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<\/a>HSPs rely on their heart connection to communicate with the world<\/h1>\n
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Today at the gym I was Kindling Louise Penny\u2019s novel The Madness of Crowds<\/em> when I read: \u201cYou\u2019d be surprised how clearly the heart can see,\u201d and was caught up in a moment of gratitude so great I almost stumbled off the elliptical.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not that the statement doesn\u2019t<\/em> resonate with me, but that it does . . . profoundly. When I read such words of high frequency and high integrity in a novel that I know millions of people are also reading, I pretty much get angel-bumps up and down my arms.<\/p>\n It\u2019s such a simple statement, too. Just nine words, but do they ever pack a punch.<\/p>\n For a long time now I have said that I think with my heart first<\/em>. Lots of people who hear that look at me as if they must have misheard me. Who thinks with their heart, right? Yet it has become crystal clear to me that my brain is only as worthy of use as my heart, and that the one supports the other.<\/p>\n What if we didn\u2019t have an organ called the brain<\/em>? A brain that houses our mind? I doubt humans could function too well. Or without a heart, for that matter. The important piece here that is so often missed is that regardless of the individual, their socioeconomic status, their race, creed, gender, or genetics, one\u2019s mind will never be able to fully suppress, ignore, or repress the heart.<\/p>\n I mean, we might never really know what \u201ccauses\u201d our emotional states. If we subtract the chemistry (the hormones and synapses, etc.), the component that loves, that feels all the emotions, is still a mystery. We certainly can\u2019t know for sure that the physical heart itself is behind all those emotions. We connect them with this organ, the heart, and assign it to be the holding place of all things spiritual and emotional. I\u2019m okay with that assignation, though, so, for our purposes, let\u2019s go with it.<\/p>\n The heart is the \u201cplace\u201d of true understanding, not understanding that comes through the mind. It\u2019s a place where truth resonates\u2014or doesn\u2019t. The mind may serve our need for logic, but because it is attached to a human being, there will never be any such thing as pure objectivity. We all know that facts can be spun, statistics can be interpreted, and falsehoods can be reasoned into being. Fortunately, we have been blessed with another facet of human nature: the heart. There is always a heart, beating away, inherently clear, inherently pure, and inherently loving. A heart that knows what it knows.<\/p>\n While there may always be those whose hearts have been treated so appallingly that they manage to shut themselves from own heart connection, there can never be a mind that exists without a heart. You might choose to ignore your heart\u2019s calling, you may choose not to listen to its advice, you may decide that you\u2019d rather hide from it than be hurt, but the heart will never shut down until you leave the physical realm this time around.<\/p>\nThinking with your heart<\/a><\/h2>\n
Mind or no mind<\/h2>\n
The heart place<\/h2>\n
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