The Art of Untangling the Mind: An Opening for Possibilities to Arise

By Dr. Paulyn Low

Do you feel stuck or stressed, tangled in the web of your own mind? It’s time to expand your awareness and perception of your current reality in order to create space for new possibilities to arise.
The brain is an anatomical feature, but the mind is shapeless and formless. If it is shapeless and formless, you can make it whatever you want, in a way that serves your best interests. Whatever you have got going on internally pours over into the external world and your experience of it. We can cultivate inner resiliency through expanded mental awareness and steadiness, riding the wave of life and not being beaten down by it.
The way we experience life has to do with the lenses through which we see the world. The more you are aware of your own lenses, the more opportunities you have to uncover your blind spots. When you uncover your blind spots, you increase your awareness. Increased awareness yields increased possibilities. Therefore, instead of perfection, the goal here is to achieve as much congruency as you can in any area of your life. Take stock, reflect, recalibrate, take action, and up the game.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Mar 24, 2022
• ISBN: 9781982279783

Dr. Paulyn Low

Dr. Paulyn Low is a certified professional life coach, a personal development trainer, an author, and a Doctor of Acupuncture based in New Jersey. To her, the mind, body, and spirit are all part of the whole. Working with any one of these aspects can affect the other two. It is her intention and belief that everyone is capable of returning to wholeness within themselves. She strives to be a facilitator and cheerleader along the way.

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ISBN: 978-1-9822-7977-6 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-9822-7979-0 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-9822-7978-3 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2022902733

Balboa Press rev. date: 02/28/2022

CONTENTS

Preface: An Overview of What This Book Is About

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Brain versus Mind

2 Life Is Not a Straight Line

Acceptance

The 80:20 or 20:80 Ratio—Struggle vs. Effort; Stagnation vs. Traction

Congruency

3 Energy

Belief—Thought—Feeling—Action—Outcome/Results

Energy Leadership

Gas Tank versus Fruit Bank

4 Power of Discernment

Claiming Your Own Authority

Life’s Guiding Principles

|Life|—Absolute/Literal versus Plus/Minus Give or Take

Focal Point versus Blind Spot

Subject versus Object

Static/Fixed versus Dynamic

Knowing versus Being

5 You Are Not Required to Be Perfect for Everybody

6 True versus False

True Intuition versus False Intuition

True Doubt versus False Doubt

7 Not Everything Needs to Be Fixed

8 Mental Impasse

9 Compromise

10 Four Ingredients for Superpower

Clarity of the Mind

Conviction of the Heart

Intuition of the Body

Knowledge and Wisdom of the Soul

11 Personal Training of the Mind

12 Questions for You

To my family and all who have graced

my path and made an impact in my soul

journey, with gratitude and with love

PREFACE

An Overview of What This Book Is About

Oftentimes, we get drowned out by the chaos and demands of the world in which we feel stuck or lost.

• Are you happy with where you are in your life right now?

• Did you hit a plateau in your life and feel stuck? Stressed?

• Do you feel trapped in life?

• Do you feel like you are running on the same hamster wheel, over and over again, no matter how many times you changed jobs, relationships, etc.?

• Do you feel like life is either going 100 miles an hour or 0 miles an hour?

• Not quite sure what you want in life? Are you on autopilot? Lost your compass?

These are often symptoms of some disconnection within the self. When you lose that connection, you may feel less grounded or more off-center. In a way, you lose access to your inner core or your power center, where your personal power and inner compass lie. Losing that connection or having less access to it may impede your ability to create the destiny that you truly desire in your heart and soul.

Everyone has some form of compass, in one way or another, conscious or unconscious. You either follow your soul’s inner compass, or you subscribe to the default programming of your environment. Maybe you are half and half, in limbo and in conflict with yourself. The degree to which you are aware of and connected to your power center, including your inner compass, depends on your level of self-awareness and how in tune you are with your self. The connection to this power center directly correlates to your quality of life.

Are you actively engaging and optimizing your power center, or are you living life by default, according to the autopilot programming of your environment? In truth, we are never disconnected from ourselves. We just haven’t fully realized and embodied it yet. The journey of coming