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.

You Are Loved, Lovable and Worthy of Love

You Are Loved, Lovable and Worthy of Love ©2015 Joan M. Newcomb

I am sitting in a downtown Starbucks. It is not designed to hang out in. It has hard metal seats and tiny row tables. It's across from a city park, where city denizens live.

A woman comes in with a huge stroller and a tiny toddler.  Her daughter has a grey T-shirt with a big strawberry on it. She is a bright spark of light amongst beings who have accumulated many shades of gray.

I see a lot of diversity, but not a lot of happiness.  There's a lot of pain on the streets outside of Starbucks.

Street child in Kolkata with a mango!

Another woman with a stroller comes in.  She has an infant in a front pack, a two year old, wearing an identical gray T-shirt with strawberry and a four year old in a blue cotton dress. The two year old dances around the other toddler, delighted to be T-shirt twins.  The other toddler, clearly an only child, sidles up to her mom and raises her arms to be carried.

The little girls are bright sparks of light.  That is, their light is easily visible.  Yet every single person in Starbucks and on the street were bright, shining, infants and toddlers once. They were all loved, lovable and worthy of love.

Mother Theresa once said that she saw Jesus in every poor person's eyes.

There was a form of torture POWs were put in cages where they couldn't sit down but they couldn't stand up. They had to stay crouched for impossibly long periods of time.  When they were released, it was painful to stand.

This is a great analogy for staying in pain or poverty or other dysfunctional patterns.  After spending many years in darkness, moving to a healthy stance, being visible and in the light, is painful.

More and more light is coming into the world.  More and more darkness is being exposed.  It is coming to the surface to be cleared.

If you are going through dark times, if you are experience extreme discomfort, know that it is the greater part of You emerging.  The bright spark of light that you were, You still are.  Yet is is no longer a spark but a shining star, the brilliance equalling our own Sun.

Breathe and allow your Light to shine. Breathe and allow your heart to open. You are unique. You are special. You are loved, lovable, and worthy of love.

Everyone is.

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!

Confusing Personality for Consciousness

This week on our Radio Show Janet and I discussed a topic send in by a listener.  She wondered how much of life was consciously created, and how much was that 'sh*t happens'.   Two people she knew had died recently, one had committed suicide, the other overdosed.

The suicide had been an energy worker, and was discouraged that her techniques seemed to no longer be working.  She said her Higher Self had planned for her to 'leave early'.

The overdose may have been accidental, but an aunt had foreseen when she was a child that there was a 'dark cloud in her future'.

I've long said that nothing is pre-determined in that nothing is set in stone.  We create our future through our choses and actions.  We have free will to change lanes on the freeway of life.  If that's so, how could the aunt see a dark cloud ten or twenty years into a child's future?

It's like a long term weather forecast.  Meteorologists can see a weather pattern happening in Guam and know that there will probably be snow in Oregon six weeks later.  When looking at futures, you're looking at possibilities.  You may be seeing some influence by family patterns, just as a Meteorlogist knows weather currents and storm seasons.

And within that, an individual can make shifts, go into recovery, turn from 'bad' to 'good' simply by changing their beliefs about themselves.

However, there's still weather.  It still may rain or snow.  And within that weather, there are choices how to respond.

Now an energy worker can fall into the belief that they can (and must) control their reality.  That if something is happening that they don't like, there's something wrong.  That thought alone, that something is 'wrong', is personality based.  Consciousness in neutral, amused, and non-judgemental.  Nothing is every wrong.  All is very, very well.

That bodies get sick, and bodies age, is fascinating to Consciousness, which is eternal and ever joyous.
If you're viewing something with black-and-white, life-or-death thinking, it's your personality lens you're looking through.

Jerry Hicks, husband of Esther who channels "Abraham-Hicks", developed cancer and died.  Why did he do that, aren't they so enlightened that they'll live forever?  Well, yes, and he is living forever.  But it was time to trade in the old body.

The energy worker committed suicide, that was another way to go.  But she could have also stuck around to see what else would unfold.  Old techniques stop working when you're transforming into a new state, opening to new possibilities.

I used to say that we signed up for life lessons before we were born.  The more capable we are (I'd say) the harder lessons we'd take on.  We'd enroll in 8 honors classes, two afternoon clubs, varsity sports, and a weekend job and when we incarnated discover that it was college, not high school.  Or I'd use the example of actors in movies.  The more talented actor takes on the most dramatic and painful role.

Now I realize it's not so linear. We're simultaneously Consciousness and personality-form.  Embodiment, incarnation, is continuously happening.  We're bringing in Awareness, and releasing unconscious patterns.  We inhale a new experience with each breath.

Higher Self is not separate from Us, unless you're viewing it through your personalities eyes.  You Are Essence moving into form.

When you shift to that awareness, you make different choices, you relax into whatever is happening.  And if storm clouds are brewing, you put on your yellow slicker and rubber boots and jump up and down with excitement, waiting for it to come!