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.
Happy New Year!
Charles Dickens begins A Tale of Two Cities with “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us …” Written in March 1859
Life was not easy in Victorian England. Life is not easy in the modern world today. But it would seem the energies present are not so different almost 150 years later. And probably through out history epoch of societies and civilizations have gone through the same to the observing commentator.
Take the day to let go of the blame, fear, your story of separateness.
Access heart and feel where Wonder is present.
And, for the rest of your day let Awareness of Wonder BE present. Instead of blame, fear, your story of separateness.
Happy New Year!
Janet Barrett
Life in the Beyond/Journeys Into Enlightenment
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
Podcast Releasing December 1, 2020
Episode 50 Blog/ When BEing Alive is a Grand Adventure
How do you define BEing alive? What is your rule set and
defining aligning principles in play about you and Life?
We each come out of
family dynamics that have a set up to them. We spend our lives working out of
this bias and beliefs systems. You are either in it and okay or looking to be
out of it. What would it be like to be
free to value and add excitement into your daily reality at your choosing? Not
anxiety but excitement. Safety and self awareness your given.
What if you looked
forward to opening your eyes each day and feeling the appreciation as you
experience your breath?
Some of us don’t wake up into our day like that. We don’t
want to wake up at all.
If this is the case what would it be like to reframe BEing
alive into a grand adventure, every moment a choice with awareness to do
something, feel something, different? It is all too easy to empower our habituated
sense of Self into maintaining the illusions that Life is difficult, wearing,
soul draining etc. etc. etc. And then you die!
If this is what lies in your expectation reality so it will
be. If, you are depressed, it defines
you. Would you like to have an adventure instead?
If you are frustrated, this defines you. Would you like to
have an adventure instead? If you find Life to be full of injustice or conspiracy
is everywhere and victims and abusers also predominate your inner landscape, would
you like to have an adventure instead?
If you think that no matter what you do nothing changes you
too have a setup for misery.
All of these are
perspectives of how one can live their lives. All of them are illusions that
help us in what way? How are they useful? There is a payoff lurking somewhere.
And at times we know it and feel helpless to change it.
What if you could simply get out of your mindset of
projected thinking and go deeper than your emotions to the realm within that
connects to your core essence of BEing? Deeper than your projections of Self
that hold your story /illusions of who and what you are and unfold into a realm
of wonder and indescribable beauty? Where every story/illusion is appreciated
and can become transcendent awareness
enriching your life?
Something captures your attention. You decide to explore
it. You may collect information about it from different sources that validate
your interest or not. But you don’t know what something is about until you feel
it for yourself. the details in the journey in our adventures are not known no
matter how much you research or don’t. The adventure will take you places you
have never been, may want to or not but you are better for it. It will have
dramatic scenery and people and textures and flavors and moments of comfort and
discomfort.
Danger and excitement. Many think they don't like danger or
adventure. They like the quiet and safety of never being challenged emotionally
or physically. So they are easily thrown off balance when the stuff that can
happens in life happens. Being open to something different, whether it be a
bowl of soup or a zipline experience is good for the plasticity of the mind and
soul. Doesn’t mean you have to live in a reality of daily risk all around you but
being fluid enough to appreciate your own skills and experience you own self
confidence.
So take this moment to notice. Notice what your reality state of BEing alive is about and make a choice. You can keep it the same, with it’s perhaps illusionary sense of safety within the boundaries you are imposing. That is a choice. Or perhaps in accessing deeper into your interior landscape of the sacred that is there, you can make a different choice.
Where you
are free to slip your old bonds of Self and expand into new adventures in BEing
Alive. Where, Life is Grand.
That’s why so many of us teach meditation. Because when you stop thought, you stop resistant thought. When you stop resistant thought, then you let it in. That’s why we teach appreciation, because when you’re in appreciation, you are not in the mode of resistance, and you are letting it in.
Excerpted from North Los Angeles, CA
on 8/13/01
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
Podcast Releasing Tuesday October 20, 2020
Episode 47 Blog Experiencing
Energy
One of the most
delightful experiences of body/form is to experience one’s senses, to feel,
hear, see, touch, smell and to “know” things. The fun comes in when you can
feel, hear, see, touch, smell, and “know” things that have some sort of an energy
signature of awareness and not so much necessarily solid in form, like ghosts
or angels or fairies and nature devas.
Maybe you are
like me and have been aware of different energies since an early age. My friends
and I can see much with our inner eye, dead people for instance. Or maybe you
have a history of feeling energies that were identifiable in some way, but you
could not see them. You could feel them either or both physically and
emotionally. I have symbols that show up in different ways to my inner eye. You
might have a sense of Déjà vu often, or knowing before the phone rings, that
sort of thing. It is entertaining in my realm and something one can look
forward to.
All of it at
times was thrilling, or maybe alarming depending on who I was at the time and
the situation. It was just a thing that was part of me, usually unexpected but I
was open to it all. I have had many different experiences over the years, including
channeling to running healing energy through my hands. My experiences were most
often in a reality of being helpful, user friendly and not about the battle of
good/evil that it can be for many. I was not alarmed and judging what I was
witnessing as bad. There was no horror or fear, only Grace at times and neutral
the rest. But dealing with people’s projections takes stamina and centeredness
and neutral terrain within.
Of course, when
I was young, I was not always clear or understanding about boundaries and how
energy works. I got into metaphysical studies in my early 20’s when I realized
it was a part of my life. I wondered how someone could feel” bad” or unsettling
in some way to me and I felt “bad”. I have felt attacked and then at times
used. And, along the way I was perhaps clumsy with others in their feelings I
am sure.
We are all
sensory creatures with bandwidths of sensation that extend beyond our human
limits into our metaphysical range. BEing energetically sensitive is easier
when you learn one’s own nature and develop energy hygiene. When you are
wanting to help another, understanding energy and potential dynamics is
essential to successful work. There needs to be respect for how you are both
organized within. You can realize that energy can take any form and like a
blade be two sided, and due to the bias of observation, positive or negative.
When in itself it is neither, just a manifestation of projection.
We all
experience energy differently and unique to the individual so there are
guidelines to consider and frameworks to embody that make life as an energetic
being delightful and rewarding. All too often people can feel overwhelmed or
done in by the energies around and in them. And most of the time people are not
in conscious awareness of the energies around them that are affecting in
some way, positive and negative unless it is brought to their attention.
All
information, life, stuff, fits within the core of Consciousness so it can be
interacted with. It doesn’t matter if it is in the past, the future, the
cosmos, your neighbor. Energetic dynamics abound. It just depends on your
internal settings of sensitivity, tolerance, and story line which determine your
reality settings and what you consider real and not real, possible, not
possible.
Everything is vibrational and
informational in nature when it is reduced to its essence. Energy is
vibrational and can clean, clear, protect, heal, destroy. It provides us with intuition
of the present and organizational in terms of time as past lives and the precognitive
of the seer of future events. It connects us with other energetic awareness of
forms corporeal and incorporeal such as angels and other life forms. It
resonates with all elements of living matter such as crystals and plants and
animal life and our space around us as in feng shui and the senses that track
surroundings. Everything living is
registering information and is connected.
Energy is found in the known and
unknown, the manifested and unmanifested, our notions of what are real and not
real. Energy does not care what you think, it only reacts and responds and
forms and develops into patterns of vibrations that we sense and interpret and
experience as the habituated thought and behavior. Again, and again, time after
time. Unless, some thing happens in our rule set to instigate change, shift, in
the moment.
For me, when I
work with clients or students it is about appreciating their references and how
they are helpful or not to them, not to me. That is what being energetically
clear, neutral, to me is about. I have no agenda to push, just clarity for the often-felt
confusion that is present which is what our issues most often are, confusion between mind
and heart usually.
I am an empath,
an energy empath. I feel energy in people, places, things, words, etc. in my
body. We all do in some way, to some degree. It defines me. These days I look
to benefit from all my trainings, experiences and awareness to “feel things
from within my field” and not so much in my body or in attached manner. I
realize that long ago I made the choice to embody this time, in this way to
explore Life within the body/form and to explore BEing. It has taken me many
places.
We all have our
answers inside of us and where we have a sense of out there, somewhere,
sometimes so buried, so wrapped up in a sense of lost that it is helpful to
have another find the link. We share in this, this wonderful sense and
experience we call BEing.
It is quite a
journey of enlightenment that we are sharing.
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,
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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