mindfulness

Spiralling into 2026

Happy New Year, wondrous Souls

As the days quietly unfold into 2026, I’ve been senseing that we are stepping onto a new turn of the Sacred Mirroring Spiral within the Living Attributes Codex. A new cycle doesn’t arrive with a bang, it always arrives more like a remembering. A familiar feeling, met from a slightly different place within ourselves.

Because the spiral moves in a twelve month rhythm, January often carries a reflective quality. It’s the first month, yes, but it’s also a return point. I’ve noticed over the years that things can resurface around this time. Old memories, childhood themes and familiar emotions. 

Sometimes even stories that feel much older than this lifetime. Not because we’re going backwards, but because we’re ready to meet them again with more awareness.

For me, January always sits strongly in the physical realm and over the past few days, I found myself revisiting some of the past life stories I wrote for Wisdom of the Ages. I wasn’t doing it intentionally at first, but the revisiting of a sore knee made me notice how present these stories suddenly felt. Yet this time, I was meeting them from a very different place. Not as stories on a page, but as living experiences that now make sense in a deeper, more embodied way. The stories hadn’t changed, I had and came with some significant synchronicities. 

This is one of the ways the spiral works. It doesn’t repeat things to frustrate us or keep us stuck. When something comes back around, it’s usually because we now have the capacity to hold it differently. With more compassion. More steadiness. More self trust. What once felt unresolved often returns asking only to be witnessed from who we are now.

I wanted to share this with you because many of you may be noticing similar things. A sense of déjà vu. A feeling that something familiar from your past is entering your awareness again. Rather than pushing it away or over analysing it, try gently asking what this moment is offering you now. 

What feels ready to be integrated rather than fixed?

Working with the spiral means understanding that life isn’t moving in straight lines. It’s unfolding in living patterns that support our growth. Nothing is here to punish or test you. It’s all information, arriving at just the right time, shaped by how far you’ve already come.

As you move through January, allow yourself to be curious. Notice what’s resurfacing without judgement. Trust that the spiral is working with you, not against you. You are not being pulled back. You are being invited deeper, and a little higher, at the same time.

May this month feel spacious, may it feel kind, and may you sense the quiet intelligence of the Living Attributes Codex beneath your feet, reminding you that every return carries new wisdom, and every cycle brings you closer to your own embodied truth.

Heart to Heart, Elizabeth

Going Deep in the Age of Distraction

The New Frontier of Human Evolution

We live in an era that celebrates connection but quietly erodes attention. Our thumbs scroll, our minds race, and our souls wait—patiently—beneath the noise. The modern human is data-rich but meaning-poor. We know more, yet understand less. The world offers us infinite surfaces, but growth now demands that we go deep.

Depth Is the New Intelligence

True intelligence is not measured by how much we consume but by how deeply we engage. Neuroscience shows that the brain’s prefrontal networks—those responsible for insight, empathy, and creativity—activate most powerfully when we slow down and allow for sustained focus. Scrolling disperses our attention; reflection gathers it back into coherence.

Every time we pause long enough to feel, listen, or contemplate, neural integration occurs: different experiences knit together into a tapestry of understanding. This is the biological basis of wisdom. Awareness deepens not through information, but through integration.

The Evolution of Awareness

Human evolution is no longer about survival—it’s about consciousness. We are now shaping not just our external environment, but our internal one. The next leap in evolution will not be genetic but perceptual: the expansion of awareness beyond the reflexive patterns of distraction and reaction.

Spiritual teachers have long intuited what science is now beginning to confirm: awareness itself is transformative. Meditation research at Harvard, Stanford, and the Max Planck Institute shows that consistent contemplative practice strengthens neural pathways associated with attention, compassion, and emotional regulation.

In other words, going deep literally restructures the brain—we become more present, more awake, more human.

The Attention Economy vs. the Inner Economy

The world we inhabit profits from our distraction. Each swipe and click trains the nervous system toward fragmentation. But beneath that constant motion lies another economy—the inner economy—where value is measured not in likes or views, but in presence, insight, and stillness.

To reclaim that economy, we must treat attention as sacred currency. Every moment we give to silence, every conversation we inhabit fully, every question we sit with rather than rush to answer and reading long-form content (like this blog post)—these are acts of quiet rebellion against a culture of haste.

Depth is not withdrawal. It’s engagement with essence. It’s choosing to sense rather than scroll, to witness rather than react, to inhabit reality instead of escaping it.

Practicing Depth in the Everyday

Depth is not found in monasteries alone—it’s cultivated in daily life. Begin with simple, radical acts of awareness:

  • Breathe before you respond. That single pause transforms reactivity into consciousness.
  • Read slowly. Let ideas digest rather than drown you.
  • Observe your mind. Watch it crave novelty, then gently guide it back to stillness.
  • Choose presence over performance. Life unfolds in moments, not metrics.

Each act of attention reclaims a piece of your consciousness from the machinery of distraction. Over time, this becomes spiritual strength—the capacity to dwell fully in reality as it is.

The Future Belongs to the Deeply Awake

To grow now is to go deep. To evolve is to cultivate awareness in a world designed to scatter it. Our collective future depends on individuals willing to anchor stillness amid speed, to seek understanding over accumulation, and to remember that the quality of our consciousness shapes the quality of our world.

Depth is not an escape from modern life; it is our way forward. Because what the world needs now is not more information—it’s more awareness. And your willingness to go deep may well be the most revolutionary act of all.

Heart to Heart Elizabeth

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Opening the Portal of Surrender and Oneness

In our life— often quietly, after a journey of striving or suffering— when the soul begins to ache not for more, but for less. Less grasping, less separation, less story. What remains is the subtle yearning for some conclusion — not distraction, but a warm return. This is the threshold, the activation of your portal of Surrender and Oneness.

The Portal is Not Elsewhere

This portal is not a gate we must find, but a turning to our one trustworthy Source. It is the softening of the will that tries to control the infinite. It opens each time we allow breath to lead our awareness back into our unmoving centre. In this space, surrender is not defeat; it is the exquisite intelligence of trusting in the truth of all that is, all that was, and all that is yet to come.

We can create such a portal — in meditation, in silence, and in prayer. We build this space not as an escape, but as an act of devotion: a remembrance that there is only one pulse beneath all that appears before us.

We open to it because we are tired of feeling separate. In this portal, duality dissolves, and there is no “me” returning to “Source,” for the seeker was never apart. There is only awareness reawakening to itself.

How to Open to the Light of Your Surrender

To create such a portal is to consecrate your attention.

It begins with willingness — not to know, not to fix, but to be.

  • Stillness – Allow everything to stop moving toward an outcome.
  • Breath – Let each inhale be an arrival, each exhale a release.
  • Surrender – Say inwardly: “I am all that is, all that was and all that is yet to come. I am timeless, I am love in motion, and I am Whole.”
  • Receive – Feel the silence gently gather around and through you.
  • Merge – Let awareness expand until the boundaries of self and world merge into the same vibration.

The more we open, the more we dissolve the edges that separate “my consciousness” from “the unified field.”—This is how we rejoin the living fabric of totality.

A Prayer for the Portal

Beloved Source,

I offer all resistance back to You.

May the illusion of control dissolve in Your Light.

May I remember that I was never apart, never the other, and never alone.

Let this body become a Temple of Surrender, this mind a Vessel of Stillness, this Heart a living Altar of Union.

Through me, may this portal of Surrender and Oneness open wide—and for all who are ready to remember the One Heart beating beneath all names.

Amen. And so it is.

To create a portal for Surrender and Oneness is to become it. Each moment of yielding to the infinite becomes an offering, and each breath, a bridge. It is not a project, but a prayer. Not a place we visit, but a presence we embody. Through this portal, the world begins to heal—not because we fixed it, but because we remembered it was never broken.

Heart to Heart, Elizabeth

The Only Real Thing: Is To Fulfil Our Purpose

There is a quiet moment, often unexpected, when life asks us to pause. Perhaps it comes as a whisper in the night, or as a sudden emptiness after achieving something we thought would make us happy. In that pause, we see clearly: the only thing that truly matters is not the trophies of the ego, but the fulfilment of our purpose.

Ego is clever—it tempts us with recognition, possessions, and fleeting victories. It convinces us that if only we can have more, do more, become more in the eyes of others, then we will finally feel complete. But inevitably, the satisfaction fades, and we are left with a hunger that cannot be fed by accolades or things.

Purpose, however, is different. Purpose is timeless. It’s that quiet compass within, our point of light in the heart that guides us toward what we came here to do, to embody, and to share. It is not about grandeur, but about truth.

Think of a candle: its purpose is not to prove its brilliance, but simply to burn. In burning, it gives light. In giving light, it fulfils itself. In the same way, our lives are most radiant when we allow our purpose to shine through us—without effort, without disguise.

Here is an example of being on purpose:

A person who had spent decades chasing positions of power and prestige. They admitted their résumé looked impressive, but their heart had become weary. Later in life, they began volunteering at a community garden, guiding children in planting seeds and tending to the earth. Now the person’s eyes glowed when they spoke of it. “For the first time,” they said, “I feel I’m doing what I was born to do.”

This story is a reminder that purpose does not need to be complicated—it simply needs to be lived.

When we shift from ego to purpose, we begin to feel a deeper kind of fulfilment, one that no one can take from us. Purpose connects us to the eternal flow of life from the Creator. It aligns us with the greater rhythm of creation, where every action becomes meaningful.

And here is the mystery: when we live on purpose, life conspires with us. The right people appear. Opportunities emerge without force. Doors open where there were only walls. Purpose carries its own momentum, and we find ourselves moving with a current far greater than our own will.

The world does not need more noise. It does not need more people seeking approval. It needs luminous beings who dare to live their truth. That is how we heal ourselves, and how we light the way for others.

The only real thing—the thing that endures when all else falls away—is to fulfil our purpose in this lifetime. Everything else is an echo of the ego and shadow. Purpose is the Flame of Life.

So ask yourself: 

What is the flame within me?

What am I here to bring alive?

And then, live it. For that is the most sacred gift you can give to the world—and to embody your own soul.

Heart to Heart, Elizabeth

Listening to the Silence

In an act of creation, there is a moment when the world falls silent. It is here, in this holy pause, that the sacred enters.

For most of my life, I have attended to these three practices — a trinity of presence that has shaped both my creative path and my way of being in our world:

Listen to the Silence—Enter the Silence—And become one with what I am creating or doing.

These are not just steps; they are doorways to another way of being. Each one draws me deeper into surrendering to the present moment — where spirit and matter weave together. Over the years, I’ve come to see that this process is also the key to truly being with people. Not just hearing them… but listening with the kind of presence that can be felt.

In a world vibrating with a digital cacophony and opinion-laden voices, the most radical act is no longer to speak, but to truly listen. Not listening with the mind’s impatience or the ego’s interruptions — but the deep listening that disarms the ego, stills the inner noise, and allows the other person to be fully received.

If the unseen realms kept a karmic measure, it wouldn’t be based on how many hours we sat in meditation, but on how many hearts were spent feeling fully heard. Because listening, in its most valid form, is meditation.

It is the discipline of presence — the art of letting another soul unfold without resistance.

The true alchemy is becoming one with all that is, another human being and discovering the extraordinary in that moment.

Heart to Heart, Elizabeth

Trust the Trigger – Your Inner Compass Is Calling

There’s a quiet but potent invitation that life extends to you every day — not through comfort, but through contrast. Through discomfort. Through the pang in your chest, the tightening in your jaw, the sting behind your eyes. Through your triggers.

Don’t avoid them.

Your triggers are not signs that you’re broken or failing. They’re sacred signals from your inner world, designed to guide you toward deeper truth. Like emotional tuning forks, they reveal where something within you longs to be seen, healed, reclaimed.

In recent years, we’ve seen the rise of trigger warnings as a social norm — and while originally intended to offer protection and care, they may have subtly taught us that discomfort is dangerous. That pain is to be avoided. That safety means never feeling anything unpleasant. But in truth, resilience isn’t built through avoidance. It’s forged through gentle confrontation, compassionate self-inquiry, and the willingness to sit in the fire without fleeing.

When we cushion everything, we risk weakening the muscles of emotional maturity. We deny ourselves the very experiences that build discernment, self-trust, and inner strength. And slowly, we begin to fear our own emotions — forgetting that we were born with everything we need to navigate the full spectrum of human experience.

So when a trigger arises, don’t run. Don’t suppress. And don’t shame yourself. Instead, pause, notice, and engage. Because in that moment of awareness, you begin a brave act of self-remembering. And from that place, something beautiful unfolds. You evolve, you grow, and you begin to trust yourself more deeply. You become your own emotional barometer — no longer dependent on others to tell you what’s safe to feel, but guided by the quiet compass of your own inner wisdom.

Your emotions are not enemies. They are energy in motion, which is meant to move you toward wholeness. And your triggers? They are thresholds — openings where the old self dissolves and the Radiant Self begins to emerge. Be brave. Develop your inner synthesis. Meet your threshols with grace.

You were never meant to be a stranger to yourself.

Trust the trigger. It’s not the end. It’s the beginning. It’s your soul’s whisper: “Come closer… I have something to show you.”

Heart to Heart, Elizabeth Ellames
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