So in general when I'm teaching, the first skill I always teach is the skill of wise mind. And the skill is based on the basic belief that all people have within themselves the ability to be wise. And what you're going to be doing is simply teaching clients how to find their own wisdom. Besides wise mind I have two other kinds of mind. Reasonable mind is when a person is only paying attention to reason itself.
How you feel doesn't matter, what you want doesn't matter, what you're hoping for doesn't matter. None of that matters because what they're looking for is what the facts are. Have you ever noticed that you can say a lot of things that aren't logical that really make a big difference, that are really important? You can say I'm really sad. Do you have to be logical about being sad?
I would say no. But the logical thinker is well, why are you sad? I mean you don't have a good reason for it. If you don't have a good reason for it, it doesn't count. That's logical mind. So what is emotion mind? What I mean by emotion mind is when you overdo emotions. This is when you're being completely controlled by emotions.
It's just like logical mind. You're being completely controlled by logic. Over here you're being completely controlled by your emotions whether they fit the facts or they don't fit the facts. Wise mind includes the synthesis of both of those. Wise mind is the ability to go within and find wisdom and it's based on the idea that everyone has the capacity for wisdom.