Transformational Teachings from Counselor Jane Ilene Cohen

When a person makes a limiting decision* that they can’t trust their own perception of reality, it makes them overly dependent on how other people respond to them and define reality. It often, also, makes them overly dependent on people they consider authority figures…

People often compromise themselves in relationships rather than revealing what is really true from their perspective, because they don’t believe it could possibly work out if everyone did that.

The internal dilemmas the younger generations are encountering are on a much more evolved level, and are more in tune with present-moment experience, than that of many of their parents.

Our whole organism is a very fine-tuned, living instrument that has many means for taking in information, and is highly responsive.

The real danger is not the physical action someone might take that would be harmful to us, but it is the distorting of reality that is transferred, like a computer virus hidden within a Trojan horse.

…it only becomes a matter of whose truth is better when there’s an avoidance of truth.

This new paradigm about faith is more empowered. It is having the faith to look at what’s true, and then you experience what is actually there.

…if everybody stays in the present moment with where they are at, and allowing themselves to be connected with or affected by what happens, the whole process goes deeper

…the defense system is holding in place an impossibility. It is hiding the gold that is the person. It’s keeping people away from loving you.

“…when you really are in your experience and you’re doing what really benefits you, and you don’t have the wall up — all of a sudden your vision opens up and you see that this is actually good for everyone…”