The Secret to Freeing Your Mind

“If you want to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions” - Goethe

The secret to freeing your mind, accessing your vision, and tapping into your inner genius is to stretch - to stretch out your mind, and to do it in a mindful way.

As Goethe said, you need to explore the finite in all directions. This was the way Renaissance and Enlightenment thinkers were trained. They were trained to understand that everything was interconnected, and they were willing to explore the interconnections. They understood this secret and by applying it they were able to free their minds and were able to become people of vision.

But you don't have to get a Renaissance education to become like that. All you have to do is stretch the mind.

The best way to understand the secret and stretch out the mind is to allow for complexity to be an essential part of your life. What is complexity?

Look at a spider's web - it is a complicated web of interlinking and interconnected parts of information. It is a beautiful and complex dynamic weaving of patterns.

Or look at a beehive. A beehive is a complex web of dynamic action, with millions of bees involved in separate activities dedicated to a single focus.

Our minds are not much different than a spider's web. The brain has trillions of neurons that communicate with each other in a beehive of frenetic activity, dedicated to a single focus - to manifest thought.

The best way to feed the brain and to make it stretch and grow is to fertilize its complex connections - by entertaining more complex notions in your mind.

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The worst thing you can do to fertilize your mind is to do the same thing over and over and over again. You need to change it up, do different things, sometimes contradictory things. Hold two opposing thoughts in your mind: be a laborer and a scientist; an athlete and a weaver; a bodyworker and a mathematician; a musician and an accountant; a dancer and a stockbroker; a poet and a businessman.

The point is that you want to do opposing things, you want to explore the finite in all directions. You want to stretch out the mind, increase the connections, expand the web of your body and mind. That's the way to get to the secret, and by doing so freeing your mind and increasing your vision.

This is the way of the Renaissance and Enlightenment thinkers. But anyone can be like that. It is an innate trait. It just takes a little work.

To do this, you have to let go of the desire to control and always be right and instead to accept chaos and complexity as a part of your life, and then become more mindful and aware of the changes that take place.

Chaos is about expecting the unexpected and the unpredictable. The truth is that chaos is an essential part of life.

Life is a constant and often times messy swirl of emotions, energy, actions and interactions - that's what chaos is. Chaos tells us that there is an underlying order that arrives out of the chaos - the challenge is to be willing to trust and let go of the desire to know what will happen. Good will come out of the chaos: but are you willing to get out of the way and not interfere, and instead let it flow?

If you maintain a mindful awareness, it won't be scary as you allow a certain amount of chaos to take hold, because you will be able to witness how your mind and body react to the changes that chaos will bring.

So are you ready to apply the secret to freeing your mind? By stretching your mind and embracing complexity, you are inviting chaos, because you will be putting new types of information into your mind, some of which might oppose some of your current beliefs.

But if you let go and let the swirl of information take hold, you will uncover new insights and new ways of seeing the world. And as you do so, your vision will grow.

But you have to be willing to let go. By being mindful it is not that hard or that scary. And that is the secret: stretch it and be mindful.

You probably didn't know this, but things self-organize - there is an innate wisdom within the body and within the universe and all its interconnections that allows things to work out just fine. That's what is meant by saying that order comes out of chaos.

The only thing about this is that, in the words of Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones, You Can't Always Get What You Want, But If You Try Some Time, You Just Mind Find, You'll Get What You Need.

And getting just what you need is good, because it will work out just fine. That's the order that comes out of chaos.

The Rolling Stones: "You Can't Always Get What You Want"

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