Erika Fish

How to connect with your Mind.

You grow a strong Mind by first recognising that the awareness part of your Mind is the real you.

When you are aware of being aware, you are meeting your Spiritual Self. Your Soul.

It is the first step to understanding who you are in learning how to take good care of your Mind and your Self.

A strong Mind is built on the rock solid foundation of Trust. Trust in the intelligence that lives within you. Trust in your instincts. Trust in your feelings, your intuition, your movements of action and all the wisdom that speaks to you when you are quiet, and when you most need guidance.

Learning to trust in the Spiritual part of your Mind is a dedicated practice and discipline of listening with your attention and your awareness, to your feelings, your environment, and your thoughts until your Mind is very still. Until there are no overwhelming distractions of thoughts or emotional energies severing the connection to your awareness and your ability to hear your Soul, who you are. You are left with a feeling of peacefulness that is always alive, even on those hard days.

Growing a loving and trusting relationship with your Soul takes time.

Giving attention to your Mind is not easy to begin with. You will feel bombarded with thoughts, feelings and emotional energy that has cluttered your Mind, your brain, your body and your ability to listen to your honest feelings.

When we’re not trusting our Spirit/Soul, it can feel very unbalancing, disruptive and disconnecting to our way of living, especially in the way we give and receive love. We actually become very sad because we need our Spirit to be strong, uninterrupted by confusing beliefs, so that our Heart stays open to loving life. We thrive when we are being creative, purposeful and in tune with people and our environment.

The more you sit quietly with your Soul Self, paying attention to the movement of your Mind, the easier it gets to allow feelings to unstick and move through you.

Watching the movement of your Mind is not an easy discipline to begin with. Like any new skill, it takes practice and dedication, until the noise in your head dissipates and your nervous system learns to feel calm. You actually end up feeling super grounded.

Living in the world, especially at this current time, can feel really hard and confusing.

If we don’t know how to anchor, that is, how to always return to the awareness of our Spiritual Self, the noise of the world around us can tire us out and bring us down. By giving time to sit with our Self, we make space to unstick our strong emotional energy and free our Spirit to help us shine in our natural talents. This is what makes us happy.

We are educated with the emphasis heavily placed on developing our intellectual mind, but really it is our Spiritual or emotionally intelligent Mind that takes care of our ability to instinctively love, nurture and support our Self. When we can do this, we can support everyone around us because our emotionally intelligent Mind is strong and anchored in our Spirit.

We’ve been taught to over think and under feel.

Our natural way is allowing feelings to move through us, free of overthinking. This is our skill to learn.

By being present to your Mind, rather than anticipating or judging what has not happened, you meet the moment as it is, uninterrupted. And you experience it fully.

The ‘Mind’ I speak of, I use capital letters for, because our Mind is as big as the universe. In fact, we could call the universe one big Mind of infinite intelligence and our human Mind a beautiful loving replica of this intelligent resource.

We are the universe and the universe is us. Pure intelligence, or consciousness moving through and around us all the time. It is the source of all-knowing. It is always ready and waiting to love and support us, and everyone else in every moment.

Our job is to learn how to trust, believe in, and be guided by this pure all-knowing intelligence that moves through and around us. This is what we mean by connecting, and why we feel our belonging.

We are always connected and communicating with this pure intelligence if we choose to patiently take the time, and direct our Mind to listening to it, free of thought, feeling freely.

Paying attention to how we listen to our Soul, changes the way we see our Self. As heavy emotions are gently and lovingly felt and released, we see our true light. And so do others.

Our intellect serves its important function but it is limited by its physicality. That is, it does not have the same capacity to expand as that of the pure intelligence of our awareness. Our awareness has no form and is limitless in its expansion. This is how big and how powerful our Mind truly is.

We have been taught to use a relatively limited part of our Mind but our natural habit is to lead from our emotional intelligence (awareness and feelings). And because many people struggle to pay attention long enough, their brains become overloaded from too much thinking and analysing, thereby holding their emotions in their body.

When this happens we feel heavy headed and sometimes foggy. We get headaches, feel run down, and if we don’t take care and listen to our Spiritual Self we become sick.

The key to feeling anchored in your Spirit, and at peace, free of fear, is to slowly lean into challenging all the thoughts and feelings that formed your identity, beliefs, attitudes and behaviours that said, this is who you are. Practice with patience and very soon you will enjoy this new discipline of loving your Self.

Learning to see life for what it is, and not what your Mind was conditioned to see, requires the great skill of feeling all your emotional discomfort so as to unlearn these conditioned habits and to re-learn how to listen in a new way. That is, by feeling your feelings fully with your awareness. Take all the resources you can find to help bring you back to this truth because your old habits will want to fight very hard to defend what it has only known.

Living is entirely a feeling exercise from the moment we are born until our last breath. We don’t want to miss any more moments of whats in-between. Life is precious and we are all here to do good.

Giving your Self your full attention is your greatest gift. It is a natural healer.

It also changes your perspective to seeing what is really important and valuable in life.

The more space you create in your Mind and in your life, the more you expand, and the more love you are able to give and receive, with nothing added, so you can enjoy all of Humanity’s wealth.

Human rights and responsibilities begins as a felt experience from the inside out, led by the all-knowing intelligence of your ever expanding Mind. It is the foundation of good governance and strong leadership.

As long as you keep feeling your feelings you will always know how to keep your Heart open and your Mind clear so you can be there to love and support everyone and everything.

The more you listen, the more you learn to value how you are spoken to, how you speak, and how you listen. You learn to see with fresh eyes and without judgement, but with kindness, courage, and wisdom.

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We are feeling beings connected to the flow of life, responding with an open Heart and Soul awareness. This is our natural way. The more we practice the more we hear and the more peaceful we feel.