Imagine, for a moment, that your mind is made up of three animals, an inner monkey, lion and dog:

• The monkey is your instinctive and imaginative mind. It's your mental imagery.
• The lion is your rational mind. It's the inner voice that thinks in words and numbers.
• The dog is your embodied, emotional mind. It feels feelings

All three have differing desires, priorities and opinions. When all three animals work together, you achieve clear-headed flow states. When they contradict each other, you experience dilemma, confusion or indecision.

Because of the conditioning of our society, we use our minds unnaturally:

• We overvalue our rational minds, leading to stress and overthinking.
• We ignore our emotional minds until our emotions bubble up and take over.
• We use our imaginative minds by accident, leaping between past, present and future and becoming irrationally anxious.

Through a range of practical exercises, you will learn to distinguish between different aspects of your mind and employ all of them.

When you do, a whole range of intelligence becomes available, and you become more awake, aware and alive.