Soul Awakening: An interview with Melissa Abell

As part of her Master Alignment, with Michele Anderson,  Melissa Abell received an attunement that enabled her to harness her psychic gifts and conduct readings.  

Ms. Abell talks to us about the significance of spirit guides, the process of Soul Awakening, and the huge impact a Soul Awakening has on removing recurring negative patterns from our lives.  James shares the effect that having a Soul Awakening had on his life. 

Also, Melissa talks about the Law of Attraction and gives us a practical technique for bringing the Law of Attraction into our lives. 

Transcript

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We're back again with Melissa Abel, and I'm not sure how long after the first episode, this is going to get published, but certainly, if you're tuning into this one, then please go to listen to my first interview with Melissa, because we cover a lot of territory and it's really, fun and informative and, one of the reasons I suggest that is because I'm going to just jump into the last topic that we were talking about, and that is spirit guides and also about Melissa mentioned that when she was doing her studies that she got attunement. And Melissa, could you tell me a little bit about what were you referring to when you said attunement? Sure. Thank you again, Jim. This is so delightful and so much fun to talk with you. Yeah, when I was in the work that was known then as Master Alignment. Michelle Anderson and her partner, Richard Rylander, were the master teachers of that. In fact, that work came in through Michelle. She was the originator of Master Alignment and when they trained new practitioners, cause they realized, well, they're not going to be able to do all the people that And so we studied and over the course of a few years and doing all these deep work and clearings and other classes and all the time, we got to the point where we were in the practitioner training and There were three attunements at different times in the training over the course of, I think it was three days, or it was a four, something like that. It was a while. So each day they would stand before us and they would make sure, check with their, the guides and make sure that we were ready for them. And then it's just very much like Reiki, getting an attunement, having it conferred by this person that has it to give, to confer. Okay. And so I remember after, that last day when we got the third attunement and they said, okay, this is it. After this attunement, you will be able to be a reader. You will be able to actually conduct a session. And of course, up to that point, I knew I had gifts and maybe I was psychic or empathic, but I had no idea how to access them, what to do with them, anything. And after that third attunement, they said, okay, we're going to sit you down and you're going to do a reading for us. Okay. And I just thought, okay, let's see. And there it was like a light switch turned on and all of a sudden this body of information, sight, sound, feeling, even smells sometimes came into a different part of me. It was like all of a sudden having other voices and pictures in my mind that didn't originate from me and with me. And it was so clear what was my thought versus what. And it was delightful. I was so exhilarated and yet didn't know if the message made any sense. But sure enough, they were able to say, that's exactly what we were just talking about and discussing earlier today. So, so it began. that would be a dream come true for me. But I imagine it was for you as well, that this is something that you wanted to do, you're studying to do. Yes. I love the idea that someone who has it to give, the way you said that, is, they have it, they have that ability, and then they, do the attunement to you and give you that ability and you sure received it. Exactly. That's the thing. And it's not everyone in the class. I think because of some old beliefs about I can't do this. I'm not good enough. I don't know what I'm doing. They didn't in fact, go on to do sessions. Whereas I just felt like, oh, finally my gifts or whatever I'm able to do have, have an expression. They have a, I have a voice now and, and then later mom and I, my mom and I, Charlotte actually became practitioner trainers ourselves and then we were able to confer and give the attunements to other practitioners. Oh, how nice. Yeah. What a nice thing that must have been. It was amazing. Amazing. We. Just look back with such appreciation and it changed our lives and we're so grateful to Michelle and Richard, you know Imagine having something that's not on the planet in the world and the person that originates It's brought in through and then you study and learn with them and you go about your life after that So talk about happy times. Oh, how nice how nice and That What led to your? doing the soul awakening is exactly what led to it because my experience of it wasn't called soul awakening then it was it was a master alignment reading and it just changed me so profoundly and so quickly even though i was the biggest skeptic but after having that experience life and feeling such freedom and all of the shame that I had as a child and the situations that I found myself in as a small child that I didn't understand. It's not something that I ever learned in this lifetime anyway. All of that was just lifted from me and I understood so much that there were people, not in this world, that not only knew me deeply, but tended to me and cared for me and that life was going to work out in wondrous ways. And so, yes, I would say that. That experience and then going through Master Alignment and now my continual expansion and evolving and learning all kinds of using the spiritual tools and materials and books and trainings and that's sort of lends itself to my own sort of, I guess, breadth and depth as a spiritual, Practitioner right metaphysical teacher and and the readings that I do so I feel like I bring it all We all do we bring our expansion in our evolution with us. So Yeah. And, and at some point in time, now having had the attunement and having been a teacher and being really well versed in speaking to the guides, communicating and understanding how to do that you developed a situation where you wanted to, have you always called the process soul awakening? Not always. I, I think I was looking for a term, knowing that I had sort of expanded, and we sort of, Master Alignment had its time, and Jay, and then I was trying to think of what explains this, and it's, it sounds interesting when you hear soul awakening, because, It's not that our soul needs to wake up, it's our soul waking us up. That's how I look at it. Because your soul is trying to shake you awake a little bit. Hey, there's so much more to you, there's so much more to this world, there's so much more to everything about you, and let's wake up to that. So that's kind of how I came up with that myself. Well, having had a soul awakening with you, as you described that, I got like a chill That is how I felt, it wasn't my day to day conscious self that was changing. It was my spiritual self, and that just changed tremendously, and as you said, being awakened. Yes. And that's, a wonderful gift to have. And so, You were working at the Washington Post for a long time. And at the same time, were you doing master alignments that turned into spiritual awakening? Exactly. So in 1996, and because I had a Part time job for the first time in my life. I actually had some time and the weekends were free So as of 96 is when I became a practitioner, you know with my own practice and ever since so that's been you know almost 28 years now and had the absolute pleasure of not only Doing a lot of private sessions, but a lot of teaching group teaching and trainings with my mother All over the planet. And I find now, Jim, that my favorite, I love teaching classes and, and I still do that, but my favorite is those one on ones. It's, there's nobody else that's going to get that message. It's your reading. In fact, the guides kind of tease me now when when I try to give different labels to things. They're like We'll show you what the name of the reading is. It's jim's reading or it's charlotte's reading. It's their reading, you know, so that's my favorite because It's just for that person, right? Yeah, and I love that growth that comes from one on one It's just exhilarating for me. I have to say a lot of times after a session I will actually just be weeping with the joy of it And the absolute privilege of being a conduit. And that's certainly how I felt about your session. That afterwards, I was just so profoundly moved and grateful. And so to hear you. Oh, And I have to also point out, Jim, it's your willingness. It's nothing, I'm like the translator, the interpreter. I bring it to the table. I'm the partnership with the guides, of course. And I, you know, I'm part of it. But you're the one that said. I'm willing, I may not know what this is about or what to do with it, and I'm willing, and okay, you opened the door, so it's really to your credit, the, the changes that you felt so really, that's the big thing. Oh, thank you, thank you, and how did people first hear about the Master, you know, at your beginning, I'm going to start, I'm going to call them soul awakenings from when you started. Okay. And how did people first hear about you? Wow. You'll like this because Michelle Anderson had been an attorney in Chicago that was thinking about, Doing these workshops about how to tell your past lives from what's in your kitchen And then there she was we she came to Westminster and she was doing this workshop that had that title and all of a sudden her guide started bringing in This is called master alignment, and this is what we're going to do and we're bringing this through you so All of a sudden it just started growing like wildfire. The people that got readings, like myself, my mom, they just started flocking to Michelle and Richard and they would have workshops and trainings and, oh my gosh, people just came out of the woodwork. Well, I can see, having had Soul Awakening, I can see how that would happen because it's like, wow, that felt good and if I could do that for other people, wouldn't that be wonderful? It's so true. And I have to say, I remember when I first talked to you and you're like, well, not much of a business model because I said, yeah, I don't have a website. I don't really advertise. It's all of my 28 years has been really word of mouth. And that's exactly how master alignment started was just like, Hey, you gotta be here. People would come from across the country. People would. Drive, and we had people coming in from other countries just to be in Westminster doing a workshop. Oh my goodness So it really was this it caught fire because your soul You could feel the expansion of your soul your spirituality the passion that you had for life for everything So to this day I mean by and large It's still word of mouth. Okay. Okay. It's working out as a pretty good business model then And oh, that's that's wonderful and let's let's get into What happens during a soul awakening, because you had mentioned in our previous episode a little bit about starting off with a prayer. Could you talk about that a little bit, please? Absolutely. So my way, because I'm highly sensitive, empathic, so if I didn't set boundaries around myself, I would be picking up things that who needs that? It's exhausting. I don't need to know. So I find that when I work with someone, the first thing I do on those days that I work is I set myself, I get on my high flying disc as Abraham Hicks talks about, and I really go into meditation and just deeply setting the energy, making sure that I'm clear, clear the environment. And then when I, Connect with that person usually on zoom now and sometimes in person. I just say I'm going to start with the prayer using your first name And I love that every prayer is different now the guys start bringing in Words and descriptions and energies just for that person And then that's my way of saying to your team as I call them your team gym in spirit and my team Okay We're, we're doing this. I'm open to receive now. And that's what I do. I open to receive in this prayer the information and the energy that are to the person's highest and best good. I think it's so interesting that it's not like, you know, Hail Mary the exact same words are used every time in a certain prayer. You start off this prayer probably with the same language. Yes. But then. It, it becomes opening the door then to the person that you're working with, their guides and your guides to communicate to you, to make it particular to that person. Exactly. They're dialing into your specific frequency, your vibration. And so what I find is, and somebody even said this recently where I was working with someone, and he's like, what are you reading? Like, I was starting with the prayer, and it was like I'm not reading anything, but then when I think about it, the guides, because I love words, they actually bring me like a whiteboard or a chalkboard with words, so I'll hear, you know, refreshment, and I'll see the word refreshment. So it is like I'm reading, instead of them giving me the feeling of exhilaration, they'll say exhilaration, and I'll see the word spelled. So they make it really easy for me. So that's how it comes in. That is so interesting. And this is something that. I've met people who are mediums that were seeing spirits, from when they were four years old, walking around and things. This is something that came to you later in life as you pursued this and it just fell into place, just, it was the right thing for you. Absolutely. I feel like it was the right place, the right time. It's exactly, it kind of met me on my own path. Right. Just at the right time. Right. And, and just everything flowed so beautifully. And I, I will say one thing that I've noticed, and this to me is, I can't underscore, or overstate the meaning of this for me. All of, everything that I've ever learned, known, done, taught spiritually, expanded exponentially when I learned more and began to practice the Law of Attraction. So to me that's been the biggest difference, you know, not just incremental growth and expansion, but we're talking. Exponential. Okay. And I would say probably this has just been in the past four or five years. Okay. That I began to, like, understand. I knew about it before. I thought, I didn't know much about it, but I had heard of it. Right. And kind of poo pooed it. Like, nah, whatever. But it's been the biggest thing. So to me, it took everything that I knew and was interested in and was already doing and just opened it up just so expansively, all of this extra. Avenues, and it's just exhilarating. So Law of Attraction fits in with the awakened soul. Is that right? A thousand percent. I wish I had like a hundred thousand percent. Yes. Okay. All right. So now that I've had my soul awakening, perhaps I should start to be more aware and mindful of, my thoughts Yeah, I love the way you said it's like, you don't have to. I used to think that was how silly if we can believe it before we see it. Nobody's going to do that. But then you realize, oh, that's not really what they mean. There's so many, ways around that. But one of the best ways that the guides have given as a game, to open yourself up to the law of attraction and the proof being in the pudding, they call it the, I like it like this game. And they say for just a couple of weeks, take everything that you are, in life and that's flowing for you and anything you see, eat, taste, hear, smell, and say, I like it like this. I like it like this and let any worries and anything that's vexing or not flowing, just put it on a shelf. You can pick it back up in a couple weeks But this just focusing on what you'll like and what's going well for just a couple weeks will change you Profoundly and it's really a fun game and they even say play the song, you know, I like it like that There's the latin version. There's The righteous brothers version it's just a game changer and it's That's so much fun. So just as you said, yeah, maybe I might want to open myself up more. Just play the game. Well, I have been spending a lot of time over the last several years pursuing spiritual things and thinking and watching. And I've never heard such a wonderful key to unlock that as you just gave, which is it's very simple to say when something goes the way you want it, just say, I like it like that. Because that's easy, easy to know. Yeah. Yeah. I like it like that. And that's so simple. Isn't that the best? It's the guide to say, it's like. you're identifying your ingredients in the cake batter of your life. So they're like duly noted, duly noted, duly noted, and they're like, we're going to mix that up. And we're going to create your life the way you want it. And but it's also it's just taking the resistance out, you know, we're as humans, we're conditioned to say the pros and the cons, and the guys are like, Just the pros for now, like leave the cons on a shelf because we have this constant resistance that we never really can get out of that. It keeps us where we are. Whereas this, I like it like that game will change your frequency. It raises things up and life takes on these amazing hues and all of this expansion. You find that you're in the right place at the right time. That stuck zipper. Is no longer stuck. Isn't that something? Oh, wonderful, wonderful. So let's get back into doing the soul awakening. When I was with you, after we did the, prayer, the opening prayer, then You suddenly were communicating with my guides, and my grandfather, and you told me what you were getting. And certainly, that was wonderful for me. And the fact that you recorded it is great because then any positives that came through I'm able to listen to again and again, and I feel that they are so genuine. It's not like, oh, you look great today. It's like, well, maybe I do, maybe I don't, but that was nice of you to say. Where what you were doing was a totally different deal. You were genuinely communicating something that is from beyond this existence, and you were communicating that. And so, I take that with a seriousness and a conviction that's different from a casual statement. And it's really helped me, just want to tell you, to listen to that and to, listen to what's being communicated, what was being communicated from the guides, et cetera. And so thank you for that. And so then we went from that into, Something that's very, very important about this awakening, and that is past patterns. Could you tell us about that, please? Absolutely. And thank you for the way that you just described how you felt was exactly how I felt when I had my initial soul awakening myself. And it's to me, it's a feeling like you absolutely, there's a feeling. feeling and a knowing beyond your analyzing mind. Right. Beyond the mental that you're feeling like I'm, I'm being loved and known and tended to and comforted and cajoled and lifted up and they understand me. They knew who I am. And that's totally different from the typical day to day thought patterns. Absolutely. So. And it's so wonderful. It's so beautiful. And it's very hard to explain to someone who hasn't had it because it, it's similar. The words are similar, but the feeling is like nothing you've ever had. Yeah. Thank you for the way that you were able to articulate it is just so perfect. Yeah. And so I feel like the way the guides start like that, they talk to you a mile a minute and maybe a loved one is there waiting to come through. And they, it's like. You know, a lot of times if we don't have a voice box from our guides, they're trying to nudge us with symbols. Haven't you noticed you've seen 20 hawks in the last week, you know, but most of the time we don't. So when they actually get that voice box, which I'm the translator, they go to town. And then the second part is sort of the, where they go into your energy centers and they're looking at where is this old trauma. Shame, blame, unworthiness, all this anger, rage, whatever stored, and they talk about that and they kind of lift it out and on the energetics. And then yeah, to me, the most fun is that part where they go to what they call the causal plane. And their way of describing this Jim is like, if you've a lot of therapists, they love to get to the core, they're looking for, well, let's Let's talk a lot and we'll get to the core issue then we'll work on that and So the guys will we'll take you right to the core. Okay, this is on the scale of one to ten This is your number 10 biggest stuck place. It's what you wrote in with it's in the dna the living library Okay, and so they're like we're gonna tell you What originally happened? you can look at it as a past life, which I do Or they're like, if that doesn't please you, look at it as an ancestral experience. The point is, you've got the DNA in the physical body now, and that's where the old pattern is. It's like the old factory setting. Okay. That you came in with. And so, that's what I love. For me, it's like a giant movie screen drops, and they'll give me a scene, and I have to tell you. The person, like in your case, I told you, okay, this is what I'm seeing. Then they'll give me the next scene. So we're both kind of getting it live. They don't give me the whole story and then I relate it to you. So I never really know. Sometimes they come in right in the middle of something. I never know what, what is this about, but basically what it does is it, they tell you where you had a lot of trauma and what happened, and sometimes they'll bring one lifetime. Sometimes. One, two, three, maybe, but they'll be these themes that come from those lifetimes that are the biggest, they represent where you're stuck in a pattern, of course, like in a dress or fabric, it repeats. So it may not be the exact circumstances, this life, but sometimes it really is where it's just like, okay, yeah, there's that thing again, they betrayed me. I love them. They left me. It always happens when I love somebody, they leave me. And then you realize, Oh, This is not me. This is my old pattern. Now I have this, the ability to say, I'm done with that. And I now choose these advanced settings, my preferences, and that's how it works. And they say, it's with our free will choice that we can say, okay, now that I know what this is. I choose to let that go and now what would I rather have instead of unworthiness, shame, guilt, blame and so there you have it. So about the typically three or six weeks after your session is when you start to feel this lightness and you feel like I'm not dragging that around. I just feel better. I feel happier. I'm not as gloomy, whatever it might be. So that's kind of how it rolls. I've always been someone who's fairly positive, and I drive some people nuts because of my positivity. But I still have had, have carried that past with me. It's in my DNA, and in having this whole awakening just amazing that all of a sudden, in one session, it's not like five years of regular therapy, it's in one session, able to grasp that and accept the fact that that's gone. That's a huge thing. That is a mind bending deal, but it's real. It's absolutely real, and I have experienced it, and it's a wonderful, wonderful thing, and I just thank you so much for doing that with me. But I'm sure that There's a wide variety of patterns that you must come across. Yes, and thank you for, that's exactly how I felt with my own session, and that's why, you know, here I am, still, you know, I'm doing this work. So exactly, and the other thing to point out is the Soul Awakening is a one time session. Yeah. Which is, I always say it's turnkey, it's one time, it takes about an hour and a half, you know. But basically the reason for that is I've found in my own experience and the guides say that if you address that core pattern, the ten on the scale of one to ten, you're going to find that any kind of thing that's not flowing or any kind of troubling situation in your life always goes back to that core pattern. So you don't need to worry about your number five or your number seven because it's like, okay. Here we go. And I actually, my recording was on a cassette tape, which I still have. I still have a cassette tape player in one of my old cars. And I still drag it out from time to time because anytime I'm stuck, it always seems to go back and I shake it loose. But I don't really have those things come up anymore, but sometimes just the enjoyment of going back to that original recording. So yeah, it is important, I think, to and part of the clearing Is listening to the recording once a week, drinking a lot of water for a few weeks, listening to it once a week for a few weeks, up to six weeks, and then using the process of, I'm willing to clear this, I'm aware of when the old pattern is rearing its head, and I now choose to let go of that, and what are my new preferences. And so, That's how it is. So it is really Expansive and again, I just have to give you props for being able to express and articulate These things that are hard to describe and yet you're doing a beautiful job. Oh, thank thank you I love that phrase clearing because when I think of it, it's like I used to have it and now it's cleared. It's gone. And, that's something It's so powerful, really. Right? It's, it feels so light. It's like being unburdened by that old, I always say I'm no longer burdened by those old limitations because that's what a pattern really is restrictive. And it's, it's limiting. Right. And it was put, I think it was put into place to keep us alive originally, but it's old. Now we have this wax buildup of fear that we're carrying around that doesn't apply. So you're right, the clearing and the releasing the old that obstructs and hinders and constricts and restrains. Right. Now, what is my ease and what is my flow? What are my new preferences? And I can lean into the joyful. Journeying of my life. Okay. if someone wanted to Work with you. Is there a particular best way to do that to get a hold of you or how does that work? I don't know if you want to put it here or if you want to put it on my website or both. Sure Yeah, absolutely. I'd love to work with anyone, everyone And probably the best way is soul awakening session at gmail. com Would be the way to get in touch with me. Okay, soul awakening session You Singular at gmail. com. Exactly. Awesome. And we'll make sure to have that on your site too. We're gonna talk a little more with you, but we're gonna we're gonna join in Your partner in crime there your mom and we're going to talk about another Activity that the two of you do and what's that called? That is called next grand adventure next grand adventure Okay. Well, I look forward to hearing about that. Thank you so much. Thanks. Thanks.