Ep. 298 - Sensing Energy In Unexpected Places: Spirit At The Gym

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Hello, midlers, welcome to the Medium and the Middle Podcast.

My name is Stephanie, I am the Medium and the Middle, and this is episode 298.

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The story has two meanings, number one, just about spirit and number two about sensing people's energy.

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So jumping into this week's episode,

I want to talk about spirit and go back to a medium-ship story

because today I walked into the gym as I do every day

and a lot of us go at the same time every day,

so it's a lot of the same people and people at the gym know what I do a little bit

or they might follow my podcast.

It's sometimes funny when someone new finds my podcast.

They're like, I didn't know you were a psychic.

I'm like, oh yeah, try not to mention that out in public as much as possible.

So one of the girls that I see almost every day at the gym,

she walked up to me today and she said, hey, do you ever sense my grandma around me?

And she never really asked me anything about this before and I was like, what?

And she was like, oh, you know, like every time I go for a session with someone

they usually feel like my grandma's around.

And I was just wondering if you sense my grandma around.

And I was like, oh no, I'm like at the gym know,

like I try my very, very best to not pick up anything,

to not sense anything, to not, no, no, no, no, no.

And she's like, oh yeah, she's like, I figured it'd probably be like too much for you

to be sensing those things, but I was just wondering because I'm always told

that she's around me.

And I said, oh yeah, I'm sure she's around you,

but I'm not trying to sense that or pick them up,

especially when I'm walking in the gym.

That is not all my radar.

But it really made me think because with these few videos that are going viral,

I've been getting a lot of messages that are like, what do you pick up for me?

What do you pick up for me?

Can you read me?

Can you read me?

And I wanted to talk about that because there are ethics when it comes

to spirituality, when it comes to mediumship,

when it comes to psychic information.

And no one should just ever be reading you without your specific consent.

And specific consent is usually you're booking some type of reading.

You saying, oh, I'm giving you permission.

What do you pick up off of me?

No, that's me not consenting.

You're consenting, but that's not me consenting just because you've given me

permission to read you.

So for the most part, I am always off.

Unless I am working, unless I am intentionally trying to do something,

I'm not just like walking around the grocery store picking up energy

off of anyone I pass by.

When I'm in yoga class, I'm not reading the class or the person beside me.

I'm not trying to sense energy.

When I'm scrolling through comments, I'm not sensing your energy.

That would be highly unethical.

And I know it's different.

We go like, oh, but I don't mind.

Oh, but I don't mind.

You might not mind.

But that doesn't mean that every single person doesn't mind.

And that psychics and mediums can just be going and reading whoever they want.

There are ethical concerns with that.

And without your explicit permission, no one should be reading your energy.

I will die on this hill.

So yes, when I'm at the gym, I'm not picking up anything.

I'm not trying to sense anything.

I'm not reading people's energy.

I am not going into other people's energies without their permission.

I'm not sensing who's around you.

I am like looking at my shoes, staring at how many calories are on the rowing machine.

Like I am not trying to be woo-woo.

I've said this before and I'll say it again.

I try to be off as much as possible.

I want to live a normal human life.

So unless I'm working or like I said intentionally on, I am off.

I am just staring at the board, listening to the coach.

However, all this to say, I always tell you the general rule before I move into,

but this one time.

So there has been a few times where I have gone to the gym

and there's been an overwhelming energy there.

So there was this week or so that I went to the gym and

I go to the gym at the same time every day.

And there's a lot of the same people that go to the same time every day.

So we all know each other or we're all there every day together.

So there was just this week where every time I went to the gym,

there was a mom bothering me.

And I was looking around the room thinking like who's mom has passed?

Who's mom has passed?

Like I know everyone in this room.

I would know that or I thought I would know,

you know, if someone's mom was passed.

So I was looking around the room and I couldn't think of anyone whose mom has passed.

Which also leads into the net part of this conversation of we don't know

who has people who have passed.

Like especially as adults, I'm not like, hi, my name is Steph.

Want to be friends?

Like is anyone in your life dead?

That's not a conversation that we're having.

That's not a very common conversation that people have.

I've known people for years without knowing that their parent is dead.

I'm like, oh, I didn't know that.

And their response is always, why would you know that?

Like I'm not like, hi, my name is so-and-so and my so-and-so is dead.

So anyways, there was a week at the gym

where I was being bombarded by this mother energy

and every time I went to the gym, I was scanning around

being like, whose mother is this?

It's like kept bothering me, kept bothering me.

So I think it was like by the Wednesday,

like Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,

but time Wednesday came around.

I was just like, who is this mother?

Like I have to ask somebody

but I'm not gonna ask the people of the gym.

They're here working out.

I'm not gonna start being like, hey, so is your mom passed away?

Again, I try to be as normal as possible

and people are working out.

I try to always consider the receiving end of things.

And if someone's working out

and I'm just over here like, hey, is your mom happened to be passed?

That's inappropriate.

It's in the morning.

People are just trying to work out.

They probably aren't thinking about their loved ones.

I don't wanna bring it up and maybe cause trauma.

So I decided that I wouldn't ask anybody in the room

but I would ask the coach.

Because I was like, oh, you know, maybe like coach knows.

So we were like warming up and I went over to coach

and I was like, hey, someone's mom is here.

He was like, what?

I was like, someone's mom is here.

They're bothering me.

I was like, they've been here all week

and I can't figure out who it is.

I was like, do you know anyone

whose mom's passed away recently passed away?

Or like, you know, maybe this week is important.

It's that their death date, birth date,

anniversary date, something's going on

but like they've been here all week.

And he was kind of like, I don't know, Steph.

Why would I know that?

And I was like, I don't know why you would know that.

I'm just checking in if you would know that.

So then him and I are like scanning around

all the people in class being like, you know anyone?

He was like, no, and I was like, okay.

Like, thanks for nothing.

So Neeth, I didn't figure out whose mom it was.

But it was one of those things that as soon as I say it out loud

it usually goes away.

So this is an embedded tip into this podcast episode.

We were also talking about it

in the last month's mediumship practice circle.

Usually if you just say it out loud,

spirit will be like, okay, like message delivered.

So if something's like ringing over and over in your mind

if you have someone that's bothering you,

just be like, hey, what do you want, spirit?

And then write it down or say it out loud.

They go, okay, you're a dad with three boys

and you're looking for your keys and no, no, no, no, no, okay.

And then usually once you just, you don't get the information

then they'll leave you alone.

So the mom stopped bothering me after that.

I still was like scanning around the room

being like, who's mom has passed?

Why don't I know this?

But then also thinking, why would I know this?

So fast forward months,

I think it was a few months later.

I have a feeling this happened around October or time

a few years ago and this was Christmas.

I live in a tourist town.

So Christmas here, everything is open.

All the restaurants are open.

Everyone works in hospitality.

So a lot of people are working.

And me and my friends were all nomads here.

We don't have family.

So we all do things together.

So one of our Christmas traditions

is to go for Christmas brunch.

And we were talking at Christmas brunch

and we were just talking about family traditions

and what would you be doing if you were at home

and blah, blah, blah.

So I'm sitting with four people

at a table of four, three of my friends.

And two of my friends go to the gym with me

every day at the same time.

And then two of them start to talk

about how their mom has passed.

And I was like, what do you mean your moms are passed?

Why didn't I know that?

And the one girl was like, well, why would you know that?

She passed a long time ago

and we would have never talked about it.

And by this point, I do think I knew

the other girl's mom was passed

because I think she had already given messages at this point.

And if she didn't give messages by then

she did start to give messages afterwards to my friends.

So we did have a little thing for her mom.

But while we were sitting there having this conversation,

I remembered the time at the gym

when there was a mom around

and I was asking coach, you know,

whose mom has passed, someone's here,

someone's bothering me.

And I was like, oh, it must have been one of your moms.

Like, now I can't remember the date of when it was

but like the week felt relevant

of when she was trying to come through

and when she was bothering me

because normally at the gym I'm perfectly fine.

I don't sense anything.

I don't sense anything at the gym.

And it was a really interesting conversation

because yeah, as adults, we don't know who's passed for you.

We don't know who your loved ones are that's passed.

And even me as a friend who goes to the gym

with these people at the same time every day,

I didn't know about their loved ones being passed

and I wouldn't have asked them.

Again, I just think that's really inappropriate

to go up to someone in a workout class

and be like, hey, is your mom passed away

because someone's bothering me?

No, no, no, no.

So of the two people at the table,

I did end up speaking to the one girl's mother a lot

and her sister has come to visit a few times

and things have come through when her sister was visiting.

But for the other friend,

we've actually never talked about her mother in spirit.

She's not really into this kind of stuff.

So I do think it was the one friend's mom

who did want to hear things about her.

So now I know that.

So if anything does come through, I will tell her now.

And now that I know what she looks like in my mind's eye,

if I see her again, I know whose mom is who.

And it seemed more like the familiar mom,

not the girl that I didn't know her mom.

So I wanted to share this on the podcast

for a few reasons.

Number one, I've been getting asked a lot

if I randomly pick up things from people.

And for the most part, the answer is no.

I try not to sense anything on people

without permission and intention.

And permission is not, oh, you can read me.

Permission is like, we're having a session

or we're doing something spiritual on purpose.

And I don't offer mediumship readings

so I should never be really sensing mediumship

unless it's for a friend or if it's outside of work

or if it's something predecided on.

And I just think it was random that today

I walked into the gym and someone randomly walked up to me

and was like, oh, are you sensing anything off of me?

Because in my general everyday life,

people don't do that often.

But it does happen a lot on the internet.

And I also wanted to share it

because spirit smart and the way that they are able

to find and deliver messages, you know,

a mom hanging around the gym.

And then months later being like, oh, yeah,

I think that was your mom hanging out

because we go to the gym at the same time

and there was someone.

So again, just so many synchronicities

that all line up when they're meant to.

But I love how this stuff works and how it all lines up

and how if someone really, really, really wants

to get your attention, they will.

You always are in choice, though.

You can always choose to ignore spirit.

You don't have to deliver a message.

You are not at their back in call.

You are always in control.

You are always in choice.

So you don't have to deliver the information.

However, like I mentioned, if spirit

won't leave you alone, I find it's very helpful

to just like write down what they have to say

and be like, okay, you told me like, go away now.

So sometimes I'll put a list in my phone

or I'll just write it down or I'll just listen to them

and I'll say, okay, thank you, goodbye.

Like, you can tell me all you want.

I don't have to deliver your message.

I'm in a gym class right now.

I'm not going up to strangers

and asking them if their moms passed away.

That's highly inappropriate.

So of all the years going to the gym,

the spirit has only snuck in that once.

That one week where there was a mom present

and the only person I told was a coach

and I wasn't about to ask the other 12 people in class

because again, that would be inappropriate.

But yes, sometimes spirit sneaks in.

For the most part, I try not to sense it.

I try to very much be off all the time.

And if anything does come up,

it's something that I like ignore and look away from.

So if someone's mom did start to bother me,

I'm not going to go and be like,

engaging with spirit and asking questions

and getting more information.

I would be like, nope, sorry.

I'm in a workout class right now and we're not doing this.

So if you are a developing medium

or if you are worried that you can't go out in public,

you can't go to a yoga class.

You can't go for dinner.

You can't go for the gym.

Don't worry, you're always in charge.

You can always turn down the volume.

You can always not listen.

Or you can just let spirit talk.

And then that's it.

You don't have to deliver the message.

You are in charge.

You are always in charge.

You are always in charge of your boundaries

and what you're comfortable with.

So I just wanted to share that cute little story

of a mom sneaking in at the gym

and how it took me a few months to figure out where it went.

And as such, I learned that two of my friends' moms

are passed away.

Again, conversations that adults don't really have.

So that was also very interesting.

And I think it's interesting because I'm a medium

and I was like, oh, you've never told me.

But some people are just not into this stuff.

My one friend was like, yeah, why would I tell you that?

I don't want to reading.

I don't want anything from you.

I'm not interested.

And I was like, yeah, totally true.

Everyone is different.

What everyone likes is different,

which is why consent is always so important.

So that was hopefully the first and last time

that spirit has bothered me at the gym.

This was a few years ago and I've been fine ever since.

Again, I'm usually half asleep, not paying attention

and not picking up other people's energies at the gym.

So it's not somewhere that I often feel energies.

I more feel things like out at dinner

when people are drinking.

Drinking removes boundaries.

So I always like to use the analogy.

It's like rolling around in other people's energies.

So it just removes your boundaries.

And it makes people a lot easier to read.

And when everyone's kind of like an open book.

So I find it's more difficult when I'm out

like at dinner or at a concert

or when people are standing very close together.

I find that's much more difficult to make sure

my volume is down and I'm not picking up random things.

Then at like, for example, the gym, the gym is fine.

You know, the grocery store is fine.

I'm busy.

I'm focused.

I'm not thinking about that.

But when everybody's energy is an open book

when they're out, that gets to be a little bit more difficult.

So I just clear more often.

I try to make sure I keep my volume down.

I try not to listen or pay attention.

It's like, no, no, no, I'm just sitting here.

I'm not receiving information.

I'm not sensing things.

I'm not picking things up.

I'm not opening the door.

I'm not picking up the phone.

We're not starting this spirit.

Not now.

I'm just a human girl out for dinner.

So just a little everyday life being a medium story

for you.

Hope that made you a little smile, maybe,

knowing that your loved ones are always around,

even if they're not bothering the medium at the gym

to get them to say hi to you.

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