Johnny Burke: Welcome to Closer to Venus and Johnny Burke. Today’s guest is Lynn Mull. She is a former Wall Street executive, holistic career coach and Reiki master. What she does is help clients use energy healing, and intuition to create purposeful career paths in their midlife. In this episode, we’ll discuss signs from the universal life force energy and how to call them in for yourself. Lynn, welcome to the program.
Lynn Mull: Thank you so much. So excited.
Johnny Burke: Happy Sunday. So, let’s jump right into it. How did you transition from a former Wall Street exec to a Reiki master? How’d that happen?
Lynn Mull: Yeah, not the most usual path, but I was working in finance my whole career, and I had a period of time where I was newly married, had two young children, and my mother was very, very ill. So truly a sandwich generation in my thirties, and I had an experience where my boss was murdered, and I’m sure we’ll get into that a little bit more, but there was this, I can’t keep, going at this pace. At this rate, and I really took a step back. And taking a step back was really about me, less about caregiving for everyone else. Dealing with everyone at work constantly, everything being a fire drill.
I continued to research, and I really started reading and working with different coaches and healers, and I found Reiki and essentially it was new to me. I just found it to be such a wonderful spiritual practice, not religious, which was very important to me at the time, and it really led me back to myself and since evolved to helping others. But it was a path of necessity. But I think Reiki really came to me at the right time and the right place.
Johnny Burke: What kind of, experiences did you observewhen you first started with the reiki? And how that influenced your path to become a reiki master?
Lynn Mull: Yeah, so there’s different levels. In some reiki, there’s two different branches of the reiki space, and there are either three or four levels to get to Reiki master. And initially in my Reiki one training, it’s several hours and you learn different things about universal life force energy and how the Japanese tradition has really informed this healing essentially, and energy is all around us.
When I did the first attunement, and an attunement is essentially a blessing and opening of the third eye. I started to see colors to the point where you have your eyes closed, you’re in a very hypnotic, meditative state, and then all of a sudden I’m like, my eyes are closed and I’m seeing these bright oranges. I’m seeing these beautiful reds I’m seeing stripes of color. So that first true visualization. And then my clairaudience popped up and I started hearing tongues. I started speaking in tongues. So it was this complete. I would say opening and awareness to past lives, to deeper parts of myself and then the energy around us, and I just noticed so much more, so much more.
Johnny Burke: It is pretty amazing. Every time I hear someone talk about energy healing, and or reiki, they say almost exactly what you just said. It opens up everything in past lives and the energy and all these things that are basically in the hidden world, right? The unseen world. And it seems to be a portal for many intuitives to eventually go onto their path and discover other parts of that. So universal life, energy. How do you describe that? In other words, what exactly is it?
Lynn Mull: So Reiki can be broken out into two essentially Japanese symbols, Rei and Ki. And the idea that we are all connected is that universal piece. Believing that perhaps we travel as soul groups, believing that there’s that movie soul, which I think does a really good job of talking about crossing over and then deciding to come into this space. Perhaps you’ve heard of souls choosing a mother?
Johnny Burke: Oh yeah. Yeah.
Lynn Mull: You know, I do believe that we’re all connected in this human space and then beyond. Which again is very different than finance, but when you start to feel this universal connectivity, see the signs, meeting people you feel like you’ve known forever, that’s like that connected moment. And then light force energy, this is something that Einstein talked about, scientists talk about, they talk about how we are all energy. This silly chair I’m sitting on is made up of atoms and neurons and they’re connecting as a solid. Great. But then what about the healing of water or air or ending up in a location. People talk about Sedona, which I’ve never been to, but I know for me, when I go to the beach or a water space, a lake, I just notice the energy shifting because of that massive body of water operating at a different vibration. And that is the light force energy that we’re all connected to if we want to, and we’re bumping up against people’s energy all the time.
I’m sure our listeners have walked into a restaurant and been like, I can’t eat here, or I’m getting strange vibes. The modern word of being vibey and having a moment is really about noticing people’s energy and in reiki we give off energy six feet north, south, east, and west, all around us. So you’re leaving energy as you walk away. You’re walking in with energy and on a basic level, it’s your hallway brand. How are you showing up? People can notice that. And as a reiki master, I do turn it on and off. I don’t walk around open. I did it the beginning and it was detrimental to my health and mental health, but. If you are a sensitive person or notice it, you are noticing those energy patterns around you whether it’s a stranger, a family, or I always say there’s a house I didn’t buy a street over, and I found out later that someone had passed away in that house. Like there are these bright spots of energy or these dark spots of energy, and if you’re sensitive, you can notice them. Or if you’re Reiki trained.
Johnny Burke: Or it can actually drain you if you’re in a room with certain people. Right?
Lynn Mull: A hundred percent.
Johnny Burke: I’ve noticed that. So you mentioned past lives a moment ago. What was your introduction to that life? because you also mentioned soul groups, how we travel together, how we choose our parents, believe it or not. I think they have to agree to it. But that basically implies there’s an in-between lives space that Dr. Michael Newton, wrote about, many times. What was your introduction like and how did you recognize it?
Lynn Mull: Well, I do think doing this type of work, doing it in a container is really important with someone that you trust. And I have a reiki master who I did my final training with- Isabel Gold, and she really helped me create that safe space. So I’ve done two things ; one, I did a spirit animal deep dive, and that’s where I reconnected to, my grandfather’s spirit and a falcon in that space. I saw both him and the falcon. My maiden name is Falconbach, which means Falcon’s Nest. , in all of this, I really had an open mind. I lived in a very programmatic, regulated environment. And so in this space, I went the other direction. I was like, I feel safe and I’m going to just go with this.
And so to have that moment to know that I’m connected to that Falcon energy just blew my mind. It was such a beautiful opening in that spirit animal guided meditation and hypnosis, and then the past lives. Part of that attunement is seeing a woman’s face. The best way I can describe her is incredibly wise- looking so many wrinkles. What came to me in my second attunement was her face, long gray hair, and she really is that medicine woman that I believe that I was part of her commune in a past life. To have not only myself experience her, but then my Reiki practitioner supporting me in that reiki hypnosis, you sort of understand that you’re not in just deep imagining, you’re really experiencing this pathway to another life.
I’ve also done this on clients where I’ve seen Egyptian symbols in a reiki healing. On something called psychic surgery. And, and then, you know, at the end of it, when we discussed her experience, she said, oh,” I’ve been told by astrologers that Egypt is my place.” And so you start to connect these dots for yourself in this human space and in this rational world about what you’re experiencing in these deeper hypnosis, or I call them visualizations. That’s the best, , use of, of how I describe it.
Johnny Burke: Psychic surgery, isn’t that something that shamans typically do?
Lynn Mull: I can’t answer that because I’ve never done shaman training, but it is part of Yasui, Reiki, my level three. I really had, high levels of doubt on this one. I get into Reiki three training and I’m like, what is this? What are we talking about? It sounds crazy. And then to have an experience where you are deeply going into the dark energy and pulling it out. And what I do, people, can call it cord cutting, but what I do is I give the energy back to the universe. I always say that Mother Nature can handle what we no longer can. So breaking up that energy, releasing it, and I’ve never shared this publicly, but in training you do a lot of sharing. So you’ll learn something and practice what you’re doing in these smaller groups. And I had a memory of. A comment about my weight. I’m six one. I’m a big girl- there was a period of time when I ate too many bagels and drank too much beer in college, and somebody said something to me, and I had forgotten the comment. And in that psychic surgery, I had this severe pain in my stomach.
And I realized through the process, I mean, I’m oversimplifying it, but through that process that that. disordered eating comment about my weight. At that time I was probably 17. I hadn’t thought about it in how many years and there it is, and it just poof released and as soon as it did, my hips changed. I could lay flat on the ground. I mean, I was writhing in pain. So it’s this beautiful experience of really releasing what we carry and I believe makes us sick in the end. It’s that somatic release, that energetic release. I’ve seen it work. I’ve felt it work myself. I’ve seen it work on other clients as well.
Johnny Burke: So what are some of the more unusual events that you’ve witnessed , either you or your clients?
Lynn Mull: Well, I’ll give the simplest one first is that I put my dog down. She was my dog. I put her down in July, three summers ago now. And the day I put her down, I ended up coming home to an empty house. My kids were with a sitter and my husband was traveling for work and there was a rainbow right where she used to stand. When we would leave the house, she would look out of this little, tiny nook of a window next to the door, the doorframe of our front door. That rainbow was so unbelievable and so bright, and they talk about the rainbow bridge for animals, and I was putting my hand up against the wall. I was trying to see where the prism was coming from, because I’m thinking to myself, there is no reason that light could create a rainbow on this particular wall, it made no sense.And that rainbow stood there for hours and hours and hours. It was the most unbelievably calming reassurance that she was okay. And then if we have a minute, I’d love to share this other story I’ve had with a client.
Johnny Burke: Of course. Yeah, that’s, that’s exactly what we want to hear.
Lynn Mull: Yeah. So, this is something I thought about after you and I’ve been connecting on email and chatting before this recording. I. I met someone in Reiki training, and she’s become a career coaching client, and she’s come to my retreat and she has an animal and sometimes she’d say, would you send Bella light and love? And there were some experiences where I said, Bella’s really interested in this tree there. This tree is flowering. And it turns out that Bella had this window she looked out of, and she loved this particular spot in the house. Of course there was this beautiful dogwood right outside, so that was part one.
Her father got very, very ill, and she reached out to me, and she said, would you please send universal light love and healing to my dad he’s in the hospital? I said, give me the location of the hospital and give me his first name. Well, I did a Reiki meditation for him, and I often do that if someone’s asking. You always need to ask permission unless someone’s unconscious, and someone like my client would say, you know, please gift this to him. Well, I recorded my meditations, about 10 minutes long. I recorded it and sent it to her, and I said, please listen to this with your father on an iPad, even if he’s unconscious.
So it turns out that later that night I was woken up and I felt a deep, deep and emptiness on my left side. Her father had turned ill very quickly. He was hospitalized and ended up passing Saturday into Sunday, which is when I was woken up and I said to her, I don’t know how to tell you this, and I didn’t know he had passed at this time, but I reached out on Sunday morning at a reasonable time and I said, “, there’s something going on in his stomach. There is something going on in his left side in particular, maybe where a stomach meets its small intestines.” Sometimes I get very, very specific pings, Johnny and I, I want to communicate that as best I can to people. And it’s not futuristic. It’s very much like in this moment, this is where this energy is.
And she told me that day, unbelievably, that he had passed away. They had never noticed a stomach obstruction or a tumor in there. And he had passed away sometime in the night, and I believe it was right about the time I was woken up. Now, I didn’t want to be the one to tell her I thought he was going to pass, but I had a deep, deep feeling. The story gets even crazier or more significant in my connection to her that. I have a friend who I’ve made – she’s doing mediumship. She’s also in finance. She can’t come out as a medium, but she really talks to the other side, and she had said to me,” I’d love to do a little group.” I. So I collected five women whose parents or aunts and uncles had passed over relatively recently. And my father-in-law had passed. So I was hoping to see or hear from him.
My friend, the Medium had said, “well, you might hear there might be messages coming for other people. “Well, the long story short is her father came to me in that mediumship with messages for my client. Johnny, I cannot tell you how specific it was about the stomach pain. It was about cool sensations. He was naming the location of the hospital in Virginia he was in. I’m getting chills talking about it. So I have connected now to his universal light force energy, both in human form passing over and then over into the other side, and how beautiful that a soul and universal light force energy, trust me to send that message to my friend and client. It is something I can’t explain, but that reading confirmed how connected I was to his energy and how beautiful it is to be that person to be able to communicate calmness. You can’t explain it in this lifetime without thinking about these bigger pictures, these spirits and auras around us, and knowing that we’re all part of the same connected energy force.
Johnny Burke: Everything is connected.I’ve heard this many, many times. One of my favorite interviews was with a Scottish medium, Jock Brocas -really, really cool guy. I can still remember him saying, we’re talking about separation I remember him saying, “ separation is an illusion, Johnny”.
And I thought if I had a dollar every time I heard that I could probably retire. It’s incredible. Speaking of mediumship, your friend is a medium and she’s in finance, but you just mentioned that she can’t come out, she can’t come out of the spiritual or intuitive closet. So how much of a challenge is it for someone like you and her to work in finance? I know that you don’t anymore, but she still does. So she has to basically keep that in the closet and not reveal her true skills.
Lynn Mull: I finally in Covid started to talk about it. We would do these covid routines where we would get to know people over Zoom and I would say like, I’m going through Reiki training, or I’m taking yoga training, or I just took a class on self-development, X, Y, Z. So I started to talk about it loosely. I think the regulation in the finance industry about what you can post is so severe. So if a financial advisor or an investment advisor is posting on LinkedIn that is pre-approved content. And it’s interesting, right? because there’s all these people who aren’t regulated, but that’s another story. She is doing it for friends and family right now. I’ve had multiple clients because I do tend to hold space for the financial industry types. You work with what you can until there’s a time when it makes sense to come out. And I think that for me, I no longer felt burdened by some of those financial responsibilities, meaning if they found out it would be okay. Yeah, and, and she’s not at that space.
It is unfortunate, right, that there’s so much of that, the word separation. Separation between. Part of what I do in my work now is bringing that holistic approach to figuring out how to move forward in your career, how to bring purpose to yourself that makes sense. Like to humanize the workforce. We all have bills. I want to be practical about it. We all have mortgages or insurance bills. You know, we’ve got this adulting, I just want it to be more holistic and some very, I’ll call them western practices, whether it’s doctors or religion. Organized religions are okay, but what about these other components that have been around for centuries in, for lack of a better term, the eastern space?
I do believe there’s more of a mashup coming, which I love. Podcasts like these are talking about all of the experience that people are having and I hope it comes more to light. I think for those who are feeling still in that spiritual closet who are listening, I would just do that, friends and family, and then ask for a referral. Ask, hey, do you have a friend who would want this? Instead of a book club, I’m doing a spiritual circle and let it come out a little bit more slowly. I think we all feel like we want to have this moment, but you don’t always have to feel fulfilled. I know she didn’t, and I was doing it sort of on the side too, which made it fun.
Johnny Burke: Well, yeah, it is. And I think a practical measure of this kind of coaching that you do is that if nothing else, it teaches people how to learn about energy, which is probably very helpful in deciding should I take this client or not. And being able to recognize that this client’s going to be a pain. It’s going to be a headache. I’m going to skip that. Skip this one. This one’s good. I like this one. This is going to be a good client and it’s not going to like make my life a living hell.
I’ve noticed there seems to be a movement of intuitives that are not only lightworkers but are dedicated to supporting lightworkers and getting them to come forward. So at some point in the future, it’s conceivable that, it’s something you could even put on your resume and not be ashamed of it. And it won’t be a detriment to your career path. That’s probably a way off, but I’ve noticed that there’s, a lot of that going on now.
Lynn Mull: Yeah. No,
Johnny Burke: I think it’s going to happen at some point. So, what else can you tell us about the path that you are on, what you’ve learned from it,
Lynn Mull: I believe that clarity is what we’re all searching for, and we often go externally. So I’ve learned both through myself and through my client’s work, right? That such a good teaching method is working with other people, is that we’re searching for these external answers. And sometimes what I tell people is I tell them to stop asking for advice from friends and family. Stop calling your sister. Stop calling your brother-in-law. Stop calling your parents. Just time out. Take a minute. Work with me and you. I work with energy journals. I have people actually take an energy journal, like a nutritionist or a physical trainer would have you write down your reps or what did you eat today if you’re trying to lose 10 pounds? I’m like, did you like doing that? Did you like hanging out with that? Energy is giving you feedback all the time and you find patterns in your energy on how to move forward. That’s not about asking your sister what you should do for your next job or if you should take that client. It’s all within you to resonate.
Now, sometimes you still have to do the stuff, right? Like, I don’t like doing admin on my website. Okay? I’ve got a dedicated day for that and no. Okay, I’m just going to time block it. I think my clients learn that if they get clear and when they get clear through one of my many tools and , helping them get more intuitive for themselves, it is much easier to communicate and clear the path to manifest, to overuse that word, but to manifest their goals. So if you can articulate to someone, I want this X, Y, Z client, or I want to work in marketing in a startup and have a side hustle of knitting, then everyone is clear on what the heck you’re trying to do. And then you’ll get, Hey, my friend’s opening a knitting store. She’d love to carry your caps. And oh, by the way, my uncle’s on the board of this tech company. But as we start to flail our energy flails with it, and no one can help us. And so I think in all of this. It’s about clarity. So my Oracle deck is about helping people anchor their own voice and their own heart. My clarity map, I’m looking at, I’m about to go to print on a big map, old- school map that you and I used to have to learn to drive around with. It’s all about getting clear through the dips and I, I think that’s the biggest piece that’s already within you, but people don’t want to slow down enough, so listening is really critical.
Johnny Burke: I would think so. Oracle Deck, that kind of reminds me of the tarot. Is that the same thing or is it related?
Lynn Mull: I would say they’re cousins. The tarot, I cannot read tarot. I go to other people for that. The tarot has a lot of rules, and as I mentioned, I was in such a regulated industry. The Oracle deck has no rules, which I love, and if you go to any bookstore or a little gift shop and you see the Oracle decks, there are many, many, many beautiful different kinds. I saw one last week in a store when I was on vacation. It was called The Seashore Oracle.
The Oracle Deck has, my Oracle deck has 31 cards, and it’s really about allowing yourself to move into the middle, allowing yourself to get out of black and white thinking. And it came to me, speaking of intuition, it came to me in a 24-hour period when I was on an artist’s way date with myself overnight. And sometimes I really look back, I don’t remember writing most of it, and I’m like, wow, this is really good. the deck has, a little booklet on I would call it prompts to deepen. it’s not exactly like Oracle and the fact that you pull certain cards at certain times and there’s certain numerology to tarot. For me, it’s just about pulling one to three cards and really trying to take a minute to pause.
Johnny Burke: But you get messages from the Oracle cards, right?
Lynn Mull: I do.
Johnny Burke: How, exactly does that work and how is it different from the tarot???
Lynn Mull: Well, the Oracle deck how I use it and how I recommend people use my deck or others is to ask a question, not a why question, but A what, a how, a who question. And then to pull a card, pull a single card. And then breathing into it. And this doesn’t have to be a 30-minute thing, it can be a five minute moment is really sitting with that card, getting any messages, allowing a little mindful meditation, maybe a journaling. And then my little booklet has prompts on how to answer when I do an Oracle card pull at the beginning of a client session or a Reiki session or a group session. It’s really about bringing a holistic approach and connecting our energy. So, if I pull the love card, it’s really about self-love. So I bring in the energy of self-love into that group or that session, or I say, how is this relating to you right now? I do tend to open with that, and I have a process to open my Reiki sessions and then close them. So when I open and pull a card, I’m getting so much clairaudience throughout those sessions,
Johnny Burke: So, for someone that could be listening right now or has been thinking about energy healing and reiki sessions; they need something. What would your advice to them be?
Lynn Mull: Well, I do sessions both virtually and most people do virtually, which is unbelievable, but so amazing and deep. and I also do them in person if you want recommendations. I’m happy to give those for a lot of places in the country. Start to work with someone who you trust, maybe get a recommendation. And if you want to study reiki, there is a great book. I’ll have to pop it into the show notes. It’s just very simple about hand movements, hand gestures, how to work crown to toe, and really lean in just a couple of easy resources. I guess you could start with.
Johnny Burke: All right. Good. So Lynn, thanks for joining us today. This is really some cool information on Reiki. In the meantime, how can our listeners find you online?
Lynn Mull: Yeah, super simple. Instagram, pretty active there @_lynnmull and then my website, lynnmull.com. Lots of ideas on how to connect and this was so lovely and a beautiful conversation about all the things that I experience every day, so thank you for letting me talk about them.