In This Episode

Episode Highlights

• Baba Sam Shelley’s Story: From living with multiple chronic conditions and constant pain to discovering meditation and experiencing profound healing.
• The Power of Mindfulness: How meditation became Sam’s lifeline and the practical steps he took to change his mindset.
• Spiritual Awakening: Insights into Sam’s awakening experience and how it shaped his purpose.
• Helping Others Heal: The methods and philosophies Sam uses to support others on their healing journey.
• Facing Skepticism: How Sam addresses doubts (his own and others’) and the importance of personal experience over dogma.
• Practical Tools: Simple, actionable tips for listeners to begin their own journey toward inner peace and healing.

• Baba Sam Shelley’s Story: From living with multiple chronic conditions and constant pain to discovering meditation and experiencing profound healing.
• The Power of Mindfulness: How meditation became Sam’s lifeline and the practical steps he took to change his mindset.
• Spiritual Awakening: Insights into Sam’s awakening experience and how it shaped his purpose.
• Helping Others Heal: The methods and philosophies Sam uses to support others on their healing journey.
• Facing Skepticism: How Sam addresses doubts (his own and others’) and the importance of personal experience over dogma.
• Practical Tools: Simple, actionable tips for listeners to begin their own journey toward inner peace and healing.

• Baba Sam Shelley’s Story: From living with multiple chronic conditions and constant pain to discovering meditation and experiencing profound healing.
• The Power of Mindfulness: How meditation became Sam’s lifeline and the practical steps he took to change his mindset.
• Spiritual Awakening: Insights into Sam’s awakening experience and how it shaped his purpose.
• Helping Others Heal: The methods and philosophies Sam uses to support others on their healing journey.
• Facing Skepticism: How Sam addresses doubts (his own and others’) and the importance of personal experience over dogma.
• Practical Tools: Simple, actionable tips for listeners to begin their own journey toward inner peace and healing.

Resources & Links

SAM’S LINKS:

• Sam’s Free Book
• Sam’s Website
• Sam’s Podcast

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• Scott Allan’s Website: https://www.mediumscottallan.com
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Unedited Transcript

[00:00:09 – 00:02:07]
All right. He was sick. Very sick. Multiple sclerosis, bipolar disorder, chronic pain, migraine after migraine. For 38 years, Baba Sam Shelley lived a life most of us would. Wouldn’t choose and few could endure. He was told it was incurable, unfixable, just the way it was going to be. But then something changed. He didn’t find a miracle pill. He didn’t stumble into a groundbreaking treatment. No, he found something far more unexpected. Stillness. Through meditation and inner peace, Baba Sam experienced something doctors couldn’t quite explain. The illnesses disappeared. The cane gone. The medicine unnecessary. Now he’s on a mission to tell the world that a diagnosis isn’t a destiny. That healing, real healing, comes from within. I’m Scott Allen. This is the Enlightened Life podcast. And if you think you’ve heard stories of transformation before, just wait. Baba Sam, welcome to the Enlighten Light podcast. You’ve been through a lot. Decades of pain and the kind of struggle most people can barely imagine, and yet here you are, and you’re healthy, whole, and ready to share what you’ve learned. You know, it’s a rare thing to turn a life like that around, and even rarer to come out with the kind of wisdom and peace that you carry. So I’m really glad you’re here. I. I know this conversation is going to be something special, so thank you so much for joining me.

[00:02:08 – 00:02:14]
It’s real pleasure to be here, Scott. Really an honor. I’m looking forward to our. Our little conversation here.

[00:02:14 – 00:02:27]
Me as well. You. You lived with illness for decades. What was it like to carry that weight around every single day, knowing your body was failing you, but your mind was still searching for answers?

[00:02:28 – 00:03:56]
Yeah, that’s really what it was. The mind was searching for answers, and there really was none out there in the world. You know, you’re constantly bombarded with the incurable stories. You read all the medical literature on multiple sclerosis, bipolar, you know, whatever the condition may be, and it’s always with a negative bias. They’re always saying these are the worst things that can happen. And of course, the mind attaches to that, and that makes. Becomes part of your reality. I’m taking this medicine. These are the side effects that come along with this medicine. And your body so cling to. Oh, so I’m supposed to be feeling fatigued, I’m supposed to be feeling this from the medicine, and then you’re already naturally fatigued from multiple sclerosis and everything else. It’s really a lot of burden that the, the body really begins to carry because the mind is addicted. This pain body is always grabbing onto all this negativity. And if we’re constantly surrounded in negativity, well, how is your life going to be molded? Because I know when I was really going through a lot of stuff, I would wake up every day like what else is going to go wrong today? So when you’re always focused on the wrong life goes in that direction. You know, I was always asking questions like am I going to be able to walk today? Can I see today? Will I have a migraine today? These are my real fears that I had every day. But when you’re consumed in fear, life just goes in that direction that does not supportive to living a happy, enjoyable life.

[00:03:57 – 00:04:06]
So at what point did you realize that this path that you were on just wasn’t working? Relying on doctors, medications and treatments, they just weren’t giving you any hope or healing?

[00:04:07 – 00:07:50]
Yeah, but I was still looking at the doctors and the medicine because that was my world. I wasn’t really into the spirituality, this alternate hell. It was always like that’s woo woo, that’s out there. And it just sort of wasn’t really my world. And one of the things that I remember when I was in my 20s, bipolar, suicidal, in the hospital, so I didn’t kill myself, was my uncle came in to my hospital, he’s an evil evangelical pastor. And he came into the hospital room, he tried to cast a demon from my head. So that, that did not help. That actually closed some windows with spirituality and religion because suddenly I’m possessed, I have these demons in my head or something like that. And it was just not supportive. It was really by no chance, you could say that I found a way out because I was never, I was always just in this medical world of doctor’s medicine, diagnosis. And that diagnosis did become my destiny because everything I was reading was in reinforcing that I’m going to be stuck with multiple scores forever. I’m not going to be able to walk. Bipolar, the arthritis, the migraines, everything was this going to stay in place? Because I was just consumed in this negativity that I call, you know, the, the head trash. We really get this, this head trash and this pain body build up from that head trash. So it, it’s really was finding a different way out. And the way I found my way out was barely by chance. But ultimately there is no chance or luck. It’s a matter to see that life unfolds as it needs to unfold for our spiritual growth. But I know this doesn’t make sense for a lot of listeners, so we have to go back to when I had multiple sclerosis. I had a lot of fatigue. It was difficult to walk. My vision was really poor. So it was really challenging times. So I remember at the end of the day, I would just be completely wiped out. Exhausted, though, I’d sit down in front of the tv. It was a couch potato. One of the things I used to like to watch was ghost hunting shows, but I didn’t know if it was real or fake. It was this entertainment, something to watch. But then I saw a tweet from the Ghost Hunter, the show that was watching Ghost Hunters, watching that. And it was like, oh, there’s an event here in Philadelphia. I can go to that. You know, I can get a room nearby because I know the fatigue is going to be bad. And it does so in the summertime. So I’ll need my. My cooling vest with the Ms. Because the body really shuts down with heat with multiple sclerosis. I’ll get my canes. I had to get all my gear together to go to this event, and I did that. But I know it was only going to be good for. Even with all my gear for about an hour, maybe a little over an hour. So I did some research on, you know, Fort Mifflin and Philadelphia, and it’s like, okay, so apparently, if these ghosts are real, I’m going to have an experience in the casemates. If there’s anything to be witnessed, will be in the casemate. So they had all these groups going to different areas. And I was like, nope, I’m going to the group with the casemates. I’m not sticking with my group. I’m going over there. So I was in this area of the casemates. There really wasn’t much happening. One of the experiences, a few things that happened. The one experience that really got my attention, I’m sitting there on a bend in the dark. You know, really not much is happening. And I just called somebody sitting next to me that didn’t have a body. There were just somebody just sat there next to me that had a bunny. Like, then I just felt this overwhelming sense of dread come over me. Like, okay, that’s interesting. So there’s. These ghosts are real.

[00:07:50 – 00:08:04]
And that’s hard to describe, isn’t it? You tell somebody you found someone next, and trust me, I get it right? But you, like, you have someone next to you that doesn’t have a body, like, People think you’re a little off your mind. What do you mean? What does that feel like? How do you even feel that? You do?

[00:08:04 – 00:09:43]
Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you’re just sitting on a bench, you can tell someone might sit next to you. It was like, the same thing you felt. This next tune is like, oh, that. That’s weird. So these ghosts are real. So what this led me to, I was like, oh, well, who speaks to ghosts? Oh, mediums. So let me go read a book from a medium. And I was reading this book from medium. I think it might have been Allison Dubois. I’m not quite sure. It could have been her book that I was reading. I don’t remember. It was a while ago. But in the. In the book, eventually they talked about meditation and how to use meditation to get into their space for this communication. And one of the things they talked about was the benefits of meditation. And one of the benefits of meditation was inner peace. And, like, I need inner peace. I am so stressed, so overwhelmed with life. So I had no clue that meditation would create healing. I was just focused on, like, meditation creates inner peace. I need some inner peace. So this book talked literally a page and a half on meditation. It was very, very small. The section. So it’s just basically, sit quietly and relax is basically the instructions. But I was under the impression that when you sit in meditation, the mind stopped thinking. So what this got me into. So the mind. I was sitting there relaxing, so the mind starts thinking. I be like, oh, stop thinking. Mind thinking, stop thinking. Then after about three, four days, like, wait a second, wait a second. If I’m aware of my thoughts, I’m not my thought. This was a huge realization for me to see that I had thoughts. Say that again.

[00:09:43 – 00:09:46]
If. If you’re aware of your thoughts, thoughts.

[00:09:46 – 00:12:01]
Then I’m not my thoughts. I probably can witness my thoughts because I realized I was a thought chasing a thought. So that was a huge epiphany to realize, wait, I’m aware of my thoughts. I’m a witness to my thoughts, but I’m not my thought. This was a huge realization because I took my thoughts as a source of truth in my 20s and nearly killed myself twice because of that mental darkness. So now I had this awareness, wait a second. I have thoughts, but I’m not my thoughts. So my next question was, well, not my thoughts, then who am I now? Before there’s all that identity, personality. I have bipolar. I have Ms. I was completely identified with my diagnosis. So then I was sitting with that question. But my meditation practice Was very simple. I was sitting five minutes in the morning, five minutes in the evening. That was my whole practice. Five minutes twice a day with my practice. Very simple. Just sitting there quietly. But now what would happen when mine would start thinking? I wouldn’t say, stop thinking anymore. Like, oh, where are my feet? I bring my attention back to my feet. So that was my practice. So now. But I was sitting with the question before we go in meditation, like, well, who am I? So I didn’t sit with this question of who am I? And I was doing that for maybe about two weeks. I was sitting with that who am I? Question. And this one evening, I just heard a voice say, perfect spirit. I’m like, that’s it. My spirit is perfect. It’s simply the body and mind that are damaged. And it’s really hard to describe. When I was just sitting there, I just felt this great sense of peace come over me. Then I just had a knowing that all was well. And I just knew all my health challenges were over in that instant. And you knew that I knew it was over. Well, took the body some of the time to catch up with that reality, But I just knew it was all over. And the body started to recover from that day. And then it was just getting these. Either hearing the voice or that my intuition or sometimes it’s definitely feeling. And it’d be like, okay, like one of the feelings I had was like to do yoga. I just had an impulse to go do yoga.

[00:12:01 – 00:12:01]
Yeah.

[00:12:01 – 00:12:24]
So I didn’t. The mind no longer had power or me. So mine would. Was onto all the stories. You don’t have flexibility, you don’t have balance. You can’t do yoga. The mind was in all these stories. I just ignored it. I just trust, trusted this voice or this knowing that I need to go do yoga. So the next day I signed up for a monthly unlimited card at a yoga studio. I just did it.

[00:12:24 – 00:12:25]
That’s awesome.

[00:12:26 – 00:12:51]
So six months after doing yoga, no more cane. I was no longer heat intolerant. Like, the body was really coming back. I was tapering off medication. I was really, you know, the body was really starting to make a really strong recovery. And within 14 months, no cane, no heat intolerance, no medicine, no symptoms. The body was completely recovered within 14 months of hearing that voice.

[00:12:51 – 00:13:18]
So, so let me, let me be back. Meditation is really where it started. Right. Why do you think the medical community dismisses healing practices like this? What, what do you think? Is it, is it, is it. Do you feel that it threatens their authority or, or financial Profit. What is, what is the reasoning behind it? Because I’m sure your doctors didn’t understand how is this happening, especially ms, you know.

[00:13:18 – 00:14:07]
Right, right. Yeah. Because they’re just really not taught that, you know, that we were talking before the show is the doctors, they’re just treating symptoms. They’re not looking for root causes. Like, the doctors would never ask me, like, how’s your stress level? What’s going on besides my psychiatrist for the bipolar, but it was still medication. He never, he never told me. Well, have you ever tried meditation or a mindfulness exercise to, to, to get you to settle the mind or anything like that? And no, that wasn’t his reality. And I can look back today when I was suicidal in my 20s. He never wants to ask me why your thoughts to the truth. Yes, he too was his thoughts. He didn’t have separation.

[00:14:09 – 00:14:25]
So. So your healing was spontaneous. And some might call it miraculous. Others might say it’s coincidence or, or even wishful thinking. But how do you respond to people? How do you respond to skeptics when they say it’s nothing more than, let’s say, a placebo effect?

[00:14:26 – 00:16:56]
Yeah, it’s. It’s just really hard to explain. Like, like I recently posted about this. Like, you could have told the old sick me that meditation will do this for you, that yoga will help you with this. And I would have discounted it because I was completely wrapped up in the medicine world. It was really the pivotal moment for me was ghost hunting because I needed something to shift my reality. I needed this because I was always the type that I had to see it, to believe it. So now suddenly how somebody’s sitting next to me that doesn’t have a body. So Dr. Wayne Dwyer called these quantum shifts where we have these moment in times where reality just shifts and pivots dramatically. So it was that curiosity on my part to, oh, somebody’s sitting next to me, isn’t that fun? And just ignore it. Like, no, I was curious. So the ghost hunting with curiosity allow that door to be open. Without that curiosity say, hey, is there something more to this? Then nothing changes. Because when I was in this medicine doctor world, I was only reading about my ailments and the medicine and things. But I wasn’t exploring, like, why am I taking this medicine forever? Why is this incurable? Because they say incurable. Well, why is it incurable for me? And that’s why I want individuals to see today that a diagnosis is simply information. It’s. It’s not your destiny unless you allow to be your Destiny. So it’s really about being curious and saying, oh, they’re saying that I’m incurable with this. I’ve been working with a lot of Parkinson’s patients lately, and I getting into, into this deep space when I’m doing this inner healer, work with them to awaken their own inner healer. And I get them into this deep space and like, has your spirit ever told you you’re incurable? And they’re like, no, My, my spirit, my soul has never once said I’m incurable. Because we remember, like it says in the course of miracles, that there’s no degree of difficulties within miracles, that we are spirit, that we are soul, that we are consciousness. The same energy that created the universe is within us. But we, we don’t know this because we’re not taught this. But the yogis have been telling us this for three, four thousand years. And. But we’ve been hijacked in a way, with all this negativity and all this bias.

[00:16:58 – 00:17:23]
Yeah. Does belief have a. Have a part in this? In other words, if you have someone who doesn’t believe but says, I’ll humor you, I’ll humor you. Let me, let me, let me work with you. Does, does ultimately the belief in what’s happening help, or do you not really have to believe?

[00:17:23 – 00:18:06]
No, we have to realize the mind can go either way. It can either assist with healing or keep the illness in place. It can go either way. So that’s why I tell people, if you have the best medicine, the best doctors, the best surgeons, whatever it is, say you’re going for a surgery for something and you’re absolutely convinced this isn’t going to work for me, it’s not going to work for you. But if you have a glimmer of, like, I’m going to have this surgery, I’m going to function better after that, then that little bit of belief allows that opening for healing. But if you go to any situation saying this absolutely will not work for me, then it will not. Your mind will shut that down.

[00:18:07 – 00:18:27]
So I want to ask you too, and we talked about this before the show. There’s really a lot of debate about alternative healing, and some call it dangerous, irresponsible, especially if people reject traditional treatment. So how do you balance inner healing, you know, encouraging inner healing without discouraging medical care?

[00:18:27 – 00:19:50]
Yeah, it’s really finding that balance for you. Sometimes the body needs help. We have to understand it’s always about getting quiet, getting still. Usually we’re very reactive. We hear something, we pick up to it. We attach. We need to stop, pause and see how do we respond to this situation? This doctor’s giving me all this information. Does it resonate with you or not? If it’s resonating with you, like, oh, yeah, it feels like this is right for me. The body needs a little help. Let’s do this. Like if you broke your left arm. Yeah, the body can heal that fine, but without help, it’s going to grow crooked. You know, it needs to be set and needs to be. Yeah, it goes back straight. So we need that little assistance. So it’s, it’s always finding that balance, that middle way where you’re acknowledging you, the deeper essence and then the material, and then finding this middle way for you, your recipe forward because you’re the one that’s living in this body. Ultimately, you know what’s best for you and others are giving you information. Now how do you respond to the information? Most of us are just reacting to that, not taking it in, absorbing and say, okay, that’s a lot of information. What part of this is right for me and finding my way forward? It’s always about, you know, finding your way forward because no one has your answers except you.

[00:19:51 – 00:20:10]
Right? Right. So you’re in a healing school, encourages people to take responsibility for their healing. What if they don’t? Are there other circumstances where they just don’t or, or that their illness is just too far progressed or too. Too involved to. To really work?

[00:20:11 – 00:20:59]
No. That’s why I, I told individuals before that you are spirit, that there’s no degree of difficulties and miracles. I was once called in on a cancer patient. When I walked into the room, I saw literally she was days away from death. I worked with her for 90 minutes because she had all this negativity around her, all these stories, and her body was confirming that because it was stage 4 breast cancer metastasized into the bones. She was in really bad shape. But we worked together for 90 minutes and she lived for another five years because we were able to clear that negativity. It’s like she reached a milestone. She got to see her son graduate high school, and once her son graduated high school, then she’s like, okay, I’m done. I can leave now.

[00:21:00 – 00:21:13]
So she wasn’t healed. And she wasn’t healed to the extent that, you know, everything’s gone. The tumors are gone, the cancer is gone. I’m going to live to be 80. But it encouraged, created a little more longevity for her.

[00:21:14 – 00:21:51]
Right. Kind of more longevity, because you saw that there. But I think she Was doing really, really well. I don’t know what happened because she didn’t really keep up and keep in touch with me. This so I can see what was going on. So maybe I could assist to her because she showed up for one of my talks like on the two, three years after the hospital, and you would never know she had cancer. She looked like a pillar of health. It looked like she had absolutely no issues. So you said. It really seemed like, oh, my son graduated. I’m, I’m fine, I can leave now. But I think she, like when I saw her like two, three years later, she looked like the pillar of health. You would never know anything was wrong with her.

[00:21:51 – 00:22:08]
I mean, that’s incredible. It’s. It’s beautiful, you know. So when your body began to heal, how did it affect your relationships or even, you know, let’s say the view of the world around you? Did, did others start to see and believe when they watched you?

[00:22:09 – 00:24:38]
Yeah. So what it mostly did was people asking like, how did you do this? How’d you do this? How’d you do this? That was my motivation for writing my first book. So that’s why I wrote my first book was I don’t dwell because constantly I was dwelling in thoughts and I no longer was dwelling in thoughts. So that I, I did wrote that first book to explain that. But life shifted completely. You know, the marriage ended, the corporate job and that everything was sort of falling away. That was no longer serving me. Like my ex wife. She was still in that victim mentality that life was against her and all. She was still in that very much that negative world and the medicine, the doctors and all that. She just couldn’t, she couldn’t fathom, you know, my, my healing. It just didn’t make sense because she was totally locked up in the medicine. And look at my meditation practices. Something that doesn’t work or even though it was physically healing, it wasn’t part of her reality. She’d never had that quantum shift or that shift in reality. So it just didn’t work for her. And then I was working a corporate job, even though I was very sick. I was working a corporate job and a pharmaceutical company. So they were completely understanding if I need time off or whatever. So it was a perfect job for me to work. But one day I saw these two managers arguing over some issue, some problem, and I was off on the side laughing at them like, why are you taking this so serious? The world isn’t going to end. So it’s a shift in my reality now. I Don’t take things so seriously. I just realized, wonderful. The mind’s just. We have to realize that right and wrong, good and bad are all from our mental perspective. So there’s no ultimate truth from the mind because it’s just all based on opinions and perspective that. Like when I talked to Dr. Gabor Mate about my healing and he asked me all these questions, and he basically summed it up that I stopped taking the mind as a source of truth. And that’s. I think, what real people really need to do is stop taking your mind as the source of truth. The truth is deeper within you. That spirit, the soul, your aliveness in the body, that’s your deeper essence. And if this doesn’t make sense to you, realize you had a toddler body, a teenager body, a young adult body. You had thousands of bodies throughout your life. But the one who sees, the one who hears, the one who touches that has never changed. That’s our deeper essence.

[00:24:39 – 00:25:05]
So ms, typically we’re told it’s not curable. And, you know, of course, there are cancers that aren’t curable, and they, you know, that kind of thing that you can live with them and maybe the, you know, medicine or whatever it is can prolong your life. How is it the case for you? Is it really gone? I don’t know if there’s a genetic marker, if there’s a test for it, or is it just in remission type of a thing.

[00:25:05 – 00:29:10]
Well, if you look at my doctors, and this was 12 years. Yeah, it’s been actually 13 years. Actually been 13, maybe 14 years since I last saw my doctors. All my conditions, they put in remission because to them there was no getting rid of. They put everything in remission. But that’s been for 13 years now with no medicine and no nothing. So it’s just a matter of, like, we have to remember that we are consciousness, spirit, and all things are possible when we operate and live from this place. That’s why I talk to people who advanced Parkinson’s, and they are making interesting progress when they start coming back into who they are and finding their balance. So who knows what’s going to happen with them. But the ultimate thing is the body may be unwell, but we’re here to enjoy life. So we’re enjoying life to the best of our ability. And the body will usually catch up to that enjoyment, that energy that we’re putting out there. That I was always in a negative bias. When you put to a positive bias, life works out better because you were always miserable, depressed and Pain. And it’s really hard when you’re in pain to find that happiness. But you need to find a way to turn it around that what’s the thing that you do like to enjoy? Like there’s that story that somebody was sick with cancer or something. They used to watch comedy shows all the time and to stay in a place of laughter and joy and things turn from them. So it’s always finding that, that thing that can bring you into more of a positive or uplifted mood. Because if you’re miserable, you know, you’re in a lot of pain, you’re in a lot of discomfort, life will keep in that direction. But if you find a way to elevate that mood, then life, you give yourself an opportunity. Like we talked about before, that belief systems, I can or I can. When you deliver liverly thing like, oh, I can heal from spirit. Spirit can show me the way to maybe not get rid of this, but live a more enjoyable life. Because maybe there are some things within the body where it just really just decayed or worn down or whatever. It’s still possible for recovery, but maybe to the point where you really can’t recover the body as much as you would like. Because I saw for myself that I healed that pivotal time because my Ms. Was in a decline. I saw a permanent wheelchair was coming in my future rather quickly. So I was able to catch that right in time before the body declined to that point. Because once you get into the wheelchair and you start having that atrophy and the muscles and stuff, and it becomes even more of a challenge. But who knows? Everything is possible if you’re willing to have that patience with yourself and let go of all criticism and judgment of self. That’s really the one of the biggest keys that I’ve seen is removing all judgment and all criticism. Because we have to understand that our skill levels are where they are in this moment. And the mind will always look back and say, oh, you could do better. It’s like, no, at that particular point, you, you were doing the best you could at that point. So the mind always wants to look back. It’s like, no, you let go of all judgment, all, all criticism. Because that judgment and criticism will keep that things in place. And I see people with autoimmune disease where the body is attacking itself. I had three of them. And what’s happening when you’re judging and criticizing yourself, you’re poisoning your own inner environment. You’re keep your triggering autoimmune diseases. So you need to change that mood and there’s many components to autoimmune disease, but one of them is our inner environment. If you change that inner environment, then that’s one less thing for the autoimmune to cling onto. And I see auto autoimmune turn around when the judgment and criticism stops, and you just say, nope, my skill levels are where they are. Ignore the mind. It’s not your source of truth.

[00:29:11 – 00:29:16]
Wow. So after all those years of being sick, what surprised you the most about being healthy?

[00:29:17 – 00:29:42]
Just feels so surreal that I was sick for so long. It’s like, wow, I can actually, you know, and you can enjoy life. You know, I was talking to one of my students. He said I was actually able to stand up for my whole shower. It’s like, that’s beautiful because I know when I had ms, I had a shower seat, I couldn’t stand for a shower. And now I hear from my students, he’s like, yeah, I was able to stand for my whole shower.

[00:29:42 – 00:29:45]
Wow, that’s amazing. That’s fantastic.

[00:29:46 – 00:30:00]
So these little things we take for granted that we are able to do now that we forget. Like, at one point in my life, I couldn’t go get myself a glass of water. I couldn’t stand for a shower. All these little things that we take for granted, and it just. To do those things is a beautiful thing.

[00:30:02 – 00:30:09]
So what would you say to someone who’s listening right now and who might be feeling trapped by their own diagnosis?

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Yeah, if they’re feeling trapped, then, then reach out. I’m beyond head trash of my site, but I’m all over social media. I have hundreds of videos. I have my, you know, vibrant soul society, inner healer school. There are resources out there that will. Will show you a different way forward. And it doesn’t have to be a long time. I have videos out there. 60 seconds to enter peace. We only need a minute to come back to who we are. And it’s just a matter of just like, slowing down, stop reacting and learn to respond and to become present. And if you’ll know what present is, is to realize that you’re listening right now, that you’re sitting, that your feet on the floor. That’s present. That we’re either lost in our thoughts or we’re fully here. And once you become fully here, then you’re aligned with your spirit, your soul. Because your spirit, your soul is always in this moment. And anytime you’re lost in thoughts, you’re in a way, you’re disconnecting from yourself and your own wisdom, your own truth.

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Anything else you want to say before we close up?

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Yeah, just to the best. The best thing you can really do for you is just to relax, to stop leaving all those stories as your truth. Ultimately, the deeper truth is within you. It’s not outside of you. And Sister Mallory learning to go within and to realize. I had a very simple practice. I feel doing practices for one or two minutes, and that’s all it requires. This is putting those gaps in the thought stream, just little gaps in the thought stream. And more and more peace will come because they’ve actually, they have done a lot of studies that 30 days of meditation makes dramatic changes within the body. 30 days, and it could be a very simple one to two minutes of presence. And your blood markers will be different in a month.

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That’s great. Thank you so much. Baba Sam’s journey, my friends, reminds us that sometimes the greatest battles we face aren’t just with our bodies, but with the stories that we tell ourselves. For nearly four decades, he lived with a shadow of what medicine called incurable. And yet he found a way, not through science alone, but through something quieter, deeper, and profoundly personal. If you want to learn more from Baba Sam, visit his [email protected] a place where healing begins with the mind and the heart. And if you’d like to explore your own path, you can find [email protected] there you can book a private reading, dive into my work, and even grab a copy of my book in the Presence of Light. For those who love the mysterious and unexplained, catch me on Dark Echoes Paranormal. Streaming now on Amazon Video and Paraflex and coming soon to Apple tv. Thank you for joining us on the Enlighten Light podcast. Until next time, take care of yourself, because sometimes the story isn’t over. It’s just beginning. We’ll see you next time.