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ACE, MY STORY – JAN SWERTS

Again, it was an early day like it always was in the Caribbean. The light pierced through the bamboo of my window into my room. It had always the same print on the wall when I opened my eyes. Depending on the hour the print was different. I knew them well after a few years. Only the light breeze that moved the palm trees disturbed the quiet reflection of the light. It was time for my last coffee at the beach. It wasn’t about the coffee but about the decision I made to leave this place. The coffee was just a daily ritual.

I greeted the security man like every morning. “Buenas Dias, Senor Jan” he said. I opened the restaurant, made myself a coffee, and strolled, armed with my sunglasses, to my ‘office’ at the beach. It was always a dream for me to get up in the morning in short pants, flip-flops, and a t-shirt. The ocean colored gray. The sun was preparing to give the clouds a new dimension of colors. Only some lonely pelicans were gliding stoic millimeters over the quiet ocean, their wings carving lines on the still surface before the wind picked up. The silence seems threatening. No soul on the beach and the air that gave birth to new life. The world was preparing to show itself. The small quiet waves popped slowly on the sand in the rhythm of a slow salsa. I sat at the outside bar and planted my coffee in front of me on the teakwood shelf and looked into the endless distance of the horizon. I was wondering: “What is going to happen now? Is the decision I made the right one?” That thought was like a ghost playing around in my mind for three weeks now. I took the decision to leave this paradise when I was chatting with my daughter when I was walking my daily beach walk. Every afternoon I moved near the waterline to a point in the distance that I couldn’t see. I went to a place where I could find silence, where there was nobody. It gave me peace of mind to leave the hassle of the crowded hotels behind me and go where I could admire the beautiful colors of the ocean. The heaving waves claimed the green coastline and took what was theirs. I was thinking “Everything goes back, would it be the same with me?”

The coffee had a different taste that day. The light emerging from the horizon was always a spectacle. You could see the change in the movement in the universe. The ‘new’ light projected on the clouds was changing color. Every minute this painting changed. And the picture was always correct. Nature has a system and a goal. “Why are we not like that, just like nature” I was contemplating. The world showed itself to me very slowly. It said: “Here I am, I shine for everybody, whatever you do.” It did that every day without judgment. As soon as the first rays touched my face I felt that it was okay. It was all right. It was the first decision I made from the heart. A lot was changed in the meantime. I was and am a logical thinker, and always have been. That’s why I could succeed in that job without any problem. Now it was time to close the chapter and to work on me without unnecessary delay and stop doing the things which were not necessary and took you nowhere.

The year early I ended up in a sort of depression or burn-out. It happens to a lot of people. But if it happens to you it’s a drama. You see yourself as the center of the universe. You sail your boat into a pit of emotions that you can’t control. You can’t see the reality anymore. You cling to things that give you a little bit of hope and then glide back into the same pit again. You don’t ‘see’ it and that is a mild expression.

To make a long story short, I ended up with Goedele Vercnocke. I knew her for a long time and knew what she was doing and what it represented. That way I came in touch with the Solution. The word says it all, I was thinking. She knew Dr. Ramesh for a long while and told me I should learn about this. If you are standing below on the ladder carrying a rug sack of one hundred kilos and you find yourself at the foot of the Himalayas, driving a wheelchair with a flat tire, it is rainy and cold: you just listen and do it. You let it happen. The force of thinking and wondering all the time will be terminated. You do not want that the big black dog is watching over your shoulder anymore. It was time to listen to my intuition. It brought me good things in the past too, I remembered.

The year before I came back from the Caribbean peninsula to have a holiday. I needed to get away from the stress, the relationship I had over there, and also the feeling of guilt that I left my kids with my ex-wife, so I could do my own thing. All my life had been that way. All these emotions were a heavy burden on my system. I started to follow the workshop Goedele gave to others. I never had a chance to meet Dr. Ramesh until a year later. I knew him from Skype and bought his book. I followed the directions of the Solution practice and wanted also to understand them. After intensively occupying myself with these exercises I felt the need for the sequel: the Shambala. I wanted to follow this before flying back to the other side of the ocean. Did I know it would never be the same?

When I was staying in Belgium during the summer of 2017, Goedele proposed me do the Nadi Leaf Reading. It was not the first time I had contact with and knowledge of mystical experiences. I had a few on my travels through Tibet and Nepal. It seemed very interesting and I went for it. Going back to your previous lives was something I did with ‘re-birth’ which I did in the north of Holland. I did the Nadi the day I turned 58.

It came as a surprise to me that people from India told me that I would do this when going into the 59th year of my life. It was written. I felt like a fish in the water that hearing my karma wasn’t that bad, even nice. Remedies were written to purify my karma and how I could re-write my life for the better. Just by doing this – and also my practice of Shambala- it became clear what my purpose in life was and what my targets were. Afterward, you feel stronger and have more trust in the future. You get an understanding of what you were doing here and where you have to go. You can change everything for a higher goal. And these were and still are my intentions.

Armed with this information and exercises I went back to my tropical climate, my reflections on the wall. I did my exercises twice a day to be sure they would work. It was my only confidence. My motivation was very strong at that time. I had learned in Nepal that the master would come when the pupil is ready. I felt this was the right time, my time. I was doing my practice every day and after a while, the satisfaction and passion for my job over there were gone. I had a feeling it didn’t bring me anywhere, it was only my ego that kept me there. My soul told me different things. Insights into everything I did and wanted following in a quick tempo. All went so fast that I thought I would fall into burnout again. My energy became a toy, bouncing up and down. All my emotions were put to the test. After a few weeks, I felt my days were over soon in paradise. I was an image I saw in the mirror every time I looked at myself. But I stayed calm and had patience. I wasn’t drinking the same volumes of alcohol anymore as the last year. I had control and it felt okay. My body asked for it and I just listened to my body.

My job changed into a countdown calendar, the job I did with so much passion the year before. It looked like I was doing the last weeks of my draft in the army, ready to go home. My shift was over. I planned ahead and followed the intuition that took control over me. I got confident and knew my choices would be the right ones. I kept on doing my Shambala exercises and decided to go to Belgium to take care of some urgent business I had to attend to. My planned week became three weeks. I understood why that happened and had insights I never had before. All the things that followed were happening very fast, it was emotional, intense, and with severe consequences. Everything was put into place by the universe. It seemed to me it was like a plan that always had existed and was carried out in detail. Now I understood that these things were happening because of doing the exercises like the Solution, Shambala, and even the Shambala Freedom. It looked like it was directed by a director in a movie. And even now, writing down my experiences, the universe is still changing my life with consequences that should have happened as it was meant to. If I waited a month longer to write my experiences, I could write more than several pages extra. The story continues.

A lot of wishes are fulfilled but I think there will come more, it never ends once you go on your path with the right persuasion and trust. All will be all right.

I strongly believe that everything comes at the right time in your life depending on what you did in your past lives. And even if your karma from your past lives turns out the worst ever, it is always good the take the effort to change it and turn it around for the best, whatever you want. On that matter, Dr. Ramesh has a strong point: you are the pilot of your own flight. I cannot deny that these exercises gave me wings, also hope, and the knowledge that you can do anything that you want in this short life to do for yourself, your family, kids, friends, people you don’t know, and the world in general. The good things start with yourself.

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