The BodySOUL podcast

Hello and welcome to the BodySOUL podcast, an immersive exploration of how our human nature is not the weak link in our spiritual lives, but rather an asset – a conduit for awakened consciousness. This season features Mystical Intimacy, my book on embodied mysticism. I’m Linda Nardelli, a spiritual counsellor, channeler and author dedicated to being a clear conduit for source energy.

Welcome to my first official episode – the beginning of an in-depth exploration of Mystical Intimacy, my book on embodied mysticism co-written with channelled guidance designed to help you cultivate a conscious relationship with your Spirit and human nature.I combine channelling with integrative healing and storytelling to bring you an in-depth understanding of the significant role that our human nature plays in the relationship with Spirit and our connection with Divinity.In this episode, I talk about my first encounter with channelling and how opening one’s channel requires the art of surrender and partnering with Spirit, what that entails, and how to maintain one’s sense of autonomy and well-being. I take a candid look at how spiritual devotion is not servitude but rather a genuine collaborative partnership with Spirit that necessitates one’s sense of value and responsibility towards one’s personal needs.Channelled guidance has the power to draw us into an inner sanctuary of belonging, illuminating where we have been and offering us a renewed vision of ourselves. And, these blessings call for our willingness to evolve, shed limiting beliefs and explore life’s many possibilities.

One of the driving forces and inspiration behind BodySOUL podcasts was the ability to highlight so many amazing voices, and induce spirit-led inquiry and conversation. I think you'll enjoy my second podcast as I join my guest in discussing the shift that occurs when you view everything as sacred.My guest, Colin McClive, is a co-founder and CEO of Innovation-T, an advanced technology solutions provider focused on Free Energy, Water, Food & Health. He describes himself as an entrepreneur and an intrapreneur, and I see him as a visionary – a man devoted to spiritual understanding and integration. It is his commitment to pioneering the new earth that led me to invite Colin to join me here today.

In this podcast, I dive into the first chapter of Mystical Intimacy and share my thoughts on our human experience of spiritual emergence and healing into consciousness. Healing into consciousness is a return to our wholeness. It is a call from within to remember that our Spirit is already free. Healing is a choice to open, surrender and welcome everything that arises to reconnect with our sense of wholeness.The art of healing is to allow – to say yes to everything that shows up, even resistance, because when resistance is welcomed, we feel good.  This vital process of allowing helps release energy into its next stage of evolution. It's enlivening and replenishes the body, mind and soul connection. Then our thoughts, felt senses, and emotions flow through us freely, transforming limiting perceptions of reality into greater possibilities.  Channelled guidance is a continuation of that surrendered state - a natural way of connecting with one's inner sense of resonance.  One of the gifts I share throughout my book is that channelling is not a direct path, but a returning to inner knowing.  This connection with Spirit creates an expression between the human and the sacred that offers a more fulfilling relationship with life. 

In this episode, I share my experience accessing parallel dimensions in order to heal and transform the way we experience life in the present. When we bring into consciousness different aspects of our past or present selves, we step into divine time and the vastness of our multidimensional existence. Parallel realities exist at all times: our beliefs, emotions, and the way we think all affect probable outcomes for our future selves, as well as our multiple past timelines. When we loosen our grip on the idea that we are one-dimensional beings, we access stories from our past selves that may be affecting our current experience of life.Using modalities such as shamanic journeying, meditation, art or journaling, allow you to claim and integrate aspects of yourself that were previously unconscious.I share a clip from my second guest, Jason Hogue, a shamanic practitioner, who was able to access himself as his future self 20 years before experiencing himself in that reality. I hope this inspires your curiosity about the healing opportunities that exist when you access parallel timelines and multidimensional healing.    

Join me in this episode with abstract artist Marlene Lowdon as we discuss our role as artists as part of our spiritual calling. Through art, we embody an expression of the divine that requires "getting out of the way" in order for the piece to be revealed free of expectation. Marlene shares her personal fascination with art as a channel for awakened consciousness. As many people experience this push towards awakening, she uses her art as a way to fully surrender and create into the unknown. We discuss how art is similar to awakening, in that one must let go in the flow and release any desired outcome. I share how this approach mirrors my spiritual practice of honoring the path of grace and belonging, versus chasing a certain end goal of enlightenment.   We both agree that whatever the method, art is an act of liberation, where artist and creation can merge in order to expand and offer a true expression of the divine.

My sixth episode, Moving Beyond the Shadows, sheds light on the opportunity that lies in our most vulnerable experiences. At the heart of vulnerability, we find wisdom and connection to soul guidance that can be otherwise rationally overlooked. It's often the vulnerable periods in our life that urge us to heal and transform. Often vulnerability is accompanied by a heightened awareness that moves us into expansion when we are brave enough to surrender control.As children bravely surrender their creative and emotional expressions, we too can allow ourselves to explore our vulnerability and grow in new ways and perceptions.  Even in the hardest of times, we can allow our vulnerability to be fully felt and experienced so that we can heal and realize our inner truths.In this episode, I share my experience of growing through vulnerability and trusting the wisdom it wishes to bestow. I recount several childhood memories that shaped me and how, through my own healing, I integrated my vulnerability into an authentic expression that has opened me to more profound meaning, intimacy, and connection in my life. 

In this episode, I'm joined by guest Kelly Van Unen who begins to unpack the importance of healing into consciousness through all of our past trauma. Kelly's journey into healing began midlife, even though it took her back to her childhood, much like myself, where she realized the importance of forgiving the past to connect fully to her spiritual calling. We share our thoughts on how the survival mode, especially if experienced as a child, shapes how we cope and interact with our full range of feelings. Though necessary at times, coping can actually prevent us from remembering our karmic agreements and soul messages. Often the layering and confusion of our early caregivers can also influence our early sense of purpose and connection.Though we can learn to cope through the challenges our early lives throw us, we often need to revisit and integrate what we aren't conscious of when we are coping.  If we don't, we end up living a life in the outside world versus one deeply connected to our inner world. 

Episode 8 addresses common beliefs around healing. We explore shifting our perception of healing from a goal-oriented focus to what healing is really about - opening, growing and becoming whole.The path of healing is not a goal, but a continuous process and way of life. To become a conduit for awakened consciousness, we must embrace the healing process versus conquer it. One of the tools we can practice as we heal is to create space to allow our emotions to fully surface.  If we create a state of anxiety around healing, the deep relaxation that is needed for healing won't arise. Our survival instincts kick in, and we aren't able to resolve our issues under pressure or fear.   When we approach healing without needing to fix, force, or remove our pain, we create a more receptive environment to integrate our wounds and the lessons they bring. Healing is a lifelong journey; one that brings us closer to our awakened consciousness.

In this podcast, I'm joined by Revilla Feartz-Yen as we discuss the importance of understanding oneself in an often contradictory outer world. Her experience as a member of the Nxivm cult gave her an in-depth reason to truly seek what it was her soul needed. We share how our fairly different paths, have given us a similar understanding. That human nature, with all its challenges, can serve as the greatest conduit for Divinity.One of my favourite sentiments Revilla shared was her process of stepping away from what she once thought to be true. She had the courage to truly seek and explore her previous beliefs, and release them in order to move forward, and ultimately leave her former community.Revillas has since made peace with that defining part of her past, and rebuild her own trust as what she thought was real, completely shifted for her.  She believes that within each of us, we must develop a strong discernment, sense of self-care and respect for who we truly are: an expression of the divine.