Episode 4

Healing Frequencies: How Pain Can Lead to Spiritual Growth

Howling at the Moon Podcast Episode #4 : Is your pain trying to tell you something?

Can pain be a teacher? A messenger? A portal to something deeper?

In this soul-baring episode, Heatherleigh Strom shares her journey through 30+ years of chronic neck pain and how that pain became the catalyst for a profound spiritual awakening. Through energetic healing, ayahuasca ceremonies, and the guidance of the K9 Spirit Guides, she learned that pain isn’t just physical… it’s often energetic, emotional, and karmic.

🌀 You’ll learn:• The deeper spiritual messages behind chronic pain• Why physical healing often requires energetic clearing• How timing, readiness, and soul contracts shape our suffering• What ayahuasca revealed about Heatherleigh’s pain• How the K9 Spirit Guides assist in emotional and physical release

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Recorded live October 2023

Pain isn’t just a pesky physical nuisance; it can hold some serious spiritual significance, and that’s exactly what we’re diving into today. We’ll explore how that nagging pain might actually be your body trying to communicate a deeper message or lesson. I’ll share my personal journey through decades of chronic pain and the wild ride it took before I found some unexpected relief. Spoiler alert: it involves a little help from my K9 spirit guides and an eye-opening experience with ayahuasca! So, if you’ve ever felt like you’re carrying around an invisible backpack of pain with no idea how to ditch it, stick around because we’re unpacking all of that and more in this episode. Let’s get ready to howl at the moon and find out what our pain is really trying to tell us!

Takeaways:

  • Pain can have a significant spiritual meaning, often serving as a message or lesson.
  • Chronic pain affects many people and may not always have physical solutions available.
  • Understanding the energetic sources of pain can lead to deeper healing and personal growth.
  • The journey of healing from pain often involves spiritual awakening and energy shifts.
  • Ayahuasca and similar experiences can help release long-held physical pain and emotional blockages.
  • The K9 spirit guides offer unique insights into healing and finding one's true path.
Transcript
Speaker A:

What significance does pain have on a spiritual level? So if you have pain in your body, is there a connection between that pain and a spiritual meaning? A spiritual lesson or a spiritual message?

What does that pain mean?

Speaker B:

Welcome to Howling at the Moon, where the mystical meets the practical and the K9 spirit guides lead the way. I'm your host, Heather leigh Strom.

In:

My mission to help you find your way through your own awakening journey.

Here you'll discover limitless possibilities for spiritual growth, powerful healing frequencies and extraordinary energetic professionals, each designed to guide you into deeper healing and remembrance. Some episodes feature enlightening wisdom from spiritually evolved guest healers, visionaries and authors.

Others are led by the multidimensional K9 spirit guides themselves sharing their unique intergalactic wisdom and frequency. If you've been craving deeper truth, multidimensional healing and a little cosmic magic, you you've just found your pack.

Listen and watch on Spotify or YouTube and bring the magic back into your life.

Speaker A:

And welcome to Howling at the Moon with the K9 Guides. Those of you who do not know me yet, I am Heather Leigh Strom, the Galactic K9 Channel.

And I have a unique connection with the the galactic version of our dogs. I channel the K9 spirit guides who wish to help humanity heal and become one people.

awakening happened last year.:

And that's when I discovered my intergalactic connection with the K9 spirit guides and also my mission to share their healing frequency with the world. You can read about my awakening in my book K9 Spirit Guides and you can also learn more about the K9 spirit guides in this book.

So you can go to the link on my web page heatherleighstrom.com and find out exactly where you can order that book. If you are curious, it's very good information. I highly recommend it.

But today's topic is pain and spiritual growth and I'm really excited about this topic. There seems to be a lot of interest here here in this topic based on what I've seen, the reactions I've seen on my page.

Does physical pain have anything to do with spiritual awakening? So that's what we're going to talk about tonight.

I want to know if you have struggled with nagging pain or even maybe a debilitating pain through your life that just wouldn't go away. Like you tried everything that you could to alleviate this pain and nothing worked. That's. That's the story I'm going to tell you tonight.

I'm going to tell you about my own experience with pain that I couldn't get rid of. And even as a medical professional, I couldn't find any answers. So you guys are not alone.

You know, being the layperson, experiencing a lot of pain in your life and can't. Not being able to find the answer to it. That's what we're going to talk about tonight. It seems to be an epidemic.

There are quite a few people walking this planet who carry around a lot of pain because they found no other way to exist without it. And it's not a very good way to live. I want to give my disclosure here for this discussion.

I'm sharing my experience with you and a channeled message from the canine guides regarding its meaning. But in no way, shape or form is any of this considered or meant to be substituted for medical advice.

So I'm just going to lay that out there right now, get that out of the way, all the legal stuff. So what significance does pain have on a spiritual level?

So if you have pain in your body, is there a connection between that pain and a spiritual meaning, a spiritual lesson or a spiritual message? What does that pain mean? And this is a very fascinating topic to me.

I've spent 30 years as a physical therapist, and chronic pain is certainly a common dynamic in my profession, not only with my patients, but also with myself. I have suffered chronic pain for my. With my neck for over 30 years. So we're going to talk about that and how I found my way out of it.

hysical therapist back in the:

A lot of times I could help other people, but I couldn't find a way to help myself. So let me share with you a little bit about my own journey with chronic pain.

underwent a brain surgery in:

Now, if you've read my book, you already understand the significance of the brain surgery and the fact that this operation wasn't just a surgery, but it was a shift in my timeline. And this is Often the case with, with major medical situations. So it wasn't just a plano surgery.

There was a significant reason that I had this brain tumor and that I ended up on the surgical table. So we won't go into that detail right now.

But ever since that happened, for the next 30 years I suffered with neck pain and it progressively worsened and as time went by until I wasn't able to sleep at night and I could barely turn my head. I like my head just wouldn't turn and it hurt so bad. It was all over here on the left side. I searched and I searched and I searched for solutions.

So I took courses on techniques, hoping that each one would hold the missing remedy for my misery. But none of them really did. They helped for a little bit, but the pain always came back.

I learned some pretty cool stuff and my patients benefited from all the neat techniques I was learning. But it didn't help me. I enrolled in an 800 hour massage certification program thinking well, maybe I can learn something from the massage profession.

Maybe they've turned the table and, and discovered something that I don't know. As a physical therapist, it was a great program, I learned a lot, but it didn't offer me any solutions.

I enrolled in a two year functional medicine bridge program for physical therapist. I learned functional medicine. Surely I could help myself this way. With functional medicine we treat the body from the inside out.

So maybe this approach would be effective. More effective than working from the outside of the body.

I mean I must have spent $30,000 or more just in training so that I could hopefully help myself. I also tried chiropractic and even upper cervical chiropractic which is a specialty and it's very expensive.

And I did discover that my head was on crooked and that it did need to be addressed. But that didn't change my pain. So none of these options offered me long term relief. I tried physical therapy, of course.

Cupping, massage, neurological resets, vagal stem tens, TMJ release, cranial sacral release, Raiki exercise, drugs. I mean I tried everything. I even completely changed my diet. Became vegan, vegetarian and sometimes vegan. Detox, detoxed myself, got my gut in order.

I thought surely this was going to be it. Maybe it was just a toxic situation, maybe it was environmental toxins that were connect collecting in my neck. Nothing helped.

I got brain scans, I got neurological and psychological evaluations, I did past life hypnotherapy sessions. I learned a lot of really cool stuff. But nothing changed how I felt. I left no stone unturned.

But yet I didn't have any more answers and I didn't feel better.

So I did have a suspicion that there was something about that brain tumor or something about the brain surgery, something that happened during the surgery that was holding me in place. And instinctively I just knew that this was what was causing my neck pain. It was something that I couldn't understand until I wrote my book.

And in my book I go into great detail about the meaning behind the surgery and what event it brought into my life. But even after understanding that, I still wasn't free of the pain, and I still didn't have any answers as far as how to get rid of it.

So have any of you found yourself in this situation where you had a medical issue you couldn't find any answers to, you couldn't get the help you needed, you took it into your own hands to try and find the solutions, and you just couldn't make it happen. You just couldn't find the right combination to relieve yourself of this agony. Have any of you been in this situation?

And knowing the patients that I work with who deal with pain, I would have to say there's a large majority of people out there walking this planet that do have chronic pain. But after all of this, I was beginning to wonder if I would ever find a solution and be out of constant pain.

I was so desperate to make the pain stop and to have full range and full use of my neck. I just. It had been so long since I was able to fully turn my head that I was. I couldn't remember what it was like.

Now, let me just say there were a few things I did know about my neck physically that could contribute to these symptoms. One was that I have no curve in my neck. My neck is completely straight.

Necks usually have a bow in them and it acts as a suspension so that it, as your body moves, the brain has like, you know, like a shock absor absorber through the neck. Well, my neck is completely straight, so that puts me at in jeopardy for some damage to the cervical spine.

I also have already multiple disc herniations and spinal stenosis in my neck, probably because the neck is straight and there's no suspension left in it. But all of these things were on the right side. My neck issues were on the left side, so none of it made sense.

I also had arthritis in my neck already. And none of it was pain that you would experience from radiating pain from like an impinged nerve. It wasn't that kind of pain.

It was muscular tension. It was just tight. It would just ball up and not let go. So none of this made sense. It was more like a torticollis.

Like, it just like these muscles would just shorten and not relax, never relax. They were always tight throughout the day. It would get progressively worse and progressively tighter.

And by the end of the day, I could barely turn my head. And trying to drive was very difficult because just turning to look at the.

metimes not even possible. In:

And I thought for sure, with all the changes that were coming through, that I was going to be freed from this pain. Surely that was part of the plan for this whole awakening process.

Right through this process, I was finding and removing longstanding patterns of resistance and opening up energy flow every single day. And I thought for sure, part of this release process was going to be releasing whatever was holding here.

With the meditations I did every day, I was receiving powerful, energetic releases, and I was experiencing a lot of change in my body. I could feel it everywhere else except here. So that year was full of a lot of hope and a lot of change, but none of it applied to the pain.

In September of that year, I finally finished writing the book, and I submitted it to my publisher, and I attended an ayahuasca ceremony. But ayahuasca is a plant medicine, and it is a teaching plant. So ayahuasca was calling me into ceremony with her. She's a feminine. These.

This is a feminine plant. She's very motherly, and she teaches you when you sit with her.

During the ceremony, she taught me something about my neck, and I went on this journey with her, and she explained a lot of what was happening with a lot of things, but also with my neck. It was a beautiful experience.

And when I came out of my journey with her, I realized I was laying face down on my mat, and my head was turned completely to the left side, Something I have not been able to do for 30 years. All of a sudden, I had full range of motion of my neck and no pain. Huh. What's that about? So I'm like, oh, this is wild.

But also during that ceremony, I had a visit from Oeragon, and Oeragon is one of the K9 spirit guides in my book. She's on the cover because she's my favorite.

But she appeared to me in her black panther form during the ceremony, perched herself up on my chest, and she removed a mask that I had been hiding behind. And this is one of the things that Oeragon does for People is she helps us identify masks that we hide behind.

So a mask is something, it's an untruth about yourself that you tell yourself and also that you portray to the world. So it's a belief you have about yourself or maybe it's a fear you have. So you project something to prevent people from seeing this fear.

Oeragon removed it from me. And that was partly attached to everything that was going on in the neck as well. So all of that happened in this very short period of time.

And thankfully I was able to maintain my pain free, full range of motion status for the next month. I could drive my car and I could turn, you know, my head and check my mirror and not have any pain. I was ecstatic.

I can't even tell you how ecstatic I was. What?

One thing I realized is that when you're in pain, you have this constant noise in your head and it's the static from the neurons constantly firing pain. And it's a noise. When this pain is finally relieved, the noise goes away. It's like everything stops in your head and it's so quiet.

It's like when you go to the desert and there's no sound. That's what it's like when the pain stops.

So I was reminded of that and I always like to share that with people because it's quite alarming when that pain stops, when it gets so quiet. But this was interesting because it taught me that, yes, indeed, my pain was of a energetic source.

It was had nothing really to do with the physical things going on in my neck because it was removed energetically. So that was a theory I had all along, that it had something to do with that brain surgery. Right. But what happened was it ended up creeping back in.

So of course I wasn't happy about this. And for the next eight months, I desperately searched for ways to get rid of it again. So why did it come back?

Why did I get so much relief with ayahuasca? Clear understanding of why it was there clearly relieved it from my energy field. And then it came back. Why do you think that was? Boy, I was mad.

Can you imagine? I was like, what the heck, man?

I mean, I've devoted my life to this new passion, this new calling, and yet I can't even get my neck pain taken care of. I'm taking care of everybody else. When am I going to get taken care of, right?

And through my frustration, one day, after eight months, I got really frustrated and I just screamed out loud, what is it going to take for me to abolish this tension and pain in my neck. What is it going to take? You know how you just like, you get frustrated and you just start talking out loud and you're like, I don't get it.

What is it? What do I need to do? So that's where I was at that moment.

Strangely enough, a couple days later, I was in meditation and I received a very profound, energetic shift that I was not expecting. During the meditation, I got this download that expanded my channel in a direction that I wasn't anticipating.

And this download also came with an energetic upgrade that cleared my throat.

My throat chakra absolutely cleared any blockage there, cleared any, opened it up, and it must have had something to do with what was going on in this neck. I don't know if it was a seal, I don't know if it was just time sensitive and now it was time for it to happen.

But as the download came in, the energetic download came in, my neck pain disappeared and it has not come back since. So that was in June. And at first the muscles were tender because for 30 years they had been contracted.

So when you have a muscle that's always tight, all of a sudden when it's loose like that, the muscles are sore because you have all the, the byproducts from the constant contraction that's stuck in the tissue. So that my neck didn't hurt, but it was tender. Was like, wow, that, that's tender. It's not. It wasn't tight at all.

It was just tender when I touched it. So that took about a couple weeks for that to clear away. And then I'm completely back to normal.

I can move my head like I never have been able to before. And there I. I'm just astounded. When I sit here and I. My neck doesn't hurt. So that was earth shattering to me.

And I think I have a quote written down here. Sheldon Cooper, you know that, that show, what's the name of his show? I want to say Third Rock from the sun, but that's another show.

Sheldon Cooper says Bazinga. That's kind of how it's like Bazinga. When I, when that came through and I just felt all that release.

So I'm telling you all this, but what is it to be gleaned from this experience and this example? Because that's what's so exciting. What is it that you can deduct from this experience?

I went to the K9 guides and I said, okay, what's up with this? Why did things progress this way? And what is It. I need to know about this. Why did I have this experience?

And as you know, if you've read my book, my entire life was designed so that I could share that experience with you. So again, here's another experience. I'm just a scapegoat. I'm just a lab rat that they, they make things happen with.

So I can come out here and talk to you about it and help you. But. But I had that experience and the revelation of what it meant so that I could share with you what I learned.

And there are a number of things that are to be gleamed from this example, and I'm going to share those with you now. No matter how hard I tried to address pain from the physical body, as a physical therapist, sometimes that's just not the issue.

Sometimes that's not going to work. And this was where my frustration was. I wanted to help myself and my clients, my patients.

Sometimes, though, it has to be addressed energetically and energetically we have the opportunity to remove not just physical pain, but even deeper, deeper pain and deeper sources of pain. Energy is designed to flow through the body, so when energy is blocked, it accumulates near the blockage.

For, for me, it was the neck and interferes with function and movement, and it can even cause pain and disease. I give a really good example of this in my book. Emotions and beliefs are also energy.

Injuries are trapped in energy, and trauma and past life trauma are deeply buried energy. So all of this energy has to be removed from the body, because if it's not, it creates problem, it creates pain, diseases, yada, yada, yada.

So the blocked energy cannot be removed until it is ready to be removed or our subconscious is ready to let it go, even though consciously we may think we understand this. So I was saying, okay, I'm ready to be done with this. Why can't I find a solution?

Well, I didn't quite have the right combination yet ready to unlock or the key to unlock that blockage. So until everything fell into place, nothing would work.

Even though Ayahuasca had taken it from me, even though Oregon had removed it from me, I was still holding on to a belief or an expectation, or sometimes it's not even that, sometimes it's beyond our control and that it's a timing issue. So that also came into play play because it wasn't time yet for me to have that part of me completely released and functional.

Some blockages are designed to stay in place until a key moment in our life when it's scheduled to be released. If you hit this bookmark. So there's a. There's a bookmark that you're supposed to hit at a certain point. Point.

And when you line up to that bookmark, then you have the perfect combination to unlock a blockage such as this. I'm not saying every pain is like that. This is one of the possibilities for me, that's what was this. This was all about.

I had to get to that precise opportunity and moment and alignment in my development before I was ready to fully release it. So when.

When you do hit this bookmark, it's kind of like you're signifying a new chapter, a new direction, a new ability, or an ascension to a new level of awareness.

And so that's energetically what's waiting to come into place until you are fully able to release this very powerful blockage that kind of just holds you in this place until that very moment. And for me, I was locked into a pattern ever since that brain surgery because.

And I was locked into it until I was able and ready to download that new frequency. It triggered a new activation in me that literally just unlocked the blockage like. Like a key in a lock. It's. I can't even explain.

I can't even put into words what it feels like. It was a predetermined intersection or interaction set to be activated at that very moment when I was finally ready to fully move forward.

So a lot of things came, a lot of things had to happen there. It was a step pattern. It wasn't just me saying, okay, what do I need to do? Because believe me, that's not the first time I've said that.

But I had to get to a certain place in my spiritual growth and my spiritual development and my ascension and my skill level before I was ready to receive that specific download that unlocked it. And this is what can be so frustrating about pain.

Because if we try and address it just from the outside, just from the skills I have as a physical therapist, there's no way I would be able to do that. There's no way I would be able to know that. And that's what's so frustrating.

When you're dealing with a person in your office, they're in pain, you want to use all these techniques that you've been taught. Some of them work, but some of them just work for a short period of time, and then they're back in the office and they're not very happy with you.

So this is what's so compelling about pain, and this is why it's such an important Topic because it's important for us now to shift our focus as healthcare providers, as spiritual teachers and spiritual healers, to shift the. The conversation into that spiritual healing.

And that's why they wanted me to talk to you about this, and I'm sharing this with you to help you better understand the purpose of your pain, as well as to provide you with an opportunity to discover your pain's purpose and how to remove energetic trapped energy. So this is the very service I offer my clients during my channeled sessions with the canine spirit guides.

So client, when I work with my clients energetically channeling in the K9 spirit guides, one of the first thing things that the guides do is they identify these blocked patterns. It doesn't always correlate to pain. If you're having chronic pain, then that's what they're. They're going to be drawn to.

They're going to want to help you out of that pain pattern because it's blocking your ability to see or feel or hear anything else. That's the nature of pain, is just to get your attention. Right.

So in these sessions, that's one of the first thing they do, is they identify any blockages that need to be removed. They explain to you what the blockage is, what purpose it serves in your life. Because there is something that we need to learn about this blockage.

It's not just that it's bad and we need to get rid of it. It serves a purpose. There's an understanding that needs to occur before the blockage can be removed.

And it's important to be very grateful for that learning because it's an experience that is important for your growth. So if we hate the pain, if we resent it for being there, then that's going to slow down the release process.

The faster we can integrate the learning that the blockage and the pain has to offer us, then the faster we're going to heal from it. But what the guides do is they explain all that to you and depending on who's working with you in that session, and they do that through me.

I channel it and explain it to you what they've told me, and then they help get rid of it for you during the same session. So that's what I do with my healing sessions with the canine guides. Really, my entire book is a road map of how my life demonstrates how they work.

That's the whole point of writing the book, I realized after I wrote it. And also to learn what these canine guides have to offer humanity. And so this example I'm telling you is really no different.

It's just me, my life serving a purpose to show you what might be happening in your life. And the reason I went through this experience was so I could share it with you.

You even if it's not pain, it could be a belief that's holding you captive right here, right now. If you've been searching, wanting to grow spiritually, emotionally, and you're just stuck, then it's the same concept as the pain.

Thank you for coming tonight. Thank you for listening and indulging me with my stories and embracing the frequency frequency of the K9 guides because they are always with me.

So you might be picking up on it already. Love you guys. Wish you the best of luck and I hope to see you soon. Bye.

Speaker C:

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This award winning book, K9 Spirit Guides the Healing Power of Man's Best Friend by Heather Leigh Strom is available on Amazon.com and heatherleighstrom.com get your copy today and begin your journey.

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Heatherleigh Strom is a Galactic K9 Channel & Akashic Reader, Quantum Healer, award-winning author, and a multidimensional storyteller who guides listeners through awakening, alignment, and ascension. As host of Howling at the Moon, she invites you to journey beyond the ordinary into the mystical and cosmic where soulful conversations with spiritual visionaries, healers, and thought leaders meet transmissions from the intergalactic K9 Spirit Guides.

Each episode opens a portal of remembrance, helping you navigate your spiritual path, embody higher frequencies, and rediscover your own divine design. Whether you’re new to awakening or already walking the multidimensional path, Howling at the Moon will inspire you to awaken, align, and ascend, one frequency shift at a time.