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When taking a
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Why do we remember some person's name that was elusively on the tip of your
tongue earlier, in the shower or before we drift off to sleep? Why do we have
some our greatest creative ideas in the shower? When we are doing a crossword
puzzle and get stuck on a word for an eternity, why do people suggest that we
put it down for a while? And, why is it that when we pick up the puzzle a little
later the letters practically jump into the boxes? The answer to all of these
questions is "because that is when we are not thinking" or "we stopped thinking
so much".

The complete title of this piece should be "Stop Thinking and
Just Know" or, even better - "Don't Think with Your Brain, Know with Your Soul".
When you know that God is part of you - in your soul (what Hindus call Atma),
you also know that God's infinite knowledge - or if you prefer, the infinite
knowledge of the Universe - is also in your soul. Those moments when you are in
the shower or drifting of to sleep or even driving you car, are moments when you
are knowing with your soul. You are not consciously trying to think and in doing
so, you brain is left out of the process. The great Yoga master Swami Sivananda
put it in a very simple yet profound way when he referred to this as "knowing
without thinking".


So Andrew
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First, thinking with your brain is not a bad thing. In our daily lives,
we use our brains all of the time to do analytical thinking, to store and recall
names and dates, remember the size of our paycheck, to do basic problem solving,
and to do our taxes - ugggh. The soul, on the other hand, provides answers to
things that we may not have stored in our brains - no matter how many analytical
processes we draw on to attempt to connect the dots. The soul provides us with
solutions that we never even would have considered with our brains. The soul
gives us creative ideas and what we call "thinking outside of the box". It is an
always open door to God's infinite knowledge, which is really in our soul. The
soul points out that we already had the
answer Domata
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just one strand of lights goes out on the Christmas tree, the brain tells us to
run to the hardware store and buy some more, but the soul tells us how to fix
the problem. If we just ask for the solution (true story).

Second, you
need to realize that knowing with your soul is instantaneous and thinking with
your brain takes time. Think of your brain as a computer that you ask a question
and it does some processing - some analysis - and gives you an answer. No matter
how powerful the computer is, there is still some amount of time elapsing
between asking the question and having the answer. That wee bit of time, now
matter how brief, is the problem. Even one millisecond allows the destructive
ego to slip in and muddy the waters with its various forms of doubt, second
guessing, and pride. Some people like to distill this phenomenon down to cutesy
cliches like "paralysis by analysis", but these phrases do nothing to explain
why this occurs.

Our souls always
have Mike
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universe. When we come back into the physical world as babes, our souls have all
of that knowledge and our brains are virtually empty except for our basic
survival instincts. This explains the sometimes extraordinary spiritual
abilities of children, even the very young. There is lots of knowing and very
little thinking. Our brains start out as empty sponges and as we grow, our brain
fills with all kinds of knowledge, experiences, societal values and dogmas. As
our brain fills with these things, the ego also grows. Gradually, our ego draws
us to the thinking
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knowinglistening to our souls.

I have been a computer programmer and
system designer for over 20 years and know all too well that the best designs or
a fix to a nagging bug come to me in the shower or when throwing a ball around
for 15 minutes at work.

Throughout time, many great artists have known
the powerful role that knowing plays in the creative process. It has been
described in many ways, the inner voice, listening to God, and divine
inspiration, to name but a few. And, in the end, it all distills down to the
idea of knowinglistening to the soul.

"When I am traveling in a
carriage, or walking after a good
meal Kevin
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occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly." - Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart

The great jazz guitarist, Pat Martino, on the topic of
improvisation, once said, "Try to learn everything you can, and then forget it."
i.e. stop thinking with your brain. Great improvisation is instantaneous - from
the soul. Sometimes you might just be noodling around on an instrument. You look
up unknown minutes later not even remembering what you just played and your
friend is just staring at you. One of you eventually says what the other one is
thinking, "Where the (blank) did that come from?" That, my friends, is a
beautiful moment!

When things in your day are clicking or flowing, when
there are truly no problems and just
solutions Carlos
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to as "just being" or the "I AM". God has already provided the answers for you.
You don't "access" them. They are already there - you just have to know it. When
you are consciously aware of this, you can readily apply it to any aspect of
your life. More and more it will just happen, and you will be aware of it. You
will observe it happening. You will become fearless, because you will know that
all of the answers are inside of you.