JIE Episode 53 Bog Enjoying Life Is My Choice

 

Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet Podcast

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.

Copyright 2020 Janet Barrett 

Janet Barrett

Podcast host Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet

janetandbeyondpodcast@outlook.com 

www.janetandbeyond.com 

JIE Episode 48 Blog/ Meditation in Times of Crisis by C. James Jensen

 

Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet Podcast

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

www.janetandbeyond.com

janetandbeyondpodcast@outlook.com 

We're Back

 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

JIE Episode 40 Let Go. Really, Why?

Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet 

Podcast releasing Tuesday July 14, 2020

Episode 40 Blog/ Let Go. Really, Why?

Probably the hardest challenge for any of us is embracing any perceived pain as useful.  We tend to hold on to things and feelings and if it doesn’t feel good, we don’t want to feel it. So, we decide to never feel that way again and then we create often elaborate patterns of avoidance and rules. We build huge powerful rule sets that we think will protect us from the hurt again when in reality, the rules trap the energy dynamics into place and keep us chasing our tails. We never are dealing with our part of our own set up, our joint creation in honest ways and there is a failure to appreciate what our lives are about.

 We miss valuing our lessons about relating to our Selves and others and our own creations. 

 We get stuck in continuous looping holding patterns of pain. It can be challenging to be grateful for one’s pain. John J. Murphy my guest this week mentions that Egos don’t understand appreciation. We are in our wounds and can stay there. Unless something happens to bring awareness. It takes honesty and intention to look at what we are creating and making our reality. It takes us getting out of our blindness in perspective and role playing. This is an act of love towards Self. To look. 

Stuff happens in our lives, all the times. Acceptance is useful here. It will bring us face to face with what we value about life, as contrast, in gentle or most often, traumatic ways. We might never have seen it coming but on reflection we can often see our setups. Those times and spaces where we weren’t paying attention, where we failed to stop and where we listened to what sounded convenient and took the easy way out. Which is different than appreciating one’s own flow.

Most of us are not in strong enough daily congruent states to build in a flood plane and then not be surprised when the rain comes and the house floods. We might wonder sometimes why a neighborhood can be decimated and one house is not. Perhaps there is something different about the energy of the owners that keeps them safe in a sense of higher ground. Why is it that some get a disease that can kill many and it just dissipates in another?

Only when we realize what our feelings are letting us explore, from within our non attached sense of Consciousness, can we own our feelings and then shift gears, intentionally if wanted. There is nothing wrong with being unhappy. It can be a useful state at times. But who wants to be unhappy for more than a moment?

There is nothing wrong with feeling like a warrior vanquishing the bullies and protecting the weak. And felt, with righteousness and belligerence can wear a soul down. When it is coming from within a rule set of victim/abuse/user etc. it may be a sense of power/loss of power that is active. And it keeps creating realities of happening again and again and the highs and lows of joy/misery.  The pattern is set in place and the people and circumstances may change over the years, but the same dynamic is playing out for the lifetime.

Employing our ability to manifest our love of Self and others takes maybe many different moments of wanting to and choosing to BE Love. Is it Love betrayed you are feeling or is it your ideas of what Love means to you, your illusions of what Love is, that you are in resistance with? How is your pain helpful in supporting your wounded beliefs of Love and what you think you deserve to experience? We can say we want Love but if is with attachment it is not Love, only our illusion of Love.

Letting go means one can experience something else without the poison of the past. It is how we transcend our wounds into the gifts that they are if we are willing to unwrap them.

Janet Barrett

Podcast host Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet

www.janetandbeyond.com

janetandbeyondpodcast@outlook.com

JIE Episode 38 blog/ Righting Our Ship, Cleaning Up The Mess, Sailing A New Course

Journey Into Enlightenment with Janet Podcast releasing Tuesday June 16, 2020 

Episode 38 Blog: Righting Our Ship, Cleaning Up The Mess, Sailing A New Course

Self awareness and this leap in Consciousness does not have to be difficult. We have to admit that each of us is dealing with a lot of stuff to consider on our individual journeys of enlightenment. It is a crash course in coming into new alignments if we want.

Let’s think in terms of ships at sea. This virus has created a tailspin, an eddy in the waters that we are caught up in.So we are in the flux of shift and defiance and waiting.

Our boats do not float well anymore and in truth they have been going in circles and limping along for a number of years. (do ships limp?) We may have been sailing along but we couldn’t see and couldn’t feel what we were about as we dealt with the tides and waves and water up to our necks, too busy in our frantic way to see where we were. 

Water has been flooding us. Right now, it feels like the tide has gone out and the entirety of the ship is revealed wrecked upon the beach. Be it schooner, ocean liner or destroyer all has been revealed. It may look okay on the outside, but it is havoc inside.

It turns out our ship was overloaded with stuff and it was weighing the ship down and dragging it down. Loading up at every port of call but never unloading. Our captain was busy elsewhere playing cards or playing video power games and there was no one on the deck for years, with the wheel lashed down not moving. 

Right now, we are free to breathe. And utilize this time of virus as an opportunity to clean house of the debris and reorganize. Sometimes one can be challenged to get rid of things that hold our sentiments. Good and bad gets all mixed in together and we can’t see or feel our way clear.

Raising our consciousness is about opening up to awareness and new expressions in BEing. Learning what makes you tick and where our memories and triggered reactions are harbored. Letting more daylight in shows us the clutter and the dust in our senses of time and space.

So make it easy on yourself. Use your magic and just notice. Allow yourself to not have to labor, but enjoy the flow of rising back out of the muck. Use Jennifer Foster's EDM system of power needs and organization to enjoy finding out about yourself.

Just let this be a time of renewal and transcendence and right your ship. Put in a new motor, new GPS, sails, on board alarm system and a working crew that you love and love you. Let yourself enjoy being present and in your active sense of reality with fluid time and space, listen, let and feel.

It takes a willingness to not beat oneself up and stop and listen. Does not take money, or good looks. Does not require any special skills or props, only our willingness. To not look at life as a problem to solve. You are not a problem to solve, you are not cursed. It can be so easy to think this way after all these years, to feel this way. Stop it. This is Self and that is only us in our disillusions.

There are only orientations and perspectives, and it is easy to reframe them into new conclusions when you stop the habituated ways of your thinking. Being present makes transcendence easy. If you believe in easy being possible for you. Stripe away every emotion, belief and listen to your thought. In the moment. Listen. Hear what you are saying and feel what you are saying.  Is it true or just a bunch of conditions and considerations from other people? Are you, like the ship full of stuff dragging your ship down?

As in any moment of BEing on this planet, understanding what and why we do what we do can be confusing. Right now is an incredible opportunity to step out of our day to day routines and look around and notice what we have created as our lives. How out of alignment we have become. Having new tools of understanding why and what is directing our inner lives and outer expressions is vital to enjoying new ways, new roles new courses.

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

This Memorial Day

Gettysburg

I looked to see what I wrote last year and if it still applied. Yes, remembering does.

All the best to you and your memories and also to those forgotten or who have no family to remember them perhaps here and on foreign fields. . 

This is what I wrote.


The energy behind Memorial Day in the United States of America is of recognizing and remembering those who had died while serving in wars for this country. It became a united effort out of different locations in this nation after our Civil War in the mid 1800's and recognized as a legal holiday soon after.

Over 150 years later we are still remembering those have died in service. 

I will spend today thinking of them and us today. How far we have come, how far we have not come.

And through it all I will be grateful to those no longer present in form who are still with us in mind and spirit, if not body. 

Janet Barrett

Life in the Beyond/Journeys Into Enlightenment

www.janetandbeyond.com

janetb@janetandbeyond.com 

Reality Is An Evolutionary Work in Progress

Cherry tree in my backyard

We are living in times of opportunity. We are powerful enough, (who knew?) to stop our daily grinds and come together for the most common of goods, each other on a global scale.

 It may have not been our intention as we go about in our clumsy ways of manifesting reality but it has happened. What better than a disease that can be everywhere spread on vibrational resonances?  A specific virus that will kill less than the common flu does each winter. Or act like a plague with many suffering at the same time. 

We are acknowledging our limits in our support systems and making corrections in our homes, businesses, our communities, in our states and country. And beyond our constructed boundaries.

We are finding Oneness, community, in our separateness in real and tangible ways. What is important to each of us? We are being challenged to think about what we do and who we are. It is good. It also can be painful and disorienting. 

Many are coming into new alignments in awareness about their identities. How dependent on outside stimulation of drugs. sex,  rock and roll and food to distract them from their pain and discomfort in BEing Present. Many prefer resistance to change. Many are figuring out how to save themselves and make a profit over others and what they can get out of this useful distraction called Virus.

Many are noticing Life around them again when it is free of the drudgery of habits.

Meanwhile the Earth is doing what it does. Continuing on now with limited human input and imprints. For the world is still an active process of shift in its chemical and elemental constructs. It is vibrant. Volcanoes are still erupting spewing elements from beneath its surface. Life adapts and evolves, elements not so much. Land mass may grow in places where the earth's shell is thinner. It has been at it for billions of years. It may be at it for a few more.

And then there is my backyard. As always, it fills me with wonder on many levels as I listen to the birds, feel the difference in the sun and shade, enjoy the breeze across my face. Scents tantalize me. All challenge me to recognize that I am part of the whole and not separate. In this state called Oregon that celebrates being active in the abundance of nature around us within and beyond our city borders we are enclosed in our yards. I walk laps in my yard and enjoy.

I watch nature shows that put me in awe of the wonder and diversity of life that surrounds me and you in mostly unobserved ways in many distant places. It makes me feel present and understand that most of who we think we are is based on a small awareness in the scheme of things.

It is the best time to notice our discomfort in BEing and to make peace with our conditions. To let our inner Essence of Wonder flourish. To embrace BEing honest with ourselves and let go of the pettiness to be found within.

I am a mass, a body, of assumptions, presumptions and conclusions based on generations of interpretations that have formed a state of intangible called Mind. Most of it is not useful and as not truthful as a president's daily remarks. 

My world of the unseen is quiet and calm and serene. I am in peace. I am in kindness for those who are in the hurly burly of a virus. I am in compassion for those who's world is compromised where mine is not. I am in awe and respect of those who man the front lines and interact with those who are using the virus to explore life and what is possible for themselves.

We are BEing human in our moments. Essence is providing it's human interface opportunities for realignments in expressing itself.

This is my reality. That life goes on in a form and then it doesn't. That our Journeys in Enlightenment will take all of us many places in BEing. It is our creation separate and together. It is our time to employ Grace instead of clumsy and fear in sharing our vibrations manifesting as reality.

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







 All we are is our interpretation and bias about BEing on this planet. It is in flux.

Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet podcast release Tuesday March 11, 2020

Episode 31 Blog/  Heart Centered Awareness, the Field of Unified Consciousness is Alive 

What we call Heart Centered Awareness the Field of Unified Consciousness is actually an active transformational reality if you were to recognize it as such. Your world is not just some thing you observe but are actively creating through our shared genetic memory. Rupert Sheldrake calls it Morphic Resonance. The potential in Being is the unknown available material able to interact with energy.

The realm of Spirit and Consciousness is filled with the senses of malleable time and space where our physical reality seems to hold them as fixed. Time and Space have become standards to anchor our experiences to. We have developed a process where stuff happens over the course of time and plays out. The truth? Whatever we think manifests instantly. Our challenge in this is that we are unclear in our manifesting. We are always creating all kinds of contrasting dynamics. In the Spirit realm this is clear and in this physical world which embodies contrast it is not.

We shift from the set quality that our daily reality may seem to be and become flow oriented not event oriented. It is not enough to see and have a new awareness. How many times have we had an awareness or someone else has one for us and it didn’t change anything? Instead you set up adaptive behavior to try and control not having to experience or feel the same in the future. The patterns involved originally are still engaged without being different. and you may be busy activating an existing or developing a pattern that knowing the truth doesn’t make a difference in changing the wound or world of you.

When we are paying attention in a state of not being attached to the same outcome, we can engage it and feel it in different in some way. We don’t have to validate the existing story pattern. That is the Now. The pattern is in your past. It has no need to continue into your future. Unless you are attached in recreating the pattern every time.

You can register the change or shift as a new choice emerges. And it isn’t about the outcome in the future but in knowing and recognizing that something has changed right now. You feel different in sometimes subtle and sometimes dramatic ways.

This is Being Present Now. Time and Space have shifted a bit and our stories patterns of what we were feeling are now stopped. All the elements that we think we are, personality, patterns of beliefs and behaviors, emotions, thoughts, etc. are not us. We may call them I, Me, Mind or Self but we are bigger. Eckhart Tolle puts it this way “I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions and experiences, I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am Consciousness. I am the Now. I am.”

In the quiet, the calmness, the sacred of BEing aware, as Consciousness, there is none of the doing of working at some thing that Self is busy perpetrating. You instead, become an active listener/traveler. Life is not about doing. It is about BEing.

Our reality takes on such a seamless dynamic that you lose the discernments that make up your judgments about your realities. Your bias and perceptions and experiences work together creating a sense of any one life theme, the story you have created about being you as human.

Consider Reality as made up as strips of film, individual groupings of pixels as pictures. Each grouping or picture validates individual moments of being in form. String them together and those individual arrangements of pixels become a moving moment of reality where we are captivated.  We will take what we notice in our picture and activate it and let it become a moving engaged state of reality.

Now, it doesn’t matter how you might notice this experience, happening in the moment, though awareness is nice. Most of us can be pretty dumbed down to being alive so awareness can seem to build over a sense of time like many things that we attach Time and Space to. But, it doesn’t have to. 

The more you pay attention that some thing different is possible and could be enjoyed it comes into form, into reality.

Janet Barrett

Podcast host Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet

www.janetandbeyond.com 

janetandbeyondpodcast@outlook.com 

JIE Episode 30 Enjoying the Other

Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet Podcast

releasing Feb. 25, 2020

Episode 30 Blog   Enjoying the Other

How we relate in our relationships is a lifelong dance. We are always in relationships as that is our inherent state whether it be with another person, or thing.  What kind and what we do with them and how they will guide us is individual in our stories of BEing in form.

Our family life, of whatever kind, is foundation. We are first a child with two parents or with only one parent present or in and out of exposure or missing. Or, we may have no parents guiding us, only a revolving band of characters imposed by the state.

We may have siblings older and younger in our house to share life with or only on weekends. We may love each other, we may like each other, we may fight, we may not know each other, we may feel something else.

Our feelings will come and go and change and develop and enrich in any sort of emotional range.

We have our” perfect relationship” meter running all the time to be satisfied or not. We can feel loved but not part of the Others. Separateness is powerful. Lack of trust is powerful.

We can feel what we call loved but not understood or validated for our individuality. We sometimes are valued only as part of the Other’s reflection and not for our own. We fall under another’s shadow. We can feel we are not important enough or only as important as they let us feel. 

Our sense of Love is bandied about and held cheap. It is not and we all know it and that any sense of connection is priceless.

We come to find that birth family is only one way to experience family. Found friends and community create family be them street gang or bowling group.

When older, our interactions with others will trigger the old references we have for those beginning relationships. Themes develop in our interactions. Love and our ideals of love play out in ever expanding directions but still nourish the core story we have of engaging and connecting with others. 

Relationships are fixed positions. One way to change your position and role is to start relating to another and not role play. For instance, the relationship of Wife and Husband comes in all shapes and sizes unique to each couple. Hopefully it is an enriching experience for both. This relationship is wrapped up in many outside influences of society that shift. When we relate to each other, respond not react, we have more autonomy. And that helps our relationship and our definitions of what works for us personally.

It is very possible that the Other doesn’t get your change. They are busy in their mindset story of Life. And, it doesn’t matter, unless it does.

Others are not responsible for how we feel about them. We are. Courage is that quality often connected to change of viewpoint. Challenge does not have to be in your face, defiant. It can be a subtle ease of being.  You have it in you. It just might not be the strongest awareness you have in this moment. But being able to be in Heart centered Awareness, and to listen to your inner authentic voice can happen easily when you realize it is already there and now is the time to listen and take inspired action.

Enjoy the Other from within Heart Centered Awareness and see what happens.  Be present now.

Janet Barrett

Podcast host Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet

www.janetandbeyond.com 

janetandbeyondpodcast@outlook.com 

There is No Thing to Do, only BE

In Western societies we are so often organized in competition, accomplishment, growth, success, achievement. We have become doers. We put value not on how we contribute to society but how much we make our way in society. We judge each other and keep score in many ways through jobs, wages and money, title, power, and in the things we have, the things we don't have and in the things we want.

Our self-identity is not coming from our own centered sense of Being then, but from our interactions of outside influences and performances and a separated self identity develops. When we lose any of those parts of this outside constructed sense of self identity, we can feel it as a loss and we can be weakened and at risk for enjoying our lives.

This is what can happen when one loses a job or a loved one. Our construction falters on its borrowed foundation stones. 

Being able to call upon our centered sense of Being makes it easier to live through the challenges that Life will offer us. Realizing that we are part of the whole, as Consciousness, supports and provide connection at our deepest levels and is sustaining.  

Self is part of Essence. It is the human interface of Essence or Soul or connection as Spirit. We each set up the rules and definitions to be explored in being who we each are as part within the collective that Consciousness is, potential and energy in motion.

There is no separateness ever. That is only the human Self's illusion.

In this physical realm of contrast, it is how we hold Self that is important. Self is a creation, a projection. The more it is aware of its connection to its own Essence, its BEingness, Self and its world view perspectives engage differently. Realities of Oneness, that we all share in BEing and Wholeness, the Grace in what happens with all in that sharing, operate. 

We are not who we are because we have. We are who we are because we BE. 

If you look at who you are on a DNA level you tap into this reality. Those chromosomal combinations have the entire human story encoded in them. Mental DNA, emotional DNA, psychological DNA, psychic DNA, spiritual DNA are all incorporated in our Physical DNA. Every state of reality and perception throughout mankind’s history is in your DNA as shared information. Every disbelief, feeling, thought of the past is in your DNA.  But that is too big a reality to deal with, so we don’t. And in cutting ourselves off we often cut ourselves out.

Don't let yourself be bored by Life or in Life. Have the courage to change things up in your habits of quiet resignation, subversive passive aggression and the never ending patterns of unworthiness and not enough. Change your reality your Self has projected into being. It manifests your worst fears so you can notice them and let them dissolve out of existence. 

Celebrate BEing Alive right in this moment. 

BE. 

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

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 

JIE Episode 27 Blog/ Celebrating BEing Life in the Moment

Journeys Into Enlightenment Podcast

Episode 27 Blog Celebrating BEing Life in the Moment

Our Journeys Into Enlightenment are all about exploring, while alive, the freedom that we tend to associate with being in the Spirit form. They are Journeys Into Enlightenment, not to, Enlightenment.

If we are fortunate, what comes at the end of one’s life is a contented Essence. A lifetime that was filled with adventures and challenges and delights in Being in Form. The delights in being able to feel, physically and emotionally and think and how they reflect and nourishes the Essence, Soul, Spirit we each hold inside.  It is the totality of BEing.

There is a strong orientation and subsequent belief structures we humans have created that to be in form, in a body, means to suffer. Religions have been built around this premise. Suffering is held up as the central theme. Salvation comes only in death, when we are released from the body. The truth is that this is only one approach and experience about Life. There are many.

Surviving to live another day is a balancing act and we will judge, quantify, defend and deny in the process. This is Self. We seek control in the world around us. This is Self again. It is only illusion. For the next breath may happen or not despite our efforts. Coming to terms with what each life is about is an individual’s awareness.  And those witnessing that life will make their assumptions based on their own sense of being.

Life is coming to terms with Self and Essence as partners in being in form. As humans, we find this physical realm of life on this planet organized around contrast. It is the land of This and That, This or That, maybe “to have This we must have That” and then there is “This, That and the other thing.”  There are duality, polarity and scalar dynamics present as frameworks of relations along with time and space.

Life is incredible and priceless and unique and like much of what we find around us, we value it cheaply all too often. We cannot create Life even in a lab. They have to use already living matter, cells, to create more living material.

That spark that Life is, is a moment, in the blink of an eye as it comes and goes. Tragedy reminds us to appreciate and demonstrate love and caring now, not later for there may not be a tomorrow to share. We have no guarantee of a next moment. None of us do. We only have an assumption. Heartbeat stops and Life stops. Immediately. Alive one moment, dead the next. It is that simple. 

  

We are fascinating creatures. We have the ability to take in phenomena around us. We then interpret, give meaning to that phenomena, due to our inner bias and story settings and then we embody and express that phenomena. We also can change the inner biases at any time in response to the incoming information. It is rather remarkable the ability to change one’s mind and subsequent behavior and story line. It is the dynamic of evolution.

We are going to judge what anyone’s experience is, and it will guide us through a lifetime in relation to that judgment. We build behaviors out of our sense of experiences and they create a story of references that become our identities. 

They will, in stories that demonstrate Wholeness, provide moments in a range of emotional reactions and resulting feelings and thinking in response. We can start to judge the phenomena, information and conclusions that we draw in those reactions and responses. We might look to experience avoidance and look to eliminate or control in order to feel okay about our sensory evaluators of phenomena.  We question what we see, hear, feel, think, sense when the incoming doesn’t match our inner catalog of references.

Phenomena is only information and we will judge and name it based on that building catalog index of our story. What we think is real and true is often only the projection in the bias of some sort. Wisdom is being able to sort it all out, based on present information and the existing interior index and drawing new conclusions. 

Being present means being open to input, new evaluation, and the references of the past able to integrate the new input.

Being present is a constant dance of the Life spark. Being able to experience Life, to feel, to see into and out of, to hear on the many different levels and ways we can, our interpretation and changing of orientation is awe in action.  In new ways, evolving ways, to be able to reason and feel and be moved and enjoy the unexpected and to feel loss and outcome. These senses and qualities come together in each of us.

A quote from Abraham, courtesy of Esther Hicks, is that you cannot have a happy ending to an unhappy life. I would add don’t get caught up in what you think happy is. Living rich lives full of Oneness and Wholeness awareness provides textures and complexity, simplicity and clarity in the depth of nuances that reflect what Life is about and what is possible.

Celebrate the vibrations of Consciousness expressing. Celebrate BEing Alive in 2020!

Janet Barrett

Host Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet

www.janetandbeyond.com

janetandbeyondpodcast@outlook.com  

Happy New Year! Celebrate Being Alive in 2020/JIE Ep 26 Blog/ Our Lovely Emotional Ebbs and Flows

Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet Podcast releasing Tuesday Dec. 31

Episode 26 Blog Our Lovely Emotional Ebbs and Flows

For many, emotions are tricky. We have them and they can seem to rule us so we can create distance by developing logic and reason over heart and feeling.

All of us will tend to judge our emotions. We can feel undone by them, swayed and led astray, be it our idea of love and joy or our hurt. They can take us not only into distress but into the warmth and welcome present in a smile. They can challenge us and charm us.

They are what makes being alive as Essence in a human designed mammal more interesting. One thing about being only Essence or Spirit is that you don’t have the pesky and unruly emotions to contend with. They are important for a sense of connection that comes with being in a form. Mammals demonstrate emotions all the times as they are vital to survival of life. We count on others to help us stay alive and emotions generate the coloration of those connections. Oxytocin bonds us with love and caring and liking. Other hormones foster and tender our emotional connections.

They cause us to feel and so often we don’t know what to do with our feelings. We maybe never learned how to have a way to feel something emotionally and experience it and then be done with it. We need to develop comfort with being emotional. Being emotional is not being hysterical. Hysteria can cause a cringe. And, a tear can be as powerful as a full rant.

We can be quite sexist about being emotional. Men seem to have one culture about emotions and women another. It is all projection and assumption and silly. We just demonstrate our emotions in different degrees. But with the right stimuli, anyone’s emotions can flare and burn brightly. Angry looks like one safe emotion for men where grief is not always safe for them to express. A women’s anger is not pretty either and expresses differently and grief can be obvious at times as it is an acceptable emotion for women to express. This whole assumption is all very silly and destructive and life inhibiting.

So how do we appreciate our emotions and neither look to suppress them or overindulge them?

Love and it's discernments are powerful for connection, tolerance and ease in being with another. Compassion, respect, appreciation and gratefulness all are shades and flavors of Love.

Feeling wanted and vital to another is another shade in love. Having value and held in regard by another reinforces that one has meaning in being.

In all this there is no doing. It is about being and in acknowledgement of connection. It is Oneness and Unity and the shared common bonds we have.

I have not mentioned sacrifice or martyr. For those are judgement words of attachment about Self. Putting another before one’s own self and the giving up of being first is love. It is the Essence in Being.  If there is a price to pay that is about attachment and Self again.

How to become more comfortable with being an emotional creature? Not driven and ruled by them but guided from your authentic voice?

Learn to Love yourself. Love celebrates the individual as Self and Essence at the same time.

Make time to sit and access Heart Centered Awareness and being present. Allow the calm to descend or emerge into a warmth of sensation. Feel your breath liberate your physical heart and breathe.

We all have a physical body but also a mental body, emotional body, psychological body, psychic body and a spiritual body. Consider your emotional body and feel what you feel. Notice your comfort or anything else that might cross your awareness. Considerate it in terms of the other shades of yourself in the other 5 bodies you incorporate. 

Compare. Are your emotional energies routing in some way and affecting the others in useful ways? Just play. And if you are being challenged to connect this way it doesn’t matter. Just ask yourself “What would it be like if I could identify easily my emotional body and how it works in me?” and see what happens.

Developing comfort in being emotional is important. Using them wisely and constructively is what we are looking for. Being able to show our love and all its colors and express them is not bad. It is not indulgent or dismissive or any other word that might pop into your head. That is Self-talking and guarding you in your story, not your truth.

Feeling what we judge our negative emotions be them fear, anger, jealousy, abandonment all come out of insecurity. It is fine to be able to acknowledge them as it is vital to health and wholeness. What you do with them is the key. And, so often with acknowledgment, they shift into no thing and the energy is then freed up. 

Emotions are states of feeling and they will come and go. If they are lingering, then there is information, or a habituated state engaged. Change it and see what happens. If the tears come, let them. 

Happy New Year to you and Yours,

We celebrate being alive in 2020!

Janet Barrett

Podcast host

Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet

www.janetandbeyond.com

janetandbeyondpodcast@outlook.com