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Personal Transformation. Combining Human and Spiritual Intelligence

• Linton Bergsen • Episode 100

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What if every moment of your life—from a simple nature walk to a challenging conversation—holds the potential for profound personal transformation? 

The Self-Realized, Shatter Your Limits Podcast's 100th episode with me, Linton Bergsen, delves deep into the fascinating interplay between human and spiritual intelligence that shapes your experiences. When you're hiking through nature, fully absorbed in the sights and sounds around you, you're experiencing transformation through both your physical senses (human intelligence) and your deeper connection to something beyond yourself (spiritual intelligence). This same dynamic plays out in meditation, relationships, career decisions, and virtually every aspect of our lives.

Most of us operate by giving approximately 90% of our attention to human intelligence—what we can see, hear, and logically process—while relegating our spiritual intelligence to a mere afterthought. A gut feeling that something isn't quite right in a conversation. That's your spiritual intelligence speaking through intuition, trying to alert you that what you're hearing and what you're feeling aren't aligning. Learning to recognize and honor these moments of disconnect represents a powerful opportunity for personal transformation.

The key insight lies in reversing this imbalanced approach. Rather than starting with physical perception and human reasoning, then occasionally acknowledging spiritual insights, what if you prioritized your spiritual intelligence first? This means feeling deeply within yourself whether something resonates spiritually before investing emotional energy and taking action. Finding your ideal balance—perhaps giving 60-70% weight to spiritual guidance and 30-40% to human intelligence—creates an equilibrium that brings profound benefits: greater peace of mind, enhanced well-being, and consistently better decision-making.

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Linton Bergsen:

Welcome to the Self-Realized Podcast with Linton Bergsen, where you will shatter your limits. I am not much into the self-help industry as much as I'm into the self-realized individual, which is you. What matters most to you, how you get there and the obstacles that may be in your way. If you would like to be part of this podcast and part of that discussion, I welcome you here with an open heart, open mind and open arms. So, without further ado, let's get on with the podcast.

Linton Bergsen:

A very warm welcome to episode number 100, Personal Transformation: Combining Human and Spiritual Intelligence. What does that really mean to you in your own journey? That's a question that you may want to ask yourself when you reflect upon that question deeply. What does personal transformation mean to you? What is it you come up with? What is it that you're focusing on when we use the term personal transformation? In this episode, we're going to look at the term and the actual realization of what personal transformation is on a very deep and profound level, because when you look at personal transformation, it is going to require the combination of human and spiritual intelligence that you work with every day to create in you the transformation that you're trying to achieve. Let me give an example of that.

Linton Bergsen:

If you are in nature taking a hike and you are observing and immersed in everything around you, you are now in a state of personal transformation. Why? Because the observation of your surroundings is creating a transformation within yourself. But what is creating the transformation is the observation. What are you using to create the transformation? It would be your eyes. It would be one of your senses. Sight, you might also be hearing sounds, for example, birds, the wind, a running stream, sounds that would affect how you're transforming your hike from just a walk into a personal experience that makes you feel better. You have had a personal transformation during your hike because there is an intelligence in nature and there is an intelligence within you. So what has happened on your hike is a personal transformation through your human intelligence and spiritual intelligence. Working in combination to help you have a transformative experience. When you observe life through the lens of the two intelligences working within you to create a vibration, a transformative energy, a resonance that resonates internally and externally, you now have received a transformative experience. Another example would be in meditation. When you go into meditation, it is a physical experience of you sitting there, but also you're having a spiritual experience of you disconnecting from the body and quietening the mind. Because that is essentially what the correct meditation is doing in order for you to have a spiritual awareness and intelligence working through you and with you to transform your present moment. Understanding the interaction between human intelligence and spiritual intelligence gives you personal transformation. When you really begin to understand and you begin to become aware of them in a very succinct and meaningful way, you begin to experience what true personal transformation is.

Linton Bergsen:

Let me give you another example of personal transformation working in everyday life, whether it's a business or personal setting. If you are speaking with someone and they're standing in front of you and you are working with your human intelligence at this moment in time and you feel that something is wrong, something is not quite right. What they are presenting, how the conversation is going, the way the energy is flowing, it's off. Now you have the human intelligence working, but you also have another component transforming the situation, transforming the conversation, the interaction. It is the spiritual intelligence working within you that is saying to you something's off, something's not quite right, you can't put your finger on it, but even in the conversation there is a transformative experience occurring. You're feeling something and you're hearing something. The two are not syncing up. That is a personal transformative experience. If you recognize it as such, it is a personal transformation that has occurred, if you say to yourself at that moment in time what I feel and what I'm hearing through my human intelligence are not syncing up. That is your spiritual intelligence speaking to you, as I've mentioned in many previous episodes, through intuition. What you feel intuitively and what you're experiencing in the physical realm are not the same. So now you're literally combining spiritual intelligence with human intelligence to come up with a realization within yourself that things are not quite as they appear to be.

Linton Bergsen:

When you are combining spiritual intelligence with human intelligence, what it means is that every moment of your life, if acknowledged and you are realizing it as such which a self-realized individual does is a moment of personal transformation. Now, that is a profound understanding and awareness and you develop that, ongoing every day until it becomes second nature within yourself. That every experience you're having you understand and perceive as a transformative experience between the human intelligence that you have within yourself, in the physical realm and the spiritual intelligence that you have from the other realms that are important for you to recognize and develop, because you're dealing with so many ongoing events in this physical world it's impossible to decipher them just with the physical component of yourself, because we all know that we have a spiritual intelligence that is working consistently with us also. That spiritual intelligence is guiding us, willing us, wanting us to be in situations that make us feel good, create a better sense of well-being. Going back to the hiking example I gave earlier, the reason you may go for a hike is to feel better, to have that sense of well-being that occurs sometimes when you are in nature and giving yourself the opportunity to breathe and smell and feel what it is that only being in nature can give to you. Understanding and accepting that we are, in our personal transformation, consistently integrating, combining, intertwining and working with a spiritual intelligence and a human intelligence.

Linton Bergsen:

What's the difference between the two? The spiritual intelligence works with and through you through intangibles. The human intelligence works with and through you through tangibles. I explain in more detail how to experience the spiritual intangible experiences and integrate them with the human tangible experiences.

Linton Bergsen:

In episode number 65, Five Practical Keys to Human and Spiritual Success Every Day. The episode explains what happens when you begin to integrate the five physical senses with the spiritual intangibles in order for you to have an intelligent experience between both dimensions, spiritual and physical. Your personal transformation. The key to it is recognizing that you are at all times, in the examples I have given, working with both intelligences, but recognizing that and becoming aware of it and using the information that both intelligences are giving you in combination is the key to your personal transformation and your own self-realization.

Linton Bergsen:

Understanding that and working with it very closely and becoming aware of it as a real reality in your life as the example I gave to you earlier in regard to having a conversation with someone, understanding that what you're hearing, what you're feeling may not be the same thing Combine that information, acknowledge it and begin to use it so you don't waste your time with being too concerned about what's only in front of you physically, perceiving it only with your human intelligence. At the same time, don't become overwhelmed by what you might be feeling spiritually. It's balance. Essentially, that is what personal transformation means that you have been able to balance successfully your spiritual intelligence and your human intelligence to give you a balanced, focused, centered place of well-being to make the correct decisions from in all areas of your life. If you begin to understand that as a definition of personal transformation in your life, what begins to unfold within you is a deep realization and awareness of something that is working very intelligently with you from the inside out, giving you the information that you need from the spiritual intelligence to act upon with your human intelligence. When you begin to, as it were, reverse the flow of working from the human intelligence first and acknowledging your spiritual intelligence second which a lot of us do it's an afterthought, so to speak, that maybe I felt a certain way and didn't act on it you acted on your human information and intelligence first instead of prioritizing your spiritual intelligence.

Linton Bergsen:

When you begin to walk and move in the realization of let me have a personal transformation, of the reversal of energy, moving forward and letting my life flow from spiritual awareness and intelligence and then moving that energy into my human existence, my human intelligence, experiment with that for a while, work with it for a while, start feeling deeply within yourself what it is that you want to, for example, do with your life as a life purpose. When it comes to relationships, feel deeply within yourself, do they resonate with you before you act on them, and put your human emotions and human intelligence behind them. Because once you have put your human emotion and intelligence behind a situation, a circumstance, person, invested emotionally in different people, time has gone by. When you take a moment to stop and transform that situation, that's what personal transformation is. It's transforming each situation personally that you find yourself in, by getting calm, getting quiet, focusing internally. Before acting. You will find that the results that you get from that transformation are very different than if you just act from the human intelligence alone, which I would suggest to you is 90% of what most people are doing, and giving 10% to their spiritual awareness and intelligence. If you can reverse that and give at least 50% to your spiritual intelligence, I would give a little bit more because I think your spiritual intelligence is much more important. Maybe 60-70% to your spiritual intelligence and 40-30% to your human action and intelligence.

Linton Bergsen:

You now have, as the episode is titled a personal transformation through combining your spiritual and human intelligence. The percentage that you want to use to combine those two is up to you. What I would suggest to you is this as you begin to run the experiment on this, this spiritual intelligence and human intelligence working in your life, and how much you want to put on one or the other to help your personal transformation, the combination, the balance of the scale it is my sincere suggestion and opinion to you. We'll lean a little bit more towards you beginning to understand that your spiritual intelligence has a lot more weight than your human intelligence in making the right decisions, and the foundation of everything you do will be governed by the divine intelligence, God, Cosmic Consciousness, whatever you'd like to call it in your life.

Linton Bergsen:

The governing principle of personal transformation is acknowledging. First of all, you have two intelligences, as I mentioned, spiritual and human, working in combination. The question that you will ask yourself and answer as you go along in life is which one do you want to develop more and which one gives you the best advice through intuition, through a sense of well-being, through a sense of purpose, and is consistent in the information it gives you? When you decide if it's human or spiritual, you'll decide how you want that combination to work and what percentage you give each of those to have the most effect in your life. And when you do work with a combination and you begin to see the results that it gives you, you will understand that your personal transformation occurs in every moment of your life, because your transformation is not just happening on a daily basis, on a weekly basis. It is actually happening moment to moment, with every thought and action you take based upon the decisions you choose to make with the correct combination of spiritual intelligence and human intelligence. Like anything in life, it's about balance. Balance your scales correctly and your personal transformation will reflect that. And when you have balance, you have equilibrium, and I know that equilibrium is something that you would want in your life as much as you can possibly get. Balance your scales between human and spiritual intelligence, have a positive personal transformation and you will see that as you go forward in life by application of what has been presented in today's episode, you will have a greater sense of well-being, peace of mind and, above all, an unexplainable sense of balance that can only come from correctly aligning the combination of your spiritual intelligence and your human intelligence together.

Linton Bergsen:

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