Rev Melody Bailey

04/11/2024

For my neighbours in the USA

14/10/2024

In the healing energy of community, we realize we’re all in this together. We share a collective intention to change ourselves – and, ultimately, change our world.

We began Walk for the World because when we walk as one mind and one heart, a higher consciousness emerges. We can carry a new vision of the world into the present moment – together.

Join us Saturday, October 12, 2024, at 10 a.m. EDT / 10 a.m. AEST and Walk for the World once more. Register for the event to be counted and invite someone new to join you. https://walkforthe.world/

05/12/2023

https://youtu.be/m-xMM0i-m-k?si=NiNazci-G0RemFir

19/07/2023

04/07/2023

29/06/2023

When someone dies, the first thing to do is nothing. Don't run out and call the nurse. Don't pick up the phone. Take a deep breath and be present to the magnitude of the moment.

There's a grace to being at the bedside of someone you love as they make their transition out of this world. At the moment they take their last breath, there's an incredible sacredness in the space. The veil between the worlds opens.

We're so unprepared and untrained in how to deal with death that sometimes a kind of panic response kicks in. "They're dead!"

We knew they were going to die, so their being dead is not a surprise. It's not a problem to be solved. It's very sad, but it's not cause to panic.

If anything, their death is cause to take a deep breath, to stop, and be really present to what's happening. If you're at home, maybe put on the kettle and make a cup of tea.

Sit at the bedside and just be present to the experience in the room. What's happening for you? What might be happening for them? What other presences are here that might be supporting them on their way? Tune into all the beauty and magic.

Pausing gives your soul a chance to adjust, because no matter how prepared we are, a death is still a shock. If we kick right into "do" mode, and call 911, or call the hospice, we never get a chance to absorb the enormity of the event.

Give yourself five minutes or 10 minutes, or 15 minutes just to be. You'll never get that time back again if you don't take it now.

After that, do the smallest thing you can. Call the one person who needs to be called. Engage whatever systems need to be engaged, but engage them at the very most minimal level. Move really, really, really, slowly, because this is a period where it's easy for body and soul to get separated.

Our bodies can gallop forwards, but sometimes our souls haven't caught up. If you have an opportunity to be quiet and be present, take it. Accept and acclimatize and adjust to what's happening. Then, as the train starts rolling, and all the things that happen after a death kick in, you'll be better prepared.

You won't get a chance to catch your breath later on. You need to do it now.

Being present in the moments after death is an incredible gift to yourself, it's a gift to the people you're with, and it's a gift to the person who's just died. They're just a hair's breath away. They're just starting their new journey in the world without a body. If you keep a calm space around their body, and in the room, they're launched in a more beautiful way. It's a service to both sides of the veil.

Sarah Kerr, Death Doula
https://www.facebook.com/SoulPassages/videos/610729049323633/?t=59

23/06/2023

A thought from Jubal Harshaw.

23/12/2022

High expectancy always speeds progress; anticipation of "better yet to come" helps to dissolve the load of unbelief that we now carry with us. We must learn to increase our consciousness. Nothing is too good to be true. God's perfection is already an ever-present reality, but as far as we are concerned it waits to be perceived, and only as much good can come to us as we mentally accept.

Ernest Holmes, "Thoughts Are Things," page 46.1

19/09/2022

Pass it on: I love this so much, as it fits in well with the mindset of doing what you can where you are with what you've got--and not underestimating the impact of the things you do that feel small.

Go team ! Let's keep making those positive changes toward a healthier world for us all. We can do this thing.

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02/08/2022

What Is “New Thought”, anyway?

It’s about people taking conscious responsibility for their own lives, not blaming others or the outside world for their problems.

It’s about people who deliberately decide to learn and grow in spite of the possibility of pain.

It’s about people that don’t have to be right for anyone but themselves.

It’s about people seeing their problems as lessons, perhaps in a long series of lives and lessons.

It’s about people who believe we are what we think we are, and we can change ourselves by changing our thinking.

It’s about people that feel they can change the world, only by changing themselves, not by trying to change others.

It’s about people who search for strength from the universe by going inside themselves.

It’s about people that recognize love doesn’t have to have conditions attached. It’s about people loving and knowing themselves in order to better know and love others.

It’s about people who see others as not better than nor less than, but rather, different than themselves, yet part of the same whole.

It’s about people honouring everyone’s right to their own path. It’s about people who realize that now is all we have, since yesterday is just a memory and tomorrow is just a thought.

It’s about people interested in owning themselves, while enjoying the bounty of life.

It’s about people who see the joy in life rather than the pain, having experienced enough pain already.

It’s about people curious about the creative energy of the universe and all that it implies.

It’s about people in all walks of life, from business people to spiritual healers, psychologists to scientists.

New Thought is not about gloom and doom, but rather about conscious awareness of the goodness of our planet and our place in it.

New Thought is not a movement based on guilt, shame, blame, anger, fear or hurt; it is a journey toward recognition that all names for God and Love are synonyms.

New Thought is not an allegiance to one master; it is the recognition that all masters are One.

New Thought could not be a cult because it is open at the top for expanded understanding of our limitless universe.

New Thought encourages people to think for themselves and not to accept any dogma or creed on face value.

New Thought is about “human’s being” the best that they can be.

29/07/2022

“All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.” — Edwin Markham.Are you being served? Or are you serving? Rev. Melody Bailey dives deepl...

06/06/2022

https://youtu.be/R-uTkGMUaNc

Rev. Melody Bailey shares thoughts on how to have awareness of and detach from the ego.

24/12/2021

Awaken to the Light of Your True Nature