Awakening From Unconsciousness

This podcast has been intended to fuel the ability to become Self-Aware and to help heal the unconscious life.

Transcript

Namaste everybody,

This is Lisa A.

Romano,

The Breakthrough Life Coach,

Mentor,

And Author.

And today we will be discussing how to incrementally shift our focus when we are trying to recover from anything that has got us caught in a web in our mind,

Or anything that is happening in our mental field that feels like we are on some kind of a loop.

It is important for us as human beings to take seriously this apparatus that is the human brain.

Most of us know more about our cell phones,

Our laptops,

And about what is happening in the lives of reality TV stars than we do about the human brain.

And let's just stop for a second and reflect on the lunacy of that.

Think about the fact that most human beings never think about the way they think.

Human beings have the miraculous divine,

Although not innate,

It's not innate,

Thinking is not innate.

When I say thinking,

I mean the ability to be objective about what thought is racing through the conscious field.

How many of you listening today can say in this moment that you truly understand the miraculous ability that has been creator given,

Divinely encoded in the genome of a human being to be able to be objective about one's own thought process?

It's totally fine if in this moment you are freaking out a little bit.

I remember the first time that I became aware that I could think about the way I think.

I could from some higher state of consciousness,

Perhaps through the ability to think from the area or areas of my brain that are called the prefrontal lobe and the neocortex.

I remember the first few moments that I began to understand that I could be objective about a thought process.

And I got to tell you,

It freaked me out a little bit.

Because in the moments immediately following the moment of awareness,

I had to question where the hell have I been?

Where the hell have I been?

What the hell has been going on?

I'm 30 something years old.

I got married.

I had three children.

I have a house,

A business.

Where the hell have I been?

So many of you write me and tell me that before you heard one of my podcasts or watched one of my YouTube videos or read one of my books or took one of my coaching programs or saw a post on Instagram or Twitter or Facebook that you never even questioned whether you were thinking or reacting to the thoughts that were showing up in your conscious field.

And I have great empathy for warriors of truth that people like you who find themselves listening to this podcast are.

You have to be a warrior to go up against the pain and the shame and the guilt and the loneliness and the abandonment and the toxicity and the details and the experiences and the nuances and the havoc and the destruction that so many of us have not only lived through via childhood but have also discovered that we have recreated unknowingly in our adult lives.

That's one bit of freaking pill to have to swallow.

And I remember those early days of my awakening and when the shit hit the fan and I knew there was nothing I could do but surrender to what was going to happen next when I realized my ex-husband was not going to change.

And when I realized that up until those early moments of my awakening I had been asleep,

Unaware,

I was unaware.

I had had children under the veil of consciousness acting out like an automatic human being responding to the thoughts and the feelings that were programmed into my subconscious mind.

And I began to realize that the programs that were running my life were ones I didn't even realize were programs.

And I began to look over my shoulder like I talk about in The Road Back to Me,

My first book.

And I looked over my shoulder through the jagged peephole of self-awareness and I could see that in my unawareness I had created three children in my unconsciousness and I had exposed them to great dysfunction.

And they,

Like me,

Like my mother,

My father,

My sister,

My brother,

My nieces,

My nephews,

My uncles,

My aunts,

My grandparents,

My great-grandparents,

My great-great-grandparents,

I,

Like all the generations before me,

Had unknowingly,

Had unknowingly and unconsciously infected my children with what I call the disease of invisibility.

I,

Like all the generations before me,

Had constructed a life based on a faulty template that I now know was not the intention of the Infinite Intelligence or ultimate,

Ultimate intention of the Infinite Intelligence that created me.

I now believe that many generations ago human beings were denied information at some point in time that would allow them to stay on an awakened path.

And that conversation is not to be had today.

This conversation is about learning to recognize the dysfunction,

Learning to make peace with the fact that so many of us were unconscious and have done to our children what was done to us because that's a bitter time,

Bittersweet time.

It's a birthing process and it's really no different than our original birthing process.

It's painful to give birth both for the mother and the newborn baby.

The newborn baby in this cocoon of warmth being completely supplied divinely by the mother's body anchored to planet Earth through the chakra system or the energetic system of its mother.

And for anyone out there that is very logically driven,

This world is held together by magnetism.

The fact we are all subject to the laws of gravity which means that we are electrical beings which means if we were not subject to the laws of gravity we would float off into the atmosphere.

The beings that we are are electrical in nature.

Energy within our body keeps this physical suit moving very much like the electrical system of a car.

When the battery goes in the car,

The car doesn't move.

When our electrical system fails,

We fail to move.

Our physical suit,

Our armor,

Our flesh,

This fiber optic network of capillaries and cells and biology and chemistry that we are.

When that system fails,

We are no longer able to be animated very much like a car.

Car can't move.

Car can't move.

But the essence that we are,

I believe anyway,

Lives on.

That's just my opinion.

I know some people struggle with that and I say let's just respect where we are.

I respect you.

I hope that you respect me if that is a far and reaching concept for you.

But I honor how you feel and I get it.

So when we begin to awaken,

Like so many of you are,

And you're realizing where the hell have I been,

It can be a topsy-turvy time.

It's like being born again.

It can make you feel lightheaded,

Off balance,

Unsure of yourself.

It can shake your confidence.

It can make you feel anxious.

I know I was incredibly anxious.

I was excited but I was anxious and I was sad.

I was full of guilt.

I was full of shame.

And it took me quite a while to reconcile that although I was,

I would say,

A bit wiser than my parents,

Perhaps a lot wiser than my parents were when they were raising me.

My mom was 19 when she had me.

My dad was 20,

21.

Both of them quit high school.

Both adult children of alcoholics.

And my parents were better than their parents.

So I think that I spared my children a lot.

I know I did.

Of what I went through.

But fundamentally,

I was still asleep like my mom.

Fundamentally.

Perhaps a little bit more conscious than she was,

But still asleep.

Still asleep in the sense that I was recreating my patterns.

Or I was just stuck in my patterns because I wasn't aware that I was stuck inside this hologram.

And isn't that what we are?

Are you not an extension of your mother and father?

And if you have children,

Are your children not an unfolding of you?

And if you think about a hologram,

And as it moves,

It just keeps unfolding and folding,

Unfolding,

Unfolding,

Unfolding.

So if you stand on a star and you are able to look at the generations and generations and generations of people before you,

You can begin to see a pattern unfolding,

Unfolding,

Unfolding.

That's not your fault.

And even if there was some religious conspiracy or political conspiracy,

An agenda to keep man asleep,

Separate from his concept of God,

You ask why would anyone want to infuse a society with the idea that they are separate from God?

Well,

If you can separate a man or a woman or a child from this concept of God,

It's not too difficult to manipulate the concept of God.

It's not too difficult to shame people,

To have them fear God.

And if you can manipulate the rules of that God,

And you can create texts about this concept of God,

And you systematically reinforce the idea that people are sinners and not good at their birth,

Then you can put these people in a quest to be good enough for their God.

And if you're very clever,

You can control the rules.

And fear is a very,

Very effective manipulative tool.

So we have to remember that many of us have been brainwashed in various ways,

And that is not our fault.

The awakening process is very humbling.

It brings us to our knees,

But I believe that is necessary.

I believe only the humble and the meek shall inherit the kingdom of heaven.

And the kingdom of heaven exists behind your eyes and between your ears.

We have the ability to create heaven or hell in this lifetime.

And so many of us,

Unfortunately,

Have had very difficult life experiences.

We have had people abuse us sexually,

Psychologically,

Physically,

The people we love the most.

They have hurt us.

They have infected us.

They have passed on this unconsciousness,

Like you pass a baton in an Olympic game.

Parents pass on the shame and the pain and the unconsciousness to future generations.

Our cells are a product of what has happened in our parents' lives.

You cannot separate yourself from your parents' experience.

You can't.

Trauma is passed on.

Studies are proving that more and more.

It is possible to be born anxious,

In my opinion.

Studies are being done on pregnant women who witnessed the 9-11 tragedy.

Studies are being done on families who have,

Unfortunately,

Witnessed and taken part or have been abused and traumatized through the Holocaust and genocides.

So there are actual research studies being done to measure the kinds of trauma that gets passed down to children from parents and grandparents who have,

Unfortunately,

Witnessed and had the experience of great,

Great tragedies.

And it's being proven that children are affected by what has happened in the past.

It makes complete sense to me.

It makes complete sense to me.

In fact,

It doesn't make any sense that that would not happen.

You cannot separate a child from its mother and father.

You can't.

Even though children are separate and individuals on an emotional,

Biological,

Physical level,

You cannot go into a child's body and separate,

Carve out their mother and father from their chromosomes,

From their DNA.

Can't do it.

Just can't do it.

Children are products of mom and dad.

And so for those of you who are awakening,

Either if you are in the early stages of awakening and understanding this idea of unconsciousness,

Or if you've been on the path for quite a while,

Know that being humble and brought to your knees is a part of this process.

And know that the goal is to get on with it as quickly as possible.

Meaning we have got to learn that in spite of where we've been,

We've got to surrender to what is today and focus on where we're going.

I got an amazing email today from a young woman in Russia who had an awful childhood and who learned from a therapist that she was codependent and then began researching on Google and YouTube and found my work.

And over the past few years she's been listening to my work diligently.

She ended up leaving a very abusive covert narcissist,

Took her very young son of two,

Went to live in a shelter for a while just to avoid him because he was violent.

And now two years later she is in her own apartment.

She wakes up happy.

She goes to sleep peaceful.

She still listens to my work,

My podcasts while her son is playing.

She said that her son was listening to her,

Listened to my podcast,

And she heard him say to her,

Mommy,

What does it mean to hold on to yourself five years old?

Beautiful.

And in that moment was the opportunity to explain to him how he can focus on his own experience,

His own feelings.

And he has a right to discern and to decide who gets to be a part of his life.

He has a right to discern how other people affect him energetically and emotionally.

He has a right to expect people to treat him well.

He has that right.

That's what it means to hold on to yourself.

Defy your experience outside of what you think other people want you to do,

Outside of what you think other people want you to perceive,

Outside what you think other people want you to feel.

We return to the self.

We hold on to the self.

So what I want everyone to remember is that if you're being humbled by your awakening,

That's a really good thing.

If you are feeling guilt over what you've experienced and possibly have unknowingly passed down to the children or you're feeling some type of guilt over your unconsciousness,

I just want you to know I hear you.

I was there.

I've been there.

It sucks.

It sucks.

But be good to yourself because it's not your fault that human beings are born and a great sleep falls upon them.

When newborns are born,

They are literally in a sleep state.

So it's a very literal statement taken from the Bible.

And it's very real.

It's very real.

We are not born awakened.

We forget who we are.

We forget.

And the illusion is that we need other people's validation.

But remember,

Dear ones,

You are psychologically and biologically driven to get validation.

So it's not your fault if your entire adult life you've been seeking validation.

And if you have been seeking validation,

Then I know that you never received validation as a child.

And I also know you deserved it.

So it's not your fault if you're still seeking it.

But we have to reconcile this quickly.

We have to accept what happened.

We have to surrender to what is.

And then we have to decide what we're going to do about it.

And for me,

The decision was I had to walk towards the fire.

Although my whole life I was taught to avoid the pain in my life and to not walk towards destruction,

Not rock the boat,

Not tell people how I felt,

Not draw boundary lines,

Not adhere to those boundary lines,

Allow people to walk all over me,

Ignore that I was unhappy,

Ignore that I really wanted to get a divorce,

Ignore how I felt.

It's counterintuitive.

We are not wired to rock the boat,

Not really,

Unless of course we lack empathy genes or empathy neurons,

Mirror neurons,

Unless of course we have some sociopathic or psychotic tendency,

Psychopathic tendency that makes it incapable for us to care about how other people feel.

And to anyone out there who by the slight chance believes maybe that they have an inability to connect to other people,

If there's any shred within you that has you wishing that things were different,

You can change.

You can change.

But you have to want to understand other people.

And you want to understand how what your actions and how what you say affect the people in your life.

And if you do want that,

Then you can change.

Most often,

More than not,

I attract people who have been abused,

Codependents,

People pleasers,

People who have suffered with addictions,

Love addiction,

Sex addiction,

Bulimia,

Anorexia,

Alcoholism,

People who don't know how to feel for themselves and only know how to feel for others.

But either way,

You can change.

So dear ones,

I want you to understand that you're on a journey.

You cannot go from being in an unawakened state for so many years,

For decades,

And then have one aha moment and think that that's it for you.

No,

We have to shift moment to moment.

We have to milk our consciousness moment to moment.

We must meditate.

We must be mindful.

We must shut our mouths and listen to what is happening in our heart space.

We've got to think,

Quiet the mind.

And when I say think,

I mean observe,

Observe how you feel.

And then think about what you want to do about how you feel.

Learning to observe your feelings is a skill.

And it's a skill that must be nurtured.

So there's a whole lot of us out there that talk way too much,

React way too much,

And just aren't still enough to be able to hear and feel,

Observe quietly and experience what is happening in our heart space.

So what I hope you take away from this podcast is a sense of being validated,

A sense that you've been encouraged to stay on path,

A sense that you're not alone.

We're all over the world and we're waking up.

Please share this podcast with those who you believe might be inspired by it.

Please return to this podcast whenever you feel you need to.

That's why I create them.

Remember to stay on path.

Remember to get quiet.

Remember to observe how you feel.

And these shifts,

These holy shifts,

These divine shifts,

They first must take place in the conscious realm,

Then in the subconscious realm.

And just know that as you shift consciously,

Cognitively,

Deliberately in one realm,

You affect all other realms.

You affect the physical realm.

You affect the past.

You affect the future by commanding the moment of the now.

You are a powerful human being.

You are a powerful human being.

Every human being is powerful.

But we have been brainwashed out of that reality.

And it is time to return to that reality.

It is time to remember that you are an extension of infinite intelligence.

And with the right mindset and with full integration,

Mind,

Body,

And soul,

No one can stop you from being happy and making choices for you,

For your children.

Whatever.

Nobody can really stop you once you come into alignment with truth.

You are enough.

You are enough.

You are enough.

And you always were.

And you always will be.

Namaste my brothers and sisters.

Once again,

This is Lisa A.

Romano,

The Breakthrough Life Coach,

Coming to you with information that I believe can help you awaken and stay on path and help you awaken your children and other people in your,

Right where you are,

In your neighborhood.

I am the creator of the Transformational 12-Week Breakthrough Coaching Program that teaches you all about how to awaken,

How to stay on path,

How to heal from codependency and narcissistic abuse and how to reclaim your life.

Please look forward to my next master class.

It's also a coaching program.

And you can reach me at www.

Lisaaromano.

Com.

You are enough dear ones.

Go out there and make it a great day.

Namaste.

And until next time,

I bow to the love and the light that is absolutely in you.

Reviews

Great expression of the process of change, Lisa. It requires awareness and observation as if we are noticing oneself for the first time. Only then can we choose to make new choices.

thank u for sharing parts of your personal
journey and for the calm, nurturing way you present your wisdom

Thank you! That was exactly what I needed to hear right now!

Profound and eloquently presented. 🫶

This was helpful in so many ways! I’ve often felt guilty for committing mistakes that stem from childhood and relationship trauma but this helped me find more compassion in myself and others. Thank you 💙🙏🏽

This was such a validating listen for me. I had begun the journey of stepping outside of myself, if you will, to view how I act and viewing how I think and had come to the realization that there is a difference between reacting and responding, that it all involved stopping just those that split second or those few seconds to evaluate what's going on with your thoughts, your feelings and then responding appropriately. I had an experience at 14 where I rejected, directly a teaching because of how illogical it seemed. Although only 14, I was very intelligent and raised by much older mother and much older siblings. At almost 42, I now realize that I understood in some way, and some fashion, or form, subconsciously that what I was being taught was illogical. That our existence couldn't be just "that teaching." And if our existence was to do everything in our power to reach "that end", that I didn't want it" there is so much more that I could say but it would turn into a novel. I will say this thank you for this podcast.

I just started listening to some of your podcasts. They are the most challenging yet reachable, absorbable and gentle. They are like an ax being swung at my heart but when actual contact is made it feels like a feather. The impact is so profound but the delivery gives me that bit of hope and strength to absorb more than I have been able to in the past. Thank you, I have been striving to awaken for decades

Loved it! Thank you so much!!! You spoke to my heart ♥️. I’m 57 and starting to wake up. I’m grateful for all your pod casts and meditations. Life is difficult but I’m ready to start living. Ready to let go of depression, codependency, childhood wounds, & toxic relationships. I’m ready to heal.

Namasté 🙏🏼

So good to hear all those truths
We all are on the journey to awakening, even if it is hard to be aware of.

Thank you for this reassurance. I’ve been in moments of awakening and resisted because of fears and resorted to the security of conformity. I have finally found the bravery to be me and a more satisfying way of life. ❤️

Great podcast...I'm definitely not crazy... Thanks Lisa 😘

Whoa! Metacognition and so much more. Brainfood for the hungry and a great leap forward in my awareness.

Amen. I will bookmark This and continue to follow her practice

Relate in so many ways. When you have been asleep unconscious and awaken to self love it is much hard painful work but worth the freedom and life one is able to create. Lisa A Romano gratitude for your truths your shares for I am another warrior that is determined to move forward. Namaste

Thank you For your enlightening time share with us.

Thank you! ❤️🙏🏼

Thank you, I can not wait to listen to more or your podcasts.

Clear, sensible, coaching where ever you may be on you path!!! 🙏

This was excellent. So many great points. Easy to come back to again and again. Presented in straightforward, honest talk

My favorite of all time. ♡