What's coming out of the woodwork now? The pendulum swings in another direction.

What's coming out of the woodwork now? The pendulum swings in another direction. ©2018 Joan M. Newcomb, CPC

I just completed a year of being president of my toastmasters club and I pretty much sucked at it. I'm a reluctant leader. I want everyone to lead themselves.

So I was frustrated when folks stepped up to officer positions with no interest of actually doing the job, they didn't even read the leadership manual that said what duties were expected. I think of folks like these as 'seat warmers'. They're just there occupying space, and in some ways taking a lot of energy as well.

But in a volunteer organization, you can't expect people to do anything. You can just appreciated the ones who are present and show initiative.

In the world we see everyone is becoming more internally empowered and self governing. That's what this evolution is about, accessing your own internal power and own internal wisdom and creating your reality from that space, that energy. it's not about doing it because someone else told you to, or doing it to impress someone else.

At the same time there's increased networking and interdependency. People are working together for the common good. so when you observe a group of people who are working towards what only benefits themselves, to the detriment of the whole, it's especially irritating. There's increased intolerance for those kind of folks.

We're all in charge of our own reality. We don't need gurus. We need peers and mentors, people who've walked this way to show us options. But we also need space to experiment and try our own ways.

I like coaching and teaching because it empowers people to do it for themselves. Coaching sees you as whole and complete. If you have a dilemma then you have within you the resources to resolve it. As good coach will ask powerful questions that allows you to connect with your inner wisdom and discover what's right for you.

During the last presidential campaign I observed a lot of low-vibration, dark energy, crawling out of the woodwork. It was coming to the surface to be cleaned and I assumed it would clear by the election. But the infestation was deeper than could be imagined, which is why the clearing process it taking so long.

So now I'm noticing a lot of high-vibration, light energy, emerging. It is fiercely coming forward with truth and integrity.

It's exciting to see how Consciousness is evolving into form. What isn't in alignment with it will disintegrate.

If this feels daunting, if this feels scary, just know that's your body-personality, the part of you that is physical reality and so interprets these changes from a survival level. When you as Consciousness anchor into your body, it calms and reassures it.

Then you can be excited about the changes, and amused by the drama. Then you can enjoy the roller coaster ride called life.

How To Deal With The "New Normal"

How To Deal With The "New Normal" (c) 2017 Joan M. Newcomb, CPC

One of my neighbors stopped me on my walk and offered condolences. "Emma's died?" She and her husband had seen us carrying her out to the lawn in her last days.

When she came back from the vet, after her biopsy, she'd stopped walking. So we carried her outside twice a day. It wasn't all that different from before, since she'd like to sleep most of the day anyway. It was a "new normal".

She was too heavy for me to lift and at some point my husband hurt his back, so we both lifted her using the four corners of the towel that we had under her. I found myself singing the song from Aladdin as she went on a 'magic carpet ride' to the outside world. Corgis are always smiling, but she grinned even more as she could feel the fresh air and smell all the smells.

This concept of it being a 'new normal' had helped me when my mother, after 10 months on home hospice, stopped walking and became bedridden. She had Alzheimer's and cancer, and the blessing was that she didn't know she had either. She wondered why she stayed in bed all the time. "Oh, you always like to sleep a lot." I said. Which was true, she had hated me getting her up in the morning and now I didn't have to...

Now the new normal is that Emma is gone and we're putting off getting another dog. We're cherishing being able to sleep in on weekends and go out for dinner without having to walk someone.  I did, however, get a new fish, which I call "Puppy", so I can say that I did get one.

It occurred to me that we're hitting "new normals" all the time, even if they're not healthy.  People are getting numb from the news, the emotional roller coaster of deliberately inflammatory and distracting tweets, of human rights being systematically dismantled and withdrawn.

There's always a pendulum swing in politics and at some point this will all reverse itself. And as Consciousness, I see what is really happening is that those who seem most powerful, are actually the least. And they are scrambling to restore a paradigm that has already disintegrated. We are have evolved as Consciousness, are embodying more of ourselves as Consciousness, so we are all already individually too empowered to go back to that antiquated acceptance of domination.

It hit me that we're stepping into a new existence, which requires us to expand to a new normalcy. Energetically it feels lighter. We're used to feeling weighed down, that being more powerful means occupying more physical space.

When you embody more of yourself as Consciousness, it feels buoyant. When you feel empowered, it feels more internally powerful. It actually feels effortless and relaxed. Standing in your own power feels confident, because as Consciousness you *are* wisdom. There's an absence of a need to dominate or compete because we're *all* Consciousness.

It starts by focusing within, because our bodies are our anchor points as Consciousness into this physical realm. However, we're operating at a higher frequency than ever before, so it really only requires a focal point, a pinpoint of Consciousness, to bring you fully aware into form. And it can be anywhere within. I used to have rigid opinions about where this should be and how it should be done. Rigidity is the old normal.

Try this for yourself. Wirelessly connect as Consciousness into form, and notice what's different. That's your new normal. Doing this regularly has a ripple effect into the rest of your reality. Play with this during the week and see what happens!

We Shall Not Regret The Past (Nor Wish To Shut The Door On It)

We Shall Not Regret The Past (Nor Wish To Shut The Door On It) ©2016 Joan M. Newcomb, CPC

We're engaged in an uncivil war. 

In this time of fake news, and with even "real" news regurgitating complete falsehoods, it's too easy to get taken off course by things that are deliberately designed to evoke an emotional reaction.

It's exhausting and distracting and makes even the most enlightened of us forget that we're Consciousness, we're Infinite Beings creating our reality.

Trump's heralding in a new age.

We are actually in a time of clearing and healing. There is greater Light in the world and it is revealing the most repressed darkness. All the ugliness that has come to the surface is being cleaned. Your home always looks worse when you're deep cleaning.

It's triggering each of us at our very core. It's bringing up childhood memories and generational miasma. You can't take this baggage with you to the next level of evolution.

Even as we are inspired to take action, we're disempowered by our own"stuff". We are at war in our minds, we have insane cabinet members in our heads who threaten to destroy the different departments of our lives.

The news may trigger us, but we're creating our own drama and feeding it with our thoughts. When we stop fighting in ourselves or wrestling with scenarios, we can take clear action.

Years ago I was married to a covert cocaine addict. In order to regain my sanity, I needed to learn to detach from the emotional roller coaster. I made up my own slogan: "Don't React Dramatically - Even If It Seems Dramatic."

If I am triggered, if I am reacting with strong feelings, I am not in present time. I am engaging with a lie. What I am perceiving is not the truth.

I have lost control and I am fighting with the illusion.

We're powerless over the illusion and we're powerless over other people's insanity. We're powerless over what they say and what they tweet and what they sign. But we're not powerless over our own voices, our own votes, and our own actions. We just feel powerless when wrestling with the insanity rather than the solution.

Where Real Power is.

We can regain our internal power in several ways.  First, by stepping back and not engaging with crazy people or crazy headlines. Take time to respond rather than react. Take a break from the noise, turn off your devices and take a walk.

I always reconnect with Consciousness when I'm out in nature, even if it is just noticing trees on city streets. There is a power greater than Faux news. And You, at your Essence, are this power.

When you're reconnected within, you become clear at what your choices are and how you can contribute.

Because this time is not calling us to be in denial or to go back into our caves or bubbles. It is calling us to be fully in our bodies and to participate. You can take truly empowered action when you're aligned with yourself as Consciousness.

The Bigger Picture of What Is Going On.

The birth of a new era requires expansion and contraction.  Progress experiences ebbs and flows.  This feels like the past because we're at a new level of releasing those old patterns. After we've cleaned the kitchen and the living room, we go upstairs. Just because the bedrooms and bathrooms are dirty doesn't mean we haven't been cleaning, we're just on a new floor.

We're not going to back to Nazi Germany because we're America and our basic foundational pattern is freedom. We're seeing these shadows of the past because they've come to the surface to be cleared.

We have checks and balances and we have an inherent sense of our rights. There's more collective empowerment in this country than 1920's and 1930's Europe knew. You cannot control a country founded on rebellion.

Remind yourself that this is 2017, bring yourself into the present moment. In Present Time you are fully connected with yourself as Consciousness. This is where you can transform your reality.

This is where we shall not regret the past (nor wish to shut the door on it). Let the baggage of the past be archived. It's not forgotten, it's acknowledged as useful building blocks to where you are now.

I leave you with the Work of Byron Katie. There's great revelations and relief in this video.

Is Resistance Futile?

Is Resistance Futile? ©2016 Joan M. Newcomb, CPC

I woke this morning with the lyrics to "Do You Hear The People Sing" from Les Mis going through my head, and felt it was a commentary on the prevelant feeling throughout the world at this time.

"Do you hear the people sing? It is the song of angry men. It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again..."

People are angry. People are protesting. People are grieving. People are rebelling.

People are being called to action. They are speaking out. They are taking stands.

Aikido July 2002 Chateau de Clairvans, Gerard Blaze et Dominique

Then I remembered the scene in Les Mis, during the French Revolution, working class people manning the barricades. And they all got shot.

Is resistance futile? Do the big guys always win? Do our votes really count? Are our voices heard?

The energy of resistance usually attracts what you don't want. What you resist, persists. So from that perspective, resistance is futile. It perpetuates you in the reality that what you're resisting has power over you, is dominating you.

However, the energy of anger propels you out of the paralysis of fear. So if you are fighting something, that energy gives you the strength to take action and make changes.

The strongest stance, energetically, is non-resistance. That doesn't mean that you accept the unacceptable. But it means you can't be bullied or intimidated or triggered by whatever the other side does. You stand in your own power and negativity passes through without sticking.

Some forms of martial arts use non resistance to their advantage. When an opponent attacks, they respond in such a way that uses their energy against them. They step aside and the attacker falls over by their own force.

How can we possibly be non resistant to all the insanity going on right now? Wouldn't that be staying in our 'bubble' of privilege, or being in denial?

Non resistance doesn't mean not doing anything. It means to respond rather than react. It means standing back from all the noise and make conscious choices before taking action.

You can have strong feelings about things and still respond with non-resistance.

Bullies thrive on victims. Narcissists thrive on attention, even negative attention. Dominators aim to disempower people by getting them riled up and off balance.

We are all more powerful than we know. What is happening on the planet is that greater Consciousness is coming into form. That means your body is able to hold YOU, as Greater Consciousness, more than ever before.

Shift your perspective to your inner Essence and you will regain your balance.

Wings with Feet - how to go after your dreams without tripping up!

Wings with Feet - how to go after your dreams without tripping up! ©2016 Joan M. Newcomb

We're in exciting times! We're all experiencing accelerated growth and change. To many people, this feels expansive and empowering. To others, they're completely freaked out.

This increased energy inspires us to go after our dreams. We can see the possibility out in front of us, and we make the quantum leap for it. We take off into the wild, blue yonder as if we had wings.

Making that dream a reality, bringing it back to Earth, requires landing gear.

Heart with Wings by Lederartisan

Some folks are always coming up with good ideas. They charge after them, filled with enthusiasm. Then, a few months down the line, they run out of steam. Their dream evaporates.

Some folks are magnificent planners. They get an idea for their great American novel, then spend the next two years researching it in minute detail. And never write a page.

Manifestation nowadays is easier than ever, so why are results so elusive?

Because the idea folks have wings but no landing gear. And the planners never get off the ground without wings.

Any manifestation requires a vision.  Consciousness communicates with images. Your vision communicates to your higher Consciousness your request. The clearer your vision, the better it is able to come into form.

Although visions can magically happen, the probably won't if you don't take any action. You may not know how your vision is ultimately going to manifest, but baby steps indicate your willingness to receive it.

Planning helps you prepare, helps you create the container to receive your request.  Yet, if you're freaked out by your own creative power, you're not going to bring your idea into form. You'll do a lot of busy work, running in circles, but not produce anything. You'll get distracted and do something else instead.

Making your dreams real require Visions, Actions, and Havingness. Havingness is the ability to have your Vision or desire. It's adjusting your energy so you can have it. Sometimes it requires letting go of everything keeping you from having it. Sometimes it requires you upping your energy to match the desired thing.

If you want to be in a relationship, you may need to clear that pile of books off your bed. You may need to join a few Meetup groups and get out of the house!

If you want to own a home, you may need to drive through a few neighborhoods and imagine what it would be like to live there. (You may also need to check your credit score and talk to a mortgage broker, but Consciousness can bypass some of those details in surprising ways if you're truly aligned).

If you want to increase your prosperity, you may need to look where you're acting impoverished. There's a difference between frugality and deprivation. It may not mean driving the latest BMW when you're buying groceries on credit cards.

Ultimately, expansion comes from within. Your body is your anchor in this reality. It is your focal point as Consciousness. Your dreams come from the realm of Consciousness. They come into form through your body.

Focusing on how you would feel if you had your vision is very powerful. It creates the emotional state within your body to generate the energy to bring it into being.

Play with this over the new few days and see what starts happening!

Power Games

Power Games ©2016 Joan M. Newcomb, CPC

Again, it seems, we're collectively going through a seismic shift. Momentous changes are happening. People are being rocked to their core. There are strong reactions on one side or another.

What the heck is going on? And what can we do about it?

There's an increase Consciousness happening. We know that. It's been happening, it continues to happen, why does it feel like such a big, frickin' deal right now?

Tesla Coil - photo credit Airarcs

As we each experience an expansion of our vibration coming into form, we become more sensitive and aware.  Some of us are experiencing our psychic abilities going through the roof. We're having dreams that turn out to be premonitions, we're thinking of people and then they show up in our lives, we even feel more telepathic and imagine we're going nuts.

What's been happening on an unseen level is our energy bodies are being upgraded. Some try to explain this as our DNA changing. I see us going from gasoline powered to hybrid to Tesla.

We're used to gasoline power - it feels dense, it has a residue. Some of us a currently hybrids, we have moments of effortlessness, mixed with sluggishness. Fasten your seatbelts when you wake up one morning to find your vehicle is Tesla powered.

The old power games aren't working in the world. They are the familiar forms of power. Dominance and manipulation. Physical strength, and mental acuity. Material wealth. If you're a narcissistic bully billionaire, people are going to think you're very powerful. In reality, you're the least powerful of all.

However, the old powerless games aren't working, either. Resistance, victimhood, self-pity, never got you what you wanted in the first place, but are especially setting folks back now.

We've been through some powerful movements, Occupy Wall Street, that have shone light on the old paradigms, and protests seem to create change in the moment. But when you look closely at them, they are merely the opposite of what they resist. They reflect the illusion of powerlessness.

We're being called to stand up and own our power. To stand senior within our own space. To act empowered. To be our own authority.

Consciousness is infinitely powerful. And we are Consciousness. As Consciousness comes more into form, we feel our omniscience within us. Anything that isn't in alignment with our magnificence, is going to feel uncomfortable. Is going to be reflected in the world around us.

The opportunity is arising for many of us to de-energize our old power games. We're revisiting old issues that use to disempower us. It does not mean you are stepping backwards. It's a chance to behave differently with these issues.

Nothing outside of you is more powerful than you. If you admit that you are powerless over people. places, and things, it really means you have take your focus off them. You've withdrawn your power from them. You've taken your power back from the illusion. You've reclaimed power from the story you have been playing in.

Real power, like a Tesla engine, doesn't feel loud or heavy. It is effortless, clear, and fast. It changes you, or you change yourself, instantaneously. It does not change others. They can change or not change themselves. If you perceive others changing, it's because you have shifted yourself into a reality where they are different. It's you walking off of one sound stage and onto another. The cast looks the same but the outcome is different.

Whatever is happening in the outside world does not affect your internal power.  Even if you feel powerless, even if your storyline says you have no measurements of power, as Essence you are Consciousness and therefore infinitely powerful. As Essence you transcend time and space. As Consciousness you are creating everything in your reality down to the smallest detail. Even feeling powerless.

Your body and your personality contain all sorts of beliefs and concepts that aren't true. When you bring your higher frequency into your body, it can feel like it's dying. Your concepts are dying, but you are. Things you've held onto that are lower, denser, energy, are disintegrating. It feels like your personality is falling apart when these things disappear.

When you get quiet, when you take deep breaths, you realize that what feels ungrounded, what feels unsettled, is actually immense freedom. You are bringing freedom into your life, into your storyline. It's what you're really asking for when you're pray, or play with manifesting. You're asking for financial freedom, you're asking for expansion of money, or love. Consciousness is the ultimate expansion. Consciousness *is* love. Consciousness *is* abundance and prosperity. *You* are Consciousness, so you are all these things.

When you relax into your life, the things you've been asking for show up. They spontaneously happen, or you realize they've been in your life all along. You don't have to do anything, you just have to have them, appreciate, recognize, acknowledge them.

You already are all the things you want.

Stop trying to drive your life as if it's a diesel powered engine. You don't need sixteen gears to get up a steep hill. You just press a button and there you are.  Actually, you just touch the point where you feel you are now, and touch the point to where you want to be, and collapse the wave between them.

It's a new way of navigating. It's a new power game.

Let this sink in and see what happens!

Rapists and Racists, What the HELL Is Going ON??

Rapists and Racists, What the HELL Is Going ON?? ©2014 Joan M. Newcomb

It certainly seems like we're all going to hell in a hand basket.  We've had several instances of white police murdering innocent black people.  We've had everyone's favorite jello pudding Pop turn out to be a creepy and frightening rapist (and he's now counter-suing one of his victims).  It's really all too, too much.

So, here's what's going on:  the more enlightened we collectively become, the more extreme and insane things will come to the surface.

Increased light reveals what's been in the shadows.  Increased enlightened individuals means things can't be hidden any longer.  We are empowered to speak out.  We feel entitled to justice.  When things are not ok, we call them out.

50-60 years ago, it was ok to hit your kids with a ruler, or a hairbrush.  It was "kind" of a parent to hit them with their bare hand, "because it hurt them, too".  (Way to add dose of guilt on top of your abuse)!

Shit like that doesn't fly anymore.

Restrictions (limiting thoughts, ideas, and attitudes) are disintegrating, because they cannot hold the higher and lighter vibration that is incarnating on the planet right now.  People who identify with those constraints are very uncomfortable.  Those with an externalized source of power feel very threatened.  They are frightened.  Their identities, their egos, are dying.

They are making a lot of noise to keep things as they are, they are trying to hold on to reins attached to an empty harness.

You cannot stop evolution.  You can't even slow it down.  It is a glacier heading towards the ocean, changing the topography as it moves.  Try pushing back the glacier.

Put your skis on and ride the glacier, you'll have a whole lot of fun.  Go with the floe.

However, everyone nowadays is experiencing some discomfort as they bring stuff up to be released.  Buried family patterns are coming to the surface, repressed memories are reflected to you in the news.  How do you 'let it go'?

Here's a couple techniques that may help.   When you're watching the news, imagine a stream of bubbles popping (you can blow real bubbles if you want).  Each bubble represents a thought, a memory, a mental image picture, that you want to let go of.  You don't have to examine each one.  You will find yourself feeling much clearer if you do this on a regular basis!

This one is new.  Imagine a 3-D picture frame lifting out of you.  Bring it out and examine it.  Move it around.  It shifts, it's loose, you can change it's dimensions. You can bring it back in, if you like, or send it out to orbit.  Notice what happens when you do.  Notice how things feel.

The picture frame represents an inner pattern you are changing or clearing.  You don't have to know what it is.  It's better not to know, as it opens you up to greater possibilities of expansion.

Play with this for the next week.  Be whimsical about this.  And, be surprised by the results!