Episode 84: Identity Change with Royal Shaman Makhosi Nejeser

Sep 2

Do you ever fall into the trap of setting dreamy goals, creating a plan, and then forcing the plan to happen? Rather than stepping into your calling and surrendering to the journey, without knowing the end destination?

Well, we have a special treat for you today on Euphoric The Podcast as we are joined by Makhosi Nejeser, the Royal Shaman. Makhosi is an authentic African shaman specializing in personal development and energetic alignment. After she tells us how she was called to become a shaman and begin her initiation work in South Africa, Makhosi drops incredible wisdom, magic, and bravery around how to change your identity. Shed your past self and step into your boldest future self with a few simple rituals and Makhosi’s brilliant 4-step process. Are you ready to feel like a queen!?

Embodying your inner calling

Makhosi is a shaman: a self-described business oracle supporting other leaders in fulfilling their highest level of potential and stepping into their highest identity. Makhosi feels like she is a bridge between the physical and non-physical realms.

After graduating college pre-med and having her son, she made the decision to forgo med school to spend more time at home.

At age 24, after making the leap from Target into direct sales, she had excelled beyond her wildest dreams, rising to the top 2% of her company, and living a life of luxury. Makhosi recalls traveling around the country on free flights to Vegas, buying name brand designer handbags, and yet she felt so unfulfilled. She knew that she was meant for more in life and wasn’t reaching her highest potential.

After a series of events she found herself attending the Mystery Schools of Ancient Egypt, through the Dogon Tribe of West Africa. After three years on this spiritual path and experiencing clarity on her calling to be a shaman, she made the decision to go all in.

Makhosi finished her initiation into shamanism with a training in South Africa through the Zulu lineage.

Even as a child, Makhosi felt connected to spirit, from recalling her past life at the age of four to reconnecting with a friend who had passed, she always knew she was in touch with something greater than herself.

Do you have a deep inner knowing that you feel pulled toward? What could become possible for you if you were willing to surrender to the unknown and trust your intuition?

Surrendering to knowledge and welcoming possibility

The modern world is obsessed with knowledge and doing. From Google to YouTube, information is readily available to us in an instant. In shamanism, learning and growing is through experience and embodiment. As a shaman, Makhosi helps people see themselves. No answer, no formula.

To do this requires humility. It is surrendering to the unknown. Makhosi describes it as sitting at the feet of the elders. The beauty of that surrender is that the outcome is far beyond what you imagine it could be.

Identity alchemy is examining and questioning the way that we see the world, the decisions we’ve made, what we believe in, our inner stories, and our values.

Through exploring these, you can become deeply aware of your attachments and where you place your identity. If you know that drinking alcohol is no longer serving you, you have to destroy that identity and make space for a new version of yourself.

By understanding the underlying narratives and motives behind our actions, we each have the ability to create something so much more expansive and in alignment with who we want to be. The process is not easy as you deconstruct the unsupportive stories, but what an incredible opportunity to create an extraordinary life for yourself!

Finding the right identity for your limitless soul

Makhosi explains that our souls are limitless, but we live in limited bodies, so of course we try to find an identity to stay grounded.

A great example of this is a woman raised with the identity of being a nurturer or a caretaker. When we adopt this identity from a place of abundance and compassion it is a good thing; but what if the root of it is people-pleasing? Maybe we’re saying yes when we really want to say no.

To help disentangle these identities, Mahkhosi shares a beautiful four-step process, called the Energetics of Euphoria. Let’s break it down:

Information: When you come into conscious awareness, you begin noticing your responses to different situations.

Contemplation: When you look inward with curiosity and ask questions about your trigger, consider the impact of family patterns, your ethnic group, religion, society, and the ways these all collectively inform your identity.

Transformation: You get to decide if the identity you are observing serves you or not. If not, you then get to choose something different. Take action toward the one that is most supportive for who you are and want to be.

Integration: This phase is about thinking, feeling, reacting, and responding from the perspective of your new identity. You’re embodying the identity and aligning with it in all areas of your life.

Are you ready to put your identity change into practice? Start by naming your identity. A great example of this is Beyonce calling herself Sasha Fierce, a more fun, more aggressive, and more outspoken alter-ego. Or for me, it’s New York Times bestselling author Karolina. By naming who you are, you get to show up in the world going through even the most mundane tasks with that energy.

Next, choose a song that correlates with your new identity. Maybe for you that’s Lady Gaga or Lizzo. If your song’s identity is Lady Gaga and you need to make dinner, how would the energy of Lady Gaga cook dinner?

As you begin embodying the icon you are becoming, you get to make choices and decisions that reflect who you are moving toward. You get to manifest for yourself the life you want, now, friend!

“There's something that happens when you have to get into a habit of practicing humility, and surrendering yourself to a process where you don't know what the next step is, you don't know what the result is, you don't know what you're gonna get. You just simply don't know… Because as soon as you release the attachment to how you think things have to be, you then get to receive everything that is in alignment for you to receive.” Royal Shaman Makhosi Nejeser