Reaction - does not get to the heart of the matter

Pregnant women don't 'deserve' a drink - not even Prosecco
As doctors rule out alcohol during any stage of pregnancy, Emma Barnett thinks British women should listen up

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I might suggest folly 'should' pause for wisdom before pronouncing a sense of moral righteousness and superiority behind the mask of perceive authority, but then I would join in the same error.

Perhaps Emma's Mum drank while the as yet un-named Emma was in the womb, for the patterns of action and reaction that pass through the generations tend to persist.

Reaction - does not get to the heart of the matter - nor the matter of the heart.

Pause before reacting ...to check in at the heart - and if that does not feel practically helpful, I suggest pausing any actions of significance until having a true sense of the heart - of the actual Feeling of Being Alive.

Or one can persist in a fear-based guilt ridden robot existence, tick all the boxes, meet the targets... or simply keep resetting new ones... and consent to lose all consciousness of what it actually is to be human.

Fear of negative feelings and fear of guilt around owning expressing accepting and healing such feelings propagates a hateful world in place of a genuine capacity to communicate and share true understandings. Our children imbibe our psychic-emotional world - along with all kinds of environmental toxins. But Life is not without the capacity of self-healing and shared Life finds synchronicities of sharing in healing.

Moral righteousness always cherry picks one of a kind and ignores the rest - for it operates a loveless agenda. No blame here - just a reflection. When lovelessness usurps our lives it also operates as if we have no real choice - and so we turn to ways to temporarily not feel shit or to feel a stirring of Life, that if excessive and habitual, work to pull us deeper in shit and less able to feel and know the love that is our heart's desire - regardless the layers of shit that cover it, invalidate it, or indeed fear it. Because opening to love is a bit like opening to a new Life - you don't control what it will be in advance and yet you can prepare the way by recognizing and releasing negative imaginations - through a simple self-honesty.

Because trying to be who you are not doesn't really fool anyone - especially babies - but it does teach them double meanings of do as I say, not as I do - and so the conflicted breakdown of heart and mind wars through the ages... as much within us as without.

Be conscious in the heart as to what we choose to accept and share on - not rule driven in a powerlessness. And of course use common sense rules until something better comes along to replace them. I don't suggest reaction - but a presence from which to live that the mind serves - rather than usurps (replaces). But that is only my suggestion. It's your choice - or it's accepted as being forced on you - which is also a choice!

Can the secret mind explain its existence?

Secrets of the Mind: Can science explain consciousness?
From iai.tv

My comment:

Can anything 'explain' consciousness?

The seeming question is a conceptual statement positing a something that acts to define and account for prior awareness in terms of concept that it manufactures. This is circular reasoning or indeed talking to oneself as if one is not in fact oneself but a proxy conceptual supposition through which a self reflecting model can be experienced as a modification of consciousness that is  in no way shape or form actually achieving  or acting anything outside of consciousness.
However as a working model, awareness is focused within and through concept of self and that which is rejected by the selection within totality operates as unconscious oppositional sense of identity and will.
The apparent struggle within what seems a split mind results in a world of experience in which imposition and opposition reinforce each other while assertion of control defines itself ever more negatively against feared or denied and unrecognized self. And that assertion of denial is received and reflected as oppression, compression and death - the inability to experience movement within consciousness. Which is the counterpart shadow to a falsely presumed ability to operate as an autonomous and self-defined concept within a totality of what consciousness actually is. The error is the idea of consciousness distinct and outside of feeling - a non feeling mind. Disconnecting thinking.

Feeling - in its true sense - does not need to explain or analyze anything to know That it is as it is, and experience itself in and as ever new perspective - because feeling in its true sense is the primary quality of receptivity that attracts and forms a focusing of attention and desire within itself, that then extends to reflect as idea through which to know itself Life - in relationship - as movement - as creation.

What is defined and accepted as consciousness in general human terms is an inverted exclusion of creation - in which an effect, assigns itself cause - as its own creation and consequently asserts an interpretation as its own distorted and filtered experience as its mind and its determination of world outside its defined 'consciousness'.

An interesting reversal of the reversal would be to ask, "Can Consciousness explain science?" Although the term explain is not native to Consciousness and so its original term would be, "Can Consciousness illuminate, embrace and know, science?". I suggest that nothing that is but is at its Original Quality of being, unconditionally loved - that is, illuminated, embraced and intimately known.
What kind of science would be conducted in conscious acceptance and embrace of the Movement of Being - rather than as an arrogant ignorance that seeks to make of Life a slave?

If words are not felt - they are not connecting to anything but thought. The assertion that they find justification in application is a cover for persistence in denying the felt quality of Existence. Heart and Mind are in truth an indivisible magnetic/electric vibrational expression of Infinite Perspective. A temporary shielding of totality individualizes the One as the Many - but the Many are the One.
At the perspective of individuality Idea accepted and extended through, reflects experience. There is no separation in true creation of idea (or definition) and experience - and the knowing within experience of self-awareness 'that it is Good' or truly reflecting. But in concept of a separating and segregating sense of self is a fragmenting experience in which the conscious focus within such act is lost to the overwhelming experience of being defined and conditioned by ones own unrecognized act in concept. The residual attempt of the mind to judge, determine and create for itself operates an exclusion zone, an elitism of private agenda operating beneath many layers of defence and justification.
It victory over Life is of course death. The reduction of life to explanation is the suppression of the very Movement of Life unless operating within a truly heartfelt, passionate and self transcending movement of Life!
Consciousness: By their fruits shall you know them - and they shall know themselves.

The sickness in the Human Psyche

Understanding The Sickness of the American Psyche

(an article that attempts to find some perspective to address increasing disorder in the USA (and its global relationships)

I applaud and appreciate GreenMedInfo I feel so much that is natural and good has been and is being falsely denied while so much that is destructive to us is asserted and promoted through trojan horse channels of apparent authority.
I don't talk to the American psyche - but I always talk of the consciousness - but perhaps not emphasising the feeling dimension enough - without which a split off mental isolation dreams while the true feeling is denied healing and fuels a negative agenda...

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The suppression of the feeling being  - of the will itself, by a mind that identified in self concept - in fixed, assertive authoritative control that covers its own denied guilt-fears, operates a root pattern of sickness. For the will is not causative but reflective and responsive - and its reflection of being persistently denied is of course rage - regardless the reflected guilt in the will seeks to pushit down and absorb it and dump it. The minds interpretation of the will as weak, oppositional, depraved, untrustworthy is a blame dump for the definitional foundation that does not and can not accept - honestly accept its own feelings and let them know acceptance. This quality of real communication opens true and relevant insight and reestablishes relationship as the beginning of restoring trust.
Unless we recognize this need in our own self-healing and give it priority - we will persist the pattern of denying more and more of who we truly and livingly are - whether apparently negative or positive - to a concept of self and life that is destructive to life.

I'm not talking about mental ideas - but the original imprint of terrorism by which minds are split and all attempt to fix it from the false foundation fragments further.
We need to be safe with that we feel what we feel - and Feel It fully or undefendedly, yet within a healing intent and being as safe as we know how with emotion that we fear, will take us out of control. One CAN transform feelings from within their own movement. Which means NOT rationalizing them or forcing them in any way - so that what is locked - the part of you that was locked up in it - is released and restored you.
It is a tall order - but letting guilt or shadow power drive an agenda that is killing us - and our Planet is bringing it all up anyway. It can be seen as a healing crisis - and I do focus in the wholeness for a well being to replace sickness - but the underlying denials are  in a sense, no longer deniable.
The simple answer is that hidden guilt is a sickness and death inducing frame of reference - but the fact is that it is so well hidden in what seems to protect us that it thinks for us more than we might imagine. the guilt is not THEM though THEY may resonate with and raise it to awareness.

And of course use common sense until something better comes up to replace it. the 'surface reality' is disintegrating/splitting further. We each make our choices - but in mutually reinforced 'realities' we know not what we do. I feel to illuminate something the world doesn't want to look at - but which I believe is the most pressing need - and this is to pause of our self-thinking and recognize our shadow - own it - acknowledge it - feel the feeling of what is kept away enough to also recognize it holds a call for healing. If that much is felt then you have a homing beacon that may not make you feel better at first or maybe for some time - but you will FEEL, better - and you will also feel the vibrational quality of Life that is not mere mental substitution and sickness management.

And if this doesn't resonate you - then be as aligned in your integrity as you have capacity to be. If sickness is not to use and abuse you.

The quality of God that is Light that heals cannot shine into that which is actively denied. It isn't the smiley that needs it - its is that which we dare not face -- so much so that face looks OUT and thinking blocks the view within. We have vast resources through a quality of balanced communication of heart and mind, body and Spirit, but the interjection of guilt-thinking is a confusion of deceit that we can become vigilant against - and put it behind us as invocation of true presence.
Asserted coercive mind has had its day - it will take the Planet with it if it can. All in the name of righteousness and protection.

Fantasy and Reality

Fantasy and Reality

Germs and atoms are as much a fantasy to Amazonian

tribes as their demons are for us.

Denial of sight - of full consciousness - operates by the designation of invalidating force to specific aspects, facets of forms of intent and expression. Invalidating force itself operates through self-doubt and division, as guilt, as fear, terror and rage and the range of 'negative' emotions' that are 'negative' by nature of rising from a negative shadow of a positively asserted self-image of concept.
The split off and denied consciousness implicitly operates as shadow power or hidden power. Few see it  as more than a disturbing thoughts that they seek to escape asap, and unseen is unchecked and in our midst - in a great variety of ways. But 'modern' man would insist this a psychological issue and not otherwise 'real'. For the designation of an 'external' physical reality is itself a defence against relationship with a sense of consciousness that is untrustworthy, deceitful and terrifying. That this state is dis-integrity calling for healing is not apparent to the split off fragmented 'consciousness' that is coercively controlling the experience of its reality by the survival instinct operating through a misidentification.
Many traditional peoples and indeed very young and some who are not as psychically shielded, experience and participate in a greater or more inclusive consciousness of the Movement of Being that Is Life  (prior to the imposed and asserted model of self and world that filters a distorted perception of it). So much that is considered Real is based on a fantasy of self-concept, and much that is denied and invalidated as fantasy is Real - but of a multidimensionality that the limited, linear and controlling concept cannot tolerate without revisiting its own imprint of separative identity. Hence many facets of his own lost consciousness first appear demonic and much of what appears protective reinforces a caged and trapped sense of self that operates blindly against the whole and of course against its own true good.
Just as explorers risked their lives in opening up a greater world to awareness than a local cultural reality allowed, so within consciousness are the taboos of ancienterrors being recognized as 'local reality' and expanded or explored beyond. Not least because space and time are closing in on Earth in ways that cannot be long survived without radically fresh perspective.

Law and disorder

The Great Common Law
A Daily Bell serializing of 'Production and Plunder' by Paul Rosenberg. This section looks at Magna Carta and the Common Law and more...

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I see opposing perspectives in human relations. Each sees the evil in the other but doesn't recognize its own reflection.
The imposition of coercive 'law' or definition, arising from mis-identified self concept in fixed idea, oppresses, subjugates and denies the will - the movement of response. The feelings are by nature receptive and reflective and hence reflect this oppositional force as grievance within survival instinct beneath which is its core movement of the need to be accepted and not denied. A Splitting into mind based and feeling based identities.
These split minds, relate or rather - fail to relate - through forms of communication breakdown that sets as conditioning of precedent by which a template is formed from which forms crystalize to fixed meanings, that persist the patterning of the original error in all that comes forth.

Identity in self-Concept denies freedom to evolve, grow and change - being a SET idea of how anything and everything "must" be. the shadow of the seeming light of such assertive consciousness - goes forth as a communication of inadequacy, fear, guilt, anger and powerlessness UNCONSCIOUSLY and is reflected in forms reflecting what is actually done and not merely what is said or asserted as true.

The causal in this is the spiritual acceptance of image or concept as substitution filter over the Living Self - which inherently or implicitly reflects a denial or opposition and undermining of self-image - and justifies and reinforces the cycle of righteous assertiveness over reflections it cannot tolerate or recognize itself in.
Yet with the honesty of breakdown comes the willingness to re-evaluate EVERYTHING from the very beginning - and this willingness for integration, healing and indeed joy uncovers false sense of self in concept - whose release allows the acceptance of the feedback that is needs from what it previously sought to control.

Consciousness is always the template reality from which manifestation follows, but attention exclusively focusing within its own thought becomes conditioned to identify within its terms as if trapped in its own dream/nightmare. Until and unless it opens true balance within itself rather than persisting in imposing an inbalances order that propagates disorder.
The split off feeling has an imprint of terror and yet must find its way to move through this to find the acceptance without which is all feeling consciousness lost, presence denied and death embraced or indeed compelled.

That was an attempt to sketch something that might stir a resonance. For the governance we operate within or upon our own consciousness is our reflected experience For a start we can recognize assertive righteousness as a mask overhate and choose not to join in and strengthen mutually agreed definitional structures that thrive on hate - whilst honestly feeling hatred and finding what is really in it.
Who wants to start embracing their negative and denied feelings when there are so many perfect scapegoats upon which to 'get rid of it'? (Whichever side or whatever polarised position one identifies within).
Only those in whom an honesty of being stirs from being deeply troubled.
A true and trustworthy quality and process of communication is the only basis for establishing just or indeed sane relationships. The conceptually oriented deny all emotional communication excepting where it affords leverage to outcomes of control. The emotional distrust and aversion to stepping forth into an arena of communication by which they are persistently invalidated and denied is very deep seated.

As for determining just outcomes; every situation is a unique circumstance. Nothing really ever happens twice - excepting one narrows reality down to an extremely tiny focus within fixed forms. the form in and of itself is not the reality - and manipulators know that and use it to make anything seem to be anything. Discerning the Spirits is a receptive quality that is innate - but which tends to be covered over and invalidated. yet discerning the Spirits is the means by which one navigates and rises out from an insane complexity that resulted from an originally simple error. You are not who you think you are, and are free to discover what you are in willingness to open to an honesty of  feeling and safely allow a visceral and energetic communication to occur.