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.

My Declaration Of Independence

Happy Independence Day! I wasn’t planning to post today, but my friend earthmother left an inspiring comment to my Gratitude Journal suggesting to write my own Declaration of Independence. “Let’s write our own Declaration of Independence. What do you wish to declare or break free from today?”

Also, I found this personal Declaration of Independence at a blog I started following recently. Joy Mazzola writes beautifully, and it could well be my own Declaration.

So here we go. It’s a kind of meme, and you are free to join. It doesn’t matter if you are American or not. (I’m not. I’m a “resident alien” — this is the legal term for those immigrants with greencards. If we define America as the country of immigrants, however, I represent the true American spirit.) Even if you are British, consider this as a day to reclaim your Power. It’s a day of self-awareness. ^_^

My personal Declaration of Independence

I declare my independence from all teachers as I realize the highest authority within myself. I still respect all the teachers I have learned from, and as an avid learner, I will keep learning from various teachers, but I understand I am my own best teacher and pioneer researcher.

I fully understand the responsibility that comes with this declaration. All my life, I have tried to be the best student. Now I see my effort is misdirected. I am on my own path to find my horizon. My Ascension. And the divinity is within me.

I declare my liberation on all physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels. Physically, I will keep my body free from various toxins in foods, cosmetics, and so on to the best I can. I’ve already quit drinking coffee — the caffein withdrawal symptoms were horrible, which made me worry how much it may have affected my body. I will keep this journey of freeing myself from toxins, and with my spiritual self-authenticity, I expect freedom on the emotional and mental levels as well.

I joyfully accept my part in creating the New World based on Love, Light, Truth, Abundance and Power. I am just one person (a petite one, for that) but I know me doing my part in my personal and professional life (the two are merged and integrated within me) connects me to other lightworkers, and together we will manifest the wonderful New World. Independence is not about isolation.

I fully embrace my creative power. I will not shy away from attention, fame, monetary gains just because they are associated with greed. I trust that what comes my way has a meaning whether I immediately understand it or not.

On this beautiful summer morning, I declare my true Independence. With gratitude to the Light Source (or God), my angels and spirt guides, my incarnated friends both online and local, to my heritage, my future self. Thank you, thank you, thank you. (Photo Credit)

Letting Go To Reinvent Yourself

I guest posted awhile ago on Pick The Brain explaining how to purge the old unnecessary stuffs in our living space in order to usher in the new opportunities, which leads to reinventing yourself.

“Before creating your new YOU, you need to let go of your old YOU. Physically taking care of your environment by cleaning and decluttering can stimulate letting go of your mental clutter that has been holding you in the old pattern.”

Now throwing away your old clothes and magazines is easy.  It takes physical work, but really, it’s a no brainer work.  The challenge is letting go of something that you once cherished.  (Photo by Kruggg6)

Letting go of what you once treasured

For example, presents from your ex.  Or honorable memorabilia from your school days or when your career was at a peak. Even when you realize you don’t resonate with these things anymore, it may be challenging to purge them.

If you want to stick to your old glory, fine.  But if you sincerely desire to reinvent yourself, to be the you that haven’t emerged but you know you can be, let them go.  Say thank you for the old days, and purge them.

Physically letting them go leads to letting go of your mental and emotional attachments to the old you.  And of course, this is the critical part: Letting go of your mental and emotional attachments.  Empty yourself.  Be “no one” that you yourself don’t recognize.

Yes, this is a scary process.  You probably feel disoriented.  That is the precursor of freedom.

Letting go of the people you love

Further, there comes a time you may need to let go of your friends, teachers, mentors, or even some of your family members who don’t resonate with you any longer.

I personally went through this recently.  When I wrote Soul Shifting And The Light Ascension Of Maybe 2012, my teacher and some of my peers opposed me and told me to bend my view.  That was a total surprise for me.

First, I didn’t write that article to upset anyone.  In fact, I was only trying to help.  Some readers were so excited to read my recent changes that I shared in my Gratitude Journal of January 23rd that they commented and personally emailed me to write about the reason, the background of all those changes.  They were going through similar changes themselves and wanted to know what was going on.  So I wrote, and it turned out that this soul shifting is affecting far more people than I initially imagined.

(BTW if you are a blogger, please consider introducing that soul shifting article so that more people get a chance to learn about it.  There seem to be so many people who are going through this change but can’t figure out what is happening to them. They are so frustrated and confused.  You’ll be helping those people by linking to that article.  Thank you.)

Second, the whole idea that a student must always follow the teaching she received surprised me.  If that was the case, there would have been no progress in human history!  I think a true teacher would encourage the students to utilize the methodology to find further truth, even when that new truth contradicts the old.  I don’t think a true teacher would force students to subscribe to his or her teaching.

Accepting the new

So I just had to let go.  This was a very sad and scary process for me, honestly.  To be clear, I have nothing against them.  These are the people I have loved and respected tremendously.  I have learned a lot and I am grateful for all the contributions they have made in my life.  But the time was here for me to walk my path.

My spirit guides kept telling me things were happening in perfect order.  This was tough to believe considering all the mess I was going through, but wow, now I see it finally!  The end result of all this is I have the expertise to read Akashic Records and to communicate with other people’s Spirit Guides, AND, I’m the only Akashic Record reader who can deal with the light ascension situations.  Because others in my previous circle are rejecting or not willing to deal with it.  (There may be other psychics who can do this.  The world is wide and I don’t claim to know everything.  But I’m the only one I know of.  Well, actually, I know one more, but she is not taking clients at this time.)

Did someone say “niche”?

The world is changing.  Are you with the change?

If you are in similar situation, facing the choice of either sticking to your old circle or venturing into the unknown, I am with you.  Most likely, you just need to be willing to accept the new.  You may not need to break up with the old – they’ll just fall off on their own.  Just let them go with love and gratitude.  Harboring resentment to them only keeps yourself stuck, so don’t.  Your responsibility is to take care of yourself in this challenging time of change.

Are you ready to jump into the unknown?  If not, what or who is it that you can’t let go?  It’s okay, let us know, and you may find the courage just by sharing . . .

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