When You're The Only Magician In The Room

When You're The Only Magician In The Room ©2017 Joan M. Newcomb, CPC

It can feel a little lonely, being the only magician in a world full of muggles. There's no one to talk to about all the amazing things you're experiencing. And when you try, your words get all jumbled up and people look at you as if you're crazy.

You're not crazy. Far from it. You may be the only sane person in the room.

The world is going through a shift in Consciousness but people are each waking up at different a pace. And those who are already awake may be hiding it, because they don't want *you* looking at them as if they're crazy.

It's hard to understand how people can remain unconscious, when there's such beauty and wonder all around.

So, of course, our first impulse is to run around trying to help everyone wake up. And to furiously use magic to make things different.

It works, temporarily, but always seems to backfire. Or worse, when you get entangled in other's unconsciousness, it draws you back there, too.

How can we take them with us, our unconscious loved ones? How can we make the world less unbearable?

The world of Muggles becomes a lot easier when you're not trying to drag them all into consciousness. They'll wake up in their own sweet time. And you needn't disguise yourself or dampen your energy to match them. Stay your bright and shiny self.

Unbearable things are going on in the world, and have been since the world began. Things are actually better than they used to be, and are getting better (news headlines notwithstanding).

There is one 'Potteresque' technique you can use to make it easier on yourself in your newly awakened, heightened sensitivity.  I call it the invisibility cloak.

Wrap yourself in it the next time you're going to be around unconscious people. It won't necessarily make you invisible, but it will help you be non-resistant to their denser energy. It will allow you to maintain your bright and shiny higher frequency.

You won't always need to use it, but it will make it easier for you to be out in the world.

And as you learn to maintain your own unique energy as you navigate the world, you'll begin to encounter other magicians. They were always there, but you couldn't see them while preoccupied with muggles and mugglish things.

Play with this, this week, and see what happens!

Respond-Ability

Respond-Ability ©2015 Joan M. Newcomb, CPC

Responsibility is such a heavy word. Being responsible can mean taking the blame or being at fault when things go wrong.  Being responsible can mean that you're the only one being accountable for the success or failure an endeavor.

Suck it up. Put on your big girl panties.

Responsibility sounds like no fun at all.

Responsibility is the ability to respond. When something happens, you are at choice to respond or react.

When you're responding, you're taking clear headed action.  When you're reacting, you're most likely emotionally engaging in other's dramas or projecting your own.

Reactions are usually unconscious.  You can train yourself to stop and take a breath when triggered.  Almost nothing needs to be responded to right away, you can take your time before choosing to respond.

Healers, coaches, and counselors can get stuck taking responsibility for others results.  You can be the most caring and capable person in the world, but your client's outcomes are their responsibility.  My most successful clients actually did the work, used the techniques, took powerful actions. They manifested their own miracles (with me cheering on the sidelines)!

Parents are prone to this as well, it's their fault if their children aren't living up to their expectations. I find the bigger the expectations, the more kids will underachieve.  When you can step back and see your child as the capable creator of their own reality,  you will be awed by what they can do.

The world won't come to an end when it's not on your shoulders any more.

In fact, when you stop taking responsibility for people and things outside your space, and start responding to what is within your own 'sphere of influence', your own life starts working so much better.

When you bring your energy back within your own boundaries, you become clear about your own dreams and desires, and have the energy to achieve them.

Respond-ability not only gives you energy and space, but also validates others as well.

It doesn't mean that you drop everything that you're doing, and dishes pile up in the sink. But you're able to do whatever you're doing from your own free will and without effort.

Try this for a week and see what happens!

Unconsciousness

(c) 2010 Joan M. Newcomb
When I walk my dogs, I make it a point to connect with Consciousness.  It seems easier to do on a rural road.  Trees, especially, come in to focus, and I'm aware of the Energy of Consciousness, which communicates, reflects and informs.

The other day I was musing as I walked about how everything is Consciousness.  So what about stuff that doesn't feel good?  What about Unconsciousness?

In this physical plane, there is separation, there's duality, so we can think about what is Consciousness and feel that there are things that aren't.  For instance, I'm aware of an energy field, which I perceive as black, that I used to consider as created by the Collective Unconsciousness.  It's composed of all the negative thoughts and feelings ever experienced.  I noticed people with alcoholism in their backgrounds tapped into this field.

I'm also aware of other people in my reality that feel frustrated, powerless, unhappy, and disconnected.  As a natural empath, I can be particularly susceptible to other's emotions.  I used to think their feelings were mine and could be easily knocked off my path by them.  It's so rare when that happens nowadays that when I catch myself thinking 'wow, I haven't felt this way in years', it's a clue that I'm experiencing someone else's reality.

But if it's all Consciouness and we're all One, how can that be?

An analogy that's coming to me is that it's all music, but on this physical plane there are different instruments that make up the orchestra and different notes that make up the composition.  If you're listening to it with an untrained ear, it sounds like one song.  If you listen with Awareness, you can tell the oboe from the bassoon, the violin from the cello, etc.

If you are miserable and disconnected, that's a clue that you've lost your Awareness.  It's not a bad thing, and when you've achieved some level of Conscious Connection, it doesn't mean that you never experience lower emotions, it just means you don't experience them as negative.

When I think to myself 'I haven't felt this way in years', and I'm feeling others' feelings, I can feel them feeling powerless over their reality, frustrated and wanting to change, fix or improve it.  I know enough not to act on those feelings but to ride them out or let them pass through.  I'm usually in total agreement with Consciousness so when things happen that may not seem perfect,  I don't take it seriously.

Consciousness is light, joy, effortlessness, timeless, spaceless, unity, expansion, abundance, and more.  The whole point of being here is to experience the opposite of Consciousness, which is why we experience darkness, sadness, effort, the limitations of time and space, individual personalities, loneliness, contraction, lack, and more.  When we are Aware, we experience these things as fun and a creative challenge.  It doesn't seem so hard when you see it as a game.

When you're awake, you can understand that it *is* all Consciousness, even the parts that feel unconsciousness.  And that we ARE all Consciousness, even when we all seem so separate.

Someone who loves rock climbing, for instance, will look at a sheer rock face and get really excited.  Someone sitting in their LazyBoy coming across a rockclimbing program while channel surfing will think they're insane.

When you start seeing your life from Awareness, unconsciousness fades away.  It takes practice, because the pull of the collective is strong, but life is so much more fun when you're awake.

At this point I usually give suggestions for navigating from Awareness, and today I feel like a broken record (isn't that a dated term)!  Be aware of your thoughts and feelings.  Let the ones that aren't yours flow back to whomever they came from.  The ones that are from your body (hungry, tired, sleepy, etc.), comfort by responding to - nuture and care for yourself.  Reframe the ones from habitual negative thinking (anything invalidating, saying you're not capable, etc.), turn them around, put them in perspective, or laugh at their ridiculousness.

Try this whenever you think of it this week, and see what happens!