Hi Open,

thank you so much for this article - this is exactly the orientation I needed right now.

My life is evolving so fast, and even though I have a good daily practice, I constantly keep slipping into overstraining myself. Even purchasing furniture and setting it up in my room, with all the tidying up to do is so energy intense ... this is really a time for me to create more clarity and more clear boundaries about what feels right to me and what nourishes my soul.

What I am actually comfortable with is the active attention part, not to put weight on intentioning where to go and what to do.

I feel there is a big shift happening within me, to resolve some large intervention in my solar plexus chakra that is constantly triggered and tightens down when lower mind takes over. I feel that a lot of intense mental activity is very much pulling me down at the moment. And the big challenge here is to stay centered and not derail myself into the next distraction.

These ups and downs are really tough to navigate. Open, how would you handle situations where your energy level drops as low as to allow lower density energies in? I quickly find myself wanting to eat, wanting to watch series, feeling sexual, wanting to distract from the density. I find meditation helps somewhat but I guess that I should look at why I am getting myself into these situations in the first place, right?

Much love,
Thomas 🌸