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Jay Shetty Podcast#1 CELEBRITY MEDIUM: "When Life Whispers THIS To You, Don't Ignore It! - It Means..."
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115 min read · 22,664 words- 0:00 – 3:05
Intro
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
How many times have you heard somebody say, "You know what? I'm gonna sleep on it," and then they wake up in the morning with clarity?
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
They don't know where they've been or what's happened-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... but they all of a sudden have clarity. We are recharging much more than our physical bodies when we sleep. That's our clairvoyant vision coming. But clairaudience is when you would hear a thought that would come to you that's not yours.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
It could be the voice of a loved one who has crossed. It could be guidance you might hear from what I'd refer to as a spirit guide, other people would call a guardian angel, telling you yes or no or to do something, and then they'll ignore it or dismiss it 'cause it's so weird or it doesn't fit this materialistic paradigm. This is clairknowing. It's when you all of a sudden have this just download of absolute knowing or information, and there's no way you could logically explain how you know it.
- JSJay Shetty
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- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
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- SPSpeaker
Jay Shetty.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
The one, the only Jay Shetty. [laughs]
- JSJay Shetty
Hey, everyone. Welcome back to On Purpose. I'm so grateful that you come back every single week to become happier, healthier, and more healed. And today's guest is someone that I've been wanting to have in this seat for a long, long time. I've been a big fan of her books, her work. We have a lot of mutual friends in common who couldn't stop talking about how incredible she is, and finally, I get to sit down with her. I'm talking about Laura Lynne Jackson, the author of these two incredible books, The Light Between Us and Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe. If you haven't read these books, I highly recommend you grab a copy right now. I'm so excited to talk to Laura Lynne Jackson. Laura, welcome to On Purpose.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Thank you so much. I'm so excited to be here in this space with you.
- JSJay Shetty
Honestly, I mean it when I say that I love it when a friend says to me, "Jay, I really think you need to have this person on your show," and I know them [laughs] and we're friends, and everyone speaks just so highly of you, your work, of course. Being exposed to your books was a gift to me, so thank you for doing the work that you do.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Oh, thank you.
- JSJay Shetty
And thank you for making time today, making space and energy to be here with me, too.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
I'm so honored to be here, and I love that. I find that, you know, light seeks light, and there are circles of friends that come together and I think expand our own connections, right?
- JSJay Shetty
Absolutely.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
It's, it's so beautiful, those cords of connection that happen.
- JSJay Shetty
Absolutely. Well, Laura, I think today's going to be both educational and enlightening for all of us, and so I wanna make sure that we really explain things to people if they're new to the ideas, and then I also wanna kinda get lost with you because I have so many things that I wanna ask and kind of co-create together. And so my first question is that you're both a psychic and a medium.
- 3:05 – 6:59
The Difference Between a Psychic and a Medium
- JSJay Shetty
Could you explain for our listeners and viewers what that means and what the similarities or differences are so that anyone who's learning for the first time is brought up to speed?
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Absolutely. I think it's so important to understand what that is. Um, being psychic and reading psychically really means that I am tuning into and reading what would be called an aura or an energy field that each one of us has. You know, scientists call it a biofield. Um, people in my industry call it an aura. And really within that energy field is all sorts of information, um, information about a person's past, present, future. I will see cords of connection between people here to people they love who are part of their lives. I'll see sometimes something I call soul cycles for the person I'm reading for when I'm reading psychically, which looks like a timeline, a historical timeline with lines drawn down. Um, but the lines that are drawn down are important moments on that person's life journey, decisions they've made, um, people they've met, um, decisions, um, that have found them that they had to have the courage to say yes to and open the door to and so forth. Um, I might also see, um, a soul cycle where they were locked into a certain time period of learning. Let's say from, you know, age 19 to 23, I'll see a soul cycle there. And it can be very interesting, too, when it has to do with somebody's past soul cycles because a lot of times in lives, I think we lose perspective and we might feel stuck. Like, "I was stuck there," or, "I was stuck in that thing and I couldn't make a shift or a change." But meanwhile, that was a period that they were meant to be locked into a certain soul cycle or lesson of learning. Maybe it was for them. Maybe they were the catalyst for somebody else to learn. So it can be really interesting in that sense. I'll see, uh, soul cycles that are coming from them, for them as well. I'll see people in colors, uh, which is a whole language of energy and meaning to me. I can see, um, the maybe gifts they came here with, some of the soul challenges they were meant to face, and what comes next. Uh, so all of that I categorize under reading psychically. Um, being a medium is very different. When I read mediumistically, what I'm really doing is I'm connecting with the consciousness or the energy of someone who's no longer in a physical body, and for me, that experience is very different. When I read psychically, I like to say I'm retrieving information. I'll, I'll reach out or I'll look. And when I read mediumistically, I just sit back and I receive information.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
It's very much for me like meeting all new people and personalities come through and information comes through. Um, it's a very interesting experience for me, too, because when I read psychically, I, I get this inner screen that, that kind of shows up in my third eye and inner mind. Kind of looks like a wide screen TV or, um- Like a movie theater screen. And all my psychic information always comes on the left-hand side, and all my mediumship always comes on the right. So it's very easy for me to tell when I'm switching gears, when I'm getting information psychically versus mediumistically. Um, when I read mediumistically, what will happen for me is I'll see a point of light come in on my screen. And depending on where it comes in on my screen, I have, can have a good sense of whom I'm speaking with. Um, the upper right-hand side is reserved for anybody who I'm reading who I would refer to as a sitter, or the sitter's mother's side of the family, anybody who's crossed there. The bottom right is reserved for anybody on the sitter's father's side of the family, and then the middle's for everyone else, peers, friends, extended family, pets, anybody else can come in in the middle. So for me, they're two very different ways of receiving information energetically. One is retrieving it or looking, and one is receiving it from consciousness outside of a physical body.
- JSJay Shetty
Beautifully explained. Thank you so much. [laughs] That's, that's so useful. And when I was listening to you, I was thinking, is that something that you're doing... For example, when you're reading psychically, is that
- 6:59 – 9:50
We All Have Psychic Abilities
- JSJay Shetty
something that you're doing at all times and it's happening all around you, or is that something that you consciously, specifically have to sit down and perform a certain practice to do that? For example, do people come in front of you like I am now going, like we do around dentists, we're like, "Don't look at my teeth," 'cause they feel-
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
[laughs]
- JSJay Shetty
... you know, you feel being judged.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Yeah.
- JSJay Shetty
Do... Are you reading all the time, or is this a specific practice-
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
That-
- JSJay Shetty
... that has to take place?
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
That's such a great question. Um, psychically, in terms of psychically reading, I always have my volume switch on probably around a, a three or so. I can never shut that off. So I'm always receiving information in a way that we might not be used to, right? We're living in this materialistic paradigm of, of a world, and we're taught we have five senses, but I'm always reading energy. And it's very helpful for me. It helps me navigate my world and my life. Uh, I would never purposely psychically peek at anybody's energy.
- JSJay Shetty
[laughs]
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
To me, that's very disrespectful.
- JSJay Shetty
[laughs] Yeah.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
You know, they're... Like, everybody's energy is sacred, and I would... It's, it'd be like peeking at somebody's underwear to see what color they're wearing.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
I would never do that without permission agreed upon. Um, could I do it? I suppose I could, and maybe in my, you know, teens and early 20s, I maybe didn't honor it the right way, and I would kind of look and see what I could find out about somebody by reading psychically, but it's not something I'd ever do now.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Um, you know, I think we all have psychic abilities, and for some it's more pronounced than others. But I think people use them more than they know to navigate their worlds.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Uh, and it's a beautiful thing. It's a gift we all have. It's there for the taking. But I do think we need to be respectful of it. So no, I would never purposely psychically read for somebody-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... unless it was agreed upon. To me, that's a sacred thing. Mediumistically, though, that's a very different story. Um, I keep my mediumship abilities closed like a bank vault when, unless I am actively sitting down to read someone. And the reason for that really is because I could read psychically constantly, and I'll never get drained. If I were a cell phone, after 24 hours of always being on psychically, I may be at an 89%, and then I go to sleep, right? Mediumistically, if I read for an hour, two hours, I go from being 100% to a 2%. And, uh-
- JSJay Shetty
Wow
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... it's an energy thing, I can feel it. And if I overdo it or I try to push my limits by reading mediumistically a lot, I'll get physically ill.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
So I've learned to keep that door shut, but the psychic stuff always stays on. It does.
- JSJay Shetty
Wow. Yeah. Well, I'm, I'm glad now I can relax. [laughs]
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
[laughs]
- JSJay Shetty
But no, it's, it's good to know that. And I think there are a couple of things that I want to dive into in a moment. You mentioned two really fascinating things, and everyone who's listening, I will get to them. You said that we all have psychic abilities, so we will talk about that. I'm fascinated by that. You also talked about how you can read energy, and you think it's useful to be able to do that. We'll get back to that. I want to start with, you just mentioned your teens and your 20s. You've been doing this a long time.
- 9:50 – 17:31
Discovering Your Own Ability
- JSJay Shetty
When did you discover these abilities? What is that process of discovery like from, "I have a sense," to, "Oh, this is a skill"? And what does that journey look like through when did you discover it, and then how do you turn a discovery into a distinct ability, which is what it is today?
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
I love that you're making the distinction between discovering something and then really honoring it and working to-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... create it into a skill that can help others, right? So I think I, you know, I was psychic since being a child. I would see people in colors. I would very quickly understand if somebody had this kind of blue aura to them that day, I could get along with them, it'd be great. If they had red frazzly energy, I'd avoid them. I would feel what other people were feeling. You know? That's just, that's called being an empath. But it never occurred to me that other people didn't experience that too. I thought that's how the life, that life worked that way. That's how the world worked.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
But about age el- 11, um, I realized there was something what I'd label as wrong with me or very different about me, and I wasn't happy about it. Um, you know, when I was 11 years old, I remember it was a hot August day, I was swimming in my swimming pool, and my mother called out to tell me she was gonna go visit my grandparents. They lived about an hour away, and we'd see them, you know, every other weekend, and I was seized by this absolute moment of, it felt like panic and knowing at the same time that I needed to go be there with my grandfather that day. I'm soaking wet in the swimming pool, and I'm like, "Mom, you have to wait for me." And she's like, "Laura, are you kidding me? It's, like, school starts in a week. This is your last, like, dog days of summer. Don't... You're in the swimming pool. Really?" And I was like, "I need to come with you." My brother and sister were in the pool too. They didn't get that psychic download, so they stayed and swam. Quickly changed, went to my grandparents' house, and I had the most magnificent day with my grandfather. It was just the two of us. We were laughing and joking, and he was such a, a beautiful force of love in my childhood, you know? Such an important person in my soul. And when it was time to leave, I remember hugging him and saying goodbye and that I loved him, and that was the last time I ever saw him alive. Three days later, he was diagnosed with advanced leukemia, was sent straight to the hospital, and he had-- he died within two weeks. And in those days, unless you were 16 years old, you couldn't go visit someone in the hospital.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
So none of us got to go see him. And I remember being really haunted by that knowing because what I quickly realized is, is what I had felt in that, in the pool that day, that download of absolute knowing, was that I knew I needed to go be with him and that I knew on some very deep spiritual level that this was my last time seeing him and that he was gonna cross. And so I remember, you know, pretty quickly confessing to my mother and saying to her, "Mom, you know, I think there's something really wrong with me. I think that I am, you know, maybe cursed or, like, dark or broken or haunted," because, you know, people are not supposed to know when people they love so much are gonna die, right?
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
And she said to me, "Oh, Laura," you know... And, and I don't know what I did this lifetime to get the mother I did, 'cause she's just extraordinary. She said to me, "Laura, no part of you is broken or dark or haunted. You just have an extra ability, is, is all." And then she confessed that this ability had run in our family for generations. Um, my grandmother used to have dreams that somebody would die and wake up and find out they had died at that exact time of her dream. Uh, when my aunt was younger, right around age 11, the phone rang at my grandparents' house, and my aunt blurted out, "Oh, it's Germany calling to say that my uncle's died." And she didn't even know she had a distant uncle there. Sure enough, it was relatives in Germany calling to say that my grandmother's brother had crossed. And, you know, at the time she was told, like, "We're never speaking about this again." It was something that was kind of hidden. But I think in that moment, my mom gave me permission by telling me no part of me was dark or broken or cursed-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... and that I was meant to embrace this. So then I was like, "Great, I have this ability. I'm part of this club that I wasn't sure I was happy to be part of," but I was part of.
- JSJay Shetty
[laughs]
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
But what was I meant to do with it, you know? And I definitely did not treat it as respectfully as I should growing up, you know? I-- It was a very handy tool in bars to-
- JSJay Shetty
[laughs]
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... hit on guys and read, like, who I'd be a good energy match with. And I remember, you know, one of my boyfriends I walked up to and I was like, "So your name starts with a J. Your dad's on the other side. You have a seven-year-old brother." But I told him all this stuff about him. He's like, "Are you a stalker?" And I'm like, "No, I'm just psychic."
- JSJay Shetty
[laughs]
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
You know, "This is normal."
- JSJay Shetty
How did that go?
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Right? Uh, well, we dated for, like, two years.
- JSJay Shetty
Oh, wow. [laughs]
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Until I was like, "That relationship had run its course," you know?
- JSJay Shetty
[laughs]
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
It was a beautiful growing thing, but meant to move on, as, as oftentimes relationships are.
- JSJay Shetty
Yeah.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Um, but it took me a while to recognize that, oh, this was an ability I could use to help people.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
And I remember, um, one of my sorority sisters in college, uh, was really stressed and really upset about graduation to the point where she couldn't think about anything else because she had been dating this boyfriend, and she didn't know what the future held. And so, you know, all my, my friends knew I had these abilities, so she came over to my house one day, and I sat down, and I did what would be called a reading for her. You know, I said, "You know what? You're gonna end up marrying your husband. You're gonna have three kids. This is..." And I could just feel her energy changing. And that did all come true. She did get married, had three kids, all of that. Um, but I could feel, like, her sense of peace inside calming, and I realized this is something I really am meant to honor and share with others. It's not for me.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
It's not for me to know certain things and that sort of... It's really to share with the world. Um, and it took me a while to really honor it in the right ways, and then my journey led me to, uh, wanna help people in grief. I spent 20 years a high school English teacher, and I did this in secret. And I tested for an organization called For the Forever Family Foundation, uh, in 2005, where I was, um... I had to go get-- I had to go to a hotel room, and there were people set up at different stations. I had to just give them readings, and they couldn't say a word. They just had to score me. But if you passed, you could help people in grief, and I really wanted to help parents who had lost children, um, volunteer, right? And so I passed, uh, their test, and that's when I think I really started honoring this-
- 17:31 – 22:04
My Brainwave Patterns Are Different
- JSJay Shetty
EG, uh, scanners on your brain, right?
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Yes.
- JSJay Shetty
Like, they, they actually looked into... What did they find was different-
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Yeah
- JSJay Shetty
... or interesting or unique?
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
That was, that was fascinating to me. Um, so what they found is that, number one, my brain does not look normal from the start. Um, they did a recording of just what's called, like, a baseline brainwave ac- level, right, before I start to read psychically or mediumistically, and it was 97.5 consistent with how the brainwave activity of someone who had suffered traumatic brain injury. ... brainwave activity would be. But my brain is intact and it's not damaged. So there's something a little anomalous about my brain to begin with. When I go into psychic mode and mediumship mode, my brain looks different in both ways. How I said that, um, when I read psychically, I see things on, uh, the left-hand screen, and when I read mediumistically, it's on the, the right. Well, what they found in my brain is that, um, you know our optic fields crisscross, and so when I would be reading psychically, my brainwave activity would show that I was seeing something from the left-hand side when I was reading psychically. And when I was reading mediumistically, it would do the opposite. It would show this optic nerve would light up, showing that I was seeing something that wasn't there. That was one thing. The other thing was that my brainwave patterns looked very similar to, interestingly, monks when they meditate. Um, you know, I kind of blew out their charts, too, in terms of measuring my brainwaves are usually between, I, I wanna say, um, let's say zero to 60. In mine, were at 120, 160 at points. Um, you know, my brain races. It does some interesting thing. But the most important thing they have found is that when I go into psychic and mediumship mode, my brainwave activity in th- my frontal lobe, which really stretches from about here to here, silences. It looks like I'm comatose.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
The brainwave activity just goes down.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
And different parts of my brain start lighting up. Um, the most distinct thing seems to be, like, the back right-hand side, and that area of the brain, um, it's where part of, like, um, different lobes intersect. It has been noticed and noted to have a lot of brain ma- wave activity in people who have had, um, brain damage that kind of shifts their sense of self out of themself to being connected to all things and causes them to become very empathetic. So my brainwave's patterned that as well, where I just get into this super connected, empathetic state when I read, which I can verify when... What I love about reading is, you know, day to day, I'm driving in traffic and somebody cuts me off, I'm gonna get annoyed.
- JSJay Shetty
[laughs]
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Like, I'm gonna have a hard time having unconditional love for that person.
- JSJay Shetty
[laughs]
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
But the minute I read for somebody, if I have a session with somebody-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... I feel unconditional love for that person for the rest of my life.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm. Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
There is some magical chord of energy and connection and beauty and light and love that happens when I go into someone's energy like that, that can't be undone.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
And it is such a gift for me every time, just to feel unconditional love for people.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
It's just amazing. And so that seems to be what my brain shows I'm doing as well, going into this really deep meditative state of empathy and connection and love.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm. That's, that's so beautiful to hear that, and it's almost like that idea of when you study or understand someone's history, when you gain context on their experience, when you learn-
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Yeah
- JSJay Shetty
... why they are the way they are. And I guess through your experience, you're learning that in the most intimate way.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Yeah.
- JSJay Shetty
It gives you a, such a different perspective to look at them through. And I'm glad you mentioned there the signs around monks' brains. I remember interviewing, uh, Matthieu Ricard, who's dubbed the world's happiest man.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Yeah.
- JSJay Shetty
Because when they scanned his brain, they found the most presence of happiness, learning, and being in the moment, and those were the three signs they looked at for sparking joy or, or happiness. But you mentioned there earlier that you've, you see yourself as a teacher to help people get better at this, and to get, almost get better at sensing energy, and you've obviously always been able to do that. And it's really interesting when you describe it in the way you do because I feel I'm good at sensing energy, not, not in a psychic ability way, but in a personal navigation of the world way, and that is such a strength and so useful for friendships, for work. And it's really interesting because sometimes I'll sense it, but I'll still go against it, too.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
[laughs]
- 22:04 – 32:17
The Psychic Abilities We Aren’t Aware Of
- JSJay Shetty
do that as well. But let's start with the psychic abilities you think we all have that we use, but we're not aware of. What would you say they are?
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
You know, I find it so funny that you just said-
- JSJay Shetty
[laughs]
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... "Well, I'm reading energy, but it's not psychic." It absolutely is psychic. You know, I think the word psychic is such, like, this, mm, word nobody wants to touch these days.
- JSJay Shetty
Oh, no, I meant more as in I'm not skilled and trained in it.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
No, no, but you are.
- JSJay Shetty
Yeah, yeah.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
But I also think the word psychic for many people is such, like, a oof, like, "I don't wanna go near that." The history of the world, word, right, is so wrought in, like, fraud and, like, uh, you, you picture just, like, a neon sign and that sort of thing. But I think we are all psychic, and, and by that, I mean we're all energy readers.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
And I think it is a skill that some people are better at than they realize, like expert level. Like J- honestly, Jay, I think you're an expert level energy reader. I really do. And I don't necessarily think you think of yourself that way, but I think you're just using it in the most fluid and beautiful way to guide you-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... to the people you're meant to connect to, maybe things you're supposed to say no to and avoid.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Whatever that may be. You know, I love that you brought up the studies, um, on, uh, Re-
- JSJay Shetty
Matthieu Ricard
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... Matthieu Ricard.
- JSJay Shetty
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
I remember reading that chapter in your book and saying, "Oh my gosh, this is so similar." Because one of the ways they measure happiness, right, is by looking at gamma rays-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... increasing. And so that was something really interesting when I do readings, too. My gamma rays go off the charts. Um, here's the thing. We all have that ability. You know, what the scientists have, have told me is that there seems to be some sort of switch in my brain, that I just know where it is and it's also very easy for me to turn it on and off. But we all have that switch. I think we're all born very psychic and very connected-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm, mm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... to the place we came from, to one another, and before we have formal language-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... we're just reading energy. We're reading the energy of all things, and that's how we navigate our world. Then what happens? Well, usually between around age five to seven, we start formal schooling, and we get very locked into the frontal lobe of our brain. Because here's what the frontal lobe's in charge of Analytical thinking, critical thinking, math skills, language skills, all the day-to-day stuff we need.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
And when we come to school, we learn, and we just s- get stuck and trapped in that part of our brain. So it's really just reintroducing ourselves to that pathway back into our knowings, our deep connection with what I call the other side, with energy, with understanding how to access it, and the most important thing is, is learning to honor it. One thing you said is like, "I'll get these, you know, knowings," or, "I'll read the energy, but sometimes I go against it." That's so true for all of us, you know?
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
There are so many different ways we might get information psychically. I always talk about our psychic toolbox that we're born with and will never leave us. We just have to learn to re-access. I call it the four clairs. There's clairvoyance, which means clear seeing, and that's like, you know when you sleep at night and you dream, and your physical eyes are closed, but you are vividly seeing?
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
That's our clairvoyant eye, right?
- 32:17 – 35:50
Weakened Disconnection to Our Inner Voice
- JSJay Shetty
What do you think has... You gave a great example there of school and that frontal lobe, which I think is such a great explanation of the activity of the frontal lobe and the focus there. What else do you think has kind of disconnected us from that inner voice or weakened us and that connection that we have to these psychic abilities?
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
You know, I, I wanna comment a, a little bit about some of the things you said that I find so fascinating. The first is you said that you've had this inner voice as like the dominant way that you have been guided in your life.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
And that is certainly a very spiritual inner voice, right?
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
That, that's what I'm talking about when I'm talking about clairaudience, which I have to tell you, too, is the rarest of all of them. I meet very few people who are actually cognizant of it and have owned it. So I find that fascinating. Um, I'd love to hear in a little bit-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... too, like, what you think that inner voice is, right? I also find it fascinating that you said that really became very pronounced around, what, age 14 for you?
- JSJay Shetty
14.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
I have found, too, that between ages, let's say, 11 and 14, usually that time period, our psychic abilities, they kind of reopen and turn on. I think it has to do with, like, biochemical hormones, how we access our brain, how things are working, right? Where all of a sudden we get a second chance to reopen to them. And I have found if you honor them then and stay open to them, it stays for life.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
It's really, really wonderful. So that's fascinating. The other thing to me, too, is I have found that when I have been in the energy of someone I call, um, someone who's here on what I call a global soul mission, there are certain characteristics I'll see about that person. I'll certainly see their colors in a certain way, and I haven't purposely looked at yours 'cause I've haven't had permission to, but I, what I will tell you is that I do know that you came here on a s- a global soul mission. Which means, you know, many people are born into certain families and certain areas, and they're meant to learn every lesson their soul is meant to learn in that little microcosm existence, almost like a little snow globe, right? 'Cause we're really just here to love and be loved. Earth is a school for our souls. And, um, most people will stay within a certain area, certain family, certain, they'll have a certain reach. But every now and then, somebody comes here on a global soul mission, and so that was never your [laughs]
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... your, your blueprint. You were meant to, um, reach and influence strangers, a world the way that you will never be, really even be able to understand your pos- positive influence. One of the characteristics is that they have that knowing or it's been announced to them at a younger age, and I feel like what you're describing happened for you at age 14, was really just a characteristic of somebody here on a global soul mission. I love that you've listened. The other thing I wanted to ask you about that-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... is when you've gotten that, um, y- you've gotten that, like, hearing, that inner voice, right? Has it come in a neutral sense of just, like, an absolute knowing? So when you were told, like, "You're not gonna study that. This is a different path that you're meant to be on," was it, um, like a yay or a oh, no, or was it just an absolute calm knowing that was given to you?
- JSJay Shetty
Hmm. I'd say it felt calm but firm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Right.
- JSJay Shetty
Yeah.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
And then you can react after, right?
- JSJay Shetty
Yeah, yeah.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Like, "Hmm," or, "Ugh."
- JSJay Shetty
It wasn't fearful-
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Yeah
- JSJay Shetty
... and it wasn't forceful. It was peaceful but firm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Yes.
- JSJay Shetty
In that it knew-
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Absolutely
- JSJay Shetty
... the direction.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Mm-hmm.
- 35:50 – 40:41
Standing Firm with Your Moments of Knowing
- JSJay Shetty
it pronounced in what you were saying where, you know, you were saying you go up to people and you sometimes will share, like, these are the big events in their life or the big moments. To me, when I look at the biggest events in my life, they were all against the grain. Lots of people disagreed with me, but I just knew inside of me that they were the right decision, and that's how firm but peaceful it was. It, I didn't need to convince others. I didn't need others to be on my side. I didn't feel like everyone had to understand me. I was like, "I get it. It's there." That kind of feeling, if that makes sense.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
It makes perfect sense. You know, you're speaking my language. It's, it's so nice to be around somebody who has had the same experiences of what I'd call knowings-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... um, that I have and I think we all get. I think it's so important when we have those moments of knowing, whatever they may be, to honor it.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
And I think that's something that everybody can do in-
- JSJay Shetty
I agree
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... in his or her life, right? They can focus on that. They can honor it, and they can act on that. I think our inner world ... influences the outer world in every way, right? And so it's our relationship with ourself, the st- the narrative we have in our own mind of what we're telling ourselves about our journeys and our importance here in terms of helping others and, um, being kind, and loving, and forgiving, and all of that.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
That matters. But it's also the information we're receiving. You know, I believe that we all have a team of light. This is... I, I wasn't raised with any certain beliefs. I was raised Lutheran, and I, you know, my first concept of God was an old white man with a white beard and a white robe-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... who was all about love. But I very quickly began to, I think, evolve beyond that just because of the experiences I was having and the readings I was doing and the information I was getting. And so I very quickly began to understand that, oh, I absolutely believe in God and a higher power, and it is this source of just love and light and connection between all things-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... that is inherent in us, we are part of, we couldn't be separated, and can guide us in the most extraordinary ways into our highest way of being here, right? But then I also began to understand that we each had a team of light, and, and God was one part of that team of light. And the, the other part was what I call spirit guides-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... you know, which throughout time in history, different religions have called guardian angels. This, this realm of angelic being consciousness, call it whatever you want, that guides us and mentors us, you know? And from what I've come to understand, most of us between, have between one and three. It's nobody we knew this lifetime. It's just an advanced angelic beings that guide us, and a lot of times they will use our four claires to communicate with us and guide us. What's interesting to me is that your team clearly [laughs] uses clear audience, which is amazing. Um, our teams of light will reach us in different ways, too. Sometimes in the dream state, we'll have precognitive dreams that guide us or, you know-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... things of that nature. But we all have that there. Whether we, you know, have, have a sense of having spirit guides or not, they're still helping us.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
You know, some people get very caught up on, like, what their guides look like, what, like, what are their names. I don't think we, we need to focus on that. It's really the least complicated relationship we ever have. They're just here to help us.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
If we ignore them, they just circle back and help us again.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
And then the third part of our team of light is anybody we loved who has crossed to the other side, pets included, ancestors included. They're part of our soul group, too-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... and they help guide us and, and do that as well and lead us on our highest paths. Um, and here's the thing. Everybody has a team of light. You know, they're there for the taking to access and help you. And if you, if you've never really dived into your spiritual self, it's never too late.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
It's just about opening. But I've completely strayed from the question you asked.
- JSJay Shetty
No, it's actually... No, no, no, but that's really useful because it, it helps me ask a better question, actually.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
[laughs]
- 40:41 – 49:32
How to Reconnect with Disconnected Relationships?
- JSJay Shetty
question is, how do people who disconnected early on reconnect now? Because it's almost like you had a best friend who you stopped talking to-
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Yes
- JSJay Shetty
... and now you gotta pick up the phone back to them, and you're uncomfortable to have that conversation because you haven't talked to them in 30 years, and you don't know how it's gonna go.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Right, and you're like, "Is this gonna work?" And it-
- JSJay Shetty
Yeah
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... here's the thing. It will absolutely work. You know, I'm really the anti-business model in the sense that as a psychic medium, I'm like, "Nobody needs me."
- JSJay Shetty
[laughs]
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
"Nobody needs to come to me. Let me show you how you can do this yourself and how you can re-access this part of yourself that is sacred and so important and so connected-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... and incredible and light-filled and will lead you on a path of love and help you find your highest path here." You know, how do we do that? It's so easy. It starts with one simple step, which is intention.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
So you get quiet within yourself, and you say to your team of light, you don't even have to really know who they are yet. You just have to have that sense of being part of something greater than yourself, and you say, "Okay, I'm all in. Please help open me up."
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
You know, I like to add more to that, and I like to say, "Use me as a vehicle of love and healing in this world however I can best be used," you know? Um, "Guide me. Teach me. Show me." And I think that energy intention of wanting to reconnect with your own abilities, with the other side, to be guided by something greater than yourself, to honor that and hold it sacred for yourself, that intention is everything because it gives the other side permission to now work with you and reopen. You know, I've had people come to... I love doing workshops, and I truly, my favorite part of teaching workshops is watching people see the light of their own being and recognize that they have all these abilities that they swore they didn't. Mm. You know? So people will come to, let's say, a one-day workshop, and I'll do these certain activities targeted at getting them to use their clairvoyant vision, so draw something without ever seeing it, or hold an object that somebody else owns and tell me the impressions you get off of it, and they all say, "We can't do this," and they feel really foolish, and then they go, and they knock it out of the ballpark. And what has then changed within just a few hours is their relationship with themselves- Mm ... because they can no longer deny that part of themselves, and they no longer can think like, "Oh, well I need to go to a psychic medium to get my answers or to gain access to this realm or to find out my purpose or my path or my truth." No, you don't. You just need to just honor that part of yourself and be reintroduced to it. You know, and I think there are certain ways we can be that help facilitate that. Yeah. Meditation, absolutely. Why? Well, when we meditate, we're going into that part of ourself. We're reconnecting with that, that greater part that we're part of, right? It's getting us quiet. It's silencing our own physical, kind of materialistic energy. Um, surrounding yourself with people whose energy you love and who lights you up. Energy is, is kind of like a, a lake, right? At the top it's like the sun is shining, it's sparkling, it's clear and beautiful. You go down, darker, deeper, colder. There's all sorts of slimy things down there. You don't wanna be near it. Well, stay with people whose energy is at the top of that lake. There has been research done, too, that shows that when you are open to the fact that you're connected to something greater than yourself and that these psychic abilities are very real and you can access them, they happen more frequently, and that when you are around people who share those beliefs, it unfolds in tremendous ways, and this has been studied. So just having that belief and being open to it is gonna happen, have it happen to you more and more and more. I think then we start to recognize these synchronicities that begin to appear far more frequently, these meaningful coincidences that aren't coincidences at all. You know, everything that is happening to you is always happening for you. You are always being guided into meeting people, maybe facing a soul challenge that is gonna help you grow- Mm-hmm ... um, maybe saying something to a stranger or smiling at them and it changing their whole day in a way that you couldn't understand. So it's really just about, I think, overcoming two things, fear and then trust, right? Mm. We have to overcome the fear of I don't really have this ability. I can't do this. I need s- to depend on somebody else to show me how, and this isn't gonna happen for me. So many times I will have people say to me, "You know, I read Signs and I decided I wanted to ask for a sign, but I was so scared that I was gonna ask and not get it that it took me two weeks to finally do it-" Mm "... and then I got it," because they were so afraid that they were gonna be foolish in the sense of believing this could be true, trying and then being let down. You will not be let down. Trust in your ability. So overcome the fear and then trust in it. A lot of times people will have these really amazing moments of connection, psychic commet- connection, connection to something greater, receiving a sign, having a synchronicity, thinking about somebody and then they call, whatever it might be, and they'll be really fearful to share that experience. Mm. 'Cause they're almost fearful to embrace it, but they're also fearful about being laughed at. Mm. I can't tell you how many times, especially when my first book came out, people would come to my events or come to my signings, what they'd really wanna talk to me about is they'd want to share an experience that they had that was so magical and sacred and such an incredible connection, right, with somebody they love on the other side or being guided in a certain way, and they came to share it with me because they knew I was a safe place- Mm ... that I wouldn't laugh. Mm-hmm. And I would always say to them, "This is beautiful. Have you told other people about this?" And they're like, "No, I haven't because I didn't wanna get laughed at." But here's what would happen. People would start to share their stories, and instead of being laughed at, the person they said they shared it with would say, "Oh my gosh, that's incredible. I had had a moment like that in my life too. Let me tell you about it," and would unfold this beautiful, beautiful history of, like, this magical moment of connection the person had, and that energy is contagious. Mm. That light energy, that positivity, that knowing that we are connected to something so much greater than we can even fathom, that we are so much more loved and guided and protected than we can imagine, changes your life. Mm. It makes things miraculous. And when you have a mindset of being open to that, of saying, "I have these abilities and I'm so excited to explore them and embrace them. Send me the people, the books, the situations, the lectures, the shows, the experiences I've meant that are gonna help foster that in, in me," you're also connecting and giving permission to your team of light on the other side to help do that for you. Mm. I think it's just beautiful and magical when we do that. So nobody needs me. Nobody needs anything prescriptive. All a person needs is the intention that I wanna open to this and I'm willing to explore this. You know, my guides have always told me, "Be open." That's my mantra. Mm. Like, be open to what is brought to me. Be open to the experiences, to the people, to wherever I'm guided, and then also trust the energy you're picking up on. Yeah. Right? Trust that. That's all anybody ever needs to do. Mm. Everybody has a purpose. Everybody came here programmed with such unique and special gifts that, that they were meant to find, honor, and then share with the world, right? Mm-hmm. And then share with others and help other people do that. You know, that's true power to me. It's when we, we find what we came here gifted with, we honor it and share it, and we help others rise. Mm-hmm. I think this materialistic world often sends us the wrong message, that- Power is, you know, this false power actually, see, which is power over others, right? Oh, have people envy you or be able to control people or be able to do this, and that's not what power is. Power is helping others find their light and shine it and share it and rise together.
- JSJay Shetty
Yeah. I think you brought about two really beautiful points in fear and trust, which is what either blocks us or opens us-
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Yes
- JSJay Shetty
... to these ideas. And I think that what would be really interesting to explore with you is how do people know the difference between... And, and maybe, maybe what you're answering is somewhat maybe you don't need to know, but I guess the difference between infatuation and then a deeper frequency connection. So, like, we've all had moments where we're like, "This is my person. This is the person I'm gonna spend the rest of my life with," and we feel like we know. And either that person doesn't wanna be with you, and then you're like, "Well, no. How can they not? They're my person, I know." Or there's the other side of it where they do wanna be with you, but then you get bored or that feeling goes away after a couple of years or maybe even less or more, whatever happened. So I find it's really interesting, do
- 49:32 – 55:27
What Does Infatuation Mean?
- JSJay Shetty
we need to know the difference between infatuation and a frequency connection, or is the experience of the infatuation part of the journey we're meant to go on anyway?
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
I love this because we're getting into the topic of love, right?
- JSJay Shetty
Yeah.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Which is really what we're here for.
- JSJay Shetty
[laughs]
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
We're all here to give love and receive love, and every, uh, any opportunity we have to give that or receive that, that's it. It's that simple.
- JSJay Shetty
Yeah.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
That's the meaning of life, right? But now we get into, like, romantic love and what does that mean, and we can even go into the concept of soulmates and what are they. But let's stick right now with infatuation, that sort of love, right? It's almost as if a button's been activated in us that's like, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, this person, pay attention. This is really important. And we can feel this magnet pull to that person. What does that mean? It can be confusing. Well, here's the thing. There is so much going on behind the scenes on this spiritual energy grid that is unseen, right? So you, your soul and that person's soul may have a soul contract. Uh, you might be part of the same group. They may be a soulmate. You may have agreed to be here for a set amount of time, like you spiritually contracted to be together for X amount of time, and then you'll need to re-sign the contract. But at any moment both of you have free will. Now, here's the thing. We are always at all times a three-part equation. We are spiritual light energy. I mean, that is literally what we are. When, when scientists look at this too and they break down your body, uh, like they break down the body systems to the cells to, like, the, you know, protons and they split things apart, what we are are just streams of light that behave cohesively to come together to form cells to form body systems. So we are made of light, right? So we are physical light beings stuck in these physical bodies. It kind of feels like a sausage full of stuff [laughs] . Never feels fully comfortable, right? So that's the two parts. And then the third part, and this is the most important part, our free will, how we steer the ship of our spiritual light, soul, and our physical body, the choices we make, the decisions we make. That's where it gets tricky with infatuation and love and all those things, right? Because every single person has free will. Sometimes people will meet, one person's soul will kind of have this inner conversation with that person like, "Whoa. That person, if I wanna be with that person, I'm gonna have to do the really hard work this lifetime now. I'm gonna have to really face my fears. I'm gonna have to work hard and grow my soul. I'm gonna have to learn about self-sacrifice. I'm gonna have to learn about, like, what it really means to love somebody and to give to somebody without, you know, having conditions. Am I ready for that?" One person's soul might be like, "I see it, but I'm not ready for that right now," and they'll leave. And so the other person's like, "But, but we're supposed to be together. You're my soulmate. I feel such a connection." They're not wrong, but they can't control the other person's free will, right? I think also infatuation can be a, an inner guidance system that leads us to qualities we like and celebrate about others in our lives. So let's say we're infatuated with somebody, but then that relationship doesn't end up working. They ar- they're not into us, right? We say, "What was that about?" Well, number one, we probably read and connect with their energy. But number two, what we can learn and take away from that then is what qualities did that person have that lit me up?
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Maybe I need to put, you know, a statement out to my team of light in the universe, like a manifest this is what I want in my next partner.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Maybe that was meant to show me that. And then of course there's infatuation that leads to a much deeper love, right, with these beautiful relationships that grow and grow and grow and are multifaceted, which I think is the most spectacular journey we're all on here.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
You know? And I think that even within our own beings we can get infatuated with certain aspects of our own personalities or diving down a rabbit hole, but we're so multifaceted as well. I think in order to truly love someone else, the relationship we need to work on is the one with ourself, and we need to have self-love and be truthful with ourself so that we can then bring that energy to others. Um, and so infatuation is, is it's almost like the hook, the cord-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... that maybe pulls us to someone, but what comes next is the most important part. Is that person's soul ready? Are we both ready to take this on and explore the multifaceted way that love is? You know, the sparkling kind of-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... diamond that love is? Or do we just wanna leave it in this kind of... You know, 'cause infatuation's not the highest vibration of love, right?
- JSJay Shetty
Yeah.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
So do we wanna leave it there and just have a fun time and then go our par- certain ways and maybe, like, three or four years from now we'll find partners where we're ready to do the hard work? It's really an ongoing conversation of energy at all times between people.
- JSJay Shetty
What are the different vibrations of, as you just said there, infatuation's not the highest vibration of love. If there were frequencies and vibrations of love and connection that we can more formulaically understand so that we can decipher. I always think about, I always say how to me trust has four levels. Like, I think we start with people at zero. We should start with people, generally I start, and this is to not block intuition, but to protect sometimes from infatuation. How when I meet someone, intuitively if I feel like I can trust them, that's great, but I still wanna start with a zero level of trust because I want trust to grow over time as opposed to just expect that this person knows me and I know them.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Yes.
- JSJay Shetty
And then I find that there's transactional trust where I know if I do something for you, you'll do something back, and that's actually not a bad thing. I think we see that as unsexy or uncool.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
[laughs]
- JSJay Shetty
But it's like, it's really good to know that when you do something, someone does something back, and when they do something, you do something back. And then higher than that is reciprocal trust where I do things for you and you do things for me, but we're not counting, we're not looking. And then there's unconditional trust, which of course, of course is the rarest form.
- 55:27 – 1:04:44
Vibrations of Love
- JSJay Shetty
When we look at frequencies or as you said, vibrations of love, and I love that you said infatuation's a l- a lower form, I, I'm also intrigued by what happens at the opposite because I think a lot of people today are on the dating apps, they're going out on dates, they're connecting online, but they're like, "Jay, I feel no connection, like I'm feeling no energy now." And I think that's becoming more and more common where people are coming back from dates or even meeting people and they're like, "Jay, I just don't feel like anyone has the energy I'm looking for." Where's that coming from? Is that people struggling to express their energy, or is that because you haven't found the right person yet?
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
There's so much I wanna dive into.
- JSJay Shetty
Let's do it. Let's dive into all of it.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Laura, oh my God.
- JSJay Shetty
Yes, let's-
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
I'm gonna start with the, the last thing about let's say somebody's on a dating app or they're going on dates and they're not feeling a connection. Well, I will tell you this. I have done readings before where I've had to say to people, and let's say it's, um, a girl in her early, early to mid-20s who just really wants to find her soulmate and get married. I remember saying to somebody first, um, "You're going to meet this person in about three and a half years," uh, I gave the name. I didn't get, they gave it to me, "and this is your path." And she was so upset. She's like, "What do you mean? Three and a half years? I'm just gonna waste my time for three and a half years. What?" And I'm like, "This is how it is." Well, it turned out, this all came true, this person had been married to somebody else at the time because he had a soul contract with that person's soul. They were working it out. They finished their s- soul contract, had grown as much as they could, were meant to be released from that marriage, went on, met this person, and she was meant to be with him. Sometimes if something's not working out for you, it's because the universe is working for you because your soul and someone else's soul might have a meeting point that's coming up in X amount of time, and you're gonna need to be patient. But here's the most important thing. In that time, in what I call the waiting room of, like, wanting that so badly, waiting for that relationship, if you get to the airport early and your plane's delayed, are you gonna sit in the waiting room and stare blankly at the wall and just go into this place of low vibration where you're angry, feeling like the universe is forgetting you, you know, become bitter, you just twiddle your thumbs and you look off and you just stomp around? Or are you going to be like, "What can I, how can I utilize this time? How can I be creative, or what can I read, or who can I meet? Who am I meant to meet right now and utilize that time in a positive way?" You're gonna shift your whole energy. So a lot of times if we're stuck and we're not meeting somebody right now, it's 'cause you're not supposed to meet someone right now. One of two things is usually happening. You're first meant to do your inner work to elevate your own, you can call it a vibration if you want, to get clear and shiny in your own energy so that that level of lake energy I'm saying, you're gonna meet all the people on this vibration, not the fish swimming around on that vibration. 'Cause if you have not cleared your energy and gotten clarity and, like, really stepped into your own light energy, you're not gonna match with somebody of the same energy. And you can look at just, like, sound and vibration studies of this. If you play a vibration and something else is tuned to a different vibration, it's not gonna resonate.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
If you play the right vibration, it resonates. It's drawn together. People's energy is like that as well.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
We have to trust in that process, so again, I think we're going back to trust because either the narrative we're telling ourselves is, "I'm forgotten by the universe. There's no match for me. I'm never gonna have love. On some way I must be unlovable. I hate my circum-" whatever that is, if we're telling us that, ourselves that narrative, we're making that our reality. But if we're telling us a very different narrative, you, "Nope, I trust the universe, and I trust that there is a divine path set out for me, and my job is to be open and be able to recognize it when it gets here and to be patient, but to not be bored, to fill myself up with being vibrantly engaged in life so that when this comes to me, I'll recognize it and I'll match it." It's telling ourselves a very different story. Not one that we're forgotten and we don't matter, but one that we matter in extraordinary ways and that we are being guided into our highest path and that there is a relationship waiting for us. Y- and I think that changes everything, right?
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
I think shifting our own vibrations, too, uh, will help bring relationships of a higher love level to ourselves. The best thing we can do here is dwell in the currency of gratitude, forgiveness, kindness, and doing things for others, and that can be in a very small way or a big way. If you don't feel like you've got a lot of energy in your tank and the most you can do for others today is smile at a stranger in the store, go do it-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... 'cause it's gonna matter. Every action we do matters. Every thought we have matters. It either puts darkness into the world or it brings light in, right? And so it's about giving back to others. When we get in that frequency of gratitude, love, forgiveness, kindness to others, we are going to match with people of that frequency, too. So you know what? If you're in a kind of negative energy space, you don't wanna meet somebody right there, 'cause guess what? You're gonna meet somebody else in a negative energy space.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Be patient. Work on opening yourself. Trust and be guided. Here's the thing. Nobody is in this life alone. We don't come into this world alone and we don't exit alone, right? We're greeted. We come into this world surrounded by- ... other people, and when we leave, we're greeted by a team of light on the other side. A lot of times our pets will bound up to us, et cetera. So even when we're here, we're not alone. We're always connected to the other side, and you can ask for help from your team of light. Say, "I'm really excited to meet this person or have this love enter my life. Please show me and guide me," and then surrender it. Because doing that is also allowing yourself to understand that you're a part of something so much greater than yourself, and that you don't have to micromanage it all.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Let's say you're in a relationship right now, and it's feeling stale or it's feeling stuck. Well, that's a really good sign that you need to grow and your partner needs to grow, and it's time to, like, dust off the cobwebs-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... and become a better version of yourself. And you don't need to wait for your partner to be the catalyst for that. You can jumpstart it for yourself. You can go start doing things that interest you. Shift from a negative energy space into a positive, because the people we're connected to, it will pull them up as well.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
It's ... And it will help you understand what you're responsible for versus what they're responsible for. So I do think that there are many different facets to all of our love relationships, right?
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
And I definitely think that the highest is unconditional love.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
You know, it's, it's, I think feeling this sense of wanting peace and joy and for a person to be surrounded by love, independent of your role in any of that.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
I think feeling unconditional love for somebody is the gift in and of itself. You don't even necessarily need to be unconditionally loved back. When we get to that state within ourselves, we have created this nirvana, this heaven within-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... ourselves of being in that energy, of feeling that for another person. It's everything.
- 1:04:44 – 1:10:26
Living in the Present
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
and it resonates so deeply with me. One of the things that I've learned so much about through all the readings and from always being connected with the other side is about how to live in the here and now.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
And I think that there ... Peace is underrated. It absolutely is, and we're, we're not taught to pay attention to it, right? I think our society and our world's like, "Be aggressive. Go out and do this. Woo-hoo-hoo. Be noticed. Tr- like, blaze trails." And I think there's great energy around that, too, right? Creators and being creative and changing, change agents of the world, and doing all that is phenomenal, but all of us are multifaceted within ourselves.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
And if we don't create space to honor the peace within ourselves, our own beings, we're not gonna know how to identify and honor it in our relationships with others.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Right? And as I've, you know, grown and as I've ... Because every time I read, I'm, I'm a student and I'm learning, too. I've learned the importance of peace, and that peace comes in a very calm way. Like, a lot of times people say to me, "How can I tell the difference between psychic information and anxiety?"
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
You know? And I say-
- JSJay Shetty
That's, yeah, that's a great question.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Yeah.
- JSJay Shetty
Yeah.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
I'm like, "Well, anxiety is like the opposite of peace," right? And if you have anxious thoughts of fearful things happening, da, da, da, da, da, that is anxie- like, that's just, that's fear. That's fear generated from the monkey mind. Because if you get information that's going to help you avoid a situation or inform you about a situation coming up, it's not gonna come through in a frightening way. It's gonna come through in a very neutral-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm. Mm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... almost like peaceful knowing, right? So it's like learning to, um, release anxiety and go into that state of peacefulness. And I think a really great question everyone can ask him or herself is, "What brings me peace?"
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Because the answers might surprise you. And I think a lot of times people have trouble getting quiet within themselves, which is why I'm a big advocate of journaling or writing.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Because I think when we write, we start talking to our inner self, and things start coming out of us that we never thought we would even think or say.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
And it reflects back to us what's really going on. So just sitting down and doing a really quick activity, like sit down and for maybe one minute write what brings you peace.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
And you can go into it going, "I have no idea what brings me peace," but watch what you end up writing.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
You know? And I think a lot of the times-
- JSJay Shetty
I love that exercise.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Yeah. A lot of times it's gonna be about- What we do for others or how we create sacred space or honor our own light. You know, one of the things I loved that you were saying about your trust starts at zero, I think that's so important, and it's not mean. It's actually honoring your own light. Like, we are all light beings, and so many of us don't respect and honor that part of ourselves. We, like, give it away. We just disrespect it. We need to know that we have inherent value, that we are loving beings worthy of love. That's just-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... that's our birthright of our souls coming here. But honoring that part of ourselves where we also wait and find people who are also light seekers, people of the light, people who are respectful, I think is really, really important. You know, I, I, I just wanted to revisit that 'cause I was so-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm
- 1:10:26 – 1:17:02
How Important Are Tangible Signs
- JSJay Shetty
important are tangible signs? Like, there's obviously people talk about patterns and seeing hummingbirds, numbers, like, physical signs. Like, how important is it for people to find those, discover those, notice those? And a follow-up question to that is... Actually, I'll, I'll save it. I'll save it 'cause we both-
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
[laughs]
- JSJay Shetty
We both, yeah. Let's, let's start there. Like, yeah.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Let's talk about signs-
- JSJay Shetty
Yeah, let's do about signs, yeah
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... and how, how important signs are. Signs are important because they can transform your life, like, in extraordinary ways. I always say to people, "Listen, you don't have to believe what I'm saying about what I've learned about us being loved and guided and watched over. Why don't you just open up and try and experience it yourself, and make it tangible?" I mean, we're stuck here right now. I mean stuck, but I don't, right? We-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... our souls chose to be here in this materialistic world right now. Being here is a gift, but we are in the materialistic world, and there's all sorts of energy around us that's unseen, that's there, that we pick up on, that we don't have tangible proof of. So why not marry the two? Why not ask the other side or teams of light, the universe, to send us tangible signs so that we can see proof and glimpses of that connection? And it will happen. There, there's a language around us at all times that has been guiding us, showing us, teaching us, but the great thing is we can open to it and expand on it at all times. Whenever I've learned a foreign language, I've always gotten thrilled every time I learned a new wor- word 'cause now I could communicate more readily, right? So when we create a s- a language of signs with our team of light, with the universe, and we ask to be guided by that and we ask to be shown evidence that we are watched over, that everything happens, you know, in, for us on our path and so forth, or that maybe a loved one is around us, still present, that love continues after bodily death, we ask for a sign of that, it can change our lives in extraordinary ways. And I say, you know, there are default signs that our team of light has been sending us or the universe been sending us since forever.
- JSJay Shetty
[laughs]
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
And then there is also a language we can open up to. So the default signs are, are pretty interesting. A lot of times, um, the other side will like to manipulate electrical devices. So back in the day, flickering lights, they'll stu- still do that, or a lot of times now that we have, you know, iPhones, they love changing, when we're texting someone, changing words there. They will love putting things in our social media feeds, like articles, all sorts of things, information. Um, they'll still, you know- ... turn the TV off now and then to let that you know they're around. They like to put coins in our path, pennies, dimes, nickels. Why? Well, I think it's very easy when we are in a form of state of energy to kind of manipulate small metallic objects. But then they like to also guide creatures into our path, and I've found something here. It's always creatures that navigate the world using electromagnetic fields. Again, these unseen energy fields all around us. So birds, butterflies, deer, dragonflies, ladybugs, bat, fox. They will put them in our path to kind of get our attention and be like, "Hello, there's something more going on here. We're with you," et cetera. But we can ask for anything we want. A lot of times the universe too will send us signs w- in numbers.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Like, I am not a math person. I taught high school English for 20 years.
- JSJay Shetty
[laughs]
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
I'm all about literature and energy and connection, but I have great respect for math, and it has been taught to me from the other side that the whole way this kind of materialistic paradigm works is through sacred geometry. Math matters. They're, they're a language of itself. And so a lot of times the universe will send us mathematical signs. For some people, it might be the number 1111 or 444 or 222. Some people have very specific numbers that have followed them their whole lives.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Some people have numbers that just feel good to them, and they can't explain it. It just feels good. So the universe speaks to us through numbers too. But we can open a dialogue. Again, intention is the most important thing, saying, "Listen, I'm open and I'm ready for this language of signs. Please send them to me. Guide me." But we don't wanna just say, "Send me the signs," because, yes, the other side will establish signs with us. You know, our guides, God energy, loved ones who have crossed will sometimes send us signs of things that they were known for. But we can open it and expand it and ask for specific things. So we can say, "Hey, I'd like the number, you know, 222 from now on when I'm on path and I'm on my highest path and I'm doing the right thing." Uh, we can ask for songs as a, as a great way to connect. You know, "Send me this song." Um, and sometimes our loved ones on the other side will send songs that they were known for too. They'll, like, play with it back and forth. We can ask for creatures. We don't have to just ask for creatures that navigate the world with electromagnetic fields. We can say, "Send me," and pick something really different. Like, I used to ask my guides for monarch butterflies, and I was like, "That's too easy. I'm gonna start asking for aardvarks, armadillos, and anteaters," 'cause then my monkey mind will have to pay attention when I get that I... 'Cause of course we wanna dismiss when we get signs.
- JSJay Shetty
Yeah.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
We're like, "Send me another sign so that I know that was a sign."
- JSJay Shetty
[laughs]
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
And then we get it, and then we're like, "Send me one more sign, and I promise this time I'll believe that it's a sign," right? So our monkey mind's always wrestling with it. So when we ask for kind of outlandish things, we have to pay attention when we start getting them. So when I get aard- aardvarks, armadillos, anteaters in the most extraordinary ways, usually when I'm just thinking to the other side a question or, "Is this in my highest path to do?" Or it could be when I'm having a challenging day or celebrating something I'll get my sign, right? Um, we can ask them for anything we want. But I always say change it a little. Don't just ask for, like, an elephant. Ask for a purple elephant.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Um, we can ask for, um, phrases too, can be a great thing. You know, ask for a phrase. And, and just be open to the language. Be open to recognizing when the other side is talking back to us. I think it can transform our lives. It can help us find our highest paths. It can help us know unequivocally that we are not alone and that we are part of this great fabric of existence and that our paths are intertwined with other people's journeys and paths in ways that we can't fathom.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
You know, nobody gets to understand the impact of their spiritual self while they're here. When we cross and we do, you know, this life review where in an instant we're able to see not only the choices we made but feel and see how it impact other people's paths, it's mesmerizing.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
But we don't get to know it when we're here. We just have to kind of trust that we're doing it. How do we trust we're on our highest path? Well, using a currency of forgiveness, kindness, gratitude, love, those things.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm. And, and I love, I love the way you're speaking about how it's so different for everyone, and you're so right. Like, we all second-guess signs because we don't... We've been so conditioned to not believe in the, you know, subconscious.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
100%.
- JSJay Shetty
So, so, so there's a part of us that's skeptical and cynical even when, like you said, [laughs] you get a sign and you're like, "Show me another one. Show me another one. Show me another one." And, and you rightly pointed out
- 1:17:02 – 1:23:14
The Answers is Within Us
- JSJay Shetty
that's that monkey brain. How do you know when, let's say it's a sign you haven't asked for, how do people know when it's a warning versus a positive? Or how do they know when it's like, "Hey, I'm telling you to slow down," versus, "Oh, this is on the right path"? Is that a language that you have to create and build, or is that something that you're learning to listen to more closely?
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Well, I think it's learning to listen to more closely, but at the same time you are building it every time you do that, right? It's, um, it's honoring it in the proper way. So if something gets our attention as a sign and we're like, "Wait, what does that mean?" I think the impetus would be like, "Oh, let me call a psychic medium and ask what that sign means"
- JSJay Shetty
[laughs]
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
And that's not what you need to do. You actually just need to get quiet within yourself, and you ask your team of light, "Can you explain to me what that meant? Can you show me-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... something else to guide me with that, or can you let me feel what that means?" And we will have a sense of, oh, this is helping you avoid this, or this is leading you to something. The answer's within ourselves all the time.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
So all of us have the answers within ourselves. Our problem is we can't quiet ourselves-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... in order to access that part. We don't create space for that. We're always looking to get the answers elsewhere-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... when it's all right there. So if, if... This is what I always say to people. If you got something that you think was a sign, it was a sign.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
You don't need to get validated by a psychic medium to know it was a sign. If you have that moment where your, your thoughts, your energy is like, "Is that a sign?"
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
It is. It means you've just got... They've gotten your attention, and it, you've recognized it.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
You know, can you imagine, like, the hoops and the things that they jump through to get us these amazing signs in the exact moment, and then we get them and we're like, "Huh, I think that was a sign, but you know what? I'm gonna reject it"?
- JSJay Shetty
Yeah.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
You know? What we do, like, so when we honor it, and the greatest thing you can do when you get a sign is to tell somebody about it.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
'Cause then they know, and you, you honor it, and you're also sharing that energy with others, and you're helping open up other people to their signs.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Right? It's, it's this great chain of light and connection. So I think that- The answers are always within us-
- JSJay Shetty
Yes
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... as to what the sign means.
- JSJay Shetty
Yeah.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
And if you got something that you think is a sign, it is a sign.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm. Yeah.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
But what I will tell you is the way the other side works is they do not dwell in fear, and they do not use fear.
- 1:23:14 – 1:25:19
Being Still Within Yourself
- JSJay Shetty
I want people to also understand that when we're saying sitting still, yes, meditation is a beautiful tool and technique, and yes, I do recommend if you can sit with your thoughts for 20 minutes a day, it's a beautiful thing to do, but I think there are other ways of finding stillness that include movement.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Yeah, so this concept, I love what you're saying, of being still within yourself. To me, it's also about, like, connecting, right?
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Connecting with your spiritual self, and it's so interesting to me the list you just gave-
- JSJay Shetty
[laughs]
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... because it's so, uh, characteristic, right? Driving is one of the main ways that we disengage from, uh, the frontal lobe because our, our body is doing rote things-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... and so we are distracted, and we can get the psychic downloads. We can get that connection.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
What you're calling stillness is that state of connection, right?
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
That's... It's so magical. Another way, taking showers.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
People get it. Swimming. Running and exercising gets you into that state of connection, too. A lot of times, athletes, writers, musicians, artists, people will describe it using the same exact word. They say, "I don't know. I was just in the flow."
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
So being in the flow is also like being connected in that state of stillness and then in the outside world. It doesn't mean you're sitting still. It means you're in a state of spiritual connection, right?
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
It is there for us at all times. You could be at a lou- a loud, chattery party, and you can be still within.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
It's just going into yourself, knowing and feeling that, and it is something you can feel. You know, some people like, I think, like to work with different, um, exercises to be able to feel that, and some of them will use like chakra points or meridian points to really feel that energy coming in, and those are all wonderful tools of exploration people can do. But you can even do it when you're out grocery shopping.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
You know? Getting into that state of stillness, getting into that moment within yourself where you're connecting to, some people like to call it your higher self. Some people... I call it my team of light, you know, God, uni- whatever you wanna call it. The word doesn't matter. Being in that state of being does. And you are always in your highest flow when you're doing that.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
And you're always gonna be guided on your highest path when you get calm and you trust
- 1:25:19 – 1:35:02
Death Is Not A Dead End
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
that.
- JSJay Shetty
As a medium, you obviously interact with people on the other side, and I wanted to know what, how has that transformed your view of grief and loss?
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Yeah, it's transformed it completely, and it is such a gift and a blessing. You know, so often I meet people after they've crossed. You know, I'll be t- "Oh, yeah, I know that person." "Oh, well, I actually met him through [laughs] after he crossed," or whatever that might be. Um, it's magical because here's the thing. I think in this materialistic world, which by the way, this materialistic paradigm has been blown to smithereens for over 100 years scientifically, but nobody's talking about it, right? So we're still pretending what you see is what you get, and that's it, right? Um, meanwhile, none of us are solid beings. Like, we're not solid. The chairs are not solid. We're s- fast-vibrating atoms that are appearing solid, right? Get to the quantum level, it gets really fascinating. That's a whole rabbit hole we can have a whole nother conversation about. Um, but here's what I have learned through all the readings I've done. These physical bodies, you can think of it like, you know, when you get in your car and you drive somewhere, and then you've gotten where you need to be, and you get out of the car, and you're still going, but the car is there. You don't even think about the car probably. That's our soul and our physical body. Um, we come back here with soul groups, right? And we come back here, and we find people in our soul groups. A lot of times we have spiritual contracts to work together. But here's the thing, death is not a dead end. It's a doorway, and it's a doorway back to our true home and to something greater than we can understand with these little brains we have, which to me, are really like dunce caps that keep us from remembering where our true home is, why we're really here, all of those things, right? And so love is the most powerful thing there is, and that is the cord of connection always. And every time I'm reading for somebody and connecting with somebody on the other side and their sitter here, oh, my gosh, the, the feeling I get of feeling that love go through me, it's like being allowed to s- go to lunch with those people who love each other so much and being able to feel it as well. It's such a, a magnificent gift. But what's become very, very apparent to me is that love cannot be broken. When we have love for somebody, that is always this cord of light connection that is there. And here's the thing. Relationships don't end upon bodily death. I've actually seen them get stronger-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... after somebody's transitioned. Let's say there was, um, somebody here on Earth and their loved one on the other side. Maybe it was, like, a, a challenging relationship in some ways. Well, the person crosses, goes to the other side, does their life review, and now understands things in totally new ways. A lot of times we'll apologize, take responsibility for things they couldn't hear, things that there was no way I could know, right? Really specific things where the sitter is like, "This is absolutely my dad coming through," and, "Wow, this is real," and, "Wow, I actually don't ever need Laura to talk to him." This love and forgiveness, this relationship is ongoing, and what's more is I can ask him to send me signs as tangible proof that this is real. He's still present, and it changes how people live in the here and now because they realize, and it changes, I think, their grief journey. Listen, there's no shifting the physical loss. Do we love hugging each other? Are we physical beings right now? Yes, and we want that physical touch and ability to, you know, hear someone's voice. But when somebody transitions to the other side, they're still very present and loving us. They just don't have voice boxes or arms to hug us. They're gonna find ways to do that by sending us signs. And so opening up to that language with our loved ones on the other side and saying, "Show me that you're still present. Guide me," asking for a sign and receiving it, like, two minutes later, it becomes an undeniable truth for you. Or asking for it and then getting it on a very special day like your birthday, you just begin to understand that death is not real. It's real in a bodily sense, but there is something so much greater that comes after. And here's the part where I love to tell people to start looking into, um, and reading literature on studies of people who have had near-death experiences, what they've seen, um, children who have past life recall, uh, deathbed visions of people talking about their loved ones and their relatives in the room with them right before they cross who had died years before. All of it validates the other information. I remember reading this, um, study of somebody who, uh, had... was in an, uh, going through an operation, had cardiac arrest, saw all the surgeons, heard what they were saying-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... zoomed up and out, and as they were leaving, their, they had, like, clairvoyant vision. Their vision, they saw a red sneaker, like, wedged in, like, the top of the roof of the hospital. And then they, um, they were in cardiac arrest, I think. They restarted their heart, jumped back in their body, and when they woke up from this operation the next day, they're like, "Oh, yeah, I had this experience, and there was this red shoe there." So they sent the custodial staff up, and sure enough, n- you couldn't see this with the human eye anywhere, and this is way back before drones existed. There was the red shoe exactly where they said. How can we explain that?
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
How can we explain any of these things? Our existence is so much more mysterious and miraculous and guided than we can fathom. We are so watched over. We are so loved. We are so, uh, inherently important to the people we meet and the people we're connected to, and that is what the other side has taught me. That is what people who have crossed have taught me. They have sh- talked to me too about what they're most proud of in the things that they have done here in the world, and a lot of times it's like what they did for other that, others that is still reverberating. One of the things I love is that people who have crossed will talk about things that their loved ones are doing in their name in the here and now. Anytime somebody raises money in someone's name, let's say they run a marathon, guess what? Your loved one's right there with you, and they're gonna find signs and ways to show you. If we go, you know, let's say we have somebody on the other side who crossed and it's their birthday and we go to the ice cream store and we're like, "Here's, you know, 20 bucks. Whoever, the next people buy it, tell them it's on, like, this person's name." Like, wh- That person's still allowed to be connected to this beautiful chain of light and goodness here on Earth. So I think it's really beautiful to embrace this understanding that our relationships don't end with bodily death.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
We do need to communicate in a new way, but you don't need somebody else to access that for you. You don't need to go to a psychic medium to talk to, you know, your grandma on the other side. You just have to get quiet within yourself, link up, set your intention, ask your team of light for help, and start creating a s- a language of signs back and forth 'cause you're gonna get them and you're gonna see.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
You know? I always say when I do sessions with people, you know, and I love it and it's very sacred to me and I'm not, you know, dismissing the power of that and how beautiful it is, but I'm, I'm always saying, like, "You don't need me." It's like if the, you know, you and your loved one wanted to go out to lunch and I'm like, "Hi, I'm gonna come along, but you can't talk to each other. You have to pass the messages back and forth through me," you don't need that. You don't need me ever, right? So we can learn how to do this on our own, and I think if, if people are unsure, but they're willing to test it and start creating a language of signs, I think they're gonna be blown away by what happens.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
And it's a very interpersonal thing where you try to explain the sign you got to somebody else-
- JSJay Shetty
Yeah. [laughs]
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... and it's like, "I can't even explain how amazing this was and what happened."
- JSJay Shetty
Yeah.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
But-
- JSJay Shetty
Yeah. I g- I, there are a couple of things that stood out to me while you were talking. I read this book years ago. It was by Ian Stevenson called Old Souls.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Yes.
- JSJay Shetty
And so if anyone hasn't read that, I highly recommend it. If you're interested in out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences-
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Yes
- JSJay Shetty
... or past life memories, uh, he, I think he, across his time and his research, he talks about at least 2- to 3,000 cases of all three of those.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Yes.
- JSJay Shetty
And that book is, is such a great resource and, you know, such a great thing to look at if you're fascinated by that. And there's so many examples, like you gave with the red shoe in there-
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Yeah
- JSJay Shetty
... that I was just-
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Oh, there are so ma-
- JSJay Shetty
Yeah
- 1:35:02 – 1:39:20
How to Connect with Your Soul?
- JSJay Shetty
how do you encourage people to constantly tune into the healthy version of what this can look like and maybe not get caught up in, like, the constant worrying and the checking that often leads to their curiosity in the first place?
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Yeah, you know, it's very interesting, right? Because I, I can see how you could go down, like, a lower vibrational path with this. And, and the way that I could see that happening is thinking you need others to validate your experiences-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... or to get the answers from, rather than having this sense of calmness and knowing that the answers are within you and that you are hardwired to the other side yourself and can receive guidance in that way, right?
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
So I'd be wary of trying to search for things through other people rather than through the vehicle of your own heart and being. You know, one thing I just wanted to comment on, too, where you said, uh, relationships can strengthen when people are on the other side.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm. Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
What people on the other side tell me is, like, what they love is being able to be present always and be in more than one place at-
- JSJay Shetty
[laughs]
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... more than one time with people they love, you know?
- JSJay Shetty
Ah.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Like, that they're not limited to, um, you know, their own body, physical bodies in, in the way that it was. Um, but getting back to the fear path with all of this, uh, there's dark energy and there's light energy, and I think we can all feel the difference. And I think, you know, I always work in the light. Um, when you work in the light, too, I think that you don't concern yourself-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... with, um, I guess I'd say, like, ego in a sense. Um, and I mean that for everybody who is opening and embracing this, too, because the ego will play on your fear. The ego will say, "I'm such a fool for trying to believe in this or testing this," or, "What if I tell somebody this-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm. Mm. Mm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... and they're gonna make fun of me," or, "I don't have the power myself to do this. I need to go get answers from somebody," or whatever that might be. Um, you know, I think letting go of that and just taking some deep breaths in, 'cause I think breathing will always connect us with our soul, you know? It's, it's what the other side has told me, um, makes our soul click into our body, is when we're born and we take the first breath, right?
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
And when our soul leaves is when our breath stops. [smacks lips] Um, sometimes a little bit before.
- JSJay Shetty
[laughs]
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
That's actually, you know, sometimes they talk to me about that. A lot of times if we have a traumatic death, we actually leave early, earlier. Um, [smacks lips] but I think that when we breathe, we can dispel the fear. So if we're starting to feel like hyperfoca- focusing on something, you know, it's funny, like when, before when you talked about infatuation, I think that can happen with lots of things-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... not just love, right? So getting infatuated with this. Like, "I need all the answers now to my life."
- JSJay Shetty
Yeah.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
"I need to know this." Like, I think it's very important to take a deep breath in-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... and be calm and know that the answers will be given to you-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... in divine timing. There have been times, too, where I've read for people, or even on my own path, where I've gotten certain information, and I'm very aware that I'm not meant to know more until a certain time.
- JSJay Shetty
Right.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
And that might be because I need to experience a lesson for myself or whatever it is. But surrendering to that, I think, is important.
- 1:39:20 – 1:42:44
Getting Into Your Light Energy
- JSJay Shetty
Yeah.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
It's a very different vibration, right?
- JSJay Shetty
Yeah.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
About, like, demanding versus trusting.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
And I think that in order to get into our own light energy and to the flow of that light, there is a certain surrender that has to take place.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
And that's very uncomfortable for most of us 'cause we like to micromanage things. We also think we're go-getters, so we need to go get it or we're not gonna get it. What I've learned is, like, there is divine timing in everything.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
And the greatest lessons I've learned, because I'm always in a state of connection, and you'd think I'd have a really great advantage. Like-
- JSJay Shetty
[laughs]
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... oh, do I get to know my whole life path and everything that's gonna happen? No, I get to know moments or glimpses.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
And then I'll be given more, and then I'll be blinded at times-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... completely, and I'll be told by my guides, like, "You're blinded on purpose. Y- this is a pop quiz for you. Here you go."
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
I've always respected that, but I think it would be very easy to get into the mindset of crossing my arms, stomping my feet-
- JSJay Shetty
Yeah
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... and being like, "This is not fair. Why don't I have access to this information?" There is so much going on for every single person's-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... life journey, and by that I mean soul journey-
- JSJay Shetty
[laughs]
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... that we can't understand. I think if we trust in it, we don't have to be happy about it sometimes. Let's say we're, things aren't going the way we want, we need to trust that we're being guided, that it's going to unfold for us, you know? That... Here's what I like to tell people whenever I read for them or whenever I meet them, and this is the truth. "You are right exactly where the universe wants you for this exact moment in time. You are not off path." And that might mean that they're in this exact moment of having this incredible opening for change and growth, or that they've worked really hard and this is their rising moment, or they're about to meet somebody that's gonna transform their life, or they're about to do some really hard inner work, or they're about to have an epiphany, or they're about to connect their own self to their spiritual self and their life is gonna transform. But nothing about any person's life is an accident.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
And anybody who listens to this, you are exactly where the universe wanted you to be at this exact moment right now. It's what comes next. How are you gonna open your energy? What are you going to learn to recognize? Because here's the thing. When you start seeing signs, when you start seeing in, this connection between all things, and when you start using a currency of gratitude and love and forgiveness and kindness, your world transforms. And when you start seeing these things, you can never unsee it, and you have to surrender to the fact that, oh, there is a path. And sometimes your journey is part of someone else's journey that you've agreed to do. And it might be a little bit uncomfortable leg of the journey, but you're missing the perspective of understanding the beautiful cords of light you're creating or how you're helping that person's soul, that maybe your soul and that person's soul had a contract that you were gonna come here and do that for them or be a catalyst for them to do something, you know?
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
It's, uh, when you start viewing your life in that way, it becomes extraordinary. You know? That everybody you meet is, you're either a lesson for them, they're a lesson for you, or they're a moment on your path that's getting you in the right place in the right time for the next thing to come. Nothing is accidental.
- JSJay Shetty
Laura, thank you so much for your time and energy today. I'm so grateful we got to do this, and I learned so much, honestly. And I know that everyone who's listening and watching, I'm hoping that they're gonna be fine-tuning and becoming more aligned with themselves as well. And again, of course, I wanna remind everyone that you can read, uh, both of Laura's books, Signs: The Secret Languages of the Universe, and then The Light Between Us: Stories from Heaven, Lessons for the Living. Uh, both of those books, we'll put the links in our caption to both of them. Uh, Laura,
- 1:42:44 – 1:46:51
Laura on Final Five
- JSJay Shetty
we end every On Purpose episode with a Final Five. These questions have to be answered in one word to one sentence maximum. And Laura Lynne Jackson, these are your Final Five. So the first question is, what is the best advice you've ever heard or received?
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
I think that it's be true to yourself.
- JSJay Shetty
And the second question is, what is the worst advice you've ever heard or received?
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
That's a tough one.
- JSJay Shetty
[laughs]
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Um, be competitive.
- JSJay Shetty
Why do you think that's bad advice?
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Well, you know, it, I think the worst child game, code game we ever play is musical chairs, this sense that, oh-
- JSJay Shetty
Mm
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... there's a dearth. You have to get this when somebody else can't. You have to get this over somebody, you know? I, I think that- Being competitive with others is never the answer, and I think being competitive with yourself is fine.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Like driving yourself to be better and better and better, but I think the mindset of there's not enough, be competitive, steal it from the next person, do this, have power over... This is way more than a one-word answer, right? But it's-
- JSJay Shetty
No, no, I asked you to expand, yeah
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
... it's that sort of advice that I think sets us off the wrong way.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
So don't have your kids play musical chairs, you know? [laughs]
- JSJay Shetty
That's a great... That- I actually really like that, that parallel. I've always said that it's really interesting how we live in a world where there's a finite number of seats in the theater or seats in the stadium or seats in musical chairs, and... But happiness is infinite. Like, there's no limit, but we're so trained in this limited mindset of thinking of, "Oh my gosh, there's only that many VIP seats. There's only that many seats. There's only that many standing... There's o- there's only this many," and that idea of there's only is where I think that competitive point. I love that.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Yeah.
- JSJay Shetty
That's beautiful. All right, question number three, uh, what's the best thing to do first thing in the morning and last thing at night to stay aligned with our-
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
This is such an easy answer for me. It's just express gratitude.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm. Both morning and night?
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
Both morning and night.
- JSJay Shetty
Yeah.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
You know, it's the, it's the last thing I do at night, it's the first thing I do in the morning, a- and it shifts your energy completely.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I agree. Fully agree. Uh, question number four, when you feel like you're completely not in the right place at the right time, what do you say to yourself?
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
I say, "Things are always working out for me."
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
And by that, I mean we might have a very myopic view of how things seem to us in that moment.
- JSJay Shetty
Mm.
- LJLaura Lynne Jackson
But there is usually a much greater reason-
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