Online Gratitude Journal October 2009 Edition #34

Happy Halloween! I have the feeling Halloween is big in this small town. Maybe I will take my camera out. Hope you are having fun and enjoying the fall colors, too. (Photo credit)

October in Review

I spent a lot of time thinking and writing about foods this month. I do believe physical health is important in spiritual growth. We are spiritual being incarnated in the flesh. The content is of course important, but the package is part of the deal, too.

So if you haven’t, please check this out. And this.  And let’s treat our bodies with gratitude!

My eBook “Lightworker’s Guide to Self-Employment” is coming soon. I completed my draft and it’s now in my graphic designer’s hands. When she is done, I will do the final read-through before the official release. So just another little while — I’m glad I made it before the holiday season.

Fun

In Japan, there is haiku, a short poem of seventeen syllables.
The US invented Twitter for the world, a social media of 140 characters or less.

I’ve been tweeting daily with inspirational quotes and my own insights. Communication within 140 characters is both fun and challenge. Here are some of my tweets that received multiple retweets and comments:

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. — Picasso

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. — Anais Nin

The world is a reflection of yourself. So love starts with self love. Love yourself completely until there is nothing that is not you.

Please follow me @akemigaines.  Thank you.

Challenges

Part of the reason why I have been thinking so much is because I’ve been detoxing myself. I’m in good health overall, but if I must point out something, I know my digestive system is weak. So I tried some herbal supplements for detox.

Gee, that was hard on the body! I’m not sure if I was ready for it. Detox can be too demanding to the system sometimes, I guess.

A year ago at Yes to Me

I was writing about entrepreneurship extensively last year. Most of the points will be in my upcoming eBook, but here is something you might find interesting.

10 Spiritual Money Practices

I’m grateful for being able to support myself.  Thank you for the money that puts foods on the table today.

Where in the blogosphere Akemi has bee

Oprah. Who doesn’t love her? I’ve posted a couple of articles on her forum. They are:

Two Approaches to Heal your Traumas from Past Lives
Are We Predestined in Life?

Check out other features on her website, too, like the newsletters. I don’t watch much TV, but some of the articles there are quite interesting.

Also, if you like reading about personal development, here is a great eBook that compiles the best articles of today’s top bloggers. Even better, this is for a great cause — the eBook is free, but you get to donate to Susan G. Komen For the Cure, a group for breast cancer cure research.  I’d like to express special thanks to Lance Ekum, who worked on the making of this great eBook.

Word of month

Biology is different in different states of consciousness. In order to reinvent the body, we must move to a new level of consciousness. — Deepak Chopra by twitter

Now if you really think about it, this is a huge revelation. Biology is different for each person depending on their states of consciousness! I’m going to write more about this next month in relation to ascension and physical immortality.

And here is a photo of the morning light taken from my porch. Pretty, huh? Each day, each season, brings new joy.

Stay warm. Let me know how you are doing in the comments. Thank you.

Demystifying Starseeds, Walk-Ins And Lightworkers

I’ve received some questions about starseeds, walk-ins, and lightworkers in general. So let me explain my understanding about these concepts.  (Photo credit)

Starseeds

Souls can be categorized into two groups depending on their history: souls that started right from this planet Earth and souls that have been to other star system(s) prior to coming to Earth. I call each Earth souls and starseed souls.

This is a soul level issue. Being starseed does NOT mean an alien came down and impregnated your mother. On the physical level, you are the product of your biological parents. On the soul level, you have your own history.

Obviously, “starseed” is a catch-all term. Depending on which star system the soul has been, we can further divide starseed souls into specific groups (sometimes called soul families). This is what my starseed seres is about. So far, I’ve written about:

• Alpha Centaurians
• Hadarians (Beta Centaurians)
• Sirians
• Mission Realmers (also called human angels or earth angels)
• Pleiadians
• Procyans
• Blueprint Originators and Blueprint Designers

I plan to write about the other starseed groups including (I will add the links when I post the articles):

• Blueprint Technicians
• Blueprint Deliverers and Blueprint Changers
• Mintakans (Orion)
• Polarians
• Arcturians
• Nihals
• Spicans
• Parallels

I’ve heard about other starseeds such as those from Mars, Maldec (the ancient planet that was located where the asteroids are currently), Vega, and Andromeda, but I have not seen them in my Akashic Record Reading practice, so at this time, I choose not to discuss them.

Also it is possible that a soul has visited two stars before coming to Earth. Usually, one of the two shows as the predominant influence on the soul. Depending on the order of the stay, I call these secondary originations underlay and overtone. For instance, my main identity is Blueprinter and my underlay is Mission Realmer. While my Blueprinter characteristics are quite pronounced, you probably wouldn’t see my Mission Realmer side until you get to see how I live on the day-to-day basis.

It is also possible, at least theoretically, to have three or more stars in your history, but I have never seen them.

Walk-ins

Walk-in is a one time soul shift, as opposed to ongoing back-and-forth soul shift. Because you are your soul, in the physical form, once the walk in happens, you are the new soul. Don’t think you “lost” your true soul or someone is taking over you. You are your current soul. I know this concept is disturbing to some people, but this is how it is.

As I wrote in that linked article, there are many types of walk-ins, or one time soul shift. All can be about starseed or Earth soul.

For instance, a person may have had the Pleiadian soul until the Pleiadian exodus happened about ten years ago. When the Pleiadian soul left, another soul volunteered to switch in — without soul, the body is dead, and it’s such a waste to let a good body die.

The new soul may be an Earth soul or another kind of starseed soul, say, a Sirian soul. So this is the walk-in. The person would exhibit personality change quite abruptly. (And a big clear change in this example because Pleiadians are very characteristic souls.)

A notable case of walk-in is the Ascension soul shift. This is when the new updated version of the soul from the same Higher Self (or oversoul) walks in. The new soul vibrates in the higher dimension.

While other types of walk-ins can happen at any age, including childhood, Ascension soul shift seems to be the exception in that it usually happen only to adults. The youngest client who’s had Ascension soul shift was around eighteen years old. Most clients who goes through Ascension soul shifts seem to be well in their adulthood.

Lightworkers

Lightworkers are souls that are evolving toward the Source, the Source of loving light energy of life. Most Earth souls and the aforementioned starseed souls are lightworker souls.

It’s a confusing term because it implies it’s about work. “Light being” or “positively evolving souls” would be a lot better term.

The opposite of lightworkers are the darkworkers, souls that have chosen to go away from the Source. I’m a bit annoyed to discuss darkworkers because some people are so afraid of even talking about them and think just talking about darkworkers make one a darkworker. I received some harassment emails after writing that post that says, “Akemi, you are going dark yourself”.

Geesh. I would rather die than joining the dark forces. Seriously. I know, as Akashic Record Reader, death is a lot easier to recover from than getting tied with dark forces.

Darkworkers are quite dumb about their decision to go against the Source. Because, if they are going against the only authentic source of life energy, how can they get their supply of life energy? They usually steal energy from the people around them. They have to sneak around or even disguise their own sense of self to get this done.

Some people define lightworkers as those who have taken up to work for the light, people who does lightworks such as healing and charity work. As Akashic Record Reader, I simply cannot agree with this definition, although I understand people want outwardly sign to tell if someone is a lightworker or not.

Through my Akashic Record Reading practice, I became aware quite a few darkworkers take these lightworker jobs. If you think about it, it makes sense. Who comes to healing service? Souls who are disturbed and distressed, and therefore unguarded. By being a healer, a darkworker gets a constant inflow of clients who are susceptible. They can fix some energy flow or give some nutritional advice, then take some energy from the clients.

This doesn’t mean all healers or others who are in lightworker jobs are darkworkers. No way. I like to think most of them are indeed lightworkers. It does mean, however, that we need to pay attention to the actual energy flow, not the job title and other labels, to understand who the person is.

Do you have any questions about these concepts? Don’t hesitate to ask in the comments!

Dogma’s Role In Healthy Eating And Spirituality

Don’t be like a religious fundamentalist with your diet. Always consult your current body, not the dogma. — my recent tweet

I’ve devoted three posts exploring the best way to eat for our physical and spiritual health:
Meat Eaters vs Vegetarians In Spirituality
Eat For Your Health And Spirituality
Detox Your Body And Mind

In this post, I want to sum up the discussion. We are still talking about foods, but the point is our relationship with foods, or the way we choose to eat. And the way we choose to live in general, including our spiritual journey. (Photo credit)

The objective of any spiritual and religious paths

First, let me explain why I’m so passionate about healthy eating because some of you may be wondering, “Hey, I thought Yes to Me was a spirituality blog. . .”

Well, there are only two objectives in any spiritual and religious paths:

1. To establish direct contact and communication with divinity (whatever name you use for that divinity)
2. To realize that divinity is really within oneself.

All other objectives such as the search of the meaning of life, one’s own purpose in life, or the relief from pain in life (the biggest being the loss of the loved ones and fear of one’s own death) naturally follow when you achieve Objective #1. And Objective #1 leads to Objective #2.

Now do you think physical health would help establishing communication with God? Surely. Not that a sick person cannot communicate with God. In some cases, health crisis may even promote spiritual awakening. But if you want sustainable relationship with God, better health is certainly desirable. Trying to communicate with divinity while you are feeling so distracted with pain, your mind is cloudy and cluttered, full of fear, anxiety, anger, and resentment is like trying to tune in to the radio signal with an old cranker radio. You may be able to (and won’t you be impressed when it happens!), but it’s hard.

So it really pays to take good care of ourselves.

And as we get experienced with this divine communication, we realize everything is within us. God ceases to be some kind of third party, or even the second person. You start to remember you are God incarnated in the physical body.

Gee, don’t you want your body to show the glory of God as it is?

However, it’s possible we get sidetracked with the physicality and become materialistic. As we nurture our physical body, we also want to remember physicality is only one side of the coin, that we are a spiritual being in physical body.

I’m not eating healthy (and exercising and doing other healthy habits) just to be at my optimal weight (whatever that may be).
I’m not eating healthy just to avoid health problems.
I’m pursuing my best physical health for my whole being, including spirituality.

The role of dogma

When our spirituality is underdeveloped, it helps us to have a clear guideline of what to do and what not. This is the role of religions and their dogmas. For example, many religions recommend meditation and other similar practices of quiet time. They even call meetings at their religious houses to do this meditation and reflection so that people won’t miss it. Without these teachings, many of us would just miss it due to our everyday busy-ness.

Our spirituality, however, has grown to the point that we don’t need strict guidelines any longer. Each one of us can have direct contact with God and get advice from our spirit guides.

Certain religions still help many people. And even when your spirituality is well developed, if you find the guidelines work well with you, there is no reason you need to abandon them. So if your religion works for you, good for you.

But if it doesn’t, don’t bend over for it. Rather than following the dogma, consult your own inner guides. Develop your own spiritual way.

Likewise, if a certain way of eating — raw, vegetarian, vegan, Ayurveda , etc. — works for you, great. But if it doesn’t, don’t bend and twist yourself to fit into the dogma. Consult with your own body.

You are in the flow

Energy flows, so you are in a constant flow of changes. What worked for you three months ago may not work for you today. Change of the seasons and other aspects of your lifestyle and health can all affect your best way to eat. If you travel, the location affects you, too.

So you want to stay flexible, and let me repeat: consult with your own body (and with your spirit guides if possible) about the best way to eat. Or best way of anything. Don’t get stuck in dogma and judgment.

I was pretty amazed when my spirit guides recently told me to incorporate a little bit of eggs into my diet. (Very moderately, like one boiled egg a few times a week.) I checked what Skinny Bitch had to say about eggs. (I reviewed this book in this first article about healthy eating). It spends less than one page about eggs, saying that eggs of a sick chicken has condensed toxins and therefore no good for our health. Certainly. But what about organic eggs?

The book doesn’t have any point against organic eggs, even though it points out various problems of organic meats and dairies. It says animals raised organically are slaughtered in the same slaughterhouses with other animals, which treats animals really badly. It’s killing after all. And cows are sucked up with their milk with ongoing sucking machine, like a torture. Plus, humans are the only animals that drink milk after infancy — the nutrition of dairy is no good for adults. But eggs? Yeah, it has some saturated fat, so if weight and cholesterol are health problems for you, you may want to be careful. I don’t see any logical problem in eating good organic eggs of healthy hens, however. Still, the authors of Skinny Bitch accuse eating any animal-based foods and recommend vegan diet.

Dogma. It can guide you or bind you.

Conclusion

So use dogma as a guideline to get started in healthy eating, or anything. But don’t get trapped in dogma. Nor in anti-dogma, which is just another dogma. As you grow in experiences, learn to rely on your inner guides. Get out of the duality value system.

By the way, after writing this post, but before posting it, Lisa the mommy mystic posted an interesting article about dogma and anti-dogma dogma. She draws from her experience in parenting, so especially for the moms among you, I highly recommend checking out her post.

Do you have any questions about optimal diet? About dogma or anti-dogma? Please let me know in the comment. Thank you.

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