When Rachel Naomi Remen and I were preparing for our upcoming Medicine For The Soul program, Rachel said, “We each have a part of ourselves that we trust- our frontrunner. When we come into a new situation, we send different parts of ourselves in first to check out the scene. The cognitive person sends in their cognitive self. Who’s there? How reliable are they? Let’s suppose it’s not the cognitive mind that you trust? What if you trust the heart? What if you send your heart in as the frontrunner? What’s the vibe in here? Are they loving? Are they connecting? Are they competing? The thing that’s difficult is that a smaller part of you cannot validate a larger part of you easily. So if you’re a cognitive validator, you can’t validate the soul with cognition. You can validate cognition with the soul, but not the opposite. We must use the cognitive mind as a servant of the soul rather than the soul being okayed by the cognitive mind.” Rachel says that, as children, when we don’t feel safe, we go cognitive. It makes us feel like we have some control over the world. Rachel went on to say, “In our culture, we trade off mystery for mastery, but in doing so, we choose deadness over aliveness. What stops the world is our quest for certainty. To the cognitive mind, everything has to be complete. What you’re looking for is something that is not growing, something that is not changing. We swap certainty for aliveness. These are bad trades. These trades don’t make us happy. When we make these tradeoffs for certainty or mastery, we disconnect from the soul.” So I ask you- are you trading mystery for mastery? Is your cognitive mind holding you back? Or are you fully ready to lean into the mystery and allow what you may not understand to unfold?
Posted on: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 18:58:34 +0000
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