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).
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.
Mindfulness and Mental Health
Mental health is our state of mind
Everyone on the planet deals with matters of health, wellness, and wellbeing. Along those lines, everyone has four primary areas of health to consider – mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual.
Mental health is where our overall wellness and wellbeing live. They are products of mental health.
Separating Self-Care from Selfishness
Accountability separates self-care from selfishness. Choosing to care for and look out for yourself is not with selfish intent. Not unless you do so without care or regard for anyone or anything else.
You can’t help others recognize self-care from selfishness.
You are worthy and deserving of good health, overall wellness, and wellbeing. Which means you are worthy and deserving of self-care.
Self-Awareness and Your Subconscious Mind
Self-Awareness and your subconscious mind reveals the deeply rooted aspects of you.
Within your subconscious are all your beliefs, values, and habits. You are likely aware of many. But there are also, quite probably, many that you are not so aware of.
Your subconscious takes in all that you experience, learn, see, think, feel, and whatnot. Then, because it lacks the filters of the conscious mind, many things it absorbs sit there and leave a lasting impression that you would not consciously choose.
Depression is a Lying Liar that Lies a Lot
You do not suffer depression alone.
Recognizing this can help you turn to people when it strikes and find better ways to cope with and combat it.
Call it what you will, depression is something far more people cope with than you might realize.
This is a very real mental and emotional health problem that should neither be ignored, nor swept under the rug. Yet there are still many, many people who do not recognize or acknowledge the depth of the issue.