Real Change is Possible!

The subject of letting go of the past has been coming up during recent Akashic readings with clients. Due to the reoccurrence of the subject, I felt it would be worthy to cover the topic.

So what does it mean to let the past go exactly? First and foremost, it is important to mention that life is fluid. Life is constantly changing moment to moment. What is true in one situation may not be true in the next. Things change, people change, circumstances change. The things that do however remain more constant are: our behaviors and our assumptions that drive the behaviors in our lives.

When an event or situation comes about in our life that is unpleasant, we attach meaning to that event. Instead of letting the situation go, we attach meaning or a belief to explain to ourselves the reason why the event resulted in an unfavorable outcome. For instance, suppose you are in a relationship and your partner decides to cheat on you. It could be that the person you are involved with is completely in love with you but is unable limit themselves to a monogamous relationship. Instead of coming to the resolve that there is just a general incompatibility in the relationship, an individual in that situation would evaluate the situation to mean something like the following:

•       My partner is not sexually satisfied by me

•       I am sexually undesirable

•       That person must be better than me

•       There is something wrong with me

•       All men or women can’t be trusted

•       I am not worthy of love

As an alternative of dealing with your behavior of getting into relationships with partners that are incompatible with your values, you subconsciously invest your energy into the erroneous belief (for example “I am sexually undesirable”) and carry the misconception to future relationships. Now that you are out of the first relationship, you meet someone new and you start a new relationship. Suppose this new partner doesn’t cheat on you but instead has a porn addiction. The porn addiction of your new partner will trigger your previous unchallenged subconscious belief from your prior relationship that you are sexually undesirable. Now you have two relationship situations in which you were sexually rejected. Again instead of dealing with your behavior of finding incompatible partners, you will use the second situation as evidence that you are in fact sexually undesirable. Can any body guess what the outcome of the next relationship is going to be?

In this example, the individual would not only hold on more strongly to the erroneous belief but would also systematically attract to themselves situations that will reconfirm the subconscious belief until that area of their life is healed. As a result, the individual will continue to cycle thru relationships with partners who would sexually reject them until they realized the error in their ways. In fact, the real issue is the individual was just not being clear about their needs in a relationship. People you attract into your life will mirror back to you areas in your life that you need to heal. Once individual becomes really clear about their needs, the individual would no longer find the rejecting partner as a relationship option.

Creating meaning to events that we do not understand is a very natural process. It helps us find comfort when we have experienced an event that is uncomfortable or unpredictable. It seems odd that one would find comfort in coming to the conclusion that one is sexually undesirable however it’s a very logically conclusion that one could make to explain away a situation that would otherwise not make any sense at all. I’ve chosen to use a dramatic example to illustrate my point but this process is just as true to the small-scale events in our lives as well.

Letting go of the past is not just about letting go of the emotions and painful memories, it is about letting go of the beliefs that we have made for ourselves. It is about reaching new conclusions and pulling out the roots of erroneous beliefs from our subconscious. It’s about creating for ourselves new beliefs that support our current life purpose that will lead to happy and production lives. I do hope you find these words helpful.

Namaste!

Athena
athena@ascension-now.com

Founder of Ascension, an International Soul Essence Coach and Akashic Records Advisor who powerfully connects YOU to your soul essence so YOU live in alignment with your soul’s purpose. Visit www.ascension-now.com.

To Thy Own Self Be True!

As we enter into 2011, a lot of changes have been taking place. Birds and fish have perished in rather large numbers. Students have been committing violent crimes at school. The economy is still shaky and is expected to get worse. It has been a powerful year thus far. The very foundation of our reality is shifting.

With all the powerful energy circulating, we are still left to manage our lives in best way possible. We still need to wake up each day and head to our jobs. Our children still need to be fed. Bills still need to be paid. Our homes still need to be maintained. Life does in fact continue to move on.

We do our best to control our lives. Each year we set out to change the things in our lives that bring about unhappiness. We set New Year resolutions. We join gyms, restrict our eating, and work pay off our bills. We tell ourselves that this year is going to be different. The momentum is strong at first but we slowly find ourselves in the same routine we started from. We begin to feel hopeless and tell ourselves our life is not so bad after all. We tell ourselves there are others in this world that have it worse off so we should be happy with what we have.

I am here to tell you that you do not have to be happy with what you have!

I am here to tell you that you are not hopeless!

I am here to tell you that you can make a change!

If you find yourself setting goals for yourself that you are already breaking, you may be setting the wrong intention in your life. In order to make the change you desire, you have to know what is motivating you to make the change. Losing weight and paying your bills are fine goals to make but they lack substance. Ask yourself the reason why you want to lose weight or pay off your debt. What is the end goal you are trying to achieve? If you want to lose weight so you entice the attention of that special someone, put your energy towards your true desire and leave your body alone! Focusing on losing weight instead of what you truly want is just another way of you telling yourself that you cannot have what you deeply desire.

As your coach, I encourage you to set the intention for 2011 to listen to your true heart’s desire. I encourage you to set goals specifically to achieve the things in life that truly matter the most to you. Only by doing so will true transformation manifest in your life. To thy own self be true!

Athena

athena@ascension-now.com

Founder of Ascension, an International Soul Essence Coach and Akashic Records Advisor who powerfully connects YOU to your soul essence so YOU live in alignment with your soul’s true purpose. Visit www.ascension-now.com.

Together we can change the world

During my travels in Romania over the past week, the degradation of humanity became very apparent to me. It is unthinkable to realize how much our own individuality has become lost and how much beauty of this world has disappeared in just the matter of a hundred years. In walking around the city of Timişoara, I found remnants of the prosperity that once existed in the city. What happened? With the introduction of Communism, beautiful buildings displaying the finest architecture were left to ruin while cemented buildings of no character emerged everywhere. Sadly, what now remains is the community robbed of their wealth.

Today, it seems that more and more the need to survive is becoming the sole priority in our lives. As a race of humans, somewhere down the road we have lost our inner glow and sense of pride. What happened to the love we had for ourselves and our community? Why is such wide-spread deterioration and destruction of character allowed?

Yes, we can blame media. Yes, we can blame government. Yes, we can blame the environment. Let’s face it, we are a magnetic attractor. We draw to ourselves particular people, places, experiences and ways of life. Our attraction reflects to us what we think and feel about ourselves. The government would not be able to do the things they do without our submission. We surround ourselves with cheap houses, cheap buildings, cheap furniture, and cheap food. We do all this just so we can put our lively hood in helping some industrial organization make more money. We tell ourselves that we are happy. We use our earnings to buy more of the cheap goods. We work ourselves hard so we have no time for ourselves. We try our best to put a little money to the side in case we are laid off our jobs. In all essence, we have lost the inner love for ourselves. We use all our energy and the powers of our magnetic attraction to feed into the very destruction of ourselves.

You can not give the world of that which you do not have for yourself. As your Soul Essence coach, I encourage you today to take the time to find love. I am not requesting you to find love for another person. I am not requesting you to find love for your career. I am requesting YOU to find love for yourself. Today, take the extra time today to treat yourself to an expensive piece of fruit. Today, take a walk around your neighborhood. Today, iron some of your best clothes and go out to see the world. I will also do the same. We together can change this world!

Athena
athena@ascension-now.com

Founder of Ascension, an International Soul Essence Coach and Akashic Records Advisor who powerfully connects YOU to your soul essence so YOU live in alignment with your soul’s purpose. Visit ascension-now.com

Let Go of Your Past Once and For All!

Autumn is officially here and the leaves on trees are starting to change colors. It’s the time of year when people start to pack away all their summer clothes and begin preparing for winter. As YOU prepare for the coming winter months, I have a special coaching request for YOU!

I challenge YOU to leverage this year’s winter preparation process as a corner-stone to FINALLY ONCE AND FOR ALL release all aspects that no longer serve and support YOU in your life intention.

Sounds like fun huh? Of course it is! There is nothing more exciting than pulling all your power back and aligning your life to your unique soul path. To support you in this process, I encourage YOU to let your past go!

Releasing Your Past!

A significant step in healing and walking your path is letting go of your past. YOU release your past by recalling and reclaiming all the fragments of your spirit back to the present moment. To determine if YOU have some unresolved past related issues claiming parts of your spirit, think about the way YOU communicate about your past. When describing the relationship YOU have with your parents or siblings, what is the overall theme and tone of your story? Do YOU have a tendency to use negative words to describe the relationships with your immediate family? Past lovers? Friends? As long as YOU have some sort of negative connotations linked to your personal history, a part of you is still linked to that experience.

Are YOU ready to call your spirit back? What are YOU gaining by holding on to your story?

Healing Your Emotion Wounds

Emotional wounds are not always apparent to us so it is useful when uncovering your past to either enlist the support of others around YOU or by writing in your journal. One effective way to heal past related issues is to completely remove YOU out of the context of the story and describe yourself in third person. By describing the story in third person, YOU will enable yourself to be a more objective observer in examining the interpretations of the situation and the reactions YOU experience in reflecting on your personal history. Another effective way to heal your past is to really listen to the way YOU describe the situation. Does your reaction to the situation align to the reaction of an adult or is your reaction more aligned to that of a child? If the reaction is characteristic of a child, a part of YOU is still stuck in your childhood and that aspect needs to be healed. To learn more about how to heal emotional wounds, visit www.ascension-now.com.

What is your Inner Child trying to communicate to YOU?

Review Your Attachments

YOU will attract situations and people who will mirror to YOU unresolved emotional wounds. Do YOU find yourself attached to others problems? In a reading I performed, a mother was attached to her daughter’s relationship and wanted very much for her daughter to leave the relationship. When accessing the Akashic Records, it was determined she experienced a similar situation in her first marriage and was projecting her unhealed wound onto her daughter. In order to help her daughter and heal herself, she needed to detach herself from her daughter’s situation completely. She called her spirit back and now is in a more empowering position to be of service to her daughter.

Who are YOU trying to heal? Why do YOU want to heal that person?

Birds of a Feather Flock Together

The old saying is a bird of a feather flocks together. By examining your friendships and the sort of people YOU choose to surround yourself with, YOU can really gain insight into your own behaviors as a person and how YOU relate to the world. Do YOU find yourself wishing to lose weight but hang around people who do not value exercise or eating healthy foods? Do YOU wish for yourself wealth but hang around people who complain of lack? Sometimes letting the past go also involves letting go the people of your past as well. Letting people go doesn’t mean YOU are a bad person or that they are bad friends. It means that YOU are doing something different with your life and YOU are choosing to surround yourself with an environment more harmonious with your life intention.

What does your environment say about YOU?

As a Soul Essence Coach, I actively work with individuals like YOU who are invested in transforming their life. As your partner, I am committed in identifying and removing emotional wounds or energetic blockages that are preventing YOU from fully actualizing YOUR highest potential. It is a truly amazing experience to witness the process of metamorphosis that happens uniquely with each individual. If you are interested in experiencing this for yourself or if you know of anyone who can benefit from my services, please email me at Athena@ascension-now.com.

Namaste!

Athena

Founder of Ascension, an International Soul Essence Coach and Akashic Records Advisor who powerfully connects YOU to your soul essence so YOU live in alignment with your soul’s purpose. Visit www.ascension-now.com.

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Money is Energy

Money is energy. The amount of money in your life depends on how the energy of money flows into your life. To have more money, you have three choices:

1. Create more channels for money to flow into your life
2. Hold on to the money you have
3. Reduce the number of channels your money has to flow out

Most financial self-help books will provide you guidance on how to hold on the money you have and how to reduce costs. What I would like to focus on today is how to create more channels for money to flow into your life.

Abundance is natural and is always looking for ways to make itself unexpectedly present into your life. In order to create more channels for money to flow into your life, you have to be open to receive. To be open to receive, you must become conscious of the messages you send out to the universe about abundance. When a friend wants to cover the bill for lunch, do you reject the offer or do you accept with gratitude and thank your friend for their generous offer? When you walk down the street and see a penny on the ground, do you pick it up? If your mother gives you a totally crappy set of dishes, do you accept or refuse the gift? Each of these situations is a form of abundance trying to make its way into your life. I agree, accepting a set of crappy looking dishes doesn’t seem like abundance at first. By accepting the dishes however is a message to the universe that you are open to receive. You can always give the dishes to someone else in need.

I firmly believe by keeping actual money around me, I automatically attract more money energy into my life. One way I have been able to create an additional channel for myself is by collecting change. Each night, I would put change I didn’t spend into a jar by my bed. Before I knew it, everyone around me started giving me their change. I incidentally created a channel for money to flow into my life without knowing it or having to exert a lot of effort for it to manifest.

Many people rely solely on their job as the single source of income in their life. You must know that maintaining a job is only one way to channel money into your field. There are many other ways to create additional conduits for money. I’m not suggesting getting another job. I’m suggesting for you to get creative. If you have kids, encourage them to get a job. The more money they have in their pocket, the more they will spend it on the things they need thus the less money you will need to spend on them. By freeing up your income, you will have more money available to create additional channels for money to flow into your life. Start a small business. Sell your art at a local community event. The amount of money flowing in doesn’t matter; the point is to create more ways to invite it in your life. The rest will take care of itself.

Athena
athena@ascension-now.com

Founder of Ascension, an International Soul Essence Coach and Akashic Records Advisor who powerfully connects YOU to your soul essence so YOU live in alignment with your soul’s purpose. Visit ascension-now.com.

Time of Harvest

Wow! It’s hard to believe that autumn is already right around the corner. Fall is one of my favorite times a year. It is a time of harvest and reaping the rewards of all the hard work put forth during the summer months.

Since the official launch of Ascension, I have been really busy connecting with like minded individuals like YOU who are invested in transforming their life and raising their vibration! I’ve provided a series of lectures on the Akashic Records during the month of August. I also started a Meetup group in Lincoln, NE. The Meetup group is called Ascension-Now. The  group is continually expanding and we are having a lot of fun. If you are interested in joining us, please connect by clicking on the following link:

http://www.meetup.com/The-Lincoln-Ascension-Now-Meetup-Group/

So what do I mean by harvest? Each thought, each statement, each action: are seeds that germinate and bring forth your harvest. Your harvest is the physical experience and end result of seeds that have been planted in your life. Evaluating your harvest is an incredibly valuable exercise that allows you the opportunity to celebrate your achievements and allows for clarity on the fruit you would like bear in the future.

Evaluate your harvest

The key to evaluating your harvest is to identify five core areas of your life (i.e., finances, relationships, family, and career) that you deem important. Next, rank your satisfaction level in each area by assigning a value between 1 – 10 (1 being the lowest level of satisfaction and 10 being the highest). Once you have completed the ranking of each area, total up the overall score. The overall score will allow you the opportunity to better understand how you feel in general about the level of satisfaction in the key areas of your life. If you find that you are completely satisfied and scored high, it may be a good time to consider ways to amp up your next harvest. If you find that you are completely unsatisfied with your life, you may be initiating the process of transformation in your life. If you fall somewhere in the middle, there may be some areas that you experiencing blockages. By evaluating the areas in the middle, you will be able to pin point where the blockages are the most dominant.

Identify what went well in your harvest

For the core areas that you ranked higher than others, reflect on what went well for you. Celebrate your successes and determine how you can employ the things you do well in other areas of your life. All too often we focus on the areas that went wrong in our life. By examining what goes well for us, we learn what really works for us and our areas of strength.

Identify the experiences that no longer serve you

For those areas that you would like to see a different result, identify the experiences that no longer serve you. Just because something was at one time really good for you, it doesn’t mean it is still good for you. Energy is in constant motion and nothing will ever stay the same. People change. Let go of the things that no longer make sense in your life so new experiences have room to come in. Evolution occurs when you transcend experiences.

If you are experiencing blockages, re-evaluate your thought process and the messages you are sending to the universe. If you want to more wealth in my life, align your actions and words to the energy of abundance. The energy of abundance will not flow into your life as long as you sit around with friends and complain about being broke. Instead focus on how abundant you are and how open you are to receiving more abundance!

Set your intention for your future harvest

What would you like to have in your life by the next harvest? Determine what you want and set the intention to the universe for next harvest will produce. People don’t allow themselves to have what they really want because they don’t know how it’s going to happen. At this stage, don’t worry about how you are going to get what you want. Set the intention and allow the universe to provide!

Athena
athena@ascension-now.com

Founder of Ascension, an International Soul Essence Coach and Akashic Records Advisor who powerfully connects YOU to your soul essence so YOU live in alignment with your soul’s purpose. Visit ascension-now.com.

You can have what you want

Freedom is about living the life you want to live. Freedom is the inner knowing and confidence that the opportunity is available to you to pursue your desires. We limit our access to freedom when we stay in situations or relationships that prevent us from obtaining the experiences we want in life. How many times have you been in a situation and felt like you couldn’t have what you wanted because something stood in the way of you getting it? Your neighbor is a jerk. Your boss doesn’t appreciate you. You want kids but your boyfriend doesn’t want to settle down. If you find yourself thinking an external source is the reason why you are not able to get what you want in life, realize that you simply need to be honest with yourself about what you truly want and realign your life situation to match your real desires.

Yes it can be that simple! It is very easy to get stuck in a situation by thinking that you have to stay and work things out in order to get what you want. It would be way more efficient to put all your energy into actually pursuing your desire instead of sticking around hoping things change for the better. Here’s an example of this sort of thinking. You want to be valued for your contributions at work. Your boss on the other hand doesn’t seem to notice all the extra work you have been putting in and considers working overtime a normal function of your job. You have a choice here, you can either continue down the path of trying to gain approval from your boss or you could find another job and work for someone who will actually value you. Ask yourself if your boss hasn’t valued your contributions for the past couple years, what makes you think he is all of a sudden going to start valuing your contributions now?

According to Albert Einstein, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. If you find your self in this situation, the first step is to be completely honest with yourself about what you truly want. Repeat what you want to yourself and regularly visualize how you will feel when you obtain your desire. Hey Universe, I want to be valued for my contributions! What possibly could be so wrong with wanting that? Soon you will realize there is nothing wrong with getting what you want. The more accepting you are about what you truly want the more open you will be to actually getting it.

Now that you know what you truly want, the next step is to believe deep in your heart that you can actually have what you want. It seems like people won’t allow themselves to truly want what they want because they haven’t been able to figure out how to get it! There will be some things in life you will have to figure out along the way. The objective here is to fully accept the possibility of obtaining what you want. Once you are open to the possibility, you can start pursuing your desire. Before you know it, you will have exactly what you want in your life!

Athena

athena@ascension-now.com

Founder of Ascension, an International Soul Essence Coach and Akashic Records Advisor who powerfully connects YOU to your soul essence so YOU live in alignment with your soul’s purpose. Visit ascension-now.com.