You're welcome Silver Owl :-)

Yes, especially if you've got a strong scientific or rational intellect, it can be a challenge finding the right alignment of it. It's also important though, not to 'throw the baby out with the bathwater'. You have a strong intellect for a reason. For me for example, as the soul flows through me, it most definitely speaks through (amongst other things) my mind. There's a continual commentary. Which means I'm able to offer viewpoints on the profound nature of reality. If I speak or write, I'm actually not thinking at all about it. If a question comes to me from someone's soul, then an engagement simply flows. My soul comes directly from the source and commentary happens through the mind.

But yes, it took a huge amount of work to get to this point. And yes, in the early stages, if the mind takes too much ownership, then the other feeling faculties close down - you then close down to the source where higher truth comes from. It's the problem of every great scientific mind.

So my approach has been to keep feeling all the time. Watch the mind, and feel the contractions as it's working. I practiced this so much and observed so much, that I could actually feel the neural pathways in the brain - where they'd become fixed. They felt like tiny hard wired fuses. By putting my feeling attention in them, I became able to open them up, to break the hard wired connections. It meant that I stopped getting stuck in these very scientific, fixed loops of activity that people find themselves locked in.

So my mind/brain became more pliant and soft.

It does take lots of practice and lots of commitment. But you can do it. And it's incredibly worthwhile. I find now that I'm in a constant dialogue with the divine about life itself. It's an absolute joy to behold. Wherever I am, or whatever I'm doing, there's an internal conversation going on about the nature of life. It enfolds emotion and feeling. It's streaming synchronicity, like a constant wave. There's simply nothing like it.

So I'd say keep feeling into your thoughts, keep softening into them and expanding the sense of soul through them. See where that takes you.

Open *OK*