Increasingly people are waking up and connecting with their soul - this is the first step towards truly coming from the soul (who they really are) in day to day life. So the next step is tuning into it and then following it as we've been discussing here thus far, and experiencing on retreat here in Seattle. But what happens after that? How does following the soul pay the bills in the 3D? And why do people lose trust in the Flow State? It's essential to realise what exactly happens when you truly step into the abode of the soul.

So progressively you transition to making more soul led choices in life - those choices that come from the landing of higher knowning, or just feel right in the heart, even if that goes against what people are saying and doing around you. To give you an example from the news today, people have been protesting in Australia against the meat industry because of the brutality in which it treats animals. They're being called 'criminals' by the Australian government and arrested. And there's a huge percentage of the population there who pay little regard to this and don't perceive the problem. Yet the soul in some people is still urging them to go against the outer reflections of society. So as you express soul, you will get resistance in the outer - you become a challenge to the accepted and 'normal' way of doing things.

What the contradictory external reflections often do though, is hit one's own inner density - fear perhaps of feeling ostracised or weird and way out. Perhaps it hits the places where we don't fully trust in our own unique experience and expression. As the soul journeys within, back to the source, then it pulls on all the places where we identify with the outer drama and go into some kind of contraction about it. This is where fragments of soul are breaking away, identifying, and fogetting connection to the One, to the source. So it feels like you hit a brick wall. The flow comes to a crashing halt, and in the beginning, trust begins to dissipate.

This is exactly the moment to persist! But what's necessary is a process for dealing with the blockage, reclaining the fragment of soul that was identifying with the drama, and unleashing the flow once more. It's essential that you confront these choke points as they come up - not to push them back down and surpress, otherwise you just end up recreating the old cycles and patterns of limitation. We need to turn into them, get inside the limiting loop, and break it open.

Here at Openhand we apply something like the Breakthrough Approach, and we've been using it to great affect here in Seattle. People are breaking through surface level identity and right down into the limiting source karma. So in summary, here's the Openhand Breakthrough Approach...

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!

The Breakthrough Approach is strsightforward to state, but not necessarily easy to apply. It takes practice, application and commitment. But when done so, it's a tremendously alchemical way of processing blockages and unleashing the soul. It's highly transformation for your reality, because unleashed authentic consciousness is the only thing that can truly change the patterns. And you discover that the space-time-continuum then bends around your new configuration of consciousness - yes, it can most definitely now pay the bills! Except that you do it in a different way - you're not grasping 'out there' to control and manipulate. You're working within to unleash authentic beingness and this then naturally manifests around you.

The Openhand Breakthrough Book is an epic true life story of the spiritual seeker Chris Bourne, what he faced in his journey of awakening and how the Breakthrough Approach came naturally to him over time.

It's a powerful story and sure to speak directly into many of the challenges you face in your life on the path.

I wish you all well with your breakthroughs!

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