“When you really understand the power of your free will, you would have very few questions about your future. Ironically, that is when you can utilize the information about your future.”

It is essential to understand the idea of free will, so let me elaborate here.

My definition of free will
Free will is about freely choosing the path in the journey of your life. The analogy I used in “To Tell Or Not To Tell The Future. . .” of life as a road trip is quite literal. Before we incarnated, we chose some places and things we absolutely don’t want to miss (the destiny points) during this journey called life. We also chose some more places we’d love to visit if the situation allows.

There are not just one but multiple routes to move from one place to the next. You can choose from these multiple routes. This is the free will.

The shortest route is not necessarily the best route. You might want to choose the big roads that are easy to find and follow even if that route takes more mileage. Sometimes, you might want to take the back road with fantastic view. And in special cases, it’s fine to go extra miles to join with your friend.

The power of free will
There are multiple options in front of you. Which one do you choose? Life is made up with all these choices. Your free will to choose determines your life.

Please understand it is YOU who choose. Not your parents, non the common opinion, nor your spirit guides. (For more about spirit guides, please check this and this on my another blog, Real Life Spirituality.) Even when it looks as if your parent or boss chose for you, you chose to accept their decision. That was your choice based on your free will.

Free will is the best gift from God or the supreme being. You are born with the ability to make choices in your life. Free will is your birthright. Please use your free will fully.

What free will is not
Free will is about choosing the path from the multiple options in front of you. It’s not about choosing your destinations. That is about goal-setting or intention.

For example, someone might “choose” to be a millionaire or to get back to their ex. They might say, “Well, free will is about choosing my life as I please, and this is what I want.” and when their chosen wish does not materialize, they get upset saying, “I chose to be a millionaire! It was my free will!! So why the heck is it not happening? There is something wrong. (Often, they blame the Law of Attraction to be dysfunctional.)”

Well. . . the Law of Attraction works (I’ve written quite extensively on LoA. The link takes you to the most popular article on RLS) if you properly understand how to utilize it.

The problem here is that setting your destination is not about free will. I am not saying you shouldn’t want to become a millionaire or to get back with your ex. You can set your destination, or your goal. But that is not about free will.

Are you aware of the options in front of you?
Obviously, you cannot use your free will fully if you cannot see the options in front of you. It’s like not noticing the road signs or not knowing where to make a turn while you are on a road trip. That won’t be fun.

The trouble is, quite a lot of people don’t see all the options in front of them. If you are thinking in terms of choosing one or the other, like “Shall I quit my job or not?” “Shall I divorce / separate him / her or not?” , then you are not seeing the whole picture.

When you are fully aware, you see more than two options. Then you can choose which option works best for you, pondering the pros and cons of each choice.

The reason you don’t see all the available options is complex. Your conditioned thinking and the pattern you have learned in your life so far affect your perception.

Do you think it’s ridiculous or impossible not to notice something right in front of you? Then check out this video. It’s a famous one, so maybe you already have seen it, but if not, you’ll be amazed. . .

You missed something that is visibly right in front of you. So do yo think you might be missing the possible option in your life journey?

While we are talking about life as a journey, I’d like to write about the goal setting next time. Some goals are achievable. Some goals are misfit for you to begin with. Many Law of Attraction advocates encourage to set up high goals, but is it really okay to have super high goals?

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By analogy, think you are driving on I-5 north from Portland, Oregon. You are likely to arrive in Seattle. Considering the traffic condition, I can also predict the approximate time of your arrival. However, this is not 100% sure. You might change your plan and get off the freeway. Or there may be a terrible accident on the way that slows down the traffic badly, or it may even be closing the way. This is the effect of free will.

The prediction of the near future is relatively easier because the amount of the free will involved is limited.

So be cautious with psychics who talk about the future with absolutes. Either she doesn’t know what she is doing or she is trying to manipulate you.

How I discuss the future with my clients
When I talk about the future, I explain it as likely possibility. That is, if I do choose to tell the future to the client. How and how much I explain the future really depends on the client’s spiritual development and life situation.

Once, when I was doing a follow-up reading (so she already had the Akashic Record Reading — the first comprehensive profile reading — and was coming to me for a follow up), I was informed someone in her family would pass away soon. That was a difficult situation for me.

First, I gathered more information. And I figured it wasn’t her husband, nor her kids, nor her siblings, nor her parents . . . it was probably a relative who she considers as a family. I also gathered that, even thought this is a sad experience, she would grow further spiritually through this experience.

I knew she understood the power of free will. I also knew her spiritual awareness is such that she knows death is not the final end but only a transformational process. So I decided to let her know.

She was silent for a moment, then said, “Thank you” for letting her know to be prepared. A few months later, she emailed me it happened.

On the other hand, I admit I sometimes choose not to tell the future I would gather, or I might tone it down a little. At least in my practice, the information of the future usually comes as a warning sign, like a road sign that says, “Watch out, the driving ahead is a little tricky.” So when I am facing a client who is excited about their future even that they believe to be fantastic, things require a bit of diplomacy.

What it takes to deal with the future
And for those of you whose main interest in getting a reading is to learn about the future. Are you really ready to hear it? Do you have the strength and intelligence to hear the prediction that you don’t want to hear?

If you don’t, you may be setting yourself up for a panic. Or you may try so hard to avoid the unwanted future that you may be heading right that direction, like I described in my last article, about the Greek tragedies.

Okay, I have been using the word “free will” often. In the next post, I want to explore what it really is. Are you using your free will? Free will is the best gift from God to all of us.

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However, the challenge is whether you can utilize the knowledge of your future once you learn it. It’s very possible you get confused or shocked to the point you react in a counterproductive manner.

Think of the cases in ancient Greek tragedies.

One of the most famous Greek tragedies is the one about Oedipus. Oedipus was born as the heir of Thebes. The oracle of Delphi said, however, “This baby shall kill his father and marry his mother”. Terrified, the father abandons the baby in the wild.

Keep in mind that, in the ancient Greek, people believed they get into the destiny right when they resist it.

The abandoned baby was found and adopted by the childless king and queen of another acropolis. They raised Oedipus as if he was their real child. When he grew up, Oedipus was told by a stranger that he was not the biological son of the royal couple. Further, there was another oracle that told Oedipus “You shall bring death to your parents”. Confused, the young Oedipus leaves home, still believing his adoptive parents are what the oracle refers as his parents and hoping that his departure would prevent such catastrophe.

This is the second resistance to the oracle. Watch what happens.

Oedipus was a proud and brilliant man. While traveling, he kills a rude old man. Then he solves the riddle of Sphinx, saving the acropolis of Thebes. The people there were so grateful that they asked Oedipus to marry the newly widowed queen and become their new king. The queen was much older than Oedipus but still quite beautiful. They somehow felt close to each other and their marriage was a good one that produced four children.

Many years later, Oedipus had to find out the killer of the previous king. Eventually, he realizes it was the old man he himself killed on the way. Moreover, he learns the previous king and the queen had a son that received the horrible oracle, and realizes it was himself.

The oracle that Oedipus would kill his father and marry his mother had materialized. The queen is horrified and kills herself. Oedipus blinds himself and escapes the city.

If the king didn’t abandon the baby Oedipus, there was no way Oedipus would have killed him without even knowing it was his biological father. By resisting the oracle, he got himself into the destiny the oracle told.

Sorry for telling such a disturbing story. I am not quoting this story to tell you you should not resist destiny. I do think just learning about the future can be difficult, if not counterproductive. It doesn’t necessarily lead you to a better future.

The most important thing is you live well right now. Regardless you know your future or not.

Well, this is getting long, so I will write about the near future issue next time. Until then,

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Well, the Akashic Records do have the part about the future. All the possibilities already exist there. However, the future doesn’t exist in the way most people tend to think it does.

Those who want to know about their future ask questions like, “Will I meet my life partner / soulmate? If so, when and where will I meet him?” They expect answers like, “You will meet him at your friend’s birthday party next March.”

The future doesn’t exist this way.

Destiny points in the Akashic Records
Life is like a computer simulation game. Depending on your thoughts and the actions you take based on your thoughts, the scenes of the game change continuously. What is possible and impossible in the game is already determined, however. There are gazilions of possibilities, which feel like endless to us, but all the possible scenes of the game are already built in the game when it was developed.

The critical difference is that, with the real life game, you designed it yourself. Prior to birth, you, as a soul, made the plan of your life. At this point, you determined several points that you don’t want to miss — let’s call this your “destiny points” — and also other events that you might choose to experience if the circumstances seem favorable for it.

Each person has different types of destiny points. For some, marriage is one of the destiny points. For others, marriage is optional, but having a certain number of children is a destiny point. For yet others, their destiny points may be about living in a certain city or doing a certain work.

The length of life is also a destiny point . . . but I guess we don’t want to discuss this.

The number of destiny points are rather few. In other words, life is built to be quite flexible. Again, it depends on each person, but usually we have five to six destiny points that we absolutely are up to.

Further, even with destiny points, the timing, the location, and other details are flexible. For example, even when a person has the destiny to have one child, when and with whom she may have the child is not determined.

And for all other things in life, it’s all up to your free will.

Problems of learning about the future
So, to the question “Will I meet my life partner?”, there can be two answers in the Akashic Records:

• “Yes. You decide who that will be.”
• “We don’t know. It’s up to your free will and actions.”

Now we know neither is the kind of answer the questioner is expecting.

The fundamental problem of this type of question is that the questioner thinks the future exists unrelated to their will, that they think someone else (maybe God?) dictates the future and they just have to follow it. This is a very disempowered mindset. (I call it victim mentality and slave mentality.)

Until you empower yourself to create your life, the information about your future in the Akashic Records bring no benefit to you, even the knowledge about your destiny points. This is why I don’t discuss the future in the first profile reading of my Akashic Record Reading. It’s more essential to find out why you are in that disempowered state, if there are any energetic blocks and interferences, and if so, how we can clear them.

When you really understand the power of your free will, you would have very few questions about your future. Ironically, that is when you can utilize the information about your future.

In the next article, I want to write about the near future. In life, as in the computer simulation game, the further the future point is, the more free will are involved, and the harder it is to make a solid prediction. However, with near future, I sometimes receive information about my clients when I do the follow up readings or Spirit Guides Coaching.

Sometimes I share it with the client, and sometimes I don’t. . .

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I need some kind of personal information to locate your Akashic Records accurately. Most of the time, just the name would do, but just in case, I ask for the date of birth and place of birth, too. So, if for some reason you are not sure of your accurate date or place of birth, no worry.

This blog is tied to my Japanese blog. As an experiment, I am posting the same content in two languages. The issue of personal info is important in Japan because there are so many types of “fortune telling” methodologies there and many of them use the personal info itself, such as the number of brush strokes in a name. I wanted to explain how my reading is different — that, in my method, the personal info is used to locate the Akashic Records.

In other words, as long as I can locate a specific person, I don’t even need the full name. For example, if you are already my client, “your ex David” is sufficient to locate his Akashic Records.

After writing the Japanese article, I noticed this issue is not as critical for English speaking audience, so I skipped . . . but if you have any questions about this, please let me know.

Summary of how to access the Akashic Records
Let me summarize what we have discussed regarding the access to the Akashic Records:

• You can access your own Records freely because they are yours to begin with. All it takes is to ask your spirit guides. (I will write how to communicate with your spirit guides in later articles.)
• To have your Akashic Records read by a reader means you are asking the reader to represent yourself in the Hall of Akashic Records.
• In order to read the Akashic Records of other people, the reader must have that person’s permission, clear consciousness void of prejudice, willingness to respect the responsibilities as a reader, and the technique to tune in to the Records.
• The Akashic Records are protected by special spirit guides (Akashic Record guides).
• In order to locate the specific Akashic Records, some personal information is necessary.

Is it okay to request readings for family and friends?
When you have your own reading and know how effective it is, it’s natural to want the same benefits for your loved ones. And sometimes, you may wonder, “Well, I think this is helpful, but he / she may be suspicious of this kind of thing. What do I do?”

I would first suggest bringing it up to that person. They may be more open-minded than you think. Besides, seeing how happy you are with the reading is convincing even to a suspicious mind.

If they agree with having their Akashic Record Reading, that would be wonderful. However, their approval is not required if you want to know them on the soul level.

We are allowed to know the people in our lives on the soul level. (And probably we really should know them on the soul level.) So, even without their explicit consent, we can do the reading. (Please note you assume all responsibilities for releasing their personal information.)

Do you remember the housekeeper analogy I used before? A housekeeper (the Akashic Record Reader) should not enter your house without permission even with good intention.

However, you would enter your family and close friends’ house without their explicit permission, right? In some cases, you might even do the cleaning for them. So you are allowed to know their Akashic Records.

What kind of relationship is okay to order a reading?
Anyone who has or has had a significant influence on you. It’s hard to draw a generic line, but usually it’s okay to order a reading for these people with our without their permission:

• Your parents, siblings, children, and spouse. Grandparents and grandchildren are fine, too. (These include biological, adopted, and in-law relationships.)
• Your present and past romantic partners.
• Your close friends and business colleagues.
• Others: for example, if you are a business owner, you might want to know your co-owners, critical employees and investors. If your child spends a long time with a caregiver, that’s critical, too. You get the idea.

What would it be like to know someone on the soul level?
You may feel a bit nervous ordering a reading for someone you think you know well. Who is that person on the soul level? How would you feel if a reading reveals a surprising aspect of them?

I can tell from my experience that, most of the time, the reading clarifies the things you know on the deep level but could not acknowledge consciously. For instance, when a client orders a reading for her boyfriend, well, I know I need to stay neutral and open to any results, but there is also a part of me who wishes that the reading turns out “good” that confirms he is a wonderful person.

So when I find out he is the type of a soul that sucks up energy from the people around him, I wonder how to disclose the news on the phone. But in such a case, the client usually responds like, “Oh, that makes so much sense. He is always nice, has a great job, I know my parents and friends would be excited if I marry him, but I just couldn’t bring myself to take that step…” The reading serves as a validation of what she has been feeling.

Or, the reading can show how to handle different perspectives and emotional charges that happen even in a truly loving relationship. (If you are mainly interested in the “relationship” you have with someone, you might want to consider the Relationship Reading rather than the full Akashic Record Reading for that person.)

So, as long as you are not ordering the reading out of sheer curiosity, Akashic Record Reading for your family and friends can be very helpful. Please note it’s essential you have your reading first — it’s not a good attitude to dig another person’s Records before you reflect on yourself.

Next article will be about the “future” part in the Akashic Records. This directly relates to the important question we humans have been asking ourselves through the history: “Is there a pre-determined destiny? Or can we create our own destiny? Of maybe the combination of both? If it’s the combination, which parts are changeable and which parts are not? Is that pre-determined?”

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