SUE MAISANO

POWERHOUSE GLOBAL MAGAZINE (PGMAG) INTERVIEW WITH:

SUE MAISANO (SM)

PGMAG: Sue, great to have you on today’s interview.

SM: Thank you for having me. And thank you for providing such an amazing platform for change makers!

PGMAG: You have an interesting life story which I believe would help our readers. Please kindly introduce yourself and share a brief on your journey.

SM: I will try to be brief. My journey started in a poor Chinese farmer’s household where I was born and raised. I was just a small village girl pretty much never went out of town until college. Generations of my family were tied to the same village. My dad was an elementary school dropout and my mom suffered a strange illness and suicidal thoughts. From an early age I knew I was the only one who could change my own fate. Luckily, I got in one of the top Universities in China as the first one in my family to enter college. In my third year, a crazy dream found me, and that was to come to America for advanced studies in biology. My dream was ridiculed, because like I said I was just a small village girl never been anywhere. No one would have thought this quiet girl would have such a bold and impossible dream. From decision making to taking the necessary difficult tests, I had only 3 months to achieve that at the time. My test results came out absolutely horrible, it’s was shameful actually and I am not kidding. I felt the bubble of hope burst. But I burned the ships and made a deal to myself to never regret even if I fail. I made my dream nonnegotiable.

But the journey was not easy. I slept in underground apartments in Beijing cramped with 15 roommates. I worked really hard in a science lab to get required experience for my major. I was physically and emotionally drained for nearly a whole year, with my future up in the air. I felt like a candle in the wind, it can be blown out at any time.

Fortunately, the Universe sent me a kind US professor. Under the most unlikely circumstances, I was interviewed by her and a year later I was under her mentorship in the US… A lot of “miracles” were aligned by the Universe during my journey to the West, and subsequent journey to become a spiritual life and business coach. My journey of coming to the US was the first time I felt the power of the Universe working through me. I knew that I couldn’t have done it by myself… it was the beginning of my awakening journey.

My journey started in a poor Chinese farmer’s household where I was born and raised. I was just a small village girl pretty much never went out of town until college. Generations of my family were tied to the same village girl pretty much never went out of town until college.

PGMAG: Your work focuses on wellness and connecting with one’s higher purpose. Please talk to us about ‘Spiritual Awakening’.

SM: My spiritual awakening was initiated when I was working with a business coaching client. I believed in higher purpose and higher dimensions. I believe future possibilities exist already in the now and can be access by our subconscious mind, because to the subconscious mind there is no time. So I guided my client into meditation and had him visualize the sales page he had no idea yet. To my amazement, he came up with a congruent and emotional copy - He could see every detail on the sales page. Next, we did some exploration on consciousness. He met up with my spirit guide, who reviewed himself as a Tibetan Buddhist monk. My client accompanied my soul and my spirit guide to visit my akashic record. I got to know my two most recent past lives. My spirit guide kept emphasizing that my life’s purpose is to help people get back on track with their lives through the power of meditation. I have never felt such trust in me. It was like you have to do this; you have to use meditation. He was very serious about that, to the point that I felt so hornored yet so humbled. I felt great responsibility.

Soon after, I had a soul travel experience. I could no longer ignore the exitance of a higher dimension and how we can use it to benefit our lives. In some moments, I felt the interconnectedness of everything and everyone, it was so beautiful and so emotional. I had the moments of AWE, unconditional love, and deep appreciation for every life form. It’s the best feeling in the world…

Anyone can choose to awaken spiritually. Our souls are participating in our human experience and are guiding us in life. If we ignore our spiritual side, we will feel disconnected, disharmony, feel being “trapped”. That’s our soul crying out for help.

Our soul has enormous knowledge and wisdom accumulated through different incarnations; our soul is our best guidance system! Get out of the way and let it shine! Your life will be filled with peace, gratitude, and unconditional love! You will be living your purpose.

One of my favourites! On the sub-particle level, everything is energy that’s pulsating and vibrating. Our conscious participation makes the energy manifest into “solid” matter.

PGMAG: It’s a powerful thing to know that our thoughts create our realities. Please touch some light on one of your written piece (The Nature Of Mind Realities)

SM: This is such a fantastic topic! One of my favourites! On the sub-particle level, everything is energy that’s pulsating and vibrating. Our conscious participation makes the energy manifest into “solid” matter. The moment we observe something, it materializes into physical reality. If there’s no conscious participation, matter stays in the state of vibrational energy instead of solid state.

Let’s look at an example. Let’s say you go to work during the day and there’s no one at home, no pets, no one looking into your house either. The furniture and everything else as well, inside the house do not exist the way we think they are - They exist as vibrational energies. There’s no table when no one’s looking. The table is vibrating in and out of physical existence. It’s vibrating in a higher dimension. The moment you look at it, it’s “fixed” into the physical plane. Isn’t that interesting!

The moment someone observes matter, it materializes into physical reality, appearing the way they always appear to be.

This may seem confusing to someone who’s new to the concept, but it is a scientific discovery. Our conscious participation cocreate reality. Matter occupies space, life events occupy time.

Just like matter is being pulled out of higher dimension to take the physical form across space, potential circumstances are being pulled out of higher dimension to manifest as life events across time.

So life’s happenings work in a similar way as matter. Future life events exist as possibilities, which possibility is realized to our physical reality is based on how we observe it. Whatever we hold in our thoughts, we are picking that particular future possibility to manifest into reality!

The problem is, so many people are afraid of certain bad things happening. By worrying you are paying attention to that horrible potential outcome. The very act of worry is drawing closer the thing that is worried about. What we pay attention to, we feed energy to it. It does not matter if the thought is a negative such as “don’t want”, you are still tuning into the energy of the thing you don’t want. So in a way, there are no negatives.

Our thoughts create our reality. We need to be conscious of what we are thinking of, especially our pestering unconscious thoughts. Thoughts are very powerful. Thoughts are how we create reality. Become conscious of how you think, you will be in the driver seat of your destiny!

PGMAG: You talked about ‘Soul-Centred’ business and how it impacts our world. Please explain this further

SM: Soul-Centred business is a business that’s attuned to your life’s purpose. I believe everyone on earth has a great purpose to serve, and more often than not that purpose is to help others. Running a business allows you to help others directly, instead of working through a company or any other third party. So you are serving others more directly. When you serve each individual, go deeper, serve more powerfully! So you go wider and deeper in your service.

It is a Soul-Centred business when you serve others directly, serve more people and go deeper with each service. This is how you serve through running a business. Money is an end result of service rendered, serve more people and serve more powerfully. So you see running a business is a spiritual act. Making money is a spiritual act.

Soul-Centred business is a business that’s attuned to your life’s purpose. I believe everyone on earth has a great purpose to serve, and more often than not that purpose is to help others.

PGMAG: As a leader, what are some of the steps required to overcome some life traumas?

SM: The first step is to become aware.

A leader needs to examine their inner self-image. Our success or failure is a faithful reflection of our self-perception. Since our subconscious mind has no concept of time, everything that had happened to us since we were conceived was stored in our permanent memory. Our permanent memory is always running in the background, without our conscious awareness. We are following patterns and prewritten scripts that we are oblivious to, and it can be very detrimental to our business, relationships, or life in general. So the first step is to examine the inner, the selfimage and become aware of our subconscious programming. The second step is to accept. There are traumas from our past. They are stored in the subconscious mind and projected to the current circumstances. Why does the mind project past traumas to our current situations? It’s for the purpose of resolution. Your current circumstance, life events, or situations may provide a great opportunity to heal those past traumas. Until those traumas are dealt with and healed, they will continue to resurface, seeking a new opportunity of healing. So don’t try to push away those traumas, accept them. Use your current new understanding to dissolve past traumas. Face it, and see it in a new light. Third step, let go.

Let go does not equal forget. You will not forget the past “trauma”, the factual part of what had happened remain the same, but the “meaning” of the event changes. You lose the emotional component to the “trauma”, because it had been “neutralized” when you heal. Once it’s healed, it will not affect you the way it was before, you are fully letting it go and not reacting to it emotionally.

A leader needs to examine their inner self-image. Our success or failure is a faithful reflection of our selfperception. Since our subconscious mind has no concept of time, everything that had happened to us since we were conceived was stored in our permanent memory.

PGMAG: Would you agree that what we consume directly affect our overall wellbeing?

SM: Absolutely! What we consume not only means exactly what we put in our body such as what we eat and drink, but also what we put in our mind, what our dominate thoughts are. We feed energy to what direct our attention to. So we need to become conscious about our daily choices and understand what we are doing to our body and mind.

PGMAG: How important is it for us to align with our ‘Soul’s purpose and what are the benefits to this extraordinary living?

SM: Our souls embarked on this journey for a reason, our life’s purpose is to align and fulfil our soul’s purpose. Many people felt lost, they felt that they don’t have a purpose, or they haven’t found their purpose yet. In that case, their “purpose” is to find their soul’s purpose.

When you find your soul’s purpose and align your life to it, you will be able to put life’s challenges into perspective. You will be able to transcend difficulties and see the light in them. In fact, life’s difficulty situations offer the most profound opportunities for personal growth.

Aligning to your soul’s purpose gives you a new perspective beyond everyday struggles. Life becomes extraordinary as nothing can disturb you anymore and everything is a lesson.

PGMAG: What are the top three books that changed your life?

SM: There are so many books that had influenced me. I felt so blessed that I can stand on the shoulders of giants who had studied their entire life on fascinating topics. We truly are living in the most amazing era. To distil the books into 3 is hard, but I will try my best. Destiny of Souls by Michael Newton. Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz. Answer Cancer by Steve Parkhill.

When you find your soul’s purpose and align your life to it, you will be able to put life’s challenges into perspective. You will be able to transcend difficulties and see the light in them. In fact, life’s difficulty situations offer the most profound opportunities for personal growth.

PGMAG: What is your message for those who are struggling with low selfesteem?

SM: My message for those who are struggling with low selfesteem is to look inwards. Get really excited about who you are, what you have and what can still be yours. Understand that it is OK to feel the low self-esteem, but you also have the option of feeling differently. Imagine that you grew up differently, in an affluent and loving family and there was never criticism, only encouragement and compassion. Imagine that you grew up being accepted every step along the way, no matter what you did or did not do. What does that feel like? How does that feel in your body?

How would you carry yourself around energetically and vibrationally?

Tune in to that feel frequently until it becomes your new norm. Know that the way you feel and behave now is a result of all of your past experiences - Use your imagination to build new favourable experiences to replace those in your memory. By doing that you are reprogramming your mind. It does not really matter what your past was like, the actual fact does not matter, rather, it’s the memories you have that’s been projected to your here and now that makes all the difference. Simply knowing that you are acting out your past is a good start for change. Deliberately create a new vibration, a new way of being, practice the FEELING of self-confident, the FEELING of high self-esteem. Sending love and deep appreciation to your younger self is another way of dealing with such a challenge. Forgive those in your past who had ever hurt you. Forgive yourself for conscious or unconsciously hurting others in the past. Know that it is all good now.

You are a miracle! You are one of a kind! And that is the ultimate truth - Anything less than that is a lie.

If I knew what I know now, I would be more peaceful in difficult times, knowing that everything will turn out alright. I would take more risks and take bold actions! I would become an entrepreneur much earlier.

PGMAG: If you knew what you know now, what would you do differently?

SM: If I knew what I know now, I would be more peaceful in difficult times, knowing that everything will turn out alright. I would take more risks and take bold actions! I would become an entrepreneur much earlier. I would know that I was always safe and protected, and that there is no failure, so may as well reach for the greatest I can!

PGMAG: What would you say to your younger self?

SM: I would want to congratulate my younger self and compliment her on how fabulous she is. Given what she knew back then, she did her best. I know that she did her absolute best! She had shouldered a lot of responsibilities, especially the responsibilities of changing her own fate and that of her families. It was a lot for a young girl to carry but she did it! Without her I won’t have today…

So I am very grateful for my younger self to have taken risky moves in uncertain times. I want to tell her how brave she was, how wise she was, and how beautiful. I would encourage her to always trust her intuition, follow the Universe’s guidance, and never lose faith in herself no matter what others say to her.

PGMAG: Sue, thank you for sharing your brilliance with us today.

SM: It’s such a pleasure. Thank you very much!

PGMAG: Please share your links with us.

SM: I help people better their emotions and relationships through spiritual life coaching, you can find me here for this line of work, https://mindrealities.com/

I help coaches and consultants get clients and make money by mastering spirituality, marketing and sales, you can find me here for business coaching https://suemaisano.com/