Mentalitea with Mish

🌺🌸🌼 Say it till you believe it! 🌼🌸🌺

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Are you picking up?

What are your plans for growth before we enter 2021? 🌸

🌱 #2021

ACCEPTANCE may be one of THE hardest pills we have to swallow as adults. But, the more we accustom ourselves to change, the easier it gets. The better and easier energy flow we allow into our lives. The acts of letting go, forgiveness, problem-solving and redirection would not be possible without “Acceptance.”
Acceptance helps us neutralise our reactions to outer circumstances and thereby respond more mindfully and be in tune with our actual selves.

One of THE best posts I’ve come across on Insta! By 🥰

What have you been focusing on versus what actually needs your attention? 🍂
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#2020 💭

⚠️Like I say it’s always in the Brain⚠️
The pandemic has given rise to a massive, silent and rapidly growing second of Depression!

“A study by JAMA Network Open found that depression symptoms in US increased from 8.5% BEFORE the pandemic to a whooping 28% after. Interestingly new research tells us that and were MORE likely to be found in people with loss of smell! Around 80% of COVID-19 patients suffer from Anosmia or loss of smell.
To explain this somewhat anatomically, the area associated with smell in our brains is located next to our Limbic System which are the brain’s emotional centres.”

Thought I’d share this mind-boggling information here because it is something to think about innit?! 😲 Stay home guys!

A gist of ‘s ever educational email, I look forward to!!! 🤩🤓

You do not have to go through it alone. There is always help if you just ask. I know asking may be the hardest thing you’ll ever do, but it will also be the bravest and best thing you’ll ever do. 🤎
Your feelings make you human, your emotional vulnerability makes you human, your resilience to adversity makes you human. 🤎

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If you needed a sign from the Universe, then here it is 🌟🤗
Affirm it to yourself now!

In case you’ve been feeling otherwise 😊

Artwork PC: 😍

💜💙 REMINDER! 💙💜

In case yesterday’s reminder wasn’t enough!

1) People don’t think about us as much as they think about their OWN selves! (problems/solutions/insecurities/good things)
2) Many people don’t know what they think of themselves or what actually defines them. So why let their opinions define you?!
3) A lot of people’s negative opinions or judgements about us are projections of their own internal insecurities - now you see how inaccurate that perspective is? See where I’m going with this?
4) If you feel defined/bogged down by people’s opinions of you I would sincerely encourage you to do inner work to heal the self-worth wounds you may be harbouring.
PC: My amazing

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This book by Dr. is !!! This spiritual and scientific book makes you see every aspect of your life so differently and from a REJUVENATED perspective! Because what’s in our minds, is in our physical reality by way of our subconscious habits!
What have you been reading?

The first step to overcoming Automatic Negative Thoughts (ANTs) is to rewire the “negative narrative” in our minds to a fairly neutral or positive one. What’s an easy first step we can take? ✨ Gratitude! ✨
It is reported we humans have around 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts a day, BUT an alarming 80% of them are NEGATIVE! What?! Remember what we feed to our minds, influences our bodies and consequently disease states too. Gratitude will be the tool you can use to take control and lower that percentage of negative thoughts! Additionally it will also help you have better perspective, count your blessings, live happier and healthier and improve your relationships!

Gratitude and Mindfulness go hand in hand in helping us change our active thoughts and reactions to those thoughts. Thereby improving our emotional state of being.
How can you start? Here are a few examples of consciously practising gratitude on a daily basis:
1) Keep a Gratitude Journal.
2) Wake up in the morning and actively list the things you are grateful to have.
3) Count things you are grateful for before you sleep at night (improves sleep quality too!)
4) Actively notice the little things and the big things and say, “Thank you!!”
5) Keep a few minutes for counting the things you are grateful for in the middle of the day. Actively appoint time to say, “thank you!”
6) When faced with a problem, list out the positives in that situation. It’ll help you with your solution!

SAY 👏🏼 IT 👏🏼 LOUDER 👏🏼 TO 👏🏼 THAT 👏🏼 VOICE 👏🏼 IN 👏🏼 YOUR 👏🏼 HEAD 👏🏼
A lot of people have habitually based their self worth (albeit subconsciously) on how others REACT to (treat/perceive/communicate/behave/their actions toward) them.. thus giving rise to an Automatic Negative Thought in our minds which starts with, “If I was good enough...”
NO! You ARE good enough! You’ve just got to tweak these subconscious standards you’ve been setting for yourself and ask yourself why and how they came about and what do YOU need to do to meet your own standards? We use the brain’s to change our thinking to a more pattern! Who’s with me??? 🙌🏼
Also, someone’s inability to show up in our lives does NOT reflect their character/emotions.
PC: wisest words by 🧡

Gary Chapman rightly described the 5 types of we experience in our relationships
If you have been feeling unfulfilled in any relationship - be it romantic or platonic it’s time for you to first get to know your love language! That will help us understand our needs better! You can find out your love language on www.5lovelanguages.com
I thought mine would be something but I got an extremely unexpected result! 😮❤️

@ London, United Kingdom

Why do I always say be kind? Because we humans have a beautiful way of disguising our problems- be it in sickness (physical/mental), anguish, bereavement, trauma, loneliness, financial problems or anything! Life throws curveballs along everyone’s ways, kindness might not solve anyone’s problems but it will help someone in that one moment, help them keep it together or even better put a smile on their faces, make them feel heard, make them feel seen and valued. 🦋 Kindness is one currency universally accepted without any language barrier, why aren’t we using more of it?! 🦋

It is common knowledge that our impacts our performance, way of thinking, habits and state of mind! Take a step back and make sure you are being positively impacted and not held back or pulled down. 💙

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A lot of us have a love-hate relationship with food because of certain things we have been made to believe by growing up. Using these past few months to work on my relationship with food - I refuse to feel for eating a slice of heavenly moist ! I liken that to a tight hug from a loved one - and that is a to have! 🤗 Now due to the I can’t go about hugging people but if I want to enjoy a slice of heaven then I will! 🤤
To overcome the guilt which seriously plagued me and took control of my life - I lived in guilt perpetually - I developed a habit of which is a combination of and being directly in tune with our physiological response to hunger. I don’t see food as good or bad anymore - just how does it make me FEEL after I eat it. 🥳 You will begin to NOTICE how the taste of a certain food CHANGES when we eat intuitively and are actually full versus eating in response to unregulated emotions. (Want to much on chips? Eat them slowly, and you’ll notice the craving dies down because the taste is altered after 3-4 versus an entire bowl. NOT KIDDING! ⛔️ So you get your fix but without the guilt and damage! Win-win!) Additionally we eat without an elevated cortisol level, which is the stress hormone and high levels cause more damage than we would want!

This may be a picture of me smiling - but it’s exactly that. Just a picture.
I could be going through a hundred different “negative” emotions at the time and still put on a brave face and do what I have to without letting a whisper out of what I’m feeling.
Or I could address the things in my head.

In life, we can have the best partner, best education, best job, best figure, best financial security, best parents, best home, best ANYTHING but unless we address it in our heads and FIX it - it will always remain the worst of the things in life.
We lose precious lives to a PREVENTIVE DISEASE called Su***de. It’s time we started rapidly normalising not being okay.
Am I brave for speaking out about having Mental Health struggles? Yes. But I’m also brave for silently handling those struggles without speaking out.
CAN WE MAKE THIS LIFE A SAFER SPACE?!
Can we give a mentally ill person the SAME PRIORITY we give a patient suffering from a Cardiac Arrest! Please can we?????

***de ***deprevention ***de

And good judgment comes from experience and sound insight! 🌿
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😳 Are you any of the 2 people or both? 😳
I realised I was both last year - and actively pursued a change! Find something you GENUINELY like in a person to compliment them on. Accept and feel amazing about yourself when you are complimented! Don’t defend the compliment or down-play it!
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#2020

Have you ever stopped to think, “What does being Spiritual mean to you?” 😇
What separates YOU (the actual you) from your Ego? Are You your Ego or is your Ego You? Which of your decisions/feelings/thoughts/emotions/actions are driven and fuelled by your Ego, and which of these are driven by your true sense of self? Sit with yourself today and come up with an answer! 🌷🌸🌼
🌈 I’m making sure you not only exercise physically, but mentally as well! 🌻

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How do I let go? 🌌💙
Believe the Universe is within you.. and everything you desire... you already have! Even if it’s not manifest in the physical realm currently. You are one with the Universe!
Other things I do which help me detach from the outcome:
1) Gratitude - the power is in the thank you! Grateful for whatever I have right now, and what the future is bringing. Gratitude is a magnet 🧲
2) Affirmations!! Consciously remind myself that I am receiving good things!
3) Live as if my desires have manifested in the now!
4) Work on removing subconscious blocks of “lack” or “unworthiness”
5) Know that this desire or something better!
6) Knowing I’ll be okay without my manifestation 🤷🏽‍♀️
7) Consciously stop myself in the middle of doubt - and find the source of that fear!
8) Do something high vibe which not only keeps me “busy” (hate that word!) but mainly keeps me productive, happy, excited, and on the frequency of receiving! That is - live my life in ABUNDANCE!
9) Knowing that everything happens in Divine timing! Always!
Love and light always! 🦋

Coming to the tricky part.... “LETTING GO” 🎈
So we’ve set an intention of something we really want, embodied that feeling, but now we’ve to let go of that desire...?!
But you really want it, and you want it to come true so what do you mean let go?
This “want” - this “need” that your outcome absolutely must happen in order for you to be happy is indicative of the 2 very things that aren’t letting your desires manifest:
1) Attachment to your desire - you need to be okay with or without the possibility of your desire coming true. And you need to TRUST that if it doesn’t manifest, there’s something much greater planned for you - which you can’t even imagine.
2) Control - if you aren’t trusting and letting go - you’re still exerting a form of control subconsciously - giving the Universe a message that you do not fully surrender and place trust in it’s plan for you. You’re still offering a lot of resistance, setting back your manifestations!
Meaning: you don’t fully believe in your manifestation - or something better for you.

But how do I detach from my desires?! They’re everything I want..... 🥺
TBC!
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Feeling low... take that list of gratitude out - and read it out loud once. At the end say, “thank you, thank you, thank you!” Saying it 3 times really ingrains it into your mind and gets those happy hormones flowing. And happy hormones mean happy vibes. Happy vibes means higher frequency, higher frequency means being closer to our Higher purpose AKA living our best lives! ⭐️
The trick in manifesting and using the LOA is - setting an intention - REALLY embodying that feeling/emotion of your desire - visualising - being grateful in the moment - and letting that thought go - considering it’s done - and then living as if our desires have come to fruition. 💥
... but there’s a tricky part... Letting go of being attached to the outcome. I’ll fill you in on it tomorrow. Done with today’s class! 😋

to when I was on my own terms! 🤪
Add a small thing to your day to bring you a little happiness and confidence - DANCING!, speaking to an old friend, a bubble bath, cooking something, whipping up that new coffee, moisturising!, etc. Make that a part of the routine you do for YOU! This is the time to bring our selfcare routines back! 🌸 We aren’t compromising on ourselves anymore 🌸
(P.S. - Don’t know why glasses evoke such laughter responses in me 🤷🏽‍♀️) .

Sharing some of my moments today! In each of these moments - my heart has been extremely happy and mind stress free! I’ve enjoyed the company and been in the moment.
Over the years we can develop a positive or a negative relationship with food - do you eat mindfully and happily or are you weighed down by guilt and ? You choose your starting today!
@ Dubai, United Arab Emirates