"Yes" can change your life. "Yes" changes the quality of your life. Because to say yes to life, to all that life brings to you, is to flow with life. To say "no" to life is to want to change the reality as it is, that is to struggle, to struggle, that is to live in hell. So simple and yet so true. This is too easy for the mind. The mind says, "All my problems are too complicated. There are no simple solutions." Yet this book is not for the mind. Ok, in many cases the mind is limited to the process of trying to explain things clearly, but the purpose of this book is not, per se, to add "knowledge" to your mind. This book is for your existence itself, to touch another part of you that knows there must be more to your life than the mind can comprehend. This book is about encouraging you to experience, to venture out of your comfort zone, to experience what your heart has always suspected -- that you are far beyond your head. This book will help you connect and experience other dimensions of your life -- dimensions beyond your mind. We live in our heads most of the time. The mind is the storehouse of what we have learned. We need this part in order to analyze, calculate, compare, and be logical, rational, efficient, and intelligent.

This is where thoughts are located in the brain, both conscious and unconscious. Brains are of course very important. In fact, it has become so important that all education is focused on developing the mind. It has taken over us to the extent that we believe we are our own thoughts, don't we? The mind also contains all the information we unconsciously pick up from others, the sense of right and wrong that has been accumulated since childhood: the standards of how we should and shouldn't be. These are unconscious thoughts, beliefs, values and biases that we pick up from other people, not from personal experience. In this book it is called "conditioning". This restriction is undoubtedly controlled by the mind and affects every aspect of our lives without our awareness. It affects our attitude toward life -- the way we see and interpret things, how we feel, and how we react to people and situations. Scientific studies show that 90 percent of our actions are unconsciously controlled. We often don't pay much attention -- we allow our minds to work on their own, assuming that every robotic judgment, reaction and emotion we exude is us, our thoughts and experiences. We rarely stop to question, is this really our own experience, our own truth? The mind is also the home of the "ego," which is the collective idea of who we think we are -- who we are, how we want others to see us, the face we present to the world. Because we identify with the mind so much that it's already running our lives. So it would be helpful to understand how the mind works. The mind is such a remarkable tool. It is good at breaking information into pieces for analysis, and comparing and contrasting the pieces. Good and bad, high and low, light and dark, day and night... This is the gift of the mind, its ability to analyze and compare. Its specialty is dealing with the physical world. Yet the quality of so many subjective experiences in life, such as listening to music, spending quality time with friends, having sex, being in nature, enjoying a good meal, is based on the "whole". In order to fully appreciate the beauty and wonder of these moments, we need to open up to the overall experience through all our senses. If experienced through a mental mechanism, it breaks everything into pieces and we miss out on the whole sensory beauty. For example, how would you enjoy a meal if you counted the calories of the food in front of you, analyzed the balance of protein and carbohydrates, and even compared it to the previous meal? Although you eat the food, there is no presence in your tongue and nose, you are in your thoughts, which is a completely different experience. Experiencing a gourmet feast through your mind is like listening to music with a spectrograph. The mind always interferes with our sensory experience. Maybe you're walking down a country road with a friend, talking about other places, other situations, other people... You look at nature, but not in your eyes, ears and nose. You're thinking and talking, so you miss out on the nature that you're in, the sensory experience. Missing a magical moment for the mind. Even when we are alone, we are thinking, trapped in a conversation with ourselves. We are rarely completely present in the moment, present in the sensory experience, and once experienced, you know the difference. In fact, the mind does not have the capacity to relax in the joy of the moment. It cannot be quiet, and its words pull you away from the present experience. Even when we comment on good things, we compare them to past experiences. Therefore, even though the mind has value for objective things, it is not the best tool for subjective experience. So in order to live a "complete" life, the mind is not enough at all.