The 4-Doorways to the Mind
Our personality is self-created based on many inputs: genes, history, social experiences, etc. Our ideas on who we are, who we should be, how others should be, and our moral convictions make up our style of living. Our lifestyle is how we move through life. We are both shaped by our minds, and we shape our minds through the stories we make up about sensations, thoughts, emotions, and the world around us. The mind is a vast landscape that has been studied by science, religion, and philosophy for centuries.
Open Floor defines an Embodied Mind as “open to the vast landscape of knowledge, intuition and imagination, while remaining connected to body and heart.” Open Floor teaches 4 Doorways to Embodied Mind to support us in making sense of the different aspects of mind:
1. Thinking Mind: includes cognition, logic, and reason, it’s function is to make sense of the world.
2. Psycho-Emotional Mind: includes how we process and digest past, present, and future emotional material, its purpose is to create stability.
3. Creative Mind: includes imagination, creativity, and intuition, its where new possibilities exist.
4. Big Mind: includes being orientated to transcendent and spiritual parts beyond self, to know oneself as divine, its meant to connect us beyond what’s here, to liberate us.
Come explore your Embodied Mind, join Open Floor Teacher-in-Training, Cori Hildebrandt, MA, LPC WI, LPCC MN at an Open Floor workshop or class! Registration now open!
*OFI Teacher Training Curriculum V3, July 2021
