Heart And Mind
The heart likes someone or something and craves for it. The mind gives the facts, the statistics, and the probabilities of every situation. While the mind is strategic, purposeful and maybe even a little too careful, the heart provides the excitement and inspiration to make something happen. Our rational side combines sense, thinking, judgement, and memory, allowing us to weigh cost and benefit to make reasoned decisions. A balance between both mind and heart is necessary in order to be in the right path in life. We all need to learn the importance of balancing logic, feelings, and, ultimately, God’s commands before making major life decisions.
In the past, I usually leaned toward making more decisions using my heart than my mind. As life went on, I began to understand that while taking my feelings into consideration is crucial in the decision-making process, I couldn’t be blinded by my feelings. In every decision I make, I need to trust my instincts, but also logically analyse the outcome of my choices. We are given logic and emotions as a part of us as a gift to help us live life. We can’t to suppress any part of ourselves: we all have a head and a heart for a reason. Our hearts can not control our decisions, but it needs to be part of the process.
Some people will follow logic without consulting their feelings, and others will follow their hearts without considering the consequences. The truth is that the mind and heart don’t have to be mutually exclusive. When we clear our mind of repetitive thoughts and worries, we can make it easier to find ways to make them work together. In order to stop the battle between the heart and the mind, we need to listen to our hearts while we allow our minds to guide us. Everything we do requires energy. When our energy is bright and steady, we feel good and act effectively; when it's low or scattered, we feel bad and messed up. Wise decisions are not only based on logic, it also takes our intuition into consideration. Regulating and directing our life has to do with setting wise boundaries, between heart and mind.
It is correct to say that materialistic things based only on facts won't satisfy our souls. Inner peace is achieved when we prioritise our values. Our hearts are related to a sense of core values that don’t always get included in our rational thought process. When we are not emotionally balanced, we tend to make decisions only using our hearts. When our emotions are balanced, we don't crave for materialistic things, we are able to consider all aspects when making a decision. We need sensibility and sensitivity. We are used to access rational thinking, weighing the pros and cons of life events every day. It is a very valuable, useful trait that helps us to gain, organise, and analyse information to reach a sound conclusion, but without the heart input, nothing differs us humans, from a machine. All decisions can’t be based on facts, because we don’t always have all the facts.
Take your time in order to observe what's going on to develop an insight and an understanding of how thoughts and feelings control you. When we are stressed, we end up making decisions solely based on my emotions that can lead to some serious disappointment and heartbreak. When we often have a million and one things happening at once, a chattering mind is the last thing we need. Being spiritually balanced means finding a way for both the heart and the mind to stop contradicting each other, because they are meant to work together.
