Passion Struck with John R. Miles - Amy Leigh Mercree on Unlock the Power of Your Energy Field | EP 676

Episode Date: October 14, 2025

In this live episode of Passion Struck, John R. Miles sits down with bestselling author and medical intuitive Amy Leigh Mercree to explore the profound connection between energy, awareness, and intentional living. They discuss how tuning into your personal energy field can enhance emotional regulation, deepen intuition, and improve how you show up in the world. Amy shares practical techniques for sensing and aligning energy, blending spiritual insight with grounded, actionable tools. Amy a bestselling author of more than fifteen books, including Aura Alchemy, A Little Bit of Chakras, and A Little Bit of MindfulnessAmy discusses how to turn your passion for healing into a thriving career of impact, purpose, and abundance, as a Certified Atomic Healing™ Method Medical Intuitive. Learn more: https://amyleighmercree.com/atomic-healing-method-certification/.Click here for the full shownotes!Go Deeper: The Ignited Life SubstackIf this episode stirred something in you, The Ignited Life is where the transformation continues. Each week, I share behind-the-scenes insights, science-backed tools, and personal reflections to help you turn intention into action.Subscribe🔗  and get the companion resources delivered straight to your inbox.If you liked the show, please leave us a review—it only takes a moment and helps us reach more people! Don’t forget to include your Twitter or Instagram handle so we can thank you personally.Get the full companion workbook at TheIgnitedLife.netFull episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JohnRMilesListen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcastsEveryone deserves to feel valued and important. Show it by wearing it: https://startmattering.com/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Coming up next on Passion Struck. People talk about the law of attraction, which is absolutely fantastic and totally something that I work with in my life. But it's also about our thinking, our feeling the state we're creating within us, and then the way that we're interacting with the external world as human projectors. So our thoughts, our feelings, the energetic movement in our body, all of that is going out through this lens of our aura. and then projecting out into our external world. Welcome to Passionstruck. I'm your host, John Miles.

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Whether you're designing your future, developing as a leader, or seeking deeper alignment in your life, this show is your invitation to grow with purpose and act with intention. Because the secret to a life of deep purpose, connection, and impact is choosing to live like you matter. Welcome back, friends, to Passionstruck. I'm so glad you're here. Whether this is your first time joining us, or you've been with us week after week. welcome. Over a third of you return every week, and that loyalty fuels this global movement. If this show has ever inspired you, shifted your perspective, or helped you take a step toward

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This Friday, I'll be making a very special announcement about a new project I've been working on for over a year. It's something I'm incredibly excited to finally share with you, so stay tuned. Today, for episode 676, we're going live to explore another invisible force that shapes how we experience the world, energy. My guest is Amy Lee McCree, a best-selling author of more than 15 books, including aura alchemy, a little bit of show. chakras and a little bit of mindfulness. She's a globally recognized medical intuitive, spiritual teacher, and Hayhouse author, whose work blends science and spirituality, from subatomic physics to shamanic practices. In this live conversation recorded at the Oxford Exchange, we explore what oras actually are in the fascinating science behind them, how energy fields shape

are perceptions, emotions, and interactions. Practical techniques to sense, cleanse, and stringent. and your own energy and how perspective and intention alter not just how we see the world, but the reality we project into it. Before we dive in, a quick reminder, our new store, start mattering.com, is live. It's built on a simple truth. You matter, live like it. Every hoodie, tea, and hat fuels the ripple of the mattering revolution. Check it out at start mattering.com. Now let's step into this fascinating world of aura science, energy fields, and intuitive intelligence, with Amy Lee McCree. Thank you for choosing Passionstruck

and choosing me to be your host and guide on your journey to creating an intentional life. Now, let that journey begin. Amy, thank you for driving up from up south. Amy was in the car for about three hours coming up here today. I really appreciate her making the drive. And for those of you who are perhaps not familiar with my podcast, I had Amy on

in episode 475, which I just hit 660, so that was probably 18 months ago. And we actually discussed this book, so we're going to expand on that today. I first kind of wanted to ask the room, when you come into a room like this and you see each other and the vibe of the room, do you all feel any energy presence amongst yourselves? Amy, when you come into a room like this, given this is what you study and practice, what kind of energy do you feel? So when I come into any space with a lot of people, I tend to seal up my energy field, which I can teach you all how to do, only because there's crowds. Now, all of you, of course, have fantastic energy. You're here to talk to us. You've come in because you may have listen to Passion Struck the podcast, which is fantastic.

But when I come into a space with a lot of people, the first thing I like to do is just have a little bubble around me and then make sure I'm coming in with the spirit of joy. So I'm raising frequency. And as somebody who's been intuitive for a lot of my life, I tend to turn down the volume on the crowds. But when we're in a room like this, to relax and open up and talk to all of you who are here to talk to us about common things that

we're interested in. Yeah, so what really interested me to Amy's work is I am fortunate enough that I get to see the early releases from all the major publications or publishers what's coming out. And Hay House happens to be one of my favorite who now publishes your books. And I happened to see your book coming out, but what really caught my eye was that you, Mac, you combined physics with spiritual practices. And I wanted to kind of understand what got you interested in that diverse mix? I've always been a science nerd. I've always been very into science, physics, all of that, even as a child. So as a child, I was a member of the Astronomy Book Club, and all kinds of things like that.

So I was always interested in that. And then in sixth grade, we did a unit called Matter Matter Everywhere that was about atoms and what they're made of, protons, neutrons, electrons. And I was hooked. So even from a young age, I looked at things in this way. Over time, I trained with my late medicine teacher.

I steeped myself in a lot of different traditions while I was in college. And then as I got the opportunity, to be a writer, I got to combine that with scientific knowledge. Like as later when we talk about oras, we'll get to talk about the actual science of oras. But it's been an interest almost lifelong of mine. Yeah, and what led you to writing this book now?

I mean, as the introduction just covered, I mean, you've studied and written about mindfulness, you've talked about crystals, you've talked about shockers, you've talked about, chakras. Why aura is now? So aura alchemy is my 18th book. And it was a study in the work that I do as a medical intuitive, where I do combine the science of particle physics,

quantum mechanics, with spirituality, clairvoyance, the systems of the body. So the aura is an extension of the body's energy system. So to write a book about that, It's kind of a gateway into how do we clean it, clear it, fill it with high vibrational energy. What do all these colors mean that people discuss? It was a really great entry point to get into the medical, intuitive, energetic side of things. And you start out the book by telling a story about your brother.

Yes. And you talk about natural sparkles. Yeah. I was hoping, because I think that sets up the whole book, you could talk about that. I love it. And it'll be fun to tell my brother I got to talk about her too. So when we were little, we had this area next to our house that we called the stream. And my brother was younger. So for those of you who have younger siblings, in the early years, if you're the older sibling, you maybe get to direct the little brother. As they get older,

they can pick you up and it's a different story. But when we were kids, we would make this thing called the stream and we happened to just have a yard that was sloping in a pretty suburban area and it was dirt because my dad hadn't filled the grass in for a long time was kind of on the side this was back before the days of water conservation it was up north so it wasn't an issue and we would turn on the hose except there was just a faucet and water would come out and so we would manicure it into all these different tributaries and streams, we put the G.I. Jones and the Star Wars figures there. And through all of that time, it was a multi-year process.

Our cousins did that with us, our neighborhood friends were, everybody came over and made the stream. Like fall, summer, spring, always. The winter, the stream was closed down. But during all of that time, I was looking at what I thought of as nature sparkles. And so I would see, you know, sparkles and they would be moving, they would be moving with the stream, they would be around the stream, and then as it got closer to dusk, I would see more.

And then I would even see what now we would call the aura or electromagnetic field of the tree line as we got closer to dusk, which is a great time to see all of that. Usually I would know to start looking for my friends, the trees. I would just think it was their glow close to the time when my mom would tell us to come in for dinner. So it was kind of an early introduction and for a long time I just assumed everybody saw that. And I actually think a lot of people do. I've now over the years shown many friends, family members, you know, anybody I'm out in nature with, especially when you're hiking and you're in a lot of,

less urban area, you can often see those sparkles if you kind of know how to unfocus your eyes and look for them. So it was something that I kind of thought everybody saw, it took me a while to realize they didn't. But that was again another point that was illustrative of me wondering what were things made of, what were these. So that's what was very exciting when I started to learn about science. And then, of course, as I was an adult, you know, really a voracious reader, being able to sort of create ideas around what these things might be.

And then what a privilege, as John knows, when we get to write books and share our ideas. No, it's awesome. Yeah. I'm not, for those who haven't listened to the podcast, I have a lot of different guests on, and I've been fortunate to have a number of astronauts. I think I'm up to eight or nine now and I have two or three astronauts who are very close friends of mine, including a naval academy, classmate of mine, and another who was my physics instructor. But you have an astronaut story, I understand. So you took this concept of sparkles to outer space. I did.

And not just with any astronaut, but with John Glenn. I understand when you were like fifth or sixth grade, you actually reached out to him because you had heard he had seen sparkles in space? I saw the movie, the right stuff. If any of you have seen, it's a great movie. And they showed when he was in Friendship Seven, he was in space.

They depicted his account of all of these sparkles around the capsule. He was in the early space program for those who didn't see the movie Or read, there's a book too. I think I read the book as well. So I think it was, yeah, fifth or sixth grade. And I was like, wait a minute. Sparkles in outer space, because I see these sparkles

in the stream, what are these? And plus I was trying to learn about matter and energy and thinking about what I used to anyways think of as the tiny universe. So I wrote a letter to John Glenn. So fifth, sixth grader, writing a handwritten letter, which I grew up with many learning disabilities. So my writing was not easy to read.

So I really had to sit down and take the time to make the letter legible, first of all, wrote the letter to John Glenn saying, I'm really wondering what do you think the sparkles around friendship seven were made of? And it was so exciting for somebody especially who was into science. And I wanted to be an astronaut, too, at the time.

I got this huge manila envelope back with signed pictures, all these different things about the space program, a letter, I'm sure, from his staff that appeared to be signed by him. It was like my prize possession for years. It was such a fun thing to, again, keep igniting that excitement for science, which I did actually go to school for education. I was a teacher as well for years.

And I really felt that was so important to keep the joy in the spirit and the excitement alive in all of these topics. Science was an easy one for me, obviously. So I want to talk about Oros. So this is something that honestly I didn't necessarily believe too much in when I was younger. I thought it was a bunch of foo-foo stuff. And when I was in the military, the military, I unfortunately was hit from behind by a rocket-propelled grenade, which caused me to have a traumatic brain injury. And I was in a coma for a couple weeks, and coming out of that, I had weird senses that I had never experienced before suddenly come alive.

And it was very much freaking me out because I started to see energy fields and colors and things like that and had no idea what I was experiencing. And I was in my mid-20s when this happened. And I eventually started to do some research on it and found out that what I was seeing was oras. But it was weird. And you and I talked about this the last time,

because sometimes I can see them and sometimes I'm unable to see them. And when I'm kind of in the zone of seeing them, and I think it's when I'm most in tune with myself, they're really vivid. And for part of my professional career, it was when I did have the capability, it was a blessing because I was able to very much read people

and their emotional state when I was in meetings. But one of the things you talk about is that oras are dynamic. And I, yes. And so that experience I had of them kind of coming and going, sometimes being able to see, because I don't think it's just my energy, it's the other person's energy as well.

Absolutely. Can you talk about that a little bit and the science behind it? Yeah, I mean, so the way I define an aura is a biologically generated electromagnetic field. It's made of subatomic particles known as photons, which comprise light, electricity, and electromagnetic force. So, we're always emanating this. Even now, I'm gesturing, you know, I'm Mediterranean,

so I'm gesturing all over the place. I'm speaking. All of this is happening due to the movement of electricity in the body, these photons. And they do have their own electromagnetic field. They're made of force. So in oral alchemy, you get a hopefully really fun science lesson in the beginning, but the reason for that

is so you understand that that photons are force and charge. They don't have any mass, but they are always there. So when we are talking, John and I are talking, we're interacting with you guys, we're all exchanging, emanating these photons. The photons that are moving through our brains are actually what are triggering and potentially even comprise our thought process. So when we're interacting, we're moving in a different away. But either way, photons never stop moving. Electromagnetic force in charge never stops moving. So our oras are so mutable and changeable because we're sitting here, but at the same time I could be thinking, I'm not, in this case, I'm very comfortable, but I could be thinking, wow,

this light is really bright, it's cold, I'm feeling this, I'm feeling that. So there's this other charge around somebody. So say in a meeting, what a gift, right, to be able to sense. in a meeting like that and definitely story of my life too sometimes it's too much and that's when we have to turn the volume down but in a meeting you know it may give you insight into the state of the other person and say you're negotiating or something so yeah they're always moving changing and i love to hear john is that still common for you all the you know years after your tBI to see that it like i said it kind of comes and goes i hope you've been enjoying today's conversation with amy lee mccree we'll be right back after a quick word from our sponsors thank you for supporting

the brands that help make the show possible you're listening to passion struck on the passion struck network now back to my conversation with amy lee mccree before i was at dell i was at uh loz home improvement and i remember i would i had been working on this huge project and the way we would get these projects approved is ultimately we would have to brief the CEO and his staff and the CEO and the CFO would ultimately make the decision. And so I came into this meeting so eager to have this and then I could just see that the CEO was inflamed in just a just bright red. Yeah. And for me, alarm bells started coming up that, that for me to give the

presentation in that moment, it wasn't going to land at all. And so it was discouraging because I knew I was going to have to punt, but it helped me realize that if I went through, it would have ended up in not the result that I wanted. Right. So did you not pitch? What did you do? Well, I still had to pitch, but I pitched it differently. I mean, because my boss was expecting me to pitch. Sure. So you couldn't be like, hey, look at his aura. So, yeah.

So I pitched it more instead of trying to get approval as instead using it as an opportunity to educate him more about what we were trying to do and lay the ground work for when we came back. Perfect. We would have a better chance of getting it approved because it was not a tiny project. This was like a $75, $80 million initiative. Yes. So the perfect case of reading the room. Yes.

And for those who shop at Lowe's, what I was pitching him is what Lowe's now calls my Lowe's, the whole loyalty management program. And at the time, the reason this was so controversial is Lowe's during that era said, we will never have a loyalty program and so bringing a loyalty program to them under those circumstances was rough as it as it was but it turned out we got it launched in a different way from a loyalty program this the person who's the CEO now has turned it into a loyalty program but a great opportunity to read the room since the energy of the person or people you're interacting with.

Yeah. Do you want to know how we ended up selling it? How? So at that time, for any fans of NASCAR, Jimmy Johnson was the driver for Lowe's. And we got more information on our customers by Jimmy Johnson's fan club because there were like 15, 20 million people in it

and we had access to all that information. Right. So we sold this as an extension of the Jimmy Johnson fan club that Milo's was a natural extension, and it would feed the bigger NASCAR piece. Get around the no loyalty program idea, which I'm sure later everyone said, oh, that's a great idea to have a loyalty program. It was. They just didn't want it to be like going into a grocery store.

Salesy. Yes, they wanted it to be more. customer centric. Yeah. But interesting story. What a fun story where an aura was able to help you ultimately close a business deal. So I want to get back to science just one second. You say that matter and energy kind of coexist or intertwine. Yes. How does that matter, since we're using the word matter to talking about oros? Great question. So we'll do a quick but really fun science lesson.

So in the land of existence, we have matter, energy force, and charge. Matter and energy are called, the particles that comprise matter and energy are called fermions. So that means they have mass. So that's, you've heard of protons, neutrons, electrons. Protones and neutrons are also made up of smaller elementary particles, which means the absolute smallest particles called quarks. But so those quarks, those electrons, the protons and neutrons, all that matter and energy, those are fermions.

They all have some mass, even if it's a little bit. You may have also heard of a particle called a neutrino. That is also a fermion, which means it has a little bit of mass. Now in the other side of things, we have bosons. Bosons have no mass. All they are is force or charge. So photons, which are light, are under that category of botons, not photons, bosons.

So are a bunch of other particles called gluons, something called the Higgs boson, which is the result of something called the Higgs field, which was postulated to have come into existence seconds after the the Big Bang, pervades everything, and actually helps through something called the Poly Principle, give matter and energy, its mass, and its heftiness.

But those are even bosons. So quick, fun, hopefully not too confusing science lesson, but to go back to ORAs, our body is made from the mass perspective of matter and energy. So protons, neutrons, electrons. But then these photons, this, light and electricity is running through our body. It's our thoughts.

It's causing all of our functions. The involuntary functions like breathing, the way that our heart is pumping blood, that is an electrical charge pumping the heart muscle. Everything is the result of the movement of photons in the body. So because photons are electromagnetic force, they're an electromagnetic field,

they emanate out and around our body. A really great example to destroy describe that is if we were to take like the light that's coming through a lamp or the lights above us, if it were to move that electrical energy and electricity would move through an uninsulated copper wire. It's comprised of electrons, which as we know have a little bit of mass, and photons which are just force and charge. So if we were to use a copper wire to power that light and have it not have any insulation around it, the photons, which are an electromagnetic force,

would travel on the outside of the copper wire. So that's why they're prone to emanating. They're prone to creating a field because they actually are a field. So we're just a walking charge. We are a field of energy woven through, moving through the matter and the actual energy in our body. We're actually forced and charge as far as the aura goes.

So hopefully that was a decent explanation. When I try to explain science, I like to keep it easy to understand, but there's a lot of particles involved. So I understand that you have some cleansing techniques. Yes. Is there a cleansing technique that we could have the audience? Sure. We can do lots of cleansing techniques. So we can actually do a cleansing technique, and then we could, like, fill up the empty space, too, with whatever.

frequency we want if we want to try that there's we'll see if these are in the book you'll have to check because there's a lot of there's gosh i think there's like 20 or 30 techniques in the book i'm going to have you use one that will actually get to benefit the space here too so one of the things we do talk about nor alchemy is do buildings spaces hills oceans have oras do are there is there energy around areas geographic areas and a lot of times there is so we'll also get to maybe benefit the space we're in just by filling it with good energy after so should we should we do this yeah okay so I'm up for it if the audience is yeah why don't we do this interactively so we're going to use an invocation first to make sure everything that happens is for the highest good

So I'll say it aloud, and you could repeat it, call and response, or if you'd like to repeat it in your head you can, but we may as well say it aloud. So we'll go ahead and do that, and then I'll just take you through the process. So I ask that all that transpires, that all that transpires, in the entirety of this aura cleansing, be for the very highest good. be for the highest good of all life and in accordance with universal natural law

natural law helping all and harming none helping all and harming none I ask that I be protected fully during this process that I be protected fully during this process and I welcome the presence of my highest vibrational

Are my highest vibrational? Guides. Okay, so now we have a nice intention. So if you'd like to close your eyes, I can take you through this aura cleansing process. So picture beneath this room about three feet, a sheet of white light. And you can picture it extending out

around the edges of the room up to 10 feet. It's a huge sheet of beautiful white light. Picture it there and it's sort of just gently floating and undulating on a cosmic breeze. This sheet of white light will now begin to raise up and you can just watch it raise up through the aura area, the charge underneath you, which is your connection to the earth. Watch it raise up through where your feet are and then up through your legs, through your knees. Watch this sheet of white light moving up through your torso, up through your upper torso, up through your head, and then watch it go up above you, moving up through the space above you all the way up, up, up, up, up till it goes up above the ceiling of this room. and then we'll just watch that bundle into a little ball

and go into the sun. We can just watch it go straight into the sun and be transmuted back into pure white light. And so now bring your awareness back into your body and notice how that feels. And if you would like to just popcorn style, say a word about how that feels, we'd love to hear that.

Light, light and bright. Free. Free? Clean. Clear. Peaceful and calm. Peaceful and calm. Fulfilled.

Like an exhale. Anything else? How did that feel? John. kind of a, like, took a weight off. Yeah. Lighter. Lighter.

It's a real easy way to just clear things out. And then we'll refill now. So a great principle after we clear energy is we may as well fill it with high vibrational energy. And my work as a medical intuitive and just a human. I think of joy as the highest vibration in the known universe. And it's really helpful in medical intuitive work for raising vibration. So again, you can close your eyes and just visualize up above your head about five, six feet,

your own individual beautifully gleaming golden faucet. And this is a joy faucet. And then see yourself turn the faucet on and watch pure white light. Maybe it has gold sparkles in it, cascading down through your body, through the top of your head, all around you in a really wonderful. stream watch it move through your body feel it move down through your body and out into the earth out your feet so you're just being rinsed out filled up with pure joy and you can say the word joy allowed after me to heighten that energy joy joy joy joy joy good so how did that

feel. You can tell us popcorn style if you'd like. Clensing. Cleansing, warm. Relaxing. Relaxing. Say that one again? Fulfilling. How did that feel for you, John? Joyful.

Joyful, yeah. A great way to uplift the energy of a room is just to repeat the word joy over and over together. And I always feel it like it's kind of coming up through the room. Like it is like, you know, raising vibration, but it sort of feels like an upward energy typically. So there's a little aura cleansing filling up,

and hopefully we're all feeling very joyful. So I'm a big football fan. We've got a big game here in town going on right now as we're doing this, jets and bucks. But I'm an Eagles fan. And like many people who watch the Eagles, they saw on the sidelines. A.J. Brown, the wide receiver, reading a book called Inner Excellence by this author called

Jim Murphy. And I happened to interview Jim last week, and we were talking a lot about perspective, which is something that I study a lot. But as I was reading the book, you also go into perspective and how energy can kind of turn it on or turn it off. And I thought that was really interesting. And I was hoping you could talk a little bit more about. Sure. Well, you know, perspective in so many ways. So some of us may be what sometimes we call empaths, highly sensitive people, things like that. So from that perspective, say we go into, I, for example, go into a space, I could feel bombarded. But I also could take 100% responsibility for my energy, seal it up, fill it with joy, and go in and feel really enlightened.

on the other hand some people have like a personality or a disposition where being in crowds really makes them thrive and so in those cases their perspective is this is awesome and it's filling me up so a lot of it is belief right it's how we're thinking and to go back to this idea of oras and electromagnetic fields it's the way that the photons which are light and electricity are moving through our brains and and creating our thoughts. And so we're charging our thoughts with whatever our emotions are,

whatever our feelings are, whatever our perceptions are, and our perspective. And then that's shaping our experience of reality. Well, thank you for that. And one of my favorite stories of perspective came from an astronaut, actually. And prior to him, being an astronaut. He was a Navy SEAL and he was at Buds and he was talking about Hell Week.

And he was just saying that when you're in something like that, there is so much pressure on you that it's so easy to fall into the perspective of, I'm never going to be able to make this. Sure. And he told me this story that there was, the commanding officer asked them to clean his office prior to Hell Week and so him and a squad go into it and on the desk right in front of them was the entire manual for what was going to happen for Hell Week. Oh. And his first thought was we should take it, we should understand it, we should everything.

But then his perspective shifted and he said, you know, we're probably being set up here in one way or another. And so he said, we should not touch it. I don't want to have anything to do with it. But two of his people in his squad ended up taking the book, spending the whole night studying it, copying it. And does anyone have a guess what happened the next morning? It was a completely different way. Well, those two who looked at the book,

their perspective shifted so much because they saw what was going to transpire over the next five days that they completely psyched themselves out and rang the bell which means they quit before they even started hell week and chris just told me that it was this great example of you know sometimes knowing knowing is a worse perspective than being able to handle it moment by moment and being able to deal with with the adversity that comes one angle at a time. Or one.

And my reason for asking all this is part of the book is really going into mastering success, which to me, when you're faced with a situation like that, like any trying time, it's how do you get yourself in the mental state to realize that trying times are going to end. And no matter how much adversity you might find yourself then it's a finite stage.

And so for me, this intuitive capability has always allowed me somehow to realize that no matter how bad the moment I'm in, there's another side of it that I'm gonna get through. Yes. How, I was hoping you could, might be able to expand on that using your science. Absolutely, you know, it's belief and it's thought.

And I would also say, too, with your story, I would imagine for those two people that did look at the manual, they also may have additional perception around, should we have done that? Were we in integrity with ourselves, with our, you know, commanding officer, with the job we were supposed to do? So imagine also how that's affecting their thoughts, another way of psyching themselves out. So in terms of adversity, it's a great question, and when we're thinking about success, if we begin to understand that through our thoughts, through shaping that movement of photons in our brain and throughout our body, we can create a state, whether it's an emotional state, a mental state, an energetic state, if we're going into something or we're experiencing adversity, and of course we're not in, let's say like, immediate danger or something like that. Because of course we have to deal with the situation. But if we're working through something or we're trying to have a certain outcome,

we have the power to take charge of our thoughts and even maybe use them to shape our feelings and our emotions, which then shapes our energy. It shapes the way that we interact with the world. You know, people talk about the law of attraction, which is absolutely fantastic. And I mean, totally something that I work with in my life. But it's also about our thinking, our feeling, the state we're creating within us,

and then the way that we're interacting with the external world as human projectors. So our thoughts, our feelings, the energetic movement in our body, all of that is going out through this lens of our aura and then projecting out into our external world. So if we've cleaned the lens, we've infused the lens with joy, then we're amplifying. And then if we're, for example, looking for a successful result, something we want to create, we could even infuse our thoughts, our feelings internal, then our auric area, and then let that lens magnify whatever we want. Now, if we're dealing with an obstacle, too, we could say, okay, I'm going to take 100%

responsibility for myself because I can. And how will I shape my thoughts, my feelings, my external reality from me. the inside out, and that affects our choices. It affects everything we do. So I think it's also empowering to see and sense and feel that, A, we have these fields, and B, we have some ability to affect them, and then that can extend out into our world. So if one of the audience members here has never experienced, experienced an aura, but it's wondering if they have the ability. Yes.

What are some of the initial signs? It's a great question. So like I mentioned, dawn and dusk are great times to see that. A really easy way to do that is, especially at dawn and dusk, to even hold your hand up. And so have it where, you know, you have a dusky sky and not a lot of artificial light. And then if you do hold it up, sometimes that's the time. Sometimes that's a time when you can sort of unfocus your eyes. And especially to see around the fingers around the hand, it's an easy way to see.

It's a way to start that process. And it's not just about seeing oras. It's about sensing oras. Maybe some people are a clear audience and they hear oras. I tend to have a psychic smell sense. I will smell things before they happen to. All the senses can be involved with, the knowing, even a taste, might come to you. Those of us who have synesthesia, which I think, John, do you have elements

of synesthesia at times from your TBI? At times. It sounds like maybe. Maybe you should explain to that. Yeah. So synesthesia, you know, there's lots of different explanations, but I just think of it as like sometimes my sense is mix. So, you know, some people might experience synesthesia. Like they look at a, for me, like I look at a number, but then I get like, different metallic tastes and maybe feelings or different things like that for me it's especially present with plants so that's why it's fun for me to use herbal medicine and things like that because I'll get a lot of input from plants that's like the medical intuitive side of it but in terms of seeing sensing it doesn't have to just be visual it can be a color constantly

to mine. Something comes to mind that reminds you of a feeling, a scent, a flower of your botanical person. But you can start by looking at the hand in dust. You can start by noticing, like I mentioned as a child, the aura around plants, especially big trees at dusk, are easy to see. And it's also opening up to that sense. It's also taking like a snapshot and a crowd passively is a great place to do that where maybe you're like sitting in the bookstore later and you're just having a tea and you could just like look at a crowd of people close your eyes relax gently open your eyes but with an unfocused stare that's a time where a lot of times it might not be color colors sometimes it's more like movement of energy or like heat off pavement when you see that thermal energy moving

that's a way that sometimes an aura will show you, it's moving, even though it looks a little bit clear. That's a common way I think people perceive oras. Because it can be a little bit distracting to walk into, if you weren't prepared for that, say you've walked into your meeting and everybody's oras are going nuts. It can be kind of a lot to manage that sensory input. So it can be nice to ease into it and use these types. techniques, and then the sense begins to grow, the more that we notice it and trust it. So I understand you have something coming up in October that has to do with Atomics. Yes.

So I teach the Atomic Healing Method. I have another Hay House product, too, that's called the Atomic Element Healing Oracle. So in that, every card is an element of the periodic table and has a healing property and a spirit guide associated with it. And then I also teach the atomic healing method medical intuitive certification, which is a nine-month deep dive into learning how to do what I do.

So I used to only teach this to private apprentices. Now this is the third year where I'm certifying people in this method that I've used for 25 years as a medical intuitive. It's a lot of subatomic particles. It's traditional Chinese medicine moving through that, lots of shamanic work. It's just like the biggest joy of my life

to get to teach that to my students. And what's the outcome? The outcome is you're certified in the atomic healing method, so you can use that from a career standpoint and you do a lot of medical intuitive work. You go through beginning, intermediate, advanced, expert level work.

In this training, you trade a lot with your partners. And then when you graduate, you can use that on yourself. your family, your friends, or some people use that for a career change as well. I have lots of wonderful practitioners. Some of them are brand, you know, came in brand new, and now they're doing these sessions like I would do. And then some of them are adding it to things like their holistic veterinarians,

cranial sacral therapist, massage therapist, distance, you know, Reiki healers. So it's another layer to learn from me on the medical intuitive side. Awesome. Well, I thought I would open up questions to the audience in case any of you had any, and I'm going to just repeat it so we can get it on the podcast if you have one. So if anyone has one, if you want to raise your hand. Eric, do you have a question? Can I ask a question?

Sure. John, would you tell us what inspired you to write Passion Struck? I want to hear the origin story of Passion Struck. instruct the book and the podcast? Well, I can tell you I never in a million years thought I was going to be doing any of this. I guess I found myself like a lot of people do in life where you're, you've been doing something for a while, but you feel like the universe is calling you to do something different. And I had been given this vision that I was supposed to help a great.

group of people. The words I were given was the lonely, the helpless, the bored, the broken. And I had no idea who they were. And so I was really struggling with how do you identify who that group of people are. And eventually I realized I was one of those people. And so once I figured this out and this all ties to my work around the science of mattering, I realized that. I realized that that I had become really invisible in my own life. And when I say invisible, my priorities were way out of whack. And so I started to really do this inner work where I started to try to analyze the people that have it or seem to have it all together and they are able to change course or to live

a what I now call a passion-struck life how are they doing it and and so I started to study anyone I could get my hands on it started with you know because I came from the business space looking at business executives but then I started looking at performers and athletes and then eventually doctors you know nurses just everyday people and and I came up with this set of principles that I started to see come up and up again and so I went through a period of two years of trying these things out on myself and that became the basis of what's in the book are the the 12 principles and so the so all that research happened before I started the podcast and so I was thinking of writing this book and you know what it's like to try to find an agent so I I started to

reach out to agents and all of them said a great concept but you don't have a platform and so how do you know that all this stuff that you're talking about is even going to work and so I decided to start the podcast as a way to test the ideas yes and thusly create a platform too because for anyone who's aspiring to write a book that's always like the big thing yes I well I think half the time they care more about your platform than they do the quality of your writing. I think so. But in your case, the writing's great. And then the podcast has just reached so many listeners because we're all asking those questions about meaning. You know, it's a universal thing, I think. Well, it kind of started, I was looking at more like peak performance. And then I did

shift after the first year of the podcast more to how do I look at human flourishing in every single possible way than I that I can from the aspect of personal people's personal stories from talking to health practitioners to neuroscientist to behavior of scientists so I could cover every angle that I possibly can so if you're not familiar with the podcast we attack it from pretty much every lens you can think of I've now gone to doing more of series-based approach, I must like you would see going to a contemporary type of church where they'll cover a series. So the series that we're in right now is kind of deconstructing

humanity. And so I've been looking at different aspects of the human experience through my solo episodes and through the people I bring on. So next week, for instance, I have two, we're talking about two people's personal stories. I have this gentleman, Joel Beasley, who's coming on, who's actually from Sarasota, moved to Tennessee, but he's going to talk about this major shift in his life that he is pursuing becoming a world-class comedian in improv. So his goal is, how do I sell out, how do I sell out Madison Square Garden someday? So he's kind of, he's kind of, of in the first year of this journey but he's already selling out venues so we kind of go through his and then I'm also talking to this woman Sandy Yaza Vokic and she is going to talk

about overcoming cancer and some other things and how she was able to beat the odds so yes so just a couple examples thank you for asking I love the podcast I love listening to it I'm I'm excited to listen to both of those, too. And in the land of all this wonderful research you've done, if you were going to share with all of us a couple principles around how to live this passion-struck life, what would you say? I'm just turning the question on you.

So it's interesting, since I just brought up that book, Inter Excellence. Has anyone here read it? I learned that the story that you told about... A.J. Brown? Yes. And then blow up. So almost the whole thing he talks about in the book,

like his big thing is fear. Is how do you confront fear? And it's one of the core principles in my book as well. But he ties fear to self-centeredness. And I think that there's an aspect of it. But in his, the way he lays it out is it kind of starts with our inner world. and then it goes to mindset and then it goes to your relationship.

So your inner world is your beliefs, your values, your mindset you can think of as the pathway to how you architect your life and then your relationships are how you connect with others. I thought he had a missing

which I talk about him. I thought he had a missing element and that is our behaviors because I thought you can have all the mindset in inner beliefs that you have, but if you're not intentional, which is what my book is about, about how you deploy them, it kind of goes, I had the same discussion with Angela Duckworth. Like, you can have all the grit in the world, but if you're non-intentional about how you're deploying it, you can be pointing it at the wrong thing.

Absolutely. So in the behavior of science world, they don't call it intention, they call it self-control. But it's really kind of the same thing. Yeah. Being intentional is, I mean, you can say an attention, but. But in order to make that intention come to life, it really does take self-control. Absolutely. So I would say that.

And then another thing he and I talked about that I like to talk about as well as your environment. So your environment plays a huge role in your outcomes. And so in the book, I talk about this whole idea of the mosquito auditor. And I really talk about it in the lens of the people who infiltrate your life. and I call them, I came up with this concept mosquito auditor because I was trying to think of how do you talk about those things in your life that really deter you from going to where you want to take it? And I came up and to me a mosquito was like that because they're so, they're so small.

You don't really feel a mosquito before it bites you. And so I came up with the invisible suffocator, the blood sucker and the pain in the ass are the three mosquitoes i talked about but those three mosquitoes are also the environments that we put ourselves in because those environments can suck the blood out of us yeah they can look make us look at the world like the invisible suffocator does from a half you know glass half full yes or they can become the pain in the asses that hold that are the weights that hold us from what we're achieving and he was really talking about this in the lens of Jim's a professional, former, he played for the Phillies organization.

He was talking about it in terms of a lot of professional athletes. They let the environment that they're in dictate their outcomes instead of them controlling it. So I would say that that environmental aspect plays a huge role in shaping the life you want to achieve. In the intentional living, in the intentional behavior, I think sometimes can overcome an environment that you're finding yourself in as well.

Absolutely. Yeah, I'm big in my own world on conscious and intentional living. That's kind of like a north star for me is being clear. So like the clearest one wins. So being clear on what what do we want. And that could be physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, anything. Yeah, it was actually one of your first books. That's right.

I love how you do your research, John. So, Amy, if people wanted to learn more about you, where is the best place for them to go, other than going downstairs and signing? Yes, come get a book. We have copies here of oral alchemy, a little bit of mindfulness, a little bit of goddess. My website is my name, amyelyemercre.com.

You can find everything there. That's also my Instagram handle. If you want to say hi to me on Instagram, I'd love to see you there. And I can tell you, she's one of the rare influencers who's on Instagram that you're actually talking to her if you send her a message. It's usually me, yes. Well, Amy, thank you so much for coming.

And Oxford Exchange, thank you so much for having us. That's a wrap on today's live conversation with Amy Lee McCree. What I loved about this episode is how it bridges the scientific and the spiritual, reminding us that energy isn't just an abstract concept. It's something that's measurable, malleable, and deeply personal. Here are a few reflections to carry with you. First, your energy field influences how others experience you. Often before, a single word is spoken.

Second, intention, awareness, and simply daily practices can help you sense, strengthen, and recalibrate your energy. Whether you approach it from physics, psychology, or spirituality, energy is an invisible force that shapes our inner and outer worlds. If this conversation sparks something in you and you want to listen to the full episode, including questions that we got from the audience that aren't a part of today's podcast, you can go to our YouTube channels at John R. Miles and Passion Star Clips. Second, share this episode with someone who could use a little energetic alignment.

And third, leave a five-star rating on Apple Podcast or Spotify. And don't forget, this Friday, I'll be making a very special announcement about a project I've been working on for the past year. I can't wait to share it with you. On Thursday, we continue our forces we cannot see series with an extraordinary conversation with Judd Kessler. Author of Lucky by Design, we'll explore the hidden role luck plays in shaping our success

while we often misunderstand it and how we can design our lives to invite more of it in. You won't want to miss this one. The way that I think about the hidden markets that I talk about in the book is indeed about scarcity and about when there's more people who want something

than we have slots to give. And that's true for French laundry reservations. It's true for Taylor Swift tickets. It's true for the seats in the best elementary schools in New York City, but it's also true in getting into the elite colleges. And the admissions rates at the Ivy League and at many of the universities that are the best in the country are very small. The chance of getting in is vanishingly small.

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