Is your mind feeling frazzled and unbalanced? Are you spending more time over-thinking things, rather than just going with the flow? Maybe it’s time to fill your emotional cup with some mind-nourishing moments of tranquil serenity – so your mind can feel clearer, calm, and refreshed. So, your head and your heart: can reconnect, rejuvenate, and restore you back into balance.
Now that we’ve gone through your physical goddess self, why you need it, and how to rebuild it, and we’ve cracked open a Pandora’s box full of valuable virtues, now its time to start thinking about calming your Goddess mind: to pave the way to feel more inner peace inside of you.
This state-of-mind? is called Mindfulness. It is a practice of living in the now. Of setting aside some quiet time, to get some zen back into your life. Time away from the chaos – to still in silence, self-reflect and focus on your thoughts.
Like a leaf floating breezily down a trickly stream … Like a feather flying through the air …
Like a Buddha ohhming up on a mountaintop … Well, you get the jist
So what is Mindfulness anyway, and why is it so good for our budding Goddess minds?
What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness is defined as a state-of-being- of focusing on one’s inner awareness, while observing our thoughts, feelings and sensations as they arise in the present moment. Mindfulness also helps us to think without judgment, highlighting more of our inner virtues such as curiosity and kindness.
Basically, it is a mind-settling technique that makes you go all blissful- like, and makes your mind still and tranquil.
Goddess-like, baby.
It starts with feeling balanced, plus 11 other mindful thoughts and tips to bliss out your mind and bring you some much needed inner peace
Top 12 Goddess tips to thinking blissfully
Balance
Balance is an energetic realm that exists between you and the elements of your life. Imagine standing on an imaginary wheel, and around you, are the different aspects of your life, like your family, your partner, your parents, your job and your kids. Ideally, your energy expense to every aspect of your life should be even, so you are feeling centred in your circle of life. But sometimes, without realising it, we can overcompensate in any particular direction. The arrow of your work life might be swinging off course, leaving other areas of your life feeling empty. Or your love life could be the centre of your world, draining ties to your friendships. But what if you tried taking the reins of your life, one step at a time?
Imagine you are a lighthouse, or a love generator, beaming your light out to every direction around your life circle. Imagine filling up your vibrancy to the aspects of your life that truly matter to you. Why does this visual exercise work? Because the energy of love gives us our fundamental reason to live. It is the core of who we are, and where we originally came from. It is the basis for relationships and friendships, because we need this energetic interaction for our very being, and it is the very thing that brought us to our own creation. It is unconditional, infinite, eternal, and so very magical. So we must fill it within ourselves every single day. Start redefining your circle of life.
Forgiveness
Embracing forgiveness is essential to our wellbeing. Filling ourselves with kindness and compassion is the key to not only forgive others, but forgiving ourselves as well.
Forgiving is not easy. But it helps to accept our mistakes as part of our life’s journey. A learning curve that is etched beautifully within each of our hearts.
So accept that,
- we all come into this world carrying a glistening, box of hope.
- we cannot erase the errors we’ve made, so we must wear them and focus on the present.
- you can choose to remain stuck in a cocktail of mixed emotions by the negative choices you made, or you can take the time to learn from your mistakes, and walk on through to the next chapter in your life.
- a chapter is only a period of time, only one piece of your entire life’s journey in the huge, wonderful volume of your entire life’s path. But life is infinite. Life is never stagnant. So neither are your mistakes.
Mistakes don’t have to define you.
So move your story forward with every turn of the page. As the door closes on one chapter, another blank page always appears on the other side, like a door waiting to be opened. You still own the beautiful life you are proudly meant to live, so be proud of the road you paved, even if it’s combined with some glistening scars. So wrap them up or breathe them out, take them on your magic carpet ride and place them on a star. Let them twinkle and glisten as a mark of learning. Let them represent your badge of honour. To forgive others you need to forgive yourself first. That is the Power Of Forgiveness. It all starts with you. One door at a time
Compassion
Let’s talk about the gift of Compassion. Compassion is an art form. Compassion is a glorious precious sacred jewel, a precious diamond lying deeply in the beauty of your psyche, challenging to find, and so hard to unearth; because in order to find it, you have to dig deep within yourself to eliminate self-judgement, self-criticism, and the very wasteful fears and psychological habits that just don’t serve you anymore. That is when compassionate wisdom arrives at your door.
Compassion stops you from gossip. It elevates your energy to halt you from judging others. It keeps you steady, still and clear, and keeps your emotions intact and your heart open just enough to let wisdom in, while still keeping true to yourself and your values.
Embrace compassion. If you can greet life with compassion, you can conquer your own greatness and your own purpose.
Letting go
The sacred act of letting go is one of peaceful surrender. It is the highest form of forgiveness and compassion, yet so challenging to master.
Yet, there comes a time in our life, when it is time to say goodbye to whatever and whoever is holding us back, in order to care and cultivate our own growth and wellbeing. This is called ‘letting go’. Moving forward with love and grace, without reactive behavior that no longer serves us.
Yes, you are permitted to grieve, you are permitted to feel shame, humiliation, and pain, but for how much longer is it really needed? Is it not time to tear off the label you’ve made for yourself, and truly live a well-deserved life of happiness and joy?
Practise this. Imagine a vessel, an invisible vessel from your heart’s centre, leading straight out in a straight line, up and out into the sky. Breathe deeply, in and out of this vessel, and slowly look up to the sky,
and just whisper these 5 thank you’s under your breath,
- Thank you … for showing me who to be.
- Thank you … for sending me angelic friends to shield and protect me. Thank you … for teaching me to listen and feel again.
- Thank you … for keeping me in my power.
- Thank you … for blessing me with a richer life of love.
Just say thank you. That is the Power Of Letting go.
Embrace Grace
As a passionate advocate of the personal growth process, you have to remember that you can’t push your self-awareness or your experience onto your friends or loved ones.
Sometimes, one must shine some grace upon them, even if you have to watch them make mistakes: even if they refuse to listen. Sometimes, grace is just saying nothing at all, but holding the space for someone to feel human.
For the empaths and fixers of this world, this is the hardest thing to sit and witness. To disagree with someone’s actions, to then watch them fall, is very hard to watch and detach from.
But we can shine grace upon them. It is not our journey nor our responsibility per se, but if we hold our own boundaries at the same time, in a lane of detachment, it leaves a space for us to sit with them, and not to shut them out completely. It allows us to just be there, in their plight, surrounded by grace.
So hold yourself in your glowing space. Strive to hold your jeweled crown in place, and let the drama filled thunderstorms pass with … grace.
Breathe out the negative
Handling a toxic relationship is akin to being a street fighter, battling your way through the toxic vacuum of hate that you are facing- punching and kicking your way to a solution. Or, you can attack a hateful, deceiving energy by roaring like a thunderstorm, your voice being heard like a simmering scene of volcanic eruptions. Or, we can do the unthinkable.
We can just back away and breathe.
We can just pull away, just for a period of time, in utter silence. The silence of our own space. The silence of our beating hearts. A sacred space of stillness echoing the masters and wise teachers of centuries past, who try to guide us through spirit, to raise our frequencies to unlimited levels of greatness.
So step aside and work on shining your bright light of beauty upon the world. Work on your bodies, minds and spirits to turn chaos into fodder. Be so reflective in your light that your naysayers will be blinded by their own lasers of fear and negativity that they attempt to tase upon you.
Slowly then, start to bask in sweet surrender, and learn to leave the greater work for the universe to deal with, for you, for the others, and for your greater wellbeing. For the goddess universe knows your absolute truth, as it wants you to shine.
Have faith
When a dark shadow of self- doubt has finally released its firm grasp upon your shoulder, perhaps its time to rise and shine – and step into your confidence.
This is when faith enters, with open arms, leading you with a steadfast hand to where it feels your purpose stands.
Faith, followed by confidence, is a gift that is handed to you by the universe, and its power of self-assurance can arrive at any stage of your life.
You may be handed a talent, or a never-ending drive to work hard towards a particular goal. It is given with self-certainty, and calls on you to seek a daily practice of deep seeded beliefs about yourself and your place in it.
This is what faith feels like. It is an essence manifesting inside of you, longing to unleash itself. Once it does, may you hold it tightly, and may it grow and burst forth like a rainbow of stars
Let Fear Go
Let’s talk about fear. The scary, paralytic type of fear. The kind that stops you in your tracks, making you stop doing whatever it is you are trying to achieve. Fear makes you … give up on yourself.
It could be the fear of disapproval. The fear of looking silly. The fear of rejection. The fear of putting yourself out there …
But what if we became friends with our fears? What if we decided to do a task anyway, and just give something a go, no matter how big, no matter how small? Imagine your fear just stepping aside, doing a booty shake, giving you a high five, and just letting you pass through that zone of fearlessness?
You are made of so much more than your fears. You are made of the powerful energy of the universe, and your fear is the shivering little box that is dangling off your feet … begging you to hold onto it … begging, no PLEADING … for you to stay bound to the ground.
But life is too short. So spread your wings and fly … with every strength you have. Lift that dangling box of fear, and hurl it up into the vast blue skyline. Let it be gathered, loved and protected by the universe, who will in turn, shine it’s love and protection over YOU
Think rich thoughts
When we talk of living a life of richness, several pictures come to mind.
There is material richness, in being fully satisfied with what you may own. You may initially be filled up with gleeful happiness, but it may wear off.
There is richness in filling your stomachs with the art of soulfood, tantalizing your mouth-watering tastebuds with spices and aromas from around the world, but it is for a momentary period.
But the inner richness of our soul? To bask in the overflow of serving others with your truthful, open-ended heart? Is this not holding riches beyond measure? Is this not worth its weight in riches?
Be rich in your glorious energy. Rich in your entire being. Let the silver and metal treasures from your sacred heart overflow, topple and trickle gently into your golden river of glowing riches
Count your blessings
Let’s talk about gifts. Not of the material kind, as much as they are appreciated; and as wonderful as they are to receive from our friends and loved ones. What I talk of – is the other kind of immaterial gifts, the blessed gifts in your life that are not so apparent at first, but down the line, we deeply know that our very souls are drastically changed for the better because of them.
Like the gift of a new friend who makes you think differently. The gift of disappointment. A setback. Even a mistake, which paves you onto a better direction.
A haunting experience of being bullied at an early age. Getting fired from your job. Being undermined and unappreciated at work. Being faced with a life or death experience, or even the feeling of being lost in the darkness
Why not look deeper and start to honour these momentary gifts that brought you to where you are right now? Whether they have made you crawl two steps back or run a thousand steps forward, why not realise how far you’ve come from these very gifts? That in hindsight- perhaps these roadblocks, shut doors and dodged bullets were the very blessed gifts you needed all along? The ones that have altered your very existence. I promise you that in the long term, you will look back and appreciate these gifts. For perhaps they were the hidden scrolls of wisdom and life’s experience that brought you back to the power of you
Stay true to yourself
Let’s talk about truth. We grew up to believe that we should always speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, and that the truth will save us all from harm’s way.
But does truth really prevail? Because in today’s world, with regards to friendships or family, I’ve noticed that something happens when we start to speak the truth to those we care for, who ask for advice. By being truthful, we think we are helping helpful. That we are doing a good deed.
But what we don’t realize is, when we are speaking our truth, is that ….
Some people just can’t handle the truth. The avoiders, the suppressors, and the users of this world. Their life exists in the land of denial, of drama and holier than thou-ness. This is their safety net.
The truth is not. Even if you put yourself out on a limb. For them, the truth hurts. The phone calls stop coming. Your calls do not get answered. The invitations stop coming. Before you know it, your years of friendship are simply … erased.
So here’s your truth,
- Your truth challenged their safety.
- Your friendship with this person was based on a different truth.
- This experience was a way of unravelling their real truth of who they really are, to you.
- And lastly, if you cannot be of value to ‘build’ their false sense of self, then you will get replaced for someone who will.
So, from one goddess to another …
Don’t be dispensable. Don’t be replaceable.
Do not take it personally. Take it as a compliment.
Gratitude
Finally, having gratitude as a virtue is essential to our overall happiness. To appreciate our life, keeps us in a great frame of mind.
Being thankful for great friends, relationships, and family, builds the blocks and ripples to spread more positive energy – and like a boomerang, it can usually come back to us in receiving more good things! For if we are grateful for what we already have, then the rest is like icing on the cake! We should have gratitude because it keeps us in our happy place.
In giving thanks to our life, it ripples out more good vibrations, which in turn, spreads more positivity into our ever-changing world.
