Wake up and get flowing! That’s the message of bliss.here.now, a new online course for navigating your awakening. In this rad Q&A, creator Margaret Nichols shares her recipe for enlightenment…
What planted the seed of your own awakening?
One of my first big awakenings was when I discovered idea of quantum physics. Everything is energy? We’re all connected? Whaaaaat? And then I found teachings to actually FEEL that, experience it. With that, my life transformed. I went from bitch to bliss, and I was like: “okay, this. is. It. Everybody needs to know about this.”
How do you define the concept?
“Awakening” is freedom from and with the mind and a capacity to, for real, live and lead from your heart. A direct connection to universal love + intelligence.
What was your method of self-sabotage before you “woke up”? And what are the most common self-sabotaging behaviours you see in others?
I’m Polish so I love vodka ;-) “I need a drink” was my go-to escape. And food. My whole life, I was yoyo-ing, in a constant struggle with managing food and comparing my body to others’. Being militant about being healthy – or going in the opposite direction. I was also a type-A control freak. I had major anxiety… the list goes on. In others, people resist or get lazy when life gets confrontational. We like to blame external forces, or distract ourselves from what needs addressing internally. The ego mind is really strong, and it wants to keep us that way. The conditioning of the world at large is also super strong. I cheerlead for people to stick with the tough stuff so they truly find that bliss is on the other side.
How is this course spiritual…but not?
I developed this course for people who want to live in reality. Even the most “spiritual” among us, unless we give up everything and go, like, live on the land, begging, want to have a life in the real world! I tend to attract people who want to build mountaintops, not just sit on them. And I wanted to take these seemingly big concepts, non-dualism, chakras, ego games, divine love, and break them down in a way that’s all: “here, this is what this is about, and here’s why you need it. And here’s how to do it.” And I aim to be entertaining. Because no-one wants to be bored on the path to self-realization!
How do you define “flow”? And what is the number one reason people aren’t experiencing this?
If we define flow as “being in the present moment” then the reason we don’t experience this is because we’re too attached to our minds. It is only ever the mind that takes us away from the present. The more we cultivate an awareness of the mind’s self-sabotaging tendency to take us “out of it”, the longer our present moment stretches. And the more playfully we approach this, the more willing we are to do it.
If everybody woke up, got out of their own way, and got into their own flow…what do you think the world would look like?
Mind-blowing sex for all! The end of war, poverty, greed and corruption! Balanced health and healing! Also, the ability to experience unbridled bliss, and the depths of heart-wrenching sorrow. A world that operates solely in the emerging paradigm of selflessness and cooperation. Each person’s individual soul purpose magnified and gracefully and gorgeously put out into the world. It’s basically, like, the answer to everything.
bliss.here.now is Margaret’s online self-study course for navigating your awakening. Get all the details NOW and sign up at this link!
