Reality, Insanity, and Truth

Reality, Insanity and Truth ©2018 Joan M. Newcomb, CPC

Maybe this blog post should be entitled arguing with reality. The news this week was insane. Stories of breastfeeding babies being torn away from their immigrant mothers, thousands of children being held in dog pens in warehouses; I hit bottom.

I’ve struggled to observe it all from neutral. From the perspective of greater Consciousness, what is really going on? Everyone at their essence is infinite and immensely powerful. There is greater Light coming into the world, it is illuminating the darkness, but it also means the darkness is going away.

Yeah, fuck that shit. It was already pretty bad but now toddlers and infants, that’s over the line.

What’s in the process of disintegrating is all the old power structures, and all the old attitudes that limit or define anyone as more than or less than. We’re all Consciousness, we’re all omnipotent.

And those who cling to those old ways of being are experiencing the most discomfort, because their reality is dissipating. They’re the ones freaking out and going insane.

Where’s the last bastion of this paradigm? Washington, DC, my home town. So what we’re seeing are extreme behaviors, extreme actions, being taken to maintain the illusion of power. And it seems so destructive, because it is. It’s reflecting the distruction they’re feeling within.

You know, I don’t really care what the higher reasons are. I just want it to stop NOW.

This world is a marvelously complex creation of Consciousness, with an endless supply of storylines. We are all Consciousness, we are all God Within. Other people are other aspects of Consciousness. People aren’t our reflections, they're real people not just mirrors or Westworld characters. But what we see or feel is usually in ourselves. If there wasn't a matching resonance, we wouldn't notice it or they wouldn't be there.

So even uncomfortable situations we've attracted, or we observe, are an indicator of what is shifting or changing within us.

SO WHAT’S GOING ON INSIDE? Everything within me that reacts to things that are unjust, that wants to fight against white male dominance, has also been disempowering myself. Where I have been restricting my own freedom?

The old paradigm was that dominance was power, and yet it's energetically weak. Power outside is the least powerful. Trying to control or change other people, whether it's trying to keep them out of the country or economically or educationally challenged, is the actions of those who don't feel strong themselves. And yet, trying to fight them, to control or change them, puts us into a weak position, it's using the same energy to create a different outcome.

Operating at a higher level of Consciousness, the rules are different. You can’t manifest by manipulating the hologram. You can only change by shifting from within, shifting yourself.

So how do we stop this insanity? Because if I withdraw (ever fiber of my being wants to go back to being a mystic in the woods), if I turn of Twitter (my source of on-the-ground news, and hence my window into the madness in the world), am I not being in denial? Am I turning a blind eye to people who need help?

I CAN’T DRIVE TO TEXAS AND THROW THEM IN A MINI VAN. And I don't speak Spanish, so I can't go up to SeaTac and help the parents (that have been brought to Washington State for some bizarre reason).

I can participate in a General Strike, as an introvert I don't go on marches and gave up on phone calls but I can protest with my wallet.

But really, as a Mystic, I can shift the energy within, I can collapse the internal power structures, I can step into a parallel universe where this is unfolding differently. I can two-point to where the outcome is already different.

When I relax, step back from the story, I can see and feel the Truth. I'm in agreement with what is (okay, I'm getting there). 

I invite everyone to do this for themselves. Because if we collectively reclaim our power, this can instantly change.

I'm excited to see what happens!

(If you're new to my work and want to know how to do these things, read more of my blog and go to my website for coaching on Consciousness Techniques).

You Can’t Game The System

You Can’t Game The System ©2018 Joan M. Newcomb, CPC

It really annoys me when someone says “Make it a great day” - or words to that effect. The more skill I gain from living consciously, the less ability I have to “make” things happen.

And I used to teach people how to create their reality, essentially Law of Attraction before Esther Hicks began channeling Abraham.

What is *your* inner Napoleon like?

When you try to make it a great day, it implies that the day needs making great. That the day wasn’t great to begin with. That you need to *do* something to make that day great. Make the day great again.

Someone could argue it’s about making up your mind that the day will be great. That it’s about your mindset. That you can control the day through your thoughts and your actions.

Can’t you feel the energy of force and contraction? That’s the opposite of openness and expansion.

When we try to make something happen from our mind alone, it’s our inner Napoleon trying to control everything. It’s the little will, the personality part of you, that thinks it’s the sole creator of reality.

Basically it takes essential truths and distorts them. Very sneaky.

Because Consciousness creates reality, you as Consciousness create your reality, but you’re not the only expression of Consciousness, you’re the sole expression of You as Consciousness. With full awareness and appreciation of all the other aspects of Consciousness expressing in form as well.

What happens to me is that I go through a shift in Consciousness, I experience expansion in my life, I find myself at a new level of awareness. Things I felt were solid and real collapse or dissipate, techniques I relied upon stop working. I “upgrade” them (each time they become more subtle with more profound - and more unpredictable - results).

And then my inner Napoleon creeps in and tries to game the system. Because I’ve been doing this work for 37 years, and I’m an expert.

But systems don’t work any more, if they ever did. When you try to make reality that way, there will always be a glitch or a loophole. No matter how perfect your mindset or vision board or repetitive affirmations, your 3 D printer will have gravel in it or a software error.

So I hit a plateau, spend time spinning my wheels, shadow boxing Consciousness, until my current version of Napoleon gets exiled to Elba, and expansion mystically and magically begins again.

When I stand perfectly still, everything in this moment is perfect. There is nothing to want or need. This life is amazing, this world is stunningly beautiful. All is as it should be. All is very, very well.

And then I look at Twitter. Or get triggered on Facebook. Propelled somewhere other than Now.

And no, I’m not on my way to India with my mother’s ashes. And no, we don’t own our own home on Vashon Island... and no, not everyone in my life is living happily ever after (in their current form or story line).

This reality is unfolding out of infinite possibilities, beyond our mind’s ability to imagine. As Consciousness you are immensely complex and multifaceted - what gets manifested comes from You as True Creative Essence, You as Highest Source. It’s already perfect and becoming more so in every moment.  There is no do or try.

People forget that Abraham-Hicks stresses the Art of Allowing. Allow it a great day.

How To Hold Your Own During The Holidays

How To Hold Your Own During The Holidays ©2014 Joan M. Newcomb

It's that time of year again. We're heading into the time of family gatherings. We're being inundated with ads, movies, and shop windows filled with gifts and expectations.

When you visit with relatives, everyone reverts to old behavior patterns. No matter how much therapy you've had, it's hard not to fall into the familiar scripts.  How do you not match the prevalent energy level? 

Perhaps you don't have family and are happily on your own. How do you convince well-meaning observers that you're a healthy, well-adjusted person who happens to be spouse-and-child-free?

How do you hold your own during the holidays? 

We cover a lot of these issues on our November 5th radio show including some helpful Consciousness tools.  I thought I'd add a couple more here.

The Bug-Zapper:  Imagine yourself surrounded by iridescent blue light, just like those electronic devices that hang outside your back door, keeping flying insects from entering the house.  Any negative thoughts or projections that come at you from the outside gets instantly zapped.  However, it also neutralizes any negative thoughts or projections from *inside* as well!  I used this at a wedding last year and it felt wonderful!!

Different Colors: When you walk into a home or a party you can feel the prevalent energy of the place.  One way to not be either raised up to their level of frenzy or brought down to their level of gloom, is to be a 1/2 above the energy.  Imagine what that vibration would be if it were a color (some people hear or feel it) and let yourself be a half step lighter.  You won't be too out of sync, but enough to keep your own sense of self!

Doorways and Portals: Every door or archway can step you into a different Universe, as effortlessly as stepping into different movies at a multiplex or different soundstages in Hollywood.  Just by getting up to go to the restroom, you shifted realities in several ways.  By the time you return you can be in an entirely different scenario!  Your family still looks the same, but the atmosphere can be completely different.

All of these tools work best when done playfully, from a space of amusement and fun.  Try these out and see what happens!

Life In The Beyond

This guest post introduces you to the writing of my VoiceAmerica cohost, Janet Barrett:

Life In The Beyond ©2014 Janet Barrett

Outside and inside of our group the awareness of nourishment has come up. In order to survive as living creatures we must be nourished physically. In order to prosper, life within us needs to be fed. We can be fed on many different levels. Physical, mental, emotional, psychological, psychic and spiritual are the realms we experience being human. We tend to associate food with the physical as it is the immediate but we are all familiar with food for thought.

Morphic field energies abound around nourishment. People right now are starving for basic needs around the world. There are people reading this who may be dealing with the issue from a direct personal experience. Societies over the generations have not really resolved these issues anymore today than they have in the past. Because we still have conditions about individuals and collective groups being nourished and ourselves. Starvation and lack of water are effective tools at controlling and killing.

We don’t always make the best judgments in the moment when we are starving or our families are doing so. Decisions that come out of our hunger on any level maybe be different than those made from our satiated states. Which is not referring to gluttony. That too can be an fear or issue. When we have enough to have a sense of fullness and replenishment and ease, our focus can relax also.  Sometimes our challenges will come from not knowing we are starving because we are just in a state of hunger. It can be about anything and it motivates us good and bad. Whether is for money, our father’s or mother’s love, the zing of taste from a fresh juicy orange and anything else, we can crave.

Sometimes we can’t get enough. Sometimes we get so much we get sick and go into a cycle of consume and purge. Addictions of all kinds can appear. Living bodies can reset their need levels in order to continue to survive.  Sometimes we set our essentials to the bare minimum and we don’t reset in times of plenty. Nature follows patterns of new births and deaths with the environments of weather and location. Animals and man have a history of migration as a way to survive. When animals and man are restricted in movement they can die off as the location can’t support the life there without supplementation from other sources.

Take time to drop in and access your heart field of unified consciousness.

Use your Matrix Energetics skill sets or whatever you might use to invite the state of play to open. Without attachment to outcome just notice how you respond to the following. Notice where your thoughts and awareness take you. Perhaps you will go down paths you have never held in conscious awareness. We invite that to happen. Allow yourself to be surprised and bemused. This is about the core we each hold inside about life, our sense of source, and our ability to share with others on this pale blue planet. How do we feel and feed ourselves? What do we allow for?

Where does your sense of source come from?

What is essential to your well being? The arts, conversation, nature,

emotions?

What do you limit in order to savor or as a treat instead of everyday

delights?

What is it like to feel satiated, to have a sense of enough?

What is the fear or condition in being at ease?

What are you feeding yourself?

What do you allow yourself to be nourished by?

In this country lean and mean fighting machines are considered good and

healthy. In other countries it may mean starvation and rebellion. What are you

starving?

Indulging, wasting, starving children in Africa and China? Any of this

ringing a bell that is still echoing?

Is it okay to be alive?

Is it okay to be embodied energy?

What are your conditions of nourishment?

Janet Barrett is a subtle energy empath, Matrix Energetics practitioner and cohost of Conscious Conversations with Joan and Janet on VoiceAmerica.  Her website is www.janetandbeyond.com

Shrinking and Expanding Time

Shrinking and Expanding Time ©2014 Joan M. Newcomb

What is time?  Is it something that measures our days, or is it an imaginary creation by Consciousness?

I had an experience this morning waiting for a client call.  Watching the time on my laptop, it was 8:59am for what seems like several minutes.  I glanced away for just a second and when I looked back it was 9:01am.  What happened?

.

Our experience of time is a creation of Consciousness.  Time flies by quickly when we're having fun, time drags on when we're bored.

After life threatening experiences, people shift their experience with time.  Some will slow down, to experience and savor every moment.

Some will speed up, to make sure they don't miss anything available to them in the physical realm.

The thing is, when you are in the present moment, it can feel timeless, expansive, and yet not take a lot of time.

Sometimes people slow down because they're actually scared or resistant.  Sometimes people speed up because they're in pain.

If you fully center inside yourself, in Presence, fear and pain disappear.

And use of time seems entwined with abundance.  Chronic underearners will be vague about time. They don't value their time.

I became very disciplined about time when my sessions became more expensive.  An infinite amount of transformation can be achieved in 30 minutes.  And change continues to happen days, weeks, months afterwards as well.

A simple technique for playing with time is to imagine silly putty (it can be any color, I prefer mine to be sparkly purple).  If you need more time to do something, imagine stretching it out.  If you need something to go by (or occur) more quickly, then squeeze it small.

If you do this from a space of fun and joy, this can have miraculous results.

Try this whenever you're feeling playful this week, and see what happens!