WHISPERS of the HEART
poetic musings
What part of you are you most scared of losing?
Your money?
Your body?
Your status?
Your relationship?
Your things?
Because once you start to place your identity on anything external, you give your power away and get stuck on a roller coaster of emotions, always clenching your butthole of fear of losing that thing or letting others down. It may last so long that you change every facet of your life... who you hang out with, what you do, how you dress, how you talk... to where a few years out you become so far removed from who you truly are... yet you think you're making progress because there has been so much change, when in fact, you're just becoming what you think the world needs you to become to feel worthy of love/attention... falling deeper and deeper from your truth.
For me..
It was my relationship. So she ended things and I had to learn to love myself.
Then it was my body. So I got injured and lost 35lbs of muscle and I had to learn to accept my body.
Then it was my status. So I got fired from my job and I had to learn to listen...
Am I in my head or my heart?
How do I know if I am in my head or my heart?
Are you mainly thinking your thoughts,
Or are you mainly feeling your senses?
The proposed question itself, however, is telling of an analytical mind.
The heart just knows.
The head wants to analyze to understand to figure out fully to think it knows.
It’s not one or the other that is the goal,
But a sliding scale spectrum between the two that shifts moment to moment.
In times of danger, your head and good judgement will help you survive.
In times of ease, your heart will help you open up to yours senses to fully connect.
Different seasons call for different recipes.
And that knowing of what season you are in… is simply a knowing.
It’s been said that the mind makes a perfect slave but a terrible master.
It’s also been said that the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick.
So then, anything in excess or deprivation, is...
