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The Freedom and Fun of Just Noticing

4/15/2025

“Awareness transcends what it is aware of. It is as separate as light is from what it shines upon.” ― Michael Singer, The Untethered Soul

After some time spent noticing my noticing with pure awareness this month, the first thing I’ve realized is that I don’t practice the pure awareness thing very often (oops, see, I’ve made a judgment). Noticing is almost automatically linked to what’s missing, wrong, not enough, too much in my mind. And this kind of noticing produces “shoulds,” lots and lots of requirements for being okay and enough. The “shoulds” in my life lead me down the well-worn path of worry and anxiety paved with thoughts of “not okay” and “something’s wrong.” And this cranks up the anxiety, especially when it happens in the middle of the night. So, when I turn pure awareness toward these “shoulds” without judgment, just noticing I can check out what’s there. What’s behind and underneath the “should” here? This question is a window into me, the observer me who is deep in my soul and doesn’t change with how old I am, what I’m wearing, how much I weight, who I’m with, what I do, who likes me or doesn’t, or even what mistakes I make.

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Let Awareness, NOT Judgment, Set You Free

4/1/2025

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“Try seeing your world and yourself this way, eyes open to whatever is before you, mind free of dichotomies. Are you good or bad, fragile or tough, wise or foolish? Yes. And so am I.” ― Martha Beck

This month I’m focusing on the second layer of Leading from the Inside Out, Awareness. I’m in the midst of writing the Awareness chapter of my book. I’ve blogged about it before, in fact, I’ve blogged about it quite a bit, which makes sense because it’s a tool that I use and sometimes misuse or at least misconstrue. What’s got my attention right now is how I conflate awareness and judgment without even realizing it (you could say that I’m unaware of this conflation much of the time) and the impact of this combination is usually anxiety. When I began my journey of coming home to myself (without knowing that’s what I was doing) almost 9 years ago I was stuck in a spiral of negative thinking. In terms of the Positive Intelligence (PQ) work that I do, my saboteurs were having their way with me.

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