06/10/2025 Shift Insight: Pain of Existence

I know that plenty are confronting this "Pain of Existence", especially now, as the Simulation goes into hyperdrive of distraction and manipulation. But what if you can turn the tables?

Paradoxically, it's in every moment of resistance, rejection or triggering that a divine breakthrough can happen. The problem comes when we try to reject or detach. Instead, infuse through. Open out by immersing into the situation. Don't rest there though - keep looking, keep exploring, keep feeling. You'll pick up the shafts of light - it could begin with the simple sense of self-acceptance. That you are you, and you're okay, no matter what is going on.

The crucial state you're looking for, by this continual practice, is this: Whatever is happening in the external does not define you. Unless, that is, you allow it to.

You don't have to be determined or defined by the external machinations. Just surrender into yourself, no matter what.

That's what I'm pointing to in this revised Openhand article above today, with a great Sufi video that I do believe, explodes well this "Pain of Existence" I'm talking about. Bring it out into the open, then we explode the myth that it is!

What are you dealing with in your life right now? What challenges are you facing? Feel free to illuminate them here with me, and we'll dissolve them together.

Well wishes
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