Superconscious

As well as facilitating Superconscious I work in the arts – documentary mostly. At the beginning of March 2020 I went to the AIDC (Australian International Documentary Conference). I have a documentary, The Oh Gap, that I am producing, directing and writing that was selected to pitch to a selection of network heads from around the world. We had a training day where the 15 projects selected got a chance to practise. I was so nervous to get up in front of my peers and pitch the project. My speech was too long and I had a prop that was a giant golden clitoris. I gave the practise speech and it felt as if I had a high amount of voltage in my body. I was speaking too fast and I felt that my voice may shake. It didn’t bode well for the big pitch a few days later. A speech that was meant to inspire people to hand over hundreds of thousands of dollars toward the project. 

Back at my accomodation I choose to begin to practise the techniques I share with others. I used self hypnosis, Emotional Freedom Techniques, meditation and self enquiry to transform my nervousness into excitement. I also chose a reframe. I reminded myself these people want great stories, I have great stories, we are on the same team, with the same goal. I did the practical measure of cutting my speech in half and then I used visualisation to imagine what I wanted to create – an inspiring, confident, rousing speech. 

On the day of the speech I still had about a 4/10 nervousness in my stomach. I did some tapping and within two minutes it was completely gone. I was really happy with how it went and we got several sales agents and broadcasters interested. It is a very exciting time. 

If you would like to learn some of these techniques come along to our next event EFT event. Click here to see when the next free workshop is on.

Yesterday after I got out of the ocean, I went to the ocean tap to rinse the sand off my feet. It is one of those taps that you press in and as the pressure releases the water flow shuts off. The one at my local beach has a very short length of water flow and I have to press if a few times to get the sand off. Grrrrrrr! Am I right?

Well, it all depends on my perception and deception filters.

It all depends on how I am choosing to see the tap. 

One of the foundational exercises I suggest for people to do is to watch their thoughts for ten minutes a day, for 7 days in a row.

Once you have an awareness of what you are thinking you can choose different thoughts. It might go something like this…

Inner monologue:  That was such a beautiful swim, I am so grateful I could enjoy that, my feet are sandy, oh great the tap is free, f**k you tap the stream is so short, how annoying, now I have to press it again, ugh so much effort….. hold up…… why am I angry?, take a deep breath, ahhh, okay [to thought] – thank you but no thank you, I choose to be grateful for that tap, I live in a society that has put that tap their to remove the sand, how kind.

You could go on and on with lots of gratitude…

Inner monologue: it is so great to have a tap to wash my feet, and feet to wash, to be in a peaceful society with taps, wow somebody invented that tap and that pressure system to conserve water, people care about the environment, many people are inventors, we have so much ability as humans, this suburb and council is amazing, etc.

Every thought we have sets off a pulse of electricity in the brain that triggers a neurochemical reaction that we experience as emotion. Eg. “f**k you tap” = cortisol = anger Vs “I love you tap” = serotonin or oxytocin = love / gratitude / happiness.

It is through our power of choice at the level of thought that we can begin to make new choices and new neural pathways and actually make ourselves feel good. It’s as though there is a chemist in our brain, our thoughts are dollars and we can buy antidepressants. 

There are so many other ways to make changes with various healing tools, going deep into our subconscious, working on our attitudes, beliefs, imagination, etc. Yet I would like to suggest working with thought is a fantastic way especially if you feel out of control in your life or of yourself or if you are feeling low energy.  You can influence and control your mind even if everything around you seems out of control. In the opening line of one of my favourite fiction books, Shantaram, Gregory David Roberts writes:

“IT TOOK ME a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured. I realised, somehow, through the screaming in my mind, that even in that shackled, bloody helplessness, I was still free: free to hate the men who were torturing me, or to forgive them. It doesn’t sound like much, I know. But in the flinch and bite of the chain, when it’s all you’ve got, that freedom is a universe of possibility. And the choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.”

In order to choose a different thought you have to have an awareness of what you are thinking. You can develop that by watching your thoughts or paying attention to what you are feeling. If you feel angry or sad ask yourself what have I just been thinking? Once you get good at watching your thoughts (if you are not there already) you can work with the statements “thank you but no thank you I choose” or “Delete, delete, delete, I choose” Or “Cancel, cancel, cancel, I choose”.

Many of my mentors and some people I know have gone beyond thought, they exist in constant present moment awareness. And this is a respectable endeavour. However, most people have 50-80 thousand thoughts a day and are looking to make some changes in their lives. So watching thoughts and working with thoughts can be used in conjunction with present moment meditation eg focusing on breath and the practise of ‘being here now’ and ‘loving what is’. By the way, these statements work well as a mantra for a run away mind seducing you in ever increasing spirals of negativity.

The vital reminder here is you are a free will being. You have the sovereign power to use your power of thought to influence your feelings, and actions. I encourage you to ask yourself what you want and remind you, you have the power to create. 

For the past 15 years I have been working in both the arts and self development spaces (and studying in both fields for 20 years). Initially, my studies and training in consciousness was only for personal curiosity and healing. As a teen, I experienced an awakening which put me on a quest to know the truth. The truth of myself, of consciousness, of reality.

I met my first mentor, Michelle, when I was 18 and saw her for a spiritual healing appointment. At the end of the session she invited me to her Wednesday night women’s circle which involved one and half hours of meditation followed by training in a metaphysical skill eg reading and healing auras, psychic intuition development, chakra work, and more.

Following this I got involved in Anthroposophy and I taught film for a Year at Glenaeon Rudolf Steiner School. When I was 24, I met two more mentors, a married couple who were from Taoist and Tibetan linages. I studied with them for 9 years which included energy healing, bioenergetics, hypnosis, shadow work, breath work, tarot, meditation, dream programming, conscious reality creation and more. During this time I also studied the Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) with mentors from EFT Universe. I also studied with Scott Washington for 15 years who mentored me with a focus on knowing yourself, conscious reality creation and knowing we are also here to have fun.

In 2013 I launched Superconscious with the encouragement of one mentor who told me, “Julia, it is all well and good to empower yourself and upgrade your life but what are you doing for your community?” Overcoming the classic imposter syndrome which told me, “how are you going to guide anyone when you can’t even even overcome your floordrobe?”

I am not perfect and I once I expressed my doubt to Scott about doing this kind of work with people if I am not perfect / enlightened / impeccable (which I would prefer). Scott told me a story about a man who had a company centred around enlightenment. He was interviewed and asked if he was enlightened. He said, “No, but it doesn’t mean I can’t help people on their journeys.” 

There are many levels of existence and we are both perfect and imperfect, enlightened and ignorant, and neither. We are already what we are seeking we are all just remembering who we already are. 

And so I hosted my first meditation class and grew from there to do one on one work, workshops and now retreats. Sharing the tools I have been practising and integrating is hugely rewarding and aligned with my soul’s purposes to empower through teaching/healing and exhilarate through art. 

I began my arts training at university with a BABed and went on to do my honours in contemporary performance. During this time I was very inspired by my honours mentor, Clare Grant and her work with the Sydney Front. It was like nothing I had ever seen and I felt truly excited to be alive and I wanted to share that feeling. I undertook further training in performance at NIDA and got a scholarship with PACT theatre which informed my relationship with my body, breath, consciousness and creation more deeply, giving me skills that cross pollinate in my healing and mentoring work. Especially around embodiment and working with others. I began my professional arts practice with live experiences by creating installations, performance and immersive theatre, individually and in groups, and have been fortunate enough to have worked at some of Sydney’s most incredible arts spaces including the Opera House, MCA and AGNSW as well as festivals and theatres in NSW. 

In 2016 my inner guidance was encouraging me to dream bigger and communicate more widely so I applied to study at AFTRS (Australian Film Television and Radio School) and under their expert guidance have developed into a filmmaker. Film is a very exciting medium for communication on conscious and subconscious levels. I recently was 2nd Assistant director on the film Ruby’s Choice starring Jane Seymour and am currently producing two short form documentaries.

My working premise in life includes that all humans are worthwhile. That we are here to have fun. To create. And that free will is one of our greatest assets.

Often in “spiritual” circles (whatever that means to you) we hear ‘you create your reality’ but I know from personal experience when we are too depressed to move or too paralysed from anxiety to choose, that creating reality can feel impossible. Knowing this, I often find there are two arms to work with depending on the person and where they are at. One arm is releasing trauma from the body to create more freedom and ability to generate and focus energy. The second arm is creating which involves a knowledge of the subconscious mind such as how belief and imagination work. Being able to create coherence with your conscious and subconscious mind in incredible powerful in knowing and getting what you want. There is nothing that I can give you that you don’t already have but I can guide and remind you of who you are and to know yourself more deeply. 

2019 draws to a close. Are you taking time to reflect on what you want to let go of and what you want to create? What is your current reality? What is your vision?

There are many rituals, processes and ceremonies one can do to let go of what no longer serves. I will share one with you.

But before I do, what does ‘what no longer serves’ mean? 

We are here to be creators and to have fun. 

We have some basic tools and materials for creating our reality: thoughts, feelings, attitudes, beliefs, decisions, choices (materials) and imagination, will and desire/expectation (tools).

These tools and materials are in service to our creations.

How sharp are your tools? How developed are your materials?

A blunt will or imagination will not serve building the life you want to live. 

Unhelpful beliefs like ‘money doesn’t go on trees’ or ‘I’m just not creative’ also don’t serve a vision of creative fulfilment and prosperity. Many beliefs are unconscious and turn up as self sabotaging behaviours. You can learn to identify them and you can over come them through acting out of choice rather than habit.

Let’s look at beliefs… 

I have just spent a few days with a dear friend of 20 years who lives on the other side of Australia and has been on an intense truth seeking path for as many years as me, since we were teenagers. He was in a lot of pain and suffering. He had lost touch with his will. He had the openness and vulnerability to share with me his truth that no matter what he did there was a pit of despair waiting for him. He had a compulsion of self destruction and a belief he was worthless deep down.

Knowing him well and all the work he has done I felt responsible to challenge him that his pain and suffering was a choice. That somewhere along the line he had made a choice to believe he had no worth, no value. The idea for him that he created his reality of pain through choice was mind blowing. His spiritual practise had been about surrendering to the pain. Focusing on the silence and stillness and feeling it. While his practises have been valuable for him he had lost a sense of his own power to create. 

I asked him in all his work if he had experienced himself as true love and oneness. Surely after 15 years of meditation there had been a moment he could have experienced himself in this way because this is the truth – we are all worthwhile, every baby, every human is worthwhile it is our birthright. He had experienced it. So it was a choice from then on to believe that he was worthless or to believe that he was worthy. He realised worthiness was scary and he had to let go of the payoff of worthlessness which was for him not been responsible for his life and wallowing. Believing in his worth means knowing what he wants and going about creating it.

It is common to have conscious or unconscious beliefs – I am not good enough, I do not have enough or I do not know enough. When we choose to wake up to our own power it is time to start challenging the truth of these beliefs and be prepared to make new choices. Byron Katie has four questions she uses:

• Is it true?
• Is it really true / can I know that it is absolutely true?
• How do you react when you believe it is true?
• Who would you be if you did not believe it was true? 

I invite you to look at your beliefs before the end of the year and challenge if they true. You can add a level of imagination by erasing the beliefs and writing new beliefs.

Sometimes we do things automatically often because we saw our parents doing it. In one family at Christmas a woman always cut the end of the ham before she cooked it. When her partner asked why, she said that’s what my Mum does. When she asked her Mum, she said that’s what my Mum did. When she asked her Grandma she said, oh I did that because I only had one pan and the pan was too small. It can be so valuable to make the unconscious conscious and choose to do something differently. 

We live in a palace of possibility but we often keep to one room because someone has either told us to or we have assumed we don’t belong in the rest of the palace. The limiting beliefs are like writing on the walls of that room. I invite you to read the writing on the walls of the room you stay in. Imagine rubbing it out and writing new beliefs that allow you to explore the whole palace of possibility. 

I asked my friend what it is you want? He said he hasn’t asked himself that for a very long time, that it is almost unfathomable. I asked him, do you want to know what you want? He said yes. I said well, start there with that choice – I want to know what I want and the belief I am worthy.  

Happy New Year Superconscious Peeps! 2020 is a palace of possibility and I will be writing with some suggestions in the next week on creating lasting change / conscious reality creation. In 2020 I will be running a live 7-week program in Sydney to deep dive with a group into self mastery. Send me an email to register your interested or stay tuned for more details.