Hello everyone. This is Tonya Dawn Recla, your Super Power Expert. And I have a delightful woman with us today. Paula D’Andrea is just magical. You can really feel this glowing, beautiful, kind of energy off of her and she represents a nice integration of a number of different modalities, as well as experiences in her existence. So she comes from the physical fitness world out in Los Angeles, built up an amazing careering doing that, and moved into more of the mind, body, soul kind of juxtaposition and how those all entwine. And so I’m excited to have her share a little bit of that story with her.
One of her descriptions is an alchemical mashup of healer, personal development guru and spiritual guide. She’s definitely our type of person. So without further ado we’re going to talk with Paula D’Andrea about “How to Experience Spiritual Magnificence.”
Welcome, Paula, to the show.
Thank you Tonya. It’s a pleasure to be here.
Yeah!
Yeah. I’m excited about this conversation.
Oh, good.
I love your vibe and what you’ve got going on here and excited to be here.
Oh, perfect. Well, thank you so much, and we love what we do over here. So it’s a … You’re a perfect fit.
Yes. It seems that way.
Awesome. Well, very cool. So let’s just jump right in and ask, “What are your super powers?”
My strongest superpower is truth.
You know, I would say that my strongest super power is truth. It truly is a truth delivered with love. Kind of like a truth serum, and allowing people to feel like they’re in a really safe container. You know, there’s often times that my clients that I work with have experienced adversity in life and are coming from some pretty dark spaces. So it’s important to honor where they’ve been and what they’ve experienced while reconnecting them back to spirit, back to they’re authentic alignment. And this goes past the surface and into the depths of their soul, really. It’s being able to hold that space for them and it just happens. When it’s right alignment between me and someone else they just bare their souls, say the things that they haven’t said to themselves or anyone else. That in and of itself is such a shift for them that it’s really beautiful to be a part of. So I’m really blessed with that.
Well, absolutely. And that’s a beautiful description of it. I like the description around creating a safe container. I think that’s a beautiful way to describe that work. So how did you get into all of this? I know that you started out in fitness. Why the transition?
You know, I traded counting reps for counting vibrations. I just kind of knew that there was something more. I did very well in my training business and had some great people that I worked with, wonderful experiences. I just felt like there was something more and there was something opening up. I had explored coaching very early on, pretty much at its inception in the late 90’s. Then, after kind of going back and forth, is this the right thing, just made the investment in starting my coaching at Coach U. I just let it materialize from that, and I had a whole lot of life that happened that kind of took me back a little bit. Amy kept me in my training for a little bit longer and then started to development both of them at the same time, and then transitioned out of the training and full on into coaching. And here I am.
Beautiful. So what are some of the predisposed super powers, like your abilities and gifts and stuff that you bring into sessions with clients? Do you talk to dead people Do you channel from the other side? Like, how does that work for you?
I can definitely go high on the woo-index.
You know, I do have a very practical approach. I can definitely go high on the woo-index, and I think that it’s an ability to interpret some of those energies, bring them down, and just really hone in. There’s an intuitiveness that I have that I think earlier in my life I just didn’t know what to do with it, and just really buried it. Then it started to emerge. Actually, it’s a very useful gift. It allows me to have an inner GPS for what’s next when guiding somebody through something. I stay open. I don’t try to figure it out. It’s really, really staying in the energy with somebody.
You know, I had a client recently say, “I can’t believe I pay you all this money and I’ve never even met you and we’re just talking on the phone.” They’re at a little bit of a level of frustration and then they’re looking and saying, “I’m very grateful that I have you to speak to.” I said, “When I am just on the phone with you I feel like I am really with somebody.” There is no physical distraction. I am so in the conversation and in with both of our energy that it’s as if nothing else exists, as if they were with me right in the room. It’s that strong.
Well, and I think that’s a big part of the work right now, is really deconstructing how we view connection. And I think that my conspiracy theory is that we use social media to really start illustrating that in a third dimensional reality. But, ultimately, what we’re playing with is the energetic connectivity that exists across distance. And it can be difficult for the more lower frequency aspects of ourselves to grasp. However, if we truly tap in and we go a little high on that woo-index that you talked about, we get the sense that there is that connection and there is no separation.
At Super Power Experts we talk a lot about the abstract frequency; and that’s the term that I use to describe this place where we all exist and we’re all connected.
Absolutely.
And so we come to rely on the proof of our physical, virtual tools, if you will; but, ultimately, we cannot even use a phone and stay pretty connected if we’re intentional about it.
Absolutely. Absolutely, I agree with that in that the conscious collective is strong. And I think that for people who are not tapped in yet, it’s really just allowing themselves to feel. You know, when I’m speaking with somebody it’s, you know … and that is for … I have so much admiration for the people that I get to coach with, that that ability to just be pure energy and be in a safe container so that they get a chance to release trapped energy, things that have been there for a very long time, and really to be able to experience themselves on a different level is pretty amazing. So I think that it’s people just getting in touch and allowing themselves to feel and really be able to start to know what resonates for them and use that for a guidance because I do see a lot of people out there and some people flock to certain people. They have a lot of people so they say, “Oh, that’s gotta be right for me.”
There is a vibration that each of us have. You’re calibrated to the inner source of your being and that’s a lot of what I’m doing with somebody, is really getting them into alignment with that source. It’s great to be lined up, and it feels really comfortable when you’re in the energy of like people. And I think that’s a thing that brings a lot of people discomfort because they’re trying to force situations a lot of times and be connected to everybody. We’re not meant to be connected to everybody. We’re meant to have a universal love that adds to the hum of the world. So as each person is calibrated to their top potential and their fine tuning, that really goes a long way to be synced up and adding yourself into the peace and love the that really is available for everybody.
I absolutely agree with that. And I think it’s a powerful place when you can attune your own resonance. That’s one of the steps in our process for assisting people and honing their super powers. It is easy sometimes to get caught up in what everyone else is doing. But I do see more and more people giving voice to the idea that we have resonance and there are things that we’re ultimately seeking. And a lot of times those don’t look like what they look like for everybody else. It’s moving out of the dependency of the group and really truly stepping into that space where you are creating your own reality and allowing others to commune with you within that. It’s a magical, magical place to be.
Well, you’ve been listening to the Super Power Podcast. We’re talking with Paula D’Andrea about “How to Experience Spiritual Magnificence.” And when we come back from this short break we’re really gonna dive into what that unveiling process looks like. So stick with us and we’ll be right back.
Ho’oponopono
Awesome. Thank you. Well, you are back with the Super Power Podcast and we are talking today about “How to Experience Spiritual Magnificence.” So, Paula, talk with us a little bit about … One of the things that I’m so drawn to in you is that you do represent this really cool culmination of multiple disciplines; and we talked a little bit about the Hawaiian spirit energy and stuff like that. Talk with us a little bit about how that relates to this idea of people emerging into this magnificence.
Yes, one of the parts of the energy of process that I like to share with people is called the Ho’oponopono. I’m sure many people are familiar with it. They may have heard the four simple statements that most people know … I’m sorry. Please forgive me. I love you. Thank you … And I’ve taken it a little step further. I actually am going to be releasing something for people at large to experience it as well.
It’s a guided meditation, really letting somebody see that they are significant and magnificent, and also anyone that they may have had that is draining them, or they may be a discordance with is also in that. It is just that sometime of being in a body, being on earth, being in different interactions, experiencing situations that people lose sight of that. They get lost and don’t remember that they can be whole and complete in both thought and action and feeling strong enough and vulnerable enough to let more of themselves come to light each day, to allow others to see all parts of them and to know that their darkness is really the best part.
Well, and I think that there’s a misconception that people somehow think that the concept of spiritual magnificence is really a development, like a new thing that gets added on. You work to create it. Ultimately, it’s not. Right? It’s truly the self emerging. We talked about this a little bit. People don’t really want to hear that you’ve had it all along. There’s something about the idea of-
You always had the power Wizard of Oz
Yeah. Dorothy, click your heels.
Yeah. It’s like, you were there all along, you know. But there’s-
Exactly. It’s true.
I think so, and it’s challenging for even the best of us and strongest of us to realize it’s not really magical. The magic lies in the unfoldment, if you will, the peeling back the layers. And for some folks it can be really anticlimactic? How do you deal with clients in that?
Yes, usually the unicorns and rainbows part. And yes, you did have it all along, Dorothy.
You know, a lot of times what’s happening when I’m working with somebody is that they’ve hidden the truth about themselves. They’ve been protecting it for some reason; mostly, coming out of a life crisis or an event that happened that had a lot of really strong emotion that they just couldn’t handle at that time or may have taken somebody else’s “No” and placed it up there “Yes.”
It’s really about clearing all the motions and patterns so that they no longer need protection. You start to get out of the story, release the demons, and discover what lies in your heart, which is really the magnificence of you, of touching back to spirit, of connecting, of raising your vibration, and begin living that more full and authentically aligned life of deciding what you want, what you really believe in, and what is complementing to you, rather than living somebody else’s version or vision of you. It’s really bringing yourself back home, really getting in touch with your soul and seeing what you’re capable of. I think it’s something that people have on their … They may put it on their vision board, they may think about it and think about it and think about it … If my life was perfect this would be it. And it would be if they started taking action towards it. But there’s a part of them that really doesn’t believe that it’s for them, and they would not have that thought if it was not for them.
Yeah. Absolutely. So, folks, I get it. Depending on where you’re sitting in your journey, that’s the most liberating and embracing feeling; or it’s the most debilitating and frustrating kind of conversation to have because a lot of what draws us into this personal development work is the sensational. It is the mystical. It is the sexier aspects of it. Those things, like you said, are higher on the woo-index. But the work is a personal journey. It is the journey deeper into yourself, and you can only go as high and expand out as wide as you’re willing to go deep. It’s a balance. So keep that in mind. Don’t get discouraged. The universe that lies within is just as magical and just as magnificent as that which lies without. So quiet those little lower frequency stories that are going on and embrace the idea that you truly did have it within you all along.
Paula, this has been a fantastic conversation. Where can people go to find out more about you?
My website is PaulaDAndrea.com. And I’d actually like to share something with your listeners if that’s okay.
Absolutely.
Yeah. Then if they go directly to use this link, PaulaDAndrea.com/relax, they can get instant access to a 20 minute guided meditation to really help your body and your mind relax so that you can have some clarity. Part of what you were speaking about, Tonya, was that you had it all along. Yes, we do have all the answers inside. However, when there’s all this busyness going on you’re not hearing your body. You’re not hearing your heart. You’re not hearing the thoughts that want to come up, all those “Yeses” that got squashed at different points of your life are still in there saying, “Pick me, pick me,” out of all those limiting beliefs and negative thoughts that you have that can take over your day. There’s, like, 10 “Yeses” inside screaming, “Please pick me and help me come to the surface because I’ve got great stuff to share with you about your life.” I think that’s part of the magnificence in that quest for that spirit.
We have that kind of misconception. And the big, big work is, as you started off the show talking about serving as that safe container and it supporting people in reframing that and really realizing their own spiritual magnificence. So I really honor and appreciate the work that you do in the world. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for having me here.
Absolutely. Of course. My pleasure.
Yeah. It was great to be able to share with people and start getting them in. I like to turn on a lot of people and to really getting to this point of calibrating their inner source and knowing their being. So I’m just on a quest to help a million people plus to stand in their authentic divine power aligned and adding to the hum of the world. How magnificent is that?
I think that certainly qualifies. And I, for one, appreciate you doing that. Please let us know how we can support your efforts and continue to contribute to what you’re doing.
Thanks so much. Thanks.
Absolutely.
And tell all of you out there, as always, we appreciate your loyalty. And until next time, go out, uncover your super powers and change the world.
Take care everyone.
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