EMERALD: INTELLECTUAL UNDERSTANDING

I just be simplistic about this. If I had just stayed in my meditation and chanting for 20plus years, and said, "I'll just keep doing that. That's enough! Everything will be fine! Especially since I get such a great hit from it!" then I would not be where I am now.

It reminds me of an old friend, when I first met him in India in the early 80's. He was traveling with the sadhus (wandering ascetics). He had spent time in the caves of Girnar over many months, and when I met him in the Himalayas, his goal was to spend the rest of his life in those caves. He declared that was his spiritual path.
Basically, the caves are located way up high in the mountains, far from the Maddening Crowd and far from anyone else! And at that point all he wanted was enough food brought up to him by the villagers, his cooking pot, and chai pot,a drinking cup and his lungi (white loincloth) and, oh yes, a towel! He was a professor and fed up with life, especially the Indians, since it was they, who happened to be in his way!

So he had this blissed out look. Got it? So can you imagine what's missing?

Intellectual understanding. Funny enough, not the kind we get in schools, even most higher education facilities!

So what if I said, intellectual understanding could be understanding yourself. And, I'd like to take it a step further: sorting out what is coming from the ego (or mind) and what is coming from the heart (or inner guidance). Which do you think is valuable to listen to most of the time?

What do you think the head is useful for? calculating square feet
What do you thing the heart is useful for?

How do you do that, listen to your heart, your inner guidance?

That's where intellectual understanding comes in: really learning what to listen to inside of us..

I've been exploring this most of my adult life, and I'm still being the student.

The Strategic Attraction Planning Process brings together, all of the key ingredients to learning how to follow your own inner guidance, learning to distinguish between the noise and what you really want to follow.

And so, the 'intellect'for me incorporates the heart working together with the higher developed mind. The two must work together. And what's interesting is you learn to get clues from your body, your feelings, because you're whole being and the world around you a providing you with clues!

Well enough of explaining. Words only have so much value, only go so far. I invite you to jump in and explore! because only you can know what is your inner guidance telling you! That's why the Strategic Attraction Planning. It's a template to work from, with so many rich distinctions, and YOU are at the helm! And it's magical.
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