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How the Mind of the Soul Establishes Wellbeing, by Neale Lundgren, PhD

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

The soul is always open to reveal itself to the sincere seeker. And because the soul is naturally positive and unpretentious, it projects a receiving spirit to all. As such, the soul can help us maintain not only a physical, mental, and emotional sense of wellbeing, but when operating at a high level, can also be a powerful force for the world.

This is because the soul is who you really are. The soul is a finder and revealer of universal truth and mirrors the highest principles of human existence. A universal truth is knowledge that transcends doctrine. A Hindu can find benefit in a Hebrew proverb and a Christian can be inspired by a Sufi poem when viewed from the unifying perspective of the soul.

Only the soul understands how to love the self as the other, and the other as the self. Whether one is an atheist or a theist, in the right circumstances, silence is golden when compassionate action is implemented.

The moment we embrace a path guided by the light of a universal truth, life then becomes more than a mere system of thought. Life becomes a way of soul seeking, a way of soul finding, and a way of soulful living with soulful others in the material world.

Although immaterial, the soul gravitates to all things of true substance. Anything that has integrity and coherence, an inherent wholeness about it, the soul's intelligence recognizes as a reflection of its own nature. This intelligence is the mind of the soul, located at the deepest center within every human being and within the being of all living things.

When we discover our soul mind, we awaken to a level of consciousness beyond ordinary awareness. The soul mind sees all things as part of an interrelated web of a greater wholeness. The soul mind has this capacity because it is an open systems intelligence. The material, or "closed systems," mind, on the other hand, is made up of inherited beliefs, opinions, or any limiting model of reality that we take for actual reality.

There is a relationship between close-mindedness and mental dullness. A material mind is shut off from the light and spaciousness the soul mind by its nature produces. Enclosed within its own boundaries, the material mind tends to be narrow, rigid, and oppositional.

Accessing the soul's intelligence can both refresh and strengthen the material mind and yet expand its horizons. An open mind tends to be porous, flexible, and strong, as long as it stays rooted in the fertile soil of the soul. A closed mind is like a hard stone at the bottom of a dried-up stream. An open mind is like a flourishing tree near the bank of a flowing river.

Mysticism, a frequently misunderstood term, is really nothing more than an open systems approach to spirituality based not upon a belief or a concept, but upon actual experience. Mysticism is the treasure house of spiritual technologies, providing the seeker with maps for the journey of consciousness as well as means to reach higher states of awareness and love. Spiritual experience at its best, both expands and stabilizes the material mind by rooting consciousness in the mind of the soul.

The soul's intelligence encourages thought, including every one of the physical senses, to stretch beyond the consensual grids of ordinary cognition and perception, but not as a way to abandon the world and daily responsibilities. The soul mind connects the material mind more intimately and meaningfully with others, with the earth, and ultimately, with the entire universe.

This high-grade connective capacity of the soul enables consciousness to enlighten the material mind because the soul's intelligence at its core is a substance of light, a luminous being of affectionate awareness. Although the soul's intelligence is by nature empathic, its structure is its own strength. Inner poise and mental sharpness are essential characteristics of the soul mind and formulate its energy "backbone." While the material mind tends to be anxious and neurotic and easily drained of energy, the soul mind is able to connect and resonate empathically with other minds in its vicinity and abroad, yet without being easily exhausted.

Because the soul's intelligence is intimately connected to the heart of being, it resonates more immediately with love than with any other emotion and has continual access to its wellspring. When we strive to connect with others from a higher frequency of non-judgment, for example, we sense others with more clarity and understanding. Understanding is empathy with boundaries and instrumental in the maintenance of the soul's hygiene in the material world.

A healthy state of mind is re-energized and refueled not only through sleep but also through the practice of meditation. Unlike sleep, meditation has been clinically found to produce a coherent brain state of relaxed alertness. Relaxed alertness gives the mind entry to presence.

Presence, by its very nature, is a positive energy state of being. When the mind is in presence, it looks neither forward nor backward. Only the regretful past and worrisome future is able to create negative stress upon the mind.

Being in presence helps to shift awareness into a new key. As the material mind learns to open up to the expansive and fecund field of the soul mind, the result is that something gets quickened in us beyond our physical senses. We awaken to the grander senses of the soul.

How do we know when we have experienced the soul's senses? Every time we are touched by awe, enthusiasm, attunement, and resonance, for example, we experience life with the senses of the soul.

In my book, Meditations for the Soul, I provide meditations and awakening exercises to activate and strengthen these deeper senses that can help us access and maintain presence. This is why every moment is potentially a soulful sense experience. Only when our mind is fully and freely present to being, are we then more alive.

Think of these moments: a sunrise or sunset, a gaze into the eyes of a beloved, a moonlight-drenched earth awash in softened hues, the birth of a child, the peace-filled dying of a seasoned soul. Even a seemingly ordinary moment can trigger a soul-sense experience: the smell of rain, the dance of light's shadow through a gauzy curtain, a moment of thoughtful silence. These and so many other tastes and glimpses of soulful reality, that seem to suspend the self in time, would seep into our very pores if we would but allow them entry.

Our soul mind also makes its journeys into "darkness" when the tides of the ocean of light momentarily recede. All of us from time to time have been drawn into those dark nights of longing and sorrow. These slower movements of the soul have their own rhythm. Their cadence resonates with the moon's waxing and waning phases and with the daily rising and setting of the sun.

In our soul's dance with love in any one of its forms, love can seem to move toward and away from us, bringing us happiness one moment and sadness the next. The soul mind has the ability to contain both extremes and all that lies between in a spacious wholeness of acceptance.

This continuous cycle of darkness and light, empty and full seen now in the larger context of wholeness, reveals the rhythmic patterns occurring within our soul mind throughout the inner seasons of our lives. Knowledge and acceptance of these cycles has a great capacity to stabilize the material mind as it calibrates to the frequency of its true center. The soul mind is the true center of the self, as instanced in the wise saying, "And this too shall pass."

Everyone has the potential of companionship with one's own soul and the soul of others. In essence, the soul is the inner physician that heals all ills and bridges all distances. For it is indeed the soul and its perpetual breath of life that makes each of us whole, moment by moment, day by day, and life by life.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2020. All rights reserved.

Do you believe it's possible to affect physical objects with our minds? For example, can people really bend spoons with their minds or move objects without touching them? If so, are there any limits to what we can do? I'd really love to experiment with this, and would appreciate any advice or information you can give me. Thanks!

- Sam

Dreamchaser:

When I first read this question, I didn't know what to say, as I don't have personal experience with telekinesis and don't know much about this subject.

Having said that, do I think it's possible to affect physical objects with our minds? Absolutely! I believe that our minds are capable of much more than we realize. I don't know the exact percentage, but I do know that we are using just a tiny fraction of our brains on a daily basis.

I think that we could learn to do almost anything. One of the most interesting things I ever saw happened many years ago when I was still traveling the world with the band of fools known as the U.S. Navy Divers.

We were sitting in a bar and I was talking to some U.S. Navy SEALs about their extensive training. (They go through some of the most rigorous training in the world.)

To make a long story short, one of them was telling me how well trained their sense of hearing was. To demonstrate, he had me go outside with one of my friends and one of his friends and walk all around. I went back and forth across the street, walked in circles, etc., all the while keeping track of my movements.

When I came in, he told me exactly where I had walked. He said he could hear my footsteps even though he was in that crowded bar with the noise of music, people yelling and other stuff going on. That right there proved to me that we can teach our minds to do ANYTHING.

Some say only people who are actually telekinetic can perform telekinesis. I'm not sure if that is an ability we all have that just needs to be turned on, or if some people have it and some people don't. I do know that we all have various potentials that are dormant inside of us, just waiting to be activated.

Reiki energy and kundalini energy are two examples of energies that need to be turned on or activated. Telekinesis may relate to one of those types of energies. It seems to me that the only way you can find out if you have this ability or not is to learn about it and see if it turns on.

I have no idea how to advise you to start learning about telekinesis, other than to tell you to start reading everything you can on the subject. I imagine there are about a zillion books in print about various ways to train your mind.

I would stick with the more reputable authors, especially at first. Also, in my research I read over and over again that if you can learn algebra, you can learn telekinesis, so believe in yourself and just start studying.

I wish you and the objects around you a safe flight!

*****

Astrea:

My favorite novel about psychokinesis is Carrie by Stephen King. In it a young girl who is battered by a crazy mother takes her anger out on everyone at the high school prom.

From time to time I've had what I call Carrie Attacks. Most of my telekinesis seems to affect electrical current, which may be the way the whole thing works.

I don't set out to zap anything, but fluorescent lights don't do very well around me if I'm in some kind of agitated state. Over time I've learned to control myself better, so while bulbs sometimes pop or shoot sparks, they don't explode and fall anymore.

Bending spoons is not telekinesis. Psychokinesis or telekinesis actually comes from an electrical impulse that moves through the person to the object that is to be moved. It takes a great degree of concentration to control but it CAN be done.

Once a person develops this ability, they can usually learn to move small objects with their minds. I have one friend who turns the water on in the tub before she bathes. She says it took her about four years to learn how to do that, and she doesn't do it often because it unnerves her husband so!

To learn to do this takes tremendous concentration and lots of energy, and it's never as dramatic as it looks in the movies. (I don't know anyone who does this who still eats any kind of meat.)

Lighter things like crumpled paper are easiest. If you can get a ball of paper to roll even a quarter of an inch (and sometimes this takes hours), you're well on your way to moving, well, not mountains, but maybe a cup or the stapler on your desk.

I must warn you: this is NOT some kind of lightweight magic. This can take years of practice, and frankly I don't know many people who have that kind of time to waste on moving discarded paper.

As for spoon bending, I always get a kick out of watching stage magicians do that, and I've had the dubious honor of working with a few of them. Often magicians who do big stage illusions also do something called mentalism.

Spoon bending falls into that category, along with guessing which lock can be opened by a key sealed inside an envelope, or answering questions about something someone is holding in the audience while blindfolded.

I'm not going to reveal the tricks of that trade, but if you're interested, there are lots of how-to books on the subject. To begin, look for books by Ted Anneman, as his instructions are the best.

Before you start, here's a quick tip: Sterling silver spoons are a heck of a lot easier to bend than those made from stainless steel!

Astrea:

Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.

Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!

While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!

I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!

As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.

I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.

You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!

Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.

A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.

You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.