Healing Is Child's Play E-Book

Aurora Carlson

• Herausgeber: Aurora Carlson
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 354

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Beschreibung

Healing Is Child’s Play turns a painful worldview upside down and gives you back your power of conscious creation.

You will no longer be helpless before small or big challenges when you understand yourself deeply and learn to reconnect to your Innocent Mind. Prepare to become a force for good, a healer in everyone’s life, easily dealing with any kind of suffering, individual or collective.

This book is a manual for anyone ready to manifest a harmonious life for themselves and the planet. It brings clarity on the true causes of suffering and offers practical tools to heal any problem related to health, relationships, work and career, finances, and more - for yourself and anyone you choose to help. But you will go even further! As an Innocent Mind healer, you will be able to heal animals and the ecosystem, restore harmony in troubled regions and even balance the climate.

The best part is that you will discover that healing is easy and fun. By regaining your innocence, you will be free to play, enjoy and allow your authentic desires to shine, manifesting a fulfilling life and a more beautiful world than you thought possible.

Leseprobe

Praise for Healing Is Child’s Play

From Around the World

CANADA:

A brilliant and essential book for anyone who has a genuine desire to instill the power and intelligence of the Universe to heal, whether it be to heal themselves or other manifestations, including enlightening our relationships with others and planet Earth. The underlying process described is incredibly simple and straightforward and results in the alignment of our divinely intended purpose in life as part of the harmonious flow of well-being for all.

Stephanie Venn, BSc. MBA,Vedic Astrologer

CYPRUS:

Aurora’s book has a miraculous effect on its readers. It is mind-opening, heartwarming, and soul-touching. It gives in-depth knowledge with clear, concise practical tips, and at the same time, it provides a sense of joy, calm and deep happiness. It reminds us of old wisdom we seem to have always had from our ancestors but never realized we had until we read it in this jewel. You will meet U-Be, a creative, all-encompassing being. Its pronunciation (iubi) means “to love” in the author’s native language. Readers will go back often to re-read some passages over and over again, as they will resonate differently with each reading at various stages of life.

Nadia Costachel, Official of the United Nations Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP), Civil Affairs Section

GERMANY:

I have rarely read such a good textbook - especially not on the subject of healing. Aurora shares her many years of experience and insights and conveys much love and positive energy with her book. Healing Is Child’s Play imparts a lot of sound knowledge to all who are seriously interested in the subject of healing and self-healing. This concerns not only non-experts but also advanced healers. Those who read this book very attentively, several times, will get deeper and deeper into the subject of healing and learn to better understand the true background of diseases, pains, and problems of all kinds.

Healing Is Child’s Play is an excellent and extremely valuable workbook for healers, which I highly recommend.

Ernst Koch,Spiritual Healer and Lifecoach

INDIA:

Healing Is Child’s Play uses lucid language and workable examples based on the author’s own experiences of successfully healing anything, on any scale—from individual people, pets, and plants to larger ecosystems and landscapes. It is a practical healing guide and a far-reaching book that enables IM healing practitioners across the globe to achieve positive results effectively, with no prior training, and regardless of cultural background. IM healing is a cohesive method applicable to any situation, and the step-by-step explanations make it the most useful guide to healing available. Life is all about self-discipline and an invisible curriculum wherein miseries are an integral part of our existence. But to address them, and find a healing route through innocence, is what makes healing child’s play, allowing us to feel the jocund and the bliss. My heartfelt Sadhuvaad to the author for this lifetime’s work that will heal all for generations to come.

Neeraj Kumar, PhD., Head of the Department of Zoology, Meerut College, U.P.

MALAYSIA:

Aurora is a lively, naturally gifted healer. With experiential knowledge, she has mastered the art of turning suffering into a celebration of life’s existence. When we realize that we are one with existence, healing is child’s play; it happens naturally, effortlessly. With proper guidance and practice, we become the medium of healing the universe we live in, and others around us, and this book teaches us that. The four-part symmetry of her book keeps the reader captivated. Highly recommended.

Susheel Kamotra, PMP,Founder & CEO of Mezbahn Group of Companies, Author of Universal Face Theory, and Award-Winning Documentary Feature Film, “Tinanjali, a song of life”

NIGERIA:

Healing Is Child’s Play is a soul guide, imparting a kind of information that is usually hidden and shared only amongst a privileged few. I don’t see this done everywhere.

This book will help anyone master their life path as a healer. The healing techniques are simple to follow, and I love that there is a quick version for each. Aurora Carlson is a Master Teacher, and even if this is the only book she writes, she has truly given the world a priceless gift, at the very least on the level of A Course in Miracles. Aurora, this book will outlive you.

Wole Dipo-Ayeni, Love Coach and CEO of Ofada Heaven

ROMANIA:

Thank you, Aurora, for this book. I have been a medical doctor for almost 30 years, practicing allopathic medicine, a medicine based on scientific evidence, with remarkable achievements. Since college, we have been taught that we are facing not a disease, but a patient, and even if we apply the same protocol, the patient’s evolution is unpredictable. In the 30 years of practicing my profession, I often hit the limits of allopathic medicine, but I also enjoyed the miracles that happened in the evolution and healing of patients. Healing Is Child’s Play teaches us that the limits and the magic are in us, and through the techniques shared in the book, we can dissolve our limits, allowing the magic in us to heal us. I will recommend this book to my patients. It is an excellent manual for disease prevention and healing.

Anca Gilca, MD., Family medicine physician at the Medical Center for Diagnosis, Outpatient Treatment and Preventive Medicine, Romanian Academy

SWEDEN:

One day, a very special book comes your way, a book that shows you how to fundamentally heal anything at any level. Your consciousness will expand, and your heart will open just by reading it. Aurora has a unique way of teaching mind-blowing (and often complicated) things in such a simple way that everything feels understandable and doable, even for the beginner.

Some people have a tremendous impact on you that will last forever. Aurora is one of these special ones. I just knew when we met, many years ago, that big changes were coming my way from now on. Very soon, I noticed how my eyes opened and my mind cleared each time I participated in her classes. I have used this knowledge ever since, both professionally and privately, and transformed my life dramatically in all areas. It has been a true blessing to benefit from Aurora’s experience, knowledge, and awareness.

Now, with this book, we all have the opportunity to take our healing journey to the next level. Read it and you will realize that healing anything in life is truly child’s play: fun, exciting, and easy!

Nina Koivumäki, Consciousness Coach and Healer, Founder of Om Balans and Co-founder of Monk Inspirational Events

UNITED KINGDOM:

Imagine being able to “clean” the internal, energetic environment in which you live to create an environment optimal for health and well-being. The science of epigenetics says that the environment, which includes the mind, impacts the DNA, and therefore the health and well-being of the person. Well, this is what is possible with this book. Get ready to take a journey where you’ll not only learn about your internal environment but learn how to clean it up. A beautifully written book, with some deep concepts that delve into the depths of science, but are easy to assimilate and learn from.

Charan Surdhar PhD.,Epigeneticist

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:

Healing is Child’s Play is the most relevant metaphysical book I have read in more than a decade, and I’m an avid reader of all things esoteric.

Jennifer K. Lasell, Chopra Certified Primordial Sound Meditation Instructor, Writers’ Meditation Circle Facilitator

Healing Is Child’s Play: How to Regain Your Innocent Mind and Easily Heal Anything

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First printing December 2021. Second edition includes an index.

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To everyone I love

Contents

Preface

Introduction

PART 1–Who Are You? What Is in Your Power?

1. The Innocent Mind and the Story of U -Be

2. Innocent, Then Conditioned

Your Innocent Mind

Awareness

Bliss

Creativity

Supreme Intelligence

Your Conditioned Mind

Attention

Fear

Storytelling

Evolution

Why You Need Both Minds

3. Regaining Your Innocence

Living Without Knowing Yourself

Learning to Discern

Awareness or Attention

Bliss or Fear

Creativity or Storytelling

Supreme Intelligence, Evolution and Desire

Looking for Clues to Reality

Your Best Bet: Playfulness

Make the Shift: Your Fundamental Practice

Mind the Body

Mind the Emotions

Mind the Thoughts

A Regular Meditation Practice

PART 2–The Art and Knowledge of Healing

4. The Who, Why, and What of Healing

Your Archetype: The Healer

Healing Is Righting a Wrong

What Can Be Healed

Good, Better, Best in Healing

5. General Principles in Healing

It’s All About the Qualia

Work With Nature, Not Against It

Be Free to Free

Deconstruct and Construct

6. The Basic Subtle Anatomy of a Human Being

Making a Human, Layer by Layer

Understanding Our Layers

The Field of Bliss

The Archetypal Field

The Conditioned Mind Field

The Energy Field

The Physical Body

The Process of Manifestation

The Mechanism of Disease

Imbalance at the Bliss Level

Imbalance at the Archetypal Level

Imbalance at the Conditioned Mind Level

Imbalance at the Energy Level

Imbalance at the Physical Level

Knowing, Feeling, or Seeing the Imbalance

Every Individual Tucked in a World

What Is Needed for a Happy Person and World

Needs of the Body

Needs of the Energy Field

Needs of the Conditioned Mind Field

Needs of the Archetypal Field

Needs of the Field of Bliss

Are We One or Are We Many?

PART 3–Innocent Mind Healing Techniques

7. Innocent Mind Healing

Before We Start

How Innocent Mind Healing Is Different

The Conditioned Mind Is Included

The Archetypal Field Is Included

Cleansing First

No Contamination

8. Healing Children and The Elderly

Healing Children and Teens

Healing the Elderly

9. Working in Imagination

Busting the Myth of Physicality

The Healing Bubble

10. The General Healing Technique

Heal Yourself: Personal General Healing Technique

The Procedure

Short Version

When to Do This Technique

Heal Someone Else: Remote General Healing Technique

The Procedure

Short Version

When to Do This Technique

Troubleshooting

11. The Relationship Healing Technique

Healthy or Blocked Relationships

Releasing Relationship Blockages

The Procedure

Short Version

When to Do This Technique

Troubleshooting

12. Healing Technique for Work and Career

Career Blockage—Reasons and Signs

Releasing Career Blockages

The Procedure—For Yourself

The Procedure—For Someone Else

Short Version

When to Do This Technique

Troubleshooting

13. Healing Technique for Financial Well−Being

Poverty and Its True Cause

The Way Out of Involuntary Poverty

The Procedure—For Yourself

The Procedure—For Someone Else

Short Version

When to Do This Technique

Troubleshooting

14. Healing Technique for Good Outcomes

The Difference Between Planning and Creating

The Procedure—For Yourself

The Procedure—For Someone Else

Short Version

When to Do This Technique

Troubleshooting

15. Healing Technique for Other Life Forms

The Suffering of Other Life Forms

Healing Animals, Plants, and Other Life Forms

The Procedure

Short Version

When to Do This Technique

Troubleshooting

16. Location Healing Technique

Healthy or Toxic Locations

The Energetic Effects of Travel

The Mechanism of Destruction

Ways to Heal Localized Scarcity, Conflicts, and Destruction

The Procedure

Short Version

When to Use This Technique

Troubleshooting

17. Healing Technique for Weather and Climate

The Subtle Causes of Extreme Weather and Climate Imbalance

Ways to Heal Extreme Weather and Climate Imbalance

The Procedure

Short Version

When to Do This Technique

Troubleshooting

18. Healing Technique for the Planet

The Procedure

Short Version

When to Do and Troubleshooting

PART 4–Living Life as Healers

19. A Healer's Routine

Your Daily Routine

Your Weekly Routine

The Role of Routines

20. The Path Forward

Do We Still Need Anything?

Dealing With Resistance from Others

Our Contribution and Ultimate Goal

ANNEX–Quick Reference Guide

1. General Healing Technique

A. For Yourself

Short Version

B. For Someone Else

Short Version

2. Relationship Healing Technique

A. For Yourself

Short Version

B. For Someone Else

Short Version

3. Healing Technique for Work & Career

A. For Yourself

Short Version

B. For Someone Else

Short Version

4. Financial Healing Technique

A. For Yourself

Short Version

B. For Someone Else

Short Version

5. Healing Technique for Good Outcomes

A. For Yourself

Short Version

B. For Someone Else

Short Version

6. Healing Technique for Other Life Forms

Short Version

7. Location Healing Technique

Short Version

8. Healing Technique for Weather & Climate

Short Version

9. Healing Technique for the Planet

Short Version

About the Author

Index of Suggested Search Terms

Preface

Performing remote healing can feel strange in the beginning. When I began my exploration, I spent more time stupefied whenever people’s health and life improved because of healing work than practicing. It was awkward that I could change something without even touching it, and I could not decide if I was okay with the shattering of my old, physicalist paradigm. Such a transformation of consciousness is monumental and can take time. It is like remembering how to fly when you never knew wings existed and that you have a pair of your own.

I do not know what brought you to this book and what drives you, but for me, the start of the journey was the pervasive sense that suffering is not natural. I always felt that I wanted to end it, and this intention moved me forward. Growing up in Romania, behind closed borders and under the rule of one of Europe’s fiercest dictators, I understood what it means to have a hard, hopeless life. I believed, like everyone around me, that happiness depends on where one lives. But I moved to Sweden in my twenties and traveling in the West, I soon discovered that the free world was free of many disturbing things but not suffering.

My determination to end the world’s pain led me from intense outer work with the Red Cross to the inner work of meditation. I studied and practiced Ayurveda, yoga, and as many systems of healing as I could find. Teachers of higher consciousness showed up one after the other on my doorsteps in a sleepy Swedish suburb, wearing exotic dhoti kurtas, sarees, or ponchos and able to do unimaginable feats. Other teachers were never with me in physical presence, but each of them added to my awareness of the deeper causes and solutions to suffering.

In time, my perspective evolved, and experiences that had been incomprehensible before made sense. I understood why my body floated three feet above the ground one morning after a week-long meditation retreat with Deepak Chopra. It no longer scared me that simple intentions caused things to happen, like when my focus on learning to bend spoons made my eating utensils curl up as soon as I touched them. These were amusing and sometimes spectacular phenomena, but much subtler ones had puzzled me all my life, with nowhere to turn for answers. I had never dared tell anyone about my feeling that an unseen presence had guided me lovingly through the most troubled and dangerous times in my teens—leading me away from violent situations and telling me how to heal my body when needed or where to find food despite the famine. I had kept quiet about my sense that the world around me is a stage, that the Shakespearean line was more than a metaphor and, if I could lift the painted background, I would find something much more real.

The more I approached reality, the more I understood things that had baffled and humbled me. It was no longer strange that a fish communicated with me at the aquarium or that the forest was conscious and offered me gifts. I became comfortable knowing exactly what someone far away was doing, if I directed my attention to them—I sensed their emotional state, and even heard fragments from their conversations, or saw scenes from their surroundings in my inner space. I observed how what I wished for appeared spontaneously within hours or days, and I enjoyed creating sunshine by intending it. Life was full of miracles, and I realized we walk past them every day, not noticing or, even worse, accustomed to deriding them.

My expanded horizon had to be shared. Over the next twenty years, I worked as a practitioner and teacher of meditation, Ayurveda, and different healing systems. I gave lectures, created programs, coached thousands of clients, and trained several generations of Ayurvedic counselors and healers. But what was much more important was my continued awakening to reality.

It turned out that my hunch had been correct: we are not destined to suffer. Still, I had not expected to find that we are ineffable brightness, creative bliss, and pure love at our core. You and I can play freely in the fields of existence, manifesting the life we desire with natural ease. Like all seekers of ultimate truth, I found so much more than I had been looking for, and I can’t wait to share my discoveries with you.

Introduction

It does not matter if you have never explored healing before or are already active as a healer. I have written this book for you if you have suffered enough and are longing for an easier life for yourself and those you love. The techniques you will learn are about restoring important aspects of life—health, relationships, finances, work and career, the harmony of your home, and your path in life. You will learn to heal your life and, if you wish, other people, pets, wildlife, the ecosystem, the climate, and the planet. All techniques are remote, so you only perform them in your awareness, with no need for physical presence.

You can read this book from beginning to end, but you do not need to if you feel impatient or have a specific focus that cannot wait. Go directly to the part that interests you in that case. I have included references to previous chapters where needed.

If you have ever wondered who you truly are, give special attention to the first part of the book. It describes our deeper identity, what is in our power, and lays the foundation for everything you will learn. Hopefully, it can strengthen your insight, and if you are already a healer, give you renewed trust and appreciation for your work.

The second part of this book expands on our subtle dimensions, the process of creation, and the knowledge needed to heal specific aspects of life.

The third part describes the healing techniques, including some very effective ones you will not find elsewhere, with both detailed and short versions. If you are a beginner, you might find this a more down-to-earth and practical read you can start applying right away.

The fourth and final part brings it all together, and we discuss what being a healer could mean for us as members of the global society. It will be especially relevant if you reflect on the changes that come with your evolution and your role in transforming the world.

If you allow it, this book will take you from a predictably strenuous life to something very different. Follow the guidance, but do not get hung up on the details. Healing is more of an art than a science, so you can allow these pages to flow with ease, reading as much from your soul as from your intellect. I would like you and I to be like children holding hands while running out to play in the land of magic. I hope that by applying these insights in your life, you will arrive at a point where you open your arms wide and laugh in wonderment and gratitude for the magnificence of the infinite Being that you are.

The Innocent Mind and the Story of U -Be

Once upon a time, the all-knowing, ever-present, and all-powerful Universal Being had a desire. It was one of those inspired, happy desires that arise when you have all the time in the world and your only job is to play. Universal Being was, after all, the sole authority around and the creator of time itself, which it spent not only being, but also manifesting as many magical things as it could think of. By now, worlds upon worlds were teeming with sparkling galaxies, and one could find countless versions of swirling planets, majestic mountains and rivers, sea urchins, peacocks, daffodils, or humans within the infinite space of universal imagination.

Humans, in particular, were something Universal Being enjoyed and was especially good at manifesting. That is why things started moving as soon as the desire to become a new human arose in awareness. In no time, Universal Being reached within its bounty of possible qualities and summoned just enough toughness, with a pinch of kindness, flexibility and curiosity, to make this baby unique. Like all humans, including the most improbable ones, this baby had certain talents and a particular purpose in the unfolding of humanity. It also had a background of suitable parents who, on a perfectly romantic night last June, had welcomed the desire to have a child.

This is how Universal Being kept creating itself as new beings—in itself, out of itself. And so, it was now lying there as a newborn in its crib, waving tiny hands and feet, looking through not-too-well-calibrated eyes, and having a completely blank and innocent mind.

The baby’s mind was innocent because it knew itself clearly and fully as what it was: Universal Being. It was aware that it was experiencing itself through a new physical body. Despite the fascinating physical sensations, it remembered itself as the universe, with new eyes to look through, new ears to hear through, and a new mouth and nose to taste and smell through. It had hands and skin to touch with, and it knew that everything it saw, heard, tasted, smelled, or touched was still itself, Universal Being, in different forms. This baby was at home in its infinite self, awake to its true identity.

But Universal Being began to forget itself shortly after its birth into a new form. It got distracted by its other creations— parents, extended family, society—all busy filling the baby’s mind with words, concepts, and agreements. After some time, the child’s mind was no longer empty but brimming with everything needed to function in that culture. Its mind was no longer innocent either, because Universal Being had largely forgotten its identity and now believed it was that fragile, ever-shifting body and those repetitive, carefully pruned and well-adapted thoughts.

Still, in a gesture of playful generosity, Universal Being had called the child U-Be, using the first letters of its real name to leave a clue about its true identity. It knew that the day would come when it would grow weary of pretending to be the role it played—a person, a mere handful of water in the infinite ocean of itself. This clue might be why U-Be never wholly forgot the truth and could eventually release imagined limitations. With the memory of wholeness restored, being human now meant living in delightful exploration of the countless possibilities open to the innocent mind.

You and I have identified with other names and life stories, not always happy. We may have spent too much time pretending to be troubled characters living less than enjoyable lives. But as long as a sliver of memory remains regarding our true, infinite identity, and as long as we pay attention to the clues found everywhere, we can gradually remember who we are and what is in our power. All it takes is a desire to step out of the known and its habits of powerlessness and impossibility. Our best guide is curiosity, fueled by the longing for more of all that is good.

Innocent, Then Conditioned

The journey of healing is a journey of regaining one’s innocence. There is a world of difference between the innocent mind and the conditioned, personal mind. We need to understand and recognize each of these levels of mind if we want to advance on the path to wholeness and healing.

Let’s start by reacquainting ourselves with our innocent mind and the attributes by which we can recognize it. We will then seek to understand the characteristics of the conditioned mind. Finally, we will discuss why we need access to both types of mind to exist as fully developed human beings.

IN THIS CHAPTER

Your Innocent MindYour Conditioned MindWhy We Need Both Minds

Your Innocent Mind

The innocent mind is a name for the mind of existence itself—or Universal Being, as we have called it in the previous chapter—which is your ultimate identity. Here are its four key attributes and how you can recognize them in yourself:

1. Awareness

The first attribute of the innocent mind is awareness. Existence exists and is aware.

We are used to believing that awareness is mainly a human attribute and a product of the brain. But this is an agreement sprung from ignorance and upheld through unexamined consensus. Insightful people throughout the ages have recognized that awareness is not personal but universal and non-local. It does not originate in a physical body and is not bound to a location. It also does not need to be aware of something. Pure awareness is the conscious presence of Universal Being.

To recognize the awareness attribute of your innocent mind, see if you can recall how you sometimes simply are. You are no one specifically, and you do not pay attention to anything in particular. Many people have this experience right after waking up, before remembering the who, where, and when of that moment. Others experience pure awareness devoid of an object of awareness when they are in deep contemplation, alone in nature, or meditating.

2. Bliss

The second attribute of the innocent mind is bliss. In its pure state, the mind of Universal Being is undisturbed and filled with the light of awareness. When in touch with our innocence, we are aware of our infinite, undivided existence and infused with a recognition of sacred oneness—which is the true meaning of love. Words are clumsy tools at this altitude; using the term bliss is just a feeble attempt to describe the ecstasy, fulfillment, and unconditional love that accompany innocence.

You have experienced the bliss of your innocent mind whenever you lost yourself in the magnificence of a starry sky, a newborn baby, a lover, or a work of art. Bliss is the unbound joy and love we sometimes feel for no reason at all. Simply existing and being aware is our primordial, blissful experience.

3. Creativity

Because the innocent mind is blissful, it radiates bliss like the sun radiates photons. The radiance of the mind is its life-giving creativity. This creative flow of bliss never ceases to give life to new modalities of being (animate and inanimate beings). They arise from the depths of the unmanifested Universal Being, which is pure potentiality.

These new modalities of being are initially very subtle. Mere ripples of desire arising within Universal Being, slight breezes of intention, grow into the denser experience of moving life energy called prana in Sanskrit. The flow of prana gives life to patterns of increasing density, resulting in palpable manifestation as matter. You can see it this way: Being is all possibilities, but no actuality, until the flow of bliss moves it to become something specific. The movement from nothing to something is the creative flow of the innocent mind.

Universal Being creates everything within itself, and out of itself, through patterns of being. These patterns are not random; they are diverse combinations of universal qualities manifesting as animate and inanimate beings. We will call these patterns archetypes.

When expressing its innocent mind, Being has light-filled qualities, so the archetypes born in this state of awareness are always positive. They are the harmonious patterns of the universe, expressed in nature as astronomical, seasonal, and weather patterns, as inanimate matter, and living beings.

In humans, these universal qualities express themselves as the archetypes we know from the myths and stories of our childhood. We find them everywhere—in movies, books, and all aspects of life. We traditionally consider some to be feminine, others masculine, and we express them regardless of our gender. Most of us have two or three main archetypes; some have only one. Here are some examples, along with the qualities they symbolize:

The Hero or Heroine—courage, strength, noble purpose

The Queen or King—power and authority

The Sage—wisdom, insight, higher knowledge

The Caregiver—dedication, protection, nourishment

The Lover—emotional and sexual fulfillment

The Magician—transformation, secret knowledge

The Wealthy Person—stability, abundance, potential

The Temptress—seduction, sexuality, pleasure

The Teacher—knowledge, intelligence, skill

The Healer—compassion, health, wholeness

The Explorer—expansion, evolution, adventure

The Artist—creativity, beauty, inspiration

The Child—innocence, renewal, truth

The Judge—justice, clarity, impartiality

The Rebel—freedom, non-conformism, renewal

The Monk—insight, asceticism, transcendence

The Mother—source, love, protection, nourishment

Human archetypes do not appear in a vacuum. They arise together with a world that corresponds. People who need care will gather around Caregivers, Teachers will always have students to teach, loyal subjects will surround Kings and Queens, and so on. Look at yourself and your world and see the patterns of your archetypes subtly underlying your life story.

You have witnessed the creativity of your innocent mind every time you were in a state of blissful contentment and joy, allowing a bright possibility to arise in your awareness. If you did not resist this new possibility and followed it through, then you imagined and became a new person and corresponding world.

Examples of the creativity of the innocent mind in your life are countless because you, the Being, are constantly reinventing yourself as a person. From having been a baby, you have experienced being a child and then an adult. You may have been a student, a tourist, a parent, a new employee, and a passenger—all on the same day. From having been someone with a problem, you may have shifted to being the inventor of a solution. Having been a patient, you may have become the healthiest person around. In one way or another, you have been striving to express your main archetypes. Any subtle desire appearing in the blissful mind and allowed to manifest freely shows the creativity of the innocent mind.

4. Supreme Intelligence

The fourth attribute of the innocent mind is supreme intelligence. Universal Being is creating and orchestrating the entire universe, both the one known to us humans and what is still unknown, not understood, or not yet manifested. We still do not know why humans yawn, cats purr, or living beings sleep, but from the beginning of our time, we do these things. Despite all our research, we still do not know how many species exist on our planet, how to find out if the universe is infinite, what dark matter is, or why we can think about it. We cannot keep track of even the processes needed to grow nails; nevertheless, the entire universe is unfolding right now.

This universal process of creation is happening not one thing at a time, but everything at once in the eternal present moment, with unfathomable intricacy and precision. That is why we call this intelligence supreme—it is not linear or bound by limitations of space and time. It coordinates and gives life to everything as one harmonious whole, functioning through synchronous co-arising.

You have experienced the intelligence of your innocent mind any time your intention manifested synchronistically, without effort—and sometimes, even without your involvement. You might have thought such instances were based on luck, seen them as gifts, or shrugged them off. You may have even wondered why life is so easy sometimes, expecting no answers. In reality, every situation you find yourself in is the manifestation of your innocent mind’s intelligent desires. However, these impulses are filtered through your conditioned mind, which can hinder or distort your creativity, as we shall see later in the book.

TAKEAWAY

The Innocent Mind

The innocent mind is the completely self-aware mind of existence (Universal Being). Its attributes are:

Awareness

Your innocent mind is aware even without a specific object of awareness.

Bliss

Because it is filled with the light of awareness, your innocent mind is blissful.

Creativity

The movement from nothing to something is the creative flow of the innocent mind.Archetypes are patterns of universal qualities manifesting as the universe.

Supreme Intelligence

The intelligence of your innocent mind gives life to your world through synchronous co-arising.

Your Conditioned Mind

While the innocent mind is the blissfully self-aware, all-present, all-knowing, and all-powerful mind of our Universal Being, the conditioned mind belongs together with the limited person we call “me.” If you remember the story of U-Be, you know I am inviting you to reflect on the possibility that your personal self is not who you ultimately are, but is your moment-by-moment creation. The person is a character you, the Being, project. Still, from the relative vantage point of our personal self, each of us has a conditioned mind that occupies itself with everything localized in time and space, including our person.

To understand the conditioned mind, we will start by observing its five functions:

A. Through its function of perception, the conditioned mind works with the information brought in by the five senses. We perceive stimuli outside the body (exteroception), and for us humans, the world is a combination of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell. We also perceive sensations inside the body (interoception), like those connected to digestion or breath. This function includes any type of perception, e.g., proprioception (the sense of location in space), kinesthesia (the muscular perception of movement), or nociception (the sense of pain or tissue damage). Perception helps localize and orient the physical body in relation to other objects, creating the theater of space-time.

B. The intellectual function of the conditioned mind turns these perceptions into concepts, categories, and hierarchies from where it weaves beliefs and stories. We know an apple because the intellect has gathered a few sensory experiences into the concept of apple by excluding every other experience. It has then categorized and hierarchically placed the created object as a fruit, edible, a healthier snack choice than a cake, one that sets a better example for my children, and so on.

The intellectual function is also responsible for our capacity to choose direction and experience. If our choices are based on the perspective of the conditioned mind, disconnected from the wholeness, then we have limited possibilities. If we are aware of our infinite Being, the mind retains its innocence, and we are free to choose what we desire to experience.

C. Intertwined with the intellectual function is the emotional function, the flavor of the energy behind the intellect’s concepts, beliefs, and stories. Every thought has an emotional flavor. Every object, person, or situation we have constructed intellectually co-arises with a corresponding emotional state in our minds1. When thinking of an apple, we can feel anything from elation and inspiration to anger and dismay, depending on the stories we tell ourselves about the apple. The stories of the conditioned mind color the quality of our being, determining how we are in every moment.

D. The function of memory refers to the capacity of the conditioned mind to store past perceptions, concepts, interpretations, and emotional impressions. Consciously or not, these memories filter and skew the subtle impulses of desire coming from the innocent mind, limiting our initially unbounded creativity, and leading us to actions that are not always in our best interest. We remember that eating a sour apple gave us an upset stomach which led to an embarrassing public moment, while a cookie offered by a friend proved we are lovable. Therefore, we keep eating cookies looking for satisfaction but have shut off the possibility that an apple could be what we need and want right now.

This function of memory causes the conditioned mind to project the past as a predictable future, repeating the same limited possibility loop called karma—considered good if the loop enhances our well-being, or bad if it is destructive. In both cases, karma, or the automatic projection of past interpretation onto the present moment, has a binding influence that limits our creative freedom.

E. The last function of the conditioned, personal mind is to activate the motor organs and move the body towards fulfilling our more or less karmically limited desires. We stretch our hand towards either the cookie or the apple, grab it and start eating.

Society has conditioned our personal minds; it has trained us to identify with a particular body and set of circumstances, beliefs, and agreements. Because of this, Universal Being no longer sees itself as the totality of existence but as an ego, an individual entity in a world of separate beings and things. We call the mind, which is focused on its creations (perceptions, concepts, thoughts, emotions), influenced by memory, and identified with an ego—the conditioned mind.

The conditioned mind allows us to perceive ourselves as separate people in a world defined by time and space. It has four key attributes that allow it to exercise its functions. The more you become aware of them, the better you will understand yourself and the work of a healer. Here are the four attributes of the conditioned mind:

1. Attention

Existence is an intellectually ungraspable, infinite field of potentiality. Trying to make sense of it, the conditioned mind fragments this wholeness, slicing it up into slivers of experience it can focus on linearly. Attention is this fragmenting focus of the mind. Unable to handle “everything everywhere, at all times,” the conditioned mind uses attention as an active tool to create the dualities of me/other, this/that, here/there, before/after, and so on.

To understand this, think of how you describe, to a friend, the event you attended last week. You cannot use words and concepts to describe the totality of the experience at once. So, you put your attention on different things to talk about, specific people or groups, particular issues, distinct moments during the event. You do this actively and linearly, using agreed-upon concepts, and whenever you speak about something, you need to ignore everything else. Also, your premise is that you, the observer of the event, are a person separate from what you observe. This premise ignores the fact that everything you observe, including the person you identify with, is in your awareness, constructed and observed by the real you—Universal Being.

Attention is the tool through which the conditioned mind fragments and reduces the wholeness of reality, creating a world of separate moments in time, points in space, individuals, and objects.

2. Fear

The second attribute of the conditioned mind is fear. When the mind is conditioned to identify with certain concepts and experiences by excluding everything else, it creates the appearance of a separate personal identity or ego. But all experiences are transient, so the imaginary ego lives in perpetual fear of being erased. The body, belief systems, possessions, status, relationships, moods, or attitudes included in the concept of “me and my world” can change at any time, which brings fear and a tendency to defend the ego at any cost. But trying to keep this constructed personal self together is as hard as holding on to a particular wave on the ever-moving surface of an ocean. Therefore, identifying with the ego is stressful and makes us unwilling to change.

Besides the fear of personal dissolution, the conditioned mind perceives constant limitation, which gives rise to a fear of scarcity. Having no insight into the creativity of Being, it never knows how to fulfill needs, except by moving already manifested resources from one place, time, and ownership to another. Think of how humanity handles poverty, for example. We imagine that the way to end it is to take assets from those who have them and, in one way or another, move them to those who do not. Sometimes, resources are nowhere in sight, and we believe there is nothing else to do but freak out, get angry, or give up. This way of thinking ignores the reality that resources, like everything else, are perceptions and concepts in awareness, and that their manifested presence or absence is a choice of experience.

Not knowing wholeness but only a handful of changing details, the conditioned mind perceives impermanence and lack of everything outside its attention. All decisions arising from the conditioned mind come from having accepted this constricted, fearful perspective as reality. We must first agree that danger and scarcity are real; only then can we become afraid and protect ourselves.

To better understand the fear and ego-protection tendency arising in the conditioned mind, return to your imaginary conversation with a good friend about the event you attended yesterday. Your friend’s ex was also there, gossiping about their breakup. Notice how, when telling your friend about the event, you subtly consider what to include or exclude to keep a good relationship. If you worry about your friend getting upset with you for not speaking up, you fear losing something you have identified with—the friend or the belief that you are a good friend. In reality, you can lose nothing because you are not a person. You are the Being in which the person, the friend, and the event arise as sensory and conceptual experiences.

3. Storytelling

The third attribute of the conditioned mind is its capacity for storytelling.

By nature, the conditioned mind is volatile. Without the awareness of Universal Being, it cannot be still. It lives in the realm of sensory perception, concepts, and memory, and moves its attention constantly from one fragment to another, weaving them into time, space, energy, and matter—through storytelling.

Humans share collective stories about the universe, our planet, and our species. From one generation to another, we pass along mythical, religious, scientific, artistic, or mundane stories about our existence, meaning, and purpose, about our source, history, and future, or about right and wrong. When these stories clash with each other, we either cling to our own and fight for it or adopt a new story, contributing to its