Dreams of Flight: What Birds Teach Us About Freedom and Purpose

Melissa Amos: 00:00:00

Good morning, Beth. How are you today? Good morning, Melissa. I'm

Beth Hewitt: 00:00:03

good. The sun is shining. Spring has

Beth Hewitt: 00:00:06

sprung. I think my daffodils are coming

Beth Hewitt: 00:00:10

up. I've got my tulips out. Spring is trying to

Melissa Amos: 00:00:14

spring, isn't it? It is. So I've been doing

Beth Hewitt: 00:00:18

a bit of decluttering, which I think a lot of people do with this time

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of year as well. So letting go of the old and

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allowing space for the new to come in. So that's what I've been up to,

Melissa Amos: 00:00:27

really. Well, that makes sense why this morning I had this sudden

Melissa Amos: 00:00:31

urge to go around. It's like that song

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collecting your jar of hearts. I literally picked up all

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my, like, empty jars. I saved them. I work with this healer.

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She makes all these balms and the lotions and I give her. I have

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a lot of, like, blue bottles from Neil's yard and they're really

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good at stopping the sun, like, getting in and all of that. And so I

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keep them all, but they get scattered around. And this morning, pick them all

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up, put them all in a bag, and I'm like, oh, I'm going to get

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them ready for my friend in it. So maybe there's a decluttering

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thing going on, maybe. Yeah,

Beth Hewitt: 00:01:07

like pruning and cutting back and gathering and nesting and

Beth Hewitt: 00:01:11

all of the things. So, yeah, I like that energy. I think sometimes it can

Beth Hewitt: 00:01:15

feel like an effort to do that, but then other times it can feel like

Beth Hewitt: 00:01:17

today I want to sprinkle in kind of thing. Right? That feels like the order

Beth Hewitt: 00:01:20

of the day. It's really interesting, I think, when we really

Melissa Amos: 00:01:24

dip into our bodies cues and our

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inspirations and our thoughts that we can

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tell. I have a story that I hate cleaning. I

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like, hate. I'm like, everything. And

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so I tell myself that story, but sometimes I get this

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urge, like, it's more to do it. And

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we have a choice, don't we? At this point, we either go back to a

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story like, oh, no, I hate that. Or we do it and

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then somehow it helps us feel more

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energized. And that story can

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park itself for the days where I do not like

Melissa Amos: 00:02:03

clean. Yeah, maybe I should change it to most of the time.

Melissa Amos: 00:02:07

Some of the time, I don't like cleaning. I know what you

Beth Hewitt: 00:02:11

mean. I'm not a big cleaner. It's not my thing.

Beth Hewitt: 00:02:15

But there's something of clarity that comes with

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decluttering and cleaning. And I think sometimes when we're feeling a bit

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stuck or in that busy energy that actually just stopping and

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clearing the decks is actually a really good way just to allow

Beth Hewitt: 00:02:29

new inspiration to come in, allow new things to come in, like physical objects and

Beth Hewitt: 00:02:33

people and all of these things. So it's a good thing to

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do. But, yeah, should we be, and I don't think it matters, but

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should we be led by when we feel like we need to do that? Or

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should we be carving that space out in our diaries regularly so that we

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can really cultivate that power? But then

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it starts to become more of a habit and something that we might want to

Beth Hewitt: 00:02:55

do or might not. Want to do, I can't ever imagine. I

Melissa Amos: 00:02:59

think that if I had that diet, that would be the thing that got

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the same. But I do have

Melissa Amos: 00:03:07

my space here, and last week I was teaching Reiki, so

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I had all my Reiki books out. Sometimes I

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think I learned by osmosis, right? So I just have all the books, even if

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I'm not using them, and then the notes and all of the things, and there's

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a couple of manuals that go with it and all of that. So they've been

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sitting there, and then I've got this harrow decks and my notebook

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from the business mastermind. I'm in. And this week

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I've been doing my challenge, and it's interesting

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because I can be in, for example, teaching Reiki and have all my

Melissa Amos: 00:03:39

Reiki things around me, and it doesn't bother me, but as soon as now,

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I've moved into a new space, a new

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teaching, a new experience. The

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Reiki books, which are taking up the exact same space

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they were the week before, they are

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like, oh, you need to go away. Like, you need to go. You need to

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go in your home.

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So, yeah, so then again, I had this urge, although I'm looking at

Melissa Amos: 00:04:08

my 12345 tarot decks

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that are sitting on my chest right now. But then,

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yeah, I got this urge to, okay, I just need to clear that

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out, and it suddenly happens. And I think for me, if I force

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myself to do it, it doesn't have the same

Melissa Amos: 00:04:27

impact. I know what you mean. Yeah. It is an energetic thing,

Beth Hewitt: 00:04:30

though, isn't it? I think, like, just having something physically in your

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space is we're connecting with it on some level. We're

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seeing it, we're sensing it, we're feeling it, we're in that energy.

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And so when we're wanting to bring or start something

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new, to clear that space is a good thing to

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do. We used to have a lot of places to do, have the clean desk

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policy, which I used to hate because I, like, I'm one of those people. I'm

Beth Hewitt: 00:04:55

not messy, but I know where everything is. My other half is,

Beth Hewitt: 00:04:59

like, very much. He likes everything in a certain way. He's very OCD about stuff,

Beth Hewitt: 00:05:02

like, even how the cups are in the cupboard, whereas I'm like, one cup could

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be upright, one cup could be down, one cup could be to the side.

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So when I put. If I put the shopping away, ten minutes later,

Beth Hewitt: 00:05:13

he'll be rearranging the soup in the right order, which is fine, but, like,

Beth Hewitt: 00:05:17

we just live with each other's quirks kind of thing. But I know where

Beth Hewitt: 00:05:21

things are. If somebody says, where's the hairbrush? It doesn't have a designated

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place, but I will know where the hairbrush is. It's interesting, isn't it,

Melissa Amos: 00:05:28

how we create our lives and how what's

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important to us. And then understanding this energetic space. I had that

Melissa Amos: 00:05:36

same desk policy. Yeah. Was working in the

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showroom. And I remember saying to my boss, who

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very much took umbrage with the state of my desk, I even had one

Melissa Amos: 00:05:47

of those pads that you could just write notes on. Right?

Beth Hewitt: 00:05:51

Like the big ones. Yeah, the corporate ones with a. Branded on.

Melissa Amos: 00:05:55

And I had. So I had one of them, and they just look. They do

Melissa Amos: 00:05:58

not look pretty, do they? And then I didn't have to fumble around for

Melissa Amos: 00:06:01

notepads. And I said to him once, I said, the day that my desk is

Melissa Amos: 00:06:04

clear is the day that I have got no. Nothing on.

Beth Hewitt: 00:06:08

Yeah. And he was like, you need to keep your destid.

Melissa Amos: 00:06:12

And I think that we all work in different ways. Like, for

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me, a lot of the time, I can have things

Melissa Amos: 00:06:19

around, and they don't really bother me. But then sometimes,

Melissa Amos: 00:06:22

like, when there is this energy change, I'm like, now I need to

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change. Now I need to get rid of the Dex. Now I need to. I've

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got this energy clearing spray that I use as a

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cleaner. Like, literally, I hate the smell of

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polish. And I think it's for our listeners. I think

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sometimes it can feel like, oh, okay, energy is important, so you need to work

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in a really clear space, and that's the way we do it. And feng shui

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will tell us that this needs to be here and that needs to be there.

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But the truth is, I think that our environment and

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our human, there's an interaction going on. And

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for some of us, that kind of

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chaos energy

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helps. And I think you, like me, are

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one of those people that can take chaos and

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turn it into coherence. Like, we can take energetic

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wisps and inspirations and crazy

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philosophies and all of this, and then put it together into something.

Beth Hewitt: 00:07:23

Yeah. So maybe that's why I think that everybody's different. And I

Beth Hewitt: 00:07:27

think that is it. I can make order out of chaos, whereas my

Beth Hewitt: 00:07:30

other half needs to have order in order to be able to

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function. And I think. I just think it's interesting how we are all different,

Beth Hewitt: 00:07:38

and it's about complementing, and it's about acknowledging

Beth Hewitt: 00:07:41

and listening and working together in all of this to find

Beth Hewitt: 00:07:45

out what works, especially in a relationship setting. But

Beth Hewitt: 00:07:49

I used to hate, like, the clean desk policy, but I did see the

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benefit of it. Like, when I did it, when I did it, I did.

Beth Hewitt: 00:07:57

Coming into the office and having a clear space

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allows you to not have that overwhelm at the start

Beth Hewitt: 00:08:04

of the day. So it supported me, but,

Beth Hewitt: 00:08:08

yeah, it wouldn't have been like, I would never. That would never be my preference

Beth Hewitt: 00:08:11

of. Right. It's five to five now. We're gonna clean my desk.

Beth Hewitt: 00:08:15

It's like, it will still be here. In the morning, and that's what I

Melissa Amos: 00:08:19

do. And I'm gonna have to unfind where it. I know where it is. Like

Beth Hewitt: 00:08:22

tomorrow, when I need to make that phone call at 09:00 a.m. I know where

Beth Hewitt: 00:08:24

my piece of paper is. But now I'm going to have to actually go to

Beth Hewitt: 00:08:28

the filing system and work out what conversation I need to

Beth Hewitt: 00:08:31

have. So I just think it's an interesting concept that

Beth Hewitt: 00:08:35

what space is and how it helps us, but also how

Beth Hewitt: 00:08:39

we individually can adapt to different things as well. And I loved what you said

Beth Hewitt: 00:08:43

about you learned by osmosis, because I felt that very much when I've been

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in spaces and memberships of other people in

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other groups, even when I've not been active in that group,

Beth Hewitt: 00:08:54

I have, by osmosis, been picking up on what's been taught,

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even if I haven't been physically in a lesson or a training.

Beth Hewitt: 00:09:02

It's almost like just being in the energy of somebody else. You can pick up

Beth Hewitt: 00:09:05

on little bits of conversations that are going on around the periphery, and you can

Beth Hewitt: 00:09:08

put it all together and you actually know what the training was. And I

Beth Hewitt: 00:09:12

didn't know if I was a lone wolf in that, but I think when you

Beth Hewitt: 00:09:14

said it, I thought, oh, Mel gets that. I get it. But then I

Melissa Amos: 00:09:18

think this comes with being very aware of the subtle energy. It's

Melissa Amos: 00:09:22

also very interesting. I'm running my five day practice as we're recording

Melissa Amos: 00:09:25

this, and today is day two, and it's all about clearing the way

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in energy management. And for me, that's something really

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important. And as I think we become more

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sensitive, we become more able to pick

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up or at least decipher the different energies that are

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coming. So for some of us, that means that when we come

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home, that the space needs to be clear and clean

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and white, and have one crystal on the desk

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and like one thing in there, and then that's it, because that's

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when we need to come and de stress,

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or we just need to come and regulate. And for some of us, that's what

Melissa Amos: 00:10:04

we need. I find that when my energy levels

Melissa Amos: 00:10:08

are good, when I'm feeling on top of things,

Melissa Amos: 00:10:11

I often don't notice the thing on the floor.

Melissa Amos: 00:10:16

My husband says I have a superpower that I can walk in

Melissa Amos: 00:10:19

and I see all the tidy bits around the messy

Melissa Amos: 00:10:23

bit. And that's literally what I do. And he comes in, he's the opposite, and

Melissa Amos: 00:10:26

he can tidy up in 3 seconds flat. Whereas for me it takes ages,

Melissa Amos: 00:10:30

because when I put things away, they need to go in the right

Melissa Amos: 00:10:33

place. But whatever it is that is around us

Melissa Amos: 00:10:37

is influencing that. And I think as long as we can be aware of that,

Melissa Amos: 00:10:41

yeah, then if you know, what I'm doing at the

Melissa Amos: 00:10:45

moment, actually is holding space for a lot of people, and they all have

Melissa Amos: 00:10:48

their own things going on. And so actually the

Melissa Amos: 00:10:52

12345 tarot decks that are sitting on my desk

Melissa Amos: 00:10:56

out of their place, of where they're filed, maybe on

Melissa Amos: 00:11:00

some subconscious level, is helping me, because I've got

Melissa Amos: 00:11:04

350 different people with all their own

Melissa Amos: 00:11:07

experiences and things going on that I'm managing and holding

Melissa Amos: 00:11:11

space for. Maybe in some level these cards

Melissa Amos: 00:11:15

are giving me this coherence from the

Melissa Amos: 00:11:19

chaos, maybe. Yeah. Now it's interesting we're having this

Melissa Amos: 00:11:22

conversation because I had this clearing

Melissa Amos: 00:11:26

out thing this morning, and when I came in here to

Melissa Amos: 00:11:30

record this, I was looking at all of my things, thinking, when

Melissa Amos: 00:11:34

we finished this call, I'm going to clear it all up, I'm just going to

Melissa Amos: 00:11:37

tidy it up. So we're all ready. But we're talking about energy clearing today, so.

Melissa Amos: 00:11:40

Of course we are. So my job when I'm talking to

Melissa Amos: 00:11:44

the group today, is to be in that coherent,

Melissa Amos: 00:11:47

clean, straight, open energy,

Melissa Amos: 00:11:52

because that's what I'm talking about and modeling for them.

Melissa Amos: 00:11:55

So this isn't just me trying to manipulate that, this is me

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responding to something that until now I've just said it.

Melissa Amos: 00:12:03

I didn't realize that there was actually some logic involved in there.

Melissa Amos: 00:12:07

I thought it's like, oh, just give it a little clear out. Just get nice

Melissa Amos: 00:12:10

and clean. Get my energy cleaning spray and wipe the desk so it's all nice

Melissa Amos: 00:12:14

and clean and fresh. So I suppose what I want to

Melissa Amos: 00:12:18

say to anyone listening is just be aware

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of it. If when you come into a space, you feel really

Melissa Amos: 00:12:25

overwhelmed and you feel cluttered and you feel behemed

Melissa Amos: 00:12:28

in, then look at your space and be like, okay, am I.

Melissa Amos: 00:12:32

Am I hemmed into my desk? Have I got things all around? Have I got

Melissa Amos: 00:12:35

old tissues and, I don't know, tea bags and

Melissa Amos: 00:12:39

whatever it is that we. That human pens everywhere and

Melissa Amos: 00:12:43

things that aren't. I'm just looking. I've got a. The end of an

Melissa Amos: 00:12:47

incense stick just sitting in my abalone shell

Melissa Amos: 00:12:50

here, and that's old. I've used that to clean

Melissa Amos: 00:12:54

energy and I've kept the sticks there. Yeah. Have

Melissa Amos: 00:12:58

some subtle influence on me. At the

Melissa Amos: 00:13:02

same time, if you feel like you need, I

Melissa Amos: 00:13:06

don't know, maybe some inspiration, you're teaching a certain subject. What if you did

Melissa Amos: 00:13:09

have all of your Reiki books, even if you're not going to be

Melissa Amos: 00:13:13

referring to them or using them or even opening them, what if they

Melissa Amos: 00:13:17

were there? And then something about the energetic of that book that has

Melissa Amos: 00:13:21

literally, having written a book, you know this, right? We pour our

Melissa Amos: 00:13:24

souls into it. That book holds that energy and

Melissa Amos: 00:13:28

that maybe just on some level, we tune into

Melissa Amos: 00:13:31

that and then we're inspired to

Melissa Amos: 00:13:35

do something. Maybe it's because we feel prepared. Because if someone asked me a question,

Melissa Amos: 00:13:38

I don't know, I've got the book there. I don't know. I think it's a

Beth Hewitt: 00:13:41

feeling, isn't it? We know when we are ready

Beth Hewitt: 00:13:45

to clear the decks and move stuff away because it feels good to do

Beth Hewitt: 00:13:49

that. And other times we want the clutter around us. And it was interesting.

Beth Hewitt: 00:13:52

I was doing some meditations yesterday, and what came up,

Beth Hewitt: 00:13:56

just completely expecting it to come up, was

Beth Hewitt: 00:14:00

just this image of fountain pens and writing

Beth Hewitt: 00:14:04

utensils that I've had through pretty much

Beth Hewitt: 00:14:08

throughout my childhood, which sounds like a bit of a weird thing, but it was

Beth Hewitt: 00:14:12

like these images I was getting these images of when I first received my first

Beth Hewitt: 00:14:15

fountain Penn at primary school, and how, like, the joy and the energy

Beth Hewitt: 00:14:18

connected to having that and this being an implement. But then as I

Beth Hewitt: 00:14:22

started to continue to connect with that in the meditation, I then started to

Beth Hewitt: 00:14:26

see these images of the pens that I received, like

Beth Hewitt: 00:14:29

a secondary school. And the energy of those pens

Beth Hewitt: 00:14:33

was very different. And it almost felt like this

Beth Hewitt: 00:14:37

writing utensil was actually almost like a wand or a protection

Beth Hewitt: 00:14:40

or like a cloak for me, supporting me through

Beth Hewitt: 00:14:44

difficult times. Like, it's almost like this pen, this implement, was with me

Beth Hewitt: 00:14:48

in the classroom when I was maybe feeling anxious or overwhelmed or nervous as a

Beth Hewitt: 00:14:52

teenager. And I'd not obviously picked up on that subtlety at the

Beth Hewitt: 00:14:55

time, but these implements were just being shown to

Beth Hewitt: 00:14:59

me over and over again. And I started to remember pens

Beth Hewitt: 00:15:02

and fountain pens and ballpoint pens that I had

Beth Hewitt: 00:15:06

used over the years that had always been there for me. And it makes

Beth Hewitt: 00:15:10

sense to hold something in your hand, and

Beth Hewitt: 00:15:13

you're using that for whatever you're using it for, but it's actually picking up on

Beth Hewitt: 00:15:17

the subtleties and the anxieties and the other one that I'd felt in that moment,

Beth Hewitt: 00:15:21

and I just had overwhelming gratitude and appreciation

Beth Hewitt: 00:15:24

for these pens. So you just reminded me when you mentioned

Beth Hewitt: 00:15:27

pens that came up. I love that. Yeah,

Melissa Amos: 00:15:31

there's a whole lot to this. There's a whole lot to psychometry, which

Melissa Amos: 00:15:35

is the art of picking up energies from

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objects. And we see this in mediumship quite

Melissa Amos: 00:15:42

often, that we say, oh, have you got anything of your loved one? And then

Melissa Amos: 00:15:46

they hold it in their hands, and then there's this connection,

Melissa Amos: 00:15:49

because especially if you look at something, we hold something

Melissa Amos: 00:15:53

like a pen that you've held in primary school, as well as

Melissa Amos: 00:15:56

the one pen. Now, you get pen license when you write the way they want

Melissa Amos: 00:16:00

you to. And you have this one thing, and like you say, it

Melissa Amos: 00:16:04

becomes that your creative outlet, or it becomes

Melissa Amos: 00:16:07

your. We all have different experiences at school, or like a wedding

Melissa Amos: 00:16:11

ring, which you're wearing all day, every day, and how it can

Melissa Amos: 00:16:15

hold and anchor in the energies of what it is that's going on

Melissa Amos: 00:16:18

around us. But that is true for everything. And I

Melissa Amos: 00:16:22

think that this conversation is important because as we become

Melissa Amos: 00:16:26

more aware of this empty.

Melissa Amos: 00:16:29

I've just drunk this coffee, right? But this empty coffee glass has

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an energetic imprint in it. And whilst it

Melissa Amos: 00:16:37

has the coffee, and it has everything that

Melissa Amos: 00:16:40

I associate with that while I'm drinking it, if I just left it here

Melissa Amos: 00:16:44

and left it for four days, it's starting to hold a very different energy.

Melissa Amos: 00:16:48

And suddenly it's maybe telling me I don't feel important enough to

Melissa Amos: 00:16:52

do this. It starts to send a vibe out into

Melissa Amos: 00:16:56

the world, and we are picking that up each and

Melissa Amos: 00:16:59

every time. And for me, it's about really

Melissa Amos: 00:17:03

becoming aware of. There is always an interaction

Melissa Amos: 00:17:07

with me, and physical objects with me, and energetic objects with

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me and the tree, which is why when you go in the

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forest or by the sea, you feel better, because you are in with

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these negative ions, and they're cleaning out all of

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this charge. We live in a world that has Wi Fi and

Melissa Amos: 00:17:26

wiring and electric cables overhead and under our feet, and all of

Melissa Amos: 00:17:29

these things. What are we tuning into?

Melissa Amos: 00:17:32

And one of the most important things that I

Melissa Amos: 00:17:36

understand about myself and that I

Melissa Amos: 00:17:40

really needed to get good at as

Melissa Amos: 00:17:43

a human and as a spiritual mentor, is energy

Melissa Amos: 00:17:47

management. And if your environment can

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support you in that, then you've just taken a lot of the heavy lifting

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out of it. Let your environment do that. Why do I have

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this huge amethyst that sits behind

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me? Because it holds an energy. It stops

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energy. I do all my work from here, accumulating corner,

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and I've not just plonked it there, I've given it a

Melissa Amos: 00:18:13

job. We've had a chat. I clean up this really cute little

Melissa Amos: 00:18:16

unicorn brush thing. I'm going to show you, bear. I

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think it's a makeup brush, right? It's like a fan. That's pretty

Melissa Amos: 00:18:24

cute, isn't it? And it came for free when I'd ordered some brushes. And

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I'm like, it has a job. It's feeding back energy. It's helping me

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transmute. It's purple. It's this energy of high

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enlightenment and transmutation. And so as I'm pulling energy

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in, rather than it all gets stuck in that corner, it can feed something

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back to me. Above me here, I've got this six pointed

Melissa Amos: 00:18:45

star shelf. And on that shelf, there's a bunch

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of crystals on it. Now, I haven't just put the crystals on there because they

Melissa Amos: 00:18:52

fit, because one of the bottom shelf is literally a v

Melissa Amos: 00:18:56

shape. So what can you do? So I've got a celestite, but I've got so

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many crystals that it's not just, oh, that fits there. And that looks pretty.

Beth Hewitt: 00:19:04

It's okay. How can that support me? So that celestite helps me

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with my celestial collections, and I've got the

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labradorite sitting there. And the labradorite feels, for me

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very magical and deep and insightful and mystical.

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And sometimes I need that energy. And then I've got the

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Buddha sitting there, who I feel really protects me when

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I'm out in open space. It helps me to

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not you think about what the Buddha entails, this enlightenment,

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yes, but this. Anything can be thrown at me, and I'm

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protected. And so my environment is very conducive to

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the work that I do here in my home

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is different, because in my home, it's not about me doing

Melissa Amos: 00:19:48

all of that. Yeah, got quite a few rose quartzes

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going on there. And I've got pictures of Mickey Mouse, a Donald

Melissa Amos: 00:19:55

Duck and a goofy, like, amazing artwork in there that we picked up

Melissa Amos: 00:19:59

from Disney World, like years ago, because it has this more kind

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of fun and family quality.

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So how is your environment influencing you?

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How are you picking up and you feel if it doesn't work, you walk into

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a room and you're like, oh, not this. And if it's there,

Melissa Amos: 00:20:17

not this. What's going on with the colour? What's going on with the things in

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it? What about the position of your desk and go and get a

Melissa Amos: 00:20:24

feng shui expert.

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Maybe we'll go and have a look at the. What's it called, the bagua

Melissa Amos: 00:20:31

map, where it shows you the different areas of your house, I

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think. I'm pretty sure it's called a bagua map. And it shows you the different

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energy centers of your home. And you'll be very

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surprised. Like, for example, right corner,

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as you're looking in from the front door, is the love corner,

Melissa Amos: 00:20:50

right? And I didn't know this. And in that corner

Melissa Amos: 00:20:53

I've got a sign that literally says, all you need is

Melissa Amos: 00:20:57

love. Before I knew, right? All you need is love. I've got one

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that's on the wall. I've got a wooden

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sculptory thing that says love on it. I had these

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candles, these what they called love hearts

Melissa Amos: 00:21:11

sweets. Love heart candles in there with all of this stuff, I didn't even

Melissa Amos: 00:21:15

know. And I'm like, isn't that interesting? My front left,

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which is the study and wisdom corner, and that was where my

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bookcase sat. And I'm like, now, how interesting

Melissa Amos: 00:21:26

is that? We were picking up on the

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subtleties and now I know, now I can enhance.

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So in my abundant corner, I've got a citrine grid with

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things. Right. Trust yourself, I think, yeah. It's not

Beth Hewitt: 00:21:40

just you picking up on energies when you walk into a room

Beth Hewitt: 00:21:44

or whether you want to clear the decks. It's also, what do you want to

Beth Hewitt: 00:21:47

put into the space as well? What do you want to add that is going

Beth Hewitt: 00:21:50

to create that energy that really fuels you and

Beth Hewitt: 00:21:54

brings you happiness and joy? We've just redecorated

Beth Hewitt: 00:21:58

the living room and it feels like a very different space, different

Beth Hewitt: 00:22:02

colors, different pictures, different fabrics, different energies. And one of the

Beth Hewitt: 00:22:05

debates that we had was around the curtains. Now, the curtains, there was nothing

Beth Hewitt: 00:22:09

wrong with the curtains, but we'd had them maybe twelve year. We had this whole

Beth Hewitt: 00:22:12

debate around, do we keep them or do we get rid of them? And my

Beth Hewitt: 00:22:15

other half wanted to keep them. We thought they were okay. And I was like,

Beth Hewitt: 00:22:18

but they've got twelve years of all kinds of

Beth Hewitt: 00:22:21

energetics, birthday parties, arguments,

Beth Hewitt: 00:22:24

happiness, excitement. I said, I think we need to. It's time

Beth Hewitt: 00:22:28

to let these go and let some new curtains. And curtains are quite. They hold

Beth Hewitt: 00:22:32

a lot of space. They do, yeah. And they also keep light

Beth Hewitt: 00:22:35

in, or dark lighting or dark, however you want your room to

Beth Hewitt: 00:22:39

be. So they've got a, they've got a big job to do and I

Beth Hewitt: 00:22:42

think they hold a lot of energy. So that,

Beth Hewitt: 00:22:46

that was one of the decisions that we had to make. I'm so pleased that

Beth Hewitt: 00:22:49

we got some new curtains. And I think he's now also happy that

Beth Hewitt: 00:22:53

we got some new curtains. But, yeah. So it's not just about

Beth Hewitt: 00:22:57

what we already contain within our containers and our space and our rooms and

Beth Hewitt: 00:23:01

our environments. It's also about what we choose to

Beth Hewitt: 00:23:04

place in the environment as well,

Beth Hewitt: 00:23:08

to make it feel even more special and being aware of that. But I do

Beth Hewitt: 00:23:12

feel like everybody genuinely has that

Beth Hewitt: 00:23:16

knowing. Like we know instinctively when we walk in a room whether this

Beth Hewitt: 00:23:20

is good or this is bad or something's off or not. And so I

Beth Hewitt: 00:23:24

think just knowing where you want to put your water on the

Beth Hewitt: 00:23:28

desk or whatever, or the pen that you use today, everything, we've talked about

Beth Hewitt: 00:23:31

it before, where you're like, oh, today I want to wear this cozy

Beth Hewitt: 00:23:35

cardigan because this makes me feel these feelings. So I want to drink from this

Beth Hewitt: 00:23:39

cup because it brings me joy. My

Melissa Amos: 00:23:42

water sits on my altar. It was such

Melissa Amos: 00:23:46

a small shift. I used to sit here next to my laptop.

Melissa Amos: 00:23:51

And then what was it doing? I was absorbing all the luck. Exactly. I'm looking

Beth Hewitt: 00:23:54

at my water now. It's my water. I have a

Melissa Amos: 00:23:57

crystal bottle, so it's in luck and it's a

Melissa Amos: 00:24:01

glass bottle. And my altar sits behind me and it's

Melissa Amos: 00:24:05

out of shock because it's impersonal, most of the things on

Melissa Amos: 00:24:09

my altar. And one day it was when I was doing

Melissa Amos: 00:24:13

some work with a Shaolin master that I've been

Melissa Amos: 00:24:16

working with for a while, we were talking about the

Melissa Amos: 00:24:20

effects of water, and he said something really interesting to me. He's like,

Melissa Amos: 00:24:24

when we're working with energies and especially with these

Melissa Amos: 00:24:27

really high frequency or the bodhisattvas and

Melissa Amos: 00:24:32

these enlightened beings, and we call them in, they're there straight

Melissa Amos: 00:24:35

away. But we often have these worthiness issues around

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whether or not we can be blessed by their light. And so we put

Melissa Amos: 00:24:43

up conscious or subconscious blocks to receiving

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their full power. Yeah.

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And he said to me,

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water and food doesn't have the

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blocks. The water and the food will just receive whatever energetic

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it's in. And he says to try it. He said, put a

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bit. So I had, for quite a while, I had a Buddha altar,

Melissa Amos: 00:25:08

and I had his little offering cups in

Melissa Amos: 00:25:12

there, and I'd offer a one for nourishment and one for cleansing, and then

Melissa Amos: 00:25:16

I would give it to the Buddha, and then I would drink it. And I

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was like, oh, this water, like, it does feel different.

Melissa Amos: 00:25:22

And he said to me, also, put some nuts or some food. Actually,

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doesn't matter what food. You can put a chocolate bar if you want, there, and

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just notice if there's any difference when you're ingesting it.

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And I noticed a difference. I could feel that the nuts,

Melissa Amos: 00:25:36

I don't know, just felt more

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energetically charged.

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And so now I keep my whole wards all the time.

Melissa Amos: 00:25:47

It sits in there. And when I finished, it, got another bottle, which

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then I fill it up with, and then I leave it there

Melissa Amos: 00:25:54

for 12 hours, 24 hours, 36 hours

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overnight, and it's absorbing all of my intention that I've

Melissa Amos: 00:26:01

put in there, and then I'm drinking it, and what a life

Melissa Amos: 00:26:05

hack. I love that. Yeah. Top

Melissa Amos: 00:26:08

tip. Put your water in it. But then you think, what

Melissa Amos: 00:26:12

if we used to do. We used to do these meal box

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kits. Yeah, the thing. And they got the instructions and all this,

Melissa Amos: 00:26:19

and at the time when we did them, I had the three

Melissa Amos: 00:26:23

children, and they were little. They were, like, under five, and they were all by

Melissa Amos: 00:26:26

my feet. And then I had the great job of following a recipe, which,

Melissa Amos: 00:26:30

with a brain like mine, following a recipe is not. But I wanted

Melissa Amos: 00:26:34

to do it because my Virgo rising, like, you need to do it. You need

Melissa Amos: 00:26:37

to do it in the recipe and my pisces. No, you don't. You do what

Melissa Amos: 00:26:40

you want, Melissa. Anyway, and then the kids, and I'd be cooking this

Melissa Amos: 00:26:44

meal, and I'd be getting really agitated, like,

Melissa Amos: 00:26:48

all the time. I'd be, like, anxious that I'm gonna do it wrong or that,

Melissa Amos: 00:26:52

I don't know, there's too much. And I'm trying to follow and I'm trying to

Melissa Amos: 00:26:54

listen. I'd always also have some podcasts going on at the same time.

Melissa Amos: 00:26:58

Don't ask. And one day, I was like, I can't do this anymore

Melissa Amos: 00:27:02

because I am literally putting into my food this anxious

Melissa Amos: 00:27:06

energy. Yeah. And it made me wonder. I will not

Melissa Amos: 00:27:10

mention which food box company this was, but it did make me wonder

Melissa Amos: 00:27:14

how the workers felt when they were packing up, maybe

Melissa Amos: 00:27:17

they felt anxious, or maybe the delivery driver felt. Had a

Melissa Amos: 00:27:21

certain thing about them. Maybe the way the boxes were

Melissa Amos: 00:27:24

manufactured or there's something in there that I was then picking up on that

Melissa Amos: 00:27:28

was adding to that anxiety. So what if,

Melissa Amos: 00:27:32

in our kitchen, we put something really simple? For example, I've got

Melissa Amos: 00:27:36

a rose quartz that sits on top of my, like, where my water

Melissa Amos: 00:27:39

is, and I've got another rose quartz which sits where my

Melissa Amos: 00:27:43

tea and fruit and

Melissa Amos: 00:27:46

eggs. And it just sits there. And then there's, like, a nice

Melissa Amos: 00:27:50

picture and then a thing on there, because it starts to go into the

Melissa Amos: 00:27:53

love corner of the room. What if we just did something

Melissa Amos: 00:27:57

like that? And then every time we cooked or made

Melissa Amos: 00:28:01

a drink, we just looked at that rose quartz and was like,

Melissa Amos: 00:28:05

it's all filled with love. I love that. I think setting an

Beth Hewitt: 00:28:09

intention and also having things in the space that is going to

Beth Hewitt: 00:28:12

energize whatever it is that we're doing, whether it's cooking or

Beth Hewitt: 00:28:16

watching tv or laughing, whatever's going on in the house is a

Beth Hewitt: 00:28:20

really powerful thing to do, because I think we should always have intention. We should

Beth Hewitt: 00:28:23

always be trying to focus or get back to the thing

Beth Hewitt: 00:28:27

that brings us. And we have to think that everything that's manufactured, all

Beth Hewitt: 00:28:31

of those energies, you get a brand new mobile phone. All of the component parts

Beth Hewitt: 00:28:35

of that mobile phone and who put it together, and the factories and

Beth Hewitt: 00:28:38

the packaging and everything, all of that holds energies. And none of that

Beth Hewitt: 00:28:42

is. Is us, is it? So we should be

Beth Hewitt: 00:28:46

clearing everything, everything that comes into our house and blessing it and setting

Beth Hewitt: 00:28:49

a new intention for it. Like, when we get a new card deck,

Beth Hewitt: 00:28:53

we touch them, feel them, connect with them, set

Beth Hewitt: 00:28:57

a new intention for the deck, and maybe we should be doing it with more

Beth Hewitt: 00:29:00

things. I think this is this conscious

Melissa Amos: 00:29:03

awareness of it. And if we can think, oh, okay, I can feel better when

Melissa Amos: 00:29:07

I'm walking in the woods, or I can have a crystal, and that crystal

Melissa Amos: 00:29:11

can help me, or I can have a book here, and I can learn by

Melissa Amos: 00:29:13

osmosis. If that. If any part of you is, oh, yeah, I can do

Melissa Amos: 00:29:17

that. Then it only makes sense. That is just true for

Melissa Amos: 00:29:20

everything. It's not becoming. It's not like coming into fear of, oh, my

Melissa Amos: 00:29:24

God, this thing has arrived in my house. Now I need to leave

Melissa Amos: 00:29:28

it. Remember, COVID? Now I need to leave it outside my door for

Melissa Amos: 00:29:32

72 hours before it comes in. I know some of the

Melissa Amos: 00:29:35

rituals, but it's not that.

Melissa Amos: 00:29:39

But it's having that awareness that sometimes things will come in.

Beth Hewitt: 00:29:42

And. It'S within our

Melissa Amos: 00:29:46

responsibility, I think, to be able to go,

Melissa Amos: 00:29:50

okay, what do I need to do with this? How do I need to bond

Melissa Amos: 00:29:52

with this? How is this making me feel? Is this

Melissa Amos: 00:29:55

right? And if it isn't, maybe we need to move it, change

Melissa Amos: 00:29:59

it, clean it, connect with it, meditate with it, wash

Melissa Amos: 00:30:03

it. It's having the awareness of it, isn't it? It's knowing what

Beth Hewitt: 00:30:06

we're feeling around that. But my, my auntie who

Beth Hewitt: 00:30:10

passed away around Christmas time, the family has been clearing that

Beth Hewitt: 00:30:14

house out and that has undeniably shifted some

Beth Hewitt: 00:30:18

kind of energies in there. And people are picking up on things that feel a

Beth Hewitt: 00:30:21

bit icky and that they're not them and they're now able to bless the house

Beth Hewitt: 00:30:25

and do all these kinds of things and clear all that space out.

Beth Hewitt: 00:30:28

But we're picking up on subtleties of

Beth Hewitt: 00:30:32

all kinds of things all of the time. And I think it's just having that

Beth Hewitt: 00:30:34

awareness when we feel like something's not

Beth Hewitt: 00:30:38

us or not right or it's not filling us with

Beth Hewitt: 00:30:42

happy thoughts. And it feels a little bit more icky that we can have that

Beth Hewitt: 00:30:45

conscious ability reset that and to clear

Beth Hewitt: 00:30:49

the clear that. And sometimes that starts with the clearing the decks and the desk

Beth Hewitt: 00:30:52

and the, and sometimes we want to do something more ritualistic and

Beth Hewitt: 00:30:57

use all the tools available to us. So I wonder if

Melissa Amos: 00:31:00

it's inspired to spring clean now and who

Melissa Amos: 00:31:04

is around their space going like I

Melissa Amos: 00:31:08

am. Yeah. Oh, look at that. That's out of place over

Melissa Amos: 00:31:11

there. And just be

Melissa Amos: 00:31:15

conscious. Maybe one week I'll talk about,

Melissa Amos: 00:31:19

I have a lot of crystal grids and things that I put on around the

Melissa Amos: 00:31:23

house. And they're an interesting conversation, I think, to have

Melissa Amos: 00:31:27

how they work. I'm looking at one grid that's sitting over there that I put

Melissa Amos: 00:31:30

up when I released my book. And it's still there. It's still there intact.

Melissa Amos: 00:31:34

And I look at it sometimes and I think, no, I still don't, I still

Melissa Amos: 00:31:37

don't want to move that still there. So that's been,

Melissa Amos: 00:31:41

you know, it's coming up to you. Yeah, it's been there.

Melissa Amos: 00:31:45

So maybe we can have a conversation, if the listeners would like,

Melissa Amos: 00:31:49

about crystal grids and how they affect us and

Melissa Amos: 00:31:52

why I have, I'm surrounded

Melissa Amos: 00:31:56

by so many and what constitutes one. It's always fun.

Beth Hewitt: 00:32:00

That sounds like a fun conversation.

Melissa Amos: 00:32:03

Okay. It's been another enlightening,

Beth Hewitt: 00:32:07

clarity fueled conversation.

Beth Hewitt: 00:32:10

And I shall now go clean the house. Yeah, there we go. I'm going to

Melissa Amos: 00:32:14

go clean my energy in my yoga practice, but, yeah. I've got

Melissa Amos: 00:32:18

ten minutes where all of these decks and all of these books are going

Melissa Amos: 00:32:22

to be filed away, waiting. Storing

Melissa Amos: 00:32:26

the energy, waiting for time. So if we have

Melissa Amos: 00:32:29

inspired you to clean, clear, change, or

Melissa Amos: 00:32:33

move, do let us know, because we'd love to know. And I'm sure your

Melissa Amos: 00:32:37

families will be delighted with you. I know my husband. When I do anything,

Melissa Amos: 00:32:40

he's well done. What's wrong with you? And I'm like, I don't know. I was

Melissa Amos: 00:32:43

inspired to clean. Please let us know and we'll take the credit.