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 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 11/365

I took my husband in to hospital this morning for his radio iodine ablation treatment, he'll be there for 4 days as he has to be in strict isolation. Dropping off this man who has been through so much this past year makes me upset, he has seen such a lot in his life, especially in serving in the British Army, my heart goes out to him as he becomes the ready brek man for a few weeks. We have to laugh, it's the only thing that is keeping us going.    

On being back home surrounded, by my the two Jacks, they keep me centred and sane. If there is one thing that this whole process is teaching me is to trust my own intuitive messages that I hear, feel, sense.  I began listening to intuitive intelligence over 32 years ago when I was diagnosed with M.E Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and it is in listening to these messages that I healed into good health after 10 years of navigating that disabling path. 

On this day in January 2021, I sat quietly on the couch, listening.

Breathing, hands over heart and chest. 

Listening.

I knew I needed to deeply relax my body mind and spirit.

This called for a big body relax.  

Switching off from all mediums.

Deep breaths, deep exhales.

oh... and a huge pot of rooted vegetable soup.  Always a winner for me to ground and relax.



Do you sometimes get a real gut feeling that gives you a sense of 'this doesn't feel right!' 

If so, go quiet, remove yourself and get some space between you.

Breathe, hands on heart. 

Trust your own message.

It's usually pretty spot on.  If you then need to do more research to support your gut feeling.

​Do it. 

Rely on your self.

Keep shining starbeams.
Trust that intuitive intelligence.

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

Mental Health Mantra 7/365

If there's one thing that has been at the forefront of getting through these past 15 months, raising my frequency has been up there with finding stillness in my every day.   When I choose to focus on raising frequency and vibration, I feel way more aligned and flowing. In tune.

In 2004, I stepped out of my comfort zone and went to the 6th International Conference on Science and Consciousness in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  I went alone - it was the most amazing trip I have ever experienced. It was here I began to fully engage with quantum physics, which I had been introduced to 22 years earlier when I was in the grips of suffering with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. It was here I began to learn more about vibration, frequency and the human connection.

I could go down a rabbit hole here and I will be doing more of this as I'm finishing writing my book Rebalance Me, this plays a large part.  For now, I will say the higher our frequency the increase in our physical and mental immunity, pitch this against very low / dense frequencies like fear and worrying, our physical and mental immunity depletes dramatically. 

I recognised that the key is stepping into the higher frequency and higher emotions of love, compassion, trust, faith and put all effort here.  These frequencies help us as individuals within our communities and has a huge impact on the planet. 

I am really feeling a great changing occur right now since winter solstice.  This may be as we traverse the move into The Age of Aquarius - there is a dismantling of old fear based programming which is evident every day we turn on the TV.  If we step away from it and focus on increasing our frequency, we allow the flow of higher light energies to flood our earthly bodies.

Low frequencies are: fear, nervousness, rage, hate and even fatigue.
High frequencies: love, smiles, blessing, gratitude, playing, painting, singing, dancing, meditating, tai chi, yoga, walking, exercises, sunshine, enjoying nature, loving food, planting seeds, eating seeds, grains, legumes, fruits and vegetables.   Drinking distilled water.

Did you know the vibration of prayer goes from 120-350hz?

I have to take action every day to focus on increasing my frequency. 

I don't watch or listen to News, Fear Based Visuals, Games, Books, etc.... Horror, Apocalyptic Films.
Of course I know what's happening around me but I choose to raise my frequency higher and step away.  That also means I will uninstall apps that perpetuate a fear based narrative.

It is somewhere to start, and something that I can take action with every day, hope this helps you too.

Keep shining your light and trust your intuitive intelligence.

'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"

Mental Health Mantra 1/365

It's the 1st of January 2021, I decided to step back into the Land of Blog.

For a few reasons. 

With everything going on in 2019/2020 in my own life and also in the country/the world, I have stepped away from social media big time.  I had to focus what energy I had into caring and looking after my husband who was undergoing cancer treatment, the first major op being spinal stabilisation surgery then high dose intensive radiation (I may go deeper into this, but not just yet) I just could not cope with socials as well. I tried for a couple of weeks but I realised it was hugely draining.

I was also seeing seeing something happen that was making me feel really uncomfortable  - censorship.  Maybe it's the Jewish woman in me that fights for human rights and deplores shutting down of voices, I was stunned - I couldn't believe the way people were not permitted to have open discussions, or differing opinions. I was astounded that medical interventions to boost immunity were censored - I mean posts about Vitamin C, Zinc, and Quercetin were zapped out.  Having a honours degree in health and a debilitating viral illness for 9 years in my 20s I am a health investigator, researcher, and healer.  It made me feel very uncomfortable so I stepped away.  I still have my accounts  I pop in here and there, I hadn't been very present these past 15 months.  

I stopped blogging and vlogging a few years ago because it all seemed to be about being on the socials.  I was seeing less reach and it all became so complicated about widgets and coding .... bla bla bla and then I began to watch as accounts were deleted and taken down for holding a conversation about covid, I realised that I had invested 10 years in social media and bam, like that, all my stuff could be gone.  Even if I delete my account, poof, it's gone. 

I hadn't put any time or energy into my own website for a long while, which is held on my own server. I used to write lots on there under various other blogging sites.

In journalling every day, in my daily discussions with myself this morning, I made a pact. I would put effort into my own website and blog. Maybe even stepping up to vlog again or maybe even podcast.   I still have so much going on in my life in a caring capacity and also so much more (maybe I'll share that sometime) that takes all the energy I have in reserves, I have to spend what's left in filling up my own tanks.  

My pact extended a little further, I wanted to raise my vibration by creating every day and I turn back to Muse Mantras - these have been a lifesaver over the last 8 years. In the past 15 months since losing Mum and the grief that followed and Dad with vascular dementia, who's now living in a residential home and I can only visit him through a window (that's for another post), and for the past 9 months looking after my husband with cancer, I have sought so many things to keep me somehow upright and functioning.

Sometimes, I get it right, other times I collapse and cry in a heap at night because I feel I'm failing.  But I am going to give it a whirl and see if I can merge the two... and get to the end of January by posting a Muse Mantra every day.  I am revisiting illustrations that I have in my portfolio and will begin to upcycle them .  Who doesn't love an upcycle, plus it gets me back into the flow.

My intention is that these will help you to calm your mind and soothe your soul.   

Today I am OK - this affirmantra has been a huge focus for me over the past year as I have balanced all the plates in my life. It has been a life saver in the moment of grief, or sadness, or anxiety or despair, where I close my eyes, place my hands over my heart and say to myself and out loud.

TODAY I AM OK.

It soothes me. 
It keeps me in the now moment. 
I let go of fear.

Here it is for you too. 

TODAY I AM OK.

Sending oodles of love your way. 
Keep shining your light and trust your intuitive intelligence.

In all of this external drama I have had to choose one thing to keep me sane and so I made meditation a priority, connection to spirit, quietness, stillness, amongst all the other stuff I have integrated over the past 32 years.

The mental health anxiety I am witnessing in others and snapshots in myself the breakdowns of what is going on, means it has to be a daily practice otherwise I will go under.

I hope it helps you to soothe any anxiety about what is unfolding and can help you calm your mind and soothe your soul.

This is for you who who want to rebalance your chakras and feel less anxious about all the external stuff happening.

I am planning to do some videos of me doing this self soothing meditation, which could be super cool if we do them in a group, so let me know if you'd be interested and I'll keep you posted.

Take one of these slides and place your hands in the positions illustrated and repeat the mantra to yourself for 3 minutes.

If you want to focus on all 9 of these hand positions, this will take you 27 mins (yep I can count lol).

Sending you oodles of love on this wintery day.
Keep shining your light and trust your intuitive intelligence.

Art with Heart ~ Calm Your Mind, Soothe Your Soul.