These 2 quotes really sum up my own personal experience of the mind:

The Mind is Everything. What you Think You Become - BUDDHA

The sky is not the limit. Your mind is. - Marilyn Monroe

How do people know you are happy? Through your emotional responses and bodily expressions. You can say you are happy, but if people are not convinced through your vibration, energy, emotional responses, body language, they may think you are a fraud, or perhaps depressed. A state of depression you, see can cause many phenomenom. There was a time where I was greatly sick. At the time, the medical doctors diagnosed me with Hashimoto (an underachieve Thyroid condition) - here is a great and simple article about Hashimoto to learn more about Hashimoto and empower yourself. It is different from the shocking, almost too catastrophic message delivered by the medical doctors, and many of the medical articles online that says your immune system is attacking healthy tissues. Just make sure when you do a google search, you search for “Hashimoto” to see all the scary medical articles, and “Hashimoto blog” which is what I searched to get some non medical results on the topic.

I was also diagnosed with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Neutropenia, Severe Depression, Severe Anxiety. At the same time also experienced Chronic Fatigue, and chronic pain all over my body especially my back. All of these medical diagnosis came with either heavy prognosis, recommendations, treatments or medications. Gained weight, hair was falling out, and it all seemed like a Great Depression at the time. Why am I sharing all of this with you, you may wonder? It is not to tell you about my fantastic story, to impress you, to receive validation, or even empathy or sympathy. It is simply to say the first cure for any disturbance and disEASE begins in your mind.

The AIR element is very powerful, it is constantly moving and changing. You can learn to work with the air element (i.e. your thoughts, your breath….) in a healthy, harmonious, balanced way. As soon as the medical doctors, passed unto me the list of diagnosis, the first thing that happened was my spirit rejected it all. Especially when told medication for the rest of my living days was the only cure for Hashimoto. At the time, hadn’t taken up living my calling as High Priestess. Believe it or not, I did not want to take up that calling, a story for another article. Anyway, at the time, was still unsure if carrying on as an IT security expert was the road to keep traveling on, or what was truly calling my Spirit - holistic health - living a life of health, wellbeing and wealth grounded in practical philosophy, what I sometimes refer to as Spirituality. By the way, we are all Spiritual, if you have a Spirit, then you are Spiritual. Spirituality is not exclusive for those that have renounced all or some worldly ways of being, it is not the modern woo woo and fluff. It simply means you are living from your Spirit, not only from your air element (i.e. mind), but from everything, and all of existence that makes up the fabric of your being, from a place of oneness, with no seperation. An integrated way of living.

You see the AIR element is so powerful that it knows no right or wrong, good or bad. It does not exist in duality as we sometimes see it. It just creates what makes it potent, what it is focused on and charged up to create. As one of the great teachers and a mentor will say, “the wish of every thought is to become manifested into physical reality”. The thought does not think it is good or bad, right or wrong, if you think about it long enough, make it potent by charging it with focusing your energy on it, it will become manifested into physical reality. You will see it in the real world. Why is all of this important? When the medical doctor’s gave me the laundry list of medical diagnosis above, first I listened to the truth of my Spirit, which at the time communicated clearly that non of those diagnosis were mine, or true for me, And that in order not to focus and give the medical diagnosis massive energy and time, I had to immediately reject all of them. So I did! Told the medical doctors immediately that non of those medical diagnosis was for me, I wasn’t going to be having a medical condition for the rest of my life. Finally, that every symptom and physical manifestation has a root cause. If the root cause is discovered and understood, then the condition can be reversed, eliminated, killed, changed. Like in nature, the best way to rid a weed is to remove it from the root, from the source.

It was exactly the journey I had to go on, It was also the Journey where I finally listened to the calling that was becoming louder and louder. With signs and revelations that were guiding me, that at this phase of my life, my destiny is one of a High Priestess, reconnecting with Ancient wisdom, returning to my root, and working with natural medicines. In a year all the medical diagnosis was had disappeared, all tests revealed clarity of non residue of medical diagnosis and sypmtoms. To the point, one of the doctors said to me, you seem to know what you are doing, keep going that way. And have since been going that way and fully took up my calling, now as an Initiated, Trained, Guided and Supported High Priestess. Not that the journey to embodying being an High Priestess has been without challenges. In fact, it is probably the greatest challenge of my life. It has also been the most surprising, unpredictable, rewarding way for me to live and be. Through Divine Guidance, Ancestral connection, nature and natural connections, was able to connect with all that was needed, to rid myself of what was supposed to be lifetime disgnosed medical conditions - what I sometime refer to as life sentence. To the glory of God, know living well, healthy and wealthy.

The mind is the first place of active conscious creation. Every idea, before it can be actively consciously created, it will start from the AIR element. It may be sensed, felt, experienced at first, but in order to create it in the physical realm, the mind is its birth place. So by rejecting the medical diagnosis, my Spirit had opened up the mind, to connect with returning to a state of health and wellness, which is what happened. And therefore also awaken me fully to my calling as a High Priestess. Through the experiences, and journey I had to undertake to return to wellness. The time of serious sickness, had been a key moment in my life, of underSTANDING the force of the AIR element, and how things can quickly and gradually shift, by what we are willing to create in our mind with our thoughts. The HYPOTHYMIA at the time - not hypothermia, which started from THOUGHTS of fear, anxiety and stress, from excessively over pushing the body, and the experiences of regular visits to the medical doctors, created all of the symptoms that became physical manifestations, of disturbances and disEASEs. Has my Spirit grew stronger, from fighting off any pressure to embody all the medical diagnosis (there was pressure from many medical professional for me to have been unwell, stop questioning them, take the medications I was given, let go off my inner authority, displease my spirit, even though I kept saying non of the diagnosis made sense, and I couldn’t take them on).

So recently, on the Mountain in Sicily, for the 9 days Vision Quest in the Native American Tradition. As promised would be sharing some of the insights as the experiences are digested, alchemised, understood, integrated and actioned. The thought “I am Having Hypothermia” came up in my Mind, on day 3 of the 9 days in the Mountain as I started to shake from being cold. It rained heavily for 4 days, and everything that was up the Mountain with me became soaked. There was no shade, or cover in the area. It rained so heavily, there was nothing to keep me physically warm and dry. My body began to shake, seating under the rain with the feelings of misery, shaking from the cold, and almost some sense of feeling defeated. After keeping moral for 3 heavy days of rain, the thought “I am Having Hypothermia” came up in my mind, as I was shaking soaking wet.

Feeling dejected and defeated, the thought led to maybe it is time to go down the Mountain and redo the 9 days next Year. Sat under the tree, as the sound of the rain overpowered all other sounds. It beat down on me heavily, my head down, clothes completely wet, water dripped into every part of my body, then I remembered the power of my thoughts - of my air element connected to my Spirit. Remembered whatever Thoughts was actively created or entertained, and made potent by focusing on it, giving it life and energy, is what will be my Physical reality. Connecting this back to the first time I strongly trusted the strength of my Spirit, Not get bullied, or silenced by the medical doctors in position of power. That my thought was, “I am not taking on all the specified medical conditions”, and my spirit rejected it. It brought up the same energy on the Mountain in Italy, and consciously created the thoughts, it went something like this “If I tell myself I am having Hypothermia, the shaking will get worse, it will be a much more miserable experience seating under the heavy rain, dripping of water, soaking wet with head sunken down. However I am making the decision to consciously create the thought “I am not having hypothermia, I am staying on this Mountain for 9 days come rain or sunshine.”

This very simple thought pattern changed the experience. It was like a switch had occurred. Had accepted my time in the Mountain, has an experience I was willing to consciously be with. By doing so, it consciously changed my experiences and I thrived. Sat in the rain, rather that with a dejected Spirit and Soul, felt the rain dropped down on me. It was like a mystical experience, where there was no longer disturbance by the rain, there was no longer the wish to quit after 3 days of being in the Mountain, due to the rain. There was no longer hypothermia, that the 3 days in the mountain, wasn’t going to be a wasted effort. Made the decision to complete the 9 days in one attempt, the entire experience changed . Was fully able to be with the experience, in a very practical, enjoyable and non judgemental way.

More stories of spending 9 days in the Mountain to come, in the coming writeups. Thanks for reading this far, hope you have enjoyed this masterpiece. Any comments, suggestions, questions can be directed via email, or the comment box.

Pure Divine Unconditional Love Always

Queen Oluwatobiloba

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