Transformational Teachings from Counselor Jane Ilene Cohen

People don’t generally realize that our internal state is caused by our interpretation of how we are affected, rather than something objective out in the world that is happening to us.

You experience Katie as being hurtful to you. But who is hurting who is extremely subjective.

“…Aligning with mainstream thought, in order to have a sense of what reality is, was important in past eras, when people couldn’t connect with reality from their direct inner source. Then you have to have the consensus…”

“…Some people can be untrue to themselves more easily than you can. For people like you, the sense of who they are is so strong, and it is so unique, that it’s just too incongruent to do that…”

“Where I’m trying to move you to is something that is a very high level of functioning. You could say it’s the main shift that humanity is moving toward. It’s moving from having your sense of reality defined by something outside of you, by a perceived authority as if it defines what is true — versus direct experience, directly coming from an internal plumb line, a place of being present and available in the present moment, and knowing what is true, which comes from, you could say, an open channel.”