The Universe is Always Working With You, Not Against You

What does it mean to be a conscious empath—and why is it so important to protect your energy? In this deeply insightful and empowering episode of "It Begins Here," host Jillian Johnson dives into the world of empaths, healers, and highly sensitive beings.

Jillian explains the critical difference between being an unconscious empath (absorbing everyone's energy and suffering for it) and a conscious empath (feeling others' pain without taking it on). She shares her personal journey of learning to set boundaries, say no, and use the powerful mantra "Return to sender" to deflect energy that isn't hers.

With raw honesty, she reveals that she's been cataloging people's behavior for 48 years—observing, learning, and discerning who is safe and who is draining. She invites listeners to go inward, to meditate, to journal, and to find their own protective affirmations. This episode is a love letter to every healer who has felt depleted, every empath who has absorbed too much, and every human who is ready to reclaim their energy. Your journey to becoming a conscious empath begins here.

 Where love creates movement, and movement creates change. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

I even struggle with internal stuff. Of course. Human, Mitsak, hello. Everyone does it. So we have to remind each other when you hear a loved one talking negatively about themselves, redirect it and look at them straight dead in the face. You are worthy. And I love you. And I hope one day you see it. Try that. And then you're gonna stare at yourself. One of the time before I do selfies, by the way. Just say I love you. Right before I do it. I'm like, I love you. I love me. I love me. And energetically, it's crappy. I feel it. No, thank you. Return to center. The weight, the heaviness doesn't exist in my world. Movement is everything. Meditation is everything. You can't stop this. They can't stop this. Literally. Keep listening to it. I had a dream. I had a vision. I had to work for this and you didn't. I had to bleed. Still got the stitches. You have no idea what I've been through. I haven't told the whole story. Don't worry, I will.

SPEAKER_00 1:49

It begins here with a podcast about my journey. Empath to enlightenment, feeling, awareness, reality, and all the fun little stories in between. So I welcome you to It Begins Here, a podcast.

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Uh empath over here. I don't know if you've heard that term. I'm thinking about forty percent of you have, at least. Most of our listeners are healers and um also practitioners themselves. Um this is a lot, so thank you. The seekers, those who are seeking this knowledge, this is for you. So a conscious empath, Charles Young is someone that you want to look up. Um, he talks a lot about that, and it's truth. I've listened to it, it resonates with me, it sounds factual, it is factual. Um, and an empath is someone who literally can feel other people's pain. And I know there are some people out there, I'm not gonna mention names, but there's some people out there that think that empathy is not a real thing. And I have a lot of empathy for them, I have a lot of sympathy for them because it's some would say a gift and a curse, right? Being able to feel everyone's pain kind of brings you down. It's funny, it's like this continuous challenge and opportunity for me of internal, external. It's just so funny. Because you see it and you have empathy for it, and you try, and I've tried to have certain people in my my life that I know need healing, and I see them for who they can be. Um, and it's definitely caused some negativity in my life, and most of it was deflected, because I've learned not to just care anymore. It has nothing to do with me. I've been saying this all along. It has to do everything with them, and but it is again an opportunity to reflect, right? Why are they doing that and the like, and as an investigator for the last 48 years, seriously, um, watching, observing, you know, the one in the corner at school, just hanging out by yourself and observing, talking to all the individual groups, you know, learning about them. There are always good people in each of them. Always. There's good people in everyone, but sometimes they don't reflect it. So if someone's giving me the snake eye, I'm not gonna approach them with a smile. And if someone's actually being rude to you for whatever reason, just realize it's just about them. But being a conscious empath, being an unconscious empath is extremely dangerous because you're just so open to all of that energy, you don't really understand that you can absorb it, and it's so detrimental. Um and it's really sad. I mean, no one has the ability to tap into my energy. No one without my permission. Period. And say that affirmation too, by the way. Make it up, you got it. Um, whatever comes to you, whatever feels safe and protected, that should be your affirmation. Whatever makes you feel so joyful should be affirmations, right? I'm already living reality in my brain. I literally create my own reality. I know I do. I fantasize about all the things, you know, just being loved is really any human wants. And for someone who's an unconscious empath, now you feel everything, but you absorb it, and so much more. Let's keep things simple for now. You completely absorb it, and it's unfortunate because it trains you and takes away from you energetically, and eventually energetically will show on the outside, you know. Um, my glow up is not anything that was easy, and my glow up is not there for anyone to take. And when you try to do that, you're just taking away from yourself. Period. You are literally taking away from yourself. So why would you do that? Think about that. As a very smart person like I am. That doesn't seem logical to me. So you have to realize that if a human is not in the right energetic space, head space, body space. I mean, you can see it. It shows. It shows when someone's happy, it shows when someone smiles but wants to cry. You know, and I've surrounded myself with a lot of these humans for most of my life. And helped show them the light without even realizing, just by being present. I know my light is bright. I get paid to be present. I'm a very grateful human for that. Very, very grateful. Um to sit and be present. And when asked questions I answer. And I have the ability to do it in so many different facets so it's just realizing and healing and believing. So how do you redirect and become a conscious empath? Knowing her boundaries, knowing when to say no, knowing when not to have to explain shit. The proof is in the data, the proof is in the pudding. You know, I didn't realize until of recent that I have been literally cataloging people's behavior for so long. Just watching and remembering. Not getting angry. I used to. Oh god. Anger management, yes, please. But I used to. Again, I am not perfect. I'm a human. We're all human. At least most of us are. Some of us will see. Jerry's still out. I'm in a meat suit. I am in a meat suit. But I am a connected with my higher power. I'm connected with Source. I'm connected with Mother Gaia. If you want to know how to do this, by the way, please sign up for a PYLI Wellness, Peely Wellness as a seeker. You can be curious, it's free. There's knowledge in there for free. There's offerings, of course, if you want more. You don't have to. Just get curious. I know it'll start a spark. We've built a safe sacred portal. This thing is managed on its own. We don't sell people's data. We don't do all that stupid shit. No thank you. Return to sender. I think it's so invasive. I don't think it should be accepted. So if you want a safe place to hang out, that's where you go. More to come. We're building slowly but surely, like little powerhouses. Like anything I build. Simply J included. And thank you for joining us and listening to It Begins Here, a podcast. But yeah, there's guidance out there for you. The first thing is you're gonna have to go inward, and I know that sounds scary as shit. But you're gonna have to do it, and I will keep talking about it until I'm freaking blue in the face. Purple, preferredly. I have a rainbow aura. It's beautiful. I'm a very, very grateful human. I've done a lot of work and still doing it. We all continue to heal. There's never an end goal. You're always here to learn. All kinds of data are out there for you to learn. Use a discernment on what's good and not. You know when you know. And when you keep getting like these nudges, you know. And you keep seeing people's actions, patterns, words, you know. My goodness. Um talk about paying attention. Here's an example. Once you go inward, you become so much more aware of your surroundings. And literally, from the beginning of this podcast, even before then, years before then, I began my healing journey of going inward. I've been doing it now for 11 years. Um, I can go inward pretty quickly. Nothing stops me. Nothing. Not even myself. Cause that happens, everyone. I even struggle with internal stuff. Of course. Human, meatzak, hello. Everyone does it. So we have to remind each other when you hear a loved one talking negatively about themselves, redirect it and look at them straight dead in the face. You are worthy. And I love you, and I hope one day you see it. Try that. And then you're gonna stare at yourself. One of the time of why I do selfies, by the way. To say I love you. Right before I do it. I'm like, I love you. I love me. I love me. And energetically, it's crappy. I feel it. No thank you. Return to center. The weight, the heaviness doesn't exist in my world. Movement is everything, meditation is everything. You can't stop this, they can't stop this. Literally. Keep listening to it. I had a dream. I had a vision. I had to work for this and you didn't. I had to bleed. Still got the stitches. You have no idea what I've been through. I haven't told the whole story. Don't worry, I will. This is just a taste. But being that empath, ooh. You feel it all literally.

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A feel it all. A feel it all.

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Thank you, beautiful musicians. Sending that right back to you. Um art is a must. Artistic ability is a must. This for me is my art. My voice, my writing is my art. I'm a singer. I'm a podcast person. And I'm also a writer. That's my that's my art. That's my creativity. And I hope you find yours. Really do. I love kitchen dancing too. I swear that's an art. Love it. Hmm. Let it go. I'm about to do some myself. So if the energy feels heavy, and trust me, it has felt heavy. I'm like, uh-uh. This ain't mine. I don't know what's going on. Return to sender. Yes, please. We don't want that shit. No, thank you. We're here. I'm here. I'm here for you. Even if you've caused me harm in the past. Cause me tears. I'm still here for you. You can't tap in my energy, and I have a very limited uh friend zone. Thank you. But I'm out there. I'm here. Here to help. And we have to go inward. We have to meditate. We have to journal. We have to get it all out of what we're feeling and why we do what we do to others. And why we do what we do to ourselves. Like, truly. Why? I love listening to um Facebook reels on various things now. I'm all over the place now. Um, but yeah, it'll teach you if you listen. And discernment's everything. And discernment is obtained by going inward. Knowing what you're receiving versus what you're festering. Let's call it that. Receiving a download is that that energetic nudge of like, oh yikes. And people have to figure out their own ways, you know. They really do. As a mentor, and I am available for hire for my time. They come in one hour and two hour slots, we'll even do a half an hour. You can go on simplyj.net, simplyjrocks. And you can go um on Peely Wellness and book my time. I send you an email, there's a link in my signature. You can tap into that too, the scheduled time with me. You get to uh experience my energy. You can't have it though. You gotta find your own. Because you do have it. We all have it. And hence why I don't hold on to negative energy. Hence why I don't hold on to people that have tried to just take and take and take. I got no room for it. No, thank you. Return to center. I don't want to live in it. I distance myself from people because of it. I see it. When you the way you carry yourself, right? The way you talk to yourself. You're gonna hold yourself accountable. I do. It's not fun. It's not fun, you're like, oh when I speak there's truth. And if you don't want to listen, that's your problem. Right? So think about that. If someone doesn't want to listen to you, it's not worth talking. You just sit quietly and observe. And you wait to be asked. So yeah, there's that. So if you wanna work with me one-on-one. Yeah, there's a curriculum, but we're just gonna walk it through. Um I've had I've had clients that are literally like, you just made me realize something that I need to unpack and I need to take time for me. Oh my god, I love that. You'll have your little power moment. One step at a time. The universe is always working with you, not against you. Your higher power is always working with you, not against you. Oh my god, my higher power, she's so badass. You won't get to know her full name though. I've had people try to use that against me too. It's really sad. I can understand why healers retract. They're out healing and then they retract. And they're like, nope. I don't want to be out there anymore. I don't want to do all the things. And then you have the healers that just want to take and not contribute. And that's unacceptable. And they need to be held accountable. Period. Even Pele's gone through cleansing. We're redesigning our entire board of directors. Confirmation. No more. You see what you see, and you can't see it anymore, and you act on it. So as an conscious empath, you try and support a human, and then when you realize they're just taken and taken and not contributing, guess what? You're cut off. Return to center. That's truth. Thankfully, a lot of people have either gone away themselves, thank you, thank you, thank you, learned the lessons, or I have disconnected. I am a gift. I am a beautiful, beautiful human of Christ consciousness. You see it, you feel it, but you can't tap into it. Return to center. So that's a lesson for you. No, thank you. And it's not just humans, by the way. There are other forces trying to tap into our energy and feed us all this shit to control us. If you don't know, then you need to know. And don't let it fuel you and get you all fired up and upset. Because that's just fuel in the fire. We have to just recognize it and say, no, thank you. Return to Center. My daughter in the grocery store. Her and I are hysterical. And I know other people just laugh. Because she's like, can I have Oregon's? No. And then she'll try, but why? And all melodramatic, you know. Because she is an actress. Um. And I go, no. And then when she keeps poking, I'm like, flip over the package and pronounce all of the ingredients to me. Go ahead. Do it. There you go. No thank you. She knows. She's learning. She knows. She realizes fast food, most fast food is not even food, by the way. Um. She realizes 75% of the grocery store is not food. She knows. She's 10. Like these kids know if you'll teach them. But we have to hold ourselves accountable too. McDonald's, it does, it creates some sort of comfort. It's because we've been programmed. I ate as a child. And it was it was like a gift. You know, it's like, ooh, Fridays. Go to McDonald's. Ugh. And I had this insatiable appetite. I would like eat and eat and eat. And plus I was eating for comfort. Which is really sad. Right? So as an empath, we have to be careful because we feel it all as a psychic, as all the things I am. I feel see it all. I see it all, I feel it all. I hear it all. And it can be a little scary, quite frankly. But we don't want it to be. It doesn't need to be. Confirmation burp, excuse me. It doesn't need to be. My world is about to skyrocket into the sky. Opportunities are here. Opportunities are coming for me. Thank you. I shall receive. Thank you. Do you hear what I'm doing? You picking up what I'm putting down? Just pick it up. You need it. You're welcome. I woke up, I'll leave you this. I woke up um the other morning singing, What can I sing except you're welcome? You're welcome. Like, yep. You're welcome. I have souls in the ethers. When I'm sleeping, uh saying, thank you. Julian, thank you. Thank you. Higher source, thank you. Thank you, higher soul, thank you. Such a blessing. I am a grateful, grateful human. And whatever definition of blessings out there, I know I do not accept. I like saying that. I do not accept what it means. I'm redefining it. It means a very guided, loved human. She has to try to get out of her own shit when everyone else's pretty much, right? So what can I say except you're welcome? You're welcome.