Our minds can function at different levels, providing the thought mechanism that drives our physical body to experience life. Guided by the spirit it works to help determines how the body should respond to any given situation. Sometimes this ability is overdeveloped. When we are born, our mind follows our natural instincts. When a baby is born it naturally follows its desire to suckle at it’s mother’s breast and to cry when it needs something. There is no analysis in the mind weighing up the advantages and disadvantages of suckling or crying.

Over time the mind loses this strong connection to intuition as stimuli in the environment start to influence behaviour. Actions generate responses, pain, laughter, sadness, anger and over time the mind creates a memory bank which serves to influence future actions. As this memory bank grows the mind starts to make decisions based upon learned responses. The memory bank expands to incorporate responses influenced by knowledge, social demands, familial expectations, material pressures and media influences. The mind is bombarded with a myriad of signals that influence our actions and it is within this jumble of messages that, in time, our natural intuition can be lost. The mind starts to depend on the learnt responses rather than the intuitive ones and a discrepancy with the spirit and body can emerge, creating dissatisfaction and imbalance. Instead, we need to work to find a connected state, where mind, body and spirit are in balance.