Creating Your Own Spiritual Philosophy w/ Carol Mae Whittick

Join Carol Mae and I as we chat about creating your own Spiritual philosophy and how you can awaken your creativity to design the life you desire and experience a greater awareness of who you are as you awaken spiritually.

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How did you get started in creativity? 2:13

How she got started in her own journey into creativity, and how it has never left her.

The importance of paying attention to intuition and the stream of creativity.

People come from all walks of backgrounds and have made significant achievements in their life, but still feel disconnected or disconnected from something.

Tapping into intuition is super important.

A lot of people or two people come to you already believing that they have a connection to spirit or their higher self or the universe.

How to recognize how your higher self, intuition, source, god or creator is talking to you, so that you can recognize that.

Know that it's yours. 8:20

One of the first things she remembers is learning to ride a bike and having a dream of herself doing it the next day.

When she was younger, she was cocky about winning things and had a sense of confidence that she was going to win.

Energy comes from your heart and soul. 10:42

The energy that comes from the energy that you are sending out to the universe comes from your heart and soul, not from your mind.

Breaking out of the box of learned behavior and expectations that opens the door for creativity and for the spirit universe to open the door.

Carol feels like she is becoming unemployable because of her lack of self-awareness and belief in herself.

Carol finds that when people get more rooted into who they are, it's cool for everyone else in the room to disagree with them, and it's not a problem.

How to respond to disagreement. 16:06

The world will come at you, but you will be able to go here, here, and here again, but not have it as an argument.

The way the world is organized.

The importance of leaning into who you are and what you can bring to the world, and how it changes your perspective and people's perspective around you.

A lot of the people that come to you for help come from a place of doubt and doubt.

How to monetize your dreams? 21:01

Dreams are an aspect of you showing that what is possible for you, and you don't know all the steps, but that feeling into the vision of who you can be is actually giving you guidance.

Take the opportunity to step into your dreams and do what it is being brought to you.

Don’t worry about how much money you’ll make. 24:01

Don't worry about how much money you'll make today, there's always a way of it happening. People are making money with the most amazing way, and now due to technology, it's possible.

There's no wrong way of being spiritual, having a spiritual practice is the fun of it.

Take one step at a time, read one thing today, or just sit with yourself for five minutes, and let your mind open to whatever it wants to think about.

Get into the habit of journaling and journaling, a brain dump of the day.

Getting the junk out of your body. 29:29

Take a pen and do whatever you need to do for five minutes to get the junk out of your mind, body and onto a piece of paper.

Letting go.

Carol Mae Whittick is a Creativity & Spiritual Life Coach and Podcaster.

Her unique and holistic approach to coaching helps her clients awaken their creativity to design the life they

desire and experience a greater awareness of who they are as they awaken spiritually.

In addition to coaching, Carol shares wisdom and insights with a broader audience as a dedicated

podcaster. She is the creator of Higher Energetic Resonance (HER) Podcasts.

HER Conversations - Tools For The Awakening, is her platform for thought-provoking interviews with leading experts in the fields of spirituality and creativity.

And on the solo episodes of HER Inspirations she examines key topics and offers coaching to those seeking

a deeper knowing with themselves and the world.

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Thank you. Thank you excited to join you on your podcast.

Yeah. So why don't you tell everyone a little bit about you? And how you got started, who you serve? What led you here?

Sure, thank you. Well, I got started just in my own journey into creativity was something that I just happened on really young. So I was always a journaler. I was always a writer. And then growing up, I went into music as well. So then I started some writing, poem writing, producing, putting things together. So that in itself is what fueled my own creativity and curiosity into paying to creativity. But similarly, as well, I had a background, I came from the church background, but also the aspects of creativity and having ideas or my son said to me, you know, like blank screen, and suddenly I have an idea about something and I'm creating a song, as she got me thinking as to like, what is that and where is all of that coming from? And the more that I could feed into that and have ideas, you know, from nothing to something blank screen silence to song just really allowed me to really believe that there was something other that I was tapping into, or I was being connected to, and that has never left me. So just going forward, I've always really relied on Mike the stream of creativity, my intuition, because I know that it has served me well thus far. So I've got an unshakeable faith in that, you know, even when I get information, and I don't follow through, I usually pay in the long run time or money, you know, so I have this, I know that it's real, because I've seen it be real in my life. And in terms of how I work with my clients, it's a similar thing. Usually, they come from all walks of backgrounds, and a lot of the time they've made quite a significant achievements in their life, you know, they could have all of the worldly success, the old things, the house, the car, the money, the job, everything like that, and yet still get to the point where they're like, I've got all of this, but there seems to be an aspect of me, that's not being expressed, they feel disconnected from something, or even they've done everything and they still have this burning desire to write a book or create something on the side and now are trying to work out how that is going to support them. And a lot of the time, I'm just kind of leading them closer to what's there already for themselves really, and just using normal, you know, normal tools, things that there and present in their lives that they may overlook. Sometimes, when you come from a very head led career and an external validation career. You want the bells in the way souls, and creativity and intuition is a very still and subtle sound and persistent sound, that if you're always making all this noise, you're not going to be privy to or not really feel into it. So it really depends on who comes to me and how they come to me, you know, I have to kind of read what their language is, and what they what they understand. And then be able to kind of just, you know, turn that awareness into what it is, is there for them already, and then also see what it is they're open to and create something that works for them. And that's how I, that's how I work with everyone. It's just come through years of searching and years of my own, deciding that I've worked out what works for me as well.

Yeah, I love that. I feel like tapping into your intuition is super important. Because you know, those messages or downloads aren't coming from your ego brain, they're coming from your higher self, or source or whatever you believe in. Is that something that you feel like you have to lead them to believe a lot of people or two people come to you already kind of believing that they have a connection to spirit or their higher self? The universe?

It really depends, you know, what I, what I'll do is just through peering, what's how they've come to me, you know, they might say, Oh, I haven't, I've got this feeling, or I've got this idea that comes through, you know, they'll always be something because their higher self, their intuition will be trying to communicate to them. So, you know, I'll work out what it is that they're feeling all the timing, oh, like, the gut feeling. So you'll be like, Okay, so tell me a bit more about that. And what did that feel like? And when did you notice and what did you follow through, so that they can actually start to realize that it's happening in their life already, but just really pull back and, and notice how you're being communicated to by your own Higher Self as well. Or you might, you know, get get the chills, you know, the feeling in your body or the knowing or that just having waking up and just having that before on awareness. But also, what I like to do is kind of find back in their own lives, where they've had an instance of that, and they have followed through or haven't followed through, but there will always be an instance of it. So it's always finding that and it's like, Well, remember, when that happened, what did you do? What did that look like? You know, and just so that they can see like, this is already happening in your life already. And it's just kind of finding how they can remember and go, Oh, okay, I was that what that was, you know, so that you can realize that I'm not coming in like imprinting some kind of ideal, or method on you, I'm just showing you how to recognize your own language and your own way of, you know, how your higher self or your intuition or source or God or creator universe is to is talking to you. And is is talking to you so that you can kind of recognize that and then we start to build on really feeling into that, so that you know that it's never not been a thing. I'm just kind of going like, it's just behind you. Yeah, pantomine down.

Yeah. What is your first remembrance of something like that that happened to you?

I think one of the first things that I remember when I kind of got guided into knowing was when I was riding, learning to ride a bike when I was younger, and going to sleep and having a dream of myself riding bike, and then waking up the next day, and just going and just riding it, you know, because I felt the sensation of it. I saw myself doing it. And then the next day, it was like, Yeah, I know what that feels like. Also, as well, like, you know, when I was younger, I was a bit cocky about winning things. Because I'd make a decision about you know, I'm going to win that it was like, there were no two ways about it. It was like, that's my, that's my prize. There was this, like, knowing this confidence that I went into, because I'd already felt it. And I had this shortness shortness about me, so there was no like, oh, well, you know, hope I it was it was done as far as I was concerned. So those like things that I'd remember and then of course, you kind of tell other people about it, or you kind of look for external things and it kind of washes away until you kind of start going back into that hang on. I've I've had this with me all along. But you know, usually, I never stray too far because I was always writing I was always creating songs. So there was always that going back into knowing that something was always kind of plugging plugged into me anyway.

Yeah, I love that. And that's a big manifestation. You know? That's like the solid definition of manifestation, like what you just said? Yeah, it's, you know, that definite knowing without a doubt it's yours, it's already done the feeling of it, right, just sometimes I, I feel like a lot of other, you know, if you go look up how do you manifest on Google? They say, Oh, visualize, be in there, like, know that it's yours, but they don't tell you to feel it. It be. And that's really where the energy comes from, the energy that you're sending out to the universe, that it's already yours. And it's already done. Right? Is comes from in here, not from up here, you know, from your heart, and your soul, not from your mind. Forget the people can't see us.

So the downloads can come. And then it's what you do with it. And how you're bringing it out into the universe of the world, or however, you're birthing that, you know, idea or download that you had is now so personal. And also all of your energetics. So I loved you. Have you ever listened to Abraham Hicks? Esther? Esther? Yes, yeah, yeah. They talk about that all the time. It's, it's the feeling the energy that you're putting out is what you're gonna get back. And we do lose that. I think, you know, I come from a corporate back background too. So I know that, you know, we were just, I was just doing what I thought I was supposed to do to survive, quote, unquote, in the world and have what I needed and be happy along the way. And then, that's at a point, I got to a point where it was like, Okay, this is I feel like this is soul sucking, I am not enjoying this. All my energy is being drained. I'm exhausted by the end of the day, because I'm sitting at a desk for eight to 10 hours a day. Like that makes no sense to me whatsoever. Like, I wasn't doing anything really physical, it was all just like typing and, you know, kind of redundant things. Why am I exhausted at the end of the day? And why do I feel like I can't do anything else, but what I'm doing. So it's breaking out of that box of learned behavior almost and expectations, that opens the door, I think more for creativity and for, you know, spirit universe, God, source to now say, oh, okay, they're all I mean, not that they haven't been giving it to us all along, they have, we just kind of shut it off. Right. But now when we open that door, and we're like, there's more, there's gotta be more than this, then reopen that door for them to actually, you know, send the message again, so that now were more open to hear it.

Definitely. And often, you know, if, if I think of like, times, when I've ignored the taps on my shoulder, then they just will get louder and more obvious. And I mean, I've got to the point now, where I'm pretty much unemployable. So I just don't even know, the roads or anything like that. But even like the last, you know, in the last kind of couple of years, I've not been employed, but I've been self employed and kind of like, connected with people in certain different arenas. And it was, it has just got to the point where I physically couldn't do it. You know, you just like, like, you feel it in every aspect of your body and like, like something is just going like, this is wrong, this is wrong. Like, even though it's wrong, you know, you're forcing yourself and especially if I'm in areas where I feel like I have to over explain myself, you know, because I think I'm pretty much a very open book, but then I'd been places where people just like consistently get me wrong, or, or I'd say one thing and they'd say the opposite. And they felt like I was fighting. It's like, No, this is my opinion. This is where I'm coming from. This is actually my lived experience. And what I find is when being around people who are not necessarily tapped in Change into themselves don't really have a huge self awareness or belief in themselves, then the ones that will tend to come at you and attack you and want to pull you down, because they're trying to like prove themselves and say that they're right about something. And it's like, well, that's not the conversation we were having. I'm just my opinion. You know, like me saying what I feel is not saying that you're wrong. Like, that's not what I said. It's like, this is Carol's opinion. Exactly. Yeah, that's the thing, you know. So I find that when people get more rooted into who they are, they can, it's cool for everyone else in the room to disagree with them, it's not a problem. They don't feel that kind of part of themselves, it's lacking. Because they are kind of just fed from within and above, and whatever their connection is, that's 100%, solid. So, you know, also like, tapping into your own spiritual philosophy and knowing who you are on that level. And having that core connection, just gives you unshakable confidence in who you are. Because, you know, and the world doesn't like that, and the world will come at you. But you'll be able to, you know, go, here we go again, but not have it as

Yeah, it's all about how you respond. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So I mean, you know, I remember the days when, you know, someone would say something, and I'd be like, but no, like, think about it this way. And even though I, at the time, didn't realize I was just offering a different perspective. The, the argument would ensue, you know, it would be like, No, this, I know, that know this and know that. And now, I know when to stop. You know, like, if I'm having a conversation with somebody, and they're consistently there, like, just kind of disagreeing consistently. There's a point where I'm just like, okay, you know, that's cool. Do you believe what you believe? And I believe what I believe I'm just offering you a different perspective on what you said. And I'm more than happy to, you know, be okay with whatever you believe. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's, you know,

definitely

does what they believe has nothing to do with me. You know, and what I believe has nothing to do with them. And I feel like humans feel like they have to be right all the time. Or they, like you said, it's the validation, like, they need the validation of Oh, you're right. Or all you're right, you changed my mind. I was wrong, you were right. And it doesn't ever need to work that way.

Yeah, I think it's also the way the way that the world is organized, quotation marks. In that, like, we're kind of all put into checkboxes. And, and there's so little room for all the different aspects of who we are, or the crossovers or anything like that. So, you know, like, you fit into this box, and you're that, that, that, that, that and if you're not that, then you there's the only other place that you can go is the other side, there's no space for you to not necessarily be part of that, or part of that, or part of any of it and exist. So it's just waiting for the world to kind of give you all have these options. And if you don't find your option, you don't fit in, then you have all this anxiety and stress and, and worry that it's totally unnecessary, you know, life is gonna throw it stuff at you. But a lot of the things that people go through, simply because they just haven't leaned into who they are. And those things would dissipate, you know, almost instantly, if they allowed themselves to find what it is what their tree feels like, like calibrate to what their own frequency is, and, and live in that and be confident in that and see what happens in the world. When you sit in that space, you know, and really kind of dig into that space of who you are and what you want, what you can do what you can bring to the world. It changes your perspective and it changes people's perspective around you, you might find that it kind of like it's at one scene one and the whole cast disappears and like a new cast comes in, you know, but then you find that you're actually communicating with people who are living on a completely different outlook, living in completely different space open to so much more. And you may never agree on a single thing, but there's this kind of respect For other people, that doesn't seem to happen when you're not there, it like you say, it becomes a fight, it becomes this kind of exhausting push and pull and right and wrong and life is life is more colorful. And, you know, there's, there's more to it than that.

Yeah, it's an ebb and a flow instead of a push in a poll. And it's okay to disagree. Right? And in fact, sometimes understood, yeah, if everyone just kind of understood, it's okay, that everyone has their own opinion, yeah, or believes in something different than they do. Or, you know, something I was gonna say to you is that a lot of the people that come your way for help from you? Do you hear a lot that, you know, I have these thoughts, but I don't, I don't feel like I'm like good enough to do that, or I don't think that I deserve to have what I want. Or that dream is crazy. Or I can, you know, I can never do these things. I don't know where these thoughts came from.

Yeah, that's kind of like a big one. And also, people are like, you know, they've have an idea. And then they're trying to, like, work out the monetization, you know, like, on first base. And what I always try and communicate is that when you get these grand ideas, it's not like your higher self or spirit, or whoever you think, is dropping these ideas in to like, contrast with how your life is now and, you know, dangle the carrot and go, Well, you know, this is what you could have had, right? But it's, it's not like that at all, you know, like some game show where you've got the booby prize, and suddenly, it's like, well, you could have, you know, lived your dreams, but they were, like humdrum for you. It's not that bad. It's not bad that at all, it's like these dreams are an aspect of yourself, that's saying, you can be so much more, if it's going into your mind, it's your the part of yourself that's going, this is what's possible for you. And you can never know if you're standing that bass one and you think your dreams are at base 10. If you're just kind of like looking from one to 10, then it's going to seem really far off because you're not feeling into it. But one of my favorite exercises to, to kind of bring people through to get into the feeling that is getting into visualizing what it would be like 10 years from now, if you actually take the opportunity to step into your dreams and do what it is that is being brought to you and see what it feels like, no, and then know that once you're feeling into that future version of yourself that you're having dreams about, just get that future version of yourself to kind of turn back and give yourself like give your today self a bit of advice. Or think about that future version of yourself. That's thing like for all the things that you can do. If you follow on this stream, who will you help? Who will you change? Who will you inspire? And you're going to turn away from that and just go, it's too big, you know, stop comparing yourself to people who've been doing what you want to do for 10 2015 years when you've not taken the first step? No, it's, it's about part of you showing that what is possible for you, and you don't know all the steps, but that feeling into the vision of who you can be, is actually giving you guidance as to the expansion of all that you can be. And even if you get to what you know, take steps towards what you want to achieve. So much more will be unfolded to you learn so much more about yourself and the world and your life will get richer in so many ways that you can't even imagine it's just going like this is what's possible for you. The reason that you feel discontented now is you know, that this isn't it, you can have it but you're just given always have that underlying, you know, horrible taste in the mouth, that feeling that there's something else going on. And don't worry about how much money you're going to make today. With this big drain or what you're going to lose, there's always a way of it happening. People are making money with the most amazing in the most amazing way and now due to technology. So it's possible but you don't have to. You don't have to figure it out today, just just believe that it's possible for you that someone is going there's an option for you to have a more expanded life. more fun, more laughter It's you giving your is yourself giving yourself an invitation to have fun.

Yeah. And I feel like you know, a lot of people come into the store and they'll say, Oh, I'm just starting on my spiritual journey or this is so overwhelming. There's so much to learn. I don't know where to start. I have nobody to talk to because like all my family thinks I'm not super, you know, do thinking this way or doing these things, or whatever it is. And I think a lot of us and you know Have we included in the beginning didn't realize that our spiritual journey is actually going inward? And learning more about ourselves? It's it's not necessarily all the external things like all the magic lays right here. Yeah. And if we're looking deeper into ourselves and understanding our souls more, that is the spiritual journey. It's all about what feels good to you. You know. Another thing a lot of people are I hear a lot of is, well, what if I do it wrong? You can't, you can't do it wrong. As far as I'm concerned, there is no wrong way of being spiritual. Having a spiritual practice. And that's the fun of it. A couple times I've said in the last few days actually, is how exciting is it that you don't know what's coming? Right? I was actually talking to somebody that was like, Well, I have a fear of the unknown. I'm like, Well, you know that fear and excitement are the same feeling in your body. So if you change that thought into, how exciting is it that I don't know what's coming? It's, it brings in more play and joy and happiness, because now it's exciting. Like, I can't wait to see what happens next. I, that's something that I always say to anybody that, you know, is asking about those things like, well, it's overwhelming, it doesn't have to be Roman, just take one step at a time, read one thing today, if you want to read something today, or just sit with yourself for five minutes, you don't have to meditate, just sit with yourself, and let your mind open to whatever it wants to think. Because when you're not cluttering it with a bunch of crap. That's when you have, you know, time to actually see what it is that you want. Yeah, and

that's probably the most frightening thing for most people, is sitting with themselves and being, you know, trying to, like be free of the devices and, and just allowing themselves to do nothing. I'm trying to reference a study, but it's it was where they were just trying to get some young people to sit in silence, or receive an electric shock. And for some of them, it was like, they'd soon to take the electric shock, because the thought of people that are afraid of their thoughts, you know, they're afraid of what will what will come like, you know, maybe their thoughts will come up and kind of take them away and drag them into some dark hole of psychosis, and all that kind of stuff. That and while situations like that are not not unreal, most people are not going to get pulled into some dark hole, you're just going to be going through all of the stuff that swirls around your head that doesn't need to be in there all the time. You know, even if you want to get into a little bit of a journaling, practice, and even not, don't worry about getting overwhelmed by it. Because then people are like, I don't know what to write, I'm like, but your head is like full of stuff. You know, even if you if I think of one of my first ever journals, when I was younger, it was a tiny little pocket book thing. And it probably had like two or three pages, lines per day, like a week to a page it was and I just write a couple of things, you know, just in like what's going through the head of seven or eight year olds, I'd love to I need to dig that book. I want to see what it is

my old diary and show it to me and I was giggling It was so funny.

Yeah, but but it was fun to do. It's like, oh, today I spoke to Katie, and we you know, but just to like get into the habit of pulling that stuff out of your head because then the minute it's out, it's just you've made a little bit of room for something else to move in, you know. And also you can start to see your own growth. And there's the just write about what happens if you're if you if you've got nothing, then that's what you write. I've got nothing. That's it.

Just and that's not a bad thing. Usually I I like to ask people to do that at night. I call it a brain dump of their day. Right? It doesn't have to make sense. It doesn't have to be complete sentences. It can be words, it can be drawings, it can be whatever you want it to be on that page, but don't pick up your pen for five minutes. And get and it's mostly people that have a hard time falling asleep. Because thoughts just won't stop in their head. They're like I can't shut my brain off. I'm like, Well, thank God you can't shut your brain off because you We wouldn't be talking right now if you could shut your brain off. So just get the junk out. So that you know you now you've said it, it's out of your body, it's energetically you have taken it from your mind energetically down through your body out of your arm and onto a piece of paper. Now, it's not in you anymore, right. So just take a pen and do whatever you need to do for five minutes, just to get the junk out. Like, nobody ever needs to see it, you can burn it the next day if you want, but now it's out. And that that sends to help. You know, most people, if you don't have like, some kind of a sleeping disorder, or something, you know, but that can even help be a start for some people that may have some kind of a health issue where the it's hard for them to fall asleep.