Mindvital Institute

14/08/2022

Vanity in many ways acts as a shield 🛡

The trap of unchecked vanity upon the noble spiritual path is this:

As you refine your vibration, you naturally fall into the illusion that you are somehow differentiated from the masses, that you’re becoming purer than the rest of the world. You begin to identify more with your higher aspects, which your lower self secretly takes delight and pride in! 😬

This is the point where you’ve been snared by your lower self 🫣

Vanity is afraid that if you come from your heart you will lose your power and at the same time prevents you from accessing your consciousness fully.

Vanity keeps you from truly loving yourself and another because it keeps you in a state of elitist protective isolation.

You may be beautiful, intelligent and virtuous in your conduct but still with vanity you are taking an inherent stance of defense against others.

So many of you have vanity secretly working undercover, feeding your negative ego and your secondary payoff is barely detectable by your discriminating faculties because you so WANT to believe that you’re special! 🤓

If you are truly honest with yourself you would have to admit that it really does please you to be different from the masses, does it not? After all, it feels good to be special, yes? 😅

You may say the right things, you may appear to be whole, you may build your ivory tower but the sad fact remains that you have shielded yourself from wholeness and will ultimately prefer to remain detached and refrain from making commitments that will challenge your fragile sense of worthiness 😰

You see yourself as someone who has done a lot of work on yourself, you see yourself as spiritually evolved. You feel inwardly that you are clearer and cleaner than most others around you 😇

You take great pride in being different! 🥹👏

This is a tricky stage of spiritual evolution as you cling to the quality that empowers you and you are reinforced by your convictions that you are stepping closer towards purity… but now you find yourself in a comfortable place which relatively speaking provides you with an addictive hit of individuated elitist power masquerading as will to good 🎭

09/08/2022

01/08/2022

Achieving your dreams IS NOT a comfortable journey.

Everyone loves the results but only some are willing to endure through what it takes to grow.

I should know… so many times that I’ve chosen to expand…I’ve started and instead of winning, I backed out because I lacked the discipline to persevere through the growth and pain of rejection.

It’s cost me relationships, business opportunities, friends, trust, the lifestyle I want, the body I want, the love I want and the peace of mind that I want.

It’s all because of my habitual insecurity that has plagued me ever since I was a child. This contraction, this energetic polarity, this obsessive need to stay safe and secure has been one of the key limitations of my life.

AND I‘M DONE WITH IT!

As I sit here and write this post I can feel my inner child screaming to stay under the sheets to keep safe, to keep boxed in, pleading me to wrap him in cotton wool and tell him that he’s safe.

🫃“Hey, inner child, my brother… you are safe”

Don’t get me wrong… being safe IS totally valid and important… BUT… a big BUT… just like umbrellas keep out sunshine as well as rain, this obsessive need for safety flowing from my subconscious mind has taken over my reasoning.

I am not entirely FREE. However, I’m on the way.

Self Leadership and Self Mastery requires us to face our fears and embrace the unknown.

I know that I’ve come such a long way from being afraid of taking risks, taking steps to keep expanding… expansion is our spiritual destiny and I plan on keeping on with the work.

How are you killing your dreams from staying in your comfort zone?

Where can you trust yourself more and create the life that you truly want?

If you know deep down that you have this comfort zone limitation going on and are trying to shift it, I’d love to know what are you doing and how is it working for you?

29/07/2022

You’re a MARVEL of creation focused as a point of consciousness.

Energy is omnipresent, that means its 100% present in all places at all times. You are energy and therefore unlimited.

Today - hold an elevated thought of who you choose to be; not once but discipline yourself to hold that though ALL day… do whatever it takes to shift your perception and notice how your energy subtly shifts and expands.

Take note of the QUALITY of energy that you cultivate.

Do this everyday and overtime, energy will respond and it MUST create in you what you believe yourself to be.

Remember the TRUTH of who and what you are.

Sense the relationship of your energy with all energy.

Identify with the universal flow of spirit and amazing things will happen 🚀💯

28/07/2022

Nobody enjoys being changed against their will.

Even if you initiate the change yourself… you’ll come up against challenges - especially if it threatens your paradigm.

Our negative ego will fight any change that threatens its existence, it just wants to keep you in the known and ‘safety’ of your inherited programming.

The desire to change will always create resistance… you are going to need a dose of Will power and awareness if you want to initiate breakthrough change.

Focus on your purpose and know that it will use energy to breakthrough the paradigms atmosphere of resistance.

Align your will to your goals and don’t accept that you cannot change! Because you can do, be & have all that you want - it all starts with believing in yourself!

18/07/2022

Did you stop being “on” over the weekend?

It has been said that burnout is literally caused by the extreme and prolonged absence of stillness.

Constantly being “on” is something I have heard a lot of people say.

While it might actually feel good to be busy and getting things done… (It’s all great when your being fed on adrenaline)… your body is starting to break down at a faster rate.

Taking rhythmic breaks for you to slow down your brain cycles in order to rest and repair - tells your body that your happy for it to go ahead and keep you alive for the long term.

And let’s face it… we need you… we need you healthy, wealthy and wise so you can hang out on earth with us and be you!

14/07/2022

The full moon as it pierced through the trees at my dads bush block. The photo does no justice. It was truly spectacular the way the light radiated and lifted the peaceful moment into a deep sense of connection with all things.

06/07/2022

How do we create “the Good Life”?

“The strategic approach to this question is led mostly by the social sciences. The social sciences like to measure things… the arts and humanities tend to be interested in meaning… so by collaborating together, hopefully we’ll be able to find out how to measure more and more meaningful things.”
- James Pawelski

27/05/2022

Full Disclosure: I have suffered from burnout through a couple of periods in my adult life and know how hard it can be to function at our best when we're utterly depleted.

One thing I am super aware of is how a burnt out boss affects his/her team at work... bringing dramas into the workplace and modelling behaviours that aren't very helpful - intolerance, snappiness, aggression... nobody needs that #@%$ in their life!

I used to be a boss who was nice on the outside but stressed as hell on the inside. I withdrew and couldn't speak up, my mindset was super limited and I became more critical, moody, and grumpy. I wouldn't communicate effectively and then have the audacity to get frustrated when my team didn't do what I wanted them to do.

If I was particularly stressed I would become detached, unapproachable, indifferent and sadly lose much of the respect of my team.

Comment below if you've been there or had a boss like I used to be...

Looking back, I now realise that I was leading as a victim (like in the dreaded drama triangle), and created a team that didn't trust, nor feel inspired by me.

These days, I know that being aware of my early trigger signs is an important signal for me to go and have fun and activate those "play circuits" that lay dormant in my brain. You know, the ones that you used to fire off daily when the world was your oyster and you gave yourself time to BE YOU and connect to interests, people and places that bring you joy.

I now see that I can shift from a victim mindset to a creator mindset and empower my reality and expand my worldview. In knowing this, I have gained hope, clarity and a pathway toward healing. Burnout will never define my personality again!

Leading from the awareness triangle has helped me model the virtues and behaviours I wish to imbue into my team and children. Awareness proceeds change and focusing on my early signs means I can transform myself before I get bogged down again by burnout.

24/05/2022

While nearly everyone has at least one major goal they want to achieve, statistics show that very few people actually achieve their goals.

As it turns out, two weeks could be it takes to find out what a goal means to you. And what you're willing to do to achieve it.

https://loom.ly/USxI9yg

Two weeks is all it takes to find out what a goal means to you. And what you're willing to do to achieve it.

24/05/2022

Trying to be on top of everything is usually a sign that you're doing too much and trying to micromanage your team.

In reality, it'll have the opposite effect on your growth and ability to scale. Here's why: https://loom.ly/pc_Ctw8

In 99.9 percent of the cases, working more hours or having another to-do list is never the answer.