Ray Dalio

And so in the simplest sense, there is the logical part of the brain that you're conscious of, it's called the conscious, and you think you're being logical and you want to make those decisions.

And then there's the subliminal, below the limbic system, part of the brain, which is the emotional.

And it's not as conscious to you, but it has more of an influence on you than really the logical one.

And so they're not aligned.

And so when you're experiencing that pain or let's say the ego, right, there were two main things.

You got an ego barrier and a blind spot barrier.

If you can get past your ego barrier and you get past your blind spot barrier, you can accomplish anything because you also know that you don't have to do everything, you don't have to figure it out yourself.

You can take in from other people

the different ways to approach things in the best possible way.

And so the realization that we all are really struggling with ourselves and to think which is in control.

Meditation helps to deal with the alignment of those two things because both are valuable.

In other words, intuition, imagination,

The things we really love come from our subliminal us's, right?

Our needs, whatever they may be.

They come from here, that subliminal.

They may be valuable.

They may be damaging.

You don't know the difference.

And so when they come up and you're looking at those with your logical mind and you can align those things, you're probably in good shape.

If you can do that, that alignment between the subliminal and the logical,