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Showing posts with label Collective Consciousness. Show all posts
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Friday, October 21, 2016
Birthing The New You
Birthing The New You ©2016 Joan M. Newcomb, CPC
Last night was pretty phenomenally uncomfortable. I woke up feeling constricted with competition. It was such a surprise to me, because I don't operate on that level any more. My work is so new, the focus is different, that it doesn't compare to what anyone else is doing. It would be like a runner competing with a hang glider. Different sports, different areas.
I'm not certain whose reality I was experiencing, but I would dearly love them to know -
Playing in the realm of Consciousness, you realize there's plenty for everyone. There's space for everyone to succeed. There's enough time, money, love.
This world may seem rigid and finite, an adventure in Density and Effort, but when you're playing as Consciousness, you realize that it's all malleable. Time expands (or contracts) depending on your focus. Money is infinitely available (and usually comes out of left field rather than from the direction you're expecting it). You are enveloped in Love. You ARE Love. There is always enough.
Even if you're not feeling it right now, your inner Self knows it.
What it feels like now, is that we're going through a collective Quickening. We're feeling our creation kick. Their foot may actually be stuck under our ribcage. It's when your pregnancy goes from just being morning sickness and weight gain, to the awareness that there's something alive growing within you. It's exciting and a little terrifying.
For some who have felt this evolution longer, it may be actual Transition. The most intense phase of labor, the most painful part as the baby is moving out through your cervix to slide down your birth canal.
In my two pregnancies, which were both at home and without drugs, when labor started I thought, 'I've changed my mind!' Whoops - too late. The baby is coming. Your body knows what to do. Breathe and relax and push when you're in Transition.
You are giving birth to your New Self. The Greater Aspect of You is coming into form. It is powerful, it is exciting, it is thrilling and, yeah, a bit scary.
You've been going through contractions as you hit your internal limitations, all the programming and patterns created to convince you that you're the opposite of who You truly are.
The world has been reflecting this, as people are having meltdowns, people are losing their shit, archaic beliefs are rising up, people are collectively crying out, no longer tolerating the intolerable.
When you don't resist what is breaking down, when you don't hold on to what is disintegrating within your fingers, you can enjoy this process so much more.
What's on the other side of this is glorious. It is a love more profound than you can imagine. It is a greater relationship (with your Self) than you could have thought possible. It is the life of your dreams.
You are birthing You, you are magnificent, and adorable. You are loved, loveable, and worthy of love. You are surrounded by support. Everyone who shows up is a midwife or a doula to your new experience.
Relax, breath, and see what happens!
Last night was pretty phenomenally uncomfortable. I woke up feeling constricted with competition. It was such a surprise to me, because I don't operate on that level any more. My work is so new, the focus is different, that it doesn't compare to what anyone else is doing. It would be like a runner competing with a hang glider. Different sports, different areas.
I'm not certain whose reality I was experiencing, but I would dearly love them to know -
Playing in the realm of Consciousness, you realize there's plenty for everyone. There's space for everyone to succeed. There's enough time, money, love.
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| Newborn in Nepal - photo credit: Krish Dulal |
This world may seem rigid and finite, an adventure in Density and Effort, but when you're playing as Consciousness, you realize that it's all malleable. Time expands (or contracts) depending on your focus. Money is infinitely available (and usually comes out of left field rather than from the direction you're expecting it). You are enveloped in Love. You ARE Love. There is always enough.
Even if you're not feeling it right now, your inner Self knows it.
What it feels like now, is that we're going through a collective Quickening. We're feeling our creation kick. Their foot may actually be stuck under our ribcage. It's when your pregnancy goes from just being morning sickness and weight gain, to the awareness that there's something alive growing within you. It's exciting and a little terrifying.
For some who have felt this evolution longer, it may be actual Transition. The most intense phase of labor, the most painful part as the baby is moving out through your cervix to slide down your birth canal.
In my two pregnancies, which were both at home and without drugs, when labor started I thought, 'I've changed my mind!' Whoops - too late. The baby is coming. Your body knows what to do. Breathe and relax and push when you're in Transition.
You are giving birth to your New Self. The Greater Aspect of You is coming into form. It is powerful, it is exciting, it is thrilling and, yeah, a bit scary.
You've been going through contractions as you hit your internal limitations, all the programming and patterns created to convince you that you're the opposite of who You truly are.
The world has been reflecting this, as people are having meltdowns, people are losing their shit, archaic beliefs are rising up, people are collectively crying out, no longer tolerating the intolerable.
When you don't resist what is breaking down, when you don't hold on to what is disintegrating within your fingers, you can enjoy this process so much more.
What's on the other side of this is glorious. It is a love more profound than you can imagine. It is a greater relationship (with your Self) than you could have thought possible. It is the life of your dreams.
You are birthing You, you are magnificent, and adorable. You are loved, loveable, and worthy of love. You are surrounded by support. Everyone who shows up is a midwife or a doula to your new experience.
Relax, breath, and see what happens!
Friday, August 28, 2015
How I Lost 50# Without Even Trying
How I Lost 50# Without Even Trying ©2015 Joan Newcomb
I stopped growing when I was twelve but kept eating. By the time I was 14, I weighed the same as I would when I was 9 months pregnant with each of my kids.
My parents sent me to see a psychologist. He was fat, with greasy hair and dandruff on his shoulders. He gave me a 200 question assessment. Afterwards he told me I was depressed, because I was overweight.
I have to say I was a little put off. Who was this guy to say *I* was fat?!?! I refused to see him again.
However, I went home and started charting my food. I'd use the 8x11 cardboard inserts from my dad's drycleaned shirts, and with a rule made columns. I'd write down everything I ate, then I'd look up their calorie content.
After a while I developed a routine of eating. I would start the day with a cup of corn flakes and a half cup of skim milk. In my school lunch bag I would have a large golden delicous apple, a half a head of lettuce, and a can of tab. At dinner I would have whatever the family was eating, I'd just measure it and look up how many calories it was. Sometimes I'd have a candy bar in the afternoon on the way home from school.
About the same time, I started walking to and from school every day. It was 2 3/4 miles each way. Essentially, I was walking 5 1/2 miles each day and keeping to a 1,200 calorie diet.
During that time, I had developed a habit of substitution. I'd eat a piece of fruit instead of a cookie. I'd eat toast dry, with no jam. I'd eat salad with no dressing, and vegetables with no butter. And I learned to only drink liquids with no calories, so it was diet soda or black tea or water.
In about six months, I'd lost 50 pounds.
I stopped growing when I was twelve but kept eating. By the time I was 14, I weighed the same as I would when I was 9 months pregnant with each of my kids.
My parents sent me to see a psychologist. He was fat, with greasy hair and dandruff on his shoulders. He gave me a 200 question assessment. Afterwards he told me I was depressed, because I was overweight.
I have to say I was a little put off. Who was this guy to say *I* was fat?!?! I refused to see him again.
However, I went home and started charting my food. I'd use the 8x11 cardboard inserts from my dad's drycleaned shirts, and with a rule made columns. I'd write down everything I ate, then I'd look up their calorie content.
After a while I developed a routine of eating. I would start the day with a cup of corn flakes and a half cup of skim milk. In my school lunch bag I would have a large golden delicous apple, a half a head of lettuce, and a can of tab. At dinner I would have whatever the family was eating, I'd just measure it and look up how many calories it was. Sometimes I'd have a candy bar in the afternoon on the way home from school.
About the same time, I started walking to and from school every day. It was 2 3/4 miles each way. Essentially, I was walking 5 1/2 miles each day and keeping to a 1,200 calorie diet.
During that time, I had developed a habit of substitution. I'd eat a piece of fruit instead of a cookie. I'd eat toast dry, with no jam. I'd eat salad with no dressing, and vegetables with no butter. And I learned to only drink liquids with no calories, so it was diet soda or black tea or water.
In about six months, I'd lost 50 pounds.
It was so empowering, to have consciously accomplished this body transformation. I felt like I could create my reality any way I wanted to. And it launched a series of decisions and actions that took me off on my own path, away from family patterns and expectations, to a whole new world of experiences.
Now, I have to say that it was sheer teenaged obsessiveness that gave me the singleminded determination to stay focused for so long.
Puberty and adolescence is such a powerful time. Your physical form is finally almost adult enough for you as Consciousness to fully embody it. You're suddenly flooded with additional awareness, including past life memories when you ruled countries and won wars. But you don't have a driver's license.
Kids need to be acknowledged as Consciousness, they are treasure chests of potential. As parents we just need to step back and let them reveal how capable they really are.
Adults need the same validation. As Consciousness, you are magnificent. What is it that you want to change or transform about yourself and your life? What are the baby steps you need to take to make that happen? Focus on the first steps and the rest will fall into place.
Friday, August 21, 2015
How NOT To Be Tossed and Turned By The Vortex
How NOT to be Tossed And Turned By The Vortex ©2015 Joan M. Newcomb
I came across a video of a piece of fabric, dancing in the vortex of a circle of fans. It looks human, in the way it twists and twirls. It looks how we feel, as we engage with different energies in this physical realm.
Sometimes we feel buffered about by the varying influences, like a leaf reeling in the wind. We're affected by these circles, our family, our friends, our work environment. Those are the most noticeable ones. But we're also reacting to wider circles, our neighborhood, city, or region. And we resonate with even bigger ones, our religions, political parties, culture, and country.
These energy systems are multidimentional, not only spanning distance, around the globe, but also time. We engaging in historical patterns and responding to ones forming into the future.
But the thing that struck me, as I watched the fabric swirl around, is that it was missing Consciousness. It looked alive, but it wasn't.
When you are feeling tossed and turned by 'Life', your body/personality is the aspect that feels that way. It's missing it's connection with You.
If that fabric were a dress worn by a dancer, she would be spinning and swaying, but you would notice that she's inwardly anchored, even when her feet aren't on the floor.
Dancers aren't performing random movements, they're enacting choreography. Even if it's improv, they are reflecting years of training.
Staying centered within yourself, You can dance through your various circles without having to participate in the denser emotional aspects of them. You can love your family and friends and not be driven crazy by them. You can maintain professionalism at work regardless of how dysfunctional the culture may be.
When you're grounded into your body, then you are in charge of actions. You can steer your kayak away from whirlpools, out of eddies and into the greater Flow of wellbeing.
You can do this in all sorts of ways. You can practise mindfulness. You can walk barefoot also called 'earthing'. You can visualize an energy connection to the center of the earth, and imagine earth energy flowing up through your feet into your body.
These are techniques that have been around for millennia, for as long as we've been manifesting into bodies on this planet. They are still very effective, but may require 'upgrading' as our Collective vibration increases.
I'm playing with the concept of connecting wirelessly to the planet, and anchoring into key points of the body. It's a way of being in the planet and not of the planet. It's strong, light, and flexible. If you want to know more, go here.
Play with these ideas this week, see which ones fit for you, and notice how it transforms your experience in the world!
I came across a video of a piece of fabric, dancing in the vortex of a circle of fans. It looks human, in the way it twists and twirls. It looks how we feel, as we engage with different energies in this physical realm.
Sometimes we feel buffered about by the varying influences, like a leaf reeling in the wind. We're affected by these circles, our family, our friends, our work environment. Those are the most noticeable ones. But we're also reacting to wider circles, our neighborhood, city, or region. And we resonate with even bigger ones, our religions, political parties, culture, and country.
These energy systems are multidimentional, not only spanning distance, around the globe, but also time. We engaging in historical patterns and responding to ones forming into the future.
But the thing that struck me, as I watched the fabric swirl around, is that it was missing Consciousness. It looked alive, but it wasn't.
When you are feeling tossed and turned by 'Life', your body/personality is the aspect that feels that way. It's missing it's connection with You.
If that fabric were a dress worn by a dancer, she would be spinning and swaying, but you would notice that she's inwardly anchored, even when her feet aren't on the floor.
Dancers aren't performing random movements, they're enacting choreography. Even if it's improv, they are reflecting years of training.
Staying centered within yourself, You can dance through your various circles without having to participate in the denser emotional aspects of them. You can love your family and friends and not be driven crazy by them. You can maintain professionalism at work regardless of how dysfunctional the culture may be.
When you're grounded into your body, then you are in charge of actions. You can steer your kayak away from whirlpools, out of eddies and into the greater Flow of wellbeing.
You can do this in all sorts of ways. You can practise mindfulness. You can walk barefoot also called 'earthing'. You can visualize an energy connection to the center of the earth, and imagine earth energy flowing up through your feet into your body.
These are techniques that have been around for millennia, for as long as we've been manifesting into bodies on this planet. They are still very effective, but may require 'upgrading' as our Collective vibration increases.
I'm playing with the concept of connecting wirelessly to the planet, and anchoring into key points of the body. It's a way of being in the planet and not of the planet. It's strong, light, and flexible. If you want to know more, go here.
Play with these ideas this week, see which ones fit for you, and notice how it transforms your experience in the world!
Friday, August 14, 2015
Autocorrect Manifestations
Autocorrect Manifestations ©2015 Joan Newcomb
My computer runs autocorrect on everything I write, sometimes changing words *as* I type them. Some days I spend more time correcting the darned autocorrect than writing!
When you begin the process of conscious manifestation, it often seems like the Universe has it's own autocorrect. What you ask for shows up as something slightly different. It can be comical, or irritating.
If you're balding you may ask for more hair, and it begins growing out of your ears. You work on manifesting money, and it comes as an insurance check paying the mechanic for fixing your car.
Creating your reality is more an art than a science.
Resisting the autocorrect just creates more effort and slows down the manifesting process. Go with the flow, making slight adjustments, and you steer in the right direction.
For instance, I'm now grateful for slow cars that get in front of me when I'm driving. They can protect me from speeding tickets!
Stepping back and looking at this from the perspective of Consciousness, you can see or sense the neverending flow moving into form. It is always loving. It is always light.
As it moves into the lower atmosphere, it encounters distortions. What originated as pure intention manifests in the shadows as something murky.
"Autocorrect" is really your gallery of assumptions and expectations. It assumes what you're about to create, but it doesn't know the full story. It bases its 'corrections' on previous usage or manifestations.
Yet, if you turned off autocorrect, and completely received the pure intention, what shows up may be more than you bargained for! A winning lottery ticket brings all sorts of new challenges, from paying taxes on it to fielding requests from friends and relatives.
What are we really asking for, anyway? Are we really asking for more hair, more money, more love? When you step back and look at it, you can see all these requests going from form to Consciousness, and they're all seeking more light, more freedom, more wholeness.
As Consciousness we are focusing into form, creating our creations, like sunlight onto seedlings. It is US coming into density.
What happens with our requests is that we are creating expections for how we want to receive Source Energy, what it's supposed to look like when it shows up. Our specifications are limitations.
And, sometimes they repel what we're asking for!
There are lots of ways to change this pattern. You can meditate so you can receive more clearly. You can de-energize stuck pictures, either clairvoyantly or through something like EFT or EMDR. You can run frequencies such as Christforce Gold or use my waterfall technique to raise your body's ability to have more. Or use Consciousness Techniques to create instantaneous change.
The Universe isn't autocorrecting you. And it isn't something coming to you from outside of yourself. YOU are Consciousness, flowing into form. Your body/personality is the form that you created to experience physical reality. You're really both, dancing with yourself.
Shift your perspective to yourself AS Consciousness, and you're in agreement with all that manifests, imperfectly perfect in your life.
Play with this for the next 7 days and see what happens!
My computer runs autocorrect on everything I write, sometimes changing words *as* I type them. Some days I spend more time correcting the darned autocorrect than writing!
When you begin the process of conscious manifestation, it often seems like the Universe has it's own autocorrect. What you ask for shows up as something slightly different. It can be comical, or irritating.
If you're balding you may ask for more hair, and it begins growing out of your ears. You work on manifesting money, and it comes as an insurance check paying the mechanic for fixing your car.
Creating your reality is more an art than a science.
Resisting the autocorrect just creates more effort and slows down the manifesting process. Go with the flow, making slight adjustments, and you steer in the right direction.
For instance, I'm now grateful for slow cars that get in front of me when I'm driving. They can protect me from speeding tickets!
Stepping back and looking at this from the perspective of Consciousness, you can see or sense the neverending flow moving into form. It is always loving. It is always light.
As it moves into the lower atmosphere, it encounters distortions. What originated as pure intention manifests in the shadows as something murky.
"Autocorrect" is really your gallery of assumptions and expectations. It assumes what you're about to create, but it doesn't know the full story. It bases its 'corrections' on previous usage or manifestations.
Yet, if you turned off autocorrect, and completely received the pure intention, what shows up may be more than you bargained for! A winning lottery ticket brings all sorts of new challenges, from paying taxes on it to fielding requests from friends and relatives.
What are we really asking for, anyway? Are we really asking for more hair, more money, more love? When you step back and look at it, you can see all these requests going from form to Consciousness, and they're all seeking more light, more freedom, more wholeness.
As Consciousness we are focusing into form, creating our creations, like sunlight onto seedlings. It is US coming into density.
What happens with our requests is that we are creating expections for how we want to receive Source Energy, what it's supposed to look like when it shows up. Our specifications are limitations.
And, sometimes they repel what we're asking for!
There are lots of ways to change this pattern. You can meditate so you can receive more clearly. You can de-energize stuck pictures, either clairvoyantly or through something like EFT or EMDR. You can run frequencies such as Christforce Gold or use my waterfall technique to raise your body's ability to have more. Or use Consciousness Techniques to create instantaneous change.
The Universe isn't autocorrecting you. And it isn't something coming to you from outside of yourself. YOU are Consciousness, flowing into form. Your body/personality is the form that you created to experience physical reality. You're really both, dancing with yourself.
Shift your perspective to yourself AS Consciousness, and you're in agreement with all that manifests, imperfectly perfect in your life.
Play with this for the next 7 days and see what happens!
Friday, August 7, 2015
Do You Feel Like An Imposter? (Don't We All)?
Do You Feel Like An Imposter? (Don't We All)? ©2015 Joan M. Newcomb
Have you ever felt like you didn't belong, or were just "faking it until you make it"? Maybe you were promoted at work, or won a prize, something you felt absolutely certain that you didn't deserve.
We've all been there, and some of the most high-achieving of us feel it more than others. Will Smith confessed on a talk show that he wakes up in the middle of the night with anxiety. I've known independently wealthy people who need to have enough money for an entire year in their bank account, when someone else feels financially confident with a monthly paycheck.
If you grew up in a dysfunctional family, you may have felt uncomfortable when you started school. All the other kids seemed to have normal parents. Or you may have been the only one in your family to break out of the restrictive patterns, they may have felt something was wrong with you, because you were the only one to not end up in jail, but graduated high school and went to college.
As you evolve as Consciousness, embodying more of your Essential Energy, you start to feel expansive and wonderful. It feels so heady, it may make you question if this is real. You're so used to feeling less than, there must be something wrong with you if you feel more than!
Anita Moorjani had an out of body experience when she was dying of cancer. Her organs had shut down and the doctor told her husband she had 'hours' to live. Instead, she woke up, and within a week all her tumors had disappeared (they insisted on putting her through chemotherapy 'just in case'). She came back in with the awareness that we are Magnificent, and that her cancer was caused by her own fears.
Magnificent is a great description for how it feels as Consciousness. I've experienced it in body and I've felt expansive, limited, and immense Love. It's powerful as in empowering or potent, but not dominating. It's an awareness that I'm loved and special, and you are, too.
We feel like an imposter when our insides don't match our outsides. And, our insides DON'T match our outsides!! Our body is limited, it is a dense collection of vibrating atoms, within a collection of dense patterns, within this three-D full immersion Wii game. WE are Consciousness, unlimited, beyond time and space. Our insides is vaster than our outer appearance.
And it's okay. This planet of Density and Effort is meant to be dichotomous. It is a planet of opposites. We come here to feel all the feelings, which include discomfort, pain, sadness, grief as well as ecstacy and joy and happiness and love.
If you can just hold that inner awareness, that inner knowing, of who You truly are, you can effortlessly navigate the rockiest of paths or the most unfortunate circumstances.
Relax into your knowingness, and see what happens. Try this for seven days and your world will transform!
Have you ever felt like you didn't belong, or were just "faking it until you make it"? Maybe you were promoted at work, or won a prize, something you felt absolutely certain that you didn't deserve.
We've all been there, and some of the most high-achieving of us feel it more than others. Will Smith confessed on a talk show that he wakes up in the middle of the night with anxiety. I've known independently wealthy people who need to have enough money for an entire year in their bank account, when someone else feels financially confident with a monthly paycheck.
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| The Beloved Imposter |
If you grew up in a dysfunctional family, you may have felt uncomfortable when you started school. All the other kids seemed to have normal parents. Or you may have been the only one in your family to break out of the restrictive patterns, they may have felt something was wrong with you, because you were the only one to not end up in jail, but graduated high school and went to college.
As you evolve as Consciousness, embodying more of your Essential Energy, you start to feel expansive and wonderful. It feels so heady, it may make you question if this is real. You're so used to feeling less than, there must be something wrong with you if you feel more than!
Anita Moorjani had an out of body experience when she was dying of cancer. Her organs had shut down and the doctor told her husband she had 'hours' to live. Instead, she woke up, and within a week all her tumors had disappeared (they insisted on putting her through chemotherapy 'just in case'). She came back in with the awareness that we are Magnificent, and that her cancer was caused by her own fears.
Magnificent is a great description for how it feels as Consciousness. I've experienced it in body and I've felt expansive, limited, and immense Love. It's powerful as in empowering or potent, but not dominating. It's an awareness that I'm loved and special, and you are, too.
We feel like an imposter when our insides don't match our outsides. And, our insides DON'T match our outsides!! Our body is limited, it is a dense collection of vibrating atoms, within a collection of dense patterns, within this three-D full immersion Wii game. WE are Consciousness, unlimited, beyond time and space. Our insides is vaster than our outer appearance.
And it's okay. This planet of Density and Effort is meant to be dichotomous. It is a planet of opposites. We come here to feel all the feelings, which include discomfort, pain, sadness, grief as well as ecstacy and joy and happiness and love.
If you can just hold that inner awareness, that inner knowing, of who You truly are, you can effortlessly navigate the rockiest of paths or the most unfortunate circumstances.
Relax into your knowingness, and see what happens. Try this for seven days and your world will transform!
Friday, July 24, 2015
Nobody's Ascending Anywhere
Nobody's Ascending Anywhere ©2015 Joan M. Newcomb
One of my readers asked me some great questions "what's going on vis-a-vis the overall evolution of mankind. Are some" developed" people going to ascend by 2024? 2014 has passed and we're still here."
I answered this in a recent Mystic Minute Video, and wanted to spell it out more clearly here: ain't nobody ascending anywhere.
Yes, we talk about an acceleration in Consciousness. We talk about the vibration rising, getting more sensitive and Aware. But the impression is that at some point we'll become so advanced, we'll just vibrate out of our bodies and disappear into the 5th Dimension.
That's how it feels to our bodies and from our personality's perspective. We can't imagine existing at a higher vibration, we can't comprehend anything but 3-D.
Consciousness is already 5D. Consciousness is beyond the hologram, outside of D altogether. Even D is part of the illusion.
Consciousness embodies reality but is outside of it as well. In Consciousness, there is no time or space, everything is happening at once.
So whenever we try to put things into linear measurements, it's our personality trying to figure it out. Oh, I must be going up in vibration (no, Consciousness is coming more into form). Oh, I must be ascending, I must be developing more (no, you're just experiencing yourself AS Consciousness more, and as Consciousness you're infinite, beyond levels of development).
Back before 2012 they said some people weren't going to make it. They imagined mass destruction. All limited and undeveloped people would die. And, dangit, the politicians and religious fanatics are still here.
Although, if you notice, they're all going more crazy than before. That's because their old paradigms and rigid belief systems are disintegrating and it's freaking them out.
And, guess what, they're Consciousness, too.
To our bodies, and our personalities, it feels like things are going faster. Time progresses that way, to form. But past, present, and future, is all happening simultaneously to Consciousness.
The best way to handle this it to be in present time, in the NOW. You're body feels calmer when focused on the present moment. When you do that, things feel like they're slowing down.
Play with this all - viewing life from Consciousness, being Present, for the next seven days and see what happens!
One of my readers asked me some great questions "what's going on vis-a-vis the overall evolution of mankind. Are some" developed" people going to ascend by 2024? 2014 has passed and we're still here."
I answered this in a recent Mystic Minute Video, and wanted to spell it out more clearly here: ain't nobody ascending anywhere.
Yes, we talk about an acceleration in Consciousness. We talk about the vibration rising, getting more sensitive and Aware. But the impression is that at some point we'll become so advanced, we'll just vibrate out of our bodies and disappear into the 5th Dimension.
That's how it feels to our bodies and from our personality's perspective. We can't imagine existing at a higher vibration, we can't comprehend anything but 3-D.
Consciousness is already 5D. Consciousness is beyond the hologram, outside of D altogether. Even D is part of the illusion.
Consciousness embodies reality but is outside of it as well. In Consciousness, there is no time or space, everything is happening at once.
So whenever we try to put things into linear measurements, it's our personality trying to figure it out. Oh, I must be going up in vibration (no, Consciousness is coming more into form). Oh, I must be ascending, I must be developing more (no, you're just experiencing yourself AS Consciousness more, and as Consciousness you're infinite, beyond levels of development).
Back before 2012 they said some people weren't going to make it. They imagined mass destruction. All limited and undeveloped people would die. And, dangit, the politicians and religious fanatics are still here.
Although, if you notice, they're all going more crazy than before. That's because their old paradigms and rigid belief systems are disintegrating and it's freaking them out.
And, guess what, they're Consciousness, too.
To our bodies, and our personalities, it feels like things are going faster. Time progresses that way, to form. But past, present, and future, is all happening simultaneously to Consciousness.
The best way to handle this it to be in present time, in the NOW. You're body feels calmer when focused on the present moment. When you do that, things feel like they're slowing down.
Play with this all - viewing life from Consciousness, being Present, for the next seven days and see what happens!
Friday, July 17, 2015
God Has No Personality and What Pain Has To Do With It.
God Has No Personality ©2015 Joan M Newcomb
I try to talk about spiritual subjects without using religious references. I even try not to use the word spiritual. I've been talking a lot about Consciousness lately because, to me, it's a more accurate description of who we are, both individually and collectively.
I was raised in a religious family. We said prayers at every meal, at bedtime, and went to Church every Sunday. For my mother it was an internal experience, and she lived her faith. My father did his best to show our religion externally.
My own definition of God went through many incarnations, peeling away the layers to what Essence felt like. My biggest stumbling block was the Christian 'God The Father' which, in my experience was not compassionate nor benevolent. My biggest breakthrough was calling it Universe. My prayers were conversations while driving. I always began with 'hey, U'!
For years I'd also journal my conversations, writing my questions and then scribing what I perceived was the response. The replies weren't verbal, but more impressions. It was frustrating because I'd list all my complaints and the answers would be very benign. I realized that my grievances were like standing in front of a tree with my face pressed into the bark, and God was showing me a forest, with many pathways.
At some point, the Universe itself became a feeling, an impression. When I shifted my attention, the world around me changed. Colors became brighter, everything came into sharp focus.
There's been several spiritual awakenings, when I'd be enveloped in Love. In Love with the Universe, with my life, with myself. I'd still have the same problems, but I knew all would be very, very well. No matter what drama was going on, I remain centered. The longest this lasted was for nine months. It would be wonderful to tip over into it again permanently.
One time I was struggling, and resisting the concept of an external God. After all, I AM Spirit, I AM my Inner Being. The answer came to me that it doesn't matter how you interact with the Divine. You can have God the Father, God the Authority, God outside of yourself, God inside, many Gods, and no God/s at all. It's all go(o)d.
So now I dance with Consciousness. With the awareness of my Self as Consciousness, knowing this is all a creation of Consciousness. And this morning, my journaling started to veer off into personality level narrative. Painful emotions arose. I shifted my perspective, and felt Consciousness flow through my body. Pain dissipated.
This stayed with me as I walked my dog. What I noticed was an impassive appreciation for the world. We created this reality to experience the opposite of who we really are. Emotions are part of that experience. Bodies are our vehicles to feeling this reality. Personality is what we create in order to be visible to others and distinguishable by others.
If it has emotions and a personality, it's a physical level projection.
Consciousness has no personality. Consciousness feels immense, and clear. The body delights in Consciousness, there's an absence of pain when fully embodied. And yet pain comes up in the process of embodiment. As we come into form, we feel more. When you shine more light into a place, it reveals emotions and physical sensations. I am now finding that pain disappears when fully Conscious.
What does pain have to do with it? Pain makes the body feel real. Pain is a physical reaction. We've used pain to anchor us here. Pain is a reminder to focus within. When your fully focused within, pain goes away. Or, your definition of pain shifts, and it doesn't feel painful, or bother you any more. It's not denying, resisting, or ignoring it. It's bringing full awareness to it.
Becoming fully conscious requires anchoring into the body. You miss the point of being here by leaving the body or going outside it in order to be more spiritual. You're already Spirit, you don't need to be more so. You just need to be more here.
You can get there by focusing inward, by connecting to to 'anchor points' within form. You can anchor in the lower abdomen. You can anchor in your solar plexus. You can anchor deep into your heart. You can anchor in the center of your brain. You will find, as you bring your full attention into any or all of these places, that it's quite spacious inside you. These anchor points aren't fixed, they go on and on, deeper and deeper. You are still here, and also there.
Play with all of this for the next 7 days and see what happens!
I try to talk about spiritual subjects without using religious references. I even try not to use the word spiritual. I've been talking a lot about Consciousness lately because, to me, it's a more accurate description of who we are, both individually and collectively.
I was raised in a religious family. We said prayers at every meal, at bedtime, and went to Church every Sunday. For my mother it was an internal experience, and she lived her faith. My father did his best to show our religion externally.
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| "God" by Moyan Brenn on Flickr |
My own definition of God went through many incarnations, peeling away the layers to what Essence felt like. My biggest stumbling block was the Christian 'God The Father' which, in my experience was not compassionate nor benevolent. My biggest breakthrough was calling it Universe. My prayers were conversations while driving. I always began with 'hey, U'!
For years I'd also journal my conversations, writing my questions and then scribing what I perceived was the response. The replies weren't verbal, but more impressions. It was frustrating because I'd list all my complaints and the answers would be very benign. I realized that my grievances were like standing in front of a tree with my face pressed into the bark, and God was showing me a forest, with many pathways.
At some point, the Universe itself became a feeling, an impression. When I shifted my attention, the world around me changed. Colors became brighter, everything came into sharp focus.
There's been several spiritual awakenings, when I'd be enveloped in Love. In Love with the Universe, with my life, with myself. I'd still have the same problems, but I knew all would be very, very well. No matter what drama was going on, I remain centered. The longest this lasted was for nine months. It would be wonderful to tip over into it again permanently.
One time I was struggling, and resisting the concept of an external God. After all, I AM Spirit, I AM my Inner Being. The answer came to me that it doesn't matter how you interact with the Divine. You can have God the Father, God the Authority, God outside of yourself, God inside, many Gods, and no God/s at all. It's all go(o)d.
So now I dance with Consciousness. With the awareness of my Self as Consciousness, knowing this is all a creation of Consciousness. And this morning, my journaling started to veer off into personality level narrative. Painful emotions arose. I shifted my perspective, and felt Consciousness flow through my body. Pain dissipated.
This stayed with me as I walked my dog. What I noticed was an impassive appreciation for the world. We created this reality to experience the opposite of who we really are. Emotions are part of that experience. Bodies are our vehicles to feeling this reality. Personality is what we create in order to be visible to others and distinguishable by others.
If it has emotions and a personality, it's a physical level projection.
Consciousness has no personality. Consciousness feels immense, and clear. The body delights in Consciousness, there's an absence of pain when fully embodied. And yet pain comes up in the process of embodiment. As we come into form, we feel more. When you shine more light into a place, it reveals emotions and physical sensations. I am now finding that pain disappears when fully Conscious.
What does pain have to do with it? Pain makes the body feel real. Pain is a physical reaction. We've used pain to anchor us here. Pain is a reminder to focus within. When your fully focused within, pain goes away. Or, your definition of pain shifts, and it doesn't feel painful, or bother you any more. It's not denying, resisting, or ignoring it. It's bringing full awareness to it.
Becoming fully conscious requires anchoring into the body. You miss the point of being here by leaving the body or going outside it in order to be more spiritual. You're already Spirit, you don't need to be more so. You just need to be more here.
You can get there by focusing inward, by connecting to to 'anchor points' within form. You can anchor in the lower abdomen. You can anchor in your solar plexus. You can anchor deep into your heart. You can anchor in the center of your brain. You will find, as you bring your full attention into any or all of these places, that it's quite spacious inside you. These anchor points aren't fixed, they go on and on, deeper and deeper. You are still here, and also there.
Play with all of this for the next 7 days and see what happens!
Friday, July 10, 2015
Why Fire Your Spirit Guides?!?
Why Fire Your Spirit Guides?!? ©2015 Joan M. Newcomb
Much has been written about connecting to your spirit guides or guardian angels. It's reassuring to know that there's unseen help. People have experienced miraculous, real world results when working with invisible helpers.
We are born with some of them, and we collect others along the way. Some are more active than others. If we had rough childhoods, we may have had a mariah step in to handle things. If we created a business, chances are there's a deva overseeing it.
It's empowering to actively communicate with them, to make requests and receive information. You can tune into them through meditation, or journaling, or just talking aloud when you're driving (both hands on the wheel so it doesn't look like you're on your phone)!
When I started having regular 'staff meetings' with my business devas, my income skyrocketed. I've also used them for health related issues with some success. Pretty much any area of your life can be improved with support from Spirit.
So *why* on earth would you want to fire your Spirit Guides?
Here are a few reasons:
1. When they limit or hold you back. Childhood Mariahs are protectors when you're little but as an adult you don't need a nanny. They are lovely beings, but they still see you as a child.
2. When you've entered a new phase of growth. We'll call in guides to assist us when we're at certain levels of awareness. When we advance in Consciousness, we need ones that match us at our higher vibration.
3. When you've changed directions. Angels, guides, devas, all have a specific focus or area of attention. If you finish medical school and suddenly realized you only did it to please your family of doctors and your real passion is law, you may need a different team of helpers.
How do you fire your guides?
You don't have to go all Donald Trump on them. I've found a wonderful serenity and neutrality when working with the other side. They don't need drama, just respect.
1. Communicate with them directly. Have a little chat in whatever way works for you. Writing it down helps validate the communication for you because you can read it afterwards. Prayer and meditation gives your communication a focused intent. I like talking outloud with my guides, when I'm driving, or walking my dog. (You can wear your headset plugged into your phone that's turned off, if you're worried that your neighbors will think you're looney).
2. Bring them into the present moment. Imagine the energy of present time, or a calendar with today's date. This is especially effective with childhood guides. Somtimes they will automatically disappear. They can go off to help another kid.
3. Release their contract. We make agreements with our invisible friends. You can upgrade or release their contract and they will go on their way.
Now what?
You may want to take some time to reclaim your own energy, be with yourself in your new space. Or you might be ready to hire new staff to help you!
1. Specifically ask for what you want. Because you will get it. Again, do this in a way that works best for you. If you prefer ritual or formality, you can light candles, say prayers or affirmations, write something and put it on your vision board.
2. Be open for something different. When I upgraded my business devas, I'd been use to formal staff meetings. My new group didn't work that way. They were like a bunch of mellenials with iPhones that would spontaneously "psychic text" inspiration to me.
3. Take Action. Some angels will go out and find you clients while you sit on your couch eating popcorn. But more than likely you'll get intuitive hits or opportunities that require you to take action. We're the ones in physical bodies, so we have to act in order to make things real.
Try these suggestions and fasten your seatbelt, because your life is about to accelerate!
If you want to know more, check out Accessing Unseen Help For Your Life, Health and Business!
Much has been written about connecting to your spirit guides or guardian angels. It's reassuring to know that there's unseen help. People have experienced miraculous, real world results when working with invisible helpers.
We are born with some of them, and we collect others along the way. Some are more active than others. If we had rough childhoods, we may have had a mariah step in to handle things. If we created a business, chances are there's a deva overseeing it.
It's empowering to actively communicate with them, to make requests and receive information. You can tune into them through meditation, or journaling, or just talking aloud when you're driving (both hands on the wheel so it doesn't look like you're on your phone)!
When I started having regular 'staff meetings' with my business devas, my income skyrocketed. I've also used them for health related issues with some success. Pretty much any area of your life can be improved with support from Spirit.
So *why* on earth would you want to fire your Spirit Guides?
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| Some guides are from the past and are outdated |
Here are a few reasons:
1. When they limit or hold you back. Childhood Mariahs are protectors when you're little but as an adult you don't need a nanny. They are lovely beings, but they still see you as a child.
2. When you've entered a new phase of growth. We'll call in guides to assist us when we're at certain levels of awareness. When we advance in Consciousness, we need ones that match us at our higher vibration.
3. When you've changed directions. Angels, guides, devas, all have a specific focus or area of attention. If you finish medical school and suddenly realized you only did it to please your family of doctors and your real passion is law, you may need a different team of helpers.
How do you fire your guides?
You don't have to go all Donald Trump on them. I've found a wonderful serenity and neutrality when working with the other side. They don't need drama, just respect.
1. Communicate with them directly. Have a little chat in whatever way works for you. Writing it down helps validate the communication for you because you can read it afterwards. Prayer and meditation gives your communication a focused intent. I like talking outloud with my guides, when I'm driving, or walking my dog. (You can wear your headset plugged into your phone that's turned off, if you're worried that your neighbors will think you're looney).
2. Bring them into the present moment. Imagine the energy of present time, or a calendar with today's date. This is especially effective with childhood guides. Somtimes they will automatically disappear. They can go off to help another kid.
3. Release their contract. We make agreements with our invisible friends. You can upgrade or release their contract and they will go on their way.
Now what?
You may want to take some time to reclaim your own energy, be with yourself in your new space. Or you might be ready to hire new staff to help you!
1. Specifically ask for what you want. Because you will get it. Again, do this in a way that works best for you. If you prefer ritual or formality, you can light candles, say prayers or affirmations, write something and put it on your vision board.
2. Be open for something different. When I upgraded my business devas, I'd been use to formal staff meetings. My new group didn't work that way. They were like a bunch of mellenials with iPhones that would spontaneously "psychic text" inspiration to me.
3. Take Action. Some angels will go out and find you clients while you sit on your couch eating popcorn. But more than likely you'll get intuitive hits or opportunities that require you to take action. We're the ones in physical bodies, so we have to act in order to make things real.
Try these suggestions and fasten your seatbelt, because your life is about to accelerate!
If you want to know more, check out Accessing Unseen Help For Your Life, Health and Business!
Friday, June 26, 2015
Are You Making New or Repeating Old?
Are You Making New or Repeating Old? ©2015 Joan M. Newcomb
All of our creations are our babies. Whether you're planting a garden, writing a novel, putting together a fishtank, or building a house, you are utilizing your creative energy to give birth to something physically.
HOW TO MAKE A HUMAN
first, love
All of our creations are our babies. Whether you're planting a garden, writing a novel, putting together a fishtank, or building a house, you are utilizing your creative energy to give birth to something physically.
How do you bring your desires into form?
I looked at the process of giving birth from the standpoint of Consciousness, and these are the steps:
HOW TO MAKE A HUMAN
second, weave patterns together
third, narrow focus these patterns so they become dense
forth, from the woven patterns, density becomes matter within the boundaries of time and space
fifth, matter, an embodiment of love, gestates in a pool of perceptions
sixth, when it’s time is ripe, matter emerges into the storyline to weave it’s own story and patterns.
third, narrow focus these patterns so they become dense
forth, from the woven patterns, density becomes matter within the boundaries of time and space
fifth, matter, an embodiment of love, gestates in a pool of perceptions
sixth, when it’s time is ripe, matter emerges into the storyline to weave it’s own story and patterns.
That last part, the sixth step, applies more to human beings but if you think about it, your fishtank or garden does have it's own storyline. My fishtank was supposed to be populated with 9 fish, eight gold or red, and one black, but the first fish I put in there turned out to be pregnant so within a week I had 20 little black fish. It took a few months before I got the right combination in there. It had it's own storyline beyond my agenda/intention for it!
This week, I was meditating on bringing a desire into form, tuning into it as a thought and imagining it becoming dense. And I caught myself - instead of bringing in new energy, as it became dense, I was focusing on what I did NOT want to create!
In other words, I was focusing on all the things that hadn't worked in the past, rather than this new idea I wanted to create.
Has this ever happened to you? You apply all the Law of Attraction or the Secret techniques and instead of getting what you want, you get a repeat of the same old stuff.
I manifested my current husband in nine weeks, by very deliberately stating what I *wanted* in a relationship. Any time my thoughts strayed to a list of complaints about my exes, I'd metaphorically grab myself by the ears and make counteracting statements!
When you work on consciously creating a dream or desire, *don't* focus on making them dense! *DO* narrow your focus to exactly what you want (leaving room for your Consciousness aspect of yourself to bring it in more perfectly or greater than you can imagine)!
Realize that your perceptions color or shape your manifestation, so release limited or distorted ones!
Try this for the next 7 days and see what happens!
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Try this for the next 7 days and see what happens!
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Friday, June 19, 2015
The Deva of Money and Morphic Fields
The Deva of Money and Morphic Fields ©2015 Joan M. Newcomb
This morning I had a little chat with the Deva of Money and I thought I'd share it with you.
Devas are the unseen architects of Nature, they design things to be brought into physical form. They hold qualities and communities as well. There's a Deva of Broccolli that oversees all the brocolli plants on the planet. There's a Deva of Patience that you can talk to in Friday afternoon commuter traffic. There's a Deva of the country that you live in.
I know of someone who personafies the Deva of Money with a sexual connotation, which works for them. For me, it feels entangled with cultural history of women being dependent on men financially.
The Deva of Money, as I feel it, is light, bright, clear and impersonal, like the ocean, like God. The ocean is not vindictive, the ocean takes and gives, the ocean provides for wildlife and the planet.
You fall in the ocean and drown, it’s not murdering you. Sharks eat you, they are feeding, being sharks. Your alertness keeps you from falling in the ocean, but what about boats going down, what about hurricanes and typhoons? Weather is not personal, it is patterns, it is part of the interweaving design of this world.
Many of us are entangled in the morphic field of poverty and deprevation, lost in the "funhouse mirror" maze of distortions.
The Deva of Money invites you to come out, come into agreement with the flow.
Wealthy people grok the flow, yet multiple flows are happening all at once, which is why they can be assholes and rich, or why they can be personality deprived and opulent. They may be focused on money but not in integrity with relationships.
The game on this planet is to experience life, the game may or may not be coming into balance. it may be a goal in the game, we all get to set goals as part of the game.
All your feelings about money, all your opinions about rich people, distance you from having it in your life.
This week, sit and tune into the Deva of Money for yourself. Notice your first impressions. What does it feel like, look like, sound like, smell like, ??
Have a conversation with it. Have a pen and paper handy, jot down what you think it's communicating with you (unless you're extraordinarily clairaudient, you may get visual images or thought/ideas rather than actual words).
Dance with it energetically this week, and see how your life transforms!
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This morning I had a little chat with the Deva of Money and I thought I'd share it with you.
Devas are the unseen architects of Nature, they design things to be brought into physical form. They hold qualities and communities as well. There's a Deva of Broccolli that oversees all the brocolli plants on the planet. There's a Deva of Patience that you can talk to in Friday afternoon commuter traffic. There's a Deva of the country that you live in.
I know of someone who personafies the Deva of Money with a sexual connotation, which works for them. For me, it feels entangled with cultural history of women being dependent on men financially.
The Deva of Money, as I feel it, is light, bright, clear and impersonal, like the ocean, like God. The ocean is not vindictive, the ocean takes and gives, the ocean provides for wildlife and the planet.
You fall in the ocean and drown, it’s not murdering you. Sharks eat you, they are feeding, being sharks. Your alertness keeps you from falling in the ocean, but what about boats going down, what about hurricanes and typhoons? Weather is not personal, it is patterns, it is part of the interweaving design of this world.
Many of us are entangled in the morphic field of poverty and deprevation, lost in the "funhouse mirror" maze of distortions.
The Deva of Money invites you to come out, come into agreement with the flow.
Wealthy people grok the flow, yet multiple flows are happening all at once, which is why they can be assholes and rich, or why they can be personality deprived and opulent. They may be focused on money but not in integrity with relationships.
The game on this planet is to experience life, the game may or may not be coming into balance. it may be a goal in the game, we all get to set goals as part of the game.
All your feelings about money, all your opinions about rich people, distance you from having it in your life.
This week, sit and tune into the Deva of Money for yourself. Notice your first impressions. What does it feel like, look like, sound like, smell like, ??
Have a conversation with it. Have a pen and paper handy, jot down what you think it's communicating with you (unless you're extraordinarily clairaudient, you may get visual images or thought/ideas rather than actual words).
Dance with it energetically this week, and see how your life transforms!
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Saturday, June 13, 2015
What do you people WANT?!?
What do you people WANT?!? ©2015 Joan M. Newcomb
A couple months ago I organized an event on Vashon Island, to serve a small group there. I was excited because I was bringing people from Seattle to help and I felt it would be a big support for the islanders.
Everyone had agreed on the day, and I had to jump through a few hoops to reach out to the Seattle folks, who essentially had to take 6 hours out of their day, plus ferry fares, to do 2 hours of community outreach. I do this nearly every Saturday, coming from Tacoma, but I lived on Vashon for nearly 30 years, so it's a different experience for me.
It turned out to be a wonderful experience, the Seattle folks were enchanted by the island, which was lovely to see.
However, half the folks on the island didn't show up. One person, eager for the support, came from Gig Harbor, to receive the information.
What happened?
Maybe they didn't want it? Maybe they didn't know what they were missing. Clearly, it was my idea (but not their idea) to help move them forward.
One of the Seattleites said, "Maybe they don't know what they're missing. Maybe when they want it bad enough, they'll come to Seattle for it."
Yeah, maybe. I was trying to establish a support group on Vashon, so I felt the event needed to happen on Vashon. Which was entirely my agenda.
Maybe the folks on Vashon need to learn to go to Seattle (or Tacoma) for support; it's what I had to do when I got started.
But here's the bigger picture: when you are trying to achieve your goals, when you are going for what you really want, shit comes up.
You get scared, you get mad, you get resistant, you get judgemental, you get critical. You hide, you space it out, you oversleep, you overschedule. You tell yourself stories about what's going on, about yourself, about others. You ______ (Fill in the blank).
In short, everything that's keeping you from getting what you want.
You may be so overwhelmed, you don't even *know* what you really need. If you are struggling with basic life issues, you may not have enough clarity to have a clear picture of what you truly want.
When you're stuck on the hamster wheel, all you can think about is getting off the wheel. You can't imagine what's possible for you.
Of course, you may want to get off the hamster wheel and rest! But the hamster wheel has exercised your muscles to take you forward on your life (it just won't require as much effort).
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A couple months ago I organized an event on Vashon Island, to serve a small group there. I was excited because I was bringing people from Seattle to help and I felt it would be a big support for the islanders.
Everyone had agreed on the day, and I had to jump through a few hoops to reach out to the Seattle folks, who essentially had to take 6 hours out of their day, plus ferry fares, to do 2 hours of community outreach. I do this nearly every Saturday, coming from Tacoma, but I lived on Vashon for nearly 30 years, so it's a different experience for me.
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| What we think we need |
It turned out to be a wonderful experience, the Seattle folks were enchanted by the island, which was lovely to see.
However, half the folks on the island didn't show up. One person, eager for the support, came from Gig Harbor, to receive the information.
What happened?
Maybe they didn't want it? Maybe they didn't know what they were missing. Clearly, it was my idea (but not their idea) to help move them forward.
One of the Seattleites said, "Maybe they don't know what they're missing. Maybe when they want it bad enough, they'll come to Seattle for it."
Yeah, maybe. I was trying to establish a support group on Vashon, so I felt the event needed to happen on Vashon. Which was entirely my agenda.
Maybe the folks on Vashon need to learn to go to Seattle (or Tacoma) for support; it's what I had to do when I got started.
But here's the bigger picture: when you are trying to achieve your goals, when you are going for what you really want, shit comes up.
You get scared, you get mad, you get resistant, you get judgemental, you get critical. You hide, you space it out, you oversleep, you overschedule. You tell yourself stories about what's going on, about yourself, about others. You ______ (Fill in the blank).
In short, everything that's keeping you from getting what you want.
You may be so overwhelmed, you don't even *know* what you really need. If you are struggling with basic life issues, you may not have enough clarity to have a clear picture of what you truly want.When you're stuck on the hamster wheel, all you can think about is getting off the wheel. You can't imagine what's possible for you.
Of course, you may want to get off the hamster wheel and rest! But the hamster wheel has exercised your muscles to take you forward on your life (it just won't require as much effort).
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Friday, May 1, 2015
Disasters and Consciousness
Disasters and Consciousness ©2015 Joan M. Newcomb
We just had a massive earthquake in Nepal, followed by a large one in New Guinea, a fair sized one off of India, and volcanos erupting in Chile and the Phillipines and (underwater) off the coast of Oregon. There's a whole lotta shaking going on.
With any growth cycle, there are periods of tension and release. The planet is always moving around, tectonic plates shifting, creating more land masses, destroying along fault lines.
Society goes through similar cycles, belief systems constricting, people rebelling, conflicting ways of thinking coming to the surface, and eruptions of protests and wars, until we settle into a new normal.
We're strongly affected by natural and "manmade" disasters. It brings out the best (and sometimes the worst) in us. Heroes are made and hearts are broken. Miracles and tragedies, side by side.
Faith is tested, faith is lost, and faith is found. If there's any evidence that there's a power greater than our personalities, take a look at super tsunamis and 7+ magnitude earthquakes.
We may contribute to planetary disturbances and global warming, but the Earth could shrug it's shoulders at any moment and be rid of us.
Some of us shake our fists, at God ("how can God do this to us?") or at the Government ("it isn't doing enough to help or prevent this").
I've written in the past how we collectively create being in these situations. I've noticed when everyone seems to be stuck or struggling, something major occurs. And at other times, when everyone seems to be dealing with their own, inner earthquakes, external disasters pass us by.
But now it doesn't seem useful or helpful to look at things that way. It's too easy to blame or fault, misunderstanding responsibility with the ability to respond.
What happens when you perceive this as Consciousness? When you close your eyes, turn within, step back or drop down, what do you notice? Consciousness feels immense. Consciousness feels impassive. It feels like the ocean, which gives life and just as easily swallows you up. It's not personal.
As Consciousness, there is no good or bad. Earthquakes aren't bad. Loss of life isn't bad. There will always be eruptions. People will always died, and at different ages and under different circumstances than they or others will have preferred.
Step a little more back, drop a little deeper, and there's more awareness flowing. There is love and caring and appreciation. And yet birth and destruction and equally creative. There's acceptance of all that is. There's a knowingness that all is very well.
Whatever we are each struggling with, is put into perspective. This, too, shall pass.
We just had a massive earthquake in Nepal, followed by a large one in New Guinea, a fair sized one off of India, and volcanos erupting in Chile and the Phillipines and (underwater) off the coast of Oregon. There's a whole lotta shaking going on.
With any growth cycle, there are periods of tension and release. The planet is always moving around, tectonic plates shifting, creating more land masses, destroying along fault lines.
Society goes through similar cycles, belief systems constricting, people rebelling, conflicting ways of thinking coming to the surface, and eruptions of protests and wars, until we settle into a new normal.
We're strongly affected by natural and "manmade" disasters. It brings out the best (and sometimes the worst) in us. Heroes are made and hearts are broken. Miracles and tragedies, side by side.
Faith is tested, faith is lost, and faith is found. If there's any evidence that there's a power greater than our personalities, take a look at super tsunamis and 7+ magnitude earthquakes.
We may contribute to planetary disturbances and global warming, but the Earth could shrug it's shoulders at any moment and be rid of us.
Some of us shake our fists, at God ("how can God do this to us?") or at the Government ("it isn't doing enough to help or prevent this").
I've written in the past how we collectively create being in these situations. I've noticed when everyone seems to be stuck or struggling, something major occurs. And at other times, when everyone seems to be dealing with their own, inner earthquakes, external disasters pass us by.
But now it doesn't seem useful or helpful to look at things that way. It's too easy to blame or fault, misunderstanding responsibility with the ability to respond.
What happens when you perceive this as Consciousness? When you close your eyes, turn within, step back or drop down, what do you notice? Consciousness feels immense. Consciousness feels impassive. It feels like the ocean, which gives life and just as easily swallows you up. It's not personal.
As Consciousness, there is no good or bad. Earthquakes aren't bad. Loss of life isn't bad. There will always be eruptions. People will always died, and at different ages and under different circumstances than they or others will have preferred.
Step a little more back, drop a little deeper, and there's more awareness flowing. There is love and caring and appreciation. And yet birth and destruction and equally creative. There's acceptance of all that is. There's a knowingness that all is very well.
Whatever we are each struggling with, is put into perspective. This, too, shall pass.
Thursday, April 2, 2015
Relaxing Into Discomfort
Relaxing Into Discomfort (c)2015 Joan M. Newcomb
I'm in Germany, and it's been one roller coaster ride since we got here. There were 32mph winds when we landed (which should have been a clue for the rest of the trip).
We came from Madrid, where it was nearly 80 degrees, and in Germany it was in the 30s. We've been rained on, lightening'd over and pelted with hail pellets. Our artist's apartment in Madrid was warm and inviting. Our flat in Kreuzberg is a flophouse for grunge-rebels.
Madrid is no problema friendly. Germany is nicht so.
It is hard to stay Conscious in discomfort. My body contracts in the cold. It feels similar to being in poverty, or ill.
At some point, I realized I'd just relaxed into the discomfort. A girl who looked like Tin Tin appeared to help us when passengers were being told to leave the train. It had thundered and hailed over the Reichstag, and it was sunny and almost warm in Zehlendorf.
Zehlendorf's brick-cobbled streets were strewn with tree limbs, from the windstorm the night before. Many of the houses were unchanged from when my family had lived there during the Cold War.
The more I relaxed, the more Dorothy showed up. That's not true, she'd been present the whole way (we'd walked on Dorothenstrasse at the start of our trip, and "DB" - for DeutschesBahn, is also my nickname for her). Little purple flowers appeared. The first house had whimsical tiles - probably not original, but the kind of thing that would make her giggle. And the pub on the corner had a -probably original - Berliner Kindl sign (she had a large collection of mugs and glasses, mostly likely from there).
We left a dusting of her at each place, and returned to Kreuzberg where we were rained and hailed on.
The next morning we took my husband to the Krankhaus, which is such a good name for the place. I got to practice relaxing into discomfort with rude admins and raving admitteds. Nobody feels like they've chosen to be sick on vacation and certainly nobody likes to go to hospital. But I have a traumatic reaction to them after sleeping beside Dorothy for 18 days when she fell and broke her pelvis and then got diagnosed with cancer.
Meanwhile, my 24 year old son is having the time of his life with the night scene in Kreutzberg, German beer and Currywurst. He does not mind the discomfort of the weather, or at least does not let that stop him from fully enjoying his Berlin holiday.
He is symbolic of the next generation moving forward without the restrictions of the past. My husband, currently, is symbolic of those of us releasing those painful patterns.
Tonight we leave, my son returning home to Madrid, my husband and I going on to London. Perhaps this whole ordeal was to make the next phase of my journey seem easier. London will now feel warm (it's in the mid-50s there). We'll be used to trains and undergrounds. And we'll really appreciate knowing the language!
Tomorrow's a major eclipse, which closes one door and opens another. It's a time of sudden, unexpected changes.
What do you need to relax into? What are you resisting (that needs releasing)?
Breathe into it. This too shall pass. It is taking you to a new level of Expanded Consciousness. And, it will get better!
I'm in Germany, and it's been one roller coaster ride since we got here. There were 32mph winds when we landed (which should have been a clue for the rest of the trip).
We came from Madrid, where it was nearly 80 degrees, and in Germany it was in the 30s. We've been rained on, lightening'd over and pelted with hail pellets. Our artist's apartment in Madrid was warm and inviting. Our flat in Kreuzberg is a flophouse for grunge-rebels.
Madrid is no problema friendly. Germany is nicht so.
It is hard to stay Conscious in discomfort. My body contracts in the cold. It feels similar to being in poverty, or ill.
At some point, I realized I'd just relaxed into the discomfort. A girl who looked like Tin Tin appeared to help us when passengers were being told to leave the train. It had thundered and hailed over the Reichstag, and it was sunny and almost warm in Zehlendorf.
Zehlendorf's brick-cobbled streets were strewn with tree limbs, from the windstorm the night before. Many of the houses were unchanged from when my family had lived there during the Cold War.
The more I relaxed, the more Dorothy showed up. That's not true, she'd been present the whole way (we'd walked on Dorothenstrasse at the start of our trip, and "DB" - for DeutschesBahn, is also my nickname for her). Little purple flowers appeared. The first house had whimsical tiles - probably not original, but the kind of thing that would make her giggle. And the pub on the corner had a -probably original - Berliner Kindl sign (she had a large collection of mugs and glasses, mostly likely from there).
We left a dusting of her at each place, and returned to Kreuzberg where we were rained and hailed on.
The next morning we took my husband to the Krankhaus, which is such a good name for the place. I got to practice relaxing into discomfort with rude admins and raving admitteds. Nobody feels like they've chosen to be sick on vacation and certainly nobody likes to go to hospital. But I have a traumatic reaction to them after sleeping beside Dorothy for 18 days when she fell and broke her pelvis and then got diagnosed with cancer.
Meanwhile, my 24 year old son is having the time of his life with the night scene in Kreutzberg, German beer and Currywurst. He does not mind the discomfort of the weather, or at least does not let that stop him from fully enjoying his Berlin holiday.
He is symbolic of the next generation moving forward without the restrictions of the past. My husband, currently, is symbolic of those of us releasing those painful patterns.
Tonight we leave, my son returning home to Madrid, my husband and I going on to London. Perhaps this whole ordeal was to make the next phase of my journey seem easier. London will now feel warm (it's in the mid-50s there). We'll be used to trains and undergrounds. And we'll really appreciate knowing the language!
Tomorrow's a major eclipse, which closes one door and opens another. It's a time of sudden, unexpected changes.
What do you need to relax into? What are you resisting (that needs releasing)?
Breathe into it. This too shall pass. It is taking you to a new level of Expanded Consciousness. And, it will get better!
Saturday, February 28, 2015
Time And Space
Time And Space ©2015 Joan M. Newcomb
I almost typed 2016. And I left out "anchoring into".
For the last couple months, I've been planning a trip to Europe. I told my mother, years ago, that I'd take her ashes to every place she'd lived. As a Geographer, the idea struck her fancy.
It's been a multilayered project. My husband and I are going to the countries we lived in, and also visiting my son who lives in Spain. Thank God for Google Chrome automatically translating web pages!
I've had to find all the addresses of our old houses, figure out how to use public transport to get to them, and find accommodations that will fit my 6'6" spouse. Not too many places in Europe have king sized beds.
This process started intellectually, but at some point shifted.
As Consciousness, we go to wherever we think about. You may notice how hard it is to pack to go on vacation, because as Consciousness, you are already there!
It's been disorienting working on this trip, because I'll be in Madrid, Berlin, London and Sweden all in one afternoon. And later on, cooking dinner, I'll notice aspects of myself in other places.
I'm curious to see whether I'm previewing the trip, if I'll experience deja vus from this time now. My sleep patterns been disrupted more than usual, because part of me is 9 hours ahead.
I tracking my son, who's anticipating our arrival, and I'll also tune into AirBnB owners responding to my inquiries. Those things are happening now, in real time.
But I'll also get glimpses, feeling whifts, of other things not in this present moment. I'm sensing the flygbusse trip from Skavsta to Stockholm. I'm feeling bright daylight outside of Hammersmith tube stop. I see my son crossing the street in Zehlendorf.
Both my parents waft through my space. I only have my mothers ashes, but my father lived for travel, and is actively overseeing this journey as well.
And, very unlike me, I've shared with my siblings what I'm doing. It's sparked their memories of growing up in places before I was born (or places after I left home), and also triggered their grief at our parents' passing.
Throughout this process, the veils of time and space have become thinner and thinner. I've started to sense myself at different ages in the future.
I think what's happening to me isn't unique. I think we're all experiencing heightened sensitivity. We've collectively moved to a new level of evolution.
How is it showing up in your storyline? What is different about your experience in life? What do you notice as you go about your day?
I didn't title this post "Anchoring Into Time And Space" because if I did ground with my old technique, I would lose this multidimensional feeling. I would be like going back to black and white from color, or dialup from wifi.
The body needs to be grounded, and as Consciousness I can anchor into my body, but something new is needed. Or maybe my techniques just need an upgrade.
Notice if you need to try something different. Maybe you need to change your form of meditation or exercise. Maybe you need to make up your own way of doing things?
We've evolved to a greater level of awareness, which translates to a greater responsibility for being in form. That may look like taking more ownership of, or authority over, your life. Or it may be having more permission to be creative, think outside the box, do things differently.
Acknowledge what you're noticing, and validate yourself. You've come a long way. These are exciting times, with great possibilities. What door are you going to step through today?
I almost typed 2016. And I left out "anchoring into".
For the last couple months, I've been planning a trip to Europe. I told my mother, years ago, that I'd take her ashes to every place she'd lived. As a Geographer, the idea struck her fancy.
It's been a multilayered project. My husband and I are going to the countries we lived in, and also visiting my son who lives in Spain. Thank God for Google Chrome automatically translating web pages!
I've had to find all the addresses of our old houses, figure out how to use public transport to get to them, and find accommodations that will fit my 6'6" spouse. Not too many places in Europe have king sized beds.
This process started intellectually, but at some point shifted.
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| View of Denmark from the International Space Station |
As Consciousness, we go to wherever we think about. You may notice how hard it is to pack to go on vacation, because as Consciousness, you are already there!
It's been disorienting working on this trip, because I'll be in Madrid, Berlin, London and Sweden all in one afternoon. And later on, cooking dinner, I'll notice aspects of myself in other places.
I'm curious to see whether I'm previewing the trip, if I'll experience deja vus from this time now. My sleep patterns been disrupted more than usual, because part of me is 9 hours ahead.
I tracking my son, who's anticipating our arrival, and I'll also tune into AirBnB owners responding to my inquiries. Those things are happening now, in real time.
But I'll also get glimpses, feeling whifts, of other things not in this present moment. I'm sensing the flygbusse trip from Skavsta to Stockholm. I'm feeling bright daylight outside of Hammersmith tube stop. I see my son crossing the street in Zehlendorf.
Both my parents waft through my space. I only have my mothers ashes, but my father lived for travel, and is actively overseeing this journey as well.
And, very unlike me, I've shared with my siblings what I'm doing. It's sparked their memories of growing up in places before I was born (or places after I left home), and also triggered their grief at our parents' passing.
Throughout this process, the veils of time and space have become thinner and thinner. I've started to sense myself at different ages in the future.
I think what's happening to me isn't unique. I think we're all experiencing heightened sensitivity. We've collectively moved to a new level of evolution.
How is it showing up in your storyline? What is different about your experience in life? What do you notice as you go about your day?
I didn't title this post "Anchoring Into Time And Space" because if I did ground with my old technique, I would lose this multidimensional feeling. I would be like going back to black and white from color, or dialup from wifi.
The body needs to be grounded, and as Consciousness I can anchor into my body, but something new is needed. Or maybe my techniques just need an upgrade.
Notice if you need to try something different. Maybe you need to change your form of meditation or exercise. Maybe you need to make up your own way of doing things?
We've evolved to a greater level of awareness, which translates to a greater responsibility for being in form. That may look like taking more ownership of, or authority over, your life. Or it may be having more permission to be creative, think outside the box, do things differently.
Acknowledge what you're noticing, and validate yourself. You've come a long way. These are exciting times, with great possibilities. What door are you going to step through today?
Friday, February 28, 2014
Why Fight With Patterns?
Why Fight With Patterns? ©2014 Joan M. Newcomb
One of the things I noticed when my parents were dying is their patterns unravelling. We each are a tapestry of patterns, a lifetime of accumulated energies.
When we pass, they drop, like clothing without a body. When you're with someone who is passing, your own patterns light up. You either fight tooth and nail for their validity, or you can allow yours to drop as well. The latter is not so easily done, as there are others within your life weaving who are invested in the reality of these patterns.
Since my last parent died, there's been quite a residue of "stuff". I've chosen to shine light on it, to speak up and to question it, which has caused a discordant ripple in the combined family fabric.
Heck, anything that doesn't agree with the current vibration is going to appear inharmonious. Really, it's a pattern that's come to the surface because it is dissolving.
Why fight with it? Why not step back and let it dissipate? Because to remain silent is, in a way, to agree with it. Because part of the pattern is secrecy and complacency.
Keeping one's mouth shut is part of the pattern. Staying quiet means allowing it to stay within you. And I'm not carrying this forward.
Yet the opportunity is to rise above it, to look down on it from the clouds, so that everyone involved look like ants. From an airplane, do you really feel that engaged with traffic jams below?
If I really let go of the pattern(s) within me, would everyone else behave differently? There wouldn't be anything to reflect.
If I really let go of the patterns myself, everyone could behave as crazily as they already are behaving, but it wouldn't make me insane as well.
What's crazy is to expect others to behave differently. We can only change ourselves.
How do you change yourself, when these patterns are so ingrained that they are invisible to you. They are an accepted part of your family reality.
It's easiest to work on a symbolic level. You can see it as an image, hear it as a sound, feel it as a vibration. Imagine yourself, and see the design separate from your energy space. Or, hear your own note or melody, and mute the disharmonious notes. Let your vibration be high, light and bright, and what feels 'off' drains out of you into the earth.
Work on a quantum consciousness level, step to one side, into a Universe where that pattern doesn't exist, you never had it, you never will. Turn and shift in your new space, this will often change the entire cast of characters as well.
Play with this for the next 7 days and see what happens!
One of the things I noticed when my parents were dying is their patterns unravelling. We each are a tapestry of patterns, a lifetime of accumulated energies.
When we pass, they drop, like clothing without a body. When you're with someone who is passing, your own patterns light up. You either fight tooth and nail for their validity, or you can allow yours to drop as well. The latter is not so easily done, as there are others within your life weaving who are invested in the reality of these patterns.
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Since my last parent died, there's been quite a residue of "stuff". I've chosen to shine light on it, to speak up and to question it, which has caused a discordant ripple in the combined family fabric.
Heck, anything that doesn't agree with the current vibration is going to appear inharmonious. Really, it's a pattern that's come to the surface because it is dissolving.
Why fight with it? Why not step back and let it dissipate? Because to remain silent is, in a way, to agree with it. Because part of the pattern is secrecy and complacency.
Keeping one's mouth shut is part of the pattern. Staying quiet means allowing it to stay within you. And I'm not carrying this forward.
Yet the opportunity is to rise above it, to look down on it from the clouds, so that everyone involved look like ants. From an airplane, do you really feel that engaged with traffic jams below?
If I really let go of the pattern(s) within me, would everyone else behave differently? There wouldn't be anything to reflect.
If I really let go of the patterns myself, everyone could behave as crazily as they already are behaving, but it wouldn't make me insane as well.
What's crazy is to expect others to behave differently. We can only change ourselves.
How do you change yourself, when these patterns are so ingrained that they are invisible to you. They are an accepted part of your family reality.
It's easiest to work on a symbolic level. You can see it as an image, hear it as a sound, feel it as a vibration. Imagine yourself, and see the design separate from your energy space. Or, hear your own note or melody, and mute the disharmonious notes. Let your vibration be high, light and bright, and what feels 'off' drains out of you into the earth.
Work on a quantum consciousness level, step to one side, into a Universe where that pattern doesn't exist, you never had it, you never will. Turn and shift in your new space, this will often change the entire cast of characters as well.
Play with this for the next 7 days and see what happens!
Saturday, February 22, 2014
Past & Future Ghosts
Past & Future Ghosts ©2014 Joan M. Newcomb
[I will be talking about this on my radio show on Feb 26, 2014, click here to listen]
Someone asked me:
"Ghosts from the past appear to people so could it be possible for people to see ghosts from future? We seem to dwell on communicating with our dead. Do you think our unborn from future could be communicated with?"
My answer is: Yes
I wouldn't call them ghosts, maybe entities, but on the spirit level there is no time or space, so they're already in existence.
You can communicate with your yet-to-be conceived grandchild. You'll know exactly what to knit for their Xmas stockings.
Outside of our physical reality, everything is happening simultaneously. It's too much for our body/personality to comprehend, we so locked into this world where things progress along a timeline.
Within this linear existence, time feels like layers of vibration. The past is denser, slower moving, the future is faster and feels diffuse. It feels like it is in the process of coming into form.
People from the past still exist, the 'Ghost' aspect may simply be a denser aspect of their personality still accessible from that previous layer of time. People from the future exist as well, it's just harder to access something beyond our current vibration.
As I've said in previous articles, all of our past lives and all of our future lives are happening at once. The pope is simultaneously having a lifetime as a prostitute in Jerusalem several thousand years ago and a dictator of a regime in the next millennium.
If that doesn't seem complex enough, there are parallel Universes, your past and future timelines split at every moment of decision, for every part of you that turned left, there's a part of you that turned right, and carried forward a new storyline. You have infinite pasts to choose from, infinite futures to choose.
That includes babies born, babies not born, people who died, people who didn't die, etc.
If you step back to look, it's like colored threads of connections, intricate fibre optic lines running out and through everyone in existence, everyone who ever existed, anyone who will exist. You can almost hear the humming of human lives. If you step back from that, the colors weave into a multilayered tapestry, the humming becomes a chorus of bees.
And if you step back from that, it becomes one. Again. It started with an impulse, a thought, a creation of Consciousness. It doesn't exactly end (just as it didn't exactly begin), but as you step back, the individuality blends back into Oneness.
An interesting and fun thing to do is to communicate with *your* future self. For instance, if you're going through a difficult time, you can talk to the you that is 5 or 10 years in the future, who's already lived through what you're dealing with now.
I used to do that, when I was having tough times in my 40's, and now I will have these weird, reverse deja-vu's, when I will suddenly feel my past self. I get to assure the past me that things are much better now.
Have fun with this, this week. Tune into future Selves to help you make decisions, give you solutions, to whatever you're dealing with now. Try this for 7 days and see what happens!
[I will be talking about this on my radio show on Feb 26, 2014, click here to listen]
Someone asked me:
"Ghosts from the past appear to people so could it be possible for people to see ghosts from future? We seem to dwell on communicating with our dead. Do you think our unborn from future could be communicated with?"
My answer is: Yes
I wouldn't call them ghosts, maybe entities, but on the spirit level there is no time or space, so they're already in existence.
You can communicate with your yet-to-be conceived grandchild. You'll know exactly what to knit for their Xmas stockings.
Outside of our physical reality, everything is happening simultaneously. It's too much for our body/personality to comprehend, we so locked into this world where things progress along a timeline.
Within this linear existence, time feels like layers of vibration. The past is denser, slower moving, the future is faster and feels diffuse. It feels like it is in the process of coming into form.
People from the past still exist, the 'Ghost' aspect may simply be a denser aspect of their personality still accessible from that previous layer of time. People from the future exist as well, it's just harder to access something beyond our current vibration.
As I've said in previous articles, all of our past lives and all of our future lives are happening at once. The pope is simultaneously having a lifetime as a prostitute in Jerusalem several thousand years ago and a dictator of a regime in the next millennium.
If that doesn't seem complex enough, there are parallel Universes, your past and future timelines split at every moment of decision, for every part of you that turned left, there's a part of you that turned right, and carried forward a new storyline. You have infinite pasts to choose from, infinite futures to choose.
That includes babies born, babies not born, people who died, people who didn't die, etc.
If you step back to look, it's like colored threads of connections, intricate fibre optic lines running out and through everyone in existence, everyone who ever existed, anyone who will exist. You can almost hear the humming of human lives. If you step back from that, the colors weave into a multilayered tapestry, the humming becomes a chorus of bees.
And if you step back from that, it becomes one. Again. It started with an impulse, a thought, a creation of Consciousness. It doesn't exactly end (just as it didn't exactly begin), but as you step back, the individuality blends back into Oneness.
An interesting and fun thing to do is to communicate with *your* future self. For instance, if you're going through a difficult time, you can talk to the you that is 5 or 10 years in the future, who's already lived through what you're dealing with now.
I used to do that, when I was having tough times in my 40's, and now I will have these weird, reverse deja-vu's, when I will suddenly feel my past self. I get to assure the past me that things are much better now.
Have fun with this, this week. Tune into future Selves to help you make decisions, give you solutions, to whatever you're dealing with now. Try this for 7 days and see what happens!
Saturday, February 15, 2014
The Ultimate Love Interactive Game
The Ultimate Love Interactive Game ©2014 Joan M. Newcomb
I've started learning Spanish using an on-line programme by the BBC. It's interactive, providing a variety of ways to learn, including a TV show-like 'mystery' that shifts it's dialogue depending on whether you're male or female.
It's a whole lot more fun than listening to audios spewing out volcabulary, or reading dreary language books.
It started me thinking how this world is a full-immersion interactive game. In video games, you have a multitude of possible outcomes, depending on the choices that you make. When you engage in on-line games with other players, your possibilities are infinitely increased, as their games intersect yours.
Now, it may seem that each player has a different goal. One may be pursuing power. Another may be pursuing affluence. Yet another wants social recognition. Someone else wants to find their soul mate. They feel they won't be truly happy until they control those aspects of their environment.
When you break it down, what are they really seeking? World domination? Wealth? Stardom?
When you peel away the layers, what do you uncover? Relief of pain? Freedom (from what)? Happiness? Love?
When you finally attain what you're seeking, what will it feel like? (You may need to close your eyes and take a deep breath).
We are all seeking Source, whether it's the source of power, money, love or anything else. But what is Source?
Are we players seeking the Game Designer? Are we seeking the energy that powers the Game?
The answer won't be found within the structure of the Game. This game is designed to be limited. It's a planet of dichotomies. Bodies give out after a certain number of years. There are walls and bridges.
You can't find paradise in a paradox.
True to Planet Earth's innate law (it's not gravity, hint - it's written by Murphy), when you stop trying to find it (or get it), it shows up in your experience.
Either what you seek comes to you, or reveals itself to be there all along.
Whatever you want, You already are.
So - have fun with it. It's only a Game, after all.
I've started learning Spanish using an on-line programme by the BBC. It's interactive, providing a variety of ways to learn, including a TV show-like 'mystery' that shifts it's dialogue depending on whether you're male or female.
It's a whole lot more fun than listening to audios spewing out volcabulary, or reading dreary language books.
It started me thinking how this world is a full-immersion interactive game. In video games, you have a multitude of possible outcomes, depending on the choices that you make. When you engage in on-line games with other players, your possibilities are infinitely increased, as their games intersect yours.
Now, it may seem that each player has a different goal. One may be pursuing power. Another may be pursuing affluence. Yet another wants social recognition. Someone else wants to find their soul mate. They feel they won't be truly happy until they control those aspects of their environment.
When you break it down, what are they really seeking? World domination? Wealth? Stardom?
When you peel away the layers, what do you uncover? Relief of pain? Freedom (from what)? Happiness? Love?
When you finally attain what you're seeking, what will it feel like? (You may need to close your eyes and take a deep breath).
We are all seeking Source, whether it's the source of power, money, love or anything else. But what is Source?
Are we players seeking the Game Designer? Are we seeking the energy that powers the Game?
The answer won't be found within the structure of the Game. This game is designed to be limited. It's a planet of dichotomies. Bodies give out after a certain number of years. There are walls and bridges.
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True to Planet Earth's innate law (it's not gravity, hint - it's written by Murphy), when you stop trying to find it (or get it), it shows up in your experience.
Either what you seek comes to you, or reveals itself to be there all along.
Whatever you want, You already are.
So - have fun with it. It's only a Game, after all.
Friday, January 24, 2014
Giraffes and Ostriches
Giraffes and Ostriches ©2014 Joan M. Newcomb
Most people know the stereotype of ostriches, they hide their heads in the sand, hoping that things won't change (or that they won't have to do anything themselves to change).
However, there are also giraffes. They hide their heads in the clouds, dreaming big dreams, but not looking down at reality.
Both are oblivious to what is going on around them.
Ostriches, it's a little more obvious that their strategy won't work. Eventually you have to come up for air, and find out you're as stuck as you've always been.
Giraffes, however, have an appealing story. They throw around ideas like 'Law of Attraction'. "I'm visualizing a better future."
Regardless of where your head is, eventually you're still going to have to do whatever it is you've been resisting.
Sometimes it's not so bad. Sometimes you don't resist it at all.
Problem is, if you have clouds or sand in your eyes, you can't see other possibilities or solutions. Only when you see what is, can you do something about it.
Sometimes we don't realize that our head is in the clouds or we've buried ourselves in the sand. How do you come out of it?
Simple - imagine your feet on the ground, connected to the earth. You can even imagine the souls of your feet opening up and drawing the energy in. This helps bring you down to earth, and feel comfortable in your body.
If your vision is obscured by clouds, imagine gold sunlight burning through.
Sometimes it's not your delusion, but your family or work environment. Imagine gold energy coming down through your home or office. Shine light and the truth will be revealed.
Usually, no matter how bad you imagined it to be, reality is a relief.
Try these techniques for the next seven days and see what happens!
Most people know the stereotype of ostriches, they hide their heads in the sand, hoping that things won't change (or that they won't have to do anything themselves to change).
However, there are also giraffes. They hide their heads in the clouds, dreaming big dreams, but not looking down at reality.
Both are oblivious to what is going on around them.Ostriches, it's a little more obvious that their strategy won't work. Eventually you have to come up for air, and find out you're as stuck as you've always been.
Giraffes, however, have an appealing story. They throw around ideas like 'Law of Attraction'. "I'm visualizing a better future."
Regardless of where your head is, eventually you're still going to have to do whatever it is you've been resisting.
Sometimes it's not so bad. Sometimes you don't resist it at all.
Problem is, if you have clouds or sand in your eyes, you can't see other possibilities or solutions. Only when you see what is, can you do something about it.
Sometimes we don't realize that our head is in the clouds or we've buried ourselves in the sand. How do you come out of it?
Simple - imagine your feet on the ground, connected to the earth. You can even imagine the souls of your feet opening up and drawing the energy in. This helps bring you down to earth, and feel comfortable in your body.
If your vision is obscured by clouds, imagine gold sunlight burning through.
Sometimes it's not your delusion, but your family or work environment. Imagine gold energy coming down through your home or office. Shine light and the truth will be revealed.
Usually, no matter how bad you imagined it to be, reality is a relief.
Try these techniques for the next seven days and see what happens!
Friday, December 27, 2013
What is Divine Grace (and how can I get me some)?
©2013 Joan M. Newcomb
Different belief systems all talk about the concept of Grace. The basic understanding is that it's an energy that transforms, that lifts you up from discomfort, that relieves you of past burdens. They differ on how you get it.
Some believe you have to earn it, either through good works, abstaining, or suffering. On the other hand, some believe it is a gift from God.
If it's a gift, do you still have to work for it, or is it randomly bestowed upon you? That question alone it mired in the belief that it is something outside to be sought or given.
The energy of Grace is the energy of transformation. Transformation changes everything instantaneously.
Everything is energy. As Essence, you are pure energy, a high vibration that both transcends and somewhat embodies your physical form. Bodies are dense energy, so are furniture, trees, things that seem solid and real. Your emotions are energy, vibrational communication from your physical form.
Your personality is energy, it both an expression of your Essence, and an accumulation of projections, thoughts, impressions and concepts.
When you view things from body/personality, it appears that everything is happening to you. Grace is bestowed from an external God. It is dependant on good works, accruing good karma. It supposedly releases sins, transgressions, errors, actions and reactions that cause pain.
When you are in the Present moment, seeing things as Essence/Spirit, you Know that You *are* Grace. Everything just is. Denser vibrations settle to the ground. What is left is expansiveness, clarity and Joy.
You can choose Grace, become willing for change to happen, or you can step into Present Time, but sometimes, Grace just happens.
When you're in the present moment, attuned to You as Essence, Grace is everywhere and everything.
Everything is perfect, just as it is. The timing is always right, when you are in present time.
Different belief systems all talk about the concept of Grace. The basic understanding is that it's an energy that transforms, that lifts you up from discomfort, that relieves you of past burdens. They differ on how you get it.
Some believe you have to earn it, either through good works, abstaining, or suffering. On the other hand, some believe it is a gift from God.
If it's a gift, do you still have to work for it, or is it randomly bestowed upon you? That question alone it mired in the belief that it is something outside to be sought or given.
The energy of Grace is the energy of transformation. Transformation changes everything instantaneously.
Everything is energy. As Essence, you are pure energy, a high vibration that both transcends and somewhat embodies your physical form. Bodies are dense energy, so are furniture, trees, things that seem solid and real. Your emotions are energy, vibrational communication from your physical form.
Your personality is energy, it both an expression of your Essence, and an accumulation of projections, thoughts, impressions and concepts.
When you view things from body/personality, it appears that everything is happening to you. Grace is bestowed from an external God. It is dependant on good works, accruing good karma. It supposedly releases sins, transgressions, errors, actions and reactions that cause pain.
When you are in the Present moment, seeing things as Essence/Spirit, you Know that You *are* Grace. Everything just is. Denser vibrations settle to the ground. What is left is expansiveness, clarity and Joy.
You can choose Grace, become willing for change to happen, or you can step into Present Time, but sometimes, Grace just happens.
When you're in the present moment, attuned to You as Essence, Grace is everywhere and everything.
Everything is perfect, just as it is. The timing is always right, when you are in present time.
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