Mental Health Mantra 31/365

I am pleased as punch that I made it through writing a journal entry every day in January.

I can now subtract 31 from 365 = 334.   

Doing these have got me into a little flow-like pattern, which has helped me this month to navigate my husband's radioactive iodine ablation treatment.

• I have connected more intently with mantras and affirmations.
• I have reconnected with portrait medicine, a hugely therapeutic process
• It has given me a calm space to sit with the repetition and focus, being in the slow art moment. 

This mantra came through in my morning meditation:

You are stronger than you realise. 

In fact, it came through as I am stronger than I realise, but when I came to complete this, I knew it had to be YOU.   

Because you are stronger than you realise. 

There's an inner golden thread that keeps us upright, not falling in a heap on the ground, despite what is thrown out in our path.  

You are that strong.  Feel it, say it, believe it. 

Tomorrow being the 1st of February, I am going to create 28 Flower Mantras for 365 Mental Health Mantras.

I'm changing up the medium so will connect with watercolour, inks and dipping pen.

Let the Mantras begin!

PS f you're so called, let me know what affirmations/mantras are helping in the comments below. 

Take care sunshine, keep vibing and connect to your intuitive intelligence.

'Art with Heart - Calm your Mind, Soothe your Soul.'

Mental Health Mantra 30/365

I pulled a card today from The STARSEED Oracle by Rebecca Campbell and two cards popped out.

The first was The Courageous Peony - multifaceted, unique nature, let yourself be seen.
The second, I Remember - soul plan. The fated life vs the destiny life.

They resonated big time with me.  As I am navigating this period of time, moving through and out. 

The Courageous Peony talks about how flowers don't open and close according to who walks by, they embrace all of what they are and show it to the the world around them. The peony doesn't try to compete with the rose, nor the tulip, they own what they are and trust the timing fo their true nature. This card calls me to do the same.   

The second card I Remember talks about the difference between the 'fated life' and the 'destiny life' - and right now I am face to face with the choice to follow the destiny life over the fated life. To trust the path my soul is calling me towards and to remember that this was a prearranged moment.

With everything on my soul's journey I feel that there are some messages to take back to my journal, to sit in meditation and remember just who I am and why I'm here.  

Every decade in my life, there has been a story to share, a life event that has shaken me, yet made me stronger and more resilient.  Now as things ramp up, both in the external world via government controls and global agendas. I am embodying the energy of The Courageous Peony, owning my own unique ness and light agenda.  I am also being asked to remember my soul's greater plan and surrendering to it, there is a reason why all this has happened to me.

I send you light and connection to your intuitive intelligence.

"Art with Heart - Calm your Mind Soothe your Soul."

Mental Health Mantra 29/365

This is where I am focusing right now. 

I trust my intuition and my intuitive intelligence.

I know what feels wrong and what feels right.

There is still so much more to do and my friend, in a text, sent me this.

Be here and now as much as you can.

It felt very apt for this to be the Mental Health Mantra for 29th of January. 

We have work to do, Lightworkers.

Keep shining and connecting.

"Art with Heart - Calm your Mind, Soothe your Soul."

Mental Health Mantra 28/365

If there is one thing that has been challenging me these past 18 months, it's the overwhelm of all that has been going on.  Loss and bereavement of a parent - a process that can't be rushed, add into this caring for my Dad with vascular dementia, transitioning him to full time care and then my husband's cancer diagnosis and subsequent treatment journey - it truly has been 'One step at a time.'   When you include the global situation with Covid, the mantra just keeps giving. 

It is in the overwhelming moments and thoughts that I bring myself back to this Mental Health Mantra. 

Just one step at a time, Jules 

Bringing me back from the future worry to the present day of what is presenting and what I need to do in that moment.   It follows on from my other mantra that has helped hugely and that is

Stay in the moment.   

It is most definitely a practice and ritual to bring myself back to the present.  It asks alot of me to bring back my attention of intense worry.  I get it wrong sometimes but for the most part I am creating new neural pathways so that I come back to this mantra, on top of this I have this mantra on a post it note and from here on, I'll have this Mental Health Mantra printed out in front of me. 

Keep connecting to your intuitive intelligence and keep shining sunbeams.

"Art with Heart - Calm your Mind Soothe your Soul."

Mental Health Mantra 27/365

We have to take steps that move us out of our comfort zone.

My friend H, first coined the term about 20 years ago when we were sitting round the fire pit in her garden, "it's the uncomfortable comfort zone where we always seems to reside J, we need to step out of this uncomfortable comfort space into something more, something else, something that may stretch us." 

This has stuck with me for all these years as I navigate this space that I find myself in.  

These ending days of January, as we have full moon in Leo tomorrow, I am safeguarding my energy, really bush tuckered tired. 

Be bold, Be brave, Be yourself.

It's so important to focus on this mantra for the next few days as we exit January into February.
Keep shining star seeds
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"Art with Heart - Calm your Mind, Soothe your Soul."

Mental Health Mantra 26/365

There are days when this is the mantra keeps the mood a little more balanced.

Today is one of those days. 

This time is all about staying centred, grounded and sovereign. 

Keep shining sunbeams.

"Art with Heart - Calm your Mind, Soothe your Soul."

Mental Health Mantra 25/365

If there's one thing that has been the deepest learning curve these past 18 months, it is to stay in the moment, or as I heard today 'Take care of your current day.' 

I have to keep pulling my mind back in from the overwhelm of what is still to come...  in the next 6 months.  It can lead me down the garden path of pure apprehension and I have to just stick with what I have in this current moment. 

When I heard this, it resonated with me as my mental health mantra for today. 

Just take care of your current day. 

What is in this now moment. 

​Be there.

It's a daily challenge to keep a check on mindset and mind chatter.

This is where transformation occurs, it is however, a daily practice. 

How can you take care of your current day? 

Keep shining :)

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"Art with Heart - Calm your Mind, Soothe your Soul."

Mental Health Mantra 24/365

Today I went to the storage unit where our home contents have been stored since August 2019. Long story but it was only meant to be for 4 weeks and the circumstances, grief and drama, that followed could not be made up by any Coronation Street scriptwriter.   I had to give the key to the Manager and we went to have a look inside and whilst there, I picked up a big basket bag of mine and a curver box with a lid. Both items that held things from my studio, which I haven't seen in 18 months.

Unpacking them and saying hello to things that were in my studio felt like I was unearthing a time machine. I sat fondly looking through sketch books, affirmation books, diaries, I found my tibetan singing bowl, my inking pen, a framed Muse Mantra, plus a new stash of watercolour paper. 

I felt lit up. 
I felt abundant.
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Can we spend at least 10% of our day doing something that lights us up?

If we can, we may begin to feel a little calmer. 

Whatever that means for you.... maybe singing a song all the way through, learning to bake something or stretching out. Start with 10%.

I have been doing my upmost to shift this and vibrate on a frequency that is higher than the one we are seeing.  Lighting up ourselves, individually has a huge knock on effect.  Don't let anyone tell you that your light energy contribution doesn't matter as it won't change anything. 

It does and it will.

Keep shining that light sunbeams.

"Art with Heart - Calm your Mind, Soothe your Soul."

Mental Health Mantra 23/365

This mantra appeared just as I sat down to do this, I am seeking stretch, I feel I have got into limited patterns of moving, it doesn't feel beneficial for me at all.  I then kept hearing in a North Eastern accent,
"Stretch Love."   It reminded me of the way DCI Vera Stanhope would say it (big fan) she was passing me a message - I heed the call.  " Ey pet." 

I have two super gorgeous yoga mats that I designed myself and they are waiting for me to fall upon and stretch.  This body of mine needs stretching and moving. Badly. I feel stuck.

Today I woke up to a very large snowfall, I had my green smoothie, but didn't go to a new green place because, well, it was all white. 

Tomorrow is another day.

Keep shining star beams.

"Art with Heart - Calm your Mind, Soothe your Soul"

Mental Health Mantra 22/365

I may have written in earlier journal posts, I often see what message comes through as I'm creating the piece.  Today it zoomed through like Speedy Gonzales.

Let the green stuff be the guide.

This is a huge message for me because I have felt quite hemmed in, isolated, not getting enough green stuff.

Green stuff is very wide ranging and it means all sorts of things to me, and I am sure it will mean lots of other things for you too.

Green stuff - obviously green stuff means grass, nature, trees, mountains.  It also means houseplants, potting plants, soil (ok not exactly green but helping the green stuff to grow.) I'm a huge fan of pottering outside, gardening, clipping back.  

Green stuff also means green veg. kale, broccoli, sprouts, leeks, green apples, celery cucumber, all helping to reduce inflammation and provide me with a high dose of nutrients in a hit.  

Whether I'm out in the green stuff, eating the green stuff or tidying up the green stuff,  for instance houseplants, or watering them, making them feel nice, my frequency barometer shifts up a notch, I can raise my frequency level and feel a high vibe. It may not last long because life throws us curve balls. The point is, I can let the green stuff be the guide and see where it leads me. 

The colour green is hugely calming too, whether that be a green face mask, painting with a green colour pallet, green nail varnish, green eyeshadow... you get the gist.

This weekend I am connecting to the green stuff.

Wake up and make up to a green smoothie
Organise, water and tidy the houseplants,
Tidy up my orchids / they need some more bark. (I have found my new love of orchids for 5 years I have kept returning year after year.)
Visit some new green stuff that I haven't been to yet.
Paint some green pallet
Dig out some green eyeshadow/ I think I have turquoise but it's near enough. 

Let the green stuff be the guide.

Keep shining folks, know that your light energy is always there shining bright.
Despite the knocks.
You Got This!

'Art with Heart - Calm your Mind, Soothe your Soul."

Mental Health Mantra 21/365

What was going through my brain as I wrote go and ing on separate lines. It felt like a BIG word and this BIG word needed space between the Go and the ING.  

It got me thinking about the word, defining 'going' it says in the Dictionary 'to make headway' and 'reach a goal.'  I liked the headway bit because that is quite often what we are trying to navigate in this realm of many thought connections.

I am feeling the need for real deep peace and quiet. I have to foster this inside of myself, so please if I don't answer your text message, or call you back I am 'keeping going' and what that means right now is focusing inward, there is alot to process.

Much is coming through right now, a breakdown of systems and paradigms, I am feeling alot of it, not only in my personal life, but in the greater field of life 'out there.'  As an empath I am truly ultra sensitive to other's emotions and vibes so I have to hunker down in 100 acre wood and calm my mind and soothe my soul.  That has been my tag line for 10 years now since beginning to draw people, in real terms I have used this tag all my life.

Whomever you are
reading this.
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Keep Go ing. 
You're making headway.
It may seem you're not
as all around you
is crazy town.

Stay centred 
strong in your truth
Keep shining your light
from within you.
For, it matters.
It matters
A lot.

'Art with Heart - Calm your Mind, Soothe your Soul.'
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Mental Health Mantra 20/365

Start by doing one thing, I hear in my ear, this morning as I wake.

one thing
any thing
some thing

I ponder on what that one thing may be to change the dynamic of my day.

I feel this one thing is a step towards something I have been imagining.

Today is a day of contemplation. Of new beginnings and learning to fly again.

Maybe this sparks you to consider how you may 'start by doing one thing.'

Keep shining starbeams and remember your intuitive intelligence.

and let me know what mantras you use every day, I'd love to hear, I will add them to my Affirmantra Pot!

'Art with Heart - Calm your Mind, Soothe your Soul.'

Mental Health Mantra 19/365

I wake up and ask myself this question today. I feel there's something I need to do and so I have to go to my toolkit and see what it is that resonates.  In my book that I'm currently writing, ReBalance Me, I have 7 ways to wellness, they are Boost, Nourish, Cocoon, Support, Create, Care and Move.

To answer this mantra today, I go look in each of these ways and ask myself what I need, what's the message coming through. What's resonating?

Sitting quietly I close my eyes, letting my breath flow in and out of my nose.

In those few minutes, I realised I needed the following prescription for the day, to rebalance me.

"Art with Heart - Calm your Mind, Soothe your Soul."

Mental Health Mantra 18/365

Be the Observer.

My lovely friend Barefoot Doctor, Stephen Russell who suddenly passed away last January would always talk to me and write about it in his countless books and at workshops - that is - moving our awareness to the very back of the head, ie. physically imagine you're taking awareness of what you're seeing to the back side of your head space, Behind your skull.  Once there, watch, observe, at what is going on around you. 

It's a practice like anything else.   A skill.  Try it.  It's fun.

It gives you a perspective where you can detach from the actual movie theatre playing right around you.   

It relates to our third eye, based right on your forehead, between the eyebrows, slightly above, and symbolically relating to the chakra point which is coloured indigo.  

Your third eye is the central point for your intuition, imagination and inner wisdom. It can't be seen per se, it's an energetic eye.  However if you close your eyes and look at the sun and meditate there upon, you may see an eye appear behind your eyelids. 

Be
The
observer.
Deflect.
Reflect.
Stand
Back.

There is alot going on, physically, emotionally, spiritually, energetically, world wide.

Step back from judgment, flip it to compassion.

We are all having very different experiences based on our frame of references in our life. 

Be the observer. 
Take your time to make decisions.
Do your own independent research.
Ask questions. 
Go with your gut.
You'll know.

Sending heaps of love.
Keep shining starseeds.

Thank you for being here and watching this unfold.
It is great to be writing here again.

"Art with Heart - Calm your Mind, Soothe your Soul."

Mental Health Mantra 17/365

It has been a fatiguey day today, tiredness pervades me. This feels familiar, making me feel a tad jittery because I was so incapacitated when in my 20s with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. I made my way through that tunnel by the time I was 30 but it was a decade's long haul. I find that all that I learnt then, about healing, wellness and holistic health has been the foundation pillar of my journey these past 32 years and I built upon these pillars to support me through my life.

Today as I was finishing off this 17th Mental Health Mantra, the phrase kept coming through "Your light makes a difference."  Lorie Ladd on You Tube who I adore, reminds me of this often, especially in these times.  

It made me recognise that even feeling fatiguey today I can choose to be light and sit in that space for a while. For me, it was about turning my attention to light, being outside in nature, in the garden, watching the seagulls circle me, we have a crowd of them that hang out in south Liverpool / considering we're really only 4 miles from the River Mersey, they're never that far away. 

I realised that my light can make a difference. Even when I feel fatiguey and tired.

I made a lovely lentil shephard's pie early in the day, so that I knew it was ready and I could settle into the day. I played crazy tennis ball games with the girls who just loved it, lots of waggy tails.  

In my meditation practice I can beam my light out on to Planet E and beyond, I can channel Reiki healing blessings to all.    It only stops when I stop. 

I will continue to keep that focus and keep that relaxation meditation practice so that I can send light beams out. We all need that right now.  To step back into our bodies and connect to our soul, to raise the light and vibration and send that out to all  -  that does mean me too.  I need this too.

What I know for sure .... is that you don't need to be some meditating guru and sit cross legged, what you need is the commitment to sit.   In a chair. On a bed.  Inside, outside,.  Just a commitment to sit and connect to your breathing.   Start there. It really is all that it is. 

You will find your light, and yes, it makes a difference.

I was introduced to this quote back by Peter Russell who I met in New Mexico in 2004 on my adventure. 

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."  

I loved that when I heard it, made complete sense to me.  

My commitment to sit is here.

Sending out oodles of light to you whomever your are, reading this. Trust your intuitive intelligence.

"Art with Heart - Calm your Mind, Soothe your Soul."

Mental Health Mantra 16/365

As I am creating these Mental Health Mantras I wait for the mantra to appear to me.  I do have lists upon lists of many of them over the years, and lots of new ones that appear. But I wait for the right one to appear.

With this particular Muse, her hair went a little off the beaten track and I had to cut her hair off and start again with a backing sheet (the joys of art production).  In doing so, what then appeared was this cracking head scarf, which I totally loved.  It just made her feel different and quirky.

I am a head scarf wearer but don't wear that many any more (who knows but I'm going to ponder on that one). It's something I will definitely be picking back up because as I was drawing it, I realised that there is something about wrapping colourful scarves around my head and hair that instantly makes me feel creative.  I step into a mode of being, that I really love.  

Do they suit me - I don't know?  But I love them.

As my lovely Uncle Freddy used to say in his thick German accent "Who Cares ...  !! "

Bam, that's when the mantra popped up from the Muse.
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Yes it could have been Be You, but actually Do You felt like a real powerful mantra as I look in the mirror wearing my scarf wrapped around my head.

Do You.

It's okay to Do You.  

Don't Do Anyone Else.

Just those two words say more.  I'll leave it there.

Take this and go with it.  You will know what Do You means for you.

Sending heaps of huggles, keep that intuition shining.

"Art with Heart - Calm your Mind, Soothe your Soul."

Mental Health Mantra 15/365

I'm not one for Tellavision, I rarely watch these days, definitely not live TV, but I have recently come across the new campaign urging everyone to stay home featuring none other than Chris Whitty. Oh gracious me, give me strength.

It made me think of this phrase that I saw in a film once, it resonated with me and I wrote it down in my notes. 
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"Art with Heart - Calm your Mind, Soothe your Soul."

Mental Health Mantra 14/365

I have been noticing the feelings I'm feeling and also noticing the triggers. This is a good mantra reminder for me today. What is triggering? Is it something I am reading, hearing, on main stream media, social media, outside of me, inside of me?

I find that when I notice the feelings I'm feeling it is often because of an action or a behaviour that I am presenting in me, or an action or behaviour I am seeing.

There is lots to unpick with this but noticing the feelings, whether that be anger, rage, apathy, disgust, sadness - they are all valid emotions and valid feelings, the key is to explore why and notice the trigger. 

I am waiting to hear from my husband about picking him up from the hospital, he has been in 4 days, and has had the radio iodine scan this morning so we will have a bigger picture outlook when they can share with him the uptake. Fingers crossed all will be well.

Keep noticing, keep reflecting, stay open to what your intuition is telling you.
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"Art with Heart - Calm your Mind, Soothe your Soul."

Mental Health Mantra 13/365

I need this today. 

Sleep, press pause.

That's my mantra. 

Right here.
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What about you?

Shine on sunbeams : > )

"Art with Heart - Calm your Mind, Soothe your Soul"

Mental Health Mantra 12/365

Going through a stressful time, I sometimes forget to reach for the tools.  For instance, when I'm in a high anxious time, it goes out of my head that actually, washing my hair and taking a shower can shift the energy for me.  Or, tidying my workspace, or hoovering up, putting on some music and dancing, whilst kicking the  ball with the dogs #winwin.  There are other tools in here too, things like taking 10 mins twice a day to sit in contemplation, boost my immunity with Vogel's Echinacea Throat Spray and high dose of Vitamin D3, or even Rescue Remedy emergency essence.  

I have to create a reminder of what's in my healing toolkit. There are lots of ways to rebalance me in that space.  I have to know where to turn and remember to turn there. 

This is a reminder, for me and maybe for you too? ; > )

I have committed to finishing and publishing my book Rebalance Me this year. This will outline my tools so that you can create your own healing toolkit and your daily prescription.
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Keep shining sunbeams. Trust your intuitive intelligence.
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