We were lucky to catch up with MJ Gonzalez recently and have shared our conversation below.

MJ, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. If you had a defining moment that you feel really changed the trajectory of your career, we’d love to hear the story and details.

Growing up I started becoming aware that I was different from my family and friends that my imaginary friends weren’t imaginary (It confused me as a child why people around me couldn’t see them.); the colors I saw around folks each meant something different; a deep pressure I felt in my belly when something seemed to not be right; thinking of retaliatory images and then something bad would happen (just as I had imagined); and then when I would see some of the Susquenook Indians down by the creek and river near my house, and knowing they were not truly living in the same time frame as me. These were defining moments growing up. But I had no one in my family or friends who was there to help me navigate what I was seeing, hearing or feeling.

As I grew into my 20s I realized what I would think would actually end up happening. I was capable of seeing spirit and then I started to become aware of other spiritual gifts granted to me by Divine.

Working the globe as a business developer to open up fishing and hunting lodges, gave me the opportunity to travel to some of the most beautiful places holding ancient energy. The information received stepping back into time at some of these locations was just magical and mind blowing. At this time of my adulthood, I realized I had all 7 Claire’s and more spiritual gifts than most; but why me? I wasn’t raised with this knowledge. I was a devoted Catholic. I didn’t know how to use these gifts properly; I didn’t know what they were called nor did I have any interest in anything “supernatural.” Most of the time when I tapped into them they were used to get even with someone, and I am sorry now, but at the time some people did get hurt. Using these gifts in this manner was not in a positive, harmonious way, they always seemed to cause chaos. I got to a point that I just refused to use these gifts at all and for a while they went dormant. I began to question myself, “If they were angelic gifts, then what was I doing wrong?” The answer was Ego…later I found out it was my ego that was using them as a defense tactic not as an angelic High divination tool.

As time passed I loved walking through cemeteries, portal areas, places of high spiritual interest or “hauntings.” It made me reconnect to with some of my Claire’s that had gone dormant. Retiring early from my career in the fishing industry, I opened up Esmeralda’s Earth Wind and Fire Boutique and Esmeralda’s Salty Air Retreat to assist in opening my Divine gifts further and to educate myself into a multitude of theologies and Divine energetic abilities.

As the owner, I felt I needed to become more educated with different theologies. So I started learning Hinduism, Buddhism, Celticism, Paganism, Viking, Egyptian, Zoroastrianism, Wiccan, Shamanic practices, Reiki and many more healing modalities. Learning different denominations of religious practices took my cellular data memory into overdrive and I started being able to see and hear in different dimensions. I could see into my past lives and watch them play out as if in a dream and I just knew things. When my Reiki Master of Light Therapy, Kim Maly of @goingtokims, asked if I wanted to meet the GrandMaster of Light Therapy, Ida Diaz (still living), I was blown away and honored to meet her. By this time I was a level 6 Light Therapy Reiki Master and the downloads and past life journeys I had taken started to make sense of who I really was and what my purpose in this lifetime was all about.

My very first client I put my hands on didn’t speak English. As I don’t speak any other languages, I was not sure how this would work out. She walked into the shop and came directly towards me and said I needed to help her. Through interpretation, my co-workers made it apparent to me, she wanted a Reiki session for Chakra alignment. I was still concerned over the language barrier but she told my coworkers, in her native language, that it was the energy I released that she needed and that this energy is understood in all languages. I had no reason not to believe in anything but truth and goodness and even though I was a little hesitant, I sat in a quick 5 minute meditation and saw a beautiful white bluish light in a completely harmonious setting. No message, just tones of frequencies and light. I escorted this client into the Faux Shinrin Yoku room where our reiki bed was set up. I did a series of box breaths and I put my hands on her head. As the Universal Life Energy connected to her body, I saw her chakra centers and her Mind Power portals illuminate. From there it was like playing ‘whack-a-mole’. I would put my hands on centers or portals that were hollow or needing a surge of energy. When the session finished, my client ran out to my associate to explain what a remarkable surge of power she felt. As I came from the room I was a bit exhausted but felt like I just accomplished and witnessed the most amazing healing I have ever been part of. The next day she literally brought 3 of her friends for the same alignment. I knew right then and there that my mission was to be a healer.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your background and context?

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?

As in most people’s life journey’s, the older we get, the wiser we become. The more I dove into my past life akashic records, the more trauma lines I found. The life lessons I had to unlearn through this journey have been incredible. To let go of trauma lines that held me back was so freeing and uplifting that I wanted to heal more and more. But I struggled to let go of my ego and judgment, which is human conditioning of old patterns. My ego would fight my theoretical mind and my inner self, causing unwelcomed and unnecessary pain. I finally figured out that the gut wrenching and sometimes confusingly satisfying release of my trauma lines that used to control me and my daily behaviors were actually the easiest way to heal and to let go, albeit very challenging. For me, it was all determination of my soul wanting just harmony, love, light and to feel the highest level of vibration possible. So I continued to search, go within and unpack anything that no longer served my highest good.

The more harmonious with the pure love of understanding myself, the more I became aware of others’ interpretation of me on all levels, dimensions and universes. The struggle between those interpretations and who I thought I was in the present moment, was extremely emotional and even harder to balance living in the now. I would fight myself constantly to come out of my akashics as because the present world around me was too emotionally unbalanced and tough. I paralleled a lot of different current energies to the events and knowledge of my past lives in order to heal them once and for all. I now honor and feel rewarded that I can switch the interpretation for a different perspective faster and easier than ever before. Again, it was still gut crushing and hard to let go of my conditioned human thought processes. But in the end I just felt angelic and Divinely safe. Now I welcome any opportunity to forgive myself and those who play a role in any interpretation that arises.

Do you think you’d choose a different profession or specialty if you were starting now?

If spirituality in the 70’s and 80’s hadn’t been so judged by human ego, I feel the spiritual modalities that I have studied today would have advanced our collective thinking by leaps and bounds into a more harmonious state because more people could have become educated earlier on in their lives and perhaps they too would be able to be more present, honor all those on their own journeys and be way less judgmental and critical of no one.

If someone would have taught me that what I saw, heard, sensed, knew, tasted, smelled and touched was Divinely supernatural back in the day, I may have become a Reverend and a practicing healer sooner. I would have become a spiritualist that could journey and stay in the Highest frequency possible in order to heal and help support the transmutation of others into their highest source – the I Am that I Am, sooner. However, knowing what I now know, it was all in Divine Timing, Divine Order, Divine processing and Divine knowing. So I am happy to be right where I am at this moment and time. So no, with the people who are in my space now, even if I were to start today, I would still choose to take this path of healing myself, physically, mentally and spiritually. I would still choose to use my gifts to heal myself and others.

Contact Info:

• Website: Www.esmeraldasearthwindandfireboutique.com
• Instagram: @earthwindfireshop
• Facebook: Esmeralda’s Earth Wind and Fire Boutique LLC
• Linkedin: Merijo Gonzalez
• Youtube: Esmeralda’s Earth Wind and Fire Boutique
• Other: Esmeralda’s Salty Air Retreat

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