Heart-Mind Disconnect

Many of us were raised in environments where we were told one thing and we felt something else.  Besides the obvious impact of this experience, there is another even deeper and more profound impact.I call it heart-mind disconnect.

A common example of this is being told that we are loved when we don’t feel it.  Another example would be our parents telling us, or acting as if, everything is ok in their relationship when it is not.  Or being told that everyone in the family is treated the same when there is a clear favorite.  We all have our own examples.

We are all deeply intuitive, aware, and sensitive, particularly when we are children, before we learn to turn it off.  You know how poignant and honest children can be.

As children, when we were told one thing and felt something else, we had to choose.  Were we going to believe this wordless feeling or intuition that we couldn’t articulate, and if we did would it be denied? OR, were we going to believe what our parents or other adults were telling us was true?

For some of you, you chose your own intuition, chose to rebel, to see it your own way.  For many of us we believed what we were told and decided that there must be something wrong with our feelings and deep perceptions.  Imagine where it leads if we choose to un-believe our feelings.

Many of the people who show up to work with me have un-believed and disconnected from their feelings and now have to relearn to trust their feeling/knowing, their intuition, to re-connect with their hearts.

Having the ability to know without thinking is part of what it means to be human, I call it “inner-knowing.”

Inner-knowing leads to deep, intuitive solutions and awareness’s.  It’s also called coming from the heart.  The mind is a wonderful thing, and we don’t want to get rid of the mind; we just want it to follow the heart.

When people cannot access their heart how do they behave?

If most of the people who are leading us have a heart-mind disconnect, does that worry you?

How much of the time are you leading yourself only from the mind?  How much do you trust your heart?  Do you know how to access your heart?