Living with the Light of Your Soul

I hope that you are doing well and that you do not forget to continue to give love, peace and wholeness the space to blossom. Life on Earth needs these energies to have enough power so that they don't get crowded out and bring the world into a one-sided darkness. Do your part by opening yourself and others to the energies that hold light, space, love and openness.

I would also like to take you to the substance of the annual Retreat I gave in August. This year, during the 14-day Retreat, we deeply explored the subtle nature of our experience via the 12 Light of Being-Teachings, for it is in the depths of your experience that the gracious essence of our life can be experienced.

The twelve teachings are entrances to the one, essential truth of existence and being, on which all life is based. The teachings are spiritual practices to tangibly experience the essence of life that you carry within and of which you are a part. The most important reason for being on Earth is that you are able to consciously say yes to the truth, depth, and essence that you and life as a whole are. By experiencing the essence on Earth, which is only possible in a dualistic world, you can consciously say yes to that essence. You naturally carry the essence of creation within you, but it feels so much more valuable to truly get to know and experience what you are essentially, and to be able to consciously and trustingly embrace it.

Of course you are alive, but it is beautiful to feel that and consciously say yes to it. Of course you breathe, but it is much more beautiful when you can consciously be with your breath and feel and trust its authenticity. You can live with a partner, but it is much more profound when you consciously, longingly and from a deeply felt yes, surrender to it. Everyone has a soul, but the experience and wisdom is so different when you feel, know, honor, and trust your soul, and feel at home in it and let it guide you.

The twelve practices are created to support this process of learning to know, experience, and consciously and trustingly accept your essence through all experiences. Allow your being on Earth to have the meaning that it has and recognize the essence of life that is present within you, underneath all experiences, and say yes to it in a conscious, trusting and loving way. You will never lose this essence, because in every moment, every day, in every incarnation, it is the essence of everything that exists in the Universe, in whatever form it takes. It is wonderful when you become familiar with it, are connected to it, and having experienced its essence, consciously and wholeheartedly say yes to it.

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To this end, we carefully explored

how Light of Being-Meditation

guides you in your openness to the essence of your inner being and of life as a whole,

and how the LightMessenger invited you

to open yourself to the light of your soul

and its light messages to guide you home and connect you with your essence..

Through ShantiYoga

you opened to the depths of your body

and the subtle signals coming from your joints

and through PeaceBreathing

you experienced how this subtle way to handle your breath

brought an inner peace that extended into the life around you..

The MantraPrayers

opened you to the preciousness of life

that is available to you

and the HeartSinging

let you feel what it is like to speak,

act, and naturally also sing from that depth.

Through LovesharingTantra

you opened your aura for the deeper layers of what you meet both mutually and within,

and through the ChakraHealing

you were open to the unprecedented energy within you.

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Through the movements of the KoshaMassage

you felt how massaging your skin and parts of your body

affects the depth of your consciousness.

The AuraAwakening

invited you to truly acknowledge your aura

and to open to its beneficence,

without necessarily seeing it.

The SoulGuidance

guided you in your openness to the language of your own soul

and the SacredDance

and the accompanying Sri Ananda Mantra

opened you to your deep longing

to descend from your ego to your essence,

and to rise again,

to be reborn into the preciousness of your existence.

In short, the Retreat explored what it means to live in openness,

what it feels like to open yourself on twelve different planes, layers, spaces

and to twelve inner wisdoms.

When you open in this way

you allow yourself to feel the subtlety of your reality

and the power of your deep longing to live a life of substance.

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Every day you found another opening, another miracle, and another confirmation of the same truth, telling you how different it is to receive life instead of striving to succeed in it on any level. This change in attitude was not so easy because everyone discovered areas of rigidity and tendencies to want to keep in control, to hold on to his or her own ideas and assumptions, and everyone also recognized his or her habits to grapple with life from a need for power rather than to meet life as a full-fledged human being, who lives together with all things, who allows all things to come together in a natural way, and who is together with all things. Everything that has touched you in the retreat, gave you nourishment and insights for a whole year.

Opening up to all these different aspects of your humanity has given you a refined openness that makes everything you see in nature so special. It makes you observe carefully, so that you see in everything a little miniature world, the subtlety of which makes everything special, valuable, beautiful, and endearing, and this also applies to everything within yourself. Each time you open up more deeply, you come into contact with even more incredible subtleties, little moments in life that need space, and as you give them their space, you feel your soul shining more freely through you.

The Twelve Teachings of The Light of Being are merely means that can contribute to your experience of how you can give your soul even more freedom. This can allow your soul to shine more freely through your humanity and make you aware of your essence, your destiny, your truth and your love. Every living being has the possibility to answer to the experience of its existence by giving space and love to its creation and adding that to the whole of life that we create together.

Therefore, do not hide the light of your soul, of your being, behind your withdrawnness or unclearness, but rejoice in it. See this light in every human being and every living being and be a devoted disciple of it.

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You can experience its light in your depths,

recognize it in your insights,

and feel it in your bodily strength.

You can sense it in your lifegiving breath

and then dedicate all your prayers of thanksgiving to it

and learn to speak with its voice.

In each and every encounter with life, you can learn to recognize the light of your essence,

learn to let it in for optimal healing,

and let its value bring you into another consciousness.

You can let yourself be enveloped by its radiance,

be guided by it,

and dance with it in joy.

You can let its light into everything

and no longer feel alone,

but supported and sheltered.

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Living with the light of your soul, with your essence, with the most profound value that you carry within, ensures a valuable life. Everything you wish for is already there, but you will have to open yourself to it. You will also have to abandon your limiting habits in order to taste and experience its values. You don’t have to, of course, but that is the beauty of your freedom as a human being. You can continue to make use of all the twelve practices and seek their support in your spiritual process to live with your soul, and if you wish, I will further guide you in their subtleties.

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Then you will realize

that spiritual development is about openness

instead of reaching a goal.

About receiving

instead of wanting to achieve something.

About giving love

instead of having success.

About being yourself

instead of trying to be something.

About being

instead of becoming.

About being touched

instead of seeking distraction.

About experiencing your soul

instead of affirming your ego.

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If you desire a life in which you feel what is essential, then your life is about something very different from the habits that are widespread. And if your spiritual longings have remained compassionate and humane, you long for a different society, also for those who come after you. Such a change needs people who are differently oriented, and the twelve practices mentioned above, with their deep foundation and background, are an invitation and possibility to do so.

May you, together with me, continue to open up and be surprised by all the substance, depth and potency that both you and your life carry, because then you will feel that there's really no need to add anything and that you can simply share your valuable experience with whoever is open to it.

* Translated from Dutch using DeepL (AI)

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Anandajay (which means "blessing from the heart") has been dedicated to integrating the spiritual essence into daily life for over 50 years. He has developed twelve teachings (spiritual practices), 50 music albums (mantras, pujas and ragas) and twenty books (written in Dutch) to bring you closer to the natural basis of your existence, your spiritual authenticity, and its wholesome, joyful essence, so that it can also be your shining, spiritual guide in your life. He expresses the core value of his work as: The Light of Being.