The Four Crucibles of Success

The Four Crucibles of SuccessnBy
Bill Cottringe
n Every success has four crucibles that make nothing go to something, and close the gap between dreaming and reality: The Head, Heart, Soul and Hands. We know now, the energy that is transformed between these four crucibles is what shows up as our awareness of physical reality, including our successful repairs and changes.

THE HEAD

The success formula starts in the mind with successful thinking which is a marvelous blending of logical, creative and practical thinking. This mental activity is what also: (a) uncovers your main purpose in what you are trying to be successful at doing (b) gets you to the best perspective to see the best path and the biggest obstacles in the way, and (c) helps with all the problem-solving in between your dreaming mind and the realities that you want to happen. There are three main requirements for successful thinking:

• It is usually most helpful to adopt a very strange open-mindedness—accepting the possibility that what you think you know may not necessarily be so.

• This open-mindedness makes room to spot what is most important to know in the middle of the chaotic overload that is all around is.

• In addition to the open-mindedness, thinking to get you to the next place has to have the quality of rubber-band flexibility in easily giving up failed thinking.

THE HEART

The best logical, creative and practical thoughts are useless if your heart doesn’t believe them to be true. Another major stumbling block in this translation process is the completely different ways we form a belief about the truth of which we are convinced we know. The source is what is important, and it can go anywhere from hard scientific evidence and proof positive to respecting a higher authority to pure, unsubstantiated faith. And proof can run anywhere from using logic to evaluate the truth of something to the experience of personally perceived tiny miracles.

The other part of the heart is the feelings we have—positive ones that feel good and negative ones that bother us. Successful translation of feelings is in understanding that positive feelings validate the direction in which we are moving, while negative ones are trying to warn us to slow down and rethink our approach, which may not be quite "right" for one reason or the other.

THE SOUL

The soul is the knower of truth that lets you know that you are either doing the right thing in the right way for the right reasons to get the right results, or that you have it all wrong. The soul only wants to rejoin the whole oneness that it separated from, without judging this and that to be inherently good or bad. The soul just operates on the type of common sense Mark Twain described as “The simple knack of seeing something the way it is and doing something the way it should be done.”

The passions which energize the soul, being transformed from thoughts to feelings to beliefs, run through the experiences of creativity, love, empathy, unity and simplicity to let you know what matters most. Knowledge about how to be successful has to be “handed” from the soul to the hands.

THE HANDS

There are no results without the hands getting busy and putting into action the mind’s thoughts, the heart’s feelings and beliefs, and the soul’s evaluations. Efforts in using our hands to behave out of past problems, remove present obstacles and do the small things that prepare luck meeting opportunity, in the space between our dreams and reality, is what gets results. Good deeds staying in your mind or heart is only completion of half the job.

Think, feel, believe, evaluate and act your way to translating your dreams into the realities you want. The outcome depends upon your translating abilities.nnn n