Open Moment (OM) Living

This page provides a brief description of what "Open Moment" means to me - how powerful my original (unknowing) use of it was at the beginning of my life's Journey to where I am today. That original innocent use of it in 1999 is the only reason I lived to see the year 2000. Seriously. Without the Open Moment, I would have died young, at the hands of another. THAT is how important it is to me. And it is also the reason that this ministry references it in so many different ways. 

Join me, if you choose to, in this weekly exploration of what it means to "Live in the OM."

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In the summer of 1999, my life began to be changed because of ONE thought that presented itself in my mind. It was a thought that I had never thought before and at that time I had no clue what to do with it. It felt alien and unfamiliar to me. And the "me" who had lived her entire life as a victim of abuse thought I was going crazy.

What was that thought? It was this:

"There's got to be a better way

for me to live than this."

There was not one iota of me that believed that there could possibly be a better way for me to live. What I knew - what I had always known - was that 1) my life was painful, 2) I was ugly and stupid, 3) I would never be loved, and 4) I deserved to be abused. These things were what I knew to be the truth about me and what was possible for me.  

And that was the life I had lived up to this point.

And then, in mid-August of 1999 that new thought showed up out of nowhere. And I did not believe it was possible. No way in hell was a so-called "better life" possible for me.

No way in hell.

But I decided that I could be WILLING to believe that it was possible. Why? Because at that point the only thing I had left to lose was a life that I hated living. Why try to hang onto that? A simple willingness to believe would be worth it to me if things changed even a little bit for the better.

And that is exactly what "Open Moment" means. It is the willingness to have the tiniest corner of your mind open to the possibility that things can work out the way you would like them to. Or even greater still.

My life began to change for the better almost immediately, and then I was introduced to some "tools" that I could apply to start deliberately creating the life that I wanted. Which I did. Diligently and deliberately. Taking baby step after baby step, because that was all I could do at that time.

Nine months later, I had taken so many of those "baby steps" that I had become a completely different person. I had become a woman who would never be a victim again.  And I had become a woman who was ready to make a leap of faith, right out into the wildness of the Grand Unknown! 

What happened next is documented in other places, both on this site and in my books and programs. I tell this part of the story here just to provide a bit of an explanation as to what "the Open Moment" means to me - the significance it holds in my life and where it began.

More recently, the way I understand and think of the Open Moment has grown and expanded to include several other ways of living the experience, all of which will be covered over time as I move forward with this body of work. I look forward to sharing, and to hearing your thoughts! :-)