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Psychic Medium, Author and Intuitive Life Coach, Michelle Beltran invites you to join her for The Intuitive Hour: Awaken Your Inner Voice. This podcast will teach you how to magnify the powers of your intuitive voice. In her own unique style, Michelle raises her vibrational energy to link with higher realms delivering insightful messages with grace, integrity, and the utmost care. Listen in and expand your understanding of what it means to be psychic and how to awaken, amplify, and trust your inner voice. Join the episode today as Kristen Noel, editor in chief of Best Self magazine, chats with Michelle to discuss her award-winning book, Take the Leap: What it Really Means to Be Psychic, delving into psychic abilities and the power of our own intuitive voices. An episode you don't want to miss! This interview was part of the popular 2017 Hay House World Summit! Enjoy The Interview Transcript Below NOEL: Welcome to the 2017 Hay House World Summit. We’re grateful that you’re joining us. I’m Kristen Noel, editor in chief of Best Self magazine, and I’m excited to sit down today to chat with Michelle Beltran to discuss her book, Take the Leap: What it Really Means to Be Psychic, delving into psychic abilities and the power of our own intuitive voices. Michelle is a psychic medium, an author, and an intuitive coach. She has become a leading international authority in the spirituality arena, specializing in psychic functioning, spiritual counseling, controlled remote viewing, and mediumship. She is the owner of Readings with Michelle and the host of the iTunes podcast, The Intuitive Hour: Awaken Your Inner Voice. She is also a former professional cyclist and lifelong fitness enthusiast who deeply believes that by balancing health and nutrition, one promotes vitality and psychic intuitiveness. And I have to interject and say she has one of the most diverse backgrounds I have ever encountered. That has surely enriched her experience in this arena and in her work with her clients. Welcome, Michelle. BELTRAN: Hi, Kristen. Thank you so much, it’s an honor and pleasure to be here. NOEL: And we are pleased to have you. So now that we’ve sparked some of the inquisitive minds, I think we should just dive right into your background, because I was just kind of amazed by your story. And I would love for you to tell us how someone with a degree in political science who seeks a career as a law-enforcement officer, was in the United States Air Force, and worked as a probation officer becomes a psychic [laughs]. I think that’s a good place to start. BELTRAN: [Laughs] Excellent, yes, I love that question. Yeah, so I would say that in many ways, where I’ve come to does make sense, despite a career in law enforcement, despite a professional sport. I’ve had just the love and the passion and the desire for the metaphysical since a very young age. My first psychic reading was at nine—which I received, by the way, I did not give. I’ve found that I’ve used my gut sense and intuition throughout my life to guide me. I am a second-generation psychic. When I was young, my mother, as a healer and energy worker and psychic herself, made it really safe for us to talk about the unknown. Spiritual books we had strewn about our home. It was safe and okay to talk about other realms and human possibility. And so then, in my mid-twenties, I just developed this voracious appetite for the metaphysical and the psychic realm and found myself reading and rereading some of Hay House’s own—James Van Praagh, John Holland, Wayne Dyer, Deborah King. Reading and learning. And so, looking back, there’s a platform that was there. I will say it certainly found me, and I didn’t expect it. It just sort of unraveled. And so, yeah, it wasn’t the normal trajectory that I had as a law-enforcement officer, but I just love that. And I feel like that serves to convey the perspective that being psychic, being intuitive, whatever we want to call it, it’s normal, it’s natural, and it’s innate. And so— NOEL: I like how you use that word, that you— BELTRAN: Yeah. NOEL: —actually brought “normal” into it, because— BELTRAN: Yeah. NOEL: —we say, quote, unquote, a “normal” trajectory, but I don’t want you to gloss over it. Let’s go back for a second. BELTRAN: Yeah. NOEL: Because, you just covered, like, 20 years of your life. BELTRAN: [Laughs] Yeah. NOEL: And your childhood is so fascinating to me. So, we have these stereotypes, right, about what a psychic looks like. You know, they should have a crystal ball, and they should be more woo-woo, and more of a free spirit. And you describe this—sounded like you were like a feisty kid, because—I love when you shared the story about growing up in a house where your mom was a psychic, so this was all present around you. So you had, like you said, access to metaphysical books. Your mom was open to having these conversations of possibility, and yet, I loved when you described that you were this little kid who said, “Yeah, that’s all great, but I want proof. I want to see the proof.” BELTRAN: Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. NOEL: [Laughs] So, let’s go back to that. What was it like growing up? What did it mean to you as a child? Did you understand what it meant to be psychic? BELTRAN: Right, good question. I love that. I didn’t, as a matter of fact. I didn’t know what it meant it there. At that age, I was—I found that I was very intrigued and curious, for sure, but I didn’t know what being a psychic meant. I knew that I had a sense growing up, and even young, and throughout my teens, even, that I could understand people—and many of our listeners may relate to this. I could go into a room and just kind of sense the energy that was there, and feel what felt good or maybe not so good about a situation, an event, and experience people. I found that people were coming to me often and wanting coaching and advice, and I noticed those things. I would describe it as it was more of an intuition or a gut sense or a real knowing of people. Maybe I felt like at times, I was a little a step ahead of—like, I could see what was coming. I had no idea it was what I would call now a psychic ability. It was sort of like the precursor to it, and the foundation. And I used it more in a gut sense in my work in law enforcement. It was what caused me to maybe go double-check that door or that facility, and for what reason, I didn’t know why, but had this pull to do it, and, well, hey, there was the burglary in progress or something going on. And we all have this. NOEL: Exactly. [Simultaneous talking] BELTRAN: Right. Yeah. NOEL: I was just thinking that. You know, you leave the house and you drive down the road, and you think, “Oh, my God, did I leave that candle burning? I’ve got to go back.” [Simultaneous talking] BELTRAN: Yeah, right. NOEL: And so, we get those hits. So, as a child, though, did you feel that there was something, that you had some kind of a different sense or a different gift? Was there anything that isolated you from maybe the quote, unquote, “normal” experience of childhood? BELTRAN: Not one thing. Just a sense of all these things I’ve just explained. I just—I felt so normal. I had a curiosity. NOEL: Right. BELTRAN: And I’m glad you’ve asked this, because it reminds me of what I see so often in my work, and that is that there’s a very, very strong pattern in clients that I work with—and more often than not, what was right in our life or even maybe what was not so right in our life was going on around seven, eight, or nine. So usually—my point there is that around six, seven, eight, nine years old, we are often doing those things that we love. And much of the work that I do now, that’s where I take clients, back to that time, because we were doing what made us happy, what our calling was then. And even if we have some kind of blocks or stuck energy, it was usually around there, too, that sort of got embedded. So it’s a pretty critical time, and I’m no exception. At nine years old, eight years old, I was curious, right? I was doing what I loved, and I—which is so often the case later in life. Boom, here it came, and it blossomed, and I’m just following that calling. So that’s one of the things I actually do work on with my clients is going back to that time. “What was it you were doing then that you loved? Take it off the shelf, dust it off, and do it now.” NOEL: It’s like, remind yourself, right? Remind yourself of who you were. BELTRAN: Right. Yeah. NOEL: Was your mom a practicing psychic? BELTRAN: She was not practicing at that time. She went through her own formal education later, but she was very in tune with that right-brain activity. She’s an artist. She worked through art therapy as a means to assist others and coach and to travel down that therapeutic road, but for herself as well. A little bit later in life came her more formal education. But, again, it was in there. And for her, it was manifesting in this artistic way, again, which many, many of us do have. You know, this notion of, “What is a psychic?” Well, I actually tend to—the word psychic, I’m not sure it’s always correct. Psychic is really just intuition, it’s ESP, it’s altered states of consciousness, it’s moments of breakthroughs. It’s pockets of genius. It’s where the artist is, in that deep work. And many artists, my mom included, would talk about when they’re in that space of artistic right-brain work. That’s where we’re feeling connected to a whole or a source— NOEL: Right. BELTRAN: —where there’s a timeless, spaceless sense. That’s what it is, right? That’s where it starts. NOEL: It’s often that thing that gets bypassed, right? We call it other things. We’ll say, “Oh, it’s a coincidence,” you know, or— BELTRAN: Right. Oh, there are no coincidences. NOEL: Right. BELTRAN: They are synchronicity. NOEL: Exactly. BELTRAN: [Laughs] NOEL: So, that’s also like—being around children, you realize how connected to that they are, and to that power. And so I think it’s also really important to just remind our children to stay connected to that so that they don’t have to go back years and decades later, searching for it again. So tell us about what was it, that at nine years old you said, “Okay, that’s it. I want the proof. I want to see psychic.” And how was that experience for you? BELTRAN: Yeah. So, yeah, it was more just a real curious time of exploration and, yes, wanting to see the proof, wanting to have answers. The most important thing, we’ve touched a little bit on that, about that experience was that at that age, here I was, nurturing something that was deep inside me that kind of had this calling energy and pursuing it. And it wasn’t so much about what came through in that session as much as that, at that age, here this was manifesting, and it was becoming a reality. I was curious, asking questions. NOEL: But that’s a pretty amazing thing for a nine-year-old to be clear enough about, to ask for, right? BELTRAN: [Laughs] Yeah. NOEL: So even if you didn’t really understand it at the time, I don’t think many nine-year-olds ask to have a psychic reading [laughs]. BELTRAN: Absolutely. Absolutely correct. And honestly, I’m not sure what moved me to that. I just don’t have an answer. I think mostly what happened is that I trusted that inner sense of desire and curiosity. My mother made it safe— NOEL: Right. BELTRAN: —and so, I could do it. One of the things that actually comes to mind is another session later, more later in my teens that I had, that really impacted me. And I went to a psychic, and she asked me to make three wishes or intentions, something along those lines. And she said, “Say them in your mind,” and so I did. And one of the things that has always been so important to me, from a young age, is to have peace of mind, to rest my head and just have peace of mind within me. And so I made these wishes, and she told me back my wishes, and she told me, “Peace of mind.” And from that moment, I said, “My goodness. She could not possibly know this. She could not possibly know this.” So that was a pretty pivotal moment. NOEL: Right, so— BELTRAN: I knew there was something here [laughs]. NOEL: So, going back to the feisty nine-year-old who was sort of demanding proof—“I want proof”—so, did— BELTRAN: Yes. NOEL: —do you feel like the seeds were planted then? Or was this later reading that really gave you the proof? BELTRAN: It wasn’t even this later reading that gave me the proof. I’ll tell you what gave me the proof. And that was when I actually started experiencing it myself. And so, I’ll back up a little bit. Like many people who come into this work, there’s often a bottoming out. There’s a time where there’s a loss of some kind, be it a loved one, a home, a job, health. I am no exception. And I happen to have—I just got hit with this big stick [laughs], and it all came tumbling down all at once—job, finance, home, relationship—boom, here it was. And, of course, the bottoming out is difficult, but it is always correlated to the extent of the forward momentum. And so, I just went in. I had no place to go by in, and I started developing spiritually internally, and that sort of launched me forward. And so, it was through this kind of bottoming out that I began learning more and then wanting the proof. And, of course, for me it took off quickly—images, impressions, clairvoyancy—boom, here it was. I couldn’t believe it. My jaw was dropping, and I had a very strong essence and feeling that “There is something very much bigger than me happening here.” And I have very clear memories of having a conversation with God at that time, saying, “Whatever this is, I don’t understand it, but it’s beautiful. It’s bigger than me. It’s happening. I want it rooted it rightness, or don’t bring it to me.” And so, it was awareness of how magnanimous this was. NOEL: Right. BELTRAN: And, yeah, and so at that juncture— [Simultaneous talking] NOEL: So let’s also talk about the bottoming out for a second. BELTRAN: Yes. NOEL: Because I always call that a “wake-up call,” you know [laughs]. BELTRAN: Okay. Yes. NOEL: Yeah, you got your wake-up call. BELTRAN: Yes, I did. NOEL: Kind of like when we aimlessly continue on doing the same things by passing our emotions or whatever it is, repeating patterns. BELTRAN: Yes. NOEL: So, you had this experience that kind of knocked you for a loop, right? You had no ability to ignore this any longer, right? BELTRAN: Right. NOEL: Can you share a little bit of that so perhaps maybe somebody listening can relate to it? BELTRAN: Yeah. Yeah. It was this internal sense of—how could I put it to words? Okay, I began—it caused me to go in, and I started to ask the questions, “Why am I here? What am I meant to do? What is my calling?” And, you know, the typical nine-to-five job and having this and that, that car, that—you know, didn’t matter anymore. It was about me internally, my soul speaking, why am I here. I felt like I wanted to contribute, I wanted to give back, I wanted to grow spiritually. By the way, all of these things, there’s a few things that are very, very similar in all of us that I’ve learned along the way, and it seems like we all kind of do reach this point, no matter how we got there, of wanting to contribute, wanting to know more, wanting to have a significance in our life. And so, all of those things, this caused me to want. And so I knew, despite the despair, despite the difficulty of the time, I knew there was more, and I knew and I trusted that what was happening here was going to be the doorway. Like, this was the vehicle to that self-actualization. And that is—so, one of the things my teacher taught me early on—I used to think this was about being psychic when I first started. I thought, “Oh, this is so cool.” [Laughs] Well, it is. And my jaw does still drop, but it’s not about that. It’s about self-actualization and a vehicle to your forward momentum and letting your soul speak, following your calling. You know, being true to you, finding th…
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