Clarifying The Message Of Yes to Me
July 9, 2009 by akemi
Since I started this blog in February 2008, I’ve written over 150 posts about various things in life and work. In 2008, I wrote mainly about my experience as a new entrepreneur and what it means to be a spiritual entrepreneur. (Photo Credit)
After I experienced Ascension soul shift myself in January 2009, I’ve written a lot about Ascension. I also share my expertise as Akashic Record Reading specialist.
For me, it has been one clear path, but I understand it may have been confusing to some readers. Is this blog about spiritual entrepreneurship? Or spirituality in general? Or maybe about Akashic Records and Ascension?
So here is my clarification.
Yes to Me is all about liberating ourselves from the soul level up in all aspects of our lives.
My search for true freedom
Freedom has been the critical theme in my life. In 1995, I left my home country Japan and came to the US by myself. Why? I can give you the reason at various levels. “To attend college and get a degree.” is the practical, physical level answer. “To challenge myself and rebuild my life from scratch.” is my mental level answer.
But there was something more fundamental. I had a good comfortable life back in Japan. Why the heck did I have to leave all that and start over in my thirties? “To explore freedom.” is my spiritual level answer. (And, no, I don’t mean drinking and drugging by the word “freedom”. Nor do I mean simply being able to do something.)
Many of us live in the confines of fear, limiting thoughts, and self-sabotaging “programs”. My life has been about uncovering the lies of each confine that I previously thought had kept me in. And yes, placing myself in a completely new country has helped me do this.
Quitting my corporate job in October 2007 and starting my business was another way to explore freedom. I don’t think we need to be an entrepreneur to be free, but it’s a damn good way to be empowered and liberated.
Akashic Records are great resource for freedom
I share my knowledge of Akashic Records in this blog because they are great resources that can help us be free from the various energetic issues. I’m very happy and proud to offer this service.
Ascension, in my understanding, is a great opportunity to leap in this spiritual freedom. It may even mean a new level of physical freedom if we are to develop lightbodies.
Earlier this year, I had to make yet another decision in my quest for true freedom and authenticity. I decided to part way from my former teacher. I don’t want to go into details about this, but the bottom line is that I choose to explore Akashic Records (and my spirituality) beyond what is already known. I’m grateful for what I have learned, but I can’t let anyone be less than what I can be.
Your freedom matters
Now about YOU. You are a critical part of this world. Your freedom to be yourself, and to express your authentic self, matters. So I’d like you to be free.
Allow yourself to be free. Dare to be free.
When you are free, you are naturally giving the best quality of yourself freely to the world, and this is the best service you can do to the humanity. Charities and volunteer works are great, but there is nothing like YOU bringing in your beautiful true self to the world every day all day.
Ultimately this leads to the creation of the New World. The New World where we are all free to express our authentic selves and at the same time united in Love. It’s a wonderful world. I’ve written over 13,000 words in the series of posts about creating the New World, so I’m not going to repeat it here, but when you have the time, please read them. It’s the most critical posts on this blog. Here is a link to the first of the series, about creating the New World based on Love.
Your personal freedom matters in this creation. It’s not just about you because we are all interconnected.
Saying “Yes to Me”
With this in mind, I just updated my blurb in the sidebar. Again the message I want to convey throughout this Yes to Me blog is this:
Your freedom to be yourself matters.
After all, this is why you came to life. You didn’t come to this world to bend yourself backwards, to fit in to the existing status quo, nor to suppress your inner light. You are a beautiful soul and you came to express yourself.
Do you like it? I will update the About page, too, soon.
I’ll keep writing about Akashic Records, starseeds, various energetic issues that run negative “programs”, and so on. I’ll also keep writing about freedom from paycheck mentality, conditionality in loving relationships, fear of death, and so on.
Further, I’m thinking of putting together an eBook, “Lightworker’s Guide to Self-Employment” which will be a free download. I think many of us will be self-employed in the New World, so better to start sooner than late. Do you like the title?
Oh, in case you are wondering: This blog is NOT about selling my Akashic Record Reading service. I talk about Akashic Records because they are great resources, but you don’t need to buy anything. I want this Yes to Me blog to be a big community where we inspire each other in our journey to true freedom.
What do you think about the new clarification of this blog’s message? Are there any areas of life I haven’t covered that needs to be written about? Please let me know by comments. Thank you.
Hey Akemi
If you want to know an expanded understanding of freedom – check out this video on freedom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjAxKPMn7NE&feature=channel_page
Hmmm
With freedom comes responsibility. In general, if you want to be truly free you must earn it. Otherwise your desire for freedom is a crude desire and based in matter and is also selfish.
Ah, interesting video. I think many of us are heading to the higher physical level freedom as we are developing lightbodies within us. It’s not only for some gurus in the Tibetan mountains any more.
I knew “freedom is selfish” kind of comment would come my way with this post. However, I think that only happens when our spirituality is underdeveloped. When we are in Love, there is nothing selfish because we are all connected. We realize self is an illusion. And at this point, I don’t think we need to “earn” freedom. We ARE free. We only need to bring it out from within.
What do you think?
Akemi – seems everyone is re-evaluating these days! It’s been a powerful solstice season. I like your clarification, and your mix of posts. Your new ebook sounds great, and I appreciate you sharing some of your past experiences.
As for the prior comment, I like what you said about freedom not just being for Tibetan gurus anymore, and we already are free, we just need to bring it out from within. But on the other hand, I do think sometimes people try and justify their selfishness, or self-absorption, in the name of personal freedom. In our materialistic culture, it’s easy to get caught in the trap of thinking that freedom is getting what we want, and that that is all that matters. But as you say, if we are coming from a true place of love, we won’t get lost like that. Peace- Lisa
Lisa (Mommy Mystic)s last blog post..On Seeing, Wisdom, and the Value of Non-Detachment
I disagree that we are already free. Of course anything is true from some perspective so you are right. This is sort of disinformation because if we were already free then we wouldn’t be growing and we would be happy where we are. The expansion of the universe wouldn’t occur without the opposites of limitation and freedom.
As described in the video, yes we have a base level of liberty – of being able to decide where to live, what to do with our lives, which incarnation to go into next – but we have limitations and from those limitations we can learn freedom.
We need materialism in order to have freedom because without matter, our spirit has no outlet for expression. Thus materialism is not better than spirituality. Both are required to have freedom.
Lisa,
It’s so good to have you back here.
I see your point that there is a risk of misunderstanding freedom as selfish greed. I’ve been called selfish many times. Helping people overcome this misunderstanding to understand true freedom is part of the mission of this Yes to Me blog.
Yang,
You bring up the great point that we need a reference point to learn something, like freedom. Thank you. I guess, whether you see yourself free or not free yet, the message of this blog, “Your freedom matters” is relevant, right?
any teacher (you, akemi) or person, for that matter, must be free in order to truly give. if you’re giving from any part of yourself that is NOT free, it is not truly giving. you’re giving from the non-free (limited, egoic) part of yourself, and you’ll generate more suffering at worst (even if it appeaers to be a self-less act) and you will certainly be generating karma of some kind at best. you are definitely on the right track, akemi, as you well know. if people think of freedom as selfish, they are not fully understanding what you are saying, they are not quite ripe for the teaching. people who think freedom is about consuming more will not end up on this website anyway, trust me.
it is true that many people on the path are trying to find freedom from their own suffering, but at a certain point along the way, it becomes clear that in finding your own freedom, you are finding freedom for the whole, and you can give from that place back to the whole.
Hi Akemi. I’m trying to send you an email but it keeps getting returned as undeliverable. Also tried your contact page but I’m not sure if there’s something wrong with your Capatcha as I cannot see the test question I need to answer.
Could be on my end, my Internet connection was acting up earlier today. Any idea if your email is working ok?
Thanks
Hey Akemi
Certainly I guess we are both free and not free. We are free to make our own decisions and these determine what we do with our lives. However our environment is the context through which our decisions are made and sometimes, we are not free to do what we like in that environment.
Hi John,
Thank you for letting me of my Contact page problem. I just fixed it, tested it, and it seems to work.
I also emailed you again as a test. My inbox has plenty of free space and I’m getting (at least some) emails for other people, so hopefully the problem is not on my side, but please let me know. Again, thank you for bringing up the problem.
Kelly,
It’s so interesting to read diverse view on freedom. It just shows how essential freedom is. “in finding your own freedom, you are finding freedom for the whole, and you can give from that place back to the whole.” I really like this. I will keep your words on the importance of freedom esp for teachers.
Yang,
Right. I think it’s important not to assume our environment. The confinement may be more in our minds.
Hey Akemi
Yes it is our minds – but it’s a feedback loop. Our environment affects what thoughts and focus is. But our thoughts and focus can change our environment. Better environments are more conductive to certain thoughts and focuses.
I agree that more and more folks will be moving toward self-employment/home-based business. It seems to go hand in hand with seeking balance, which is a BIG theme as we shift along with Mama Earth.
Looking forward to reading that eBook of yours!
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