Transformational Teachings from Counselor Jane Ilene Cohen

“If you made a limiting decision that the people you are dependent on only care about themselves, that causes you to recognize only that type of person as someone to be dependent on. And you don’t notice people who don’t fall under that category…”

Transcript Excerpts of Jane’s Teachings during the “Shifting into Your New Consciousness” group experience 4/16/09 (Names of participants are changed to protect their privacy.) (To Jocelyn) “The defense system that keeps your investment in being a victim in place, affects everything you do, because your unconscious mind is in charge and is invested in proving [...]

“A leader is a person who is accessing reality from their own experience and expressing that. He or she has a fix on reality in a way that others don’t. They have a very strong knowing that something is very important and must be said and is really true. And the truth of it causes people to recognize it. When someone speaks truth you know it, whether or not you’re willing to listen to it, or have a trigger against it. But truth rings true. It has a big effect. And the fact that leaders are connected to truth, makes them leaders.”

“Men can tend to lean on invulnerable logic, as if that gives them some mastery, rather than being in a place where you just allow things to be what they are — a more organic place where you are feeling things, you are experiencing things, and the black and white mastery is not so important. Being present and in the feeling, growing, learning, evolving, transforming is more of a female thing. If you are just in the experience of something, then it’s an ever changing thing, and it’s not a place in which you can be right. It’s where you are in the experience, rather than mastering the experience. The kind of false mastery I’m talking about is the human substitute for the Divine, the province of the alternate self.”

“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.”

“A leader is a person who is accessing reality from their own experience and expressing that. He or she has a fix on reality in a way that others don’t. They have a very strong knowing that something is very important and must be said and is really true. And the truth of it causes people to recognize it. When someone speaks truth you know it, whether or not you’re willing to listen to it, or have a trigger against it. But truth rings true. It has a big effect. And the fact that leaders are connected to truth, makes them leaders.”