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).
Why Is It Important to Like Yourself?
There is empowerment when you like yourself.
Because you are always with yourself, and spending the whole time you occupy that body with you, doesn’t it make sense that you like yourself?
You’re not just likable, but lovable.
When you learn to like yourself, it becomes easier to learn to love yourself.
What Can You Do About Toxic People?
You can’t detoxify toxic people.
This is the hardest reality to accept. There is nothing you can do to detoxify toxic people.
The most important thing to keep in mind is that you have choices. Will you choose to stay with, step back from, and/or step away from people – toxic or otherwise – for the good of your mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical health, wellness, and wellbeing?
Does Self-Awareness Matter When Life Sucks?
Even when life sucks, YOU choose what you do with it
What do you do when it all sucks?
Lament or live.
It would be very, very easy to lament what’s going on. You could wallow in the total suckage of this situation – and let it pull you down into a depression.
Or you can live. you can accept that this sucks, it’s not fair or fun, but it is. You can choose to live and keep on keeping on.
How Much Can You Truly Control in Life?
The only thing over which you and I have control is ourselves.
Even then, there are limits to what you can and do control.
All of them are internal. Sure, there are externals that you can direct – but control is not the case.
When you stop trying to control things outside of yourself – it’s deeply freeing.
What if "Should" Is an Illusion?
What if there is no “should”?
What does that mean? A great many of the things that frustrate me tend to revolve around the word “should”.
Without “should”, the way to greater empowerment of yourself looks a lot clearer. At least to me, it does. Also, without “should”, I can work with what is to build better without unnecessary suffering.