To heal our thinking mind it might be useful to consider that our mind is just a part of us. Certainly quite an important one. Well, obviously our body is part of us, too. Well, what other parts are there, maybe less obvious ones?
Some talk about body, mind and soul. Some categorize sub-consciousness, consciousness and super-consciousness. Others talk about subpersonalities which were created at some point during our lifetime for some good reason, although we might check whether this reason is still valid.
The following categorization was already recorded in very old Sanskrit scripts.
There are different stakeholders within us and in order to feel balanced or
in order to achieve overall healing we are supposed to harmonize them all.
According to tradition, the stakeholders are described as follows:
Inner Child, Inner Woman and Inner Man together build our sub-consciousness.
Body and mind form our consciousness.
X-Level, Higher Self and Soul are the super-consciousness.
Our Higher Self usually supports us with our daily tasks whereas the Soul overviews the holistic aspects and encompasses many incarnations.
So much about our different stakeholders. Well, coming back to our thinking mind, it is a powerful part of us and very helpful in finding solutions, completing practical tasks, structuring, analyzing, navigating etc.
Nevertheless, what happened to it nowadays? Our society puts a lot of stress on the rational way of solving things. This requires a lot of work from the thinking mind leaving out the aspects within us that could also contribute to finding solutions.
The thinking mind is not to be blamed here because it was trained to permanently think and does exactly that, sometimes without interruption and we find ourselves within endless chains of thoughts maybe even depriving us from sleep. At this point, it is hardly stoppable and we might have no choice but to wait until the mind has gone through all issues that are seemingly important.
How can we persuade the thinking mind to be part of the holistic system again in order to communicate with the other aspects and listen to them?
How do we remind the thinking mind of the fact that deep knowledge arises from a different source than the rationale alone, that there is an inner voice, an inner wisdom?
How do we de-program ourselves in times like this when everything seems to
depend on the thinking mind?
Well, by getting into the silence, finding the stillness and by stepping out
of the thoughts from time to time. Not because we do not value the thinking
mind. On the contrary, we offer our mind a pause in order to recuperate and
rediscover itself anew.
Quite often too much responsibility burdens the mind. Mostly the mind assumes that it has to solve everything on its own and thus overcharges itself. In order to fix this we can first of all take some of the responsibility from it by involving all the other parts as there are Inner Child, Inner Man, Inner Woman, Body, X-Level , Higher Self, Soul and of course the thinking Mind.
Exercise: Imagine your stakeholders (Inner Child, Inner Man, Inner Woman, Body, Mind, X-Level , Higher Self, Soul) positioned in a circle and how they consciously reintegrate the mind. Imagine how the responsibility is distributed equally exactly the way it is needed to enable everybody fulfilling their tasks ideally and to function naturally and in harmony. Everyone supports the other as much as it is appropriate.
By redistributing the responsibility we release the pressure from the mind, the pressure of having to solve everything on its own, which is actually not its task in the first place.
Finally, the thinking mind is allowed to have a holiday, lying in a hammock, letting the sun shine on its belly and daydream. The mind needs doing NOTHING. And while in this state, the mind can take the liberty to rest there as long as required to recharge and be fully rested in order to have power and motivation to complete its actual tasks. We enable the mind to rediscover what the actual tasks are.
Thus, in order to heal the mind it might be helpful to get used to the habit of granting it some rest every now and again, e.g. by letting it rest in the hammock and letting things be the way they are.
Well, but who is going to solve our problems while the mind is resting in the hammock? For some problems the contribution of the super-consciousness is needed and the thinking mind, as part of the consciousness, is not able to find a solution, even though it is trying as hard as it can.
Thus, it is a good idea to reconnect all the stakeholders and redistribute the responsibility in such a way that everyone can contribute to the best possible outcome.
I guess we all have had the experience that solutions come all by themselves once we stop turning problems over in our mind. Solutions come while we do something totally different, like going for a walk in nature, doing sports, meditate etc.
Hence, let us reconnect and rebalance all of the stakeholders, including the mind, in order to gain more harmony and well-being.