In our culture we are very good at cultivating our minds in a particular fashion. We develop a few of the many intelligences that people have, such as linguistic, logic and perhaps interpersonal or spatial depending upon engagement or major. Which intelligences embrace emotional development? Interpersonal and Intrapersonal lean in this direction, but tend to be left to the individual to engage and develop these aspects for themselves as modeled by their parents, teachers, pastors, etc.
If we’re willing to sit quietly and watch what happens inside our minds and hearts, our thoughts and feelings, we can begin to not be overwhelmed by them and so start to make new choices not programmed by past experience.
Perhaps this is what is meant by being “born again” or “reincarnated”?
Mac's Adventure 