Being Bigger

Being Bigger ©2014 Joan M. Newcomb

We are in a time of expansion, and we are all being called to be bigger.  That means, greater than our problems, larger than our labels, more than what we think of ourselves to be.

The other day I had a profound revelation.  My original metaphysical training taught that we are Spirit in a body.  The focus was on grounding the body so it could handle Your higher vibration.  Like electricity running through a lamp.

That alone seems enormous.  That as Spirit we are infinite, all knowing, and we're squeezing into this itty bitty body of density and effort.  And outside the body radiates our aura.  So it comes from the inside and radiates out from it.

Now, over time, I've evolved to greater awarenesses about this.  For instance, this isn't your only lifetime just as this isn't your only body.  As Consciousness there is no time or space, so all of your lifetimes are happening at once.

I also see that body isn't separate from Spirit.  It's a spectrum of vibration, with Consciousness being the most expansive and diffuse, focusing into body being the most dense and concentrated.

Then I heard, 'we are a being with a body inside'.

Think about it.  WE are a BEING with a body INSIDE.  Imagine your awareness expanding around your body.  YOU are the energy, and within you have created a denser form.

It's shifted the perspective from up and down (Spirit is up, coming down into body), or in and out (you're in your body or out of your body).   You don't have to squeeze yourself into form, you are not just inhabiting the body,  you encompass it.

You can perceive from within it, as in viewing out from the eyes, feeling from within the form, but you can also perceive the edges of your aura or energy field.

It's not that you are everything and everything is you, even though at the most expanded sense of Consciousness you are.  I am noticing definitions - for instance, I will feel the emotional state of someone else 3,000 or 9,000 miles away (and this will be verified by their email or facebook post).  I am not in their reality, but am feeling their reaction to what's going on for them.

How does this change of perspective change things? I'm noticing things show up in my experience having a greater connection to themes I'm dealing with.  The German Shepherd next store will lunge over the fence when I'm processing issues around boundaries, anger, aggression. An ambulance will show up for the elderly lady down the street right after a discussion with my husband about our mothers dying.  Nothing is random any more, it only appears because there is a connection, because something is clearing.

What would it be life for you if you were bigger than your problems?  How would it feel if you were the most powerful person inside your reality?  If anything you ever needed to know could be accessed from your own inner wisdom?

This is what it is like to navigate life from the perspective of You as Consciousness.  Let these questions float along with you this week, and try this subtle shift of awareness, and see what happens!

Inner and Outer Work

Inner and Outer Work ©2014 Joan M. Newcomb

As Unified Consciousness we are all one.  When working on a high energy level, there is no you in U.

However, in the physical, there are boundaries.  It's not helpful to merge energies (unless you're in love or making love).

Empathic healers often become ill, because they take on the energies of their clients and loved ones.

You can heal people from outside of your body space.  You can love others and be neutral about their choices and reactions.  It's hard to have neutrality when you bring energy into your body.  It's hard to have neutrality when your energy engulfs everyone, too.

It's hard to make decisions or changes when you're feeling everyone else's reality.  It gets confusing.  Do I feel sick, or does the guy in the next cubicle at work have a hangover?  Do I really want to buy chocolate milk at the grocery store, or is my kid in my space?

Meditation is often called 'inner work'.  When you are quietly accessing your own energy and information, that's inner work.  When you're journaling about your vision for your life, what your passions are, what you'd like to be doing, you'll find this inside yourself (your energy field).

When you're doing healing work, when you're visualizing or reading energy, it's helpful to do this on a 'view screen', kind of a psychic flat screen, in front of you (usually your forehead).

Seeing things on your view screen, you get the 'big picture'.  Seeing things inside your head... can be too close for clear focusing.  It's the difference between being an air traffic controller, viewing all airport runways with incoming and departing planes, or being down on the tarmac.

If you've been having difficulty making a decision, about work, about life, notice if you need to place it outside on your view screen.  Or bring it inside, to your heart.

Heart space isn't for neutrality, but it can be for compassion.

You can also bring it into your solar plexus,  to get a 'gut feeling'.

Play with this, putting things out on your view screen, bringing things into places, this week.  Notice the difference.  See what happens!

Border Crossings

Border Crossings ©2014 Joan M. Newcomb

On this week's radio show, my co-host Janet and I had a chat about boundaries (amongst a lot of other things).  Janet says she doesn't have boundaries, she just lets everything flow.  I certainly agree that's the case with her energy work.  Conversations about website design or marketing email will just as easily end up being distance Matrix on family patterns.

My original clairvoyant training over emphasized "space", which was a huge Catch-22.  We were increasing our psychic sensitivities and yet when we felt someone's energies within us, we'd accuse them of 'beating us up'.

Years later I realized it was my own Empathic ability that allowed me to feel what others were feeling.  They weren't beating me up, they were just having a bad day.

I heard David Spangler say that everyone he meets expands his Universe.  That's so much nicer than everyone you meet 'invades your space'.  In fact, you can't fall in love without merging energies.

When you're operating in the physical realm, grounded into density and effort, walls appear solid.  When you're outside the box, in the realm of Matrix, there are no solids, only potentiality.

If you're grounded into form, the easiest way to have boundaries is to energetically occupy your body and the space surrounding it.  When you're focused in your body, there's no room for anything else.

The strongest "protection" is non-resistance.  When you allow yourself to be relaxed and transparent, energy just flows through.  When you're resisting, you magnetically attract what you don't want, and it sticks.

People who are natural healers, and natural empaths, will take on other's energies.  Sometimes it's just communication, tuning into what other's are projecting towards them.  Sometimes it's an attempt to make others feel better, taking on they're depression, pain, etc. in order to relieve them.

Absorbing other's pain isn't a healing, it's invalidating.  Everyone is Consciousness manifesting in form.  The more capable we are, the more challenging problems we'll create.  If we've created a problem, we have the resource within to remedy it. If someone takes that away from us, it invalidates our capability.

Often the most effective healing is to hold the space for someone else's transformation.  Hold them with open hands, hold them loosely, create a safe space for them to figure it out on their own.

In this new evolution of Conscious, healers are asked to focus within and heal themselves.  It's a challenge when you're knee jerk reaction is healing everyone else!  But by standing still, looking within, and healing yourself, you create a ripple effect outwards to everyone in your 'sphere of influence'.

When you heal yourself, you set a good example.  You give permission to others to heal themselves.

So for the next 7 days I invite you to withdraw your focus from others that need fixing, to your own form and surrounding life.

Try this for the next week and see what happens!

Anger - a good thing

(c) 2009 Joan M. Newcomb

Lately, I've been feeling grouchy at times. It's surprising to me since I'm usually in a good mood. It's happening frequently enough that I've come to realize that it's part of my growth space, something I'll talk about later in this article.

When I do psychic readings, I sometimes notice varying shades of red in a client's aura. Red is life force energy. Sometimes it's dark red, which is frustration or blocked energy. Sometimes it's volcanic. Sometimes it's just a pure flow.

How comfortable we are with that vibration depends on our background and our natural tendencies. People who are Italian, or lawyers, or sales people, run this vibration with ease. Upper middle class WASPs and people who had an out of control parent tend to not feel safe with this energy, even if it's their own.

At it's essence it's an invigorating life force energy. It helps 'cut the crap', remove blocks and gives you the energy to go where you need to go or do what you need to do. In a dysfunctional state it's invasive and abusive.

Coming out of a dysfuctional childhood or marriage, we may have learned to repress our anger in order not to enrage the abuser. We may have learned to be invisible, or manically cheerful. We're so used to having our boundaries crossed by someone else's anger, we don't feel entitled to respond (abusers usually make you feel you deserved the abuse, and make themselves the victim if you do stand up for yourself).

As you recover from your childhood or marriage, it's a sign of growth when someone behaves badly towards you and you feel angry! Anger is a signal that your boundaries have been crossed. Anger is the inner you standing up for yourself.

Anger can also come up as part of your natural growth if you've been putting up with an intolerable situation for too long. It helps dissolve the blocks keeping you from moving forward.


I've been experiencing levels of frustration for the last couple of months. Energetically I can see the chunks of concrete floating in my aura! The image I get is of a star ship navigating it's way through space debris. Some of it is my own personal history and some of it is societal patterns. I know it's about dropping behaviors where I devalue myself and situations that undervalue me. (In Robert Scheinfeld's Phase 2 perspective, it's all me, inner and outer).


I've been reading a lot of people going through career transitions and the trend I see is towards right livelihood, doing work that is in integrity with their Essential Selves. If they're in a career or job that isn't right for them, they're feeling discontent. If their Essential Self created being laid off, they're having trouble finding work in their old field, because their Essential Self is wanting to steer them in the direction of what makes their heart sing!


A lot of people feel hesitant about taking the risk towards Right Livelihood because they think they can't make a living that way. In reality, their lives will be more abundant when they do. Prosperity always flows when you're in alignment with your Essential Self.


As you start to steer towards your Right Livelihood, where your Essential Self is calling you, you may feel some anger as you begin to pull out of old patterns. It's okay. You don't have to gnaw off the bindings or bark at those other characters in your story line you perceive. You can just imagine it as a 'force field' in front of your star ship (the edge of your aura) disintegrating whatever's been keeping you from boldly going where you're meant to go!


A simple navigational tool (one I believe I mentioned last week) -- to make decisions that are in your own best interest. If it's been so long since you've done that, it feels like this - you feel happy or elated when you go in that direction. You feel tense or dissatisfied (or 'the same') when you don't. Or that direction just looks and feels brightest, and the other way is duller or darker.


Try this for the next week, with each decision you make, go in the direction that feels brightest or makes you happy. And see how your entire Universe changes!