People often say: “Should I follow my head or my heart?” They talk about situations where they experience a conflict between their feelings and their rational mind. But is that really what is going on?
We learn to override our feelings, and that is not always good. But there are more actors on the stage than feelings and thoughts. If we look at the way the chakras work together, we can explain this in another way.
Feelings can be several things. The feelings we feel in the stomach are often called our gut feelings, and many people believe this is their inner truth. But gut feelings come either from fear in the Solar Plexus or comfort or discomfort in the Hara chakra. The latter points to the borders of your comfort zone, and if you always follow your gut feelings, you might never change your ways.
Thoughts or mind, are also different things when we look upon it from a chakra perspective. Many thoughts are based on likes and dislikes and are actually associations more than thoughts. This is the lower part of the Pineal chakra in connection with the Solar Plexus chakra which blends in emotions of things you have felt before. SELV-development clears out this clutter and then this connection can really become our fantastic rational mind. The rational mind can associate positively like a well-educated librarian, who keeps order in the inner library.
Most of our intuition is an activity between the Heart chakra and the higher Pineal chakra. We “see through” clutter of emotions and “thought-viruses” right into the core of what matters. And what matters is connected to our inner values. We often call this “ following the heart”, but it cannot be done without the Pineal chakra and the mind.
We now know that there are specific nerves that connect the brain and the heart. So it seems that we can feel and think with both. I believe in the strengthening of the connection between the two, which also can “clear the clutter” in all of the chakras. So which will I choose? Both!
