Getting into Your "Flow State" with Openhand in Seattle

It was a fabulous last day here in Seattle - what a tremendous group of souls, from rich and diverse backgrounds, yet how incredibly well we harmonised. We surrendered to the process, dug deep through the layers, and came up beaming with big hearts and broad smiles. At the end, no one wanted to leave!

You all left an indelible mark in the Openhand heart. Travel well dear friends. See you down the flow...

Yesterday here in Seattle we were putting all aspects of the Openway spiritual compass together. By the application of higher dimensional meditation, and also tuning in deeply with mother nature, we harnessed the flow and allowed it to channel through. It's then all about the expression of this new emergent beingness and giving energy to it out into the world. Consciousness creates. Nothing creates like consciousness! And so what you express, begins to bend the space time continuum around you, from which pathways unfold, in your career, relationships and general living circumstances. To approach life in this way is highly alchemical, where even the subtlest and most gentle of expressions shape reality. We just need to apply the trust to let it come through.

The senses we touched yesterday we're profoundly beuatiful and magical - incredibly angellic. And because of this, it felt like our entire surroundings were speaking to us, including those in the ether around us supporting our individual journeys and the wider shift. It was deeply heart warming to experience.

Here's a snapshot from the day...

All different forms of meditation to take us deep: Scott & Betsy...

Lisette & Ann...

Shaman Ladies, "Birds of a Feather", Jami & Sandra...

Kyle coming into a blue ocean of peace...

Moving the Energy - always feeling deeply moved...

Afterwards, in the Garden of Eden, Dakota...

Into Light, Chad...

Into Light, Jami...

Magical Expansions...

To encourage your own inquiry into your authentic beingness and how it emerges into the world, I felt to share this video from our last gathering here in Seattle a couple of years ago. What do you notice? What resonates with you? Does it make sense?

Stunning! Obviously we're well tuned in

Hi Thomas & Megha - it's so lovely to have you share your experiences of the Flow State here, and breaking through the old identity layers.

We had a phenomenal day here yesterday on retreat in Seattle. When you contemplate the restrictions of the old layers of identity, the way you're used to doing things, the typical ways you relate to yourself, the stories you're constantly telling the world about yourself, then in meditation you can actually start to feel this as an energy inside. Then all you really have to do is decide it's time to let it go, to break the container wide open. Because everything is simply energy, that crystallises around what you believe it to be.

At this point yesterday (and you can join this meditation by taking time out and doing it yourself): I got people to imagine themselves as the beginnings of a small flower, a seed, that was encased in concrete, just as many are encased in the 'concrete' of society. I got them to crouch down low and feel the weight of it all bearing down. But not to react to it. Simply to honour it as an experience, an energy that they could feel.

Then I reminded them that the most gentle of flowers can break open the strongest concrete. All it need do is probe and find a crack, then to expand into it. So we felt into this pain body, we probed into it with new shoots of beingness, and then..... started to crack the concrete open. Then I got them to feel the concrete beginning to break down and turn to soil. The meditation was clearly tuned in with Gaia, because right at that point, it began to rain, which you could clearly hear and feel through the roof of the studio. We experienced being immersed in dissolving rain.

The next was to feel the new emergence of this flower, gentle but strong, humble but colourful, with diverse and vibrant aromas, reaching upwards to the sun, then to express this in movement that became dance. You can join in, it's time to let go of the old limiting container, time to break out of the concrete box they put you in, and dare to step forwards and be the vibrant frequency of light that you are...

Afterwards we went out into the rain, looked up to the heavens, and let it dance on our faces, cleansing away that which no longer served. It was magical!

Increasingly people are waking up and connecting with their soul - this is the first step towards truly coming from the soul (who they really are) in day to day life. So the next step is tuning into it and then following it as we've been discussing here thus far, and experiencing on retreat here in Seattle. But what happens after that? How does following the soul pay the bills in the 3D? And why do people lose trust in the Flow State? It's essential to realise what exactly happens when you truly step into the abode of the soul.

So progressively you transition to making more soul led choices in life - those choices that come from the landing of higher knowning, or just feel right in the heart, even if that goes against what people are saying and doing around you. To give you an example from the news today, people have been protesting in Australia against the meat industry because of the brutality in which it treats animals. They're being called 'criminals' by the Australian government and arrested. And there's a huge percentage of the population there who pay little regard to this and don't perceive the problem. Yet the soul in some people is still urging them to go against the outer reflections of society. So as you express soul, you will get resistance in the outer - you become a challenge to the accepted and 'normal' way of doing things.

What the contradictory external reflections often do though, is hit one's own inner density - fear perhaps of feeling ostracised or weird and way out. Perhaps it hits the places where we don't fully trust in our own unique experience and expression. As the soul journeys within, back to the source, then it pulls on all the places where we identify with the outer drama and go into some kind of contraction about it. This is where fragments of soul are breaking away, identifying, and fogetting connection to the One, to the source. So it feels like you hit a brick wall. The flow comes to a crashing halt, and in the beginning, trust begins to dissipate.

This is exactly the moment to persist! But what's necessary is a process for dealing with the blockage, reclaining the fragment of soul that was identifying with the drama, and unleashing the flow once more. It's essential that you confront these choke points as they come up - not to push them back down and surpress, otherwise you just end up recreating the old cycles and patterns of limitation. We need to turn into them, get inside the limiting loop, and break it open.

Here at Openhand we apply something like the Breakthrough Approach, and we've been using it to great affect here in Seattle. People are breaking through surface level identity and right down into the limiting source karma. So in summary, here's the Openhand Breakthrough Approach...

1) Confront the Truth of the Situation: what's going on here? What is truly being invited? What am I resisting? What outcome do I think I really need? What's the worst possible outcome and how do I really feel about that?

2) Honour and express the tightness: in allowing youself to explore the truth about any given situation, you'll expose some form of tightness within. It could reveal as a busy mind, unsettled emotions, nausea in the solar plexus, tightness somewhere in the body. And even a complete numbness can be classed as 'tightness'. The point is to delve deep, then to honour what comes up. Allow yourself to fully express the tightness, in whatever way your natural guidance invites of you. It's like you blow this inner layer up to fill the world around you for a while. It enables you to see where you were holding on, where you felt you needed some form of outcome, what couldn't you accept? Where have you been in avoidance?

3) Become as-one with your feelings: When you're at the height of the expression, now soften into the feelings, surrender into them, quieten and let go. Become so accepting of the cirucmstances you don't need them to go away. Hold the feelings within - be witnessing and observant. You're becoming as-one with the experiences. When you've reached this level of surrender, then 'open a doorway' of complete acceptance through the tightness. Remind yourself that you are NOT the exprience itself and that all experiences are transient. They come and go. Thus you're becoming The One in the experience - that which you truly are.

4) Unwind soul out of the constriction: once you've become so accepting that you've found The One amidst the tightness, contraction and pain, you're already at the point where you're healing; you're already digging up the roots of the constriction. Let go even more at this point. But then keenly watch the new energies of soul wanting to come through. You're reclaiming nuggets of soul gold that were originally stuck in the drama and creating the tightness itself. Let that now unwind, unleash and freely express new aspects of soul. Now the flow takes off for you, and the newly liberated soul creates in unimaginable ways. Yihah!

The Breakthrough Approach is strsightforward to state, but not necessarily easy to apply. It takes practice, application and commitment. But when done so, it's a tremendously alchemical way of processing blockages and unleashing the soul. It's highly transformation for your reality, because unleashed authentic consciousness is the only thing that can truly change the patterns. And you discover that the space-time-continuum then bends around your new configuration of consciousness - yes, it can most definitely now pay the bills! Except that you do it in a different way - you're not grasping 'out there' to control and manipulate. You're working within to unleash authentic beingness and this then naturally manifests around you.

The Openhand Breakthrough Book is an epic true life story of the spiritual seeker Chris Bourne, what he faced in his journey of awakening and how the Breakthrough Approach came naturally to him over time.

It's a powerful story and sure to speak directly into many of the challenges you face in your life on the path.

I wish you all well with your breakthroughs!

Open

We spent a wonderful day here in Seattle on retreat yesterday - helping people to get into the magical "Flow State". How do you do that?

Here are 8 pointers...

1) Become the Observer of yourself in all that you're doing, and simply begin to witness your feelings and inner experience
2) Notice where tightness comes up in daily interactions and begin to let go into the tightness, letting go of the need for any kind of outcome
3) Meditate daily, using breathwork and conscious bodywork of some kind. Connect as often as possible with nature
4) Develop breathwork (like the Openhand Breakthrough Breathing) that connects you with your core inner self - the sense of 'rightness' of the soul
5) In your meditations, get to feel and know the tightness of the 'pain body'. It's there to be worked with (using something like the Breakthrough Approach), but don't allow it to define you as who you are
6) Let the soul begin to express through you, as a sense a feeling and perception. Practice letting it just move you, first in stillness, but then also to music that motivates you
7) Look for the feeling sense of rightness of the soul, and start to come from that place more in day to day life. Respond to the inner pull (especially if 'inconvenient), and look for authentic expression to come from there.
8) pay attention to supportive signs and synchronicity - attune to the feedback loops the Universe is building with you

Above all, enjoy!

Open

Great to hear from you Jen - we're having a wonderful time here in Seattle, very alchemical and all digging deep, responding wonderfully. And I can feel you here with us

Your example of developing the garden summed up the flow state perfectly...

giving 100% to what it is that's being created but without any need around it...no pressure, yet there is drive and will...relaxed, yet engaged. 

And absolutely fantastic about the change in the Florida law on the Front garden - perhaps a bursting of the dam?!

Much love

Open

When you move into the Flow State, where you've let go of the need for an outcome, that doesn't mean that you accept anything goes. It doesn't mean that you move into some wishy washy state that lolls around and doesn't create anything. In fact the reverse is true.

When you open up to receive the flow of the Universe, down from the dimensions, and through you, then new creative possibilities follow. But crucially, these become more the expression of authentic beingness. You might stay in your job, but approach it a different way and find it more rewarding and successful. You might look at your relationships with more personal responsibility and so transform them. And by accepting that from the infinite potential anything can happen, then you'll be encouraged to take risks on new ventures and possibilities.

So you actually start creating more, the crucial thing being, it's more aligned, rewarding and fulfilling.

Open

Here in Seattle, we start the formal work later this morning, where I'll be talking about the flow state and helping people get into it through breath, the deeo inner inquiry and movement to inspirational music.

So what does it mean to be in the "Flow State"?

From the Openhand Perspective, here are 9 key characteristics...

1) Letting go of the need of an outcome: you move into a place of complete acceptance of the moment. You may be engaged in things, but the key is to let go of any fixation around "this must be done" or "it must look like this or like that". What this does, is open your consciousness up and expands you out more so that you can feel subtle nuances and senses coming through.

2) Incorporation of Breath and Movement: at Openhand we apply the Breakthrough Breathing to get more into an open flow state, and also movement, allowing the body to move freely, often to music. So you're feeling relaxed and at ease. It's as if you become more of a flow in the things that you do.

3) Alert Attentiveness: even though you're relaxed and flowing, there's an alert attentiveness to what's going on. In fact exactly because you're not efforting for a particular goal or objective, then you can be more aware of everything going on around you.

4) Being in The Moment:  when you're accepting your interconnectivity with the Universe, you move more into a place of trust. It means you become more engaged in the moment, attentive to what's going on around you and right under your nose. You come into the infinite potential of the Universe. Time seems to slow right down in the moment, yet hours can flash by in what seems like a short space of time.

5) Focus on Beingness: focus shifts more from what you have to do, and into how to "be" in this moment. The soul starts to animate through you and come through in different expressions, resonances and harmonies. You find yourself being more expressive and alive. It feels magical simply to express, and the moment becomes more about this. There's a curiosity and excitement about how much more there is of you that you can express and be.

6) The State of "No-mind": the mind becomes still and quiet. You can express through the mind, but you're not identified with it. It's more that you're acting through it. It's like the mind becomes transparent, like the sky, where thoughts float cross it like clouds.

7) The Five Senses Heighten: when you're being present and engaged fully in the moment, and where the mind is quiet, then you start to feel more through the five senses. It's like the full spectrum of colour and senibility intensify and heighten.

8) Higher Dimensional Guidance: because you're being more attentive and aware, then you're opening up to guidance flowing in from your own higher self, from guides in the ether and from signs and synchronicity in the flow itself. It starts to feel like everything is speaking to you. You feel divinely supported and blessed by the Universe

9) Creativity shapes around Beingness: because you've opened up into the fullness of the moment, then space time starts to shape and bend around you. You start to create more from beingness. Each situation that you've been engaged within, in relationships, jobs and general living circumstances, start to transform. The patterns of engagement change. Different objectives and goals start to flash in, ones that are more aligned with the core of who you are. As you step positively into them with authentic self expression, then more Right Action and Right Outcomes happen - things start to click in much more.

I'm intrigued to hear - do you recognise any of this? What's your experience of the Flow State?

I'd like to expand on the crucial difference between surrender and acceptance of anything goes. They are not the same!

I witness there's often the trap on the spiritual path to let go, which initially feels great, but then not making a positive commitment in the direction of the soul's calling.

When you let go to the pull of the soul, it will take you to confront all your comfort zones, all your fears about taking a particular path and choices. Because the soul is wanting you to be a liberated and unbridled expression of The One.

So first there's a letting go into the mainstream of soul. But then there's following the emergence of soul and confronting the density that gets in the way - where tightness closes you down.

That's not the end of the story though. We must now allow the soul to come fully through and express, in all the things we do, as a sense of rightness in the moment. Then to watch for the positive feedback loops. If all you get is negativity from those around you, if they don't expand you and amplify your new sense of beingness, then you'll need to look at where you're focussing your attention and bulk of your time.

Ideally you're looking for positive feedback loops that amplify and nurture the expression of your soul. Who are the people that resonate on your vibe and help animate that? What are the environments that actively encourage you and propell you forwards?

Put attention on these - give time to then. Then the new landscape will grow and encourage new development of self. It leads to a life of fulfillment and joy.

Open

That sounds tremendous Vimal - good for you.

I always did get the sense that being too consumed within an old consciousness was thwarting the full emergence of you. It sounds like you're now creating a landscape where you can thrive much more.

I think allowing this new landscape to create is critical. It's easy to confuse surrender and acceptance with acceptance of 'anything goes'. Rather than letting the boldness and adventure of the masculine ray 1 come through too. That way you create positive feedback loops with the Universe and create a life that's uplifting, rewarding and fulfilling.

Awesome

Open

If anyone was to ask me what Openhand is really about, I'd say: "It's connecting people with their True Self, so as to come into the natural flow of the Universe, which connects them with higher dimensional consciousness". For me personally, there is nothing to compare, it's a constant daily practice, 24/7.

The flow speaks through your soul. When you're in it, you can feel it when typing on a key board, doing the washing up, brushing your teeth, mowing the lawn - even in these apparently small 'mundane' actions. There's a rightness in everything, because everything has come into being from Unity Consciousness - the light flows through all.

When we pick up the sensation of rightness, where you know everything is clicking in around you with deeper purpose, then destiny is being fulfilled. Reason, meaning and purpose all converge.

So, I felt to encourage an inquiry with you all whilst running this Living the Shift retreat in Seattle.

Let's kick off - what does it actually feel like within when you're in this flow state?

Blessings

Open