Connie Russert, M.S
Connie@ToolsforTransformation.com


Connie Russert, M.S.

A Slovenian Newspaper
Interview
with Connie

"In cases where individuals have not
exhibited mediumistic ability since childhood,
channeling usually occurs as a
breakthrough
during the
process of spiritual development."


Rosemary Ellen Guiley, Harper's Encyclopedia of
Mystical and Paranormal Experience, 1991

 

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Meet Connie" page first!

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When did you start believing your channeling is authentic? 

The first time I remember being amazed by my own channeling was the first time I channeled for a group. (This was probably within a month after I discovered I could channel.) A woman was having a problem with her teenage son.

I was able to go to her son and feel how he was feeling. She was amazed at how accurate I was at portraying her son. It helped her to understand why he was acting out and how to best communicate with him.

What was the next step?

Jim wanted to continue experimenting with me as a channler. He brought people to me. Then I began channeling for friends. For five years I channeled for people without charging money.

It was my time to test it out…to make sure it was real. I did not read anything about channeling. I did not tell people at work about my gift.

How do people get information about your channeling?

People generally hear about me from their friends. Some people find me on my web site.

What does your channeling look like? (Describe it please.)

The client and I are together for 1.5 hours. We spend the first few minutes going over the client's concerns – the reason the client came for channeling. It could be concerns about a particular relationship, about career, about life purpose, about life path, about finances, about health, about anything that one would go to a counselor for guidance.

After the client and I are clear on his/her concerns, we group them and prioritize them. Then I go into a trance-like state. My Master Spirit Guides, a gathering of 7 who call themselves Paularyo, speak through me. My voice changes a bit. My body movements change a bit. My cadence of speech and vocabulary change a bit.

Paularyo generally starts with reading the client's energy field and providing information on where and why the client's energy is blocked.

Then Paularyo provides tools for unblocking energy and for resolving the client's concerns so the client's life can move forward in his or life with ease.

Which guides from the Paularyo group do you contact most frequently?

Hmmm…that is hard to say. I really don't know which one comes forward most often. They each have their area of speciality, so it depends on the issues the client brings.

How has your life changed since you've started channeling?

On the outside my life looks different. After 13 years of channeling I resigned from my mainstream job as a college counselor. I now dedicate my life to the service of channeling and counseling.

On the inside I am quite different. Before I began channeling, I had no spiritual source. Church never made sense to me – it felt controlling and dogmatic.

What I have learned from Paularyo does make sense to me. I have learned tools for bringing love, peace, joy, and healing to my life. I am not a guru. I have not perfected these tools myself.

I am human just as my clients are human. I have compassion for myself when I fall into my old habits, and come back to allowing it to be easy.

What's your diet like?

My body is ultra-sensitive. I am allergic to many foods. I am extremely hypoglycemic and borderline diabetic. Thus, my diet consists of low carbohydrates, and almost no alcohol. I believe my body is sensative as a reflection of my energies, so that I can channel.

What does the ability to channel mean for you personally?

My gift of channeling is an honor for me. I am humbled that I have this gift, and that I can offer it to people so that they can heal their lives.

Who can benefit from your seminars?

The only condition is that you come with an open mind, joyful anticipation, and a passionate desire to make personal transformations which lead to allowing your life to be easy.

What energetic toll or drain do your sessions take on you?

If I only do one session a day, my energy is lifted. During my session I have the spiritual energies of Paularyo running through my body. It leaves me feeling great. If I do two sessions in one day, it is a drain on my energy.

The spiritual energies of Paularyo put me on overload. So, I cannot do a session the next day. I limit myself to one session per day unless I am out-of-town.

How much of the information do you remember, when you're back in everyday consciousness?

When the channeling is over, I recall parts of it, as if it were a dream. The next time I do a channling, I forget the previous channeling.

What's the role of professional ethics in your channeling?

My professional ethics are the same as any professional counselor – that is, I do not reveal what happens during my sessions to others.

How do you distinguish between your everyday consciousness and the state of consciousness you reach during channeling?

When I am in the trance-like state, my thinking changes. I LOVE everyone. There is not one shread of judgement in me. My thinking becomes very clear. The information flows through me with a sense of knowing.

How do your family and friends feel about your channeling?

My friends are divided into two groups. I have friends that know what I do for a living, but are just not interested. So we don't generally talk about it. I have other friends who come to me for sessions.

My family can also be divided into two groups. My sister is a born-again Christian who fully believes that I am doing the work of the devil, and leading others to hell.

The rest of my family has a sense of what I do, but not a full understanding. They accept me. We generally don't discuss it.

How do you explain that your Guides have chosen you for their Channeler?

I believe Paularyo wants their tools for spiritual transformation to reach the mainstream…that is, people who are just like me – looking for a spiritual path that makes sense.

I believe my Guides waited to show themselves until I was finished with graduate school, so that I would have mainstream credentials which lends credability to my work.

I was skeptical when I discovered my gift – just like many of the people who come to me. I am the everyday person…very grounded. I dress and look just like the mainstream.

How can people distinguish between authentic Channelers and fakes?

Authentic channelers always provide uplifting information, never criticize or tell you what to do. The Guides provide energy and information for your healing.

Deceivers try to build a dependent relationship with their clients. That is, the client must keep coming back in order to heal.

In your opinion, what's the key for healthy and happy life?

I believe that we all go through the ups and downs of life. There is no avoiding that. It is all part of the plan. For example, in order to fully understand happiness, we must also experience sadness.

I believe the key is not to expect a life that is 100% of the time happy, but to expect a life where there will be down times. It is during those down times that we have the opportunity to learn the most.

It is during those times that we can learn not to judge someone we feel has judged us…that we can love someone we feel has hurt us…that we can have compassion for someone that we feel has betrayed us, etc.

As we become more and more able to live a life of love, compassion, and forgiveness…our lives become easier, filled with joy and peace and healing and passion for our paths. That is our goal.

How efficient is healing in cooperation with your Guides? Which diseases can they prevent or heal?

Paularyo doesn't prevent illness or heal you. You heal yourself. Paularyo provides you with tools for healing. You can choose to use those tools, or not.

Many people have used these tools to heal themselves physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. Healing is an on-going process. As I said above, we will always have healing challenges in our lives. It is how we respond to these challenges that is important.

What message do you have for people in Slovenia, where you will have sessions and workshops in September this year?

I am deeply honored to be able to come to Slovenia to provide channeling and intuition seminars for you. And I am eternally grateful to Nada for making all of the arrangements.

My vision is to bring to you tools which you can use to tap into your own intuition, to make contact with your own Spirit Guides, and to learn tools which you can use right away to bring peace and ease and joy and healing to your lives.

What kind of Messages do your Guides have for humanity?

I recently did a channeling which I think clearly summarizes Paularyo's guidance for us. I'll send it to you.

A Message from Paularyo

My dears,

Know that your Master Spirit Guides and your Angels, and the Masters are with you always. Know that you need only invite them into your energy field and they will be there to support you as you walk your path. Know that they want to assist you. Know that they can be with you at all moments. Know that they are not limited by your third dimensional reality.

Allow yourself to be generous with yourself. Allow yourself to receive as well as give the energies of your Master Spirit Guides, of your Angels, of the Masters, of the Source, of your Ancestors, of Mother Earth. They are there. Waiting to be of service.

Allow yourself to visualize your energy field as a bubble. Allow yourself to live in your heart. Know that your mind, your head, is a tool for you. It is the place where you store, where you file, where you retrieve information. Live from your heart. Go to your head to store or retrieve information. Present it from your heart.

As you live your life from your heart, you are in faith. You are in trust. You cannot be in your heart without being in faith and trust.If you are living in your head if you are trying to solve your everyday challenges from your head then you are not in faith, you are not in trust. You are in "control." You are trying to control the energies of the universe which will not be controlled and cannot be controlled.

Moving into your head, in an attempt to control, is a pattern that you established as a child. Children have a need to be able to predict. That is why children like to have the same book read to them over and over and like to watch the same movie over and over. In their little world they want a sense of prediction, which is interpreted by them as a sense of control. They begin to believe that they can control their environment.

This happened to you. This happens to all beings. This is not a mistake. As you go through your childhood and your young adulthood, you have the perception of the ability to control. This allows you to experience the opposite of Truth. It is important for all of you to experience the opposite of your Truths. It is part of the human experience.

As you experience the opposite of your Truths, as you experience the opposite of your innate Spiritual Essence qualities, it allows you to develop a level of compassion that is deeper than the compassion you were born with.

Imagine, my dears, that you are holding a baby. As you look into this child's eyes you see compassion. You see wisdom. You see faith. You see trust. It is a reflection of your own compassion, wisdom, faith and trust. It is a reminder to you that you were born with compassion, wisdom, faith and trust. As you grew up you buried it to some extent. As an adult you have the choice to remember is and enhance it.

Your purpose for being on the Earth at this time is to enhance your Spiritual Essence qualities. One of them is compassion. That is the most critical of all of your Essence qualities for you to enhance. For as you are in compassion for others, you are in compassion for yourself. Your life is a life of ease. That is what we wish for you. That is what you wish for yourself.

As you are in your heart as you are in faith as you are in trust…you are in compassion. Your life becomes a life of ease.

Let us use as an example the being that you have recently criticized.. Imagine for a moment that you are in your heart. Imagine for a moment that you can have compassion for his or her soul. You do not know what this person came to learn, and you do not know what he came to teach. You do know that everything happens for a purpose so you have compassion for his soul. As you have compassion for his soul, you come out of fear, you come out of criticism, you come out of anger, you go into peace. You go into faith. You go into trust. You have compassion for yourself.

Know that there is a plan which is often incomprehensible to beings who can only see and comprehend at the 3rd dimension.Imagine for a moment that you are not limited to the 3rd dimension. Imagine for a moment that you are a multi-dimensional being. Imagine that you are in faith, you are in trust.

Image how moving into faith and into trust will change your life on a daily basis as you know that when you are in faith, when you are in trust, when you are in compassion...then you trust yourself.

That is what we want for you, my dears. We want you to trust yourself. We want you to have faith in yourself. We want you to have compassion for yourself.

And, most of all, we want you to allow it to be easy. Whatever "it" is at the moment. Allow it to be easy. Be in your heart. Be in faith. Be in trust. Be in compassion. And, my dears, allow it to be easy.

We leave you now with blessings of love and joy and peace and healing and passion for your path, knowing that you can allow it to be easy.

Good day.