Linda Howe - Healing Through the Akashic Records: Using the Power of Your Sacred Wounds to Discover Your Soul’s Perfection

To Lisa and Michael.

You are my favorite traveling companions.

I love you both.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,

I will fear no evil,

For Thou art with me;

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life.

Psalm 23

Contents

Preface to the Paperback Edition

I love this book. When I first wrote it, I loved it because it was the how to heal book I had been seeking for so long. Through a surprising unfolding, led through a practical, powerful process for personal healing through the Akashic Records, using the Pathway Prayer Process, I found myself delivered into a realm of solid self-appreciation, respect for others, and reverence for the entire planetary experience. This all facilitated a shift from feeling trapped by my limitations and wounds to being liberated by embracing the sacred nature of my experiences. This was certainly not what I originally expected! Now, five years after its initial release, I love this material even more because its proven to be the bedrock of spiritual principles and practices upon which the foundation of my entire body of work rests.

In the old days of the New Age, confusion reigned as I tried to stuff the newly emerging reality into old patterns. Perfection appeared to be the goal of healingI could transcend or escape the more difficult aspects of my human experience! Once perfect, I would gladly be available to serve others! Happily, Ive come to learn that the goal of healing is to unleash the unconditional love at the core of our being, for ourselves and for others. The human journey itself is the opportunity to encounter and embrace the Divine spark within and beyond. Ultimately, the good news is that the endgame of life is not to secure a human idea of perfection and then participate, but rather to allow our imperfect selves to love and be loved.

The process outlined in this book is anchored in the spiritual practice of unconditional self-love. This radical notion embodies our personal need for the experience of complete acceptance. In times like theseof unprecedented spiritual opportunity for secular peoplethe challenge of shifting from the idea of self-love to the experience of unconditional self-love calls for guidance and direction. Guidance such as the type I receive in my Akashic Records, using the Pathway Prayer Process, facilitated my personal shift. And by now, I have witnessed the shift in thousands of my students who have courageously embraced this approach.

Ideas and themes I present here range from recognizing that youthe person you are noware your souls first and best choice, to the reality that everyone is always doing their best and the real-life implications of that truth. Our new footing with regard to our relationships with ourselves and others prepares us to interact in the world as positive contributors. The deceptively simple Ascension Matrix residing within each of uscomposed of Gratitude, Grace, and Generositypropels us to rise above the trials of life, showering our world with infinite inner light of Grace as we navigate ordinary living.

At this moment, consider the possibility that you are reading this because now is your time. This is a lifetime like no other. Here is a proven approach to personal spiritual healing you need and deserve. As you grow in freedom from old ideas, patterns, aches, and pains into your Divine potential, the foundation you lay with this process will sustain and nurture you as you go forward in your life to manifest your souls purposes and live your destiny.

Much Love and Many Blessings,

Linda Howe

Doctor of Spiritual Studies, Akashic Records

Preface to the Hardcover Edition: A Healing Journey

I n my first book, How to Read the Akashic Records, I described the winding path that led me to the Records. It began with a fervent prayer. I pleaded with God to tell me how it could be that my perfectly fine lifesuccess in school, a good job, a nice apartmenthad left me feeling perfectly miserable. My prayer was answered almost immediately, and in a way I could never have anticipated. This did not come in the form of an answer to my question; instead, I entered into a state of utter stillness. And then, without my having wished for it or even considered such a thing, I had a direct and profound experience of oneness, of the unbreakable connection between myself and all other things, seen and unseen. For the first time in my life, I felt relief from my ever-present internal distress.

I now knew without doubt that God existed, and I could feel that God knew, loved, and even liked me just as I was. The experience lasted only a few moments, but it was a revelation.

Then those moments passed, and that brief taste of God propelled me to search further. I wanted to reclaim the experience in order to heal the deep emotional wounds I had been suffering seemingly forever. First, I sought God in traditional places: in churches and temples. Next, I immersed myself in the archetypal symbolism of the tarot. Then one day I found myselfreluctantly, I must admitsitting in a shamanic drumming circle, and despite myself, I was entranced, transported to another dimension. After that experience, I dove headlong into the teachings and rituals of shamanism. But it was not until I was introduced to the Akashic Records that I truly came home: home to my soul and my own true Self.

This was where my personal story ended in my last bookI followed it only with a brief account of how I came to be a teacher of the Akashic Records and how my teaching system evolved. But there is much more to my tale. I have chosen to share some of it with you now in greater depth because it is intertwined with the healing system you are about to learn. In fact, this program of healing through the Akashic Records arose from my personal healing journey.

It began when I opened my own Records for the very first time. I had heard others describe their experienceI was intrigued and eager to learn how to do it myself. Thus I now sat in a room with a few other students, following the teachers direction, anticipating with excitement what it was going to be like to open my Recordsif, that is, I could accomplish it at all. I had an impression of the Records as a highly esoteric, sophisticated oracle, and I imagined a dramatic experience at the very instant my own Records opened: a riot of phenomena and sensation. Perhaps an electric crackling in my ears. Lights flashing in otherworldly colors. Maybe even a thundering voice from beyond.

Then, unexpectedly, the teachers voice grew faint. My attention turned inward and I could hear my own inner voice: the teacher within. All became stillmy minds chatter and the turmoil of my emotions hung suspended. Within the profound quiet that remained, I knew peace, clarity, safety, and love. I felt wave upon wave of relief until I was simply overcome.

And I knew without a doubt that my search for the right spiritual path had ended.

The next stage of my spiritual development now lay open before me. I had found a way to contact an infinite resource that could guide my spiritual practice, and so I embarked upon a sacred journey of healing. For the next sixteen years, I worked diligently in my own Records, finding solutions to lifelong problems and cultivating my growth.

Though I had spent considerable time searching elsewhere, from that first experience I had great hope that I had finally arrived at a way to cross the spiritual desert in which I had been wandering and achieve a deep level of healing. It had shown up in my life not a moment too soon: I badly needed help. I needed to find ways to overcome my fear and agitation. I had to learn how to stop being so dependent upon others for approval and support. I needed to grow in spiritual maturity until I was solid enoughsecure enough in myselfthat I could receive from others. Ultimately, I had to find a way to reliably connect with the Divine Energy within so I could relax and truly enjoy my life.