Interview: Akemi Gaines and Akashic Record Reading

I am a strong believer in intution. It is a very powerful tool that we often ignore in our over busy lives. I also believe in the existence of energies. Not the hocus pocus airy fairy television series kind, but real energies backed up with scientific evidence. Energies that can be purged or used, depending on whether they are beneficial to us or not.

I was, therefore, very intrigued when Akemi Gaines contacted me about her Akashic Record Readings, and I asked her some questions. I am pleased to share her responses with you.

I am a strong believer in the three stages of womanhood: maid, mother, crone. Silver & Grace is mainly about the crone stage – the stage of wisdom. To me, this is the stage where you start to make sense of everything. How does the Akashic Record Reading help ‘make sense of everything’ and contribute to our wisdom?

Hello Eliza and Silver & Grace readers! So honored to be here.

Many of my clients are women around the age of 35 to 55. It’s a good time to reflect on the course of life they have journeyed. And with life expectancy getting longer and longer, we need to be serious how we can live a happy and healthy life long after this stage.

Akashic Record Reading helps recognize the self-sabotaging patterns, make sense of the challenges in life, and helps create happier, more fulfilling life. Many people have energetic programs that repeat in their mind, causing them to act in a way they know won’t serve them well. The problem is that just noticing this self-sabotaging program doesn’t change the behavior pattern. They often try to counter act on it, but that is not the same with clearing the negative program.

Another example of how Akashic Record Reading can help is by helping people realize the true meaning of their life challenges. We often choose our own challenges on the soul level as a way to learn life lessons. Realizing the lesson helps to see the difficulties not in the regular negative way but in a more meaningful way, as growth opportunities. We can then turn it around with the awareness that we can learn the lesson through positive reaffirming way, too.

I encourage people to use the wisdom of the Akashic Records as a way to improve their lives. Don’t just treasure the wisdom, use it! We don’t need to retreat from life just because we are of certain age. And interestingly, some of my clients report they look and act younger after the reading and clearing.

I loved the following from your website: “Very often, I find people work so hard on the superficial symptoms of the issue while not realizing the root cause of the issue.” This is very true statement. Akashic Record Readings are based on energies carried forward through lifetimes. How do these energies impact our lives in the here and now?

There are many kinds of energetic issues. Souls carry over unresolved issues beyond one lifetime, in the hope it finds healing in the next lifetime.

For instance, I had a client who was a monk in one of her past lives. Souls incarnate in various genders and situations to experience this world in different ways. Anyhow, as a monk, she happened to find something she wasn’t supposed to know, and was severely punished. This registers as a curse, and her soul took it because of her sense of guilt. The curse is, “Ignorance is bliss.” So even to this day, she gets scared to get to know something important.

I guess she worked hard to overcome this program. She forced herself to study hard even though she felt strong resistance every time she took a new class or seminar. She has been doing fine in her career. But when her husband got sick and the medical bills started to pile up, she was petrified to check them and the bank statements, leading to catastrophic situation that she knows she could better handle if only she was more comfortable to check them earlier.

Did it help her if she read books on personal finance? Or repeated the affirmation that she can handle it? Or if she forced herself to check the finance? The last one may have prevented this crisis, but her fear remains. Clearing the curse, the root cause, takes care of all the subsequent symptoms that show up as problems.

Is identifying energies enough, or do we then have ‘homework’ in order to move forward unblocked and revitalized?

It depends on the energetic issue. I often assign a clearing homework to my clients while I do my part of the clearing. Their awareness and willingness to clear the energetic issues (such as the aforementioned curse) is essential, and the ritual of the clearing work helps the subconscious to release them.

And this one isn’t about the readings per se. In your opinion, are there energies and life decisions unique to women that keep us from truly integrating our minds, body and spirit?

I think women have easier time to connect body, mind, and spirit than men. We are more open to the spiritual world and have less resistance in receiving intuition. However, not many women are serious about their spiritual development. They are content with their natural intuition and not very interested in actively developing it further to a higher level of integration.

While 80% of my Akashic Record Reading clients are women, women account only 50% in my Spirit Guides Coaching. Men are less likely to come to my service, but once they do, they commit to their spiritual development and take the 6 week coaching program, while many women just take the reading and be done with it.

It’s really the issue of each individual’s choice, but I do see a tendency among women to be reserved and uncommitted to their own inner growth. Considering how easy it can be for women to integrate body, mind and spirit, this is a regrettable tendency.

Akemi Gaines reads people’s soul records, called the Akashic Records, and clears the energetic issues that affect us mentally, emotionally, and even physically. She resides in Oregon, USA, but takes clients worldwide. You can find more about her service at

She also blogs at Yes to Me, sharing tips to create more love and abundance.