Transformational Teachings from Counselor Jane Ilene Cohen

Following enlightened self-interest* is leading you down a path that we couldn’t have preconceive of. This shows how irrelevant our preconceptions are about how things are supposed to end up looking. The challenge is being willing to stand in the confusion and discomfort of the unknown until things become clear, rather than jumping into an immediate solution so you can stop dealing with it.

People often go along with what’s happening around them as if that’s just the way things are, not realizing that they are letting themselves be controlled by other people’s energy. That’s very, very different than going with the flow of life.

Our physical body is, instead, a vehicle for the expression of who we are, not who we actually are.

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.

…it’s never an attachment to the person himself that is what you’re really wanting. It’s the heart of intimacy, the heart of love.

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.

…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.

It’s not true that those with the most physical power are the most powerful, because if it were true, the big woolly mammoth would be in control.

…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