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“Life is Meant to Work” Radio Show Interview

Jane Ilene Cohen will be interviewed by
Kalon Women Community’s Founder, Sandra Levitin

August 4th at 6:30pm Eastern Time / 3:30pm Pacific Time

Suppose you could… Change your perspective of reality in a way that would deeply empower you to take charge of your life no matter what is going on in your outside world and no longer struggle at trying to make life work.

Intuitive & Transformational Counselor, Teacher and Author, Jane Ilene Cohen, will share the personal journey that brought her to a totally positive new thought system, based on the principle “Life is Meant to Work.” This thought system, combined with her NLP training, is what has enabled her to facilitate profound life-changing results for her clients for the past 14 years.

Other Topics include:

  • “Limiting Decisions: How Your Perception of Reality Gets Distorted”
  • “Is Life Meant to Work or Is It Not?”
  • “Self-Interest vs. Enlightened Self-Interest”

To hear the show and/or ask any questions call (347-884-8656)

To listen to the show on-line, go to: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/kalon-women/2010/08/04/jane-cohen–life-is-meant-to-work-prepare-yourself-for-a-new-reality

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“Life is Meant to Work” Preview Call Audio

The preview call audio for my upcoming
“Life is Meant to Work” 12-week Tele-seminar — is now here.

In this preview I share the personal journey that brought me to a totally positive new thought system, based on the principle “Life is Meant to Work.” This thought system, combined with my NLP training, is what has enabled me to facilitate profound life-changing results for my clients for the past 14 years.

I also describe some of the basic ideas from this thought system, addressing these 3 topics:

  • “Limiting Decisions: How Your Perception of Reality Gets Distorted”
  • “Is Life Meant to Work, or Is It Not?”
  • “Self-interest vs. Enlightened Self-Interest”

In addition you’ll get the main details of what is included in the “Life is Meant to Work” program.

(See below for some excerpts from the audio.)

To listen to the preview call, go to:  http://www.audioacrobat.com/play/WgVjqYvs

For the complete details about the “Life is Meant to Work” Teleseminar, go to: http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs043/1102365022849/archive/1103533414633.html

I hope you enjoy the audio, and I welcome any comments, responses or questions you might have.

Warmly,

Jane Ilene Cohen
(760) 753-0733

Excerpts from the Preview Call

“When I took a stand on life is meant to work, it’s like I walked through a portal or a gateway in which a whole other landscape was now visible or available to me. And I started tapping into a whole body of knowledge that I had no idea of before.”

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“The reason ‘The Secret’ and the Law of Attraction has become so popular is it is about being able to manifest into our lives what we desire, rather than feeling at the mercy of forces outside of ourselves.  But many people have difficulty in making this work for themselves, or have success with it only in specific and limited areas of their lives.  Really understanding how to effectively use the Law of Attraction requires much more than what is generally taught, and represents a step forward in the human evolutionary process. The meaning of this goes way beyond being able to manifest a certain number of dollars per month, or buying the fancy new sports car.  It is a shift in where we understand our source of safety and well-being comes from.”

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“From the very individual perspective to the larger global perspective, many people experience life as not working.  But they don’t understand how we are participating in creating this, just believing it to be the nature of how life is.  And therefore we are looking in the wrong direction for solutions.”

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“We experience reality as something objective that is external to us, and that imposes itself on us.  But our perception of reality is, in fact, very subjective and changeable, because we are never experiencing reality directly.  We are only experiencing a model of reality.  There are thousands of bits of information that are bombarding our senses every moment, and it would be impossible to take all of it in.  So we filter in a very small percentage of it, and filter out most of it.  What we decide to filter in or out is very subjective and changeable. This means, to a large degree, we are choosing our experience of reality, as opposed to reality imposing itself on us.”

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“Our internal state is caused by our interpretation of what is happening out in the world, rather than something objective that is happening to us.  And we don’t realize that our interpretations are very often a result of projecting our limiting decisions onto something or someone outside of ourselves.”

“It’s crucial to understand how subjective, changeable and effectible our experience or perception of reality is, in order to have a choice about what to do about it.  Most people believe this instability has to do the nature of reality, and don’t realize that it’s actually internal to themselves.  And since the internal process causing it is generally very unconscious, what we end up doing about it is also an unconscious process, which often doesn’t end up serving us.”

To listen to the preview call, go to:  http://www.audioacrobat.com/play/WgVjqYvs

For the complete details about the “Life is Meant to Work” Teleseminar, go to: http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs043/1102365022849/archive/1103533414633.html

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Q & A: Shifting Out of a Victim State

This is a part of the “Ask Jane” Series,
in which Jane answers questions
you email to her that of concern to you.

(Names are changed to protect your privacy.)

Just go to the “Contact Jane” page
and ask your question in the contact form.

Part Three of a Three Part Dialog

To read Part One, click here.  To read Part Two, click here.

Question from Manny from Rancho Santa Fe (real names are never used):

Manny: What does the evolved person think about in a situation in which they are being physically attacked, besides trying to physical ward off one’s attacker or escape without harm?

Jane: That depends on where you are in your personal journey, what you have the capability of doing.  The main challenge is to get yourself out of an emotionally triggered state (caused by limiting decisions*), which most people would be very much in.  You want to get yourself, instead, in a resourceful state, in which you are relating to the actual reality of the situation, rather than the distorted one the attacker is representing.  So in other words, instead of entering into the attacker’s distorted world, you connect with what is actually true in reality.  So it’s just a question of how much your internal world resonates with the attacker’s distorted world, and how much you are able to bring yourself out of his world and into a positive and resourceful one.  That determines how well you’re likely do in that situation, and what resources you’re likely to be able to tap into.  The objective is to get so strong in orienting your reality around a larger truth that you don’t get pulled into this kind of distorted illusion of reality.

Being a victim is a state of mind, not a physical circumstance, and is not determined by how physically strong you are or aren’t.  It is not about whatever you might experience physically, but the state of mind you get into, in whatever the circumstances you find yourself in.

The illusion being created by the attacker it is not about the actual possible physical harm that could be imposed.  It is about the hateful, fearful, separating, substitute world that he is representing.  This world is holding in place the illusion that hate and negativity are more powerful than love.  It is about the distorted meaning that is attached to whatever physical action is happening.  And that distorted meaning is really what the attacker is invested in.  If you are not buying into that distortion, it is less likely you’ll end up being physically harmed.  And if you are physically harmed, it will not be so traumatic to you emotionally.  And there will be some learning in there for you that will move you forward on your evolutionary path.

What the evolved person does in his or her mind is ask for inner or Divine guidance, in all situations, especially including ones in which there appears to be no solutions, such as what you are describing.  They call upon the larger truth, universal wisdom, a perspective beyond their own limited human perception, and beyond their limiting decisions.

The totally enlightened person is always in contact with their Guidance, which guides every moment in their lives.  And so they are always being guided to the best place for them to be in for their highest good.  They are so much in their power that everything that happens to them is in alignment with the larger truth.

* Limiting Decisions: Unconscious decisions, usually made before the age of 6 or 7, such as “I am bad,” “I am not good enough.”  “People can’t be trusted.”  They are always some form of deciding that life doesn’t work, and usually that there is something inherently wrong with you.

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How do We Know Life is Actually For Us, and Not Just Random?

From the “Life is Meant to Work” tele-seminar

We know this because life is set up so that what really benefits us is the way forward, and what harms us is the way backwards.  There are certain kinds of behaviors people tend to go toward that lead to our lives working less and less well.  They are behaviors or things we think benefit us, but really don’t.  Examples are: one person giving up their power to another in a relationship, in order to be taken care of, leading to being increasingly more dependent; or eating foods that feel comforting, but clog your arteries and cause obesity; or excessively drinking alcohol to feel good in the moment, but that harms your liver and causes you to behave in ways you later regret; and so on.  These are examples of what I call “substitute desires” that are not in your real self-interest, but substitutes for what you really desire, based on limiting decisions* that you can’t have what really matters to you.  It’s pretty clear that they are harmful to us and lead us backwards.

But moving toward true or enlightened self-interest, such as moving toward love in relationships, eating foods that are actually good for you, and developing yourself in areas of your life that are truly fulfilling and important to you — these lead your life forward.  This means that going toward what feels good to the higher part of you moves you forward.  It leads you toward who you really are, it leads you to the Divine in you, it leads you toward your inherent contribution in life.

Whether a particular behavior feels good to you or not depends on what part of you you are relating from.  And so if, instead of your higher self, you are letting the unhealed parts of you rule, then you believe your substitute desires are what you desire.  And eventually, any negative system is by its nature doomed to self-destruct, because it’s going in the opposite direction of what really matters to you, and what really benefits you.

The purpose of the evolutionary process is to move increasingly more toward our enlightened self-interest, that which truly benefits us.  The whole universe, every particle of All-That-Is, is set up to move us toward what truly benefits us.

If we observe the human evolutionary process we can see that it inherently is benevolent, moving us toward our greater well-being.  For instance, in the earlier evolutionary stages, it appears primitive people were constantly in danger of not surviving as a part of their daily lives.  And their lives were extremely physically arduous, taken up with just surviving.  There were limited choices and limited opportunities.

As humanity has evolved it has moved from a limited physical perspective, to increasingly greater consciousness, which has opened up increasingly more knowledge and possibilities, including being able to focus on more than just survival.  Humanity has also moved from a limited understand of what power is to a more expanded and evolved one.  And therefore it has moved from abusing those with less physical power, such as children and women, to more empowered lives for more of us.  Laws created by humanity have also moved increasingly more toward being based on understanding and compassion rather than revenge and punishment.

The fact that the human evolutionary process is moving toward greater intelligence and an increasing sense of who we really are, is evidenced when you observe the younger generations, who are generally much brighter and more conscious than preceding ones.

These are just a few examples of humanity’s evolution forward.  Of course there is also a great deal that is unevolved in the world, and people tend to notice where life or the human experience appears unevolved, without taking into account the huge evolutionary steps humanity has already taken.

The whole point about life being meant to work is that life is set up in a way in which that is the natural outcome, if you come into the truth of what life is about.  The process of evolution is a process of moving toward what is actually true, as opposed to the unevolved misconceptions we started out with or developed along the way — such as the belief that physical power is true power, that men are more valuable than women, that punishment is an effective way to teach children, that exploiting workers is good for business.  These ideas were based on limiting decisions* and substitute desires, and therefore were not the direction of the future.  When the truth was discovered that there are much more effective forms of power than the physical, and that women are an invaluable asset in the world, and so on, we discover that life works much better, because these are based on truth.  Every time innovators push through new ideas propelled by inspired insights, we discover a deeper truth about how life works, which then brings us into alignment with what is true, thereby causing life to work increasingly better.

And so we can see that the evolutionary process is an intelligent and benign process.  It causes the expansion of truth, intelligence, love and compassion.  We discover as we evolve forward that love works better than hate in relationships, in business, and in teaching children, and that compassion works better than brute force.   Even in warfare we discover that addressing populations’ needs is more effective in gaining allies than bombing them.  Evolution is, in fact, leading us toward love itself.

* Limiting Decisions: Unconscious decisions usually made before the ages of 6 or 7, that are some form of deciding that life doesn’t work and usually also that there is something inherently wrong with you, such as “I am bad,” “I’m not valuable,” “People can’t be trusted,” and so on.

To listen to the Preview audio for the next “Life is Meant to Work” Tele-seminar, click here.

For the info page with all of the details about the upcoming “Life is Meant to Work” Tele-seminar, click here.

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Evolved Response to Physical Violence Part 2

This is a part of the “Ask Jane” Series,
in which Jane answers questions
you email to her that of concern to you.

(Names are changed to protect your privacy.)

Just go to the “Contact Jane” page
and ask your question in the contact form.

Part Two of a Three Part Dialog

To read Part One, click here.

Question from Manny from Rancho Santa Fe:

Manny: What causes an evolved person to be caught up in a physically violent situation? 

Jane: We are complex beings, made up of many aspects, some representing who we are in our essence, and some representing unhealed or unevolved aspects of ourselves.  Each aspect has a particular vibrational energy that we radiate.  When an aspect of ourselves resonates with an aspect of someone or something else, it gets amplified.  And then we feel affected by that aspect of the person.  Other people who resonate with different aspects of that same person may have a completely different kind of relationship with him.

Negative vibrations, such as fear and hatred are extremely common in people, even if they don’t tend to initiation relating in that way.  When someone does something very hateful toward a person, in most cases, it elicits that same kind of response in that person in response.  People generally feel justified in attacking if they feel attacked.  Someone who has done some horrendous crime generally elicits the response of hatred from others, even from people who consider themselves to be good, loving people.  The people who do these kinds of hateful acts, are like lightening-rods.  They serve as an outlet for the kinds of emotions that people don’t generally find acceptable in themselves.

As long as there is that kind of vibration in you, it can be elicited in you by someone who lives in that vibration, and you can be drawn into that world.

Whatever vibrations you have in yourself has to do with the perception of reality you are holding in place.  And whatever that is, has influence in the world around you.

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Q & A: Enlightened Response to Violence

This is a part of the “Ask Jane” Series,
in which Jane answers questions
you email to her that of concern to you.

(Names are changed to protect your privacy.)

Just go to the “Contact Jane” page
and ask your question in the contact form.

Part One of a Three Part Dialog.

Question from Manny from Rancho Santa Fe: (Real names are never used.)

Manny: Even with the most enlightened of us, there are times that, by chance, things happen that put us in danger, such as a wrong turn to a dangerous neighborhood or a robbery takes place where you are shopping.  Isn’t there a time when even the more evolved of us has to regress to the physical for survival, for those times when truth, love, enlightenment, etc, will unlikely have an immediate role in survival?

Jane: Being in an evolved state of consciousness does have an immediate role in those kinds of situations.  The kind of state you are in determines whether you are able to be resourceful or not, are empowered or disempowered, are aware and conscious or not.  That doesn’t mean you can’t also take some form of physical action.  But it does mean that whatever kind of action you do or don’t take, will be from a more conscious and empowered place.

The purpose of the attacker is to reinforce a reality in which physical violence dominates. This is the kind of world he believes he can win in, because he has given up on getting what really matters to him, such as love, significance, personal empowerment, and so on.  In some form he believes himself to be a loser or a victim in the real, commonly-shared world that he doesn’t control.

When an attacker does violence to another person, there is an emotional reason why he does it, which is a result of limiting decisions* he has made, such as that he is powerless or valueless or is bad.  When he does this kind of act, he is immersed in a substitute, unreal world, or he couldn’t do it, because it would be against his real self.   It is a world most likely of enemies, hatred, violence, and invulnerability.  And because he feels powerless to fight this world internally, which is the actual source of it, he is creating symbols for it externally, and then he attacks the symbols.  He is trying to impose this substitute world on whomever he attacks.  It’s a state of insanity, disconnected from who he really is, and disconnected from reality.

What people are pulled into when someone physically attacks them is not the physical world.  It is the non-physical distortion of reality that that person is representing, which is their substitute world.  And because it is a non-physical world, you always have a choice of whether or not to participate in it.

If you have a limiting decision* that is activated by the reality the attacker is representing, then you will most likely be pulled into that world.  If, however, you are firmly in your present moment experience, and not being triggered by a limiting decision*, you can’t be pulled into the world of the attacker. If you do not have a limiting decision* that is activated, you will be able to relate to the person outside of the substitute world he is trying to uphold, and outside of a state of fear and disempowerment.  In that case, you would be an unlikely target in the first place.

*Limiting decision: A decision made in early childhood that is some form of that life doesn’t work, and usually that there is something inherently wrong with you — such as “I am powerless,” “bad,” “without value;” or “The world is a dangerous place,” “People can’t be trusted,” and so on.

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Q & A’s from the Life is Meant to Work: Free Introduction

Selected from the “Life is Meant to Work” Webinar,
and emailed-in questions people sent.

To listen to this webinar introduction, click here.

(People’s names are changed to protect their privacy.)

Sally: Jane, excellent synthesis and conclusions of this complex topic. Will each session be one hour?

Jane: Yes, each class in the 12-week Course will be an hour.

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Randy: Are you going to be teaching A Course in Miracles in this course?

Jane: No. I absorbed what was meaningful to me to absorb from A Course in Miracles. I studied it very intensely and it brought me to new ground in which I was seeing things from a different perspective.  And from standing on that perspective, I tapped into a whole other thought system from my own direct experience.

I got the idea from A Course in Miracles that life is meant to work.  And when I started seeing clients I started holding that in place.  I didn’t really know that it was true.  But I was holding it in place, and I was insistent on holding that in place.  I think I was born to do that, as I can’t figure out any other reason why I have held onto it with such strong intention. So whatever happened, I interpreted it from the frame-or-reference that life is meant to work.  And as a result, I started tapping into a whole body of work, which has kept unfolding and has made the work I do very effective.  Because TimeLine is such a fast process, I could almost immediately see the result of holding “life is meant to work” in place.  So it has been like a living laboratory over these past 14 years, seeing the results of standing on that premise, and finding that it is true over and over again.  We clear the limiting decision, and the person’s life reconfigures itself and proves that it has nothing to do with the way life works, or the external circumstance.

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Jean: It sounds like by the time a person is 50 they might have made hundreds or thousands of limiting decisions.  So how long do you think it might take someone, an average person whose life isn’t working, to release enough limiting decisions so their life could work?

Jane: First of all you don’t keep making limiting decisions until you’re 50 years old.  Limiting decisions are made before the age of 6 or 7, sometimes in adolescence.  It’s rare that you make any limiting decisions beyond that age.

The number of limiting decisions and the length of time it takes to clear them depends on the soul’s path. Some people have a lot of stuff going on — by which I mean a lot of limiting decisions that surface — and they just have to deal with them.  They’re set up to make a lot of progress in this lifetime.  Other people seem to have an easier path, with less limiting decisions to deal with.  And it seems to vary from lifetime to lifetime. It depends on a combination of your soul’s particular path, and how much progress it decides to make in this lifetime.  It also has to do with the evolutionary process of your particular soul and of humanity in general.  At a certain point a more evolved level of functioning is expected of you in order for your life to work well.

In general when a person works with me, they work for a while and arrive at a place that works for them, at the particular stage in life they are at.  I had one woman who cleared the issues she needed to clear in relation to her husband, and their relationship now works wonderfully well, and she was finished.  And I haven’t heard from her since.  For some people, we clear the issues that were currently of concern to them, and I don’t hear from them for a year or two.  And then they come back to clear more, according to what’s up for them in their current life experience.

But that’s about the TimeLine sessions, and that’s different from what I’m doing in the “Life is Meant to Work” program, which has to do with the larger perspective, it shifts how you are experiencing life, and your perspective on what reality is. It’s working with getting you in alignment with the evolutionary process.

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Anita: If life is meant to work, what about catastrophes such as what happened in Haiti, the death and destruction wasn’t the result of their limiting decisions.  It might be the result of limiting decisions of those that are causing global climate change.  We’re making decisions and other people are making decisions.  So possibly what happened is other people’s limiting decisions can have a limiting effect on us. Some people’s decisions can change the world.  They affect everybody. To take an attitude that everything one endures is as a result of one’s limiting belief is to imply that we are islands unto ourselves and are unaffected by what takes place around us.

A baby born with an arm protruding out of its back because of the depleted uranium dumped in Iraq by the Americans, has not created its own reality.  A 7 point earthquake that kills and harms huge numbers of people is not created by the limiting beliefs of those people.  The fact that the over-population, pathetic housing conditions, poverty and ignorance of the people is a condition of American foreign policy conditions … (Anita wrote a very long question, too long to include here, so this is just a small excerpt.)

Jane: You’ve asked a lot of good questions.  This is a large subject and central to the teachings in this 12-week course and can’t be comprehensively explained in this brief Q & A format.  So I’ll just answer some pieces of it.

Your limiting decisions only have to do with you.  And other people’s limiting decisions only have to do with them.  You are never controlled by someone outside of yourself. When you clear the limiting decision, you find that your life shifts, no matter what it is that others are doing.

The alternative perspective to this is a judgmental good-versus-evil perspective, which is one of the causes of the problem — not a solution.  This is the perspective that causes people to be in fear, feel they have to control each other, to believe that what they really want will be damaging to others, and all kinds of misconceptions that leads to people attacking each other in the name of defending themselves.  It causes people to be afraid of being who they really are, in their full power.

I know this can be hard to grasp.  That’s why it’s a 12-week course, because you have to really get into the specifics of how experience is formed in order to untangle this whole thing.

Even on a very direct, relatively benign personal level, limiting decisions appear to make life impossible, and so without really understanding how that works, it’s hard to understand it for more extreme and global situations.  The examples I gave in my introduction, about clients’ whose lives turned around from appearing to be impossible to being possible, give some insight into that.

The amazing thing to me is that, whatever the situation is, when you clear the limiting decisions that are at the root of the painful emotions that come up in the situation — when you clear them, your experience of reality does shift.

Yes, we are all affected by each other, but whether our response is an emotionally triggered one or not, is the issue.  A trigger means that your experience of reality is distorted because of limiting decisions in that area of life.  You can tell whether it’s a trigger or not according to whether your response is empowered and resourceful or not.

What your mind does with each piece of experience, the way it interprets the meaning of it determines whether you go toward solutions or in the opposite direction, regardless of what is happening in your external environment.

It’s probably not possible to understand events and circumstances such as the current disaster in Haiti, or a child being born deformed, outside of the perspective of a soul’s journey.  Facilitating, and therefore experiencing, the TimeLine process (a hypnotic NLP process) with many people who have gone back into past lifetimes has given me a valuable perspective on the human process in relation to these kinds of events.

I’ll give you a typical kind of example, of which I have had many similar ones.  Let’s say the limiting decision we’re working on is that the person is defective.  And in the person’s present here-and-now life, he has a learning disability, which has been limiting his possibilities in life.

In order to clear a limiting decision it’s necessary to go back to the very first event in which it was made.  So let’s say we are brought back to a past lifetime, to an event that even I can’t reframe into life is meant to work, because it appears completely impossible — such as being born without legs, and the only means of survival is to do work that requires walking.  I have learned that when that kind of thing occurs, it’s not the very first event in which the limiting decision was made.  And when we do get to the originating event, you can see where the person’s interpretation was flawed or limited in scope.  So, with the cooperation of his unconscious mind, we go back to an earlier lifetime, when he was a 2 year old child, and his parent expected him to be able to do a chore way beyond his development, and when he couldn’t, was abusive to him.  So we can see here the problem is the child believing the parent represented reality, not the actual circumstance.  And that can easily be reframed with help from me and their present-moment adult perspective.

The reason the person continued that limiting decision into following lifetimes — sometimes even escalating it, such as being born without legs — is because after the limiting decision is made in the originating event, the unconscious mind is invested in proving that it is true, and structures the person’s life experiences in order to prove it.  This affects what happens in following lifetimes.

However, when this limiting decision gets cleared, the person’s unconscious mind reconfigures itself and solutions to their present moment life dilemmas become apparent.  I’ve seen it happen over and over again.

Now the person going through these different experiences — sometimes extremely painful experiences — is a part of that person’s soul path.  But the evolutionary process is to move into increasingly greater alignment with universal truths and with life, in order to move each person toward empowerment, happiness and well-being — toward a state of enlightenment.  It’s a process based on love.  A major purpose of the 12-week course is to facilitate people moving into this greater alignment.

So this is just a brief response, with much left unexplained, to a deep, complex subject that the “Life is Meant to Work” course is set up to address in depth.

For information about the 12-week Life is Meant to Work Main Course,
and to Register, click here.

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Understanding our Perception of Reality

Our perception of reality is how we interpret our experiences in life, and how we have order in it.  It is the foundation we build our life upon.  It determines where we believe our source of safety, survival and well-being comes from.  It is the basis on which we make decisions, determining the kind of life we live, and what the possibilities are for us.  It affects whether we go toward or away from solutions, resources, survival and well-being.  It’s the very ground we’re standing on.

There are certain cornerstones about the nature of reality that humanity in general holds in place that are out of alignment with larger truth.  These cornerstones are what the problems humanity faces are based upon.  And even many of those who have expanded their consciousness beyond that limited perspective — when it comes down to what their lives depend upon — are really standing on the old foundation for their reality.

To most people their perception of reality just is what is, and they don’t question the truth of it.  But our perception of reality is, in fact, very subjective and changeable.  There are many more bits of information that are bombarding our senses every moment than we can possibly take in.  We filter out most of it.  What bits of reality we take in, and what we filter out, is very subjective.

Perceptions of reality are held in place by individuals, by families and other kinds of groups, by countries, on up to the global human experience.  The more people holding a perception of reality in place, the more real the perception appears to be.  But that has nothing to do with the truth of the perception.

The thought system I will be teaching in the”Life is Meant to Work” Tele-seminar, shifts the old reality perceptions to be in alignment with larger truths.

To listen to the Preview audio for the next “Life is Meant to Work” Tele-seminar, click here.

For the info page with all of the details about the upcoming “Life is Meant to Work” Tele-seminar, click here.

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Q & A: Are Traumatic Events Necessary for People (and Big Companies) to Make Major Change?

This is a part of the “Ask Jane” Series,
in which Jane answers questions
you email to her that of concern to you.

(Names are changed to protect your privacy.)

Just go to the “Contact Jane” page
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Question from Jered in Mission Valley

Jered: It occurs to me that the failure of big companies — such as General Motors that received bailouts — are not so much an example of limiting decision, as they are of “broken” organizations.  GM had to break before old methods were discarded for new. It makes me think of change with people.  Clearing decisions are baby steps. But traumatic events have outsized consequences – huge steps.

Jane: This is a complex subject that can’t be explained, so that it’s easily understood, in a few paragraphs.  I will be going into this more fully in my upcoming “Life is Meant to Work” webinar as part of explaining how our experience of reality gets out of alignment with Universal Truths.  But here is a brief explanation that I hope is helpful.

The failure of big companies, such as General Motors, is most likely based on perspectives of self-interest that are out of alignment with reality.  Whenever there are perceptions that are out of alignment with reality, there are limiting decisions* at the root of it.

People with similar limiting decisions* come together and hold in place a collective perspective on reality.  People are very invested in the particular way they perceive what reality is, which represents their source of stability, survival and well-being.  It is the ground they are standing on.  That perception of reality is often greatly distorted by limiting decisions* they have made.  In general people are not willing to give up that ground unless forced to.  That’s why it sometimes takes a major crisis before individuals — and especially a group of people, such as a major organization or company — are willing to restructure their perception of reality.  They have to perceive that it is in their self-interest to make a change.  The process of evolution occurs as what people perceive of as self-interest becomes increasingly more in alignment with what actually benefits them.

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Life is Meant to Work: Prepare Yourself for a New Reality

The world as we know it is rapidly changing.  The old structures and ways of participating, functioning, surviving, and prospering, that we have relied upon in the past, are rapidly becoming obsolete.  This course will help you make sense of a world that no longer makes sense in the old frames-of-reference.

In this webinar Jane Ilene Cohen, Intuitive & Transformational Counselor, Author, Writer and Visionary unveils a totally positive thought system, developed through the work with her clients over the past 14 years.  This thought system is what has enabled her to facilitate profound life changes, reversing their experience of life not working.  At the center of it is the principle Life is Meant to Work. This thought system explains what causes your life to not work. It profoundly shifts your experience of reality, allowing your life to come into its full expression of abundance and well-being.

You’ll learn:

  • How your perceptions of reality get distorted, putting you out of alignment with larger universal truths, causing life to appear to not work.
  • How this relates to the individual and global crises we are in the midst of.
  • A new thought system that re-orients your experience of reality to be in alignment with life and universal truths, facilitating your awakening into a more conscious, creative, and abundant life of well-being .
  • How to become aligned with the evolutionary process, which is pushing humanity into a more evolved perception of reality — so that your personal transition into it will be an easier, more harmonious process.

This webinar is taught in three parts: the free introduction (begins 1/11), the pre-course (begins 1/19), and the main course (begins 2/2).Free Introduction:

Free Introduction:

In the free introduction, Jane will be interviewed by Mo Bailey about the positive new thought system she will be teaching in the Webinar.  You’ll get an overview of what this course is about.

When you sign up for this free introduction, you’ll also receive Jane’s list of “The Top 10 Reasons Relationships Fail.”

Monday, Jan. 11th: 5:00-6:00pm PST (8:00 – 9:00 pm EST) – or -

Tuesday, Jan. 12th: 7:00-8:00pm PST (10:00 – 11:00pm EST) – or -

Wednesday, Jan. 13th: 6:00-7:00pm PST (9:00pm-10:00pm EST)

To register: click here (or go to: www.janecohencounseling.com/Products.html#Webinar)

Pre-Course:

This 2-week class on Tuesdays or Wednesdays is the prerequisite for the 12- week main course.  In it you will learn how your perceptions of reality get distorted, putting you out of alignment with larger universal truths, causing life to appear to not work; and how this relates to the individual and global crises we are in the midst of.

When you register for the Pre-Course you will also receive Jane’s list of “The 10 Most Common Limiting Decisions People Make.”

Fee: $67

Tuesdays, Jan. 19th & 26th:
5:00-6:00pm PST (8:00 – 9:00 pm EST) – or-

Wednesdays, Jan. 20th & 27th:
6:00-7:00pm PST (9:00 – 10:00 pm EST)

To register: click here (or go to: www.janecohencounseling.com/Products.html#Webinar)

Main Course:

This is the main 12-week course. See the above initial description for a summary of this course. When you sign up you will also receive Jane’s list of the “Top 10 Attributes of an Evolved Leader.”

Fee: $387

Tuesdays, Feb. 2nd – April 20th:
6:00-7:00pm PST (9:00-10:00 pm EST)

The Pre-course is the prerequisite for taking this course. If you miss it, you can sign up for the audio recording, which will be available by Jan. 28th. If you miss the free introduction, the audio will be available by Jan. 14th.

To register: click here (or go to: www.janecohencounseling.com/Products.html#Webinar)

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