6 Questions for a Year of Leaning in, Clarity and Joy #220

Every now and then we have mini awakenings where we realize that we've gotten caught up in a cycle of doing and feel disconnected from what matters most.  

In this episode, we’re sharing six simple but important questions that can help you find your way back to clarity, joy, and purpose as you open this powerful year.   You can bring these questions into a psychic medium reading, take them to your oracle cards, bring them to your meditation practice or inspired journalling.   The important thing is that you are creating the space for your Higher Self and Spirit Guides to guide you in what to look forward to this year and what to release and how.

This conversation will help you uncover what’s draining your energy, discover what can expand your joy this year, and make small but meaningful shifts that can create big clarity in your life. 

About Christina Wooten, Sedona Medium:

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Christina Wooten helps you access the wisdom and support of the Spirit World to elevate your life.
She is a Certified Psychic Medium and Reiki Master Teacher.  Christina is the owner of Sedona Medium and co-host of Modern Life and Spirit podcast.

She offers Psychic Medium Readings, Soul Readings, Past Life Regressions, and teaches how you can start communicating and receiving messages from your Spirit Guides - through her program.
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Robert Wooten is a Certified Reiki Master Teacher who loves to help others to increase their life force energy and heal mind/body/Spirit.
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Transcript

Narrator: 1:38

Music. Welcome to the Modern Life and Spirit Podcast where we explore spiritual topics relevant to today's world. Your hosts, certified psychic medium Christina Wooten and Reiki master teacher Robert Wooten, break down how to work with spirit to create more positive growth in your life. Consider this podcast your go to spiritual resource for navigating the modern world. Hey

Christina Wooten: 2:06

there, kindred spirits. Welcome to Modern Life and Spirit podcast. It's Christina Wooten, certified psychic medium at SedonaMedium.com Welcome. I'm so glad that you're here, and I'm glad that we have this moment of talking about the beauty that's available to us, the positive things in the world, the under that we have access to, our connection with spirit and the beauty in the world. There's so much heaviness that we're being bombarded with all the time. And energetically, there's just so much happening in these really significant cycles of energy that we are in right now. And so I'm just glad that we have the chance to be here and to talk about spirit today. And so as we process that, do you ever feel like you've just made so many decisions in one day that by the time dinner rolls around, you're like, I can't even pick what to eat. It is wild at how much mental energy we spend in our days. Even you know, when we're kind of moving in and out of being connected, we're thinking so much about what to say, where to go, what's next, where do we need to be, what's happening. And sometimes it's not just the small decisions that wear us out. It's the bigger ones, where we're feeling unsure or ungrounded, and it just creates this energy leaking sort of in the background. And it's one of the reasons that I love leaning on our intuitive guidance, because it's that direction when our brain feels foggy and overloaded, which I think is happening so much more than it ever has. We're just bombarded all the time as we step into the energy of 2025 I think it's so important to check in so that we can be really intentional about the year, so we can be more focused, instead of all over the place with all of our mental chatter and the Many different directions that we get pulled in and interested in and distracted by. There's incredible amounts of distractions available to us at all times, and it can be really easy to go down a million different rabbit holes but not really be in the direction that our spirit is taking us. It's easy to be in the rabbit hole energy and not focused in our higher compass, our higher direction, right? One of the things that I've discovered for myself as an intuitive person is that when I approach the New Year or a new cycle of energy, approaching it with curiosity and understanding connection with my guides really helps me to make sure that I'm not spending so much time in rabbit holes that I'm missing what's really important our time, even though we have maybe 80 years. You know, we're not always guaranteed that. We're not guaranteed that time, our time is is precious, and even 80 years in the expanse of things from childhood that takes a lot of energy, you know, second childhood that happens later in life, it's so important to use our time for the purposes of the growth that we came here to experience. So that being said, I wanted to share six intuitive questions that you can ask as you set out on this new cycle. These questions can help you to connect with your guides, to help you to connect with your higher self for more understanding about what this year and the potential of this year holds for you, so that in these times of excessive rabbit holes and constant bombardment, that you can maintain a certain focus, that you can be present in how to approach this year, rather than what to do. Because I found that that's so much more successful for me as an energy sensitive person, is to focus on the energy and the how that I'm bringing in to my life and focusing on that rather than focusing on just actions. Because sometimes I found that goals can be challenging in the sense that it comes with a attachment to outcomes, and it comes with it at times a narrow mindedness. So while I'm not anti goal, I do find that focusing more on what's available to me and how I want to approach things coming forward helps me the most in feeling at the end of the year that I've made deeper strides towards purpose, deeper connection with a sense of flow, and that is what success means to me. And I know everybody has a different definition of success, but at the end of the year, when I look back and I feel like I've achieved more flow, I've stepped into more ease and more grace, and that I have developed more on a spiritual level, not necessarily a spiritual phenomenon level, but just a sense of inner peace that is ever present, and more of that, then is when I feel more successful. So these questions, maybe we have a psychic medium reading coming up. These would be great questions to ask so that you can zero in on the energy of this year, and it can help you in your sense of understanding. Or maybe, if you're connecting with your oracle cards, you're doing some journaling or inspired writing, or you want to bring these questions into meditation. The most important thing is that these can be a catalyst for some important realizations as you enter into this big time in our world, big time. Before I go any further, I do want to mention, for those of you who have been waiting for the 2025 reading to come out, it is officially out. You can find all of the information. Get access to the 2025 reading so you can understand everything that's going to be happening in our universal consciousness. That's the undercurrent of the year, how that's affecting us, how it's affecting other people, how it's going to impact our individual journeys. And also, you can get access to the 2025, energetic calendar, which seamlessly integrates into your digital calendar and adds important dates like Mercury Retrograde, the full moon and all kinds of other things. And then when you click on those dates in your digital calendar, it will give you an energetic summary of the things that are happening and help you to get more in alignment, more in connection, with the energy that's going on around you, it is a huge help as we move forward into this very pivotal year, as we end this cycle that began in 2017 so we dive into all of that, so you can have a better understanding of all the stuff that's Coming up this year, and how to work with it, instead of resist it or be frustrated or surprised by it, to really work with that energy. So you can go to Sedona medium.com forward slash inner circle. That's Sedona medium.com forward slash inner circle, so that you can get access to that so you can bring that awareness into your life right away. So before we jump right into the questions, I just want to remind you that the questions that we ask always, you know, impact the depths of the answers that we receive. Intuition works the best when we are curious, when we are open to what spirit has to say, and when we are not in our thinking mind, our judging mind, the side of ourself that's really invested in certain outcomes and answers and want to hear certain things, we have to really be in a space where we're able to receive this information. So whether you are asking these questions in a reading or whether you're asking these questions putting it out to the universe in some other way, it's most important that you allow and create an openness to the responses that come through. Because when we're in our intuition, a lot of times, things will surprise us. We might think that what's going on is, you know, being triggered by what's happening directly in the moment in our experience, and in these very intense circumstances that we're in, when really our intuition helps us to understand actually, this is connected to something that happened 10 years ago, and in order to really work on this, we have to resolve that old energy from the past. So just remember to bring that sense of openness for whatever wants to come through, because that honesty is going to really make the difference in how you move forward. Okay, so I've got six questions for you. The first one, let's start there. What new habit or mindset will help me stay aligned this year? This question, I think, is critical, because it pushes us to really understand what kind of daily practices, what. Micro shifts can we make in our life that can make a big difference for people who are empaths and people who are sensitive, you'll notice that little, small things can have big impacts on the energy around us and the energy in us and things that we're sensing and we're feeling, and the same thing happens when we are making shifts in our life, one small change, one little micro shift, like a daily practice that you're doing, can really make a big difference in the overall impact of the energy that You are emitting and what it's contributing to your life. So instead of focusing on the drastic changes, it really helps us to dial in to what are the little things that I can be doing, the little thing, let's say that I can be doing to bring forward, ultimately, a long term transformation. I love this also, because it gets really simple. It helps us to recognize that, you know, when we dial it in, when it's one simple shift, when it's one little new habit or new mindset that we are bringing in, that it doesn't have to be overwhelming and like a huge plan, that we have lots of checklists, and you know, this incredible investment in time, that it's really an investment in our heart and keeping it simple, because simple makes a big difference. So what new habit or mindset will help you stay aligned this year. Okay, so number two, what strengths Am I being called to lean into this year? What strengths Am I being called to lean into this year? We have to get used to asking this question more and more and more, because I find in my readings that there's a huge difference between how people think about themselves and the life experiences that they are having, and how they're showing up for those and how Spirit sees us with love and compassion and sensitivity to what we're going through and we are so unkind to ourself. I see this all the time in readings where spirit guides are saying, you know, listen, this person is really doing great. They don't realize that they are doing well. They have overcome this and this and this and this and this, and they've made big strides here, but they are are so focused on this other thing and the guilt that they have from the past, that they are not seeing the fullness of their beauty in this moment and asking this question really focusing on your strengths, it highlights some of your existing gifts that maybe you aren't thinking about. They just seem like second nature to you. They don't seem as special or significant, but can really help you as you navigate your life. We bring a lot of our special gifts from previous lifetimes, and we want to use them. We want to express those. So instead of focusing on what we're lacking and what we're trying to achieve and what we're wanting to create in our life. This question just reminds us of what we have, which is wisdom, we have abilities, we have understanding, which lies within us, that we can tap into at any moment and honestly spirit reflecting that back to us, helping us to see ourselves from spirit's eyes, makes a big difference in how we learn to see ourselves. I think it can help a lot in self esteem. I think it can help us in our forgiveness, work to begin to see things from that higher perspective, and to see herself from that higher perspective. But when somebody says to you, Oh, you're so creative, Oh, you're so resourceful, oh my gosh, you're so smart, if we hear that enough, we start to really think that about ourselves. And then when a problem comes up, or a challenge comes up, you go, Hmm, I'm really resourceful. How can I figure this out? It becomes how we start to think about ourselves. So let Spirit help you with that. And also, you know, think about some of the strengths that you do have available to you that can help you throughout the year, your guides can assist you with that. All right, let's go to number three. Where am I likely to get energetically stuck this year. Where am I likely to get energetically stuck this year? This question helps you to anticipate areas where you might have some emotional or some energetic resistance. We all have that when we are doing growth. Which we are constantly doing, we are going to run up against that resistance. We are going to run up against those emotions that we have to work through and that we have to heal, and knowing that those might be some areas of sensitivity, we can navigate them with more clarity. So instead of being confused about, oh, why am I struggling here, we can just bring more awareness of, you know what? This might be a problem for me this year. This might be an area where I'm sensitive and I need to think about how I can counteract that, how I can be kind to myself, knowing that there is resistance there, or knowing that there is some emotional sensitivity that might impact how my growth unfolds this year, because the growth is happening, we can't not have growth happen. It just is a product of this very intense environment. Some form of growth is happening, and we can let that be even more pleasant of an experience by being sensitive to places where we might be struggling a bit. All right. Number four, what area of my life will get extra help from the universe this year? Yay. This is a fun one. What area of my life will get extra help from the universe this year. This is just a feel good question. I find that every year for everyone, the universe kind of puts a bit of a microscope on certain areas or certain themes within our life. And in many ways, this can be a place where we can get extra help and we can get extra support, like the energy is really there. When the microscope is there, the energy is really there, and the energy is really there, ultimately, to help us. So knowing what area of my life is going to get extra help can help you to recognize some of the Divine support that you're receiving and some of the synchronicities or the signs it might put some of those into context and really helping you focus on blessings and the assistance that is happening that's available to you, instead of, you know, micro focusing on the problems and the challenges we get into, like, ooh, let me just see how this is showing up for me This year, it really makes you pay attention to all the good things that are happening in that area of life, and that feels so good. It feels like such a wonderful blessing. All right, so we have two more questions, so let's go to number five, how can I create a more abundant and joyful year for myself? Oh, love this. There's such a link between our joy energy and our abundant energy. In many ways, as I work more with abundance energy, I find that it always leads me to joy. It always leads me to that high vibration. And I'm really, on a personal level, starting to wonder, I think they can have two different energies, but when we simplify it, Joy seems to be the all encompassing energy. This really invites us to step into just the energy of possibility, helping you align with experiences, people, opportunities that might bring you more joy and fulfillment and play and fun, it encourages us to really think about abundance. Is not just material success. It's about the richness of our life, the richness of certain moments and self discovery and positive experience that we give to the world service. I mean, there's so many different ways that we can think about that, but really the richness of life is what this focus is on, and it can shift. I find this question always brings forward some of the most surprising answers. So it's things that you're not going to expect generally. So instead of it being like, How can I create a more abundant and joyful year for myself, you're not going to get an answer like, oh, okay, you know, create more of a savings fund for your investments this year. It might be something more, like, You should dance more in the kitchen while you're cooking, or you should make sure that you listen to more music. And it might remind you of a certain kind of music. It's these kind of unexpected little things where most people go, Huh, oh, yeah, I forgot how much I love that. It's a surprising type of answer that usually comes through, not the things that someone might expect. So I love that be prepared for the unexpected with that answer, my last intuitive question for you is, what fear Am I ready to release so that I can step forward with more courage, big one we're ending on a big one. What fear Am I ready to release so that I can step forward? With more courage. This helps us to uncover some of those hidden blocks that might be holding you back subconsciously. It also helps us to recognize fear for what fear is and where it might be hiding inside of your consciousness, so that you can receive more healing once we are aware that something is there, it's no longer just a subconscious thing that's happening, it's also something that we bring into our consciousness, that we can bring forward healing. We can be intentional about our choices so that we can work through some of the fear that's there and also explore maybe why it's there and what needs our extra love and our extra support and extra help from the universe. And here's a little pro tip, if you find that you are struggling. So say you get an answer from what fear Am I right to release so I can step forward with more courage? You get an answer to this, and maybe the answer is something that is like, Oh, wow, that's that's a deep fear, and I don't know how to work through that. You know, I've tried, maybe you've tried a few things, and you just seem kind of stuck with that energy, or you just have a hard time truly working through that fear. My suggestion for you at that point is to work more directly with your teacher guides. We all have teaching guides on the other side who are here to assist us in our growth and our development of spiritual consciousness. And so when you are struggling with being able to let go or move past and just feel really, really stuck in your consciousness, how you believe something, your thought process around something, and just your general understanding, then your teacher guides can help you in multiple ways to grow more wisdom, to be able to move past this so it doesn't remain a place that you're stuck, and maybe that work happens beyond just this year. You know these questions are more focused on the year, but you can definitely move the needle on this with the help of your teacher guide. So if you do get something, ask for their help as well on it. Maybe they'll take you on some astral travels to you know, understand, to work on the issue. Maybe you'll be guided to a book or more learning, education opportunities, sat songs that help you in your growth process. There's many different ways that our teacher guides can intervene and help us in our consciousness growth. So I don't want to, you know, confine those or limit that by just my simple suggestions, but ask for their assistance with that, and they will truly help you make some big shifts and big changes, but be ready for it. Be ready because we have to be willing to want that to change to begin with. So whether you get your answers to these intuitive questions through a psychic medium reading, whether you get them through journaling, through meditation, through deep inner work, whatever it is that is the best pathway for you to get clear, concise information so that you can begin to act on it. Once you have that, make sure that you keep it on your forefront, put it in such a place you know, some reminders of this, so that as you get into rabbit hole distractions, it pulls you back into what really is important for you this year. Where can you use this energy? Where is the energy so that you can facilitate great, big change for yourself, and then act, you've got to act. You've got to follow through. Don't just expect that, just because you got an intuitive answer, that all of this is happening for you in the background. It's not going to fall into our lap just magically. You know, we can really get the greatest and best experience when we focus, when we ask for help, when we start to implement intuitive action in response to the answers that we have, and begin to take these steps. We act in that micro shift, and we start to really move the energy and pay attention to other ways that they might be answering some of your deeper questions, too, through synchronicities, through dreams, or through some of your subtle feelings and your intuitive body, pay attention along the way. Thank you so much for joining us today. Thank you so much for your love, for your light, for all that you share with those around you. As always, many blessings. The

Robert Wooten: 26:16

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