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Mind and body

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If we want to know if our mind is truly at peace and silent, check the body, how do we feel?

If we check-in with the mind, of course, the ego will say ‘I’m fine…why wouldn’t I be? Nothing wrong with me’.

The body will not be able to lie as our thoughts create emotions, which creates turbulence in the body.

When we are conscious, our soul and true essence shine, the mind will be silent, as we will simply witness our thoughts rather than energise them as we do in our subconscious mind-state.

In the subconscious state, thoughts drag us along like a huge magnet from one repeating pattern to another firing all kinds of emotions and chemicals into our body, which brings sickness.

Consciousness brings peace and joy which will be reflected in the body…a calm state.

When the body is sick it is the mind that creates it and only the light from our true essence can change this.

Inktober

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Above is this year’s #inktober so far up to ‘day 17’.

This is my third year of doing the #inktober challenge and I absolutely love it. It’s simple, each day there is a prompt for you to create an ink drawing, although you do not have to follow the prompt, and then post your ink drawing to Instagram using the #inktober.

Art is one of my favourite things to do, and in recent months I have fallen away a little from my habit of doing a piece of art each day, even if it is just a quick pencil sketch. When I am doing my art I’m in the moment, focused and free from the mind and its distractions.

So I’m glad to be back in the grove and doing it each day. Like all things, small easy steps build a habit and when we are focused on the small daily routine, then the mind is silent as there is little risk. If we focus on big giant leaps, then alarms ring and the mind sabotages as its poor little ego is at risk.

Step by step keeps us focused now in the joy of doing not thinking about the ‘big’ outcome.