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Showing posts with label couragemindfulness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label couragemindfulness. Show all posts

Monday, January 27, 2020

JIE Episode 28 Blog/ Flowing Realities


Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet Podcast 

Episode 28 Blog/ Flowing Realities

Reality shifts as much as you allow it to. We tend to think in terms that there is only one reality. That is because we create it with rules that maintain it. All fits within that reality mind set. In truth, every event we experience either sustains an existing reality or it can generate another. Conceive reality as a flowing sense of awareness and it is.

What is at play is our sense of the boundaries of what is real and not real. 

Our mind sets hold information, bias, perception, feelings and thinking working together to fit the reality's form. To change something set might require effort and attention if that is how you have crafted your reality, that change is difficult or not fun, it is easier or safer to not question.

It can be easier than you think. We do it all the time with Consciousness Technologies.

Have you ever felt reality bending? You will feel it in the conversation Jim, and I will share.

In writing this piece, while sitting and typing a headache bloomed. As I followed it, I became aware that my neck and then my torso were looking to express differently than before. Tension indicated by the headache was quick to express. In connecting to what I was writing, my state of reality was shifting. It can be that real, that simple. It can be elusive and so subtle it is like a whisper and then again, it can require a couple of aspirin as the torquing unwinds. If you hold the rotational fields of energy as real you will feel them as such. And when they engage and change in their patterns you just might feel it. 

I gave my body a space to work it out and it is better now. I am back to writing. The headache is gone. So, it is different. I am different and I can’t necessarily tell how things are different or on what level reality has changed. I just accept that it has. I do not look to control as I do not fear my experience. 

Since the last few days since recording our conversation for this episode and the political discord in Washington DC, lots of shifts have been noticed by those of us who have awareness of such dynamics. Electrical and magnetic pulls are engaged hither and yon. We can feel how people want to hide and just want this all to go away. Which is really a reality that overwhelm is present. In my reality, courage is present.

In my world who I show up as is subject to new outside information, and internal sensation, thoughts and memories that make up my stories of BEing and being in form. 

In my big picture reality, as Consciousness, we are all participants in Oneness. It also includes enjoying myself as Essence which means letting go of the Self that employs blame and punishment and thinking small as the rules set in place about in being in form.  Why do I need to question my own worthiness? How silly is that? I am. That is BEing. 

We are in many realities at any one time. Not that we hold awareness of all of them in any one moment but the more you explore in self awareness our definitions expose themselves. Together they weave a framework of us in the world. And, everyone else around us is doing the same thing at the same time to some degree. No man is an island, even if you hold that as in your reality of identity. That is just Self. justifying its creation of a sense of isolation.

In your current sense of reality notice how you define your world as that reflects how you value yourself. Notice what you are aligning and arranging yourself as. What do those around you think of the world? What does your social media share with you? What does your newsfeed feature? All will give you clues to your senses of reality and check to see if they are helpful and thoughtful and give meaning to you and yours and appreciation of the diversity of life here on this planet.

Does your reality allow for stuff happening and you being able to deal with it?

And, if you hear from within, that your reality is only an assumption and not a truth, go back within and let your story drop away and feel the rotation of realignment within. Take a couple of aspirin if needed and just relax into the flow that reality is, a changing  sense or state of references we manifest into real.

Janet Barrett
Podcast Host Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet
www.janetandbeyond.com 
janetandbeyondpodcast@outlook.com 

Monday, January 20, 2020

Unfolding our Courage


Celebrating Being Alive includes unfolding our sense of Courage. It is part of both survival and evolution. Courage is being willing to take action, having the mental or moral strength to venture, persevere in the face of challenge, danger, fear or difficulty, following our convictions. 

There are different kinds of Courage. We may not recognize it. It is not only running into a burning building but being willing to invest in something new, to take a risk. Utilizing Consciousness Technologies and exploring life is Courage engaged. Challenging ones own thoughts and feelings and definitions and putting the status quo at risk is Courage. 

Right now is a time for a sense of Courage in our political arenas in particular. Stepping outside of party lines and standing for principled actions of government and consequences may take Courage these days. How sad. 

Courage is reaching out for something different, something unknown. 

Courage seems to be what we need to remember we each possess in some degree of awakened awareness. In being present, in Heart Centered Awareness, Courage is not something one needs to look for. It is already within. It is not a state of mind, it is a state in BEing. 

Many don't necessarily feel courageous as part of their makeup. We save it for moments of stress perhaps, where we don't have time to think, but only to react. And conversely we might freeze in reaction and think that we have missed acting courageous as a response. Feeling compassion for oneself in triggered moments of stress doesn't necessarily go hand in hand. It often will take an observer to be able to notice clearly what is happening or our role in play. Breathing in stillness for another day may be the courageous act. 
 “There is no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bear witness that a man has the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.” —Viktor Frankl

Here is a wonderful article about Courage by Melinda Greenberg PhD. The Six Attributes of Courage 

They include: 
Feeling Fear Yet Choosing to Act
Following Your Heart 
Persevering in the Face of Adversity
Standing Up For What Is Right
Expanding Your Horizons; Letting Go of the Familiar
Facing Suffering With Dignity or Faith


She offers great awareness, wonderful quotes and helpful exercises. 

I will offer you this.

Make some moments to just notice your breath through your heart. Feel the alignment and the calm and consider if you have exercised your sense of Courage lately.

Notice how you relate to the idea of Courage. Sit and find it in your field awareness. 

Perhaps notice it as a star maybe. Notice it. Do you see it clearly or is there perhaps a cloud around it? Maybe the distance between here and there is filled with stuff that you need to navigate around. Just notice. Don't judge. It is there somewhere. And, if you don't see it, that means you don't recognize it. Which is fine. Does not mean it is not there. 

What would it be like to lock on to this star and bring it into yourself?

Feel what happens when you engage it out there and then when it comes into you. 

Feel that. Let yourself be different. That is Courage. It is you. 

Janet Barrett
Life in the Beyond/Journeys Into Enlightenment
www.janetandbeyond.com
janetb@janetandbeyond.com