Quote: For me, as someone who thinks WAY too much, I agree, my thoughts often betray me, but when I refer to head and heart, what I mean is that rational, calm thinking usually serves me better than making decisions on irrational thinking usually set forth by some rampant emotion.
For me, when events happen in my life that are hurtful, my head overrides my heart. My heart is where my authentic self resides. I agree with you, I need to consistently guage my heart/head factors to critically evaluate the direction I am leaning.
Quote: To me, I equate heart with emotion and rash/irrational thought and head with rational/calm thought. It's ALL thoughts of course, it's just the origin I am concerned about.
Yes, the origin of thought is interesting, but NOT so important to me. I always need to wade through the original thought and determine a proper course of action BEFORE making an irrational mess that I will need to clean up later. I have gotten so much better at doing this since growing in my faith, learning to DB, and leaning on my DB/DR brethren.
Quote: The thing is that my heart told me PAIN PAIN PAIN ANGER ANGER ANGER LEAVE LEAVE LEAVE when all this happened.
For me it's the opposite, but I think it IS just semantics between you and I, calling our thoughts/emotions or head/heart by different names.
Quote: If I had listened to my heart then, I would not have done all this.
I am usually betrayed by my head, not my heart. THAT is why I am deeply rooted in my heart and in growing my faith and trust in the Lord.
Quote: ...the point is that we have to try NOT to make decisions based on our current state of feeling OR mind. I guess to you, that is expressed by saying you follow your heart and to me, my head, but in the end, I think we both just mean we want to trust our instincts and try to stick to the plan we set forth in the beginning until REAL, SUFFICIENT reason comes along to rationally and calmly, CHANGE that plan.
Amen, brother. I am trusting my instincts/intuition and the more rooted I am in my heart, the more accurate my instincts/intuition. I am in this battle with the enemy until God presents REAL, SUFFICIENT reasons for me to "rationally and calmy" change my plan/tactics. THEN I will change my plan/tactics and keep on keepin' on.
Thank you again, GH. You are my light house in the dark, stormy seas of my life. You help me see you "light" and illuminate the correct direction for me to be taking.
