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).
S5 Ep16: How Does Self-Awareness Link to Mindfulness, Gratitude, and Positivity?
There’s always something to be grateful for.
Gratitude is always positive. It always empowers, both when given and received. Gratitude, mindfulness, and positivity are linked because all are tools of incredible empowerment that, together, can change your life and put you more in control.
S5 Ep3: Positivity Learned from the Uncomfortable
Getting mindfully uncomfortable can lead to positivity.
Mindfulness around this topic begins with acquiring conscious awareness of my thoughts, feelings, actions, approach, and intentions. Just thinking and feeling this out is a step away from your comfort zone. That’s because it points me in the direction of the unknown and uncomfortable.
Mindfulness can only be practiced by each of us individually.
S4 Ep18: Why Do We Need More Genuine, Non-Toxic Positivity in the World?
What does genuine, non-toxic positivity look like?
First and foremost, it does not apply to anyone other than you. You recognize and acknowledge the world can be an imperfect, illogical, even awful place. Bad things might be happening/have happened, and they’re not to be disregarded. Then, you practice mindfulness to be consciously aware of yourself.
What this looks like is recognizing something has happened, but that either/and/or it’s a learning opportunity, a blessing in disguise, an unavoidable change, or a chance to start something new, change direction, and so on.
This comes down to making choices and decisions for how you approach life here and now and then moving forward. Genuine, non-toxic positivity is working with potential and possibilities to live life on your terms and in your control.
Mindfulness 101
What is mindfulness?
Mindfulness is conscious awareness, and self-awareness, in the present. Right here and right now. It’s conscious awareness of your inner mindset/headspace/psyche self. That inner awareness leads to greater awareness of life, the Universe, and everything.
Thought + Feeling + Action = Mindfulness.
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.