Be Kind to Your Mind
Dear Friend,
Yes, Be Kind to Your Mind! After all, the Holy Days are upon us and we want to include everybody and everything, right? So of course your mind is welcome in this celebration too.
In my previous blog post I mentioned how old patterns can still pull us into their familiar grip. How is it that even those of us who are so dedicated and committed to being a full expression of our divine essence can still be caught off guard by these patterns? It is a mystery, isn’t it! And then we get down on ourselves for falling for this trap … again!
First the mind pulls you into believing something that is not true (the ‘anti-commitment’ or anti-Christ), and then on top of that, this same mind makes you wrong or bad for doing so!
Feel free to giggle when you see this in yourself.
It looks like your mind wants your attention just as much as everything else does. As long as we reject any part of ourselves, we are back in the old paradigm where duality reigns. The best cure for this old paradigm is love and kindness … to your mind. It is not always easy to do this, because the tendency is to want to get rid of it, which is the complete opposite of being kind to it. As long as you try to get rid of any part of yourself, you are stuck with it. Everything wants to be loved. Everything wants to be included. Everything wants to be recognized for what it really is. Everything. Absolutely everything and your mind is part of ‘the’ everything. It is only as long as something is excluded and kept outside of the loving inclusion of everything that it will do anything it can to get your attention until you include it in the totality of everything – the totality of Love. This is true oneness and that is why you cannot leave anything out.
How to Be Kind to Your Mind?
In my experience it is helpful to have someone model that for you, at least in the beginning. We need new role models in the world. People who know how to be kind to themselves and set loving, yet firm boundaries for their values and commitments.
Please don’t think you need to be able to figure it all out on your own, but do take time every day to practice this new skill. The old patterns go so deep into our bones and need a daily dose of ‘practice time’ to make this new skill our default. And it starts out with being kind to your mind and to all of yourself.
How can you be kind to your mind today?
How can you be more kind to yourself today?
What part of yourself is hurting, scared or angry right now and needs your loving attention?
What practice do you need to engage in daily to strengthen this commitment to be kind to all of yourself?
Do you need a guide or role model to help you get out of the grip of old patterns when they spin their web around you? We all need help for awhile. And then a little more later, when we think were are all done …
It makes it all so much easier.
ALL Love,
Pernilla
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