Follow Your Heart (Your Brain Is Stupid)

Follow your heart, your brain is stupid
Pay close attention to your feelings
No matter how good something looks
If it doesn't feel right, walk away
If it doesn't feel right, chances are, it is not right
You see your heart is much wiser than your brain

Most people
When faced with a difficult decision, they go to their brain
Most people believe their intelligence comes from their brain
But that is not the case
You see, your heart is the most powerful intelligence in your body
Your heart is the intelligence that came before your brain
Most people don't know that

Yes, your heart started beating before your brain existed
So the intelligence that created your body and your brain is your heart
We form an emotional brain
Long before we form a rational one and a beating heart, before either
Research shows the heart has 60 times the energy coming out of it as the brain does
Now you can understand how your heart dramatically impacts
How your brain works, not the other way around

You can't trust your brain 100 percent of the time
Your brain wants to keep you safe from all possible forms of pain
Your heart wants to take you where you need to go
Living inside your head is not only dangerous, it is reckless

As Tony Robbins says, "When you're in your head, you're dead
You're dead to the wonder of this world
You're dead to the beauty of this world
You're dead to the clarity of decision-making
And true peace and clarity that comes from following your heart"

To get in touch with your feelings
Your heart is the way to unlock all of your true potential
Peace and clarity
Your heart knows the way
Follow your gut, follow your intuition
If you feel like it's right, follow that feeling
Get out of your head and into your heart
Intuition or following your heart

To act on sudden inspiration
Has such a negative connotation in society
We are expected to think with our heads and be practical
But being practical or logical will never lead to true fulfillment or happiness
You can only get that when you live fully, as your authentic self
And follow your heart, even if that doesn't suit those around you

Jim Carrey said, "So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality"
As a society, we are so conditioned to conform to society standards
Which discourages us from following our intuition, from following our heart
We take the practical road because it is safe, less risky
But when we suppress the desire to act on divine inspiration
We build up tension so great in our soul
That we begin to experience lower states of emotion
Including depression, anxiety and disappointment

We miss our path
And for what?
So that we can feel safe?
So that we can have predictability?
Sure, predictability and safety have their benefit
But if your heart calls, and you choose to ignore it
The consequences may far outweigh the benefits

Your heart will lead you to your authentic self
Consider someone who is being pressured
Within a family to join the family business
To do what generation after generation in his family has done
Will he follow the crowd and be safe?
Or will he dare to pursue other avenues, despite the hardship that may follow?

When feeling compelled yet scared
To take the road unpaved or unapproved
Ask yourself the tough questions and be honest with yourself
"Is there some other purpose for me in life
Other than meeting other people's needs and doing what is expected of me?
Am I more concerned with how others view me
Rather than my own happiness?
Am I suppressing my true desires?"
What will the effects of long term suppression be
Versus the effects of short term acceptance by friends, family and society

Each of us is gifted with talents and skills which can be identified
By looking at the things we are passionate about and inspired to do
By suppressing and turning away from these passions and impulses
We are denying the divine access
To powerful creation that exists inside all of us
We are all here for a purpose
And that purpose sometimes does not at least initially look so practical
It must be felt within the heart

You always have the answers inside you
Everything you need is inside you
Just follow your heart
And don't confuse the voices in your head at around you
With the guidance of your much wiser, more powerful heart

Follow your heart, your brain is stupid