Transformational Teachings from Counselor Jane Ilene Cohen

“I don’t know lots of things. I stand in the question. That’s how I end up knowing things. I walk into the situation, and I know nothing. And so I’m looking, I’m waiting, I’m listening. And then I know something. It just sort of pours in.”

“This huge burden is what you are focusing on, and is what the group is having to carry with you, as we listen to you. And this is the way you have structured your world. But this is not what reality is about.”

“Change often doesn’t happen until you’re forced to because the old structure no longer works. This is because change often feels like you are jumping off a cliff. Because of the limiting decision, you don’t do what would be realistic to do, because the limiting decision causes you to believe there is no resource or possibility there. Therefore, thinking of going in that direction seems very foolish. And very possibly if you went in that direction anyway, since you didn’t see the opportunity, it wouldn’t work because of the way the limiting decision has structured your experience of reality.”

“Very intelligent and creative, like Jered he is an out-of-the box thinker. Bennet also loves helping people. He has always managed to survive, but he feels no motivation to earn money until he’s completely out. He has made money at various things, but has felt resistance to being in a position in which he has to pay taxes, because he hasn’t wanted to support the wars the government has perpetrated.”