model to the world? I would have been like, I have no idea. It would have been foreign to me, but I finally feel now at 47 okay. I think I still have a couple more years of tweaking and refining it, but I absolutely feel confident by 50. I'm going to have the real clarity that this is how I meant to role model. And that six line, this can be tricky because of our overly masculine social conditioning that life is all about doing the six line like the divine feminine is all about being so I don't really need to be doing anything to be the role model. It is my state of being, which is how I role model to those people who are meant to be role modeled by me.
Marissa: I love that. And, speaking of like feminine, like the paradigm that I'm listening to. Crown, right? Maiden has no idea what the hell she's doing is just like dancing around like having fun and look, Oh, look at the face and then mother, there's okay, this level of seriousness that has to come into life. And then Cronin, the whole job of crone is to pass on that wisdom. So it's really neat that there's alignment between different modalities are different, dharmas and how or dogmas, sorry, and how you can still see. These patterns and these things show up. I love that.
Allyson: I love that too. I think a lot of people have, like certainly all women will have what you just described. And we all have all parts of the human design chart. So I think we all go through these types of phases. Yeah, it's cool. That's neat. All right. So let's shift into, so you have this near-death experience. You can share what happened or not, whatever feels right for you. And then you have, you realize that it has opened up a level of mysticism in you that you didn't have access to before. Can you talk us through that a little bit? And then I would love to talk about the gifts and how they show up for you. Do they still show up for you? How do you use them? All of those things. Yeah, so my, I always say I didn't have your typical NDE. I didn't get hit by the bus and then saw Aunt Martha and decided to go back in my body. Although it did have elements of that, certainly when I crossed over. But what I can do, Marissa, because it's a long. It's a deep story that I think some of your listeners would actually really love to hear. So I recorded a three-part series on my uh, my podcast and I can share a link for you if you want to drop it in the show notes because it's not, it's hard to give a reader's digest version of it. I wish, I'm still figuring out how, but what I can do is share the whole story and if anything, it's a really fantastic story. So it's a fun, it's a, not fun, that's not the right word. It's an entertaining. Yeah. Fascinating. Thank you. Fascinating. Listen, if anything else. And yeah, so when I came back to from that, I was totally like it. I do come from a long line of intuitives. I've come to learn my grandfather who passed when I was four was a real intuitive. And I don't think, I think this is a part of his life. He kept very private. Yeah. And so South Dakota, like he was a farmer. Exactly. So he wasn't talking about it over coffee with the fellow farmer farm hands. But he actually came to me when I, after I had these gifts inside, you got the gift, it skipped your mother. So let's get my mom, although she is intuitive, but not the level of intuitive gifts that I had that were very shut off. Until 2009, and it was really part of my healing. The NDE happened because there was something I really needed to heal from. And so that's that, that, I had this massive energetic wound that was essentially blocking me from my intuitive gifts for the first 32 years of my life. And then when I had this actually released that block. It actually healed me. So I needed to die to heal is the weird thing, and then when I came back I had I was just a very powerful psychic medium and it took me a long time to be able to say that because at first I was like, Oh my gosh, this is so weird. I'm so weird. People are going to think I'm nuts. Like it took me a real long time to just say it and own it. And now I can say it and own it and be like, this is who I am. This is what I do. And if people don't like it, they can self-select out. And then most people I find love it. I love that. Or at least are intrigued to learn more. And so yeah, I can like, yeah, and this is what I help people do. This is my life's work. This is onto my role modeling. I help people to tune into and amplify their spiritual gifts. And the way that source, which these days I'm primarily a channeling source. The way it has received to me is, although our spiritual gifts are infinite, we all of our spiritual gifts fall basically into one of five categories, and that's our gift of intuition, healing, manifestation, teaching, and leadership, and it's how we communicate with the spiritual realm, our higher self, our spirit guides, source, crossed over loved ones, and how we connect to and co-create with the spiritual realm in order to grow, learn, evolve, teach, whatever it is we want to do. And so this is my life's work now. And this is, I'm passionate about teaching others how to access their spiritual gifts, understand them and really amplify them to the next level.
Marissa: I love what you just said for a couple of reasons, because I thought you're going to say, Oh, the clairvoyance, the clairaudient, like those are the spiritual gifts. And it's interesting because. I, and this is something I really want to develop more, but I definitely channel source like I get down for sure. And one of the downloads that came through for me were the nine types of feminine mysticism, and there are. The five that you mentioned plus a few others and it was like nothing like oh clairvoyance clairaudience and all of those ones that were typically taught and so that was just a reaffirmation for me when you just said that I was like, okay. Thank you. And that's what I love. It's like I'll get the downloads But then there will be external conversations or signs or whatever that confirm the downloads So that was a confirmation for me right there and I love personally How you have like the categories and things like that, because I think that helps personally in my work as well with other people is giving people frameworks and giving people categories. Because as you mentioned, this is all gonna make sense, I promise. As you mentioned at the beginning of when we started recording, we have been conditioned away from these gifts, right? Through patriarchy, through masculine dominance, through all of these things. And so it's I use this example a lot, but like ancient governments, ancient decision-makers, ancient tribal leaders, whatever used to have oracles, or as you're saying, intuitives at the table, right? We had a space at the table in terms of decision-making in terms of leadership. I love how leadership is one of your one of your categories here. Because that used to be really important to civilizations and through our conditioning. And through the way that the world has changed the last couple thousand years that has gone away and not only gone away but been violently eradicated in certain situations, right? So it makes sense that you had an energetic block. It makes sense that you were cut off from these gifts and it sucks that something like traumatic had to happen to bring them online. Wouldn't it be lovely if we were all raised to access them and out of. Choice like, Oh, do you want to use your gifts or do you not want to use your gifts? Wouldn't that be lovely? It's unfortunate that we're not there, but it's really fascinating to me that yours came online and that you use them intentionally today in a modern lifestyle, right? This is what I call like the modern mystic, where some, I love and I revere ancient practices and things. And I use them in my rituals and I guide people through them as well, but. We are all living here in this modern world, and we have modern problems to solve and modern lives to live. How can we also have our mysticism online in 2023? I'm just really fascinated and just hanging on every word you're saying right now. It's really cool.
Allyson: I love it. I love it. Yes. And something interesting. Since I, so I first started calling myself because I was really afraid to like, just own, I'm a psychic medium, so I came up with all sorts of crazy things to call myself. But when I really just started to own, hey, I'm a psychic, and I talked about my being a psychic, I would got plugged into different communities, and I came to learn that most police departments, like big deplete, Police departments in the United States have psychics on staff. Made like big sporting teams have psychics on half on, on staff to be like, Hey, what's going to happen in the fourth quarter? Like that kind of stuff. So it's there, but nobody ever talks about it, which is unfortunate, but right. It's isn't it fascinating. And it's just a big secret. Cause no one would ever just want to say. That, yeah it's there in some ways, but it's the big secret. And one of my missions is really to make spiritual mainstream. Make all this stuff part of the mainstream. Because it's more than, it's not even mainstream, it's just truth, it's who we are. We aren't meant to be human beings having entirely egoic experience in our brain cut off from our higher self. That is the most painful, most difficult way to live. I was there for 32 years of my life. It stinks, right? We aren't really meant to have this divine, amazing, expansive light source that we can connect to whenever we want to always give us guidance to our next best step. Even if we're in the middle of something traumatic and we can't see step 25, our higher self will always guide us to the next best step, which is the only step you ever really need to see.
Marissa: Yeah. And so how do we do that? Like how if we're just first starting, what would you recommend in ways to not only connect with the higher self, but to take those steps, to trust those steps?
Allyson: Yes. I love this question because I am the queen of five. Everything comes to me in fives. My downloads come to me in fives. And so I have a five-step process for connecting to all of the five spiritual gifts. But let's start with the spiritual gift of intuition. I call this the door. And this is our ability to communicate to the spiritual realm. And really without the on all get all the five gifts are of equal importance. But without this gift, it's really hard. It makes it more challenging to access the other four because you're using your intuition at all times with all gifts to get the communication to get the guidance. So this is a great place to start because it really is the door. That connects our physical self with our non-physical self. And what we want to do with this door is open it wider and wider and wider until those downloads are coming through, that just unquestionable, clear guidance. It's when you get the downloads for the first chapter of your book or, all that really juicy stuff happens. And backing up, Before I give you my beautiful five-step process, I do want to mention that the spiritual realm is polite and they honor us as beings of free will. So if you're really ready to go to the next level with your, all of your spiritual gifts, what I invite in for you and for your listeners is to invite it in. And you do we are doing it subconsciously all the time or sometimes we are doing it consciously, but make it a practice. I say once a month, once every couple of months to actually just say it. Hey, divine guidance team. I invite in a deeper connection to you. That actually kicks off an energetic process where you're saying, it's okay for you to come in and tune my energy, calibrate me, it's okay. If you're going to guide me maybe to a challenge, because that's going to trigger a wound. I need to release in order to have a stronger connection with you. So it is a very nice thing to do from time to time is just invite it in. And that simple invitation has very powerful effects. Yeah. That's the first thing. Okay. And then the five-step process, all of my five-step processes, and this will not surprise you, Marissa, starts with the breath. So step one is just deep breathing. And it really is, you really want to fill in the lower part of the belly. Most of us are breathe in the upper part of our chest and it does not oxygenate ourselves the way it's supposed to. So Just fill up the long, deep inhales, long, deep exhales, fill up the lower part of the belly. And this just kind of signals this helps to quiet the mind. I always say, when you want to connect to the spiritual realm, go out of your mind. You really want to slow down. You're not really looking to cut them off. Just slow down your thinking brain. You want to get out of that head space and start sinking into the body. Our intuitive touch points all lie actually from the neck down. We do have our third eye, but to access our third eye, we have to be embodied. So you want to start sinking into the body and I call that step two, the pivot down. So you're taking some deep breaths, take at least three, if you can do more, that's great. Then you pivot your awareness down and that's when you start sinking into the body. You'll start, maybe you'll start to feel a little heavier. Maybe you'll start to feel a little bit more spacious and then from the pivot down you want to connect to your heart energy. That's that heart chakra energy at the center of your chest. That's the highest vibrational point in our energy body. Because what we're trying to do is elevate our energetic frequency to be vibrating because the spiritual realm is vibrating at a very high energetic frequency. And the more we can tune our own energy body to be in sync, the greater the communication flow. So then once you're pivoted down, you're connected to the heart space, take a few deep breaths into the heart space. Then you go to step three, which is. Intend to what you want to connect, and you don't have to do anything other than set an intention, the energy knows where to go. So either you're intending to connect to higher self, source, a crossed over loved one, earth elements, we can connect to water, rock, right? And feminine priestesses, goddesses, if you are following a divine feminine practice, there's so many priestesses, there's so many goddesses that are here. Shhh. To provide support to us on our path, angels, archangels. It's like orbs of light, but the list is endless. And if you're not sure, just set the intention to connect your divine support team. We all have a divine support team. That's that has, it's mostly, there's always source and higher self. There's always guardian angels and they're with you from birth to death and then after that it's composition changes as you go through your life and you have different needs at different times of your path. When you first become a mother, you're going to have a lot of like motherly energy in your divine guidance team, for example. So that, that part of your. Your divine guidance team does change, but you don't really even need to know what's there. All you need to do is connect to it. Now, if it's something you'd like to map. I invite you to do that, but I wouldn't actually spend too much time on it. I think sometimes people can get a little too caught up on which archangel is there and what's its name? And sometimes the names actually don't translate that well into our human languages. So if I, my invitation is just to know it's there. No, at the end of the day, you're connecting your higher self and source. That's the most important thing. And everything else is, I promise you it's there to support you even if you don't have a name for it, right? Okay, perfect. So you're connecting in, if you're not sure, connect your divine support team or your divine guidance team, as I like to call it. And then step four, this is really important. This is something that. We just, I think we forget to do in our busy days, ask questions, because your divine guidance team can't really give you a message unless you ask. Now, sometimes you ask subconsciously, right? But, Asking the question actually kicks off a co-creative process so that your divine guidance team can get to work providing you an answer. So remember, we are agents of free will. And with light energy, they're not going to come in and give you something unless you've asked for it. So ask questions. It can be as simple as, what message do you have for me today? What should my goals be for this week, this month, this year? What should my soul-guided goals and intentions be? What is the soul-guided intention you have for me today? It could be very simple. What should I eat for dinner tonight? What should I do tonight? Should I go to the gym tonight? It can be very simple questions. Yes, no questions are a great way to start if you're on the newer side of this because you can almost always sense if the answer is yes energy or no energy. And if you've been at this for a while, certainly you can ask open-ended questions. You can ask big questions, I'm feeling called to read a, write a book. What should my book be? And if you don't get it, so then that brings us nicely to step five, which this is where you perceive what you received to be coming back in response. This is where the Claire's come in, our Claire senses, but it's not only the Claire's. So we've got the clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, claircognizant. There's also the clair has clairgustance, which is you taste a response. The projectors will know about this because we have bitterness. When something's off, we get a bitter taste in our mouth that's not coming from a food source. That is, I, I don't know if a human design purist would categorize it this way, but I believe that's our intuition talking to us saying, we don't like that. Yeah, and then there's a clear sense of smell where you can smell the rat, smell something's off, smell an opportunity, right? But then there is the other. I have a client who gets, when they get a message from their divine guidance team, they get tingling in their elbow. So there's always, yes, there are the clear senses, but then there's All the other and there is an infinite number of ways that we can receive messages from our guides. There are signs. There's symbols. There's, you name it. So I would get to know if you're on the newer side of this. Most of us have a dominant intuitive gift. My dominant intuitive gift, for example, is clairaudience, so I, that, this is what makes me a good channel, I hear, but I have all the clairs, and they all show up, sometimes I see, sometimes I have an inner knowing, sometimes I sense, but my dominant language is my hearing, I hear messages, so if you're on the newer side of this, I would play around with, like, when you ask a question of your intuition or your higher self, What is the most natural way in which you receive an answer back? That's probably your dominant intuitive language. And I would play with that. Our intuitive gifts are a muscle. And the more you flex them, the stronger they get. So play around with that, your dominant intuitive language. If you're not sure, take your best guess. And that gives you to that step five is receiving the answer and if it doesn't come right away, be open in the hours and days that follow after you ask the question because your guides will find a way to get that answer back to you. But it's, but we have to be open and aware to see it and receive it.
Marissa: I love that. And I'm like, okay, now I know what to do. Check. Check. Yeah. Yeah. It's so helpful. And going back to a point you made earlier. Not only about what you do, but this process helps you be right. Because I think that is part of my purpose here is to help people take spirituality from something they do to who they are. But a lot of times you have to set that routine or you have to set that habit. And I'm sure for you, like the five steps, it's just like zoom. Like it's not like this conscious. Oh, I'm on step two right now, but for a newbie or somebody who's just starting this process, it might need to be a little bit more conscious like that. Okay, now what was my next step? Now, what was my next step? Until it just becomes ingrained or habitual or even deeper than that, like soul-led, right?
Allyson: Yes, a hundred percent. This is all the five-step process is. You can look at any five-step process as a state of doing, but at its core, it is actually a state of being because we do access our spiritual gifts from the being, from the embodiment, and once you engage in this five-step process for not that many times, you know it's just going to be automatic. And then it will almost get to the point where I feel like I'm to the point now in my journey where I don't even really have to ask the questions. It's just it's just the more I'm embodied and the more I do my meditation practices and connect to source and follow the nudges of my heart, the more it does get the whole thing gets automatic. And I find myself actually not even asking too many questions anymore. It's almost like I have a blanket statement. Just tell me what I need to know. And it just arrives when I need it and not a moment before. Your divine guidance team never tells you anything that you need. Like they tell you exactly what you need, the moment you need it and not a moment before. Yeah. Yes. The more, but for me, when I first got started, Marissa, oh my gosh, I filled so many journals. I spent hours and hours channeling, and I channeled angels, archangels, ascended masters, goddesses, gods, earth element, orbs of life, consciousness inside the earth, crossed over loved ones, crossed over people, oh my gosh, so many crossed over people that I never knew, right? And it was just that hours and hours, which I did that because I feel called to teach this. So if you're new to this, it's not that you have to do that. But I did, before it became just so automatic for me, I did really put in hour upon hour, just flexing those intuitive muscles.
Marissa: Yeah. And I love the way that you talked a little bit ago about what do I eat for dinner? What do I get at the grocery store? You're using this in really practical ways. You're not only at your altar or in temple space and hours of just channeling, which is great. It sounds like you do that once in a while, or maybe you did that in the beginning or something like that. But you're also now to the point where you use this in your everyday.
Allyson: Yeah. Yes. And the thing that's amazing is when I ask higher self what to wait for dinner tonight, and I actually sometimes, usually your higher self is your higher self. If you're craving spaghetti, your higher self is not going to say, have a kale salad. Your higher self is not, because that's just setting you up. Because nobody's going to go get a kale salad when they're craving spaghetti, right? So your higher self knows it. It likely will want to guide all of us to something maybe about healthier or more healthful for our bodies. But it's going to guide you to like the next best thing. So maybe it'll say have spaghetti and half your plate of spaghetti and half your plate of salad. And it's funny, and when you follow through on that, and let's say you, you'd gotten off of the salad eating routine, but then you're like, okay, hi yourself said half of my plate is green. I'm going to do it tonight and you do it is like yes, it is a small thing, but it actually leads to like really big results. It makes you feel so good eating that salad and it like It, the effects of asking these little questions and then following through on the guidance and actually doing it, the effects are, can be quite large.
Marissa: And how you mentioned like intuition's a muscle, I talk about it as intuition's a skillset, right? Everybody has the ability, but you can get better and better at it. It's like when you start to honor it, it's I believe that intuition is based on trust, right? The more that you listen to your intuition, the more it shows up for you. There's a symbiotic relationship that happens between the two. And so it's like you're going to get that soulful feeling when you're following your intuition. I love how you talked about it earlier, like that just lit up from within accessing just these divine feelings like when you're on your soul path, and I think. I, it's funny because I saw this talked about on Instagram, but this idea of glimmers, which is the opposite of triggers. And of course, like people are talking about it more in like a mental health way or whatever, but I call those synchronicities. Like I call that source. I call that magic. Where you're just reaffirmed how we had one on the call here today. It's like you're reaffirmed that you're on your soul path. And so when you're eating the kale or whatever, and it's you're getting that glimmer or you're getting that synchronicity, you're getting that soul acknowledgment on a much deeper level than what happens in the mind or what happens. It's even deeper than what happens in the body. Of course, like your belly is going to probably feel good and maybe you have more energy, but then deeper than that, it's like I honored. My, my soul, I honored my intuition. I honored my divinity by making this choice or by following my intuition.
Allyson: Beautifully said. Yes. Yes. Yes.
Marissa: Yeah. So where else do you see this show up? How do you, how does this show up in business? How does this show up in other parts of our lives? I don't know where you want to take that, but is there anywhere else that this wants to go?
Allyson: Yeah. I would just say for the business owners, my recommendation is to make your higher self, the CEO of your business for all decisions, big and small, not just the big decisions, make it for the small decisions. I, do I want to write a social media post today? I think often in business, we should on ourselves, I should do three posts a day because that's how I get more followers and that's how I get business. But it's not necessarily true for you and what you need. Right now we're, Mercury's in retrograde and this is just a time to rest. So if you ever feel yourself tired in business, maybe you should take a nap. Maybe you should. Push your chair away from your computer and go for a walk in nature. So your higher self will guide you to that, and it might seem weird Oh it's not hard for me to work in nature, but a lot of us are really socially conditioned. We are scrubbed with the beliefs that you have to overwork, you have to give it your all, you have to do, productivity. I was just having a conversation with my dad, and I said to him, Oh, my goal is to just one day always to be able to afford business class. I travel a lot. I go on long-haul flights. I just want to always be in business class. That's my goal, that my business makes enough that I can afford on the regular business class. And he immediately said, trying to be supportive, you'll have to burn the midnight oil, and that's, That is a reflection of our conditioning, or actually probably I need to rest, I need to play, I need to care for my body, and then it will fuel my business, so just rewiring that, that conditioning, it's so, It's so we don't even realize just how omnipresent it is, I think, because it's so omnipresent and your higher self will guide you to actually know you need to rest today, actually know you don't need to do that extra email to your list, and that will create a spaciousness in your day. It will create, it will make, it'll create room in your day. And from that space and that room, that's actually when more clients and revenue start to arrive. Yeah.
Marissa: Not that you haven't shared a ton of wisdom with us so far today, but if you did have one piece of wisdom for the listeners in terms of working with their higher self, is there anything that comes through?
Allyson: Yeah. Yeah. All things there's in, in the spiritual realm, there's duality, so there's, all statements have a truth and a non-truth to it, and so I think my wisdom I'd love to share is if you don't already have one, do try to create some sort of Daily mindfulness practice on the daily, ideally. And if you miss a day, don't self-criticize, no worries. Just go back to it the next day. And if you already have it, try to refortify it, or maybe there's something you can do to take it to the next level. And there is a little, this is where the duality comes in. There is some discipline to this. And I know discipline is usually a heavy word. I just talked about how we all overwork. I think discipline is associated with overwork, burnout. So yes, that's there. So it's almost lean into the push-pull energy of being disciplined about it. So that you're like, hey, I'm committed to this. I'm going to do this on the daily, and at the same time, I'm light on myself, I'm gentle on myself, I don't self-criticize when I miss a day, I know that I will miss a day, and it is okay, but because I am disciplined in the right way, I will get back on it tomorrow, and really that daily practice, especially as we ascend to higher consciousness and the collective ascends, that little daily practice, whether it's 10 minutes or an hour, it doesn't really matter. That is going to be super, super important for you to just carve out that quiet. So you can get those messages and really help your energy aligned to where it wants to go.
Marissa: Oh, I think that's beautiful. Okay, Alison. So if people want to learn more about you, if they want to start working with you, where can they find out more information?
Allyson: So I have everything you want to know about me. You can find at https://allysonscammell.com/ , my website, and I have a perfect gift for your listeners. I call it 10 high five minutes. It's the ultimate daily spiritual practice or mindfulness practice for busy soul-guided leaders and entrepreneurs. It includes a guided meditation that actually takes you through the five-step process I talked about today. It's got my checklist for how to create the perfect daily routine for you and your energy. And it also has a live class. Oh, it was a live class replay that shares how to turn your daily practice into a very powerful manifestation tool.
Marissa: I love that. And we will have all of those links for you in the show notes and more information about Alison and how to follow up with her. So Alison, thank you so much for being here with us today and listeners. I will see you back here next time in temple space.
Wasn't that really fun? I thought that was really fun. Not knowing Alison before it was really cool to see how much we have in common. And I think when you're walking a spiritual path, you find that more and more that people are just your soul people. So it was cool to discover that. And I really loved that her channeling and my channeling had a familiarity and had an alignment. And it was really just one of those synchronicity reaffirming moments for me, but. Again, lets me know that I'm on the right path. So I hope that it was similar for you. And my lithium crystal fell over the second that I said that. So I need to figure out what that's about. Anyway, I hope that you enjoyed this episode. All of the links that Alison mentioned will be in the show notes. So you can check out her work and see if it is beneficial for you. And I cannot wait to meet you back here again next week in temple space.
