<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Yes to Me &#187; physical immortality</title>
	<atom:link href="http://yes-to-me.com/tag/physical-immortality/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://yes-to-me.com</link>
	<description>Lightworkers' Empowerment &#38; Ascension</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:36:36 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator>
		<item>
		<title>Review: The Spontaneous Healing Of Belief By Gregg Braden</title>
		<link>http://yes-to-me.com/2009/11/17/review-the-spontaneous-healing-of-belief-by-gregg-braden/</link>
		<comments>http://yes-to-me.com/2009/11/17/review-the-spontaneous-healing-of-belief-by-gregg-braden/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akemi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health & Healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law of Attraction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gregg Braden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[miracles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nature of reality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[physical immortality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Spontaneous Healing Of Belief]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://yes-to-me.com/?p=1483</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Book review of The Spontaneous Healing Of Belief by Gregg Braden. Great read that bridges science and spirituality. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am so glad I found this book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1401916902?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=siwomo-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1401916902">The Spontaneous Healing of Belief</a><img style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=siwomo-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1401916902" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" /> because it gives scientific explanations on so many ideas I’m familiar with, such as the<a href="http://yes-to-me.com/2009/06/02/the-true-nature-of-reality/"> true nature of reality</a>, our <a href="http://yes-to-me.com/2009/05/28/creating-your-life-and-the-new-world/">creative power over our own lives and on the world</a>, and the <a href="http://yes-to-me.com/2009/03/13/the-law-of-attraction-how-to-use-it-to-your-favor/">Law of Attraction</a> with the power of feelings.  The book also serves as a great follow up on Dr Bruce Lipton’s <a href="http://yes-to-me.com/2009/04/12/review-the-biology-of-belief-by-bruce-lipton/">The Biology Of Belief</a>, by discussing what belief can do beyond our individual body.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1401916902?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=siwomo-20&amp;link_code=as3&amp;camp=211189&amp;creative=373489&amp;creativeASIN=1401916902"><img class="size-full wp-image-1591 alignleft" style="margin: 10px;" title="belief" src="http://yes-to-me.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/belief.jpg" alt="belief" width="107" height="160" /></a></p>
<h3><strong>Reality as simulation game</strong></h3>
<p>Gregg Braden cites various scientific studies to show us that this everyday world we live in is a computer simulation, a virtual reality on a giant scale, in the Universal computer.  What we call reality is not real, but only a reflection of true reality.</p>
<p>This idea of life as dream (or, I call it “living movie” in the article linked above) is often mentioned in the various spirituality traditions, and it’s so refreshing to see science finally catching up.  (By the way, this idea is present in the Bible, too.  It says Adam fell a deep sleep &#8212; but it doesn’t say he woke up. So, we can interpret this that we are living in Adam’s dream.”)</p>
<p>The good news is we are not just living in a simulation but we can reprogram the simulation, too.  We are the actors as well as the directors in this living movie.  We are the creatures as well as the creators.  We are active participants, not just a powerless victims or observers.</p>
<p>How do we reprogram the Universal computer program?  By our beliefs.  By shattering the old paradigm of false limitations and adopting new beliefs.  You know, not just wishing, not just wanting to believe, but believing from the bottom of your heart, with all your feelings.</p>
<p>Gregg Braden shares that our heart emits electric and magnetic energies.  On the other hand, it is proven that electric or magnetic energies can change the nature of atoms, the building blocks of this world.  So when we believe, when we feel the new possibility with our heart, the electromagnetic energy from the heart can change the atoms in and around us, changing the so-called reality.</p>
<h3><strong>The Earth experiment</strong></h3>
<p>Gregg Braden also discusses what it may mean that this world we live in is a simulation.  A simulation is usually used for training.  So are we getting trained to better live in the true reality?</p>
<p>This is basically the same of what I call the <a href="http://yes-to-me.com/2009/04/20/creating-the-new-world-light/">Earth experiment</a>.  Our Higher Selves (also called oversouls) send individual souls to this world to &#8212; experience.  There is no <a href="http://yes-to-me.com/2009/11/15/dualism/">judgment</a> really.  We are here to <a href="http://yes-to-me.com/2008/11/30/living-your-life-purpose/">learn</a>, and mastery of the learning leads to <a href="http://yes-to-me.com/2009/09/07/soul’s-purpose-for-incarnation/">joy</a>.</p>
<p>If you are experiencing difficulty in life, that just means you are at a great learning point &#8212; just as when you are in simulation program and facing difficult situation.  You can keep trying in your old malfunctioning manner until you figure a new way that works. (I’m sorry if this statement sounds cynical &#8212; it is not.  I really mean difficulties are great learning opportunities.)</p>
<h3><strong>The Law of Attraction and the Field</strong></h3>
<p>So we have the creative power.  Gregg Braden explains this process by introducing the idea of the “Field”, also called zero-point field, or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1401905730?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=siwomo-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1401905730">The Divine Matrix</a><img style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=siwomo-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1401905730" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" /> (which is the title of his book that precedes this one)</p>
<p>What we think and feel, what we believe, we can create &#8212; we can manifest.  This is the same with the Law of Attraction, but I like Gregg Braden’s way of explanation.  I always felt LoA is more about creation and the word “attraction” causes unnecessary misunderstanding.  I know it works, and now we have a better way to understand it.</p>
<p>Here is a video clip where he explains all this, giving the skinny of this book:</p>
<p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="310" height="251" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vRQeIsfQtE4&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="310" height="251" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vRQeIsfQtE4&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></p>
<h3><strong>Working the miracles of belief</strong></h3>
<p>In this book, he also says,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Through the healing of our beliefs, we discover how &#8212; with the grace and ease that comes from experiencing ourselves as part of the world rather than separate from it.  When we do so, we become the seed of life’s miracles, as well as the miracles themselves.&#8221; (page 207)</p></blockquote>
<p>Miracles like reversing dis-eases and living just as long as you want.  Gregg Braden is smart and doesn’t use the emotionally-charged word “<a href="http://yes-to-me.com/2009/10/08/how-to-ascend/">immortality</a>”, but he does talk about super longevity, saying, “The first 100 years are the hardest.”</p>
<p>He talks about redirecting time, space and matter, so I guess immortality is pretty much in his scope.</p>
<p>So how do you want to rewrite your “reality”?  What kind of miracles do you want to work on?  Now you know how to change your life and the world.   Don’t just sit back and complain.  That does absolutely no good.  Changing your belief, rewriting the computer program, brings change.</p>
<blockquote><p>“Whatsoever you shall ask, believing, you shall receive.” &#8212; Jesus (Matthew 21:22)</p></blockquote>
<input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" />
<input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden" />
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://yes-to-me.com/2009/11/17/review-the-spontaneous-healing-of-belief-by-gregg-braden/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Review: Ancient Secret Of The Fountain Of Youth By Peter Kelder</title>
		<link>http://yes-to-me.com/2009/10/20/review-ancient-secret-of-the-fountain-of-youth/</link>
		<comments>http://yes-to-me.com/2009/10/20/review-ancient-secret-of-the-fountain-of-youth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akemi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health & Healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[physical immortality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rejuvenation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://yes-to-me.com/?p=1375</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ancient Secret Of The Fountain Of Youth is a great book - its simplicity and longevity speaks its power. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I’m so impressed with this little book that I feel obligated to introduce it to you. It’s a small book of a 100 pages or so, no frills.  The simplicity and its longevity (the current version was first published in 1985.  It says the book was first published in the 1930s) show there is something remarkable about the book.</p>
<p>I’m often disappointed with books that come with so many frills.  Quite often, the latter half of the book is a rehash of the first half so I can just scan through quickly once I read 50 to 60% of the book. It leaves me wondering why the author had to do this &#8212; if you only have material to fill 100 pages, write 100 pages and be done with it.  Making it to 200 pages by being redundant doesn’t add any more value.</p>
<p>So when this book got right to the point that this is about toning the seven chakras and raising their speed, and immediately went to the business of explaining the five rites (yoga-like exercises), I was impressed.  I took out my exercise mat just as fast.</p>
<p>The five rites (well, there are additional two if you want to become what the author calls “superman / superwoman”) are simple.  The author maintains they are of Tibetan origin.  I’m doing the three repetitions of each as the book recommends.  The goal is to do twenty-one reps of each, which probably takes about twenty minutes or so.  They are not difficult, although some takes a bit of getting use to.</p>
<p>You can read this book in a few hours.  But of course, the “secret” is in doing the thing every day.  Try it for yourself.</p>
<p>And if you have tried this, let me know what you think. Did it help you improve health and rejuvenate?  What do you think about <a href="http://yes-to-me.com/2009/09/20/janni-lloyd-on-physical-immortality/">physical immortality</a>?</p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://yes-to-me.com/2009/10/20/review-ancient-secret-of-the-fountain-of-youth/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>How To Ascend</title>
		<link>http://yes-to-me.com/2009/10/08/how-to-ascend/</link>
		<comments>http://yes-to-me.com/2009/10/08/how-to-ascend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akemi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ascension]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ascension symptoms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[light ascension]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lightbody]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[physical immortality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soul's ascension]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://yes-to-me.com/?p=1346</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How to ascend and develop lightbody. Typical ascension symptoms when a new soul comes in. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1348" title="how to ascend" src="http://yes-to-me.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/howtoascend.jpg" alt="how to ascend" width="400" height="264" /><br />
Interestingly enough, no one so far asked this direct question:  <strong>So how do we ascend toward Light?</strong></p>
<p>As Akashic Record Reading specialist, I can observe how a soul ascend.  I cannot make you ascend, however. What I can do is to share my personal thoughts on what is going on and what you can do about it.  <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68259253@N00/1550048127/in/set-72157601388961215">(Photo credit)</a></p>
<h3><strong>Ascension symptoms</strong></h3>
<p>First of all, you do not need to know the word “Ascension” nor anything about it to ascend.  The <a href="http://yes-to-me.com/2009/02/22/ascension-soul-shifts-walk-ins/">Ascension soul shift</a> (new soul coming in to replace the old) happens like the first period &#8212; when the timing comes, it happens.  Having said this, it helps to learn a little about it in advance so you know what is happening to you.  Proper knowledge reduces unnecessary fear and anxiety.  (Okay, if you are a man, just replace that word “first period” with your equivalent.)</p>
<p>So here is a list of Ascension symptoms you may recognize:</p>
<ul>
<li>Abrupt loss of interest in the people and things that held your interest before.<br />
You simply cannot do that job any longer, or tolerate that person any more.  Done.</li>
<li>Strange wanderlust or urge to relocate.<br />
You may just * know * where you need to be.</li>
<li>Inner need to simplify life.<br />
“Why the heck am I carrying around this much of junk?  I don’t even remember why I wanted them.” is a common sentiment.  Declutter and donate your stuffs to Good Will.  You may also get the urge to detox your own body.</li>
<li>Sudden change in food preference.<br />
In my case, I woke up and found myself vegetarian.  My body decided not to take meat any more (without consulting me, really).  And a few times I persuaded and had some meat, I had to go to the bathroom quickly.  Within a few months, eggs and dairy dropped off my shopping list as well.  I now eat very close to Earth &#8212; vegetables and fruits.</li>
<li>Sudden change in the taste to dress and decorate.<br />
With my Asian coloring, I know I look elegant in black dress &#8212; just add a bit of white and accent color, and voila!  I look so good.  I know this is still true, but I simply can’t bring myself to wear black any more.  I love colors.  These days, I dress like a crazy boho.  Same with interior decoration.  I used to love the serene Asian taste, with dark wood furniture.  They started to look so dark, so when I moved, I dumped them, and bought the cheap white ready-to-assemble furniture at Target with color boxes.  Aaaaah!</li>
<li>Some people report having a sudden “spiritual awakening,” accompanied with the feeling of clarity and empowerment.</li>
<li>Feeling spacy and detached from the rest of the world.</li>
<li>Getting harder and harder to follow conventional thinking.<br />
“What the heck do I care (to keep up with the Jones, to stay in the status, to be organized and considerate, etc.)”</li>
<li>Absolute need to rest and relax.</li>
<li>Feeling younger or childlike.<br />
In fact, your friends may notice you look younger.</li>
<li>Urge to do what you like to do.<br />
Again, like a small kid.  Being in the joy becomes increasingly important to you, replacing other priorities.</li>
<li>Change in sexual drive.<br />
Overall, I think the drive decreases but there may be periods of bouts.  When you are happy just the way you are, there is not much need to seek out sexual pleasures.</li>
<li>Change in sleep patterns.<br />
Sometimes you wake up at 3 or 4 am every night and okay with it. Sometimes you sleep 10 hours or take a long nap.</li>
<li>Physical symptoms such as ringing in the ear, change in vision (sometimes daily), or strange itching and twitching around the body.</li>
<li>And some report switching back and forth between the new way and the old way.  Well, this can happen if you don’t allow yourself to be in the new way.</li>
</ul>
<p>Each person’s sensitivity is different.  An analytical soul, such as Alpha Centaurians or Blueprint Technicians, may notice little change while some souls may be wondering “What the world has happened to me?”</p>
<p>And these are not temporary symptoms.  With Ascension soul shift, this is going to be your new way, so you are best to embrace the changes.</p>
<h3><strong>Ascension soul shift as rebirth</strong></h3>
<p>With Ascension soul shift, your existing soul crosses over without the physical death.  And you receive a new version of soul.  So it’s a way of being born again.  What is great is we retain the body and the knowledge we have accumulated.</p>
<p>It’s like a software upgrade.  With certain computer software, say Microsoft Money, you are offered a new version &#8212; Year 2009 version, for instance.  It’s the same software &#8212; it’s not Microsoft Word.  But it’s brand new and runs faster.  All the learnings in the past have been incorporated into the new version.</p>
<p>You are the same person, yet you are new.  So the best way to go around is to embrace the new you rather than resisting it.</p>
<h3><strong>Ascension soul shift is just the beginning</strong></h3>
<p>Because I can observe the soul shifts, I tend to think of Ascension from that perspective, but I know this is not all.  Far from it.  Ascension soul shift is just the beginning of Ascension process.</p>
<p>And where are we headed to?  Becoming a <a href="http://yes-to-me.com/2009/03/19/developing-lightbodies/">lightbody</a> and achieving <a href="http://yes-to-me.com/2009/08/29/death-afterlife-and-immortality/">immortality</a> is one possibility.  Remembering the various psychic / supernatural / extrasensory abilities we possess is another.  And together, we are creating the <a href="http://yes-to-me.com/2009/05/28/creating-your-life-and-the-new-world/">New World</a>, or the new version of heaven on Earth.</p>
<h3><strong>How to ascend</strong></h3>
<p>The way to ascend, then, is:</p>
<ul>
<li>To be open to this change, the shift of ages, the Ascension.</li>
<li>To increase the vibration by aligning more with Divine Love, Light, Truth, Abundance and Power.</li>
<li>To embrace the changes including Ascension soul shift.</li>
<li>To live in the Now.</li>
</ul>
<p>Being open is fundamental.  We all have free will, and even if you are ready to ascend, if you refuse to do so, then you won’t.  Lightworkers respect everyone’s free will.</p>
<p>Regarding how to increase the alignment with the five energy flows of Love, Light, Truth, Abundance, and Power, I’ve already written more than 10,000 words in the New World series, so I’m not going to repeat it here.  The first post of the series, about <a href="http://yes-to-me.com/2009/04/02/creating-the-new-world-1-love/">Love</a>, is here.  Each of the five quality has a post and the post comes with action plans at the end, so please read them.</p>
<p>Ascension is about change.  And you are not going to change when you cling onto your past.  So the last two points, embracing the changes and living in the Now, are really the same thing.</p>
<h3><strong>Ascension is not about the future</strong></h3>
<p>Some of us get hang up with the anticipation of Ascension.  I was that way only a while ago.  This is, however, counterproductive.  Ascension happens in the Now, not in the future.  Or more accurately, Ascension is about breaking the illusion of time.</p>
<p>Ascension is a natural process, and you will be guided to do what you need to do.  In a sense, you don’t have to try to ascend at all.  Again, it comes like the period.  You cannot help it.  What you might want to do is to take good care of yourself, be in the joy, be in the Now, and be the Love and Light.</p>
<p>By the way, some readers pointed out that the Ascension symptoms resemble kundalini awakening.  I’m not a yogi, so I don’t really know, but I’m sure spiritual practices like yoga and meditation are helpful.</p>
<h3><strong>Ascension is not about condemning physical body in favor of the spirituality</strong></h3>
<p>It’s true that many of us get the strong feeling that we are so “done”. Combined with the common myth in spiritual community that this physical world is something inferior to the spiritual world, it’s easy to start thinking that Ascension is about leaving this world, to be out of our physical body, to go somewhere better, be it called higher dimension or something else.</p>
<p>Wrong.  We don’t ascend to the higher dimension.  We are bringing in the higher dimension right here.  There is no point in condemning our physical body and our life in this physical world because we are developing right in this body.  Rather, Ascension is about mastering both the physical and spiritual lives and integrating them to one.</p>
<h3><strong>How to develop Lightbody</strong></h3>
<p>As you may have noticed, I’ve been learning about physical immortality recently.  Which , I now understand, is the same thing as developing lightbody.</p>
<p>So how do you develop your lightbody?  By the same way you ascend, by embracing your inner divinity.</p>
<p>I want to repeat one thing here.  Don’t get so hang up about the future.  If you keep thinking whether you can achieve immortality, whether you will die or not, then you will.  Because your attention, your energy, is on death.</p>
<p>I personally don’t really care if I live forever or not.  Some people say death is the dingy backdoor to heaven, and we should aim to enter there through the front door, by achieving immortality.  I don’t really care which door I get to or when.  I care how I’m doing Now &#8212; maybe the heaven can come to me rather than me driving up there.  (Akemi driving is generally not a great idea. . .:)  )</p>
<p>Some people say death is the ultimate source of fear.  I doubt it.  If the idea of “There will be no death” excites you, that’s great, because feeling good is critical.  So for those of you, the idea of physical immortality works really well.  For me, death looks like a revolving door.  Just don’t leave any slippery stuff in front of it.</p>
<p>I’m not saying physical immortality is impossible or a bad idea.  It’s a great idea that expands our consciousness, and I’m learning a lot from <a href="http://yes-to-me.com/2009/09/20/janni-lloyd-on-physical-immortality/">Janni</a>, <a href="http://letsliveforever.net/">Robin</a> and <a href="http://physicallyimmortal.com/">Kathy</a>.  I think everything they say relates to what I call Ascension.  And I’m pretty sure they agree that immortality is not about the future, it’s about Now.</p>
<p>Do you have any questions about Ascension?  I love questions, so shout at me in the comment!</p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://yes-to-me.com/2009/10/08/how-to-ascend/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Interview With Dr Janni Lloyd On Physical Immortality</title>
		<link>http://yes-to-me.com/2009/09/20/janni-lloyd-on-physical-immortality/</link>
		<comments>http://yes-to-me.com/2009/09/20/janni-lloyd-on-physical-immortality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akemi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Death, Reincarnation & Immortality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health & Healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Janni Lloyd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lightbody]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[physical immortality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reincarnation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://yes-to-me.com/?p=1320</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr Janni Lloyd shares her insights on physical immortality from spiritual and physical perspectives. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="size-full wp-image-1322 alignleft" style="margin: 10px;" title="jannilloyd" src="http://yes-to-me.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/jannilloyd.jpg" alt="jannilloyd" width="200" height="293" /><br />
I first learned about Dr Janni Lloyd and her philosophy on physical immortality at my friend Robin’s blog <a href="http://letsliveforever.net/2009/08/physical-immortality-discussion-on-oprah-com/">Let’s Live Forever</a>.  I was intrigued and read her discussions on Oprah’s website (the link is provided later in the interview).</p>
<p>Today I’m excited to interview her here.  Whether you currently think physical immortality is possible or not, please take note because she has a lot to offer for our spiritual development &#8212; which is tied to our physical being.</p>
<h3><strong>Dr Janni Lloyd’s background</strong></h3>
<p>Akemi:  Janni, I am honored to have you here at Yes to Me for the interview.  I am also very excited to learn more about physical immortality.</p>
<p>Well, first things first. I wrote about you in my article about <a href="http://yes-to-me.com/2009/08/29/death-afterlife-and-immortality/">death and immortality</a>, but I guess most readers don’t know you yet.  Will you introduce yourself to Yes to Me readers, please?  I heard you were a medical doctor before you turned to alternative health.  What is your background?</p>
<p>Janni: Yes, I was a medical doctor in general practice then I moved into Aura Soma therapy. I was always very interested in the psyche and emotions and how they were involved in dis -ease. I have been giving seminars on physical immortality philosophy for several years now, have written a paper entitled <a href="http://vivaever.gaia.com/blog">Physical Immortality &#8211; the mass possibility</a> and am currently writing a book called &#8216;The Fun Way of Physical Immortality Philosophy&#8217;. I also love raising awareness on the internet and connecting with people all over the world, so thanks for this opportunity.</p>
<h3><strong>Is death inevitable?</strong></h3>
<p>Akemi: I guess most people see death as inevitable.  But from the medical perspective, are there reasons we must die, except in situations like disease, accidents, murder, or war?</p>
<p>Janni: If we take out disease, accidents, murder and war – all we have left is ‘aging’ which is a very vague collection of symptoms&#8230;  Gerontologists have not been able to determine the precise markers that define biological age.  We tend to put into the ‘aging’  symptom box things like memory problems – read Harvard psychologist Ellen Langers book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345502043?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=siwomo-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0345502043">Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility</a><img style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=siwomo-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0345502043" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" /> and you’ll think again about that one and most of the others you put into that category.</p>
<p>Gerontologists have developed several different theories of aging.  However they are just that &#8211; theories. The human body is amazingly complex. The life intelligence that orchestrated your development from a single cell into a baby is still operating within us and is AWESOME. What if that life intelligence responds to our desires? If we desire our body to rundown and decay, then maybe that&#8217;s what we get. What if we are running on a program we can change?</p>
<p><strong>My feeling is that what we call ‘aging&#8217; is actually a chronic dis-ease that we have accepted.</strong> Because we believed &#8220;death was inevitable&#8221; we created a way of fading out of life slowly &#8211; &#8220;aging&#8221;. If we liken our life force to a fully open stream of water &#8211; we turned the tap off slowly. Maybe it&#8217;s time to challenge this chronic dis-ease by releasing the &#8216;decay&#8217; program.</p>
<h3><strong>Awakening to physical immortality</strong></h3>
<p>Akemi: When and how did you first get the idea of physical immortality?</p>
<p>Janni: My deep interest in the psyche and emotions led me to commence meditation in 1992. In October of that year , I had an inner awakening to &#8216;physical death is a choice&#8217; and chose physical immortality almost immediately. Then the synchronicities began and it wasn&#8217;t long before I found <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0890875642?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=siwomo-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0890875642">How to Be Chic, Fabulous and Live Forever</a><img style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=siwomo-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0890875642" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" /> by Sondra Ray.  And the synchronicities haven&#8217;t stopped, and still take my breath away at times.</p>
<h3><strong>Ways to physical immortality</strong></h3>
<p>Akemi: In your view, what does it take to achieve physical immortality?  Are there certain requirements physically (such as diet, exercise, lifestyle, etc.), mentally, emotionally, and spiritually?  Or is this about special medical procedure?</p>
<p>Janni: I feel there are many &#8216;ways&#8217; of physical immortality, each will be as individual as our fingerprint. In my paper &#8216;Physical Immortality &#8211; the mass possibility&#8217; &#8211; I share what I feel has enhanced my life force and my knowing.</p>
<p>There are probably some common steps &#8211; I certainly feel <strong>praise, love and gratitude</strong> are important to move to an open, unconditionally loving heart.  As always, I feel the pioneers will use a lot more techniques etc &#8211; once the path is more visible to people it will be a lot easier for those who make the choice in times to come.</p>
<p>I feel the medical science pathway is an important one for our awakening.  Will we need medical procedures? maybe &#8211;  however with the speed of our awakening it&#8217;s unlikely.  We&#8217;re all in this together and all have valuable pieces of the divine jigsaw puzzle to share &#8211; the co &#8211; operative whole will bring in greater levels of life for all of humanity.</p>
<h3><strong>Immortal body</strong></h3>
<p>Akemi: And what does physical immortality look like?  Does our physical body remain basically the same?  I personally tend to think of it as <a href="http://yes-to-me.com/2009/03/19/developing-lightbodies/">lightbody</a>.  Do you think we will still eat, excrete, sleep?  Will we have reproductive function?</p>
<p>Janni: I feel most of those will remain for a while. And we will only release those things if it is our choice and our joy to do so. I feel in time we will learn to teleport and maybe flit from dimension to dimension &#8211; we have eternity, there is no hurry and I love plane travel! &#8230;..although a somewhat quicker plane from Australia to just about anywhere would be nice.  lol</p>
<h3><strong>Reversing aging</strong></h3>
<p>Akemi: You also mentioned about human ability to rejuvenate.  Will you tell us more about this, please?</p>
<p>Janni: Rejuvenation is linked with letting go of the &#8216;aging&#8217; chronic dis-ease &#8211; although some may choose a mature looking body that is flexible and vibrantly healthy. I feel this is the place where I would like to share a wonderful study. This study was done in 1976, by psychologist Ellen Langer and her team at Harvard, it demonstrates the power of the mind to reverse aging. Deepak Chopra describes this study in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0517882124?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=siwomo-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0517882124">Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old</a><img style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=siwomo-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0517882124" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" />.</p>
<p>&#8220;The subjects, all 75 or older and in good health, were asked to meet for a weeks retreat at a country resort. They were informed in advance that they would be given a battery of physical and mental exams, but in addition one unusual stipulation was placed upon them; they were not allowed to bring any newspapers, magazines, books or family photos dated later than 1959. The purpose of this odd request became clear when they arrived &#8211; the resort had been set up to duplicate life as it was 20 years earlier. Instead of magazines from 1979, the reading tables held issues of Life and Saturday Evening Post from 1959. The only music played was 20 years old, and in keeping with this flashback, the men were asked to behave entirely as if the year were 1959. All talk had to refer to events and people of that year. Every detail of their week in the country was geared to make each subject feel, look, talk and behave as he had in his mid 50&#8242;s.</p>
<p>During this period, Langer&#8217;s team made extensive measurements of the subjects biological age. Gerontologists have not been able to fix the precise markers that define biological age, as I noted earlier, but a general profile was compiled for each man using measurements of physical strength, posture, perception, cognition and short term memory along with thresholds of hearing, sight and taste.</p>
<p>The Harvard team wanted to change the context in which these men saw themselves. <strong>The premise of their experiment was that seeing oneself as old or young directly influences the aging process itself.</strong> To shift their context back to 1959 the researchers had their subjects wear ID photo&#8217;s taken 20 years before &#8211; the group learned to identify one another through these pictures rather than present appearance, they were instructed to talk exclusively in the present tense of 1959 (&#8220;I wonder if President Eisenhower will go with Nixon next election&#8221;); their wives and children were referred to as if they were also 20 years younger; although all the men were retired, they talked about their careers as if they were still in full swing.</p>
<p>The results of this playacting were remarkable. Compared to a control group that went on retreat but continued to live in the world of 1979, the make believe group improved in memory and manual dexterity. They were more active and self sufficient about such things as taking their own food at meals and cleaning up their rooms, behaving much more like 55 year olds than 75 year olds (many had become dependent on younger family members to perform everyday tasks for them).</p>
<p>Perhaps the most remarkable change had to do with aspects of aging that were considered irreversible. Impartial judges who were asked to study before and after pictures of the men detected that their faces looked visibly younger by an average of three years. Measurements of finger length, which tends to shorten with age, indicated that their fingers had lengthened, stiffened joints were more flexible and posture had started to straighten as it had in younger years. The control group also showed some improvements (Langer explained this by the fact that going on a trip and being treated specially made them feel younger too). But the control group actually declined in certain markers such as manual dexterity and finger length. Intelligence is considered fixed in adults, yet over half of the experimental group showed increased intelligence over the five days of their return to 1959, while a quarter of the control group declined in IQ test scores.</p>
<p>Professor Langer&#8217;s study was a landmark in proving that the so called irreversible signs of aging could be reversed using psychological intervention.&#8221;</p>
<p>This result was achieved in under one week!</p>
<h3><strong>Pioneers in physical immortality</strong></h3>
<p>Akemi: Do you think there are already people who have achieved immortality?</p>
<p>Janni: Yes.  <strong>I feel our body has always had this remarkable potential, we have just been asleep to it.</strong> When you remember the awesome and miraculous life intelligence that orchestrated your physical body from a single embryonic cell, that life intelligence is always there and has always been there and just KNOWS how to give us ongoing healthy life &#8211; we just needed to wake up to what was right in front of us.</p>
<p>So there will have been those who have woken before. However <strong>physical immortality is non hierarchical</strong> &#8211; most of them would probably not have said much.  And humanity as a whole was not ready to wake up &#8211; my feeling is that humanity as a whole is now ready.</p>
<h3><strong>Is there a dark side to physical immortality?</strong></h3>
<p>Akemi: In my home country, Japan, there is a legend of a priestess who lives 800 years (I guess that is pretty close to immortality.) But the legend is a sad one.  She survives all her loved ones and is very lonely.  Life is like a pointless repetition for her.  Do you think there could be negative sides to physical immortality?</p>
<p>Janni: People are always coming and going in our lives, we quite often feel sadness when we are seeing people off at the airport &#8211; often tinged with excitement of the stories they may tell us on their return!  Life is always about the filter we interpret and perceive our life through. My feeling is that with many people choosing physical immortality and also how easy it is to make new friends now from all over the world , I don&#8217;t feel physical immortality will be lonely or sad.</p>
<p>My experience of physical immortality philosophy in my life has created much interesting creative flow, certainly not pointless repetition.  Being the powerful creative beings that we are, if after a couple of hundred years, we did find ourselves &#8216;bored&#8217; we could always create physical death again!  My feeling is that the choice never gets taken away.</p>
<p>Check out the vision of a physically immortal world that I&#8217;ve shared in my paper &#8211; all feels quite joyful and interesting to me. Your readers may also like to check out my thread in the Oprah community <a href=" http://www.oprah.com/community/thread/95436?tstart=0">&#8216;Do you choose life?&#8217;</a></p>
<p>Akemi: I totally agree that life is what we make of it, and we each have a filter.  With dark filter, anything can look negative, and the opposite is equally true.  I see huge amount of untapped possibilities with life that goes on just as long as we want it.</p>
<h3><strong>Physical immortality and Ascension</strong></h3>
<p>Akemi: Okay, here is my last question, and for this question I need to explain what I do.  I read people’s soul records (called Akashic Records) and clear the energetic interferences.  I take clients from all over the world because distance doesn’t matter.</p>
<p>Earlier this year, I noticed some people are receiving new souls.  Their vibration rate rose so much that they receive updates from their Higher Self (oversoul).  The new soul is the same kind with the old, but is brand new, with no past lives, and therefore no negative energetic issues carried over from past lives. I call this evolutional phenomena “Ascension soul shift”.  Some people had Ascension soul shift before this year.  And I think this is related to the Earth’s change.</p>
<p>I feel that the mass interest in all things spiritual, including physical immortality, is related to this Ascension.  What do you think?  And do you have any opinion about reincarnation?</p>
<p>Janni: I feel using praise, love and gratitude energies is bringing in GRACE so karma is being transcended. Grace simply erases any &#8216;baggage&#8217; and grants new perspectives. Maybe what you are seeing is part of the &#8216;clean slate&#8217; that grace produces.</p>
<p><strong>I feel re-incarnation may well have been our previous way of &#8216;re-inventing&#8217; ourselves.</strong> We can now re-invent ourselves, have many different life experiences and bring out different aspects of our personality without needing to drop our physical body.</p>
<p>Akemi: Interesting.  That is how I feel, too, that death and reincarnation had its place and function in human evolution, but we are getting into a new game, to a mostly uncharted sea of possibilities.</p>
<p>Thank you, Janni, for this inspiring and informative interview.</p>
<p>Janni: Thank you Akemi. It&#8217;s been an interesting and very enjoyable exchange.</p>
<p><strong>Akemi’s takeaway</strong><br />
I’m impressed at the clarity and empoweredness of Janni.  I gather that, if someone chooses physical immortality from the place of fear, like the fear of death, it’s not going to work well, because you’d be caught up in the illusion of duality.  Choosing life and immortality is an absolute choice, not a choice on comparison, I think.</p>
<p>I also find it so encouraging that she comes from science background.  It’s refreshing to hear ideas that resonate so well from someone with different background.</p>
<p>So what do you think?  Please share in the comment.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://yes-to-me.com/2009/09/20/janni-lloyd-on-physical-immortality/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Death, Afterlife And Immortality</title>
		<link>http://yes-to-me.com/2009/08/29/death-afterlife-and-immortality/</link>
		<comments>http://yes-to-me.com/2009/08/29/death-afterlife-and-immortality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 03:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akemi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Death, Reincarnation & Immortality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[after life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fear of death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lightbody]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[physical immortality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reincarnation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://yes-to-me.com/?p=1289</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What is death? What happens after death?  Is eternal life possible? Macro &#038; micro view of soul &#038; body. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="size-full wp-image-1290 alignleft" style="margin: 10px;" title="afterlife" src="http://yes-to-me.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/afterlife.jpg" alt="afterlife" width="266" height="400" /><br />
Death is supposed to be the source of biggest fear.  What is death?  What happens after we die?  Is eternal life possible?  If we are all destined to die, what is life about?</p>
<p>The time is ripe for this discussion as we, and the Earth, progress in light ascension.  <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/zachk/64373106/">(Photo credit)</a></p>
<h3><strong>What is life?</strong></h3>
<p>To know death, we need to know life.</p>
<p>A few decades ago (I’m writing from my memory of advanced biology course I took at school, so please excuse the lack of details), scientists wanted to find out what makes a life form different from a non-life form.  So they simplified and studied the single cell creatures.  They identified only two factors that distinguish single cell life forms from mere bubbles.</p>
<p>1. Life forms have cell walls that differentiate the inside of their body from the outside fluid. Life forms “know” what is me and what is not. This makes it possible to take in outside stuffs as nutrition of the inside and excrete what is not necessary. (Biologist Dr <a href="http://yes-to-me.com/2009/04/12/review-the-biology-of-belief-by-bruce-lipton/">Bruce Lipton</a> maintains cell membrane is like the brain that plays central role to sustain us.)<br />
2. Life forms have chromosomes that enable them to replicate, or reproduce, themselves.</p>
<p>So they made an artificial life form with cell wall and transplanted chromosome.  That was easy with genetic technology.  But the “life form” was not alive.  They gave it electric shock, etc, but just couldn’t bring it to life.</p>
<p>Conclusion:  There is something invisible that makes organisms alive.  Let’s call it <strong>life force</strong>.</p>
<p>We now jump to a more complex life form, humans.  I say “jump” because I think there is a bit of a discrepancy somewhere along the line of biological evolution.  We, too, live on life force.  But with humans, I recognize the driving power as our souls.  Our souls direct the intake of the life force.  Is a soul made of life force and the two really are one?  I don’t know.</p>
<p>What we can learn from this experiment, however, is the idea that death is the end of everything doesn’t make sense.  The idea that everything about you is over when your heart stops beating and your brain stops giving electric waves is limited to the physical, visible function of the body.  There is invisible part about you, the life force and the soul (or whatever you want to call it).</p>
<h3><strong>What is death?</strong></h3>
<p>Now you know there are macrophysics and microphysics, and scientists are trying to come up with the Theory of Everything (TOE) that explains both.  So I can explain the relationship of the soul (spirit) and the body in two ways.</p>
<p>On the macro level, we can observe the soul and the body as separate beings.  A soul gets inside the body at the baby’s first breath of life and leaves the body at death (spare various cases of <a href="http://yes-to-me.com/2009/02/22/ascension-soul-shifts-walk-ins/">soul shifts</a>).  So on this level, death is about our soul leaving the body.</p>
<p>On the micro level, the soul and the body are one.  The soul is energy, and it can take a dense form of body, which is also energy.  Death, then, is the resolution of this dense energy body to another form of energy.  Think of the transformation of ice &#8211; water &#8211; steam.  They are all the same stuff, but they look different and act differently.  None is better than the other.  If the ice puts down the steam because the steam is invisible, it would be ridiculous.  So physically incarnated souls are no better than spirits without the body after their “death”.</p>
<p>How these two views can be reconciled neatly, I don’t know at this time.</p>
<p>But in either case, I see the essence of me, the soul, doesn’t die.  “I” can leave the vehicle I’ve been driving (macro level explanation) or I can dissolve / transform the body to some other form of being (micro level explanation).</p>
<p>What matters is if I do it consciously or not.</p>
<h3><strong>Conscious vs accidental transition</strong></h3>
<p>In conscious transition, the “I” knows what I am doing.  Despite the appearance of “death,” my consciousness keeps on seamlessly to another form of being.</p>
<p>But if the transition happens without your awareness, it would feel accidental, and you may feel like a victim.  While you are on this side.  (I believe that once the transition happens, we all get to figure out we are “okay”.)  (I’m using the word “accidental” meaning not fully consciously controlled.  It doesn’t mean the death is caused by accidents.)</p>
<p>Just to be sure, by conscious transition, I don’t mean suicide.  What I mean is the conscious opting out.  The majority of death is accidental and not fully conscious no matter how old the person is or whatever the cause of death is.</p>
<h3><strong>What happens in afterlife?</strong></h3>
<p>As Akashic Record Reading specialist, I am the expert in beforelife.  I can tell you about your past lives and the place we go in between physical incarnations.  Again, this is the macro level explanation.</p>
<p>What happens after this life is an interesting question for all of us alive today ^_^.  Do we repeat what we’ve been doing, that is, cross over to the other side, review our life, rest, and come back later?  (If you are interested in more details of the process on the other side, please check Dr Michael Newton’s <a href="http://yes-to-me.com/2009/01/20/review-journey-of-souls-by-michael-newton/">“The Journal of Souls”</a>)  Can we choose not to incarnate any more?  If so, are there any requirements, like a certain level of “enlightenment” or vibrational rate?</p>
<p>Our souls can keep going beyond physical deaths.  But is physical immortality possible? If it’s possible, is it something you want?</p>
<h3><strong>How do you want it?</strong></h3>
<p>I’m opening up the discussion here because I think this is up to our free will.  Let me sum up the possible options:</p>
<p><strong>1. To die (most likely accidentally) and reincarnate, like we’ve been doing for eons of time</strong><br />
If you choose this option, why?  Are there something you want to keep doing in the next life?  Is this present life not long enough to do it?  Are you postponing something?  Or is it about helping others in this world and you can best do it as incarnated being?</p>
<p><strong>2. To die (most likely accidentally) and not incarnate again</strong><br />
Again, why?  Is your choice based on hate of this life and the world?  Or is it simply because you’ve had plenty and even the good stuff is enough after certain time?</p>
<p><strong>3. To consciously transition or transform your physical body to some other form of being</strong><br />
One of the other form of being is called <a href="http://yes-to-me.com/2009/03/19/developing-lightbodies/">lightbody</a>.  This is what I aspire to do.  If you are into continuity, one thing we want to check is we are not choosing this out of fear of death.</p>
<p><strong>4. To keep going in the same physical body</strong><br />
I guess this is what Robin at <a href="http://letsliveforever.net/">Let’s Live Forever!</a> stands for.  The physical body is just a form of energy, so rather than transforming it to another way of being, keep healing and mending it forever.  If it involves temporary death, this may mean resurrection.</p>
<p><strong>5.</strong> (Well, as I wrote, I don’t support this view, but if you still like it) <strong>To die is to die, the end, period.</strong> Death means end and there is nothing after that. Because this view doesn&#8217;t acknowledge the invisible being (soul), the death must be accidental. </p>
<p><strong>6.</strong> <strong>To die  and go to heaven.  Or hell.  Depending on the judgement.</strong>  I don&#8217;t get this idea because God is love and <a href="http://yes-to-me.com/2009/03/04/who-am-i/">we are God</a>, so why do we judge ourselves to reward or to punish?</p>
<p><strong>7. We lose our individuality at the transition and merge with God.</strong>  I guess this can happen both with conscious transition and accidental one.  It&#8217;s based on a different level of . . . well, what shall I call it . . . model. </p>
<p>Are there other options?</p>
<p><strong>Further resources:</strong><br />
Here is a movie about <a href="http://www.thepathseries.com/">afterlife</a> (HT: <a href="http://blog.evolvingbeings.com/posts/373/movie-review-the-path-afterlife/?t=review">Evita Ochel</a>)</p>
<p>Here is a discussion about <a href="http://www.oprah.com/community/thread/102768?tstart=0">physical immortality</a> on Oprah’s website, started by Dr Janni Lloyd. </p>
<p>And is our perception of life and death “real” to begin with?  Here is my own post of the <a href="http://yes-to-me.com/2009/06/02/the-true-nature-of-reality/">nature of reality</a>.</p>
<p>So let me know what you want in the comment.  Also, let me know if thinking about life and death give you clarity about the meaning of life.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://yes-to-me.com/2009/08/29/death-afterlife-and-immortality/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

