So many people live within the mind and identify with it. Or rather they've formed all manner of identites and fixed neural programming within it. This is their 'baseline' in life. But it is a humungous illusion! One that plays out time and time again every day, in all the routines that people live. It's highly limiting and conditioning. Plus the mind adds positive and negative value to experiences that befall us (judgments). And so you can be easily bashed around - victimised - by the twists and turns of fate. That's why it's utterly essential to find this "Sacred Ground of Being" within, that I discussed in my lead article above (scroll to the top).

The Sacred Ground of Being is more the quintessence of you. It's your core beingness that you encounter as you travel to the source within. It's where all truly authentic action arises from. It's utterly invaluable as the centredness around which to form your life.

As you do the inner work through meditation and spiritual practice you'll progressively get tasters of this: expansiveness, timelessness, love, centredness, calm, peace, joy, happiness and a sense of belonging. It will also likely come with intuitions and coloured light or a sense of being held by the Universe.

In the beginning, these feelings will likely come and go. Because as you touch this creative source, then the soul flows and takes you into external activity (providing the ego is not resisting). That's when conditioning, programmed density and karmic source pain will be projected into the 'soup'. The Sacred Ground of Being, as a feeling sense, is masked and blocked out. Hence the importance of having something like Openhand's Breakthrough Approach to unravel you back out again.

As you progress down this pathway of self-realisation and realignment, be prepared that it is going to feel highly destablising at times, mentally, emotionally and physically as you transform the landscape of how you're living - switching more to a life of authenticity. So although straightforwards, don't expect it to be easy!

One essential key is to be aware of the value the mind places on external experiences, both positive and negative. These are mostly judgments, and highly limiting, because they continue to define you as an identity in relation to them. So keep working to soften the grip of the mind by coming progressively into this core Sacred Ground of Being (the Breakthrough Meditation is designed to connect people more with that felt sense).

As you progressively break the control of the mind, you'll find you can more readily use it as the valuable tool that it is, rather than controlling the show!

Namaste

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