How can we practically make the intelligence the counsellor of the mind?

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thank you very much how can we practically make the intelligence the counsellor of the mind so just like a counsellor may sit in here and give advice to a counsellor how can we do that with respect to our intelligence and mind generally it requires a significant level of sattva guna, mode of goodness and when we are in the mode of passion and running around it is very difficult so if we have to do something which is some major decision I have to take should I do this or should I do that then various pros and cons are going on in our conscious if I do this, this will happen if I do that, that will happen and at that time when the thoughts keep going on in our head they just cause two things they cause congestion and exhaustion they just congest our mind should I take this job, should I take that job should I marry this person, should I marry that person should I take any decision from this guru should I take any decision from that guru should I join this ashram should I join that ashram the thoughts when we have to make major decisions, the thoughts just keep going on and on and on and when the thoughts are going on they just congest, we can’t really do anything effectively because whatever we are trying to do, the thought keeps going on and sometimes when the thoughts just keep going on, they cause so much exhaustion sometimes we wake up wake up in the morning and then maybe for a couple of hours we work and we feel exhausted we have not done much physical activity but the mind is running, running, running and that causes exhaustion so when this is happening and we have to take some important decision the first step in separating the mind and the intelligence is to get the thoughts out of the head if it’s a major decision just write things down everything that is ok this is the pros of this this is the cons of this just write everything down get it out and at that time we don’t have to evaluate anything whatever is my concern whatever is my fear, whatever is my desire whatever is my hope just uncritically just write it down so that is when we are giving our mind, let the mind have its say just speak it out write it down and then just by that our inner pressure will go down because you see the thoughts I have expressed them some amount of calmness comes up with that and then maybe after 24 hours when the surge of expression has gone down we become little calm then we evaluate this is what I wrote down that is the time when our intelligence comes into play no, I feel like doing this this reason it’s a valid reason no this I need to get more information I am just presuming it’s like this but it may not be like this this, ok it may be true but here I might be just too sweeping over here let me qualify this there may be some nuances over here so basically whatever we have expressed we go through that and evaluate that this is the time when we let the mind have its say and we are evaluating the products of the mind with our intelligence and based on that we may categorize this is a valid point this is where I get more information and this is where I will have to deliberate more so we get our thoughts in some organized framework this need not be final sometimes if a major decision has to be made the counsellor may not just in one session be able to come to a decision the counsellor they meet, they discuss the counsellor says I will also think about this and then they meet again sometimes multiple sessions are required so like that if it’s a major decision we may have to decide that ok I have next 6 months to take this decision then I will revisit this issue regularly so basically now when we expressed ourselves and then we evaluated that expression by this we have got a snapshot of our mind in our dial we have got not snapshot of our mind snapshot of our inner world both the mind and the intelligence written it down and then we may decide every week may be on a weekend or something I will spend half an hour or one hour revisiting this and analyzing this further because as we go through life we get certain experiences, we get certain thoughts certain ideas, some parameters we may not have thought of and in the course of the week if any thought comes up should I do this, should I not do this I will not I will not dwell on it if some new thought has come up new consideration has come up I will just note it down because generally speaking anything that requires deep deliberation needs to be done in the mode of goodness and if we try to do it when we are in the mode of passion or in the mode of ignorance in the mode of ignorance if we try to do it, we just feel overwhelmed life is so complicated or in the mode of passion I have been thinking so long I have to do something now just take a snap decision and sometimes it may be a knee jerk reaction which may not be good so basically in the course of the week some thought comes, just note it if it is a new thought, just note it down and then in the framework we are prepared this is a pro, these are the cons this I do not know, is it a pro or a con I have to evaluate this further so just put it in the framework and say if we do this regularly for say 3 months, 6 months, whatever time we have then we get a more refined understanding of ourselves and then after 6 months I feel this is what I was thinking of 6 months ago, this is what I am thinking about now if my overall thought is the same then that means this is not just some impulsive feeling that I have this is some deep rooted inclination this is something deep within me and then I will do this over 6 months sometimes it may just change completely I was thinking like this but now I am thinking like this but whatever decision we may take through this process it is not necessary that it be the right decision even when we take the best counseling and the counselor is not God so the counselor may also not be able to always give us the best decision, it is possible sometimes but life never comes with a guarantee of good decisions but what we can bring into life is good deliberation about our decisions so if I have done good deliberation if in future some other factor comes up by which I didn’t know this earlier and this one factor is such that now I have to change my decision but then because we have a framework it is not just because this happened I changed because this happened all my considerations were this new information is so important that I need to change it so basically whatever we are going to do we have a reason framework for doing it and then in the mind I don’t feel like doing it we will have the conviction to push on this is important, this is the reason why I am doing this and if some major alteration happens then we will also be able to do some course correction and that will also be done with new thought not just again as a knee jerk reaction say if we are going to travel somewhere we put in the destination and google map gives us a path this is the path but then say there is a crash that has happened on the road then we can this is a delay over here take this road now, do this so there is a structured program, there is systematic planning, then that recalibration can also be done so similarly for us there is no guarantee that through deliberation we will always come to the right decision but through deliberation we will be able to choose the best course of action in the situation that we are in with the information that we have and if the information changes, we have to change the decision also, we will be able to change it and if the mind’s emotions change, we won’t just get carried away because we have reason then I don’t feel like doing it but still I will pursue it because this is important and these are the reasons why I am going to do this so in that way we can make the best choices in our situation by separating the mind’s expression and the intelligence’s evaluation the problem happens when we try to do both at the same time as soon as the thought comes in, we start evaluating it then it becomes what sometimes our computer gets overloaded, too many programs are going on then everything slows down nothing seems to be happening so like that, if expression and evaluation both are done simultaneously then there is cognitive overload we just can’t move forward so one way to introduce the counselor of the mind is if both the counselor and we are speaking at the same time then nothing will happen so let the counselor speak then let the counselor speak so like that, let the mind speak first in a safe zone in our own private journal and then let the intelligence speak so by separating the two in a structured way and then bringing the two in a dialogue, we can actually make the intelligence the counselor of the mind