Before we talk about the top tips for mindfulness, let's talk a little about the mind.

Our thoughts are powerful machines that can be our greatest ally or greatest source of sabotage. 

Mindfulness is essentially becoming more aware of that power that the mind has in creating our life, so we may shift our experience of life (our reality).

95% of your mind and where you are creating your life from, is unconscious. You are likely reacting to the world often from the very primal part of your brain that controls fight or flight, the emotional part of your brain or the cognitive part, which is often ruled by logic and is often very limited. 

Using the logical part of your brain to become aware of when you are reacting to life from the other two parts of the brain in a way that is unsupportive to the experience you desire to live is a great step to change.

However, mindfulness is actually not about filling the mind at all (I think you will agree with me that our mid's are already extremely full of unhelpful things and to-do lists etc..). In fact, allowing the mind to become empty and still as you stop over identifying with it, realising it is ultimately limited.

The mind we are talking about is called the lower mind and there is a higher mind that we want to start to tap into. Jo Dispensza calls this the superconscious mind. This part of your mind is way more powerful to tap into, create and conduct your lives from. How do you get there??

Here are my top 10 mind mastery tips:

1. Breathe! 

Slowing your breath, slows your racing mind. Focusing on your inhale and exhale gives your active lower mind something to do and allows you to come into the present moment (where you can access the superconscious mind, AKA, the higher mind).

2. Catch the thought!

Can you catch yourself thinking, rather than the mind running it's show all day? Can you actually think about what your thinking about?

"Wow, I was just thinking about how many cucumbers I need for the salad, how ugly those shoes are and what I think my partner was thinking about me last night" all in a few seconds. 

Noticing and naming what you are thinking aka catching the thought, allows you to start to become separate in a way from the drama show of thought and observe the insanity that your mind runs on, along with noticing what of those thoughts are helpful to you and what are not.

3. Social detox. 

Get yourself off technology, social media and out into nature. It is proven that social media, while extremely helpful in some aspects it is extremely damaging to your health and other aspects of your life. 

It creates a mind that lacks focus, is highly distracted, overly stimulated, confused, bored, addicted, dumb, overly influenced and leads to us not knowing who we are, what we truly want and being disconnected to our true needs. Train yourself to focus for longer.  Read posts with presence. Take a book outside. Take long periods off technology, get back into nature, allow yourself to get bored so you can rediscover inner connection, intuition, imagination and creation.

4. Get into the body! 

The mind isn't the brain. Your consciousness lives in the body and your energetic field. When the mind is running wild, get moving, do exercise, focus on the body, feel where the body is tight, free, hot, cold etc... Find experiences where you can learn to create a connection with and drop into your body. Discover how your body speaks to you too, and the voice inside your head isn't the only one asking for your attention.

5. Meditation.

Stillness and silence is where it's at! This is tough for an over-active mind and a highly emotional being. Trust me, I resisted meditation like the plague and found it absolutely impossible to start with. I challenged myself to a 100-day meditation challenge and sticking to that changed everything for me. 

You have to train your mind, like training a puppy not to pee inside or jump on the couch. It takes persistence and dedication to keep your couch fur free and not smelling of pee.

There are many forms of meditation that will bring so much peace and clarity to your life. Challenge yourself and practice disciplining and training your mind.

6. Permission.

Give your mind permission to calm down, let go and be silent. Your mind often doesn't know what to do and has been running free your whole life. This makes it want to and need to stay in control, so giving it permission to relax will take you a long way. Before meditation speak to it out loud, let it know it's safe to be silent and still.

7. Mental energy

Each person comes here with a unique energetic blueprint, with how their mind uniquely works, what governs their thoughts, their beliefs, their intellect. When you know your soul's path, you discover this mental Blueprint and your own unique hacks to master your mind and have it working for instead of against you. MASTER YOUR MIND BY GETTING YOUR SOUL PATH  READING HERE

8. Choice! 

Remember there is a super-conscious part of you that is wealthy, abundant and limitless. If you can tap into this part and learn to let it lead your life, you will always be living the path you were born to walk. You always have a choice about what you are thinking and believing. Choosing your thoughts along with transforming your energy changes your experience of life.

9. Patience.

Training your mind takes effort. Be kind and patient on your journey to mind mastery. If your mind gets full and runs away with you, tell yourself it's okay, you are learning and start again. On your journey you will notice this more and more, because your awareness heightens dramatically whereas before you were unconscious of your unconsciousness. Now you are conscious of your unconsciousness. That's progress, even though at the moment it feels like your going backwards, your actually moving forwards, the more you notice the better. Instead of becoming frustrated and impatient, celebrate your awareness.

10. Healing

Sometimes, a strong mind that won't budge needs some support. Energy healing that drops you into the super-conscious mind and works with the distorted consciousness that's causing the full, erratic, crazy mind, allowing it to transform it at a cellular level. This has you much more effortlessly staying in that higher state of mind, allowing you peace, clarity and freedom. If you are really struggling with your mind, remember reaching out for support and healing is a pure power move for your life.

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I hope you start implementing these tips straight away! Pick your favourite and focus on that one to start with.

P.S. My FREE energy of wealth, immersive 5 day course takes you through many of these steps and more! Head HERE to register and start mastering your mind today. 

 This blog post is of a much more personal nature, with some valuable life lessons thrown in the way.

Tragedy and upheaval hit us all at certain stages in life, and it SUCKS! In these terribly challenging moments, we have two choices. Like Rafiki from "The Lion King" said; You can either run from it or learn from it.

On the 11th of November 2023 (a month ago from the time I am writing this) I broke two bones in my leg in a somewhat freak accident (which lined up freakishly well with the Astrology of the time).

My world changed in an instant. 

I had just started preparing to step back into the cage and was feeling better than ever. I was enjoying my life and what I was working towards, then BANG, it all got taken away. 

Breaking a bone has been an intense journey so far, but I have learned many hard and many beautiful and valuable life lessons because of this unexpected, unsettling change.

• ACCEPTANCE
• HONOR THE PROCESS.
• SURRENDER, SURRENDER, SURRENDER
• OPEN TO RECEIVE.
• OPPORTUNITY AWAITS.
• PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE.
• INTUITION IS EVERYTHING.
• ENERGETIC HYGIENE IS A NON-NEGOTIABLE.

That mid-November day, lying on the floor with my leg in pieces, tears ran down my face at the sudden change in life direction, the stress of how I pay for this, the fear of the unknown, the pain and the intense focus and responsibility of needing to adult and sort out my life, regardless of what I was physically experiencing, it was A LOT.

Thanks to my spiritual work, I was able to come into a state of acceptance fairly quickly rather than holding onto the past and able to be in the present moment and focus on the new road ahead of me. Simultaneously holding space for the necessary grieving process that comes with big change, letting go, pivoting and pain.

LESSON ACCEPTANCE!

I'm not one for medical intervention, barely needing to take panadol for the odd headache.

So to be injected with hard-core painkillers, IV drips and be taken into emergency surgery was something I was not comfortable with, didn't want and, to be honest, I held fear around. 

I had to quickly surrender to the process and put my trust and faith in the people surrounding me.

It was a successful surgery and a massive adjustment, moving through every little ache and pain, although I was swimming in the unknown, feeling like I was wading around in a dark tunnel unable to see any light or end. I had no choice but to continue surrendering and trusting that I was and am supported as I faced what felt like death.

LESSON SURRENDER!

As a person with an extremely high pain tolerance and strong and willful nature, I met many parts of my old shadow that holds high expectations and pushes me to my limits. Healing has been a daily cultivation of patience and compassion. Things just take 5 to 10 times as long right now. Here I am faced with another choice; beat myself up about it or just accept it and adjust to what is (there really is no choice; stay in a state of perpetual suffering or move forward). MORE ACCEPTANCE, SURRENDER, PATIENCE

Over the weekend, I was on a course call (light worker school) and Ishtar, the founder of the course, came to answer questions. As we were guided to connect with our presence and ask from this space my question was: FOLLOW THE PROCESS (the next lesson).

Ishtar explained the step by step nature of the process, the importance of not rushing ahead and skimming over the depth and the gift at every single step. 

Yet another surrender to slowness and patience for me, which I have done, but is asking to go deeper still; into every step, every process, every emotion, every change, every thought. 

Divine stillness has settled over my life and my ego and habitual nature hates it.

This brings up all the subtle fears that lay dormant in my psyche and energy, making all the shadows put up their hands to be heard!

This is a bitch at times, but ultimately it is an opportunity. See, I am not just healing a bone but going through a deep process of transformation on so many levels and that, deserves process, deserves it's time and space to be witnessed and present with.

The gifts I have been able to receive through facing these challenges (limitations) inside myself thus far have been profound!

LESSON OPPORTUNITY AWAITS

My fiancé started a GoFundMe page to support us through this time. Luckily, insurance(which ended 5 days post incident) covered the surgery and hospital stay but the ongoing recovery, physio, nutritional needs, loss of wages from not being able to work was on us.

I had deep resistance and judgments about gofundme and receiving donations that made me squirm. However, I had the subtle whisper of transformation soften me and allow him to do it. 

As people's support flooded in financially and in other beautiful ways, my heart cracked open to a deeper layer of how beautiful humanity is, how blessed I am, how much of an impact I have had on others! I allowed myself to open to receive as I met the stories of unworthiness and shame melt away to receive an all-encompassing love. 

Letting the Armor of the warrior down, letting the story of the independent woman collapse and allowing myself to be held by a larger community is something I hope you all get to experience.

After lifetimes of giving so much, the tables are turning, and it's time to experience the opposite side. I know healing this has a profound impact on my life, and a deep ripple effect on my ancestors, current and future clients.

LESSON OPEN TO RECEIVE and more surrender.

The last thing (so far) that has been highlighted to me in an extreme way, is the importance of energetic hygiene. This incident destabilized me to no end. I couldn't find balance and started to feel like I wasn't myself at all. Luckily, I have many precious healers in my circle offering me a lot of healing and support, most of which has come back to my Chakra system being completely out of whack and needing harmonizing.

I live and breathe this work and work with my energy daily, so what I usually notice is subtle. However, because of the trauma, and everything this is asking me to transform. The extremity of having my Chakra and energy field out of whack to having healing with my colleagues and mentors support me to heal and balance them is a night and day experience. I went from feeling completely unstable on all levels, jittery, emotional, and feeling like I needed to be chucked into a mental institution. 

To complete calm, balance, groundedness, and feeling anchored in who I am. This extreme difference highlighted the importance of the work I do for everyone on a larger scale! 

LESSON ENERGETIC HYGIENE (join the FREE 5-day Energy of Wealth program here)

Yesterday, a friend of mine came around, and we started having big conversations around that day. She asked me if I had any warning signs; and I did, so did my finance, but the busyness of life and the potential distrust in the intuitive hits that said NO (My partner literally had a premonition of me breaking my leg) to me being where I was that day got ignored, and I paid the high price.

LESSON INTUITION IS EVERYTHING

Sometimes things are random and don't have a greater reason. Sometimes they do..

But there are always lessons, gifts and growth in what we have to face in life. 

Kristy Renae Obst

 What is it to be emotionally empowered and why should you care?

• Have you ever felt personally victimised by your emotions? Like they are a roller coaster ride that makes you want to throw up.
• Have you ever felt this discomfort in your body, almost an anxiety that needs to be released or moved but unable to shift it?
• Have you ever dealt with injuries or sickness that is unexplainable? Or there is an explanation and you are doing all the right things to heal it, but it just isn't working?
• Have you ever been in a moment where you burst into tears or into a rage of fury out of nowhere? Often leaving behind a mess with someone you loved that needs to be cleaned up?

All of these reasons and more are why you want to keep reading and become emotionally empowered.

Emotional empowerment is the ability to gain even more personal power and control through your emotional experience. When I say control, I do not mean restrictively suppressing your emotions, but instead of reacting or denying your emotions, consciously working with and learning from your emotional experiences.

This is the ability to remove all shame and stigma around emotions (which we pick up through society and childhood conditioning) and allow yourself to accept, honour and express your feelings in a way that creates deep connection with yourself and others (A.K.A healing). At the same time, understanding and growing from your emotional highs and lows, so they stop ruling your life and you become more balanced and harmonized.

More often than not, intense emotional experiences are linked with your inner child!

Yes, every age you have ever been and all you have experienced is stored in your body, mind, emotions and energy field. 

Your emotional body, solar plexus chakra and inner child have a direct correlation to one another. This means that often we are reacting to life from our 5-year-old perspective in highly emotional situations rather than responding to life from our adult selves.

Through emotional empowerment and creating intimacy with yourself and your inner landscape, deep healing work and transformation happens with the unresolved younger parts of you.

Once these parts (your inner child) feel safe and seen, the triggers that you were emotionally reacting to and causing chaos in your life often no longer effect you, because you have taken care of the root cause.

You can switch your perspective and stop thinking of your emotions as bothersome waves of feelings that you have to hide from, and start to think of them as the truth of what they are.

A UNIVERSAL MAILING SYSTEM

Through your emotional landscape, you understand what energy you are holding onto and therefore, how to let it go (going from victim to victor). Your emotions are literally guiding you towards growth and your soul's path. 

Here is my 5 step process for understanding what the universal mailing system of emotions is trying to tell you.

1. You get a letter (AKA an emotion) in the mail, make sure you receive it. In other words, accept that you are feeling an emotion/emotional.

2. See that the letter (AKA the emotion) is addressed to you. In other words, owning and stating what you're feeling. Not bypassing the feeling, over analyzing or blaming another for it. Simply state to yourself, "I am feeling......" 

3. Open the envelope and look inside. This is allowing yourself to express your emotions in a safe and healthy way, to give yourself permission to feel them and just be with them. Let yourself cry, punch a pillow, scream into a pillow, journal about how you feel while allowing yourself to really feel what you are writing. NOTE: we do not project this onto others. For example, screaming at someone else saying things like you are making me angry, trying to cause others to be emotional to soften your emotions. Another important piece here is that if you want to share and express how you are feeling to another, make sure they are a safe person and can hold space for your emotions with compassion and empathy.

4. Reading the letter. Now you are feeling the feelings, you can start to notice the thoughts and experiences that brought on this emotion and discover a deeper cause for it. HINT it wont be about another person or circumstance but how you think and feel about yourself. You can also ask yourself how old does this emotion feel? You may get a random number, for example, 5, then you know this is your 5-year-old self running the show. In this step, we really read the letter, we get present with it, hear it ,understand it. Speak to the emotions or your 5-year-old self like a best friend that wants to share their heart with you. 

5. Respond to the sender. You have already started this process by speaking to and creating a relationship with the emotion. Discovering where it came from and what is really causing the issue. You can now ask what this emotion needs from you? e.g. more compassion and space to feel. You can ask it what it is teaching you? e.g. to build strength in your boundaries, or let your guard down to be supported by others. Make a commitment to yourself to listen to the guidance you have been given and start to practice implementing it into your life.

This is part of the path to emotional empowerment and emotional wealth!

It can be a hard road to start with, as many of us hold onto a lot of shame and fear about certain emotions and live quite a guarded life or, on the other end of the spectrum, are on an explosive emotional roller coaster and feel like there is zero control or balance.

This is something I work deeply with my clients to bring empowerment, clarity and their innate wealth back online in their lives.  If you are struggling emotionally, please see my services at the top of the page. 

Are you broken or doubting astrology because you don't resonate with your star sign?

This is a common theme with pop astrology and daily horoscopes. While a fun read that can at times resonate deeply, there is only so much you can get from these snippets of wisdom. Unfortunately for many people, it turns them off astrology completely, because they do not resonate with them at all and therefore put it all down to woo woo BS!

When you start to really study and research the many facets of astrology, you discover it is a technical and complex system that offers so much insight into your life. This fantastic tool is a gift that keeps on giving the more you understand. However, when you start, it can be as overwhelming and daunting as learning an entire new language. (the language of the universe)

YOUR 'STAR SIGN' IS ACTUALLY YOUR SUN SIGN

This is where the sun was in the sky at your time of birth, what zodiac sign it was moving through, e.g. Aries, Virgo, Scorpio, Aquarius etc… Whilst your sun is an important piece of your birth chart and life, you have to understand that it is just one piece of your chart and of you. 

WHY YOU DON'T RESONATE WITH YOUR SUN SIGN:

• The sun is just one of 13+ important points, stars and planets on your birth chart.
• The sun could be in a prominent position or in a challenging position in your chart over all.
• Your sun could be hindered or highlighted by other planets that impact its power.
• You may have a night chart and, therefore, the sun is not your light leader.

These are just a few reasons as to why only knowing your “star sign” may have you doubting the wonderful world of astrology.

Your birth chart is a snapshot of the entire sky the moment you take your first breath. This means that you are a combination of multiple planets, points, stars, asteroids and every single zodiac sign! Pretty neat huh?

When you understand this, you can start to look for certain placements and planets, and what that tells you about your life.  The top things to look at when starting your search into the world of astrology are what they call the big 3!

Your sun sign. Your moon sign. Your rising sign