Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the soul and how different it is from mind. I’ve spent so many years studying how the mind works and how we can ‘control’ or not control the mind. I’ve studied manifestation techniques and tools to free the mind of beliefs. A lot of it has been very helpful and very life transforming. But, in all my years of study and working with spiritual counseling clients, I have come to see that working with the mind is not enough. It’s time to get the SOUL involved…and I’m not sure I fully understand what that means, but I am getting glimpses.
When I ask my mind what it wants, it comes up with things – things to be, things to do and things to have. When I ask my soul – it always answers in qualities that seem so intangible. I wrote my last book, ‘What You REALLY Want, Wants You’, talking about these qualities, and I don’t think even I understood that profound depth of the teaching that I was pondering at that time. (I guess my soul had something to do with it, even though I wasn’t conscious of that at the time!)
I recently listened and watched a video on an introduction to Kabbalah – something I haven’t yet studied but have been curious about for some time. I help people to reinvent themselves, and Isn’t the queen of reinvention, Madonna a Kabbalist? Anyway, in the video, the speaker said -“Your soul wants to learn by EARNING Transformation.” He talked about how most people don’t value what they don’t work for… Hmm… That gives me pause. How does that reconcile with what I’ve been teaching about moving from ambition to meaning? I’ve been learning to work less hard to try to make things happen and to achieve and more to allow life to unfold. Allowing can’t mean doing nothing to earn the transformation.
But, what about what I learned in India – that transformation can only come through Grace. It is not something we earn by good deeds. Hmm again…
There’s something here. Not sure yet what — I’m learning to live more and more in the question…
And if you are reading this, I’d love to hear YOUR reflections – questions and maybe even answers as well.
Thanks for listening!
