Show Summary:

• In this episode, Beth Hewitt interviews her co-host Melissa Amos, and the show follows Melissa's life journey and how her Soul-inspired life began.
• Melissa reflects on her childhood and discusses her Grandmother's Influence. Melissa's grandmother was a hypnotherapist, who introduced her to the power of the mind and imagination.
• Mel discusses her early understanding of how she explored how thoughts and emotions could be harnessed for healing and creating desired outcomes.
• Discovery of Reiki: Melissa's encounter with Reiki and its impact on her, highlighting the connection between mind and energy.

Transition to Soul-Inspired Work

• Melissa follows societal expectations – education, job, marriage, etc. experiencing low-level dissatisfaction and anxiety.
• Melissa shares her introduction to Reiki and its profound impact on her perspective.
• The hosts discuss the Blend of Scientific and Esoteric: Integration of psychological, scientific, and energetic practices.

Embracing the Soul's Calling

• Law of Attraction: Melissa delves into the law of attraction and the power of thoughts.
• The Transition: Melissa's leap from a corporate job to working with energy and spiritual practices.
• Psychic and Mediumship Development: Melissa explores psychic and mediumship abilities, leading to further personal and professional growth.

Writing and Publishing a Book

• Book Creation: Melissa discusses the inspiration and process behind writing her book. She describes the channelling experience while writing and the feeling of a higher perspective guiding her.
• Melissa shares how writing the book became a healing process for her
• The energetic imprint of the book holds transformative effects on readers.

Melissa's Current Endeavors

• SoulSchool Launch: Melissa announces the launch of SoulSchool, a year-long immersion into the Akashic records.
• Melissa explains the significance of the Akashic records in her life and the transformative potential of working with them.

Closing Thoughts

• Purpose and Passion: Melissa emphasizes the alignment of personal passion and purpose in her work.
• How knowing oneself leads to a selfless pursuit of purpose and contribution.
• Melissa offers advice on starting the journey of self-discovery and building a dialogue with the soul.

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Good morning, Mel. Good morning, Beth. How are you? I'm good, thank

you. So last time when we

met, we were telling our listeners all about the

show and I suppose our hopes, aspirations for the

show and what we want listeners to get out of the show. But today

we thought it would be really nice to start to introduce us as your

hosts, starting with Melissa this

week. So that's what we're here to do today, to learn more about Melissa's

story for our listeners. And

don't we? We always have a story, always a story to

tell. And so

since this is a podcast about how

soul inspires us as human beings,

I thought it'd be really good just to, well, just to start at the beginning.

I know our lives are very long and there's lots of twists and turns, but

just tell me how your life journey and how your

soul is inspired life began for

you and how did you end up doing what you're doing in the world

today? Thank you. It's funny, isn't it, because

we find ourselves where we are, and it can often,

I get that question a lot, like, how did you get into doing what it

is that you're doing? And it's such an unusual

place of work, isn't it? And such an unusual thing to do

that. It's a reasonable question, but I'm not sure I could

pinpoint necessarily a

particular point in my life. But I'll say this, that I was very

lucky that when I was growing up, my grandma was a

hypnotherapist. So from the age of eight, I used to

be taken across the rainbow bridge, and

I started to understand the power of

the mind and the imagination and how it can

be used for healing and for

understanding yourself better and for creating outcomes that

you like or that you want, and also

that your emotions don't necessarily need to run the show. So

she would do things. For example, when I was

at school and I was having my exams and I was feeling nervous,

and she helped me ground

into or anchor into a point of confidence. And,

you know, these things I just grew up with and I guess figured that they

were pretty normal until I then, you

know, went into my late teens, early

twenties, launched into my life of work and

doing all the things that we're told that we have to do, the regular

stuff. Went to uni, went to, got a job, started working

myself up the corporate ladder, you know, getting married and

having, buying the house and all the things that we're meant to do. Tick,

tick, tick, tick, tick. But what I realized was that I had

this kind of low level, maybe anxiety

going on, just a little bit of, like, I

couldn't say that I was as happy as the piece of paper.

Yeah, said I should be. And it was, I

think, because of that and because of the pressures and the stresses and how my

body was handling it, that I eventually found Reiki.

And I remember having a massage, and

this lady put her hands on my head, just

above my head, and I felt this feeling like I'd not felt before.

And it felt as if my head was being

filled up with this most amazing goo. And then

all of a sudden, it all emptied and I was like, oh, I feel really

clear. Like, what was that? And

that was how I discovered Reiki. And shortly after I

learned it, and then I realized, because I was quite cynical,

quite scientific, I like things to be proven. Even the

hypnotherapy and the NLP stuff I was doing, it was all kind of

result. So you like things to be proven,

we should delve into that more. Well, I did now,

because when I, when I learned Reiki and I had this

energy that I could physically feel. So that was my proof. I could

physically feel this energy moving through my hands. And

I was picking stuff up. Even on the very first time that I

practiced on somebody, I was getting these impressions,

and I thought, well, hold on a minute, if I can go to

a weekend thing, have somebody, like, do some funky stuff, like,

with my head in my hands, teach me a few things, and now I can

physically feel energy course through my body. What

am I closing myself off to? That was the question. Ah,

yeah. And then that led me to read

a whole load of things about a whole load of

stuff. So the law of attraction was kind of the next thing

I delved into. And that changed everything

because I started to realize quite how powerful my thoughts

were, that it wasn't just that it was influencing how I was behaving.

And, you know, obviously I was doing visualization as a child

through the hypnotherapy, but that was something that I thought was quite

different. And now realizing, well, the world is literally

responding to me. And I think

for me, because I had so by then, I'd done a lot of NLP

training, and obviously I'd grown up learning these techniques and

my grandmother tapping and all sorts of things as well.

And I was looking at a lot of this through those lens, like, through the

psychological lens. I was like, well, maybe it is just because I believe it's going

to happen, that it is going to happen. Maybe it's just that my brain is

looking for the things, you know? But actually, that was really helpful for me

because it helped me sift away some of the stuff that was

maybe a little bit out there,

actually find practices that were quite grounded and that actually

worked. And I started to blend these

psychological, scientific things with the

kind of energetic, esoteric stuff. Yeah,

I think that's where the magic is, because I think a lot of people

are either in a Wu camp or a scientific camp, but

actually, it is a science. It's a law. It's a natural law of the

universe. And so I think it's good

when you get to that place, but it takes a while for some people to

get to that place. It takes a while because we've had

so much influence that tells us that, you

know, there's a path that we need to take, and that's, and that's what we

do. But, you know, this was all the background

of how I started to get interested in it. It wasn't until I learned

Reiki, and I suddenly was like, no, I can't be doing this

anymore. And I literally, my whole body launched me

out, like, quite physically out of where I

was working at the time. And it

took a series of leaps and jumps and

circumstances and, you know, some things that were, that were quite

hard, you know, because was breaking free from this

thing a lot of courage and trust

in myself. And it was really when I started

sitting in circle and developing my psychic and

mediumship abilities and making this a more important

part of my life, the work aspect of

it just naturally rolled in. People asked me,

can you do me reading? Or, you know, I was having wakey clients. I was

being then asked to lead some workshops, and it

just kind of nicely, nicely just unfolded

in front of me, and I can't be more grateful for

that. I think that part of it is

what hopefully some of the listeners will take a lot of comfort from,

because when we finally allow ourselves to follow

that path, almost surrender to it and just allow

magical things just start to drop and things start

to align and show up for us. But it takes, like you say, that initial

courage to take that leap of faith on ourselves, or,

and I'd love to just hear a little bit more when you say physically launched

out of your body to maybe to. What was that? To escape what

you're, what was currently going on? What was that all about? What happened? So

I working in a showroom at the time, and it was a job that

I equally loved and hated. I mean, it was, it was 50 what?

Plus hours a week. And there was a lot of pressure and all of this.

And I walked into the building and the only

way I can describe it. So this was about three weeks after I received my

Reiki attunement. I walked into the building and it

literally felt as if my body was being

screamed at. Like, you know, when you can

feel sound, like when the chores or,

you know, you hear that kind of high pitched thing, it was like there was

no, there was no sound, but that's what it felt like. It felt like I

was physically being attacked by

something. And

my feeling was, I just need to run. I just wanted to bolt. Obviously, I

couldn't because I had work, work to do.

However, I walked into the reception

and said to the poor receptionist, who probably heard me say it

7000 times, that's it, I need to leave. I can't be here

anymore. And there was a local paper that had just been

delivered on the counter and I opened it up and

I literally opened it up to this full page ad of

a job, of a new role that was local and it

was 30 hours a week and it was, you know, kind of

in training kind of stuff. And I was like, oh, my God, I was

like, this. This is the job I'm going to get. And it was a. Well,

I had to work quite a long notice period, but three months later

I was in that role. Amazing.

What was that job for the motor industry? So

it was quite interesting and it was, it was

a step from what I already knew. It was a real

bridge from what I already knew into where I was coming because there was

a lot of self empowerment and motivation

and, you know, recognition and training and I was meeting lots of

people and traveling up and down the country and like, it was the most

bizarre job. However, that job got me

official NLP training that paid

for. You know, I still draw from today. And

it met me and met a load of people that were

instrumental to my path. And most importantly, it gave me the

time to study and to go on courses and to continue my

reiki. And I was always there with one of my weird books

because I had an actual lunch break and I'd sit and read my

strange esoteric books in the gardens

there. So it was that, that was the bridge

into then when I finally had my children and, and

stopped working and, you know, the stories in between there, which

weren't easy at the time, but

that was what I was like, well, I can't work for anyone else

anymore. I just have to do this. I've just got to make this work.

And the universe definitely listened to me because there's one point I need to go

and get a job, and I was applying for all these jobs that I was

perfect for, and I wasn't getting them, and I was, you know,

like it wants me. Thank goodness I can get

them. Yeah, there's always a grand plan.

We keep applying for these jobs, and it's just not landing. You think, what's the

matter with me? But there's something bigger at play.

So do you feel as though there's been. Your soul has always

been calling you? I mean, you spoke then about, that was a physical kind of

waking up, like a sign, something that you had to pay

attention to and take action on. But do you feel there's a

thread or something that your soul has always been leading you

towards? Yeah. You know,

what I've learned is this, that so many of us find ourselves in these

jobs doing the things that we're meant to, and that's where I was.

And like I said, I had this kind of low level.

I don't know what it was, but it was a certain dissatisfaction. And,

you know, you know, I wasn't looking forward to life. Life

wasn't. There was days where I'd be driving into work thinking,

oh, well, if my brakes failed right now, then I wouldn't have to go into

work like it was, you know, this dangerous thinking.

And I realize now that that was

a part of me that was

consistently telling me, Melissa, there's more to life than

this to life. And the

more we shove it down, the louder it

starts to talk to you. And that's what I was doing. And

so I don't want anyone listening to this, thinking that, oh, well,

your soul starts giving you, like, dangerous thoughts, because that's not the

point. The point is that the soul was doing

what I needed in order to get me out of where I

was, I think, yeah. And with that

came vision. So I would, you know, go and

have a weekend away, or I'd go out with my husband, and every time I'd

start talking to him about, oh, one day, I'd love to be

working with people and just helping them, you know, doing some

coaching and having my own business and maybe running retreats, and I could

take them and I could train them to do this and, like. And this every

time. My poor husband must have been so bored,

and. And it was one day when I heard myself,

it'd gone away again. By this point, I think two of my three children

were born, and I heard myself say it again,

and I was like, I need to stop. No, I was pregnant with my second.

I was like, I need to stop just saying this. I need to actually start

doing it. Yeah. And then

I started to actually listen to my soul. I was

that rather than trying to ignore it and trying to tick the boxes of doing

everything that I should, I was like, okay, what do I need to know?

What do I need to know? What do I need? Yeah.

That started this communication process

that I don't need to have the dangerous thoughts and, you know, I don't need

to drop into despair before

I realize I'm going. There's a better way. Yeah.

Yeah. Those dominant

thoughts and words that we use every day are

so powerful for keeping us where we are. We don't realize

it. And the fact that you thought, I've been saying this

for a long time, but that's all of us, isn't it? You know, when we

find ourselves stuck in a place, whatever, if it's a relationship or a

job or, you know, whatever that is, when we actually think about

what have we been telling ourselves and what have we been saying to other people,

then it becomes. There's clues there. But until we are

aware of that, then it's very difficult to move

away from that. You know, it's interesting. I would see people.

So where I was, people would come in and they'd be consultants,

and they'd be training people, and I'd look at them and I'd think, oh, they're

so lucky. And this is what,

when you receive these inspirations, and that's what they are,

well, they're there. I think that these are also signs from the universe, like,

hey, this is possible. You can do this, you know, is giving

me something to model towards. And it wasn't perfect

because it. But it showed me away. It kept showing me

away. And I think anyone listening that if

you're finding that you're in a situation, then you find

somebody that kind of triggers something in you, whether, like, oh,

well, I could do that. I could do it better than that because I used

to think that as well. I'd get trainers come in and be like, oh, I'd

be able to train people better than that. And it would kind of, you know,

trigger the ego in me as well. It's something.

There's something in there that you're recognizing in yourself.

And when you notice that, if you can start to follow

those clues of, well,

maybe I could try that. Try it on.

Try emphasize and see what happens.

So since then, following your

path and starting your own business and creating

lots of different things. Are

there certain aspects of what you have created up to this point that you are

the most proud of? The thing that I'm most

proud of, I want to use that word, is my

book. Because that had been brewing inside

me for a long time. Yeah. People. And, you know, I love

a book. And I'd had people asking me, oh, you should write a

book. And I'm like, why would, why would I write a

book? Who would read a book written by me? And

I felt this real urge at

one point in, it was really sudden when I started,

it was very sudden. Like, I literally wrote

a Facebook post, read it back to myself, and thought,

this is the start of a book message. This lady

who I'd been following for a while, who was a book coach,

and went, is this the start of the book? Went, yeah. I said,

all right. I looked at what was going on astrologically, because at the time, I

was working with somebody

through my astral chart, and I was like, right, give me two

weeks. And two weeks came, and

I paid her the money, and I opened up my laptop and I just started

writing. And literally,

it was like ten weeks. I'd written

the bones of the book. I'd written like 60,000

words or something of the book. Amazing. My first book, there was

no plan, there was no anything. I had Katie coaching me

along, really just encouraging me, like, yeah, keep going, keep going, keep

going. And as I read it

back, I. Was like, wow, did it feel like you were

your channel in? Or wouldn't you get into that pen on paper or typing

on the screen, that things just start to flow through.

You and out completely flowed through. I

enjoyed writing every single word of that book. I

thoroughly just, it was like, oh,

I wonder what's going to happen when I open my laptop

today. And there'd be times where I'd be suddenly 3

hours gone, and I've written like,

whatever, however many words. And

so the book is really, it's a story of my life. We just gave you

a very abridged version, but it's a story of the. The

realizations and the information and the

philosophies and the real life implementation

of some of these things and the questions and the ego and the

inspired and all of this stuff in there. So what was I

channeling? Because it was my life, but reading it back,

I noticed how the perspective of what it

was that I was going through has been channeled through a higher

perspective that I now have. Didn't have at the time.

And actually writing that book was super healing for

me because I was, you know, one of the.

One of the practices that I work with are the Akashic records.

And the Akashic records hold the story

of your life and your life's past. And one

of the amazing things about working in the records is

whatever you learn about yourself, you learn through the

eyes of compassion and non judgment and higher

perspective. And I kind of feel like

that version of me

was giving me a. Lot of the stuff because

the things. In there, I don't. I didn't consciously remember

until I started writing about it. Yeah, well, there's a

significant incident in my life, you know, that.

That came from somewhere. So, yeah,

it was a channeling. It certainly came

from. It didn't come from logic. There wasn't, like, right, this x, y, z,

I need to write. And I've had people who have read

it since and say that it hit them in

a way or they felt it, or there was, like, things started to happen when

they had the books in their hands and, you know, they'd have the book, and

then suddenly angel numbers were everywhere, or, like, birds would start

flying around them or, like, you know, like, weird things would happen.

And that was one of my. Not my intention, that weird things would

happen, but that the book would hold an energy. Yeah. And I think

through the words and, you know, through some of the

energy work I did with the book, it holds something that

imparts on you when you read it so well.

It is a very magical book. I will put the book in the show notes

as well, so people can check it out for themselves. But it does hold

a lot of energy, does hold a lot of power. And I

think some authors, when they're right, it's

forced, it's structured. It's. I need to do this amount of words a day,

but when you allow yourself just to, like you did, just

allow the words to unfold and flow and not necessarily be,

I suppose, not being too connected to what

the outcome of a chapter was going to be until you're reading it back and

you're going, oh, my goodness, where did that come from? I think that's

incredibly powerful thing to do. So

an amazing accomplishment, and people should check it

out. Thank you. So why would you say

you do the work that you do in the world?

Why? Why do I do what I do?

Why do I do what I do? It's. I really do feel

like this is what I was born.

You know, I get asked a lot about purpose. What's my

purpose? And am I on my purpose, and am I on my path?

And what I've realized through

my life and through working with others is that

our purpose is to know

ourselves truly. And the book helped, really helped me with that.

But our purpose is to know ourselves. And what I mean by that is

to know the stories that we tell ourselves and to know the things

that light us up and the things that, things that if, you know, if money

were no object and you didn't have to have any

responsibilities, what is it that you would be doing? And what it is

that I would be doing would be discovering and delving and getting

curious about metaphysics and energy

work and the power of the mind and the

invisible realms that are out there and

healing and self empowerment. Because it fascinates

me. It absolutely fascinates me. Like, I love

hearing about the one person that managed

to, you know, against all odds, become

the, whatever it was, healthy, the

CEO, the millionaire, the, like, happiest

person in the world. Like, whatever it was, I love that. And that's what

lights me up. And

when we, when we truly know what it is that lights

us up and we start to follow that, our

second purpose is to assist others and to

help others. And I truly believe that our two

purposes are always aligned. Yeah. What lights

me up and how I influence and impact people,

they're aligned. So why do I do what I do? Because I

love it. I am fascinated by it. I literally, I'm

currently studying my psychotherapy

diploma, and it's like a weekend a month, and

I love it. I'm like, yes, this weekend I get to

learn all this stuff. I'm reading about it. And I took

this, like, psychology book on holiday with me, and I'm like, I love

this. So why do I, this may sound

selfish, but why do I do what I love? Because I love it. I

love it, love it, I love it. And, and

it has such a profound impact on other people

that I love that. I love that, too.

Yeah. Right? Yeah. So that's

why I do, I mean. I completely agree with you. I don't think it

sounds selfish at all. I think we should all be doing

what we want to be doing in the world. We should all be doing the

thing that makes us the happiest. And in doing that, we

are giving other people the permission. Obviously, people can do what they want,

but we're giving people permission to see that they can also do that for themselves

as well. You know, in us stepping up and following our purpose and passion,

that, you know, hopefully will inspire other people to take

that leap of faith on themselves so they can be happy, too. So I would

say it's one of the most selfless things to do what makes

us happy and what we want to do in the world. You know, when you

truly know yourself, like, truly, truly all the stuff, stories and

all the programming and all the things. Right. That influence us. But when you

truly know that self that's, that's

within all of that, then what, the thing that lights you

up and, and keeps you going

is usually quite selfless,

like it usually is. I think you could say that to some people

and think, oh, well, then I'm just going to have a hedonistic

lifestyle and I'm just going to be, you know, going around

drinking and doing drugs and having orgies and doing all of these things. And that's

what it is. That makes you happy. But it's like, maybe actually those things

aren't what make you happy and light you up, but they're masking, they're making

you feel good because there's something inside that, you

know, that's not been recognized just yet. So,

yeah, I think. I think that this is, part of

this is what I do is I help people know themselves so that they can

go and, and light themselves up. I love

that it distills down to that phrase, what you said, purpose

is to know yourself. Because I think people get trapped

sometimes in what is my passion, what is my purpose? How do I figure it

out? And they're so up in their head about it, but it simply is to

know yourself. Every facet of yourself, every experience, every

up and down, every challenge, every relationship,

all of it, the whole holistic thing. Purpose is simply

to know. Know yourself. I love that. I think it boils it down,

makes it easy for people to get their head around.

Okay, so depending

on when people are listening to this, you may be working on different

things, but what are you currently working on? What business projects or life projects

are you currently working on? So, years in the making.

Years and years in the making. Finally

doing it after many requests. I have

soul school launching in, we're starting in January.

And soul school is all

of my knowledge and practices and experience

on working with the Akashic records. And

so I'm so excited about this. You know, the Akashic records

changed and influenced me so

profoundly, not just in the work I do, but

in how I know myself and how I could

support all of the other practices that I was, that I've been working with

before. And since. And I've

been leading Akashic sessions for

six years. I've been running Akashic workshops for five

years, but I've never really done

this, which is a full year immersion

into the records and how we

can work with them and what is held in them and how we

can bring self healing and how we can

work in the records with other people. So how to open other people's

records and. And give them the information

and the energy that they need from that and some of the interventions that

we can use in there to help them activate into their

soul's path. So, yeah, it's going to be a whole

year with me in a nice small group

with some amazing insights, and

I'm so excited about what this is going to bring for

everybody that joins. It's like, it's

blowing me away already. And, you know, like the book,

this is how the course has been being structured.

Like, literally one day I was, you know, I had the idea and I'm like,

right. It was just like, put it out, put it out, put it out. I

was like, yeah, but I haven't got anything. So, like, put it out, put it

out, put it out. So. So I went, fine, and I put it out and

people signed up and I was like, I don't have a structure. I don't know

what's going on. All I know is the XYZ. And then one

day, there's this beautiful day in the sunshine, and I came out in

the garden and opened my laptop, and then suddenly,

like, a framework was just

on my paper. I was like, well, this is very nice. So

I'm excited to see how that expands and transpires

over the months. Amazing.

That sounds wonderful. And we'll put the link to that as well, because I'm sure

we can update that for people who are interested in joining that as

well. So we're coming to the end of our

wonderful interview. What

one piece of advice, and maybe it's hard to distill it down into one piece

of advice, but what one piece of advice would you like to give to our

listeners who are trying to live their own Searle inspired

life? Well, we've spoken a lot

today about knowing yourself, and that's always going to be the first

piece of advice that I'd give anyone. What I mean

by that is just start to really get into awareness

of what is happening in your. In your head, what your

brain likes to tell you, what's happening in your body and

what your body likes to tell you. And once you've had a little

listen to that because it's going to keep on chatting to you. Listen to

it, but know that that isn't you.

This brain that tells you all of the things and this body that gives

you all of these responses, they were a part of you, but

they're not the whole of you. So once you've listened to that, just

ask yourself, and whether you want to call that soul or

higher self or intuition or in a

teacher or in a wisdom, just ask

that part of you the question, what do I need to know

today? Or what do you think about? What do I

think about this? And just start to

develop this conversation. Because what this does is a few

things. It, first of all, helps you understand that

these thoughts and these emotions, these feelings that are kind

of spinning around all day long are simply an

opinion and they don't have to drive you. So

it starts to create that separation between what we often

identify as self but isn't. And also

it starts to create this dialogue so that you begin to

turn up the volume of this inner voice or this

soul voice, which will strengthen that relationship. If you

start there, the rest of the stuff

becomes easier to navigate.

I love that. So it's creating that space initially

to have that awareness of who, who we are

and starting on that journey. Exactly. Great

advice. Okay, well, it has been wonderful

learning more about your journey and story today. I'm sure our listeners

will appreciate that as well. And we get to do this all. Again

next week where you'll be interviewing

me. So that will be turning the tables. I'm excited for that. I'm

excited to learn about you. I'm really excited to learn more about

some of the similarities and the differences that

we have. Because the way that this podcast came together

and, you know, how this is just kind of flowing into

this, I'm sure there's going to be some real magic come over the next few

episodes. I've just got whole body goosebumps when you said that. So

I think you might be onto something there. But as you were talking, there were

lots of similarities. I was thinking, oh my goodness, that's my story. That's my story.

That's my story. So it will all become apparent. It will all start

unfolding. I look forward to our next installment of the show.