Hello Meditators!! This week I'm going to share with you a little bit about my anxiety and what I do when it takes hold. So if you do ever feel a little bit on edge, stressed or tight chested I hope this weeks Breathing Space and Blog make a difference to you xx

So this week I thought I'd try something different with the blog and get all face-to-face with you. So come meet me in my meditation room and listen to me getting soul-to-soul with you, spilling the beans about my recent bout of anxiety!!

Go ahead and jump right in >>

Obviously anxiety manifests in different ways, from different causes for different people and so often the best form of healing comes from aligning meditation techniques with some form of counselling or life coaching to help you enquire into the thought behind the emotion.

I'm always here for you if you'd like to pop over to the meditate with mish page, otherwise I suggest to ask those people close to you and get their recommendations. When you begin this self-enquiry work with someone you often dive deep into your subconscious patterns and beliefs and so it's important to connect with someone you can trust. You also want someone who is skilled in  guiding you to your own answers (that's where real transformation begins) and help you nurture and develop that connection that I know that you know you have with your higher self. 

And most importantly I hope you enjoyed the marriage of Breathing Space to Blog this week and that it gave you a little more depth to this post. If you don't want to miss out on any of these in the future please pop your email into the box provided AND receive some free goodies too xx

Until next time!
Om Shanti (thats hippy for peace y'all)

So how do I write a quick post, something that still makes a difference to my readers but gives me enough time to get onto my Bschool work. You know this week’s module is on Websites. Whoop whoop!! Website revamp here we come!! Okay, take a big deep breath Mish, the only moment is NOW, so go! Arrrggghhhh ideas, ideas, where are you? Universe, dude, you usually have my back with this stuff. You usually have me blurt out something profound with a little cheeky on the side, where the eff are you? 

Okay this is beyond ridiculous, who is going to want to read my mind mess? Far out I’m meant to be able to observe all this shit coming up and just gently and gracefully thank it for its opinions but we need to focus today. Bllllaaarrrgggghhhhhh ….

Okay, okay, so I’m looking at my Vision Board for inspiration. Here we go, here we go. Yesterday I listened to a recording of Marie Forleo who’s teaching me this Bschool stuff (please see past post here if you’d like some background) and she said this quote that really hit home with me:

“I will WIN or I will learn that I can NEVER lose”

Hmmmm perhaps I needed to hear that just then, as I feel like I’m losing in this time game, this inspiration game and this not-getting-caught-up-in-my-mind-mess game. So if I can NEVER lose what is this then?

Well I suppose this is honesty. Its not losing. Its letting you guys know where I’m at right now. Right now I’ve got Website video’s to watch and although I want to add value to your lives in ways I can’t even begin to describe (obviously literally today), the best way I know how to move forward in doing that is by getting on with my Bschool work and creating a Website that absolutely rocks your socks and that helps YOU really get that you can NEVER lose either.

So what’s my summary here, lets see >>

Today give yourself permission to be where you’re at. Good, bad, ugly, busy, blissful, chaotic, tired, joyful, a little blah. State it honestly. Give people access into your mind mess. What’s really going on in there? Go on be brave and rant and rave!!

By giving yourself permission to be however you are, you give others around you that permission too!! How freeing is it when you ask someone how they are and they honestly say “You know what, I’m not going to blow smoke up your arse, I actually feel shit right now!” I want to high five those people!!

PS: if you think one of your mates could benefit from hearing my mind mess, please share this link with them xx

PPS: I’d love to hear all about your mind mess below in the comments so please go ahead and spew it all out, this is a safe space xxo

PS: if you think one of your mates could benefit from hearing my mind mess, please share this link with them xx

PPS: I’d love to hear all about your mind mess below in the comments so please go ahead and spew it all out, this is a safe space xxo

I hope you enjoyed taking a little time out to breathe. 

If you have a friend who you know may need to take a little time out to breathe or is experiencing some form of pain, feel free to make a difference to them and pass on the link to this page.

Until next week inhale and exhale often ... ahhhhhhhhhhommmm

So a 21 day meditation challenge should be easy for me right? (click here to find out this crazy Oprah & Deepak challenge) I mean come on, mediating master Mish, you already meditate every day right? WRONG! Did I just admit that to the world? Yes, I did! And I know this may be surprising to hear, but even a meditation teacher is human and sometimes chooses her life “stuff” to get the better of her.

And yes I said “chooses”. You see we are all busy. If you live in the world today, and I’m guessing you do, you have loads of things to do which busy-up your life. We all walk around with an “I’m busier than you” badge and we flash it around proudly.

So let me give you a little insight into my busy life. My busy-ness is filled up with my day job, driving to and from work, teaching meditation, writing and planning those meditations, coaching calls, Bschool work (if you’re not sure what this is go check out last weeks blog here), making lunches each day, cooking, cleaning, household stuff (you know!), blogging, reading other peoples blogs, recording breathing spaces, emailing newsletters, collaborating with other local businesses to grow my business, other kinds of marketing, being a good girlfriend, catching up with my girlfriends, posting on facebook and instagram, replying to emails, eating food, drinking water (sometimes I forget this), studying a Life Coaching Certificate and every other minute I have time I fill that space with listening to audio books, checking my personal facebook, instagram and pinterest (if I’m lucky) and I thank god I don’t have kids!

So your “busy badge” may outweigh my “busy badge” or it may not, but that doesn’t really matter because we both experience ourselves as busy. And where the hell do we fit in time to just sit still and have a single pointed focus? Man, I got waaay too much to do to sit still!!

So lets have a chat about this thing called “time” and work together to free ourselves up, because we all want to fit meditation into our day, right?

Time has been popping up a lot in my world lately. I’ve been listening to this audio book called The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks (you can get a copy here) and he has this whole theory about Einstein time vs Newtonian time and how time really lies in our own perception. Sometimes we are keenly aware of the seconds that tick by and sometimes we lose hours. As well as Gay’s perspectives, Marie Forleo through Bschool has been spreading her inspiration about time reminding us that we all have the same amount of time in the day, ie: the President of the USA has the same amount of time as lil’ ol’ me, and what we do with our time is a choice of priorities. She's inspired me to stop whining that "I aint got no time" and be empowered by the choices I'm making.  

But I thought after all of that, I would share with you my perspective of time so here goes;

Time is a human made “thing” to help us come together and get stuff done. Before time was created people would, I’m guessing, just have to accept what was happing to them, rather than making stuff happen. Let me explain; you wouldn’t be able to so easily “make happen” a catch up coffee with your girlfriend from another tribe so you could discuss how to weave more fabric for a shop you wanted to set up down the road. You very well may have to look at the movement of the sun and say something like “in two dark cycles we will meet under this tree when the sun is high in the sky” and hope that from where she is standing the sun looks high at the same time that the sun looks high for you. Who thought catching up for a coffee would be such a struggle!

So the clock was created, and thank goodness, and this tracked movement of a stick thing around a circle at a particular speed. We loosely based the speed and movement on the sun (as you know time magically changes with daylight savings to make up for our looseness), and we chucked numbers around the circle. So now when the stick thing has moved enough times around the circle we know to meet under the tree to catch up for a coffee.

I don’t know about you but this starts to get a little boggling for my mind, because thinking about all this starts to open up my mind to thoughts about the ever present moment, you know the idea that there is no other moment but now. There is no past or future, just movement. There was no 6am in the past, the stick was just in a different place around the circle from where it is now, like at 6am maybe you were in your bed and now you’ve moved to your computer or phone to read this. So really you’re just moving about in your life, which is all happening NOW. (Look, I totally understand you might have to read this a few times!)

The sun is moving, the earth is moving, everyone around you is moving, your atoms are moving and we think because we were somewhere else at 6am that was the past and now that we are here we are in the present moment and because we will be somewhere else later in the day that is the future. But when we were in “the past” at 6am we were actually in the present and we moved to our computer and phone and we are still in the present and when we get on with our day “in the future”, that will be the present too. Its really just movement through space and the “past” that we can remember really only exists in our mind and the “future” we stress about or look forward to also only exists in our mind.

And so all this “past” hurt and pain and all this “future” anxiety lives in our mind and we carry it with us, along with our handbag and iphone, as we move about the present moment (because really there is no other moment). Luckily we have meditation, which helps us observe our mind, let go of the “past” and “future” illusions and has training our minds to live in what is real, the present moment. (Phew! Are you still with me? Take a deep breath and slowly read it again letting the words sink into your being, not into your mind)

But I told you Mish, I don’t have time to meditate! My life is too busy! I’ve got all this stuff that I didn’t get done in the past and all of this stuff that I’ve got to do in the future and I’m totally overwhelmed and to even think of sitting in the present moment, just being present, is just friggin ridiculous!

Hmmmm now is it? It seems to me that what is ridiculous, and we all do it, is we believe this illusion of “all the stuff I haven’t done in the past” and “all the stuff I need to do in the future” when none of that exists!

My mind just piped up and said “Yes it does! It does exist! Have you seen your wall of post-its with everything you’re yet to do?” But you know what, its just a wall of post-its, that keep getting moved from the wall and into the bin once I’ve moved around enough in space to create what is written on the post-it.

And I can hear you're mind going “Whoah Nelly!! You speaking crazy shit now Mish!” But if you’re willing to give up your “busy badge” for just one second and allow these concepts to really sink in, you could truly live a life of meditation, a life where you lived in the present moment, where you could fully embrace the way in which your body is moving and the world is moving around you.

Don’t get me wrong, I love planning for the "future"!! I’m the planning, vision boarding, visualisation queen!! Its great to think about what I want to create in the world and the next movements I’m going to take. But do I really have to bring all of that stuff right now into my present moment? Or can I decide to leave it up on my wall of stickies until the time that I choose to move on it? And could I actually fully immerse myself in what I’m doing right now rather than have my mind tricking me into believing the illusion that the sticky notes are looming and I’ve got “so much to do in the future” (that never comes).

You know the only limitation within all of this is that we can only be moving around in one place in the now (well that’s my belief right now, perhaps when I’ve moved around some more I might change that belief haha) and so in this moment I can only do one of my sticky notes at a time. I also get to choose which sticky note I want to move on in this moment. Even if you feel you “have to” do something because the world would crumble around you if you didn’t, you still have choice to allow the world to crumble.

You do have a choice not to go to work, but you choose to be able to pay your bills, you have a choice on whether you pay your bills, but you love a hot shower, you have a choice on whether to cook for your children, you could take them to the Golden Arches of death (Maccas) but you choose to have healthy children, you could also choose to not feed them, but you’d prefer to have living children (sometimes!), you do have a choice to meditate, but you choose that the other things in life are of higher priority in this moment, and you have a choice of how you move around this ever present moment.

What a gift! That everything is up to YOU!! There is no “time” pressure saying “you must get this done by this time or else” because time doesn’t exist. Yes, you do hear that voice but, like we discussed earlier, that is you just your mind and you have choice of whether to listen to it or to let go.

If you do choose to let go, I’ve got a really exciting surprise for you!! YOU ARE MEDITATING!! If in every moment you choose to let go of your “busy badge” and you choose the present moment, if you choose to let go of the illusion and choose reality >> the real, palpable, totally awesome present moment << YOU are living your life in meditation.

So throw away that meditation pillow … pfffttt who needs it … and make your life a meditation.

Now just so you know and so I don’t put myself out of business here, sitting on your meditation pillow, going to a meditation class or jumping head first into a 21 day Meditation Challenge is a really helpful way to make “living your life as a meditation” easier. It helps train you to let go of the illusion and fully embrace the now. 

But I know, you’re just too busy for that …

Om Shanti xx

PS: I’ll keep you updated on my 21 day challenge progress!

PPS: If you have a friend who is too busy to meditate then please extend a helping hand by sharing this post with them.

PPPS: And if you have any questions or comments about anything in this blog or anything whatsoever, please comment below!

I’ve got a huge year ahead of me! Excitingly huge! 

Like many of us, I spent most of January plotting out my plans of world domination in 2013 and my main themes were Physical Health & Fitness (let me be truthful, I have fallen off the wagon here), Abundance, Doing-What-I-Want-To-Do-Everyday and Being Creative.

Now lets just put Physical Health and Fitness aside for the moment, as I clearly have been doing for most of February and March ha, and let me tell you about whats been brewing in the areas of Abundance, Doing What I Want To Do Everyday and Being Creative.

I have joined Marie Forleo’s Bschool this year which starts on Monday March 11th and I’m pee-my-pants-excited!! If you’re not familiar with Bschool you can check out some info here or you can check out what a few of my most inspirational mentors have been creating in their lives through Bschool on their websites; Wellness Warrior Jess Ainscough, Crazy Sexy Kris Carr and Spirit Junkie Gabby Bernstein. But don’t get lost in all of their downright, crazy, amazing information. Make sure you come back y’all!

So late last year I stumbled across Jess Ainscough and all that she is creating in the world and I was overwhelmed by possibility. Like I knew I wanted a life of freedom, a life of Doing-What-I-Want-To-Do-Everyday, full of Abundance and Creativity but I kinda thought yeah maybe I could create it, I could start my own business working my own hours, making my own dough, doing something I really love, but really what will that take? Is it really possible for me? And if it is, how do I get my message out there in a way that people really get what I’m all about? How do I create abundance from something I love doing and I’d happily do for free? I “know” its possible, Jess Ainscough's doin' it, but do I really “believe” its possible for me?

Enter Marie Forleo via Jess Ainscough. Jess blogged a post about how she was attending one of Marie’s events in the US and so I got busy doing my research and wowee did the Universe bring me my answers!

TIP: rather than figuring everything out yourself, just ask a question and wait.

I spent a full day watching Marie’s entertainingly, clear and generous videos and crying with possibility. I CAN HAVE A LIFE OF FREEDOM! I TRULY BELIEVE IT IS POSSIBLE FOR ME! It is possible for you too, and here and here a few videos that will help you believe it too.

So yahoooo, Bschool starts next week and so Meditation with Mish is going to be bschool-a-jeweled! And in preparing for the beginning, I’ve been thinking about what I really want to achieve with Meditaiton with Mish, apart from a life that friggin rocks my socks, what impact do I want to have in the world? Because that’s really where the magic is! Having a life that friggin rocks isn’t possible for me without having everyone rocking-out around me. 

So of course what do I do but ask another question! I asked the Universe, “What would you have me do? How would you have me make a difference in the world? I am willing and I’m happy to be a vehicle for your awesome creativity, love and possibility to flow through me. So how are you going to do that Universe dude? How do you want to use me?”

Tarrdarrr! A quote pops up on Facebook.

TIP: the Universe loves Facebook as long as you’re following the right people ;-)

The quote was:

“Develop inner peace. You get world peace through inner peace. If you’ve got a world of people who have inner peace, then you have a peaceful world” ~ Wayne Dyer ~

My mind then started creating.

TIP: The mind is a wonderful tool of creation when you harness it at the right times, my tip is to keep it quiet at bedtime and to focus on your breathing, as many a night I have been sent insane with uncontrollable planning of my world domination.

In my minds creating avalanche, it reminded me that I truly believe that each and every one of us want to make a positive difference in the world. We would love to stop war, animal cruelty, school shootings, sexual abuse, suicide, crimes against women, Mum and Dad fighting, unnecessary death from stress related diseases, any diseases for that matter, depression or even road rage. But these problems seem so big for little-old-me to make a positive impact on.

But what Wayne Dyer’s quote is saying that you don’t need to focus on the big issues to make a difference. You just need to focus on YOU and your inner peace. I know its been said a thousand times by a thousand people, but if everyone in the world enquired into where they feel conflict within them, where they feel depression, anger or not-enough-ness and brought observation, forgiveness and love to those areas of themselves, they would restore inner peace in themselves and consequently to the whole world.

Not only that but when you have restored inner peace within yourself, the action you take to make a difference to others and in the world is a billion-trillion times more powerful. You are centred, on purpose, you know who you are and you know what to do when your “humanness” arises.

TIP: don’t ever expect yourself to restore inner peace and not go through times of “humanness”. However it is possible to continue to have inner peace even while experiencing turmoil. (More on that in another blog)

So my mind continued to consider the concept of each of us restoring our own inner peace, knowing that doing that is enough to restore peace in the world, I’m not so little-old-me after all, and it dawned on me how I can be a vehicle for the Universe.

Through Meditation with Mish I will partner YOU in restoring YOUR inner peace and together we can bring peace to the whole world. 
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TIP: if you’re likely to cry with inspiration while writing a blog make sure you’re not leaning too far over the keyboard

I truly now know that this is what I’m here to do. Now, how to do it? Well that’s what Bschool is all about. And what I also know is that I need you on my journey!!

So if this has roused something even a little within you, whether its opened up what you believe is possible for you now, maybe you’re interested in restoring your inner peace, or you want to make a really big difference in some really big issues, take you first step and please share this with at least one friend.  

Your second step is to keep following Meditation with Mish, get on the email list at www.meditationwithmish.com, so you can partner with me and do your little-old-bit for WORLD PEACE!!

Are you up for it?

Om Shanti (peace y’all)