We all have emotions. They are essential parts of the human design. What we do with them is expressing not only our humanity but our sense of Spirit, Essence, and Consciousness. Carol Olivia Adams, host of "The Matter of the Heart" podcast joins Janet. They will consider how our emotions affect our physical forms, emotional well-being, and the role they play in creating healthy relations with ourselves, each other and this unique planet and its occupants.
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.
Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Monday, December 30, 2019
Happy New Year! Celebrate Being Alive in 2020/JIE Ep 26 Blog/ Our Lovely Emotional Ebbs and Flows
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
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Healing the Separated Self with Dr. Mmatheo Motsisi
Our idea of the Separated Self maintains the illusion of others, including Mother Earth as different, indifferent, threatening or something to be conquered. This illusion is harmful, affecting us each internally and globally. Join Janet and Dr. Mmatheo Motsisi, from Johannesburg Africa as they explore what happens when we use Ubuntu, the African awareness of Oneness, to heal our Separated Self.
Monday, December 16, 2019
JIE Episode 25 Blog/Being Willing to See in the Mirror
Releasing Tuesday Dec. 17, 2019
Episode 25 Blog Being Willing to See in the Mirror
All of us
have worth. Some may
be in disguise.
When we are
in judgment of others we are operating from within a separated sense of Self.
Let go of our judgments and be it homeless, presidential, your boss or company,
your neighbor or family member we all have worth in some way. The trick is in
being free of our judgments and biases to know in what way. Could be as
support, learning, trauma, all are serving each of us in being. It may be in
helping us to be compassionate, challenged, appreciative, or supportive.
We each contribute
to the whole of Being. We are the collective we call Consciousness, the many
individuals experiencing and expressing what we call Self. We share in genetic memories
and create this reality by our thoughts. This is Morphic Resonance.
Nothing is
outside of Consciousness. Unless, you think it is. In this physical realm of
contrast a sense of separation in Self is easy to manifest as it is the
contrast of Being. This illusion has permeated our Western culture. We have become doers. We put value not on how we contribute
to society but on how much we make our way in society. We are feeling
compromised and conditioned in our expression of life and love.
We seem to
be living in The Emperor’s Clothes and turning on our children for
speaking the truth that we are too afraid to speak ourselves.
This quote
came into my awareness this week while crafting this episode of Ubuntu and the
Separated Self. So, I will pay attention and share it with you. The separated
Self is in disconnection from its source, itself as Essence that has been
waiting.
“Love After Love The time will
come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in
your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here.
Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread.
Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your
life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love
letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own
image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.” Derek Walcott
Want to make
a difference right now in the world?
Make the time to sit for a few moments and
notice your relation to someone in the homeless population. Doesn't have to be someone you know. It maybe the guy in the tent at the freeway overpass you go by every morning or someone sitting on the street. Sit with them as
they are the elephant in the room.
Just sit.
Feel your connection to being present in
Heart Centered Awareness.
In sitting with them you give them voice and worth.
Breathe and notice what is happening to the elephant. All of us have worth and
may be in disguise. Just sit and let what is present engage you. How they look and behave is illusion. Let it drop. And you, drop yours.
If you are
judging, you are in your story of separated Self. Don’t judge. Be with them, be
them and see what happens.
What are you
reflecting to them as their mirror?
Janet
Barrett
Podcast host
Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet
Monday, December 9, 2019
Consciousness and Wanting
Wanting is powerful. And. where you want from is what is important. Do you want to satisfy your demanding runamuck ego state? Or does your want come from within a sense of harmony that enjoys as a delight in being?
We think we would feel better having it. Thinking and feeling are at play here. Mind and emotions are engaged.
The demanding runamuck ego state is looking for satiation from its outside resources. It is feeling bankrupt inner resources. Something is more at play than just pure enjoyment. It is needing something in hopes of completion and satisfaction. It is looking for fulfillment. It is looking for connection. It is looking to feel love. It is looking to feel worthy. It is looking to not feel alone. It is looking to feel better. It is looking to show those around us that we have worth in our things that are surrounding us. We can be feeling empty. Our control mechanism is stuck.
We are a materialistic society these days. Have and Have Nots are defining us. Life is not always easy when we have invested feeling good and worthy in our possessions and comparisons. We over extend ourselves for the best of reasons, like school loans and our haves are not feeding our self worth. They are destroying and eradicating and upsetting our environments in our need to feel full, worthy, loved.
So what happens when we flip this story of conquest and stuff to fill us up?
What if our value in being was not at the compromise of this planet and our waste and destruction?What if it was in the value of sharing with another, the delight of being alive in some way?
We get it. Love provides a sense of worth, appreciation, value, contentment and safety. It feels good
the delight in being alive and well. We feel complete and secure even when our conditions would challenge us. It gives us our cushion in life's ups and downs. Resilience and tolerance feel good.
It is not in the things we have placed as important, though the sofa will create a space to experience comfort, maybe.
We all have to stop sometime and sooner than later is good. We have to stop and let ourselves value our experiences and the direction and tone they are expressing. Wanting is not the issue. It helps us direct and focus what is important to us. Sometimes it is easier to see this through others and with others as we are each in our creation and can be blinded with a too close perspective.
Yes, when someone is kind to us it is easier to be kind to them. When someone appreciates our work or smiles or helps it is easier to share with them. When someone listens to us we can feel heard and valued. We build our reserves of worth and self confidence and self awareness for the challenges that will come our way. And, they are only the reflection and not the source and reward.
Being present for someone else is free and easy. If you want to be loved, be loving. If you want respect, be respectful. If you are wanting things, what are you grateful for?
Janet Barrett
Life in the Beyond/Journeys Into Enlightenment
www.janetandbeyond.com
janetb@janetandbeyond.com
Monday, December 2, 2019
JIE Episode 24 Blog/Breathing Through Our Shared Heart
Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet
Episode 24 Releasing Tuesday Dec.3, 2019
Blog/ Breathing Through Our Shared Heart
First there was All, One. All/One includes everything as Consciousness, One Mind. In the wonder of Life we know as human, we have developed an outward sense of Self as we are individually oriented in our human form. Still, in our internal and external core, we are Consciousness as Oneness, where the distinction of Self is loosened.
First there was All, One. All/One includes everything as Consciousness, One Mind. In the wonder of Life we know as human, we have developed an outward sense of Self as we are individually oriented in our human form. Still, in our internal and external core, we are Consciousness as Oneness, where the distinction of Self is loosened.
The human
heart is the first organ that develops into the body/form. It holds our
connection to the All. One of the meanings of heart is core/essence. This is Consciousness
that is in all of us. We share Heart through all our hearts as source.
In
recognizing this incredible dynamic, how about we update our relation to All/One
with a simple approach to being present. What would it be like to recognize, at
our deepest levels this Shared Heart? Might we act different in our worlds if
we lose our distinctions and sense of separateness that is prevalent these
days? Might this be a way to unify again and bring wholeness to our world? Sometimes
the simplest actions can have the biggest outcomes.
Try this and
see what you notice.
Make some
time and relax. Picture a Mobius Strip, that wonderful representation of Infinity
and Love and Completeness. In my world, it is a dynamic symbol of Being. It is
the one sided flat plane or line that turns on itself into a figure eight. At the
crossover point is the heart, the center. For me, it represents Being in form
and out of form, the crossover point either as birth or death. We circle around
in being in form and out of form still complete just often unaware that we are
in a pattern of being.
Now, just
notice and let yourself feel how you are taking in oxygen into your body.
It
comes in and in the coordination of body/form we align as our breath with the
beat of our heart.
Feel your breath go into the heart like the Mobius Strip, through your heart and
circle around behind you and then come back through your heart moving forward
and outward.
Let yourself feel the movement as it circles around and comes in again and goes out
the back of your heart and circles back around and goes back into your heart
and goes forward and outward, circles around and comes back in.
Now bring the
awareness that you are softening and dissolving your outside form and becoming
only an energy state at the same time.
Feel.
Feel all as
One again.
Feel through our Shared Heart.
Feel the shift as you come into a new
awareness of your essential Essence as One through Heart Centered Awareness.
Janet Barrett
Podcast Host
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