Essence is the very fabric of our Soul. When we experience our Essence we have the sense of wholeness. In contrast, the lack of contact with our Essence gives us a sense that we have lost our way home, that we have lost our paradise. We are born full of Essence and free of any conditioning. As time passes and childhood programming settles into our system, we gradually lose the connection to our Essence. We then live in a paradoxical state of existence: we are Essence and yet we do not know of it.

Essence experienced through the heart radiates through the prism of Love, becoming Essential Love Dimensions, Personal and Impersonal Loves. In this retreat, we will explore the Living Daylight, which is an Impersonal Love. The Living Daylight is accompanying us from the time of conception and throughout our lives, providing us with sustenance and protection.

There are two fundamental attributes of the Living Daylight: these are Basic Trust and the Holding Environment.

Basic Trust does not refer to a specific person. It is a larger, unlimited sense of trust in all existence and trust in life, the trust that Being is always there. The Holding Environment is not limited to our mother’s care and embrace, but includes all the people we have around us and take care of us during childhood: our father, our family, our relatives and, in that sense, all of humanity. Basic Trust and the Holding Environment give us a fundamental sense of inner security that we will be sustained in life under any circumstances.

In the presence of the Living Daylight, we trust that life will sustain us and that we will be held. It provides the sense of safety and the awareness that we don’t have to disconnect from our Being in the face of traumatic events. We sense life and the world as a hospitable place and that everything we need is provided. The Living Daylight is a resource for healing early trauma and the shock we carry in our body and psyche as a result.

As we are enveloped with the Living Daylight, our Soul can continue unfolding in the path of inner growth. Our inner journey becomes a meaningful pilgrim to reach and realize the nature of our Soul and what we came here for: our Soul Mission.