We Live Where We Are

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It has been almost a month ago since I wrote my last article. I used to write articles every week but my travels have interfered with that pattern. Maybe I will combine the travelling and the message I like to share with you. Let’s see. Times are currently too important to just talk about the weather and complain about certain political leaders. There’s much more going on in our lives and we need to develop ways to remain grounded, healthy and happy.

Over the past six months, I have been travelling south, into the United States and then into Baja, Mexico. Our vehicle is a European style Land Rover Defender and it can take us almost everywhere—From the desolate deserts to remote beaches. Every day, we meet wonderful humans, despite what the newsreaders want us to believe. I case you missed it, I wrote more about this here: https://dirkterpstra.substack.com/p/what-does-life-want-from-you

One of the first questions that people often ask is: “Where do you live?” For almost sixty years, my brain has been trained to respond like: “Just around the corner from here” or “in city ‘so-and-so’ “ and for the last twenty-four years I would have told them “I live in BC, Canada”. But now it’s different since we sold our house last year, just to do this—Travel. On a remote beach on the Baja peninsula, hours away from a village, I ran into someone and we started to talk and before too long he asked me where I lived. I was surprised about my own spontaneous reply: “I live where I am” I told him. He nervously smiled a bit as he wasn’t sure how to read me yet and how to interpret my unusual answer. Later that day I thought about my seemingly smart-ass reply and I realized it came from a deep and genuine place.

Over the past ten years, I have worked with amazing people who had been diagnosed with complex trauma; often military veterans and retired police officers. As a result of their sustained trauma, their lives have changed significantly and they often told me that it seems they live in a different world and sometimes in a different body. My professional training and experience have taught me that where we currently are; emotionally and mentally, becomes our reality and is the place where we live. It’s so real and we become so stuck in that pattern that we often don’t have the capacity to find a way out. It would be an understatement to tell you that spending so much time and energy with these people has impacted me on many levels. I am very grateful for these experiences as it has taught me to better understand who we really are.

“It’s so real and we become so stuck in that pattern that we often don’t have the capacity to find a way out.”

Looking again at the sentence above, life has taught me that when that pattern is ‘good’ or ‘bearable’, we don’t even think of changing it. Why would we? Our brain and the rest of our body loves to be in familiar territory and just wants to ‘idle’. It’s probably how most of us live our lives. “Life is good” we say and we continue on, until things change… It could be personal like an illness, the death of a loved one or relationship challenges, but right now things are changing fast on a collective scale, that means for all of us: politically motivated wars are being fought, a globalist agenda is being carried out which means more control and less freedom, the dark and sinister underbelly of our society is being exposed which often involves innocent children and the cost of living is spinning out of control. The worst part is that this is all by design. It’s how the elites operate, and despite what you might think of this, it’s our very own reality.

A Coincidence?

Was it a coincidence that in the middle of this global crisis that life has nudged me into a different direction? Walking away from work with deep meaning and a wonderful house in the mountains of British Columbia? I don’t believe in coincidences as I believe we all have a very specific agreement with life. I strongly believe that we are being asked to embrace our highest potential in stead of settling for a ‘good’ or ‘bearable’ life. To be honest though, that last part has been trying to play tricks on me lately. Despite of all of my amazing adventures, spending 100% of my time in nature and in natural daylight and experiencing all the lovely connections, my brain can easily try to trick me into telling me that this is not a life living my highest potential and that my purpose is not much more than driving around and taking in the ever changing scenery. It makes me smile as I am well aware that our brains don’t like change and all it does is to make me doubt my decisions so I will move back to my familiar life. It would be easy for us to get confused and maybe even feel paralyzed at times, but whether you make a grand decision in your life or you witness the world events unfold (or experience both…) just know that you are given free choice and access to a higher intelligence in your heart. I don’t know about you, but I deeply trust that and I know that my decision was not merely a coincidence and maybe more of an alignment with where the rapidly changing world is at.

So now the question is “Where do we choose to live?”. First of all, we do have a choice, even if you think you don’t. Have you thought about where you want to live? You could list the things that are naturally most important to you and give you a sense of ease, freedom and genuine connection. You can then make a connection with your heart and allow yourself to feel the sensations that come with those words. Just feel those sensations in your heart. When you do this daily, you begin to live there. But the real beauty is that you create a frequency in and around you that exactly matches those items on your list. This harmonic resonance will literally change where you live and also others will feel that. Before too long, thoughts, events and people who are aligned with that frequency will appear and those are the guides you can trust. We collectively create this world and not just some elites with bad intentions, only if we allow them to. Go to that place in your heart and inspire others to do the same, and before too long this is where we collectively will live. Let me know when you do. I am curious. In case you need some guidance, download this recording (“Intuition” on Vol. 2) here.

Dirk