Janet Barrett blogs about using consciousness technologies to play with our realities and enjoy our many journeys into enlightenment. Also find news of events, workshops and classes.
I am into week 4 of a projected 8 week recovery from surgery. I look to be back the beginning of March.
Take care of yourselves. Breathe in Wonder.
With a shared heart,
Janet
Janet Barrett
Life in the Beyond/ Journeys Into Enlightenment
www.janetandbeyond.com
janetb@janetandbeyond.com
Release January 12, 2021
Episode 53 Blog Enjoying Life is My Choice
For many enjoying life can seem like a nice idea. Nice but not likely. And they can list all their reasons for thinking that. I have experienced many disease patterns that have challenged me to being alive. The following principles have helped me form a now present reality that Life can be and is an enjoyable expression.
1. We are each Consciousness in human
form. Each of us is responsible for our choices on the deepest
levels as the way Consciousness experiences and expresses itself.
2. Consciousness allows for all.
It does not care or judge. Humans care and feel attachment.
Consciousness is not attached to outcome.
3. Consciousness celebrates variety. It
would be boring if we all looked alike, acted alike, thought alike. We also
would have died out a long time ago without our ability to adapt to our geographical
environments.
4. Consciousness has a deep,
broad sense of humor and tolerance. Humans are highly entertaining.
5. Be willing to explore internally.
Making the time to contemplate, meditate, question, ponder, reflect is a
gift to oneself. Hindsight is a lovely thing and too late.
6. Embrace the power of your emotions
and use them constructively. Sabotage, subversive, explosive are not
helpful ways to interact with them.
7. Question everything. Assume nothing.
Someone else’s truth is not always your truth no matter the source. Question
the source.
8. Think in ways that enrich and do
not diminish yourself or others.
9. Accept that you have
conscious/unconscious rules in place about Life that decide how you
will experience it. How you perceive Life to be is a collection of learnings,
trainings, thoughts, experiences formed by perceptual filters. They are also
mutable, changeable, and don’t have to be set in stone. You have choice.
10. Value
your unique self and realize that you are not any more special than anyone
else. We serve differently from one another in many different ways. We cannot
know all the different ways. Each of us is important. Each has a place in the
totality of the All.
11. Acknowledge
that we all live on this pale blue dot called Earth in the middle of the
immenseness of the Cosmos and we share it. We can work together, or we can
destroy it with the division of selfishness that comes with
our sense of separateness from each other.
12. Learn
to not judge yourself for what life position you experience. Value your life
experiences and place them in a context that enriches you.
13. Realize
that when you feel victim to people or events, you feel less than and you
learn of helplessness. It can take you to your knees or give you reason to
rise up.
14. Feel
okay for whatever you are feeling, about anything. Give yourself permission to
be real and not apologize for how you feel and think about anything, to anyone.
And what you can be feeling in one moment may be different in the next.
15. Focusing
on the negative reinforces the negative. Focusing on the positive reinforces
the positive. If you are focusing on the positive because you are in reaction
to the negative your results are not going to be as successful as if you
enjoyed focusing on the positive because you enjoy the positive.
16. Appreciate
what you have and don’t have. Hold the gift of awareness and gratitude for what
wonders Life has to offer in whatever guise that might be.
17. Being
human is a gift. Being alive is a gift. Without our next breath and drink of
water we are dead. Life is precious and gone in a heartbeat.
18. We
have the power to grow, help, heal, explore, design, destroy, cultivate,
enrich, maim, kill, share, violate, forgive and change our minds. We decide.
19. We
have the power to engage, retract, to wait or to be still or take action,
and knowing when to do any is vital.
20. We
are beings who do. Not doers who be.
21.To
give is to receive. To receive is to give. Same energy. Both are only labels of
the direction of flow from heart centered space.
22.There
are rights, there are wrongs and both are only labels. There is black; there is
white. Both are only shades of gray.
23. Magic
and miracles are common and demonstrate our appreciation for something
different and unexpected. They are the potential and the possible as
real.
24 There
is only the present. Which is already a result of the past. Tomorrow is now.
25. Who
you are is part of a story and myth and lineage, and is only that. At times it
might feel karmic, predetermined, or out of your control. All of it is only
subject to our biases and interpretation and acceptance. All
is active and in play writing itself as you speak. DNA is subject to the
effects of RNA.
26. We
each are the final decider on how we respond to what Life has to offer and
share. We each create our reality of life. We are the sum results of our
illusions of what we think Life is.
27. We
are all Consciousness exploring, Consciousness expanding, Consciousness evolving.
Release December 29, 2020
Episode 52 blog/ Let’s Do It Again
It has been frustrating to write a blog for this episode. I
haven’t had one clear focus. Both you and I have been enjoying all the portals
that Crystal has provided us with as this year comes to an end.
And, end of years are about the year in review and mine is
also focused on another remarkable year of this podcast. It has been my delight
and saving grace at times. I think I will save that for my first episode in
January 2021 that is in a couple of weeks.
With Endings come conclusions. Here are some of mine as we
call it a wrap on this year.
The uproar of this last year, in virus, politics and
democracy, racial bias and the collapse of so much we take for granted, like
the air, shared breath and paychecks. We have all felt under assault and daily
routines compromised. Much will never be the same. How do we chose to live
together and what it takes for a society to stand in grace and harmony? Maybe
it is not important to all. It is to me.
I look to provide a sense of something different for us to
experience. Whatever is out there is a reflection of our inner worlds. You know
that. How you think forms your sense of reality. The questions we find
ourselves shaking our heads about have origins in someone’s thinking and
feelings. What version of reality are they living in? Different than mine.
I have seen this year, through the filter of Respect, and
unfortunately, too many instances of lack of respect. Rudeness, fear, yelling,
the manipulation of truth to convince others who are not in the know, denial, resistance, rebelling, destruction,
killing another so often have, at basis, a lack of respect being directed at
another. When you value another as yourself it is different than when you
don’t. We are each entitled to our opinions we may say but maybe that is not
saying enough. We each are entitled to our opinions with respect for our
differences and similarities. I might not agree with them but you have value to
society. Even those we don’t agree with have some sort of value, either as
lesson or as one to emulate.
We are spectrum-based lifeforms or we would all be the same
and we are individuals as humans, human but not the same.
We call it basic decency. Treat others as you would like to
be treated. Pretty simple. When we don’t hold ourselves with respect, with
worthiness, how can we offer it to others?
We hopefully have come to realize our connectedness with
all around us. Oneness is real. Social distancing has made everyone aware of
our shared breath and how powerful we each are. We can make sick and even kill
each other just be breathing on them. Our emotional maturity seems at play. Many
people are unaware of how they affect other.
Respect can be as simple as passing another person on the
street and you are not wearing a mask while they are. You are unaware of their
internal conversation. They are thinking, “I don’t know you, you don’t know me,
but I am feeling disrespected by your actions.” You may be secure in your world view of
reality, but their reality may allow of them to feel ill effects and have a
different relationship to the virus. They have worry where you have denial or
apathy running.
As Consciousness we are beyond all that. We appreciate the
humanity present and realize it’s limits. And, we touch the place within that
reaches out beyond our human definitions, those limitations that define us. We
embrace that which can not be described, only felt as the essence of Life, the
spirit within to be found in BEing.
Thank you for joining me here. Let’s do it again.
Janet Barrett
Podcast host Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet
janetandbeyondpodcast@outlook.com
What's in your junk drawer?
Do you have more than one?
What does it say about you?
How are you a junk drawer?
These were some of our questions this last week in group. One of is getting her house ready to sell and she is clearing out, cleaning and repairing it. She was in awareness of how her junk drawer was filled with things that maybe were important in some realm of her life. And now, maybe were not.
Consider that this is the end of the year and a great time for clearing out the old. There are things that you have collected that probably had no place but together with other stuff that also didn't have a place. Like to like.
We were in awareness of how our lives, our homes all represent each of us. What is this drawer that is filled with odds and ends and tools, and maybe papers and what nots that have found their way inside this drawer? Stuff we don't want to lose but has no place may find its way into the junk drawer.
And, if we expand outward of this pattern might we each be perhaps a junk drawer of patterns of information, a collection of stuff that we call Self?
Junk is a demeaning value term. It can be used to indicate something of worth that is no longer. Or it still has worth but not in the same way as it did before. It a collective term as in "This is a piece of junk." Men may use this term differently than women.
How does a spider web come into it? I wondered myself as I saw one show up while we were being present.
The web is the spider's way to collect prey out of the air. They don't have great eyesight so they use their other senses. They use the vibrations of the prey in the web to locate them, decide if they are worth keeping and then wrap them in silk and they take to their nests to eat later. I can image that sometimes the web can catch other things than what the spider might eat. I wonder if spiders have junk drawers in their nests.
The web is not solid. It allows for air flow but it defines that space and funnels the air. It shapes it as it passes through the webbing. The dew or rain that can collect along the webbing conditions the air. Every web is unique to the spider.
But back to the junk drawer in your house.
You can sometimes feel helpless or overwhelmed with the odds and ends that every life encompasses. We can sometimes get rigid and eliminate what can seem chaotic quickly. Or we can find ourselves surrounded with stuff that we are not in the right mindset to deal with at the time. We can collect piles and piles, like the mail or the bills or both.
When one is stressed, or ill or not paying attention, the little stuff can become big stuff in our minds and homes. If you are reference oriented you might be overtaken with information that never gets to the right place and your piles overflow taking up space that conditions the air flow. Yo might be collecting stuff from others. You many not have a place for storage of your information. Dust and dirt can settle in every crevice. Maybe now the junk drawer never really closes ;and/or instead of one you have many. One in every room perhaps.
Now back to the junk drawer as your body/form and mind and Spirit.
Nutrition, utilization, elimination is the body's design for optimum health. How well is your body functioning? This also applies for our mindsets and our relation to Spirit. How cluttered are you? What sort of odds and ends have you taken in and are not using effectively or timely but stored away for a better time to deal with? What are your memory banks filled with?
What is in one mans junk drawer can be another man's treasure. Take this time to consider your willingness to look with new eyes at what you have tucked away in your junk drawer.
(What can be one wife's junk drawer can become a retired husband's tool drawer).
Janet Barrett
Life in the Beyond/ Journeys Into Enlightenment
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You know your junk drawer. The one filled with things and stuff that has no place but you keep. It is filled with odds and ends that are singular but still important. Things still wanted but now separated from the original to be dealt with at another time. It might be filled with tools and serve as a catchall for the things that make up a life that are more worthy as the whole than as the separate pieces.
One mentioned she has several junk drawers.
We shared about how we each perhaps are a junk drawer. That in one sense you could view yourself or others could view you as a junk drawer in consciousness. What are you filled with? Everything orgainized and has a place or the place that holds for seemingly unassociated materials and gives them home?
What about the value you place on your "junk"? What is one mans junk is another mans treasure. What you might consider junk is your assignment of value and worth.
How do we define junk? It is interesting to take the list below and put the word drawer behind each one.
Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet podcast
Releasing Tuesday December 15, 2020
We are in the middle of another holiday season filled with virus. Unfortunately, not our normal holiday season filled with our regular cold and flu viruses which are deadly enough. We are dealing with the Covid virus. How are you doing so far?
My guest this episode Crystal Pomeroy brings with her an abundance of portals of different appreciations, traditions, myths and stories of both nourishment, renewal and HELP that we can access. Whether you are conscious today in your beliefs in angels or astrology, goddesses and gods and the power of Mother Earth does not matter. They live within your physical, mental, emotional, psychological, psychic, and spiritual DNA. For these are the realms of our ancestors and what served as the science at the time.
It is what they followed and believed in long ago. Before the written, in times of wall and rock paintings, the oral still echoes and vibrates. These are the sounds that live in your bones and blood from perhaps just outside of your awareness. And what we might call our imaginations and interests are often our connections to references from this ancestral memory bank.
If, you are feeling stressed, go to this place. Go to the
place within that takes you in beyond your isolated, separated sense of Self
and your personal story/illusion and unfolds into the realms and worlds of the
ancients be they angels, goddesses, and forest devas. Allow your issues, those
concerns that seem so important and perhaps are and let these energy signatures
come forward. Feel the release that comes with accepting their timeless
awareness of how all is connected as One. In beyond your limits is where the
magic happens.
No matter your race, creed or inclinations it is your
beliefs that form your realities. It is your biases and projections and
perspectives at play with you as Creator. This is the truth that we so resist
at times and want to hide from or deny. And it is a work in progress.
Life and Consciousness are spectrum oriented. All is
allowed. There are no rights and wrongs and/or good and bad. These are judgments
to be found in the human bias.
Suffering of all kinds can happen in our body/forms as well as joys and delights. Death
is as real as birth. This is our dance of Spirit and Human playing out. What do
we do with experiences that we may find ourselves involved in over the course
of our physical lifetimes? Maybe HELP would be nice. In the Spirit realm or as
Consciousness all is available. We can forget this when in form.
Many people have
issues with asking for HELP. We have made it about charity, or we are too weak
or needy. Religious dogmas stir. It is not a matter of being less than thought
it may feel that way.
Consider instead, HELP as an element of flow. It is a flow
that supports and enriches the spirit in the humanity that enriches the human
awareness. Our ability to focus through prayer or meditation are access points
to this flow. It is a matter of alignment within Consciousness not so much
subservience to an individual. Which depends on your frameworks of religion or
spirituality.
What is your reality framework? Accepting HELP is being open to the other
energies that are empowered as Consciousness. They hold information that you
might not have knowledge of personally but can access. The reality of HELP available as needed is useful. Not the HELP that is “not help but more work “kind
of HELP. Not being attached to how it
shows up is useful. What happens when your angel shows up and doesn’t look like
you expect it to? Knowing that information I can access is all around me in any
realm that I might find myself dealing with is useful.
Humans can be highly creative when it comes to blocks and
defenses in accepting HELP. At heart,
they often hold that they are less and not deserving. They have something to
gain in being unaware of how they are resisting their own good fortune.
And remember, the HELP flow is also not one directional. It
is a two- way path. If you ask for help you are open to helping others because
you know the value of HELP. To play it forward or pay it forward, you are comfortable
with acting as angel.
Next time just be open. Access your core, place your issue
in front of you and ask for the part of consciousness that could help. Trust, and
notice what shows up in synchronicity. Get in the habit of being in the HELP flow and enjoying yourself.
Happy holidays!
Janet Barrett
Podcast host Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet
janetandbeyondpodcast@outlook.com
Release Tuesday afternoon November 3, 2020
My guest this episode is Jim Jensen author of Expand The Power of Your Subconscious Mind. It is an updated look at the 50 year old classic The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Dr. Joseph Murphy. Learn more about C James (Jim) Jensen at cjamesjensen.com and listen to our episode!
Meditation In Times Of Crisis By C. James Jensen
I was blessed to have been trained in meditation at an
early age. I have been amazed for some time now why so few people in our
Western culture do not regularly practice some form of meditation on a daily
basis. With the unrest in the world, the Covid-19 pandemic, and current
political scene, a quieter mind is important to resist joining the world in a
state of fear and turmoil.
The amount of data on the benefits of meditation is
abundant. Maybe if we all took time to meditate on the problems around us, we
would have the ability to bring calm to the causes of stress from all the
outside sources as well as internal fears and anxiety of things like possibly
being exposed to this virus. I believe if people could sit with their political
frustrations and meditate, they could see past the anger to resolutions to
assist the planet with its current struggles. Meditation allows us to step
outside situations to see like an eagle from a distance instead of feeling like
you're in the eye of a storm.
I know when I feel rundown, fatigued, or concerned that I
might become ill, through meditation I can direct energy to any area of my body
that I think needs a “boost”, or healing, and most often ward off the physical
manifestation of my dis-ease-ness. Knock on wood, but I can’t remember having
had a common cold or the flu in over twenty years.
On the mental side, I have had some of my greatest ideas
and inspiration come to me in meditation. Meditation quiets the mind. When you
quiet your mind, you are able to listen or better hear those thoughts that may
come from your higher consciousness or the creative center of your mind.
Having learned how
to meditate has benefited me greatly in my professional life. Approximately 45
minutes before I was to speak to any group, I would find a quiet room and begin
to meditate to align and balance. I would ask my Higher Self to please provide
me with the most appropriate thoughts for that particular occasion. As I
entered meditation, I would not think about my speech, the audience, or how “I”
(the ego) was going to act. I would simply quiet my mind, release any stress
associated with speaking to a group whether it was to my own employees or other
peers.
Many doctors treating children with anxiety have found
using meditation to be very useful with their young patients. For many
suffering with conditions like ADHD it may be the only thing that will help
them quiet the mind for any extended period of time allowing them to relax and
be calm.
Meditation also is a wonderful thing to experience as a
couple, a way to relax together. My wife Jeri and I have been meditating for
years. I think it may be one of the keys to our long and very happy life
together.
Janet Barrett
Podcast host Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet
Friday’s Nudge:
Ep 46 Blog The Power in a Deck of Cards
There are many ways to engage wisdom in the world. One way can be as simple as a deck of cards. I am not talking about those you will find at the blackjack table and such. That is about a different kind of wisdom.
I am talking about the kind that serve as empowered objects
to assist us on our journeys of enlightenment.
What decks you may be drawn to is because something in you
resonates to it, just like the other things in your life. What appeals will be
unique to you and that is good. The deck may call up old memories, in this time
or another or it can serve to awaken and develop new sensory ranges in you.
There are more different decks of cards to play with and
enjoy than ever before. Remember it is always about enjoyment. Encode awareness
with enjoyment and those things that we each deal with over the course of our
lives get easier.
I tend to enjoy decks that reflect different bodies of
knowledge and thoughts. What they have in common is they all reflect a
lightness of being about them for me. Could be Angel cards, Messages from the
Universe, Creative Actions, Thought of the Day, different Abraham decks, BEing
Present, What to be grateful for, The Power Deck and the Sacred Inner Oracle
cards. All kinds of decks. I even have a children’s deck of Disney heroines
that represent for me, different shades of feminine models. I think I have 16
decks out on my console to be enjoyed. I use them together, separately, in
conjunction depending on the occasion. Sometimes I draw one card, sometimes
combinations, just depends. I use different spreads at times. When working with
another I might tend to draw from a certain deck, what ever is showing up in
that moment.
For me they are all powerful as I hold them to be powerful
tools of awareness. I have made up cards out of books of knowledge at times for
they represent different ways of embracing energy functions and dynamics. I see
them as extensions of wisdom in easy clear patterns of information sometimes
just out of reach that can gain and guide my attention. I can spend a fleeting
moment on my way out the door or I can sit with them and play in awareness.
They can be a focus of meditation and my day’s orientation. They serve me at my
whim and discretion, just waiting.
I have empowered them to serve me. I respect them. I like
the feel of them in my hands. They connect and open me up to avenues of modalities
and teachings beyond my personal knowledge and experience. They represent the
expanded interactions of human senses, out beyond. They connect with our core awareness,
our intuitive range and capacity. They can bring into focus what is present,
what was past, what to be aware of, what the future is open to and where I am
right in this moment. They help bring into the immediate what is not always
right in one’s face in that moment.
If I am drawing cards for another not present, I sit and
let them be present in my minds eye. If I hand you the cards, we are in a state
of respect for will come to pass. I am not flippant with them though the
recipient might initially hold that viewpoint. I always respect what comes up
as I know it is truth in that moment even if it is out of the individual’s
awareness and liking.
I allow my wisdom to speak in my approach and I honor that.
Not my attachment, my wisdom. Cards are fun for me and embody truths in our
actions and thoughts and illusions, mostly of our illusions. For if one is not liking what is showing up, we
are in our illusions that are blinding us.
They bring one back to center.
Janet Barrett
Podcast host Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet
janetandbeyondpodcast@outlook.com
Hello All,
Zoom Groups are back starting this week. I hope you will join me and others in exploring the wonder that Life can be. Just because it is wild and wooley out there doesn't mean there is not bliss available to experience.
Please RSVP to join Tuesday evening 7-9 pm, Wednesday 10 am or Thursday evening 6 pm. All times are Pacific. If you are new please email me at janetb@janetandbeyond.com for the registration packet. All groups are sliding scale donation per weekly group. Please have registration packet returned by Tuesday 3pm pacific so i have time to send the Zoom invite just before the scheduled group meet time.
All the best to you and yours,
janet
Janet Barrett
Life in the Beyond/Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet
www.janetandbeyond.com
janetb@janetandbeyond.com
Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet Podcast Release Tuesday August 25, 2020
Episode 43 Blog The Realm Of The Medium
My guest for Episodes 43 and 44 is Hollister Rand. She is a
well-known and respected medium. Since early childhood she has had the ability,
the openness, to communicate with the spirit realm. Her new book Everything
You Wanted to Know about the Afterlife*But Were Afraid to Ask is a great
manual into the world of the medium.
She offers clear information and language for the novice, the
curious or the natural to navigate this realm. She answers questions that might
surprise you.
Here is a comment from her book introduction. It rather
sums up to me what mediumship opens us up to, curiosity and the value we give
to Life.
“As a medium, passionate curiosity is to know
the truth about life and death has fueled my connection with spirits. I have
always wanted to know the answers to big questions like “Why are we here/” and
practical concerns like “Will I be able to eat what I want in the afterlife?”
In Hollister’s terms she refers to loved ones who have
passed over as spirits and ghosts are those energies that have agenda still
with the physical realm. Spirits express through the vibration of love and
ghosts out of the vibration of fear. I like this clarity and distinction.
Choosing this time in history and virus to be alive is
offering us opportunities to open and unfold into our senses and become
comfortable in new ways. Being able to be open to wisdom from our passed on
loved ones is enriching. The veil is thin between our physical and non physical
realms. It takes only a matter of tuning to receive in our expanded sensory
awareness. One of Hollister’s joy is to share with us how easy it can be for
each of us to be in connection with our spirit guidance.
Some of us speak and listen to the dead easily. It is no
big deal when we use consciousness technologies as we appreciate that time and
space are malleable, and the forms are only illusions of information and thoughts. Our
attachment to the physical form and the rules we think we exist in our
realities of BEing and beings are fluid.
Our spiritual realms are our core essence and our
collective awareness as Consciousness and everything known and unknown,
manifested and unmanifested, potential and energy. We can unify behind one
being or in being One. Both will embrace
the information available in the realm of the medium in different ways. The
truth is that if you are in the reality of Oneness, shared morphic resonance
then is the bits of information and photons dancing around and in us, and all
that ever was still is. Those that we have had relation to in this time of
awareness are still present, just in changed form. It is nice to know we are
not alone as one might think.
Spirits will help us realize that often what we think is
important is not. Our illusions about what life is are mutable. Solace and
comfort from our own thoughts are possible. The unexplained can be explained if
it is important and known. Our emotions are important and yet can be limiting.
BE open to your curiosity. BE in a sense of gratitude that
you had experience together and release and let. Release what you think is
important. Let yourself feel different.
Janet Barrett
Podcast Host/Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet
Take the time today to explore something new, something old or ask a question and let the answer show up. Listen.
Let go of social media for the day. Use your device to explore and find out more about?
Be open, to learning something you don't already know.
Notice what you follow, where your attention takes you.
Consider the dream you put away long ago. What if this is the perfect time to change the direction of your life?
In all the upheaval you are experiencing, where is the joy you left behind that can now be found again?
List 5 things you think are true and consider them again. What do you think you know for sure or on reflection, is only an assumption of someone else?
What is your favorite color and is it in your wardrobe? Your house?
Curiosity is one frequency. It can not coexist with fear, another frequency. Which one is more active for you? What do you need to let go of to experience more curiosity?
What is it like to feel anticipation instead of judgement?
Be curious today.
Janet Barrett
Life in the Beyond/Journeys Into Enlightenment
This came across my LinkedIn news feed last week. I though you might enjoy it. He speaks so clearly about where we are in our outward and inward Journeys of Enlightenment. How to Bring the Dream Back to America
By Deepak Chopra™ MD