Our 3 Minds Have a lot of Information for Us

After this past spring's Revitalizing Workshop weekend, where I taught about the three Hun, our three observing minds, I bumped into a previous student who had taken the 300-hour teacher training a few years back. She shared with me that her world was in flux, and she felt nervous but excited.

She had recently received a promotion, a raise, and more prestige and responsibility in her job. Initially, she was happy, but deep down, she felt out of alignment with her true purpose.

She shared that she feels a deep calling to be a healer. This idea had come up for her during the teacher training, but she didn't know how to pursue it.

After the training, she told me that she has maintained a meditation practice and listened to her 3 Hun, the three observing minds: our gut brain known as our Hidden Essence, the heart mind, known as Peaceful Soul and our third eye, known as Imminent Light, that have a significant amount of information for us to pay attention to.

She understood that the soul speaks through vision, emotion, and intuition, and realized she was living someone else's dream. She shared, "My brain and family said, 'This is success,' but my heart felt tired, and my gut clenched every morning on the way to work."

She said she knew she was in the mud, waiting for a lotus to appear, and these troubling sensations motivated her to explore her feelings more consciously, especially during the spring season of the Wood element —a time to plant new seeds and align with one's soul’s path.

Over the following weeks, she deepened her practice. She journaled every morning before work, focusing on her dreams and the images that arose in meditation.

She practiced liver-opening postures like twists and heart openers and noticed the images she’d pushed away started to surface again: a memory of wanting to work with healing, not finance, a desire to move to the coast, a whisper that said, “Trust the direction you feel drawn toward—not the one you think you should go.”

One day after her yoga practice, she placed a hand on her gut and felt a quiet calm. It was a different voice—not loud, but clear. Her Lower Hun—her gut brain—was no longer bracing, but guiding. The anxiety she'd carried wasn't fear of failure—it was her body's resistance to misalignment.

She began talking to people in the wellness world and volunteering part-time. Eventually, she stepped down from her position and enrolled in a somatic therapy training. She didn’t have the whole map yet, but her gut, heart, and mind were aligned for the first time,

She said it felt like her spirit had returned to her body.

She had trusted her instinct (Lower Hun; Hidden Essence), followed the truth in her heart (Middle Hun; Pleasant Soul), and was beginning to envision her future with clarity through her mind’s eye (Upper Hun; Imminent Light).

And just like the Wood season, she was no longer bracing—she was growing.

Happy Spring growth, in whatever new direction it may be taking you!

From my heart to yours~

Namaste,

Maggie