The Line: A New Way of Living with the Wisdom of Your Akashic Records

I have followed Ashley since she started sharing her journey many years ago. This book is fantastic! It is enlightening and perfect for my own personal journey to being my best self.

I am not sure what publisher or author thinking by using extremely light ink when describing any of the exercises in this book. In order to read the exercises, I needed to use a magnifying glass. It doesn't make any sense!

Very refreshing and empowering approach to what is going on in the world right now, and useful/ practical ways/tools to open and access you “Line” information that comes straight from your Higher Self wisdom, to guide you in these transformative yet challenging times . It gives power back to you!

Ashley walks us step by step home to our hearts, empowering us to become our own teacher, reader, and healer. Love, trust, and connection are infused into each page. A beautiful devotion to the sound of our souls.

I can barely read the light grey print on the exercises. I noticed another review mentioned the same problem. Also I know of another person who found this light grey text impossible. Some reviews did not mention it so maybe there are some bad copies of this book. I know Sounds True takes pride in their products.Wondering if returning it and asking for a new copy would even help.

Before I get into the book, some readers might not be familiar with the Akashic Records. In a nutshell, the Records are the repository of every soul memory you’ve ever - in this or any other lifetime. I read, long ago, that we aren’t able to access our Akashic Records for this lifetime while we are living it, but I’ve since found that not to be true. There is a method for entering them, though, and I learned it through another source last year. I thought this book would be along the lines of the course that I took; just a different method for accessing the records but I was mistaken. The Line teaches daily actions we can take to enhance our intuition and thus, receive messages that will guide us toward living in alignment with our soul purpose.Sound like a lot? The method that Wood teaches is actually quite simple. She calls it Activating Your Line - which is another way of saying aligning your energy to a higher vibration or to the Divine. I did nearly every exercise in this book (some I skipped because I’ve already worked through them in my spiritual journey but they’re all worthwhile), and I have to say that this was the quickest and most effective method of energy alignment I’ve come across. It’s now a daily exercise for me. Sometimes more than once a day, depending on how life’s going for me.The purpose of this alignment is to be open to receiving messages from the Records; gentle nudges toward actions that will advance your soul purpose. I hesitate to say I have a complaint with this book, but even with several examples drawn from her online community and own life, there were still times when her advice was a bit vague and advised practicing until the reader “feels” the energy or “learns” how their guides communicate. Then again, I think best in absolutes (the concept of multiple lives happening at once makes my head explode), and I like to have my hand held with concrete examples (something my guides often chide me about).The author’s style is warm and compassionate and she freely offers her insight into connecting with her guides, as well as personal examples from her own life. She hosts a podcast, which I listened to, and her recorded voice is as lovely as I expected.Wood provides a prayer for directly accessing your Akashic Records, which I tried. I have two other prayers that I use and each one gives a different perspective on the visit. The prayer in this book was no exception. It’s difficult to describe but while I still accessed my own Record guides, the location was different. I was literally above the earth and was told that this was a good method if I had global questions, that I’d be more inclined to larger insights. In addition, the exercises in the book made me realize that I’d let other practices like breathwork slip in my daily routine and led me to very interesting questions that I posed to my guides in my last visit with them.This is a great resource for anyone new to a spiritual practice, who wants to work on increasing their intuition, or just interested in learning more about the Akashic Records and their own soul purpose.I rated it 4.5 stars. ⭐⭐⭐⭐+Thank you to NetGalley and Sounds True for providing the ARC copy of this book. I’ve left my review honestly and voluntarily.

Overall, I thought the book was helpful. However, there were too many exercises which disrupted the flow for me. I didn’t want to constantly do an exercise for every chapter especially for such a small book. It felt distracting.

Very interesting to read about a form of being connected to you and your messages by creating time and space to connect with your intuition channel, in the book it’s called the line.Could feel the kindness and love of the author during reading.