Nice to see you Betsy - and others whom I know are tuning in -

The Group arrived from far and wide yesterday and settled into this Glorious mountain side retreat. After a restful night, the work begins in earnest today. The first part is what I call "the softening up" period. It's about breaking through the walls of identity that keep people disconnected from the true depth of the moment. So the mind has its programmed loops of activity that people tend to repeat through during the day. And wound into this are emotional reactions which ripple through the body as physical effects too. So we're taking people into stillness and a period of fasting. Fasting is exceptionally powerful for activating inner density and attachment.

So if you can take time out this weekend and spend time in stillness and fasting that would be a great idea to blend in with what we're doing. Try for example intermiitant fasting where you commit to just one meal aday. Then where the tightness of hunger creeps in, instead of simply giving into it, instead go deep into the feelings. Inquire, "what is it that I think I need?" Then instead apply deep breathing to break open the contractions of inner need, and feel the sense of completion with the source through the breath.

If you're not sure how to do this, then apply the Openhand Breakthrough Breathing, building it up in stages, until you feel that centredness and connectedness. Keep working this way through any contractions. Then we'll be using the Breakthrough Approach to deal with attachments that start to come up...

So here is the Openhand Breakthrough Process, which is really a framework that if you resonate with, you may explore, adapt and apply to your own inner processing. Remember, it's all about bringing increased awareness to the situation - the only thing that can truly change anything...

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!

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Then I encourage you to share here the kinds of things that come up. I'll happily offer a reflection to help you unfold through.

So enjoy the travels - there with you in spirit

Open