Now my Records suggested I begin a new process they called Akashic Writing. Instead of receiving information related only to the Akashic Records, I would be given what to write directly from the Records on whatever topic and genre they chose. I was to open my Records and let them dictate what I was to type, even if I had no idea what that was. This may seem like a subtle shift in the way I normally worked, but it was huge for me.

After a few days of transition time, I knew it was time to write and my Records gave me a basic outline using the series of words I use in my meditation practice, but I had no idea what they would say about these random words. With some trepidation, I opened my Records and began taking their dictation. As these things happen, I already had an appointment time with Françoise for the next day. I knew exactly what I wanted to work on – writing with the Records!

When I sat down in front of Françoise, I read her my intention for our session: “To explore, understand, and clear any blocks I may have about writing in any genre, especially Akashic Writing, in this lifetime and any others.”

We talked a little about what little had been going on so far with my writing. Then she had me lie down on her treatment table. As she dowsed for the essential oils I needed to support my intention, it became clear a past life was involved. Using the gentle framework of Soul Coalescence and the support of the essential oils, Françoise quickly and easily guided me into a past life.

There, I saw a dark-haired man in his 30’s being roughly pushed over and severely beaten by what looked like Roman soldiers as they made a sweep through the marketplace. The soldiers were intent on taking down everyone in the market. This man just happened to be caught up in the events.

The rest of the story came out through a series of questions Françoise asked to help me explore this other life and its current meaning to me. The man who was beaten to death was Nico, a well-educated Greek scribe. He made his living in the marketplace writing letters and inventory lists. He dressed in the Egyptian style to appear more worthy of trust to the Alexandrians. His passion and joy, though, was writing inspirational hymns that uplifted the vibration of the early Christians. Once he had the words, he set them to the popular tunes he heard in the marketplace.

As he was dying, Nico was consumed with guilt that he hadn’t been able to finish his hymns, because he knew they were essential to keeping up the morale of those early Christians being persecuted for their faith. At Nico’s death my soul fragmented, and this part was still caught in regret and guilt in Nico’s lifetime. With Françoise’s skillful guidance, I was able to reframe this lifetime. Nico was able to complete his hymns and handed them over to a woman I felt was either Mary Magdalene, Mother Mary, or a woman of such position. The soul fragments of Nico were then able to reintegrate with my soul as he moved into the Light.

Now Nico could happily act as my writing mentor and guide to help me to write in a spirit of joy while connected to the Divine, just as he had. I joyfully welcomed him and his assistance with my writing.

Françoise and I then became aware that one of my soul’s gifts is the ability to scribe what someone else dictates. All the other lives in which I accessed this soul gift were then gently integrated into my current lifetime. Through these many lifetimes as a scribe, I received much clarity and understanding about why it is so easy for me now to write or speak the energy I channel from the Akashic Records.

The last activation I received in this session was to breathe in and out through my heart. I was directed to become more and more aware of this not only while writing, but also in my everyday activities. It was clear that my writing channel is definitely through my heart, not my head, particularly for this Akashic Writing.

For the rest of the week, I sat and wrote what came to be called Akashic Writing Exercises. One of them was the story of my birth.

The trauma to my throat chakra as a result of the umbilical cord getting wrapped around my neck and my subsequent near-death experience were the original issues that brought me to Françoise. I felt like I had come full circle, and Françoise was an important part of my journey.

After this Soul Coalescence session with Françoise, I felt there was a definite positive energy shift for me about writing. Instead of being fearful and often feeling that writing was a chore, I am eager to write and confident that what I receive is just what my Records want me to scribe. I understand that my life purpose is now shifting more into writing from the Records, and I welcome whatever is mine to bring forth from this rich resource.

Sandra Gelinas enjoys connecting people to their Akashic Records for information and transformation at her peaceful property in Hendersonville, N.C., or by phone. She particularly delights in teaching others to access their personal Records, so they can discover their own truth. Her free monthly Akashic Gatherings are a support group available by conference call to all Akashic workshop participants. You can contact her at 828-272-6660 or spiritworks@wildblue.net.  Her website gives further information: www.spiritworks.byregion.net.

Akashic Writing # 4 Sandra Gelinas                        December 2, 2010

I learned this technique from Marian, my teacher in Hawaii, who had studied with the last great Hawaiian kahuna. Writing through the chakras is loosely based on ooponopono, the traditional Hawaiian way of resolving conflicts by having everybody take responsibility for themselves. It was a time in my life when I was seriously thinking about divorce and facing major emotional upsets every few days. This technique changed my life: I learned to take my power without denying what I was feeling, releasing the extra charge of these emotions that was keeping me paralyzed. It enabled me to sort out what was me, what was the situation — and what I could do about it. But more importantly, it kept me in touch with “my soul” during a very challenging time, providing a sense of grounding and support that felt truly lifesaving at the time. Of course I resisted all the way: I knew this technique for a long time before despair induced me use it. In little more than an hour, I felt miraculously changed, from being stuck in a dark miasma and nearly suicidal to feeling empowered and purposeful.

WRITING THROUGH THE CHAKRAS
An experiential workshop

Writing through the chakras is just what the name indicates. We choose an issue or emotion and write about it at the level of the first six chakras, using pens corresponding to the color of each one. It’s an illuminating journey from the raw emotions to the inspiration provided by our guidance. Bring paper (a notebook is best) and red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple pens that you find comfortable to write with. Also bring a problem, an issue or emotion to work with: something with enough juice that it won’t be merely an intellectual exercise, but not a major life issue.  You will only be expected to share with the class what feels comfortable to you. This workshop is really about learning a process, not working on an issue. You can do that later, once you’ve grasped the technique.

DATE: Saturday, March 5, 2011
TIME: 2 to 5 p.m.
Location: 36 Lawterdale Rd., Asheville
Tel (828) 255-0896
COST: $45 ($25 for returning students)
Prepayment requested to reserve your space

When I was growing up, we spent part of every summer at my uncle’s house in the Loire Valley. A portion of the garden had been abandoned to English ivy; it covered an old well and everything around it. When I played there as a child, mostly alone, it felt a little scary and forbidding. You didn’t know what exactly the ivy was covering; there could be traps underneath, or maybe snakes. The ivy on the top was always flourishing, but you could feel that it was hiding something.

Since coming to North Carolina, I’ve encountered ivy in every garden of every house I’ve lived in; and when we moved to where we live now, it hid pretty much everything — even part of the driveway. It still covers a large area, constantly trying to encroach on what I’ve painstakingly reclaimed.

Periodically I have an ivy-clearing day, and invariably that strange inner knowing about my family comes up again.  The smell of ivy is pungent and unmistakable, and I’m instantly transported to my childhood — playing alone in the ivy, connecting with forgotten emotions and mysterious intuitive knowledge. The sense of smell bypasses the frontal parts of the brain, connecting directly to the “old brain,” the seat of emotions, intuition and instincts.
But this seems to go deeper still: I sense that while pulling up the ivy, I am actually helping heal the family wound. My rational mind strongly rebels against the idea, however, and after awhile, I just forget about it till the next time I’m ripping out the ivy. Again and again it comes back, until it’s hard to ignore.

Once I heard myself say, “This is a grandfather root!” My grandfather seems to have played a key role in the family dysfunction, as I’d painfully excavated during nearly 10 years of focused healing work. I’d recently come to a place of resolution with this wound, after some very deep soul coalescence work with my grandfather’s spirit. Pulling up the “grandfather root” felt like an earthy ritual of transformation. But I am not the one initiating this ritual: The ivy itself is co-creating it with me, communicating at a level of consciousness I’m not even aware of.

My family, digging up the ivy

Smiling down on me, the universe gave me the proof that these were more than just intellectual or even emotional musings. Six relatives from that branch of the family came to visit for a month — a small miracle in itself, as this had never happened before and my older cousin, himself a key player in the family drama, had broken his hip only six months before. Of course, following the family tradition of keeping secrets, I hadn’t shared any of this with them. Toward the end of their stay, however, they decided to work in my garden and started pulling up the ivy roots. When I realized what was happening, tears came to my eyes: Their decision to visit had been surprising enough, but the fact that they would work on the ivy plainly showed me how deeply the healing had spread. Without the slightest clue, my family was participating in this ritual, affirming the interconnectedness of all life.

That evening, the process continued. We sat around smelling essential oils, and each person picked one (another first, and equally unexpected ritual). The oils were all very appropriate to the person, especially the one my older cousin chose: so strong and transformative that I couldn’t let him open it for fear of precipitating a crisis. But he didn’t need to — the healing was happening already, and I felt truly blessed.

The membrane needs to stay dry, however, so it’s best not to cover it with another bandage. If you must, use a dry bandage, not a Band-Aid.  Everyone who tries this becomes an instant convert. Pass this tip on to your friends: It is cheap and almost always available…

Most of us living in this climate deal with mold issues. I have found this blend of essential oils very effective, either sprayed in the air or directly onto the mold (in that case, let it sit for a few minutes, then wipe it off with a clean cloth).

• 1 oz. mister bottle

• 1 oz. mixture of alcohol and water (you can vary the proportions; I use half and half)

• 20 drops tea tree oil

• 5 drops thyme oil

• 5 drops oregano oil

Mix thoroughly; shake well before using.

Caution: While tea tree oil is very gentle and can be used on children, oregano oil is very powerful. If you or anyone in your household has liver damage or is undergoing chemo or similar treatment, keep them away from the room where you have sprayed. For most people, it is not a problem.

— Danielle Creeksong, originator of soul coalescence

Some of you have already experienced this work, but others may be curious, a little afraid or even skeptical, so let me clarify a few things.

Soul coalescence is a soul-guided, multilayered, interactive process aimed at transforming our emotions, beliefs, behavior and body in relation to our deepest wounds. Emotional and physical traumas that cannot be processed create a part of us that’s frozen in time, reacting to what it interprets as danger in the same way over and over again. We seem to have no control over it and, in fact, seem to keep attracting similar situations.

We call these parts fragments, and they can be from this life or other lifetimes (if your belief system balks at the idea of past lives, you can think of it as genetic material stored in the DNA).

In a soul coalescence session, we journey in a light trance (always conscious of where we are) to the origin of the wound while remaining separate from it, compassionate witnesses of the wounded fragments. We dialogue with them, learn from them, comprehend the lessons and then help past-life fragments move into the light and present-life fragments evolve back into ourselves.

After that, we often work with eye movements (similar to EMDR) to erase from the brain whatever twisted beliefs have arisen due to these traumas. This is a deeply personal process that supports us in going to depths of our being that we didn’t even know were there but that were affecting us, often in profound ways.

The benefits can be very dramatic (healing addictions and phobias, or changes in the physical body) or more subtle (increased energy, reconnection to inner guidance). Most of us have many layers of traumas and so will need to work with each layer as it presents. As we peel them off one by one, we feel ourselves drawing closer and closer to our essence. We also seem to attract less drama in our lives.

If you feel guided to, I encourage you to give yourself that experience. If you have more questions, e-mail them to me and I’ll gladly respond.

The good news is that scientists have discovered that it’s possible to change at the deepest level, that of the DNA (http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1951968,00.html). What we thought was our unchangeable fate, inherited through our lineage, turns out to be open to transformation.

That is the most profound meaning of healing — changing our very cellular structure — and it is what I aim to facilitate in my work. Many believe that sound is one way to access the DNA level, and in my experience, the soul coalescence work can do the same. Together, they reinforce each other and can give us the support we need to manifest the changes we want to implement.

The other good news is that astrologers are telling us that the “cardinal grand cross” that’s been affecting us these past months is also about change — and, even better, lasting change (see http://www.northpointastrology.com/ and http://www.astrodelight.com/). But for us as individuals, this won’t happen unless we first face our deep (and maybe hidden) old issues and traumas on yet another level (Pluto energy). If we can do that, we can more easily create new structures in our lives that will better reflect who we want to be (Saturn energy).

This summer, after years of what I saw as a healing process, I’ve made some outward changes, reflecting some inner ones.

First, I now have an office in Hendersonville (619 Oakland St.) on Thursdays, bringing my work to a broader audience and stepping out more into the world. I’m giving a free talk there about sound healing and harmonic acupuncture on Thursday, October 7th, at 6 p.m.; tell your friends in Hendersonville.

The other big change is this blog and newsletter. Although I’ve long resisted using computers, over the past couple of years I’ve come to appreciate the convenience of e-mail as a way to stay in touch with people (no, I have not yet succumbed to the lure of “social media” ).

This blog is a way to give people who are on similar paths a chance to reflect and share their healing experiences. I want to hear your stories and will put one of them in every issue of my newsletter, beginning with Ella’s beautiful birth tale (thank you, Ella!).

It’s also a way to keep people informed about the classes I’ll be teaching in the next few months and any special events that may be happening. This time, I want to highlight the Solar 7th tuning-forks class: a great way to get ready for winter.

I also want to pass on a variety of recipes and techniques that have worked well in my experience. (This time, it’s the mold spritzer.)

And who knows what else? I am open to hearing your suggestions.

I will write about every three months, around the turning of the seasons: a time of energetic shift that can support our own changes, but also a more vulnerable time. (If you can afford a harmonic-acupuncture session only once in awhile, the change of seasons is a good time to do it.)

Yes, change is scary, but it can also be exhilarating. There’s a sense of freedom in stretching ourselves to transform (Uranus energy). The trick is to be changing from the inside out, so there’s not as much struggle and it’s mostly a question of allowing it to happen, rather than forcing it with our willpower.

Through these last few weeks, fear has come up for me, but I’m usually able to keep the conscious observer on the job, and when I do some centering ritual (tuning forks, meditation…) I am easily back resonating with my soul’s path, connected with my spiritual center. It’s a lot like Ella’s story.

This changing from the inside out is what I want to be facilitating for anyone who’s interested in embarking on this great adventure…

Françoise