When You Shouldn't Follow Your Heart

Ever get confused between what your heart is telling you and what your mind is speaking? Feel like your separated at the heart and mind levels?

In this article I’m going to share with you how the brain and heart actually communicate and why it’s important to listen to what your head and heart are both saying and then how to come to a conclusion.

There is this misbelief within the spiritual community that says always follow your heart. This is misguided and misinformed. Life and our being is way more complex then simple one-liners like this. Humans naturally love simple answers but life as we know it isn’t simple. It’s messy, complicated, and at times very confusing.

We have to learn to listen to our heart yet at the same time we have to learn to listen to the mind as well. Both should be carefully listened to and have equal value input when it comes to navigating life.

Neurocardiologists, scientists who study the connection between the brain and heart, have found that the two organs are in constant communication with one another. They have found that the heart has a neural network just like the mind.

Now many people within the spiritual community think that you should always follow your heart or your emotions. But this isn’t always true, or the case. There are times when you should most certainly follow the heart because your heart is guiding you to happiness. However, once you follow your heart and you get a new experience then it is time to listen to the mind. Our heart gives us the initial pull or calling to a new experience however sometimes we have that new experience and then we need to move on from it but our heart wants to stay. That’s when we need to use that rationale of the mind to get the heart back into line. To make this clear I’ll give you an example.

Let’s say your in a relationship and you feel called, at the heart level, to be with someone. However, you have some doubts and fears. But your heart is calling you there and you know that you need to make the move and step into the unknown, become vulnerable, and start a new relationship that could give you whole new experience of life. Now, you go into the relationship for one, two, maybe three years and you learn an incredible amount about yourself, the world, and relationships. You experience so much with that other person but you also find out that the relationship is no longer necessary for you. It’s not even healthy for you. At one point the relationship allowed you to expand but now you feel held down by it.

This is where you need to listen to the brain.

The heart initially called you into the experience even though your brain was telling you about all these fears. You followed your heart, disregarded the fear, and had an experience where you learned an incredibly amount about love and relationships.

But now that you feel held back from it your mind is saying, “OK it’s time to move on.” But your heart wants to stay because it is connected with that person. This is an instance where you don’t listen to the heart. The heart brought you into the relationship so you could expand and now you need to listen to the mind which is saying, “Get out of the relationship now it is no longer allowing you to expand.” But the heart wants to stay but you know that staying in the relationship wouldn’t be healthy for you anymore. Remember the heart and the mind are in equal communication with each other. At times in life you will be called to listen to your heart and allow that to take the reins. At other times in life your mind will call you to take the reigns.

How do you know what to listen to and when?

Listen to your intuition.

Think of it as a triangle. The heart and mind our always communicating but your intuition will tell you which one to listen too.

Many people get stuck in relationships that are no longer allowing them to evolve for years because they think they’re supposed to stay with that person because the heart is calling them in that direction. Your mind says, “Leave!” But your heart says, “Stay!” This can be ultimately confusing. And you’ll see couples dance around one another for months or years until they can finally take the plunge listen to their mind and say, “OK, I need to move on!” I feel like I should stay but my mind knows that this is only holding me back. Your intuition will tell you which one is correct. If you want clearer answers you can bring the two into alignment with one another and speak to both.

Place one hand on your heart and one on your forehead. We have many nerve endings in our hands which means we have a lot of lifeforce or consciousness energy flowing through them. Wherever you place them you will gain information and insight.

Place your hands in the proper places and allow each organ to make its own case. And then after you’ve done this speak to your intuition who oversees the whole thing. You’ll know exactly what to do by the end of this.

Deepest Blessings and Pranamams!

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