5 Reasons To Follow Your Heart
One of the most powerful ways to tame your ego and overcome the voice
in your head that says, "I’m not enough," is to listen to your heart
instead. In your heart, you are not your work, your high school
trophies, your bank balance, or your car. When you listen to you heart,
you don't become preoccupied with success and status, materialism and
jealousy, or power and pride. And when you follow your heart, you find
your peace, you ignite your passion, and you discover your purpose.
Here are five reasons to follow your heart:
1. To connect
The
ego often gets in the way of true connections with other people. It is
our ego that gets in the way of our saying the important things, like,
"I’m sorry," "I miss you," "I love you." So when we let go of our ego,
let people into our hearts, and begin to share our vulnerabilities, our
fears, our authentic selves, we create space for others to do the same.
When we embrace our flaws and imperfections, we realize that we aren't
alone, and we begin to connect on a level that is impossible to feel
just with our eyes, or ears, or ego. We connect on a level that we must
feel it with our hearts.
2. To find our true path
The
heart has reasons that reason cannot understand. It has reasons that
the mind cannot understand. And it has reasons that society, friends,
and even ourselves cannot fully understand. But if we don’t follow our
hearts, we will often spend the rest of our lives wishing that we did.
Our passions — those moments, experiences, and people that feed our soul
and make our hearts beat, don’t just go away if we don’t follow them.
They fester and eat away at our worthiness. Follow your passions, find
your true path, then follow it with all your heart.
3. To allow yourself to heal
Hurt happens. But so does healing.
You can't always think your way out of pain and confusion. Sometimes,
the best answers come to a relaxed mind and a heart that's in tune with
the universe. We often don’t tune in to our hearts because that's where
our pain is stored. But when we're brave enough to live life from our
heart, not only do we allow our own wounds to heal, but, by sharing our
stories, we can touch and heal people’s souls.
4. To love oneself
To
love ourselves totally different from massaging our own ego. Ego judges
and punishes. Love forgives and heals. Your ego will tell you you’re
not enough. Your heart will tell you you’re more than enough. By
following our heart and loving ourselves through the ups and downs of
life, we learn that we are worthy of love and deserve to feel loved.
Without being able to love yourself, it is very difficult to share that
love with anyone else. Self-love is not optional. It’s a necessity.
5. To love others
My
one rule when it comes to love is that you should never settle for less
than a heart flutter. When your ego is in control and all you’re
assessing in a partner is looks, financial security, and social status,
you miss out on the energy that can only be felt between two souls at
the level of the heart. If, in the past, we have been in a rough
relationship or through a bad breakup, then we often close our hearts
off for fear of being hurt. It takes courage to let your guard down and
truly follow your heart. Live with an open heart because you never know
who might fall in it.
source: www.mindbodygreen.com
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