Here’s a cliché that’s so often misunderstood. “Follow your heart” does not mean hold onto the people who break your heart because you love them and deep down you see the goodness of their soul. “Follow your bliss” does not mean “do what makes you happy,” or that you have Read more…
Yesterday I posted about how an Akashic Record reading begins with a commitment to your intention to ask for and receive support around your questions and concerns. Energy starts shifting and answers may even arrive long before we hop on our call together. Today I wanted to share some of Read more…
Did you know your Akashic Records practice can support your creative practice? I know a few people who paint while connected to the Records (for themselves or for others). You can do this for any creative endeavor. Attune to your Records, then instead of asking a question, request that the Read more…
Often an Akashic Records practice will demand that you turn deeply held habits or values on their head. A big one for me was only to speak when I’d developed enough knowledge or expertise. I spent the better part of a decade in grad school, building up all sorts of Read more…
Along with beginner’s mind and clear intention, the third pillar of an Akashic Record reading is trust—trust in the support of Spirit and trust in myself. Once I attune to the Records and feel the supporting energies, I know I am not alone, left to my own devices to figure Read more…
Yesterday I committed to emerging from my hermitage, and in the shower I was inspired to post daily about what I’ve learned from the Akashic Records over the next month till the Akashic Records study group is back from summer break. We begin this series, appropriately, Read more…
At the end of January and early this month my sleep schedule went out of whack. I’d either find myself sleepless until 3:00 or 4:00am, or if I managed to fall asleep at a reasonable hour, I’d inevitably wake up around those times. During that period I had been feeling a lot of unfamiliar energies coming in and they were keeping me up at night. I wasn’t alarmed because I had been working with an intention to open to new energies since the beginning of the year, but I did want to figure out how to make the process a little more comfortable.
I checked with my Akashic Records and they suggested I stop trying to understand the energies, because I was giving myself headaches attempting to analyze every little bit coming through. Ah, my mind was up to its old tricks! My Records recommended surrendering to the flow and trusting that I would be aware of whatever I need to when the timing’s right. (more…)
Last night I had the puzzling feeling that I shouldn’t sign up for my usual Tuesday trapeze class. This morning, my intuition hadn’t changed, but I decided to check the class schedule anyway, and found that the last remaining spots had been taken between the time I went to bed Read more…
After a detour into the discerning mind‘s role in Akashic Record readings, we finally come to the last post on this series on the elements of a quality Akashic Record reading:
TOP FIVE QUALITIES OF AN AKASHIC RECORD READING
Open heart is perhaps my favorite aspect of a reading. I consider everything we’ve been discussing thus far as simply laying the groundwork. With open mind we begin to open to possibility, but the deepening of that possibility (and the pure joy that accompanies that process) comes with the ability to maintain an open heart.* The heart, not the mind, is what moves us through fear and doubt. It is the source of our courage.
This is an addendum to my last post about the quality of open mind, and it also addresses much of what I wrote about presence earlier in this series about what elements go into a quality Akashic Record reading. While the ability to release or at least temporarily put aside the chattering of the mind is critical to ensuring a quality reading, I did not want to leave you with the impression that the mind does not play any role in a reading.
To the contrary, your mind is a fine instrument that the Records will, indeed, use to every advantage. Part of this is in how the Masters, Teachers, and Loved Ones will send you images that will stimulate your existing store of knowledge. (An example of this in my work is when they send colors. Those often—thought not always—relate to certain chakra centers.) This is a really interesting topic in itself, and will surely give more examples in the future.
But what I’m more concerned with today is how the mind is a complementary and equal partner to the receptive faculties of the reader. I cannot speak for trance channels,* but as a conscious channel, I most definitely employ my mind to make dozens and dozens of decisions during a reading. Offering a reading requires a constant dance between receptivity and activity, between yin and yang. I receive the flow through my awareness, but it does not get transmitted to the client without my active participation in the flow.
Under the best circumstances, the flow of a reading is an open dynamic between a seeker, the Records, and a reader. The reader is a go-between and interpreter in this sacred event, but is also its conductor in the fullest sense of the word. The conductor is not merely a passive conduit; she also orchestrates the entire interaction. While the seeker’s intention structures the backbone of the reading, part of how the reader fleshes it out is by being discerning in her choices and actions. (more…)