How to Recognize When a Spirit Person is Around You #246

You know those quiet moments when you think someone’s there with you—but can’t quite explain why?
Maybe the air shifts, or a memory of someone you’ve lost washes over you out of nowhere. You’re not imagining things.  Sure, it can be easy to talk yourself out of subtle sensations - but that's how you miss the beauty of the connection and the message trying to be sent.

In this episode of Modern Life and Spirit, we’re talking about how Spirit people—your loved ones who have crossed over—show up around you. But not just the flashy signs you might expect. We’re diving into the subtle, often-overlooked ways they reach out: through feelings, physical sensations, emotional waves, and shifts in your energy.

Christina breaks down the signs of the presence of a Spirit person and why they might be visiting you.  You'll also come to understand the role of consistency in your spiritual practice and how it makes all the difference. You’ll also hear about the role of your Guides in adjusting your energy so you can perceive these connections more clearly—and why they’re not going to build the skyscraper if you’re not planning to walk through the door.

Whether you’ve been sensing someone around and want validation, or you’ve felt disconnected and are longing to reconnect, you'll find answers here.  Spirit is communicating with you, even if you haven't been paying attention - here's how to become more aware of their presence so you don't miss a thing.

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, and teaches how you can start communicating and receiving messages from your Spirit Guides - through her program.
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Transcript

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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.

Christina Wooten: 1:16

Hey there Kindred spirits. Welcome to Modern Life and Spirit podcast. This is Christina Wooten, certified psychic medium at SedonaMedium.com I'm so grateful to be here and share with you today. Thank you for also showing up and showing spirit that you are ready to continue to grow, continue to develop your understanding, to raise your vibration, that you are saying yes to continued development in your spiritual path. Because I promise, this kind of thing makes a difference to your guides. They can help us make adjustments to our energy so that we can continue to grow our awareness of spirit. We can grow our intuitive development even more with their help, but they're going to wait until we're really demonstrating and really showing that we're ready for this change. Because, you know, you don't want to build a skyscraper that nobody's going to use because it takes a lot of work, takes a lot of energy, and it takes a lot of effort. So your guides need to see that you are demonstrating that you are really committed and you are ready for this change. This isn't like a little whim that is coming in one ear and then going out the other, that you are really choosing to grow actively and raise your vibration, that you want to connect with the other side, and you're being really purposeful and really intentional about that, and that consistency is absolutely the key to getting your spirit guides on board and helping you even more to make that connection with the other side. So thank you for being here. I know your guides are really excited for this as well. Before we get started on our topic today, which is about how to recognize when a spirit person is around you or visiting you, we are going to dive into why they might be doing that, and also some different things to really look for that's giving you the mmm, something is going on here, something unusual is happening. And I need to pay attention, and you need to take it the next step, once you recognize that they are there. But before we get into all of that, I did want to make an announcement about our podcast, so as we're recording this, this is the 246th episode of this podcast, which is absolutely incredible. This has been amazing. I have loved and love showing up for you, being here, showing up for spirit and helping to share this information, getting this forward to you so that you continue your growth process and that spirit can work more directly with you. As a result of that, I have entered into a different season of life from where I was when I started the podcast, and what that means for me is that I need to be a little bit more gentle and sensitive with myself now, and what that looks like is I am going to be shifting our release dates and times for the podcast from instead of being a weekly episode, because you have plenty of episodes, you have 246 now, episodes that you can listen to at any time that is a library for you and available No matter what it is that you have questions about, I'm going to be switching my release times to the first week of the month and the third week of the month. That means look for our new episodes twice a month, first week of the month and the third week of the month. If you have other friends or family who listen to this podcast, please share this announcement with them. Let them know that this change is coming as well, so they're not confused about the whole process, because not everybody's going to listen to this announcement. Not everybody's going to listen to this episode. Okay, so please help me get the message across and pass this on. And as always, I am incredibly thankful, grateful for your love, for your support, for the energy that you are putting out into the world as well. Thank you always for joining me. Okay, so without further ado, let's get started talking about, how do you recognize that a spirit person is around? But first, let's discuss, why are spirit people coming around? What is that all about? Just because someone has crossed over to the other side, doesn't mean that our love and connection with them has severed. They are still really connected with us, and in many cases, when they have transitioned to the other side, they know us even more. They understand the themes of our life, they understand our personality, our. Perspective our challenges in ways that they never could have from the perspective of being in the physical body, so they're able to love us even more or feel closer to us from the other side. That happens all the time. So this relationship with our loved ones does continue. It continues a lot. And our spirit guides and those that have crossed over on the other side will frequently come to the earth plane and visit us, be with us, connect with us. For loved ones on the other side a lot of times, they love to come around important anniversaries and celebrations. So if your family has birthdays happening and gatherings happening of the family, a lot of times, you'll have your loved ones who are also part of the crowd in the background, if you're celebrating a big anniversary, or, for example, if you're still here and your spouse has passed over, they come around a lot around anniversary time. Usually it's a little bit before the anniversary, the actual anniversary itself, and a little bit after as well. They're kind of in and out around that time. Anniversaries of their passing, they usually will come up around that time as well special holidays that they loved. So there's some people or some spirits that I see just really had an affinity and a deep love for Christmas, for example. And so when the tree comes out and the decorations start to happen, they also are gathering around the family, because it's something that in life they appreciated, they loved, they really enjoyed. They want to be around that celebration and continue to share with you. So holidays can be a big time that they're around as well. They always come around, and lots of spirits come around whenever new babies are born into the family or a new child, if one is adopted, into the family as well. They love to celebrate that, to be around them, especially knowing that babies are fresh from the spirit world. They're very tuned in. They're very aware of energies around them, and can usually see and interact with the loved ones who are on the other side, who are there to visit. So they love to kind of COO and, you know, sometimes sing to them and connect with them and just really welcome them to the family and the greater energy of the family. They love that. So even if they're on their own in their crib in the other room, your toddler is probably being entertained, sometimes by those special loved ones that are around, but they always like to come around in that time, our loved ones will also come around when we are really in need of a lot of support. So maybe you are going through a very difficult, testing, trying time in your life. You're experiencing great personal pain or great personal challenge, you're feeling very sad, very upset, or something that you're just feeling is really out of your control, and it's creating a lot of pain for you. Your loved ones feel that shift in your energy, and it's like a call out to them, just like in life, they want to be there to support us, to demonstrate and show their love, to remind us that we are loved, that we are being held even in the moments of our deepest challenge and the deepest pain that we're experiencing. They are holding space for us in a really beautiful, powerful way. So they come in and they check on us. They make sure that we're okay. And they really are very intentional about trying to express their love, to let us know energetically, that that we are important, important enough that they are leaving the other side to be with us, to come here and visit and make a deeper connection with you. Another time that they will come around frequently is if you're doing something that they would have enjoyed a lot in life, especially if they think that they can be helpful to you, or maybe they can inspire you as you're doing this thing that they would have loved or enjoyed. So one example of that is a few years ago, I decided that I really wanted to learn French. I've always really struggled with other languages. It's just a part of my brain that never really developed, and it's just been a big struggle. But I I want to, I want to be able to learn other languages, and so I decided I was going to learn French, and I started studying it and taking lessons and making it a part of my everyday life. And what was very strange about that is that I around. The same time, I started to notice one of Maya's teachers, my daughter, who is now a teenager, one of her teachers that had passed away, started to come around and visit. And I would see her every now and then around that and I thought, Why is she here? What is going on? And it took a while for it to click in what was happening, she was very connected in life. She loved France, and she would visit there. I believe it was every summer. She spent a lot of time there. She took a lot of art classes. I mean, she really loved that area. And she was also a teacher. So by the fact that I was expressing that I wanted to learn French, she was in my orbit or in my energy, just because we had a connection through my daughter and recognized that she could be of help to me, that she as a teacher, with her unique skills and her connection with France, that both of those things combined together and that she could help me and assist me in my learning of French. So I thought that was really interesting. It took me a little bit to kind of put that together, that that is what she was doing, that that's that's why she was around. But also, if you have a grandmother, for example, who was an amazing cook, she was maybe an instinctive cook. Maybe she didn't write a whole lot of recipes down, but she just knew what spices to put in something the depth and the warmth of the spices that need to be there, just kind of an intuitive knowledge and intuitive feeling when you're cooking. Maybe you're cooking for the holidays, or you're cooking for some sort of other function or event, or maybe you're just there kind of cooking for your family, that grandmother may come around a lot and be with you in the kitchen as you're doing this, because she feels I can inspire you. I can help you. I can impress upon you the need that maybe this needs a little bit more salt, or maybe you need a little bit more cumin here. Okay, so our loved ones on the other side will come around when they feel that they can be helpful and they can impress upon you things that would be beneficial, and it connects with things that they generally would have enjoyed in life. So those are just some examples and some reasons of why they might be visiting you to begin with. So let's transition now into how do you start to recognize that they're there? Because here's the real challenge, a lot of times, people are having experiences where their intuition is picking up on that something unusual is happening here, but it's subtle, and they start to talk themselves out of it as soon as the moment is over, and they think, Oh, that was just my mind playing tricks on me, or that was a little bit of wishful thinking. Or, you know what, I probably just thought that because, you know, insert some sort of, you know, logical excuse. But when we brush these subtle things off, what ends up happening is we miss the opportunity for the message, because they would love nothing more than for us to acknowledge them, to just at a minimum, say hello, I see you, or Hello, I'm aware that you're here and in the room. We can take it the step further and go, Well, who am I sensing and really try and connect with that. Does it feel like a masculine energy? A feminine energy? Are you sensing someone that you recognize? Perhaps, so once you acknowledge that they're there, you can really, like, dig a little bit deeper into it and perhaps get the message from that loved one who is there to visit. As human beings, we have a very instinctive reaction in our body when a spirit person is around now that can be in the form of like earthbound spirit, or what's commonly referred to as a ghost, that generally causes a panic sensation, or panic feeling within our body. And our body is kind of trying to bring us on high alert so that we're aware and we're, you know, really engaging. A different side of ourselves says, hey, something is going on here, and we need to be very aware of what's happening. But when a spirit person, as in someone who is on the other side, they have already transitioned. They are not an earthbound spirit. When that person is around, we still get these signals through our body. We might have that sensation of that someone is watching. So maybe you're in a room all by yourself, and you just feel that kind of hair on the back of your neck, or that sensation of someone is around, I can feel them, or perhaps you're driving down the road and you have that sense of someone is in the car with me. I can feel and sense them. I can't see anything, but I feel and know, I know for a fact that someone is in the front seat with me. You can have this alarm that sort of goes off, but it's a. Subtle. It's, you know, unless it's an earthbound it's going to be more of a subtle sensation that says, hey, something's going on here. It's similar to how animals will have a reaction when there's an earthquake and they start to, you know, move, go to higher ground, whatever it is that the animals do in those times. It's just an instinctual sort of response. So we have that as well, where you're feeling I'm not alone in this room. Maybe you're waking up in the middle of the night and you're having that sense of I can feel that someone is here. I can feel that someone is also in this space. Maybe someone you can feel is sitting on the edge of the bed, or standing at the foot of the bed, or standing next to the bed, and you're having this sensation of, I know someone is here, so that's a first sign, and it's one that a lot of people brush off, because, you know, we have been taught a lot of times not to trust our own sensations and our own feelings about things, but instead, to trust our eyes is the most important sense. And if you're not seeing something and you're looking around, it's easy to dismiss that, and with our intuition, we have to reverse that. We have to learn to trust our instincts, trust our feelings, to not push down and repress that subtle information that we are receiving, because it is instinctual. We're having an instinctive response to something in the energy has shifted, and I can sense someone standing in my auric field. Another way that you can tell that someone is around is having visual anomalies, especially things like seeing someone out of the corner of your eye, you might see movement, or you might see something out of the corner of your eye that kind of gets your attention. And you turn to look and you realize, oh, I'm I'm now not seeing something. What? Wait a minute. What was that? Yesterday, my parents put down their very sweet dog, Andy, he was really the absolute best dog, and they gave him a truly wonderful, blessed life. He was a fun, interesting kind of dog, and was such a special blessing to our family life. And they were truly devastated, I mean, devastated, and they came home yesterday after that, just grief stricken. And when my dad walked in the door, out of the corner of his eye, the first thing he saw this was this movement. And thought that Andy was there and turned to look. And of course, he his physical body was not but his spirit body was there, trying to communicate, hey, I'm still here. It's okay. You don't have to be sad. Everything's okay. I'm here, and I'm young and youthful. I think that's why he was running. It was to be like, I don't have arthritis anymore, I'm not in pain anymore, to make sure that they knew that message as well. Now another thing that can happen is having a sensation similar to touch where you are being touched by the Spirit World. It doesn't feel as solid usually, as a physical person touching you. It almost feels more like a whirling, spinning spinning, moving form of energy that is moving along your hand or your shoulder or your chest or another part of your body, but it's more of like, there's a little bit of a density to it, and that it's a thicker energy. It's a little there's a little bit of a weight to it, but not as strong as the feeling of like a hand directly touching you necessarily. Usually, it feels more like just a spinning, swirling energy that is Spirit touching you and trying to make a more direct connection. Like, hey, you missed the other signs. You missed that feeling that I'm watching you. You missed that feeling that I'm here in the room, so I'm going to make sure that you know that I'm around. This also happens a lot when people go into meditation, because they enter an altered state of consciousness, and it allows for more direct connection. For those that have animals, you really want to pay attention to how your animals are responding and reacting to their environment. Some animals are deeply tuned in to the spirit world, and are really curious, watching and always seeing things happen right around them, and so you might see them tracking the movement. So the other day, I did a reading for a woman, and I was seeing that her father would come from this one room, go down the hall and then go to the left, out into another room. And so I was describing this pathway that I would see him walk very frequently when he would come to visit. And she said, Oh yes, my dog is watching watching that all the time. You can always tell. He's coming to visit because he's watching that particular pathway. One thing you might see as well are lights flickering or some form of electrical phenomena. Spirit can affect all kinds of electrical things. It can affect our computers, it can affect your printer, it can affect your light bulb. All of those things are very sensitive to the electrical current of spirit as well, and it can be very influenced by the energy of those around now. Certain spirit people who have very strong presence and very strong energy, are more likely to be connected where there's a change in electrical atmosphere that affects computers or affects technology. Not every spirit is going to make lights flicker, okay, and not every spirit is going to interfere with your point of sale system. For example, I know we had experiences working at psychic fairs or shows, and point of sale system would always seem to go down or not work as well in those environments, just because there's so much spirit energy that is around at that time. So you might see some lights flickering or changing. You might see where your just computer is not working, your phone kind of locks up those types of things can also be an indication of spirit around. Now, generally, I don't use that as a singular indicator that spirit is around, because things happen and a lot of energy sensitive people can influence as well have very strong energy and influence technology and computer systems also, because your energy is also impacting that as well. We, in fact, we did a podcast episode about being energy sensitive and how that impacts technology. So just do a search for that if you're interested and you want to understand it a little bit more. But if you combine the electrical phenomena with one of these other signs, you're probably dealing with a spirit who's coming to visit, and not just your own personal energy influencing things. One thing I notice all the time is suddenly having an unrelated memory just pop into my head, so it's not connected with anything you're doing in the moment, but suddenly I just have this sense of being transported to my grandparents house in this one particular room, I can feel sitting on the couch. It's just this memory that wasn't really triggered by anything that I was doing. It just sort of comes out of nowhere and then leaves out of nowhere. And I know that that's a hello from my loved ones on the other side. And usually it's them just coming to visit and saying hi. I just wanted to let you know that I was here. So if you notice that we're just out of the blue, you have a random memory, especially if it's a very sentimental one that pops up. There's nothing that would have subconsciously triggered that around you that you can tell it's probably a loved one from the other side, wanting to make sure that you know that they're around and that they're remembering spending time with you and connecting and having these sentimental moments together. And the last one I want to share is a very common one. This happens all the time with some spirit people is unexplained smells, smells that come and go. It usually doesn't linger for very long when it's someone on the other side, they're just trying to get your attention with something that's sensory. It's sort of similar to saying hey. And when we have smells that we connect and associate with a loved one, specifically, it's it becomes their calling card. We know exactly who that is. It's coming to visit. It's a very efficient way for them to say, Hey, it's me. Not just like, hey, it's a spirit person. It's like, hey, it's mom or, you know, hey, it's Uncle Bob. So for certain spirits who have that strong connection with smells and their ability to transmit that for us, you might pick up on psychic smells whenever they come to visit. So you might have a strong smell of perfume that just where did that come from? And then it's gone, cigarette smoke can come in. I just did a reading for someone whose uncle was coming through, and they had worked on cars and worked in an auto shop, and I had this very strong smell of gasoline with them when I was talking with them on the other side. And so I'm aware of when that person would come and visit here on the earth plane. They would bring with them this really strong psychic smell of gas. And it was just their calling card for like, Hey, it's me. So unexplained smells can be a really efficient way that they communicate specifically who is visiting you. It's just an easy way for them to do that. And a lot of our human memory is very tied to smells that's really linked in with our memory. So it's a good way that they kind of jog our memory as well. I was like, hey, remember this, and then that kind of gets us thinking about our loved one and sharing positive memories together. So here's the key, once you notice that someone is around, start to ask some more questions. First of all, don't dismiss the signs that you're seeing, but start to ask yourself, what else am I sensing? What else is coming forward as I think about this energy that is around me, what are you sensing? Is there an emotion that's connected with that? Is there a sense of who that person might be? So take it a little bit deeper. Start to acknowledge when you are noticing these subtle energies and subtle shifts, and instead, make sure you say hello, even if you don't know who it is, even if you don't know who is visiting, just say hello, and you'll find that that begins to create this open channel of communication, and it keeps showing your guides and loved ones. Hey, you're sensing things. You're really starting to pay attention to the impulses and the instincts that you're having, and that's a really good sign for them, being able to continue to grow and develop with you. All right, everyone. Thank you so much for joining us. I look forward to talking to you in spirit next time. Many blessings. The

Robert Wooten: 27:11

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