A deep thank you to everyone for all your reflections. I'm grateful for all the wisdom in this community. 🙏

Rich, I definitely relate to what you said about trying to analyse reflections with the lower mind. I know I'm stuck in my mind too much, and I'm seeing more and more how useless that often is. What I understand you're saying, and the overall Openhand approach, is to be guided in life by my feelings instead of the mind. That's a tough one for me. I have been trying to tune into my feelings more for a while, but I usually can't express what I feel very well. I don't know if that's because I'm not able to feel, or if I just feel too much and can't interpret whatever is there.

I can relate to what Open is saying about feeling a sense of rightness to direct you in life as well. Soumya, I like how you call it a base frequency of your soul. To me, if that feeling of rightness is ever there, it's very subtle. And easily overpowered by a host of other feelings and thoughts, or like I can only hear the noise of the rest of the orchestra most of the time, not the base frequency. So yes, I agree it's important to create space for soul to come through, and work to be able to recognize it.

Novumander, I also appreciate your point about doing vs. being. And I think it's a similar issue. My focus on doing presumably comes from the mind, not the soul, and I can see what you mean about the contradiction there. I won't find an answer. Again, it seems to point to feeling what's there rather than trying to figure it out.

And Open, you mentioned coming into "right relationship with yourself". This is another mind question, but a relationship suggests two points of consciousness relating to each other. If I come into right relationship with myself, what two parts of myself do you mean are relating to each other?

A big thank you again to all. This is a very helpful exploration. 💛

Zoe