Mandy Barrett

“Happy Full Moon in Leo. May all that has been manifesting over the past six months shine brightly today. May your ego and your highest self align with the Ruach of God, His breath, Spirit, and life force, so that your own ruach radiates love, truth, and sacred knowledge.” 🌕🦁✨

In the book Love, Medicine, and Miracles, Dr. Bernie Siegel speaks about the ability to identify areas of illness through a person’s language. For example, when someone repeatedly says, “That person is a pain in my ass,” he would not be surprised to later find illness manifesting in the colon. This insight suggests that the body listens closely to the stories we tell.

Dr. Bruce Lipton has since supported this understanding through cellular biology, demonstrating that what we feed our cells, not only physically but emotionally and mentally, influences how tissues, organs, and systems develop and respond. The environment surrounding the cell shapes its expression.

Even in grammar, we speak of “words,” “spelling,” and “spells.” Language itself can act as a kind of hypnotic state, one we place ourselves into repeatedly. The words we choose can either reinforce limitation or invite healing.

I woke this morning thinking about all of this and felt deeply aware of how important it is to speak to myself with intention.

Jesus speaks directly to this principle in the Gospels. After healing, he often instructed those who were healed not to tell anyone. In Mark 1:44, after cleansing the man with leprosy, Jesus says, “See that you say nothing to anyone.” Similarly, after raising Jairus’ daughter, Mark 5:43 and Luke 8:56 tell us that he strictly charged them not to spread the news. These moments suggest an understanding that the surrounding voices, beliefs, and expectations of others can influence one’s internal state, what we might call today the mental or hypnotic realm.

Jesus also tells his disciples that his leaving is not a loss, but a gift. In John 16:7, he says, “It is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.” This Advocate, the Holy Spirit, is the living breath of God, dwelling within each of us. It is not distant or reserved for a few, but alive and present in all.

Call it a mantra, an affirmation, or pure gratitude. Today, the “spell” I choose to place myself under aligns with the love the Holy Spirit wants me to feel, know, and share:

“I am the divine temple of love.
Today I honor, cherish, and care for this temple, mind, body, and soul,
allowing beauty and love to flow through me as a sanctuary to all.”