welcome to new beginnings i am so pleased to have joining me today janet straight arrow and we're going to have a lot of fun discovery what she does she is a healer and a teacher and what she is and the founder of be the medicine discovering the power of you where she helps people discover and live their true purpose so welcome jan thank you karen i'm so happy to be here yes thank you for asking me oh i couldn't wait i couldn't wait there are so many things that i want to ask you because you're a teacher or your reiki master  you help people get in touch you know better in touch with themselves but i guess the first place i'd like to start is tell us what the the medicine is so bad that medicine started when i was fifteen and the doctor said to live long and my father was dying he was forty three and he said you're not going to live as long as your dad and i was very sickly and had a lot of body pain and i said no i was a student of of i will say jesus i heard his teachings and i said that make sense and all this other stuff doesn't make sense my family was focused on sickness and drugs and and fear and i said no i don't feel i have to do this i feel like i have a choice and so that began my journey breaking the tradition of the family breaking the tradition of medicine and saying i know there's more and i'm going to find out how to heal myself so i decided to be my own medicine at fifteen wow and it's my life purpose which is why it started so young and actually a lot of it started even before but the decision to focus on it so i started studying nutrition and agger casey who's a medical intuitive and i teach medical intuition and more spirituality and it led me to yoga and meditation and health on so many levels and i just kept reading and studying and i would learn something and i go wow this is a great answer and i feel better and things are good but then there's something missing so it would take me to more and more and more i've spent hundreds of thousands of dollars and my whole lot fifty years i'm going to be sixty five in a couple months oh that's wonderful yeah so people say you don't look sixty five i don't i said i don't feel sixty five but it's because i've dedicated myself to living who i am not listening to the hypnotism of the culture about fear about aging about health i don't take medications i had a two i must admit i had a tooth that i had to have extracted and i did take some antibiotic even though the doctor said i didn't have to i said my body told me i needed to write so i learned to listen to my body i learned to trust myself even as a kid when i said i'm not doing this right and i teach people how to do that because we're so trying to way from being true to ourselves or even knowing who we are exactly and that was quite a journey to really discover all of my lineages of how many lifetimes which i also learned from edgar casey when i was fifteen that wow there is more than one life that makes sense so tell us more about that what do you mean so we're brought up in our culture that we only have this life and we better make the most of it and we're limited and there was a feeling though that there was more with everything which is what propelled  fifty years there's more i know there's more you know i feel like i'm at the end of something and there's something you beginnings that's right there's always a new beginning and so i like to say i'm  but i also there's a great deal of happiness and joy that i bring and i've been through a lot i've lost a child nine years ago suddenly in my twenty nine year old daughter lisa and that's when people really started to notice there's something really different about me because the way i handled it and not that they have noticed i was different since they said you know there's something to this so i've said i found out i'm forty now that was twenty five years ago that i have that i'm a shaman and not something that just takes a class but i have it in my soul one and so when i did take classes i would actually sometimes go up to these very famous people and say you're not doing it right is not remembered i said you know you're not teaching them all the parts that they need to know how to practice this and so that was very interesting and energy healing i started twenty five years ago way before its time and everybody thought i was weird and when they found out i was a sham and they said go to the southwest we feel more comfortable i said you need me here in new it's all encompassing it's right it's right and i continued to heal myself i married at nineteen i got out of the house i married my high school sweetheart we were both oldest children then we bought a house within a year and i just kept studying and learning and working on myself it helped to break the hypnotism of the family in the church because i wasn't exposed to that every day when i left him twelve years things that i couldn't heal holistically or naturally went away one one away in a day one went away in two weeks while i went back to school for psychology or already had a degree in nutrition to school psychology and i said there is more so every time i was faced with something myself and later with clients i would get to the edge of something and say there's more so i work with body mind soul spirit and emotions all the different levels and i've got education of many ph d s without ph d after my name which is far right right now i don't know that it's the value of all of it and pulling it all together and just listening to myself and that's what i teach people listen to yourself so whatever i'm teaching people i'm helping them work with their words they go well i don't mean that i said but your body and your being means that so you might not want to mean that but how about we align you with the highest truth and stop side tracking so there's so many things you said i want to unpack your little bit for  start with the sharma what is sham and what is that so when i first found out about what a sham and was so my broker i was a real estate agent for many years and i was studying i was reading three books a week on this stuff while i was selling forty two houses and he introduced me to a shy man that he met at breakfast in new jersey and i set a sherman at breakfast in new jersey ok i've got  f it comes from native traditions and they're known to heal themselves they're learned they're known to work on all levels ok meaning the same when you start yeah motional spiritual exactly but to look at the whole person right and to know i remember working with a tibetan sharman and i said so tell me how come they can work with twenty people in an hour he says well first of all they know the whole vision village so they know all the scuttlebutt of what's going on in their house and their family and everything  but because they get right to it they can see through and that's what when my name straight arrow came fifteen years ago i said wow that makes sense because i get right i go right through everything to the point to the cause and bring it forth with people so helping people helping people realize what they already know so one of the things after i studied many things and i was i was the go to person i was  lot that i wanted them to get so i started learning how to help people in sessions get their own answers so that i was empowering them yes you know teaching them to fish rather than fishing for them so to speak and so that's been a big part of my past fifteen years and be the medicine has been how can i help people get it themselves how can i give them tools because i'm a natural teacher and how can i give them tools and perspectives to get them out of the old way of hunting and pecking and not getting anywhere right or listening to all the above that's out there but not knowing how to do it right away so i've discovered ways to help people in sessions and in classes to be able to empower them and i do it in a very gentle loving direct way i've been told i have a what if they call it a velvet sledgehammer but when you speak truth with loving it most people absolutely and i laugh a lot like we're laughing here and that opens up the energy because when we when we're sick or in pain or depressed we're were heavy right and we're fearful but when i get people to laugh it just breaks up the energy and then they can receive it absence so a lot of my time has been how can people receive you knowing so back to your question about chairman ism yes so i met a man who was natively trained he was he wasn't a native himself either but he had had sinus cancer and he woke up to his gifts and he studied with a lot of native americans in new a as well as out west and in well of kota tradition as well and he moved back to new jersey to bring forth and help people and he was the one that i met and he i went over to visit him because i was so curious like it's a shop window here and he had a little shop and i looked at all this stuff and i was like ok so a lot of stuff it's stuff right to me i don't know what it means had great jewelry and i'm a leo and i like jewelry and i have to tell you i mean i love george and he had a great he had a great selection of quality native jewelry which i hadn't seen in new jersey before so i'm looking at the quality jewelry while he's talking to some women and then when he finishes he comes over to i've got a big blue mercedes outside and i got a red pinstripe suit and actually i probably had these earrings on because i just love the men right i'm keeping them right and he took my he looked in my eyes like a de melter right he took my hands and he said you're shaam and just like me and i'm looking at my blue mercedes and i'm looking so good i'm looking at him in his t shirt and i'm like i don't think it's just like you but there is something that i'm going to bring it through in a different way so he was a mentor for me i had an astrologer who i met years before who was a mentor i've had the fortunate to have mentors because when i studied with very famous people they weren't really available up to the workshop right so i was glad to have mentors but in sherman ism you are getting to the depth of the matter you're looking at spirit and soul and what that means and in traditional religion they they stay away from it in till you get to the core of it and then they acknowledge a lot of it right but the general that come to mind one is and i don't know that they talk about this as much but there used to be something maybe twenty years ago called biofeedback which is where your body particularly if you're not well your body is giving you signals and what your mind focuses on can help heal your body right and so part of your journey is people were telling you you're you're not well you know you're not going to get well but your mind rejected that exact and said there is more yes and so you begin the study so biofeedback is this mind over matter and that if your mind is you know positive and focused and not stressed in labored in negativity it is possible to influence what's in your body it's like what's in reflects what comes out well and what's in oftentimes reflects what's going on what comes out reflects what's going on so when people for instance if they have cancer there's usually and any therapist will tell you that people tell you their problem and the answer oh i agree with and they're not in touch with it yes so a lot of what i do is i help people get in touch with it but i go much deeper in a way that helps them make the change you know i had  woman i met at a wedding and she said well of if my client doesn't change in a year i fire them i'm going my clients change in a session their lives change or this session right now right because you're bringing in site i'm bringing a great insight and i get right to the point and i'm not shy about it i i was very much guided not to get certified in psychology or anything that it would limit what i could do and it was very wise because what i can do with people is i can say what's really going on i don't have to sugarcoat a law or be careful or d s m you know categorize them i just go right for what's going on right and so all of the tools that i've learned from all of the traditions which are many i actually took a sabbatical to try to refine and put them all together and figure out what what to use and what not to use for b the stuff oftentimes i'm sitting here and all these changes are going on and all these insights are awakening and they're getting it so i'm i don't have to be the guru and i so my ego is like people go what are we to do i said really you know we're going to do and be and say whatever's appropriate in the moment when you show up and most people are comfortable with that because they feel you tried everything right but one thing you haven't said in this is what i do is i help coach people you know coaching is a label you know just like therapist is a label and you know there's a certification for coaching but you're empowering people you're giving them insight comes through i do hands on healing i teach reiki and hands on handling but it comes through from me that's being that once you're once you're living yet yes and that's what i teach i teach a lot of therapist and coaches and even doctors nurses massage therapists healers and i teach them to do their own personal healing work because i say when you do that you are you're emanating that yes but if you've got a lot of deep dark stuff that you haven't worked on that's also a part of your session that's exactly right and so a big part of my focus from the beginning of teaching twenty five years ago was when i was teaching this type together look we've got to do your own work you can't just take workshops right now we're doing your work in the workshop so that you're experiencing it so that you can practice it and feel confident to take it home right rather than oh i just took this workshop and i have the certificate right it doesn't work for me no i just finished teaching a reiki to class and i was i i actually told them if you don't do your homework you don't get your certificate because it's a couple them weren't doing their homework and i said you have me here you have the opportunity for the experience and for the confidence right use it right but our culture wants things in an instant and healing happens over time a takes effort yeah it takes work it takes effort it takes investment not just financial but in your saddle emotional investment confronting i don't want to say demons but that's the you know confronting whatever it is the blockage the what's holding you back the limited thinking you know the inversion to risk taking because i got a magine that as you said when you went on this adventure fifteen i did yeah that many people were you know this like you said it wasn't being it wasn't mainstream for sure and a lot of people probably thought what are you talking about well i was very quiet i didn't talk to many people those first years as a matter of fact i didn't talk to many people except for who i was working with and till i found my show monica awakening i actually heard when i was in my mid twenty's of a thought in my head that said when you're forty you're going to awaken fully to who you are wow and then that was when i met the shonen so i've had a lot of and i realized when that happened how much i listened to that inner voice that was telling me things all along and that was i was listening to myself and i trusted it and see that's how i help people trust as i say you already know this let's help you trust it so i use astrology sometimes because astrology is a huge gift that i that i that has helped me understand the cycles of why this is happening to me because a lot of why we don't heal is because we judge and we blame yes and one of the things that i bring to people is unconditional love yes and i unconditionally love them and i teach them to uncowed unconditionally love themselves help them break the habit of judgment and lame and then let's dive in because if you're not judging yourself if you're saying wow i'm on i'm an earth school and i came to learn from this so when i find something even today i go wow i for something else to to hear one grow and learn instead of beating myself up which is what we're taught yes that's true that's true yeah they're only lessons yes probably lessons there's no failure no and you know the worst thing that could happen is that you know you you learn that's the best thing that can happen yeah that's i mean yeah that is not a bad thing that could happen but i was actually thinking you know you don't really go over the cliff that's what i was really thinking you don't go over the cliff you just you know you may fall down but you get back up that's that's the that's really the worst thing that can happen and everybody goes through those kinds of you know where it doesn't come off perfectly but it's in those moments as long as you don't wallow in that that you get back up and you really reflect on well what what did i learn you know i'm i may be bruised but i'm not broken you know you learn resilience you learn who you are you have to have a lot of positive things around you too and you have to have the right mindset but that's what i teach people and teach them a different mindset that's unconditionally loving and that if they want to any of their religious people they would say yes so one of the most important parts of be the medicine is the oneness that connection because when i was fifteen also even younger i said how can we all be one but only we're going to heaven and by the way a lot of religion said that yes i said that doesn't make sense what about all those poor people were in the rest of the world who were of all these different traditions that doesn't make any sense so oneness has been one of my  foundation pieces to discover so when i've studied many different traditions out of work with many masters and they go well you have to stay with us to finish i don't know i know where i need to go thank you very much but i appreciate what we shared and i appreciate your wisdom but i have to go by my wisdom right and and a lot of people are willing to do that they're afraid and one of the things that i discovered in my  developed is that our soul is whole and we've been told we're broken and we're bad we're centers right all that is a lie so i have one of the books that i have waiting to come out is called cracking the codes to freedom and it's all about the illusions that we've grown up with and how within those allusions there is freedom so teaching people about that so i work on so many levels yes and i've been waiting to come out and i thought i was going to come out nine years ago with this work and that's when my daughter died and so what happened when she died is i went to the depths of who i am and my broken i mean i was course and and what i did was is i took that focus to learn deeper and to refine the work and to have more compassion for myself first because i had a lot of challenge from family and other people telling me what to do and i said no i'm going to take care of myself i'm going to do what i need to do for me because this is my body this is my life and you know a lot of women are willing to do follow their not taught in because women often put others first that's what we're taught to do and we we neglect ourselves quite frankly i mean it's not that we put ourselves last on the list were often the glen ourselves well i broke the family pattern of that that's my mother was a martyr and very narcissistic which means she had no awareness you know when you are in denial and martyrdom so i help people break those patterns of co dependence and wonder you know in different ways than traditional and we have fun i tell people when you know some people call me and they they have all the serious stuff going on and i say you know i  talk to them and you know give them a feeling of how we might work with that and then i say but i have one rule and they're like ok i'm ready i said we're going to have fun i don't know if i know how to do that or i can't do that so i bring that to the to everything is a lot of a lot of fun and i've been through hell and it was funny as i was thinking about today i said i've been on the brink of hell so often and but i've always been on the brink and that i've jumped off into heaven because of what i what i've determined i think i'm i'm going to make it yet i'm going to see what's on the other side and the other side to help us have an every day yeah yeah that's wonderful that's that's i mean just so wonderful the gifts that you are bringing into the world and you were out i would consider today you're being out there and i'm out  our conversation and once your books are out feel free to come back we'll learn more from you in how people can heal themselves and find their true purpose i mean man jet janet dot straight arrow and be the medicine i've a lot free on line that people can start to access all that's wonderful so be the medicine dot com right perfect perfect yeah it's also dot  business perspective as well i met him in the world i'm not just right i'm very grounded in the world absolutely and that's really where we want to live our spirituality and have every aspect of life that's right be the medicine dot com janet straight arrow thank you so much for being our guests today thank you and we look forward to having you back on when you have a physical book that we can feature yes and look at my classes and see if there's something you want to sign up for and i'm open to working at people's healing centers as well and teaching classes they're wonderful i want to thank you and thank you for