LIVE FROM YOUR HEART, NOT YOUR HEAD A New Year’s Resolution to Make Today
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by Pattie Cinelli
ividing my time between my profession and avocation for decades—a midlevel public relations’ manager position in an association, and my avocation, teaching fitness at night and on weekends— was getting to be too stressful for me. I knew something had to go. When I visualized my life without my fitness work I felt empty and unfulfilled. When I visualized my life without my office position I felt free. My decision was Wellness Coach Jana Lerbach clear. That is, until I talked about it with others. Just about everyfor one minute. one told me how unwise it would be I’ve been living from my heart for to give up a well-paying position and a long time. I resonate with what feels all the benefits that went with it for a good to me. I listen to my intuition or path that was financially insecure and my gut, not what was is accepted path uncertain. But my heart was telling me of the majority. My gut is not perfect, otherwise. When I checked in with my but my decisions keep me healthy and brain it said, yes, it would be risky but clear about my own path. it assured me that if my business plan The heart is where we experience didn’t work out I could always get anwho we really are. It is also the way we other job. I followed my heart, started can consciously co-create our world my own business and never regretted it and fulfill our purpose for being. By living from the heart we connect to all life. And “Start listening to your own heart. Follow the best part is that we your intuition and your guidance. Become all can do more of it.
still enough to connect to it and listen. Don’t get lost in everything happening around you. Pay attention to what is welling up within you. You are your own north star. This intuition is a blessing. Follow your heart.” Panache Desai, author of You Are Enough
What is Living from the Heart? “When we live from the brain we live in a constant state of stress (for
survival)”, said Jana Lerbach, wellness coach. “When we ignore the heart and the emotional part of us, it impacts our physical health, increases stress, increases negative social interactions, and slows our intellectual growth.” Lerbach said she spends three of 10 coaching sessions with clients discussing living from the heart and understanding their emotions. The heart is where our imagination resides. Living from the heart means our mind is accepting and expanding to the energy and wisdom of the heart. You don’t first try to understand with your head but instead, you relate and connect with your heart. You feel your way through the experience and call on your thoughts for support. You can be living from the heart and not even realize it. And you can be living from the heart and be deeply aware of the beauty of it. The heart perceives life differently from the mind. The heart operates more from a feeling state. The heart sees how everyone and everything is connected, not how we are all different. Our heart is not only the organ that pumps continuously to keep us alive, but it is also our connection to our soul and our authentic selves. By tapping into our heart intelligence we can go beyond the limits of the mind and connect with a deeper aspect of ourselves. Nil Demircubuk is an intuition teacher and life coach who has a background in engineering. She said there is much research that defines living
from the heart, following your intuition or feeling it in your gut. She said, “Your intuition is like a nudge. It tells you to go this way or that way. Sometimes you may interpret it wrong but you can always check with your logic or your brain. It is like a crazy search engine that taps into all information in your subconscious without overwhelming you.”
Benefits of Living from the Heart Demircubuk said that when we tune into our intuition we are connecting deeper with every living being. “Usually we are reacting to what is happening in the environment and what others bring to us instead of noticing what our body needs now,” she said. Demircubuk uses her intuition often while interacting with others. It helps guide her how to speak to someone and tells her when to be quiet. “It connects me
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