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Good morning, Beth. Good morning, Mel. How are we
Melissa Amos:doing? I'm good. The weather is
Beth Hewitt:sunny. We're going through that period where it's ten
Beth Hewitt:seasons in one day. All of the seasons. I just did the school
Melissa Amos:run, and I think I had three of those seasons. I don't know. It's crazy,
Beth Hewitt:isn't it? I literally walked from one side of a car park to the
Beth Hewitt:other and experienced hill, sleet,
Beth Hewitt:and sunshine yesterday. So we're in changeable times
Melissa Amos:then. Yeah. Change is here and change is good.
Melissa Amos:Change is good. So I wanted to talk to you about something
Melissa Amos:specific today. Okay. Because
Melissa Amos:somehow I know that you've just started your Reiki journey.
Beth Hewitt:Yes. And I
Melissa Amos:think that there will be a lot of listeners who'll be very
Melissa Amos:intrigued about how that feels from the
Melissa Amos:beginning. For me, that beginning journey feels like a long
Melissa Amos:time ago. So I just love to talk to you about how
Melissa Amos:finding it, what's happening, what's going on, your understanding.
Melissa Amos:Yeah, all that cool stuff. Okay. I'm up for this.
Melissa Amos:So for the listeners, I'm teaching Beth
Melissa Amos:Reiki in a really nice group. I'm
Melissa Amos:super excited about you starting on this journey
Melissa Amos:personally, and I just want to know what drew you
Melissa Amos:to Reiki and so far,
Melissa Amos:how is it stacking up? So I have
Beth Hewitt:felt energy for a long time,
Beth Hewitt:and the physical feel of the
Beth Hewitt:energy was calling me even more and more. So I could
Beth Hewitt:literally feel in my hands that there were
Beth Hewitt:things happening in the work that I do. And so I think
Beth Hewitt:that was the call. That was the first
Beth Hewitt:inclination that I wanted to do something official with it, because I
Beth Hewitt:always felt like that energy was there, and I just wanted to use it
Beth Hewitt:and know more about the energy and how I could use it. There was
Beth Hewitt:a bit of trepidation, I'll be completely honest,
Beth Hewitt:because I have
Beth Hewitt:had, I don't know, I felt around the symbols of Reiki
Beth Hewitt:that there was a little bit of resistance to them based
Beth Hewitt:on what other teachers have said in the past. But I felt with you, and
Beth Hewitt:I felt with the holy fire Reiki, that it was
Beth Hewitt:different to other modalities of Reiki. So I just trusted my
Beth Hewitt:intuition that this was the right one to do. So
Beth Hewitt:that's what drew me to it, is that I have this energy. I could feel
Beth Hewitt:this energy getting more and more intense, and I wanted to be able
Beth Hewitt:to direct that and use that in the work I do with the other modalities
Beth Hewitt:and the other kind of work I do in the world as well. Love that.
Melissa Amos:It's interesting what you say about the symbols, because in the Reiki traditions,
Melissa Amos:we have these three symbols or four symbols, and
Melissa Amos:they are meant to be kept. Some people say the word secret.
Melissa Amos:Yeah, I prefer the word sacred. And,
Melissa Amos:you know, there's like, nowadays you can just google Reiki
Melissa Amos:symbols on the Internet, and they're all in there. But that wasn't always the case.
Melissa Amos:They used to be very much only passed down from a Reiki teacher to
Melissa Amos:Reiki student. And it's interesting that you felt a
Melissa Amos:trepidation about that. And I think that's maybe one of
Melissa Amos:the reasons why they're important to be kept within
Melissa Amos:the community and within the teachings, because
Melissa Amos:certainly, from my point of view, the symbols aren't
Melissa Amos:Reiki. The symbols won't really work if you're not attuned
Melissa Amos:to Reiki. And it's interesting if it can
Melissa Amos:put someone off doing it. If they weren't all
Melissa Amos:just out there, then you wouldn't wait for it to be put
Melissa Amos:off. I think in the end, it was more about,
Beth Hewitt:I felt and understood that it was the intention that is behind
Beth Hewitt:the work and that there is
Beth Hewitt:nothing negative to come from that. I think it's come
Beth Hewitt:from, I've done previous trainings, I've done sutras and
Beth Hewitt:TM meditation, and there is a lot of talk in that, that sometimes the
Beth Hewitt:Reiki symbols can block certain things
Beth Hewitt:in that. And I think I've had such a great experience in that
Beth Hewitt:world and that I didn't want to undo any of the work that I'd done.
Beth Hewitt:But for me, I know that intuitively that this is the right thing
Beth Hewitt:to do, and it is about the intention that I put behind it.
Beth Hewitt:I'm okay with that. But I think it's an interesting conversation and piece,
Beth Hewitt:because maybe I don't think people talk about this side of things.
Beth Hewitt:So I think it'd just be interesting to get your take on that as well.
Melissa Amos:It is. It's the first time I have heard a lot of
Melissa Amos:stuff about the symbols. And actually, we were sharing this in the call
Melissa Amos:last night. The symbols aren't Reiki. The symbols are a directed
Melissa Amos:intention, if you like. Yeah. And so just like we work symbolically
Melissa Amos:as humans, if I asked you to picture, forgive me,
Melissa Amos:two golden arches, then you would
Melissa Amos:instinctively, probably most of you know what I'm talking about,
Melissa Amos:and that would start to bring up either bodily
Melissa Amos:responses of either salivation or disgust,
Melissa Amos:depending on the scale, and essentially,
Melissa Amos:potentially memories and other things. And for some of you, that might even
Melissa Amos:drive you to go and move towards having that for lunch.
Melissa Amos:Right. We are symbolic, and we work very symbolically. And in
Melissa Amos:the Reiki teachings, the symbols are taught at Reiki too.
Melissa Amos:The idea is that you've already started with the
Melissa Amos:Reiki energy, which is what Reiki is about. It's a healing energy. It's
Melissa Amos:universal life force energy, and it's a direction of
Melissa Amos:healing intent. Essentially, when we
Melissa Amos:start bringing the symbols in, they give us this. I
Melissa Amos:suppose you could call them, like, a shortcut into
Melissa Amos:the three intentions of the symbols,
Melissa Amos:which are focus, power, which essentially is Reiki
Melissa Amos:here, please. Now. Yeah, Reiki stay here, or Reiki
Melissa Amos:enhance here. That's the meaning of the first one. The second
Melissa Amos:one is about balance and healing. So it's the healing symbol, if
Melissa Amos:you like. So if you're working on anything that needs some,
Melissa Amos:what is healing, it's coming back into homeostasis. It's coming back into balance.
Melissa Amos:So this symbol is all around balance. It's not increasing
Melissa Amos:or decreasing. It's balancing depending on what it needs. And the third
Melissa Amos:symbol is around distance, and it literally means no space,
Melissa Amos:no time. So it can move through dimensions of
Melissa Amos:time, space, and maybe even further, depending on your belief
Melissa Amos:systems. But actually, the symbols aren't
Melissa Amos:Reiki. There'll probably be some Reiki teachers that don't, like,
Melissa Amos:aren't good at what I'm about to say, but you actually don't even ever need
Melissa Amos:to use the symbols in Reiki if you don't want to, unless you're teaching it,
Melissa Amos:and then you do. But it'll be interesting for you when you
Melissa Amos:receive the symbols, how you begin to work with them
Melissa Amos:and how you find them. And maybe
Melissa Amos:you find that when you're doing certain work, you don't want to use them, or
Melissa Amos:they don't even come into mind. Maybe you find, oh, look at that. Like
Melissa Amos:I'm seeing. The power symbol will, for example,
Melissa Amos:come to me when I go to sit in meditation, because
Melissa Amos:maybe that will anchor you to where you are, help you become more
Melissa Amos:present. I don't know. The symbols don't always do the same
Melissa Amos:thing in every situation. They
Melissa Amos:hold the intention to increase balance or
Melissa Amos:connect, essentially, depending what it is that you're doing.
Beth Hewitt:I'm going into this with an inquisitive mind, and for me, it's about
Beth Hewitt:understanding more the symbols, and I
Beth Hewitt:will use them as I intuitively feel. I
Beth Hewitt:think I wonder if, because I don't like lined
Beth Hewitt:paper, I don't like being hemmed in a box. I like to be
Beth Hewitt:creative, and I'm wondering whether the
Beth Hewitt:symbols for me almost feels like this is you
Beth Hewitt:don't teach it. This way. You're very much how everybody experiences it is how they
Beth Hewitt:experience it. And there's not a one way, it's not like a tick box thing
Beth Hewitt:where everybody has exactly the same experience. And so I know that
Beth Hewitt:however I receive them and however I work with them is
Beth Hewitt:exactly how I'm supposed to work with them. And you as a teacher would be
Beth Hewitt:absolutely fine with that. But I am wondering whether it's this idea
Beth Hewitt:of a symbol representing something, and I don't like something
Beth Hewitt:representing something. I like to be so creative. Like, there's a
Beth Hewitt:multitude of different ways of being, and I think that's maybe part of it as
Beth Hewitt:well. But I'm open, I'm here for it. Wanna digest and learn everything, and
Beth Hewitt:I will use them and integrate them into however I want to
Beth Hewitt:use them. To me, that we'll probably use them exactly in the way
Melissa Amos:they're intended, actually, because Reiki, we were
Melissa Amos:talking about this last night as well in the training, that Reiki
Melissa Amos:translates as universal life force energy,
Melissa Amos:and it is in its essence, a
Melissa Amos:creative energy. If you think about life force
Melissa Amos:energy and what it is that same intelligence that changes the
Melissa Amos:seasons and that grows the plants and creates the twelve
Melissa Amos:seasons in a day, if you're in the UK at this
Melissa Amos:time of year and it has its own
Melissa Amos:innate intelligence, yes, but also it is a very
Melissa Amos:creative force, whether that is
Melissa Amos:the spring blossoming or the leaves falling off the tree,
Melissa Amos:which we might associate with falling away or dying,
Melissa Amos:there is still this growth going on, there is still this
Melissa Amos:creation going on. There's still this continual
Melissa Amos:spiral, if you like, continuing to move up. And Reiki
Melissa Amos:really enforces that. The
Melissa Amos:healing aspect of that, one of the higher aspects
Melissa Amos:of that, and the symbols
Melissa Amos:simply give you a direction in
Melissa Amos:that, but you can use it in any way. And Master
Melissa Amos:Asiri himself, who was the founder of Asuri
Melissa Amos:Reiki, said, our job as practitioners is to improve
Melissa Amos:the quality and the quantity of Reiki that we have in the world.
Melissa Amos:And if that's true, then that means that we are to use
Melissa Amos:it and to create for this healing intention, whatever that is, whether that's for
Melissa Amos:growth of you, whether that is for aligning to your purpose, whether that is
Melissa Amos:to help other people, whether that is for physical, mental,
Melissa Amos:emotional well being, whether that is for writing a book.
Melissa Amos:I used Reiki when I was writing my book. The quality and
Beth Hewitt:quantity aspect was the thing that was most
Beth Hewitt:intriguing on the call last night, because it was about,
Beth Hewitt:yes, this is about how I can create something new and
Beth Hewitt:more of something to the best of its ability. And whatever
Beth Hewitt:that is, that was what really appealed to me in taking what we
Beth Hewitt:already know and infusing it even more with Reiki and creating something
Beth Hewitt:even more special to bring that to other people. Yeah, that was the
Beth Hewitt:bit that I got. Oh, that sounds good for me. That's like
Melissa Amos:a big point with Reiki. I think many people teach it or go into
Melissa Amos:learning it as a healing modality. I can now do this,
Melissa Amos:and just like I might learn how to give a massage or
Melissa Amos:just like how I might learn tapping or just like how I
Melissa Amos:might learn whatever. Now I can give Reiki,
Melissa Amos:and yes, you can when you've done your Reiki training, but it's not that. It's
Melissa Amos:how do I now having this access at
Melissa Amos:all times, I'm going to do anything really
Melissa Amos:complicated. At all times, I have access to this pure
Melissa Amos:potential of creative healing, life
Melissa Amos:force energy that with the holy fire especially helps
Melissa Amos:me come back into my authentic self, heal
Melissa Amos:those parts of me that I've had to try on, put
Melissa Amos:on, or become in order to fit into the society that I'm
Melissa Amos:in. How do I use that so that I can become more of
Melissa Amos:me? And then as you do that, the healing comes with it. And then
Melissa Amos:as I become more of me, then I become a better
Melissa Amos:version of myself. And then as I become a better version of myself, then
Melissa Amos:I'm automatically going to help other people.
Melissa Amos:It's a knock on effect, and it can actually be quite
Melissa Amos:dangerous. Again, I might be shot down by some other Reiki
Melissa Amos:teachers for saying this, but it can be quite dangerous. When I come into that
Melissa Amos:going, I'm learning Reiki so I can heal myself.
Melissa Amos:Pet, child, partner, the world,
Melissa Amos:my clients is not that it's, you can do
Melissa Amos:that, but it's not that. It's a personal journey
Melissa Amos:of, I suppose you could say enlightenment.
Beth Hewitt:I'm loving it so far. So tell us about your
Melissa Amos:experience feeling. Because you said that you've felt
Melissa Amos:energy move through your hands before. Had
Melissa Amos:you, now you have had the Reiki attunement or placement. The
Melissa Amos:theory is that can increase it. Yeah. I wonder how your
Melissa Amos:experience is with energetics now. It's definitely
Beth Hewitt:increased it. I don't have to say anything. It's just there,
Beth Hewitt:incredibly warm. Interesting, though, last night, because
Beth Hewitt:you told us to do his homework, and I immediately, like a good little student,
Beth Hewitt:went away and did, went to bed and did my homework in bed,
Beth Hewitt:and when I placed my hands on myself, it actually went
Beth Hewitt:cold. Like really cold. Like, really
Beth Hewitt:cold, which I'd not really felt in the week prior.
Beth Hewitt:So it's very hot. Like, I can feel it all the time, but, yes, when
Beth Hewitt:I placed it in all the different positions. Cold.
Melissa Amos:Your hands were cold. Yeah, my hands were cold, and then my
Beth Hewitt:body went cold. Yeah, yeah. And I wondered what was going on.
Beth Hewitt:Then I think I probably fell asleep. So I didn't get to internalize what was
Beth Hewitt:going on. How did it feel with the
Melissa Amos:cool, the cold? It just felt like that's what it was supposed to be. I
Beth Hewitt:don't, the only thing that's coming through is it was almost like, like a full
Beth Hewitt:circle kind of thing. Like it's coming back on itself, if that makes sense.
Beth Hewitt:Like a circuit. Yeah. Like, it's.
Beth Hewitt:And then cold. Yeah. So
Melissa Amos:I think, again, we can imagine, especially when you're doing a Reiki
Melissa Amos:called holy fire, that it's going to be boiling hot. But
Melissa Amos:essentially, it's energy. And energy, by
Melissa Amos:its nature, is meant to move. That's what it wants to do. And emotion is
Melissa Amos:energy. Emotion. Energy wants to move and transform and
Melissa Amos:become. And the homework last night was self
Melissa Amos:reiki. So I invited the group to place
Melissa Amos:their hands on their body to cover the whole body
Melissa Amos:and to channel the reiki to receive self healing, which is one of the amazing
Melissa Amos:benefits of Reiki. Right. You can. The power is always in your hands.
Melissa Amos:And I found that when I'm giving self
Melissa Amos:Reiki, sometimes I actually feel very little
Melissa Amos:in my hands sometimes, but I
Melissa Amos:feel this peace or this comfort in my body. Yeah,
Melissa Amos:that's okay. Sometimes my hands go
Melissa Amos:boiling hot, and what I feel it's doing there is,
Melissa Amos:it's kind of burning, if you like burning
Melissa Amos:things away. Right. Or it's this increasing
Melissa Amos:energy. Sometimes I feel it go really cold.
Melissa Amos:And when it's doing that, my, and this isn't true for everyone, but
Melissa Amos:my experience is then it's almost like it's bringing a balance into the
Melissa Amos:space. That's not a fundamental
Melissa Amos:truth, that hot means this and cold means this, but this is how I've
Melissa Amos:experienced it and interpreted it. The truth for me of what's happening
Melissa Amos:is that we're tuning into an energy as we're placing our
Melissa Amos:hands on or near the body, we're first of all tuning in,
Melissa Amos:okay, there's something going on, and we start to feel a difference. That's the first
Melissa Amos:thing. There's something that feels different to this. And
Melissa Amos:then our brain goes, okay, that is hotter or colder or that is
Melissa Amos:stickier or smoother or that is clearer or
Melissa Amos:denser or whatever, and we use our senses to begin to
Melissa Amos:interpret what it is that's going on. Quite a common one is that's
Melissa Amos:hotter, that's colder, and then as we bring our hands
Melissa Amos:onto or near that space, then the energy
Melissa Amos:starts to do whatever it needs to do. Because Reiki is a creative life
Melissa Amos:force. It knows what to do. It knows how to turn the acorn into the
Melissa Amos:oak tree. Right. The energy then gets to work to
Melissa Amos:bring that homeostasis or that balance. And sometimes we
Melissa Amos:feel that and sometimes we don't. Either way,
Melissa Amos:it's working. Like, I've had points. Well, put my hands on my
Melissa Amos:stomach, and I'm not feeling anything in my hands, but
Melissa Amos:suddenly, I don't know, it just feels quite comforting. Yeah. And
Melissa Amos:then all of a sudden, my stomach starts going
Melissa Amos:to feel this movement going on when I'm
Melissa Amos:digesting. And I love it when that happens, because then,
Melissa Amos:especially early on in the journey, then it's like that proof to you, okay, something's
Melissa Amos:going on. Yeah. And when you do come to work
Melissa Amos:with other people, if that is something that you choose to do, then you,
Melissa Amos:you can learn to trust more. I don't have to feel everything in my hands.
Melissa Amos:I don't have to know everything with my head. And I actually don't need to
Melissa Amos:interpret whether something's burning away, balancing,
Melissa Amos:removing, releasing, filling it. Like it actually
Melissa Amos:doesn't matter. The Reiki will do what it needs to do
Melissa Amos:because our body knows how to heal. Yeah. And
Melissa Amos:as practitioners, we are, if you like, creating
Melissa Amos:the ultimate conditions. Yeah. Rest and
Melissa Amos:repair instead of what we're mostly in fight and flight
Melissa Amos:or freeze or fawn, we move through these stress
Melissa Amos:periods for most of our days. A lot of us, when we're doing
Melissa Amos:Reiki, our body goes, oh, okay, I'm safe here. I can begin
Melissa Amos:to heal, balance, repair,
Melissa Amos:relax. That's what we're doing. I
Beth Hewitt:love it. I'm excited to learn more.
Beth Hewitt:So the other things that I've seen is the colours. I think I mentioned that
Beth Hewitt:in, in the week one. So this yellow, which I thought was quite interesting
Beth Hewitt:given, like, the sunny and melon conversation we've had before and the joy, the yellow
Beth Hewitt:smarty, that I always knew that the yellow was significant.
Beth Hewitt:When we did the exercise last night with the
Beth Hewitt:partner, I saw a colour in them as
Beth Hewitt:well. So that's, this is new. This is new to
Beth Hewitt:me. This is new kind of perception, seeing the colors in other people. So this
Beth Hewitt:is quite nice. But then as I did that, I was like, oh, do I
Beth Hewitt:need to bring my yellow in? Do you know what I mean? It was like,
Beth Hewitt:oh, like just questioning, does the yellow need to come in now,
Beth Hewitt:or is it that kind of thing? But try not to get too much in
Beth Hewitt:my head and just go in with the flow a little bit. Like, it is
Melissa Amos:okay to get in your head because you want to know. And you, Beth, in
Melissa Amos:nature, you are very inquisitive and curious, and
Melissa Amos:I think that's okay, and we'll discuss it more in the week. But there is
Melissa Amos:this balance also between being very passive in Reiki
Melissa Amos:and being directive in Reiki. And here
Melissa Amos:I am going, Reiki is an intelligent force, and you don't need to do anything,
Melissa Amos:but you do because Reiki is coming through
Melissa Amos:you, and you
Melissa Amos:being naturally intuitive and
Melissa Amos:open and also visual, and also with all the other work that
Melissa Amos:you've done, it's very likely that these other
Melissa Amos:gifts and skills and talents that you have are going to come in and come
Melissa Amos:through. Now, we know, and probably better than anyone,
Melissa Amos:that the intention is key to our life.
Melissa Amos:Yeah. And we don't. We're not passive in our
Melissa Amos:creation. Life doesn't happen to us. Life happens for us, and we are
Melissa Amos:very much in power
Melissa Amos:to be able to move and manipulate and
Melissa Amos:begin to attract or experience what it is. And where does that stop? That always
Melissa Amos:starts with intention. Reiki is creative life force. It's always
Melissa Amos:there. Why do you need a Reiki practitioner or a Reiki attunement to
Melissa Amos:tune into it? It's a focused intention of Reiki here. Now Reiki
Melissa Amos:comes through me. I'm holding this power. I am opening myself up to,
Melissa Amos:yes, my authentic self, my healing journey, my potential
Melissa Amos:is important to me. Now. I'm having an attunement, of course, learning
Melissa Amos:to do that. And if we can combine
Melissa Amos:this surrender, guidance, intelligence of
Melissa Amos:Reiki, I'm tuning into this divine intelligence, or, okay, I'm getting the colour
Melissa Amos:yellow. What is the colour yellow? It's a frequency I'm seeing with my
Melissa Amos:eyes or my inner eyes, a frequency of yellow, which to
Melissa Amos:me means joy and happiness and all of this.
Melissa Amos:Okay, that's interesting. With experience, maybe it
Melissa Amos:will be okay. More yellow here. Maybe experience will
Melissa Amos:be okay. What's the opposite color to balance
Melissa Amos:it out? Is it too yellow? Reiki won't do any harm.
Melissa Amos:It doesn't really matter. I think Reiki will always win in
Melissa Amos:the situation, if you like. Yeah. Because it's always working towards
Melissa Amos:your highest good. But when we can truly
Melissa Amos:bring those two things together, that intuitive guidance
Melissa Amos:and that focused intention in with this
Melissa Amos:force, that is, I'm moving towards your healing,
Melissa Amos:your purpose, and your greatest good, then real magic can
Melissa Amos:start to happen. Yeah, like the. There's no
Beth Hewitt:resistance for me wanting to bring it in. It was just more of a, do
Beth Hewitt:I do this now? Those kind of thoughts that go through your mind. Yellow for
Beth Hewitt:me is joy and is the highest
Beth Hewitt:vibration emotion. And I think if somebody is,
Beth Hewitt:I take myself in this as well, not just somebody I might be working on,
Beth Hewitt:but if somebody or myself needs to
Beth Hewitt:reconnect to joy, then placing that and
Beth Hewitt:having that within the session, it's almost again, it's
Beth Hewitt:not me turning the switch on for somebody, or it's
Beth Hewitt:almost just, this is here, it's in your. In the Reiki. It's
Beth Hewitt:infused in the Reiki, and then it's accessible,
Beth Hewitt:especially for people that maybe feel that joy is out of
Beth Hewitt:touch. The other thing that came through incredibly strongly the first
Beth Hewitt:week was this sense of home. And I'm
Beth Hewitt:interested to see how this develops because I feel like this is going to be
Beth Hewitt:quite significant. Those feelings and emotions that feel like home
Beth Hewitt:to people. And it's hard to describe that, I think because
Beth Hewitt:everybody's version of home, what that means is very different.
Beth Hewitt:But there's something in that energy of home, of
Beth Hewitt:safety, a boundary of unconditional
Beth Hewitt:love, of familiality. Can't say that.
Beth Hewitt:I think we all desire maybe on
Beth Hewitt:some level, and I think there's going to be something in
Beth Hewitt:the work I do in the future around bringing people, maybe both back to
Beth Hewitt:joy. And I see them as two separate things.
Beth Hewitt:But in my attunement,
Beth Hewitt:everything that I saw was very much visions of
Beth Hewitt:home, the vision of connection, the memories
Beth Hewitt:of being, being young, the unconditional love of a family.
Beth Hewitt:And I appreciate not everybody has that. People have brought up in very different
Beth Hewitt:situations, and home life might have been very turbulent, but
Beth Hewitt:for me, I'm very blessed to have that support mechanism around me. And I think
Beth Hewitt:as we grow old and we move into our own homes and own
Beth Hewitt:worlds and create our own versions of life, it's very
Beth Hewitt:easy to forget that there's this base
Beth Hewitt:level of home and sanctuary that we
Beth Hewitt:maybe take for granted. And that was very much in my attunement. It was a
Beth Hewitt:bird's eye view, literally boundaries of my
Beth Hewitt:home, almost like the location that I'm in and how far that
Beth Hewitt:stretched out. And there was snippets of primary school and
Beth Hewitt:teachers and family life and memory and grandmas and grand, you know,
Beth Hewitt:and my dad and all of these things all merging together
Beth Hewitt:to bring me back to this feeling of home. And so that is
Beth Hewitt:something that I can anchor into more just generally. But also I feel like that
Beth Hewitt:is part of my journey will be to, and I already do this a
Beth Hewitt:little bit in some aspects of the work that I do, but I think there's
Beth Hewitt:going to be more of a focused piece of work
Beth Hewitt:around helping people anchor into this sense of
Beth Hewitt:home because it's very empowering. Even if
Beth Hewitt:your home right now isn't calm, that doesn't mean
Beth Hewitt:that you can't create what that homely feeling
Beth Hewitt:means to you. I remember you shared that on your
Melissa Amos:post. And it's true. Reiki does bring you home. And
Melissa Amos:again, like you said, we've all had different home life
Melissa Amos:experiences, and even those of us who have
Melissa Amos:had the best home life on paper still
Melissa Amos:going to have been traumas that we'd internalized. Even they're
Melissa Amos:known as little t traumas, like little things or somebody
Melissa Amos:said something and we've internalized it. One comment from a teacher and
Melissa Amos:all, like the things come up for us. But this
Melissa Amos:sense of home is actually something that's quite different than
Melissa Amos:actually what was I as a child. Because if you think
Melissa Amos:about the essence of home, it's where we've come from, it's
Melissa Amos:where we've incarnated from, and often that's
Melissa Amos:what we're trying to get back to. And if we do that in
Melissa Amos:unhealthy ways, that's often where we find ourselves in
Melissa Amos:addictions and certain personalities,
Melissa Amos:the funny things that we do as humans. Yeah. If we keep breaking
Melissa Amos:it down, it's we're trying to find this sense of
Melissa Amos:peace or enlightenment or even joy, and we
Melissa Amos:don't know how. Now, what is home?
Melissa Amos:If you think of it in the best sense, it's safety, it's comfort,
Melissa Amos:it's that holding. And it's if you imagined
Melissa Amos:the essence of Mother Earth, that's home. And
Melissa Amos:if you think of that in an energy body point of view, that's our lower
Melissa Amos:chakras, our root, and this is the space that needs to feel
Melissa Amos:right in order for any of the other experiences to
Melissa Amos:happen. And yes, we can get so far, but if we don't feel safe, if
Melissa Amos:we don't feel secure, if we don't feel like we're in the right
Melissa Amos:place, then we're only going to get so far. It's
Melissa Amos:psychology, it's energy, it's all of the things. There's been many papers on
Melissa Amos:this, and I think what Reiki does
Melissa Amos:is it brings you that sense of, okay, I'm
Melissa Amos:here as a soul in a human, and this is the place that I meant
Melissa Amos:to be right now. Yeah. And yes, that for some of
Melissa Amos:us, that will bring a whole healing journey and curiosity
Melissa Amos:and shedding and all the things that come with that. And for some,
Melissa Amos:it will be that reminder. And from what I'm hearing
Melissa Amos:from you, it's like that anchoring in a remembrance of who we were
Melissa Amos:as a baby, as a child, when we were so close to that soul of
Melissa Amos:ours and we knew, we were like, I'm coming down here and I'm going to
Melissa Amos:experience this stuff and I'm gonna, I'm gonna learn this about me and I'm
Melissa Amos:gonna grow in this way and I'm gonna have this evolution. And yes, things might
Melissa Amos:be tough and hard, but I'm gonna remember my essence
Melissa Amos:and that's gonna bring me through. Reiki reconnects
Melissa Amos:you. It doesn't give me that. You've already got it, but we forget it.
Melissa Amos:It's gone. We've moved from home, right? We've started our
Melissa Amos:own thing. We're busy with our jobs and our lives and our families and our
Melissa Amos:phones and all the things that are bringing our awareness
Melissa Amos:outside the Reiki seems to anchor back in that,
Melissa Amos:yeah, I'm here for a reason. I'm safe
Melissa Amos:where I am now. Where do I go?
Melissa Amos:What do I choose? So I love that. And I
Melissa Amos:can imagine with your work when you're really
Melissa Amos:helping people move into this aligned,
Melissa Amos:created, powerful version of themselves
Melissa Amos:that what a great place to start.
Melissa Amos:Well, we start from home and from here and from where we are now. And
Melissa Amos:we know how to navigate to where we want to get to. I think it's
Beth Hewitt:also because often, especially when
Beth Hewitt:people create a vision, that bridge from where
Beth Hewitt:they are now to where they want to go can feel like, pretty daunting. Like,
Beth Hewitt:how am I going to go through all of these steps? And I think there's
Beth Hewitt:comfort in the fact that we go through those steps and we do transform and
Beth Hewitt:we do change, but we still anchored into this sense of home
Beth Hewitt:and where you are. Like, you're not going to be adrift in the
Beth Hewitt:sea, just bobbing up and down in a boat and seeing where that takes you.
Beth Hewitt:You're still anchored into that essence of home. And I think it's very
Beth Hewitt:telling that I still live
Beth Hewitt:five minutes away from where I was born. And I've got, I
Beth Hewitt:have a really strong desire for travel. I love travelling,
Beth Hewitt:but my home is my home. And I feel, I don't feel I'll
Beth Hewitt:ever leave this because it's a very, I feel like it's got a very
Beth Hewitt:powerful energy. The place that I live right now. And I think it's very
Beth Hewitt:telling that the home is starting to come out more.
Beth Hewitt:And yet I've always intuitively never really wanted to
Beth Hewitt:leave. I left for university, but came back about as far as I went.
Beth Hewitt:And even then it was only like 10 miles away.
Beth Hewitt:So I'm anchored here and there's certainly lots of magical,
Beth Hewitt:mystical places and memories and I think that's what the attunement
Beth Hewitt:was showing me. There was a lot of forests and
Beth Hewitt:bluebells and all kinds of different things popping up from, like,
Beth Hewitt:memories that were centred in my home and
Beth Hewitt:to be able to see the bird's eye view of, like, how far that goes
Beth Hewitt:out, because it's not a tiny little space like I live in a. It's not
Beth Hewitt:even a village like a hamlet, and then there's villages around it, but
Beth Hewitt:it's quite a wide, like, that space that I
Beth Hewitt:saw is quite a big area. And,
Beth Hewitt:yeah, it was nice to. There was comfort in the boundaries
Beth Hewitt:of, of the home as well. Love it. Finding,
Melissa Amos:finding that space of home wherever you are and
Melissa Amos:actually connecting with that essence of the
Melissa Amos:bluebells, even if you're on the other side of the world,
Melissa Amos:is possible. And we'll
Melissa Amos:discuss that more in the regi two with the. When we talk more about the
Melissa Amos:symbols. But it's. Yeah, it's life changing. But you're
Melissa Amos:absolutely right. It's where it all begins, with this sense of
Melissa Amos:who am I? Where am I?
Melissa Amos:Yeah, who am I? Where am I? And from there we can
Melissa Amos:build everything. What are we going to
Beth Hewitt:talk about today? And I thought Mel will know.
Beth Hewitt:Mel know what we're going to talk about today. I'd love to hear your
Melissa Amos:experiences either with Reiki or where
Melissa Amos:you are now with it, or if you've also been in that space of.
Melissa Amos:Oh, I'd love to, but I'm not sure. Get in touch. We'd love to hear
Melissa Amos:your experiences and questions around all
Melissa Amos:of this.