Last year I went through a lot of internal conflict, my heart, or perhaps soul, fighting my head and all the ‘sensible voices’ around me. I truly understood what my head was saying, and I understood the advice from people in my life who seemed to mostly agree with my head, yet there was a stubborn, determined little thing inside of me that didn’t want to listen! (Perhaps that was my soul?)
So it begs the question, should we follow our heart, or listen to our head?
I guess we all have different opinions on this, but I would genuinely love you to share with me what you think and why?
Ultimately I went with my head, and in some ways my heart agreed, but mostly my heart was elsewhere. So if that was the right decision, why won’t my soul let go? As you can see I am in a pondering mood today. I would love your input. Regardless of the decisions in life should we follow our instincts, intuition, gut feelings? Or is that foolish? Should decisions be made on logic and facts?
Hope to hear from you, love, Mackenzie
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That’s a tough question, Mackenzie, especially since we don’t understand the specifics of the decision you had to make. In general, I think if you were meant to follow your heart, then your heart will not allow you to do anything else. I think if you have to ask the question and agonize over it, it is best to follow your head. Sometimes that is the more disappointing answer, but the right one!
Sometimes it needs to be a combination of both. Also, I believe that sometimes you need to go on faith. I know that this is not a truly black and white answer but the world has a lot of grey areas in it. #ablogginggoodtime
It is a really tough question. For me it would depend very much on the situation. I tend to follow my heart most of the time I think but there are times when following my head seems to be the better choice. #ablogginggoodtime
I think we listen to our heads, others and the sensible voice too much. I wonder as I get older will my heart win through more? I hope so! #ablogginggoodtime
I’m interested to read others responses to this. I live with mental illness and sometimes I don’t feel confident in trusting my head. I have to ask where the thoughts are coming from. Are they me? or are they the illness? I find that my heart & my gut combined lead me to good places. #ablogginggoodtime
I think it depends but most of the time you should go with your gut with the feeling that is right for you X #ablogginggoodtime
I don’t know Mackenzie my inclination here is to say that your soul won’t let go because there is something there that hasn’t been fulfilled. And for that reason I would say listen to your heart. It probably will never be quiet again until you do listen to it. I think we listen to our heads mostly because it normally makes the ‘sensible’ decisions for us but the sensible decisions aren’t always the right ones. I get that it’s tough though because our lives can’t always accommodate our heart’s true desires but if it is at all possible I would try and go for it. And the end of the day its about trying to be happy isn’t it? #ablogginggoodtime
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