Openhand La Palma New Year Retreat...Through the Ether

Hey Nils - glad you had a good experience

The point about misfits, is that it refers more to not fitting into the control system.

I'm sure that defines plenty of us!

Open

I had a lot of fun making this video from our marvellous retreat on La Palma, with some clips from the group, some help from the ravens, dolphins and even the Queen!...

It's impossible to put into words what we experienced here in La Palma on retreat this year. So much energy shifted, so many break throughs, such wonderful soul emergence. It's been both humbling and thrilling to host and be a part of. Thankyou to everyone tuning in - you helped make it special too.

We are all blessed!...

Such a magical memories...

Angels Michelle & Rich...

More angels...

All angels...

Angels and Orbs...

Pure joy...

A Magical Group of Misfits!...

We're feeling great vibrations here in the group as we prepare to head off down to the airport. It's impossible to put words to the feeling of upliftment. So here's a song that came to me which best captures the sense of it, as people prepare to leave the island, which I felt to share with you all tuning in....

We spent a tremendous final day together yesterday, free wheeling various places around this beautiful island. The main orientation, which naturally arose, was to form a connection with your own "Tribe" or soul family vibration. There are groups of beings in the ether for each of us, that you can work with to remind you of your own soul frequency. These groups have come from across the cosmos to support humanity in the great shift that is unfolding across the earth.

We're looking for aligned frequency in nature, in colours, aromas, sounds and deep resonant feelings. What is is that brings you into your sense of 'rightness'? Pay attention to these activities and then use the meditations (the Breakthrough Breathing for example) to form a sense of higher connection. Open your heart and invite your tribe to support you. Then watch for the subtle interplays and perceptions that go on around you. Go forwards with active attention. You'll create a bridge to them, and in any given situation, they'll help remind you of aligned beingness that will help you mediate through.

Here's a sense of that from yesterday here on the retreat...

"Where are you?" Here! "What time is it? Now! "Who are you?" This moment!...

Trecking into the Volcano...

Time for deep soulful connections...

The "Talking Stone", an ancient shamanic practice: pick up the first stone that draws your attention. What animal do you first see? Dragon for example. Then simply state: "Dragon says...."

Connecting with your tribe...

Heike, forming a bridge...

Kev - becoming the mountain!...

Sometimes that divine connection is just too much!...

End of the day on the beach - soul family through the stones...

Hi Yulia,

Sounds like you had a really good and productive day - it very much mirrored our final day here on La Palma - enjoyable free wheeling, lots of 'treasure' and connection. What you shared here stood out...

Then I had this question - I feel stuck and clumsy in so many aspects, there is this internal conflict so often, how do I make sure I don't miss the tune. I just could see there is no perfection in the grounded reality, not in this fountain too. So it is okay not to be perfect. I feel so guilty for not being perfect, for making mistakes, for hurting myself and people in my life in some way, having some negative impact. But it is a part of learning here, for us all. The point is to act and then learn.

"How do I make sure I don't miss the tune?" Perfect question indeed.

I find the challenge of the soul here is in the fact that in complete authenticity it's not actually choosing. It's just flowing. So it will inquire around density as it will around lightness. The 'problem' being that if we emerse too much in the densities here, you can get easily submerged and kind of bounce around in it. Assuming then that there's a yearning to find the fullness of 'your tune' in any given situation, what helps is to have a way of finding your aligned orientation - a commitment to it. With this in mind, I've found the connection to one's higher dimensional "Team" invaluable - meaning a connection to your soul family in the ether. Because they'll remind you of your 'tune'.

I find what happens is you build more of the higher dimensional vibes into this landscape here. It makes the aligned orientation easier. Maybe something to explore.

Open

Yesterday was the last day of formal 'work' here in La Palma - we conducted various meditations to support the release of kundalini and to activate the spirit light body. Of course this is an ongoing process of the journey leading to the pinnacle of experience here in human form - so the likelihood is that these experiences will build over time as the inner work is conducted. It will eventually lead to the new 5D human DNA configuration in a New Paradigm of Being on 5D earth - of course that is our main 'mission' here at Openhand and so it's something we'll progressively explore and share as we sail forwards through the Shift. Here's an overview on where this is leading to in a recent lead article...
5D Shift: How will the New Evolution of 5D Human DNA take Form?

Lots of shifts of consciousness have taken place here through the retreat. It's been quite amazing how deep the group have gone and how much authentic soul consciousness has been unveiled. Whenever you make some shift like this through the inner work, that's simply bound to reflect into the outer - the outer shapes around the inner configuration. So then the key is to be witnessing the new landscape that shapes through signs and synchronicity. The witnessing of patterns and interplays helps you embody the new consciousness as a way of being. And so it progressively shapes a new harmonious reality where you're living and creating with the flow. So this will be what the last part of the gathering will be all about which I invite you to join in on. Here at Openhand we call it "free wheeling".

Day 5: Assignment - free wheeling

Free wheeling honours the fact that the soul is yearning to flow freely; that it is not invested in the outcome, but simply yearning to express the fullness of itself to witness through feedback loops with the outer. As the embodied energy of the soul builds, then life becomes increasingly magical and miraculous.

The key is to be open to this flow, and moving with active attention, rather than any fixed intention. So set yourself aside some free time today and tomorrow - whatever space you can make. Begin in meditation to feel an opening up. It works best from the sense of relaxed openness, adventure and curiosity. So reflect on times when you felt that way and let the sense of this state come through you. When you're ready, let the pull simply take you. "The Pull" might first begin as a flash of inspiration or a vision - go in this direction now. Or else it will be a pull through the heart. Let this move you. At each twist and turn, at each junction, work not to pre plan, but allow flexibility and spontaneity to guide the flow. And then notice what your attention is drawn to. If there's a strong resonance to what you see, then pause and feel the sense of it inside. For example, if you see something in nature, a creature, a cloud formation, or the metaphor in a sign or symbol, simply reflect on how that's making you feel inside. Then when you're ready, take off again. I also call it "treasure hunting". You're hunting synchronistic treasure from the Universe. And it becomes simply divine.

What treasure might you find today?

Open

Dragons in the sky on Day 3!...

Heike - stepping out from behind the camera, blessed by an orb...

Kev, blessed by sunshine...

Toni, blessed by the pool!...

Meanwhile Michelle is blessed by a cactus!...

Lesley, letting it all go...

Penny, taking some chill time...

Armi - sunshine activating endorphins...

Mr Tibbs, getting some crafty shade under Nils...

Hannah, softening into the mountain...

Speaking of the mountain, can you see "Isla Bonita?" - the lady's face lying down?...

It was a tremendously emotive day yesterday here in La Palma. It would be impossible to describe the unfoldings and how deep things went. We were unwinding through the karma of Atlantis, the destruction of that civilisation. And then journeying through to 'the other side'. Realising previously dormant aspects of self, in other forms completely - being embodied as a dolphin for example. How extraordinary. How amazing. Awe inspiring to be a part of. What must it be like to swim as a dolphin? On Friday we'll get close to them as people travel out on a boat trip. It's bound to be deeply moving.

To get to this place, we had to drop through many layers though. Layers of inner child and inner teenager for example - programs building into filters that then fixate you into reality a particular way. But once you can feel these filters as not you, then it becomes easier to unravel through them in meditation. I've shared the general Openhand Meditation approach to this in the book 5GATEWAYS. It's helpful also to read and understand the nature of these inner identity filters because it explains why our reality can be so fixed and limited, AND ALSO, with commitment, we can readily break them apart. Here's the Openhand lead article on that, but I would also recommend getting the book if you resonate with the inquiry and don't already have it...
Unwinding Inner Identities as an 'Engine' for Enlightenment

The process softens up the pain body so that consciousness can expand more into the 4D, into karma, and then beyond that into higher dimensional experiences. This can be done progressively. The dimensions are all interrelated, so the likelihood is you'll go back and forth between different dimensional experiences and processes until the false self ego completely drops away. So my recommendation is to go with the experience that is presenting. If there's something to process then work it through. But also to say, take time out from the deep processing of density - don't get stuck in it, or wallowing in it. Give time and space for consciousness to expand into more harmonious experience - resting in acceptance and simple happiness - the peace of not efforting.

So today I felt to encourage that. So here's the assignment for anyone tuning in and wanting to take part...

Day 4 Assignment: what brings you joy? How do you activate endorphins?

Endorphins naturally break down the physical apsect of density from processing - they eject negative neuropeptides from your cells, and thus make you feel good. This relaxed sensation of feelings good can be a great vehicle for the soul to rest and shift into higher dimensions of harmony. Here's Openhand's lead article on endorphins that includes 8 ways to generate them. So there's the assignment today - do something that activates endorphins and let the dense processing go...

The Uplifting Effect of Endorphins...and 8 ways to generate them

Then do come back and share your experience!

Open

Hi Marije - clearly you've got a really good handle on the current challenge - what the dynamic is. But likely there are a couple of keys to find to come to peace with it all.

Firstly, when we move into enlightenment, there is no 'infinite peace' as an experience. There is still the process, of the universe constantly moving and unwinding. So I would say there needs to be a gentleness with oneself over this. There's no requirement to figure it all out, to know it all. Again, there needs to be a resting in the process, which leads to a resting in the Void. Just to allow. And to be.

Possibly here is another key in what you said at the end...

I had question though, can any 'obstructions' in our authentic flow eventually always be traced back to some karmic roots?

After karma, there is finding harmony between the rays (of consciousness), some of which can conflict in given situations and create eddy currents which can be a degree like karma. So for example the ray 1 catalytic principle might conflict with the ray 4 of compassion. By working with them, you would find the right harmony of expression in given situations - how to blend them. So this can create challenge too.

Possibly you're being moved in seemingly contradictory ways in given situations. A need possibly to soften one way and let the other come through stronger. But always resting with the inquiry - not needing the 'answer'. Letting it just happen more.

Open

Hi Yulia - yes the exploration of death can lead to the beautiful dropping of the illusion, indeed. I can recall (consciously) travelling onto the very edge of the void, as a deep deep well. And the pull to simply sink into it and dissolve out - how tremendous for the noise and busyness, the constant creation just to simply dissipate and soften into infinite peace.

Was there any ownership of this? And it's the question I ask you now.

As I was about to dissolve out, I 'heard' something. Not with ears of course. But it was an umistakable pull 'through the heart' (not a physical heart of course). It drew back to more experience, to shared experience, and a recognition that there were others still suffering from the illusion. It wasn't a decision as such. Just the arising of soul. And that's the key - where there's no ownership, the soul happens by itself. And when its always happening by itself, then there can be resting in the Void too. The eye of the storm.

Open

Those who know the Openhand work know that we always use music to move energy at the right moment - the field just picks the tracks that touch deeply within and help to unravel. This song came up yestreday and moved us deeply - I felt to share it with you.

When you're working through density and especially karma, it can feel pretty lonely at times. Know that you are never alone! There is always support in the ether around you. And always an invitation to connect to the deepest source of you....keep your eyes on me

We had another marvellous day here in La Palma - we got deep into the pain body, working with it to soften it up. Now this can take years to eventually clear, but what you can do quickly, is to clearly disassiociate from it - the energy of the work causes you to feel it, but then with illumination, you clearly recognise it is not you. As the energy resonates around you, you start to feel the soul as you causality of being more than the ego. This is where the pain body starts to soften much more quickly and where there can be deep unravellings.

Where the pain body starts to soften in this way, and where we're disassociating from it, then the roots of it will start to expose themselves. These will most often be karmic roots - past life karma. Let's be clear about what karma is from the Openhand perspective for anyone reasonably new tuning in. There is no such things as 'good' or 'bad' karma! We don't get good karma by doing good things - this is distorted thinking in relation to the law of cause and effect. Karma is where the soul attaches to life experience and then fragments - we identify with the experience which causes an internal eddy current around it and builds blocking energy, just like an eddy current in a stream collecting debris. It could be for example the trauma involved in passing on - being killed suddenly on a battlefield for example. Yesterday one of the participants went into the shock if this. Often what happens is the soul goes out of body in these events but leaving a fragment in the trauma. The soul could be floating above the battlefield, disconnected from the experience yet part of it still stuck by the sense of shock.

What's necessary here is to regress into the experience and to normalise in it by allowing it to be. Then the shock (being the karma in this case) would start to dissolve. The fragment of soul reintegrates and the trauma is released.

It's essential to recgonise that this karma will have created constantly through this lifetime. For example, where something uncomfortable or unpleasant happens, suddenly popping out of body and into the 4D - you disconnect from the moment so you can't fully engage in it. I see this happening a lot to people. Hence the need to activate and get into the karma.

Karma will begin to activate only once the pain body has softened to some degree. And then it might begin only as a subtle vibration, which could easily be ignored. But if you pay attention to the threads revealing themselves in meditation, then it starts to activate in your life so you can unravel it. This is entirely necessary if we are to move with the shift. It's the reason we're here in the first place.
Explore this 9 step Openhand healing approach for dealing with subconscious trauma and karma

Assignment for Today

So today, I invite all tuning in to have an exploration of what karma truly is, where it might be active in your life, and how it might be influencing the show. What patterns are you constantly repeating? These most often point to karma and why they can be so challenging to work through.

Feel free to share the patterns here, and I'll work to offer a reflection.
For people newish to the Openhand Approach, here's an understanding on the nature of karma...
Understanding the Nature of Karma
 

Hi Marije - great to have you connect - your energy is most welcome, and somehow it feels like you're here.

Ah yes, the pain body, a pretty much perfect expression of it in your words. I'm sure many would recognise.

And you know well how to get into that and process it. To keep feeling the contracting touch points inside. Thread by thread it starts to pull apart - but in these moments it's going to be challenging, because those anchoring threads reflect out into life, into our relationships for example. And whereas before we accepted blind and unconscious actions - a co-dependency between states in people - now we know that such unconsciousness is not acceptable to the unfusing soul we can feel. Hence the challenge and discomfort.

But the only way out is through! Through the challenges, through the inquiry, through the cauldron. Whatever choice I'm resisting, work to take that direction anyway and then work into what comes up. What often helps is this...

To realise that every distortion is a distortion of truth. Meaning distorted behaviour is a distortion of one of the rays of expression. So for example slipping into self judgment would be a distortion of the inquiring ray 3 - "what is real right now?" "what am I being invited to do?" Or, "where is the right boundary for my expression?"

The problem here is the ego looking for a simple answer - "do this". And then ties itself in knots because the answer doesn't come! Instead, it's about allowing the inquiry. Allowing the question to create of it's own accord. Most essentially, in any given tightness in the moment, is to recognise the tightness is where you need to be, but then immediately to work to soften and open out through it. This creates the space for an authentic ray of the soul to emerge. You find yourself already starting to express. Natural choices then create from the expression.

Yes, this will bush buttons in the people around you who want and need an expected behaviour from you. At some point though, you'll come to the realisation that carrying this weight just isn't worth it. It's not worth it for you or them. When you decide to set it down, then recognising the tightness and immediately unwinding through to reveal right action becomes a whole lot easier.

Open

Hi Yulia - yes I can see that the surrendering has brought a deep level of acceptance and has been necessary. And not to force any ray 1. In what you write however, I still think there's an important key in it.

You wonder if there's an end to all the constant processing?

In my experience, life becomes a process - a constant process of unwinding through. This can be intense, yes, because of the density here. But when there's acceptance of it, then for me at least, it all just happens (almost) by itself. So for example, a tightness from the field will sweep over me and maybe cause a tightened density inside of me. Immediately there's a turning into it. I don't have to think about that. The ray 3 inquires, the ray 2 feels, the ray 1 goes to work. There's an inquiring exploration, an unwinding working to expand through. It might feel tiring and there might be concern that you won't get to the bottom of it. Whose concern is that? So there's a deeper ray 2 letting go in it. The rays work together. And before you know it, the density has fallen away. This is how I find I'm given to catalyse and work the field. Something like this happened to me last night, as I picked up a connection to the elders here and their feeling of injustice and persecution at the hands of the invading Spanish conquistadors.

So my reflection back to you is still to inquire and explore for a new attunement of the lower rays. See what the universe says, if you get a reflection.

Open

Here are some photos from the first day, as we went deep into the layers...

Kev, going deep...

Armi, Sam & Toni...

Deep guided journeying...

Lesley coming into deep presence...

Free flowing movement...

Nils, freedom unleashed...

We had a great day here in La Palma yesterday - doing deep within, breaking down the bounds of illusionary reality, coming deeper into the sense of pure presence.

However, almost immediately you do that, you're going to encounter the "pain body". What is this?

The soul infuses the various layers of the bodymind - the various dimensions - through the chakras. But then it attaches in various places where it identifies with reality. Where you might identify with the physical for example around exsistential matters such as money; or else in the emotional layers where you might attach in relationships. And so the soul fragments into these layers which creates pain. Society teaches us to block the pain out through distraction or soft comfort. And so whole identies build around the placation of this pain and inner tightness. This forms all manner of internal interrelations and loops of distorted behaviour programs which people then play out again and again in daily life. We can call this phenomenon collectively the "pain body".

As soon as you start to meditate in a deep way, you're going to hit this, and it's necessary to attain liberation. The way we approach this at Openhand is to invoke it through meditation. Using the Breakthrough Breathing we go deep into the layers until the pain becomes active. This is the shell of identity that is the pain body. It's then about exploring the various hooks that are attaching you. So in joining us, I would ask you to explore these questions...

1. When you look at the reality you're creating in your daily life, in what ways do you need it to go a particular way?
2. What are you unable to accept?
3. What actions do you know you really should take (as coming from the soul), but avoid, because of fear of the outcome?

What if you couldn't control the reality at all? What fears would come up and how would you feel them? Get rght into the contemplation and feel the tightness - this is what's creating ego identity and limiting you from the full liberation and free flow of soul.

Once you've taken time to feel the tightness, then you can use the Breakthrough Approach to unwind it. I've shared various outlines and guidances with meditations in this part of Openhand's 5D Shift Project... The Breakthrough Approach

When you get skilled at progressively confronting and breaking through the layers of the pain body, you can use something like the Openhand Bow to quickly clear density. The Pain Body ultimately breaks down, the ego identity dissolves, but you'll still have density to work through because of the fragmentation of the pain body - this needs to be cleared on all the various levels.

Explore the Openhand Bow for breaking down this inner density... The Openhand Bow

So I encourage all tuning in to explore what resistances are coming up for you now, in relation to the various activities of your daily life - visulise them, breathe into them, regress into them and feel the tightness. What might you be attaching to? How do you need it to go a certain way? Can you now accept that you cannot control and let it all go? Use the Bow to let it all unwind.

In loving support

Open

Hi Sergi - it's good to see you here. Yes I too am sorry you weren't able to make it. But at least you can join us etherically here - and you're most welcome. So I invite you to consider the inquiries and see how they relate to your situation.

Wishing you well

Open

For me yesterday was concluded on the La Palma Volcano with one of life's peak experiences. I'd been seeing the numerology 22 all day, which speaks to me of the Twin Flame experience - holding and embracing the Twin Flame energy in your being creates all manner of miracles and magic. So when we came to leave the volcano yesterday, I saw one of the Ravens from a previous trip here, that lives on the mountain top. So I felt to get some food to feed it with. It was then simply amazing to feel it's partner land on my head! And then the other jump on my arm. At one point, we were looking eye to eye. It's like I could see through the Raven into eternity. To me, the Raven provides the medicine of magic, and I'm certainly feeling that around me at this time. It's a beautiful experience to behold...

It's early oclock on Day 1 of the La Palma Retreat. Outside it's still dark as I'm writing, which means the sky is bedecked with stars - that's the wonderful thing here, the sky is so clear that it's a world observatory. They stop planes flying over the island to keep things clear. Right over my cabin is the plough, which I always see as an ecouragement to get down to the work. And so we shall!

Step1: Openhand Ascension Meditation

I would first suggest applying the Openhand Ascension meditation, which invites people into a deeply relaxed and surrendered state, opening out into multidimensional awareness, so as to be able to pick up subtle awarenesses and perceptions. You can freely access the meditation at this link... Openhand Ascension Meditation.

Step 2: Exploring Your Current Life Situation

The next thing is that I'll be getting the group to explore their current situation in life around these three questions...

1. What are the consistent patterns that are presenting right now?
2. What might be blocking you from moving forwards?
3. What gifts of beingness might be being invited to move forwards with?

Don't worry if you can't answer them all right now. The important thing is a deep contemplation and an invitation to the Universe to, "show me!". A good thing to do would be to write down your responses. And if you wish to get a reflection from me, go ahead and share a summary here.

Step 3: Deep Inquiry into the Nature of Self

Next, after we've done this, I'll be taking people into a deep meditative contemplation of the nature of the self. Even if you've explored this before, it pays to keep doing it, because as you dig deeper on your inner journey, the perception is likely to keep shifting. Here's and Openhand lead article to support your inquiry...
Void of Silence

And then to support this part of the inquiry, I would suggest downloading the Openhand Breakthrough Breathing Meditation. It is specifically designed to bring you into this deep witnessing observation of the various layers of perception...
Openhand Breakthrough Breathing

Do share whatever experiences and perceptions come up, and I'll tune in at the end of the day to share any reflections/feedback.

Good to have you with us!

Open

Hi Marije & Erica - great to have you tune in.

Erica - I'm aware that you've been going through a deep and challenging process for sure - it's great credit to you that you're able to work it through and find clarity through it - to appreciate the gifts.

Yes, I agree, the shadow side is necessary in order to find alignment - ultimately enlightenment. However, what I'm cleary witnessing is a strong avoidance of the realignment on the part of the mainstream, fueled by the behind the scenes intervention. I witness plenty being caused to avoid the transcendence.

Best wishes

Open

We've had an absolutely tremendous first 'acclimatisation' day here on La Palma, picking up the vibes, travelling up the Volcano to meet the undesputed King and Queen of the mountain:

Some of the group arriving - it's all love!...

First supper, a veritable feast...

Even the chocolate desert is doing the Torus!...

Up at El Time, the lookout...

It's coffee break time, "look, my hands aren't shaking, honest!"...

Penny, the lady in Red...

Lunch time at the market...

Up on the Volcano, indescribable expansive peace...

Hannah, above the clouds, a taste of Nirvana!...

Heike, feeling the vibes...

Michelle & Toni, looking cool...

Nils, deep feelings of joy...

The undesputed King and Queen of the Mountain!...

If you'd like to register an account on Openhandweb so as to be able to take part in the sharings for our virtual retreat, then go to this link and complete the form...

https://www.openhandweb.org/user/register

I've been talking about 2020 marking a crossroads of direction - the New Paradigm separating from the old. And I've felt given to share a good deal last year concerns about the mainstream being pulled into an alternate synthetic reality based on Smart, 5G and AI. Just before coming away to La Palma, at a visit to the local cinema, I saw this video by the telecoms provider EE - it perfectly represents the conditioning that the mainstream is being sucked into. As the audience lapped it up, I was pretty shocked by it. I felt to share because it's everything that the Shift back to realigned living is NOT about. What are your thoughts?...

The guests are flying into La Palma today to join us for our New Year Retreat, where they'll spend the rest of the weekend acclimatising with the vibration. Just to get you in the mood for joining us and feeling the vibration yourself, here's a video I shot at the retreat centre last year, joined by "Mr Tibbs", the resident cat who clearly wanted to appear on film!...