When the World Went Quiet – What Did You Hear?

Six years ago, the world stopped.

And for the first time in a long time… the noise dropped.

In this episode, Melissa reflects on that moment - and what it revealed about intuition, fear, and the choices we make when everything external falls away.

Because when the noise disappears…

The signal becomes clear.

The question is… are you still listening?

This episode is a powerful reflection on growth, trust, and choosing your inner guidance - even in a noisy world.

If this episode resonated, this is exactly the work we explore inside Akashic Reiki® - learning to hear your signal and trust it, even in a noisy world.

https://akashicreiki.org/

Memoirs of a Mystic In Training, by Melissa Amos is available on Amazon

Learn more about Melissa by visiting her website melissa-amos.com and download a free hypnotherapeutic series, Intuition Rewired. 

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Transcript

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Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Mystic in Training podcast with me, your host, Melissa Amos. As I record this, it is quite an auspicious day. I opened up my Facebook earlier and a memory popped up that reminded me quite how, let's say, opportunities change, quite how things that we think are building up can just change in a moment. And as I record this, this was the day that six years ago the world as we knew it changed for all of us. Regardless of what we feel about the situation, regardless of where we stand on what was going on there, there was something that was true for all of us. Normal wasn't normal anymore. It was as if in a moment the noise dropped. Everything that was going on outside, the routine, the things that we were used to, the things that we knew to be true, the distractions, the outside world, it all just seemed to stop for a moment. And for some of us, we found this void and we filled that gap with a different kind of noise. And we looked, we carried on looking outside of ourselves, looking at what's to be done and moving into that narrative that was that was all around us at that time of how scared we should be and how everything's falling apart and we all need to stop. For others, something else became louder. Our inner world, our thoughts, our fears, our desires, our questions, our big whys of what on earth are we doing here? And what is my like what is the point of all of this? Because suddenly we had this thing that we just didn't have before: space and time. For some of us, this for most of us probably, this was super uncomfortable. This was not what we are used to. And as we know from a psychological lens and just from being a human, that we are often trying to recreate what happened before. This is how we create safety in our world. And at the same time, we had all of this information coming in that was telling us that we're not safe. Now, for me, I was in uh quite an interesting position at the time. So I my business was building, I'd been doing a lot of work locally, and for the first time, picture the scene, I had bought myself this huge calendar, this huge wall calendar, and I had mapped out for the rest of the year my moon circles, my psychic development groups, my angel workshops, my Akashic Records trainings, uh, my Reiki trainings, my day retreats, and my readings diary was starting to fit up. All within the constructs of my life at the time, where my I was the primary caregiver for my three young children. My husband was working from eight till seven most days, and I was utilizing my spare time, um, I say in inverted commas to build this business. And I remember then, as it was back in January, I remember then after I'd planned out my diary and I'd created all this stuff, I was like, oh my gosh, finally I've made it. Like people are coming to my stuff, I'm doing what I love, like I've created, you know, this incredible thing. And then when the world shut down and the kids weren't at school anymore, and I had all of these people who had booked onto my workshops and were relying on me. And and I was like, well, now what? Like I'd literally mapped out where I was going to be over the next eight months, nine months. What do I do? And something I think like everybody, I did freak out a little bit, and somehow between the space, I mean, let's face it, what else was I going to do in between the very failed attempts at homeschooling? Um, but I went and I sat and I asked for guidance. I used my tools, I pulled out my tarot decks and I sat in meditation and I called in my guidance team and I was like, okay, now what? And I remember then having this very clear, grounded, solid instruction, you could call it. And it just said, people need you, take your work online. And I had no idea what that meant. Well, I knew what it meant, but I didn't know how I got my work out into the online world. But the guidance was very clear. And even though I didn't really know what I was doing or how I was going to do it, even though I was still in this cycle and this whirlwind of what on earth is going on on earth, I still had all of the homeschooling and the family pressures and extended family, you know, um, speaking to me about what's going on in the world and all of this stuff. I think that was the clearest insight and the clearance guidance that I received. And so I did. I put a uh message out on my Facebook, asked if anybody knew how we can get my work online. Somebody gave me their Zoom link. I showed up, people came, more people came, more people came, and as I kept on running these things, more and more people came. And it really was this pivot point in my business. But for me, moving forward and doing what I do, there was a hundred people who who didn't do that. And it really got me thinking, I've been reflecting on this today of wow, all of this that we've been speaking about over the last few weeks about signal versus noise. This really is the choice, and this really is the a story which shows what can happen and how life, just by changing something by one degree, five degrees, ten degrees, twenty degrees, can really change the whole trajectory of your life. And it comes into what was I listening to? Because I could have listened to everything that was going on outside of me. This very dominant voice that was like, you stay at home, you be scared, something's gonna come and get you. The whole thing with the kids and having to homeschool them failed by the way. We quite quickly gave up on that. Um, also, my grandma passed away in in that first month of of COVID. And you know, there was all of this stuff going on, and it came into this understanding of what am I doing with this time? Am I going to continue to distract myself or am I going to utilize this space? Are we gonna am I gonna lean in to growth, to change, to intuition, to trust? So the only thing really that was solid and steady at that time, because the world was going wild, and it was me that had to bring my own steadiness, and so it was me that had to keep on diving into me so that I could find that and I could create the actions, the thoughts, the steps, so I could provide the support for what was becoming my growing audience for what they needed at the time. And some of us doubled down on the noise, and there's no blame here. It was very easy to do that, but isn't it interesting when we look at that time and how many people were made, if you like, and how many, how many kind of gave up. I think it it tells a very interesting story, and it really demonstrates that we do have that guidance within us because I didn't know. If I'd have just consulted my brain, my brain would probably have gone into panic mode and been like, right, well, put all of your focus and your attention onto the kids and just wait, just wait, because what did they tell us that we'd be two weeks, two weeks, and then we'll all be back to normal. Um, and that didn't happen. It was three years really before things really came back into any form of normality. And this voice, what I've been referring to as this signal, wasn't wrong. Was it uncomfortable? Yeah. Did I have to start going live on my Facebook and mean I don't know what I'm doing? Yes. Did I start getting clients come in that I didn't know who they were and so I didn't feel that sense of safety because they've been referred to me from somewhere? Yes. Was it uncomfortable? Absolutely. But had that not have happened, and had I not have listened and trusted that okay, I'm not going to be guided wrong, then what would I have done? I see a lot of people, and a lot of the people that I hang out with now had a similar experience. That this time, I don't think there's any coincidence that those few years really brought on this mass awakening and people becoming more in touch with themselves and to in this higher wisdom and this greater part of themselves. I think we were squeezed, we were we were compressed, and we either collapse under that pressure or we turn into the diamonds that we are. And whilst it wasn't easy, and whilst, you know, many people suffered for me and for so many people I see, it became the greatest evolution for them. It became the the turning point, it became the moment that I am the I am this sovereign being, I am the master of my destiny, and so what am I going to be doing with that? I can't rely on everything that I've built up for for me. From a psychological point of view, this was a pattern interrupt and a half, and we interrupted that pattern and we did what we did with it. And now here we are, six years later, and what has returned in full force is the noise. That noise that we could tune out quite easily, I think. The algorithms perhaps were working in our favor, right? Like whatever or not, whatever we were focused on was carrying on. How true is this for life? And now there's a there's a lot of noise back. We're back in our routines, we're back in our our lives, things are like back to as normal as as they were, and we are living at a different level of consciousness. And so this thing, this gift, this connection, this intuition, this signal might not feel as strong as it did then, but now it becomes even more of a choice. What am I listening to? What am I tuning into? Because we can look back and see firsthand what happens when we tune into fear, when we choose, and I say that word as a pattern interrupt for you. Did we choose to see our world through fear? Because I promise you, when I was sitting in there and all the statistics were being tumbled into my TV, there was something in there that was saying to me, you need to watch this. When my family were calling me and saying to me, to me, oh, but have you seen what's going on there? When I had the phone call to tell me that my my grandma had contracted COVID, like all of this stuff was there, and it was very easy to move into fear. That lens of fear was there. And the choice was do I start to live my life through through this, or do I come in and I use the only part of me that is stable? And that is my inner world and my inner voice. And I moved in and I found that, and I found that signal and I asked the bigger questions. Who am I in this? What do I do with this? How do I make the most of this? Where is the love in this? How do I keep on acting from love and not from fear? It was a choice. And over that time, I developed the muscle, and some of it was easy. It was a case of I'm not choosing to turn the TV on today. I'm not choosing to turn to tune into to what's being shared with me from those lenses today. But what about now? Are things really that different with what's going on in the news and in the world, with the economy? Where are we moving from? Are we gonna let that derail us? Which it will. I don't think any human is designed to receive that much, that level of um bad news, that level of adrenaline, that level of cortisol all the time. You're always in fear, you're always in danger. Without the balance of, well, who am I in this? Where is the love in this? What is the truth in all of this? Which part am I choosing to ignore? My true inner self or what's happening outside of me? Until I can develop, if this is true for you, the resources to be able to handle both. It is a choice, and we make that choice every day with our actions and what it is, the conversations that we have, and what it is that we choose to tune into. And what I choose to tune into is my inner world, my inner self. I listen to podcasts like this. I listen to resources that are gonna support me, that are gonna help me ask good questions, that are gonna expand my mind, that are going to bring more love and joy and soul out into the world and keeping on tuning in and keeping on choosing that. So let's not wait for another global shutdown to hear ourselves. Let's not wait for the outside circumstances to make us turn inwards. Like, let's do it. Let's as soon as this podcast finished, just go and spend two minutes tuning into that inner realm and inner world and come back. Let me know what guidance did you receive, what changed, what happened in that time. The voice that I heard on that day, six years ago today, that said, People need you, go online. It changed everything. I could have not listened, I could have not even asked. And imagine where I'd be now. And maybe for you, when the world went quiet, you heard something too. But the big question is, are you still listening to it? Alright, I'll see you next time.