What My Overdose Taught Me About Rebooting My Health, Purpose & Joy- with Alysa Rushton

In this transformational interview, Alysa Rushton candidly shares the secrets of her near-death survivor's journey back from devastating chronic illnesses to radiant health, life-purpose discovery, and unshakable inner peace. Alysa not only survived the drug overdose due to Western medicine, but she also learned the secrets to generating her own health.

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Brian Smith  0:00  
Hey, everybody, this is Brian back with another episode of grief to growth and today we have with us a really remarkable guest. Her name is Alyssa Rushton. She's not only a survivor of her profound near death experience, but she's also an internationally renowned energy intuitive and she's a sound healer. She's considered one of the world's leading thought leaders on conscious life creation, ascension and embodying your Divine Self. Her transformative work for personal and planetary evolution can be found in her recorded programs, like reality by divine design, and the miracles and manifesting portal as well as the numerous online summits that she's done. She's such a lies 1000 1000s of individuals worldwide, inspiring them to step into their identity as Divine Beings of Light, to activate their superpowers and to forge a strong and profound connection with their inner divinity. When she has a recording of meditations or speaking internationally, you can find her immersed in the beauty of nature, swimming with sea turtles near home on the Big Island of Hawaii, or hiking in the mountains of Arizona to places that on there have been a while but I would love to go and I love Arizona. That's her home away from home. For more information about her and her work, you can visit our website Alyssa rushton.com, it's al y s a Rushton r u, Sh, t. O n.com. And that'll be in the show notes. But you can go there and find out more about her. So with that, I want to welcome Alyssa to grief to growth. My

Alysa Rushton  1:20  
gosh, Brian, thank you for having me. I've been so excited about the show today.

Brian Smith  1:25  
Yeah, I'm excited to talk to you. Also, we talked earlier about some of the things we're going to talk about, and it's all the stuff my honest is interested in. What's it like on the other side? How do I heal? You know, how do I make good to my highest self? So we're gonna talk about all that stuff today. If you don't mind, if you could start with your near death experience and tell me what happened there. Yeah.

Alysa Rushton  1:46  
So you know, I want to start off with the the dying, as we've been taught in America, or the Western world, is not what we've been taught. It's not actually a death, it's a birth. And I really didn't know that before I died. I didn't really know what to expect. And so my story is that I was really sick, I was on end of life medication, I was 240 pounds, I used a walker to get around, I had a PICC line in my arm delivering medication into my heart, I was so sick. And, you know, they gave me these end of life pain management drugs, because it's the kind of thing that you give to people when you don't really expect them to live, because they're so strong that number one, they can kill you. And number two, you probably won't get off them ever. So I didn't have a great trajectory as a human being and I was 30 Okay, so I was 30 years old prime of my life. And I had all these autoimmune diseases, and just really couldn't understand why I was so sick. And so you can imagine that much medication, you know, 28 different medications, infusing into your body plus all the end of life pain management stuff, including fentanyl. And you know, if you've heard any of the word on the street about fentanyl, you know, even one time can kill you. And I was doing these fentanyl suckers that they give to cancer patients when they can't really tolerate to take pills. And so one day I just got way too much medication and me and I wasn't feeling well in the nighttime and did what a lot of people do you go to the bathroom when you're not feeling good, right? And did what Elvis did I died on the potty. And so you know, I'm gonna leave the experience there of me dead on the potty. And what happened was on the other side, right, I had this extraordinary experience. I didn't have the standard hover above your body, see yourself there. I didn't have that and several near death survivors will tell you this same thing. I actually popped up directly into what I call God consciousness or divine consciousness or Universal Consciousness, whatever word you want to use for it. And what happened to me was I got pulled up into this energy. Now imagine this blissful, delicious love feeling just washing over you. And I always say it's the most physical thing I've ever done without a body. You know, and I was instantly I was consciousness that could just expand in every in all directions all at once. I felt so free and filled with love and bliss. I was getting as I was, I felt this sense of moving upward. And as I was moving upward, I started to get downloads and insights and like I could understand and see how the universe works. So, right our universe and how late informed sound informed sacred geometry informed matter. And I understood, you know, quantum physics and math. And by the way, I'm a high school dropout. So there was no way I could have known that stuff, right? So I'm moving up and this profound experience, and I realize I'm not, you know, I'm not in a body, I'm not living right now. And I didn't even have that feeling of like, oh, gosh, it was just pure, like relief, relaxed. Bliss. In an eye, I say the word bliss. But that's not even a good enough word for it. You know, it was a feeling beyond description of ecstasy. And so I'm going up up, and I get what I call into God consciousness directly. And I then am in this kind of energetic, where the best way I can describe it is, have you ever seen one of those movies where a guy's sitting behind like 100 security cameras, and he's watching all the security? Have you seen them? Whatever those movies are, yeah, it was like that only times a billion or more. And I could literally, there was like these little bubbles of camera almost experiences where I could see. And then I could stretch my consciousness into each one of those bubbles of consciousness. And literally, I was experiencing, being a plant being a tree, being an animal, being an alien, being a galaxy, being Alyssa being Brian being, you know, everybody all at once. And so the way I describe it is, I was everything all at once. And it was the most magical, amazing, conscious thing. And I could literally stretch into experiences and hold it all. And if there was something I wanted to go deeper into, I could move my and I'm moving my arms, because it was such a visceral stretching of consciousness that felt directional and spatial. To me, and it was just absolutely incredible in every way. So I, you know, I always say, I don't recommend dying before your time. And I actually don't think you can die before, it's your time because of my experience. But I do say that when someone passes over there, what I saw on the other side was that we each and every one of us get a death, birth experience that is designed specifically for us. And if you really believe that you're going to go experience the pearly gates to heaven, that's your going to be your first experience, and you're going to be greeted, because it's designed to be not stressful for you in any way. So I got to see all that I got to see how quantum mechanics works, I got to see all of this, and I'm floating around the cosmos and and experiencing all of this, this amazing stuff. Oops, sorry, amazing stuff. And then I saw this little, this little kind of Earth globe, and I thought, Well, I'm gonna go check that out. And as soon as I did, I popped into this earth like worlds. And it looked very much like Earth, it was more olive green the sky though. And I all of a sudden didn't have God consciousness anymore. I had a listless consciousness. And I knew, Oh, I'm gonna go hang around my ex boyfriend who smoked and did drugs and drank. And I felt very calm and peaceful. And then I thought, Well, I'm gonna go hang around this other person, and I couldn't speak to them in any way. But I felt calming and relaxing and healing. And as I was there I was, I was kind of, you know, wondering like, Well, why can I talk to anybody, but I was okay, I was really okay about it.

Brian Smith  9:11  
We're still here on Earth, Eisen, still living.

Alysa Rushton  9:15  
And I really felt okay about it. And then this energy, this group consciousness came to me and said, Hey, if you want to stay here, you can, it'll be a very healing place for you. And you can stay here as long as you want. But you won't be able to come back into your Elissa body. And if you want to come back into your Elissa body, it'll be some of the hardest work you've ever done. But you've got to come back now. And as soon as I thought, Yes, I want to come back. That's when it felt like somebody dropped me off 1000 storey building and slammed me down into concrete. And I was waking up in my body. And I was back.

Brian Smith  9:54  
Wow. That's that is quite an experience. And I love what you said about and As we think of the typical and the experience, and there, there are several elements that are in a lot of indie experts, but they're not all the same. And so you know, you didn't experience a tunnel. Did you? Did you meet any loved ones? When the other site? You said, You came back? And you saw people here? Did you? Did you visit loved ones here?

Alysa Rushton  10:19  
I didn't, I didn't visit. Well, I visited loved ones here in the astral realm. And I want to actually come back to that. But I don't have any loved ones that are passed over on the other side. Okay. So that's why it wasn't part of my experience. I just didn't have it. Okay. Nobody knew waiting for me on the other side. Yeah, it was a completely, you know, it was not something that happened for me. But there were so many energies that I was experiencing on the other side, you know, billions and billions and billions of experiences. And for me, that felt really nourishing. But the, the interesting bit, and I didn't find this out until years after my near death, is that that planet that I went to that was like Earth, I was reading a book by Savannah orienta. And she described my experience completely about going to this world that was all live kind of green colored. And she said, what that is, it's the astral realm where spirits go to heal, where they maybe don't make it all the way into the lights, and they kind of maybe get stuck in the astral realm, but they do they heal, and they hang out until it's time to go, and come back and do a different experience again, and that's what it was going to be for me, if I had chosen to stay there, I would have probably gotten stuck in the astral realm for a bit. And that's also why I think people with addiction, get tend to get more addicted. Because I was an addict when I died. I was totally addicted to pain, drugs and cigarettes. And you know, I didn't I didn't ever consider myself an alcoholic. I just drank every day. All right. So what I realized happens on the other side is that when you pass it of an addiction, if you get kind of stuck in that astral realm, you go and you hang out with loved ones here that have addictions, because it feels good. And so that sort of amplifies their addiction, and maybe isn't necessarily a positive thing for people here on Earth. But on the other side, in the astral realm. It's very healing to the Spirit.

Brian Smith  12:34  
That's yeah, that's interesting, because I have the NDA experience. I'm starting to understand that people don't typically go all the well, I don't think they ever go all the way there's like, there's always some sort of barrier or something that people encounter. And there's like a point of no return. Like if you if you stay here, or if you go beyond this point, then you're you can't come back. So it sounds like you made a conscious choice to come back to your Elissa body.

Alysa Rushton  12:59  
Yeah, I was offered a choice. You were very

Brian Smith  13:03  
sick and addicted. Why? Why did you decide to come back?

Alysa Rushton  13:09  
That's a great question. I think on the soul level, my soul knew that I was here to do something different. My soul knew that I wasn't doing my plan. And as as I could, and in fact, when I woke up and I was in the hospital, you know, strapped to a gurney legs flailing because I had been injected with Narcan. And I was instantly going through a massive withdrawal. Wow, um, I had the recognition, oh, my life is in a ditch. I'm completely broken. And what I'm doing is not working. So on the other side, what I feel like happens is at soul level, I knew I could do it differently. And I could come here and be an example. But they also told me it's gonna be very hard. And they were right, it was very hard to break those addiction patterns and to, you know, get the weight loss because I lost over 100 pounds and kept it off. The weight loss was easy. But people always remark about the weight loss. First, it was healing. My spirit was healing my body. It was healing those addictions. It was healing the traumas. That was the really hard work. And so I think I was just destined to come back and be an example of what's possible for people when they dig in and do the healing work.

Brian Smith  14:28  
Wow. So how did you get from being on the potty to the hospital?

Alysa Rushton  14:35  
Yeah, so Well, obviously. You know, paramedics were called my husband. I was married at the time, and he was the one who found me, reading lips, blue nails, blue on the toilet and was able to call 911911 came out, pumped me full of Narcan which stops all that process, right. It stops the overdose process. And if you get it in time, and I loved what you said, there's a point to which you don't get to come back from right, there's a point of Have you ever seen that movie? I think it's called Princess Bride. Where Yeah, where he says it was there, don't worry, they're only mostly dead or partially dead, right. And so there's a really a longer process of dying, that you can come back from if it's not your time. And what I saw on the other side is our souls have distinct exit point options. And you don't always have to take those exit point options, but you as a soul being get the opportunity to choose isn't my time to move on? Do I want to come back? Am I capable of coming back in this body? You know, can I heal the body? If I do come back? Do I want to come back to this body that's broken? You know, there's that process on the other side of, do I really want to do this. So it's a very complex, interesting process of death and birth and living here on planet Earth. That's just fascinating to me.

Brian Smith  16:08  
I'm glad you said the word complex, because you know, we have these debates about predestination versus freewill. And do we is there a certain time that we have that we were we die? Or are there multiple exit points? And, and I know some people, you know, they wonder about our loved ones? Well, why would if she got a chance to come back? I know, my loved one would have chosen to come back. And, you know, we can't really know that, of course. But there's also a point of no return when the body's that not viable any longer. That's

Alysa Rushton  16:39  
right. Yeah, that's right. And some people, you know, have that point where their, their body isn't viable. And they have to, to just reboot and get another one. Right. And that's what I think is really the important point is that, you know, as a human being what we're trained here, especially in Western society, isn't necessarily all that true about our human experience. You know, we're we're taught that, for most part, we're taught that we have one life to live that we have the one body that we are one thing. And on the other side, what we realize is that you're more like, I'm going to, I'm going to show you this here, use my favorite unicorns book, you're, you're actually more like this book, okay? And if you could think of each page as if an aspect of your soul, right? And so we think, Oh, you might think like, Oh, I'm just Brian, and my soul is just Brian, know, your soul is actually all of these pages happening all at once, really, in the multi-dimensional up their anus, not down here, but up there. And so it's a little hard for the human brain to understand everything all at once. It's why we have a left brain so that we don't get overwhelmed and confused. And it helps us move through linear space and time. But my point in that is that, you know, we get not only all of these opportunities in this in this life, but we're having all these opportunities for soul growth in other realms. And so when one passes over, it might be like, well, I learned my lessons here on Earth, I'm going to move on, or I need to come back, because I still want that experience. It's Earth, I always refer to earth as third grade. No offense, anybody, but is we're learning very basic human lessons here, and very basic soul lessons of, can we hold the frequency of love, no matter? What can we master our physical body, and our emotional bodies and our mental body, because on the other side, it's kind of like having a rocket ship, right, you create very fast with your thoughts and feelings. And so if you can't master that here, you don't get some be in other realms where you're creating at the speed of light. And if we can't master our physical vibration, in terms of what gets us agitated, or what I call it, janky, you know, that feeling where you're just like, ah, you know, you're just in a kind of a twist, or I'm triggered. So we've got to learn those lessons here. And we can't really move on. So that sets your point. Sometimes the physical body's not viable and we have to pop back into another body, and you can really do it instantaneously. You know, because up there there is no time is all happening, like this book all at once. When you're reading a book, and you're on page seven. You don't have to wait For page 91, to be written ever, it's already there. But as human beings, we kind of think of time like that, like, oh, I have to wait through time and space. So it's a really it, you know, passing over to the other side really offers us such a different opportunity to understands our souls experience. And to your point, I think when you lose a loved one, based on how we've been taught and trains, I don't know that we necessarily have a positive viewpoint about what their experience is, and how it's like a graduation of sorts. Yeah. Right. For them. They're literally, I always say, and I know, it's hard to hear, but it's like, that's when you know, that person won the game of life.

Brian Smith  20:50  
Yeah, and I'm really glad you said that. Because the thing is, I find that people, I say, people, you grieve for two, two reasons to grieve for yourself for your loss. And you grieve for what you perceive that your loved ones loss. And one of the things I love about talking to people about in the ease is, we can eliminate that idea of what they've lost. You know, I work with a lot of people who've lost children. And so we'll say like, my daughter, my daughter was 15. She was only 15. Her she had her whole life in front of her. And when we say that, what we're saying is that their life is over. And I love what you said, we have this, this this misperception of death as, as the end of something more, it's more like a birth into something else. Totally.

Alysa Rushton  21:39  
And it literally is, like if you can think of a baby being born out of the womb, and how, like, Wow, that must be so intense for them. Because they're all as they've been living in a space like this, you know, maybe the foot diameter, or maybe a foot and a half. And now they're in this huge expanse, right? It's the exact same experience when you're birthed into the other side. And in Western society, we don't teach that we teach, it's the end, you go to heaven. And that's not necessarily the truth. You know, it's not necessarily what happens. And I love how what you said, Brian, about we, though do you have to grieve our physical loss, because that's the hard part is losing the physicality of somebody. And with the work that I do, what I also know is, you can lose the physicality of somebody and still maintain your connection to them. And that's something else that we don't necessarily teach. And so can I, can I talk about that for a minute? Do you mind for sure. So, on the other side, when you don't have a body, you're really high vibration, okay, it's a higher frequency, here, we have a very dense frequency. And so am I gonna think about like, going into the ocean, if you dove down into the ocean at about 15 feet, 10 feet, for some people, your ears start to hurt, it's too much pressure it, it's ouchy, right. And then if you dive down even more, at some point, it really starts to squeeze your body and it squeezes your lungs. And if you dive down even further, at some point, you would implode because it's too much pressure. Okay? So I tell you that to tell you on the other side, as a being of light, when you release your physical, I call it your physical vehicle, right, because you're a soul in driving your physical vehicle, right, you're your meatsuit, you're driving it. So on the other side, when you release the physical vehicle, you're this super high frequency. And at some point, when you're trying to come down and connect with your humans, it hurts because we're so dense down here. So if you're wanting to connect with your loved one, you actually can't be in grief and connect with your loved one, you're going to need to raise your frequency up into a state of love or above, in order to be able to have that conscious contact with them. Because they do want to connect but it's very hard for them to come like there's a physical limit to which they can come down and actually connect with you or, you know, hanging out with you. So it's the process of us raising our frequency. So again, to use the ocean analogy, you wouldn't have to come up to a certain depth to swim with the ocean ocean dolphins. You couldn't swim with the ocean dolphins at 1000 foot depth, you're just gonna never meet them there. And so consciously we can understand that. But when you release the body, you're still consciousness, you just don't have your physical vehicle, you have a different light vehicle. And so if we can remember that when we're trying to connect with our loved ones, like, they actually need us to be in a state of higher receptivity. And sometimes it's hard to get to, you know,

Brian Smith  25:27  
I've, I've heard a lot of analogies for that, that's, I've never heard that one. I liked the way you put that. And it reminds me of you heard a Christian Sunberg. Know, Christian Sunberg has his pre birth memories. And he talks about basically getting his body and being, there's like, almost technicians that are putting the veil on him. And when he describes it, when you set her just remind me so much, he said, I went down, down, down, down, down, down, down, and he just found out that down, and then down further, further further. And he was taught, he describes the process of incarnating is almost painful, it's terrifying. Because it's such a different frequency. It's such a different vibration than where we are on the other side. And I think that's something that people can understand that that idea of our loved ones are there if they're up there, and it's all light and airy. And Earth is you described as third grade. And it's interesting, because I've heard people describe more like kindergarten, it's like, people are here, like beginners are all stumbling around. We don't know what we're doing. But on the other hand, because it's so dense, we have this variation of consciousness. It's also understand what the hardest places to be.

Alysa Rushton  26:31  
Yes, yes. And you'll hear a lot of NDAs describe that process of getting put back in their body is so painful, like when I literally felt like, I fell 1000 feet and slammed into concrete, it was such a huge density. Variable, like it was just a huge chasm. And so I think it's really important to remember that and to your point, like, this is one of the densest places that we can be. And we also get a lot of benefit out of being here, we get to have physical things, we get to taste food, we get to have physical pleasure, we get to look out of our eyes with trees and touch. And learning some of the really basic lessons. And I always say third grade, because we're in 3d, you know, we're in, we're in third density, so I just call it third grade. But it is, there's the cool thing about having been on the other side is there's much more exciting places to go. And, you know, even places that other star systems where you still have a physical body, but it's lighter, and travels through space and time differently. And you actually have different skill sets. And one of the cool things that I realized about humans is that we have a whole bunch of DNA, you might have heard this that they call the scientists, they call it junk, but it's actually not junk. And you can turn it on. And so what's really cool is that, when I was on the other side, I found out how to do this. And it's one of the ways that I was able to heal my body. And you know, now I don't have those autoimmune diseases, obviously, I don't use a walker to get around, I don't need the diapers anymore. You know, it was really I was really pretty bad state. But you can heal your physical body and you can turn on certain DNA sequences, you can access different gifts. You know, as human beings, we have all of these senses that we are actually trained out of using as an early child, we're trained not to use our intuition. We're trained to override our gut, we're trained to not tap in with our right brain and use that right brain. I always say, you know, we're really left brain educated, especially in Western society, we're not all right, we're not all taught to use our right brain where some Hindi kids, they can literally read to you a page on a book, when the book is in the other room, and they are just remote viewing it. So we actually have all of these gifts innately within us. But we've been largely trained out of them. So it's kind of cool to be able to relearn some of that stuff and and then connect yourself up in different ways so that your life is vastly different and that you can connect with your loved ones and you can connect with beings of light and have really I call it being in the miracle zone.

Brian Smith  29:40  
Yeah, absolutely. I think that's fantastic. So when you when you came back, and you came back to this body that was largely broken from I'm using that word, totally. How did you start the healing process? How did that work? hyper real quick break, make sure you have like and subscribe, liking the video will show it to more people on YouTube, and subscribe, you will make sure you get access to all my great content in the future. And now back to the video.

Alysa Rushton  30:11  
Yeah. Well, it was interesting, you know, because I don't know exactly how long I was dead, right, I was found. So there's no real way to know, right. And at first I thought, I literally had the thought of, oh, God, I think I might have had a lot of brain damage. Because I, the next the very next day after I had died, I was right back in the hospital again, infusing because that's what I did, you know, infuse that the chemicals to make me better. And I had this man's voice in my head. And I was like, Oh, this isn't good. I'm hearing voices. You know, it was my first thought. And it was on repeat. And it said, I'm getting better and better every day in every way. And it was just on repeat on repeat. And I couldn't stop it. And it wasn't again until years later, I actually was watching a YouTube video. And it you know how YouTube like pops up stuff. And it was a YouTube video. And I heard this man's voice in his name was Emil qu yay. And his phrase was, I'm getting better and better every day in every way. And that was the guy who was in my head. So my first step was rewiring my brain. And shortly after my near death, I knew that I had to bring through what I saw and fell on the other side into my physical experience. And I couldn't really do a lot. So what I did was, I just started listening to this meditation, and I would lay in bed and listen to this meditation music. And I would visualize myself because what they showed me on the other side is how we perceive ourselves. Our our self image is what we have to play out here. So they told me to change my self image. And my self image at that time was somebody with a broken body, who was really, really sick. And by the way, I was actually getting a lot out of that, you know, like I was I was playing into that victim role, I was able to get love and support and care. And as a kid, you know, I maybe didn't get as much love and support and care as I needed. And so that illness in adulthood allowed me to get unconsciously what I had been longing for. So I would just lay in bed, and I would imagine myself walking and feeling really great. And that was my first step. And I literally would just lay in bed and visualize myself walking and feeling great. And at the time, I didn't know it. But this is what a lot of paraplegics do they regain their ability to walk is they just start with visualization. And there's a lot of scientific studies around visualizing yourself in a different state that will help you to heal. So I did that. And it was as it was, I think, a couple of months. And then I started to feel motivated to take my walker out. And I would literally just walk from my house to the end of my driveway. And that was all I could do. And I just started there and I started pushing myself. And as I would push myself and every week I'd add and I'd go to the next house. And I would just again, chant in my head, my legs feel great. My legs feel great because it felt like my legs were amputated. stabs. I mean, it hurts so bad. There were so much pain in my body. And I just felt just like it was walking around on broken parts. And so I would just chat in my head, my legs feel great, my legs feel great. My legs feel great. And I just did that mental work. And that was my first really foray into the healing. I knew that I had to get out and move my body even if it felt like it was going to kill me. And it did feel like that but it didn't kill me. And then I also knew that I had to change my diet. I had to change what I was eating. And so I while I was listening to the meditations sound frequency I saw on the other side sound frequency really helps the body reformat itself. So I was listening to all these sound frequencies. I hired a health coach. And I remember when I met with this health coach, I'll never forget her name was Shelly. And I looked at her and she was older than me by about 10 ish years. And I just thought, oh my gosh, I want whatever she's got, like whatever she's doing, I'm gonna do whatever she tells me to do. I'm gonna do even if it's hard, and she and I met and She said, you know, do you think you might have a gluten sensitivity? And I said, Oh, no, absolutely, I'm fine. I eat gluten all the time. I've been eating it ever since I was a kid. And she's like, Well, what about dairy? And I said, No, I grew up on dairy, you know, potatoes, eggs and cheese and, and bread. And she's like, well, what would you be willing to try stopping those two things. And I was like, no.

That's my staple. And at the time, I was eating half a loaf of bread a day with butter. Right? Just I would slathered butter and eat the bread and don't have cereal and milk. That was my diet. And so she started me out with smoothies. And I committed to adding smoothies in and I started adding green juice in. And it was a little bit of time, and I realized, you know, I'm actually starting to feel better home. Wow, this is interesting. And then I started to cut out gluten and I started to cut out dairy. And it was a process of evolution. And it didn't happen overnight. But I did end up cutting out gluten and dairy and some other foods completely. And I, you know, I felt like, Wow, I feel amazing. And the pain started to disappear, I started to lose the weight and be able to keep it off, my skin cleared up. I mean, if you saw pictures of my skin, it was just completely an acne everywhere looks terrible, my skin was so just bumpy and not smooth at all. And now people always say, oh my gosh, you're glowing? Well, it's an inside job, right? Glowing comes from within. And at the same time I was doing the sound healing, I was doing the meditation, I was doing the nutrition, I also had to go in and do the trauma healing work, I had to go in and really take a look at the traumas I had been through that just never got a voice never got to be felt in my family. You know, I always say that our solution to trauma was smoke a couple cigarettes, have a glass of wine and a good steak and bury it deep and throw some dirt on top of it. And then overwork yourself, and you'll you won't think about it. And that's how we dealt with it. And I think that's how a lot of people deal with things. They bury themselves in work, they bury themselves in alcohol or cigarettes or addictions. And they don't think about the trauma. But the traumas get imprinted in ourselves, and then play out in our daily life. And it keeps getting mirrored to us again and again and again. Until and the universe is trying to say, heal this, please heal, heal this part of you that's been traumatized, so that we don't have to keep repeating this pattern over and over. And boy, I tell you what happens when you go in and you do the trauma healing work. And one of the modalities that I love is using breath work, because our breath will help us go in and find out where that trauma has been stored in our body. And I find this happens to with people with a lot of loss. They store the trauma of loss in their cells. And then because and this is something that I don't think people understand this enough, your life is being projected, like a movie on the outside of you. And the projection comes from within you. And the projection comes based on your DNA and your programming that lives in you. Right. So your vehicle is projecting all of that out. And so when you have a trauma, especially like a loss trauma, what happens with people is they get, they keep repeating that it keeps going, like they'll find oh my gosh, there's another loss. And there's another loss and all this one, right? And it's because they haven't really cleared that trauma from their body projector. And it's kind of like this, if we want to change the movie, if you're sitting in a movie, and you're sitting in a seat, and you want to change, there's a scary scene and you don't like it. What we don't do is we don't go up to the movie screen and start cutting on the movie screen. Because we know that doesn't change anything, right? We've got to go back into where the movie is stored, and deal with a piece of the movie that we don't want to experience anymore. And so as human beings we forget, we are so disconnected with the fact that we're creating and projecting this reality outside of us. And it's the reason why you can have two people sitting in a restaurant experiencing the same meal. And one will have an incredible experience in the love the waitstaff and they'll be having this fabulous time and the other person sitting across the table is like my meal is awful. And I have to send it back and you know, they're having this drastically different experience. And that's because is our reality is a projection from within us. And so it's our jobs here on planet third grade, to go within and clear some of these traumas. And by the way, when you get your physical vehicle, I think we forget or haven't been told that you're coming into a vehicle that has programming from at least seven generations back, you know, epigenetics has proven that you imprint the traumas from your family, on both sides from seven generations. So imagine the traumas that your parents went through, and your grandparents and their parents and grandparents and I mean, it's a lot. So you're stepping into this vehicle, with generations and generations and generations of trauma experiences that no one's ever been taught to process. Yeah. And then, here you are, with no instruction guide, in 2023 going, Oh, my gosh, how do I deal with this?

Brian Smith  41:04  
Yeah, let's talk about that a little bit more, because I think we tend to think of coming in, and we're a blank slate, you know, and but you're not, you're talking physically, there's, there's DNA, right. But there's also I guess, because we do have past lives, or concurrent lives, however, we would just say past lives for the sake of simplicity, because we do have this other thing. We were carrying, you know, karma, for lack of a better word, but we're not a blank slate. So when people say, I don't have any traumas to heal, you know, it's like you there may be things that you're carrying, that you're not aware of. Totally.

Alysa Rushton  41:38  
And you can see this really clearly, in generational trauma, I mean, look at what's happening with the Middle East conflict right now, you can see people playing out generational trauma. In now time, it hasn't been cleared, it's been stored in the DNA, and they're continuing to play that out. And you can see this, you know, and people of color, right, you know, you folks have been through the wringer with respect to a lot of things. And so you can see traumas playing out in people's lives, that I love how you said it, we're not a blank slate at all, you come in within the imprint of traumatic experiences. And that's a tough thing for people to cognize because we want to think we're a blank slate. But you can even see this in any any parent who's a parent of multiple children. You know, everyone comes in with their different personalities, you know, some come in just smiling and laughing in some County, despite and

Brian Smith  42:44  
mad. Yeah, that's why I tell people, you know, if you're a parent, and you have, if you have two children, you will realize that you did not create these children. They can be very, very different. And they'll grow up the same house, same parents, same everything, but totally different personalities. Totally,

Alysa Rushton  43:01  
you gave them their bodies, but their spirit, their soul is their own. And then they have to then deal with. And I think this is an analogy that everyone can get. It's like, if you go car shopping, you could buy, maybe you bought a used 1982 Datsun, right. And you're gonna have to deal with the problems of use 1982 Dots and driving it around. Or you can buy a brand new Mercedes, GLC, and you're going to deal with the vehicle of that. And so the body vehicle, the genetic programming that we choose to come into, we then also have to deal with that programming. But that is a soul choice that the soul makes in order to learn the lessons. And that's also a hard thing for people to understand, like, why would a soul come in and choose to as a child battle a disease? Why would a soldier choose to come in and have horrible case of autism that is non functional? Right? And truly, they're working on their own lessons, but oftentimes, they're also being our greatest teachers. Because our relationships, our greatest teachers here on planet Earth. Yeah,

Brian Smith  44:18  
well, I think there's also something about maybe being able to overcome, you know, I'm going to take on that challenge because we do come here. I think we come here to experience challenge we could go somewhere easier. But but we wouldn't grow as much I, I'll never forget when I was in my mid 20s. I think it was I was talking to someone about, you know, being African American. And I said this at that time, I said, Why would anybody ever choose to be, you know, a black man in America, nobody would ever choose that if you if you in your right mind, you will choose to be, you know, a white person so you have the advantage. And it took me several years after that. But one day I realized it's like, no, this was a good this was a Good thing that I chose this as I learned a lot that I wouldn't have learned if I had chosen another vehicle. So I think sometimes we can, on the surface of might look like, well, everybody would choose to be wealthy, everybody would choose to be perfectly healthy. Everybody would choose to be, you know, six, five, and, you know, but no, we choose different things for different purposes. Yeah,

Alysa Rushton  45:21  
I love how you brought that for Brian, because there's so much to learn from adversity we learn from contrast here. And to your point, like being a black man in America, you know that the one of the toughest things you can choose to be right is not an ideal lized situation, no advantages there. And also the things that we learn when we're in the depths, the things that we learn when we have to fight adversity. It's like, for me personally, what I learned from overcoming, you know, these critical illnesses, I now know how to be healthy. I know the recipe, I know that it's possible, right? And so that then allows me to teach other people the recipe for being healthy. It's, it's actually a thing that you can do. Is it hard? Absolutely. Can you do it? Yes, you can. And to you, like, look at you now you're making, you know, your blessing, 1000s and 1000s of people all over the world with what you're doing. And you would never have been able to do that without overcoming a lot of adversity.

Brian Smith  46:29  
Yeah. And I think, again, I want to emphasize to people because when they hear things about, like Soul planning, they think, Well, I would never plan this. But I love talking to people like yourself who have who have over come. That's, that's those are the stories that inspire us. Those are the things that examples that let us know that we can do it. And that while this planet is is work, and I was I was talking to a client, just like yesterday, I said, I always hesitate to say this, but this life was worth this life is it's not easy. It's it's hard, what we chose a hard place to come to. But I think it's I think it's worth it, you know, and we can see that it's worth it once we once we've made that overcome those challenges.

Alysa Rushton  47:10  
Totally, totally. And that's the hard part about being human is that, and especially if you grew up in America, or Western cultures is because we were taught a very specific ideology are a way of thinking about success, and what success is, and what I learned on the other side, and if you can hear one thing today is material success here does not equal sole success. And I think we're pivoting on the planet into a more soul based alignment. On planet Earth, we have actually done different things, where we have lived a more soul led life. But for the past, honestly, about 6000 years or so we have been completely disconnected from a soul based life. It's been physical, it's been survival. We haven't been tapped into divine source energy, or our higher selves really at all, we were totally told that that wasn't a thing that we had to go through our pastor or our priest, or somebody outside of us to be connected. And now more and more people are waking up to the fact that Oh, no, you can have a direct connection with your higher self and you can live this soul led life. And by the way, all the material goods here, don't come with you. Like you don't get to take anything here with you except your soul growth and soul growth. If you're living that soul, land life and make a commitment to living in connection and trust with the universe. what will then happen is the the some of the issues start to dissolve, right? The money issues, dissolve the health issues dissolve the separation issues dissolve, and you can actually co create exactly what you need when you need it. And you're living in this beautiful, trusting environment with the universe and you feel so held and loved. And I think most people don't live that life. They've been so trained out of it. But it's something that we have done before. We just haven't done it especially for the last 2000 years. And for sure not in America. We just are not trained or taught that and so I think people would I believe is happening now with the level of chaos on the planet is people are having to hit those hard moments of waking up to the fact that there is something more here available for us and that there is this beautiful source that we can take up into and live a more soul based life versus a success based life where we're willing to, you know, screw over our fellow human beings for our buck.

Brian Smith  50:14  
Yeah, basically. Yeah. And it's funny as you were saying that I was talking about this, because whenever I hear about conscious creation and stuff like that, again, I guess because of the my Western mentality, I think, okay, material stuff, I think everybody is like, okay, oh, so if I, if I do this stuff I can I can be successful, right? I can, I can get all the things that I want. And I was talking with someone just the other day, we're talking about this. And it's like, no, it's really about our souls are not really interested in this stuff. Because the contents temporary, because we can't take it with us. And so when we start to realize who we truly are, and when we go back to the other side, if I do have a Mercedes, or BMW or whatever it is that I drive, it's, it's not going with me, you know, and I'll have all the success I had in my business or whatever that's, that's the soul doesn't care about that. Soul cares about experiences and love and things of that nature, all the stuff in the West that we're kind of like, well, that's, that's secondary.

Alysa Rushton  51:16  
Totally, totally. And I want to add a caveat to that, like your soul and divine energy is thrilled if you're having a joyful experience. And so if the Mercedes Benz brings you joy, by all means, have it. If those things make you feel more generous and more loving, by all means, go for it. And if going after those things, makes you the opposite, by all means drop it. Because ultimately, it's like that old joke. Have you ever heard the older where the guy works out a deal with St. Peter, where he can bring all his gold to heaven? Have you heard that the guy works, he works out a deal with St. Peter, and he is able to bring all his gold to heaven and and gets up to heaven. And the angels are standing around. And they're kind of like laughing and snickering and the one of the angels cuz I saw a guy bringing all that pavement up here. Yeah, exactly. It just, it's so it's just so silly, that we think these things are going to fill up our cup. And ultimately, it is our role here to fill up our cup in the face of adversity in the face of pain in the face of loss. And that, I think, is the huge key lesson and we're seeing it play out on a global scale. Can you be a loving human being? When you're grieving? Can you be a loving human being when the world is having a moment? Right? Can you be loving him and when your neighbors are trying to blast you out? And can you hold that frequency of love, unconditional love and peace? It is one of the hardest things to do when WW your surroundings are not that. But that is the work, especially as you go on to the other side, you realize, if you don't want to come round to Earth and you want to graduate third grade, one of the criteria that you have to take off is can you hold the frequency of love in the face of adversity? Can you just hold that in your body all the time? Interesting.

Brian Smith  53:29  
Yeah. Yeah, because I've heard the concept of Earth as a school, of course, you know, many times, but you know, the idea of like, okay, well, it's almost like, well, we can't trust you with this level of creativity, you know, unrestrained, so we're gonna send you a place where it's, it's slowed down, and is there's guardrails on it. And so it's, it's, it's slow I, so we have to, like if I want to manifest something or do something I've got to I've got to work at it takes a while, and I can see that the cause and effect. And so it's an interesting way of looking at Earth. It's like, kindergarten or third grade. Yes,

Alysa Rushton  54:07  
exactly. And it does, it gives us a lot elongate a time before manifestation comes. Because on the other side, it really is. Think it happened. It happens in like, past quantum light time, you know, it's just happening instantaneously. And by the way down here, as you raise your vibration, as you raise your frequency, your manifestations start to happen faster and faster, because you're capable of holding Matt. So it's kind of like as you raise up in frequency you you're then allowed to manifest faster. I you know, I do retreats here on the Big Island, and I'll take people on a hike down into an active volcano. And I'll always tell them, be very conscious of your thoughts because it happens almost instantaneously here. and I'll watch people and I'll take, I'll take them into the crater and I'll bring one person in, I'll bring another person out, because they literally go down. And it's such an a faster frequency in Volcano, and in the Hawaiian islands that people can tap into, that literally, if they harness that energy, they then can quickly transform themselves and have these amazing outcomes that are like, wow, how fast did that happen, and they'd been taken years, and all of a sudden, it'll just drop in. So you know, what's cool is that when we do raise our frequency, you will be able to create more easily, you'll be able to have that material thing, because I think one thing that's important to remember is, we still do live in a material world. And so we need those material items. And we can allow ourselves to be fortified. And we can allow ourselves to have comfort and have joy. And the more this universe is really, it's a free will universe. So it's like, well, if you like joy, you can have more of that. And if you like it hard, you can have more of that. And part of it is about us really deciding what the frequency projection is that we're going to hold. Because if you're holding the frequency projection of joy and love, what you're going to have in your movie is a lot of yumminess, you're gonna have a lot of joy, you're gonna have a lot of love, you're gonna have a lot of opportunities, abundance, all of those things. And if you're having a projection, that's lack, and all beliefs that have been lingering around, and that are still clogging you up, that's what's going to be in your movie. And that's one of the things that I think, what I what I saw on the other side is that if we take responsibility for everything that's happening in our world, because on some level, we're a vibrational match to it, we can transform ourselves. But that's also the hardest concept for people to get of taking responsibility, especially for people who have been like myself, you know, like, I was a kidnapping victim, I was a kidnapping survivor, right. So if you've had something really horrific happened to you, it's hard to get the concept of taking responsibility, or if you've had a terrible loss, it's hard to take responsibility for that. And I think that there's a, when I talk about responsibility, there's a difference between blaming yourself, okay, for something that happened versus that happens. And I'm going to now in my now moment, take responsibility for assessing and clearing out any traumas that got imprinted in my body, in the past, or in this moment, and that's what I'm going to take responsibility for. And when we take responsibility for that piece, not this thing that happened to me, or you know, that you got cancer, or that you got had this horrible disease or whatever, like, we're not blaming ourselves for the loss or for the disease, or for the financial, you know, meltdown, or whatever it is, but we're saying, I'm going to now take responsibility for the trauma and clearing that trauma imprint from my body. And that's such a huge piece. That's life transforming for people. Yeah, and

Brian Smith  58:30  
I'm glad you you want it because I was gonna ask you that question about responsibility versus blame. Because when when we say that, we have to be very careful with our language, because people will say, Well, you're saying, I'm to blame for this. It's my fault that I got cancer. It's my fault that this happened. Because we're, again, we're trained to put blame on some Some, somebody's got to be at fault. Somebody's got it. You did something wrong. And it's not that it's, you know, what you're saying, I hear you saying is like, we we attract what we kind of what we put out, which is, you know, and that's a cycle that can be hard to break, I guess, for people. So how if someone comes to you and says, Okay, this is the mindset I have, how do I get out of this? I feel like it's just habitual. It's all I've ever known. Where do I start?

Alysa Rushton  59:17  
Yeah. Well, that's a great question. And I want to kind of circle back to something else you said too, about blaming. So but I first want to address your question. So if you're in that cycle that you can't break. One of the things that I have found is that we have an identity around something when we identify and we know we're an identification when we ever we say I am. So if you were to write out your story, and use a lot of items, a great access point for people is to say, you know, I am a you know, in your case would be I am Brian I am this I imagine and start writing. And you might, if you were stuck in a cycle, you might say like, you could have a client say like, I'm always struggling with money, or I'm always battling this health health issue. And so you'll know where your identity lies when you're saying the word I am. And so the first piece is always know where you're at, recognize where the story is, because if you can see where the story is, then you can start to work with the story. And it usually happens at the identity level, if we can't shift something we're so identified with that. So part of the work is breaking the identity and breaking down those old patterns. Does that happen overnight? No. But there's a couple of tools that you can use. One of the tools is brainwave frequencies. And so in in childhood, we are in theta Brainwave. And it's a faster programming brainwave, where we can really download a lot of data very quickly. So if you want to reprogram your identity and identify as a wealthy human being, or as a healthy human being, or as somebody who is loving and has great relationships, you can go and put yourself into theta, brainwave state with brainwaves. And then you can start to imagine yourself as you would want to be. And the more vivid you create the picture and involve all the senses, like it, for example, in my story, I would just imagine myself, walking down my street, feeling really good, being healthy noticing the, the birds in the air, and that's what I did. And it really allowed me to get out of the bed. So you can just use brainwave frequencies and visualize yourself in the state that you want to be. And that informs your projection machine, it informs your identity. And when you start working at the level of identity, your outer world then has to change. You literally have to experience what your identity believes that you are. That's how it works, in terms of quantum physics, and subatomic particles, and all of that stuff. So there's, you know, there's a lot you can do there. But I think the first piece is really recognizing where you're at, are you living in blame? Are you living in what I would call a disempowered mode, where you're pointing sort of pointing the finger outside of you all the time as to why things are happening. And that's really the first piece of recognizing if you're there, I always say, if you want the mirror to smile, you don't sit and wait and wait for the mirror to smile, you have to smile first. Right? And so we have to go within and find the places where we're to your point. We're not blaming ourselves for what happened. We're not like, you know, I know people I work with clients like this, who maybe had cat, they got cancer, because they grew up on a farm. And their, you know, parents used Monsanto on a farm, you know, and it's not their fault at all. And we're not gonna say that they attracted it. No, it just happens. So we're not going to place blame on that. But we're going to take responsibility for Well, let me heal this trauma. Now, let me heal this imprint. Now. Let me let me reclaim my healthiness now, and it's it's just a different come from, when we're coming from that level. And being in an empowered human being. Because we can tap into instantaneous Healing frequencies, we can tap into levels of healing that we're not used to tapping into, because we're used to, again, like pointing fingers outside of us, and this one's going to heal me and that one's going to heal me, and I'm going to go get healing from that one. Versus, I'm going to take responsibility for my own healing, and I'm going to dig deep on the soul level. And I'm going to heal and clear and make the most out of this tough circumstance, I'm going to use it as rocket fuel for my best life. And I really do believe at the end of the day, you know, everybody's gonna have moments of devastation in life. And we get to choose how we use that rocket fuel, we can explode our lives, or we can use it for our best lives. And at the end of the day, it's a choice.

Brian Smith  1:04:36  
Yeah, thank you. Thanks for that. For the answer. We're coming to the end of our time. Like to do is have you tell me I think you had some some things you want to offer to the audience and tell people where they can find you and how you work with people.

Alysa Rushton  1:04:49  
Yeah, well, I have you know, if you liked this interview, and you're like, oh my gosh, I want to know how to raise my vibration. I want to know how to do all that stuff. I have an awesome tool. Kitt See you can go to raise your vibration toolkit.com. And there's some little lessons in there and then actual exercises that you can do to raise your vibration to tap into blessings and love and joy. By the way, if you have kids do this with your kids, because kids get it, you know, kids are so smart these days that are coming in knowing already how to use our iPhones, they get pre programmed with the download, so they already know that there's something more so definitely do this with your kids. But that's, that's one of the best ways that people can, you know, start to work with me, as you know, get the toolkit start doing some of the inner work because it really does start with that inner work. And, you know, when we, when we go within and we start to heal those core traumas and those core programs, even after a loss, even after devastation, you know, we can have a different life, we can sort of reconfigure ourselves and I always say, you know, I'm I love sound healing and the best healing bowls. And fact they have one of them is a bowl that's broken, and then re put back together and refuse together. And so some of the best healers on the planet are probably people like in your audience where we've been broken into a million pieces. And we have to do the work to put ourselves back together. And when we do you know, we're stronger than ever, and we can help each other see what's possible. So, you know, it's worth doing the work to put yourself back together and, and really use whatever devastation you've been through as that fuel for a beautiful life.

Brian Smith  1:06:50  
Awesome. Thank you. Alexa, thank you for being here today. Thank you for sharing your wisdom and your insights and your experience and for being an example of what we can do.

Alysa Rushton  1:06:59  
Thank you for having me, Brian. This has been so just such a blessing.

Brian Smith  1:07:03  
All right. Enjoy the rest of your day. You too.

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