Thinking is a tool for objectivity. Something precious that man is given: Thinking can lead to realizations, create new things, ask questions and find answers to questions.

Associative thinking is not objective. It is interspersed with emotions, is reactive, refers to the past, does not respond to the present.

It has been proven that 80% of the impulses go from the abdominal brain to the head brain and only 20% from the head to the abdomen. The abdominal brain „thinks“ only subjectively, ego-related, reactively based on past experiences. „That is how I experienced it – so it is". It is programmed for defence. It blinds us to new things.

Should we separate the head and stomach? This results in icy, lifeless thinking. Logical and even hostile to life.

In Orthodox Christianity, the purification of emotions is a central theme.

What and how should be „cleaned“?

The past „sits in our abdomen as a pattern of remembrance," awaits redemption. A blockage is built not only by negative, painful experiences. „Optimists“ who unconsciously refer to positive experiences are just as far away from reality.

Associative thinking is reactive, fed from this partly digested past. For thinking to be able to give active answers, it must be connected with creative energy beyond the head.

Cleansing emotions: Reflecting on the past „digest it completely“, liberating it until gratitude floods us. Then the quintessence of experiences has become the nourishment of our being. This is a sign, that the octave of experience is completed.

Our incarnation is not about having „more“ experiences, but about transforming the given experiences into food for the becoming of being.

Associative thinking runs with moon energy, as it says on the board of the "Four Elements and their Reflections». That is a low energy level. There we can get nothing pure from the plane of the sun because the energy of one plane can only act down to the second one.

When we are connected to the body and present in it, then we are able to receive from "above», from the plane of the sun».

The "active-receptive state» is the plane of the planets, where the impulses of fire can reach us directly.

Thinking can become active-creative only when the abdominal brain has become pure and the channel to above is free through an active-receptive state. Then thinking can give answers instead of embedding us in reactive patterns. Then thinking can fulfil its role as a connection between above and below. Thus man is able to fulfil his cosmic mission.