Mental Health Mantra 56/365

I had an energising morning on the first day of the Level 1 Bach Flower Remedies course. 

Revisiting flowers, it seems that I brought in the flower course during February as I immersed myself in painting flowers, which got me thinking about the Law of Vibration and Frequency.  I learnt some interesting things about Dr Edward Bach this morning, and want to study more about this very exceptional man of the early 20th century, up against the rise of the pharmaceuticals.

So now to the flower mantra for today. I decided to paint Mimulus. 

I do not profess to being a botanical artist and I need to study this much more - I'm not that precise.

Yet it felt lovely to focus on this bonny yellow flower and explore the emotional connection. 

The purpose of the flower remedies is to support our own dis-ease.  Dr Bach felt that our emotions impeded our physical healing and vice versa.  The main premise is that they can be used in preventative ways for many of us and Mimulus is a great example because this flower remedy helps to transform any negative emotion into a positive one, stimulating self healing.

However we don't have to be physically ill to benefit.  

Mimulus can very much assist us at this moment in time.

A fear of known things, of known causes, such as illness, death, a loss of job, friends, pain etc.....

It counterbalances these fears by providing courage. 

I do love that with such a simple and gentle flower remedy we can be more aware of our own feelings and emotions, it encourages us to be reflective and contemplate what is going on in our own lives and the lives of our families and communities, including our pets and natural environment.

I am looking forward to learning more and exploring the 38 Bach Flower Remedies.

If any of this resonates with you, Mimulus may be calling you.

Keep connecting to your intuition Star Seeds : )
Love x

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

Mental Health Mantra 53/365

I am pleased as punch that I am on Day 53.

Now, I wake up and after making a cuppa, I settle at my studio table, it's waiting for me.

In the quiet start of the day, I fill up fresh water in my two glasses.

The solitude guides me ... what flower today? I then remember the photograph of the small pansies I took round the corner starting to show through the earth.

It feels fitting that they are the flowers today for this flower mantra because....

Later on....my friend Melody Salad who has been right there by my side this past year, I am so grateful to be surrounded by friendships in my 100 acre wood, those that virtually sit round my table to eat cake and drink tea. Think of Winnie the Pooh and all his table mates - it's pretty much that. They are far flung and spread all over this earth.

We chatted today about entering a new phase of moving, bringing this 18 month circle to a close.

Melody Salad, like a gentle reminder calmly says to me:

"Choose the path of least resistance Julia"

She was spot on.

I choose the path of least resistance.

It felt so fitting to be paired with the pansies as they choose the path of least resistance to emerge into spring.

A great mantra to keep close to my heart today (and tomorrow) as I navigate this ship. Maybe you too?

Keep shining star seeds, know your intuitive thoughts are always there.

​Love x

​PS Thank you Melody Salad x

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

Mental Health Mantra 51/365

It knows.

It always knows.

It's just we drown it out.

I knew something wasn't right and my gut instinct was trying to let me know.

My gut tells me and I will trust that gut.

I knew something wasn't quite right.

She was trying to tell me something. I sensed it.

But others don't hear what I say, and think that perhaps, I am being highly sensitive. Yes that's right.

I knew she was communicating to me that something needed to be explored.

Today I got confirmation that my gut instinct knows.

Listen / and act on your gut instinct. 

Keep listening sunbeams.
Your gut instinct knows.
Let go of all that is clouding it out.

Love x

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

Mental Health Mantra 49/365

This particular mantra has appeared in my life, many times, when I felt stuck.

Today suddenly these words appeared. 

I find that as a mantra appears, I will get to know it in more details, I'll start by writing it out 25 times in my mantra journal, I'll repeat it in meditation, sometimes I will write out the words and colour them in. This colouring meditation can help to soothe what is currently challenging. 

Today whilst dealing with a specific situation that was making me apprehensive about the outcome, and worrying. I found myself sat at my studio table, using colour and water, making these circles above, watching the water and colour merge, it was very relaxing.  

After letting it dry thoroughly, I returned to the desk to find a wonderful sample of circles, just calling out for flowers and petals. Here's the bit I also enjoy, taking the black uni-pen and marking out, adding in white, coloured gel pens, it was methodical and calming, again I keep using the word, hypnotic.

Trance-like.

It is here as a reminder - This too shall pass.
Every moment passes into the next moment.
Whatever I am feeling in this moment, passes.
A reminder to release.
The situations are still there, the worry and the apprehension
Yet this is a tool for moving it through me.

Keep shining star seeds.
Love x

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

Mental Health Mantra 41/365

It is now becoming a practice to sit and play with colour and water first thing, soon after I wake early, after sorting the dogs and making tea for both of us, I head to my studio table, filling two new glasses full of water and sit down. 

There is something methodical and ritualistic about this - it helps my day.

Today it was a bunch of flowers. 

I took inspiration from my A2 vision book, I check over there and see what is resonating.

Through these 10 days of focusing on flowers, I have been thinking alot about the vibe flowers have.

Each flower has a distinct energy of its own .... it has got me revisiting Bach Flower Remedies, something I was introduced to 32 years ago as I was navigating ill health and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. 

Turning to the flower remedies can support our emotions - I have always tapped into them, you may be familiar with Bach Flower Rescue Remedy, made up of 6 flowers that can be used in emergency situations to calm nervous/ anxious times and in 'emergencies.'

I really adore how they work and as I painted, I pondered.

Since I began painting flowers on 1st February, a Bach Flower Level 1 course literally dropped into my inbox unexpectedly with an old mentor, I begin on Feb 25th.

Really excited to learn  more about how flower remedies can help soothe emotional systems. It works in tandem with our nervous system.

I was going to call this Mental Health Mantra ..... Flowers Rock.  Well, because they do. Who doesn't feel cheered by seeing flowers and we need cheering these days.

Tune into the Flower Vibe and my very lovely friend Carolyn Flower is testimony to the gorgeous Power of Flowers.

Happy New Moon Peeps, keep shining and raising your frequency.
Stay centred and grounded, stand in your truth.
Love x

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

Mental Health Mantra 36/365

I sat down at my table today to put brush to water to paper. I was feeling very discombobulated. 

I could hear my mind tell my self that I was stupid to even begin to commit to this 365 days practice, being just in the 5th day of February and number 35 painting, I sensed that this was going to really challenge my Head Self, (think of Headmistress) to encourage me to keep going.

I heard lots of negatives, I heard lots of what's the points and who cares? 

I felt I was stumbling and bumbling through.

Then I remembered the day was Feb 5th, the day when my Grandpa Jules passed away in 1960, 8 years before I came along, I was named after him, His names was Julius. He was a tailor, he was also a sign writer.

Despite never knowing him physically, I have always felt very connected to him because my Mum, his daughter Sheila, kept his energy going, She would tell me funny stories, isms, and things they did together. 

I then heard this in my forebrain.

Let go of the outcome Jules.

I stepped away from my table and went to go something less boring instead, *playing ball with the dogs* and when I returned a few hours later, I saw something in this image. 

Some strange kind of flower seed pods, I picked up my pens and began outlining, ink and dipping pen, and some Signo markers, *lovethem.

I am 'a pen person,' no denying it. I am surrounded. They are abundant in my life. They are always involved somewhere along the way, so sticking with watercolour with no other pen medium is unlikely during my #365creativedays.

I thoroughly enjoyed doing this - it was deeply meditative. It calmed my mind and soothed my soul.

I was pondering as I painted about seeds and how we don't tell the seed off for not doing things quickly or perfect, we go and check on the seed and say 'well done seed for doing your best at reaching the surface.' We are happy to see the seed is growing and moving towards the light. 

It then all came together for me. It's kinda abstract but something in it just says..... 

Let go of the outcome. 

This has other connections to me right now on a personal and professional level. 

Maybe to you too?

Let go of the outcome. 
Let go of attachment. 
Let go and Let flow.

It  is SO IMPORTANT to FEEL right now.

Keep feeling, keep connecting to that intuitive intelligence.

'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 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 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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Mental Health Mantra 10/365

If there's one thing that I have had to practice, daily, is trying not to worry about future.

There are many things externally outside of my control. 

We are all here in our human journey to learn from whatever is in front of us.  I have had a plethora thrown at me in particular these last 16 months, and somehow I have to bring myself back to not being panicked and worried because in fact that only serves the narrative and not my own sense of self.

It's a daily challenge and I really am not getting it right all the time. 

Yet as I always say, I wake up, and today I said to myself ' Start from where you are today, Jules." 

• Go where you feel most alive (yesterday's post 9/365)
• Let go of all the what ifs. (8/365.)

Choosing my Mantra for Every Day is helping to focus for that day, in my quiet time and going inwards.I am seeing them as Mental Health Mantras :) 

I have been studying embodiment with Damien Wynne and he confirms what I have known within me for my entire life "I have an affect on the field," the field of conscious beings and consciousness, therefore my role now in this Age of Aquarius is to work on my own shadow side and heal my own wounds, this is my way of affecting the greater field, having an affect on the greater web of conscious beings >>>> out there.  

This may resonate with you, some, nothing, or all of it.  

​Wherever you are right now, today. Start from there.

Hope you're enjoying these Mantras for Every Day, I am pleased that I have done 10 days :) 355 to go !

Keep shining your light starseeds and know you are intuitive.
Sending love x

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

Mental Health Mantra 6/365

Today has been a day when I could easily have stayed under neath the duvet.

What with Parliament voting on lockdown here in England with only 16 against make my heart hurt for so many people who are struggling, me included.  I generally have pretty good flexible mental health, and yet, this is a real challenge.

And yet, I stay hope full. I know there is something very deep going on here, that will come out in the fullness of time. There is a methodology happening behind the scenes. I keep saying this to myself.

Stay Hope Full.
Stay Hope Full.
Stay Hope Full.

I hope that you're doing okay out there. 

Keep shining and trusting your intuitive intelligence.

'Art with heart - Calm your Mind, Soothe your Soul'

Mental Health Mantra 2/365

Sometimes I can get caught up in moment of apprehension, I go down that rabbit hole and eat myself down further, until I remember, that I have to somehow shift the focus and move to do something else.
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Shift the focus is often connected to doing something for someone else but it can easily also be;-

1. take a shower
2. walk my dogs
3. stick on some White Light by George Michael and dance.
4. call one of my friends to connect.
5. play The Glad Game and write down all my gratitudes in that moment.
6. sit in stillness and breathe (I know that sounds like a tad twee but it really works for me).

That's just a wee example but I find if I have a list of things that can shift my focus, it is my go-to and it helps. Often it's just an intuitive nudge that I need to get me out of the rabbit hole moment. 

I am really grateful that I was attuned to Reiki 18 years ago, it is in fact a tool that never leaves me, and I can sit doing a self healing if all things are not going well.  If there was one thing I wished everyone had was level one Reiki attunement as you are taught how to lay hands on yourself and do a self healing #priceless (check out my Self soothing Affirmantra Meditation Video with 9 hand positions that you can do for yourself, I'll write more about that in another post.)

My nudge to you, is to take a moment and shift your focus. Whatever that means to you.
Your intuitive self will know what that means.

Sending oodles of real time hugs to you
Keep shining your light and trust your intuitive intelligence.
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"calm your mind, soothe your soul"