Transformational Teachings from Counselor Jane Ilene Cohen

You’re wanting to defend yourself because you’re feeling powerless. The only reason someone comes out so strongly is because they’re feeling powerless.

…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.

“…despite yourself people see where you are, more than you want them to see. And I think the big turning point for you is when you realize that hiding yourself keeps people from loving you…”

Transcript Excerpt of Jane’s Teachings during an NLP TimeLine Therapy Session with Janine 6-29-09: (Name is changed to protect client’s privacy.) “What causes people to make limiting decisions is some event occurs in your life that you don’t have the conscious tools to make sense of. You’re in an experience of the unknown. So you [...]

“…in order to facilitate the level of reframe necessary for significant change it’s necessary to hold in place a consistent spiritual knowing about the positive nature of life…”

“…It’s a dynamic paradigm of reality that is being held in place here. And as each person in the group moves forward, they’re participating on higher and higher levels, at holding it in place…”

“…When the illusion of reality that most people live in, that they think is what is really supporting them, when they go past it, it seems to be a really big transition. It is about shifting survival systems.”

“The issue here is whether trying to manipulate truth works better than truth. Following truth takes radical faith in life, in truth, in things working to the best and highest interest for everyone concerned…”

“There’s a whole area of communication that you misinterpret in a way that goes against yourself. You’re interpreting things against yourself so rapidly, that it’s hard to catch it in the moment…”

“Once we penetrate past the defensive response — which happens in the group when other people become aware of your defense system — then what comes up is your limiting decision, which is a negative and mistaken decision against yourself and the nature of life…”