Akashic Records: The Library of Your Soul

August 19, 2025

Akashic records are the energetic archive of our soul's entire journey through space and and across all timelines. They may show up in our life as deja vu, an unexplained desire to be in certain geographic locations, or drawn to certain groups of people. When we access them, we can uncover patterns, heal karmic wounds, and realign with our soul's purpose. 

The word "akasha" comes from the Sanskrit word for "ether" or "open space". In Hindi philosophy, Akasha is one of the five fundamental elements and symbolizes limitless potential and infinite possibilities of existence. Think of the Akashic records as a divine database where every thought, action, emotion, and intention is recorded. 

Although they exist in the spiritual realm, they can affect your current life in very real ways. Patterns in your relationships, health, fears, talents, and even challenges can all stem from your experiences in other lifetimes. 

Here are some ways Akashic records may show up in your life: 

• Karmic Patterns: Repeating life lessons or difficult dynamics may be unresolved karma asking to be acknowledged and transformed. For example: attracting emotionally unavailable or toxic partners, repeating generational family dynamics (eg., addictions, abuse, abandonment) or martyrdom.
• Soul Contracts: These are agreements made between souls or institutions in past lives that can explain why certain people are in your life or why you may currently experience challenges. They can also be vows, oaths, or contracts made in another lifetime that is still playing out. For example: taking a vow of poverty in a previous life may lead to a perpetual lack of abundance in this one.
• Gifts and Talents: Natural or divine-felt talents often stem from soul-level wisdom developed in prior lifetimes. For example: musically or artistically inclined, developing innovative technology that advances humanity.
• Blockages and Fears: Phobias, insecurities, or emotional trauma can also stem from events or energetic imprints from previous lives. For example: a fear of public speaking: punished for speaking one's truth or being silenced, a fear of water: death by drowning, shipwreck, or flood.
• Unfinished Purpose: Some souls return to complete a mission or calling they began in another lifetime. For example: feeling drawn to certain causes, places, or cultures with no obvious reason, or having a strong sense of purpose from an early age.

How to Access your Akashic Records

Set Your Intention: Be specific and intentional on what you are trying to access and release. Is there a particular question, scenario, or challenge you are trying to resolve? Write this intention down and hold onto it during the meditation. 

Enter a Meditative State: Find a supportive and quiet space to meditate. Choose appropriate background ambient music or sound. Take a few deep breaths and close your eyes. State your intention and ask for access to your Akashic library. Everyone's vision of it is different so do not assign "wrongness" to what you see. This may take several sessions to access. Continue to practice and a story will begin to unfold.

Record: Write or draw your visions, words, or images that play out during your meditation. It may not resonate or make sense right away but it may all come together at a later date.

You can also set that same intention and use a pendulum or pull oracle cards to help with validation. 

Akashic records may also be accessed in one on one energy healing sessions. 

How to Shift Your Records

• Awareness and Acknowledgment: Recognize and owning your current beliefs and patterns can begin the process of healing. When triggers arise, feel into them, identify the emotion behind it, and ask questions. When did the feeling first arrive? Did this develop in this lifetime or is it from a past life? Where in my physical body am I holding onto it?
• Forgiveness and Releasing: Releasing resentment, anger, guilt, shame, or envy towards yourself or others helps clear out old soul ties and contracts. Speaking words of forgiveness out loud or writing them down can help shift emotions and begin healing. Using the element of fire to burn what you have written is also a powerful use of fire's ability to transmute energy.
• Setting New Intentions: Begin writing a new script. Using a "clearing statement" can clear the energy behind old patterns and beliefs. For example, try this clearing statement, inspired by Access Consciousness, for attracting abundance.  "Everywhere and anywhere I'm holding onto a belief, contract, or oath that I need to live in a state of lack, I uncreate and destroy across all timelines and beyond." Our positive words and thoughts are powerful tools in shifting into a new reality! 
• Self-Care: Continue or refresh your self-care routine. Spend time grounding outdoors, seek out additional support with energy healing sessions, sound baths, journal, or make space for the things that bring you joy.
• Gratitude: Reflecting on what you are grateful for today will bring your energy back to the present. Deepening into gratitude opens our heart space to higher vibrations. 

Crystals can be powerful allies for accessing and working through the Akashic Records. They can raise your vibration, open your Third Eye and Crown Chakras, and protect your energy. Our favorite crystals to work with the Akashic records are Pineapple or Lithium Quartz, Lemurian Quartz, Apophyllite, and Selenite.

Akashic records can be used as a tool for spiritual insight, self-discovery, and healing. They give us a better understanding of our unconscious desires and behaviors. By access this deeper wisdom, we empower ourselves to break old patterns and align with our highest potential!

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