How Do We Live From The Heart?

Hey, how you doing, Cadre fam? Nick Hanson here. Hope you have been having a good week today. I wanted to talk about ways that you can live from the heart as opposed to the mind. And, you know, our mind is amazing. It could do awesome things. I'm not discounting the mind. It can also cause us a lot of pain and a lot of problems seem to center the mind. Some scientists have said that the heart is 60 times stronger than the brain. You can look up those facts, but a couple of things that could really help is just place your hand on your heart and just take three deep breaths.

That feels good. I have, I've been drinking half calf coffee for the past week, and today I drink full caffeinated coffee and I've gotten a little bit jumpy. So anyways, that might be better for me to live from the heart if I drink a little bit less caffeine. Note to self. But that's a way that you can connect to your heart. Another thing that I would recommend is reading the book the Untethered Soul by Michael Singer. And that's the first time I was really introduced to opening the heart. And it was, you know, felt so good to just when I was introduced to the concept and started thinking and looking at things, you know, from the heart as opposed to from my mind, because my mind usually wants to see what's wrong with it, what's, you know, what's, what's happening there, what is the danger?

What is the fear? But my heart has its own language, its own voice, its own thoughts, and were so conditioned to live from our minds that its really a practice to live from the heart that ive been practicing for the past, maybe three years. And its a constant reminder. And what is my job with a capital J on the planet? It might be just to live from the heart. And I think that's a good question to ask yourself. What is my job on the planet with a capital J? That's from the book. Wherever you go, there you are by John Cabot Zinn.

I may or may not be saying that correctly, so I hope these are, I know, living from the heart. It's a little bit esoteric. It's a little bit, can be harder to practice advice. Maybe some, you know, more concrete ways of looking at it are, you know, affirmations. I have a beautiful heart. I live from my heart. I am love. You know, it could be texting, you know, a friend that you haven't talked to in a while, but that your heart longs out to, I think, a lot of ways. And this is from. From twelve steps program stuff, where if we take the action, then our thinking and our beliefs can change, right?

It's harder to change, I think, our thinking and beliefs to then make our actions different. Or at least in my experience, if I take the action, then I could do it. And if my heart's leading the way, I have a lot less fear about it. So that's some thoughts on living from the heart. I hope you're having a good week. And remember, if nothing else, three deep breaths from the heart. Lift from the heart. Peace, guys.