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Taking the Trip Down from the Head to the Heart

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I have spent my life studying, learning and trying to understand the way things work. I make my living with talking through problems. I have always thought and believed the mind to be central to my being and the key to human health and healing.

While I still value my mind, brain and thinking capacity, I am quickly coming to a new perspective. I have come to recognize that healing happens through the heart (not the mind) and that feelings (and their expression) are truly the vehicles for healing and transformation.

Thinking and thoughts are important parts of being human and powerful capacities but the "shifts" that allow people to return to health and happiness as well as create new things, evolve out of expressions of deep emotion (like crying). While I have spent my life trying to "figure things out", all this has led to is endless thinking, thought, rumination and obsession. One deep release of emotion does way more for a person than years and decades of thinking. I am learning this with myself and with my clients. I fully realize that this is NOT the "manly" nor the "medical" way. I wish it was not true -- it just is.

Feeling feelings is the path to freedom. Releasing feelings is the road to breaking out of stuck places. Movement happens with emotional expression not thoughts. The lights are coming on as thinking is taking its new, lower place on my priority list. The "feeling" heart is our gift and ticket back to health.

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Anonymous said…
beautiful!
September 15, 2011 at 7:34 AM
Ruth-A-N said…
You were wondering if you make a difference...yes you do...
your words are peaceful and centered as we "flounder" through the grasses of time.
Thank you again Namaste:)
September 24, 2011 at 8:42 AM
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