Heart-Mind Connection

"To find peace of mind, the voice of the heart must be heard"

     We live in a world where heart and mind are divided. To follow the heart means that we relinquish the path of the intellect. It's a scary road, unsafe and unconventional, but worth it if we find "success" at the end of the journey. To  follow the path of intellect means we trust only logic and the heart, emotion, is scary because it's volatile, unpredictable and therefore untrustworthy.
     In the past, I trusted only the intellect. Not because it was my nature, because by nature I was very intuitive and sensitive, too sensitive I was told. So I "altered" myself to find acceptance. I then prided myself in how smart I was but I found I couldn't think my way out of my own unhappiness. Emotion meant pain to me, at this point, because when I expressed my true emotions I was told I wasn't good enough, too sensitive, inappropriate, not right. So I shut down emotionally. But that DID NOT stop the emotion from coming and the result was a depression that lasted almost a decade.
     In the first year of my study, Spirit instructed me on how I might master my mind. The 2nd, 3rd  4th, 10th and 15th  year, I spent trying to understand and master my emotion; what is was, where it came from, how it affected by life, my body and my environment but mostly how to deal with it in a way that left me feeling whole and powerful. The end result was a revelation about the power of heart and mind united.
     The internal battle, the dialogue that goes on between heart and mind, is something with which we are all familiar. The battle begins when we want to make change in our lives but can't bring ourselves to do so. The war wages on, every day, between what we want and what we fear. The hearts desire, denied, creates sorrow in our lives and sickness in our bodies. Only when I mastered my emotions did I find the peace of mind I was seeking. Funny how that works!