Erika Fish

This is foundational knowledge for growing a strong resilient Mind.

And developing all the necessary skills for living an intimately connected life with a sense of purpose and a feeling of belonging.

A strong Mind is built on the solid foundations of Trust in the intelligence that lives within you. Trust in your instincts. Trust in your feelings. Trust in your timing. Trust in your intuition. Trust in your movements of action as the opportunities arise, and trust in all the wisdom that speaks to you through insight, as your guide, when your Mind is still.

Learning to trust the Spiritual part of your Mind is a dedicated practice and discipline in listening with your attention and your awareness, to your feelings, your thoughts and to what’s going on around you. Taking the time to create Space - through stillness - helps you to listen to your Spirit (and not the mental noise in your head), as your guide to creating your sense of identity, reality and truth.

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

Giving attention to your Mind is not an easy practice to begin with. At first you will feel bombarded by many, many thoughts, uncomfortable feelings and emotional energies that have long cluttered your Mind, your body and your ability to listen to your honest feelings.

Not being taught to have a trusting relationship with your Spirit/Soul can feel unbalancing and disconnecting to your way of life, especially in the way you give and receive love.

When you learn to have a loving relationship with your Soul Self you naturally have a loving relationship with life.

We thrive when we are in tune with our Spiritual Self because we are naturally listening to our Heart.

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

Paying attention to how your Mind listens takes determination, strength and courage. Creating a healthy listening habit takes practice until the noise in your head quietens and your nervous system learns to feel calm.

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 in your Mind, that is, how to always return to your Spiritual Awareness, the noise of the world can tire you out, drain your energy and cloud your perspective on what feels right for you.

We are educated with the emphasis heavily placed on developing our intellectual mind, and while this is important for growing our outer world skillsets, it is our emotionally intelligent Mind that takes care of our ability to instinctively love, nurture and support our Self through life.

Strengthening our emotional intelligence is a discipline of love for our overall wellbeing. It is a practice in knowing how to listen to our Spirit - as our connection to life and to those we love.

Feeling our responses to life with a clear Mind fuels our vitality, sharpens our intellect, and strengthens our memory so we can make good decisions that support us and those around us. We learn to be a calm presence.

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

Ideas about what is seen as successful has taken precedence over our sense of responsive - ability to care.

Constant thinking distracts our attention away from what matters most - caring for our inner home. Home is a feeling that takes time to nurture. Finding out how we truly feel about our Self is a dedication in returning to our awareness as our anchor, all the while, paying attention to our emotions. Listening - waiting patiently - observing - over and over.

This is the sorting out - observing how others respond and behave toward us and how we are toward them. How do we want to be seen? Spoken to? Heard? Who do we want to be, and most importantly, to be that feeling.

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

Listening to our feelings and the beliefs we hold while listening to another… is how we connect, and allow each other to be heard, regardless of any right or wrong.

What we do when we stay quiet and open up to listening with our full attention is meet the reality of the moment ... as it is happening. And to let our emotional movements be challenged by what we are hearing. With patience and calm, we can see and appreciate the other person with a more truthful, kinder perspective. And an ability to respond in a voice we may never have been able to use before. One that makes us and them feel seen and heard.

Waking up to seeing our Self can feel terribly hard at first, but the more clearly we begin to see how we have been taught (conditioned to think) the easier it is for us to change our habits and way of thinking. We honestly feel compelled to keep our Heart open, no matter what comes our way, and irrespective of any right or wrong. What we do instead is recognise the other person and if we recognise them, then they feel seen, as do we.

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 Self we unconsciously fight against the natural flow of receiving all the love that has always been waiting for us.

Paying attention to our Spirit changes the way we feel about our Self.

Our intellect serves its important function but it is limited by its physicality. That is, it does not have the same capacity to truly expand as that of the intelligence of our awareness. Emotions when felt with awareness - bring us the gift of insight, wisdom and a deeper sense of knowing.

In the space of awareness innovative ideas come to life and we learn to think with a philosophy of sharing rather than thinking as an isolated (often lonely) individual.

Challenging all the thoughts and feelings that formed our identity and told us how to be takes practice and patience. It is a discipline in Self-love.

Undoing what we have learnt by rewiring our brain with the help of our Spiritual awareness - so we feel in tune with nature - allows our Emotional Intelligence to speak through us with ease.

Take all the resources you can find to keep bringing 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 you 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.

And teaches you to feel good inside. It changes your perspective to seeing what is real and valuable in life.

The more space you create in your Mind, the more space you create in your life, and the more room there is to give and receive love, with nothing needing to be added. You get to feel your full power and help others to feel theirs.

Human rights and responsibilities is a felt experience from the inside out. It is the foundations for good governance and strong leadership in your home and in all areas of your life. Understanding how to connect with your Mind is the most important ‘knowing’ you will ever learn.

The more you listen, the more you come to value how you are spoken to, how you speak, and how you respond to life. You learn to see with fresh eyes and a curious Mind that really enjoys how it thinks and feels.

When we feel our full human worth we allow others to feel theirs. The more we practice the more we hear and the more powerfully our presence is felt.