Healing Is Child's Play: How to Regain Your Innocent Mind and Easily Heal Anything

By Aurora Carlson

Healing Is Child’s Play turns a painful worldview upside down and gives you back your power of conscious creation.

You will no longer be helpless before small or big challenges when you understand yourself deeply and learn to reconnect to your Innocent Mind. Prepare to become a force for good, a healer in everyone’s life, easily dealing with any kind of suffering, individual or collective.

This book is a manual for anyone ready to manifest a harmonious life for themselves and the planet. It brings clarity on the true causes of suffering and offers practical tools to heal any problem related to health, relationships, work and career, finances, and more - for yourself and anyone you choose to help. But you will go even further! As an Innocent Mind healer, you will be able to heal animals and the ecosystem, restore harmony in troubled regions and even balance the climate.

The best part is that you will discover that healing is easy and fun. By regaining your innocence, you will be free to play, enjoy and allow your authentic desires to shine, manifesting a fulfilling life and a more beautiful world than you thought possible.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Aurora Carlson
• Release date: Nov 13, 2021
• ISBN: 9789198733211

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The Innocent Mind and the Story of U -Be

Once upon a time, the all-knowing, ever-present, and all-powerful Universal Being had a desire. It was one of those inspired, happy desires that arise when you have all the time in the world and your only job is to play. Universal Being was, after all, the sole authority around and the creator of time itself, which it spent not only being, but also manifesting as many magical things as it could think of. By now, worlds upon worlds were teeming with sparkling galaxies, and one could find countless versions of swirling planets, majestic mountains and rivers, sea urchins, peacocks, daffodils, or humans within the infinite space of universal imagination.

Humans, in particular, were something Universal Being enjoyed and was especially good at manifesting. That is why things started moving as soon as the desire to become a new human arose in awareness. In no time, Universal Being reached within its bounty of possible qualities and summoned just enough toughness, with a pinch of kindness, flexibility and curiosity, to make this baby unique. Like all humans, including the most improbable ones, this baby had certain talents and a particular purpose in the unfolding of humanity. It also had a background of suitable parents who, on a perfectly romantic night last June, had welcomed the desire to have a child.

This is how Universal Being kept creating itself as new beings—in itself, out of itself. And so, it was now lying there as a newborn in its crib, waving tiny hands and feet, looking through not-too-well-calibrated eyes, and having a completely blank and innocent mind.

The baby’s mind was innocent because it knew itself clearly and fully as what it was: Universal Being. It was aware that it was experiencing itself through a new physical body. Despite the fascinating physical sensations, it remembered itself as the universe, with new eyes to look through, new ears to hear through, and a new mouth and nose to taste and smell through. It had hands and skin to touch with, and it knew that everything it saw, heard, tasted, smelled, or touched was still itself, Universal Being, in different forms. This baby was at home in its infinite self, awake to its true identity.

But Universal Being began to forget itself shortly after its birth into a new form. It got distracted by its other creations— parents, extended family, society—all busy filling the baby’s mind with words, concepts, and agreements. After some time, the child’s mind was no longer empty but brimming with everything needed to function in that culture. Its mind was no longer innocent either, because Universal Being had largely forgotten its identity and now believed it was that fragile, ever-shifting body and those repetitive, carefully pruned and well-adapted thoughts.

Still, in a gesture of playful generosity, Universal Being had called the child U-Be, using the first letters of its real name to leave a clue about its true identity. It knew that the day would come when it would grow weary of pretending to be the role it played—a person, a mere handful of water in the infinite ocean of itself. This clue might be why U-Be never wholly forgot the truth and could eventually release imagined limitations. With the memory of wholeness restored, being human now meant living in delightful exploration of the countless possibilities open to the innocent mind.

You and I have identified with other names and life stories, not always happy. We may have spent too much time pretending to be troubled characters living less than enjoyable lives. But as long as a sliver of memory remains regarding our true, infinite identity, and as long as we pay attention to the clues found everywhere, we can gradually remember who we are and what is in our power. All it takes is a desire to step out of the known and its habits of powerlessness and impossibility. Our best guide is curiosity, fueled by the longing for more of all that is good.

Innocent, Then Conditioned

The journey of healing is a journey of regaining one’s innocence. There is a world of difference between the innocent mind and the conditioned, personal mind. We need to understand and recognize each of these levels of mind if we want to advance on the path to wholeness and healing.

Let’s start by reacquainting ourselves with our innocent mind and the attributes by which we can recognize it. We will then seek to understand the characteristics of the conditioned mind. Finally, we will discuss why we need access to both types of mind to exist as fully developed human beings.

IN THIS CHAPTER

Your Innocent Mind

Your Conditioned Mind

Why We Need Both Minds

Your Innocent Mind

The innocent mind is a name for the mind of existence itself—or Universal Being, as we have called it in the previous chapter—which is your ultimate identity. Here are its four key attributes and how you can recognize them in yourself:

1. Awareness

The first attribute of the innocent mind is awareness. Existence exists and is aware.

We are used to believing that awareness is mainly a human attribute and a product of the brain. But this is an agreement sprung from ignorance and upheld through unexamined consensus. Insightful people throughout the ages have recognized that awareness is not personal but universal and non-local. It does not originate in a physical body and is not bound to a location. It also does not need to be aware of something. Pure awareness is the conscious presence of Universal Being.

To recognize the awareness attribute of your innocent mind, see if you can recall how you sometimes simply are. You are no one specifically, and you do not pay attention to anything in particular. Many people have this experience right after waking up, before remembering the who, where, and when of that moment. Others experience pure awareness devoid of an object of awareness when they are in deep contemplation, alone in nature, or meditating.

2. Bliss

The second attribute of the innocent mind is bliss. In its pure state, the mind of Universal Being is undisturbed and filled with the light of awareness. When in touch with our innocence, we are aware of our infinite, undivided existence and infused with a recognition of sacred oneness—which is the true meaning of love. Words are clumsy tools at this altitude; using the term bliss is just a feeble attempt to describe the ecstasy, fulfillment, and unconditional love that accompany innocence.

You have experienced the bliss of your innocent mind whenever you lost yourself in the magnificence of a starry sky, a newborn baby, a lover, or a work of art. Bliss is the unbound joy and love we sometimes feel for no reason at all. Simply existing and being aware is our primordial, blissful experience.

3. Creativity

Because the innocent mind is blissful, it radiates bliss like the sun radiates photons. The radiance of the mind is its life-giving creativity. This creative flow of bliss never ceases to give life to new modalities of being (animate and inanimate beings). They arise from the depths of the unmanifested Universal Being, which is pure potentiality.

These new modalities of being are initially very subtle. Mere ripples of desire arising within Universal Being, slight breezes of intention, grow into the denser experience of moving life energy called prana in Sanskrit. The flow of prana gives life to patterns of increasing density, resulting in palpable manifestation as matter. You can see it this way: Being is all possibilities, but no actuality, until the flow of bliss moves it to become something specific. The movement from nothing to something is the creative flow of the innocent mind.

Universal Being creates everything within itself, and out of itself, through patterns of being. These patterns are not random; they are diverse combinations of universal qualities manifesting as animate and inanimate beings. We will call these patterns archetypes.

When expressing its innocent mind, Being has light-filled qualities, so the archetypes born in this state of awareness are always positive. They are the harmonious patterns of the universe, expressed in nature as astronomical, seasonal, and weather patterns, as inanimate matter, and living beings.

In humans, these universal qualities express themselves as the archetypes we know from the myths and stories of our childhood. We find them everywhere—in movies, books, and all aspects of life. We traditionally consider some to be feminine, others masculine, and we express them regardless of our gender. Most of us have two or three main archetypes; some have only one. Here are some examples, along with the qualities they symbolize:

The Hero or Heroine—courage, strength, noble purpose

The Queen or King—power and authority

The Sage—wisdom, insight, higher knowledge

The Caregiver—dedication, protection, nourishment

The Lover—emotional and sexual fulfillment

The Magician—transformation, secret knowledge

The Wealthy Person—stability, abundance, potential

The Temptress—seduction, sexuality, pleasure

The Teacher—knowledge, intelligence, skill

The Healer—compassion, health, wholeness

The Explorer—expansion, evolution, adventure

The Artist—creativity, beauty, inspiration

The Child—innocence, renewal, truth

The Judge—justice, clarity, impartiality

The Rebel—freedom, non-conformism, renewal

The Monk—insight, asceticism, transcendence

The Mother—source, love, protection, nourishment

Human archetypes do not appear in a vacuum. They arise together with a world that corresponds. People who need care will gather around Caregivers, Teachers will always have students to teach, loyal subjects will surround Kings and Queens, and so on. Look at yourself and your world and see the patterns of your archetypes subtly underlying your life story.

You have witnessed the creativity of your innocent mind every time you were in a state of blissful contentment and joy, allowing a bright possibility to arise in your awareness. If you did not resist this new possibility and followed it through, then you imagined and became a new person and corresponding world.

Examples of the creativity of the innocent mind in your life are countless because you, the Being, are constantly reinventing yourself as a person. From having been a baby, you have experienced being a child and then an adult. You may have been a student, a tourist, a parent, a new employee, and a passenger—all on the same day. From having been someone with a problem, you may have shifted to being the inventor of a solution. Having been a patient, you may have become the healthiest person around. In one way or another, you have been striving to express your main archetypes. Any subtle desire appearing in the blissful mind and allowed to manifest freely shows the creativity of the innocent mind.

4. Supreme Intelligence

The fourth attribute of the innocent mind is supreme intelligence. Universal Being is creating and orchestrating the entire universe, both the one known to us humans and what is still unknown, not understood, or not yet manifested. We still do not know why humans yawn, cats purr, or living beings sleep, but from the beginning of our time, we do these things. Despite all our research, we still do not know how many species exist on our planet, how to find out if the universe is infinite, what dark matter is, or why we can think about it. We cannot keep track of even the processes needed to grow nails; nevertheless, the entire universe is unfolding right now.

This universal process of creation is happening not one thing at a time, but everything at once in the eternal present moment, with unfathomable intricacy and precision. That is why we call this intelligence supreme—it is not linear or bound by limitations of space and time. It coordinates and gives life to everything as one harmonious whole, functioning through synchronous co-arising.

You have experienced the intelligence of your innocent mind any time your intention manifested synchronistically, without effort—and sometimes, even without your involvement. You might have thought such instances were based on luck, seen them as gifts, or shrugged them off. You may have even wondered why life is so easy sometimes, expecting no answers. In reality, every situation you find yourself in is the manifestation of your innocent mind’s intelligent desires. However, these impulses are filtered through your conditioned mind, which can hinder or distort your creativity, as we shall see later in the book.

TAKEAWAY

The Innocent Mind

The innocent mind is the completely self-aware mind of existence (Universal Being). Its attributes are:

Awareness

Your innocent mind is aware even without a specific object of awareness.

Bliss

Because it is filled with the light of awareness, your innocent mind is blissful.

Creativity

The movement from nothing to something is the creative flow of the innocent mind.

Archetypes are patterns of universal qualities manifesting as the universe.

Supreme Intelligence

The intelligence of your innocent mind gives life to your world through synchronous co-arising.

Your Conditioned Mind

While the innocent mind is the blissfully self-aware, all-present, all-knowing, and all-powerful mind of our Universal Being, the conditioned mind belongs together with the limited person we call me. If you remember the story of U-Be, you know I am inviting you to reflect on the possibility that your personal self is not who you ultimately are, but is your moment-by-moment creation. The person is a character you, the Being, project. Still, from the relative vantage point of our personal self, each of us has a conditioned mind that occupies itself with everything localized in time and space, including our person.

To understand the conditioned mind, we will start by observing its five functions:

A. Through its function of perception, the conditioned mind works with the information brought in by the five senses. We perceive stimuli outside the body (exteroception), and for us humans, the world is a combination of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell. We also perceive sensations inside the body (interoception), like those connected to digestion or breath. This function includes any type of perception, e.g., proprioception (the sense of location in space), kinesthesia (the muscular perception of movement), or nociception (the sense of pain or tissue damage). Perception helps localize and orient the physical body in relation to other objects, creating the theater of space-time.

B. The intellectual function of the conditioned mind turns these perceptions into concepts, categories, and hierarchies from where it weaves beliefs and stories. We know an apple because the intellect has gathered a few sensory experiences into the concept of apple by excluding every other experience. It has then categorized and hierarchically placed the created object as a fruit, edible, a healthier snack choice than a cake, one that sets a better example for my children, and so on.

The intellectual function is also responsible for our capacity to choose direction and experience. If our choices are based on the perspective of the conditioned mind, disconnected from the wholeness, then we have limited possibilities. If we are aware of our infinite Being, the mind retains its innocence, and we are free to choose what we desire to experience.

C. Intertwined with the intellectual function is the emotional function, the flavor of the energy behind the intellect’s concepts, beliefs, and stories. Every thought has an emotional flavor. Every object, person, or situation we have constructed intellectually co-arises with a corresponding emotional state in our minds¹. When thinking of an apple, we can feel anything from elation and inspiration to anger and dismay, depending on the stories we tell ourselves about the apple. The stories of the conditioned mind color the quality of our being, determining how we are in every moment.

D. The function of memory refers to the capacity of the conditioned mind to store past perceptions, concepts, interpretations, and emotional impressions. Consciously or not, these memories filter and skew the subtle impulses of desire coming from the innocent mind, limiting our initially unbounded creativity, and leading us to actions that are not always in our best interest. We remember that eating a sour apple gave us an upset stomach which led to an embarrassing public moment, while a cookie offered by a friend proved we are lovable. Therefore, we keep eating cookies looking for satisfaction but have shut off the possibility that an apple could be what we need and want right now.

This function of memory causes the conditioned mind to project the past as a predictable future, repeating the same limited possibility loop called karma—considered good if the loop enhances our well-being, or bad if it is destructive. In both cases, karma, or the automatic projection of past interpretation onto the present moment, has a binding influence that limits our creative freedom.

E. The last function of the conditioned, personal mind is to activate the motor organs and move the body towards fulfilling our more or less karmically limited desires. We stretch our hand towards either the cookie or the apple, grab it and start eating.

Society has conditioned our personal minds; it has trained us to identify with a particular body and set of circumstances, beliefs, and agreements. Because of this, Universal Being no longer sees itself as the totality of existence but as an ego, an individual entity in a world of separate beings and things. We call the mind, which is focused on its creations (perceptions, concepts, thoughts, emotions), influenced by memory, and identified with an ego—the conditioned mind.

The conditioned mind allows us to perceive ourselves as separate people in a world defined by time and space. It has four key attributes that allow it to exercise its functions. The more you become aware of them, the better you will understand yourself and the work of a healer. Here are the four attributes of the conditioned mind:

1. Attention

Existence is an intellectually ungraspable, infinite field of potentiality. Trying to make sense of it, the conditioned mind fragments this wholeness, slicing it up into slivers of experience it can focus on linearly. Attention is this fragmenting focus of the mind. Unable to handle everything everywhere, at all times, the conditioned mind uses attention as an active tool to create the dualities of me/other, this/that, here/there, before/after, and so on.

To understand this, think of how you describe, to a friend, the event you attended last week. You cannot use words and concepts to describe the totality of the experience at once. So, you put your attention on different things to talk about, specific people or groups, particular issues, distinct moments during the event. You do this actively and linearly, using agreed-upon concepts, and whenever you speak about something, you need to ignore everything else. Also, your premise is that you, the observer of the event, are a person separate from what you observe. This premise ignores the fact that everything you observe, including the person you identify with, is in your awareness, constructed and observed by the real you—Universal Being.

Attention is the tool through which the conditioned mind fragments and reduces the wholeness of reality, creating a world of separate moments in time, points in space, individuals, and objects.

2. Fear

The second attribute of the conditioned mind is fear. When the mind is conditioned to identify with certain concepts and experiences by excluding everything else, it creates the appearance of a separate personal identity or ego. But all experiences are transient, so the imaginary ego lives in perpetual fear of being erased. The body, belief systems, possessions, status, relationships, moods, or attitudes included in the concept of me and my world can change at any time, which brings fear and a tendency to defend the ego at any cost. But trying to keep this constructed personal self together is as hard as holding on to a particular wave on the ever-moving surface of an ocean. Therefore, identifying with the ego is stressful and makes us unwilling to change.

Besides the fear of personal dissolution, the conditioned mind perceives constant limitation, which gives rise to a fear of scarcity. Having no insight into the creativity of Being, it never knows how to fulfill needs, except by moving already manifested resources from one place, time, and ownership to another. Think of how humanity handles poverty, for example. We imagine that the way to end it is to take assets from those who have them and, in one way or another, move them to those who do not. Sometimes, resources are nowhere in sight, and we believe there is nothing else to do but freak out, get angry, or give up. This way of thinking ignores the reality that resources, like everything else, are perceptions and concepts in awareness, and that their manifested presence or absence is a choice