Unfortunately, the mind does not make decision-making easier for us.

Obviously, we humans give a lot of value to it since it had made our life so much easier. It is that which invented the wheel… and the fire. This conscious mind does all the logical and rational thinking. The mind in this context is the cognitive part of our consciousness (the other being the intuitive subconscious part, I just mentioned above). Now coming to what we refer to as the “mind”. At the most, what this voice could be tainted with is – LOVE. According to me, it offers the most honest, unbiased point of view to anything. But the fact is that the heart goes beyond reason and logic. The voice of the heart is often unheard or unheeded since it can’t offer the logical reasoning to what it says and many times on the surface, it looks like it is illogical and irrational. Whatever one may call it, it is the supreme decree that we either comply to or choose to ignore. People call this by different names too, such as hunch, intuition, instinct, the inner voice, conscience, divine guidance and so on. From this heart/ subconscious mind, that is all-knowing and all-powerful, comes all the solutions to our problems, all those hints on what to do next and also that gentle nudge from inside about what we really want. Spiritually speaking, it is the divinity within us. Being a hypnotherapist, I would also equate this reference to the “heart” as to the subconscious mind. 🙂 I am referring to the innermost core of our being where we feel the emotions such as love, happiness, peace, sorrow, hate, and so on. No, not that thing as Joey (from FRIENDS) puts it – the full-sized aortic pumps. The reference to heart does not mean the biological heart that pumps and circulates blood to the different parts of our body. A good friend of mine once asked me, “how do we know which is saying what? How do we differentiate?” and I can add on to that string of questions: so what do we decide to follow – the mind or the heart? So I decided to write down my thoughts on this.įirst of all, let me define what I refer to as the “heart” and the “mind” in this context. We notice the conflict only when there is a disparity. The heart and the mind work in harmony most of the time.

We have all been through it sometime or the other.

Oh! what is this conflict? Why do they conflict at all and make life tougher for us? Or is it that we make it tough for ourselves? Let’s find out. Many of us have been through this, the heart versus mind conflict.

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