Beyond the Mind: Learning to Ask From Your Depths
Nov 28, 2025
Your mind will keep you safe. Your soul will set you free. But between them lies a landscape most people never learn to navigate.
Close your eyes for a moment.
Ask yourself a question. Any question about your life right now.
Now feel—actually feel, don't think about feeling—where that question landed in your body.
Did it bounce around in your skull like a pinball, ricocheting between thoughts? Did it drop into your chest and settle there, heavy with longing? Did it sink into your belly and create a visceral response? Or did it dissolve into your bones, your blood, the spaces between your cells, until you couldn't tell where the question ended and you began?
Most people have never asked a question from anywhere but their mind. They think asking is thinking. They believe inquiry happens in the realm of language and logic.
But the mind is just the surface. And surface-level asking gets you surface-level living.
There are depths within you that most people don't even know exist. Places where questions transform into revelation. Where inquiry becomes alchemy. Where asking itself is the answer.
I'm not here to tell you about these depths. I'm here to guide you into them.
The Architecture of Depth
Your body isn't just a meat vehicle carrying around your brain. It's a vertical landscape of consciousness, and each layer speaks a completely different language.
Think of it like the ocean. At the surface, there are waves—visible, reactive, responding to every passing wind. That's your mind. Constant motion. Noise. Endless chatter about what might happen, what did happen, what should happen.
Drop below the surface and you enter different waters. Calmer. Deeper. Where different creatures live, where different truths exist, where the rules change completely.
Your mind is the surface chop. But you have abyssal depths, and most people never learn to dive.
Here's what nobody tells you: each depth has its own intelligence. Its own way of knowing. Its own access to truth.
And the deeper you can drop a question, the more likely you are to receive an answer that actually changes something. Because surface questions protect the status quo. Deep questions shatter it.
Where Most People Get Stuck
Let me show you exactly what happens when you ask from your mind alone.
Right now, think about a problem in your life. Something you've been trying to figure out. A relationship that's not working. A career that feels wrong. A pattern you can't break.
Ask yourself: "What should I do about this?"
Notice what happens next.
Your mind immediately starts churning. It references past experiences. "Well, last time I tried X, Y happened, so maybe I should..." It calculates risks. "If I do A, then B might occur, but that could lead to C, and I don't know if I can handle C."
It compares options. Weighs pros and cons. Tries to predict outcomes based on limited data. Goes in circles. Gets more confused the more it thinks.
This is what passes for inquiry for most people. Thinking harder. Analyzing more. Trying to mentally calculate their way to certainty.
But here's what your mind will never tell you: it cannot give you answers it doesn't already have access to.
Your mind is a filing cabinet. It can only pull out files it's already stored. It cannot create genuinely new information. It cannot access wisdom beyond its programming. It cannot show you possibilities outside the box it's living in because from inside the box, there is no outside.
So you stay stuck. Not because you're not smart enough, but because you're asking from a depth that can only generate variations on what you already know.
The First Drop: Into the Heart Cave
Now do something different.
Place both hands on your chest. Actually do it. Feel the warmth of your palms against your body. Feel your heartbeat if you can.
This is not a metaphor. This is a literal instruction. Your heart is not just a pump. It's a receptor. A sensing organ. A place where a completely different kind of intelligence lives.
Ask the same question, but this time, feel it drop from your head into your chest. Imagine it sinking like a stone into water. Watch it descend from the noise of thought into the chamber of your heart.
"What should I do about this?"
But now you're asking from a different place. And the quality of what you receive will be completely different.
Your mind was asking, "What should I do?" from a place of strategy and protection.
Your heart asks the same question from a place of longing and truth.
Notice what happens when the question lands here. You might feel a tightness. An opening. A wave of emotion. A sudden knowing that has nothing to do with logic.
Your heart doesn't give you a strategic plan. Your heart tells you what you actually want underneath all the reasons you think you can't have it.
"I don't want to fix this relationship. I want to be loved without having to constantly explain myself."
"I don't want a better version of this career. I want to do something that feels like it matters."
"I don't want to manage this pattern. I want to understand why I keep choosing it."
These answers are truer. But they're also more dangerous. Because now you're facing desires your mind has been working very hard to keep you from acknowledging.
Your mind immediately tries to rush back in. "That's not realistic. You can't just want things. Be reasonable. Think about the consequences."
This is why most people bounce back to their heads within seconds of touching their hearts. The truth that lives there is too threatening to the structures they've built.
But if you can stay here, if you can breathe into the discomfort of what your heart is showing you, you've taken the first real step into depth.
You've discovered that there are at least two of you. The thinker and the feeler. And they have different agendas.
The Second Drop: Into the Gut Knowing
But we're not done descending.
Take your hands and move them to your belly. Not your stomach—lower. Your actual gut. The space a few inches below your navel.
This is your power center. Your seat of instinct. The place where your body stores ancient knowing that predates language.
Now drop the question even further. From your heart down into your belly. Feel it sink through your solar plexus, through your digestive organs, into the deep cavern of your lower abdomen.
"What should I do about this?"
But now you're asking from the place that knows things before you think them.
This is going to feel completely different than mind or heart. Your gut doesn't speak in words or even feelings. Your gut speaks in sensations. In yes and no signals. In expansion and contraction.
When something is aligned for you, you'll feel a subtle opening. A sense of forward movement. An expansion in your belly, like you just took a full breath.
When something is not aligned, you'll feel a contraction. A tightening. A pulling back. A sense of "no" that has nothing to do with fear and everything to do with wrongness.
Your gut is reading frequencies your conscious mind cannot perceive.
It knows who is safe before they show you who they are. It knows which opportunities are yours before the logic makes sense. It knows what you need before you consciously realize you need it.
Ask the question from here and you might get:
Not words. Not feelings. Just clear, undeniable knowing.
"This relationship is over. I don't need more evidence or more time. My body knows."
"I'm supposed to take that opportunity even though it looks impossible. My gut is saying yes louder than my mind is saying no."
"I need to leave this situation now. Not in six months when it makes sense. Now."
This is the wisdom that lives beneath thought and feeling. Pure instinct. Body intelligence. The knowing that kept your ancestors alive.
And most people override it constantly. Because it doesn't come with explanations. It doesn't provide justification. It just knows, and in a world that values logical proof above everything, that's not enough.
But your gut is almost never wrong. Your mind is wrong constantly. Your heart can be clouded by old wounds. Your gut is reading present reality in real time.
The Third Drop: Into the Cellular Field
Now we're going deeper than most people ever access consciously.
Remove your hands from your body. Sit or stand very still.
Imagine that the question you're asking is no longer localized anywhere. It's not in your head or your heart or your gut. It's diffused through your entire body like dye dropped into water.
Every cell is asking. Every bone. Every drop of blood. Every firing synapse. Every mitochondria. Every quantum space between the particles that make up your physical form.
You're not asking the question anymore. You've become the question.
This is what I mean by depth that most people don't understand yet. When inquiry moves beyond location, beyond specific centers, and becomes a whole-system phenomenon.
Stay here. In this diffused state. Where you can't separate the asker from the asking from the space in which asking occurs.
This is where the truly revolutionary answers live. Because at this depth, your protective structures can't filter what comes through.
Your mind can't intervene because you're not in your mind. Your heart can't color it with longing because you're not isolated in your heart. Your gut can't give you just a yes or no because you're beyond even that level of specificity.
You're asking from the field of your being. And the field answers in frequencies, not words.
What comes at this depth might be:
A sudden shift in your entire energy. Like you just stepped into a different room and everything feels different.
A knowing so complete it doesn't need to become language. You just... understand. From every level simultaneously.
A spontaneous movement in your body. Your hand reaches for something. Your feet start walking. You take action before you consciously decide to because the decision is coming from a place beyond decision.
A vision or image that contains more information than could be explained in words. You see yourself five years from now and you know with absolute certainty what path leads there.
A complete reorganization of your reality that happens so fast your mind doesn't have time to argue with it.
This is the depth where miracles happen. Where chronic issues resolve spontaneously. Where you stop asking how to fix your life and your life simply... shifts. Where you become the answer you were looking for.
But you cannot think your way here. You cannot feel your way here. You cannot even intuit your way here.
You have to dissolve into here.
The Fourth Drop: Into the Nameless
There's one more level. And I'm going to be honest—most people never touch this even once in their entire lives.
Some call it soul. Some call it essence. Some call it the witness. Some have no name for it because names don't apply here.
This is the space beyond your body. Beyond your identity. Beyond even consciousness as you normally experience it.
This is where you realize that the one asking the question and the one answering the question were never actually separate.
To access this level, you have to be willing to let everything you think you are dissolve. Your story. Your wounds. Your achievements. Your personality. Your beliefs about who you are and what you're capable of.
You have to ask the question from the space that existed before you were born and will exist after you die.
I can't give you steps to get here because steps imply a you that's moving through space. At this depth, there is no you in the way you normally understand yourself.
But I can tell you what it's like when a question reaches this place:
The answer doesn't come. The answer reveals that it was always there. The question dissolves because at this level of depth, questions and answers are the same thing.
You don't get information. You become knowing itself.
You don't receive guidance. You recognize that you are the guidance you were seeking.
You don't solve the problem. You realize from this vantage point, there never was a problem. Just a perspective that created the appearance of one.
This is the realm of the mystics. The artists. The visionaries. The people who seem to access something the rest of us can't quite reach.
They're not special. They've just learned to ask from depths most people don't know exist.
Why This Matters More Than Anything Else You'll Learn
Here's why I'm taking you this deep instead of giving you surface-level advice:
Every single pattern you can't break, every relationship that keeps repeating, every problem that won't resolve, every dream that won't manifest—it's all because you're asking about it from too shallow a place.
You're asking your mind to solve problems your mind created. You're asking your conscious awareness to see things your conscious awareness is designed to filter out. You're trying to think your way out of situations that can only be transformed through depth.
The answers you're seeking aren't hiding. They're waiting in places you haven't learned to access.
Your mind will tell you that you need more information, more strategies, more knowledge. But what you actually need is more depth.
Your heart will tell you what you want. Your gut will tell you what's true. Your cells will tell you what's possible. And that unnamed space beyond all of it will show you that you were asking the wrong questions entirely.
The Practice: Learning to Dive
So how do you develop this capacity? How do you learn to ask from depths you've never accessed before?
First, you have to accept that this is a skill, not a concept. You cannot understand your way into depth. You have to practice your way there.
Start simple. Pick one question. Something real in your life right now.
Ask it from your mind. Notice what comes. The strategies, the analysis, the mental loops. Just notice. Don't judge. Just see that this is the quality of answer you get from this depth.
Then place your hand on your heart. Actually do it—this is physical, not metaphorical. Drop the question into your chest. Breathe it into your heart space. Wait. Notice what shifts. What emotion arises? What desire surfaces? What truth emerges that your mind was protecting you from?
Stay with it even when your mind tries to pull you back. Even when the truth your heart shows you feels too vulnerable, too much, too risky. This is you building capacity to hold what your heart knows.
Then move your hand to your belly. Drop the question deeper. Into your gut. Into your instinct. Into that ancient knowing. Don't try to interpret the signal with your mind. Just feel: expansion or contraction? Yes or no? This or that? Your gut will tell you, but not in words.
Then remove your hand. Let the question diffuse through your entire body. Every cell asking. Every space holding the inquiry. You're not trying to figure anything out anymore. You're becoming resonant with the answer, wherever it exists in the field of your being.
And if you can, if you've practiced enough, let even that dissolve. Ask from the place that has no location. The space that is somehow both you and infinitely larger than you. The nameless depth where questions transform into pure knowing.
Do this once and you'll get a glimpse. Do this daily for a month and your entire relationship with inquiry will transform. Do this for a year and you'll become someone who can access wisdom most people think is reserved for shamans and sages.
But it's not reserved. It's just deep. And most people never learn to dive.
What Becomes Possible
When you develop the capacity to ask from depth, everything changes.
Problems that seemed impossible suddenly have obvious solutions—not because you got smarter, but because you asked from a place that could see what your mind was blocking.
Decisions that paralyzed you for months become clear in an instant—not because the circumstances changed, but because you dropped the question into your gut and your body told you exactly what it needed.
Patterns that have run your entire life spontaneously dissolve—not because you finally understood them, but because you asked from a cellular depth where the pattern couldn't maintain itself anymore.
Dreams that seemed impossible start manifesting—not because you figured out the how, but because you asked from your soul and remembered that you came here to do this specific thing.
Relationships transform. Work becomes meaningful. Your body starts healing things medicine couldn't touch. Not through force. Not through trying harder. Through depth.
Through learning to ask from places where truth lives untranslated by protective mechanisms, unfiltered by limiting beliefs, unconstrained by what you think is possible.
An Invitation to Descend
If you're ready to stop asking the same questions from the same shallow place and getting the same limited answers, if you're ready to learn how to access the depths within yourself that most people never even know exist, if you're ready to discover what's revealed when inquiry becomes a full-body, full-being practice, I can guide you there.
A Reiki session is one of the most direct ways to experientially understand these depths. Not through talking about them, but through creating the energetic conditions where you can actually drop into them.
We work with your energy field to clear the blocks that keep questions trapped in your mind. To open the pathways between all your centers of intelligence—head, heart, gut, and beyond. To help you experience what it feels like when a question lands at depths you've never consciously accessed.
You'll leave not just with answers, but with the lived experience of where answers actually come from. With muscle memory for how to drop beneath thought. With the beginning of a capacity most people never develop.
Because the transformation you're seeking isn't going to come from getting better at thinking. It's going to come from learning to ask from places beyond thought.
Your mind will keep you safe and small. Your heart will show you what's true. Your gut will guide you toward what's right. Your cells will reveal what's possible. And that nameless depth will remind you that you are so much more than you've been taught to believe.
But only if you're willing to descend.
Only if you're brave enough to discover that the deepest answers don't come from asking better questions—they come from becoming the question itself.
The depth at which you ask determines everything you receive.
So where are you willing to go? And what becomes possible when you finally learn to dive?