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On Being Psychic or Intuitive

By Jay Levin Here is a premise to ponder: That you were born psychic and intuitive – meaning you had extra-sensory radar that could move beyond time and space and report back with information you had not heard nor seen, tasted, smelled or touched. Every now and then you get glimmers of that psychic ability which you likely define as “intuition.” There is something you just “know” or feel. Many if not most times we dismiss this and can be heard later saying , “Oh, if I had only followed my intuition about this situation (or person).” Based on our premise, that you were born psychic – meaning with access to knowledge and information that did not come through your five senses – then those moments of intuition or psychic knowingness are not remarkable in their own right.  They only stand out against a general daily life in which you normally are not in touch with this side of yourself and instead you are running on – and thinking with – other information and systems. In fact, we know from a pretty voluminous amount of research into psychic phenomenon by researchers associated with many leading universities and institutions, that psychic phenomena is NOT so unusual. Some people have an extraordinary amount of it. Others have inklings.  Continuing with our premise, if you were born psychic what are the implications of this? That you must have some sort of yet unexplained receptors that allows you to read or detect subtle information fields. That those subtle information fields exist somewhere. That this must be an innate ability varying with different people.  That this ability must be somewhat quashed or encouraged by the experiences in childhood, including the way you are nurtured and programmed by family, friends and community, because so many of us don’t retain much of it. That this ability is not something you created. That if it is innate and lying dormant in you, there may be ways to reclaim that ability by clearing away the programmed, reactive and emotional blocks to accessing it. That the blocks to it can be cleared given that some people become more intuitive and psychic as they age or train themselves differently. Enter now certain types of life coaches. Our job is to teach you to get the emotional and psychological blocks out of the way so that this deeper inner knowing element of yourself can come forward – and it is deeper and wiser than the word “psychic” implies.  Some of us like myself also teach methods of more readily accessing your deeper knowingness, intuition and psychic reality. In fact, I have taken groups of people each of whom has proclaimed to have no psychic abilities whatever, and shown them with one simple exercise how much they actually know about a stranger in the room with them. Why remove the blocks and regain this aptitude? Because the “thinking” and chattering parts of your mind make so many mistakes. Also because by your believing this mind activity is you and by then giving it so much authority over your decisions, you block a remarkably different (and more success-inducing) way of knowing, understanding and moving through life. And if you want to know more about what I mean by that or how you got to be who you are now, check my Free Download lecture and earlier blogs. **** J ay Levin, the founder and former Editor-in Chief of the LA Weekly newspaper, has been a highly successful life and relationship coach and trainer for 12 years.  He recently made the core of his work available as classes in Life Rehab and Mastery and in Relationships. See  relationshipcounselingtoday.com

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Jay Levin

Jay Levin is best known as the founder of the  LA Weekly , of which he was editor-in-chief and president for many years before selling what he had grown to be the largest and most successful city weekly in the country. For the last dozen years, apart from some consulting on editorial content to new media enterprises, Jay has been teaching life mastery and helping people successfully reorient their lives and careers and heal their relationships without spending years in therapy or marriage counseling. Jay’s coaching and courses draw on his background first as a journalist in which, in order to write about them, he participated in scores of different human development trainings. Later he continued his education for its own sake, attending scores of other workshops. His major non-journalistic professional education in human development has been via the Master’s degree psychology program at the University of Santa Monica and the inner life program from Pathwork Institute. Over the years Jay has worked with more than 200 individuals one-on-one and with dozens of couples. Encouraged by clients, Jay three years ago began offering courses to hundreds of people, specifically in relationship success and in his more comprehensive course on Life Rehabilitation and Mastery Basics. Highly successful in terms of reorienting people’s lives and in advancing their careers and relationships for the better, the courses allow individuals to learn a system that, in effect, enables them to become their own coaches and/or to become teachers or coaches themselves. During his journalism and business career Jay dealt with a broad array of individuals and situations. Hallmarks of his classes are his pragmatic street smarts and ability to relate to real world situations combined with his communication skills and his entrepreneurial and business acumen. Participants in the classes work privately on their own issues, gaining the sophisticated and necessary education in the realities of human inter-reaction and selfhood that the culture fails to provide  en mass  and which is sorely needed. Participants report learning tools that give them more confidence in nearly every situation and which make them better able to cope when challenged. The classes cover a broad range of life issues that we all encounter – including, notably and dramatically, personal relationships, career success and work, and the mastery of inner emotional and mental demons. Read more from the original source: Jay Levin

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Stock Market Shocks and Relationship Quivers

You can expect that the current round of stock market volatility is going to be tougher emotionally on a  larger number of   people than even 2008’s crash.  You might also find it to be much tougher on  your relationships with life and business partners, family and even friends. The reason is simple: unlike in 2008, more of us sense on a deeper psychic level that the system is actually broken. Our standard all-American faith that a quick fix might be possible has been shattered by the persistence of high unemployment and by the outrageous and unreal nature of politics in the U.S – to the degree that many people now  suspect, and not surprisingly,  that elections no longer make a difference. The most recent poll: 76% of Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction. The emerging sense that something fundamental has gone wrong – as in fact it has, with both parties beholden to the corporate interests that fund campaigns – has increased generalized anxiety and stress. Therapists and social workers confirm rising emotional and psychological  issues among the populace. Most humans are not trained to deal with uncertainty, the way astronauts are trained, and so we tend to trigger into confusion, anxiety, anger and depression when the Big U shows up. Like any emotions, we can suppress them just so long before they find an outlet. One notable public outlet was Tea Party member public anger over Obamacare. One always reliable private outlet is our relationships , which tend to take poundings in times like this unless we give ourselves the training to manage them. What I call “obliteration fear” arises alongside economic uncertainty. People tend to get closer in their unconscious and in their imaginations to some picture of bleak fate. Most of us are ill-trained by the society and our family upbringings to deal creatively with this fear and uncertainty. Instead, we rely on  coping mechanisms we developed in childhood to manage family stress or not getting our core emotional needs met. There are only six of these mechanisms: fight, flight, seek approval, control, manipulate, or sacrifice yourself to “fix” or enable someone else. We tend to have one or more of these coping mechanisms dominate our reactive behavior, although most of us rely on more than one in dealing with other people and with difficult situations.  You can figure out which ones you most rely on. A problem with coping mechanisms is that they don’t fix the problem.  In fact they aggravate the underlying emotions of fear, anger, sadness/despair and shock. And aggravated emotions find their outlet, very often against the person with whom you are in relationship. As a life coach who trains people to deal with these issues, I know there are healthy fixes that enrich a person’s entire life.  There isn’t space here to share that training but I will explain one helpful relief practice called Soma Breathing. Instead of acting out, locate the emotional pain in your body. Focus on that part of your body and then simultaneously focus on directing your breath to that area. Don’t change your breathing pattern; instead, simply guide the breath to the pained area and feel it touching the area as a sweet kiss of soothing.  As it leaves imagine it carrying away a small amount of the stress. Do this for a few minutes to warm up and then intuitively pick a soothing color and image to breathe in alongside the breath – or as colored breath.  Continue until you feel the emotional outburst or deep pain moment has passed. Use as frequently and as long as needed. For additional guidance, you can check the Free Download on this website, jaylevin.com or  relationshipcounselingtoday.com . There are also audios available covering training in critical areas of life success and relationships, including emotional and mind mastery. Beyond this, as a former political journalist and editor, I share the sensibility that something fundamental is amiss in America and I further share the analysis of MSNBC anchor Dylan Ratigan that the core issue is that the vast majority of politicians work for the big money sources that fund their campaigns and not for the overall benefit of the U.S. As Ratigan notes, it is going to take a Constitutional amendment to take money out of politics – and there is no more urgent public matter than to insist of all politicians that they get behind such an Amendment. **** J ay Levin, the founder and former Editor-in Chief of the LA Weekly newspaper, has been a highly successful life and relationship coach and trainer for 12 years.  He recently made the core of his work available as classes in Life Rehab and Mastery and in Relationships. See  relationshipcounselingtoday.com Read the original here: Stock Market Shocks and Relationship Quivers

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The Universal Lesson of Russell Armstrong’s Suicide

I don’t know Russell Armstrong or anything about him except what I’ve read about the estranged spouse of “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Taylor Armstrong.  I do know something about suicide, however. I know it doesn’t have to be the fate of everyone who contemplates it. The core reason for suicide is the deep sense that either the world or I myself has not lived up to my expectations – and isn’t about to. The emotional response to this belief is despair and depression of such depth and intensity that it overrides one’s natural fear of death. The core reason for anyone reaching this conclusion is that the world is a very difficult place. I believe that we all come in from a realm that feels beautifully connected and safe and, in any hierarchal culture, we find ourselves in an alternative realm where most people are very well trained in how to create disconnect with others.  Notably, this includes our parents, because in part that’s how they have been trained.  (Fortunately, on a sliding scale of success, parents and the community also reinforce our natural connecting/loving abilities – and so we end up split: each of us with a Jekyll loving side of ourselves along with a Hyde darkness.) As I describe in the  Free Download  life mastery class on my life coaching website, it’s also a savagely judgmental world we enter. This  is extremely hard on all of us – and yet so innate in our development that it puts us all on guard. It is, of course, the exact opposite experience of safe connection.    Our basic childhood responses for dealing with this world are the six coping mechanisms   I mentioned in my earlier blog . These are: fight, flight, seek approval, control, manipulate, or sacrifice yourself to “fix” or enable someone else. They don’t solve the underlying issues – in fact they make them worse – but they are survival mechanisms in the moment.  Beyond learning to rely on such inadequate life and relating tools, is the fact that psychologically as children we develop a self-image of who we want to be. If the world later supports that self-image, we tend to be at least okay, if not happy and satisfied. If it doesn’t, watch out! The awful truth about any self-image, however, is that it is an image. It is not our authentic self, though it may include elements of authenticity, such as our native talents and aptitudes. And a good rule of thumb is: t he more distant you are from your authentic self, the closer you are to suicide. For some of us, when our coping mechanisms no longer work to keep us from despair over how the world or ourselves have not met our expectations, including the expectations that come with our self-image, we might as well say goodbye to this world. The pain is just too deep to stay here. Now, here’s a story. Some years ago I met a young woman, 23, who was one of the most remarkable, loving, compassionate people I’d encountered. She lighted up a room with her essence and was literally incapable of forming a negative judgment on another person. I suggested to her that she must have had extraordinary and loving parenting.  And she said no, she had not, and in fact she had been suicidal a year and a half earlier and had failed in a serious attempt to kill herself. What healed her despair, she said, was a simple mental/emotional technique she learned at a free evening workshop a friend insisted she attend. Not having anything to do – her father was at this point paying her rent – she spent all day every day using this technique, one that deals with negative thoughts and emotions. A year later she was in the remarkable shape in which I met her. Moreover, her mind had become completely quiet- it didn’t chatter away all day long the way most of ours do. The technique was called Heartmath, and it is one of the modern tools life coaches like myself teach to help people with their emotional pain and negative mindsets. There are numerous others we teach as we coach people toward success in life and their careers, as no one technique works on everyone and it is best to offer a smorgasbord of tools. Russell Armstrong obviously either was not taught such skills or lacked an ally to help him find the will to use them, another job of life coaches and the therapists with whom we work in suicide-potential cases. The great thing about these tools is you don’t have to be suicidal to work with them. You only need a desire to move past whatever pain you might be in from some area of your life where you believe your expectations have not been met.    *** J ay Levin, the founder and former Editor-in Chief of the LA Weekly newspaper, has been a highly successful life and relationship coach and trainer for 12 years.  He recently made the core of his work available as classes in Life Rehab and Mastery and in Relationships. See  relationshipcounselingtoday.com See the original post: The Universal Lesson of Russell Armstrong’s Suicide

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Jay Levin’s Media Content and Editorial Consulting

Along with his life coaching, Jay is available to consult to editorial content projects that he believes provide a public service. Most recently he has been content director on a consulting basis for for a web project to be launched later this year that provides tools for positive global change. Jay’s strengths include great conceptual abilities and visionary leadership. A highly creative content developer in print, web and TV (he founded Planet Central Television in the ’90s,) he is also an innovative and substantial editor with a wide network of contacts. Jay has a broad intellectual range and knowledge base that embraces political and social issues, media, culture, religion, psychology and human development. A seasoned entrepreneur and an excellent organizer, he is also skilled at evaluating media properties.  Among numerous projects, some years ago Jay co-partnered on web sites in the human development and creativity space which became victims of the dot com crash. Later he launched a new form of city magazine. He has also served on boards and as an adviser to two then struggling publication chains, Wave Publications in Los Angeles and Metro Publications in San Jose. In both cases he was instrumental  in turnarounds, and he played a significant role in the sale of Wave Publications to better-financed owners. FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT PRIVATE@JAYLEVIN.COM

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