Self-Awareness for Everyone
Applied Guidance for Mindfulness
Meet Your Host
I am MJ Blehart - a dreamer, philosopher, geek, writer, editor, amateur photographer, and medieval fencer/herald/
re-enactor. I’ve been writing fiction since I was 9 and have been blogging regularly for more than 10 years.
I believe that Consciousness Creates Reality. Thus, I’m certain that we have the power to make our lives into whatever we believe we can. And that begins with self-awareness.
I have the pleasure of serving as your guide through easy-to-use mindfulness tools, conscious reality creation, and other devices for unselfish self-awareness.
Currently, I live in New Jersey (near Philadelphia) with my wife and two feline overlords (cats).
What is Non-Toxic Positivity and Why Does it Matter?
Toxic positivity is the idea that if you think positive – and ONLY positive - your life will be the best it can be. It rather blatantly disregards, ignores, or turns a blind eye to anything that’s not positive.
Positivity in this manner turns anything not positive into an enemy.
The key to non-toxic positivity is recognizing that it’s not simply thought or feeling. Positivity is an attitude, a choice that you make in any and all given situations or circumstances. And it’s not an either/or by any stretch of the imagination.
How Does Gratitude Improve Your Health, Wellness, and Wellbeing?
Gratitude starts with the words “thank you.” When somebody gives you thanks, and it’s utterly honest, you feel good about it.
Want to be healthier? Actively give more gratitude. Pause and see what you have and say thank you for it. Don’t just say it, feel it. Let that feeling wash deeper into your psyche and see how that positively impacts your health, wellness, and wellbeing.
How Does Self-Care Begin with Kindness, Compassion, and Empathy?
Taking care of yourself is kindness, compassion, and empathy.
I have never met anyone who didn’t desire to be treated with kindness, compassion, and empathy. Every single person I’ve encountered in my life meets those criteria.
Kindness, compassion, and empathy are among the most infinite elements of the Universe. They’re never lacking, never scarce, always abundant.
How Does Self-Awareness Inform Your Identity?
Identity is complex. How you identify yourself varies depending on circumstances and situations.
Identity tends to get tied up in ego. Which adds to its utter artifice.
You are made up of a conscious mind and a subconscious mind.
Mindfulness is how you assume the control that’s rightfully yours.
How Do Your Comfort Zones Impact Your Life?
Everyone has multiple comfort zones that they exist within.
Even when a given comfort zone is unideal and maybe unhelpful to you and your life, that doesn’t mean leaving it is ever easy. Why? Because comfort zones are comfortable due to their familiarity. And the familiar is often comforting – even when not good for us.
There is always more than one depending on what it is and how it impacts you.