Online Gratitude Journal My Birthday Month Edition #29

Spring lasts long in Oregon. Cherry blossoms come around in mid March, followed by so many kinds of flowers and blossoms, like magnolias, azaleas, rhododendrons, pears, roses, and what not. But the temperature stays rather low until May — when it’s suddenly summer, like this weekend. Gee, I remember I was wearing my cord jacket last week!

I am writing this at a Starbucks on Saturday afternoon, escaping the heat of my apartment. It’s 6:30, so we still have three hours before the sun sets. I’m so grateful for my new macbook — this is exactly what I wanted to do with a laptop.

Oh, about the title — my birthday was yesterday. It also marks my anniversary of coming to the US. I came here two days before my b-day in 1995. I still passionately love this country ^_^

Starting with this edition of my Gratitude Journal, I am adopting the format of Mon at Holistic Mama.

May in Review

May, my birthday month, was — just like any other month. I worked hard for my Akashic Record Reading service while enjoying a daily coffee time.

I completed writing the Creating The New World series. My intention was to write something comprehensive about each energy flow of Love, Light, Truth, Abundance, and Power, so it took a lot of work. I enjoyed writing it, but it was exhausting nonetheless. I’m relieved I’m done with it — maybe I’ll write something more fun next month, like love and sex.

Fun

Hmm, what did I do for fun this month? Oh, I went out with a cute guy. Oh, this reminds me — some readers may be wondering about my personal lifestyle after reading me mention about polyamory here and there recently, but at least so far, I’ve only dated guys and one guy at a time. The future is in the making, however

Challenges

The housing dilemma. Around here, houses are so expensive, and from my experience of living in a 3 BR 2BA house in Tennessee, I know I don’t enjoy living in a big house by myself . . . it’s too much work! But living in an apartment without air conditioner is not very comfortable, either. (And none of the apartments in this area has air conditioners.) I guess I can buy a townhouse or condo . . .

Thoughtful

I think I’ve exhausted all my thoughtfulness in writing the New World series. I need some time to recharge. . .

Insights

I’m doing exactly what I’m supposed to be doing now because I am the creator.

Where in the blogosphere Akemi has been

I’ve known James Chartland at Men With Pens for a long time (by blog years). He has lots of wisdom about better writing and blogging. But the real reason I hang out there is I like his personality and I find it fun to read the comments people make about him. Just check this out. The post is about posting frequency, which I’m not particularly interested because I think it’s a matter of case by case, largely dependent on the blogger’ disposition and situation. But do read the comments about the photo of the post. I promise it’s entertaining. Thank you for the fun, James and Kelly. (Maybe you can make money compiling the comments or writing humor stories. . .)

Evita at Evolving Wellness has a solid background in science and I especially love her posts on healthy eating. Like this one that demystifies the “healthy” dinner of salmon, whole wheat bread, red wine, dairy, and dark chocolate. Thank you, Evita.

Word of month

Let me check the comments I received this month for this. For my post on romantic relationship, Lisa at mommymystic quoted Eckhart Tolle,

“Two conscious beings realize that the essence of the relationship is the space in it.”

Great quote, thank you, Lisa.

Note to myself

Priority: Light Ascension.

Finally here is the bouquet I bought at a farmers’ market the other day. 

Enjoy the summer, my friends!  (Photo by Mr. Greenjeans)

Creating Your Life And The New World

“The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energy of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.”
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

This is the last installment of the Creating The New World series. Ascension presents us the unprecedented opportunity for change, and we’ve been discussing how we can create the New World based on the following five energy flows:

Love
Light
Truth
Abundance
Power

The purpose of life

While each post has some suggestions to help you better align with each of the energy flow, which will improve your personal life, the scope of the series is beyond the conventional personal development. Some of you may have thought, “Well, this all sounds nice, I wish there will be a day when this New World manifests, but I’m just an ordinary person and there is nothing I can do to help this dream come true.”

I respectfully disagree. We are born with the power to create. Creation is the purpose of life: we incarnated in this physical world to have fun creating our lives, to experience our own creation and learn through the experiences, then we create even better things, so we experience the love and abundance in a tangible way. Life is about creation.

Each of us has this power to create, and together we create the world. When you bring a positive change to your life, you are changing the world. The point is to create consciously.

The process of creation

Creation starts in the invisible energy field, the spiritual world, and manifests in the physical world. And in tern, by creating in the physical world, we transcend to the spiritual world. The physical and the spiritual are not opposed to each other. They are the two sides, or levels, of the one Universe.

This is the essence of the Law of Attraction. We create as we think, feel, and believe. The Law of Attraction is there so we can learn from our own creation. (If things happen randomly, we can’t learn, right?) Whether you are aware of your creative power or not, you are creating anyway.

What I’ve strived to achieve in this series is to present the big picture of the New World, the vision of our destination of our current creative journey. I don’t know the exact each step to get to this destination — that probably depends on each of your case, and I also think someone who is more detail-oriented and technical in thinking can do a better job in determining the steps than I can. But what are we to do when we know how to walk but don’t know the direction to our destination? My job is to present this sense of direction.

It’s you, however, who creates your life, and thus contribute to the New World from your end. I hope I have inspired you to the point you embrace your creative power.

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.  Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be?  You are a child of God.  Your playing small does not serve the world.  There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.

We are all meant to shine, as children do.  We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.  And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
– Marianne Williamson

The New World in a nutshell

The New World is based on individuals as empowered and awakened free agent. Each of us will live as the person we truly are — in other words, we all “come out” for the authentic and unique person we are. No need to bend our truth to conform to the social norms because there will be no social norms. Our inner sense of honesty and integrity will develop to the point that social rules will be unnecessary.

The New World is filled with love. Again it’s the kind of love that celebrates the unique quality each of us present, not the love based on manipulation.

So the New World celebrates diversity. I don’t just mean the diversity of races, ethnicities, and such. I mean diversity in ways of life and ideas. For instance, all forms of love, whether it is heterosexual or homosexual, monogamy or polyamory, across the races and ethnicities . . . they are all good.

The New World is both simple and abundant. We will live simply because we know we are spiritual beings enjoying the stay in this physical world, so we don’t need to decorate ourselves excessively. It is also abundant in the same way Nature is abundant, because we fully utilize our creative power.

There will be many fundamental changes in the way we live in the New World. Breakthroughs will change the way we sustain our physical bodies, and there will be few, or no, health issues. Some (or many) of us will be living as lightbodies.

The concept of work and money will change, too. Most of us will be working for ourselves, doing what we love and are good at. Work is a way of self-expression, a way of creation. Eventually, work will be purely about self-expression, not a way to earn money, so we will just give and receive the products and services, not trading them for money. The New World will be that abundant, to the point we don’t need to keep track of numbers.

The One Energy

On the deeper level, the five energies are one. Love and Light are the same — Love is Light, and Light is Love. When Eckhart Tolle wrote in the introduction of The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment that the morning sunlight through the drapery, after his night of revelation, was pure love, he literally means it.

And when there is nothing but loving light, there is nothing that is not Truth. This light of love is also power, and is abundance. It’s all . . . life energy.

But then, on the practical level, it helps us to check our alignment with each energy flow of Love, Light, Truth, Abundance, and Power.

We as God the Creator

As I wrote in the part on Light, we, each one of us, are ultimately God. We have the same creative power God has.

It is only an illusion that we need to compete, control, manipulate, etc to get good things in life. When we use the energy negative like this, we create imbalance, and sooner or later, we will have to pay. Creating with love is a lot easier and fulfilling.

Thank you for reading this post and the Creating The New World series. Now it’s your turn. What do you think about my vision of the New World? Do you want to add or change something? Do you have any questions about the energy flows of Love, Light, Truth, Abundance, and Power?   (Photo by carf) 

“Are you just going to admire the jug
or are you actually going to drink the water?”
– Rumi

Creating The New World, Part 5 Power

This is the fifth part of the Creating The New World series.  In this series, we have been exploring the ways to create the New World based on the five divine energy flows of Love, Light, Truth, Abundance, and Power.  It has grown to a huge writing, so after this post, I will write another one to sum up and to present a big picture of the New World.

Embracing our Divine Power

Divine Power is by far the hardest concept in the five energies to understand accurately and therefore hard to embrace.  We have seen too many authoritative figures who abuse their worldly power for their own greed.  You probably have been disgusted by them and swore not to be like them.  But wait . . . that doesn’t mean you need to relinquish your inner power!

The power I’m talking about is our innate power to create.  It’s the power of our free will.  We are free to make our choices, and as we make choices, we create our lives.  Together we create this world.

We all have this power.  Even if you are penniless, living with abusive family, or in poor health, you do.  The issue is you may not be using this power.

Free will is the best gift from God

One of the frequently asked questions in my Akashic Record Reading is “Why didn’t my spirit guides (or God or Angel) prevent me from getting into this trouble?  Why don’t they just hold my hand and guide me through the best path?  Isn’t it cruel and unkind to leave me where I am?”

The answer is: They don’t leave you.  They are always with you.  But they love you so much that they respect your free will.  You are free to make mistakes and learn from them.  Whatever horrible mistake you make, they don’t abandon you, and if you end up dead, you are still loved and you will get another go.

Spirits do have different mode of operation.  In our human common sense, there are times we might want to intervene.  For example, if your child is getting involved with criminals and playing with drugs.  But spirits respect our free will.  We are even allowed to go against the Light and become darkworkers.  (Obviously, I am not recommending this option.  I’m just saying it’s an option and we are free to choose.)

This Earth is meant to be a creative place where souls incarnate in physical bodies and create in terms of forms.  As I wrote in the second part of this Creating The New World series about Light, we were originally One and Whole, but we wanted to experience love and abundance in a more tangible and experiential way.  So we became individual souls, and incarnated in this physical world.  In order for this Earth experiment to work, free will is absolutely necessary.  Even if that means many failures and heartaches.

You have the free will.  It’s God (or Source or Light) given, and no one can take it away from you, not your parents, not your boss, not your psychic, not even your own spirit guides.  Again, the point is you step up to embrace your power of this free will.

Unfortunately, many of us have forgotten our power and became victims and slaves. . .

Victim mentality

When you are in victim mentality, you see things happen to you, rather than you are creating your life with your own power.  It doesn’t matter if you are in abusive relationship or not.  You may have grown up in a loving family, and you may still feel like a victim of the world or bad luck.

When you live with victim mentality, you are avoiding responsibility that comes with power.  This is only a mental trick, however.  Whether you consciously take the responsibility or not, you get the consequences anyway.  So why not make your own choice and be aware of your responsibility?

Slave mentality

I hate this term as much as I hate the term victim mentality.  Of course I’m not talking about actual slavery.  It’s about becoming an order taker, only going through the motions of life but not fully taking the responsibility of it.  Slaves’ responsibility is about doing the tasks they were told to do, not about making the decisions about the tasks.

Slave mentality is so common it hardly stands out.  Just check the “Ask XXXX” column of any newspaper.  Tons of people asking how they SHOULD live their lives.  As if someone else knows it better.  And the word SHOULD is a telltale sign of slave mentality.  “What should I do?  (I’ll do it if you just give me instructions.)”

Some people bring this slave mentality to their relationship with their spirit guides.  I work with highly spiritually developed people in my Akashic Record Reading practice.  Yet, so many of them ask, “What do my spirit guides want me to do?”

You are the master of your life.  You decide what you want to create, and then you ask advice, say to your spirit guides, in the same way you seek advice from consultants.  They share their ideas, and you decide if you want to take their ideas or not.  You are ultimately responsible.

Curiosity vs fear

Both vicim and slave mentalities are motivated by fear.  Victims are unaware of their true power and are constantly afraid of what may happen to them.  Slaves have (superficially) given away their power and are afraid of going beyond their territory.

(Note: Some people do stupid things to prove they are not afraid.  Whatever the appearance, they are still in the same mode really.  Rioting slaves are still slaves, not truly free.)

One of the sign of these negative mindset is the lack of lively curiosity.  We came to this life to create, and curiosity for new possibilities is a natural part of us.  So ask yourself:  When was the last time you got to know a new person in your life?  The last time you tried out a new hobby?  The last time you read a book or article that was outside of your regular interests?  Are you living with your natural curiosity and exercising the power of your free will?

Misplaced responsibilities

While I’m talking about the issue of responsibility in the context of victim and slave mentality, I want to talk about misplaced responsibility.  This is the flip side of it — you start taking responsibility that is not really yours.

Most common case of misplaced responsibility is when you assume the (negative) emotions of another person and attempt to prevent it from happening.  The truth is each person is responsible for his or her emotions.  Of course, we want to be kind and not say or do harmful things to others.  But there is a line there, and some things need to be said or done even though that may bother someone.  Avoiding these things by taking up someone else’s responsibility for their emotions compromises your own responsibility for yourself.

This is a pretty tough concept to grasp, so let me paraphrase:  It’s good to care for another person but is disempowering for both of you if you take up their responsibility.  Also, we ultimately want to transcend our sense of separated self, but this doesn’t mean we compromise our boundaries and enmesh our sense of self with others.

The New World based on personal power

The New World is based on individuals as empowered free agents.  Not on governments, not on religious organizations, but on individuals.  Each of us will live one’s own Truth rather than blindly following social rules.  Social rules and morals will be unnecessary because our honesty and integrity will develop fully.  We will live in Love and Light, in peace and harmony.

It is a world of diverse ideas, beliefs, and ways of living.  We flourish by celebrating one another’s uniqueness and their power to live their lives.

On the practical level, I think most of us will be working for ourselves.  Entrepreneurship is not a requirement in the New World, but when you start living confidently with the awareness of your own power, you are likely to become an entrepreneur.  I’ve already done it — this blog Yes to Me started to share my learning experiences as a new entrepreneur.  (Whew — some readers may have wondered how entrepreneurship and spirituality are related, but I do have a point here!)  And I know that, if I can, plenty of others can.

How to bring in the New World

How can we better align with Divine Power and create the New World based on it?  Here are some actions plans:

1. Make more mistakes.

You learn how to use your personal power by actually using it, by making decisions by your free will.  When you do this, you will make some mistakes.  It’s part of the learning process, and you can’t make decisions while you are so afraid of potential mistakes.

You can start small at a manageable scale and expand as you gain more confidence.  What kind of mistakes or failures can you swallow today?  How about ordering something different for lunch?  Can you take the disaster of getting something foreign?  How about sharing your thoughts with someone?  Trying a new approach to your existing problem?

2. Own your feelings and responsibilities.

Including the so-called negative feelings like anger and sadness.  A common misunderstanding about lightworkers is that lightworkers don’t have “bad” feelings and if you feel such feelings, there is something wrong about you.  Well, eventually we want to get to the point where we see the deeper meanings of such unsettling feelings, but for now, let me assure you it is natural to feel all kinds of feelings.

What we don’t want to do is avoid the responsibility to feel emotions.  Emotions are . . . just emotions.  No need to hide it, suppress it, push it to another, etc. Take the responsibility to feel it, and it will pass.

By the way, does someone around you say, “You shouldn’t be angry / sad / lonely, etc.”?  Be very careful.  It could be that this person is just insecure with their own feelings, but this is also a common way of manipulation.

3. Be vulnerable.

Embracing power doesn’t mean putting up a strong facade that you are fearless. When you dare to feel all range of emotions and own them, you feel vulnerable.  This is good.  The courage to be vulnerable comes from the trust that you will be taken care of by the Universe.

4. Dream your own dream.

What do you really want to do?  It will take some unlearning time to let go of socio-cultural expectations.  When you put aside all the “I should be doing this . . .”, what do you want for yourself?  Only you can dream your own dream.

Refrain from editing your dreams.  Dare to dream and then think of ways to bring your life to your dream.

5. Know the difference between stepping up to your power and stepping on other people.

Love and power can go hand in hand.  It’s important they go hand in hand.

Divine Power comes with Light, so the action plan for Light, along with spiritual practices such as meditation, also works well for Power.

Do you have questions about our Divine Power of free will?  Please share in the comments.  (Photo by carf)

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