Ayurveda Ireland

Your mind is a powerful tool or a powerful detriment to your health and well being.  Are you aware of your thoughts?  Are you giving the mind a rest and having times of thought less states?  Do you want overall health and wellbeing for your body?  The mind is the key to all health…..

Imagine, if you only had to do one thing to change your health and your whole life, that one thing would be your mind.  I know you have heard the saying, change your mind and you can change your life.  There is nothing truer than that statement.  We have the resource between our ears that has the ability to move mountains and change the health of our body and can change the whole course of our life.  I know, from my own experience, that the mind is not an easy thing to conquer.  But, this is a task worth conquering……simply because the mind is the key component in every single thing….Here are some tips that I would recommend to start to change this over consuming mind that leads us from where we truly want to be, happy and healthy.

Tip 1: Take time to not think.  This means that you have set aside, everyday, a little time to let everything you are thinking about stop.  Consciously think of nothing.  This isn’t easy, but you can do it with determination.  When you first start it may be easier to focus on something: breath, mantra, inspirational thought.  But this is one of the most important steps in changing your mind to be the tool it is intended to be.

Tip 2: Stop blaming yourself or finding fault with anything you have done. You will gain nothing in finding fault with yourself.  You won’t better yourself by going over everything….in fact, you will feel less confident and even more critical of yourself.  This is often the stopping force that holds us back from accomplishing things.  We are too critical, too self-judging.  You did what you did and you can’t change it.  You are not a bad person from it, but you learned from it.  If you want a different outcome then make a note to do it differently next time.  Let go of what just happened and get in your moment of now.

Tip 3: Become familiar with this idea of being in the now.  Really think about what that means.  Don’t let this growth opportunity pass you by from not understanding that everything you need is right here, right now.  There is nothing more you need in order to experience your perfection.  You only need to realize that your perfection is now and not in the future and it wasn’t in the past.

Tip 4: Let go.  When you feel struggle, when you feel pain, when you feel as if you are going against the grain, let go.  It is only your ego trying to make something that doesn’t want or need to happen, happen.  By letting go you gain all you were trying to accomplish because it allows you to see the bigger picture.  Often when we are pushing to make something happen we are not aware of what’s going on that may be stopping us from achieving whatever it is.  Let go and allow the bigger timing to take hold and know that if you were meant to attain it you will.

Tip 5: You are love.  I know this sounds really new age, but you are the embodiment of love.  Once you truly love yourself you will see your connection with everything else around you.  You are not a tiny island of you, you are the hugeness of everything, connected to everything.  Embrace that love and blanket yourself in that knowledge.  This will help the negative state of the mind to dissipate.

Tip 6: Gratitude. Gratitude is the healer of the mind.  Give thanks for everything and you will find yourself in a state of complete happiness.  Gratitude shifts negative states of mind like nothing else.  There is so much each of us can be grateful for, we just need to use it.

My hope is that we all reach our higher state of knowing there is nothing “wrong” with us and that we have all we need in order for us to be healthy and happy now.  Your mind need not be a determent to your health, start to use it to gain your perfection.