Where is Your Heart?

The Secret advises people to pay attention to their feelings in order to truly grasp "where they are." This is very good advice, but it's also quite hard to follow. Many of us live in a rather obsessed thinking-world -- and yes, it's probably pathological in some cases (that we seem, as a species, on the verge of destroying this very old planet seems to be fairly damming evidence that thinking hasn't led to Utopia).

So because we're living, breathing, and even sleeping in a thought-obsessed world, the advice to pay attention to feelings may be easier said than done. Some people really are so out of touch with their feelings, that they really don't feel anymore at all -- they think that they feel.

That's like saying you think that you like vanilla ice cream as you eat it.

So here is some simpler advice: throughout your day, ask yourself a very easy question: where is my heart?

Really. It sounds weird, but try it. As you interact with people -- especially people that you don't like :) -- ask yourself: where is my heart?

Pour more of your attention towards your heart; shift it from your head TO your heart. And then, when you do, start to wait for a response -- because, yes, believe it or not: your heart speaks.

For example, your heart may tell you that you're being phoney. Or cunning, or mean, or that you're power tripping, or anything else that your head says is perfectly "rational" but your heart KNOWS is not in alignment with the person you want to be.

Remember this little pointer: the head THINKS -- the heart KNOWS.

The head likes to THINK that it KNOWS, but it doesn't -- it only thinks. The head KNOWS nothing. That's why it thinks so much -- because it never really knows. What it thinks today will change tomorrow -- thinking is like that. It's like trying to pour water into a cup with no bottom.

The heart, however, KNOWS -- and doesn't need to think.

That's why in some cultures where formal education or left-brain dominated systems aren't in place, you will find people that are astonishingly intelligent. It's not because they out-think the rest of us -- it's because they haven't left their heart.

The heart knows.

What is your heart telling you?