Sort Yourself Out

This week we’re getting practical and doing some energy work to clean up the toxic energy of the year from hell!

I’m going to guide you through a simple energy cleansing process to shrug off what has probably been the weirdest, most messed up year most of us have lived through.

I don’t know about you, but this year has felt so intense and well, bizarre! I’ve been up and down like a rollercoaster, my energy system getting ruffled up again and again, and not in a good way.

So this week, as we close out 2020, I’m keeping it short and sweet, and sharing an energy cleansing practice so we can wipe out every negative molecule that’s lodged itself in our energy bodies as a result of the abundance of toxic energy we’ve been dealing with.

So if you’d like to join in, make yourself comfortable somewhere where you won’t be disturbed for a few minutes, and we'll get started.

RESOURCES:

• Get on the wait list for The Inner Circle Membership
• The Quantum Liberation Spa Guided Meditation

This week we’re discussing ways to heal ourselves, and the world, in these challenging, some might say, messed up, times!

Here we are, nearing the end of 2020. It’s been quite a year, hasn’t it! For many of us, it’s been the weirdest year of our lives!

The world is so polarised right now. There’s been Brexit and of course the US elections, creating huge divisions on both sides of the pond. Globally, we’ve been addressing racial issues as well. And we mustn't forget the coronavirus!

How could we forget the coronavirus!? It’s rather been dominating our existence this year, hasn’t it!

Well, in the spirit of this time of year, Christmas and all that, and in the spirit of the year ending, and a new one about to begin, I want to look at a few ways of shifting our ideas, so we can let go of the uproar, negativity and separativeness of the past year, and focus on the mindset that will allow us to heal ourselves both individually, and also globally.

One thing I like to do is to regularly remind myself to look at the bigger picture of life. We can look at one aspect or situation in life, and label it as disastrous, or catastrophic or just plain old negative. There’s no denying that these things are disturbing to us.

But when we step back, and expand our vision to take in the bigger picture, we can understand that something we label as disastrous, may in fact be beneficial in the grander scheme of things.

And this distance can bring us a sense of equanimity as well. Join me as we discuss how we can tip the balance from a separative sh*tshow to peace and goodwill on earth.

Resources:

• Get on the waitlist for The Better Than Happy Membership (formerly Inner Circle!)
• Janine’s Quick Start Guide To Doable Meditation

This week we’re picking up where we left off last week, discussing how to wake up from your trance.

Last week we covered the kinds of trances we’re all engaged in: work trances, parenting trances, relationship trances, and heaps and heaps of problem trances.

One characteristic of all these trances, is that they are repetitive, or habitual. They’re based on patterns we’ve developed. We move in and out of our trances, our automatic behaviours, all day long.

But that doesn’t mean they’re good for us! When you consider that most of these habits and patterns were formed before we were even seven years old, then we can allow that it’s a good idea to revisit these things at an older and wiser age.

From birth till about 6 or seven years old, we are pretty much a blank slate. We are programmed with ideas about who we are, what we can achieve in life, and what kind of person we should be.

These ideas are brainwashed into us by parents, teachers, TV, society in general, and increasingly by shrewd marketers who want us to consume their products in order to feel good.

So up till the age of seven, we are basically in a hypnotic trance. We are like sponges, absorbing without question all that we experience, forming beliefs that we will then live the rest of our lives by, for good or for ill.

Think about that. Beliefs that were programmed into us before age seven… that become habits that govern us for the rest of our lives.

Now I don’t know about you, but to me that doesn’t sound right! What, you mean I’m going to live my whole adult existence according to the crap that was programmed into me before I was even seven years old?

No thank you!

If you’re ready to get out of autopilot, and wake up and choose for yourself, join me as this week I’m talking about how you can do just that.

Resources:

• Get on the waitlist for The Better Than Happy Membership (formerly Inner Circle!)
• Janine’s Quick Start Guide To Doable Meditation

Links mentioned in this episode:

• SYO54 Wake Up From The Trance
• SYO22 My No.1 Secret To Boost Your Happiness
• SYO37 Easy Mindfulness Techniques To Start Today
• SYO45 How To Visualise Successfully
• SYO50 Think On Purpose To Create The Life You Want

This week we’re discussing the need to wake up from our trance. Did you know you were in a trance? No?

Don’t be alarmed - we all are! We have our work trances, our parenting trances, our relationship trances, and whole shedloads of problem trances.

One characteristic of all these trances is that they are repetitive, or habitual. They’re based on patterns we’ve developed.

These trances can serve us, as they are the way that we learn. We learn by repetition, by creating patterns and internalizing our learnings to an unconscious level where we no longer need to consciously think about them.

Imagine if you still had to consciously think about all the things you’ve learned since you progressed from being a helpless little baby, to the walking, talking, multitasking marvel that you are today! There’s so much knowledge and expertise that we have to acquire to function the way we do. Our heads would explode if we had to make it all happen consciously!

But, happily, our brains learn to automate behaviour. When we do something repetitively, we form neural pathways in the brain. Each neuron learns to connect and fire with the next, and the behaviour gets set.

We are moving in and out of our trances, our automatic behaviours, all day long. We develop ways of being that become our go-to ways. So these repetitive patterns are very useful to us.

But what about when they are not? What about when they are problematic, when they cause us to suffer, or become phobias, when we are doomed to repeating dysfunctional behaviours?

Join me this week for the first in this two part series, and discover how to wake up from the trances you'd be way better off without.

RESOURCES:

• Get on the waitlist for The Better Than Happy Membership (formerly Inner Circle!)
• Janine’s Quick Start Guide To Doable Meditation

LINKS:

• A Treatise On White Magic by Alice Bailey

This week we’re looking at how to approach mid-life without going through the clichéd mid-life crisis!

Now, I am 56 this year, so I’ve been negotiating mid-life stuff for a while now. I actually appreciate this mid-life phase, and if you’re one of the many people who approach it with horror,  I want to help you re-frame it, so you can appreciate this phase of life too. 

Mid-life is only painful if you resist it and try to be what you are not. Each phase of life has its focus. In our earlier decades we’re building our lives, we’ve got the (misplaced) confidence of youth, and we’re busy creating the problems that we’ll have to resolve in later life!

And honestly, would you really want to go back to the mess you were in your twenties and thirties? I know I wouldn’t! It took me years to sort myself out from all the bad habits I indulged in then. I didn’t really start growing up till my late 30s. And guess what that is... mid-life!

David Bowie said, "Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been." I prefer to say, you become the person you were always “meant to be”.  

Mid-life though is the time to free yourself. It’s the time to sort yourself out and achieve a higher level of well-being than you’ve ever had in your life. This is the compensation for a few wrinkles and a bit of flab! 

By the time we reach middle age, there’s a lot of water under the bridge, allowing us to look back and analyse all the pointers we’ve received across the years about our purpose in life and really allow those to unfold, in the light of the wisdom of our more advanced years.

Join me as we discuss how to by-pass the mid-life crisis and use this time to get down to the more meaningful business of life, where we cultivate a deeper understanding of what we are here on this planet to do. 

RESOURCES:

• Get on the waitlist for The Better Than Happy Membership (formerly Inner Circle!)
• The Quantum Liberation Spa Guided Meditation

This week we’re discussing how to get out of analysis paralysis, and make that dang decision!
 
I bet there have been times in your life where you’ve had an important decision to make, but you hummed and you hawed, and you hummed and you hawed, and you just didn’t know what the right thing was.

Or you made a decision, or thought you had, and then you flip-flopped around, doubting yourself and the decision you made, so you changed your mind… And then you wondered whether that was a good idea!

It can be so tricky sometimes to know what is best. But if we don’t want to get stuck in analysis paralysis, then we’ve just got to get out of our own way, choose something according to our best and highest feeling about it at the time, and make the leap!

I also discuss MY leap, and reveal the new name of my upcoming membership, formerly known as the Inner Circle!

Join me this week as we discuss ways to help you to make the right decision and avoid dealing with regret and self-doubt down the line.

RESOURCES:

• Get on the waitlist for The Better Than Happy Membership (formerly Inner Circle!)
• How To Stop Worrying Guide
• SYO46 The One Thing You Need To Improve Your Life 

Tell me if this sounds familiar…

You hear about a self-help or spiritual teacher or guru, and you think At LAST! This is the person that is finally going to sort me out! 

You eagerly buy the book or enroll in the program, invest your time, money, attention and energy, but before long, those 10 proven steps that seemed like exactly what you needed, just aren’t doing it for you anymore. They weren’t a good fit afterall, and didn’t get you the results they promised.

But that’s OK, because a shiny new guru has burst into your awareness, and you’re off again,  investing your time, money, and energy following THOSE proven steps that seem indispensable to your future well-being! 

But after a little while, you find that they are all too dispensable. Because that’s what you’ve done. Dispensed with them!

But then another teacher enters the scene, and this time, it really IS the magic pill that’s going to end all your worries, fix your problems and really sort you out once and for all! Hurray! But…

OK, you see where I’m going with this! You're flip-flopping all over the place. Squandering your resources for things that ultimately do not deliver.

Our intentions are good with all this. I’ve done this myself for more years than I care to admit! I still do it sometimes! Of course, we learn some stuff on the way.

But there’s an important piece missing in all this: There is no One Size Fits All answer. 

Join me this week as we discuss how to tailor your upliftment to YOUR OWN needs of the moment, and negotiate on a higher turn of the spiral, with greater ease and insight, what’s next in your experience.

RESOURCES:

• Get on the wait list for The Inner Circle Membership
• Janine’s Quick Start Guide To Doable Meditation

We’ve got a juicer of a topic today! It’s a biggy on all levels. It affects every aspect of your life. We’re talking about how to think on purpose, so that you can create what you want in your life.

Have you heard about the principle that ‘You get what you focus on’? Well, that’s only part 1 of the principle. 

Part 2 is ‘Whether you want it or not’! Wow! That adds some important info! 

“You get what you focus on whether you want it or not.”

This is really something that we should be taking into account. We’ve all got our dreams and goals and desires. But so often, we’re focused on the here and now, where those goals have not yet manifested. Our consciousness is firmly focused on the lack of what we want.

• I want a better job - I hate my job so much! 
• I want more money - I can barely pay my bills!
• I want a loving and caring partner - I’m so sick of all these duds!
• I want to be healthy - I feel so unwell.

So you notice here, that each of the subjects of what is wanted, is really 2 subjects? There’s what’s wanted, and the lack of it.

Our past thinking has created the unwanted situation we’re in today. So we need to consciously manage our thinking in the here and now, and in the next now and the next now and the next now, if we want to get to where we want to be.

Now, you may have heard me say it before, energy follows thought. Our thought power is the creative force in our lives. Anyone who wants to create anything, does so by the power of sustained and focused thought. 

Edgar Cayce said “Thoughts are things. Thoughts are literally deeds in the mental realm that influence the material world."

Join me for this week’s discussion on how to direct our focus to the wanted and not the unwanted so that we energise only those thoughts that will get us where we want to be.

We will be energising thoughts of a higher order! And that will bring experiences of a higher order into our life. NICE!

Resources:

• Get on the wait list for The Inner Circle Membership
• Janine's Visualisation Essentials Guide

This week we’re discussing the key to something that is universally desired… a happy and fulfilling life.

The key is simple, and everyone can do it. Not everyone wants to though! The key is to take charge of your well-being. (Funnily enough, plenty of people don’t want to take charge.)

Now when I say well-being, I’m not just talking about health. I mean well-being on all levels, physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. 

You don’t have to be a total control freak, or a type A personality to take charge. You just have to have the desire, and be willing to change. Because if you’re not willing to change, well HELLO, nothing changes! 

So once you’ve got your willingness, what’s next? How DO you take charge and go about attaining deeper happiness?

Well, you learn and practise the techniques that facilitate positive change, that lead us to greater well-being, that bring us freedom, that unleash our true power.

A big part of improving your happiness, is not, funnily enough, going out and doing happy things with happy people, although those are good. (I’m not trashing those!) 

It’s about releasing the things that make you unhappy, stressed out and anxious.

It’s about freeing yourself of your hangups, blockages and limitations. All those things that hold you back and cause you to stagnate or play small or accept less than you deserve.

We need techniques and practices that help to free us of our sh*t, so that we can be uplifters in the world. The more people there are who have freed themselves, the better the world will be. 

That’s why it’s so important that each of us plays our part. We uplift ourselves and we uplift the whole dang world. As I always say, our own well-being radiates out and uplifts everyone we meet. The world needs more of that, right?

I’m not talking about full-blown liberation or enlightenment here. I’m talking about incrementally achieving ever higher states of well-being.

These things are totally possible when we accept our power, and take charge of our own well-being.

Listen in as I share the practices and techniques that have had a massive impact in uplifting my life and the lives of my clients. Techniques that liberate us, AND fill our cup. 

Nice!

RESOURCES:

• Get on the wait list for The Inner Circle Membership
• The Quantum Liberation Spa Guided Meditation

There are many ways that we can sort ourselves out. So many practices and tools and techniques. That’s what the Sort Yourself Out podcast is all about, right? Every week, I’m sharing ways that you can uplift your well-being, but it really boils down to one main thing.

Get your mind working for you, and not against you.

For example, I bet there have been occasions when you’ve said to yourself something along the lines of, “OMG, I’m so stupid!” or that old chestnut affecting so many of us, “I’m not enough, I’m not good enough!”

Anyone who has tried to meditate, and to observe the thoughts as they pass through the consciousness, will have noticed some pretty unpleasant stuff going on in there!

If you spoke to your friends, the way you speak to yourself, you probably wouldn’t have any friends left!

Why do we do it to ourselves?! These kinds of thoughts or beliefs are not helpful! And they are the main thing we need to address in order to get our mind working for us and not against us.

But we need to address our mind on two levels, the conscious mind, and the subconscious mind. Because often there is a conflict between the two. Whenever we are wanting and trying to change, and yet feel so stuck and impotent, we can be sure that there is a subconscious belief pattern sabotaging our success. As long as that is lurking in the subconscious mind, that programming will always win out over our conscious desires.  

So to get our minds working for us and not against us, we need to work on both the conscious and subconscious parts of our mind. 

Join me this week to learn how to be the master of your mind, rather than it controlling you.

• Get on the wait list for The Inner Circle Membership
• Janine’s Quick Start Guide to Doable Meditation