Yogi Bhajan Lecture: Enrich Your Mind

Excerpts from a lecture by Yogi Bhajan in The Mind:

It's Projections and Multiple Facets
You have fashions and faculties in your mind. Your fashion is how you decide to look, act,
and be; how you want to project yourself into the world. You can be a person of spirit, a
person of great mental intellect, a person of brute force, a healer, or a leader. Your faculties
are the functions, aspects, and projections that give you abilities. To excel and enjoy life
you need to enrich your mind. You must blend and use different combinations of your
mental facets to support you and your intentions. When your faculties support your mental
fashion and your fashion supports you, you become effective and share a legacy that
inspires others.
We have discussed three major faculties of your mind: Negative, Positive, and Neutral.
Each has its own function and nature. They combine in different ways to support or to
block various mental projections. The Negative Mind is your first and fastest. It
interacts with your thoughts first. It is a protector developed to preserve your life. It
can give you a powerful self-understanding and detailed critiques of your actions. It
can tell you what is wrong, what might be harmful, and it can locate problems to be
solved.
The Positive Mind seeks out what is useful and what can be of benefit. It is results
oriented and proposes many solutions and possible avenues of action.

Then you have the Neutral Mind. It is a subtle mind that looks at all positive and
negative Facets, assesses, and finds the depths and implications.
Three minds are very essential for excellence in your life: the Applied Mind, Creative
Mind, and Executive Mind. Each is unique in its particular combination of faculties and
facets. The Applied Mind seeks out the Positive Minds solutions, but limits them to
what is directly applicable to your goal. In this way it is strong, extremely simple, and
achieves results quickly. A refined Applied Mind is a great asset to accomplish much in
your life.
Besides the Applied Mind you have a subtle and very powerful mindthe Creative Mind.
It is a sweet little thing. Its source is so potent it gives you a direct intuition. It is
original and unique.
With all these minds you have anotherthe Executive Mind. It is a Projective Mind. It
moves actions and resources. A lot of people fail because they cant or wont decide
things. They hesitate and lose the timing or become doubtful and lose the leadership. They
will discuss things, shuffle papers, and plan. The Executive Mind decides in seconds. When
you have difficult decisions, like a surgeon dealing with life and death, this mind is
essential.
Your mind is designed as a preparatory system to guide and aid your life. It is a power to
gather your resources and shape your behavior. You can refine the mind, its facets, and all
its combinations. Then you can act effectively in your Executive Mind, Creative Mind,
Applied Mind, and hundreds of others. But you must train and refine the mind to give
you those Functional Minds that serve you and your soul.
The greatest thing you can do is rise in the early morning and do a sadhanaa
practice to energize the body and refine your mind. Most of us rebel and go crazy rather
than get up early. There are two special time zones, when you have to enrich your
mind: one in the morning, from 4 a.m. to 8 a.m., and one in the evening, from 4 p.m.
to 8 p.m. These are natural moments that have a tide of energy within you and without. The
sun and Earth have a special relationship and angle at those times that affect your mind and
your energy.
Have you seen all these people who drink, who search for a partner, and who look for
drugs? They start the search in earnest, or have the urge to do it, after 4 p.m. Why do they
need drink? Why do people feel they need to take drugs? Do they drink to relax? No. So
why do they drink? They do all that out of an instinct to seek stimulation. At those times
their biorhythm has gone down, and they feel irritated. They cannot exist like that and have
to have a change. Eating a lot of meat just adds to the bodys uric acid that acts as a very
powerful stimulant, though it is a harmful force. And adding liquor damages the liver, but it
still feels like a stimulant. Without stimulation at that time, people are angry. They act
lousy, lazy, and leery. Why? What is behind this phenomenon? The root cause is that your
basic biorhythm of energy, your mental projection and strategy are not reflected in a
unisonness of character. Those zones are natural times that shift your energy level, your

mental projection, and your performance. That is the time you must direct the mind,
refine it, and create a consolidated unisonness of character and projection.
Just open your eyes, train your mind, and do your actions. Your actions will tell you how
near or far you are from God. Be direct and face up to your own Infinite vastness. Have
vastness as an attitude. Dont sneak, hide, and avoid the crown of soul and body God
gave you. Anyone who has no sense or attitude of vastness, no mental refinement to see
the vastness, will at any moment, for no reason, prostitute his own grace, and lose life,
leadership, and legacy.
When you acknowledge your vastness, you have manners. Your mind supports your
projection. If you have not established some vastness in your attitude, then your habits and
facets, your fears and pettiness will betray you.
What is the cure? The protection? This is the secret of the mind enriched by vastness and
the secret power of the devotee who trained the mind. The mental world within you has to
be one world in unison. All 81 facets of the mind must reach to the bestnot good, not
betterto the best. Then the three MindsNegative, Positive, and Neutralact on that to
serve you to be the best. And over all those minds there is your awareness that controls and
supervises the mind. It assesses if it happens to be the best, real, and whole. Finally, you
can surrender your mind to your spirit. When you will surrender your mind to your
soul, then the soul will make God surrender to you. Dont react in doubt, guilt, or
insecurity. This is a truth.
Each thought and act stirs the Universe and many subtleties occur. They seem like
mysteries, but they are masteries. The one power and gift you have from the Almighty
is the mind. When the mind is enriched, when the mind has all the 81 facets together,
that mind which has all the projections together is capable of Infinity. Mind is the only
power you have which is positive, and can be definitely finite or definitely positively
Infinite. It can reach both ends of the pendulum.
When you enrich your mind you can break the slavery of low habits and ego. You can act as
part of the entire cosmos and learn to elevate and to let go.
Act from your grace, manners, and awareness, and trust the hand of God. You cannot
understand and master the mind without this knowledge of yourself, your reality, and your
spirit. That ability to turn negative into positive, to support all your actions with your
facets and manners is the result of meditation. It comes with the refined mind. It is
what develops through sadhana and aradhana. Through japa and discipline.
By the Will of God you are in that image and have earned a life of grace, glory, and
greatness. That is what you are born for. We only forget sometimes to be vast. We become
too near and personal and have contempt for teachings, teacher, and the world. Just forgive,
excel, and lead with grace to leave a legacy of kindness and compassion.
Give this prayer with me: God, give me the vastness, the courage so I can be kind. Give me
the strength so that I can serve. Give me the wisdom so I can be positive. Give me the

nature so that I can be compassionate. I ask Thee in Thy Name to uplift me my soul so I can
serve all in Thy Name.
Sat Naam.