Today I sit down with Monica Bermudez, #1 international best-selling author of Cracking the Sacred Heart Code. Monica blends the worlds of engineering, business, and mystical wisdom into a formula for awakening and ascension.
Together, we dig into the raw truth about what it means to live through heart consciousness in a world that’s been conditioned to shut the heart down. We talk about the dark side of awakening, the way survival trauma keeps people disconnected from their purpose, and how heart consciousness can actually break the cycles of fear and scarcity so we can rise into the New Earth.
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To the old me, scared and unseen. You're
the reason I built this dream.
Now I see how others thrive.
Turn my scars into sound. I come alive
from the ashes of the break down. I
don't run. Our eyes won't back down.
This is the voice
I found
for those who lost their voice. I sing
it loud.
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I keep it real, keep it purpose bound.
Every word a step, every truth profound.
[Music]
We don't heal in silence. We fight with
grace. Softness and defiance lighting up
this place.
[Music]
It's a call to every soul who wants to
be free.
[Music]
Let's be real. Awakening is always not
that pretty. It's not crystals. It's not
incense and instant peace. It's messy.
It's painful. And it cracks you wide
open. But here's the truth. That
breaking open is where the real power
lives. Ted, today I'm joined by Monica
Bermirez, a woman who's not only
survived her own breaking open, but
turned it into a guide for others
through her book, Cracking the Secret
Sacred Heart Code. With her background
in engineering and divine alchemy,
Monica bridges science and spirit in a
way that forces us to rethink everything
we thought we knew about awakening. And
today we're talking about that and what
really takes to awaken the new earth
through heart consciousness. Welcome to
the show, Monica.
Thank you, Edna, for having me on your
show as your guest. I am so excited to
be here with you and your audience and
share these messages. Thank you for that
intro as well.
Oh, you're welcome. So, let's get right
into it. Many of us have survived trauma
that shut down our hearts. I know I
have. When you talk about cracking the
sacred heart code, how does that apply
to people who've had armor around their
hearts just to survive?
Yes. So that was, you know, one of the
biggest things that I evaluated was
myself first. That was my first client,
right? My first investment
when it comes to like, you know,
personal development at all levels. and
that, you know, looked at it from like
energy from all sorts of like trauma,
subconscious, you know, patterns that
were self-sabotaging me. And
I didn't realize it until I was
triggered. You know, my biggest
catalyst, my turning point was my
divorce. So, that really uh put me in a
different perspective of really
evaluating everything inside of me. And
so,
right,
found that my heart was very guarded um
you know, and u felt closed or
disconnected. And um I found that other
people were going through that. But one
of the things that really started to
open me up and start cracking that
sacred heart in us. Um and I you know I
can explain what means to me as well.
But um one of the things that really
started to open me up more was really
just uh doing something very simple and
just being outside with nature and
hanging out because I feel like
a lot of us spend most of our time
indoors, you know, and um I know I did
uh for most of my life I spent my time
in an office with no windows,
right? That's correct. and barely any,
you know, outside uh connection, right?
Um
and it wasn't until that catalyst moment
that I said, well, I kind of have this
desire and this urge to just spend most
of my time out in a mountain. And so I
spent like long hours hiking for like I
would say like three hours, you know, in
the weekends. um
a lot, you know, going to the mountain,
um hanging out with the trees and and
that just really started to crack open,
you know, this other aspect of my heart.
And in that cracking open, you know,
because sometimes be like gradual
things. Sometimes you could just pull
the band-aid off and just do it right,
which is part of my book is to do it
more like an alchemical formula step,
you know, process to help with that. Um
but I do emphasize a lot of nature
connection initially you know with
people who don't get out as much because
nature is a big part of us and you know
we're big part of nature
I feel we kind of lost those roots along
the way you know
you know
so yeah that's the way I would like
recommend you know getting started with
that. Of course. Of course. I'm going to
tell you that is so very true because um
when I was working with an organization,
even when I had my own office, I was in
the office all the time,
you know, for you know, eight hours.
Just think about that. Eight hours, you
know, we're eight hours away from our
family. We're eight hours we're in this
office. We're in this closed box.
There's no fresh air. There's like
artificial glare. Um and then when we go
outside, we get either get in the car or
we walk around for 30 minutes on cement.
So we have to be you know we start you
know we there's no um nature like and
when I stopped working and I started
working for myself again
I started walking every day to 45
minutes every day and the the the the
love that you feel the closeness you
feel to the trees and everything I'm a
total witness to that. So, what you're
saying to uh to me and you're saying it
to me is to stay in nature. You're
saying it to my audience. Get out in
nature.
You're telling us that.
Exactly. I mean, that's how I would
recommend starting. And then from there,
you know, you'll get like even more
guidance because you're opening up to be
more receptive to like downloads of
information, insight, intuition, your
gut feeling. you know, all of those
sensations will just start to like
awaken and you know, wake up and in your
body. Um, so there's just even like now
scientists are starting to find how much
like tree um the energy of trees they
emanate like their own aura and that's
why people feel that healing and that
openness and that reception.
So there is an exchange of energy
between us and the tree. Um yeah, I
believe that
when when science starts to bring, you
know, spirituality and science together,
um a lot of things, you know, that were
spoken about for a long time by many of
the ancients, you know, and
um a lot of people would consider it to
be too woowoo or like, you know, for
like, you know, it's like I was like
this isn't
a buzz word.
I know. But it's an interesting
definition. in a dictionary is like
something that's extraordinary what it
stands for.
But uh honestly it's not really that
woowoo. I mean it's like a lot of this
is part of science as well. It's just
that
we we've been conditioned to think of
things separate. You know spirituality
is own separate thing. Science is own
separate thing but they're not. They're
actually you know interconnected. And
that's a lot of what quantum is telling
us right now because that is the trend
right quantum physics and all this talk
about it.
Um but that's really what it is the
connecting dots of all that.
Yeah absolutely. Um I I want to say
maybe 10 years ago.
Um and I don't remember the person's
name but they started they I read an
article about quantum leaping when you
sleep. And I had started studying it
back then about 10 years ago. It might
be even longer. I don't want to date
myself too much, but you know, now we're
starting to get into it, right? And what
you're talking about now
and
the technical background that you have
now and you guide people in a in
spiritual alchemy.
Do you think people are stuck because of
that? you know, like they're stuck
because, oh, I need to this needs to
make logical sense here and but um they
don't think about the heart and the
intuition. Does that keep them stuck?
Yeah, in a way that's part of it. Yeah,
because sometimes we get too much in our
head and I was, you know, like that for
a long time and that's why I really
needed to get myself out of the way so
that I can allow myself to also um tune
into my heart. Um when the heart and the
mind are connected into this coherence
and I think of the figure eight, right?
this connection between the two
and this heart and mind coherence there
is you're like an unstoppable force of
nature when it comes to creation. You
get downloads of information on new
creative things uh new ways of thinking
outside the box. You know shifting your
perception is part of that. You know,
because sometimes we get so stuck in our
own belief systems, how we were
conditioned, how we were, you know, how
we grew up in a certain family dynamic
or any type of environment that we grew
up in,
right?
And so sometimes we don't even realize
that we are holding on to these belief
systems and this conditioning until you
really tap in more into your heart and
bring yourself together in that way. Um
and then you start to see the different
perceptions like oh if I look at this
belief system from this angle or if I
start questioning even that you know
from a different viewpoint um then that
really shifts us in a different way and
it's not that it is you know just here
analyzing and just being like just
logical about it you know and
overanalyzing too much of stuff. It's
not that there's anything wrong with
like analyzing something, but when we
overdo it, you know, we like disconnect
ourselves too much from the heart and we
don't allow the heart to also speak to
us.
So, what scientists, you know, are
finding in a lot of, you know, the
research with heart mass for those who
are familiar is that the heart is also
like another brain. It has the same
neurons as the brain does.
That's intelligence.
Yep, it sure does. So, I know that I've
Okay, so I want to you I want to go back
to this word that you're saying,
downloads, and I know my audience has
heard it a couple times. I didn't know
anything about it. Um um it was through
my friend Crystal, who's actually a
Ricky master. So, I didn't know anything
about it. I was like, downloads, you
know, I'm a practical person, so you
know, I'm asking questions. I would love
for you to break down that word
downloads, what it what it means and
where does it come from, you know, that
kind of thing. Break that down for the
audience.
Yeah, of course. Would love to.
Downloads is more like kind of similar
to gut feeling or like intuition, you
know, but this these are really like
information that is really coming from
an aspect of you that is like a future
aspect of yourself. Um, so what people
would call them like your higher self is
not to mean that you know one is better
than the other but it's more like your
divine connection of who you truly are
at the soul essence. So a lot of these
download of information is what I call
like you have this a lot already in your
soul that's embedded. You know there's
so much to us than just the physical
body and the physical form that we are.
Okay. 100%.
Yeah. No, that does, you know, cuz Okay,
so you know, um, in a community of
people, black and brown women, right, we
think that downloads mean, you know,
from God, you know, this this God, God,
just God, not spirit cuz spirit relates
to, you know, in us. But when I when she
said it to me, I was like, "Okay, so God
is downloading something to me." And she
explained it like that. know your your
higher self that's the knowing you know
the higher being of yourself downloads
what you already know I was like oh
so I didn't know that but it's good to
you know that's good information you
know what I'm saying
yeah so the other thing too is that
we're all interconnected right and
that's the part of the quantum field
right the interconnection of all things
right
is that no we've never been separated
from divinity or from God we've always
been a part of that. So in a way it's
all oneness you know it's all the
consciousness
of the information that comes in. So
even those future aspects of self is in
that oneness in that presence. So we're
we're merging now more into this
knowingness of this present moment
because of the energetic shifts that are
going on in the world and stepping more
into the quantum field and more people
are starting to wake up to that you
know.
Right.
Absolutely they are. Um I don't want to
say the buzz word awakening, but I think
they're waking up to it, you know? I
think they're past the awakening. I
think they're waking up to ah like the
aha moment. You know what I'm saying?
It's just like
Exactly. Aha moment. Like the little
light bulb that turns on the cartoons,
you know.
Yes. Yes. Yes. Absolutely. It's like,
wow. You know, I get them all the time.
Like, oh yeah, that rings true. like it,
you know, that aha that it rings true,
you know. Um, yeah, I love that. I love
that about that. In my work though, I
see how money and survival trauma really
block people from their purpose, right?
How does the sacred heart code help
people break free from the cycle of fear
and scarcity?
by bringing them back together to their
oneness, you know, to their own unity
consciousness and shifting into that
quantum field of knowingness that um
everything has its own rhythm and its
flow, you know, not we were never
separated. We were always, you know,
um as one working, you know, in that
quantum field. And so it brings in this
whole realization and this whole
perception that we were always
interconnected. So what we do in one
thing also impacts someone else. So
everything has its own ripple and
effects on everyone. So as we tap in
more into our own purpose and really
embrace the purpose that we are, you
know, because to me it's about aligning
to your purpose, not really finding it.
It's already in you,
right? Aligning to being here, being
here is already serving a purpose. But
there could be multiple types of
purpose, you know, that we're serving in
this capacity right now in this role. Um
but really tapping when we really tap in
and align to oursel from a soul level
you are also creating these effects
through the quantum field that is
interconnected to all those who are
around you who are part of your soul
family your own tribe your own community
everybody benefits you know so that's
why the key to mastery is to knowing
thyself so there is you know such deep
wisdom ancient wisdom with that that has
been engraved in many of the ancient
Egyptian temples um and many of the
ancient Greek temples they all emphasize
the same thing but just express it in
different ways um and so a lot of it was
lost you know through time um
but uh now is coming to light so this is
our time really to embrace that you know
within ourselves not to be afraid of
yourself and who you are who you're
becoming and when I say becoming I mean
like remembering you know remembering
soul
Right. I I I definitely I'm there. I'm
I'm like literally there and I was
just embrace, you know, my um clar
sentience and I'm like, "Okay,
okay." And I'm going with it.
I'm going with it, you know, and I'm I'm
learning and I'm open. Now, for those
that you you talk you you're talking
about now, what is one exercise you can
give them? the audience right now just
to start to come out of that fear and
that scarcity that you would teach in
the sacred heart codes.
So um we could do a small exercise right
now for those who are listening and this
is a very simple one and this is just
really um taking a moment to yourself
right
and really just dropping in your heart
and just really tuning in. And you could
place both of your hands in your heart
just to really feel its energy. There's
a lot of electromagnetic energy that
gets emitted from our hearts and just
really feel into that connection with
everybody who's on here listening um
where we're all connecting. And so now
just really give yourself a moment to
really listen to what your heart has to
say to you.
And you could just journal what that
message is. You know, you could take
longer if you like, you know, with
tuning in.
Um,
but we love to hear from those, you
know, like who did this exercise, you
could write in comments, you know, in
the social
here, wherever you share it, what word
they got. Um,
yeah. What I heard immediately was
you're so beautiful, you know.
I don't know if you got something, Edna.
Yeah. I I I I heard you're good.
Yeah.
Yeah. That you're good.
Yeah. So So that's, you know, how you
get started. You build that relationship
with your heart and do it you know even
if you do just a few minutes like every
day
as a daily practice. Make it a habitual
new habit you know for your new chapter
in your life to start connecting
yourself reconnecting yourself in that
way
makes a huge difference you know
um in your life and what you do um the
decisions you make and the choices you
make. All of that is, you know, comes
into play. Um, and then things just
start to get louder and louder. You
won't have to like do it, you know, like
this so often that it just comes so
natural to you,
right? Exactly. Yes. Yes. I hear you.
Well, audience, if you have done that
exercise along with me because I did do
it a couple seconds, that's all it
takes. If you have a comment or you
heard a word, please post it in the
comments under the video. We'd love to
hear from you. Now we're going to start
with the next question. Since we were
talking about awakening, right?
That sounds beautiful. Awaken. Awakening
sounds so beautiful.
But I'm going to tell you from
experience, it was it's messy.
So messy. It's so messy. And it it
brings out tears and all of this stuff.
What's the dark side of awaking
awakening and the ascension that people
don't talk about? I know it is for me
because I've been experiencing it, but
you can share because you guest.
Thank you. That's a great question.
Yeah, I would say like, you know, all of
a sudden realizing that the people
you've been hanging around with are
probably not do you no longer want to
hang out with them?
You no longer resonate. You know, it's
like, okay, so what do I do? You know,
these have been my friends forever. I've
been with them, hanging out with them
for a long time. And like even some
family, right? It's like, oh, I don't
really feel this connection with my
blood family anymore, you know? It's
like
I think you're telling on me.
It's me, too. It's me. I'm telling on
myself, too. But I know that so many
people resonate with this, you know,
and it's the dark side because you you
say all these things, you know, I've
been with this person for since I was in
ninth grade or I've been with this
person since I was, you know, you know,
and we went through all this stuff
together and now I don't resonate with
them.
Exactly.
And now, yes, it's
so in a way there's a heartbreaking that
goes with that, too.
Yes. And that dismantling of this
heartbreak, the breakdown is also a
breakthrough because you're really
starting to
realign yourself into your own soul path
to where you're meant to be, you know,
and everybody served their purpose in
your life
when they did, you know,
and so that's where it comes to endings
and beginnings, you know.
Yes. And it's it's so it's the human
part of you wants to
to linger there a little bit longer.
Yeah.
Or maybe wants to go back and try again,
you know.
Yeah. Exactly.
And it just gets messier.
I've been there. I've been there, you
know.
Yes.
Still working.
Yes. It is. And it's a broken heart part
now you know because you go through the
whole stages of grief and everything
because you grieve that
you know that happened that what you
know that friendship that it's not that
it was bad you know you know kind of
breaking up it's because you no longer
align. So it's like I I literally felt
my spirit. They were going this way and
I was just like going this way, you
know.
Yeah. Exactly. And it's no harm, no
foul. But I I you know the heartbreak.
Wow. We don't even think the same
anymore.
And I think one of my signals was and
maybe for you too, you could tell me.
Um, I'm talking about some, you know,
um, awakening that I'm having. And I
literally had friends fall asleep on the
phone.
And I'm like, okay, that's a message,
right? I had fall asleep or they they
they you knew that they weren't paying
attention. They'll go, okay,
you know, you knew that that you know
that
was kind of like my signal. Okay, I'm on
another other area here, another
channel. We're on another channel. And
yeah, okay, there's nothing wrong with
that. It's just that I was going a
different way, you know, and there's
nothing wrong with that. But um yeah,
the heartbreak of wow, my friend can't
understand where I'm going.
Yeah,
she doesn't. And then you all you act
like too, oh, she doesn't want to go
with me. Oh, he doesn't want to go with
me. You know,
yeah, we get like attached to that, you
know, it's like you there's an
expectation, I guess, attachment, right,
to like
certain things. And that's where we got
to be like really cautious, you know,
where,
you know, when that happens is paying
attention to what expectation that we
had versus what's really going on, you
know, because, you know, I've done
people like deer in headlights, you
know, like
what the hell
person, right? You be like,
"Yeah,
you can hear it. You hear it. You can
just hear it."
Yes. Yes. I know what you're talking
about, sister. I know what you're
talking about. Yeah, I do. And you know
it. You know, like I said, you try to go
back. That's the That's one of the
darker sides. You try to go back and and
then it becomes real messy. So, it's
better to listen, right? It becomes real
messy. Just just let it naturally flow
to where
Yes. So it becomes really really really
messy as far as the resistance you know.
Yes. Don't go back. Don't don't try to
fix it. Don't try to fix it. Just leave
it alone.
Get very messy.
Yes. It will be so messy. Yes.
And and then it goes and and audience we
want you to know this also goes for
family.
You know that's even more messy. And my
son said to me the other day, he said,
"Well, I you know, he had a dis, you
know, he had some
a family member he didn't want to be
around." And I says, "Some, you don't
have to. Your healing is yours."
And he said, "Well, I always thought I
had to because they were family." I
said, "What?"
I said, "No, you don't have to. Someone
that hurts you, you're not comfortable.
You don't you you you make that you
create a boundary and it doesn't have to
be I don't I'm creating a boundary with
you and D. It don't have to be that.
Thank you for saying that. Yes.
Me
just me saying it. You know
it doesn't have to be that. It's just
that you created a boundary. And you
know what? And when you give off the
energy of a boundary is different than
you doing something that oh I want to
cut them off. That's a different
feeling and they accept that that okay
she's created a boundary
and it's not being selfish you know
because some people take selfish or
they feel like they have to help
everybody. It's almost like this
uh helping you know like a martyr you
know type
yes
your energy you not
but you know we don't have to do that
anymore you know it's like
yes
I feel that's one of those patterns
that's been like somehow passed down
maybe through ancestry but also like
many like different lifetimes as well
and we don't have to like carry that
burden for anybody else you know
anymore. Um this is about really our own
healing in our own space as well which
in that moment that we work on ourselves
like I was saying earlier there is that
interconnectedness right that whole
ripplin effect that does impact others
because there is an influence of the
energy that goes out
you know and communicates to others
through this like energy network
energy community and so when people see
your shift and see you know your
presence you know in that moment they
also feel that you know impact without
you having to say the words you know so
right exactly
silence is a powerful tool too you know
yes
yes
so audience um you most of my audience
let me tell you um is that they're
they're either in the trauma part or
they're mad at God right they feel
broken
mad
no no I'm just saying most of my not
That's how I used to be though. I mean,
this is my past like reflection on me,
past version of selfreflection.
I tell you, I was really mad at God for
a long time,
girl.
So was I. I was like, uhuh. You know,
well, my audience knows I talked to God
like, yo, God, for real.
Exactly.
I was And so us being angry like this,
right? And I know you've worked with
yourself.
What's one way that we can step get, you
know, start stepping away from that and
reopening our heart to have that space
and not bypass our pain because I was
bypassing my pain and it was causing me
more trouble than not. You know what I
mean? So I would hop over the pain. Oh,
it's okay. And I would I love that word.
Okay. And fine. I love that. Oh, I love
that word. Okay. And fine. Little did I
like in the back of my mouth. Oh, girl,
you don't even know. But I wanted to be
able to proc process the pain, right?
And then be a begin to open reopen my
heart space.
Yeah.
How would you help us do that when we're
angry with God?
Well, great question. First of all, you
know, it's about your own willingness to
want to do the work, right?
Because there I can just share the
information, right? But if you're not
willing to do it, then you know it's
only there's only so much that one can
do. But really the first step is you is
you what you want to do with yourself.
How you want to make that change you
know and really shift that mindset you
know and really step more into your own
heart and your own fullness. But I will
offer these three powerful keys and this
is something that I just shared on my
social media and that is number one
witness allow and release. Okay.
And you know when you feel into the
emotion right whatever is coming up you
know just feel it but don't stay in it
and that was my biggest challenge you
know when I was going my own inner work
girl I wanted to stay in there
because I wanted to blame everybody.
I did too blame them. I wanted to blame
him. I wanted to pound something. I
wanted to you know I wanted to stay in
it. I wanted to keep talking about it.
Then one day I was like
I'm keep talking about because it's so
complex you know um
you know the God being angry with God is
such a layered thing cuz until you get
you got to get to the real crux of oh
well this is the untruth that it's
really the untruth had nothing to do
with God you know and that then we find
out whoa I listened to that when it's
plainly written right here
I was like You know, you go like, "Do
you know how to the V8 commercial, you
hit yourself up the side?" Okay, got it.
You know, but I had to get to that level
because I was all the way up. I was
like, and I had to come all the way down
my heart again so that I could
could be spiritual and be able to say,
"Okay, and accept the oneness." I
couldn't accept the oneness because I
was like, "Okay, God, I'm talking to God
out here knowing full well, okay, all in
here. All up in here." Yeah.
All up in here, you know.
Yep.
And that's what it is.
Yeah. So, just let go to grow, you know.
Yes. Absolutely. Had to let it all go.
Had to let it go. All go, girl.
Yeah.
This was not your your sugarcoated
conversation, audience.
No,
it's really about spirituality. And
Monica, I love how you broke everything
down and um laughed with me and and
created a new awakening. I like the way
you awaken. Yeah, I love it. It's my
style, you know, with a bit of humor on
the side.
I just love that awakening. I like that
better than, you know, the the buzz
word. I like your awakening better.
Exactly. Yes.
This is, you know, you can have fun with
it. You don't have to be, you know, in
the
in the grump or whatever is going on or
get serious about like what is
awakening. And that's one of the things
that, you know, when I really uh work
with a lot of the angelic energy like
Archangel Michael a lot,
he's actually a comedian, you know,
Archangel Michael.
Yeah.
He always brings in a lot of sense of
humor and so he always reminds me, you
know, stuff and he always says, "Get out
of the way." You know, like
Exactly.
Like, you know, he always says, "Let's
flow, you know, let's let's glow and
flow."
Yes. Yes. And that's exactly what we
need right now, you know, in this
climate, in what's going on in the
world. We really need conversations and
the spiritualities, the knowledge of the
spirituality. So, Monica, I want to
thank you for breaking that down.
Um, and talking about awakening and
showing us how the heart is the key to
the new earth, which is us. I love it.
Oh, big time.
It gives me chills when you say it.
Thank you so much for having me.
Yeah, you're welcome. Listen guys, if
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Bye.
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to the ones still searching
for their sound. You are not alone. You
are glory bound. Let your story be the
fire. Let your pain be the spark. We
rise together, igniting the dark.
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