Introduction:

Welcome to Awareness for Everyone, a discussion of Conscious Reality Creation, and living the best lives we can for ourselves.  I am MJ Blehart, writer, blogger, editor, and 21st century philosopher.  This is Episode 26 – Self-Doubt

Part 1: What is Self-Doubt?

Not believing in yourself, your abilities, potential, capabilities and more

Brain weasels, squirrels in the brain, annoying voices of negativity

Negative thoughts intruding on head space

Part 2: What problems can this cause?

Self-sabotage

Indecision

Childhood issues

Allowing your subconscious to take control and do the driving

Part 3: Removing self-doubt

Confronting the doubts by finding where they originated

Digging deep into your psyche to find the points where they got embedded

“Do or do not, there is no try.” – Yoda

Asking these and similar questions of ourselves bring us into the now, open mindfulness, and tackle self-doubt:

* What am I thinking?

* How am I feeling?

* What am I feeling?

* What am I doing?

* Is that my opinion or someone else’s?

Victimhood issues

Disempowering the brain weasels and other creatures in my head

Closing:

Thank you for listening to Episode 26 of Awareness for Everyone, a discussion of Conscious Reality Creation, and living the best lives we can for ourselves.  I want to thank Fe Mahoney, the artist who created my amazing cover art.  If you would like to commission work from her, contact her at [email protected].  If you have questions or comments you can reach me via Facebook at blehartmj, on Twitter at mjblehart, or e mail me at [email protected].  Please take a moment to check out my blog, The Ramblings of the Titanium Don, at titaniumdon.com, as well as my articles on Medium.com as MJ Blehart. Thank you, and I hope you are discovering how mindful awareness is something you can practice to improve your life.

Introduction:

Welcome to Awareness for Everyone, where we discuss Conscious Reality Creation, and living the best lives we can for ourselves.  I am MJ Blehart, writer, blogger, editor, and 21st century philosopher.  This is Episode 25 – Freeform thoughts on My Why

Part 1: What is My Why?

Life, the Universe, and Everything

Awareness, mindfulness, conscious reality creation

Writing, podcasting, more writing, potential other projects

Part 2: Why do I do this?

For me

For you

As a means to combat self-doubt, brain-weasels, the squirrels in the brain, and so on and so forth

Striving to make the world a better place

Part 3: Onwards and forwards

Flying solo

Continuing to be more mindful and aware

Awareness homework: Asking these and similar questions of ourselves bring us into the now and opens mindfulness:

* What am I thinking?

* How am I feeling?

* What am I feeling?

* Is that my opinion or someone else’s?

Closing:

Thank you for listening to Episode 25 of Awareness for Everyone, A discussion about Conscious Reality Creation, and living the best lives we can for ourselves.  I want to thank Fe Mahoney, the artist who created my amazing cover art.  If you would like to commission work from her, contact her at [email protected].  You can reach me via Facebook at blehartmj, or Twitter at mjblehart, or e mail me at [email protected].  Please take a moment to check out my blog, The Ramblings of the Titanium Don, at titaniumdon.com, as well as articles every weekday at Medium.com as MJ Blehart. Thank you, and I hope you are discovering how mindful awareness is something you can practice to improve your life.

Introduction:

Welcome to Awareness for Everyone, A Podcast about Conscious Reality Creation, and living the best lives we can for ourselves.  I am MJ Blehart, writer, blogger, editor, and 21st century philosopher.  Welcome to Episode 24 – Is it Worth it?

Part 1: What is IT?

Life, the Universe, and Everything

Awareness vs unawareness

Fight vs flight. Struggling to do/be/exist.

Standing up for right vs doing nothing.

Part 2: It is worth it?

Short answer: Yes

Long answer: Yes, but there will be trials, tribulations, and necessary effort to be had

Mindfulness matters. Awareness matters. Empowerment REALLY matters.

Three ways to live life:

* Let life live you

* Curl up in a ball and await death

* Take life for a joy ride

You get out of it what you put into it.

You are the only you that there is. As such, you are worthy and deserving of having the best life you can devise

Part 3: YOU are worth it

Mindfulness, Awareness, Conscious reality creation

“Don’t give in to hate – that leads to the dark side.” Obi-Wan Kenobi

The world is NOT in fact on fire

Resistance is not futile when it has a defined goal and purpose. It is worth it because they will only win if we let them.

Closing:

Thank you for listening to Episode 24 of Awareness for Everyone, A Podcast about Conscious Reality Creation, and living the best lives we can for ourselves.  I want to thank Fe Mahoney, the artist who created my amazing cover art.  If you would like to commission work from her, contact her at [email protected].  You can reach me via Facebook at blehartmj, or Twitter at mjblehart, or e mail me at [email protected].  Please take a moment to check out my blog, The Ramblings of the Titanium Don, at titaniumdon.com, and now at Medium.com as MJ Blehart as well. Thank you, and I hope you are discovering how mindful awareness is something you can practice to improve your life.

Introduction:

Welcome to Awareness for Everyone, A Podcast about Conscious Reality Creation, and living the best lives we can for ourselves.  I am MJ Blehart, writer, blogger, editor, and 21st century philosopher.  Welcome to Episode 23 – The World is Not on Fire.

Part 1: The World is NOT on fire

Despite appearances, the world is not, in fact, burning down.

Trump, Brexit, various insanities of the world around us

Life is absurd

Part 2: Keeping the Fires from Being Lit

For all that, the world is not, in fact, burning down.

How do I know this? Because of several factors.

* We live in a fear-based society

* The Universe is abundant

* Most people are good people

* YOU are a good person

Part 3: Setting Your Own World on Fire – In a Good Way

Mindfulness, Awareness, Conscious reality creation

When you practice mindfulness and being aware of your own mindset – specifically what you are thinking and what and how you are feeling – you gain perspective. That, in turn, helps you best influence your thoughts and feelings, and take actions to douse the fires that you can.

Closing:

Thank you for listening to Episode 23 of Awareness for Everyone, A Podcast about Conscious Reality Creation, and living the best lives we can for ourselves.  I want to thank Fe Mahoney, the artist who created my amazing cover art.  If you would like to commission work from her, contact her at [email protected].  You can reach me via Facebook at blehartmj, or Twitter at mjblehart, or e mail me at [email protected].  Please take a moment to check out my blog, The Ramblings of the Titanium Don, at titaniumdon.com, and now at Medium.com as MJ Blehart as well. Thank you, and I hope you are discovering how mindful awareness is something you can practice to improve your life.

Introduction:

Welcome to Awareness for Everyone, A Podcast about Conscious Reality Creation, and living the best lives we can for ourselves.  I am MJ Blehart, writer, blogger, editor, and 21st century philosopher.  Welcome to Episode 22 – Don’t be an Asshole.

Part 1: Actively not being an asshole**

Recognizing the power of your words

Courtesy, pleasantness. Think before you speak or type.

Part 2: Steps for not being an asshole

* Be Kind. Really, just be kind. Smile at people. Hold doors open. Say thank you when someone is an ass to you (this tends to REALLY throw them off). In an unkind world, a little kindness goes a long long way.

* Keep calm. When some asshole is in your face, Tweeting insanity, or on your TV preaching hurtful garbage, stay calm. No, I am not saying don’t get angry, what I am saying is don’t lose control. Calm lets you think, and take on the assholes without playing by their rules.

* Think before you speak. Also, think before you type. Ask yourself, “does this make me an asshole?” If the answer is yes, don’t do it. If the answer is no, problem solved.

* Don’t be a dick. Lots of people enjoy rules-lawyering. You stretch, push, and really hammer at the rules in place to see where there might be some give. This is not the same as disregarding a BAD rule (i.e. placing innocent asylum seekers in concentration camps), this is playing devil’s advocate to see what you personally can get away with. If this is something you would dislike another person doing to YOU, then maybe you should not do it, either.

* Do unto others as you would want done unto you. For reals, if you are doing or saying something you’d find dickish on the part of another, chances are that means you’re being an asshole. So maybe you should reconsider, and not do that.

Know thyself. Be mindful of what you are thinking and how and what you are feeling, and recognize if, “hey, this makes me an ass,” comes to mind. Like virtually everything in life, this is a choice. To be (an asshole) or not to be, that IS the question.

Part 3: Going forward

Thoughts, feelings, actions

Mindfulness

Closing:

Thank you for listening to Episode 22 of Awareness for Everyone, A Podcast about Conscious Reality Creation, and living the best lives we can for ourselves.  I want to thank Fe Mahoney, the artist who created my amazing cover art.  If you would like to commission work from her, contact her at [email protected].  You can reach me via Facebook at blehartmj, or Twitter at mjblehart, or e mail me at [email protected].  Please take a moment to check out my blog, The Ramblings of the Titanium Don, at titaniumdon.com, and now at Medium.com as MJ Blehart as well. Thank you, and I hope you are discovering how mindful awareness is something you can practice to improve your life.

Introduction:

Welcome to Awareness for Everyone, A Podcast about Conscious Reality Creation, and living the best lives we can for ourselves.  I am MJ Blehart, writer, blogger, editor, and 21st century philosopher.  Welcome to Episode 21 – Choose Your Own Adventure.

Part 1: How do you Choose Your Own Adventure?

Recognizing perception

Seeing that life is yours to choose

Part 2: Choices and decisions

Not being afraid to make choices and decisions

Collective consciousness versus your own consciousness

Part 3: Taking actions

Thoughts, feelings, actions

Mindfulness

Closing:

Thank you for listening to Episode 21 of Awareness for Everyone, A Podcast about Conscious Reality Creation, and living the best lives we can for ourselves.  I want to thank Fe Mahoney, the artist who created my amazing cover art.  If you would like to commission work from her, contact her at [email protected].  You can reach me via Facebook at blehartmj, or Twitter at mjblehart, or e mail me at [email protected].  Please take a moment to check out my blog, The Ramblings of the Titanium Don, at titaniumdon.com, and now at Medium.com as MJ Blehart as well. Thank you, and I hope you are discovering how mindful awareness is something you can practice to improve your life.

Introduction:

Welcome to Awareness for Everyone, A Podcast about Conscious Reality Creation, and living the best lives we can for ourselves.  I am MJ Blehart, writer, blogger, editor, and 21st century philosopher.  Welcome to Episode 20 – Personal Awareness.

Part 1: What is Personal Awareness?

Being true to myself

Working to be better at knowing myself, and finding myself in the here and now

Mindfulness empowers

Part 2: My own mindfulness

Thoughts

Feelings

Actions

Working with mindfulness of the now

Part 3: Using Personal Awareness

Getting truly personal and sharing more anecdotal stories

Consciousness creates reality

Facing fear and moving forward

Closing:

Thank you for listening to Episode 20 of Awareness for Everyone, A Podcast about Conscious Reality Creation, and living the best lives we can for ourselves.  I want to thank Fe Mahoney, the artist who created my amazing cover art.  If you would like to commission work from her, contact her at [email protected].  You can reach me via Facebook at blehartmj, or Twitter at mjblehart, or e mail me at [email protected].  Please take a moment to check out my blog, The Ramblings of the Titanium Don, at titaniumdon.com, and now at Medium.com as MJ Blehart as well. Thank you, and I hope you are discovering how mindful awareness is something you can practice to improve your life.

Introduction:

Welcome to Awareness for Everyone, A Podcast about Conscious Reality Creation, and living the best lives we can for ourselves.  I am MJ Blehart, writer, blogger, editor, and 21st century philosopher.  Welcome to Episode 19 – Inside Your Head.

Part 1: Why does being mindful of what’s inside your head matter?

Mindfulness – thought, feeling, action

Actions stemming from mindfulness

Awareness of the self and now

Finding a balance between being inside your own head and coping with the outside world

Part 2: Changing the without from within

If you are looking to change your life, make informed choices or decisions about anything at all, if you don’t know what’s going on inside your head, you won’t make much of an impact.

Fears

Self-talk. Everyone talks to themselves, but some people only do so inside their own minds. Even if you actually talk to yourself aloud, are you mindful of just what it is you say?

Getting to know yourself

* Fear of what you will find.

* Nobody to blame.

* Fear of getting lost.

Part 3: Taking Action

If you are listening to this sort of podcast, seeking to know yourself and better your life, trying to help yourself make changes, working on bettering the world, or working on any other matter to change or improve, the person inside your head is a good person.

Self-talk work and composition

Closing:

Thank you for listening to Episode 19 of Awareness for Everyone, A Podcast about Conscious Reality Creation, and living the best lives we can for ourselves.  I want to thank Fe Mahoney, the artist who created my amazing cover art.  If you would like to commission work from her, contact her at [email protected].  You can reach me via Facebook at blehartmj, or Twitter at mjblehart, or e mail me at [email protected].  Please take a moment to check out my blog, The Ramblings of the Titanium Don, at titaniumdon.com, and now at Medium.com as MJ Blehart as well. Thank you, and I hope you are discovering how mindful awareness is something you can practice to improve your life.

 

Bonus Poem About Inside Your Head:

Inside my mind at a Quarter to Three

Open my heart, peer into my soul.

Where in my depths will I lose you?

I know that you have an ulterior goal.

How can you know if I’ll choose you?

            Inside my mind at a Quarter to Three,

What do they see?  What do they see?

Why do you put me in this kind of place?

Between love and hate, war and peace,  joy and pain.

Again and again setting me off my pace,

like a worm crawling on through a sleeting rain.

            Inside my mind at a Quarter to Three,

What do they see?  What do they see?

Time is my enemy, never my friend.

Leading me onwards, the proverbial sheep.

I seek the truth, high and low, end to end,

but find my self locked in a dungeon-like keep.

            Inside my mind at a Quarter to Three,

What do they see?  What can this be?

Inside my madness I see rather clear,

for there are no answers to questions I raise.

I can face up to the depths of my fear,

You haven’t the answers from inside this maze.

            Inside my mind at a Quarter to Three,

What can this be?  What do you see?

I am in search of contentment and peace,

in these may I find my deepest hope.

Without you I’m certain the nightmares will cease,

and I will learn in my own time to cope.

            Inside my mind at a Quarter to Three,...

Episode 18 – Patience

Introduction:

Welcome to Awareness for Everyone, A Podcast about Conscious Reality Creation, and living the best lives we can for ourselves.  I am MJ Blehart, writer, blogger, editor, and 21st century philosopher.  Welcome to Episode 18 – Patience.

Part 1: Why is patience important?

Being present in the here-and-now

Because in being more mindful and working to better consciously create reality as I would like, having some patience goes a long way.

Like attracts like. If I am feeling negative, what do you think I am drawing in?

 Part 2: Patience, impatience, getting stuff done

Our Quick-Fix Society

Taking time rather than rushing

No quick-fixes

When it is all about becoming a better you, then patience can go a long ways towards your overall health and wellbeing. When you are more patient, you might also see alternatives that could be missed through impatience.

Part 3: Developing more patience and being less rigid

What can you do to build patience?

This is rather challenging, but I have come up with a few ways to work on being more patient. All of them involve being more present in the now.

* Breathe. Practicing deliberate breathing can slow down the heart and calm the nerves. It also brings your focus into the now.

* Meditate. Meditation is practicing mindful stillness and keeps you focused on the here-and-now.

* Question impatience. When you start to feel impatient, ask yourself why. You might find that your impatience is unrelated to what you are feeling impatient about.

* Distract Yourself. Take a walk. Watch a video. Read a book. It’s preferable to find a distraction that is productive over one that is wasteful.

* Pause and Reflect. This is more instantaneous than meditating, it’s a moment in time to consider your goal, and why you are feeling impatient. This can lessen that feeling.

Recognizing and dealing with fear masking itself in impatience.

Closing:

Thank you for listening to Episode 18 of Awareness for Everyone, A Podcast about Conscious Reality Creation, and living the best lives we can for ourselves.  I want to thank Fe Mahoney, the artist who created my amazing cover art.  If you would like to commission work from her, contact her at [email protected].  You can reach me via Facebook at blehartmj, or Twitter at mjblehart, or e mail me at [email protected].  Please take a moment to check out my blog, The Ramblings of the Titanium Don, at titaniumdon.com, and now at Medium.com as MJ Blehart as well. Thank you, and I hope you are discovering how mindful awareness is something you can practice to improve your life.

Episode 17 – Change and Changing

Introduction:

Welcome to Awareness for Everyone, A Podcast about Conscious Reality Creation, and living the best lives we can for ourselves.  I am MJ Blehart, writer, blogger, editor, and 21st century philosopher.  Welcome to Episode 17 – Change and Changing

Part 1: What is the importance of change and changing?

The Universe is in a constant state of change

Change is inevitable

You cannot stop change

Nobody denies that change is scary.  Humans seek comfort, be it in our homes, relationships, clothing, foods we consume, and so forth.  There is a certain level of comfort in the familiar.  As such, when that which we are used to changes, it can be extremely disconcerting.

Part 2: Working with and accepting change and changing

Change is inevitable.  It cannot be stopped.  So when we are embracing change, we open ourselves up to controlling it instead.

Getting control of change and changing

Embracing change that is unwanted is particularly challenging

Influencing and directing change

Part 3: Taking charge

You are empowered to control change and changing through Mindfulness

There is no need to fear change.  Wanted or unwanted, change is an opportunity.  It can be a do-over, a reset, or a fresh start.  It may not be in the manner you desire, but that doesn’t make it any less or more powerful.

Consciousness creates reality.  We can choose what that means for us by how we react to change.  When we resist, we are bound to create a reality we do not desire.  If, however, we embrace change, we might just be able to control it, and direct it for the better.

Closing:

Thank you for listening to Episode 17 of Awareness for Everyone, A Podcast about Conscious Reality Creation, and living the best lives we can for ourselves.  I want to thank Fe Mahoney, the artist who created my amazing cover art.  If you would like to commission work from her, contact her at [email protected].  You can reach me via Facebook at blehartmj, or Twitter at mjblehart, or e mail me at [email protected].  Please take a moment to check out my blog, The Ramblings of the Titanium Don, at titaniumdon.com, and now at Medium.com as MJ Blehart as well. Thank you, and I hope you are discovering how mindful awareness is something you can practice to improve your life.