"Living fully in the Now" - but what does that really mean?

Hi Vimal, yes, making choices from the soul is quite different from ego led choices. You learn to hold your creations more lightly until you actually take the step into them, in this moment. So they start to shape well in advance, but they're not fixed, and they're much more fluid, they can adapt and change, although of course as we engage with the matrix, we will have to commit, and often a degree in advance. It's just the nature of having to blend with the system we're in.

Yes, this can be quite a challenge when making commitments in the matrix. But what I've found, is that even there, if you allow the mind to be open, then if something is truly meant to change, then just holding that knowing (of change) but without flapping and contraction, your building energy can transform the landscape in unexpected ways. Let's face it, we, as evolving people, are MEANT to help change the way things are within the old paradigm - it's in these difficult choices that we do this.

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There was a lot of intellectual efforting and frustrations created by the perfectionist in me and pulling in entities and nauseating. After a while a surrendering and a realizations that it doesnt really matter what I choose. Seeing that if I keep on waiting for the right choice which is guess is an illusion then I woudnt start at all, I booked the tickets to the nearest city for the available date. Even then there some confusion but this farm owner was available the exact date I was arriving which I thought was a clicking into place.

The crucial point you've realised here is, "It doesn't really matter what I choose". Yes, indeed! What matters is what you get from the choice. It is not possible to 'make a mistake' if you're always learning from what happens.

This is all about soul infusion - every event and circumstance in your life is inviting that. If there's some tightness or contraction around what happens, then you're revealing ego and shadow side. This can only be a GOOD thing because it shows where inner density constricts the flow of soul. So work into these situations to unleash soul internally through them - confront the distortions of fear, doubt and worry for example. What you then find is that the infusion of soul strengthens, and your creations flow more with the divine creation and get ever more accurate. But there's always flexibility in direction until the step actually lands.

Wishing you well

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Hi Megha, and to all reading, there is being awake to the soul, but then it's another pretty big leap to actually living in the flow of the soul. It's the stage of the 5GATEWAYS that I call "Realignment", where we surrender completely to soul-led decision making in life, which becomes a moment by moment process. The realisation has landed that there's nothing else that's truly authentic going on.

In the Openhand Philosophy, the purpose of the soul is to fully express itself in the crucible of life - what that really equates to is that the soul creates situations and circumstances to integrate through, to forge more authentic and aligned ways of being. It will likely be that in the system, this educational/evolving/integrational purpose of the soul coincides with the general activities of jobs, careers, relationships and some aspirations and desires for physical outcome. My observation is that physical outcomes will happen, but they happen in the most aligned and benefical way when they are as a product of self-realisation/self-actualisation.

So the key is to always be working to express authentically, and to unravel what you perceive as distortion (felt as tightness in any particular engagement - for which here at Openhand we apply the Breakthrough Approach).

This will lead to a flow of expression that creates things. In fact my observation is that it's infinitely more creative than the ego which is tied to particular threads of conditioning. But we have to be prepared to break apart the way decisions are usually made (from the ego perspective based on logic or emotion). Instead it is to soften into what I call the "consciousness landscape". Rather than creative situations being strictly linear, working toward specific outcomes and desires, there's an opening up to active attention, rather than fixed intention. So what happens is that at a soul level, you start to witness more of what's going on around you in the moment (because your perspective isn't so narrow and focussed). Parts of jigsaws start to spike in your awareness, which could be for the immediate choice in front of you, or days ahead, or weeks ahead, or even years ahead.

For example, right now I'm in the process of moving to a new house. A natural question seemed to pop up, "for how long will this be?" Practically immediately afterwards I'm seeing signs of "the next move", "flowing, flexible, nomadic". And then I'm seeing a particular type of car - the "yaris", and suddenly it clicks, "I'll be there for one year". That seems to land as a knowing, felt as a clear sense of 'clicking/spiking' in my awareness (you have to let go of a lot of mind led intention to feel this clicking/spiking of higher mind). Although it can't be certain until the moment lands, already it has a few distinct effects: (1) it has an direct impact on the beingness I feel to express - more fluid, more adventurous, more entrepreneurial; crucially I'm invited to embody this beingness right now, which begins to shape what possessions I keep or let go of (2) already that naturally colours the choices I make right now in furnishing the new place, for example, and the ridigity that I allow to form in terms of contracts etc (3) I'm already watching for signs to click into place for the next step, future landing now. But neither am I living in the future. I'm simply witnessing what spikes in my awareness, and allowing it to be in my consciousness landscape. I allow the soul to do the rest - I go with how it wants to express in relation to that new forming landscape.

In this way, it becomes much clearer what are actually soul led choices. You actually find that you can't make a choice that contravenes the energy.

To give an example, yesterday my biological family completed the sale of the old Openhand retreat house in Glastonbury. It was given to me to hand it over to the estate agent once the house had been cleared, which I duly did. But as I was leaving the town, something didn't feel right, and although feeling under time pressure to push on, nevertheless I felt a pull to go back, but for what, I didn't know. I just felt I should go back to the agent and check in with them one more time. Which I did. Synchronistically, as I arrived back at the agent, the new buyer was there at exactly that moment, whom I hadn't previously met. Instantly I realised the point - the retreat centre is on sacred ground, and it was essential that it be handed over person to person. Rather than it being very synthetic and sterile (through the agent), instead there was a soul to soul connection. The new buyer could feel the energy and love which had gone into the space, which I sensed was very important to how things were handed over. Upon completion, the pathway forwards then felt clear, and I was able to head on my way. It felt 'complete' and signs of 'completion' suddenly appeared all around me on trucks and billboards. Not only was future-landing-now, in that I could now move on, but also past had been unraveled. So I simply knew I was in the flow.

This is what I mean by the 'consciousness landscape'. Instead of coming from fixed intention to do things, or fixed timings and schedules, you're opening into active awareness around what is spiking in my field now? You won't necessarily immediately get what that's about, but the stronger soul infusion becomes, the more it is directly choosing to flow in that multidimensional landscape. You're embodying beingness now, and it becomes clear as inner feelings/knowings, of what is aligned - you simply cannot make contradictory choices - they simply don't feel right. So you're watching with active awareness and simply noticing what's showing up, trusting that there is meaning and purpose. And as you walk forwards in this landscape, it's like the Universe then clicks in under each step. You even get to feel an audible/perceived 'click' in the senses.

So this is what I mean about opening up the ego to coming from soul-led decision making - the "realignment".

See how that resonates.

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I love this video - Alan Watts has always had some great things to say.

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