 Hey there, this is Ona. Welcome back and welcome to Art of Awakening. This is the second in my 40 Days in the Wilderness series. Alright, so I am just heading back to the car after having been on the trail for a little bit and there's some weather coming. There's, it's kind of muggy and as I've been walking along the trail I've been able to, like they've been walking through like you can feel these fingers of super warm air and then a wind will come up and it really, you know, there's there's a storm coming. You can feel it and so can the mosquitoes. So it's been pretty chilly lately. It's been a cool summer so far and the mosquitoes don't normally bite me much anyway so when I came out here I mean I wasn't even thinking about bringing any kind of anti-mosquito solutions so I got out here on the trail and started down walking down the trail and they were just starting to start in a bite and I found myself walking down the trail thinking oh mosquitoes are bad and after a while I realized that I had actually turned that into a mantra in my head. It was going the mosquitoes are bad, the mosquitoes are bad, mosquitoes are bad today and then after a while I realized oh my god you know this is this is really taken over my consciousness and you know here I am in the woods I came here this is my sacred time it's my time to connect with nature to connect with my spirit to be renewed and you know cleansed and healed and here I am with this mantra going on my head but you know these bad things are happening the mosquitoes are bad and I was really kind of a wake-up call so I thought well what happens if what happens if instead of focusing on mosquitoes which is what I was doing and it was getting worse right they were starting to really you know make my life kind of miserable and so I thought well okay so what if I really focus on the reason I came here and the gratitude for for having this beautiful place and being here and having this time to be in this beautiful location and started focusing on that instead and I did find it was a pretty amazing it was like but I had to really focus I'd really focus on my heart and focus on the gratitude and really focus on and be aware of all the beauty around me and I did find that they let up a little bit now they were still biting right so it wasn't like it wasn't like this miracle you know wave the magic wand and everything you know that you don't want your life disappears but I think the thing was it was like I wasn't bothered by them anymore you know I was still very grateful that I'm growing my hair out and have hair done my shoulders now but you know grateful for the protection but also just really I think they I know they really did they weren't biting as much and and when they were it was sort of just like okay brush them away and keep focusing on you know just the gratitude and the beauty and you can see my dog they're kind of all over her she's not been happy although she's always happy to be in the woods but she's also gonna be happy to get back to the car and also gratitude you know for having the car to get back to and get back home to a mosquito-free zone and it's gonna make me a lot more grateful for for that as well because I will be working a little bit later today and I'll be grateful as I'm working here we are back at the parking lot you can see these little critters here I'm gonna keep this short this has been the second video in the 40-day in the wilderness series and what this is all about is I'm going out the next 40 days actually now it's the next 38 that I go in the woods I'm kind of finding the lesson in it it's always that their nature always this gives you a lesson every time you come out and so I'm gonna find the lesson and turn it into an oracle card and at the end of this 40-day experiment we'll have an oracle deck if this is something you'd like to follow along with absolutely we'd love to have you on the journey hit subscribe hit that bell you'll get notified of future videos and I will I'm starting I'm doing the artwork right now for the first day which was the lady's slipper which I'll leave a link to that below so have a great day and we'll catch you again soon