Understanding the truth in your head is a place to start, but it’s no place to stay. Unless you move the truth from your head to your heart, you’ll remain unhappy.
If you’re thinking, “But doesn’t my heart already know the truth?” Yes! But if you’ve spent most of your life guarding your heart, you may not readily feel the truth. And that’s what you want to do. You want to feel the truth, as well as understand it.
Likewise, if you’re distracted by scattered emotions, you can gather them into your mind and heart. You can discover meaning in them and understand them.
When you bring the understanding of your mind and the feeling, or intuitive knowing, of your heart together, then, you begin to change the way you live your life.
We don’t want to choose between our mind and our heart, our thoughts and our feelings. We don’t want to dismiss our emotions, our moods, our wounds. We don’t want to justify our erratic behavior.
We want to bring it all together. When we have consonance, rather than conflict, we have peace. And we have something to stand on, something to build on.