This week we are rebroadcasting our episode with Brenda Salgado on Curanderismo, Prophecy & Mindfulness, originally aired in May of 2019. Brenda and Venessa’s conversation explores curanderismo and indigenous prophecy about our current times and the shift in consciousness we are experiencing.
This episode remains timely as we collectively face a global pandemic and unprecedented challenges as well as opportunities for change and healing. As we reflected back in 2019, mindfulness practice can help you cultivate more inner power, peace, dignity and grace as well as navigate challenges and difficulties with more clarity and courage in this current time of shift.
Brenda Salgado is founder of Nepantla Consulting, and is currently in the process of establishing the Nepantla Center for Healing and Renewal. She holds degrees in Biology (BA), Developmental Psychology (BA), and Animal Behavior (MS). Brenda has over 17 years of experience in leadership development, nonprofit management, spiritual teaching, movement building, women’s health, and environmental and social justice. She has also received training from indigenous elders in traditional medicine, limpias and healing ceremony.
Trained by Purepecha, Xochimilco Toltec and other indigenous elders in traditional medicine, Brenda draws on the healing powers of the natural world to guide her work as a spiritual leader. She is committed to co-creating a society filled with wholeness and beauty. Brenda is also author of Real World Mindfulness for Beginners: Navigate Daily Life One Practice at a Time.
I’m honored to once again share this episode with you as a profound reminder of the incredible time we are living in and how to Be the change we desire to cultivate a more beautiful world in reciprocity with all beings.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
How Brenda received the message that she was to be a healer when she grew up
How different spiritual and religious traditions fit differently throughout her life
How Brenda began connecting to her ancestors, as if she were picking up a phone energetically and calling them
Her grandmother told her she comes from a long line of medicine women in Nicaragua, and to begin a conversation with her mother about it
Got on the medicine path and began trainings with various indigenous teachers, and how clear direction from the spirit of her grandmother led her down a specific road
How the visions she had as a young girl began to be realized as she stepped deeper into her work as a healer
How Brenda navigated leaving a good stable job she loved to make healing work her primary offering
Brenda shares the ways that we can begin to connect to a similar level of guidance and awareness with spirit, including spending time in nature, slowing down, mindfulness practices, setting intention before sleep and more
Important advice for those who consider themselves sensitive and the dangers of being “too open” and practices to do at bedtime
How the power of setting boundaries and exercising them with grace when communicating with spirit world has changed her life
Brenda shares the teachings of the Indigenous prophecy of the eagle and the condor, and how it relates to our current time and the shift in consciousness we are experiencing
How Brenda considers it’s a tremendous responsibility to be alive today and tips for those who feel overwhelmed, scared, or confused
What Spirit has told Brenda about social media
What might come up when we choose to move into the path that our spirit is calling, and how to navigate the challenges
Insight into the “school of life” and other helpful metaphors that can help us
Brenda breaks down what are 3rd, 4th and 5th level consciousness, and the differences between the 3 (and how humanity is moving into 5th level)
What you’ll notice as you move into 4th level consciousness, and helpful ways of being to allow the process to happen with more intention and flow
Why there’s so much violence, fear, and upheaval right now
How fear is the only thing keeping us from moving into 4th and 5th levels of consciousness
How we need to consciously create new systems to replace the old systems that are obsolete and can no longer exist in higher levels of consciousness
How to death doula the energies and ways of being that are fear-based
The importance of protection and stepping into a difficult situation prepared and supported
Powerful questions to ask ourselves, and the difference between “Do, have, be” vs “Be, have, do”
Brenda leaves us with a beautiful blessing that you can use anytime and bring into groups for the
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Connect With Brenda Salgado
FB Author page: https://www.facebook.com/RealWorldMindfulnessForBeginners/
Real World Mindfulness for Beginners: Navigate Daily Life One Practice at a Time bit.ly/realworldmindfulness
Gift #1: An excerpt from her book Real World Mindfulness for Beginners: Navigate Daily Life One Practice at a Time. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD
Gift #2: Audio file Brenda Reading a meditation: CLICK HERE TO LISTEN
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