Hi Vimal,

Thanks for your question. I actually qualified my statement by saying (that in my opinion): you can only make one true mistake on the spiritual path. If you're consciously embarking on the spiritual path, then certainly from the Openhand Approach, this is true.

I honour your experience. I also mentioned in the article to honour the pain where appropriate. Clearly you felt it best not to express directly in front of them. What you could now do, is take yourself off into a quiet space and regress yourself back into the situation. See the images of them and what took place. See the images of yourself. Work to activate and feel the feelings that happened. Then look for the tightness and express that out into your space.

To get to the tightness, ask "what is it I think I needed to get from the situation?" Was it that you needed to be heard, respected and honoured? If that's the case, explore into it. Feel what it's like not being honoured and respected. If that makes you want to shout and scream, or beat a cushion, then do so. Put on some emotive music that animates the pain and move to it.

When you're in the midst of the pain, that's the point to recognise that you are The One. That this experience is transient and it does not define who you are. Open a doorway through the experience, inside yourself, into the presence of The One.

From this place, then you'll start to pick up essences and senses of your soul vibration and how it now wants to express. Then kindle the expression of the soul.

Next time you face a similar situation, work into the pain as its happening. Quickly become the One in it. The look for the expression of rightness of your soul by putting your attention on it and growing it.

It's not initially easy to catch it in the moment - which is where you truly break the pattern. But if you keep practicing and keep bringing light to the issue, you will catch yourself and be able to work with it. This changes the narrative - you start to create a new reality and don't manifest situations to expose the old limitations - because they will have dissolved.

Namaste

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