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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.

I'm a practicing psychic and am wondering if I will ever find true love. I am already reluctant to come out of the closet with certain people, for as you know, society in general is critical, fearful and skeptical of anything psychic. While not all of society is like this, a good majority rejects anything dealing with psychic phenomena. I try to always be honest in my dealings with others, but as soon as I reveal what I am and what I do to earn money, I get shunned by men. It can be really painful, and it causes me to doubt myself and my attractiveness. If I can't be up front about who and what I am in an intimate, loving relationship, then who can I be up front with? I would like to marry one day, but I can't be sure if I will ever find a man who will accept me for me. Reading for myself about this is tricky; I'm unable to get clear answers because I can't get out of my own way. I will be 40 next year. Am I destined to be a spinster? I'm a Sagittarius.

Lynx

Astrea:

You're in a situation that many professional psychic readers have experienced. Telling someone you've been dating or that you're beginning to date that you are psychic really does cull out the losers in a hurry, for no one who is going to misbehave wants to be with someone who can read them. Many people also have the big misconception that psychics are mind readers. Oh! If only that were true!

People who read for others for a living are notorious for not being able to get out of their own way. Discernment is sometimes the most difficult of all psychic skills to develop. Forty is the age when most of us achieve discernment these days. Be happy you haven't made a dreadful error before.

I want to take this opportunity to say that waiting until you are 40 does not mean that you'll be a spinster! From one Sagittarius to another, I can tell you that I goofed up plenty before I was your age, and being psychic didn't seem to help me in my own romantic relationships.

Does being psychic exact payment? Of course it does. It can make us more aware of others, but it usually doesn't make us that much more in tune with the people we LOVE. This is why I never read for my family or closest friends. (Sometimes they insist, but they're usually very sorry they did!) There are personal, private things they don't want YiaYia to know, and I respect that and butt out!

It might offend my pals in law enforcement to know that I think having a relationship with a psychic is sort of like having one with a police officer. People who enter relationships with us feel obligated to behave or risk being found out.

Coming out of the closet is a good analogy too. Though some of my gay friends might take issue with this comparison, it is nevertheless what it feels like when you have to admit to the person you're in love with what it is you do for a living. There's no way I know to put someone at ease who has recently discovered that you're reading for a living. Either they can take it or they can't. Most people can get used to it, and the ones who reject us because of it aren't worth being with anyway, for they have things to hide!

Sagittarius, I know you'll find that person you're seeking in the next year. How do I know? I'm psychic! I also know that the 40th year is the most important year of a Sag's life when it comes to relationships.

That person will manifest for you sometime shortly after the first of the year, so you can start looking forward to a loving, lifelong relationship with someone who is honest and upright enough to be with you without fear of what you might discover.

*****

Susyn:

I agree that it can be challenging to be a psychic, especially when it comes to the dating scene. I carried these same ideas for years myself, and it seemed that any potential relationships ended almost immediately once a man discovered what I did for a living.

It is important that you remain true to yourself and continue to make your living in a profession that feeds your soul. Trust me: the man you are supposed to spend the rest of your life with will not have a problem with your career choice.

For years, I tried different methods to bypass what I thought was the problem. I tried dating men who also worked in the field of metaphysics, but to no avail. I found different names for my career, such as metaphysical consultant or counselor. The men I connected with were still put off by my work, even though I had created, literally from scratch, a lucrative and rewarding career.

Over time, I came to discover the truth: that what I did for a living was not the problem. The reason I couldn't find a long-term relationship had less to do with my work and more to do with my approach. This proved to be true when I found my life partner, a nuclear physics engineer, whose own career is based in science, fact and tangible proof. Never in my wildest dreams did I believe that we could form a partnership, but we could not be any closer or happier.

First, let go of the idea that your career is what is preventing you from having a loving partnership. When we truly fall in love, there is nothing about us that can put the other person off. The key is learning to create enough attraction and connection to experience love first, before we reveal too much of ourselves.

Because of your past experiences, you may be sending out defensive energy or setting yourself up to fail before you even get to know the other person. Though I donít recommend you hide what you do for a living, you may be going into details too quickly or revealing more than you need to at the start.

If you are serious about finding a life partner, I recommend a book called The Rules by Ellen Fein. Though it is slanted towards finding a husband, this book contains some basic truths and information about men that we women need to know. Once I read this book and started practicing these tenets, never again was anyone I dated uncomfortable with what I did for a living.

Give it a try. It will shift your awareness, affirm that your career is not what is preventing you from having a loving relationship, and give you tools to make the most of your dating experiences instead of limiting them.

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.