Go Interstate: The Migration from Head to Heart

I have a very strong mind, and at the end of last year I realised it had run away from my heart almost completely. It was leading, and I was following. The thing with being “headstrong” is that if you let it get out of control, you’ll end up somewhere you don’t actually want to be. My experience was chaotic. It was loud. My mind kept trying to come up with new - more radical - solutions to problems, but I only got more tangled.

A wise woman said, “You have a head path, and a heart path. You can’t walk both."

It took me a while to get this, but I realised I could change the focus of my attention, my orientation. It was hard. I was pulled back to the drama in my mind over and over again. Then, after a couple of weeks, the magnetic force shifted. I allowed myself to be pulled back to my heart.

Even twenty minutes focusing on my heart is enough to shift out of thinking mode, into loving.

God communicates through my heart. God is Love. Why would He want me to do anything my heart wasn’t also excited by? Now, I listen to my heart. I seek its wisdom, listen to its rhythms. If I’m called to put more effort in, I check, is my heart in this? My priorities have shifted. I’m a lot more peaceful.

The head and the heart have their own agendas. An ideal relationship is one where they’re working together. What are you listening to? Where is your focus? Is it time for a change of scenery?