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The Science of Trust: Calm Your Brain, Hear Your Guides

• Medium Nicole • Season 1 • Episode 151

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In this second episode of the Trust Series, Nicole takes you behind the scenes of that wild Puerto Vallarta “no-plan” workshop and explains why full surrender actually worked — not just spiritually, but scientifically.

We break down how your nervous system, brainwaves, and heart coherence create the conditions for spirit to get through… or block it completely. From beta brain and fight-or-flight to alpha/theta states and trust-as-a-frequency, you’ll hear how science and spirit are saying the same thing in different languages.

Then, Nicole opens her channel for a live message from her team (with Archangels Michael, Gabriel/Gabrielle, and Raphael stepping forward) about:

  • Why our do–perform–prove culture keeps you locked in your head
  • How trust is built like a muscle, not granted in one magical moment
  • Why “accuracy = trust” for mediums and intuitives
  • How collective energy (like The Unity Code community) amplifies your connection

You’ll also be guided through two real-time experiments:

  • An oracle card trust exercise to feel the difference between “getting it wrong” and receiving the exact message you needed
  • A Unity Code collective meditation where you ask your team for clarity on a real situation in your life and practice trusting the first thing you receive

If you’ve ever wondered why slowing down, breathing, and “coherence” matter… or doubted whether you’re really hearing your guides, this episode gives you both the framework and the felt experience.

Because your trust is the bridge between asking and receiving — and you can train that bridge, one breath and one experiment at a time.

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Nicole Pope is an internationally-trained Evidential Medium and Soul Integration Guide dedicated to helping others reconnect with their higher self, awaken their gifts, and remember who they truly are.

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SPEAKER_00:

Hello everyone. Welcome back to the Unity Code. On Monday, I told you how Spirit hijacked my Portaviarta workshop. No plan, no notes, just full surrender. And today I want to unpack why that worked, give you a little bit of science behind it. And I also want to open my team for a channeled message about trust because I don't think all of this can be explained by science, if I'm totally honest with you. And at the end of this episode, like always, we're going to do a little bit of an experiment, a little bit of a trust file meditation so that hopefully you can ask your teams for the next piece of guidance that you are supposed to trust to continue on your journey, whatever that looks like for you. So if you're ready, let's talk about the science behind trust, why it works, or at least how I think I can help you explain a little bit scientifically on why this trust thing works before getting a message from my team. As you can imagine, trust from a scientific perspective can be very deep, very dense. And so I want to explain it pretty simply for all of you, mainly for myself, to easily understand it because I don't think you're here to learn about the science behind trust. But I do want to note that right now, and with most newbies in our metaphysical space, we are so tied up in our mental processes because that is the society that we live in, everybody. We are in an analytical society, everything needs to be performed, everything needs to be done and measured, right? And so this relates to essentially our beta brain waves and our nervous system taking the lead in pretty much our day-to-day activities. So, very simply put, is that we are constantly using our brain, our ego for survival purposes. And that can prompt your fight or flight response, that can prompt your ego to want to control everything so that you can put food on the table, right? Go to work and pay your bills, um, make relationships with people that are going to help you achieve all of these things. So, again, if we go back to the Maslow's hierarchy of needs, this is the lower end of the triangle, focused on our physiological, our survival needs, which is completely normal, especially with everything that's going on in society and culture right now. So as your nervous system likes to take over, this is what I like to tell my kids, your caveman brain, your ego brain. And what happens is that you are in your head, you're analytical, and you are in, again, your beta wave brain state, which is all about being busy and problem solving. So the problem with that brain state is that it is impossible for you to receive information and energy from spirit when you are in that beta wave state. And now, I mean, you can train your way into it, like I kind of have, but for most people, you do have to slow your mind. You do have to get into more of that alpha or theta brain wave state and create space for spirit to come in and influence you. And why is that true? It is because spirit is so damn subtle that it is a thought that comes in your head and disappears in a second. And if you are not paying attention or even realizing that these thoughts are coming in that quickly, you are gonna miss them every single time. So the science behind trust essentially is saying that you need to calm your nervous system down, you need to slow your heart rate, you need to slow the busyness, you need to slow your brain waves into that alpha and theta state. And being able to slow and pay attention allows you to realize that spirit is coming in with messages and being able to receive, well, first of all, recognize the the little tidbits of nuggets of gold from spirit, being able to recognize it and act on them. So a lot of the trust behind spirit is stop trying to control, stop thinking that as you're walking around talking to people all the time, spirit is going to be in your ear the whole time. Because if you don't slow your brain to be receptive, you're never gonna be able to receive or hear them in the first place. And so that's like the really, really simple way to explain this. I know that there's lots of different things about the heart rate variability, right? If you slow your heart rate down, that creates that space and that openness for your cognitive abilities, right? Your psychological or physiological coherence, right? If you don't, um, you can use lots of different methods to slow down your breathing, your heart rate, slow down your nervous system by using, for example, like box breathing, right? Um and so, and there's um also a I was I was looking this up, so apologies. I'm gonna read this one, but but the polyvagal theory, um, it suggests that when your body reads the moment as safe, right, in this social engagement system comes online and your dis defensive circuit's quiet. So a lot of what's interesting, a lot of what I've read about from a science perspective was essentially the symptoms of the root cause. And the symptoms are if you slow your heart rate, if you do meditation, if you do all these things, then your nervous system is going to be calm. But the reality is that the root causes you can hear spirit when your nervous system is calm. Um, so I hope, I hope that kind of explains everything because essentially, if you take all of this down and synthesize it and boil it down into a core complex, a core thought or theory, it essentially trust is a frequency. And this isn't like garbage from the metaphysical world, but trust is a frequency, the frequency of being calm, the frequency of being open and receptive, the frequency of not having to control things, obviously, right? Um, and so you can measure that frequency by slower heart rate, slower brain waves, etc. So being open and receptive from the trust perspective allows me to better receive the information from spirit as it comes in and relay it to all of you. Now, those of you that know me in 3D in real life, I have always been this weird fucking steady, calm energy, right? Inside I might be freaking out once in a while, but for the most part, I am generally very neutral and very open and receptive and very non-judgmental. And so a lot of the times my continuous state of being is this very calm, open, receptive state of being, because I know I don't know everything. I know that some people might come at me that I don't like, but I also know that um I'm not here to judge them for that, and and their journey is their journey. And so a lot of people ask me how I can hear spirit all the time, why I am so connected to spirit. It is because, oh God, in my pain in the ass, yes. This is a little bit from my team, everybody. It is because I have trained myself to understand the language of energy, which all of you are doing by listening to this podcast, but also I'm constantly being open and receptive in my energy. This may be a trauma thing from my childhood. I don't know, but I'm always open and receptive to my energy, seeing what's coming in all the time. So it's kind of that combination of that two, if that makes sense. So I could go way down the rabbit hole in the science of trust. I would know I'm out of my lane, so I'm not gonna go there. But instead, I'm going to take a moment to bring in my team and ask what you all need to hear about trust today. So let's give me just one second to shift my brain and we will see what they have to say today. And what they're coming in, and I see three of my team members, I do see um mostly the archangels coming in. So I see the big three right here. Um I see Gabrielle, I call, I call Gabriel Gabrielle. Sorry, if for anyone that's confusing. I see Michael and I see Raphael kind of stepping forward. I see Ariel in the back, just for the record, but I think the message is really coming from those three because what society has essentially done for all of us is it's forced us and it is um this male-dominated culture. And I don't want to say like, but it's the more masculine energy culture of needing to perform, needing to do, needing to go, uh, needing to prove yourself all the time. And so this culture has essentially embedded this reality within our brains and it's almost like recoded our DNA in terms of our brains, that if we're not doing, we are two steps behind all of the time. And that is that is the reality of the way our brains function. So as you open up to this work, um, what you do in this podcast with the experiments, you know, spirit is amplifying your energy so that you can receive it, not only from there, the angels, your guides, your ancestors, loved ones on the other side, but also through the intention of this podcast and us coming together as a collective, we are amplifying the energy to make it possible for you to do some of these experiments very successfully. And you may find that if you do these experiments outside of the collective energy of this podcast, it might be a little difficult for you to do because you haven't trained your brain enough to be open and trusting outside of the amplification of the energy that you receive on this podcast. And so they want you to use this podcast as a way for you to understand that this is all possible for you. It is all possible for you. You are a limitless soul that is capable of everything that I do here on this podcast. The difference is practice and trust. And so when we're talking about practice and trust, practice is what I have already mentioned, they're highlighting is practicing over and over again and understanding how your energy reads other people's energy, reads spirit's energy, reads angel's energy. And it's not difficult, but it's just like learning another language where you have to practice, you have to learn, you have to notice these things. You might have to memorize how some things are coming in or not. And so that allows you to essentially learn the language of spirit and create this pattern, this predictability in the in how you receive the energy. And again, it's the mechanics of the how, because when you understand the mechanics of the how, the what can flow through pretty seamlessly and flawlessly because you've connected essentially the lines on the back end. And when I say the lines on the back end, they're showing me in my head um, what is it called, team? It's like the telephone message boards, or it's the telephone plugs. I can't this is how I know I'm channeling because in my switchboards, thank you. In my mind, I know what a switchboard is. Um, but this is an ex a perfect example of how I know I'm channeling spirit, as I lose my basic words, by the way, um, that I know I know, but then in the middle of it, the spirits like makes me forget those words. Um, so if I get back to what they're saying, it's a switchboard. So if you see the if you are are envisioning a giant switchboard of the old telephones back in the day in your head, sorry you youngins that may not know what I'm talking about, go go Google it. Um, you have this giant switchboard with all of these potential plugs in it, right? And that's spirit. Like they you can connect to literally anything and anything across the universe. However, you need to start learning where each of those plugs are. How do you think the women that used to do this job, it was pretty much exclusively women? How do you think they they figured it out? They had to learn it. They had to train themselves, they had to get used to it, right? They had to try it out, they had to see the patterns, and then they were able to allow that stuff to flow right through them. So as you start, it might take a lot of effort to trust. It might take a lot of effort to sit down and clear your brain and open up and do meditation. But over time, the more that you do it, the more that you train yourself, the more that you program your brain into understanding how to connect. And then over time, you see that the faster you connect, the deeper you connect, the more that you build that trust. So trust isn't something that happens day one. Trust is something that happens over time as you develop, as you learn, and as you see the results of the connections that you're doing. And so the team, my team wants you to walk away with that trust is a muscle. You build it just like you build your ability to connect with spirit and learn the language of spirit. However, trust can critically fall apart when your brain takes over because a lot of what we do in this work cannot be explained by science, which is where I'm hitting this on the podcast today. It cannot be explained by science. It cannot be um ruled as 100% accurate all the time because it is energy. Energy is fluid, energy is always moving. Trust the trust, like trust the process, trust the fact that you can trust. And I'm asking my team in my head, what's the benefit? What's the outcome of the ultimate trust in the spirit? And not anything is possible. Because when you trust, it creates this heart-centered resonance, this heart-centered connection with anything and everything in the universe. And when you trust, that actually deepens the connection by creating this really deep, heartfelt, energetic connection with everybody, which actually amplifies the energy even more. So trust is an avenue for deeper and better and more accurate connections. And the more that you trust, the better and better that it will get. So all of you mediums out there, this is what they're saying. Accuracy equals trust. They're putting that equation in my head. Accuracy equals trust. So when you trust it, accuracy will come. And sometimes you have to trust before the accuracy is there. But keep trusting, keep trusting, keep trusting, keep trusting, and the accuracy will come. God, that sounds like a load of garbage. But that's what my team is saying. Sorry, sorry, team. Um if you have any questions on this, I would definitely want to talk about it. And I'm gonna talk in the next episode after I record this one. I'm gonna immediately record the next one for Friday to talk about what does this actually look like with spirit? Because I think there's a lot of the misconceptions come with what you think the team is gonna say or what you think the team, your spirit team, does. And I want to talk about that too. And I feel like they're gonna blow something up as I record that podcast episode. This is gonna be a good one. Um, so I'm gonna, I'm gonna shift gears near. I'm gonna thank my team for coming in and say thank you so much. Message received. And I want to, ooh, I love this. I'm gonna actually do this live right now. Um, I want to do this little mini experiment, okay, with all of you as we receive this message from trust from my team. Um, I want to have us do this mini experiment with tarot cards. Um, actually, this is technically an Oracle card. Ooh, God. Pick one. Oh, there it is. Okay. And I, well, this is a good one. I like this one. So I just picked this card. Uh, it is out of the Oracle of the Seven Energies deck by Colette Barron Reed. It's a lovely deck. I will show the picture on the video. And so, what I want us to do is try to figure out and trust what is coming through on this card. Now, um, for those of you that are less familiar with these cards, um, Oracle cards are essentially so tarot cards are a whole thing. It is a whole dynamic here. Oracle cards are essentially a deck. This one has 49 cards in it, and it's pretty much whatever the author wants to put on it. They tend to be more positive-based, they tend to be um messages or um just like, you know, it's just like the word trust we keep talking about, messages from your angels, your guides, your loved ones. And so as you pick these cards, they tend to give you just a reflection point based on the current moment. So literally anything can be on this card. Okay. So I have picked a card. And what I want you to do with me right now is we are going to set up a little bit of an experiment where you're gonna help me understand what's on this card and what it means. I know. Are you ready? Don't freak out. You got this, you got this. Okay, so I want you to just take a minute, and if you're if you can, take a minute to just close your eyes. And we are gonna do everything that we already talked about in this podcast episode. And if you're driving, it's okay. You can do this too. Driving's actually a really good thing to do, or if you're doing dishes, um, because your brain is already otherwise occupied. So if you are, you can, and it's safe to do so, close your close your eyes. And whether you're driving or standing or sitting, I want you to just make sure your feet are on the ground if you can. And just take a couple of deep breaths in. Breathe in and out, and in and out. One more time, in and out, what we're doing here is we are setting the attention to slow our breathing. And I know you all have busy minds right now, but we're not gonna sit in our mind, we're going to ask our mind to start quieting and slowing. And I want you to envision your nice, soft, warm bed right now. And I want you to really think about how does that bed make you feel? How does it feel when you wake up from an amazing night's sleep and you're still a little drowsy, and you're still just you don't want to get up, you just want to sit in the warm coziness of that bed and that blanket. I want you to bring that energy into you now, and I want you to bring that energy into your heart space right now. How does that beautiful, soft, cozy warm bed and that energy, how does it feel and you can bring it into your heart? I really just want you to focus on the energy of a warm bed like a Saturday morning, and you don't have anything to do, and you can just lay there. I want you to notice your shoulders, your jaw, your mind settle, soften, and create this expansiveness in your energy, this safe, warm feeling that comes with us, and I want you in this same state, don't change your state of brain, don't change your state of being. I want you to take a moment to just receive the energy of this card. So I'm gonna send the energy of this card towards you. All of you who are listening to this podcast, ask my team to help amplify the energy and the information. And I just want you to receive whatever you are receiving about this card. You might be seeing colors in your head. Maybe you feel something in your body, an energy, an emotion, or a sensation. Maybe you feel or sound, hear words in your head. If you have a moment, just think about it, sit in the energy of it, write down any notes if you feel called to do so. And I want you now to tune into the message for this card. What's the message in this card for you right now? Might be the message of the card, might be a message for you. Either way, that's totally fine. But what does this card evoke in terms of feeling? What does this card evoke in terms of memories? What does this card evoke in terms of motivation coming up? So just take a moment and ask your team, what does this card mean for me? As we wrap this up, you can start wiggling your fingers and toes if you're in this little groove of a meditation right now. Take a nice deep breath in to bring yourself back to center and focus. And back into the 3D variety. And so, what I want you to notice most is how your brain and your energy shifted during this exercise. If you actually could participate in this, slowing down this breathing, this idea of just being in your nice cozy bed. Like that's that is the energy of trust. And I know it can take um many people can get there very different ways, but I want you to notice that pattern because that pattern, that feeling of deep, relaxed trust, that is the energy of spirit, right? That is the energy that invites spirit in, creates space for spirit. Um, so the more that you can kind of do that over and over again, the more on cue you'll be able to just drop into that energy, and the easier it will be just to receive through spirit every single day. So I do I don't want to give that to you before I do the reveal here. So the reveal, um, and what I'll do is I'll actually toss this on my socials for the day. So go go follow me on Instagram or um, this will be a picture. So probably Instagram and and TikTok and Facebook. I don't think YouTube will can't do pictures on YouTube. It drives me nuts, but you'll be on the video if you're on YouTube. Um, so this was card number 39. Ironically, they had me pick a card that was called relaxation, and it is a gentleman in a hammock underneath the stars and clouds and moon with kind of this shimmery, dark blue, white, rainbowy background in the background. And he's just like relaxing with a book in his lap. So maybe you got a book, maybe you got a bearded gentleman. I don't know. Um, maybe you got the hammock or the stars or the moon, or maybe you got the colors of the rainbow or this iridescent view. Um, and again, the card is called relaxation. And at the bottom it says peaceful pursuits and happy times. And again, I'll put the picture up on the socials. I'm holding it up for the video on YouTube right now. But I also know that some of you picked up on something very different. Okay. And here's how I want to show you and tell you that you got it right. Because in my head, for example, I felt somebody dancing or having like envisioning themselves as a little girl doing ballerina or doing dance as a little girl. Um, some of you, I think, saw food, right? Some of you um saw abundance. And so these are all of the things that are popping up in my brain as I'm listening to this, um, as I'm I'm channeling the information about this card. And so what's interesting is maybe you got the card wrong, but the message was what you needed to hear. Because I think a lot of you probably heard rest, relaxation, taking care of yourself, bringing yourself joy. And I think that's really what this is about because the card itself says peaceful pursuits and happy times. So that was the message and the meaning behind the card. And so, what part of that message was peaceful or happy for you? And so, this is a really good example about how accuracy can be different. Here we go. Here's the big message accuracy of the reading or the message or this exercise can be different because the accuracy isn't what's important, the message is what was important for you. What you received was important for you, and that's what your tier spirit team wanted you to reflect and hear on. And so, did you get this disheveled bearded guy in this barefoot, right? In this hammock under the moon, or did you get something that was your equivalent of that? And I think that is part of the realization of working with spirit is that they don't always deliver exactly what this card looks like to you because you don't have a basis for that information in your brain. It always has to come through your brain. But maybe what they did do is give you an equivalent of that for you. This equivalent of my best fucking moment, which is going to look different for every single one of you. And that's how you interpret a lot of signs and symbols in spiritual readings, is that they'll give it to me in my own terms that I understand and my own energy. And I have to interpret not necessarily what I'm physically seeing, although that does happen sometimes. Um, I'll have to internalize and evoke the energy that they're giving me and understand how that relates, that energy in that message relates to my client. Does that make sense, everybody? So it's not always a one-for-one in terms of a literal accuracy. A lot of it is energetic accuracy and interpreting it in the right way for my clients. And so I'm gonna challenge you to say, what did you get right? I don't, I don't ever, ever want you to think sit here in these exercises, these experiments, and say, what did I get wrong? I want you to sit around here and be and think about what did you get right? Because that is the trust. That is the trust that comes to spirit. And the more that you focus on what you got right, the more that you are gonna connect to the energy of what you got right and the better and better you're gonna get. If you sit here and dwell in the energy of what you didn't get, you're just gonna sending, you're sending out the intention and energy of continuing to get things that are inaccurate. Like that's the reality of this work, because you are going to going to attract the energy you put out. Period. Okay. So, how'd you do? I want to hear about it. I do, I do, I do. So while we're still in this semi-meditative state, I want to take a moment here. Um, if you are still up for this, keep on listening. And I want to ask your team a question or have them show you something that's very important for you to know at this time. So if you're sitting here and you're game on, let's do this. If you want to pause here and come back later, that's totally fine too. But I'm gonna just bring us again back into this meditative state since we're already almost there. Um, and bring your guides in and see if they can give you a sign, a symbol, a message. Um, so if you did that last exercise and you could see and hear and feel things, keep on going because this is we're just amplifying and continuing that energy we already brought in. Um, so again, I just want you to get your feet nice nice and flat on the ground if you can. And I want you to drop in to that same energy again. If you want, you can bring it back to that beautiful, warm, cozy bed. Envision yourself. Again, just bringing that amplified energy back in, taking a deep breath in and out. And actually, while we're here in this warm, amazing, coherent energy, I want us to again call in the collective of the Unity Code energy for this exercise. So while we're in this gentle, amazing state of being, I want to imagine you holding out your hands to all of the other incredible listeners of this podcast, the Unity Code Collective. And as we gather in a circle, holding hands, we are inviting the energy of our guides in to allow us a message to be received that helps us see our next step or understand something that's going on. From a moment of clarity and perspective. And again, this is all under the intention of trusting what we receive today, and trusting that what you receive today is exactly what you are meant to receive. No more, no less. And so as we hold our hands together, you can envision this beautiful golden light emitting from all of our auras. And as I call in our guides, a guide to come in and deliver the message for you today, you can envision all of our guides forming a circle around all of us, embracing us, amplifying our energy so that we can receive the incredible guidance and love and support that we are asking here today. In this moment, I want you to think about a situation that you would like a little bit of clarity on. Now, I don't want you to tell them what you want as an outcome. I want you to ask for clarification or understanding about a topic or a situation that you're going through. So ask your guide to show you your next step or a little more understanding in the situation that you've presented to them. And as we ask there for their guidance and feedback, just want you to take a deep breath in and a deep breath out. And I want you to focus your energy in your heart space, releasing all expectations, releasing all hopes of a certain outcome. Because all we're asking for is what we need to know right now about that situation. Drop the shoulders, release your jaw, and again, a nice depth, deep breath in your heart space and out. So with that, I just want you to open up your brain, your mind, your energy to receiving the information from your guide. This can be in the form of hearing words in your head, seeing visions in your head, feeling energy or emotions in your body, or a sense of just deep knowing about what they're showing you. So when you're ready, we are going to receive clear guidance or helpful energy for the situation at hand. So just take a moment here to sit in silence as we bring that energy in the world. Thank your guides. Thank all of you for being here and amplifying the energy together to receive this message of hope and love today. You can start taking a deep breath and wiggling those fingers and toes. Bring your attention and energy back to your physical body. And when you're ready, you can open your eyes and bring you back into the present moment. Whenever you're coming back from a guided meditation, especially these Unity Code collective exercises, it is always a wonderful thing to take a moment and take a nice big, big drink of water or something grounding. Um it really helps you anchor your higher vibrational energy back into your body. Grounds the energy for you. And so again, for those of you that are newer to this work, or maybe you are not new, but you still didn't receive a lot of clear energy or guidance or information. Um that's part of the journey too. So trust that whatever you received today was perfect and complete on its own, even if your expectations were very different. I know it's frustrating to hear that. I'm so sorry that is part of this message of trust, everybody. And for those of you that did get a clear message, I hope that it was either following your intuition and what you thought you already knew, or if you got something out of left field, I love that for you too. Um, and so ask your team to show you and guide you over the next few days that what you received was accurate and correct. Maybe you'll start seeing some signs or synchronicities related to it. Um, but either way, our team is here wanting us to trust, wanting us to proceed forward, wanting us to be and live our best lives. And so that's what they have delivered here for you today. So I want to thank you so much for your time and your energy and for showing up today, for listening and trusting the messages that they received because your trust is this incredible bridge between asking and receiving. And your coherence is how you strengthen that bridge a few breaths at a time. You know, let me know. I would love to see how the Unity Code is helping you move through your life. And until next time, stay tuned, stay connected, and keep listening for that point. Yes, that's from the universe.

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