Heartmind

If there’s one lesson I really value from the spiritual teachings I’ve absorbed, it’s that things don’t always need fixing.

At the same time, my egoic mind wants to sift through my life and search for things to improve. That’s it’s job after all.

I don’t think there is a conflict of interests here. These differing perspectives can co-exist - or better - cohere.

But there would have been a time when I struggled see through both of these lenses at once. Things were black or white.

When I think about who I was at this time it makes sense. I was estranged from my heart and absorbed in my head.

Simply put, the heart doesn’t fix. The heart just loves… beating with unconditional loyalty until it can no longer do so.

The head is a wheeler and dealer - always negotiating and never satisfied. It says “you could have got a better deal.”

I’ve realised that integrating the two is simple. You let the heart love the head and you let the head observe the heart.

When my heart and head are communion, I feel bigger than my overwhelm and yet too small for my failures to matter.

Sometimes life feels like a trap: a dark room with no doors. In these times, my heart fills the darkness with music.

And sometimes my heart, though brave and willing, stumbles… and my head offers relief with a well drawn map.

Just as in a great friendship, each has its strengths. Surface level conflict is just collaboration we do not yet understand.