Lead from your Soul.

My mind can easily convince me of many things, most often things that are not for the good of my well being or are even healthy for me. I have followed it like a powerless soul for years.

I have succumbed to its wishes out of fear.  

It had me convinced that I would not be able to be without sweets, that I couldn't resist them.  I challenged that and faced the sweets with me and my mind.

It is weird to know that my body doesn't crave sweets, but my mind does.  And I don't believe this is a desire of my soul and spirit.  My mind craves things that will have a dire affect on my body and soul…and it cares less.

It doesn't care how large I get and actually will then have the audacity to then berate me for what it wanted.

Once you over take your mind, you can pretty much do anything.

My latest experiment is in doing yoga. Again, my mind will tell me I am too tired or its too hard, or not possible…and my body follows this lazy chatter and lays down.

If I set up a plan knowing that the mind's job is to be my opponent, I can then know that my body isn't too tired, but my mind is. And in yoga, the result of doing yoga is to get ahead of the mind, to control it, so it doesn't control you. So, if you make it to the yoga mat, your mind lost.

I am learning more and more about the mind/body/soul connection and I how backwards I had it.  I used to address the body like it was the problem…never challenging or questioning the thoughts and words the my mind uttered and believed in…and sadly I had zero connections with my spirit…well, maybe a few brief encounters, but they were far and fleeting.

Now, I am learning to live totally backwards…to consult my spirit, my energy, my intuit knowing and use that to question my mind…and then my body is being steered by that instead of being subjected to the mind's negative, lazy chant.

It truly doesn't take as much will power as you may think to not follow the mind, when you see the agenda the mind has…it is very self absorbed and uncaring about the body and soul.  If you can replace its agenda with a better plan, a dream, a goal…you then no longer will believe that which it begs for.

Once I no longer believe my mind, my mind loses its power over me.

"In God, all things are possible," and so it is in life, if you step around your mind…and lead from your soul.