There are many definitions of what the Soul is.

For us here at Openhand, conscio

usness flows through the universe as waves on a vast ocean. You and we are each
a unique blend of these various energetic characteristics - aspects of beingness
.
So we are being both the ocean and a unique blend of universal consciousness too
. It's what we call a 'Soul Ray Harmonic'. The Soul is what makes us unique, ani
mates who we truly are, and the Soul's full liberation and expression is the pur
pose of our existence.
When the Soul can flow through the experience of our lives without attachment an
d full unbridled expression, then we are self realised and Enlightend.
We often hear in Spiritual Circles about "the importance of speaking one's truth
". Yet so often, I hear from people that when they do this, such as in family gr
oups for example, others frequently resist; they still work to pigeon-hole you i
nto the 'norm' - they still try to stick you in that labeled box that they're co
mfortable with. Short of completely walking away from the relationship, what cho
ice are you left with? Personally I believe "speaking one's truth" is a misnomer
and we would better be served by speaking more in terms of "expressing one's tr
uth". What's the subtle difference and why's it so important?
I recall leaving a marriage which simply wasn't working. I'd gone through a mass
ive spiritual expansion, and despite months of marriage guidance counseling, wor
king to find common ground, my partner couldn't accept who I now was. She'd freq
uently project judgment at me and try to contain me in the old comfortable 'slip
pers'. Even after our marriage ended, I'd still experience massive projection on
daily visits to see our kids.
Like many on the spiritual path, there was a strong compulsion to "speak my trut
h". Yes, I had changed; yes, that had affected the marriage, but it's vitally im
portant that a person honours who they are at a soul level. Otherwise your True
Self can't fully expand and grow.
Parents found it extremely challenging too. They'd known me a certain way. All o
f their conditioning desperately wanted to keep me in the old identity, suffocat
ing me down into the old way of being. No matter how I tried to share, nothing s
eemed to work. I'd end up in repetitive conversations or arguments that would go
nowhere. Worse still, I found myself inwardly constrained by the old identity.
But then something changed...I watched the Matrix!
Changing the Narrative
There's a great scene at the end of the first film where Neo puts up his hand to
incoming bullets and says "No!" Most importantly though, energetically, he expr
esses "No!" It caused me to remember a deeper aspect of my Cosmic Self: he was e
xpressing what I know to be the "Spiritual Samurai". And most importantly, how y
ou can influence the field - shift 3D reality - from that place.
If you continue to engage in a relationship that simply won't acknowledge who yo
u are and who you feel to be, if you keep trying to explain yourself, then in ef
fect you are defending yourself. And by defending yourself, inadvertently you're
honouring the attack - you're actually making it real by continuing to engage i
n those disempowering loops of behaviour that are resistant to change. It is the
se loops, that when activated, perpetuate the old existence, the old reality.
I remember receiving a barrage of judgment from a work colleague the day after w
atching the film. Something stopped me from responding verbally - a vision of Ne
o standing there caught me. Instead, internally, I put up an energetic hand... "
No! I will not receive your judgement."
I didn't feel aggressive. I wasn't about to go on the attack. I simply made a bo
ld statement within my field. This feeling radiated through me, and out into the
surrounding field; whereupon, realising he was making no headway, that his atta
ck was having no effect, my colleague simply stopped.
What had changed was that no one was feeding his controlling behavioural loop. S
o it had nowhere to go. There was nothing bolstering it, and so it petered out.
Become as-nothing...Breakthrough...Become The One
On another occasion, in another situation, when the barrage simply wouldn't ceas
e, instead I remembered a quote from an old book I had about the Shaolin Priests
...
"Become as nothing in the face of your enemies and they have nowhere to strike."