Erika Fish

Being Aware of your Spiritual nature is foundational knowledge for growing a strong, resilient and balanced Mind. And developing all the necessary skills for living an intimately connected life, grounded in a sense of purpose and a feeling of belonging.

A strong Mind is built on the rock-solid foundations of Trust in the intelligence that lives within you. Trust in your feelings. Trust in your timing. Trust in your intuition. Trust in your instincts. 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.

When we trust our deeper intelligence, we believe in our Self. We honour the integrity of our self-belief. We consistently align with our actions, words and values, even when no-one is looking. We know the practice of maintaining a quiet power - an internal knowing that values honesty.

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-Self 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 feel love, that is how you give and receive.

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. With time, 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 as to what feels right for you.

We are educated with the emphasis heavily placed on developing our academic or 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, support and problem solve our way through life.

Strengthening our emotionally intelligent Mind is a discipline in loving how we think and feel for our overall wellbeing. It is a practice in knowing how to listen to our Spirit as our connection to life and 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. It can be very easy to identify with that which is not sustainable. Our true spiritual identity - grounded in love - is what sustains us and our connection to each other, our environment and life. Love is our humanity in action.

Constant thinking distracts our attention away from what matters most - caring for our inner home and peace of Mind.

Home is a feeling we take with us wherever we go and is nurtured through the intelligence that speaks to our emotions.

By being present to our Mind, (rather than judging or anticipating 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 others is how we connect.

What we do when we listen quietly with our full attention is meet the reality of the moment ... as it is happening. With patience and a calm nervous system, we can begin to see and appreciate the other person with a more truthful, kinder and compassionate 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 our feelings may feel hard at first, but the more clearly we begin to see how we have been taught (conditioned to think) the more willing we are to changing our habits. We honestly feel compelled to keep our Heart open, no matter what comes our way and irrespective of any right or wrong. We get better at pausing, opening to curiosity and seeing people and circumstances as though for the very first time.

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 and innate potential that has been waiting for us.

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

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 (separate) individual.

Unlearning unhealthy conditioned thought patterns by repatterning our brain with the guidance of our Spiritual awareness - so we feel in tune with our true 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 and heavy 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. Releasing a heavy ego caught in conditioned thought patterns brings your Spirit - body - Mind - and energy back to feeling whole.

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

It truly teaches you to feel good about your Self and alters 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.

Standing up for our human rights is a shared responsibility in wanting for others what we want for our Self. It is the foundation for good governance in the family home and in all areas of life when we know how.

Connecting with your Spirit and 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.