Consciousness Squeezing This Week/ Making lemonade

Hello Out There,

Consciousness is not heavy or work. It is about the interaction of the expansiveness of Being. You feel the sacred, the stillness, the life, the weightlessness of the All. What also is present can be the absolute sublime sense of joy of Being and also the physical release of laughter.  It is as easy as opening your inner eyes and senses and noticing what is around you.

What comes up when we gather to play are many elements. We are these wonderful mixes of complexity. Complexity is a whole lot of simple. Forces, paradoxes, compromises, thoughts, feelings and non conscious motivations, and awareness playing out in patterns of behavior in thought and feeling. We are all this and much more. We are our history, singular and collective. Individual, family, clan, tribe, community, geographical areas.

When we gather in group, in intention, to know ourselves as Consciousness as play, our inner worlds align with each other. We can feel each other in our patterns. We can notice for each other information that we are often blind to as we are in the patterns and not observing from the outside. Both positions work together and are needed.

It is important to be able to own your own experiences in useful ways. Otherwise you are a victim to your world, in your own world. When we can acknowledge who we are because of them we are in the power position. We can convert wound to gift and access the wisdom. Sometimes we can be aware and yet not be able to have a sense that we can make a change. Group can provide that. On one level that is why many will not choose to come. Because their inner control mechanisms about change are not encoded for flow but only for perceived threat. Get over yourself and let us shift that! Your sense of control can be different.

Last week offered so much rich expression of being alive for us here. Each of us is vital to the whole. Synchronicity is present. Once we speak of what has caught our attention we can start to see the patterns from the energies present in our individual stories affecting us collectively.

We started with a Hammertoe. Which led to constriction. Which led to Wrong. The definition of Wrong that we each have held within was weighty and the realization that Wrong had nothing to do with Right. It had a lot to do with our sense of Love. Love combined with pain that comes in being with others we were holding deep. We make assumptions of connection. There is no connection between wrong or right in Consciousness, only in our human assumptions. All of this led to the two year old. The one that wanted nothing to do with rules and so in control. Her rage at being forced to conform and she wasn't and never would. She was betrayed and violated and she was justified. How to hold her in Grace and to find her own path of being out of her own inspiration and not manipulated self.

Our other group was about the laughter, the ecstatic whirling dervish kind of laughter, It was coming out a state long suppressed and out of truth. We are that joyous. In hindsight it might be shocking. It came out of a willingness to know oneself and looking for new ways to let go of what was stuck. It was taking a warrior of life out of that role and becoming the many creatures of flight that were her truth. It was about reconciling what we were holding separate and buried under reason and responsibility.

It was a lovely week to make and drink lemonade.

Love,

janet
janetb@janetandbeyond.com
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Consciousness Cookies for Today

Hello Out There,

Tapping into our connection as Consciousness is easy. Feeling it can rock your boat. Understanding what is happening is optional and not really important at times. And there might not be a lot of words available to articulate as it is our right brain that is engaging and not our left brain verbal processor. We will show you the very simple steps and let our authentic voices make themselves heard. And, then, the shift. That is the key.
What fun!

Food for Thought

At the Portland Body, Mind and Spirit Expo this past weekend I had the chance to meet a very nice group of people that didn't always know what or why they were in front of me. They might have been trawling through as we can tend to do at these sorts of events. But for those that chose to accept a free Consciousness Cookie that I had provided  (and most everyone did) it was a moment to contemplate. Food for Thought without the calories!

Joan, my partner on Conscious Conversations with Joan and Janet, and I offered a 50 minute presentation on Consciousness and about the shift that we are all feeling these days and maybe don't have the language or understanding of what is happening. It is Quantum Leap time, People! Those of us who do this work see it, feel it, hear it, know it, and experience it crosses through our cell membranes. It was interesting to hear what people thought about Consciousness and Consciousness Technologies and most of it was new to the interested general public.

I was busy doing demos for those interested in feeling something different and shift in their conscious realities. Every body felt something and when we moved out and about in regards to some area that was showing up, it was sensed. It will be interesting to hear back from those who participated and I know that some will respond to their sign ups for more information and about the play groups. I also are aware that is also easy for some to just walk away and put it down to the moment. Not realizing that, even though I said it would continue, that it might get lost in the day. And, maybe not. My reality set is that it will make a difference whether they or myself are aware of it or not.

The only way to effectively handle the changes coming up and out of the chaos in our worlds is to connect to our sense of Consciousness as Heart Centered Awareness, Unified Consciousness or Source or Universe. The label only reflects the training and bias and not the state.

We are each redefining ourselves and opening up to the collapse of systems and labels that don't serve any longer. Whether in religion, business, spirituality, politics or contemplating our collective navels, shift is happening globally. Which is very exciting and maybe traumatic for some. Traumatic is okay when we hold it in reference to letting go and/or holding on what no longer serves. Depending on how we have each set up our games about Life and our power as Consciousness, change can be easy, simple, smooth or Hell on Wheels and everything in between. It can bring out the extremes.

What is important is that we each have the power to self lead in new ways. We don't have to follow hollow states, institutions and personalities. Most of the time we live in states of Uncertainty and so we go to others for help.

When that state shifts I have yet to met anyone who doesn't have their own answers. Some have it buried deep but it is there. Some have never thought to question but it is there. Some don't realize how easy it can be. They have just been choosing to have someone else be responsible for giving them permission to know their truth and define them. Which is one way to be.

What would it be like to be able to ask yourself a question and feel okay about what you hear out of the quiet? In being present and open, Wonder is yours.

Love,
janet
janetb@janetandbeyond.com
www.janetandbeyond.com  

Consciousness as Pixels/ Do you see what I see?

Hello All,

QR Code (Quick Response Code)

What is this a representation of? It could be anything. Is it  random generated or a specific representation of what?

If you are not familiar with this it is a QR code. They are showing up everywhere. It is the trademark for a type of matrix barcode
( two dimensional barcode.) It contains info about the item it is attached to. It is a machine-readable optical label. I presume those machines have computers components that read this and translate. Because can you read what this is about? I can't. I can assign meaning and assume and allow this to represent some things if I want.

Would it be interesting to see yourself reduced down to the photons or pixels in patterns forming squares and rectangles? And what if the pixels could come undone and reform into new relations of vectors and alignments? Add another dimension or two or three and all of a sudden you have volume and form.  Do you see your body and your thoughts and your illusions and the And, And, and And that make up you? You would experience some thing different.

 What if we are changing all the time and hold no awareness of it? What if this was just a symbol of a moment and it continued to be part of another moment differently? Those photons/pixels may be moving at a rate not discernable to the human eye or sensory system. Happens all the time and in our arrogance or blindness or lack of awareness we miss it.

Our thoughts follow in underlying habitual patterns. What if Potential was activated and we missed it? We can change in a moment when we use our Consciousness Technologies and we can feel it and then talk ourselves out of it or allow for it to change again in a non supportive environment. Reality can shift in the blink of our eye.

What if you were a bunch of QR Codes hanging together. Maybe you have one that encompasses them all, allowing them to interact with each other and others outside of the code. Maybe some come into play at different times, maybe some that prevent things or actions to happen. The QR contains information about the item it is attached to. What if it was not static and was in a flow and flux state?

How good is your reader machine? How updated are you? What if in the moment it took to read this, it is different in ways you haven't yet noticed? What if You are different in ways you have not yet noticed?

Love,

janet
janetb@janetandbeyond.com
www.janetandbeyond.com 

Consciousness Defining/ Feeling Okay in Uncertainty

Hello All,

Big shifts happen when we take the time to access our connection to Consciousness. There are many ways to do it and here it only takes a few moments to bring ourselves into alignment with the All. No matter our sense of the size of the shift in the moment, it is all about being in Grace and holding awareness when we are. 

What does the Buddha's smile indicate?

We all need to know that we are OKAY. Many of us don’t feel that and maybe never have. 

It is hard to know you are Okay when you are in States of Uncertainty. Which were present in group. We can allow this to unsettle us and not feel friendly if we are purpose oriented or being driven to declare ourselves. I am____________. Fill in the blank. 

Yet, when might Uncertainty be a good thing? It means that variables are present. Most of us don’t like it. Often it encompasses our sense of time. Like when we take a long time to choose. What if the uncertainty lasts a minute, an hour, a lifetime? Often that is judgment coming from others. Someone else’s sense of time, not ours. 

You have not yet made a choice. Balance and Harmony are shifting perhaps in your old stuff. If we embrace this state can something be gained? Exploring what it means to each of us can create time for us to explore without commitment. Take the time to break down the elements and along the way you are no longer uncertain. Rather like trying out different beds in Goldilocks and the Three Bears, the fairy tale. Too hard, too soft. Ahh. Just right. Better than choosing one and being stuck with that choice if it isn't right. 

In quantum mechanics you learn about the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. It states that at the quantum level you can never simultaneously know the exact position and the exact speed of an object. Why not? Because everything in the universe behaves like both a particle and a wave at the same time. I would offer that maybe we are acting out of both states switching from one to the other without awareness. When we are definite about something we are particle inclined. When we in flux we are as wave. Very different states of awareness. Both have place in being and are fundamental. There is no need to judge ourselves about it.

Consciousness is the big picture.Tapping into it helps us navigate the little stuff, your day to day. Each of us is part of the Whole or All. Each of us is affecting the Field of the Collective. You, in your seemingly little matrix of photons sends out ripples across the Sea of Potential. You provide a means for others to experience your sense of self and in that, their own sense of being. And together, depending on your positioning in duality, polarity or scalar references a new outcome is possible for both of you.

Create some time to access the Collective. It is as simple as shifting your awareness from the day to day to the core of All found within the doorway of your heart. Invite yourself to notice something in your awareness that has Uncertainty around it. Allow for information to demonstrate and delight you. Often we know what is important and we are reluctant to follow. So allow for delight to encode itself around what is important and you might be inclined to listen with more openness. It may not feel easy but that is after all the way you have set it up.You might want to notice that too and play with your setup.   

Know, from the center of your sense of Being, that you are OKAY. That the world is OKAY.

Don’t believe it. Know it. Can you feel the difference?  The believing is filled with uncertainty. Knowing is on point. Either is fine, just be aware. Just be OKAY.  Enjoy the Buddha's smile. 

Love,
janet
janetb@janetandbeyond.com 
www.janetandbeyond.com 

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Consciousness Unfolding/ Our Bits and Pieces

Hello Out There!

They look just like bits and pieces, seemingly random. That can be what a close up perspective provides. No way to notice the bigger picture, the wholeness.

As we observe ourselves as ourselves we don’t realize how we are Consciousness. We don’t see how our day to day dramas are full of much more. How the dramas create a mosaic of awareness in being. How today is part of a much bigger sense of time in a reality that has no time. We can think too small. And, it is our smallness that keeps us in small thoughts, small actions and outcomes. It can keep us in denial of the wonder that has unfolded. It keeps us blind to our changes. We only know what we have known. We are indoctrinated to keeping our old thinking. The feelings stirred up now feel like before but they are not. They are only what we have limited ourselves to feel. So new feelings gets cast in the mold of the old.

We are like this. In group it showed up in many ways. Big events happening in lives that were getting lost in old focused thinking. A clear failure to see the fortune in action happening in the biggger picture. It was obvious to the rest of us. 

Turn the picture on its's side. Now look again. For if you look again you can see that there is a sense of order, a sense of space, a sense of color, textures, a sense of placement that begs for a bigger perspective. We do this in order to know what we are really looking at in its entirety. Even now you might see things as you look that have a sense of completeness. We are invited to make assumptions, to imagine the story we each individually see.  

There are no wrongs or rights here. We are free to perceive from any viewpoint. We are free to make assumptions and make decisions. We are free to lock in emotions. We are free to expect to be okay with it all and not question any of it.

It is also an invitation. An invitation to do something different. To embrace the unknown and look again free of mind and emotion as our little self. Right in this moment, close your eyes and a take a moment to allow yourselves to reset: to breathe, be filled with the appreciation of life and feel its’ beat. Become aware of the colorations that come with the beat and just love them. Continue on then to connect to the expansive All, and breathe again. Feel the warmth, support, the quiet and your heart opening like the lotus blossom unfolding and open your eyes.

Now, do you notice something more, something free, something that was not there before? Do you see the pattern that was and realize the WAS? WAS is not NOW. It WAS. NOW is new, fresh and full of potential realized. Something has happened. Let yourself feel that, connect to that, revel in it.

This does not have to be hard. You only have to allow. It is inherent in us. But we can resist. Oh, can we resist. How often has our heart connection provided truth and we fought it. We refused, on grounds that would incriminate us, and make us complicit in our own creation to ignore that call.

Maybe it was a matter of feeling safe. Safe enough to notice what we knew all along. Maybe we can feel how safe it is to let it all go in all that warmth and support. We reflect the collective Consciousness for each other. In this state that is the truth for our bits and pieces to organize in. They will always organize. That is nature and the nature of things. Accessing our sense of Consciousness will help open up to the potential they swim in. And now, they are in the NOW. 

Love,

janet
janetb@janetandbeyond.com
www.janetandbeyond.com

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Consciousness Dancing/ It's All a Matter of Perspective

Hello All,

 

Please RSVP if you will be joining us in heart centered awareness Tuesday evening 7-9 pm or Thursday afternoon 1-3 pm. Pacific. Make the time to enjoy and value your inner world and the wisdom being held there. It is a rather painless way to love yourself.

 

 

Everything we notice about our selves and worlds is about perspective. It is our point of view or attitude. It is about focal points, closeup and wide angle and everything in between. Change your perspective and you can change how you experience yourself in your world. It can be eye opening in so many ways! New perspectives only happen when you change your point of view. 

 

How do we change our point of view? By doing so. It will require a physical, mental, emotional, psychological, psychical, spiritual shift or perhaps some combination of them to shift the view. It can be as simple as the above video shows. It can be a matter of realizing that we are not getting the whole picture when we focus intently.Details like emotion, logic, time, space can get in our way. It is easy to get distracted.

 

Consciousness is experiencing itself as you. You is based on your perspectives, your perceptual biases. You have them about everything.

 

No matter your beliefs, if you understood that right now is about realizing that you can change those biases, and your stories of being, you could change how you are in your world. Your issues can can be different, done, gone. Consciousness technologies take what we become conscious of and transforming it. There is nothing wrong in being you. It is your starting place. Want to experience some different tangent of life or something else? Take your judgments away. They are set by your senses and states of perspective. 

 

Perceiving is about how you take in information from your senses. Science tells us that our sensing is subject to influence, the biases. Being present is about being free to notice what is right now and not your story built from your past perceptions. You can only do that if you can allow for your story to drop free. Our personal stories are filled with with our own and everyone else’s perspectives and beliefs.they may be dictating our sense of self.  For whatever reasons we may hold them as ours. They may be true or not. They may be true and stupid and not worth keeping. They may need a big dose of “So?” Is it worth keeping and feeling less that wonderful? Only each of us can decide that.

 

What might be different in your sense of self if you could change perspective about something? What would it be like to become aware of the bias in that perspective? Does the perspective let you feel good?  Looking at something head on is usually different from profile or back. Is there a different way to notice what seems so solid in front of you? Hindsight is great for revealing the other forces at play if we only could have noticed them at the time or were aware of the bigger picture. Maybe by being with fresh eyes to what life is presenting, something would have different.  

 

 As children. everything has a sense of wonder about it as it is bigger than us. As our bodies mature and we reach new heights we might lose the perspective we used to enjoy. Or maybe we don’t. I like being around pets and children as they have a different sense of the world when you physically get down on their levels. their eyes are often full of wonder. Might it be their perspectives? Ever lie down on the floor and notice the room that way? You see different things if you look.

 

Our futures are being set up right now by our biases. They can be held to be in stone and not changeable, mutable, or transformational. OR we can access potential and the Field of the Heart with its playful wisdom and allow for something different to show up.  It can be as simple as a change in altitude!  

Love,

janet

janetb@janetandbeyond.com

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Consciousness Play/ Beast of Burden?

Hello All Out There!

This last week has been all about Responsibility and Burden. Whether it was in group, in myself, in mine or others’ clients, this is up in our stories. And they seemed to be glued together. When you consider the meanings of each they are different but you can see how they can get fixed that way.  

Responsibility means the state or fact of having a duty to deal with something or of having control over someone. 2/the state or fact of being accountable or to blame for something. 3/ the opportunity or ability to act independently and make decisions without authorization. Burden means: a load, especially a heavy one.

Often as children we get set up for these two states to be connected. How often were we asked to look after another sibling or more, younger or older, a parent who wasn’t functioning well, or we just assumed responsibility to feel some sort of connection in the dynamics. We are not judging here. We just so often get assigned roles that never shift. Or maybe we were the one who needed looking after. And, we either felt good about it or we didn’t and maybe still don’t. So much misunderstanding can be present in our family dynamics due to different ages and perspectives. When someone is asked to do more than one can reasonably be expected to do, burden and overwhelm come to mind. In time, if the situation doesn’t change patterns are set in place that will last a lifetime. 

What would it be like to be free of any burden? How much burden is okay to handle and still enjoy life? Does a little go a long way? So often we get into job positions where the theme would seem to be less people, more work as a business policy. Who has to deal with the outcome? Who picks up the slack? Is this a healthy way to live, at work or at home. With love or compassion can come responsibility and then burden as outcome.  In this day and age of single parent families there may seem like a parent has no one to share the burdens of doing it all. The same for single people. Perhaps there are options that one has not yet tapped into. If you are set in the state of being burdened you will not. If you are feeling powerless in your burden you may want to sue someone and penalize who you can for their failure to protect you from yourself and setup. There are a myriad of ways this can all play out in real life. 

How is this affecting you today? What did you notice a response to? Use your consciousness technology skill sets to access the Field of the Heart or Unified Consciousness, the Infinite Sea of Potential. From within this state of Grace maybe explore what if would be like to be responsible without burden. Notice what comes to mind when you focus on responsibility. A person, a job, a condition? What would it be like for it to be different? What are you responsible for? Do you want to be? If it could be easier and less stressful what would that be like? Does Responsibility and Burden have to be associated as you have held them. 

We know that from within this state of Grace we just need to let the information flow and new states will show up. Some of us are the kind who pick up the pieces after others have chosen to drop them. What happens when we understand that those who drop without paying attention usually never pay attention. They may not have the developed skill sets you have to change how you react and respond. Maybe the next time it can be different for both of you. Let the lightness of being be you again and active. 

You are not a beast of burden. 

Love,

janet

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