MIND: noun (person, place or thing)
1. the element of a person that enables them to be aware of the world and their experiences, to think, and to feel; the faculty of consciousness and thought.
Human Psychology or Psyche is not your mind.
That is a mouthful, breaking it down must be done simply to understand the mind at its basic core.
The mind is considered a thing with a possible place for it located in the brain, somewhere. How the mind experiences the world, well, that is interesting.
The mind experiences the world from a centered position, or the mind is at the center of the experience. Ever hear the term "Self-Centered" or "Centeredness"?
What the mind perceives is termed, one's truth or own reality. The mind is trying to make sense of your position in the scheme of things. Your mind always is calculating and determines itself as a real being or person having a real experience. The Mind is very good at calculating. Ever hear of a person "calculating" your demise or working against you. Well, once you start figuring the Mind and realizing it is looking at a world from a self-centered viewpoint, the Mind will begin to fight you. If you see or point this out in another person, they will begin to fight you.
I had to look at my Mind from a third person perspective so that I just watched the Mind in all its doings. The reason you can look at your Mind from a third person perspective is because the Mind is not you. It is an IT. It works to discover, learn, and find patterns to life. The Mind is made for you to exist here at present and determine that all you see is real and are hard cold facts because they can be felt by touch or emotions.
So, if the Mind can believe what you touch is real, then how does the Mind determine that what you feel is real? Why cannot the Mind discern the difference? The Mind was not made to discern anything other than it exists as a separate thingy from the world and watches the world from its own viewpoint. Many bloggers and podcasters broadcasting in a spare room as disk jockeys never seeing the world but by internet really think they are having a real experience. No, but it sure can feel like it even though the feelings are fake. So, the Mind can be faked out, interesting isn't it.?
What I did is began by faking my Mind out. I did this by watching my Mind and determining from my Heart what my Mind was doing. I began to see my Mind as a separate thingy, like an energy. As I made my Heart based decisions, or letting my Heart speak to me, the Mind was busy going off in a different direction. That direction was linked directly to my Psychology, Ego and Emotions.
My Psychology, Ego and Emotions were linked directly with other things like the Humans around, entities, Beings and even life from other places that come here to play mischievousness on us. These Humans, all of them including you, are all connected the same way. Interacting with Humans I began seeing their mental make-up. Ego is a big one in Humans. We all have it and most let Ego run wild. Just get on a dating app and see the nonsense people do to each other for sex. Just listen to women now, the baby is theirs Soley because it came out of their little sensitive hole. The language is foul, and the Humans minds are running amuck. I would like to ask, how long does ownership over a baby last and who owns the DNA? What exists inside the baby, a spirit and where does that come from? So, who really owns the baby - no one, it's an illusion? Do you want to be owned, that amounts to slave status?
Ideas like ownership, dominance and power are misconstrued to levels beyond truth's ability to recognize it. It becomes defiled and debased ideas of no substance other than opinions. The Mind is a beautiful thing but can produce horrors beyond imagination. Just watch the movie "A Beautiful Mind".
Master you mind by becoming aware, and it will start to work for you instead of against you. That is called Mastering your Mind.
2. A person's intellect.
Intellect is not Mind but is used interchangeably as the Mind by dictionaries. What is intellect? True intellect comes through your heart, not your mind. The reason intellect can exist in the Human form is because of something you can call upon called "Common Sense". But most people disregard Common Sense because it does not come from the Mind. Common Sense comes from the Soul through the Heart. This is why it is easy to look at the Mind from a third person viewpoint watching the Mind and what it does.
3. A person's attention.
Listen, and do I have your attention? Attention is the Mind focused on something. What if your Heart were to focus on a thing? What would your Heart say? The Mind does listen to the Heart. If you start talking and thinking and listening with your Heart, you Mind will interpret the energy coming through your Heart from the Quantum or Metaphysical and translate into your language. Remember, the Mind is like a computer. The Mind tabulates, calculates and formulates itself from a self-centered space or position. The Mind tries to make sense of things, orientation is a big part of the Mind. When you go to your Heart things will come through, knowing's, that will throw you Mind for a loop or two and the Mind can fight that. As the Heart orients itself into the Soulfulness of who you are, the Mind can interpret this as an attempt to kill the Mind and the Mind will fight for its life. Your Mind could fight you.
Take it easy and let your Mind know you need your Mind to act as interpreter for your Heart and you could not live correctly here without your Mind and the Mind will go to ease and then work with you.