Working With The Unseen (Old Ways Become New Again)

Working With The Unseen (Old Ways Become New Again) ©2018 Joan M. Newcomb, CPC

Every couple of years (or faster, it seems nowadays), I go through a consciousness shift, and my techniques go through an "upgrade". I struggle for a bit, as old ways stop working, until I relax into whatever the new "operating system" appears to be.

Recently, I was on a conference call for a marketing course I've been taking, led by Robert Scheinfeld who is the author of "Busting Loose From The Money Game". When I asked him a question on being frustrated with an aspect of my business, he suggested that I talk to my guides about it.

Now, I thought I'd stopped talking to guides a long time ago. After I'd upgraded them and we stopped having 'staff meetings' when they became electrons. My first reaction was, "oh, that's such 'old paradigm'!"

Then I realized, I communicate with the unseen all the time, I just don't slow down enough to put it on paper. What would it be like if I tried "staff meetings" again with the deva of my business? Would it even work?

I decided to try a coning, which is an energy configuration that I used for many years, with great success. It starts by focusing as Consciousness and connecting with the deva of my business (I actually have several businesses, but in this case I just chose an overarching Deva, without specifically defining what it was). And then connecting with Pan as a representative of Nature, the aspect of bringing the devic information into form. And I connect with my 'team' which can be any number of unseen helpers (this time I asked for tech help, publicity, copywriting, and some others).

It was really interesting. I never really paid attention to Pan but in this case I got a *very* strong energetic perception of a big, barrel chested and full bearded, seemingly male presence, who *really* wanted me to open a bottle of wine and have some fun. I moved on to brief communication with the Deva and the team, basically me requesting inspiration and information. It ended fairly quickly. I don't even remember what I wrote. It's on my iPad somewhere.

But right after that I got a call from a client from nearly 10 years ago requesting an hour long energy healing. I stopped doing them a while ago as my focus has shifted to teaching people to transforming themselves. I've also stopped doing hour long calls, when my rates went up. 30 minute calls deliver the same amount of transformation more efficiently. But, what the heck, so I did it.

Including that session, I unexpectedly earned nearly $1000 in the week after I did that first coning.

I've had a couple "staff meetings" since then, really disappointed that I'm not sensing Pan the way I originally felt. They're very brief, and I don't really recall anything hugely inspirational coming from them.

And then, out of the blue, I got an email inviting me to a telesummit at the end of May. Sure, why not, I thought, I can recycle the offer I used for a telesummit I did last year. But it turns out this telesummit is focusing on Health, Miraculous Healings and Prevention of Diseases, a completely different topic.

Hmm. So then I give the woman in charge who will be interviewing me a sample session and chat briefly about a possible product. And while we talked, something clicked that what I'm offering will be seeds for the next level of my online courses.

See, I've been offering the same course for the last two years, primarily as a private coaching package and sometimes to small groups. But I've been so busy that when people complete, I haven't been able to give them something beyond that beginner course.

And here's the thing - it's going to be an upgraded version of Accessing Unseen Help in your Life, Health and Business.

So now I'm really excited, busily producing the content for the Telesummit, which will be at a *radically discounted* rate from what the final investment for the full course will be. Stay tuned for details.

And yesterday it hit me. Accessing Unseen Help arose the moment I started doing these staff meetings again.

Ha, ha, ha.

Those guys are so crafty.

Shining Light on Obstacles

Shining Light on Obstacles ©2018 Joan M. Newcomb, CPC

Someone said to me that an obstacle is just something requiring more light. It reminds me of trying to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. We stumble over our shoes and run into open drawers. When there's enough light, we can see our way without hurting ourselves.

When there's enough light, obstacles don't seem so big or impossible. They remind us to put our shoes away and close drawers.

Shining light on obstacles can reshape them into stepping stones instead. Perhaps the stumbling blocks at work are directing you towards a different career.

Why on earth would we cling to an obstacle, instead of letting it go? Because it feels familiar.  We'll stay crouched behind it, no matter how uncomfortable we are, not daring to peer beyond. It's scary out there!

Or, we may be afraid of moving past the obstacle because we imagine everything else in our lives that we value may get lost in the process.

Obstacles aren't always something to destroy. In relationships, perhaps they're an opportunity to become more honest, to go deeper and expand emotionally.

In order to overcome our obstacles we need to shine light on them, to see them clearly for what they are.

If you view this life as a full immersion virtual reality game, you can see obstacles as temporary setbacks that lead to more awareness. The process of changing them shifts you to a new level of Consciousness.

Nothing is ever truly stuck, and no obstacle is insurmountable. Some may have kept you paralyzed for years, some may be truly overwhelming. But the world is full of stories of people overcoming incredible odds, healing from fatal illnesses, rebuilding their lives after losing everything.

This is a realm of stories. When you can lean into the obstacle, shine the light of Presence upon it, the story changes.

But it's how you view this amusement park of experiences that helps you transmute it. If you see yourself as just a character, then you'll feel at the mercy of other things. You'll have a limited amount of choices to make changes.

In trying to be the writer of your story, you'll have limited success. You can bring changes through the realm of thoughts but there will always be glitches or loopholes due to all the unconscious thoughts we have.

If you view yourself as the director, you'll feel more in charge, but you'll also want to control the scenery and other actors.

When you realize that you are the Consciousness that is creating all of this, reality begins to reorganize. There's no need to change, fix, or manipulate the storyline. Obstacles become something to delight in, fun challenges to play with.

As Consciousness, you *are* the light that is shining in the world. You bring your Presence into everything.

Shine your own Light on obstacles, and watch them magically transform.

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How Can You Tell If You Are Going Through A Consciousness Shift?

How Can You Tell If You Are Going Through A Consciousness Shift? ©2017 Joan M. Newcomb

We hear all about this Consciousness Shift that's happening, but how can you tell if it's happening to you?

People like Eckhart Tolle and Byron Katie had very marked transformations. They each literally woke up one morning and each found their ego had dissolved.

And, you know, they're famous people. They have best selling books. They've been on Oprah. So that must be what happens when you shift, right? No more pain, no more money worries, and you're instantly enlightened.

That's what happened to them. That's what's happened to some people. I talked to a woman in New England who'd had a similar experience, but lived a very quiet life afterwards.

It was a relief to connect with her. Because I was worried about turning into Byron Katie or Eckhart Tolle. I think it would be a pain in the ass to live with them. I can't imagine staying married or having my kids around me, if I were questioning every thought or being constantly in the present moment.

Of course that's the monkey mind ego talking. Because in reality, Byron Katie has a better relationship now with her adult children than when they were growing up. And has a loving relationship with her husband. Eckhart Tolle is also married (although I remember reading how he drove his wife crazy sorting out the recycling a piece at a time, when she just wanted to get it to the curb for pickup).

But the Consciousness Shift is different for everyone. It's like being at a baseball game and the crowd does "the Wave". People across the stadium start standing up, and it goes around the stands until it comes to you. Not everyone is standing up at once. And not everyone experiences it in the same way.

I've been evolving as Consciousness since 1974, consciously using techniques since 1981, and my language and experience has changed and expanded along the way. In 2006 I reached a tipping point, which propelled me into a new way of being.

Some people are finding themselves hyper sensitive, they're feeling or sensing everyone around them. Some are having a hard time sleeping. Many feel uncomfortable and out of sorts with their old lives, and yet excited and impassioned about what seems to be awakening within.

A lawyer I know felt crazy because she wanted to quit her practice and be a Reiki Master.
A Christian who spent every Sunday in Church since childhood, left her community and discovered a deeper spirituality than she'd ever thought possible.

What happened to me is my old practice stopped working, my old belief system disintegrated. It was very disorienting, since I was very identified with my teachings. I was an energy expert, in techniques that have been around for thousands of years.

I've successfully "upgraded" those original techniques, and found new ways to navigate. I had to learn to bypass my intellect, and be improvisational, responding to whatever shows up in the moment.

In the past few years my empathy has gone through the roof. I sense family members who live 3,000 and 6,000 miles away. I know when someone has read an email I've sent. And that's just with people who are still alive.

Ten years ago when I had a stint as a phone psychic, I developed clairvoyant techniques for talking with dead people. However what I experience now is kinesthetic, I'll feel them waft through me. And visual, usually symbolic reminders that they're around, although recently I'm actually detecting thought forms. Which might be more about time and space breaking down for me than actually connecting with the being in it's deceased non-physical form.

The newest experience for me is noticing gridlines. Not vertical like in the movie the Matrix, but horizontal, and sparkly, superimposed over physical reality.

The other day I was having a challenging time, taking someone recently diagnosed with dementia to a support group. It was bringing up memories of doing the same thing for my mother, although this situation and this person is completely different. Experiences like this have been coming up recently and they're an opportunity to be in present time, and release past energy.

When I was in the present moment, I would see these gridlines. When I sunk into my thoughts, they went away. Or, more accurately, I sunk into density and my ability to notice the gridlines went away. I'm choosing not to label or define it, I'm just noticing what is happening.

It's a very subtle shift. And I suspect for everyone, their expansion into Consciousness on one hand is subtle but profound.

On the other hand, physical reality could be completely falling apart around you. That does tend to happen when we move to a new level. When you no longer match the density you're in, reality reorganizes.

It's less painful when you don't resist the changes. It's more graceful when you navigate it as Consciousness.

You don't have to try to do anything to expand. It's happening without any effort on your part. You just have to notice. And enjoy the ride.

When It's Good To Lose Your Cookies (and How To Keep What You Don't Want To Lose)

When It's Good To Lose Your Cookies (and How To Keep What You Don't Want To Lose) ©2017 Joan M. Newcomb, CPC

We are multidimensional beings, so much more than just bodies and minds. Out energy exists both within and outside of time and space. We intuitively know that coming into this life but the world of density and effort diverts our attention. We quickly forget that we are Consciousness creating in form.

From the moment we're conceived, we're creating and absorbing impressions. Our bodies and energy systems are picture galleries. Our experience of the world is colored by all the data we collect.

By the time we're adults are hard drives are filled with every memory we've lived and every concept we've taken in. We're quite solidified in our beliefs about reality.

When we go through changes, we release anything that shaped our prior reality and create new ones. When our body/personalities are in agreement with these changes, or at least know what's coming up, it's easier. There may still be an adjustment but the discomfort is less when our body/personalities know what's coming up.

From the body/personality level, in order to move forward we need to delete our cookies. This can take time if we choose to "process", use rituals, or talk it out.  It can also take forever if you don't want to lose pictures or memories that you feel are precious. They may be painful, but you feel are significant to your identity.

At the next level up, in the mind, thought, Spirit realm, you can de-energize the cookies (you can symbolically blow them up, make them disappear, or highlight and delete them). But you face the same stumbling blocks.

The level beyond is Consciousness, where transformation is instant and effortless. It's a shift in dimensional frequency where you can still be "here", fully embodied and present, but not in the density of the story. Rather than clearing blocks or deleting cookies, you just step into a parallel universe where everything is different.

You don't need to think it out when you're operating as Consciousness. You come from a place of playful curiosity.  It's subtle but very profound. It's pictures beyond pixels, reality beyond atoms and molecules.

It's helpful to know that nothing you care about is ever energetically lost, even if it's gone from your experience. Everything still exists as Consciousness, you can imagine storing them in the cloud. As Consciousness we have infinite storage. A simple way to do this is to decide to 'delete cookies' when you go to sleep at night, and that anything you don't want deleted can get moved to your cloud storage.

Play with this for the next few days and see what happens!

Manifesting In The New Consciousness

Manifesting In The New Consciousness ©2017 Joan M. Newcomb, CPC

I recently created a scenario which seemed to require conscious manifesting. In the old days I would have written about it, vision boarded it, affirmed it, put it in a pink balloon, two pointed to where ever it already exists, and, yes, stepped through doors to parallel universes where it's already happening.

Because yeah, man, I'm an expert and I already know this stuff.

And I didn't do any of those things. I created something that afternoon that wasn't quite the thing. I sat with it, and watched other possibilities unfold. This required interacting with others in my storyline, and dances with relationships.

It was (and is) very interesting to see what is coming into form. And very interesting to see my discomfort with not being entirely in control of the creation.

It's still not fully in form. The agreements are still being drawn up. And Mercury is going retrograde on Saturday!

But something bigger is unfolding, beyond what I can imagine, and a part of me is excited to be stepping into the unknown, to having something more that what my mind wants to design.

There's so much potential for drama and disagreements. And yet all that dissipates when I don't resist what is.

Manifesting in the new Consciousness is the opposite of how it was before. It isn't about changing, fixing, or manipulating the circumstances. It's not about claiming power and declaring it to the Universe. It's not about specifics and time limits.

All of that was Ego/Personality/Mind wanting to control the outcome. The part that is fearful, the part that feels powerless, the part that is based in survival.

Consciousness is creating all of this. You are Consciousness. You're creating all of this. All possibilities exist within this creation. You are dancing between possibilities.

It's all good, because as Consciousness, you love your creations, you love your Self that is playing in this field of reality.

Playing this way you totally know it's a benevolent You-niverse. Wherever you fall, you are being caught.

There are no mistakes, because all possibilities are running simultaneously and you chose this one in the moment. Things can transform themselves, when you play at this level, when you expand to a different outcome.

Manifesting in the new Consciousness is about creating, not control. This is a playground, we are here to create, it's all about creating and being creative.

As Consciousness you are benignly neutral. There's no good or bad to what you create. If you manifest disasters, it's equally as creative as manifesting miracles. If you want to create something different it's a very subtle shift in direction.

It's incredibly freeing to let go of control, and to go forward completely improvising as things come up.

Creating as Consciousness allows you to manifest beyond your wildest imagination.

Getting Out of Your Discomfort Zone

Getting Out of Your Discomfort Zone ©2017 Joan M. Newcomb, CPC

One of the things I've discovered, as everything is breaking down and reorganizing, is that often what is required is the complete opposite of whatever has worked before.

Tried and true techniques and systems are no longer effective. Things that were absolutely the wrong thing to do in my old practice is the absolute right thing to do in my new practice.

So, for instance, something has been going on today - I've been feeling a very high, vibrational frequency in/on the top of my head. In the old days I would have judged this as bad. I would have thought someone was invading my space. I would have wrestled with this energy all day long.

Now, what it feels like isn't bad. Nor is it invasive. I'm not really sure what it is. Is it a female energy in my head? Or is it a download of something new? Heck, maybe it's just that I've been drinking jasmine green tea today instead of earl grey.

In the old days I would have absolutely had to know where it's coming from and what to do about it.

Instead, I've just gone about my day, noticing what is different. And pretty much everything about today has been different, starting with this energy. I'm curious to see what unfolds from this.

What this reminds me of, is someone who went to one of my Meetups and did the walking through doors to parallel universes. The next day I talked with her, she'd taken medicine for vertigo. "Is it unpleasant?" I asked.  Turned out it wasn't vertigo, but that wavy feeling of expansion that happens when you play on this level of Consciousness.

A couple went to my cohost Janet's meetup in Portland, and then they went dancing afterwards. Her husband had a difficult time because he felt too 'lightheaded'. Hmm. Not really surprising after major transformational energy work.

Rather than resisting or turning away from new sensations, I turn towards them. I move more deeply into something rather than trying to get it out of my space.

Moving through the world in this new way of being requires being improvisational. Requires not knowing. Requires curiosity.

If something isn't working for you, then it's time to do something else. But don't mistake discomfort as an indicator that something is wrong.

Birthing a new self doesn't have to be hard. Just breathe through it. Sometimes action is required, but sometimes that may look like taking a walk. Or a nap. Maybe it's just to stop doing whatever it is that isn't working, and wait to see what emerges instead.

When you stop trying to make things fit within your comfort zone, then what manifests can be bigger than you can imagine.

Why Inspiration From Seminars Doesn't Last (and what to do about it)

Why Inspiration From Seminars Doesn't Last (and what to do about it) ©2017 Joan M. Newcomb, CPC

Remember that last seminar, workshop or retreat you attended? Remember how wonderful it felt? What happened to that rosy glow after you came home? It kinda faded off, didn't it?

You got back into your daily routine, with work and relationships, and pretty soon you could barely remember all that marvelous transformation that happened, and all those great revelations you had.

That's why it's called 'The Suntan Affect'.

Seminars, workshops, and retreats are chock full of great information, they're designed to inspire change. While you're sitting there with a group, you feel a magnified effect from everyone going through the same experience.

When you come home, however different you may feel at first, you start to match your familiar surroundings and go back to your old ways of being.

It's especially frustrating when you learned new techniques to make things happen, and even they seem to lose their magic after a while.

When I used to teach Psychic Meditation classes, I'd tell people that you could get all these tools and concepts in a weekend workshop, but it's a little like learning golf in one afternoon. The reason to take an 8 or 12 week class is that repetition helps make it real for your body.

You as Consciousness already know everything. You *are* the Cosmic Internet. But not everything is stored into your physical form (that includes your mind and brain). Whatever was downloaded from a weekend doesn't stick unless you continue to put it into action.

The other thing that an 8 or 12 week class provides is the power of a group. You're with others who are learning the same things, and their experiences reinforce yours as well.

Most importantly, you have continued access to the teacher, who embodies and models whatever it is you want to learn. Regular contact with them helps make it real for you as well.

When I teach, I have you try any technique first before explaining what it's supposed to do or how you're supposed to feel. This way you have your own sense of what a particular technique can do for you. People have come away from my trainings with greater ownership of what they've learned, because it's anchored in their initial experience rather than my information about it.

Nowadays, I combine my teaching with coaching. I prefer coaching, because it holds you as whole and capable. It honors your inner wisdom. If you have a problem, then you hold the solution within. As coach I can ask the right questions to bring it out of you. This allows you to change faster than if you were told to do something (thereby having to go through someone else's information) which then takes longer before you've integrated it into your own way of doing things.

Rather than one-off sessions, I prefer to offer 12 week programs (although for groups I've had them as short as 6-8 weeks). This way I can hold space for your evolution over time.

As Consciousness you already know everything, you just haven't brought it into your body yet or practiced utilizing the information through your body. Even though I provide my upgraded and developed techniques for transformation, You'll have your own unique way of expressing your new learning, you'll bring your own unique results into your life.

Now, if you've just come from a seminar or workshop and there isn't any followup in place, you can try to create continuity on your own. Read the presenter's books, watch their YouTube videos, join (or create) a Meetup group to connect with others on the same topic.

And, if you are tired of spinning your wheels and want lasting change in your life, go to my website and check out my coaching programs!

How to Know If It's Time To Pivot

How to Know If It's Time To Pivot ©2017 Joan M. Newcomb, CPC

You know when things just suck and you want to throw in the towel? Or maybe you're at a breaking point. Or maybe you are done, like, "stick a fork in me, I'm done!" kind of done.

Or maybe you've been stuck in indecision, or maybe you're stuck in persistence. That is, trying so hard for so long, but not wanting to give up trying.

How do you know if you need to keep slogging at it, or pivot in another direction?

Sometimes decisions require immediate action, and sometimes a solution needs to emerge.

Several months ago I felt like I was at a turning point. I felt burned out with what I was doing. I was wondering whether to quit this and become a hospice chaplain. I'd actually applied for chaplaincy training back in 2001 and backed out at the last minute. It's something I could do now, as a 'real world job' that wouldn't take the same energy my current calling requires. Or so I thought.

Then I got chosen to give a talk at Ignite Seattle,  out of *lots* of applicants. Which felt like a nudge to continue.

Ignite Seattle happened just before a scheduled trip to Europe to visit my son, so I decided to let my decision "float" while I was gone. I thought I'd get inspiration while I was on vacation.

Instead, I came back to the same issue. The same feeling of burnout and frustration.

And then this week my 15 year old Corgi was diagnosed with cancer and we've been doing doggie home hospice for her. It's brought up a ton of feelings from 2013 when I helped our other dog, and both my parents, each die at home. And I got really clear about that part of the decision.

Emma dying on my kitchen floor helps me shut that door. No way do I want to work in hospice. Or hospitals, actually. So ditch that idea (what was I thinking)?!?

This reminds me of times where something happens that is the turning point, the straw that breaks the camel's back, when I wouldn't have let go or given up until then.

So instead of doing a summer chaplaincy training, I'm midwifing my dog to spirit. That's requiring a lot of focus, but it won't need to be sustained for a long time.

I still get energized by speaking and teaching, I'm still passionate about helping people transform. But the way I've been doing it needs to change.

In the old days a door would have slammed shut. In the old days bridges would have burned.

Navigating in this new Consciousness, is a more gentle way. Simply releasing the past and allowing the new path to appear.

So if you're struggling, if you feel like you are spinning your wheels, if you are stuck in a traffic jam or hitting a brick wall, stop. You don't have to blow up the blocks.

Just step back and let the scenario change. Or step into a parallel universe where it's already different.

What Do You Really Want? And How Do You Really Make It Happen?

What Do You Really Want? And How Do You Really Make It Happen? ©2017 Joan M. Newcomb, CPC

We're into the first weeks of January, New Year's resolutions have been made and broken, visions have been created and forgotten, goals have been set and set aside. It feels like the year has begun with a giant belly flop. Why is this?

Most of us have no friggin' idea how to keep our resolutions, or even create a vision for the year. If your resolution was to lose weight, your vision was to look like Chrissy Teigen or Ryan Reynolds. Or your resolution was to have more money, your vision was a winning lotto ticket. Or you want a relationship, your vision is to be married to Prince Harry.

There's nothing in any of those resolutions, weight or money or relationship, that give you anything concrete to achieve. Those visions are unattainable, they're wispy dreams.

We desire transformation and have no clue how to create it or support it. We want magic to happen, by wiggling our nose or blinking our eyes or waving a wand and shouting a spell. 

Here's the thing. When you desire something, as Consciousness you already have it. It's in your reality. It's just not in your body or in it's experience of the present moment. It's frustrating and confusing, because a part of you is already there. But the part of you that is here, isn't there yet.

Magic happens when you're lined up with yourself as Consciousness.  But when we're mired in the not-having of our desire, we're far removed from ourselves as Consciousness.

We feel fat, we want to be thin. We feel poor, we want to be rich.  We feel lonely, we want to be happily married.

We are in a time of embodying greater Consciousness. Manifestation is speeded up.  But as long as we're in the "not having", that is what we manifest.

There are lots of books, blogs, courses out there for achieving anything you want. You can hire coaches. Most of them miss an essential element, which is you as Essence.

So you can lose the weight, get the money, attain the relationship, but you'll still feel like something is missing. And that something is You.

When you start by aligning with YOU as Consciousness and take inspired action from your greater awareness, things unfold easily and effortlessly.

It starts with connecting with our true power source, which isn't outside of us. Our greater self is within us. When we give Consciousness our focus, then things start to happen.

But here's the caveat - when we align as Consciousness, and start living *as* Consciousness, our goals change. 

Our smaller selves don't want to give up our dreams (so they remain dreams). Our smaller selves don't want to give up control, so they firmly grip the steering wheel (when they're too small to look over the dashboard to the road ahead). And our smaller selves thing they're gonna die if they align as Consciousness.

What really happens is, the ego doesn't die, it just gets rightly placed, where it really is much more comfortable. The dreams transform, and they look different. 

We may lose not lose weight, but like our body more. We may not win the lotto, but we have a prosperous life. We may not find Prince Harry, but we have a great relationship with ourself.

And here's the big secret - even though our manifestations don't look perfect, we are really, really, really, really happy with them.

And that's what we're really going for. 

Bizarro World

Bizarro World ©2016 Joan M. Newcomb, CPC

It has been a strange week. In the US, we had a surprise outcome to the election (although I feel the surprises aren't done, keep reading for more). Tuesday evening, while the votes were still being tallied, someone emailed me that they were losing their shit. "Where's my Parallel Universe now?"

Well, the Parallel Universe I'm in feels pretty bizarre.

Electoral College 1824 by MB298

Here's what I know: 
When we begin to live life as Consciousness, weird and inexplicable things start to happen.
As Consciousness, there is no good nor bad. It's all about experiences.
If you are experiencing negativity or limitation, that is your "player self" (I also call it body /personality).
If you are experiencing infinite possibilities, that it is a benevolent Universe, that's yourself as Consciousness.

Our "player self" is resistant, rebellious, wants to change, fix or control things. And it can't, so it feels powerless.

Consciousness is neutral or amused. Consciousness is also playful and curious.

You can create change in this reality *if* you are playful and amused and curious about the outcome. If you are trying hard, using a lot of effort, setting really specific intentions, you may build something that becomes real, but there will be loopholes or something wrong.

Here's what I'm intuiting:
That there's a lot that can change between now (November) and the inauguration (January 20th). We aren't on a predictable path.

As Consciousness increases, it exposes the darkness, so it seems like there's more of it, but it is in the process of disintegrating.

It's no use directly fighting (or resisting) the darkness. That's just shadow boxing. What dissipates the darkness is more light.

Now, Consciousness is continually in motion, and plot changes can happen at any moment.

This morning I was wondering what was going to unfold in the next few months, and I came across a video on the Electoral College, which is the group that actually elects the president. They don't vote until December. 19th. I posted on Facebook yesterday morning that maybe this is why we feel something is "off" and it hasn't happened yet.

Two hours later there's a petition going around to make the Electoral College vote differently.

As I type this, it occurs to me that other things could arise to make this happen. The elected candidate is embroiled in lawsuits. More things could arise to change the outcome.

I remember years ago when someone was re-elected, I thought 'it has to get worse before it gets better'. And it did. But that pendulum-swinging is an old paradigm cause-and-effect. We've shifted into the quantum world of randomness.

Just because we've had 8 years of progress doesn't mean we need to swing back to balance. Anything is possible.

This is happening globally as well. Britain voted for Brexit, with a lot of loud regret after it happened. Their PM resigned and a new one stepped up to accelerate the process. A lawsuit called for it to require a vote by Parliament. So now it may unfold differently.

Here's what you can do:
Take your focus off the drama, doom and gloom. Bring your attention back into yourself, into your Self as Consciousness.
Shift your awareness to one of curiosity and amusement, like you are viewing this as a reality show (which it is).
If you want to set intentions, do it with open ended statements. "Everything is unfolding in my favor." "The Truth is coming to light." "Everyone in my hologram is living happily every after." (this allows for outcomes beyond your limited imagination).
Then release it, go forward with your day, notice what is different (subtle changes validate that you've made the shift as Consciousness and keeps you unfolding in the new direction.

Wouldn't it be fun if everyone did this?

I'm curious to see what happens.

Healing, Change and Quantum physics [Refreshed]

Healing, Change and Quantum physics [Refreshed] ©2̶0̶0̶8̶  ©2016 Joan M Newcomb (2 minute reading time)

It's interesting how themes seem to crop up in our lives, threads of connections from random places, that to me seem to point to things we as Consciousness wants us to know.

A while ago, BBC news reported a story about an American man regrowing his fingertip (including the nail). No, it wasn't a tabloid headline. It was a legitimate story; the man used powder called 'extra cellular matrix' developed at the University of Pittsburgh. It's being used on wounds to prevent scarring by regenerating tissue. It's hoped someday to be used for severely burned skin or even damaged organs. The doctors are cautious about saying whether it could regrow bones but feel that "the technology is potentially revolutionary"

Brane Cosmology - Rogilbert

I  saw a TedTalk with Brian Greene explaining String Theory which traces how physicists view the world from Newton to Einstein to Witten. Newton came up with the idea of gravity, which put our world and our solar system into an orderly pattern. Einstein liked order as well and spent his life trying to come up with a theory that would neatly tie everything together. String theorists have decided that there are more than our 4 acknowledged dimensions and if you go down to the invisible level beyond atoms and nuclei you'll find tiny strings that essentially tie everything together. However this level is very random, electrons appear and disappear and reappear in ways they can't explain. Einstein would find it very disturbing.

How does regrowing finger tips and string theory tie together? That nothing is actually as it seems. Western medicine would have looked at the man's hand and said 'without the original joint, there's nothing you can do'.

I've been developing Consciousness Techniques for the last couple years, and one thing you have to do in order for it to be effective is to not view things as problems. When you get into a problem mindset, you've immediately created a limitation - you've agreed there *is* a problem. When working on the level of Consciousness, everything and anything is possible.

Kris Carr was diagnosed in 2003 with stage 4 liver cancer (there is no stage 5 and it's incurable). She's produced a documentary of her experience called 'Crazy, Sexy Cancer'.  Western Medicine offered drastic options, including a triple organ transplant. After going through all of the expected emotions, she decided to explore alternatives. She realized that the only thing she could control was "what I ate, what I drank and what I thought". She radically changed her diet and lifestyle and now focuses on living. "I think just go for it. Life is a terminal condition. We're all going to die," she says. "Cancer patients might have more information, but we all, in some ways, wait for that great permission to live."

Kris stepped out of the "problem mindset" regarding cancer. In so doing, she's stepped into the realm of all possibilities, and now says that she's happier and healthier with cancer than before!

What aspect of your life have you been viewing through a "problem mindset"? Reality is not fixed, stable nor predictable. *All* possibilities are right before you. The difference between a road leading to a vast horizon or dead end is in your mind. Which one do you choose?

Flying Blind

Flying Blind ©2015 Joan Newcomb

The internet's been out in this area this morning, it's been funny not to be connected to the entire world.

We're so used to 'Googling' for information, that we don't know how to obtain it any other way.

As Consciousness we *are* the Cosmic Internet, and when we are clear and aligned, we are hooked up with our highest information.

What do you do when you are clear and aligned? Say someone died, you've been fired, you are sick.

When we're experiencing strong emotions, bodies feeling hungry, sad, tired or alone, it's pretty impossible to feel clear or aligned.  We're flying blind.

We've hit a fog bank in our awareness.

When you hit a fog bank in your life, slowing way down is a great idea.

I lived on an island for 30 years, and during foggy times on the ferry, they'd have a deckhand standing outside, looking out for boats or kayakers, while the foghorn is blaring.

Who are the deckhands in your life, that can be your eyes for you when you're in a fog bank?

When you're driving in fog, you slow way down.

When you're feeling your way, you're taking it a moment at a time. All you need is to get to the next moment.  To go a few feet without crashing.

You're not permanently blinded, you're internet is just down.

A step at a time, a moment at a time, a day at a time, you'll emerge back into clarity.

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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The Transformation Game

The Transformation Game ©2014 Joan M. Newcomb

Today I facilitated The Transformation Game™  as a workshop.  I was trained by the women who invented the Game, seventeen years ago.  It was good to reconnect with the Deva of Transformation, and the Angels and qualities of the game.

Life itself is a game of transformation, which we all take too seriously at times.  When you are too serious about Life, you can become rigid, unbending, limited in your thinking.  You miss inspiration, opportunity, and different possibilities available to you.

A tool I use to navigate is to ask if it's limiting, or opening, judgemental or neutral (or amused).  Is it fearful, or enthusiastic?  Is it resentful or forgiving?

Anything contracted is a body/personality level distortion.  It's bottom of the fish tank thinking.  It's fighting with the scenery (to mix metaphors).  Anything expansive is from Consciousness.  It's outside the hologram, it's from your Highest Essence.

Life is an interactive game, although you have your own playing path.  You have your path, others have their paths, yet there's opportunity to share blessings, to help each other out, to co-create miracles.  If you try to play the game by yourself, unreceptive to help, you won't get very far.

Playing by yourself is like living in a house with no mirrors.  If you get depressed or in too much pain, you lose your Awareness, and can't move forward.

You can benefit from other's experience and wisdom, as much (or even more) than they benefit from yours.

Yes, ultimately we're all One, we are all Consciousness, this reality is an illusion, but when you're in this reality, other people are real.  Their vibration is different.  You can track their energy and emotion from 6,000 miles away.  On the physical level,  they have different personalities, reactions, and motives.

When you can trust in your Inner Being, in your own Consciousness, you can allow others to help you move forward.  You'll gain insights you'd never normally uncover.

You are bigger than your setbacks.  Life deals low blows, but as Consciousness you are greater than any obstacle you may encounter.  You can deal with the pain of setbacks by using your Awareness.  Awareness shines light and makes the darkness disappear.

Be open to your intuition, and act on it.  Life may give you intuitive hits whether to go forward or not, and the Universe will definitely give you feedback if you're open to it.

Be flexible, make room for miracles, be willing to shift gears and even reverse if necessary.

Whatever phase of life you move through, allow for completion.  Reflect on your learning, release what's no longer useful, give thanks and go forward.

And, know you are not alone.  Unseen help is at your fingertips or on the edge of your mind.    Miracles are available when you least expect it.  Be open and receptive and you'll be amazed what transforms!

This week, play life as a Game of Transformation.  Everyone around you are equal players (whether they acknowledge it or not).  Approach everything as a potential insight or setback.  Use greater awareness to navigate.

Connect and communicate to the Deva (Angel) of Transformation every day.  You'll be amazed what changes in one week!

Feeling Other's Emotions

Feeling Other's Emotions ©2014

Empathy - the ability to feel other people's feelings.  Many of us have the ability to feel other's feelings, we just don't know it!  Or if we do, it feels like a burden.

Empaths are very sensitive to their environment.  They feel the energy of restaurants and offices, parties and gatherings.  It can be challenging to drive down the freeway, when you sense all the accidents that have happened there!

If you feel an emotion out of the blue, not connected to what is going on around you or in your life, it's probably someone else's.  You can pick up loved one's feelings, even if they're 3,000 miles away.

Feelings that don't make any sense, that feel really intense, are usually someone else's communications.  They are emitting how bad they are feeling.

Sometimes they come in on familiar channels.  You may allow them in because they're a friend or loved one,  Or they may remind you of a family members.

Sometimes it's just proximity.  The guy in the apartment above yours has been laid off and is really depressed.  Even though you are happily employed, you start having a hard time getting out of bed in the morning.

People who aren't empaths will say, that must really be your emotion, you're just in denial, but I disagree.  If you live in an apartment building with too thin walls, you're neighbor's rap music at 12am is not your bedtime listening choice!

You have no control about other people's remittances but you can, believe it or not, control your ability to receive.  You can 'dial down' your emotional 'hearing'.  You can zip up the front of your chakras to help protect your space.  Imagine your lower chakras being like volume dials, and turn them down.

This may be hard for some people to do.  Their empathic ability protected them growing up.  Perhaps they had a parent that was unpredictable.  They never knew what mood they'd be in when they came home.  But they could feel them coming, and knew when to stay out of the way.

People communicate with feelings, a mother may have a hard time turning down her empathy with her children, even when they're adults.  It's important to know if your infant is in distress, but less so to feel the anxiety of your twenty-something preparing for their graduate exams!

We mistake empathy for compassion.  You can feel compassion towards someone who's suffered a shock, a loss, but it doesn't help you help them if you're expressing the same intensity of grief.

If you're rescuing a drowning man, you need to keep your own head out of the water.

Society places great expectations that we match the energy of groups.  If you're actually able to be a half-step above the emotional energy field, you can be accused of being cold or unsympathetic.  You might, however, be the only clear-headed one in the crowd, able to lead the way out of darkness.

As an empath myself, my biggest revelation has been that I get to set my own energy level.  I can decide to be a different vibration.  I can imagine my aura to be a different color, I can see myself vibrating a half step above.  I can allow a sense of amusement for whatever black comedy I'm engaged in. 

Give yourself an empathic break today.  You will find it totally transforming your life!

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.

How Bad Does It Have To Get?

©2011 Joan M. Newcomb

About seven years ago I was watching my country play out patterns from fifty (and seventy) years before.  It was astounding to me to see things regressing to a time of more limitations, seemingly less individual choice and freedom.  It was amazing to see events unfold to continue the direction things were going rather than reverse them.

About the same time the Catholic Pope died, and there had been the anticipation that the next would be more liberal.  Instead a more traditional one was chosen.

It showed me that things were going to have to get more "bad" before things got better.  And that it was a world evolution, not just my country's.

Since then, our economy plummeted and many other countries' followed.

We've been in a turnaround time for the last couple of years, although in some cases you wouldn't know it.  There are loud and shrill voices trying to continue the trend of restrictions, to perpetuate the adjustments that were made in recent years to benefit the "haves" separating them further from the "have-nots".

My feeling was that the previous downward spiral had to continue in order for us to come out of denial, to see what was happening more clearly, it had to hit our back yards so to speak.  It has to increase before a push-back occurs.

It's all part of the old energy disintegrating as our vibration consciousness raises.  Those that cling to the old way are experiencing the most discomfort.  That which is dying is illusion, and it yells the loudest.

The Middle East is a great example of the 'push-back' that is happening.  Four or five countries are uprising now.  It's the area with the oldest energy, the most limitation, the least freedom, the biggest dichotomy between wealth and poverty.  A miraculous transformation is evolving there.

In my country it is happening on a grass roots level as well.  Individuals gathering for civil rights, protesting the attempts of the old energy to continue control.  It's not done here.  We on the brink of another 60's style revolution.

For the Middle East it is just beginning.  As each country topples old regimes, there's a lot for them to figure out, how to do things differently.  Their culture(s) run deep.

We've reached critical mass, in terms of the Light entering our conscious awareness.  Like 'the wave' at a baseball stadium, we are standing up, not simultaneously but in a fluid flow around the globe.  We're at the 100th monkey point, where everyone is about to get it.

How bad does it have to get?  Depends on where you are and how much you resist change.  What's falling apart in your life is a reflection of lies/distortion you've been clinging to as truth.  If you're out of work, you're being called to reinvent yourself.  If your relationship is dissolving, you're needing to learn the same thing leaving it as you needed to learn to stay in it - owning your own power, speaking your own truth, creating your own foundation, setting your own energy level are some examples there.  You may have had loved ones pass over; an opportunity to realize that no one ever dies, that they're easier to talk to now if harder to hear.

If you're witnessing others being stuck (friends, family, legislators) do not judge them.  Feel compassion, for they are in extreme pain.  Their world is crumbling and their identities are dissolving.. They are leaning against the sandbags of their beliefs and the tsunami of transformation is just too powerful.

Let it go.  Let it happen.  Be different.  Be new.  Be yourself.  Speak up, stand up, take action.  Break through the illusion, but don't wrestle with it.  Don't use your energies to resist, but to propel you forward.  Any step is in the right direction, and the Universe will support you.

Exciting times.  Have fun with it.