01/02/2025 Shift Insight: Delayed Gratification

Here at Openhand we speak regularly about not attaching to goals or outcomes, but instead, celebrating the process itself (review here). However, there's also something essential in this, when you're committing to an evolutionary path. It's about motivation - which is also going to be essential for spiritual growth. Having the daily commitment to forge soul is going to require us to be motivated. And that's why having goals and objectives is still important.

In other words...

You sense the higher knowing, or feel the pull, to head in a certain direction, or else to fulfill something (a piece of creativity for example), it's utterly essential to honour that impulse and commit to it. Even though the flow may diverge due to synchronicities. It's about being charged and motivated, just for the path itself, yet also, enjoying the rewards of the divine feedback loop, where everything clicks in (check out the power of divine feedback loops).

Art of Delayed Gratification

In order to maintain commitment and flow, in order to connect up these constant loops of interrelating creativity, I've found that it helps enormously to develop the art of "Delayed Gratification". It means transforming your consciousness to enjoy the pursuit itself, as opposed to always relying on the completion of the goal.

A basic example of this is food and intermittent fasting. Regular fasting is proven to be good for the body, where it can better heal, detox, replenish and rejuvenate (that's why 18/6 intermittent fasting is a great practice: 18 hours fasting in each given 24hr period). But it's also great spiritually, because it frees up consciousness to expand into other higher vibrational vehicles - the 4D astral body and higher mind, for example. That said, for anyone who practices it regularly, you'll know you hit hunger pangs at key times - I tend only to eat one meal a day and it's often just a few hours after eating, where the hunger pangs might kick in, and I'll find myself, at times, longing for a snack. Now here's the point about Delayed Gratification...

Where you push through these barriers, where there's the desire for an immediate comfort or completion, and extend them right out - so you go onto complete the fast, or complete the project despite tiredness, for example, then several dynamics kick in: 1) You forge spiritual power 2) You actively improve levels of motivation 3) You build your reservoir of dopamine, which makes you feel good, in a physical sense.

Now something else happens: you start to feel good BECAUSE of the feeling of delayed gratification - you know the challenge and the feeling of abstinance is good for you. Now you're enjoying BOTH the abstinence AND the completion, the "treasure hunt" and its successful conclusion.

My point being: you start to positively enjoy the experience of Delayed Gratification, even though it is uncomfortable when you're in it. Now you can even transform the feeling of hunger pangs into feeling good about yourself because you know it's doing you good - at the very least, in that feeling itself, you'll be shedding unwanted or unnecessary fat, for example.

You Are Presence

It is important to say, that who you are is the presence, the Sacred Ground of Being which is untouched by anything of the physical. However, you are also here in the physical, having a physical experience. This is about forging spiritual will, drive and motivation, through your physical, mental and emotional vessels. It's going to help your journey enormously to forge the lower vehicles too, so that they serve as a crucible for the infusion of higher light. And all round, you're going to start feeling increasingly good about your actualised physical self. That then, is the power of Delayed Gratification.

I've included it here as an addition to Crafting Your 3D Mind as Your Friend and Ally
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Do share your thoughts in commentary below. I'd be intrigued.

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