Hi Zoe - you're pointing to some very important dynamics in the Shift, essentially about how to navigate from the soul.

Often, to get into the flow of the soul, surrender is necessary. And the feeling of this letting go can lead to a sense of bliss or joy. Which, at the time, feels great and 'right'. I agree that's the case.

However, this is only the beginning of the soul's journey. Although, as we often witness in mainstream spirituality, people tend to stop there. Their lives become about constantly attaining this bliss, and comfortable ease - 'deep peace'. But actually, what then happens, is the juice gets steadily drained from this state. The approach becomes less and less effective. Why?

Because the soul is not just about bliss!

It's about following your passion - which is far from always being blissful. Following your passion involves grit and hard work too. Because the soul is yearning to uncover all of its frequencies and gifts - commitment, drive, courage, strength, coherency, will-power, just to name a few.

What gets in the way of these qualities is where we succumb, or back away from, triggering. It especially happens where someone has been "following their bliss" for some considerable time, within some spiritual community. It often happens in yoga communities, for example.

So when rightful triggering happens, because the soul is yearning to break through into new qualities, instead, the spiritual identity protects itself by saying to itself: "I'm not doing that because it doesn't feel right." Meaning, it doesn't feel smooth, and easy, so they don't go there (it's what keeps a lot of people away from Openhand!). What then happens is this "doesn't feel right" feeling gets confused (often unintentionally) as a genuine empathic feeling not to do something. It's an egoic self-protection mechanism. Whereas for the soul, it feels into true empathic rightness beyond the triggering of the identity layers. It may, for example, get supported also by knowing or signs and synchronicity. So, you feel the challenges, but turn into them anyway because of the learning possibility.

There comes a point on the path where you realise the triggering IS the path. Whether it be emotional, mental, physical or karmic - anything that triggers the being is the antithesis of the ultimate freedom, and complete expression, that the soul is seeking. And therefore needs to be dealt with.

It's not that you're intentionally seeking triggering out, but when it does happen, you own it, and turn into it; you process it through applying something like the Breakthrough Approach.

I trust this makes more sense.

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