Dr. Paul Newton 2012

What’s in an identity?  It’s what you identify with.  How you describe who you are to yourself and to others.  Nowadays, our identity can be stolen electronically.  This means that who we are, as defined by the government and financial institutions, is essentially just our name and identification numbers, and that with this information, someone else can pretend to be us.  But our legal identity is only a small fraction of who we are.

Your identity changes as a function of who you are relating to.  This is because we play different roles in relation to different people.  Are you the same person when you are with your family as you are with your friends?  In ...

Dr. Paul Newton 2012

After the first ray of Remembering comes Trust, which is the second Ray of Consciousness.  How we remember events and circumstances from past experience tends to shape the level of trust we have in our present.  For example, past interactions and relationships with others will influence our willingness to trust and connect with people.  And our history with how life has provided for us will affect our ability to trust that everything does happen for a reason and that it’s all unfolding in a timely manner.  Trust in relationships, and trust in faith, are the two components of the second Ray of Consciousness.

There is a natural evolution in the access to consciousness that we develop ...

Dr. Paul Newton 2012

If You Don’t Like Your Past, Just Change How You Remember It!

If several people witness the same situation and are later asked to recount it, how similar will their stories be?  While there may be some similarities in who was there and perhaps the sequence of events that took place, we will probably have as many different stories as we have people telling them.  Each person will place importance on different aspects of the situation while deeming other aspects irrelevant.  Some aspects may not even be remembered and people will actually argue as to whether certain things took place or not.  Everyone remembers things selectively!

When people talk about their past, they usually ...

Dr. Paul Newton 2012

Consciousness is, simply put, a way of describing the level of awareness with which we observe something.  If we are unconscious, we have absolutely no awareness of what is going on in or around us.  We observe nothing and remember nothing.  If we are highly conscious, we become acutely aware of subtleties within us and in the environment.  We notice the relationships between things, causes and effects and our interaction with the environment. 

The way we experience consciousness at different levels of awareness has been documented and described by many disciplines, using different terminology to describe similar phenomena.  Dr. Donald Epstein, the founder of Network Spinal ...

Dr. Julie Doobay 2012

When we are feeling sorry for ourselves or unmotivated, a simple shift of focus can change the way we interpret and experience life. We can put problems - both real and perceived - into perspective by reminding ourselves, and being grateful for all that we already do have and all that we have accomplished along the way.

Your thoughts attract and draw to you events, conditions and circumstances which are in direct correlation to what you are feeling. Expressing thanks directs your attention to the opportunities and gifts that have already been bestowed onto you. It also places you in the fortunate position to continue to receive those things which you value, and for which you are grateful. If you focus on ...