Erika Fish

How to connect with your Mind.

You connect with your 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.

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

It is the birthplace of your emotional intelligence.

And your sense of Identity.

This knowledge is foundational for growing a strong resilient Mind.

From here on it is upwards and onwards in growing the strength of your whole life’s journey to success and happiness.

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

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 thoughts and to what’s going on around you. Taking a moment to create space - stillness - helps you begin the journey of listening to your Spirit (and not the mental noise), as your guide to creating your sense of identity, reality and truth.

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

Giving attention to your Mind is not an easy practice to begin with. You will feel bombarded with thoughts, uncomfortable feelings and emotional energies that have cluttered your Mind, your brain, your body and your ability to listen with ease to your honest feelings.

Not being taught to understand this trusting relationship with your Spirit/Soul can feel very unbalancing, disruptive and disconnecting to your way of life, especially in the way you give and receive love. It can cause you to feel sad because we all need our Spirit to be strong so our Heart stays open to enjoying the constant exchanges of love.

When we learn to have a loving relationship with our Self we naturally have a loving relationship with life.

We thrive when we are being creative, purposeful and in tune with our Spiritual nature. Our Soul.

The more you sit quietly with your Soul Self, paying attention to the movement of your Mind and the beliefs it holds, 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. Over time you will come to appreciate the feeling of being grounded.

Living in the world, especially at this current time, can feel really hard and confusing. Information comes in all directions with opinions attached to ideas about everyone and everything. It makes it hard to stay true to your Self.

If you don’t know how to anchor your Mind, that is, how to always return to the awareness part of your Self, the noise of the world can tire you out, drain your energy and cloud your perception in decision making. By giving time to sit quietly, you make space to unstick any overpowering emotions caught up in your Mind and body, freeing you to hear your Spirit, and to guide you with a calm nervous system.

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.

By learning the skills of knowing how listen to our Mind, we learn to balance our emotions, feel our vitality, sharpen our intellect, strengthen our memory and stay strong in our Spirit so we can make good decisions that support us and those around us. We learn to be the calm presence that is always needed.

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

Our natural way is to allow feelings and thoughts to move freely through us, without the burden of heavy beliefs that cause us to react. This is our skill to learn.

By being present to our Mind, (rather than anticipating or judging what has not happened) we meet the moment as it is (uninterrupted). And we experience the feeling of the moment fully.

And, the reality of the moment. It opens us to listening with a new, clearer, more truthful perspective.

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 come to realise universal intelligence is working with us, not against us. By fighting with our emotions we unconsciously fight against the abundance of universal love. And all its generous offerings.

We are the universe and the universe is us. Pure loving 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, and every thing, in every moment.

This is what we mean by connecting, and why we feel our belonging.

We are always connected and communicating with this intelligence if we choose to patiently take the time, and direct our Mind to listening to it, so we can understand the truth to our feelings. And not what we habitually believe.

Paying attention to how we listen 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 intelligence of our awareness.

Emotional intelligence guides our intellect. It is a two-way movement of our Mind to help us make good choices, to problem solve, generate new and innovative ideas, and so much more for the harmony and balance of sustaining life. We learn to think with a philosophy of sharing and belonging rather than as a separate, isolated individual.

We have been taught to use a relatively limited part of our Mind but ‘the right way’ is to listen with the expanse of our emotionally intelligent Mind (awareness and feelings). And the enormous space within it.

Because many people struggle to pay attention to the movement of their Mind, their brain becomes overloaded from too much thinking, analysing and judging, holding them captive to their emotions. When this happens, they feel heavy headed and foggy. They get headaches, feel run down, and if they don’t take care and listen to their Spiritual Self they are weakened physically and energetically, causing them to feel unwell.

Challenging all the thoughts and feelings that formed your identity and told you who you were, and how to be takes practice and patience. I call it a discipline of love.

Take all the resources you can find to help bring you back to your truth and understanding of reality. Strong addictive emotions will fight very hard to hold onto all it has ever known as being true. This is the ego part of your Mind that has formed its own identity (entity), separate and alive in your Mind and body, but not real.

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

It changes your perspective to seeing what is real 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 needing to be added, so you can enjoy all of Humanity’s wealth.

Human rights and responsibilities is a felt experience from the inside out, led by the all-knowing intelligence of your ever-expanding Mind. It is the foundation for good Self-governance and strong leadership in the home and all areas of your life. Understanding how to connect with your Mind is the most important skill you will ever learn.

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

kindness - lending your strength

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.