3/7 ACTION AND PLAN

The mind is a box of very useful tools. You can visualize everything through your imagination, and judgement is always at hand, ready to give a verdict one way or the other.  Other tools such as rationality and logic have the potential for extraordinary and far-reaching understanding.  In the journey of life, the purpose of the mind, set at number 3 in the equation: 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10, is to understand the first two steps and then work out why it must hand over control to a higher but unknown intelligence at number 4.  It's a crucial and pivotal point in the soul's progression, because without the mind's co-operation, it would remain stuck, and never come the light at number 10.

So the mind has to be very clever and creative in order to fulfil its part of the journey.  But it's hard to let go of cleverness, and the transition from living by what you know in number 3 to trusting to let go into what cannot be understood in number 4 must be one of the greatest obstacles you will ever meet.

The mind is not your true authority, but a result of conditioning, and it will remain in charge until you decide otherwise.  It's such a huge turnaround that you may only take the risk when life becomes so difficult that you spiral down from the safe confines of number 3, through the inevitable dip of depression into number 2, and hit rock-bottom at number 1.  Now, with nowhere left to go, and no longer under any illusion, there's a chance to get in touch with what lies deep within; the calling of your soul.