Introduction

Welcome to Super States. I am here today with Michelle Blood. Michelle, welcome to the show.

Thank you, Joshua Tree.

Michelle, I always like to get a feel for my guests by asking them, what is it that you do? So share with us what you do and, but also how that makes an impact on people’s lives.

Well, it’s all in one basket, but it sounds like there’s a lot of different baskets, but it’s not. It’s all under mysticism and mind. I teach people, I have affirmation pop songs that have been downloaded millions of times all over the world. Got over 400 songs, many albums. And so they create great healing and change people’s minds without them having to emotionalize it or think about it. And I also have apps with my team to do with manifestation and mysticism and meditation and prayer, lots of amazing apps to do with, see again in the same basket. I also teach deep mysticism and deep meditation. And I also teach how to write a book, business.

Mm-hmm.

See, I like to everything that I’ve ever learnt because I was a rock singer in Australia, everything that I’ve ever learnt as a rock singer, as a manager of my band, as a singer songwriter, as a business person, because if you can manage your own band and make it become extremely successful in your country and then overseas, you’re a good business person. So I like to teach people a little bit of everything. And so my seminars are sort of a little bit rock-concerty, along with quieter times of meditation and they’re just a whole lot of fun, but they really change people’s paradigm and the way they think and consciousness because it’s all consciousness. And so that’s what it is. It’s all of that plus more. One big umbrella with one big basket.

Yeah.

What I like about how you just described that is we go through life and we kind of take, have these experiences. And you, I mean, you probably had this experience too. Like I know I have. How does this all fit together? And as you’re kind of trying this over here and you try this over there and what it sounds like you’ve done is found a way to basically bring all of your life experiences together into how you can help people.

Yes, and it’s all happened through spirit. It’s all been through consciousness. None of it was intended because I was happy as a rock singer. We’ve just got our big record label. We were touring at one stage seven years nonstop, which is a world record in Australia, I think, or something.

The Turning Point

Wow.

And the venues in Australia back in the 80s were huge. So you had to have a huge following before a record label would even sign you. So we worked our guts out for years before we got a record label. So it’s very, very tough. It’s a tough world, but I loved it. So I had no sense of ever doing anything different. So it’s quite fascinating the way our spirit works from our past lives, karma from our experience. It’s just, it’s just fascinating to me. I love to assist people to change their trajectory by using their life experience into maybe writing a book about what they do or single parent, what’s it like to grow, you know, I mean, there’s so many things that people can do to have more, to manifest more wealth and more freedom in their life. And that’s what it’s one of the things that gives me great joy. Number one, great joy is helping people awaken. But number two is helping people have a purpose and make more money because then they have more freedom. In this particular world plane, there are a lot of different world planes that don’t have anything like money, but this particular world plane is based on money. And it’s fascinating to me how people would rather talk about their sex lives than money. And it’s such an interesting thing and an easy thing to manifest if they just don’t know how at the moment.

Yeah. So just describe to us how you got to this point. So you kind of insinuated started out as a rock star and something happened. So share, share with us your, your, your journey.

Well, it’s an interesting journey. Thank you, Joshua. Driving from Brisbane in Queensland to Sydney in New South Wales, Australia, is a, back in the day, we didn’t have big freeways like you. It was just two lanes, left and right, you know? And that was the highway. And so it took like 14 to 16 hours in a truck. And I was designated that day, I got the short straw, to drive with the truck driver because I would hire different trucks and different truck drivers and we’d always have to make sure that there was someone in with the truck driver to make sure he got there to the gig on time and he didn’t steal your instruments or whatever. We didn’t have Google back then, we couldn’t do searches on everyone. So that particular night I was with the truck driver and just as we hit Sydney he fell asleep at the wheel and as the passenger He hit a telephone pole and all the musical equipment went into me and I was, my body was crushed. I was buggered. I was gone. You know, they said I would be gone by that night or the next morning or whatever, but I was in the hospital for months and months and months. And that accident, which was, you’d think for someone who was so lively on huge stages and I would cover five foot nothing, 90 pounds of me back then, still only five foot, but.

I would cover the entire stage, dancing and singing, loved entertaining, been doing it since I was five professionally, so I really knew my stuff. And why was that the best thing that could have happened to a female rock singer in a great rock band? Well, the story goes from there, but you might have another question. I can keep talking or whatever you like.

No, yeah, I want to hear what happens next.

A Life-Altering Experience

Well, I was in the hospital for a couple of months. I had been in traction and one of the operations was nearly 19 hours long and a lot of operations. Anyway, after the two month period, people were starting to bring in cassettes and for the youngsters under 40, if you don’t know what a cassette is, you can Google it. So I’d always have my little cassette player because when I got a songwriting idea, I would have to sing it so I wouldn’t lose it because the short term memory is a bugger. You know, it’s like, what was that song idea? What was, how did the chorus go? So I would record it. Thanks to Mick Jagger giving me that, not personally, but he gave that bit of advice on how he wrote Satisfaction. He woke up in the middle of the night and it was like, that sounds like a really good chorus. I think Keith had loved that. And then he was going to go back to sleep and he decided to sing it.

Right.

And the next day went to Keith’s place and they wrote it in 10 minutes. But anyway, thank you Mick Jagger. God bless you. Anyway, so that’s how I did. So I always had that cassette player. So people started putting on what they said was positive thinking audio books, which I’d never heard of. I heard of positive thinking, but I realized when I was listening to some of these tapes, I’d been doing that, Joshua, my entire life.

Discovering the Power of Affirmations

Wow, nice story.

I had used my willpower to create. If I liked a drummer in a band, I wanted him in my band, I got him. I could just visualize something and it was beyond visualization. I always had the power to create what I wanted. Even if it was challenging to get what I wanted, a lot of hard work, a lot of blood, sweat and tears, excuse the pun with my name, but I would still create it. So. I knew that there must have been something in these affirmations that they were talking about. So what happened was I said, okay, well, they’ve all these people, Napoleon Hill, all these Louis Hay and all these people are saying you have to emotionalize an affirmation. And an affirmation is a positive statement you say to yourself about yourself must be stated in the now. And then they said, but the trick is you have to emotionalize it. So I said, okay, positive statement.

That I want to have happened that hasn’t happened. I am healed, wasn’t healed. I know I am, totally didn’t think I was. I love myself, I am my friend. No, very depressed, not quite suicidal, but couldn’t imagine what my life was going to be like if I couldn’t walk again, let alone if I did, you know, walk again, they said you’d have all these physical limitations, which I don’t have. Anyway.

Sure.

I still, God bless those doctors. I’m like the bionic woman. I’ve got so many steel plates in my body, but I thank them for being able to do all of that. And then the mind did the rest. Spirit did the rest through the positive affirmations. So I said, I am healed. I know I am. I love myself. I am my friend. I kept saying it over and over again. And after a few days, Joshua, I just stopped it because it wasn’t working at all because the doubting mind was looking at the circumstances. Okay, you’re in a hospital bed in traction, you’re in huge pain, you’re passing out every few minutes from the pain. Doctors are coming in and telling you we’re gonna have to do one more operation, we didn’t get all the bone chips out, blah, blah, blah. So if you’re in a huge amount of physical pain or emotional pain, any sort of pain, your doubting mind is gonna say, no, that’s not the truth, that’s not the truth, that’s not gonna spit it out.

Yeah.

So then I had an epiphany. I’d been writing songs for years and I’d even been writing jingles for advertising agencies, which I never told the band because I was very uncool, but it was good money and they never complained if they got a new drum kit. Anyway, advertising agencies spend billions of dollars a year on a jingle. They’re smart. They know the psychology. They’ve known it for years. Once you have that song, that jingle in your head, you will never get the product out of your head. And you don’t have to emotionalize that you like Toyota or you like Vegemite like we do in Australia. Everyone in the rest of the world hates Vegemite, but Australians love it because we’re happy little Vegemites as happy as can be. We’re used to hearing the Vegemite song since we were babies. Anyway, so I said, okay, I said to my brother,

Okay.

go out and get me affirmation positive thinking songs. And he went everywhere. He just went to all the different music stores. And then I said, go to those new age rubbishy stores. And he said, they didn’t have any, they have affirmations, yes. Because he’d never heard an affirmation either. He said, but not with music. So I just got, I said, just put a blank cassette on for me and just put on record because I couldn’t move. I am healed and I am.

Yeah.

love myself, I am my friend. And Joshua, I sang that over and over until I filled two sides, 60 minutes, 60 minutes of this particular cassette, excuse me. And if you sing without a warm up, your nose gets itchy. It’s interesting, the sinuses. Maybe the lady from Bewitched was a singer. And so that particular affirmation song, the lyrics, the affirmations were going into the left hemisphere of my brain and the melody just from my singing without even music accompaniment was going into the right hemisphere. And now I have done all this research. I’ve gone to John Hopkins, Berkeley and found all this research done on positive music, even without the positive lyrics. So what happens is it goes into the subconscious mind 300 times faster. You just have to listen.

Just like with the jingle, you don’t have to sing along. If you sing along, great, because I really believe my songs are fun and up vibe, but you just have to listen. And it goes into the treasury of your subconscious mind. Your doubting mind doesn’t have a chance to say, next, I don’t know. And so that was how it started. And I had no intention of that going out to the public, Joshua, because it wasn’t like full on 48 channel mix.

Huh.

you know, production like I was used to doing with my music. So I went into a just a little eight track studio and with one of my songwriting partners, we went into the studio just, I just kept getting these affirmation song ideas and we wrote quite a few just for our own consciousness. I said, this will help the band so much. If this healed my body, imagine what it would do if we write about money and success and

I don’t know, we make the world go around with our great music. I don’t know what we’ll do, but we’ll just write a lot of affirmations. But then the press in Australia found out about my miraculous healing, because I had miraculous healing. I mean, literally, my doctors just said, that’s not possible. And you’ll never wear high shoes again. I wore high shoes again, no problem. Anyway, nothing is impossible if you truly go for it.

Yeah.

So what happened was then these promoters from journalists to promoters came to me and they said, we want you to tour all around Australia with these bestselling authors from America. And I said, what for? And they said, well, they teach about affirmations and visualization and we think you’ll bring in a younger crowd and you know, because people know who you are in Australia.

And they offered me so much money and all I had to do was sing affirmations in between these speakers. They said, we’ve got Dr. Deepak Chopra, Stuart Wilde, Wayne Dyer. And I was like, I’m sorry, that don’t impress me much. Cause I’ve never heard of them. They weren’t in my trajectory at all. You know, I’m rock and roll chick.

Give you some rock and roll bands and then then you’ll be impressed.

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. And I work with some great rock and roll bands, but anyway, from overseas. But anyway, so the first gig we did was in Adelaide and they said, make some CDs and sell them at the back of the room or we’ll sell them for you. And we’ll just take a percentage. So they offered me so much money. I couldn’t believe it. I wouldn’t have made that much in a year for myself even what they were paying me for each thing. Because back in those days in Australia, everything you got paid went to

The agents went to paying for the road crew. We had to pay for the double four way, all our equipment, the trucks, everything. Back in those days, you had to pay for everything to go to venue to venue. And so, you know, we’d be like, it’d have 40 bucks each to live on. Michael Hutchins once borrowed money from my road crew from InXS because he couldn’t afford a burger. That was before they made it in America. You know, it’s just the way it was. So.

I was blown away by how much and I said to the band, look, it’s only a week touring around Australia. And they went, okay, great. And I said, it’ll really help us with our next tour. So they were all in it. They were just happy I was healed. But then Deepak Chopra and Bob Proctor, Bob Proctor was a different tour I ended up going on, just were raving on. They just said, you get the audience up on stage. It’s like a rock concert.

Transforming Through Affirmation Music

Okay.

Got the lyrics for the affirmations, you’ve got them all rocking out to their magnet to money. And in all these different songs, they said, it’s just incredible, fancy, no one’s done affirmations to rock music, pop music. And Deepak took me into writing a whole album called Self Esteem Songs for Kids, which I did with all endangered baby animals and, you know, stuff and had all the kids singing along. But anyway, so that’s how that all happened.

But I had 500 CDs and I was like, I’ve just absolutely overdone it. How am I ever going to sell 500 CDs? And the first gig, there were three and a half thousand people in Adelaide, Australia, and they all paid $300 each. This is in the late 80s and I was blown away. What? and it was during the week and it was like a daytime gig. I just couldn’t believe it. By lunchtime,

Wow.

Every CD had been sold from the first gig. I couldn’t believe it. I was like, this is a different world, but I still had no intention of continuing in that world. But then I just kept getting asked. I was seized. Before I knew it, I was managing Bob Proctor’s company in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and just things escalated from there until the next leg of my consciousness and my new trajectory happened.

Integrating Meditation

So, right. So, so we talked, you kind of went over the, the, the, the music and the affirmations, which that’s kind of the thing that, that brought you into this whole world other than what you basically did to heal yourself. I know that as I was kind of looking through your, watching your video book, you talk a lot about meditation as well. Can you, so how did meditation fall into this practice for you?

Thank you.

Well, I started reading Yogananda’s book, Autobiography of a Yogi, Swami Muktananda’s book, Play of Consciousness, St. Teresa of Avila, just so many different, I was so into it. I couldn’t stop reading all these mystical books. And so I started meditating on my own. Stuart Wilde, actually, he was a really, he’s left the body now, but he was really into meditation practice. And I’d worked with him too and got along with him so well.

A Sicilian cockney. I don’t know if you’ve heard of him, but he had huge bestselling books all over the world. I don’t know if they were huge in America, but everywhere else he was huge. And he was so irreverent, so funny, but very high consciousness. And we got along like a house on fire. And I helped his girlfriend, who was this mystical opera singer to get record deals in different countries in Asia where I was living. And we got along like a house on fire. And he got me into meditation, really got me into meditation. But then,

I felt like this heart glow Joshua coming out of my chest. And I was like, what is this heart glow? And Bob Proctor said that’s your heart chakra is probably activated to a certain extent. And I was then I was starting to read everything about chakras and what is it and the Shashumna and all this stuff. And he said, he said, I had an enlightened teacher for two and a half years. And he said, and then he left the body.

And even if you just begin by saying, not focusing on what you don’t want, but focusing on what you would like to have, if you can sort of say to yourself, not sort of, but say to yourself, thank you, divine, for my beautiful life. And then ask yourself, what does a beautiful life look like to me? If my life was truly a beautiful, harmonious life, because harmony is perfection, if harmony was perfection, what would my life look like? And then you start writing down what it would look like. The sort of friends you have, the characteristics of those friends. They’re loyal, they’re in harmony, they’ve got great senses of humor. You don’t want to have people that take their spirituality and their positive thinking and they get on their high horse so seriously. That’s no fun. So, yeah.

Writing Affirmations

So you gave me a lot there. When people are starting to do these kinds of practices, do you have any, so I know you’re giving apps, you have the recordings, do you ever help people write their own types of affirmations?

I have something called the mystical experience and I have members or students, whatever you choose to call them, from all over the world. And when we do our Zoom sessions, I’ve got a huge screen in front of me. Everyone has a chance to ask a question. They can email it in beforehand if there’s time, I’ll just ask them. And we do a lot of affirmations as well. And I always get them to get involved so they can understand. So if they’ve written an affirmation, they say it’s not working, maybe they’ve reworded it incorrectly and I’ll say to them, what do you think that would go with music? I always encourage them if they’re writing their own affirmations, get some karaoke music that you love. Maybe it’s Shake Your Boogie. And you can write your own affirmations and have not Casey singing to you, which you, you know, but anyway, I love Casey and the Sunshine Band, but anyway, what a great name too, the Sunshine Band. Anyway, and yeah, and write your own affirmations. And in all my books, I teach how to write an affirmation as well. And all my books are audiobooks as well. And I have literally thousands of videos that I’ve done on every topic you could imagine.

Yeah.

We’ve got quite a few hundred of them on our YouTube channel. And I mean, they’re all over the place, scattered all over the world on all different types of platforms. And you can watch any of them for free. And they just cover every topic you can possibly imagine. Visualizations, for healing, for awakening. And I think the important thing to remember, when someone’s listening to something like this and they go, okay, well, I’ll give the visualization, the affirmation a go, but the meditation, nah.

Okay, let me share something with you people. This particular show that Joshua does is very high in consciousness because he is. And so is beautiful Maria, his producer who’s so beautiful the way she writes her emails. Anyway, so this is for you. So if you’re watching this or listening to this right now, you are a practicing mystic. Otherwise you would not even be in the area of this vibration with Joshua to be interested in these topics. And so I really highly recommend that you, okay, okay, I don’t think about enlightenment. I never thought I could become enlightened. I didn’t do it for enlightenment. I had it because I was soul sick and I loved God and I wanted to find out what God was all about. If you know, I didn’t really understand it all yet, but I knew it was true in the marrow of my bones. I knew that there was a higher being anyway. So.

Integrating Meditation into Daily Life

She takes me away. So I say to people, because I have students all over the world, some of them don’t even speak English and they still come on every week onto the Zooms because they feel the light, they meditate with me because I’m transmitting light to them as they do it. And the worst case scenario, if you practice meditation with me or you begin with another teacher, it’s so important. I was practicing for years before I met my teacher Kundalini and then when as soon as she started sending light to me, it helped my meditation practice hundreds percent. Within a month, it just blew my mind. And so these people that come on my Zooms, even if they’re just there to become a magnet to money or learn about business or manifestation, what happens is, even if they’re not interested in enlightenment, the worst case scenario is they become happier, they become healthier, they have lower blood pressure.

And they become wealthier. So meditation practice is for stillness of the mind. When you can have stillness, even if there’s noise around you, when you have that stillness, that hum in your heart.

Exploring the Caution in Manifestation Practices

Hmm.

As people are practicing meditation and whether it’s with you or somebody else, like you said, there’s other ways that you can do this and they’re bringing in these affirmations. Is there anything that they need to be aware of before they start doing this? Anything they should be cautious about?

God no. No. Goodness me no. God, goodness me no.

Be cautious, not of the affirmation music, because that’s so positive. It’s just simple little pop songs. You know, that you’re doing it instead of trying to do the affirmation yourself and spitting them out because you don’t believe it, because your circumstances are saying that’s not the truth. Be aware of what you’re watching on your computer. Don’t go down rabbit holes of going into politics. Who cares? You know, who needs to know? Politicians are…

They’re like actors, insane people. Not all of them Obama, I loved you.

So I think it’s just important to focus on the positive and stop complaining about what’s going on in the world. None of it’s real anyway. Stop complaining about people, places and things that you don’t even know. Don’t gossip. Don’t complain about your loved ones. They’ll feel it and they won’t like you and you wonder why they’re bitchy to you. Wash up. Don’t leave things in the sink. Make sure your house is clean. Don’t put, don’t have mess in your trunk of your car or as we call it,

You know, the boot of your car, make sure your wardrobe is clean and ordered. Make your bed. Keep your… If you live in a place that’s disorganized, it will disorganize your mind and you will go down in oscillation. When you have clarity, keeping everything, maybe not zen-zen, because we do live in the West and we like our little knick-knacks, but it’ll make a difference if you can just, even if you just pay someone to declutter your house because…

Mm-hmm.

There’s tons of them that do that now, but during the lockdown, so many people taught themselves how to do this, how to do that. And then they started putting themselves on websites, which I highly encourage. And that’s another thing I love to do too, with all of my students. If any of them have got a new website or a new book, I just let the world know about it.

Focusing on What You Want

What I, one of the things that kind of is coming up for me, like as you’re talking about all of what you do is this, just this really simple concept of focusing on what you want and not the thing you don’t want. And I’m like you, like you’ve said that several times, but if people did that, only that it would probably increase the quality of their life an incredible amount. I don’t know what the number would be. I’d be making up a number if I gave a percentage there, but 75% better than it is when you’re focusing on the negative.

Easily, easily. I did this great infomercial and I had some wonderful people that I’d worked with over the years on stage with them, Jack Canfield, Brian Tracy, who did testimonials on my, Bob Proctor of course, on my infomercial.

For me. And this is a long time ago. And Brian and I got along really well because he loves to break the shackles. You know, he’s an amazing sales teacher and bestselling author, just a lovely, lovely sweet man. And, and he just loved my singing affirmations. He just couldn’t believe that no one had done it before.

And he just said, you know, it is amazing because he loved one of my products that I did with Bob Proctor called Turbo Charge Goal Setting. And we teach people, there’s an audio and there’s a workbook and it teaches people how to cut down into bite-sized actions on what to do and how to do it. And Brian said, look, that’s one of the main things I teach.

And he said, “I can’t believe the amount of people that don’t write down their goals.” And he said, “The ones that do and the ones that write down their goals as if it’s already happened,” he said, “at least eight out of ten of them have their goals happen.” And the ones that don’t write down their goals will rarely— it’ll be such a low percentage. And so, yeah, because I said to him, “I think one of the main reasons people don’t do it is they don’t know what they want. All they say is ‘I want more money.'”

“I’ll be a great philanthropist if I have money.” So they don’t feel guilty about wanting money. You know, “I’m a spiritual being, should I want money?” So yeah, that’s so true. If you can write down your intentions. And like I said before, if you just write down your beautiful life and write down what that looks like as if it’s already happened. It is incredible. And then you can do your own little movie. Like I did the manifestation, you can start putting— go to Canva and start putting

yourself in cars that you want to drive, you know, making sure that they’re good for the atmosphere. Tesla, anyone? And the sort of home you want to live in and just— these things will manifest for you. And the higher you go in oscillation and the more confident you become, you don’t get scared and you don’t stop your intention by saying, “It doesn’t work,” or

being so attached to it, “I’m gonna weld it in the bag, maaaah!” You don’t want to be constipated about it, you want to be smoothly going down that river, “Row, row, row your boat, gently down that stream.” And just allow yourself to visualize that it’s happened and don’t get into strong willpower. It’s not about screaming and yelling, although that’s fun sometimes at my events. It’s about…

Yeah. Yeah.

…just allowing yourself to not be attached. Have whatever you want in your life, but don’t be attached to how it’s going to happen, who’s going to bring it to you, or any of that type of nonsense. Because the way our higher self works, this is a dream. At last, at last, quantum physics, you know, these scientists are proving just a few months ago, Joshua, that, you know, they’re like, “My God, consciousness is real.”

Hmm.

We’ve proven it now. And they said— and they said in this study, “You can’t see it though, but we’ve managed to create what we think the pattern of consciousness is. You can’t see it and you really can’t sort of really feel it, but trust us from our work. It is real.” Buddha is going, “Tell me about it.”

So, but I love the fact that science is, you know— and then like last year, they found out we’re all holograms. We’re not real and we’re not solid and black holes aren’t really black holes. So I love to teach people about the latest science that is proving about mysticism and about that we are just consciousness because the naysayers from when back when I used to first teach, there wasn’t any scientific proof at all.

That this had happened. I’m sorry if I wasn’t looking directly in the camera, there’s a new thing on top of it and I keep thinking that’s the camera lens but it’s not, the one underneath. So I wasn’t— I was looking at you up there. It’s like I’m looking at your higher self, Joshua. Anyway.

It looks great.

Hehehehehe

I can— my higher self can feel it, Michelle.

You can feel it. So yeah.

How to Connect with Michelle

How can people, if somebody’s interested in learning more about you or all of these, you know, these recordings or your manifestation books or like all the many multiple things you do, what is the best way for them to get in touch with you or learn about you?

Hmm, good question, Joshua. I just so happen to have a link that is going to give your beautiful followers, your friends, your listeners, your watchers. You go to michelleblood.com forward slash superstates. And you will get the manifestation video book chapter, my favorite chapter, which will really get you interested, “Are you a mystic?” And you get to really think about the questions, then the answers. That’s true. I did do that. Yeah, I hate people telling me what to do. It’s like you work out, I have that within me. I’m quite an independent spirit. Who knew? God did. And The Magic of Affirmation Power book and my favorite album that Bob Proctor actually did some of the affirmations

Hmm.

with the lyrics for this album. We love you, Bob, we left the body a couple of years ago. Songs for success all free. So michelleblood.com forward slash superstates and yeah, just help yourself.

Nice.

I’ll make sure to get that in the show notes as well.

Final Message for the Audience

Michelle, what is the one thing that you want the audience to leave with today?

And that’s— that you are not alone. Everything is possible for you. You don’t need to know how to do it right now. But if you just allow yourself to know that all things are possible for you, even if you don’t believe that is true right now, it doesn’t stop it being a fact, a fact. And you have the same physiology and chakras and empowerment within you. Once you’re…

diamond is just polished even just a little wee bit, you will start feeling it. And you know within yourself, you can remould your entire life. Trust me on this. You can remould your body, your health, your career, everything. It’s just one step at a time. Everything is just one step at a time. And that you are loved. If you knew how loved you were, you would pass out this very moment.

Thank you so much, Michelle. This has been a beautiful conversation, really incredible person, and thank you for your time.

Thank you, Joshua. God bless you.