Slow Down Propaganda offers one more way to waste your life. As if relaxing as a way of life is… spiritual.
Slow Down PROPAGANDA? Today’s blogpost aims to innoculate you against today’s rising social pressure to slow yourself down, aka mindfulness.
What’s a common definition of this mindfulness hooey? According to Mindfulness.org, with my italics added:
Mindfulness is the basic human ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re doing, and not overly reactive or overwhelmed by what’s going on around us.
While mindfulness is something we all naturally possess, it’s more readily available to us when we practice on a daily basis.
Whenever you bring awareness to what you’re directly experiencing via your senses, or to your state of mind via your thoughts and emotions, you’re being mindful.
Don’t drink that Kool-Aid quite yet, Blog-Buddies. I’ll return to these ideas for some good, honest debunking. But…
First, the Creepy Way I Discovered Today’s SLOW DOWN Propaganda
Most children’s books are adorable. Maybe you fondly remember “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” or “The Little Engine that Could.” I’ve been reading-and-reviewing many of today’s picture books for our precious children.
One day I read-and-panned three kid-lit books in a row. Each one was preaching the gospel of mindfulness. In case you’re curious about my specific reviews, the following links can take you to my scathing appraisals:
- Hurry Up!: A Book About Slowing Down
- Quiet. This picture book is by my beloved children’s author — in Age of Awakening Enlightenment — Tommie dePaola.
- The Power of Yet. Just in case it’s appropriate to start propgandizing about “slow down” to three-year-olds???
Incidentally, “Yet” in that last title really meant “Not Yet.” The author is earnestly teaching kids to detach and slow down. Intended, perhaps, to serve as a cute, kid-sized version of “The Power of NOW“? That bestseller for adults was written by an Enlightenment Teacher who once was in Traditional Enlightenment but, for years, oops: He has lived in the consciousness lifestyle of Extreme Spiritual Addiction.
We’re Not Immune to Collective Consciousness Pressure
But We Can Choose to Think for Ourselves Anyway
Basic introductions come next. Following that, keep reading in order to gain practical discernment. Intended to help you protect yourself from this weird new pressure.
“Collective Consciousness” is often used as a term of art in Energy Spirituality
As you can see at the Google link just supplied, people can mean very different things by this terminology. Please, come and learn what we mean by it at this Energy Spirituality™ blog: According to my research, what is Collective Consciousness? No mere theory, this impacts you subconsciously all your waking hours.
- This first link is must reading for all of you whose idea of this term might be a bit fuzzy for you.
- Our second link takes you to an article about how you can exert leadership, despite pressures from Collective Consciousness.
What causes current fads in Collective Consciousness about slow down and mindfulness? Keep reading, and gain a perspective that may explain a great deal to you. But now, consider the basics about today’s foolish pressures to slow down, etc.
Specifically, let’s google “Slow Down“
When I first-drafted this blogpost, how many hits? 182,000,000
So popular. Therefore, so influential in Collective Consciousness. But does that make “slow down” helpful for you?
Next, let’s google “Slow Down + Mindfulness“
When I first-drafted this blogpost, how many hits? 17,500,000
So popular. Therefore, so influential in Collective Consciousness. But does that make “slow down + mindfulness” helpful for you?
Finally, ugh! Let’s also google “Mindfulness“
When I first-drafted this blogpost, how many hits? 716,000,000
So popular. Therefore, so influential in Collective Consciousness. But does that make “mindfulness” helpful for you?
As always, you readers can interact at this post. COMMENT below, at any point. For instance, can you give any example of being pressured by others to slow down or do mindfulness? Join our Comment Conversation. You’ll improve it.
Already,Blog-Buddies, you likely realize this: Crazy-popular doesn’t necessarily mean “Good for you.” So let’s go into detail about this pressure to slow down.
Regular italics below refer to quotes from that aforementioned article about mindfulness.org.
SLOW DOWN Propaganda Problem #1.
When Slowing Down Is Supposed to Relax Us
Supposedly, whenever you bring awareness to [just about anything] you’re being mindful.
What does it mean to “bring awareness”? If you’ve read the latest knowledge in our field, hello!
To help understand certain ideas that are new and also really-really important…
Now I’m going to go into a little bit of detail about three ideas that aren’t yet common knowledge. Since “Bringing awareness” is quite an oversimplification. Seems to me, you deserve help for resisting all that pressure in Collective Consciousness.
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Pay Attention
For thousands of years, human beings have been able to pay attention. Spontaneously we humans do that all our waking hours.
At least, we do that unless we purposely fuzz ourselves out. (Under the mistaken impression this is good for us.)
For more clarity about this, see Propaganda Problem #3, below. Then share your reaction.
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Shift Your Attention
For thousands of years, human beings have been able to shift their attention. And do that at will.
For sure, volition is involved. Like during a boring meeting, you might shift attention. Instead of continuing to listen to a tedious speaker? Hey, you shift attention by looking out the window.
What does mindfulness propaganda means by “pay attention”? Seems to me, too many members psychologists and life coaches praise shifting your attention in a self-conscious way… more details to come at Propaganda Problem #2.)
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Position Your Consciousness
Available to humans only since the Shift into the Age of Awakening! More details about this will come in discussion of Propaganda Problem #3.)
For now, here’s a preview: Positioning consciousness is often the outcome when people do mindfulness or purposely slow down. Sadly, these folks have no idea what they’re doing to themselves. Being energetically illiterate. And having no clear concepts yet about three different vibrational frequencies.
Instead, most people think “It’s all energy.” Or else they think “It’s all consciousness.”
Mindfulness: The Bottom Line
Simply put, when people work at mindfulness and slowing down, what happens? Automatically, they break down coordination between their natural stream of consciousness and their magnificent conscious minds.
At what cost, seeming outwardly perfect… by being inwardly numb? COMMENT below with your opinion, Blog-Buddies.
SLOW DOWN Propaganda Problem #2.
When Slowing Down Is Supposed to Bring PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH
“Don’t be overly reactive or overwhelmed by what’s going on around us.”
Technically, what does it mean in terms of consciousness, striving for this bland ideal? Instead of living in objective reality, the seeker of psychological “health” keeps shifting attention to something taught in therapy. Such as, “But it’s ok.”(In particular, at the link just provided, see Comments #489-503)
Don’t call this misuse of consciousness self-actualization. Ack! Quite the opposite!
Anybody who aims to use full potential in life? I invite you to laugh at this ludicrous propaganda.
Definitely COMMENT below with your opinion of not being “overwhelmed”, etc.
(And definitely keep reading this article.)
SLOW DOWN Propaganda Problem #3.
When Slowing Down Is Supposed to Be SPIRITUAL
Supposedly, there’s great spiritual benefit when somebody ties to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re doing.
This Enlightenment Teacher is here to say, this kind of practice is bad for people. Not helpful. For instance, see these blogposts:
So Don’t Call This Zen.
Call it foolishness. Affected mindfulness and slowing down are downright dangerous. Dangerous due to being counter-productive for any spiritual seeker.
If you spontaneously pay attention to things in objective reality, that’s going to help you far more. Help you to contribute to life. Also, help you to grow, emotionally and spiritually.
Blog-Buddies, do you know folks you know who do to themselves? (Including celebrities.)
By all means, COMMENT below on how impressive you think this is.
SLOW DOWN Propaganda Problem #4.
What Slowing Down REALLY Does to Our Consciousness
How naive to tell people to bring awareness to… your state of mind via your thoughts and emotions!
Regarding “your state of mind”? Any random psychologist or meditation teacher or life coach or yoga teacher or religious authority may mean something different by this. All are members of today’s Enlightenment Establishment. Quite possibly, any of them you know may be preaching the wonderfulness of… slow down and mindfulness….
And once upon a time, you might have believed them, Blog-Buddies. But now?
In Reality, Since We’ve All Got that New Consciousness Positioning Superpower…
When we slow down or do mindfulness practices, very likely, what happens?
Short term: Positioning consciousness at an Astral Vibrational Frequency.
Long term: Detaching from reality. Messing up their magnificent, natural coordination between their natural stream of consciousness and their conscious minds.
Longer term: Developing the consciousness lifestyle of Spiritual Addiction or else substituting Psychological Overwork for living in reality. Or both!
SLOW DOWN Propaganda Problem #5.
No Child Should Be Taught Mindfulness or Inner Self-Consciousness
Supposedly, “While mindfulness is something we all naturally possess, it’s more readily available to us when we practice on a daily basis.”
Teaching children to do mindfulness is really-really stupid. It won’t work as intended, either.
Your thoughts on this, Blog-Buddies? Please COMMENT below.
But Today’s Well-Meaning Followers Slow Down Anyway
How wrongheaded and obsolete this related advice: “Whenever you bring awareness to… your state of mind… you’re being mindful.”
Until a couple hundred years before the Shift into the Age of Awakening, who did this kind of exercise? Renunciates. Not people aiming to get a life in the world.
Living now, the majority of people are finding it very difficult, staying in touch with objective reality. All this well-meant slow down nonsense? Just makes it harder.
Maybe You’re Wondering: Why All this SLOW DOWN Propaganda?
What’s the Big Reason Behind the Trend?
Call it poor adjustment to living in the Age of Awakening. Also call it, misusing our new Consciousness Positioning Superpower.
For now, I’ll leave it at that.
Your thoughts, Blog-Buddies?
Meanwhile, I’ve got a pleasant announcement for you.
Your Newsletter Announcement for the Merry Month of March 2023
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- How I Spend One Monday
- The Best of the Blog
Definitely Sign up for this Newsletter. Maybe Invite Some Friends to Sign up Too.
Because this is already a very full newsletter, I’ll put sign-up info in our COMMENTS.
Here I’ll just invite you to sign up right away. Then you’ll receive this March issue of “Reading Life Deeper.” Scheduled for this coming Friday, March 10, 2023.
In Conclusion
As always, Blog-Buddies, this is a leading-edge article for those who want to self-actualize.
To gain the most from all that I packed into this article, how about this? COMMENT below to share your thoughts, reactions, stories.
Meanwhile, here are some questions to jump-start your curiosity:
- When people attempt to alter their mental functioning with mindfulness etc., is that about mind OR consciousness?
- Is it important to know the differences between mind and consciousness?
- Which experts today are the most reliable sources of knowledge about consciousness? Psychologists, meditation teachers, or just maybe… Energy Spirituality experts.
- Might good skills of energetic literacy be essential for teaching folks today about what to do with their consciousness?
- Considering that we’re all living after the Shift into the Age of Awakening, what think you? Is it time for the Enlightenment Establishment to update their teachings?
- Has it helped you personally, learning about your new Consciousness Positioning Superpower? (Mostly it takes reading one up-to-date book. Then you’ll understand your superpower very well. And that book is “Seeking Enlightenment in the Age of Awakening.”)
- The subtitle to Eckhart Tolle’s book was, “A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment.” If you read it, what was your takeaway?
Rose, one thing I find impressive about you as an enlightenment teacher is your humility. You don’t go out of your way to seek praise and you actively discourage your students from putting you on a pedestal.
Thus, I’ve never felt too comfortable heaping acclaim on you, perhaps rightly.
But you have in fact impressed me more than someone like Tolle or Deepak Chopra, another writer I was intrigued by, sometime before the shift.
Frankly, neither Tolle nor Chopra put forth any systemized way of teaching.
I am still and always have been a big fan of aphoristic writing.
The kind of old timey spooling out a line of (often philosophical or spiritual) teaching. I’m a born poet (though I’ll leave determinations of my talent to others) so such somewhat nonlinear modes of seeking to reveal truth — they scratch some mystic itch within me.
But, in terms of imparting repeatable, systematic teachings that actually stick with a reader or student?
A tendency towards riddles, and plays on words, and phrases that collapse and expand in and out on themselves, can fall short.
You wouldn’t write a car manual in such a way, because a car manual actually needs to be understandable, structured in a way to impart key information.
Energy Spirituality is not a mysterious mystical system.
Sure, it loses sexy points in the eyes of some. But it also puts forth an intellectually rigorous methodology that is absent from most popular New Age teachings.
World religions have often sought to bring out truth and categorize it in systematic ways, but, while that approach may have been relevant a couple thousand years ago, are they relevant now?
Presumably they worked powerfully once upon a time. But I haven’t found them to be relevant to my experience, living now in the Age of Awakening.
Regarding the New Testament, I found that fascinating and beguiling when I read it almost two decades ago. And one shan’t fault it for a game attempt of building a cohesive system.
Still, Jesus taught a faith-based path, which worked in the Age of Faith. But, now it no longer is the Age of Faith.
Besides, the Bible mixes parables about connecting with God, with what else?
* Rules against eating shellfish.
* And not touching a woman for a week after menstruating
Having so much mixed together disheartened me. Unless one truly believes that every single sentence in this scripture is truly “the Word of God”? On the whole, the Bible is fairly offputting to me.
Indeed, in my own enthusiastic search for truth, philosophically and psychologically and spiritually, what has made a significant difference for me?
I was sometimes impressed by flashy sounding proclamations about God, Meaning, or Reality, but later realized that I remained dissatisfied, due to a lack of intellectual rigor in the teaching.
One can suck on the juicy, sweet pulp of a masterfully unspooled spiritual aphorism, but later find it empty, the flash of truth sucked dry, leaving a stringy, juiceless rind, like chewed-dry sugarcane.
“How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god?”
This last quote comes from Alan Watts. He is, perhaps, one of the most highly respected modern day spiritual teachers. I reread some of his work recently.
Writings by the famous Zen teacher do pulsate with verve and a sense of spiritual light.
But, what does one actually DO with his teachings?
It may seem a silly question, but one I realized merited answering, for anyone seriously studying his work.
Indeed that seems a common thread with the Biggest and Best of the New Age Gurus.
The subtext was:
* “Listen to what I say.”
* Vaguely “Apply some nice sounding principles.”
* “And BAM, someday you too will become Enlightened.”
Sounds nice, but is it pragmatic? Is it proven? Can the results be replicated?
I’m not an Enlightenment Teacher, nor an expert on Traditional Enlightenment, but I think some students who may have achieved Enlightenment did so by the grace of God.
While many more got lost in the weeds, becoming more detached from life, more confused.
Without knowing it, ineffective spiritual teachings moved them farther from the glorious Garden of Eden brimming with Divine light and love, the implicit promise of En-Light-En-Ment.
Where am I going with this?
Describing not-so-effective teachings can help me to answering the big question. What have I found meaty, substantial, or rigorous about Energy Spirituality?
Never before has a book changed my life to the extent that it did, when I read Empath Empowerment in 30 Days.
(That’s the improved version of the book I read back in the day, that old red empath book, Become The Most Important Person in The Room.)
In just 30 days, as promised, I became a skilled empath. My sense of self shifted, significantly. As a result, my clarity in life improved enormously.
Was Empath Empowerment in 30 Days the sexiest, flashiest, most exciting book I’d ever read?
Probably not. But, frankly, this was the only book I’d read up to that point that fundamentally, significantly changed the positioning and functioning of my consciousness. Changing me for the better.
The book did not put forth vague but beautiful sounding proclamations about The Universe and my One True Purpose.
Perhaps many seekers crave the aspirationalism inherent in such hazy universalisms.
That Energy Spirituality book did, though, roll out a clear, easy to follow, and well designed system for helping empaths.
The system of Empath Empowerment(R) is like every other one of the trademarked systems of Energy Spirituality. It involves consciousness, which helps make it effective now, in the Age of Awakening.
And let’s be clear. In Energy Spirituality anything (books, sessions, workshops) “Consciousness” is not used in the way of a psychologist, a psychic, or an old fashioned teacher of Enlightenment.
Consciousness means spiritual awareness.
So what did I learn in 30 Days to Empath Empowerment. The method involved my consciousness, and using it in a way designed to bring me more wholeness as a person, bring me a stronger sense of self.
As a result my life became more enjoyable, less scary, and more fun. By my metrics, that’s a pretty darn good return on a fifteen dollar investment.
Rose, while I’m loath to paint myself as an Energy Spirituality zealot (in large part because zealotry seems antithetical to understanding God), I’ve found the vast majority of your teachings to be imbued with the same intellectual rigor, systematic thinking, and down-to-earth but still deeply true revelatory power.
Also highly relevant, I don’t see how any system for spiritual truth telling can work well without Energetic Literacy.
During the Age of Faith, that kind of literacy couldn’t be very well developed. One benefit to all of us since the Shift into the Age of Awakening is that now anybody who’s willing to study with you can gain enough energetic literacy to research auras all the way to the level of chakra databanks.
Why is Energetic Literacy so important for any teaching today that aims to help people to use their full potential in life?
(Really living that full potential means,Spiritual Enlightenment, whether or not a person cares much about the “spiritual” part.)
Because, without skills to assess a technique’s energetic impact on a person, a teacher relies mainly on guesswork.
It’s like if a mechanic could never open the hood of a car, how the heck could he know what’s wrong with the engine, whether it’s working well or overheating?
Yea sure, he can see that car driving down the road and if flames are shooting out of the tailpipes he knows something is wrong. But a sensitive and precise way to diagnosis performance? Nah.
For any teacher of personal development today, I’d say, good skills of Energetic Literacy are absolutely essential.
So that the strong foundation of Energy Spirituality rests on the precision and clarity that stems from reliable aura reading skills, skills that are cocreated with The Divine.
Sadly, many high-minded and even well-meaning teachers lack(ed) this highly consequential skill, even more important in the post-New Age years.
Therefore, they did not (and do not) have the now critical ability to assess the consciousness of their students.
Like, does this mindfulness I’m teaching actually help?
Does it do what I claim?
Do students actually get better, enjoy their lives more, move closer to God?
Or, do they get more confused, more mentally scattered, more emotionally detached?
God forbid, do my students wind up more and more compromised in their consciousness, because I can’t even figure out the basic difference between the astral and divine?
How important is it for personal growth techniques or spiritual teachings to be flashy anyway?
Even the shiniest Ferraris rust eventually. Not to mention the maintenance costs. Just obscene!
We, the seekers of spiritual truth, are we asking for too much?
We want a system that actually delivers on what it promises.
We want a teacher who follows through on her promises.
We want to grow and learn and have fulfilling lives. We want to grow closer to God. Maybe even reach enlightenment.
Studying with you Rose, I’ve managed that.
My life is fuller, richer, more meaningful, more imbued with the sacred grace of God.
And my experience of the Divine has grown more powerful, reassuring, steady and sweet — even in the midst of the chaos and stupidity that characterizes a lot of the world around us.
How can we pay you back, Rose, your students?
These ideas come to mind:
* By living with integrity
* By shining my light out into the world, seeking to bring more truth and goodness into collective consciousness
* And so much more. Here’s to actions that speak louder than words.
Awe! Thanks, ROBERT.
Rose, that’s a wonderful recording, thank you. You had good taste as a teenager!
I’m sure there are tons of better bandleader examples than Miles Davis (who was an absolute mess personally)… my music knowledge is fairly limited. But widening!
Thanks, JANICE HOOPER. I think it’s wonderful that you listened to that link provided… and liked it. :)
HI BOB,
Thanks for your comment: I agree with you about the fear of giving back that so many people have.
That is one thing that seems really strange to me. I’ve always been oriented to be a giver, and have had to become more discerning and grow some major skills. Empath Empowerment is helping me with that.
I have to challenge myself, sometimes, not to give.
This isn’t as saintly as it appears: It is not nice to treat other people with more attention and care than yourself. It is out of balance and then it is also selfish, in a way, to be “superior” to those who aren’t as “generous”.
That being said, finding my balance? it is so supremely rewarding.
I wouldn’t ever want to retire from the unique combination of being interested in people and the world while caring for myself in the delicious way that Rose describes in her article.
Thanks, KATIE HART. For sure, Empath Empowerment® can help us empaths in so many ways.
Recently I was chatting with some friends when an example of a worker being exploited came up.
One friend, call her Joanne, described her job at a call center and noted how the pace of calling they are expected to keep up was making her Ill.
Her exact words were “it isn’t human”.
I was in Rapt attention as she talked about making a complaint to management and asking for better working conditions, inwardly cheering her on.
Only then I saw a change come over her face and her voice. I’m pretty sure she was trying to “calm herself down”.
Something I really dislike about the slow down propaganda is that it placates a person’s natural rage at the injustice of her situation.
Well reported, KATIE HART. We have the right to notice how problems at work or in relationships aren’t being solved when people shift their atttention to “working on themselves” through slowing down, calming down, etc.
Your story about “Joanne” reminds me of some excellent discussion of this problem in KENDRA’S Comments #153 and following.
Thank you, ROSE.
Yes, KENDRA’S comments jogged this recent memory about Joanne and sparked a big “AHA”. So Grateful.
It reminds me of how I have often functioned in non-skilled empathy (work and relationships) with a “But that’s Okay”.
That phrase has been coming up in my consciousness for review since our “discernment jamboree” of Claire Danes of Fame Karma proportions.
And ROBERT, I echo your eloquent appraisal and appreciation!!!
When you said about Rose’s practical, down to earth and no nonsense approach to teaching unskilled empathy “ Sure, it loses sexy points in the eyes of some”, I was reminded of “The big Analogy” from “Empath Empowerment in 30 days”.
The use of metaphors and facts about the animal human body doesn’t often show up in Enlightenment Teachers discourse, nor does so much humor.
Humility, honesty, being springboards.
You’re so ready to grow-grow-grow, KATIE.
Just moving yourself past “And it’s okay” can make such a big difference. Those kindly-meant words, meant to console the psychologically fragile stuck person — or whoever — can stop being used as if these untrue words are some gold standard of wisdom. Like liberating yourself from a one-time prison, perhaps!
In reality, we don’t need to assure ourselves “And it’s okay” if that’s true.
Or if we really believe it. (IMO)
Thank you, Katie Hart. I wholeheartedly agree with this part in your comment #254:
” I’ve always been oriented to be a giver, and have had to become more discerning and grow some major skills.”
Energy Spirituality has been instrumental in finding that balance for myself, and learning new skills.
BOB, what a wonderful contribution to our Energy Spirituality™ Blog.
In pop psych parlance, people can be called “givers” or “pleasers” or other names. As if that’s a condition for life. Ridiculous!
BOB, you’re more on target, I think, by referring to “finding that balance for myself” and you also refer to “learning new skills.”
The degree of one’s giving is adjustable, or it can be. The first step is to let go that ridiculous lable of “Being a giver.”
Personal sessions of Energy Spirituality can remove STUFF from your aura that might cause a person to over-give or not find it comfortable to receive from others, or other problems.
STUFF can always, always, always be healed in such sessions.
Thank you for this article. I’d like you to expand upon this part:
You wrote that supposedly, “mindfulness is something we all naturally possess, it’s more readily available to us when we practice on a daily basis.”
And you also wrote:
“Teaching children to do mindfulness is really-really stupid. It won’t work as intended, either.”
I work with children as a reading teacher. I’d very much like to hear more about these ideas.
Why do you think it’s wrong to teach mindfulness to children. Isn’t mindfulness just a good habit, a kind of discipline in order to socialize them?
To me, mindfulness work is like teaching them to stay at their desks while they’re in school.
Wonderful to hear from you, BETSY. Let’s take my response point by point.
First, regarding your Comment #275, about today’s faddish idea of practicing mindfulness, why did I preface that with “supposedly” in the main blogpost?
Because having awareness during our waking hours, human-type awareness, homo sapiens awareness — unlike all other animals on Earth — is not something we have to practice.
To point out the absurdity, I’ll swap out skin for mindfulness in the quote that you cited:
“Supposedly, skin is something we all naturally possess [covering our bodies]. Skin is more readily available to us when we practice having it on a daily basis.”
“Teaching children to do mindfulness is really-really stupid. It won’t work as intended, either.”
Why do I think so, BETSY?
Until children are at least 10 years of age, it is damaging to teach them any kind of consciousness self-reflection or “mindfulness” or meditation.
For their first decade, children are learning about Planet Earth, objective reality, Human Vibrational Frequencies. This is essential learning for them.
When they’re at least 10 years old, it’s possible to teach them meditation, etc. And if they learned was actually beneficial to them, they could benefit.
However, today’s children aren’t just digital natives. They’re Age of Awakening natives.
During the Age of Awakening, meditation practices are no longer necessary for spiritual evolution. As members of the Enlightenment Establishment could tell, if they weren’t so gosh-darned lacking in energetic literacy!
Incidentally, you can learn more about the process of adjusting to human incarnations, and Human Vibrational Frequencies, in the early chapters of “The New Strong.”
What you read there might be kind of mind-blowing: This spiritual perspective on consciousness was astounding to me, as I cocreated that how-to book.
Comments #279-281
As you described the idea of (supposedly) practicing mindfulness, you mentioned an idea that surprised me. Even without doing any mindfulness work, we have awareness all our waking hours.
Wow, this was a big Aha! for me.
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about mindfulness and slowing down. And I was having a hard time trying to understand what these were supposed to be for. Something was missing for me.
Now I realize what the problem was. I don’t think I connected “mindfulness” with “human type awareness”.
At least not in those words. Aha! This was the missing piece.
What you wrote about skin in Comment #281.
You wrote, “To point out the absurdity, I’ll swap out skin for mindfulness in the quote that you cited:
“Supposedly, skin is something we all naturally possess [covering our bodies]. Skin is more readily available to us when we practice having it on a daily basis.”
What you wrote there worked brilliantly. You pointed out the absurdity quite clearly for me.
A big thank you, Rose. I’m starting to much better understand what mindfulness really means.
It’s like getting all self-conscious about something you had all along, being awake inside. Then making a big deal about how you only feel awake inside because you are doing mindfulness work.
Rose, this was a big shift in perspective for me. Thank you.
HENRY, I love this insight from you. What’s absurd about today’s mindfulness practices and trying to slow down during your day, or divide your mind by self-consciously reflecting on yourself while you’re living?
Since publishing this article, HENRY, we’ve taken the understanding at this blog further through a new article on humanity’s Consciousness Positioning Superpower.
Very related to this topic. Slow down propaganda is a MISUSE of our Consciousness Positioning Superpower.