Welcome to Inner Work, a spiritual growth podcast. I'm your host, Josephine Hartman, a certified

intuitive healer and Akashik Records practitioner and master teacher. When they start working with

the Akashic Records in a deeper way in my certification program,

many of my students report an experience that sometimes feels unsettling.

They open the records at some point in the program and they suddenly find nothing.

Blackness, total emptiness, what feels like a vast, endless void.

So when this happens, we may think that we're doing something wrong or that something has gone

wrong. We may think that we don't have the capacity to connect to the Akashik records or that

maybe we've had that capacity before, just getting information easily. And it may feel like all of a sudden we've had that capacity before, just getting information easily, and it may feel like all

of a sudden we've lost that capacity. When we open the records, when we connect, we may expect

to receive lots of images, sensory input, information, insights, nonstop downloads, and if that doesn't happen,

we may question whether we are genuinely tapping into the Akashic field, especially if we are

faced with this nothingness, this great void that may

suddenly appear. And I get it. Experiencing this kind of void, this kind of nothingness in the

records can be unnerving.

But let me let you in on a little secret.

When my students report this experience to me,

I actually do a little bit of an inner happy dance because I know what it means and it's a really, really good thing.

So let me explain why.

The ego mind, with its endless parade of thoughts, concepts, mental chatter, obsessions,

memories, analysis, comparison, etc., etc., absolutely despises silence.

Ego mind hates silence, it fears, silence and stillness and emptiness.

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