The back of your mind

Last night, I was trying to describe how to access the “psychic” bit of the brain. I’ve always likened it to using the back of my mind. I slide back into the bit of my mind that allows me to access this sort of stuff; as I’ve done it a lot, it usually only takes a second or two and awareness becomes different somehow.

About the best analogy I could come up with was that the active mind containing all the functional and day to day stuff is represented by a vertical column. Tipping this column backwards, to an oblique angle puts one in the right “place” mentally.

I haven’t used this bit of my brain anywhere near enough in the last few months. I’ve been so wrapped up in the every day world, the general dreadfulness of the job and dealing with change that the esoteric bit of me has become almost buried.

Accessing it last night was something of a revelation. It induced a calmness in me that I haven’t felt for weeks, months even. It had the same effect upon you as well; you have a permanently racing mind too, even though it manifests itself in a very different way.

So, I am going to find ways of using it more, even if the most frequent way to join minds with you in a mutual mind-massaging exercise of the type we indulged in last night.

Maybe the answer was in front of me all the time – or was it behind me? Instead of fretting, trying to push bits of my mind into impossible shapes, reaching forward constantly, maybe what I need to do was take a step back. Literally.