How to Unlock Your Intuition and Your Inner Healer with Energy Healer Manuela Welton

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Hi, Manuela. Welcome to the show. Thank you so much for being here. 

Thank you for having me. Orion, it’s a pleasure.

It’s a pleasure having you. We just spoke for a little while, and I already know it’s going to be a very interesting and enlightening conversation before we begin. Can you share a little bit about yourself and how you find your calling?

Well, it’s a question I love to answer, because I haven’t found my calling. The calling found me. I often share that I wanted to act as a young girl, and I was a young entrepreneur. At the age of six, I was making perfumes and selling them to my neighbors. My passion then shifted to acting, and through life circumstances, I found myself in the healing world and in the healing realms at a very young age. 

It was nothing like I ever chose, but I felt like it was put on my path for a reason. I’ve never shared this before, but once, a person read my hand, and they said, “Wow, you jumped timeline, like you were actually supposed to be this in this life, which was acting, and then you, your soul, decided to skip a timeline.” And I was like, “Oh, that’s interesting, that actually rings true.” I guess we can do that.

That’s super interesting, because I studied acting when I was a teenager, and then I started acting in New York later in life for two years. I really wanted to be an actress, and I guess my soul skipped that one.

Learning about humans—how we work, who we are, and what makes us who we are—is a fascinating endeavor. There’s no better way to know about it than to work with it.

We’re on a similar path. In your hypnotherapy work and your coaching work, acting, for me, is shape-shifting. It makes sense that it actually correlates with the healing world a lot, because in our work, in our current line of work, we shape-shift into who we work with in some way. It’s similar. It makes sense.

Why do you think your soul chose healing?

I have different ideas about it. One idea I’ve explored extensively is that I have seen a parallel reality of my soul, or in other words, we don’t know the truth about this. It may be related to past lives. I’m not even sure if past lives truly exist, or if they’re parallel to our current existence, or if they’re part of our ancestry. Whatever the case may be, I’ve been shown many iterations of what I’ve done in my life. I have been shown a lot around my throat, as I’m sure you have, because you’re doing this podcast. 

But my soul has often come back to learning about the psyche and the human soul. It’s what fascinates me the most: learning about humans and how we work, who we are, and what makes us who we are. What better way to learn about it than to work with it, see it, feel it, and experiment? I often share that I was born, as we all were, with gifts. I was born with the gift of feeling my feelings turned to 150, and I can feel we all feel, but I can really feel a person, and I feel anything from broken bones to emotional clogs to all of that. Because I was given this way of being, I was also given mentorship to work with it and then help other people. We’re given who we are and how we present ourselves in the world, and we work with.

Did you work with somebody, and you knew that their bones were broken? How deep do you go into the body? What exactly do you do there?

Well, most people come to me to ask, they want to learn how to do that, and I just don’t know how to teach it, because I feel like I was born with disability of feeling. I remember being a young child and spending time with my best friend at the time, playing together and feeling a sense of rightness. As we were around somebody who had broken a bone, and we could feel it in our body, in the way that we were feeling a broken bone in our own body. It was something I had at a very young age. I think my best friend at that time had it too. I recently came to realize that, like in my family system, I would feel things, but then I would be told differently. 

That creates a field of confusion, because I could feel something, and then I was told something. And so I was, because I was feeling differently. At a very young age, I was living in New York. For example, on the train, I could feel when somebody had broken a bone, or when someone was going through a heartbreak, or when I knew people were genuinely caring. This is something that I have, and I just found out there’s a word for it. I don’t know the word, but we can look it up. Just like clairsentience, clairvoyance, and clairaudience, there’s an actual word to describe what I’m talking about. There’s a specific type of autism, and I just feel more than most.

Oh, wow, that’s amazing. 

I actually just learned that other people have it, which is great. Doesn’t make me feel that alone, but it’s a low-grade autism, so you’re feeling a lot.

Do you get overwhelmed when you are around people? Or do you put some shields of protection around yourself?

When I was younger, I would often feel overwhelmed because I didn’t understand what was happening. It was like all this input, information, feeling, now I know what’s happening, so I can deflect. I have a very quick processing of who is what, and so I can put up different shields; it’s not that it’s not shields, but the acknowledgement of where it comes from immediately releases from my body.

You studied many modalities. What do you use the most?

It depends on who I work with; I don’t necessarily. Energy healing is one of the biggest, but because I studied it first. But I go anywhere from constellations to hypnosis, intuition, I play with all the senses, and it just depends on who I’m working with. I don’t sell a specific program, but I really work with the person, seeing how they see, and I see it’s clear to me, just as if you’ve seen someone and can see them, and then you transition from seeing to feeling. It’s my feeling. You see, and then you feel. We all have different abilities and gifts, superpowers.

Is it different when you do one-on-one meetings, in person or remotely?

Yes and no, one-on-one in-person interactions do something different. You can connect physically, which is a unique experience, and you can touch, which is a distinct advantage. However, remote interactions can be just as powerful. Actually, for me, it’s interesting because you can go deeper, believe it or not, remotely because I can, like, ‘I’m in my own space,’ and I can fly and get more information than I would if I were actually feeling in person. It’s different.

When you’re healing someone, what type of things have you helped heal? You could share some stories.

Mentorships, teachers, and experiences helped me grow in this work, with a lot of trial and error.

Well, I’ve worked. I started really stepping into it. I’ve studied it since I was 14, 13, energy work, intuition and all that came in earlier. But energy work, I started very young, and then I started professionally. I started my practice when I was 17 or 18, and I’ve worked with thousands of stories and things. I’ve worked anywhere from cancer to relational healing breakups. I have worked with, helping and supporting, as I said, with broken bones. We go past iterations of soul. When I work with somebody, and I put my hands on them in their energy field, I get visions and images, and usually it really resonates with the person. 

I have that ability to see also, and that supports somebody in looking and seeing; they’ve been carrying this for a long time, whether it’s through their ancestors or through past or parallel lifetimes. It just depends. I have worked with many different things, but I am currently working with babies and bringing them into the world. So fun, and I love it, because how I do that is I have a lot of women come to me with infertility, and then the baby shows up, and the baby tells me what they’re needing to do, and we shift a few things, and suddenly they’re pregnant. Who are they pregnant with? Exactly the baby that came to me. Gender everything. It’s so much fun, and it’s been one of my greatest experiences.

That’s amazing. You could share a story about a baby, and how they found out that the baby was the same, most of the time.

After the most recent one, and one of my favorites, it’s the person who came to me just had a miscarriage. Then we really visualized this, this baby. It was because I was feeling the energy, I was feeling the name, I was feeling all of it. Three months later, she messages me. It’s this gender, it’s this name, it’s this, and it’s like, “Okay,” that’s it, but it happens all the time. That’s one story I had. 

Another story of the energy of a koala came to me like a baby koala. Then, when the baby was born, she shared, “Oh my gosh, it’s a koala,” because she looks at the tree all the time, and she even kind of feels energetically like a koala, and she likes to do that. It just depends. Every baby is different. It’s just that I love the energy of babies. It’s just beautiful to work with.

Each one is different, but they’re all just that; that’s how it works. I get images, I get feelings, I get the gender, usually 90% of the time I get the gender. I’ve had experiences with the energies of babies, where I tune into a female baby, but it actually turns out to be a boy. Sometimes, it can be a more feminine energy, but that’s about 10% of what I work with.

That’s amazing. Do you think that every woman should connect with the spirit baby prior to conceiving, or that it will help every woman who is experiencing infertility?

Yes and No, not necessarily. It’s something that I do, and I think a lot about it; my work is mainly driven by word of mouth. I don’t share or market what I do because, as I mentioned the other day, I started working when I was 18 years old. I was working with a person aged 60, 70, or 50 years old. I don’t know, that’s just what was coming to me. I never looked at this. Was the person I wanted to work with. But the older I get, the younger the woman gets. I’m sure that when I’m 60 and 70, I’ll be working with teenagers, kids, maybe babies. Who knows? I’m just trusting. 

In this line of work, I trust. I’m not sure where I was headed with that, but whoever comes to work with me, it’s just that’s what they need to do. But this is not necessarily the way you need to be working. Usually, people get called to work with me for a specific reason, or they want to connect with babies, but I don’t make it. It’s a beautiful way to bring in a child, to connect with the spirit of the child that’s near you, to come in. It’s just a beautiful way, but I don’t think it’s that way. I just invite people to.

What was a defining moment in your life that got you on this path of healing?

Seeing everything through energy, and not forgetting that’s what we are, supports the creation of visions, manifestations, vibrations, and frequencies.

As I shared earlier, in life, I knew I was different from most of the children I played with in the playground. I was just very different. I could see, feel, and hear. I often share the story of when I was little. My grandparents would often have tea parties with me, and they would share stories, tell me things, and laugh. My grandparents were dead, but I could see them. I had that experience at an early age. I was a twin, and I would have an imaginary friend that looked just like me at six years old. My twin passed in utero, and I had this experience of imaginary friends who weren’t imaginary; there were spirits. 

I always had this growing up, and was never told that I was different. I just felt like everybody had this, and a defining experience is when my parents actually passed when I was 15, 18 years old. That’s really what it is; there’s no going back. This is just how life is now. It’s an initiation. A place where I find that the veil between spirit and life is so thin and that there is a vast amount of emotion in my body that I have to deal with, I could either ignore it and go south, or I can start working with it, heal myself, and then support other people through their grief process. In choosing that, I am then shown all these mentorships, teachers, and experiences that helped me grow in this work, with a lot of trial and error.

What are some teachings that you remember from your mentors, a word, a phrase they said that stuck with you?

The one that’s coming to me was my first experience with Reiki when I was 13 or 14, way back when nobody was talking about it. Nobody was saying, “Reiki was really not something like it is today.” But I think the teacher always said, “Everything is energy. Everything is energy,” and it just rippled through everything is energy. Most people ask, “How do you do the work you do remotely, if you’re not with the person you know, where it’s all energy, so that we can make contact with another person through that energy?” The water we drink is energy; so, if we pour good intentions and positive thoughts into it and drink it, we become that energy. Seeing everything through that energy, and not forgetting that’s what we are, supports the creation of visions, manifestations, vibrations, and frequencies, everything we think.

Yes, because it has been proven over and over again through quantum physics. One of the coolest movies that I saw about it was What the Bleep Do We Know? We know it’s an older movie, but it’s a really good one, and he does explain how two cells in two different sides of the world can react to the same information. You inform a cell on one side of the world, and then the other one on the other side of the world reacts because we are connected. 

It’s all about the energy to feel the matrix that we’re in. How do you think healing works in healing the body, like, what happens when you send healing? Do you heal from your own body, or do you ask for divine guidance to send this, the healing light, to the person? How do you think it works? Do you have guides with you, or a spirit with you? How does it work?

I’m gonna answer this question as of right now, and I think it changes all the time, but I’m tuning into our energy together, and I’m feeling this, I’m going to go with it. It’s really beautiful to think that we are part of that divine guidance. I’m seeing it currently; in this moment, I see it as a loop, like an infinite loop of sorts. We feed that divine guidance, and then it comes through us. It’s all part of one, the same energy vibration. I can go and seek outside sources, guidance and energy. Yet, by the way, I’m looking up, but actually, often we don’t think about that energy coming from the earth and working with the Earth; often we’re looking at that divine guidance from above. It’s just really beautiful to also work with that energy of the earth and help that energy come through us again. 

It’s all together. The Earth, we’re channels, we’re vessels of energy between the Earth and above, and how we work with all of that and that energy around us, and what we tune into as the guides, but we are the guides, and we are the earth, and we are that. We’re all part of the same frequency and vibration again; it can change, but I’m feeling that right now. It’s worth talking about it,

You’re talking about non-duality, and and, and us as an expression of the whole universe. In my meditations, there is quite a duality where I’m getting something from source energy, even though I’m a part of source. Energy, where I do imagine a white, golden light coming from a source in the sky, washed into my body all the way to the core of Mother Earth, but then came back up and connected. Those two sources are connected. 

Yes, I love, similarly to what you described, I’ve had experiences of non-duality, where I was always just everything, but most of my spiritual experiences were. In this world, it’s easier to be in duality to avoid getting lost, because we are, as Windar says, spiritual beings having a human experience. While we’re in this body, there is duality. There is the body, and then the external world. If someone wants to connect and try to heal themselves or someone else, where do they start? What are the first steps?  

Their hands. But before we go to that, can I go back to your thought, we’ll go back to where people can heal themselves. But I totally agree. Have you ever been to the edge of the universe? Have you ever experienced the edge of the universe?

I experienced, I experience, experience zero edge of the universe. 

That’s why I was headed. The one thing I’ll say with that is that most people fear expanding that level.

It’s very scary. It’s very scary. That’s why I never went back there, because it’s scary to have this type of expansion. It’s a lot. If your vessel is not ready, it’s extremely expensive. How do you even prepare for something like that? It’s beyond logic. It’s beyond words, it’s beyond explanation. Nothing we can say can explain this.

I can actually feel it in my heart right now, because it feels very expanded. It feels like, ‘wow, free, there’s a layer of freedom.’ We’re talking about freedom and the experience of the Earth’s lane. But imagine that freedom where there’s actually nothing, you’re nothing and you’re everything and you’re nothing at once, and there’s no edge, and there’s just a black void. It’s incredible. That’s how much energy there is in this planet.

There’s a lot of energy. There’s a lot, it’s infinite.

I could go there with you, which is a lot. I can’t fully go there with a lot of people, but with you, I could sense you’ve been there before. 

You know what? I had a hypnotherapy session where I took somebody who is extremely spiritual. She’s extremely successful. She is one of those Mavericks human beings, one in a million. When I went there, there were hypnotherapies where you go through childhood, and that’s what I do. Some people go to different lifetimes. There is this book, Many Lives, Many Masters, where people go in different lifetimes. But with her, I don’t know how we got there, but we got to the core of creation. 

It was quite wild. I’m not going to go into that, but it was so wild. In the midst of all that, I had, like, a scary, scary moment where I was like, “How can I hold this amount of energy?” I took a deep breath, which is what I do during sessions. If something is challenging, I just take a deep breath, and I’m like, “Okay, guys, God connect,” and I know what to do. It was an amazing experience, lasting about two hours, and I myself left the session elated.

I can feel that energy right now as you’re talking about it.

Some people are wild, especially when they’re allowed to be free in a state of trance. Let’s go back to healing. For the people who are listening, and they’re like, “Wow, that’s amazing. I want to know how to heal myself. I want to know, actually, how to get to those places, and I want to know what’s in it for me, how can I help myself?” Now, listening to this.

It’s a beautiful intention, and I always start with what I said: we all have different gifts, and we all possess them all. Some of them are more open than others, and it’s getting curious that it’s really important. I always say curiosity and trust. Trusting yourself, trusting that you have it, knowing that you have it. These hands and the feet are channels and vessels of energy. If you put your hands in your heart right now, you can feel a certain heat or cold. If it feels cold, it’s more connected to a masculine energy, not gender, not women or men, just masculine, cold, and it’s feminine. It’s just trusting that energy.

I’m apparently very masculine right now because my hands are on fire. I don’t get it during interviews like, “Whoa. What’s going on? Why is it so hot?”

We all have different gifts, and we all possess them in varying degrees.

We’re opening up to the energy we’re feeling. In our connection, what we’re bringing in. I often get this in the pot; it’s that we’re moving a lot of energy. There’s a lot of energy moving through us, and you probably have these open. There’s a lot of energy coming through, and so you can use that. I can feel you want to bring that to your throat. There’s energy that wants to move in your throat, and you focus that energy and put it wherever it is. 

I’m putting it in my throat. You can put that energy wherever you want to focus it, and then visualize whatever it is that you’re praying for or intend for that energy to move. Suppose you have a lot of people going through it. I can feel it in my work. I feel it with my friends. I feel it with my family. It’s just bringing your own energy and a breath, as you beautifully said, and inhaling with the intention to clear anything that’s not yours, or to bring in more love, or to bring more attention and presence into your body.

Many people are heartbroken about the state of the world. It doesn’t matter if you’re on the right or the left, or what your opinions are; there is so much division, as people are divided and they’re having wars, and it just feels so much turmoil. With the social media and AI revolution, there are numerous changes, and countless likes; I’m at the edge of the universe. This is what we feel we’re on the edge.

We really edge, and yet it’s this that’s keeping us from feeling the oneness of the energies of whatever that edge is. It’s the fact that when I tune into Anna, absolutely. Of course, we’re here, and this is what’s happening, and there’s heartbreak. When I feel into the energy of the polarization and division that is happening, it’s a very mental energy. It’s very much on the mind.

People are not in their bodies and they’re not in their hearts now, because if they take a moment to be in their hearts, you won’t have those crazy extremes.

Focus your energy wherever you want, and then visualize what you’re praying for or intend for that energy to achieve.

Whoever’s dying is dying, and the death is death, no matter where you’re from. It’s looking at human life as a human life. It comes from a heart energy; it comes from a deep caring for a human life. Often, I share that planet Earth is the heart of the universe. It’s love, it’s what you were sharing at the beginning of the call. Like, ‘What are you passionate about? Your family? Like that is Earth, family, love, connection, community, gathering food,’ like being there for your neighbor. 

As we look back when we’re older, we see that we’ve looked forward. We think about the things, the moments that we think about, most of them will not be the award or the book or the political activism, it’s going to be the people you love, the beautiful moments you share, the proud moments you share, the sexy moments you shared. Those are going to be the most important things. Those things can ground us. Good friends can ground us. People we love can ground us on earth, much like touching a tree. You can feel a tree and ask for its energy. You have to ask permission from the tree to receive some energy from the earth. 

When I do that, sometimes, I dig off my shoes. I ground my feet on the ground, and I will touch a tree, and I’ll feel the energy soothing me. I often go to the beach to calm down and reset, because we have a connection to nature, our bodies, and our loved ones. Those are the real things, not the manipulation we see online and on social media. This is the Maya. This is the illusion. This is the matrix. This is the division. To heal, we need to return to our own core, our own hearts and ground, and reconnect.

Yes, 100% actually, when you talk about teachers and what they have shared with me, one of my elders, who’s 82, always says it comes back to our own garden. Tend your own garden before you contend the world, and this year, for me, in my birth, on my birthday last year, I really made the intention of showing up for the people I love, which is something I can count on and maybe three hands. I realize, as you’re sharing, ‘If I’m not showing up for the people I love, how can I show up for the rest of the world like it?’ It starts there, just as it begins with tending our own garden. It starts within ourselves. What is the polarity happening within you, before you step into the polarity happening in the world? It. Imagine if everybody were taking care of themselves. Where would we be energetically?

We might be heading that way, because talking about polarity in the universe, where there are opposites of black and white and kindness and meanness and all that, it’s all the expansion that we see on social media is showing us mostly the darkness, but because it’s like a yin yang, the more we have darkness, the more we have light. It’s just not in the media, so we don’t see it. But there are a lot of good people that are doing a lot of good things, and there are a lot of amazing inventions and good people, good hearts, and acts of kindness that are happening every day. 

The Yin Yang will be forever. That’s what we’re here to experience on this planet and this plane in this earthly way of being. I think of the Tao Te Ching. I love that book. I have it on my altar, and I just turn to a page every day. Polarity will always be there; there’s no clearing out the dark, black, or whatever you want to call it. Without it, there’s no light, or there would be, and that’s probably an edgy thought. Most people will say, “No, I believe in heaven on earth.” And yes, but even back in the day when there was heaven on earth, there was Tribal Wars. There’s always been the experience of hardship and heartbreak. That’s what we’re like, “Who in the planet hasn’t experienced that before?”

That reminds me of a quote, which I’m sorry I don’t remember who said, “History may not repeat itself, but it definitely rhymes, and there’s nothing new under the sun.”

That’s good. We’re all experiencing our own truths. That’s why we started. I’m going to experience life with my eyes, with my vision, and it might not be what other people are experiencing. We must realize that we all experience life in different ways. How do we make space for somebody’s reality and it being okay, there’s space for all of our realities to coexist somehow, I believe, unless you’re harming someone, which I mean, and that’s what we’ll get into at some point. But hurting people is not, that’s a whole different way.

For someone who wants to learn how to connect with their intuition and their own healing source. What? What can they do today?

Trust yourself, trust your stress. I often have a lot of people who come to me to ask, “How do I do this?” I say, “You already have it. Play with your knowing. Play with you. You already have it, and it’s just about trusting your gut, feeling, your instinct, your knowing.” I share it with you. You play with it so you can ask questions. Maybe have somebody ask, “Do I have? Did I have tea or coffee this morning?” You just go with the first thing that you feel in your body? Well, it depends. If you’re clear and cognizant, you’ll feel it in your body. If you are clairaudient, you’ll hear it. If you’re clairvoyant, you’ll see it. 

Death is death, no matter where you’re from. It stems from a heart energy; it originates from a deep care for human life.

You can start asking questions and then go with that gut instinct that, like, “Ooh, that’s the first one.” Don’t double don’t second-guess it. It’s the first thing you feel, but you have to work on building the level of trust within yourself to truly feel, see, or hear what it is. I think that the more we trust our knowing and the more we trust ourselves, the more open we are to our own intuition coming online.

I had to trust my intuition, even though every time I went against my intuition, things didn’t turn out the way I wanted them to turn out, and even now, I saw a place that we were thinking about moving into, and on paper, everything looks good, but when I looked at my intuition, it didn’t feel right. I asked, I saw a big ‘X’, and I asked four times, and I saw a big ‘X.’ I’m like, “Okay, maybe I’m tired. I’m just gonna sleep on it.” I woke up in the morning and asked. I asked again and again. It was a big ‘X,’ like, don’t go there. It’s quite hard to trust it and not do it, because we’ve been looking for a while. But I’m going to trust it because I know that it’s coming from somewhere, and I have to trust my intuition.

Remember what I said earlier, you’re a seer. I am. You see things. That’s it, X. Trust you’re seeing that. Some people would like it; for me, it would be a literal X, but in my body, I would feel it that way. Trusting when you see things, because you see things.

Sometimes I see, sometimes I hear, sometimes I feel, but mostly see.

I feel that for you, I can feel it in your eyes, as you’re looking at me, you’re seeing through my soul. We don’t know each other fully, and we’re getting to know each other. You have a super strong BS meter. You can see through people very quickly. I can feel that as you’re looking at me.

Well, you got me because I went to the gym, and I met this guy who works there, and he shook my hands, and I felt his hands like he’s a trainer. I’m like, “Do you do massage work and body work?” He’s like, “Yeah, how did you know?” I just get it. I get those things.

You got those hits. You get those. You see it. You see, we got for me. I can’t see that you see me, but I can feel through your eyes seeing me, that you can see me, and you see straight through me. I have no problem with that, because I don’t hide anything. You can look at me; I’m an open book. But a lot of people get intimidated.  

I think I intimidate people sometimes. Sometimes, people think that I’m all nice and sweet, but sometimes I can be intimidating. This goes back to the concept of duality and accepting all parts of yourself. When you accept the duality within you, it’s no longer an illusion. A lot of times, when people have darkness and try to shove it, it will just come up and try to bite them in the ass. 

Because they’ll project it onto you, you become that darkness for people. They see it through you. That’s what I’m feeling. It’s becoming a mirror for them. As you are seeing them, they are seeing themselves. 

Well, is there a way to not intimidate people and kind of tune it down?

As you’re looking at me, there’s a, there’s a low-level intention to see me, which is beautiful, and I’m really open to that. Sometimes people don’t want that, so it’s a matter of turning it off, and then you can actually see that your eyes are softer, and they won’t go in. Does that make sense? 

I need to turn. I’ll need to find the off button.

You just turn. You just be like, “I was just seeing you because I want to be with you, not necessarily because I want to see through you.” But you can just be there. You can place the intention, and then the eyes will drop. Intention is everything.

We all experience life in different ways.

Yes, I interviewed Donny Epstein. He’s like a real-life magician. He touches people from far away, and their bodies start moving, connecting them to different realms. He’s really not of this world, and we know that when he was a kid, he couldn’t see faces in photos, just energy signatures. Then he had to train his mind to actually recognize people through photos. When he became, he had a lot of energy; he would really intimidate people. He learned how to, and trained himself, to bring the energy into himself and up so it doesn’t overwhelm people. 

That being said, there were many times in my life when I tried to be small and minimize my power so I wouldn’t intimidate others or make them feel uncomfortable with who I am. Then I got to a point where I minimized it so much that I forgot who I was, and I was not owning who I am or my power, because I just wanted to please everybody. I had to go through a journey of reclamation. I think throughout life, we go through phases where we lose our power, we gain our power, lose our power, and then gain it again. 

But eventually, I may have come to the realization that it doesn’t matter; you just show up as who you are with your gifts and everything that you are. If somebody doesn’t feel like you’re the person for them, that’s still very much okay, because then you’re left with the people that I write are right for you, whether it’s friends or clients or even family members. 

Deeming who we are does not help the world, especially at this time. In this world, it’s about shining our light the brightest. If somebody gets blinded by this light, that’s okay. They’re not ready. Maybe in a couple of years, three years, four years, they come back to you, and they’re, they’re going to be like, “Oh my goodness, you changed a lot.” It’s actually not you; they’re ready to be, and that’s so beautiful. What do you think? What are your thoughts about that?

It’s beautiful. You share that, and I absolutely agree. I have had that as well. It’s, ‘how do you, you know?’ How do you become complacent with somebody else’s thoughts, opinions, and visions, and then make yourself small and small and small, or revert to shape-shifting? We go back to shape the acting, becoming our surroundings. You just become a fly on the wall, versus shining your light.

My goodness, as an Aries, I have the ability to mimic every environment. I lived in Japan and came back, and people told me, “You look Japanese.” To be honest, I don’t look Japanese as much because I’m not in that environment. But if you’re an Aries or a person who can shape shift, you can shape shift so much to cater to other people and other circles that you’re like, “Wait a minute, who am I? Who am I really?” You have to embark on your own internal journey to find that again and again, and discover more of who you are.

I think there are a lot of people out there who have that ability and don’t even know it, and have become their environment. It’s like asking yourselves, ‘Are you in an environment that really serves you and suits you, or are you something else that needs to shine bright?’ I think it’s absolutely what you’re saying in some way that people fear speaking their truth. It doesn’t mean it’s somebody else’s truth, their truth, for fear of hurting others or not being accepted or rejected. 

I’ve been in this dance for a long time, feeling I can’t share my truth because of fear of being killed, because that was actually what happened to my dad. It’s in my blood. It’s in my body. But it’s my dad who spoke his truth out loud in Colombia. It wasn’t accepted. It wasn’t, now it is. Interestingly enough, after he was killed for it. Most people, for example, currently in the world, are like, “Why are you not speaking about this?” And it’s like, “it’s not because I don’t want to speak about it. It’s not because I don’t care about it. It’s because it’s actually a lived experience in my body,” previous lives, previous iterations. If I speak the truth, it’s dangerous. 

How do we? I’ve been working on it a lot and a lot and a lot, as you’re saying, “How I became my environment.” It’s like, “Okay, now I get to, like, really speak my truth,” and my truth, honestly, is love, like it’s frequency in my heart, where I’m its non-judgmental, and I make space for everything to be truth. That’s my truth, and it’s how I have shaped and become an open person. Getting in touch with that is exactly what the journey you’re on is about. I think it’s a beautiful journey to align with and connect to our truths, right to our hearts, and share them. Because somebody, one person, is going to connect to it, and then they’re going to feel inspired and share their truth, and then it’s just going to become.

Sometimes it feels like in this world, it’s really dangerous to speak your truth, because then people will literally try to kill you for your truth, and then what? But we can never be silenced about our truth, because we owe it to the world and to our kids. What are you gonna tell your kid? “Oh, Mommy was too afraid. Daddy was too afraid. I’m sure you’re really proud of your dad.”

At the same time, I often wonder, “Okay, what if that hadn’t happened? Would we all still gather right like, as family?”

It’s a question; it’s a very hard level.

I’m proud of him, and it’s a level of courage and wonder, it’s a question, it’s an inquiry. It’s not like it was right or wrong; it was needed for him to share because he was a truth teller, and was it worth his life? Like did? Was that worth his life? I wonder where I was going, but it’s important to have truth tellers. I think that’s what keeps me going, but then I can also make space for people like me who are wondering, ‘What is your truth?’ 

It could be an entire experience and a journey to get there, due to the shape-shifting. There are so many thoughts and so many people thinking and voicing opinions, and then you’re like, “Whoa. That feels true, but wait, do you know it’s discernment, discernment, discernment, that’s not mine, that’s not mine, that’s not mine.” Then it goes back to hugging a tree.

It’s a beautiful journey to align with and connect to our truths, right to our hearts, and share them.

Good point. Just hug a tree. 

That’s the ultimate truth. It’s true. Thank you. I’ll do that today.

What are your three top tips to live a stellar life?

Well, going back to your truth, right, living in your reality, compassion for other stories and space for different, for others, particularly for yourself and curiosity and imagination and truth, love, compassion and curiosity and creativity and and we’re experimenting like different role, like playing with life, not staying to one thing, trying different hats on, trying different ways of being on. What would it be like to be something different today, just playing?

I love that. Before we say goodbye for now, do you have anything else you’d like to share? Where can people find you?

Well, I just feel like I’m swimming in this really beautiful energy. I hope that whoever’s listening can feel it and be in this. It’s just a wave of energy, of love. I can feel that. Whoever’s going through hardship. Ever had hard times like that? This is also a point of access to be within yourself and just take those moments for yourself, with yourself, so that you can show up better for your family or your community. 

I can feel whoever is listening tune into this energy, and you can find me on my website, which is my name and last name, manuelawelton.com, or on my Instagram. I’m happy to be of service and connect with you. Thank you for this beautiful time. I really feel it.

Thank you, Manuela, and thank you, listeners. Remember to live your truth. Have compassion for others and for yourself. Keep your curiosity, imagination, and love, and play with life. This is Orion till next time.