Listen to my heart or head?

Sunday, October 25, 2009
Posted by Shilpi

It happens with almost each one of us that we are in an internal battle, the battle si between my own heart and my own head. What a pitiable situation…both are important to me and I need both of them to live a beautiful life. Then why cant they live peacefully instead of fighting and bothering me..

Now, it’s my life and it’s going fast. I need to find a solution and I need to have a way of resolving the conflict very soon. Because I have a mantra in life, I do not want to look back and regret that I could have lived better.

I think, the answer to that question lies in answering a very basic question “what you want in life?”

People live by what they think they should be or by what others like them to be. One life to live, and that to its so short and unpredictable, then how can I live my life on the basis of what others think I should be doing? It doesn’t make any sense to me even from the most practical point view. When I decide what I want in life, I just listen to my heart. I believe that what my desires comes from the whispers of my authentic self. My authentic self is the real me. My authentic self is the real me. When I go by logic, I may make business sense but not sense of living a life.

When I listen to my heart and do things I feel a burning passion in me and that gets anything done by me with passion and the are accomplished without hesitation. I give my best without feeling any hesitation or resistance.

I always follow my instincts. This habit has got so many roots in me that I just set on action when my instinct pushes me. The reason I follow my instincts so blindly can be, whenever I didn’t follow them, I did regret. Following instincts, I have never been wrong so far.

I may sound immature to say follow your heart but that is what I do. I know people who do otherwise and do not see them doing better than me when it comes to living a life of balance. Yes, I do face problems like others do. Following instincts is not a full proof plan and I do get challenges on the way, but then I am happy to face them and resolve them without a single worry because I am doing what I always wanted to do. And if I fail, at least I tried doing what I wanted to do and I am happy to give many tries. One major pre-requisite and benefit of following instincts is – you let go your self set limitations and you are able to stretch beyond what you think you could. This worked for me many times.

Then do I need to forget about my head and just follow my heart…Not at all.

I do use my head extensively to achieve the dreams that my instincts have pushed me for. I use if like a planning center where all the “I want to do and be” are put into implementation. And, I use my head to support my heart when I meet challenges on the way, to find solutions for problems that come in the way.

And what I really really avoid doing is letting my heart compromise by listening to what my head has to say.

I am unique and so is every creature on this earth. World becomes wonderful having so many different people as different people add different colors to the canvas. So, I wish everyone just comes out of mind limitations and let their hearts do the talking and let their heads listen to them.