Heart or Only Head Living?

I am often asked what on earth do I mean when I talk about this subject and two aspects of our bodies.

A buzz word at present is "Authentic" - meaning ; genuine; real
not false or copied; genuine; -   so, living from our hearts and head energy is an automatic route to being more real.

Describing so often my world, career and entire medical education is challenging, as literally our education system does not allow for any real references for even the concept of energy. So even the above sentence produces a "What"?

One of the exercises I do, is to ask people to say in one word how they feel? eg happy.

Then I ask people to shut their eyes and imagine that they are a small version of themselves - shrunk and in a bubble able to whizz around their own bodies. In their imagined bubble they go to their own hearts and they then ask what their heart is feeling. By the way even this wacky exercise and the closing of their eyes and engaging playfully their imagination requires them to be more in engaged in their own bodies. Then I ask them to ask their hearts what their heart is feeling. They are always shocked and surprised that a very different answer will come. 'anxious', for instance. 

Another brief example is how often we are asked by one another how are we doing "oh fine, fine thanks". In our English culture it is the standard answer but those that know us better will see that we are either exactly what the acronym means:- frightened, insecure, neurotic and emotional or we are versions of anything but ' fine'.!!

However if we begin to check in with our hearts and our minds to integrate those two vital aspects of ourselves we start living more authentically and congruently. 

Here is one further small concept for you to have fun with. Biblically one of the commandments is :-"Thou shalt love and honour your mother and your father". This actually means that as we grow up - layer by layer - we are beginning to be able to utilise the combination of our mother, heart energy and our father, our head, or mind energy. So then any decision that is made can be from the feminine wisdom of our hearts, e.g. utilising the hearts traits of 

1. our humility, 

2. empathy,  

3. being emotional, 

4. and understanding 

 combining with the masculine 

1.goal-directed

2. assertive

3. focused

4 action-oriented  traits.

These then merge to produce a far more authentic and congruent response to our lives. This impacts our living with both of our hearts and heads!! 

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