Trigger Warning: This episode includes a personal account of childhood abuse, suicidal thoughts, and discussions of trauma and substance use. If you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or emotional distress, help is available. In the U.S., call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, available 24/7. Melissa Boyd has spent much of her life exploring intuition, energy, and spirit communication, beginning with extraordinary experiences she recalls from childhood. Today, she combines her spiritual gifts with chakra work, meditation, sound healing, and practical techniques to help people connect with their intuition, release emotional blocks, and discover their potential. In this episode, Cristina Malavenda and Marty Go sit down with psychic medium, Reiki master, and spiritual teacher Melissa Boyd to explore the seven chakras, energy healing, sound frequencies, intuition, and how understanding our energy centers may help us find greater confidence, creativity, balance, and spiritual awareness. Melissa shares how her connection to the spirit world began at just five years old, when an extraordinary childhood experience changed the direction of her life. She also recalls working with skeptical corporate executives, discovering how a simple chakra exercise could transform their understanding of communication, and following her intuition to an unforgettable encounter with General Colin Powell. The conversation takes an unexpected turn when Melissa offers Cristina a live chakra reading, revealing what she believes may be a connection to a past life involving war in Japan. Cristina shares her recurring dreams about war, her lifelong fascination with Japan, and the surprising connections she begins to recognize during the reading. Melissa also shares her personal journey through childhood trauma, forgiveness, yoga, and spiritual healing. She explains how practices involving meditation, movement, mantras, mudras, and sound frequencies can be used to work with the chakra system and explore the relationship between our emotional experiences and physical well-being. Cristina, Marty, and Melissa expand the conversation into telepathy, psychic abilities, auras, the chakras beyond our physical bodies, multidimensional consciousness, the nature of time, and Melissa's belief that humanity is experiencing a profound spiritual transformation. Whether you are completely new to chakras, curious about developing your intuition, or wondering how energy work might help you understand yourself more deeply, this conversation invites you to explore the possibilities of connecting with your body, trusting your inner guidance, and discovering what may be waiting to open up within you. You'll hear: • What chakras are and how they relate to our emotional and spiritual well-being • How Melissa surprised a room of skeptical executives with a chakra exercise • The extraordinary childhood experience that awakened Melissa's spiritual gifts • How sound frequencies, mantras, and meditation can be used in chakra practices • What Melissa discovers during Cristina's unexpected live chakra reading • How trauma, forgiveness, and self-expression relate to energy healing • Why Melissa believes telepathy and intuition are becoming more accessible • What the lesser-known chakras may reveal about consciousness and spiritual evolution About Melissa Boyd Melissa Boyd is a psychic medium, Reiki master, yoga teacher, spiritual educator, and author whose intuitive abilities began emerging in childhood. With a background in public policy, management, and business development, she brings together traditional professional experience and spiritual practices. Through her readings, workshops, meditation, and chakra teachings, Melissa helps people explore their intuition, develop self-awareness, and embrace their spiritual potential. She is also the founder of Grow Your Knowing. What part of Melissa's conversation stayed with you most? Tell us in the comments. Connect with The Curious Soul Website: https://thecurioussoulpodcast.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheCuriousSoulPodcast Substack: https://thecurioussoulpodcast.substack.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thecurioussoulpodcast/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thecurioussoulpodcast Chapters 00:00 Opening: A Childhood Encounter with Another World 05:46 Skeptical Executives Discover the Throat Chakra 11:09 Melissa's Childhood Spiritual Awakening 19:48 Sensing Energy, Sound Frequencies, and Chakras 30:20 Cristina's Live Chakra Reading and Past-Life Connection 39:11 Healing, Finding Your Voice, and Developing Intuition 47:28 Time, Dimensions, and Telepathic Connection 54:02 Chakras Beyond the Body and Humanity's Evolution