Minding One is to Empower oneself by knowing one's emotions. This knowledge gives us the opportunity to act differently than what our emotions want us to do. The control of our emotions is not carried out by trying to regulate, suppress or ignore them, but simply by changing our mind and perception. This change gives us the ability to act and think differently, whereby we empower ourselves by disempowering the influence of emotions. In these Classes, I will take you behind the 7 chapters of Socrates' Thought and teach you, what the book didn't tell you.

Socrates' idea of perception was a mindbreaking one, and even though it backfired, the idea of changing one’s mind by changing one’s perception, was even more brilliant than his idea of the righteous good. Unfortunately, Socrates never saw his own faults, and it wasn’t until Jesus arrived that the idea of being good by perceiving oneself as bad, was introduced. In many ways, Socrates is the symbol of our blindfold and Jesus is the hard pill to swallow. However, by the minds of Alfred Adler and Carl Jung we will get around this problem in our first Class of Minding One.

The ability of reflection is often misguided as an act of useless daydreaming, but it is actually our way of foreseeing possible future outcomes. It derives from our bodily experiences, where we learn what consequences goes with what actions. In general, this correct our body to behave properly, but it also teaches the mind how to get around it. In this Class we will look into how the cunning mind uses these forecasts to act boldly.  

Prestige. Oh yes, even the sound of that word is magic, and never have we lived in a time, where competition, position and glamour have been more important. Unfortunately it is also deceptive and malicious, which causes many people to be in sorrow. All though glamour is very much needed in our otherwise boring lives, it also brings along hatred and depression in that never ending pursuit of happiness. In this Class you will get to know, how to see through this illusion and avoid being dominated by it.    

For some reason, we evolved the ability of using words, so we can communicate with each other. However, the purpose of words is not really so much about communication as it is about committing other people to help us out. In order to mobilize and use others, the word plays an extremely important part, which we will get to know more about in this Class. We will particularly see how these promises and commitments are the real reason of frustration, stress and despair and how to control them better without guilt. 

Through all time, humans have strived to know the truth and not least telling others about it. Influencing others is to many very important, but one may wonder, why is it so important to be right, and why is it so humiliating to be wrong. This is something we will look further into in this Class, and we will discover that it may not be the truth we should seek but knowledge. Although this may sound simple, there is a long way from being right to being smart.   

The trial of Socrates has often been debated, whether he was guilty, or if he brought the verdict on himself by misbehaving. Unfortunately, these perspectives make one overlook how he manipulates the whole court into his grand scheme of righteousness, where he wants to prove whether ordinary people also are capable of making a fair judgment. It is not just Socrates, who is on trial, it is also the court itself. In this class we will look into how Socrates comes around all the different fields of emotional conflicts, and what results he ends up achieving.  

All our thoughts are connected to our emotions, which means that if you know your emotions, you will also know your thoughts. The key to separate them from each other is to acknowledge that what you think may not be voluntarily you, but the emotions you are influenced by. In this final class we will learn how to use The Minding Map to decode our emotions and thereby our thoughts. At the end of the day, we are all just an instrument of our emotions, and we can only liberate ourselves, if we are able to differentiate between our emotions and ourselves.