LEAD YOUR HEART AND MIND
What do you feel or think when you look at this picture?
Either your heart feels a strong emotion or your thinking brain is prompted to do something like gluing the pieces together. This is because every person is either a task orientated person(task first) Or a people oriented person(emotions first).
There is no right or wrong-It is just the way we have been wired.
Created uniquely different.
Furthermore, every person experiences the world through their own life lenses of prior experiences, future plans, core values and unique personality. Knowing this about yourself and others smooths out those nasty bumps that trip us time and again.
So let us learn how to Lead Our Hearts well.
For me, when my spirit remains downcast, it is my thinking that keeps me down.
So it is useless to ask my heart to be cheerful, I must rather change my thinking.
Humans are made up of a heap of emotions And a 3 pound brain.
Balance is learning to use both. Trouble is, staying too long in one sphere.
Knowing and recognizing your own strengths and weaknesses is therefore key.
Prov 23v7 "for as he/she thinks in his/her heart, So it is"
My thinking creates a reality. "Weather you think it is true, or not, you are probably right" Either way, this becomes your reality....
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To create balance within my being- I have developed a few good questions to help dislodge my thinking, which help smooth out my emotions-Balance returns.
These questions is to help me Stop and Re-frame my situation:
- What am I feeling... Recognize and engage your feelings. E.g. "I am so angry"... Where does the anger come from? Be truthful. Because I am scared(emotion) … Because I cant finish this job(task)…
- Then I say OK fear, I see you. I understand why you have shown up-To protect me and warn me. Seeing and recognizing the emotion is crucial. For an emotion ignored will often keep playing until it is recognized or until its friends join in for a mob attack (worry, shame, guilt, anger).
- Learn to choose well. So I recognised I am being lead by my emotions - Then I engage my cognitive brain... I will stop asking emotional questions And ask cognitive evoking questions like: Will staying with this task or emotion bring the out come I want? Or can I move in the opposite task or emotion and get the outcome I want?
- Ask what do I need. Self awareness is key. If you are stuck in a task or emotion, it's the same as drift sand. Stop, then Move into the opposite direction to get to safe ground
- Develop self-awareness. Personally I know I am a Do-er and very curious and beauty hungry. So I will take my heart and mind where I can comple a task or be curios or find beauty, so I can fill the void until my cup fills.... Much like the frog in a pit... It can jump and fall back until it's exhausted and drowns Or it can rhythmically kick up foam until it's floating up and out of the pit...Psalm 27 "Wait on the Lord. Be of good courage And He shall strengthen your heart"
- Another tool for me is I will go do good to someone/something else. This I know always frees up my locked emotions and always encourages me. For this you need a contact list setup prior, so you just need to action. E.g. I have the contacts of the SPCA, Hospice, or places to photograph. They always need help or just my time.
Make sure to lead your heart to safety-You deserve balance dear one.
For when you choose to keep playing on the railway tracks, eventually the train will hit you.
Lead Your Heart
Choose well
Allegra
