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 Ep1: What Does The Meaning of Life Have to Do with Self-Awareness?
What if the meaning of life is staring us right in the face?
If, as I postulate, the meaning of life is To Live, education and learning are a cornerstone of that.
Learning builds up our ability to not only acquire new information, but to better understand the world around us.
If the meaning of life is to live, then you must be self-aware to do that.
S4 Ep21: Self-Awareness and the Unknown
Mindfulness and self-awareness of control in your approach to the unknown is the key.
We have a very limited amount of control over the world around us.
What that comes down to is conscious awareness. Rather than letting your subconscious mind do the driving via rote, routines, and habits, you’re choosing to apply active conscious awareness. That practice is mindfulness.
S4 Ep20: Why is it Healthy and Empowering to Admit “I Don’t Know?”
Working with and from “I don’t know” makes you stronger, not weaker .
The truth is that admitting “I don’t know” makes you strong. Not knowing things doesn’t make you lesser, unworthy, or defective. Truth is, it makes you human.
“I don’t know” applies to everyone everywhere. That doesn’t make you lesser, or weaker. It empowers you to grow, learn, and evolve.
S4 Ep19: In the Great Cosmic Scheme of Things, Do I – And Anything I Do – Matter?
Does anything I do matter?
Of course it does. It matters to me. What that means is that anything that I do matters. It matters to and for me.
Ah, but isn’t that selfish? From a certain point of view, yes. That, however, is dependent on your definition of selfishness. Mine is simple. Any action taken with malice of forethought, knowing full well that you are causing hurt or harm to another, and YOU DON’T CARE ABOUT THAT, is selfish.
Acts of self-care, though someone might call them so, ARE NOT SELFISH.
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.